MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arminiusreturns | 2025-12-12 00:46:44+00:00
UK House of Lords are a buncha of Jimmy Savile pal types, if you get my drift. The same blackmail and bribery networks that exist in the US largely were learned from the Brits, who of course gave Palestine to the zionists on behalf of dragging America into a war they mostly engineered via Edward the 7ths diplomatic intrigues and the pre-war formation of the entangling alliances.

So for a long time, I traced most roads in the US back to London... (for example Star Chamber origins)...

After a while though, as I dug into the real history of banking, I realized when William of Orange was installed it was shortly after that the Bank of England was established to take them over the same way they later influenced us (Jekyll Island) to establish the Fed, the main trojan horse for a country being monetary countrol.

So I now understand just like the masons, or intel dudes, etc, many of them are just so compartmentalized they don't know what they are a part of. I now view the UK the same way.

So lets keep following the strings up the chain...

"You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect." - Miyamoto Musashi
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-12-12 00:47:23+00:00
The exact same mistakes were made in ARM6. RISC-Y biggest competitor is mature architecture ecosystems and variants of itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Even most ARM software compilers still cripple the advanced vendor specific asic features simply for stability mitigation. ARM 8/9 was actually a much leaner design. Cheers =3

https://xkcd.com/927/
by altmanaltman | 2025-12-12 00:48:26+00:00
A few counterpoints:

1. If you don't care about code and only care about the "thing that it does when it's done", how do you solve problems in a way that is satisfying? Because you are not really solving any problem but just using the AI to do it. Is prompting more satisfying than actually solving?

2. You claim you're done "learning about coding and stretching my personal knowledge in the area" but don't you think that's super dangerous? Like how can you just be done with learning when tech is constantly changing and new things come up everyday. In that sense, don't you think AI use is actually making you learn less and you're just justifying it with the whole "I love solving problems, not code" thing?

3. If you don't care about the code, do the people who hire you for it do? And if they do, then how can you claim you don't care about the code when you'll have to go through a review process and at least check the code meaning you have to care about the code itself, right?
by sshine | 2025-12-12 00:48:48+00:00
For one customer I do maintenance on a piece of software.

Building it produces about two-three dozen deprecation warnings.

The whole software stack relies on a cluster of packages that stopped receiving updates 5 years ago.

The software is not facing end-users. But it does build using NPM and not via vendored packages.

To avoid those warnings, large parts of the code need to be rewritten using a different set of packages.

That doesn't get prioritised because it works.

The software sucks in many ways, but only from the perspective of an artisan.

The customer is happy to ignore warnings as long as the software does its job.

There isn't money in fixing things that work because it got old.

The incentives for the people putting the deprecation warnings in those packages don't align with the users of those packages. Their timelines and motives are different.
by burningChrome | 2025-12-12 00:48:57+00:00
So you would categorize these as "incitements to violence"?

The recent arrest at London’s Heathrow airport of a noted Irish comedian, Graham Linehan, for the “crime” of three politically incorrect tweets

A few months ago, police arrested a couple for messages shared in a WhatsApp chat group as six officers searched their home.

Authorities arrested a grandmother for silently holding a sign outside an abortion clinic that said “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, if you want.”

The wife of a conservative politician was sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post. In contrast, a child molester was sentenced to 21 months in the slammer.

And yet, something worse is happening that is being swept under the rug:

A glaring example of this “wokeness” was exposed earlier this year by Elon Musk when he put the spotlight on how British authorities have for years turned a blind eye to notorious rape gangs made up primarily of Pakistani Muslim men who prey on vulnerable young girls. Musk was pilloried by the woke crowd for making this an issue. If not for his prominence, he most certainly would have been prosecuted. Thanks to Musk’s pressure, however, the British prime minister finally reversed course and ordered a probe. An extensive investigation has already found the scandal to be uglier and more widespread than previously supposed.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...
by MatteoFrigo | 2025-12-12 00:49:08+00:00
I am someone with "deep knowledge", but HN is not the proper place for this discussion. See https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/ProofsArgsAndZK.htm... for the gory details.

Here is a hopefully simple example of how this ZKP thing may even be possible. Imagine that you give me a Sudoku puzzle. I solve it, and then I want to prove to you that I have solved it without telling you the solution. It sounds impossible, but here is one way to do it. I compute the solution. I randomly scramble the digits 1-9 and I put the scrambled solution in a 9x9 array of lock boxes on a table. I have the keys to the 81 locks but I am not giving you the key yet. You randomly ask me to open either 1) one random row chosen by you; 2) one random column chosen by you; 3) one random 3x3 block chosen by you; or 4) the cells corresponding to the original puzzle you posed to me. In total you have 28 possibilities, and assume that you choose them with equal probability. You tell me what you want and I open the corresponding lockboxes. You verify that the opened lock boxes are consistent with me knowing a solution, e.g. all numbers in a row are distinct, the 3x3 block consists of distinct numbers, etc. If I am cheating, then at least one of your 28 choices will be inconsistent, and you catch me with probability 1/28, so if we repeat this game 1000 times, and I don't know the solution, you will catch me with probability at least 1-(1/28)^1000 which is effectively 1. However, every time we repeat the game, I pick a different random scrambling of the integers 1-9, so you don't learn anything about the solution.

All of ZKP is a fancy way to 1) encode arbitrary computations in this sort of protocol, and 2) amplify the probability of success via clever error-correction tricks.

The other thing you need to know is that the protocol I described requires interaction (I lock the boxes and you tell me which ones to open), but there is a way to remove the interaction. Observe that in the Sudoku game above, all you are doing is flipping random coins and sending them to me. Of course you cannot let me pick the random coins, but if we agree that the random coins are just the SHA256 hash of what I told you, or something else similarly unpredictable, then you will be convinced of the proof even if the "coins" are something that I compute myself by using SHA256. This is called the "Fiat-Shamir transformation".

How do we implement the lock boxes? I tell you SHA256(NONCE, VALUE) where the NONCE is chosen by me. Given the hash you cannot compute VALUE. To open the lock box, I tell you NONCE and VALUE, which you believe under the assumption that I cannot find a collision in SHA256.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-12-12 00:49:54+00:00
It's funny to me that porn does not have more age verification than just "Yes, I promise I'm 18+" (or whatever).

If I go to the liquor store, I can't just promise "I'm 21+"

If I go to vote, I can't just promise I'm 16+

If I go to buy a lottery ticket I cant just promise...

I think I made my point.
by tptacek | 2025-12-12 00:50:25+00:00
Let me say first of all: super chill response and I really appreciate that.

On point (1), I've got reason to question the claims of genocidal intent that get bandied about in these kinds of conversations. Yair Rosenberg wrote a piece for The Atlantic debunking one of the most frequently cited "amalek" claims. It's easy to find people on either side of the conflict espousing genocidal views, but harder to map specific actions to realistically genocidal intent (especially when the views are ascribed to people with no decisionmaking authority over how the campaign is being waged).

I hate having to be so hedgy but I'll do it anyways: none of that is to say that the Gaza campaign was waged ethically or with meaningful concern for civilian life, and I fervently hope many of its architects end up imprisoned for their roles in it. But that's a cards-on-the-table statement, not a clinical assessment.

On point (2) about Ukraine: Russian decisionmakers at the highest level have repudiated the existence of Ukrainian ethnicity; Russia has deliberately --- in ways I don't think map cleanly to how the IAF has prosecuted the war in Gaza --- targeted civilian populations (Bucha is an obvious example), and, most damningly, Russia embarked on a campaign of family separation and coerced adoption with the specific intent of disrupting Ukraining ethnicity.

You point out that Israel wants to "cleanse" the land (call it Greater Israel, from the Jordan river and including the Gaza strip) of Palestinians. I'm not as sure about that, but I can stipulate to it. That by itself does not constitute genocide!† (Ethnic cleansing? A crime against humanity? Very possibly!) Genocide as a concept does not encompass any link between blood and soil.

It really pisses Palestinian advocates off to hear this, and I get why, but there is by rights already a Palestinian state in the Levant: it's called Jordan, where Palestinians have, at multiple points over the last 50 years, made up a majority of the resident population. Similarly, if we're doing comparative statecraft, Assadist Syria successfully cleansed itself of its concentrated Palestinian population, over just the last 10-15 years. See how often you see Palestinian advocates make claims about Yarmouk camp, though. You start to understand why advocates for Israel (I am not one of those) are jaded about this whole thing.

† You get a similar thing about "apartheid", a term I'm more comfortable using with Israel, from people who correctly observe that Israeli Arab citizens, of whom there are a great many, have vastly more rights than black Africans had under apartheid, to the point where the term makes more sense applied to other larger, more salient ethnic divides elsewhere in the world. But like, preemptively: I'm with you, it's effectively an apartheid system in the West Bank.
by hopelite | 2025-12-12 00:50:44+00:00
I have to say, it is a bit astonishing how much you are in a kind of bargaining stage of trying to rationalize how what is happening, is not actually happening, all while the trap doors are closing all around you even though very slowly.

Why do you think that is?

It is not just a British thing, because this ruling class tyranny is descending all across the western world, regardless of whether it is particularly egregious in the UK. Or should we maybe just start calling it Airstrip One at this point, the AO?
Show HN: Forecaster Arena – Testing LLMs on real events with prediction markets
by setrf | 2025-12-12 00:50:46+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Mert.

I built this because I was frustrated with LLM benchmarks potentially being contaminated by training data. When a model scores 99.9% on MMLU-Pro-Max, we can't tell if that's genuine reasoning or memorization.

Forecaster Arena tries to solve this by testing models on events that haven't happened yet—real prediction markets from Polymarket. The ground truth is reality itself, weeks or months later.

How it works:

7 frontier LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, etc.) (will be updated) -> Each gets $10k virtual capital weekly -> They bet on 500+ real prediction markets -> Bet size = confidence (larger bet = more confident) -> We measure calibration (Brier score) + returns (P/L)

Currently running first cohort (started Dec 7). First statistically significant analysis expected over the next few weeks.

Everything is open source (MIT): https://github.com/setrf/forecasterarena

Happy to answer questions about the implementation or trade-offs I made. Would be great to hear your feedback on the methodology as well!
by yovaer | 2025-12-12 00:50:49+00:00
> but in actuality there are a relatively small, enumerable number of techniques that are used repeatedly on virtually all problems

IMO/AIME problems perhaps, but surely that's too narrow a view for all of mathematics. If solving conjectures were simply a matter of trying a standard range of techniques enough times, then there would be a lot fewer open problems around than what's the case.
by JamesSwift | 2025-12-12 00:50:58+00:00
All 4 of my kids are into scratch but are sort of hitting a wall doing it online, and they also have expressed interest in robotics, so I did research on the two and came up with the mBot series of robots.

For the 11 and 9 year old: the mBot Ultimate (https://www.makeblock.com/pages/mbot-ultimate-robotics-kit)

For the 7 and 5 year old: I wasnt sure whether to go with the mBot Ranger or the mBot2 Rover and went with the Rover (https://www.makeblock.com/products/buy-mbot2-rover-emo-robot)
by aerostable_slug | 2025-12-12 00:50:58+00:00
It's not just that: generative AI tools make it so easy to make content that you run into discoverability problems. The pool of available content becomes huge but without a way to market or otherwise differentiate yourself, no one will likely stumble across it.

We already see this dynamic with the "vanity press" pay-to-play record labels / distributors like DistroKid: the vast majority of their catalog has never been played or was only played to test the initial upload. Huge numbers of tracks have a tiny number of views, with many literally never played. "Democratizing" content creation predictably does this, and it's frankly bizarre it wasn't anticipated.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-12 00:51:48+00:00
I remember an employee of mine, who was possibly the best engineer I ever knew, wrote up a specification document for his own vignetting algorithm, in Postscript.

The algorithm provided a 100X performance improvement over the classic Monte Carlo stuff that Tokyo had written.

The charts in the document were executable Postscript, running his algorithm.

That got the attention of the Ph.Ds in Tokyo. He was a high school-educated neurodivergent.
by uselesswords | 2025-12-12 00:52:04+00:00
Feels a lot more like the reporter already had a problem with Meta and chose the examples most favorable to their anti-Meta slant to report in the article. Of course on HN we're all just to happy to eat it up as it aligns neatly with our little bubble. Here's some still publically available posts from Sex Talk Arabic who they directly quote in the article complaining about these shadow bans. It makes it a lot harder to trust the reporting here when these examples were so easy to find.

[1] https://imginn.com/p/ClT7Cufrk0k/

[2] https://imginn.com/p/DCmnH4WPbXa/

[3] https://imginn.com/p/C-dBMzXRqnu/
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-12-12 00:52:06+00:00
Of course a poll that asks a leading question can get 70% in favour. It’s not a conspiracy by TLAs (the people they’re interested in won’t be fazed by these paper-thin measures) or big tech (this hurts their bottom line). It’s legacy media, who have lost a lot of ground to the Internet, and stand to lose nothing by making it worse, and coincidentally also have a captive audience of voters who wouldn’t know one end of a USB cable from another who simply don’t understand any of the downsides.
by layer8 | 2025-12-12 00:52:53+00:00
Some people are passionate about being professional in the sense of doing things competently and expertly. Cuteness is inherently a mental distraction from what you really care about in the craft, which is why it appears tonally inappropriate. The desire to add some sort of cuteness is taken as an indication that the person apparently doesn’t derive enough joy from the workmanship itself. In other words, a lack of caring about and being fulfilled by the actual work, so that you need to add something “fun” on top.
by spruce_tips | 2025-12-12 00:52:54+00:00
it took me a lot of tinkering to get this feeling seamless in my own apps that use the api under the hood. i ended up buffering every token into a redis stream (with a final db save at the end of streaming) and building a mechanism to let clients reconnect to the stream on demand. no websocket necessary.

works great for kicking off a request and closing tab or navigating away to another page in my app to do something.

i dont understand why model providers dont build this resilient token streaming into all of their APIs. would be a great feature
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-12 00:52:56+00:00
Thanks — corrected!

Did you enjoy Thunderhead even more than Scythe (like I am, 2/3rds done)? Some absolute insanity... poor "Scythe" Tyger's deception!

Book was recommended to me by my now-attorney, after rambling about LLMs enabling commoners access to lawfare during our initial consultation. Despite being "young adult fiction," Shusterman has definitely helped me to better understand my attorney brothers questing their powers [0].

[0] I am an avid reader, 70+ books per year, including all Wallace/Steinbeck/Vonnegut. The Scythe series hits. Just so good. So simple yet complex. Doesn't require thinking to read, but leaves you thinking about what you read.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-12 00:53:06+00:00
GitHub Actions is a good example of systems thrown together that at face value have something to offer until they get put under stress.

Just now I found:

* a job that's > 1 month old, still running * another job that started 2 hours ago that had 0 output * a job that was marked as pending, yet I could rerun it * auto-merges that don't happen * pull requests show (1), click it, no pull requests visible

Makes me wonder in how many places state is stored, because there is some serious disconnect between them.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-12 00:53:11+00:00
> It was reasonable to arrest people who actually broke into the base and those who organized it. Going after those speaking in support is what's excessive

Speaking out, yes. Helping organize? No.

Where the UK took it over the top was in using terrorist statute to shut down the organisation. That was unnecessary. But if the organisation helped organise the action—and this is not yet proven—its assets should have been frozen while the organisation and its leaders are investigated. If the organisation were found to have knowingly aided and abetted the break-in, it should have been shut down.

All of this could have been done using mostly civil and a little criminal law. None of it required terrorism laws.
by octorian | 2025-12-12 00:53:22+00:00
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll take a car infotainment system that doesn't need CarPlay/AndroidAuto to be usable (and lacks it) over one that requires a phone attached via CarPlay/AndroidAuto to be usable.

I use Android Auto on rental cars all the time.

My daily driver is a Tesla (Model S /w MCU v2) that doesn't have it. And doesn't need it to provide a usable experience.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-12 00:53:22+00:00
> The thing I really don't get is why people are devaluing their own voices with slop. Too many people are just pressing what they think is an "easy" button and calling it good. What they lose in the process is their voice, their opinions, and some of the intangible humanity that was encoded in their content.

Have you considered that people producing material that is considered, by the creator or audience, as "content" very often aren't trying to encode their voice, their opinions, or any of their intangible humanity in it, they are working a system and seeking to provide what the system demands. They aren't sacrificing those things, those things were never the point of the activity.

(OTOH, the people themselves as creating art, including those that use AI among their tools, do probably see that as the point, but they aren’t doing what they see as pushing an "easy" button.)
by mmooss | 2025-12-12 00:53:31+00:00
Without the OP's proposed use of SVG, what format would someone use? PDFs won't handle it well - unless PDF's interactivity capabilities are much better than I think. We never developed a client-side multimedia file format; all we have are text formats like Word and PDF, which embed images decently, and embed multimedia and interactivity (beyond form filling) in awkwardly and in a limited manner.
by jh00ker | 2025-12-12 00:53:54+00:00
"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poultry, or other animals."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Etymology
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-12 00:53:58+00:00
Too radical is in the eyes of the beholder. Most of the most intelligent people I know, people who rather carefully analyze their own beliefs, tend to have at least a few things that they are extremely outside the Overton window on. It's not particularly hard to see why: if you apply even a surface-level analysis of the world around you, a lot of stuff is "we all believe X because we've always done X that way".

On the flip side, there's plenty of just very dumb people out there. I play enough games that involve VOIPing with others that I can confidently state such.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-12-12 00:54:06+00:00
see [0] the original Palestine Action protestors, who were arrested in 2024 and are not likely to see trial until at the best May 2026, and some sources are saying January 2027.

They are being kept in remand, with no possibility of release, for at least two years, without being convicted of a crime.

This is legal because Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation and the UK passed some farcical laws aimed at preventing terrorism, that everyone pointed out at the time would be used against non-terrorists eventually. They are using this same law to arrest hundreds of people for doing nothing more than holding a placard.

In the UK, if the government can make a case that you are a terrorist, then arrest is absolutely the same as imprisons. And similar farcical laws are operating in most Western democracies.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxq3g9g4eyo
by deepGem | 2025-12-12 00:54:17+00:00
There is no competing product for GPT Voice. Hands down. I have tried Claude, Gemini - they don't even comes close.

But voice is not a huge traffic funnel. Text is. And the verdict is more or less unanimous at this time. Gemini 3.0 has outdone ChatGPT. I unsubscribed from GPT plus today. I was a happy camper until the last month when I started noticing deplorable bugs.

1. The conversation contexts are getting intertwined.Two months ago, I could ask multiple random queries in a conversation and I would get correct responses but the last couple of weeks, it's been a harrowing experience having to start a new chat window for almost any change in thread topic. 2. I had asked ChatGPT to once treat me as a co-founder and hash out some ideas. Now for every query - I get a 'cofounder type' response. Nothing inherently wrong but annoying as hell. I can live with the other end of the spectrum in which Claude doesn't remember most of the context.

Now that Gemini pro is out, yes the UI lacks polish, you can lose conversations, but the benefits of low latency search and a one year near free subscription is a clincher. I am out of ChatGPT for now, 5.2 or otherwise. I wish them well.