MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ericd | 2025-12-16 21:22:51+00:00
Yeah, I meant siphon gas truck-to-truck, but it seems most worksites would be wired or have generation of some sort, so mobile charger should be able to do something in a pinch. I have had situations where a normal 1400W wasn’t enough to keep pace with keeping the battery warm enough to make any headway on an actual charge, though, but that remote AND cold is a another level.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-16 21:22:58+00:00
> Chimpanzees, instead of seeing 6 and 7, they feel 6ish-7ish.

I see what the author did there.

I've got a kid so "what the sigma" and "six seven" are a thing.

Type "six seven" in Google search and you should get the screen wobbling ; )
by setgree | 2025-12-16 21:23:40+00:00
I'm as ready to hate on Meta as anyone but this article is a bit of a nothingburger.

So there are disagreements about resource allocation among staff. That's normal and healthy. The CEO's job is to resolve those disagreements and it sounds like Zuck is doing it. The suggestion to train Meta's products on Instagram and Facebook data was perfectly reasonable from the POV of the needs of Cox's teams. You'd want your skip-level to advocate for you the same way. It was also fine for AW to push back.

>. On Thursday, Mr. Wang plans to host his annual A.I. holiday party in San Francisco with Elad Gil, a start-up investor...It’s unclear if any top Meta executives were invited.

Egads, they _might_ not get invited to a 28-year-old's holiday party? However will they recover??
by cjpearson | 2025-12-16 21:24:10+00:00
You can't effectively paywall it because not only is it open source, but there are many nearly equivalent competitors all of which are free. Any subscribers would essentially be donors.

There are people like yourself who would be happy to donate, but not nearly enough. Replacing MoCo's current revenue with donors would require donations at the level of Doctors without Borders, American Cancer Society, or the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Turning into one of the largest charities in America overnight simply isn't realistic. A drastic downsizing to subsist on donor revenue also isn't wise when Mozilla already has to compete with a smaller team. And "Ladybird does it" isn't a real argument until and unless it graduates from cool project to usable and competitive browser.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-16 21:24:25+00:00
What all is tuition paying for anyway? It's not paying for the professors, since they have to fund themselves with grants. It's not paying for research overhead, because that also get claimed from grants. It's not paying for extracurriculars, since those get funded by donations, student contributions, and revenue. It's not paying for new facilities, since those all get named after donors.

It certainly doesn't seem to be paying a lot for post docs, grad students, (who are either contributing their own tuition or getting it contributed by someone else anyway), adjuncts, or other non-professor faculty, since they famously make starvation wages.

I'm being a bit facetious, since tuition has "transparent" line items stating how much goes to what, but university revenue streams are a bit baffling. Mountains of money go in, and mountains of money go out, but the two seem to have a very indirect relationship at times.

And I know, the common answer is that it goes to some nebulous "administration", but the executive administrative staff, while reasonably well compensated, make a pretty small portion of the overall budget, and the rest of the admin seems like it could be more reasonably be split into the actual services and departments they're administering, which, again, seem adequately funded between grants, donors, and tuition. So I'm not clear what all this ambiguous "administration" that's not executive staff and not tied directly to, say, health insurance (which gets paid for as part of tuition) or research (grants). What are they administering??
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-16 21:24:37+00:00
I have similar, albeit probably more radical, views.

All dragnet surveillance done by law enforcement or given to law enforcement by private entities should be public. (Targeted surveillance by law enforcement is a different thing.)

We should all be able to "profit" from this data collected about us. There are likely a ton of interesting applications that could come from this data.

I would much rather independently run a "track my stalker" application myself versus relying on law enforcement (who have no duty to protect the public in the US, per SCOTUS) to "protect" me, for example.

It might be that such a panopticon would be unpalatable to political leaders and, ideally, we'd see some action to tamp down the use of dragnet surveillance (and maybe even make it illegal).
by nhumrich | 2025-12-16 21:25:19+00:00
I LOVE gitlab, but their new pricing is absurd. It feels like they are trying to shovelware their AI stuff. Their cheapest plan is more than 7x the cost of github, AND more expensive than github enterprise! And thats on the _cheapest_ non free gitlab plan. If you self host gitlab entirely, you can't even get branch/force-push protection. If they could bring their pricing to even just 2x github by having a NON-AI plan, I would purchase again in a heartbeat.
by regularmother | 2025-12-16 21:25:25+00:00
I've been using dagger.io and it's been really nice to work with.

- runs locally

- has a language server: python, typescript, go, java, OR elixer

- has static typing

- the new caching mechanisms introduced in 0.19.4 are chef's kiss

I do not work for dagger and pay for it using the company credit card. A breath of fresh air after the unceasing misery and pain that is Gitlab and GHA.
by supersour | 2025-12-16 21:25:30+00:00
Yes this is true, but we actually have a lot more data to back this on than exclusively fMRI analysis - for example the ADHD medication guanfacine works only because the alpha 2 receptors happen to be wired differently in the prefrontal cortex than it is in other areas of the brain (a2 is inhibitory for most brain regions, but in the PFC they're positioned to amplify connections between neurons) , so by stimulating alpha 2 we allow for a more “top down” control from the prefrontal cortex than we do without, which improves executive function.

So that is one extremely robust way to understand neurological conditions like ADHD or Parkinson’s
by dzhiurgis | 2025-12-16 21:25:33+00:00
> feels wrong

Reductio ad absurdum.

EVs are safer, why we haven't banned ICE vehicles yet?

How about screening every food item in supermarket for chemicals and pathogens. Surely that will minimize excess death?

Lot's of things can be "best we can", ask yourself why it's not done yet.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-16 21:25:57+00:00
Representatives from the Dutch government recently had a chat with representatives from Forgejo because they are quite interested in migrating their SCM infrastructure from Github to Forgejo.

And trust me, they are running a lot of public and private repositories.

And there are many more orgs and govs throughout Europe doing similar things because there's a (growing) zeitgeist here that the Trump administration nor any American SaaS company can be trusted. This started, by the way, after Microsoft suspended the ICJ from using Microsoft 365 on orders from the White House.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-16 21:26:03+00:00
This is the second time you've just stated that the US is the source of "heavy regulation" in the tech sector without any explanation of what that means.

Given that virtually no one else on Earth agrees with that claim on its surface, do you care to explain what you mean, or are you just going to repeat it and move on each time?

And to be clear, pointing at copyright extensions for IP like Mickey Mouse is not a compelling argument, because it in no way prevents a German company from producing a product like Instagram, Claude, AWS, or virtually anything else that was launched in the US in the last 20+ years, both because its irrelevant and because the companies responsible for those products also had to operate under the same regulatory regime you're talking about.
by clowncubs | 2025-12-16 21:26:09+00:00
This resonates. I work in web dev, and a little over 2 years ago I hit a wall. Everything was a screen. All day at work, at home, on the go. Everything felt hallow and unrewarding. I'm an introvert, so outside of my family, I didn't have many relationships. Of course, I was depressed. I began working on it by going to therapy and then one day I decided to try sculpting.

This changed everything. I found I was pretty good at it. It felt good because it was tangible, and it required me to learn and probe and practice. I kept at it. This grew in ways I couldn't imagine.

Now, I make collectible resin maquettes and busts and I even started making latex halloween masks. It's been a crazy journey to where I am now, with so much more ahead. I've met people and interact with people in ways I didn't just a short time ago. It's changed my life. It's thick. All of it.
by rdtsc | 2025-12-16 21:26:12+00:00
> Should we also change other languages’ orthographies to make them easier to pronounce for English speakers? “Bonzhoor” instead of “Bonjour”?

Already done.

- Komen ça va? - Mo byin, mærsi.

We don't have anything against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole, do we?
by lubujackson | 2025-12-16 21:26:20+00:00
I think it taxes your brain in two different ways - the mental model of the code is updated in the same way as a PR from a co-worker updates code, but in a minute instead of every now and then. So you need to recalibrate your understanding and think through edge cases to determine if the approach is what you want or if it will support future changes etc. And this happens after every prompt. The older/more experienced you are, the harder it is to NOT DO THIS thinking even if you are intending to "vibe" something, since it is baked into your programming flow.

The other tax is the intermittent downtime when you are waiting for the LLM to finish. In the olden days you might have productive downtime waiting for code to compile or a test suite to run. While this was happening you might review your assumptions or check your changes or realize you forgot an edge case and start working on a patch immediately.

When an LLM is running, you can't do this. Your changes are being done on your behalf. You don't know how long the LLM will take, or how you might rephrase your prompt if it does the wrong thing until you see and review the output. At best, you can context switch to some other problem but then 30 seconds later you come back into "review mode" and have to think architecturally about the changes made then "prompt mode" to determine how to proceed.

When you are doing basic stuff all of this is ok, but when you are trying to structure a large project or deal with multiple competing concerns you quickly overwhelm your ability to think clearly because you are thinking deeply about things while getting interrupted by completed LLM tasks or context switching.
by nickpp | 2025-12-16 21:26:31+00:00
> Is there a legitimately good reason for all those treatments to be so expensive

We can't really know, since only free markets can determine the price of a good or service (it's driven by supply and demand) and health care market is tightly regulated.

> Why is American insulin

Because of the regulatory barriers not allowing other providers to enter and sell insulin on the US market.
by kimixa | 2025-12-16 21:26:34+00:00
> MP3s don't (really) support higher than 48 kHz sample rates

Neither does the human ear.

While there may benefits for intermediate representations during mastering/modification, for playback higher frequencies can only ever make things worse as it increases the chance of unintentional frequencies causing distortion etc.

And for those intermediate steps any lossy compression is probably a bad idea.
by quotemstr | 2025-12-16 21:26:49+00:00
> I don't want to be that contrarian guy, but I find it energizing to go faster. For example, being able to blast through a list of niggling defects that need to be fixed is no longer a stultifying drag.

It's often that just getting started at all on a task is the hardest part. That's why writers often produce a "vomit draft" (https://thewritepractice.com/vomit-first-draft/) just to get into the right frame of mind to do real writing.

Using a coding agent to fix something trivial serves the same purpose.
by dazamarquez | 2025-12-16 21:27:24+00:00
I use AI to write specific types of unit tests, that would be extremely tedious to write by hand, but are easy to verify for correctness. That aside, it's pretty much useless. Context windows are never big enough to encompass anything that isn't a toy project, and/or the costs build up fast, and/or the project is legacy with many obscure concurrently moving parts which the AI isn't able to correctly understand, and/or overall it takes significantly more time to get the AI to generate something passable and double check it than just doing it myself from the get go.

Rarely, I'm able to get the AI to generate function implementations for somewhat complex but self-contained tasks that I then copy-paste into the code base.
by zahlman | 2025-12-16 21:27:34+00:00
> These commands worked for me, to get Postgresql and MariaDB database plugins:

I haven't tried this, but I'm familiar with pipx. It provides a higher-level interface, so something like this should work:

pipx install sqlit-tui sudo apt-get install -y libmariadb-dev pipx inject sqlit-tui psycopg2 mariadb

Ref.: https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/#inject-a-package

> I don't know if that would have worked just as well with pipx or not.

I don't actually see anything in the GitHub instructions about system-wide installation? But yes, since version 1.5 (https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/changelog/#150-2024-03-29) Pipx can do a `--global` install that by default puts the managed venv in /opt and executable symlink in /usr/local/bin.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-16 21:27:48+00:00
Anil Dash wrote something relevant recently: https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/

His point (which I agree with - softly) is that Mozilla could approach this from a more nuanced perspective that others cannot, like not anti-AI but anti "Big AI". Facilitate what people are already doing (and outside of the HN bubble everyone is using AI all the time, even if it's just what we think is "dumb" stuff) throught the FF lens. Like a local LLM that runs entirely in an extension or similar. THere's no shortage of hard, valuable things that big tech won't do because of $$$.
by notatallshaw | 2025-12-16 21:28:03+00:00
> At one company I worked at, we had a system where each deploy got its own folder, and we'd update a symlink to point to the active one. It worked, but it was all manual, all custom, and all fragile.

The first time I saw this I thought it was one of the most elegant solutions I'd ever seen working in technology. Safe to deploy the files, atomic switch over per machine, and trivial to rollback.

It may have been manual, but I'd worked with a deployment processes that involved manually copying files to dozens of boxes and following 10 to 20 step process of manual commands on each box. Even when I first got to use automated deployment tooling in the company I worked at it was fragile, opaque and a configuration nightmare, built primarily for OS installation of new servers and being forced to work with applications.
Show HN: 100MB Rust Binary- AI Auditability Substrate
by Jahboukie | 2025-12-16 21:28:18+00:00
Rust's Deterministic Advantage SecuraMem is the AI Black Box Recorder that provides court-admissible cryptographic proof of every AI decision. Our NeuroWall semantic firewall blocks 90-100% of jailbreak attempts before they reach your LLM. Deploy in minutes with a 100MB single binary—no cloud, no dependencies.

https://youtu.be/8RjfMskvC_4
by phantasmish | 2025-12-16 21:28:18+00:00
School quality’s largely in the same place. You’re not going to make much of a dent without fixing social support, the social safety net, healthcare, mental healthcare, and generally greatly improving stability for the economically bottom third or so of families.

In other words, the main problems with schools have little to do with schools. But they’re complicated and expensive problems with distant payoff, so we keep monkeying around with schools instead.
by btown | 2025-12-16 21:28:45+00:00
I can say, from a business perspective, I've needed to use similar methodologies, though far from needing air-gap requirements and relying heavily on web search, to evaluate potentially fraudulent transactions and relationships between parties.

What are the competing hypotheses, other than fraud, when a person makes a massive luxury purchase, but with red-flag-adjacent inconsistencies in other information provided? If we need to identify whether there's a weird or competitive ownership relationship behind a potential opportunity, how do we determine if an initial hypothesis about relationships is correct?

If ArkhamMirror has an online mode with web search as a tool call, I'd be curious to try it out to automate some of these ACH-adjacent workflows.
by roenxi | 2025-12-16 21:29:57+00:00
> They maintain a codebase that rivals that of Chrome and of the Linux Kernel and push the equivalent of Rust's entire codebase on a monthly basis.

Is that comparison supposed to make their management of the code base seem better or worse? Chrome, Linux and Rust are arguably colossi in their niches (Rust having the weakest claim). Firefox's niche is Chrome's and it doesn't do that well. It used to be that at least Firefox had it's own little area with more interesting extensions but obviously that was too hard for them to handle - yes I'm still grumpy about ChatZilla.
Show HN: Semantic-relevance, finding signal in noisy feeds
by manishg2022 | 2025-12-16 21:30:04+00:00
Hi HN,

I built semantic-relevance while trying to solve a problem I kept running into with my own feeds.

I follow Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Reddit, Lobsters, and a few RSS feeds. Even though the content is high quality, most of it is still noise for my current context. Popularity does not equal relevance, and the same items keep resurfacing because they are always trending.

This library treats signal as the intersection of three things:

Relevance: semantic similarity to a user-defined context

Novelty: decay-based tracking so repeat items fade over time

Classification: lightweight labels explaining why something surfaced

It is intentionally a small, embeddable primitive, not a feed reader or a recommender system. You give it items plus a markdown description of what you care about, and it returns scored “signals.”

Under the hood it uses:

Local embeddings (MiniLM via @xenova/transformers, no APIs)

Cosine similarity

Simple decay math for novelty

Explainable scoring instead of learned ranking

I’m using it as a building block inside a larger project, but the library itself is standalone and reusable.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-12-16 21:30:16+00:00
I tried Jami for a bit with a friend. For both me and my friend, Jami was very unreliable about delivering notifications about new messages. So my friend would send me a message but because I didn’t get any notification about the message it would go days before I opened the app and saw that he had said something, and I’d respond to it and it would be days before he would happen to open the app again because he also didn’t get any notification.
by watwut | 2025-12-16 21:31:19+00:00
What are you talking about here. It was right wing who packed the courts - to the point the bias is blatant and obvious. They are not even trying to pretend they are impartial.

The "every accusation is an admission" thing is truly right with right wingers like you.

> Maybe someday we'll be able to look at Epstein's mail or Clinton's e-mails even.

Who was blocking the release? Trump. Trump was blocking the release.
by bigbuppo | 2025-12-16 21:31:30+00:00
You hit on a good point... a better solution would be a special class of certificates, sort of like EV certs, where the lifetime is extremely short, specifically for the sorts of enterprises, like banks, that need that level of care. Granted, most banks can't get their SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct for years at a time, so they would definitely find a way to screw that up.
by xpe | 2025-12-16 21:31:32+00:00
I appreciate your clarity, thanks.

There is something really interesting about people (which I think I'm borrowing from Atomic Habits by James Clear): Every time you take an action in service of a goal, it helps prove to yourself, a little at a time, that part of your identity involves pursuing that goal. For example, each time I spew out a journal entry or cobble together a blog post, it reinforces the belief "I am a writer."

With this in mind, it suggests a theory: doing the thing itself changes you. After some suitable time delay, perhaps. (This is how exercise adaptation works at least.)

But connecting this together still feels muddled. What is the difference between doing the thing and the consequences of doing the thing? The difference feels ... undefined? Maybe even arbitrary? All of this triggers my "inconsistency detectors" suggesting more thinking needs to be done.

Maybe the difference is that some actions provide certain emotional states while we're doing them: satisfaction, flow, meaning -- and this is what people mean by the first part ("doing the thing"). Maybe we can define consequences as the things that happen after we stop acting. Like the royalty checks that hypothetically will clog up my mailbox one day.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 21:32:06+00:00
It makes sense they wouldn't look at it, there are very few, if any, well-validated clinical uses for it. However, they might have taken it as a baseline for later comparison, and it is definitely plausible when surgery is involved that visible abnormalities could be seen in fMRI that might not show up in MRI, either now or later.

I don't think there would be much clear guidance for them on how to interpret any such fMRI abnormality on its own, but it might still be something useful for further investigations, and this might especially be the case for surgery. It might also have been done as part of research, if you consented to anything like that?

I am NOT an expert on fMRI in medical contexts, but you can surely get a rough idea of the potential value of fMRI with a quick search: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=fMRI+surgery+brain&hl=en...
by apawloski | 2025-12-16 21:32:17+00:00
Thanks for pointing out the irony that these folks refuse to engage with: that they (we) are all here as the result of immigration. It's about as plainly hypocritical that they get. Their immigrants were fine, of course..

I wish the folks who are trying to cut off all immigration (and open channels to de-naturalize American citizens) could appreciate this more. Because it exposes their thesis at its core: some Americans are better than others, and these people know which are which. Where do I as an American fall into these categories of theirs?
by mattkrause | 2025-12-16 21:32:27+00:00
fMRI ususally measures BOLD, changes in blood oxygenation (well, deoxygenation). The point of the paper is that you can get relative changes like that in lots of ways: you could have more or less blood, or take out more/less oxygen from the same blood.

These can be measured themselves separately (that's exactly what they did here!) and if there's a spatial component, which the figures sort of suggest, you can also look at what a particular spot tends to do. It may also be interesting/important to understand why different parts of the brain seem to use different strategies to meet that demand.
by moultano | 2025-12-16 21:32:38+00:00
I wrote this following a similar line of thought, but with the root problem being a collective action problem around community rather than an internal psychological tradeoff between short and long term. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/the-dead-weight-lo...

I certainly think hijacking our short term rewards is a big part of it, but in addition, that hijacking prevents people from putting in the effort that make collective alternatives competitive.