MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doganugurlu | 2025-12-19 03:03:21+00:00
If someone opened a PR, and it obviously doesn’t work but they claim they tested it, maybe that’s ok for the first time.

The second time it happens they gotta go.

I would find the expectation that I need to attach a screenshot insulting. And the understanding that my peers test their code to produce a screenshot would be pretty demoralizing.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-19 03:03:43+00:00
> considering that "cash-like transactions" are counted as cash advances, same as if you were to use your credit card at an ATM

Afaik, gift cards are more like fixed balance debit cards that happen to be runnable over a specific payment network (e.g. VISA, MC, AMEX) as credit cards

But at least a fair number of them will allow you to set a PIN, which then allows their use as normal debit cards
Show HN: WebCraft: A C++ 23 async IO library
by raoa32 | 2025-12-19 03:04:38+00:00
I've created a networking library in C++ which works on Linux, Windows, & MacOS and made the core of it based on C++ coroutines and native asyncio from each of these platforms. Check it out: https://github.com/adityarao2005/WebCraft. It has an official vcpkg port. Here is an example of how to use it https://github.com/adityarao2005/http-server-webcraft.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-19 03:06:38+00:00
>> It also enabled a ton of event driven actions which laptops/desktops/embedded devices use.

> Don't forget VMs. Even in server space, they use hotplug/hotunplug as much as traditional desktops.

I was doing hot plugging of hardware awo+ decades ago when I still administered Solaris machines. IBM/mainframes has been doing it since forever.

Even on Linux udevd existed before systemd did.
by geerlingguy | 2025-12-19 03:07:14+00:00
From my brief discussion with Exo/Apple, it sounds like that is just a limitation of this initial rollout, but it's not a hardware limitation.

Though, I am always leery to recommend any decisions be made over something that's not already proven to work, so I would say don't bet on all ports being able to be used. They very well may be able to though.
by protocolture | 2025-12-19 03:07:42+00:00
> Because it's a browser that "just works." We can't have this if Firefox stays in the pre-ai era.

Strongly disagree.

Theres no expectation of AI as a core browsing experience. There isnt even really an expectation of AI as part of an extended browsing experience. We cant even predict reliably what AI's relationship to browsing will be if it is even to exist. Mozilla could reliably wait 24 months and follow if features are actually in demand and being used.

Firefox can absolutely maintain "It just works" by being a good platform with well tested in demand features.

What they are talking about here, are opt out only experiments intruding on the core browsing experience. Thats the opposite of "It Just Works".

>I know Mozilla doesn't have much good will right now, but hopefully with the exec shakeup, they will right the ship on making FF a great browser.

Its already a great browser. It doesnt need a built in opt out AI experience to become great.
by varenc | 2025-12-19 03:09:04+00:00
Besides what others have said, another dead simple option is to use Nextdns: https://nextdns.io

Doesn't require running anything locally and supports various block rules and lists and allows you to enable full log retention if you want. I recommend it to non-techies as the easiest way to get something like pi-hole/dnscrypt-proxy. (but of course not being self-hosted has downsides)

edit: For Roku, DNS blocking like this only works if Roku doesn't use its own resolver. If it's like some Google devices it'll use 8.8.8.8 for DNS resolution ignoring your gateway/DHCP provided DNS server.
by whateverboat | 2025-12-19 03:09:19+00:00
There are three parts of building products in software just like everywhere else:

1. understanding what product needs to be built

2. Having the technical expertise to build them

3. how much effort is needed to build it

And all three things can be hard in themselves. The product can technically be just straightforward (even if somewhat tedious) but you should know what to build because you should know what the customers need.

The product can be technically so challenging that without the theoretical background, you would not even know that such a product would be possible. (An example here would be something say that requires distributed and independent time clocks).

Finally the product can be something that is technically simple, obvious in its customer demand but requires quite a bit of effort and therefore requires you to be good at procuring resources and managing them.

You need to figure out which of these three things made you successfull with the product you call really hard and interesting and pursue that line of industry (even if it is not software!). And then slowly try to become good at other two things.
by anonnon | 2025-12-19 03:09:35+00:00
> In reality, we observe that open parties tend to win, or at minimum, if they lose, the closed party tends to have an entirely disconnected line of research that rarely incorporates ideas from the open party

An obvious counter-example to this is the NSA/GCHQ and cryptography. They've repeatedly shown that they're a good 5-15 years ahead of everyone else.
by geerlingguy | 2025-12-19 03:09:53+00:00
See https://github.com/geerlingguy/beowulf-ai-cluster/issues/17 for more data — I didn't save all the prompt processing times (Exo just outputs a time in ms, no other data for that), but will try to have another pass. Maybe also convince the Exo team to add a proper benchmarking capability ala `llama-bench` :)
by rst | 2025-12-19 03:11:14+00:00
Anthropic's ahead of you -- the LLM that the reporters were interacting with here had an AI supervisor, "Seymour Cash", which uh... turned out to have some of the same vulnerabilities, though to a lesser extent. Anthropic's own writeup here describes the setup: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2
by bruce511 | 2025-12-19 03:11:38+00:00
My condolences for your loss. Discussing things in general terms,while having a lived experience must be painful.

There are different cancers, different stages different, different chemos, and of course different people.

Ultimately individual experiences of chemo run the whole gauntlet. At one end it can be little more than a bit of fatigue, at the other end a horrendous nightmare.

Yes, chemo has, as it's goal, a poison function. It sets out to poison you, hopefully killing the cancer first. It's never going to be the "fun" part of treatment.

I'm not a Dr, much less a medical historian. I would be ill equipped to quote specific drugs or dosages. Outcomes however are easily Googled, and those don't seem to be controversial.

I get that improved statistics don't make individual loss any easier.
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-12-19 03:12:14+00:00
I target 80% utilization because I’ve seen that figure multiple times. I suppose I should rephrase: I’d like to understand the constraints and systems involved that make 80% considered full utilization. There’s obviously something that limits a OS; is it tunable?

Questions I imagine a thorough multiplayer solutions engineer would be curious of, the kind of person whose trying to squeeze as much juice out of the hardware specs as possible.
by cj | 2025-12-19 03:12:52+00:00
Because there are easy workarounds. If it becomes an issue, you can quickly add large disclaimers informing people that there might be offensive output because, well, it's trained on texts written during the age of racism.

People typically get outraged when they see something they weren't expecting. If you tell them ahead of time, the user typically won't blame you (they'll blame themselves for choosing to ignore the disclaimer).

And if disclaimers don't work, rebrand and relaunch it under a different name.
by protocolture | 2025-12-19 03:13:05+00:00
>It’s just going to become an expectation that AI is in the browser.

Why? Is there evidence to back this up? Are there massive customer write in campaigns trying to convince browser companies to push more AI?

>I know a lot of people on Hacker News are hostile to AI and like to imagine everybody hates it, but I personally find it very helpful.

I love it. I love going to the AI place and knowingly consulting the AI for tasks I want the AI to perform. That relationship is healthy and responsible. It doesnt need to be in everything else. Its like those old jokes about how inventions are just <existing invention> + <digital clock>.

I dont need AI on the desktop, in microsoft office, replying to me on facebook, responding to my google searches AND doing shit in my browser. One of these would be too much, because I can just access the AI I want to speak to whenever I want it. Any 2 of these is such substantial overkill. Why do we have all of them? Justify it. Is there a user story where a user was trying to complete a task but lacked 97% accurate information from 5 different sources to complete the task?
by dcre | 2025-12-19 03:13:35+00:00
“inserted at the start of any query” feels like a bit of a misunderstanding to me. It plops the skill text into the context when it needs it or when you tell it to. It’s basically like pasting in text or telling it to read a file, except for the bit where it can decide on its own to do it. I’m not sure start, middle, or end of query is meaningful here.
by lconnell962 | 2025-12-19 03:14:05+00:00
The select few lawyers on the right cases probably will be the only ones coming out ahead on this after the dust has settled.

The issue is that unpaid average people are being used, or rather forced, to act as QA and Beta Testers for this mad dash into the AI space. Customer Service was already a good example of negative preception by design, and AI is just being used to make it worse.

A production database being corrupted or deleted causing a company to fail sounds good on paper. But if that database breaks a bank account, healthcare record, or something life altering for a person who has nothing to do with the decision of using it the only chance they have for making it right is probably going to be the legal system.

So unless AI advancement really does force the legal system to change the only people I see coming out ahead from the mess we are starting to see is the Lawyers who actually know what they're doing and can win cases against companies that screw up in their rush to go to AI.
by lbreakjai | 2025-12-19 03:14:21+00:00
> If the DOM is the authority on state (not a projection of state held elsewhere), there's nothing to sync. You read state from where it already lives.

But it's not, is it? The state lives in the server. If I open a page, and let it open for 2 hours, then there's no guarantee it actually represents the current state.
by yojo | 2025-12-19 03:14:46+00:00
This reminds me of a UI pattern I saw in an old iOS comic reader (Comic Zeal) for organizing your comics. You had a horizontal rule that worked as a cursor. You could swipe things to the side (“pick”) to add them to the cursor. You then moved the cursor to the desired location and tapped it to dump the contents (“place”).

My biggest problem with the OP implementation is the “place” button can be far from the “pick” button. Why not just leave it on the moving element - change the label from “pick” to “place” and call it a day.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-19 03:16:00+00:00
Seems like I remember the main reason Macs survived as a product at all was because you needed one to develop for iOS. That may be an exaggeration but there certainly was a time when Macs were few and far between outside of creative shops. Certainly they were almost unseen in the corporate world, where now they are fairly common at least in laptops.
by verve_rat | 2025-12-19 03:16:05+00:00
The people that did the Great War series (at least some of them, I believe there was a little bit of a falling out) went on to do a WWII version on the World War II channel: https://youtube.com/@worldwartwo

They are currently in the middle of a Korean War version: https://youtube.com/@thekoreanwarbyindyneidell
Show HN: Interlock – Circuit breaker for AI infrastructure with signed audits
by CULPRITCHAOS | 2025-12-19 03:16:06+00:00
Interlock is a drop-in circuit breaker for AI systems (Express, FastAPI, core library) that tracks confidence, refuses low-certainty responses, and generates cryptographically signed certification artifacts and incident logs. It includes CI-driven stress tests, a certification badge, and reproducible benchmarks. Repo + quickstart: https://github.com/CULPRITCHAOS/Interlock

What it does

Tracks AI confidence, hazards, and triggers a reflex (refuse/degrade) rather than silently returning incorrect answers. Produces tamper-evident audit trails (HMAC-SHA256 signed badges, incident logs, validation artifacts). Ships middleware for Express and FastAPI; adapters for 6 vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate, Milvus, LlamaIndex, LangChain). CI workflows to test, stress, benchmark, and auto-generate certification badges. Evidence artifacts are preserved and linkable. Why it matters

Many systems log “success” when an LLM confidently hallucinates. Audit trails and refusal policies matter for safety, compliance, and risk reduction. Interlock aims to make interventions reproducible and certifiable, turning “we think it failed” into “here’s signed evidence it did and what we did.” Notable validation & metrics (from README)

Total interventions (recorded): 6 (all successful) Recovery time (mean): 52.3s (σ = 4.8s) Intervention confidence: 0.96 False negatives: 0 False positive rate: 4.0% (operational friction tradeoff) Zero data loss and zero cascading failures in tested scenarios If you care about adoption

Express middleware: drop-in NPM package FastAPI middleware: remote client pattern Core library for custom integrations If you want to try it

5-minute quickstart and local AI support (Ollama) in docs Pilot offer (shadow mode, free): contact listed in README Why I'm posting I built this to reduce silent corruption and provide verifiable evidence of interventions; I’m looking for pilot partners and feedback on certification semantics and enterprise fit.

Relevant links

Repo: https://github.com/CULPRITCHAOS/Interlock Quickstart: ./docs/QUICKSTART.md (in repo) Case study & live incidents: linked in repo Suggested top-level OP comment after posting (short) Thanks for reading — happy to answer technical questions. If you want to run a pilot (shadow mode) or want sample artifacts from our stress chamber, DM or open an issue. Repo: https://github.com/CULPRITCHAOS/Interlock (feedback pls) (new coder)
by listenallyall | 2025-12-19 03:16:22+00:00
I agree that templating is very fast and efficient, probably faster than serializing to JSON.

Read the OP's posts - he is talking about a "server" being an embedded device with 64mb of read-only storage. My assumption is that the data output format is basically hard-coded in the device's OS and doesn't even rely on JSON serialization.
Cost of Ownership for Apple Products
by soorya3 | 2025-12-19 03:17:04+00:00
Recently I have been thinking about how do I spend on apple hardware and I started my inventory and Here's the cost breakdown for a family of four with teenage kids. Again I started with no zero apple devices and my foray into apple in 2007 with the launch of iPhone 1 (from my employer)

Assuming 3 Year Cost of Ownership

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+ | Item Description | Amount | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+ | 2 Mac Air (teenagers) = $1k per device * 2 = $2k | $2,000 | | 2 MacBook Pro (2 adults) = $1.5k per device = $3k | $3,000 | | 4 iPhones (2 newer and 2 old gen teenager): $1k avg * 2 + $500 avg * 2 = $3K | $3,000 | | 4 Earbuds (2 Pro + 2 std) $250 * 2 + 100 * 2 = $700 | $700 | | 2 Watches (Only Parents) - $400 * 2 = $800 | $800 | | 1 iPad (Whole family) : $500 | $500 | | Apple Care = 15 devices / $19.99 / 3 devices = $100 per month = $1200 per year * 3 = $3.6k | $3,600 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+ | TOTAL | $13,600 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+

Total = $14k for devices every 3 years. At the end of 3 years you may be left with 30% of value which is $4.2k

Other services that you may use iCloud Storage: 2TB $9.99 App subscriptions Music Streaming services

One more pet peeve of mine with apple is: Most of their starter models (macbooks and mini) have high cpu and low memory (8GB seriously??). I hope they seriously consider updating all starter models to come with 32GB memory which will make it last justifying the high cost of investment.
by N_Lens | 2025-12-19 03:17:53+00:00
Should be titled 'nobodyreadsTHEIRlogs'

Anyway, the time when you actually need the logs and they're there makes up for all the times you didn't need them. Better to have and not need than to need and not have.

I do agree with the argument that each system's observability strategy should be fine tuned to store the most necessary and informative logs, instead of capturing excessive and mostly useless logs.
by benced | 2025-12-19 03:18:05+00:00
Because the companies are selling technology to us cheaper than cost in exchange for this? I do think they should be required to offer a revenue-neutral way to turn off ads but it would cost several hundred dollars and only me & 5 other weirdos on this website would buy it.

You can look at Vizio's quarterly statements before Walmart bought them: their devices were margin negative and "Platform+" (ads) made up for it: https://investors.vizio.com/financials/quarterly-results/def...
by why-o-why | 2025-12-19 03:18:14+00:00
I think you are confusing research with commodification.

This is a research project, and it is clear how it was trained, and targeted at experts, enthusiasts, historians. Like if I was studying racism, the reference books explicitly written to dissect racism wouldn't be racist agents with a racist agenda. And as a result, no one is banning these books (except conservatives that want to retcon american history).

Foundational models spewing racist white supremecist content when the trillion-dollar company forces it in your face is a vastly different scenario.

There's a clear difference.
by delichon | 2025-12-19 03:21:52+00:00
Datomic has a "time travel" feature where for every query you can include a datetime, and it will only use facts from the db as of that moment. I have a guess that to get the equivalent from an LLM you would have to train it on the data from each moment you want to travel to, which this project seems to be doing. But I hope I'm wrong.

It would be fascinating to try it with other constraints, like only from sources known to be women, men, Christian, Muslim, young, old, etc.
by AnonymousPlanet | 2025-12-19 03:22:23+00:00
There's an entire subreddit called LLMPhysics dedicated to "vibe physics". It's full of people thinking they are close to the next breakthrough encouraged by sycophantic LLMs while trying to prove various crackpot theories.

I'd be careful venturing out into unknown territory together with an LLM. You can easily lure yourself into convincing nonsense with no one to pull you out.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-19 03:25:10+00:00
Agreed. Also the claims that the fees are for typesetting and the like are highly suspect, given how specific so many journals' formatting requirements are. As poster above says, if they were spending any significant amount of money on typesetting and the like, you wouldn't have strange nags about margins and capitalization and other formatting nonsense, so it is clear they basically do almost nothing on this front.

If they did any serious typesetting, they'd be fine with a simple Markdown or e.g. RMarkdown file, BibTeX and/or other standard format bibliography file, and figures meeting certain specifications, but instead, you often get demands for Word files that meet specific text size and margin requirements, or to use LaTeX templates. There are exceptions to this, of course.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-19 03:25:39+00:00
I see it as 100 million who didn't care enough to find a translation extension. Which is fine. Most people stay on the same 20 sites, after all (and some of those even have built in translation tools).

>We didn't make the back button an extension even though we could have.

The back button isn't even a KB of extra data and and I'd put navigation as the primary job of a web browser.

I'm not against a built in translator, but it's a strange comparison to a back button.

On a slight tangent, I think there's an under talked about boon yo machine translation: it's widely agreedbti be a comoromise and not a source of truth. That wariness has been missing as of late.
by netsharc | 2025-12-19 03:26:29+00:00
Is the magnet link itself a copyright violation? I don't think legally it is... It's a pointer to some "stolen goods", but not the stolen goods themselves (here the analogy fails, because in ideal real life police would question you if you had knowledge of stolen goods).

Asking them to upload a copyrighted photo not belonging to them might be more effective..
by MichaelNolan | 2025-12-19 03:27:36+00:00
Most to least confident:

1. Bazel is still not widely used outside of massive monorepos. (because its such a pain to use)

2. Solar power will surpass wind power in the US to become the 4th largest source of electricity. https://eia.languagelatte.com/

3. Starship begins launching real payloads, achieves reusability of the upper stage, and successfully does a ship to ship fuel transfer.

4. Tesla stock has a major correction (>20%) as it becomes increasingly clear that Waymo, Zoox, AVRide, and various Chinese companies are significantly ahead in AV technology. And as it becomes clear that Optimus is a sham.
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 03:28:53+00:00
They upgraded everything to start with at least 16GB of RAM to support Apple Intelligence as that continues to roll out.

3 years may or may not be the service life of these things. I still have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro from 2020. Sometimes I think it’s time for an upgrade, but there is no reason to. The hardware I interact with is basically the same, and the M1 Pro still does whatever I need with ease. The AppleTV I’m using right now is 10 years old and running tvOS 26.

Also keep in mind that Apple is similarly priced to other products in the same class, so you would have spent the money either way. At least Apple stuff tends to have a higher resale value.
by dhosek | 2025-12-19 03:29:06+00:00
What makes something a publication is the act of publishing, not the format that it takes.¹ Copyright is implicitly granted at publication² although registration is required in order to sue for infringement.³

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1. Within some limitations: certain types of creative works, most notably typefaces, are excluded from copyright law, although it was determined that digital font files that describe the outlines of the characters are programs and thus eligible for copyright. Bitmap font files on the other hand, as an expression of a typeface design are not eligible for copyright.

2. Although works created by federal employees as part of their job are explicitly excluded from copyright protection.

3. Note though, that the timing of the registration impacts what you can sue for. If registration takes place after the infringement you can only sue for actual damages, but if it takes place before the infringement you can sue for punitive damages.⁴

4. I should add the obligatory disclaimers that all of the above only describes US copyright law and also I’m not a lawyer (although I did used to watch Law and Order a lot) so everything in this comment could quite likely be completely wrong.