MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myth_drannon | 2025-12-14 17:36:20+00:00
It's the opposite, the most talented in every sense volonteer to fight in combat units in Gaza. Everyone who ends up in 8200 or any other non combat unit has some sort of reason health or family. Later there is some selection, so smart but most importantly extremely valuable experience that acts as a spring board into the startup world later on(cybersec or anything else).
by ibrahima | 2025-12-14 17:36:37+00:00
Yeah... I bought the regular version a few months before the bigger one was announced. Now I kinda want it but can't really justify it at this point. It's a cool product though and a lot of the code is open source or has open source alternatives (e.g. the official backend is not but they have sponsored the development of open source alternatives so that if they go out of business or something you can host your own backend).
by amelius | 2025-12-14 17:36:51+00:00
Well, intelligence evolved over millions of years without design (assuming you are not religious).

This all happened without anyone even looking for a way to create intelligence.

The biggest step in AI was the invention of the artificial neural network. However, it is still a copy of nature's work, and in fact you could argue that even the inventor is nature's work. So there's a big argument in favor of "it arrived".
by bgnn | 2025-12-14 17:37:17+00:00
There are much lover cost washing machines with electricity. This one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eo4CIHpp28 . It's just a motor, you just need a big bucket or a tub to fill it with water and detergent. Let it turn the clithes in water for half an hour and rinse. It's also handy during rinsing.

Growing up in a developing country in 90s we used to use this type of machine for bigger loads because our normal front loader machine was only 6kg capacity. This + a bathtub was the way to go for washing the blankets, bedsheets etc. It costs now sth like 20-30 usd.
by shykes | 2025-12-14 17:37:18+00:00
Hi, I'm the founder of Dagger. I can't speak to the negativity, but if you're looking for a way to make your CI more portable, I recommend joining our Discord and asking our community directly about the pros and cons of using Dagger. Even if you don't end up using it, there are a lot of people there who are passionate about CI and can recommend other alternatives, in a more constructive and pragmatic way than you are getting here.
by junaid_97 | 2025-12-14 17:37:37+00:00
I built a free USCIS form-filling tool (no Adobe required)

USCIS forms still use XFA PDFs, which don’t let you edit in most browsers. Even with Adobe, fields break, and getting the signature is hard.

So I converted the PDF form into modern, browser-friendly web forms - and kept every field 1:1 with the original. You fill the form, submit it, and get the official USCIS PDF filled.

https://fillvisa.com/demo/

What Fillvisa does:

- Fill USCIS forms directly in your browser - no Adobe needed

- 100% free

- No login/account required

- Autosave as you type

- Local-only storage (your data never leaves the browser)

- Clean, mobile-friendly UI

- Generates the official USCIS PDF, ready to submit

- Built-in signature pad

I just wanted a fast, modern, free way to complete the actual USCIS form itself without the PDF headaches. This is a beta version
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-14 17:38:11+00:00
There is a relatively recent episode of the ArrayCast array language podcast with Henry Rich who is the primary maintainer and developer of J, talking about new features: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode104-j96

Click on the show notes and there are links to previous episodes with him, talking about the J engine implementation, updates in J 9.03, threading and faster bignum calculations in J 9.04, updates in J 9.5, his views on tacit programming, etc.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-14 17:38:34+00:00
Meanwhile, anti-repairable corporate washing machines:

Washing Machine SCAM EXPOSED! The Truth About SEALED Drums: Naming & Shaming

https://youtu.be/crzZEvFf_L4

Multiple manufacturers (i.e., Bosch, Miele, Siemens, AEG, Zanussi, Beko, Hoover, Hotpoint, Indesit) no longer offering split drums and individual components, instead sealing drums with heat welding and bolts, and selling only very expensive assemblies that cost almost as much as a new appliance.

Video is by an independent appliance repair shop owner in the UK who tears apart old and new appliances showing the difference in parts.
by cgearhart | 2025-12-14 17:38:50+00:00
“Better than me” != “good”

I know approximately nothing about approximately everything. Claude seems pretty good at those things. But in every case I’ve used Claude Code for something I do know about it’s been unsatisfactory as a solo operator. It’s not useless, but it is basically useless for anything serious unless you’re very actively guiding it.

I think it has a lot of potential value and will become more useful over time, but it’ll be most useful when we can confidently understand the limitations.
by yonixw | 2025-12-14 17:39:04+00:00
LOL

Next one: Cloudflare has an edge in Israel. And has workers who were in Unit8200 before 1991 (per linkedin) and ISRALIES. Who uses Cloudflare? MANY MEDICAL ORGS. Also, Cloudflare is just like MITM (CDN SSL termination). So does ISRAEL SPIES read all your MEDICAL data?

> "To think otherwise is completely naïve" (real qoute from the article btw = no proof)

What a sham article. Trump's TruthSocial level. But hey, most upvoted today (440+ points). And no point on reporting to mods also, I just get copy paste reply.
by nroets | 2025-12-14 17:39:46+00:00
Your comment mentioned "studies" plural.

There are many studies of twins that try to determine if genes influence intelligence.

Some look at twins who are raised together. One [1] concludes that "MZ (identical) twins differ on average by 6 IQ points, while DZ (fraternal) twins differ on average by 10 IQ points".

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6202166/
Show HN: I built a circuit breaker that predicts AI failures
by CULPRITCHAOS | 2025-12-14 17:40:05+00:00
Hi HN — I built this and I’m explicitly asking skeptics to tear it apart.” Interlock is a safety and certification layer for AI infrastructure, not an optimizer or a vector database.

The problem I am solving for is that AI systems (vector search, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks) don’t usually fail cleanly — they degrade silently, oscillate under load, or keep returning corrupted results until something crashes. Monitoring tells you after the fact; circuit breakers tend to be static and blind to context.

Interlock tries to address that by:

forecasting time-to-failure under stress

intervening before hard limits are reached

refusing to serve results when confidence collapses

producing cryptographically signed evidence of what happened (control vs protected runs)

It includes:

integrations with FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, LangChain, LlamaIndex (Elasticsearch experimental)

TypeScript + Python support

automated stress tests (control vs protected)

long-run stability tests

certification classes (I–V) derived from actual configuration + behavior, not labels

Importantly: Interlock does not guarantee correctness or uptime. It certifies that a given configuration survived a defined stress test without crashing, oscillating, or serving degraded results — similar to a structural load rating rather than a promise.

The repo is fully open source, and all claims link to test artifacts and CI runs. I’m especially interested in feedback on:

failure modes this wouldn’t catch

where the certification model is too strict or too weak

whether this is actually useful in real production AI systems

Repo: https://github.com/CULPRITCHAOS/Interlock

Happy to answer questions or be told why this is a bad idea lol
by Fnoord | 2025-12-14 17:40:22+00:00
Typical ad hominem diversion. I listened to the related podcast episode of FTM yesterday evening on Spotify, and today decided to search more information and read the coinciding articles. I have no control about what gets upvoted here, since I don't work for an agency or troll farm. Look at my submission history. Another article I submitted related to Israel (Correllium getting acquired by Cellebrite) got no uptake whatsoever. It was never discussed here, at all.

I oppose civilians being targeted by terrorism, and that also obviously includes Israelians. For example, I was very much shocked by Oct 7.

I also do have a problem with Israel's alleged genocide by the current government.

I don't believe any of the above makes me antisemite. It is very typical of agents of a certain agency to frame like that though.
by nunez | 2025-12-14 17:40:24+00:00
LLMs (well, most of the frontier and popular open-source models) are actually quite good at abiding by weird formats like this given that your prompt describes them clearly enough. The real problem is that you'll have to manually spot-check the results, as LLMs are also very good at adding random incorrectness. This can take just as long (or longer!) than writing the code + tests yourself.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-14 17:40:28+00:00
Youtube has a 60/40 revenue share with creators for long form video (inverse for shorts). 60% to creators 40% to youtube. It's also dependent on watch time and split evenly among channels (unlike spotify where big names get all the money and small guys get nothing). Youtube premium viewers are the juiciest viewers for creators, by a large margin.

Also blocking-ads/pirating on youtube provides the creators with nothing. I'm not sure how people justify this besides the established internal conditioning that anything on the internet must be free. Also conversion rates for "watches all their content" to "pays for their patreon" are <1%. meanwhile ad-blocking/pirating rates are around 40-60% depending on your audience.

At some point the internet has got to have a reckoning with reality if they want things to improve.
by slig | 2025-12-14 17:40:57+00:00
Puzzleship - a free daily puzzles website with the archives paywalled. Right now it has Logic Grid Puzzles and Zebra Puzzles. I'm pretty proud of the LGP generator algorithm and some experienced players also liked the way the puzzles are constructed. This is my first subscription site and it's been online for about 15 days, so I'm learning a lot and trying to figure out the pricing.

https://www.puzzleship.com/
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-14 17:41:02+00:00
Wrong. Enable 18 beta, refresh, install 18.7.3, disable beta. Problem solved.

Security updates are typically available for the most current 2 OS versions, and 18 is still officially supported, perhaps until 2026 or 2027. 18.7.3 exists with similar security updates as 26.2. It may not show up on iPhone as an update option without being on the beta 18 channel because they're trying to force people onto 26 using dark patterns, but it shows up on iPadOS without any additional magic.
by LocalH | 2025-12-14 17:41:16+00:00
Nobody said anything about "purposefully adding bugs or corrupting installations".

What you're advocating is protecting the user from themselves, which is antithetic to the entire ethos of the hacker.

Yes, you as a developer shouldn't fuck up the user's setup. But if the user fucks it up on their own? Then that's on them. Don't limit the power users because you want to infantilize the casual users.
by rdgthree | 2025-12-14 17:41:22+00:00
Of course!

But also:

> Although the biology of why TMS works isn't completely understood, the stimulation appears to affect how the brain is working.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/transcranial-mag...

I think it's reasonable to assume there's room to sharpen our understanding of it quite a bit.
by woobar | 2025-12-14 17:41:33+00:00
Facebook offered paid subscription for ad-free experience in Europe.[1] First, europeans complained it is too expensive. After a price cut, they EC still wanted a free version with less personalization.[2]

If google offers something similar, I am pretty sure Europeans will find something else to complain about.

[1] https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to-...

[2] https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-will-let-facebook...
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-14 17:41:37+00:00
If the Republican politician campaigned on universal healthcare a larger social safety net etc I would be all for it.

But all that being said, I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat that said they wanted free health care and also bring back segregation and laws against miscegenation. The first affects me and everyone in my family and the second would affect my son and my soon to be daughter in law.

Democrats are not saying they want universal healthcare only for blue areas.
by kreetx | 2025-12-14 17:41:45+00:00
I think we do know how they work, no? We give a model some input, this travels through the big neural net of probabilities (gotten with training) and then arrives at a result.

Sure, you don't know what the exact constellation of a trained model will be upfront. But similarly you don't know what, e.g, the average age of some group of people is until you compute it.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-14 17:42:04+00:00
Why is gpt3 relevant? I can't recall anyone using gpt3 directly to generate code. The closest would probably be Tabnine's autocompletion, which I think first used gpt2, but I can't recall any robust generation of full functions (let alone programs) before late 2022 with the original GitHub copilot.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-14 17:42:07+00:00
This sounds like a very common sort of misanthropic attitude I see littered around the web.

You know how they say - like in making music - in order to break the rules you have understand them?

I don’t like the take directly, but as a person who makes music, what I realize, and I think this is what they meant, it if you don’t study music, most people are likely to naturally slide into the most simplistic forms of it, because that’s what naturally sounds good, so you’re like naturally more inclined to recreate a 1 4 5 progression, rather than Mozart.

Do you think that you may have accidentally slid into this position, or sort of thinking exactly like a like blase’ counter cultural sameness, copying all the self-defined independent thinkers?, or do you think you have some insight into what makes your perspective unique and clearly in some way spiritually valuable to you?

I would be concerned that purely “thinking about it on your own” would lead to a really narrow set of beliefs. Like no offense, but your answer is a carbon copy of “disaffected youth” I’ve both exhibited and seen exhibited my whole life, with maybe a little less bite, so I’m guessing your not that young. But I’m often wrong.

But I am genuinely curious, what do you think makes you an independent thinker? And what purpose does that serve you?
by thangalin | 2025-12-14 17:42:43+00:00
I'd go one step further: The problem is that we cannot build a fair and equitable socioeconomic capitalistic-driven society. Rather than complain about capitalism, I've written a near-future hard sci-fi novel that proposes and explores creating a society that doesn't rely on monetary capital to operate. My theory, which guides the plot, is that we have to look at the seeds of capitalism, namely food, and figure out how to eliminate the exchange of currency for it.

I posit that until this point in history there has never been a time where technology would allow us to grow and distribute food for free (in terms of both financial cost and labour of time). With the rise and convergence of AI, robotics, low-cost renewable energy, advances in optimal light-biomass conversion, diminishing costs on vertical farms, and self-driving vehicles, we have within our reach a way to produce food at essentially no cost.

Think through what would happen to society and our economy if food was free for anyone, anywhere. Think about the meaning of work.

If these ideas intrigue you, beta are readers wanted, see my profile for contact.
by mmooss | 2025-12-14 17:42:56+00:00
Tangentially, why won't computerized maps - e.g., Apple Maps, Google, etc. - show a scale? Generally they'll show one as you pinch/zoom, but it disappears when you release your fingers.

Sometimes I just want to eyeball distances, and not plug in addresses and request routes for everything.

I know not everyone always wants it, but a scale is a fundamental feature of mapping! Scale almost defines mapping.

Edit: One reason I ask is because I suspect some technical limitation.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-14 17:43:08+00:00
I canceled my 10+ year all products pack because I have to remove the "AI assistant" from my sidebar every three days.

Also the CEO bragging about the incredible adoption numbers for their "opt-in only" and "not default" UI redesign. Which is a bald-faced lie. It was opt-in for a year or two, and was the opt-out default for years after that. Now there's no option.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-14 17:43:16+00:00
About a decade ago google trialed a program where you could pay monthly to "buy out" ad spaces. So you wouldn't get served ads, or you would get served fewer ads, and the money would be deducted from what you allotted per month.

Of course

"What kind of dumbass would pay to not see ads when uBlock Origin is free? lololol"

It didn't ever get traction or last very long before being canned. This is the mentality that money-compensation-business-plan tech companies would have to face; "What kind of dumbass would pay for your product?"
Starting company vibecoding a saasplatform. Doomed from the start/take a chance?
by Kaijla | 2025-12-14 17:43:30+00:00
Hey, I spent a couple of months to vibecode a saas platform through terminal and claudecode.

It's been a superfun progress and now I feel that the platform is ready to almost launch.

I need to manually test all functions and feature and make sure that it works, and I guess the next steps is to try to link up with a developer to make sure that everything is secure and compliant. Is it naive to think that I can start a company and sell this?

One thing that scares me is that everyone is able to do this and the moat is next to zero. Even if I think my background within this saas business is unique and that the AI Agentic wedge in the system is great, I believe that in 6 months when this type of vibecoding is more widely known the whole saas busines will change where companies no longer will buy those type of services and instead have their own developers vibecode these softwares inhouse.

Any one with some thoughts on this?
by exe34 | 2025-12-14 17:44:26+00:00
Hey would you be willing to share your claude.md? I'm only starting out with AI coders, and while it often makes good choices for straightforward things, I find the token usage gets bigger and bigger as it proceeds down a list of requirements - my working hypothesis is that it's having to re-read everything as the project gets more complicated and doesn't have a concept of "this is where I go to kick it for this kind of thing".
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-14 17:44:28+00:00
All, if anyone is interested in the classic episodes without ads, I believe that the official MST3K/Gizmoplex channel on Roku/AndroidTV/Apple TV etc and gizmoplex.com website are still ad-free for the classic episodes. You have to register, but it's free. Note, I used the Roku app (I do not use any ad-blocking software/infra) and did not encounter ads, but have no experience with the website or other app platforms.

https://mst3k.com/gizmoplex-visit/
by omnimus | 2025-12-14 17:44:29+00:00
The problem is that most copywriting is not and shouldn't be very creative. Often times it's just outsiders who know how to make public communication clear.

The sad part is that the managers deciding on using AI are the ones who rarely understand what is good public communication - that's why they were hiring someone to help them with it.

With AI they get some text that seems legit but the whole process of figuring out why&how is simply skipped. It might sometimes work but it's doubtful it builds knowledge in the organisation.
by 20after4 | 2025-12-14 17:45:05+00:00
Even on the low-end models, Whirlpool (and probably other brands as well) have managed to add at least one failure-prone and overly expensive feature:

The lid safety switch which prevents you from disabling the lid lock. It has a complex design with lots of anti-tamper circuitry. It's highly prone to failure and very expensive to replace compared to the price of the whole machine.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-12-14 17:45:28+00:00
Yes! One could argue that we might end up with programmers (experts) going through a training of creating software manually first, before becoming operators of AI, and then also spending regularly some of their working time (10 - 20%?) on keeping these skills sharp - by working on purely education projects, in the old school way; but it begs the question:

Does it then really speeds us up and generally makes things better?
by simonw | 2025-12-14 17:45:36+00:00
Why would I agree that "LLMs are shit for any serious work" when I've been using them for serious work for two+ years, as have many other people who's skills I respected from before LLMs came along?

I wrote about another solid case study this morning: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/

I genuinely don't understand how you can look at all of this evidence and still conclude that they aren't useful for people who learn how to use them.
by empiko | 2025-12-14 17:46:07+00:00
I would say it was discovered, not invented. People were messing around with some algorithms, intruiged by their results. Eventually researchers discovered that with using certain training algorithm with certain data can lead to really wonderful outputs. But this is pure empirical discovery.

No AI researcher from 2010 would predict that transformer architecture (if we could send them the description back in time), SGD, and Web crawling could lead to a very coherent and useful LMs.
by hansmayer | 2025-12-14 17:46:09+00:00
Please for once answer the question being asked without replacing both the question and the stated intention with something else. I was willing to give you the benefit of doubt, but I am now really wondering where does your motivation for these vaguely constructed "analogies" coming from, is the LLM industry that desperate? We were all "positive" about LLM possibilities once. I am asking you, when will LLMs be so reliable that they can be used in place of service dogs for blind people ? Do you believe that this technology will ever be that safe. Have you ever actually seen a service dog? I don't think you can distract a service dog with a steak - did you know they start their training basically from year one of age and it takes up to two years to train them. Do you think they spend those two years learning to fetch properly? Also I never said people should not be allowed to "try" a technology. But like with drugs, the tools for impaired, sick etc. also undergo a verification and licensing process, I am surprised you did not know that. So I am asking you again, can you ever imagine an LLM passing those high regulatory hurdles, so that they can be safely used for assisting the impaired people? Service dogs must be doing something right, if so many of them are safely assisting so many people today, don't they ?
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-14 17:46:22+00:00
This applies to pretty much every technology:

When we built nuclear powerplant we had no idea what really mattered for safety or maintenance, or even what day-to-day operations would be like, and we discovered a lot of things as we ran them (which is why we have been able to keep expanding their lifetime much longer than they were planned for).

Same for airplanes: there's tons of empirical knowledge about them, and people are still trying to build better models for why things that works do works the way they do (a former roommate of mine did a PhD on modeling combustion in jet engines, and she told me how much of the details were unknown, despite the technology being widely used for the past 70 years).

By the way, this is the fundamental reason why waterfall often fails, we generally don't understand enough about something before we build it and use it extensively.