MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Forgeties79 | 2025-12-08 03:23:48+00:00
Generally I’d ditch that tool because it doesn’t work. A calculator is supposed to calculate. If it can’t reliably calculate, then it’s not a functioning tool and I am tired of people insisting it is functioning properly.

LLM’s simply aren’t good enough for all the use cases some people insist they are. They’re powerful tools that have been far too broadly applied and there’s too much money and too many reputations being put on the line to acknowledge the obvious limitations. Frankly I’m sick of it.

I had somebody on HN a few months ago insist to me that because we value art and fiction, LLM’s being wrong when we need them to be correct (in ways that are also not always easy to identify) was desirable. I don’t even know what to do with that kind of logic other than chalk it up as trolling. I don’t want my computer to trick me into false solutions.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-08 03:24:30+00:00
I set all that stuff up for mine, and used a reputable mail server (FastMail), and even went through steps particular to Microsoft and Google. Google started accepting my emails, but my employer's Microsoft Exchange system kept sending my stuff to spam. How many other people would just not receive my stuff? It's impossible for me to know. If you want to reach out to strangers, any false positives will hurt you.
by Jimmc414 | 2025-12-08 03:25:04+00:00
Incrementally and unevenly. The catholic church abuse scandal took decades of persistence before change. Tobacco litigation seemed pointless until it wasn't. Epstein was a known criminal for years before arrest. The gap is long and uncertain, but the alternative is what? You keep your own house in order regardless of whether the neighborhood is on fire. That is the only part you can control
by temp0826 | 2025-12-08 03:25:19+00:00
Relief of existing symptoms is one thing, relief of withdrawal symptoms caused by the lack of the substance is another. Stopping use of your eyedrops is not the root cause of your dry eyes. (Cry me a river :) I wouldn't consider that comment judgmental...definitely not as much as talking about people's "behavioral patterns" after reading a single sentence comment anyways)
by gyomu | 2025-12-08 03:26:14+00:00
> The other less probable theory is that they actually picked Fadell

"Less probable" is the understatement of the century. This rumor came out of nowhere, and it should instantly set off the BS-meter of anyone familiar with how Apple is run.

The most likely explanation for it is that Tony felt like a little boost to his profile couldn't hurt whatever his next step might be, and so he made a few phone calls to get this rumor ball rolling so that his name is in the news for a bit (hey, it worked!).
by HaZeust | 2025-12-08 03:26:36+00:00
Thinking that people won't fall in line is blind idealism. Autonomous weapons of war are already here as it is - formidable individually, worse than a WMD at scale. Day by day, we're getting closer to a militaristic reality where a commanding officer doesn't need a subordinate's turnkey or permission to enact scaled conflict.

Open a browser tab or start a conversation at a bar today, millions of people are in uproar because elected representatives and military officers issued a video that was JUST A REMINDER that military members have a moral and legal duty to reject manifestly illegal orders. Nevermind how they'll inevitably act when the chips are down, and it's now actually time to reject an order from the commander in chief - or someone that answers to him.

This place fetishizes CGP Grey more than anything - watch his dictatorship video about only needing to hold a few "key" (figuratively and literally) officials in place to get your bidding done most efficiently.
Show HN: Matchmyvc.com – Is this going to be useful?
by tapan_garg | 2025-12-08 03:26:36+00:00
Hello,

Father and Son team building this product.

Over the past few weeks we met a few VCs with the intention of investing in them.

We realized after talking to them that finding a match between Founders and VCs is a struggle for both sides - so we made this matchmaking solution which matches the uploaded pitch with VCs (we use vectors to match).

On the plus side, we have managed to create a huge Database (mostly quite well enriched) of VC funds and their teams.

The big showstopper - Ran an ad on Google, got a 1000 visitors and almost no real sign-ups.

I guess that's a clear signal.

Any ideas on what we're not seeing? Like most entrepreneurs we are blinded by the love for what we've built. :)
by mooreds | 2025-12-08 03:26:45+00:00
> Actually networking requires building real relationships with people.

Yes! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that letting folks know you exist was sufficient; it is only necessary.

I find a cheat code to building relationships with people is to give first. I love to ask "how can I help" when I meet someone at a conference or networking event. This does a few things:

* separates you from so many other people who go to these events looking to be transactional

* shows you can follow through (when you actually do help them) which, somewhat shockingly, distinguishes you from many other folks

* filters folks that might not be a fit for a deep relationship because you move in different worlds; if someone asks "well, I am looking for a major piece of real estate to buy", I as a software developer am unlikely to be able to help them

This is a long play though, to be sure.
by strcat | 2025-12-08 03:27:09+00:00
French law enforcement chose to do interviews with those newspapers and nearly all of the content of those articles is paraphrasing or directly quoting what they said. There's very little input from the journalists into those articles. They treated the claims from the state as facts and conveyed them as such, then posted our responses to vague queries not giving us the details of what was being claimed about us so we could properly respond to it.
by evanjrowley | 2025-12-08 03:27:23+00:00
Not sure about Estonian, but this is a discussion about the Russia-Ukraine war, so please stay focused.

The Ukrainian SS division got plenty of sympathy from non-USSR allies post-WW2. We can see their symbols proudly on display today in Ukraine's Azov brigade. Here you are displaying your sympathy for this legacy.

I recommend looking past the labels and extending sympathy to all humans trapped in this conflict.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-12-08 03:27:38+00:00
A considerable part of this is the fact that in a society where utilizing these programs is stigmatized to the degree that the USA does, people who see themselves as honest tend to avoid utilizing them.

And even those who are less than honest, but have a sense of propriety, would understand that the correct, culturally approved time to engage in these activities is AFTER one acquires a significant amount of wealth, when entitlements are knighted to become "economic incentives".
by strcat | 2025-12-08 03:28:54+00:00
It's rate limiting on key derivation attempts. A key is made via scrypt from the passphrase. A hash of this key is used as an authentication token to obtain a random token from the secure element for the final hardware-bound key derivation to use as an additional input. Passing the wrong authentication token results in rapidly increasingly throttling. We documented the previous less aggressive ramp up at https://grapheneos.org/faq#encryption but it actually ramps up a lot faster now to make 4 digit PINs less horrible, although we still strongly recommend 6 random digits as the minimum.

Secure element updates don't only need to have a valid signature and greater version. They also require the Owner user to authenticate successfully after booting in order for it to be accepted. This is what they refer to as insider attack resistance, since it protects against them being coerced by a government into removing the brute force protection for a locked device via an update.
by theamk | 2025-12-08 03:28:56+00:00
> I teach English courses at Boston College. I don’t lecture much. Mostly, we engage in conversation, paying attention to one another and to the book we have all read.

This would be OK only if your class is small enough (something like 10-30 people). I don't think this will work in 100+ people classes at all, and that's how most of my classes were back in college.

Also, the "not for worse" part is totally missing from the article. This working implies "for the better", but all there is are the methods how to force people to ignore AI (and read on their own), and how to punish people who rely on AI too much. There is no improvements mentioned. I'd title this article "AI has changed my classroom, and it could have been worse".
by jrowen | 2025-12-08 03:29:47+00:00
The bag of words reminds me of the Chinese room.

"The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfectly that no one can tell that they are communicating with a machine and not a hidden Chinese speaker.

The questions at issue are these: does the machine actually understand the conversation, or is it just simulating the ability to understand the conversation? Does the machine have a mind in exactly the same sense that people do, or is it just acting as if it had a mind?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
by nubg | 2025-12-08 03:31:30+00:00
I tried this app and immediately got caught. The app window was visible in plain sight to the interviewer. The interviewer asked me what I was doing. I tried to pretend I didn't know what I was talking about, but obviously that only made things worse because they were seeing everything. I got banned from ever interviewing at that company and they said they would report me. I'm not sure where they reported me to, if it's some company information sharong platform or the authorities, but needless to say I am scared and hate myself. I was just nervous about that interview and just wanted to make sure I passed it as I do have the skills they were gonna ask about in the interview. I fucked up.
by djoldman | 2025-12-08 03:32:05+00:00
As a consequence of my profession, I understand how LLMs work under the hood.

I also know that we data and tech folks will probably never win the battle over anthropomorphization.

The average user of AI, nevermind folks who should know better, is so easily convinced that AI "knows," "thinks," "lies," "wants," "understands," etc. Add to this that all AI hosts push this perspective (and why not, it's the easiest white lie to get the user to act so that they get a lot of value), and there's really too much to fight against.

We're just gonna keep on running into this and it'll just be like when you take chemistry and physics and the teachers say, "it's not actually like this but we'll get to how some years down the line- just pretend this is true for the time being."
by wpietri | 2025-12-08 03:32:25+00:00
If you're saying there's some sort of wisps-and-moonbeams notion of estimation in everything that we do, sure. I'm not going to argue with that. One world, brah.

What I am talking about here, though, is a practice of software estimation where programmers produce detailed numbers on the amount of time requested work will take. Which is certainly the common meaning of estimating around here, and also what the original article is about.
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by strcat | 2025-12-08 03:33:10+00:00
We won't comply with illegal demands, so how would they force us to do it?

GrapheneOS System Updater doesn't identify the device or user to the server. A massive portion of GrapheneOS users are using a VPN and some are using Tor so many of the IP addressed are VPN/Tor exit IPs shared between people. How would an update be targeted to a specific phone?
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-08 03:33:35+00:00
Someone just told me that if you rewrite a commit that is an ancestor of multiple branches, it will (or can) automatically rewrite all the branches.

What does it even mean to not resolve conflicts? Your branch code and/or history is broken until you come around and fix it? If so, forcing you to fix it immediately is better. Aside from the practical implications of deferring conflict resolution, I just can't think of a reason I would do it in the first place. If a branch can't be rebased with zero work, and I don't have time to do that work, I just don't do the rebase.
by handoflixue | 2025-12-08 03:34:51+00:00
It's telling that you can't actually provide a single concrete example - because, of course, anyone skilled with LLMs would be able to trivially solve any such example within 10 minutes.

Perhaps the occasional program that relies heavily on precise visual alignment will fail - but I dare say if we give the LLM the same grace we'd give a visually impaired designer, it can do exactly as well.
by underbluewaters | 2025-12-08 03:35:39+00:00
As a mac user since 2006 I see the problem as twofold.

1. Siri has always been terrible. The rise of chatbots has made that fact even more obvious. It's such low hanging fruit to integrate some sort of llm chatbot. Why didn't they do it years ago? 2. Their advertisements all mention Apple Intelligence. Costco today was advertising "Macs with Apple Intelligence" as a headline feature. I use MacOS and iOS everyday and I'm not even sure what they are referring to. It's probably fine if their AI strategy isn't clear yet, but stop letting marketing act like they've already shipped it. That they have been promoting this non-existent feature since 2024 is embarrassing.
by HaZeust | 2025-12-08 03:36:27+00:00
I always thought it was actually an ingenious solution to elections. There's absolutely no reason that a driver's license can't derive a hash that can only be proven and not reversed (for identity); and provides a one-time contribution to a blockchain that contains your vote - which you then receive your block's information when you finish voting.

ANYONE can calculate the sums, anyone can verify and proof hashes, identity is kept secret, trust is installed with hash checks for each and every voter - etc etc etc.

It's certainly more airtight than the solution we have today - where trust and efficiency can both be compromised fairly easy.
by hedora | 2025-12-08 03:36:51+00:00
Is it a certain number of days to fix all the mispriced items?

If not, there’s an obvious loophole here. Misprice intentionally, then stop purchasing the item from your distributor if you get called on it, rotating in some similar thing. Later, bring it back with a different sku, or mispriced at some other level.

This would work well for dollar stores, which are optimized to spread in / sustain food/retail deserts.

The store is often literally the only option in town. The wouldn’t even need to sell excess warehouse inventory at the advertised price, since they could just shift supply to another state (or county/store, depending on how poorly the law is worded).
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-08 03:37:05+00:00
Literally every single person in my life is using AI on an almost daily basis. Not just like my co-workers, or some nerdy discord chat, like every single person I regularly interact with from my niece to my mother, my boss to my barista.

People complain about it, it's short falls and idiosyncrasies, but it's only been getting better, both the models and the integration.

There is no future now where LLMs aren't playing a big role. We'll have our CLI luddites who believe computing peaked in 1992 forever, but the rest of society is running full speed towards computers that they can talk to in natural language.

That's why Apple is uneasy. The god-tier technology usability company is on the verge of totally missing out on the greatest revolution in human-computer usability ever. My mother isn't going to want an Apple UI anymore when you just talk to the new computers.
by estearum | 2025-12-08 03:38:31+00:00
I'm a neurologist, and as a consequence of my profession, I understand how humans work under the hood.

The average human is so easily convinced that humans "know", "think", "lie", "want", "understand", etc.

But really it's all just a probabilistic chain reaction of electrochemical and thermal interactions. There is literally nowhere in the brain's internals for anything like "knowing" or "thinking" or "lying" to happen!

Strange that we have to pretend otherwise
by ikety | 2025-12-08 03:39:42+00:00
The ease in which you can get away with these tactics ad infinitum is starting to make me a pessimist. It feels like it takes almost an entire population of unified people, that are diligently advocating on behalf of themselves, to compete with a ruling class that has the resources to stay on the offense forever.

The ruling class doesn't even have to actively communicate and conspire with one another (although they do). Their independent attempts to undermine and control government furthers the agenda of all private businesses.
by halJordan | 2025-12-08 03:40:11+00:00
If you want someone to be actually pedantic about it, then no system is ever classified. Knowledge of the system might be classified, the system may be accredited to handle classified data, at some level. The data this system allegedly collects is obviously unclassified and only becomes classified after landing in some data lake.

Information is classified not anything else. All of that to say, this is one of the many secret computer systems the nsa allegedly has. As the Wikipedia article clearly indicates
by joshstrange | 2025-12-08 03:40:56+00:00
I use Syncthing and have for many years but I don’t use it on Android so feel free to dismiss my opinion.

I’ve read through a number of the GitHub/Gitlab/Forum threads and while I’m not saying anything new:

You couldn’t script a more suspicious transfer [0]. That fact is maybe the most compelling reason to assume it’s actually above board, if there is malicious intent, it’s being poorly disguised. To make matters worse, both Catfriend1 and researchxxl appear to be very bad at communicating (both in language and speed). Yes, Catfriend1 has surfaced and says they did transfer the repo/signing keys. Why that couldn’t have been posted at the start of this is beyond me. Researchxxl seems to not be a native english speaker and I tried to take that into consideration but I’m increasingly finding it difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt. They seem… immature, that’s the best way I can put it. They certainly don’t seem trustworthy nor have they made any attempt to address raised concerns. I wouldn’t touch their releases based on what I’ve seen, way too much access and way too little trust.

[0] Repo redirected to brand new account/repo with no notice/announcement from original owner. Furthermore, evidence that the signing keys were transferred and users might be at risk of malicious updates (see the many examples of Chrome extensions that were quietly sold and turned malicious).
by godelski | 2025-12-08 03:41:41+00:00
Funny enough, I was going to include those relationships in my original comment but pulled them out for brevity. Was going to be something like "I think it is really hard to get a physics degree and not stumble upon the similarities of Gravity and Electromagnetism where there's a striking similarity in forms. I think most people start by thinking there's some link to the unification (and imagine solving a TOE) but you end up finding incredible beauty in something seemingly simple like the inverse square law." I actually remember one of my favorite lectures (and expanded on as a homework question) was deriving why everything is in inverse square law and not some variation like r^1.9 or r^1.5. It just completely changed how I saw these equations and even the process of analysis. I was a pure experimentalist before that class and gained a lifelong appreciation for theory because of it. I'm in ML now, so definitely still in application/experimentalist mindset but when I stumbled upon this Knuth quote it resonated strongly

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.
by dataflow | 2025-12-08 03:41:41+00:00
> the impact on the final assessment could be as high as $80

That's the financial impact. Depending on what you're missing, the nonfinancial might be opening yourself to perjury, because you're knowingly claiming a falsehood as a fact on a tax return (even if it's financially in the government's benefit)... never mind potentially screwing up future tax returns in the process.
by monksy | 2025-12-08 03:41:45+00:00
It was absolutely amazing how stubborn and ridiculous the whole bracket-less syntax change was handled. It was basically a dictatorial decision that they pretended to be a community decision. It was just pushed and tons of people voiced their disapproval. In the end it was "so bad so sad you can always reenable brackets".

They did it to try to appeal to Pythonists.. turns out that wasn't why Pythonists didn't use scala in the first place.
by spankalee | 2025-12-08 03:42:32+00:00
I'm not sure that "radical" apps aren't more often built because we don't know how, than because we don't have the time, funding, or risk budget to do it.

For those cases, I think LLM-assisted coding has the ability to drastically change the usual formula and help bring into being projects that people would previously only daydream about, hoping that the world aligns with their vision one day and they can magically spin up a team to work on it.

Coding agents are fast becoming at least a part of that team. If you're idea is in a domain where they've had a lot of high-quality training code, they can already do a pretty amazing job of getting a project off the ground. If you're a programmer with at least some domain knowledge and can guide the design and push the agent past tough spots, you can keep the project going when the LLMs get bogged down.

I think at the very least, we're going to see some incredibly impressive prototypes, if not complete implementations, of OSes, programming languages, hypermedia systems, protocols, etc. because one passionate programmer threw a lot of LLM time them.

Basically lots of people are going to be able to build their own TempleOS now. Some of those might end up being impactful.
by hedora | 2025-12-08 03:42:33+00:00
If there’s a paper trail showing they authorized it, and the total amount of fraud is enough for felony charges (a few thousand bucks, I think), then yeah, throw their asses in prison, and make them refund the money they had the business steal out of their personal funds.

I’m all for limited liability corporations, but if there is a smoking gun that shows you intentionally engaged in criminal activity, that should pierce the liability shield.
by gruez | 2025-12-08 03:42:54+00:00
Ad Nauseum is snakeoil. Their FAQ states that they "click" on ads by sending a XHR request[1]. As you might imagine, this is easily detectable, and given how rampant ad fraud is, fake "clicks" like those are almost certainly filtered by every ad network. Otherwise anyone with a botnet would be able to easily make millions of fake clicks with a few lines of javascript.

[1] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#how-does-adnause...