MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LMYahooTFY | 2025-12-01 18:30:05+00:00
More distributed and more manual. More administrative overhead. More localized culture we all get nostalgic for. Much more effort to play against peer competitors.

It's the same phenomenon you see in many sectors.

Access is democratized and the friction/barrier to play is dramatically lowered/free, and the localization is diluted or non existent and just a monoculture.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-01 18:30:09+00:00
In English, typically em-dashes are set without spaces or with thin spaces when used to separate appositives/parentheticals (though that style isn't universal even in professional print, there are places that aet them open, and en-dashes set open can also be used in this role); when representating an interruption, they generally have no space before but frequently have space following. And other uses have other patterns.
by dazbradbury | 2025-12-01 18:30:12+00:00
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by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-01 18:30:20+00:00
> 3. I'm a male and I feel like I dedicated so much of my life to work that I don't have alot of friends outside of work, which has really made things feel like I missed out on alot of the world.

Time to start looking at hobbies. Unless you live somewhere very rural, there are very likely to be groups nearby doing all sorts of interesting things. I'm a D&D player, and I've met a lot of people I'd consider my friends through the hobby.

Write down a list of five hobbies you think you might enjoy, and look around the local area!
by palmotea | 2025-12-01 18:30:21+00:00
>> 100M+ is a bit more than i would expect for an image format. have i not been paying attention

> So at least if GP was talking about libjxl "100K+" would be more accurate.

M can mean thousands and I think it's common to use it used that way in finance and finance-adjacent areas: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/A...:

> A. You’ve identified two commonly used conventions in finance, one derived from Greek and the other from Latin, but neither one is standard.

Starting with the second convention, M is used for amounts in the thousands and MM for amounts in the millions (usually without a space between the number and the abbreviation—e.g., $150M for $150,000 and $150MM for $150 million). This convention overlaps with the conventions for writing roman numerals, according to which a thousand is represented by M (from mille, the Latin word for “thousand”). Any similarity with roman numerals ends there, however, because MM in roman numerals means two thousand, not a thousand thousands, or one million, as in financial contexts...

https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...:

> An expense of $60,000 could be written as $60M. Internet advertisers are familiar with CPM which is the cost per thousand impressions.

> The letter k is also used represent one thousand. For example, an annual salary of $60,000 might appear as $60k instead of $60M.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-01 18:30:27+00:00
Yes, I have had the corporate training on leaks and insider trading, too...

Trading on public information is fit and proper (Edit: Indeed, a technical term, but that does not make my statement incorrect, or does it?)

I think you may have skipped the part of leak to whom. If it is a leak to you then it is still not public and indeed insider trading. But if leaked to the public then it is different (and also how do you prevent people from trading on what they see in the media?)

But that's in general as in this case, the OBR admits they released it and, again, anyway once it's on BBC News it's free for all.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 18:30:33+00:00
It's also the exact same human beings who were doing the NFT and metaverse bullshit and insisting they were the next best things and had to jump ship to the next "Totally going to change everything" grift because the first two reached the end of their runs.

I wonder what their plan was before LLMs seemed promising?

These techbros got rich off the dotcom boom hype and lax regulation, and have spent 20 years since attempting to force themselves onto the throne, and own everything.
by jasonsb | 2025-12-01 18:30:33+00:00
It's all about the hardware and infrastructure. If you check OpenRouter, no provider offers a SOTA chinese model matching the speed of Claude, GPT or Gemini. The chinese models may benchmark close on paper, but real-world deployment is different. So you either buy your own hardware in order to run a chinese model at 150-200tps or give up an use one of the Big 3.

The US labs aren't just selling models, they're selling globally distributed, low-latency infrastructure at massive scale. That's what justifies the valuation gap.

Edit: It looks like Cerebras is offering a very fast GLM 4.6
by mattlondon | 2025-12-01 18:30:38+00:00
What confused me about this documentary was the "at home" scenes for Hassabis.

He is famously a North London lad, but the at home shots are clearly shot from South London looking North (you can tell by the orientation of The Shard and Bishops Gate out of the window).

I thought that this might have been a "stage home" but it appears to be the same place in the background of various video conferences he is on too, so unless those were staged for the documentary (which seems like a lot of effort), then he lives near Crystal Palace and not Highgate?
by phantasmish | 2025-12-01 18:31:07+00:00
My company’s spending a lot of money doing things they could have done fifteen or more years ago with classic computer vision libraries and other pre-LLM techniques, cheaper and faster.

Most of the value of AI for our organization is the hype itself providing the activation energy, if you will, to make these projects happen. The value added by the AI systems per se has been minimal.

(YMMV but that’s what I’m seeing at the non-tech bigco I’m at—it’s pretty silly but the checks continue to clear so whatever)
by mp3tricord | 2025-12-01 18:31:10+00:00
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by cmiles8 | 2025-12-01 18:31:13+00:00
Well said.

Folks were super bullish tech wise on the internet when it was new and that turned out it be correct. It was also correct that the .com bubble wiped out a generation of companies and those that survived took a decade or more to recover.

The same thing is playing out here… tech is great and not going away but also the business side is increasingly looking like another implosion waiting to happen.
by leetharris | 2025-12-01 18:31:25+00:00
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by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-01 18:31:31+00:00
All the multiplayer games I play today are either community server based, or I exclusively interact with private lobbies.

My negative experiences with community servers represent a pretty short list. Sometimes servers die, but games die sometimes, too. That's obviously only an issue with persistent-state games, like Minecraft, but it's unfortunate when it happens. Can't say it was so frequent that it impacted my enjoyment of any games as a whole.
by kakapo5672 | 2025-12-01 18:31:36+00:00
Yes, and I've had similar results. I'm easily 10x times more productive with AI, and I'm seeing the same in my professional network. The power of AI is so clear and obvious, that I'm astonished so many folks remain in vigorous denial.

So when I read articles like this, I too am fascinated by the motivations and psychology of the author. What is going on there? The closest analogue I can think of is Climate Change denialism.
by lm28469 | 2025-12-01 18:31:36+00:00
There was value in leaded gas and asbestos insulation too, nobody denies that.

You're blind to all the negative side effects, AI generated slop ads, engagement traps, political propaganda, scams, &c. The amount of pollution is incredible, search engines are dead, blogs are dead, YouTube is dead, social medias are dead, it's virtually impossible to find non slop content, the ratio is probably already 50:1 by now

And these are only the most visible things, I know a few companies losing hundreds of hours every month replying to support tickets that are fully llm generated an more often than not don't make any sense. Another big topic is education.
by nerdjon | 2025-12-01 18:31:39+00:00
To add some additional context to the other comment, the Apple TV App launched before the Apple TV+ streaming service. About 3 years before.

The point of the app was to consolidate all of your watching across various services to a single source. It could work with third party apps and can sign up for various streaming services from within the app. This is a major way it differentiates from the Amazon Prime app that you can still use the third party apps.

So it playing third party content was always the point of the app, Apple TV+ just fit nicely within that app. Less them being competitors and more just why it exists in the first place.

Netflix to my knowledge is the only one that is resistant to using this service, I have not seen any other not work with it. The app is very convenient for keeping up with what I watch across services.
by themanmaran | 2025-12-01 18:31:40+00:00
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by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 18:32:07+00:00
It would be significantly cheaper for my wife and I to have a catastrophic-coverage-only plan, but those are now illegal. Between premiums and deductibles, I think we will have to spend north of $30,000 next year before we break even and insurance actually benefits us in any way whatsoever.

You can get telehealth appointments for many things for pretty cheap via companies like GoodRx, and screenings through dedicated groups as well. My last telehealth visit (and likely my last ever) through my PCP's network charged me+my insurance $300 for a 5 minute phone call to renew a prescription I've been on for years.

ACA just solidified the health system as a quasi-private government organization with its own tax system. We could do so much better, but we're hamstrung by a feckless congress.
by fragmede | 2025-12-01 18:32:36+00:00
The other device to consider as backup, is an Apple Watch with a cell modem. If you are dumped on the side of the street randomly somehow, I can't say if you'd still have your watch or your iPad, I just know it happened to a friend (got into a fight with the other people on a road trip and was left stranded at a gas station), and he was able to use his Apple watch to get help. And everyone on the road trip patched things up afterwards.
by bee_rider | 2025-12-01 18:32:53+00:00
I actually think a big part of this anti-cheat push is just developers wanting their players to think something real is at stake. Yes we put a ton of effort into protecting your very important Elo score from hackers so you confidently sink hours into improving it.

If they would just let the cheaters win their way up the ranks, they could have their own little cheater lobbies and we wouldn’t have to deal with them.
by jjhawk | 2025-12-01 18:32:58+00:00
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by QuercusMax | 2025-12-01 18:32:59+00:00
I saw HUGE ramen displays yesterday at Safeway, including some of the less common flavors like blue (Soy Sauce, formerly "Oriental") and yellow (Creamy Chicken).

I can't find the blog post from the last major recession where people were talking about all the crazy flavors you only see when the economy is REAL bad.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-12-01 18:33:15+00:00
Most likely load arbitrary binary code and execute it. Which also makes it really hard to figure out what it actually did.

Among the options of what could be pushed:

- proxyware, turning your network into a residential proxy that can then be sold to anyone willing to pay for them to commit crimes, send spam, scrape, ... with your IP [I believe this is the primary suspect here]

- other standard botnet crap like DDoS bots

- exploits that try to break out of the sandbox to establish persistence, steal other data, or steal your Google account token

- code that steals all data/tokens that the app itself has access to

- adware that shows ad notifications etc.

- ransomware that tries to prevent you from leaving the app (of course this works best if they get a sandbox escape first, but I'm sure you can get pretty close with just aggressive creative use of existing APIs)
by riktw | 2025-12-01 18:33:16+00:00
I'd love to see that, but for this model that might be too much to ask. The 4054 had some options to accelerate drawings, and that might be able to pull it off! This video (timestamped) shows off some cool grahpic tricks it can do: https://youtu.be/M98VOoGFLL8?si=NRwLTqXqObvePrPk&t=190
by benoau | 2025-12-01 18:33:25+00:00
> I would argue that Airbnb/Amazon etc. also stop hosts/sellers from referring users to any other platform or their own websites.

The difference is Apple's rule applied to your website and your support documentation and your monthly newsletters or any other communications, outside of their platform, outside of apps, all of which they forced developers to censor to ensure iOS users never saw any reference to any alternative payment options. I don't believe this is common at all, if it were we would have seen more cases brought against them once precedent was set by Apple that this was illegal in the US and EU.
by altfredd | 2025-12-01 18:33:48+00:00
What an absolute boatload of lies.

I am currently in process of "verifying" my identity with Android Developer console.

In addition to proof of identity (e.g. passport/driver license) Google is demanding a proof of address, government registration, this month's rental agreement, foreign passport... The process is stuck in limbo because months-old documents are deemed "outdated", and I am constantly threatened that my verification request (!) will be denied because of "exceeding allowed number of attempts" (!!)

It shares the same principle as silent Discord account bans and other "verification" harassment schemes, such as Upwork account verification. The excess developers — Google's potential competitors — need to be banished from platform as quickly and cheaply as possible, so that Google can peddle their own spyware unimpeded.
by rhifun | 2025-12-01 18:33:57+00:00
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by justinsainton | 2025-12-01 18:34:16+00:00
Hey HN! Built this over a weekend because Amazon doesn't give you any year-end insights into your shopping habits. Mostly inspired by this: https://x.com/anshnanda/status/1994641538354393312 :P

Key technical decisions:

- All parsing happens client-side. Your order data never hits our servers unless you explicitly share. You can upload your Amazon CSV export or use a bookmarklet that extracts from the order history page.

- Stack: React + Vite on Cloudflare Pages, Hono.js workers on Cloudflare Workers, D1 for the few things we do store (shared links, anonymous benchmarks).

- AI is used in two places: Claude Haiku for product categorization and personality generation, OpenAI with web search for the savings report (finds cheaper alternatives to your repeat purchases).

- Monetization: Free tier shows basic stats. $5 unlocks AI categorization, personality analysis, shareable cards, and the savings report.

The bookmarklet was the hardest part - Amazon's DOM structure varies wildly between desktop/mobile, account age, and regions. Currently on v22.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or share more about specific implementation details.
by bilbo0s | 2025-12-01 18:34:17+00:00
>I guess it's counting on deepseek being banned

And the people making the bets are in a position to make sure the banning happens. The US government system being what it is.

Not that our leaders need any incentive to ban Chinese tech in this space. Just pointing out that it's not necessarily a "bet".

"Bet" imply you don't know the outcome and you have no influence over the outcome. Even "investment" implies you don't know the outcome. I'm not sure that's the case with these people?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 18:34:42+00:00
You just made me do a deep dive on “Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy”.

I had to think about this. The three companies I’ve actually cared about were those that I had already “won” the organizational rat race within my definition of winning. The first I was leading their largest project only because near the end, they had laid everyone else off. “Winning” was staying employed until the market picked back up after 2009. The company went out of business late 2011. I stayed until the bitter end and then did a contract with the customer that I had been working with.

The second I was already the de facto cloud architect and I “threatened” my CTO that I would quit if they ever made me a team lead. I only got that because I volunteered for the initiatives and I stuck to it until I figured out what I was doing and did a lot of research. The company only had 60 people at its height including project managers, managers, QA, analysts, sales and developers.

The current company, I’m already at the top IC level and have the highest bill rate as a US based consultant. I was bought in at that level. I’ve repeatedly asked my manager what my goals should be a s he said basically - keep making the customers happy and bringing in money through being billable.

The others I was a cog in the wheel and would have had to play the politics game to get ahead. I’ve always sucked at that.
Show HN: Sigma Runtime – A Cognitive Runtime Standard for LLMs
by teugent | 2025-12-01 18:34:46+00:00
We’ve been working on an open runtime architecture that stabilizes long-horizon reasoning in large language models.

Sigma Runtime defines the execution model for attractor-based cognition - integrating symbolic density, drift regulation, and recursive coherence into a unified cognitive runtime layer.

It’s like a Linux-style runtime for cognitive processes in LLMs: models act as hardware, and frameworks like LangChain become drivers on top of it.

→ Documentation: https://wiki.sigmastratum.org → GitHub: https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation → DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17703667

Would love technical feedback and collaboration from those working on LLM runtimes, recursive reasoning, or cognitive architectures.
by alexpotato | 2025-12-01 18:34:57+00:00
We use Sad Servers for evaluating candidates for DevOps/SRE roles and it's phenomenal.

Feedback from candidates is that they find it a bit stressful during the actual interview but love the approach once it's completed.

The interview option also makes it trivial to just send to a candidate via Zoom chat, ask them to share their screen and "just works".

Happy to answer questions folks may have about how we use it.