MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamnothere | 2025-12-09 23:03:21+00:00
That’s a common refrain, especially among the media (ironically, as they are blaming themselves) and the professional-managerial class, who seem to have a blind spot for labor needs. Voters facing hardship have agency and vote for who they believe is aligned with their needs. In 2020 Biden’s union support was key to his victory in the rust belt states, which carried him to victory. Harris didn’t have the same background and didn’t make a serious effort to reach those people, and lost a percentage of union votes at a time when the number of union voters actually increased. So she lost. But it’s true that inflation didn’t help.

One reason that incumbents are doing so poorly is that they promise nothing, and deliver it. Nations are in decline across the West, and all that candidates are allowed to offer is more of the same neoliberal pablum. Anyone who attempts to offer something different faces a coordinated attack from the media and incumbent political class, and the only ones seemingly able to break through the resistance are dishonest right-populists. The left has to come up with a solution other than dismantling (excuse me, “fortifying”) democracy, which appears to be the EU solution.
by hinkley | 2025-12-09 23:03:25+00:00
Sheer stubbornness.

Profilers lie and some more than most. I’ve gotten 3x from code with a perfectly rectangular profile output.

Part of it comes down to a trick game devs steal from finance: give each task a budget and keep it to the budget even if it’s not the tall tent pole.

You should not spend 10% of your response time on telemetry and logging combined. Yet I pulled 10% TTFB out of just the logging and telemetry code on a project. It was a frog boiling situation. Every new epic used the new code and determining the cumulative cost wasn’t easy.
by shermantanktop | 2025-12-09 23:03:29+00:00
iPad: i have thousands of music scores on it running ForScore, which I can annotate with an Apple Pencil (the cheap $99 one), I flip pages using a foot controller I built with an ESP32, and I run multiple audio and music apps on it that are extremely useful.

And it just ...works. It sits on my music stand, doesn't call attention to itself, and does the job I ask it too.

Could I do all that with some Android thing? Probably most of it. Truly differentiated tech is rare in the consumer space. It's the experience that counts, and that's what the iPad has.
by evanelias | 2025-12-09 23:04:17+00:00
Those statements are quite clearly simplifications, provided for readers who lack accounting experience (e.g. the majority of readers, since it is an engineering-focused blog). That's entirely reasonable in context. I don't know why you're laser-focusing on these two phrases as some kind of smoking gun that discredits the entire piece.

On the "management gets to pick your depreciation period" one in particular, despite being a massive over-simplification, there is substantial underlying truth to the statement. The author's comment about "I can remember one of the big cloud vendors announcing they were going to change their fleet depreciation from three to four years and that having an impact on their share price" is specifically referring to Alphabet's 2021 Q3 earnings statement. See the HN discussion I linked in reply to the sibling comment.
by throwinggggggg | 2025-12-09 23:05:48+00:00
But which united states in America?! Canada (nation in America, specifically North) has provinces, while Mexico (officially the "United Mexican States" - also in America, also states, also united) is definitely not being boycotted.

All this confusion could have been cleared up if the states (which are united, in America, but not the Mexican states that are united and in America) had enough pride to name their country something distinct and uniquely identifying.
by 47282847 | 2025-12-09 23:07:18+00:00
1. Arbitrary it may be. You have to start somewhere. In that sense, anything we do is “arbitrary“. Straw man. (see also: ban of plastic straws)

2. I would expect pet toys to be regulated as well and to contain less environmental toxins and hard to recycle elements than batteries, so I doubt the claim about impact per item sold.
by grebc | 2025-12-09 23:07:41+00:00
I like Tim, his arguments come across as an honest attempt to answer real questions. I feel as if the current crop of physicists look down on things that appear too simplistic.

Their math give an answer with artefacts they can’t match to reality so they keep probing the outliers of these absolutely bonkers ideas, and rabbit holes keep getting deeper & weirder.

Time doesn’t exist. Do the people writing this garbage live in a vacuum? Is it AI slop?
by listenallyall | 2025-12-09 23:07:50+00:00
Doesn't really matter the type of doctor, spending all their time on revenue-generating activities would seem to be better than only 75% generating revenue and 25% on "administrative and bureaucratic tasks" that don't generate revenue and which could be accomplished by a much lower-paid employee ("secretaries and assistants").

Perhaps you're correct that the doctors are simply working much longer hours but that's one group of employees among a hospital's staff who do generally have a lot of power and aren't too easy to make extraordinary demands of.
by ggm | 2025-12-09 23:08:12+00:00
ITER 20 minutes net positive in 10 years time?

How does that alter the "fusion in 50 years" effect? I suspect not much, there will be a huge 80/20 element. "next 20 minutes cancelled after extensive embrittlement found, ITER now in decontamination mode for 3 months before examinations can begin"
by mikewarot | 2025-12-09 23:09:00+00:00
I've got a Motorola Power G 2024, the cheapest unlocked phone I could get. You can root it, and I use it with Mint Mobile. I've got a VAX/VMS 11/780 that I can run inside it thanks to SimH and Termux. It's not a "power user" phone, per se, but it's amazing what $200 will get you these days.
by simcop2387 | 2025-12-09 23:09:17+00:00
For IoT myself i'm wondering if it's something that could be thrown into the Matter side of things, make the hub/border router act as an ACME server with it's own CA that gives out mTLS certs so the devices can validate the hub and the hub can validate the devices. It'd never be implemented properly by the swarms of cheap hardware out there but I can dream...
by rtkwe | 2025-12-09 23:10:28+00:00
I think the unified syncing while neat is way beyond what SQLite is really meant for and you'd get into so many niche situations dealing with out of sync master and slave 'databases' it's hard to make an automated solution that covers them effectively unless you force the schema into a transactional design for everything just to sort out update conflicts. eg: Your user has the app on two devices uses one while it doesn't have an internet connection altering the state and then uses the app on another device before the original has a chance to sync.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-09 23:10:43+00:00
Ah the classic "show me ironclad evidence of this impossible-to-prove-but-quite-clear thing or else you must be wrong!"

Although we did recently get pretty good evidence of those claims for humans and it would be very surprising if the situation were completely reversed for LLMs (i.e. humans write Rust more reliably but LLMs write C more reliably).

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move...

I'm not aware of any studies pointing in the opposite direction.
by estearum | 2025-12-09 23:11:09+00:00
Can you tell me which Trump policies were pro-labor, pro-union, pragmatic, positive visions of the future?

There was none.

It turns out that actually you don't need pragmatic, positive visions of the future to win. In fact, we have plenty of evidence that pragmatic policies at all are a massive electoral liability when facing someone who is, again, willing to simply lie about everything.

In Trump, you have clear evidence that people do not need pragmatic solutions to anything. Somehow you are pulling from that the conclusion that Democrats are not pragmatic enough.

What makes you believe there is public appetite for pragmatic solutions? Enough to win a national election?
Show HN: Gemini powered natural language search over influencer content
by damidare | 2025-12-09 23:11:22+00:00
Last year I built an app for event discovery but I completely botched go-to-market. I did get some traction with influencers, except the process of vetting them was painful.

I spent way more time on Instagram than I ever wanted to. Even when I finally had a few people in mind, with my constrained budget, I was seeking asymmetric outcomes and wanted to find creators “on the rise”. I'd find a creator that i think might fit, then burn 45 minutes watching their stuff trying to see if I liked their tone of voice.

So I built something that addresses some of these challenges, It fetches video content at query time for a creator, uses gemini’s multimodality to extract aspects you might find useful and returns a set of attributes you can then apply your brand statement or filter criteria against.

It takes 2-3 minutes per creator to get an evaluation or a brand fit report. But you can get some really in-depth analysis and define any criteria you like.

[https://thehypebridge.com](https://thehypebridge.com/)

Please share your thoughts. And if you want some free tokens beyond what the free plan allows, please let me know.
by tsoukase | 2025-12-09 23:11:30+00:00
Using an LLM to diagnose/treat a health issue is not yet mature and not going to be such in the foreseeable future. It's not like predicting a protein fold or presenting a business report. Medical advice is in many dimensions incompatible with artificial support: non-quantifiable, fuzzy, case-specific, intimate, empathic and awfully responsible. Even AGI is not enough. In order to become a doctor, the machine has to develop next-level dexterities, namely to follow the interplay of multiple concurrent factors on various types of living tissue. Multiple attempts to bring Decision Support to medicine have failed and LLM is one more. Sure you can take an advice, but it will be the less useful of all the other types you can have.
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-09 23:11:46+00:00
the question is, how do you want to provide instructions for what the AI is to do? You might not like calling it "chat" but somehow you need to communicate that, right? With aider you can write a comment for a function and then instruct it to finish the function inline (see other comments). But unless you just want pure autocomplete based on it guessing things, you need to provide guidance to it somehow.
by baseonmars | 2025-12-09 23:12:17+00:00
Alfie.io by xpflow | Remote (US) - East coast timezone preferred | Founding Full-Stack Engineer | https://alfie.io

Alfie.io builds AI-powered tools that help small and mid-sized e-commerce brands reach new customers who are already interested in their products. We automate outreach, rankings, and discovery of affiliates, creators and ambassadors using LLM-driven workflows. The team is small and experienced, and we move quickly.

I'm looking for an experienced full stack engineer to join the team - the right candidate will have a large degree of freedom in building the product, but plenty of support to get up and running. Our current stack is Typescript, Next.js, vercel, but we're actively looking at options for some of the more data intensive workflows.

Real world experience with AI coding agents a must.

Reach out to jobs@xpflow.app for full spec and further questions
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-12-09 23:12:18+00:00
Counterpoint:

Frankly, it's a skill thing.

You know how some people can hardly find the back of their own hands if they googled them?

And then there's people (like eg. experienced wikipedians doing research) who have google-fu and can find accurate information about the weirdest things in the amount of time it takes you to tie your shoes and get your hat on.

Now watch how someone like THAT uses chatgpt (or some better LLM) . It's very different from just prompting with a question. Often it involves delegating search tasks to the LLM (and opening 5 google tabs alongside besides) . And they get really interesting results!
by Marsymars | 2025-12-09 23:12:23+00:00
The ASUS BR1204?

That's kind of a weird one because the PC market has notably regressed there over the past few years. Other than the Surface Pro 12 there've been no fanless PC laptops released since 2022-ish, when there used to be dozens.

On a technical basis, fanless PC laptops released now would be better than the ones in 2022 just on the basis of 2022 lineup having a moribund lineup of CPUs (Snapdragon SQ1, Amber Lake, etc.) You could release a lineup now that would be broadly competitive with the M1 at least, but it doesn't seem to be a market segment that PC OEMs are interested in.
by nixpulvis | 2025-12-09 23:12:37+00:00
Is there a notion of tier 1 and tier 2 certificates? Like if I setup paid and backed by contract agreements with a cert provider, does this give users more confidence that their lock icon in the browser actually means they are talking to who they think they are?

It's one thing to provide a cert to provide secure encrypted TLS, it's another thing to establish identity with the user. Though, most users would never notice either way.
Show HN: PaperGrep – Find academic papers referenced in production code
by AlexDenisov | 2025-12-09 23:13:15+00:00
Around 9 years ago I wrote a blog-post looking for scientific papers in OpenJDK [0]. Back then I simply greped the source code searching for PDFs and didn't even know what a DOI is.

Since then, whenever I entered a new domain or worked in a new codebase, I wished I could see the papers referenced in the source. For example, PyTorch has great papers [1] describing implementation details of compilation and parallelization techniques. Reading those papers + the code that implements them is incredibly helpful for understanding both the domain and the codebase.

I finally decided to build PaperGrep as a simple tool for this. The biggest challenge wasn't parsing citations (though that's hard) - it's organizing everything in a useful way, which I'm still figuring out.

So far, the process is semi-automated: most of the tedious parts such as parsing, background jobs, metadata search is automated, but there is still a lot of manual work to review/curate the papers coming from ambigous or unclear citations.

Yet, I've already found some interesting papers to read through, so the effort was definitely worth it! Current selection of repos is biased based on my interests - what domains/repos am I missing?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022649 [1] https://papergrep.dev/repository/pytorch/pytorch
by browningstreet | 2025-12-09 23:13:35+00:00
The new Apple Intelligence version of Siri isn't out yet. It's scheduled to arrive with iOS 26.4 in early/mid 2026.

My assertion is that Apple hasn't yet released a generational complement to Gemini or ChatGPT voice modes. That's a problem, but one specifically of availability and release, which.. again (and despite the downvoters).. matches the assertion of the post ("slow AI pace").

If/when new Siri in 26.4 comes out and it sucks, then that'd be an issue of quality.

Reference: https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/30/apple-intelligenc...
by indigodaddy | 2025-12-09 23:13:38+00:00
I tried this on a bunch of chat webuis and they all failed miserably for single html file. Finally went with Replit and allowed it to just default to whatever stack it decided to use (it ignored my single file html directive and used react but said it "functions as a single monolith -- lol ok).

Anyway, turned out decent. Oh I had it do the articles and comments too, that's probably why I mostly got failures.

https://future-news--jgbrwn.replit.app
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-09 23:15:42+00:00
> High quality code is a thing from the past

Says the person who will find themselves unable to change the software even in the slightest way without having to large refactors across everything at the same time.

High quality code matters more than ever, would be my argument. The second you let the LLM sneak in some quick hack/patch instead of correctly solving the problem, is the second you invite it to continue doing that always.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-09 23:15:55+00:00
> The vast majority of Israel's Jews don't come from Palestine and descend very remotely from Hebrews. It's akin to say that Christians owe a right to Palestine as well because Christians, who are a successful "jewish fork", lived there before.

My point was just that both sides have arguably legitimate claims to being native to the region, depending on how you look at things.

> The justification of the Irgun terrorism because of the Arab riots is comical - then does that mean that groups such as the Hamas are justified in their existence as they resist against the Israeli colonizers?

My point was that this conflict is characterized by lots of back and forth retaliation. I'm not justifying terrorism from either side however. In any case the Irgun was disbanded following the establishment of the state of Israel.

> I think that it's not "one-sided" to say that Israel should stop supporting the colonization and dismantle the current colonies.

Unilateral disengagement doesn't work historically, I agree there should be a negotiated peace but at the moment neither side seems to be all that interested in figuring out a solution.

> Which is simply an application of the international law.

International law is far from clear in general, especially since the original occupiers of Gaza and the West Bank(Egypt and Jordan) relinquished all claims to the land.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-09 23:16:10+00:00
Couldn't you, like, build this into the Pebble Watch? I think I might be interested in this but I fundamentally don't want to wear a ring on my finger.

(Also, I do really want an excuse to switch from my Apple Watch to a new Pebble.)

The blog post says:

> Initially, we experimented by building this as an app on Pebble, since it has a mic and I’m always wearing one. But, I realized quickly that this was suboptimal - it required me to use my other hand to press the button to start recording (lift-to-wake gestures and wake-words are too unreliable). This was tough to use while bicycling or carrying stuff.

I don't understand how the ring makes any of this better.
by phillipseamore | 2025-12-09 23:16:13+00:00
10 great years.

For the next years I'm hoping for more resilience/global distribution in the issuance process. Since I live on an island for about half the year I do have experience with internet outages, and we do appear to live in turbulent times. That could be an issue with the ever decreasing certificate lifetime. I'd love to see LE exploring options like working with ccTLD registrars to work on local issuance.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-09 23:16:26+00:00
I haven't dug deep enough into C# to say this with certainty, but I believe later C# versions allows you to do enough manual allocation to "almost" get around the garbage collector. As well as new calls to try and nudge the GC away from hot paths.

You need to be very disciplined to pull this off, though. LINQ is basically off limits, for example. And of course, Godot's C# is likely much older than these modern techniques to begin with.
by theturtletalks | 2025-12-09 23:17:47+00:00
Easy. Just tell the LLM to use the Linear CLI or hit their API directly. I’m only half-joking. Older models were terrible at doing that reliably, which is exactly why we created MCP.

Our SaaS has a built-in AI assistant that only performs actions for the user through our GraphQL API. We wrapped the API in simple MCP tools that give the model clean introspection and let us inject the user’s authenticated session cookie directly. The LLM never deals with login, tokens, or permissions. It can just act with the full rights of the logged-in user.

MCP still has value today, especially with models that can easily call tools but can’t stick to prompt. From what I’ve seen in Claude’s roadmap, the future may shift toward loading “skills” that describe exactly how to call a GraphQL API (in my case), then letting the model write the code itself. That sounds good on paper, but an LLM generating and running API code on the fly is less consistent and more error-prone than calling pre-built tools.
by twoodfin | 2025-12-09 23:18:34+00:00
Reminds me of a game-breaking strategy in the (interesting, flawed) hybrid RTS/RPG War in Middle Earth (1988).

The RTS part involved moving armies and heroes around to fight Sauron / Saruman’s armies and defend your citadels. There was a game loss condition if you lost something like three citadels in battle.

But if you abandoned your citadels, their subsequent occupation didn’t trigger the loss. So you could simply aggregate all your forces into one giant army and take Barad Dur and Mt Doom by force.

Probably an under-appreciated game, historically.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-09 23:18:36+00:00
When I was in school there were a handful of people (couple dozen in a student body of ~10k) who did it. They'd use the athletics center for shower and the buildings allowed 24hr key access for bathroom. Most of them had jobs in dining services for the free meal per shift. These people weren't looked at as being poor, they were looked at as hard-assed cheapskates who were toughing out a hard lifestyle and consequently saving money in the process and were generally envied for doing something most couldn't stomach. If you can tolerate it it's a great deal if you're a student because you can use student access to facilities to cover a lot of your other needs and it's truly just a place to sleep and the ~20yo body can tolerate the lifestyle. Motorhomes weren't allowed and they were real touchy about box trucks so minivans and conversion vans were mostly what you'd see though there was the occasional station wagon.

And this was not in a mild climate, wikipedia says the mean daily temp in January is 18deg (freedom). That said, I have no doubt that snootier universities didn't allow these sorts of things and would harass the shit out of you with their PD if you tried this there.
by vegabook | 2025-12-09 23:18:46+00:00
This is a cool website but it's hardly groundbreaking. There have been hundreds (thousands?) of three.js/babylon.js in-browser demos over the past decade and this would qualify as top 10% area, but there's nothing here that hasn't been done before. It's fun, it's high quality, but it's not new, and as far as conveying useful information, it's actually quite cumbersome with high effort for low signal. And while it's polished, it doesn't come close to even the most basic indie 3d game.
by RomanPushkin | 2025-12-09 23:19:20+00:00
This year I spoke at HOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth. The topic was "Hacking ATMs: past and present". I really enjoyed it, it took a lot to prepare though. I haven't gotten any monetary benefit from it, but I would definitely do it again.

HOPE is one of the best hacker conferences, and it's somehow [subjectively] friendlier than other. Feels like home, so if you're on hacker news, I guess you wanna speak at hacker conference or contribute to 2600? ^_^
by mandevil | 2025-12-09 23:19:30+00:00
Yes, she had a paper, hastily thrown together because Watson and Crick were going to publish her data without her consent, and even to the men of 1952, what they had done to her was seen as pretty scuzzy, so they tried to give her an opportunity to at least claim a little credit. But this is a sign that even the the people around them saw that Franklin had been done wrong by Watson and Crick and Wilkins.

As far as "she shared it in a departmental seminar once, therefore her boss can just give it to others to beat her in the analysis phase without her consent" and "I don't think she would have gotten it right," neither of those are actually arguments. One of them is not how science is supposed to be done, the other is an un-provable assertion that a woman wasn't smart enough to figure something out, which makes me a little suspicious.