MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-11 05:53:50+00:00
No joke: Maybe that is the current value of vibe coding. It helps you get started with a crappy version. In your experience, which one do think would take longer? (1) Vibe code until it breaks, then you rewrite everything from scratch or (2) Write everything from scratch. I don't vide code (yet?), but I do use LLMs to get ideas about how to solve problems and look at same code, especially when I don't what library function to call.
by da-x | 2025-12-11 05:54:09+00:00
No war in history has completely avoided any civilian casualties or attacks on civilian populations, as even limited conflicts often involve indirect harm (e.g., from stray fire, blockades, or displacement), and larger wars almost inevitably affect non-combatants.

Curious how the concept of the 'war crime' is weaponized by the pacifist and largely ignored by the non-pacifist that knows how proper deescalation can take place.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-11 05:54:38+00:00
timing - The fact that they were triggered to explode en masse does not imply there was zero consideration to minimizing civilian harm. However, the fact that only Hezbollah leaders had these pagers, and the fact that the explosives were small, does imply there was deep consideration to minimizing civilian harm.

location - they all exploded on the person of hezbolllah leaders or in their possession in a belligerent country during wartime

possession - Israel has a laudable and low civilian: militant kill ratio, possibly the best in the history of modern combat. The pagers were encrypted military devices with military messages, there was no known use by doctors or non Hezbollah operatives.
by bitwize | 2025-12-11 05:55:20+00:00
My doctor actually appreciates that I go to primary and other reliable sources, read up on my conditions, and understand the standard of care and other appropriate courses of action. What he can't stand is people who "do their own research" on, like, InfoWars.

I treat my doctor as a subject matter expert/collaborator, which means that if I come to him with (for example) "what if it's lupus?" and he says "it's probably not lupus", I usually let the matter drop.
by jpc0 | 2025-12-11 05:55:37+00:00
Are you sure claude didn't do exactly the same thing but the harness, claude code, just hid it from you?

I have seen AI agents fall into the exact loop that GP discussed and needed manual intervention to fall out of.

Also blindly having the AI migrate code from "spaghetti C" to "structured C++" sounds more like a recipe for "spaghetti C" to "fettuccine C++".

Sometimes its hidden data structures and algorithms you want to formalize when doing a large scale refactor and I have found that AIs are definitely able to identify that but it's definitely not their default behaviour and they fall out of that behaviour pretty quickly if not constantly reminded to do so.
by rock_artist | 2025-12-11 05:56:04+00:00
Looking at recent AV1 submits on HN. It feels it’s all politics waiting for enough interests to burst.

It might take some years. But it’s not far fetch especially if big players would get into it. Let’s say Netflix interest in games gets them to buy company such as Valve and it aligns with their interests of getting some standard.

They can get TV and displays manufactures support it and end up changing the market.

But for such to happen there needs to be enough interests and incentives.
by dluan | 2025-12-11 05:56:11+00:00
You have to be more specific because "Eastern" here does not include Chinese thematic tropes.

https://x.com/xlr8harder/status/1962768298153521202

Sun Wukong is the original "normal guy who grinds to greatness", which was the original plot of Dragonball before it turned more into Harry Potter (you are the chosen one).
by XenophileJKO | 2025-12-11 05:56:28+00:00
When you oversee a team technically as a tech lead or an architect, you need communication skills.

1. Basing on how the engineer just responded to my comment, what is the understanding gap?

2. How do I describe what I want in a concise and intuitive way?

3. How do I tell an engineer what is important in this system and what are the constraints?

4. What assumptions will an engineer likely make that are will cause me to have to make a lot of corrections?

Etc.. this is all human to human.

These skills are all transferrable to working with an LLM.

So I guess if you are not used to technical leadership, you may not have used those skills as much.
by yanhangyhy | 2025-12-11 05:56:44+00:00
When I was traveling in UAE, I was shocked to see some people actually using bicycles for food delivery. In China, electric motorcycle support the extremely large food delivery market, and in most cities, the streets are lined with delivery riders’ e-motorcycle and bicycles. Later, I heard that China’s Meituan has also started food delivery services in Dubai. I expect this model to expand to global markets as electric motorcycle become more widespread.
by terribleperson | 2025-12-11 05:57:16+00:00
I think fate is a fair one to struggle with because not only is it a complex franchise, none of the Fate anime are even close to perfect. Zero tells an interesting story but you have to put up with Gen Urobuchi and it spoils parts of Stay Night. Stay Night is the classic, but calling the original anime dated is an understatement. Unlimited Blade Works (Ufotable) is very shiny and a lot of fun, but I think it's less interesting and more straight up shonen.

I started with Zero, and I feel it was a good way to start, but a lot of people disagree.
by wltr | 2025-12-11 05:57:25+00:00
There was an event (or events?) in the past, when some past documents were forged, but with the default (in MS Word, I suppose) Calibre font, which was released years later. I wonder if this has something to do with it.

I love if someone remembers that event better and can provide a link. My memory serves it was about a decade or so ago.
Ask HN: Claude Code users, are you experiencing reduced usage limits today?
by nnnck | 2025-12-11 05:57:41+00:00
Alternatively, it could be increased token consumption. The leading theory is that it is related to the v2.0.64 update that was released yesterday (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/13630), however there is evidence that suggests that the issue still persists on the newly-released v2.0.65 (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11810#issuecomment-3640236011), leading users to believe that this is an intentional rate-limit by Anthropic.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-11 05:58:46+00:00
Because it very obviously isn't. For example (though this is a year or so ago), look at when people hooked Claude up to Pokemon. It got stuck on things that no human, even a small child, would get stuck on (such as going in and out of a building over and over). I'm sure we could train an LLM to play Pokemon, but you don't need to train a child to play. You hand them the game and they figure it out with no prior experience. That is because the human is intelligent, and the LLM is not.
by spartanatreyu | 2025-12-11 05:58:47+00:00
No, dealing with tables was like trying to build a house out of tempered glass.

With css grid, I can tell each element which area or column+row to occupy.

If I add or remove a random element, the rest of the elements stay in the correct place.

But do that with a table and you end up trying to glue your house back together shard by shard whilst trying not to cut yourself or breaking things more.
by businessmate | 2025-12-11 05:58:54+00:00
Enterprise finance platforms now support budgeting, approval flows, spend management, reporting tasks, and operational controls across a wide range of organisations. These systems increasingly appear in assistant mediated discovery, where teams use general purpose AI assistants to understand capabilities, compare options, and assess organisational fit long before a formal procurement process begins.

What emerges from this shift is not a marketing issue but a governance problem. Even under fixed test conditions, leading assistants do not hold a stable interpretation of what these platforms do, who they are for, or how their controls function. The risk comes from external reasoning drift: changes in the logic, criteria, and evaluative frames assistants apply to the same product across multiple runs.

This study uses ASOS - the Answer Space Occupancy Score - to quantify that drift and show where reasoning variance introduces exposure that internal teams cannot see.
by ncallaway | 2025-12-11 05:59:44+00:00
> his written output could’ve been improved by running it through an AI tool.

I mean, it could've been homogonized by running it through an AI tool. I don't think there's a guarantee that it would've been an improvement. Yes, it probably could've helped refine away phrases that give away a non-native English speaker, but it also would've sanded down and ground away other aspects of the personality of the author. Is that an improvement? I'm not so sure.
by aeonfox | 2025-12-11 05:59:47+00:00
It's not so much teenage credulity, or coddling parents. Teen suicide is the easily quantifiable tip of the iceberg when it comes to mental health outcomes. Conspicuously it started trended up after 2008, around the nascence of Facebook and smartphones:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

> Following a downward trend until 2007, suicide rates significantly increased 8.2% annually from 2008 to 2022, corresponding to a significant increase in the overall rates between 2001 to 2007 and 2008 to 2022 (3.34 to 5.71 per 1 million; IRR, 1.71)
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-11 05:59:55+00:00
"Only when used in a context where they can be confused."

So what are you supposed to when you're typing along and suddenly you find yourself in such a context? Switch the font of that one occurrence? That document? Your whole publishing effort?

Capital "i"s without crossbars aren't capital "i"s. They're lower-case Ls. Any font that doesn't recognize this should be rejected.
by noveltyaccount | 2025-12-11 06:01:28+00:00
In my senior year of college two decades ago, I needed one or two credit hours to finish up, and I signed up for a once per week software patents (as in, intellectual property, I thought) course. It turned out to be a patterns course taught by none other than Ralph Johnson and the text was his famous Gang of Four Design Patterns book. Happy accident, it turned out to be among the most professionally useful courses I ever took.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Johnson_(computer_scient...
by wosat | 2025-12-11 06:01:38+00:00
What's really fun is how inconsistent they are with "request" limits, at least with the embedding API. The documentation says "X requests per minute" but what they really mean is "X documents per minute". But their reporting shows requests per minute. So if you are embedding multiple documents per request, you will start getting 429s but the usage dashboard will look like you are nowhere near the limit. Super fun.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-11 06:05:17+00:00
That's a pretty significant way to make money though.

I do think at this stage the best analogy is the offshore call centres. Yes, the excess in the market is likely because of misunderstanding about what LLMs can actually do and how close AGI is, the short term attraction is the labour cost savings. People may not think wages are high enough etc but the total cost for one hire to companies, particularly outside the US, is nothing to sniff at. And at current pricing of ai services, the maths would make complete sense for the bottom line.

I don't like it, because I ultimately err on the side of even limited but significant changes to people's livelihood will make the world a more hostile place (particularly in the current climate), but that's the society we live in
by 0xfffafaCrash | 2025-12-11 06:05:27+00:00
moreover h* is just broken whenever dealing with more dynamic content — it simply can’t reasonably be made to work according to accessibility recommendations — and the accessibility guidelines around never skipping a level themselves are ridiculous given the practical reality that dynamic content exists and we have only h1, h2, etc. to work with — the readers and specs are what need to adapt here, not the entire internet

there should really be one header tag and its level should be based on some nesting depth

and don’t get me started on the maintainability mess that is z-index… better we have a system to centrally maintain an ordering list than a distributed one which only works reasonably consistently if you already know everything in the whole system
by WorldPeas | 2025-12-11 06:06:02+00:00
Gemini is like a wild horse. It bucks and refuses to use tools, moves many things, deletes whenever it wants, I want a kind old horse, and I find that in Claude, it does what I want, usually exactly the way I want it, usually clocking in under a dollar per task. I've seen gemini do plenty of one-shots, but I still have not seen it--even in its costliest form--properly navigate large monorepos or less well-trodden libraries. As for chatGPT, I don't like them either. Their codex model is okay, but again the consistency isn't there, I feel like I can ask claude more questions per session and not have it decay
by samuel | 2025-12-11 06:08:12+00:00
Your question So does nobody in Europe use an EDR or intercepting proxy since GDPR went into force?

Given that a regulator publishes a document with guidelines about DPI I think it rules out the impossibility of implementing it. If that were the case it would simply say "it's not legal". It's true that it doesn't explicitly say all the conditions you should met, but that wasn't your question.
by ozbonus | 2025-12-11 06:09:01+00:00
Google Maps stopped being a reliable way to find good restaurants a long time ago. Any time in my city when I see a place with a high rating and suspiciously large number of reviews, searching for "five stars" in the reviews inevitably finds customers helpfully mentioning that they got free food in exchange. I've even seen places advertise the bribe openly on Maps. It would be trivial to detect this and punish offenders, but Google chooses not to.

I've been mulling over starting a boutique social network focused on location reviews with real life friends exclusively.
by yason | 2025-12-11 06:09:03+00:00
How are they going to verify it's not some kid telling he's 18 with a fake picture? Demand a photo of driver's license? Got one here, right out borrowed from dad's pocket. The article also mentions inferring age from the usage which sounds as vague as it is.

The counter point is that doesn't this basically mean everyone, including adults, now has to identify in order to use social media? Without a national electronic ID where personal data never leaves government's systems (they've already got it) and the social network just receives a yes/no bit when they ask "is this person old enough?" this would mean a huge amounts of identification data would be willingly and voluntarily "leaked" to foreign private services. Scan your passport and send it to China in order to use TikTok?

This mass identification process could either make also large groups of adult people leave social media sites or condition people to upload their ID data to whatever site happens to ask for it.
by jitl | 2025-12-11 06:09:45+00:00
I had to fork go’s CSV to make it re-use buffers and avoid defensive copies. But im not sure an arena api is a panacea here - even if i can supply an arena, the library needs certain guarantees about how memory it returns is aliased / used by the caller. Maybe it would still defensive copy into the arena, maybe not. So i don’t see how taking arena as parameter lets a function reason about how safely it can use the arena.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-11 06:09:58+00:00
All you'll get is Jevon's paradox this and horses that, while continue to fundamentally undersell the potential upending of a not insignificant part of labour market.

FWIW, the only optimism I have is that humanity seemingly always finds a way to adapt and its, to me, our greatest superpower. But yeah, this feels like a big challenge this time
by pabs3 | 2025-12-11 06:10:02+00:00
SSPL doesn't help with the real problem that SSPL/etc companies complain about though; that AWS won't give you money when they turn your software into a service and will compete with you to reduce your income.

Of course, the license is kind of irrelevant to that situation, Amazon will just reimplement your stuff from scratch if it is popular enough.
by transcriptase | 2025-12-11 06:11:00+00:00
China quite literally and unambiguously stole trillions of dollars in IP, trade secrets, and data from research labs in the West by explicitly and systematically embedding spies, hacking, and blackmailing/threatening employees/students wherever economically beneficial information existed for nearly 20 years. And this is on top of the practice of CCP sanctioned theft from and screwing over of nearly every company that outsourced manufacturing there from 1990 onward. The fact that they finally have enough domestic knowledge to actually innovate as a result of that isn’t some testament to what you think it is.

If someone spends a billion dollars researching some new technology and you have someone exfiltrate the blueprints, improve on it slightly, and then undercut who you stole from in the market because you had no investment to recoup… you’re not some enlightened morally righteous free thinker. You’re just a parasite.
by refibrillator | 2025-12-11 06:11:23+00:00
Love anecdotes like this! But admittedly I feel a bit lost, so please forgive my ignorance when I ask: why does choosing a subset of k integers at random require deduplication? My naive intuition is that sampling without replacement can be done in linear time (hash table to track chosen elements?). I’m probably not understanding the problem formulation here.
by csallen | 2025-12-11 06:11:49+00:00
I've always found this interesting because nothing about the appearance of a snake has ever bothered me, unsettled me, or made me fearful. They actually look very neat to me, and the tiny snakes I've had the fortune of holding were very fun to feel slithering about in my hands.

Cockroaches on the hand, not scary at all, but I feel disgusted by them.

And large spiders, extremely scary to me, instant fear response.
Show HN: I built a tiny Datadog alternative for small SaaS apps
by this-is-shreya | 2025-12-11 06:13:13+00:00
Hi everyone, I’ve been working on a small developer tool on the side for the last few months, and I wanted to share what I built and also what I learned in the process.

I maintain a few small SaaS apps, and I’ve always felt that the existing monitoring tools were too noisy, too expensive, or too heavy for small teams. I didn’t need dozens of dashboards and hundreds of metrics — I just wanted logs, metrics, alerts, and audit logs in one lightweight place, ideally something SDK-based.

That led me to build a tiny Datadog-like tool that I’m calling LogMint.

What LogMint handles

1. Application logs

2. Metrics

3. Alerts

4. Dashboards

5. Audit logs

All SDK-based, no agent

I’m not trying to compete with the big tools. This is more of a “can a solo dev build something usable and small?” experiment.

What I learned while building it

1. Building dashboards and widgets from scratch takes way more time than ingestion Visualization was the hardest part.

2. Noise reduction matters more than number of features The reason I built this was that I was drowning in alerts I didn’t care about. Designing a system that stays quiet was a challenge.

3. Getting the first user is harder than writing the backend I’ve tried posting on dev blogs and sharing writeups. I haven’t gotten real usage yet. Still figuring this part out.

Why I’m posting this

I’d like feedback from people who’ve built developer tools or monitoring systems. Mainly:

1. Is this approach (SDK > agent) useful?

2. Are small teams actually looking for simpler monitoring?

3. What “minimum useful version” should such a tool have?

For those who built devtools: how did your first users show up?

If anyone wants to see it, the project is here: (https://getlogmint.com)

Not selling anything — just sharing the project, in case others find this interesting or have thoughts on what I should improve.
by klaushougesen1 | 2025-12-11 06:13:34+00:00
Great effort!, this stuff is hard to do - so applause for getting something shipped! popped an issue into you issues list.

I sometimes find these tools crash hard when pushed via large memory items, huge blobs of code, long base64 strings etc. Even chrome dev tools crash hard on large WS Messages.

Also perhaps post the video near the top instead of hiding it in the origin paper :), kids like videos these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5nHk-6UJc
by jitl | 2025-12-11 06:14:02+00:00
I hope everyone switches over to AV1 or AV2 stills so we can have completely open image pipelines but It’s silly to say something is “DOA” when it’s been in use for 9 years (since 2017) by one of the world’s most popular consumer cameras (iPhone) and is now popping up in high end cameras. The company I work for (Notion) long ago had to start supporting HEIF uploads because a ton of our users expect their pictures to just work.
by techtalksweekly | 2025-12-11 06:14:05+00:00
I'm working on Tech Talks Weekly[1] which is a free weekly email with all the recently published Software Engineering podcasts and conference talks in the past 7 days.

Every week I pull all the new talk recordings from hundreds of conferences (Devoxx, KubeCon, PyCon, QCon, LeadDev, JSNation, and many more) and even more podcasts podcasts. I feature the ones I think are must-watch with short summaries written by me, then include a list of everything else uploaded that week.

It started as a personal project to fix my own messy YT subscriptions and RSS feeds and now 7,500+ people read it.

I also publish extra editions from time to time like “The Most Watched Talks of 2024” which made it to the HN front page.

If you watch software engineering conference talks or listen to podcasts, you might find it useful. I’d love to know what you think!

[1] https://techtalksweekly.io/
by godelski | 2025-12-11 06:14:19+00:00
You'll be interested in Clarke's "The Light of Other Days". Basically a wormhole where people can look back at any point in time, ending all notion of privacy.

God is different though. People like God because they believe God is fair and infallible. That is not true for machines nor men. Similarly I do not think people will like this idea. I'm sure there will be some but look at people today and their religious fever. Or look in the past. They'll want it, but it is fleeting. Cults don't last forever, even when they're governments. Sounds like a great way to start wars. Every one will be easily justified

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
by nmz | 2025-12-11 06:15:33+00:00
This is all subjective so I suppose I should add an IMO, Even back then many games were preferable on the N64 like megaman legends, what the PS1 offered that was superior was storage, which allowed for more music and FMVs, and also allowed for voice acting and probably why MGS is still talked about to this day, my guess is the lack of detail helps immersion the same way you would read a novel, and I imagine the PS1 with its storage would've been the perfect vehicle for Visual Novels, but that still is not popular anywhere but Japan.

Even with realism, ports to dreamcast were better overall and considering the latest port of Final Fantasy Tactics does not emulate any of its PS1 limitations, I don't think a lot of people strive/like the aesthetic.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-11 06:15:52+00:00
Wow, reading these comments and I feel like I've entered a parallel reality. My job involves implementing research ML and I use it literally all the time, very fascinating to see how many have such strong negative reactions. As long as you are good at reviewing code, spec-ing carefully, and make atomic changes - why would you not be using this basically all the time?