MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ncr100 | 2025-12-09 19:35:01+00:00
The pixel watch can be a nightmare. I've had the version 1 and the version 2 for years and I gave up because of the bugs. Random crashing, randomly dialing 911, just weird stuff that should not happen.

And then there's the support which is zero support. Completely frustrating to post a message and then get some volunteer support Tech, hahaha, saying expect improvements! And it's a volunteer saying that. And they have no authority. And There is no support, it all falls through. Random crashing on both versions of the watch. The first version screen was flickering like an old school television trying to tune in a distant UHF broadcast. Display drivers anyone?

So, pixel watches are in the drawer and I've got a Garmin watch on right now. Garmin is clunky but at least it's reliably clunky.

So it feels like a mis comparison, to me who's had the pixel watches.

I used to own the pebble, a couple versions of it, when they were first announced for several years again. And I found them to be very reliable and lightweight and usable.

I wanted a smartwatch that could talk to Google's home ecosystem and so I traded out of Pebble. And it's just been kind of mediocre misery.

Plus I don't know what Google is doing but recharging the pixel watch every 18 hours, or 36 if you're super lucky and your apps on the pixel watch behave themselves correctly, makes me feel like a slave to Google's naive product manager aspirations.

Like, "it can do everything, and we make money off of you because you are the product!" While at the same time making me miserable.

:-P
by jjice | 2025-12-09 19:35:04+00:00
Let's Encrypt was _huge_ in making it's absurd to not have TLS and now we (I, at least) take it for granted because it's just the baseline for any website I build. Incredible, free service that helped make the web a more secure place. What a wonderful service - thank you to the entire team.

The CEO at my last company (2022) refused to use Let's Encrypt because "it looked cheap to customers". That is absurd to me because 1), it's (and was at the time) the largest certificate authority in the world, and 2) I've never seen someone care about who issued your cert on a sales call. It coming from GoDaddy is not a selling point...

So my question: has anyone actually commented to you in a negative way about using Let's Encrypt? I couldn't imagine, but curious on others' experiences.
How do solo founders get their first pilot users for a complex B2B product?
by drguzman | 2025-12-09 19:35:16+00:00
I’m a solo founder building an internal knowledge and HR automation engine. I’ve built everything myself so far, including multi-connector document ingestion, vector search, workflow automation, and policy generation logic.

The technical side has been hard but doable. What I’m struggling with now is getting real users to test the product. It’s a B2B tool, so the usual “launch on Product Hunt and hope” advice doesn’t apply. Cold outreach to founders is mostly ignored, and most companies want something that is already proven before they try it.

For founders who have been through this:

How did you get your first pilot users?

What actually worked beyond theory and generic advice?

Did you offer long free trials, custom work, discounts, or just persistence?

How did you convince someone to take a chance on something early?

Any lessons from the trenches would help.

My goal is to learn from people who’ve navigated the early stage where the tech exists but the user feedback loop is not forming yet.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-12-09 19:35:17+00:00
In the last year of that graph 2023-2024, the increase in solar was greater than any other source, including coal, it's 15x greater than nuclear.

And unless people are shoveling coal directly into the data centres this electricity generating gas turbine is intended to be used for the electricity generation mix is more appropriate to conapre:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-production-by...
by sanket-msd | 2025-12-09 19:36:14+00:00
Cisco AI Defense, open-sourced the A2A Scanner, a tool designed to secure Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol ecosystem. It helps validate agent identity, detect spoofing and prompt injection risks, and includes modular analyzers that anyone can extend or customize. If you are exploring agentic AI frameworks or building multi-agent systems, we would love feedback, contributions, and critique from the community. Repo link: https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/a2a-scanner. Blog link: https://blogs.cisco.com/ai/securing-ai-agents-with-ciscos-op...
by palmotea | 2025-12-09 19:36:20+00:00
> What would they get from the plebs?

I think the right question is: what would they want from the plebs? And the answer will be nothing.

Right now they want the plebs' labor, which is why things work the way they do.

> The Phools and so the plebs were exterminated, then what?

Is that a reference to this? https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691168319/ph...

> Perhaps we'd finally have Star Trek economics, but only for them, the "owners". Better be an "owner", then.

I don't think we'll have Star Trek economics, because that would be fundamentally fair and egalitarian and plentiful. There will still be resource constraints like energy production and raw materials. I think it will be more like B2B economics, international trade, with a small number relevant owners each controlling vast amounts of resources and productive capacity and occasionally trading basics amongst themselves. It could also end up like empires-at-war (which actually may be more likely, since war would give the owners something seemingly important to do, vs just building monuments to themselves and other types of jerking off).
by ulrashida | 2025-12-09 19:36:22+00:00
Thanks for clarifying, I fully agree with your take. Peer review helps, particularly where reviewers are equipped and provided the time to do the role correctly.

However, it is not alone a guarantor of quality. As someone proximate to academia its becoming obvious that many professors are beginning to throw in the towel or are sharply reducing their time verifying quality when faced with the rising tide of slop.

The window for avoiding the natural consequences of these trends feels like it is getting scarily small.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!
by neuronic | 2025-12-09 19:36:31+00:00
This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities.

Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.
by Maxatar | 2025-12-09 19:37:42+00:00
The trade-off is intended to make it easier for people to write software. Garbage collected languages make it easier for people to write memory safe code at the expense of performance, significantly greater memory usage, and heavy dependencies/runtimes.

These trade-offs are wholly unnecessary if the LLM writes the software in Rust, assuming that in principle the LLM is able to do so.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-09 19:37:46+00:00
In many states, there's a homestead exemption on property taxes that doesn't apply to non-owner occupied properties, so the opposite is true.

Also, I don't know what you mean about rolling paper losses into the next deal, but I suspect it's not accurate either.

There's a reason this non-existent loophole wasn't mentioned in the article that was looking for reasons to hate on corporate landlords.
by gpjt | 2025-12-09 19:37:54+00:00
OK, early indicators support both you and Gemini quite strongly re: batch size. On my (somewhat ad-hoc) test dataset, I get losses like this:

* OpenAI medium weights: 3.231 * OpenAI small weights: 3.500 * My locally trained model, FineWeb Chinchilla, batch size 6: 3.944 * My locally trained model, FineWeb-Edu Chinchilla, batch size 6: 4.167 * My locally trained model, FineWeb-Edu double Chinchilla, batch size 6: 4.135 * My cloud trained model, FineWeb Chinchilla, batch size 13 \* 8 = 104: 3.674

That last one was trained on an 8x A100 machine with 40 GiB per GPU, with the same code as before, just converted to DDP. It certainly looks like the much larger batch size has improved the model significantly.

I'll be trying on larger machines. No gradient accumulation yet, but it's certainly looking like a valuable lever to pull for local training runs (and, I suspect, might also be useful on "small" cloud machines like the one I used -- will have to see what things look like with the bigger mini-batches I can squeeze onto 80 GiB and 160 GiB GPUs).
by ncr100 | 2025-12-09 19:38:20+00:00
Niche market seems like an exaggeration, because they're competing against literal monopolies.

Pebble serves those people who want to watch or a ring that doesn't require being a slave to a wall wart, who want the watch to last for a long time. Take a look at Garmin, they do that too and they are a successful company. They are much older than Google and they still have a hard time keeping up with Google and it's billions of dollars of of mystery money advertising revenue.

The pixel hardware is a battery draining nightmare, in my personal experience having pixel watches for years and being a long-term pixel phone user. Even today the pixel phone that I have, after having I think five of these things, drains battery probably 20 to 40% faster than .. the competitor that I would next buy if I weren't feeling like I wanted some of the features that Google has bundled in with their phone and home and other like mnvo and messaging products. So, it seems like a mis comparison there, in my opinion. I don't want a smartwatch that lasts 25 hours and then has to be recharged. Or a smartwatch where the screen turns into a UHF channel just going out of tune and there's no tech support on Earth literally that is willing to help me. Volunteers on Google's support forums are lying to themselves that they have any power or sway with Google. It's a waste of time in my experience.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-12-09 19:38:35+00:00
I gave Devstral 2 in their CLI a shot and let it run over one of my smaller private projects, about 500 KB of code. I asked it to review the codebase, understand the application's functionality, identify issues, and fix them.

It spent about half an hour, correctly identified what the program did, found two small bugs, fixed them, made some minor improvements, and added two new, small but nice features.

It introduced one new bug, but then fixed it on the first try when I pointed it out.

The changes it made to the code were minimal and localized; unlike some more "creative" models, it didn't randomly rewrite stuff it didn't have to.

It's too early to form a conclusion, but so far, it's looking quite competent.
Show HN: No API? No Problem! Unlock web data behind clicks, searches, and UI
by dimavrem22 | 2025-12-09 19:39:06+00:00
When we set out to build AI tools for healthcare, we were forced to integrate with tons of legacy software lacking available APIs. We tried Computer Use Agents (CUAs). Here is what we found:

- Overhyped - Too slow - Too expensive - Contemplate their existence when confronting date pickers

This is why we build Vectorly! A new way to access data hiding behind UI interactions and closed APIs. Our solution is simple:

Record your interaction with any website. Tell our AI agent what data/API you need. Reuse the automation as an API endpoint or MCP tool

Our approach has no secrets, we open source our reverse engineering method: https://github.com/VectorlyApp/web-hacker

Check out our demo: https://youtu.be/xX4ycRAU5dA

We made it very easy to reverse engineer web apps! Give it a go: https://console.vectorly.app

We are excited for you to try out Vectorly and look forward to your feedback :)
by stefan_ | 2025-12-09 19:39:25+00:00
You are just making things up in this grand AI strategy you have imagined for Apple. I cannot "fulfill an AI-task" with my phone because the overpaid idiots building it in Cupertino have years ago bought into the trainwreck that is Siri. So now I cannot "select my favorite AI provider" from the "marketplace ecosystem for AI tasks" to "fulfill an AI-task" nor will a meddling middle manager in the Loop collect metrics on the demand for "my AI tasks".
by pempem | 2025-12-09 19:39:49+00:00
^ This

And the scale applies at every single step of the process. A citizen homebuyer is playing a oneshot game. There are few discounts to be had and every single fee is its own battle.

A corporation/PE is playing a multi-shot game. There are bulk discounts, relationships, and scale that is applied to everything from title insurance and inspections to cost segregations to filing all of the paperwork.
by tart-lemonade | 2025-12-09 19:40:14+00:00
My grocery store's website (Jewel-Osco) doesn't even work on Firefox; searching for anything just gives me a loading screen that never goes away, even on a brand new profile with all cookies accepted and no adblocker or other extensions. On Chrome it works, but it's comically slow, and the mobile app is somehow even worse.

The really confusing part is the parent company's website (Albertsons) works just fine, though it is also slow.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-09 19:40:15+00:00
Living in a rural area is expensive, you need to maintain your own water supply, sewage system, and either have fuel delivered or chop wood or pay out the nose for electric heating.

It’s much easier to be poor in a city than in a rural area, when you move into an apartment you just start paying the various utilities and you get water and natural gas and your sewage is connected to a shared system. There’s no water pumps to replace or fuel deliveries.
by jascha_eng | 2025-12-09 19:40:18+00:00
Why replace it at all? Just remove it. I use AI every day and don't use MCP. I've built LLM powered tools that are used daily and don't use MCP. What is the point of this thing in the first place?

It's just a complex abstraction over a fundamentally trivial concept. The only issue it solves is if you want to bring your own tools to an existing chatbot. But I've not had that problem yet.
by ulinycoin | 2025-12-09 19:40:18+00:00
Volume is modest (~180 visitors/month), but the 50/50 split is what's interesting.

Been in production since August 2025, so ~4 months.

The strategy was intentional from the start: there's no point competing with Adobe, Smallpdf, ILovePDF for Google rankings. They have 10+ years of backlinks, massive marketing budgets, and domain authority I'll never match as a solo dev.

So I made a bet on GEO from day one: - Semantic HTML that LLMs can parse - Clear technical docs (GitHub README as primary content) - Honest about limitations - Privacy-first architecture (client-side processing)

Your 5% GEO makes sense for a 2-year-old company optimizing for traditional SEO. The difference: I skipped the SEO game entirely. When you're competing in an established niche, GEO-first might be the only viable strategy for bootstrapped products.

Curious: what type of dev content are you creating? And have you tested how LLMs cite it vs your traditional marketing content?
by IshKebab | 2025-12-09 19:40:37+00:00
> Rust doesn't prevent programs from having logic errors.

Nobody ever claimed that. The claims are:

1. Rust drastically reduces the chance of memory errors. (Or eliminates them if you avoid unsafe code.)

2. Rust reduces the chance of other logic errors.

Rust doesn't have to eliminate logic errors to be a better choice than C or assembly. Significantly reducing their likelihood is enough.
by tarsinge | 2025-12-09 19:40:51+00:00
The website is live and renders correctly on my Safari mobile: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

I may have missed something but where are we saying the website should be recreated with 1996 tech or specs? The model is free to use any modern CSS, there is no technical limitations. So yes I genuinely think it is a good generalization test, because it is indeed not in the training set, and yet it is easy an easy task for a human developer.
by medvedevil | 2025-12-09 19:41:08+00:00
Express is the most popular Node.js framework but it was created before TypeScript existed.

APIs are contracts. So why are Express contracts written in invisible ink?

Meaning: - req.body → could be literally anything - res.json() → returns whatever you hand it - TypeScript → just shrugs and says: any

So I built Meebo to fix this.

const router = TypedRouter(express.Router());

const schema = z.object({ id: z.number() })

router.post("/users", { response: schema }, (req, res) => { res.json({ id: 1 }); <--- this is now validated and typed });

You get: - Real TypeScript types from your Zod schemas - Runtime validation on every request - Auto-generated Swagger UI
by swatcoder | 2025-12-09 19:41:24+00:00
The narrative that OpenAI could easily be a next Netscape/Yahoo/Myspace/RIM/Napster had been on the table since ChatGPT first broke into fame. Some could see that, and many refused to.

For whatever reason, the myth that being a "first mover" is critically advantageous seems to persist among technologists, even while our industry hosts so many examples of first movers exhausting themselves to clear the brush of exploratory research and market-finding only for some later entrant to confidently gallop through that now cleared path on horseback.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-12-09 19:41:41+00:00
Mostly Verisign, which required faxing forms and eye-watering amounts of money. Then Thawte, which brought down prices to a more manageable US$500 per host or so. Which might seem excessive, but was really peanuts compared to the price of the 'SSL accelerator' SBus card that you also needed to serve more than, like, 2 concurrent HTTPS connections.

And you try telling young people that ACME is a walk in the park, and they won't believe you...
by robocat | 2025-12-09 19:41:43+00:00
> LLMs activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect

Is this generally true, or is there a subset of people that are particularly susceptible?

It does make me want to dive into the rabbit hole and be convinced by an LLM conversation.

I've got some tendency where I enjoy the idea of deeply screwing with my own mind (even dangerously so to myself (not others)).
by GeekyBear | 2025-12-09 19:41:48+00:00
Look at Magic Cue in this year's Android update

> Magic Cue - Magic Cue proactively surfaces relevant info and suggests actions, similar to how Apple's personalized Siri features were supposed to work. It can display flight information when you call an airline, or cue up a photo if a friend asks for an image.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/20/google-pixel-10-ai-feat...

Google shipped it, despite it not working.

> I spent a month with the Pixel 10's most hyped AI feature, and it hasn't gone well

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-magic-cue-o...

Likewise Daily Hub didn't work but was shipped anyway.

> In our testing, Daily Hub rarely showed anything beyond the weather, suggested videos, and AI search prompts. When it did integrate calendar data, it seemed unable to differentiate between the user’s own calendar and data from shared calendars. This largely useless report was pushed to the At a Glance widget multiple times per day, making it more of a nuisance than helpful.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/google-pulls-daily-hu...

Apple announced that the Siri uodate didn't work well enough to ship, and didn't ship it.
by karamanolev | 2025-12-09 19:42:10+00:00
No true for us at least. Well kind of - the scale I'm mentioning is required if you're doing your own tech like we do. We develop all our core tech - the website, the logistics operation automation, the last mile app and scheduling. If we can do that profitably, what do you think will happen a company like our develops a few FC's of similar scale using the same technology?

The margins are thin, but not as razor thin as you might think. The grocery stores have a lot of overhead that we don't. Additionally, people realize that not only is that the case, but they also save from their own costs - just driving to the store is not free, let alone the time you spend, which is massively cut down.
by jajuuka | 2025-12-09 19:42:26+00:00
The US is kind of an obvious example of this ratchet effect. The powers that have been given to the executive over the course of decades and consistent moving to the right for decades has led us to where we are now. Similar cases in Russia and China where more power is handed over to a centralized leadership role over time.

I'm not a libertarian or follow the thin end of the wedge belief system. It's a simple observation that governments operate under the idea of growth of power. That is not to say an absence of government or reduction of government is good or better. But to recognize our role in maintain the social contract with the government. Abdicating that role entirely does not improve your life.

The only benefit of this legislation is that VPN's will get a bump in revenue, the web becomes more unusable and critical information gets stored at third parties who become high value targets for hacking. Not to mention these data brokers can easily turn around and begin to monetize this data. I'm not a privacy nut by any measure, but this seems like the most obvious major hit to personal data privacy. Instead of addressing the problem that is being claimed to be resolved, it's just lining another corporations pockets who will sell your data. We've seen this story play out many many times already. but you think this time will be different? I don't think so.
by joshstrange | 2025-12-09 19:42:33+00:00
> is it just a place to consolidate the various AI models through one billing platform, or does it do more than that

You can easily switch models, use the cheapest provider (especially for open models), and not have to reach certain "tiers" to get access to limits like you might on OpenAI/Anthropic's direct offerings.

> And are the costs slightly more as they take a cut in between?

5% more, you buy credits upfront and pay 5% extra. Aside from that you pay the normal prices listed (which have always matched the direct providers as well AFAIK).
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-09 19:42:51+00:00
That makes games that aren't fun unless you're a wizard with the systems. They have their place, but I'm not a fan.

Personally, I think devs should embrace some stuff being broken. It's a single player game, it doesn't need balance. One of my favorite RPGs is FF8 precisely because you can trivialize the game if you engage with the character building systems. It feels awesome to stomp things with your broken party.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-09 19:43:02+00:00
Private equity is the gamification of everything, in a compressed time frame. A company focused on longer time frames will cultivate their reputation. This takes the form of quality products and good customer service. PE has no need for any of this nonsense. They are looking for a quick return on their investment; to trade in all reputation and goodwill for their immediate value in cold hard cash. The more immediate the better, so they can move on to their next acquisition.
by npodbielski | 2025-12-09 19:43:03+00:00
I am glad to be one of the users using that for around 7 years. I can't think of how much better is life of people just doing blogs or some silly websites with free https certs. Would I pay 50$ bucks a year for ability to self host nextcloud? Probably not. But security enhancement is so enormous with that service. Thanks to everyone involved for making world a little bit better.
by 9rx | 2025-12-09 19:43:05+00:00
> Rust has lots of checks that C and assembly don't, and AI benefits from those checks.

Fil-C gets you close in the case of C, but we can ignore it because, of course, F* has significantly more checks than Rust, and AI benefits from those checks. Choosing Rust would be as ridiculous as choosing C if that was your motivation.

But if you don't find the need for those checks in order to consider Rust, why not C or even assembly instead?