MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelipso | 2025-12-16 01:17:47+00:00
There is rarely proof this or that way. It’s usually evidence, sometimes strong, sometimes weak, and you use your experience and intelligence to decide what is true. Though honestly, if you end up with a process where you change your mind whenever a new scientific paper comes out opposite of what you used to believe, well, I guess you would either have not thought about it much or your thinking is deeply flawed.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-16 01:18:06+00:00
> Tons of information for research, hackers, you name it ... It shows a history of domains, you can find hidden subdomains, still active, revoked etc ...

You can store that kind of information in a lot less space. It doesn't need to be duplicated with each renewal.

> The main issue is that currently you can not easily revoke certs, so your almost forced to keep a history of certs, and when one has been revoked in the CT logs.

This is based on the number of active certificates, which has almost no connection with how long they last.

> There is still way too much software that relies on a single year or multi year certificated that is manually added to it.

Hopefully less and less going forward.

> And it still does not change the massive increased in requests to check validation, that hits CT logs providers.

I'm not really sure how that works but yeah someone needs to pay for that.
by jackzhuo | 2025-12-16 01:18:21+00:00
You are right—there is no detailed text yet.

To be honest, I haven't added it because I'm hesitating. I planned to use AI to generate the interpretations, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea.

I feel like letting AI explain the I Ching might kill the 'traditional vibe'.

I'm still deciding: should I use AI, or just use the classic book text? What do you think?
Ask HN: How to reliably extract actions from voice transcripts?
by hansonkin | 2025-12-16 01:18:39+00:00
I’m playing around with using LLMs for voice-controlled app actions and trying to learn what approaches actually work well in practice.

I became curious after seeing Todoist’s voice ramble feature. I wanted to try building a simple version of it:

- creating tasks

- creating subtasks under a task

- marking tasks or subtasks as done

- moving or deleting items

For example, a user might say: “I need to go to the grocery store. While I’m there, buy milk, cheese, and bread.”

Ideally this would result in a json list of ordered actions:

- create task “Grocery Store”

- create subtasks “Buy milk”, “Buy cheese”, “Buy bread” under that task

The speech-to-text part I have covered but I'm having trouble with the action extraction and output part. I am using gpt-5-mini with structured output in text format mode (not tool calling mode). The schema is discriminated, meaning each action type (create_task, move_task, mark_task_done, etc.) has its own shape and required parameters and the output must conform exactly.

I’m running into action selection reliability issues. Sometimes the model chooses the wrong action entirely, for example emitting a move action when the transcript clearly implies creation. And for the earlier example, sometimes I get subtask creation actions but the initial grocery store task creation is missing.

Chatgpt suggests adding more and more ad-hoc rules to the system prompt for guidance but it feels so fragile and doesn't actually improve the results during testing.

Curious how people approach a problem like this. Also how does the setup scale to when there are 20+ possible system actions? What are the system parts that meaningfully impact robustness?

- Crafting a better system prompt?

- Having two passes where the first pass extracts the intended actions in some intermediate format and then the next pass to output the structured format?

- Using tool calling mode?
by sjreese | 2025-12-16 01:19:18+00:00
PayPal is applying for a U.S. banking charter, likely as an Industrial Loan Company (ILC) in Utah, to offer more direct financial services like small business lending, taking advantage of a more favorable regulatory environment under the Trump administration for fintechs to become banks, gain FDIC insurance, and better compete with traditional banks. Essentially, PayPal wants to move beyond just being a payment app to become a full-fledged, regulated bank, especially to boost lending. This Fintech-to-Bank Trend: Follows other crypto firms like Circle and Paxos also getting bank-like approvals, showing a shift in financial regulation.
by minimaxir | 2025-12-16 01:19:44+00:00
A reliable AI image detector would be useful, with "reliable" being the operative word. It is impossible to identify AI images reliably with current techniques.

"The detector scans the signatures within files" makes zero sense. I tried some knowingly AI-generated images and it only predicted a 55% chance they were AI, with the rationale being "Extremely uniform byte distribution - may indicate encrypted or random data" which also makes zero sense.
by dmitshur | 2025-12-16 01:19:56+00:00
I’ve noticed something like this while playing the game Hollow Knight: Silksong. Most of the time when I was trying to beat a difficult boss, I wasn’t trying to beat it while it’s hard and would take a lot of effort. Instead I was working on making beating the boss easy (which was hard). So typically by the time I would beat a boss, it did feel like comparatively little effort was being expended.
by DarmokJalad1701 | 2025-12-16 01:20:21+00:00
> If they deviate from their flight plan, don't they have to at least inform ATC to basically update the flight plan

When on an IFR flight plan - at least domestically, especially in busy airspaces, the flight plan is mainly sort of a backup in case of lost-comms. You are typically vectored by ATC and your route may or may not be exactly what you filed. For example, in the SoCal area, the "standard" IFR routes can be pretty roundabout going around the approach/departure corridors of the main airports. But, if at any time the area is clear, ATC would typically clear you through a shorter routing.

I am not sure how it works for international routes. I know that for trans-oceanic routing, they typically make position reports over HF radio when over the ocean where there is no ADSB coverage.
by MarkusQ | 2025-12-16 01:21:55+00:00
But you don't receive more than a single binary value; you get a yes or no.

If both of these are equally likely, you gain one bit of information, the maximum possible amount. If you already have other information about the situation, you might gain _less_ than one bit on average (because it confirms something you already knew, but doesn't provide any new information), but you can't gain more.
by kyralis | 2025-12-16 01:21:56+00:00
Interestingly, I live in rural Vermont, and there are a surprising number of Rivians around me - including those set up for contractors, complete with scaffolding in the bed with tools and ladders on them.

That said, we have an F250. I'd love to have an electric truck, but I use mine for towing almost exclusively. If I'm hauling a trailer hours away, I really don't need to deal with the hassle of stopping along the way to charge. I've yet to see a charging station set up for conveniently charging an electric vehicle with a trailer.

When we lived the Bay Area a decade ago, we had a Nissan Leaf, one of the early ones. It only got 95 miles to a charge if you were lucky, but for commuting in the South Bay we absolutely loved it.

Here in Vermont? F250 and a Subaru. I'd love to make the second an electric, but no one actually makes a good AWD electric Crosstrek equivalent that's actually designed for dirt roads and not the city.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-16 01:22:00+00:00
I guess I'm not sure where you read a claim that rich people can never go broke into the original comment. They absolutely can. That's why they often - as they seem to have done here - cut side deals to protect their revenue streams at the expense of competition. There's a VP at Walmart who stands to lose a lot of money if people start buying their Pepsi elsewhere, and a VP at Pepsi who stands to lose a lot of money if their products are less visible in the nation's Walmarts, so they've agreed to cooperate and mutually reduce the risk that their orgs perform poorly.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-16 01:22:18+00:00
There's no burden of proof on me, it's all on you.

You're the one claiming Israel purposefully killed Hind Rajab and yet you refuse to answer the specific questions I asked you about the incident. You say this is because you answering is "going to lead to IDF's innocence." On this we agree. The facts of what actually happened matter.

In the case of Hind Rajab, I hope this does go to court so we can find out what happened in this tragic incident. If there were war crimes, I'd like to see the soldiers who committed them face legal justice. But I still believe in the concept of presumed innocence and the burden of proof.

You don't get to make up crimes and declare a party guilty of them, even if you're totally sure they're the baddies. That's what enlightenment thinking and four centuries of western jurisprudence teaches us. Innocent until proven guilty.
by sh34r | 2025-12-16 01:22:24+00:00
I want a BYD that costs less than a 2000 Camry did brand new in 2000.

EVs are inherently pretty simple machines. All the complexity is in the battery, and China’s crushing everyone at battery tech. It’s not even close. It’s like a human trying to beat a polar bear in hand to hand combat.

They really need to deregulate the auto industry and let us buy the Yugos with a Jetsons battery. America is a poor country now. Nobody can afford used cars in this economy, never mind new ones.
by beaugunderson | 2025-12-16 01:22:40+00:00
The CA/BF has a history of terrible decisions, for example 2020's "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates".

Microsoft voted for it, and now they are basically the only game in town for cloud signing that is affordable for individuals. The Forum needs voting representatives for software developers and end users or else the members will just keep enriching themselves at our expense.
by jackzhuo | 2025-12-16 01:23:32+00:00
That's a really cool fact about the archaeology!

To be honest, my reason for picking this method was simple: I was reading a book about the I Ching that described the different ways to cast hexagrams.

The Yarrow Stalk method stood out to me because it felt more mysterious—in the past, it seemed like a secret method known only by a few experts.

Also, from a coding perspective, this algorithm was just much more interesting to build than a simple coin toss!
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-16 01:24:14+00:00
It wasn't the same in the 1950s. When it became really clear to me how dire the long term job situation was when I getting my PhD in the 1990s I started combing through issues of Physics Today and noticed that the field and academia as a whole was explosively expanding from 1920-1968 or so and there was a sudden crisis in the late 1960s, with an echo in the late 1970s and also when I was in in the late 1990s. (Physics Today said I had 2% odds of getting a permanent job even coming from a top school)

I had one day when I'd posted a Java applet to the web that got 100,000 impressions and getting so much attention for that and so little attention for papers that took me a year to write made me resolve to tell my thesis advisor that I was going to quit. Before I could tell him, he told me he had just a year of funding for me and I thought.. I could tough it out for a year. People were shocked when I did a postdoc when most of my cohort were going straight to finance.

My mental health went downhill in Germany and I stomped away, in retrospect I was the only native English speaker at the institute and I could have found a place for myself for some time had I taken on the task of proofreading papers and I can easily imagine I could have made it in academia but heck, life on a horse farm doing many sorts of software development has been a blast.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-16 01:24:52+00:00
Adam Smith and old school Capitalism hate rent seeking though, and when does moving all jobs to AI companies become rent seeking? It definitely destroys the labor/capital relationship part of Capitalism, but it's goal is to also turn the entire economy into rent seeking. Something considered very bad in traditional Capitalist thought. The current path has basically the total destruction of actual Capitalist thought at it's heart.

The problem is that libertarians have been able to retcon their fan fiction into what Capitalism is and gloss over the original anti-rent seeking, anti-monopoly, pro-government oversight parts that Capitalism REQUIRES in order to stay healthy,functioning, and beneficial to society. And people just accept that 'capitalism good' = 'late 20th/early 21st century libertarian fanfiction of what capitalism is' is the definition of Capitalism, when it is very far from it and has zero relation to the functional Capitalism that lifted the world up.

Combining this late 20th/early 21st century fanfiction version of Capitalism with the current tech company goals for AI is something totally new, zero percent Capitalism, and 100% would be hated by original Capitalist thinkers as damaging.
by mhitza | 2025-12-16 01:25:35+00:00
I think that moderation should be pushed to the individual user to avoid censorship, but not in the form it's currently implemented by all these platforms.

To give an example on how I think moderation should work. If I follow you and you follow me on some nonexistent platform Y. You see the content I upvote, and I can see the content you upvote. So we'd start with block all by default, with transparency of why something is in one's list.

I pitched a P2P platform like this years ago to NLNet (taking heavy inspiration from I2P's Syndie app, minus the funky UX), though I didn't manage to get any funding due to missing clout as a public developer; to lead such an effort.
by nozzlegear | 2025-12-16 01:25:43+00:00
Haha, I'm in rural Iowa – my house was $89k for 3 beds, 2 baths in 2016. When we were looking at electric vehicles at the end of 2022/early 2023, the F-150 Lightning was pushing 70k-100k for the trims and ranges we were looking at.
by bsder | 2025-12-16 01:26:08+00:00
> I know a lot of city kids think trucks are some obnoxious luxury good, but they're basically a functional requirement in most of the (very large) country.

A van is almost always a better choice if you're actually looking at functionality. Shielding from the elements is way more useful than some mythical ground clearance benefit that you will never use.

Sure, a very small number of people go offroad and need that clearance--however, the number is small relative to the number of people who could get away with a van.
by molsongolden | 2025-12-16 01:26:13+00:00
Pretty surprised here and I think it was really just bad marketing or I guess unsustainable unit economics.

Price out the cheapest F-150 (XL) with a supercrew cab and 4x4 and you are looking at $50k. Trucks are just expensive. The Lightning is expensive but not that much more than any other truck and the Ford incentives + EV credit brought it down quite a bit. The Lightning Flash (extended range) was routinely selling OTD < $60k with 0% financing.

I'd put off buying a pickup for a decade because I couldn't find the right one and the Lightning is awesome. I was skeptical at first due to range concerns but there are chargers in the middle of nowhere in 2025.

I think a lot of the other commenters might change their thoughts if they drove one for a bit.

Edit: I get somewhere around 50mpg (dollar equivalent when charging at home) in a full-size truck that fits my whole family and our gear + handles better in the snow than any ICE truck + can do plenty of hauling and light towing.
by adastra22 | 2025-12-16 01:26:44+00:00
A nation-state is a state whose borders and (originally) citizenship are largely defined by a singular nationality. Israel and Japan, for example. Belgium and Canada are not nation states: they are split into French and Flemish, and Anglo and French nationalities, respectively.

It is a 19th century term that rarely applies these days, but still sees some residual usage.
by TheDong | 2025-12-16 01:26:46+00:00
If that's a normal thing to do, why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now? Why haven't we made Microsoft push an OTA update to windows to bluescreen all military PCs in Russia? Why haven't we made Google and Apple push Android/iOS updates that cause all phones in Russia to crash?

I'm confident that even if at war with China, the US would not hijack random civilian cars, yes. That's absolutely absurd.
by dangus | 2025-12-16 01:26:51+00:00
All of those things affect the everyperson far less than losing TikTok.

Losing TikTok would be like if the government shut down the NFL. This isn’t hyperbole.

I never claimed all those other irrelevant things you brought up were political suicide. In that sense they are unrelated topics. Dare I say you’re making a strawman argument.
by keinmarer | 2025-12-16 01:27:21+00:00
Working on cargo like tooling for cpp. It just let you jump start a project for different build systems(vcpkg, bazel and meson). I am also planning to bring CLion features build on docker, ssh to cli with tui setup. Docker side is close to complete working on ssh for now.

https://cpx-dev.vercel.app/
by zbentley | 2025-12-16 01:27:23+00:00
> alerts LE to just ... "check in on you".

This is currently an epidemic. Drivers are targeted for “random” checks by police for a number of non-falsifiable factors (e.g. the evergreen “your license plate light was out…huh, looks fine now”) that overwhelmingly correlate with driver income and race.

That’s not whataboutism; I am genuinely not sure if ALPR/automated policing systems stand to make that situation worse or better. Are Flock and friends likely to be abused in the same way that human police traffic stop reasons are?
by ksymph | 2025-12-16 01:27:27+00:00
Having a certain number in one hand is still a couple steps removed from getting a specific outcome, so there isn't anything inherently 'unfair' about it. My point was more that it's the intention that matters. If you make a split because it feels right, with your question in mind, then it's fine if it's totally uneven and/or you're aware of how many there are. Splits like that do happen from time to time, it's all part of it.
by lsaferite | 2025-12-16 01:28:03+00:00
Having just swapped to a new TV on my Harmony setup I was concerned if it was still going to work. Lucky me, it did.

I really REALLY want someone to manufacture the thin harmony RF remote with a simple receiver puck with an open firmware. That's all we'd need because the HA crowd would be all over it and have it doing anything you want.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-16 01:28:13+00:00
> Those people already had your contact info, probably.

What leaked was that I was a signal user, and that the person on the other side was a signal user. The security implications are obvious, and by itself, that's already enough to get someone who really needs to care about privacy killed.

> Also, I think there is a setting in Signal to prevent that

False. It happened without my permission as soon as the app was installed, and there was no way to opt out. Maybe they changed it since then, but the fact remains they obviously cared more about network-effects and user-counts than user privacy.

Sigh, there's just no need for this kind of apologism. You could just admit that a) it's bad behavior, b) they did it on purpose, and c) it's not possible to trust someone who does something like this. I'm aware they are nonprofit, so I don't know why it's like this, but the answer is probably somewhere in the list of donors.
Ask HN: Any AI model chat interfaces for power users?
by jameslk | 2025-12-16 01:28:31+00:00
I feel chronically disappointed in the experience of using the chat interface for ChatGPT, Gemini, and other SOTA models. They all bring with them their own underwhelming UX.

For example, some features I would want:

* "fork" a convo into a different thread (like Slack threads) so it doesn't clutter the context.

* "merge" (reference) existing threads into a convo.

* Remove parts of a convo because they mess up the context and are influencing the model too much.

* Tag convos or categorize them under multiple directories. Or create shortcuts, like they're documents. (i.e. not just one directory)

* A search that isn't a basic text search from 2022 but an actual LLM searching over past convos.

* Use "incognito mode" and then if I like the convo, move it out of incognito mode (most of my prompts start off in incognito mode).

There's so many more ways I can see the chat experience being better. It seems like it should be its own product (ideally open source and lets me choose my own models, maybe multiple at the same time for a given prompt). CLIs and coding agents are kind of like this, but don't really have all these features, and are more code-oriented than I want. Are there any "power user" chat interfaces out there?
by ethagnawl | 2025-12-16 01:28:34+00:00
I love the idea of OverDrive but I've yet to have success with it. Either the book I'm interested in isn't available or it's unavailable for weeks. I don't have a ton of time to read or to drop what I am reading when something becomes available, so I usually just wind up buying the book if I'm really excited about it.

Granted, my library is not part of a major city's system but it's also not what I'd call a small one. I'd be curious to know how NYC or Chicago compare, as those are where people I know have had very positive experiences with these options.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-16 01:28:50+00:00
The area covered in question is over 200km2. Might be hard to imagine how much RF transmission/reception equipment we have in that space.

An attacker would need a lot of fairly powerful jamming equipment just to disrupt a small area of it. And our customer would advise us pretty quickly if their personnel were having reception issues and our field engineers would diagnose the source of the interference pretty quickly. So no.
by Spivak | 2025-12-16 01:28:53+00:00
So is hiring young people over a better qualified senior applicant. You wouldn't have to make it a point if recent grads would win in a meritocracy.

It's fine to hire a bunch of juniors but then you're kinda explicitly not looking for the best. But at $150k-ish they'll get mid career and senior devs from low CoL areas pouring in.
by tjohns | 2025-12-16 01:28:53+00:00
> Is it actually common for military aircrafts with transponders off to mix and match with public traffic in activate flight regions?

As a pilot, I can tell you it happens all the time. Even in US domestic airspace. Transponder use is optional for the military, and they will turn them off for some training missions. (Or in this case, a real mission.)

No, they don't close the airspace when this is being done.

The pilots of both aircraft (civilian and military) are supposed to be keeping a constant visual watch for traffic. The military aircraft should also be keeping an eye on primary radar.

(Transponder use is also optional for some civilian aircraft, btw.)
by silisili | 2025-12-16 01:28:53+00:00
So if I have a vehicle with let's say 250 miles of range, you want me to let it get to 100 miles at least left to drive 100 miles to the charger, then drive 100 miles back, leaving me with 50 miles of range until I have to do it again?

I'm not really against electric anything, but not following the logic of the examples in this comment.
by jcadam | 2025-12-16 01:29:14+00:00
https://trivyn.io

Trivyn: Ontology-first knowledge platform. Runs on a single machine, via a single executable. I wanted a simpler alternative to the large complicated enterprise products that tend to dominate this space.

I'm really trying to get a private beta out the door by Christmas. I do plan to have a free version for academic/personal use.

Backend is written in Rust, uses oxigraph for its triple store.