MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by squirrellous | 2025-12-02 12:01:56+00:00
I don’t understand this argument. It seems to originate from capnp’s marketing. Capnp is great, but the fact that protobuf can’t do zero copy should be more an academic issue than practical. Applications that want to use a schema always needs their own native types that serialize and deserialize from binary formats. For protobuf you either bring your own or use the generated type. For capnp you have to bring your own. So a fair comparison of serialization cost would compare:

native > pb binary > native

vs

native > capnp binary > native

If you benchmark this, the two formats are very close. Exact perf depends on payload. Additionally, one could write their own protobuf serializer with protoc they really need to.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-12-02 12:02:23+00:00
If you're already caught up on what's aired so far, I don't think it's a major spoiler; it kind of follows from what we've already seen that (base64 encoded)

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And also, there's always the chance they didn't even end up using it :P
Show HN: Launchpad for developers to ship and showcase their projects
by teemingdev | 2025-12-02 12:03:25+00:00
Hi HN,

I built smollaunch.com, a lightweight launch platform for developers who want to share projects without the noise, voting games, or marketing theatrics of bigger launch sites.

I’ve shipped a lot of small tools and noticed that most launch platforms are built around growth-hacking rather than genuine discovery. Many devs just want a clean place to publish something they built and get feedback from peers who care about the craft. So I made a simpler version of that.

What it does: - Post your project with a short description and link - Get a clean, minimal launch page and profile - Other builders can follow, comment and send feedback - No algorithms, no gamified voting, no “launch timing optimization” - Built to feel more like an engineering feed than a leaderboard

Why I built it: I wanted a calm space where developers can share ideas and prototypes without having to run a Product Hunt style campaign. A lot of great projects never see daylight because the launch process is intimidating or feels overly optimized. Smollaunch is meant to be the opposite: simple, fast and low-pressure.

Stack / tech details: - Rails 8 - Hotwire for real-time interactions without JS complexity - Postgres - Tailwind CSS - Deployed as a small, fast monolith

What I’m looking for:

Feedback from builders who regularly ship small tools or experiments. I’d love to hear: - What feels missing for a “dev-first” launch platform - Whether you want integrations (GitHub, tags, RSS feeds etc.) - If the philosophy of “no hype, no ranking pressure” resonates

You can try it here: https://smollaunch.com

Thanks for reading and happy to answer anything.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-12-02 12:04:41+00:00
> it’s (a) going to be harder for you than for people who like it and (b) maybe you should consider a field that you do like?

This shit is so infantile. It's like people have never heard of grinding. Do you think big law attorneys "love" their jobs? How about public accountants? How about dentists (famously known for having high suicide rates).

> Maybe you hate programming, but you want the money enough.

Yes welcome to the grand epiphany that drives 99% of people. There's nothing special about programmers.
by aa-jv | 2025-12-02 12:04:47+00:00
Its still the case today, its just that America has gotten louder about its academic accomplishments being a key factor in economic success.

Your average German/Austrian universities have plenty of ex-pat Americans, there for precisely the fact that the education systems have such variety between the two nations. They are understated and under-represented in mainstream culture about academia, but for sure there are still Americans making the pilgrimage to older universities, for the diversity and strengths they offer.
by gostsamo | 2025-12-02 12:04:56+00:00
The logic stays the same though the answer is longer and not always easy. Just saying "business chart" is totally useless. You can make a choice on what to focus and say "a chart of the stock for the last five years with constant improvement and a clear increase by 17 percent in 2022" (if it is a simple point that you are trying to make) or you can provide an html table with the datapoints if there is data that the user needs to explore on their own.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-02 12:05:01+00:00
Long copyright protection is not okay, but letting the huge corpus of existing public domain works languish in obscurity is not okay either; that does a lot more damage to our shared culture, and in a way that's even quite easy to address. But the damage done by keeping works in copyright is easier to see than the damage done by not making remarkably similar works accessible at all.
by reactordev | 2025-12-02 12:05:46+00:00
Yesterday actually. Don’t assume you know someone’s position simply because they give you advice you don’t want to hear. I lived in my car for 6 months. I’ve been through tough times, homelessness, home ownership, all of it. Currently I spent the last 9 months trying to find a new place to live.

Plans fail. Have backup plans. Attempting to min max has disadvantages too. My advice has always come from experience and never “this is what they say you should do”. I would not be so presumptuous.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-12-02 12:06:07+00:00
Offtopic.

Want to see something cool?

Run the following prompt through your favorite LLM:

"Does the following comment make logical sense:

<insert OP comment above>"

The model will agree the argument is valid, logical and coherent (chatgpt, claude and gemini 3 pro all agreed).

THEN

run this prompt:

"let's not be too hasty here.

we have "the term of copyright protection is quite long; but the amount of works [...is large enough...]"

p1: the term of copyright protection is quite long

p2: the amount of works [...is large enough...]

it doesn't seem to me that p1 and p2 are logically connected. As an absurd case: if the amount of works in the public domain gets large enough, would that mean that evern larger (infinite) terms of copyright protection are ok?"

Enjoy!
by rhdunn | 2025-12-02 12:06:35+00:00
Lord of the Rings (1954-1955) has only recently entered the public domain for life+50 countries due to JRR Tolkien dying in 1973, despite the work being over 70 years old. It won't enter the public domain in life+70 countries until 2044.

Only recently are works written in the early to mid 1900s being released in the public domain. This limits the works to around the first world war. For example:

- HG Wells (Died 1946, Life+70 in 2017), works like War of the Worlds and The Time Machine.

- LM Montgomery (Died 1942, Life+70 in 2013), works like Anne of Green Gables -- In the US where publication + 90 years is in effect, her later works (after ~1925) are not yet in the public domain there.

With comic IPs, most are not yet in the public domain:

- Superman (1938, P+95 of 2034) and will only cover that incarnation of the character.

- Batman (1939, P+95 of 2035) and will only cover that incarnation of the character.

So the current copyright terms are very limiting for IPs that are nearly a decade old.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-12-02 12:07:14+00:00
In Germany a fixed wheel does not count as a brake, and passionate fixie drivers will have a rear brake installed but never use it.

The signs on the rim of a brake that has been used is frowned upon by o̶b̶s̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶ passionate fixie drivers.
by ajuc | 2025-12-02 12:08:24+00:00
As a starting point:

Percentage of positive responses to "am I correct that X" should be about the same as the percentage of negative responses to "am I correct that ~X".

If the percentages are significantly different, fine the company.

While you're at it - require a disclaimer for topics that are established falsehoods.

There's no reason to have media laws for newspapers but not for LLMs. Lying should be allowed for everybody or for nobody.
by ZephyrSkies | 2025-12-02 12:09:30+00:00
Hi, one of the BAR devs here. Glad to hear the tall praise for the project and even happier to hear you've been having a great time playing it!

One of the additional safeguards against cheating within BAR is the shared simulation that all machines connected to any given match have to perform. As the entire process is synced between all these machines, any mismatch is immediately picked up by other machines and the server hosting the match itself and results in an automatic booting of that player with the desynced game. If 15 machines can agree on an event happening in the simulation, and 1 can't, why should the 1 be trusted? This includes things like the economy reserves for a given player or the behaviour of their units, not just the physical simulation of the projectiles and their trajectories and hit registers.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-02 12:10:53+00:00
It works because we are in a health care crisis and the nurse doesn't have anything close to enough time to do a good job.

It is really one of the few great examples that LLMs are good for in an economic sense.

In a different industry, such inefficiency would have been put out of business.

It is a unique economic condition that makes LLMs valuable. It makes complete sense.

To the wider economy though, it is hard to ignore the unreasonable uselessness of LLMs. The unreasonable uselessness points to some kind of fundamental problems with the models that are unlikely to be solved by scaling.

We need HAL to solve our problems but instead we have probabilistic language models that somehow have to grow into HAL.
by Quarrel | 2025-12-02 12:11:11+00:00
> Of course, but they're fiercely opposed to the notion of being subject to regulation by EU institutions.

They're also fiercly opposed to not having an open border, both for people and goods, with their EU neighbours.

One of these days something is going to have to give.

There had already been a few upset people over the issue, but then the war in Ukraine happened and the Swiss said "we're neutral!", and a few more got upset.

Eventually one of the deadlines the EU give them to get their act together will stick. It will presumably coincide with an economic crisis for one side or the other..
by KeplerBoy | 2025-12-02 12:11:48+00:00
> Node.js: Node.js 22 on arm64 was consistently faster than Node.js 20 on x86_64. There's essentially a “free” ~15-20% speedup just by switching architectures!

Not sure why this is phrased like that in the TL;DR, when ARM64 is just strictly faster when running the same nodejs workload and version.
by throw0101a | 2025-12-02 12:11:58+00:00
> My prosumer $1,000 networking setup isn’t sufficient to run certificates and IPv6 firewall the way you’ve described and I don’t feel qualified to setup what you are suggesting. I can get a $50 router and setup a reasonably secure IPv4 with NAT and DHCP in 15 minutes.

My several-year-old Asus AC68 does IPv6 (my previous ISP had it), (Open)VPNing:

* https://www.asus.com/ca-en/support/faq/1008713/

* https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1049180/

and Let's Encrypt:

* https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1034294/

Just because you're not qualified does not mean it wouldn't be handy to those who are, but not-high IPv6 adoption is hampering them. Further, some of this would currently have to be done manually (mostly the cert provisioning: IPsec/IKEv2 can otherwise be fairly automated), but if there was more uptake there's no reason it couldn't be more automatic.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-12-02 12:12:05+00:00
When we're struggling with literacy itself, and people have lost huge amounts of money, and there have been several suicides linked to these scams, digital literacy in a passive mode is unlikely to work.

Bangalore is supposedly the most digital literate place in India. The data below speaks for itself.

Aggressive measures then might be justified.

It's very easy to make virtuous comments without knowing anything of the ground realities.

[0] https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/bengalureans-lose...

[1] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bengaluru-man-lose...
by crovia | 2025-12-02 12:12:33+00:00
I’m a warehouse worker in Europe who codes at night.

Last week I shipped Crovia Trust: a fully offline, open-source (Apache 2.0) engine that turns any provenance log (FAISS, MIT DPI, Hugging Face, etc.) into verifiable attribution + fair royalty bundles. No blockchain, no tokens, no SaaS or cloud dependency.Key points Works 100 % offline – Merkle proofs generated locally in <30 seconds

Tested on the public MIT Data Provenance dataset: 3 718 receipts → €1 M simulated payout with Gini 0.23 (very equitable)

Produces compact CEP.v1 evidence bundles ready for EU AI Act Annex IV / model cards 2026

Core is frozen, fully auditable, zero external deps beyond standard Python

Demo tarball + verification script downloadable, runs on any laptop

Repo & 30-second demo: https://github.com/croviatrust/crovia-core I built it because I’m tired of seeing creators and small data providers get zero while labs raise billions on their backs. Happy to answer technical questions, help integrate it, or just hear brutal feedback.

Thanks for looking.
by hkkwritesgmail | 2025-12-02 12:13:05+00:00
If the AI truly becomes human like, then it should also make mistakes like a human does even on simple arithmetic. Now, AI might make mistakes on simple arithmetic just like humans. However, once the human is given a hint on the fact that there is some simple arithmetic mistake to be corrected without any details, then the human corrects it. But the AI never does.
by whatevaa | 2025-12-02 12:13:46+00:00
I can use text based API's (like with JSON) with nothing else but text editor and curl. No other tooling actually required. Meanwhile if binary protocol tooling in your stack sucks, then it just sucks.

Had the joy of implementing calling SOAP service with client generated from wsdl in .net core 2/3 times. Tooling was shit poorly undocumented amd with crappy errors at that time. Run only with very specific versions in very specific way. And not much you can do about it, rolling your own SOAP client would be too expensive for our team.

REST with JSON meanwhile is easy and we do it all the time, don't need any client, just give us request/response spec and any docs.
Show HN: Race from one side of the world to the other
by pattle | 2025-12-02 12:13:50+00:00
I've spent about a year building this game which is inspired by the BBC show "Race across the World".

For those that don't know you have to race from point A to point B only using public transport and without flying. You have starting money but if you need to top up your funds you can work jobs.

Any feedback is greatly recieved.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-02 12:14:30+00:00
> I seem to remember people getting burned for publicly disclosing security vulnerabilities after stubborn agencies refused to fix them for years. Stuff like, exposing thousands of SSNs through a public gateway..

This has never happened in the US on the federal level. Unless your definition of "getting burned" is a nasty email from a clueless non-LE government worker.

> We are literally having this discussion on URLs because of famous cases where people DID face unfair treatment

I don't think any reasonable person can read through the court filings in those (Auerheimer, Swartz) cases and agree with the claim that there was unfair treatment wrt the application of the CFAA, or that the CFAA was unfair because it covers those cases.

I totally understand how someone who has not spent time familiarizing themselves with the actual details of the cases might be under the opposite impression; they are frequently misrepresented by people with agendas and nerds who mistakenly understand judicial process as a "Captain Kirk vs Computer" scenario.

There's a trend in communities like HN to claim that the CFAA is bad because Swartz deliberately broke the law while he engaged in some pretty cool civil disobedience. That's not reasonable. Two things can be true at once: what Swartz did was in fact cool and laudable, it still shouldn't be legal. Similarly, a reasonable person might consider it cool and laudable to punch a nazi, doesn't mean it should be legal.

In any case, there's also a trend of misrepresenting the potential penalties involved. On HN, you'll see people posting about how Swartz was facing 30 years in prison, which is an outright lie. Swartz had, in fact, behaved as described in the indictment; he had two plea deals on the table. One for 6 months with the opportunity to argue for further leniency from the judge, and another for 4 months outright. Lawyers familiar with the case have stated that it was very likely that he wouldn't have gone to prison at all.

Swartz killed himself, so the CFAA must be bad, but it's probably realistic to assume that Swartz did not kill himself because he was scared of spending a few months in prison. He was likely seriously mentally ill, and a victim of the poor state of the US healthcare system, not of the CFAA or the DOJ.
by eitland | 2025-12-02 12:14:44+00:00
>>> Just grab any man you see on the street, throw him in the van and ship him to the conscription office for processing.

>> 1. This is a wild exaggeration:[1] There are lots of men walking in Ukrainian streets.

> With the right papers clearing them of draft obligations, sure.

So basically you agree with me that it was a wild exaggeration?

[1] Also your computer seem to have a bug where its clipboard selectively remove words (see the part in italics) from the text you quote without inserting ellipsis or any kind of marker to indicate it. The alternative would be that you very deliberately misrepresent what I wrote and that wouldn't be a nice thing to accuse you of.
by happyweasel | 2025-12-02 12:15:04+00:00
hmm how can I reuse this useful Go library in python... Oh I can't.. hmm and how can I reuse this useful java library in php ? Oh I can't. Oh and which of the programming languages you mentioned can and do use C libraries? All of them.

Reminds me of that coworker who thought that OpenCV was basically written in python.
by askl | 2025-12-02 12:15:41+00:00
> When Windows 12 is announced, Windows 11 may finally be usable.

I'm not using windows anymore, but at least since Windows XP I felt like only every other release of Windows was usable. So my upgrade path was XP, Vista, 10, completely skipping over the bad releases Vista and 8. So just skip over 11, Windows 12 might be an okay release again.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-12-02 12:16:30+00:00
> But no its not remotely competitive with JXL, the only benchmarks it trades blows are ones with laughably low quality settings beyond what any user would ever use.

At 1080p, a 100k AVIF image is good enough to serve on a webpage. The same image as a 100k JXL will (probably) look unacceptible.

Source: every year or so, I compile the latest encoders and play around with encoding my blog's images with AVIF and JXL. Smaller AVIF images look ok, but the equivalently sized JXL images look way worse, so I gladly serve AVIF. (And before you accuse me of re-encoding lossy to lossy images, most images I test with are game screenshots stored as PNGs.)
by mrweasel | 2025-12-02 12:16:49+00:00
I miss running Slackware, if for no other reason that the weird look you get. For a decade I was running Slackware and a weird "package manager"(1). It was an incredible cool learning environment, but people though it was pretty strange.

1) https://web.archive.org/web/20040730204123/http://pack.sunsi...
by nsbk | 2025-12-02 12:17:15+00:00
They definitely do change things and not always for the better. I used to start running/walking workouts from the Apple Watch telling Siri something along the lines of "let's get running!" or "let's go for a walk" to which it would react starting the right kind of workout. Since WatchOS 26 it tells me it doesn't know where I am and something about privacy settings, and that's it. Asking in robot mode it does work though: "start running workout"
by zebproj | 2025-12-02 12:17:40+00:00
I often use the general algorithm for 2/1 as my "hello world" when I'm building new generative music systems. You don't need too many ingredients to set it up, and it yields some surprisingly decent sounding results.

The most recent one[0] I made was done when I was playing around with Rust, WASM, and WebAudio. (You'll need to press somewhere to start the sound)

0: https://pbat.ch/isorhythms/
by biglyburrito | 2025-12-02 12:18:00+00:00
^^^ this. Here's the article on the $230m that Humane raised:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/humane-the-secretive-ai-st...

"A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane, today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI.

Humane’s work is shrouded in mystery. But its latest round of funding, a Series C, attracted a laundry list of notable investors, including Kindred Ventures (which led the round), SK Networks, LG Technology Ventures, Microsoft, Volvo Cars Tech Fund, Tiger Global, Qualcomm Ventures and OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman.

To date, Humane has raised $230 million from existing and previous investors, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Its workforce has grown correspondingly larger, now numbering exactly 200 employees."
by chroma205 | 2025-12-02 12:18:04+00:00
> A citizen being rounded up by the state and bundled off to a foreign country illegally and with no process is absolutely kidnapping regardless of how much you want to pretend otherwise.

You realize half of Americans literally don’t care right?

But I respect your effort for trying. I will stay on my gaming chair and do nothing (won’t vote, won’t donate, won’t raise awareness).
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-02 12:18:14+00:00
Nevertheless, when it comes to top research, Germany has become a shadow of its former self. No way around it. This graph speaks volumes.

Prior to Nazism, Germans would collect as many science Nobel Prizes as the British, the French and the Americans together.

https://preview.redd.it/nobel-prizes-by-country-manually-upd...
by netruk44 | 2025-12-02 12:18:38+00:00
They laid off SDETs circa 2014 (I was one). I don’t think Windows ever had QA people, but it did have automated testing and dedicated people to write and monitor those tests, then file bugs if something broke. But not anymore since 2014.

These days, the only testing any release of Windows gets is from Microsoft employees (Dev/PM) and Windows Insiders.

They have rules of how many hours of self-hosting are required before they can release, but that’s the only requirement. That there exists telemetry of it running.

You might see a gap with that testing methodology, but it might also explain how things like this happen. If it’s a bug that doesn’t prevent boot, it’s easy to ignore.

(I knew a few devs who would just put builds of windows on one of their computers and play a 72 hour long video of a black screen on repeat to get self hosting hours. Then they would proceed with their feature release. And nobody saw any problem with that.)