MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-23 14:17:01+00:00
Formal verification is a nice idea but it's a big hill to climb from where we're at. Most people can't even get agents to robustly E2E QA code, which is a much smaller hill to climb for (probably) larger benefits. I'm sure this area will improve over time though, since it is an eventual unlock for fully autonomous engineering.
by entheostheone | 2025-12-23 14:17:30+00:00
Built an app that helps people introspect, navigate relationships, and potentially find their perfect match using LLMs.

The AI continuously learns about you, improving match quality over time until it deeply understands you and delivers the best possible match.

At the same time, it supports you in navigating romantic and friendship relationships through ongoing, personalised guidance.

Keen to hear your feedbacks, right now I have published a restricted open beta (I already have 13 users and have space for 7 more, because can't pay Eleven labs forever xD)
by jswny | 2025-12-23 14:17:42+00:00
Very interesting project! I have 2 questions:

1. How has it been working with ACP? Is it anywhere near feature parity with Claude code’s native interface?

2. I see your repo is written in Python which is interesting to me for a responsive TUI. Is it snappy and performant and if so what gave you done to make it feel native? And why did you choose Python?
by elAhmo | 2025-12-23 14:17:55+00:00
It is the new normal, whether you are against it or not.

If someone used AI, it is a good discussion to see whether they should explicitly disclose it, but people have been using assisted tools, from auto-complete, text expanders, IDE refactoring tools, for a while - and you wouldn't make a comment that they didn't build it. The lines are becoming more blurry over time, but it is ridiculous to claim that someone didn't build something if they used AI tools.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-23 14:19:02+00:00
I get the value over time, but the original store owner bought it when it was brand new, so I wonder if Sony didn't have a lot of sales even in Japan, and this one guy was the only one who had the money and that one Sony guy got insanely lucky it was exactly what they wanted. I'm trying to read between the lines of how the previous owner is describing it and the fact that this TV was so rare some people thought it was fake.
by atlasunshrugged | 2025-12-23 14:19:34+00:00
Its not clear to me whether this will impact all foreign made drones or just those from China. I get that DJI is the core target, but does this mean that a competitor from Europe (ex. Ukraine which I imagine will have a burgeoning drone market, esp for commercial/defense applications) will need a natsec signoff in order to sell a drone in the US?

Edit to add: From additional reporting on the issue, it seems that the answer is yes, it will affect all countries
by jvanderbot | 2025-12-23 14:19:37+00:00
Because trust is a fluid thing.

Signals of competence and diligence help build and reinforce trust.

Crafting a message for your known friend/ coworker almost always comes through in how it is written and structured, because it always weighs the arguments against the context of the business needs, communication norms, shared understanding of what's important, all implicit contacts about how we work together, the long term vision we shared over beers, the teams messages that the CEO sent three days ago, etc.

In a pure design doc - like a wiring diagram + 3 code snippets, this is a non-issue, so just ignore what I said (but consider it possibly).

In a doc for communication, especially of ideas, this is paramount.

The issue isn't using AI tools to write these "RFC" style docs. The issue is that in the very likely event that the output does not contain any of those very important bits (because how could it??), then we are in a situation where 1) this person I trust has lost some of that trust by not acknowledging any of the above or addressing it or structuring it in a useful way or 2) that person didn't try.

This is why communication is a valuable skill. It's always been implicit that effort slowly adds those and many more features of a good doc. Now it's explicitly not doing that, but still feigning effort with lots of formatting, etc. It moves the "add the important intangibles" from the writer to that reader, and like code review, that's laziness. We explicitly did not hire an AI, we explicitly hired a person, and that person should be filtering the world's noise through their valuable experience, and at least telling us that they did that. "I reviewed this and stand by it" is a very low bar to achieve, so I dont understand why there can be any pushback.

Is there a 3rd option here I'm missing?

EDIT: I can temper this a little bit. This is how I like to work. There might be a cadre of devs who are comfortable slinging 10 page unreviwed documents at each other. I'm fine with their existence I just think it's better to carefully review text from a close coworker because they deserve that time, and so I expect the writer would do at least one review themselves out of courtesy. I don't think any of this is arduous. If my boss told me to spend more time reviewing than the author was willing to spend writing, then I would either get comfortable with reduced dev output from this new DDOS, or find a new job.

EDIT2: Actually, it occured to me that everything I would say is well articulated here: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 which made the HN ruonds recently.
by tomhow | 2025-12-23 14:20:14+00:00
This is false. Nothing was done to your account at that time, whereas rate-limiting was active on your account at least two weeks ago. Rate limiting is applied to accounts that do things like use HN for political/ideological battle, or post too many low-quality comments, both of which you've been doing. Here are some of the worst of the comments you've been posting in recent months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46347561

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46272934

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148458

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821460

The A16Z title issue was no great scandal. It was bog standard moderation, with attention and responsiveness to community sentiment and feedback. That kind of thing happens all the time.

Meanwhile, you post too many comments that break the guidelines and use HN against its intended purpose. HN is only a place people want participate because others make an effort to keep the standards up rather than dragging them down. Please do your part to make HN better not worse if you want to participate here.
by cbrigham | 2025-12-23 14:20:28+00:00
It is a wonderful (and intriguing) to see the response. I was the first President of the club and starting as the Really Enthusiastic Students Involved in Science Or Research Studies, and it fascinating to see how it evolved and participants grew in their enthusiasm and skills. We actually started in an out-building of an actual Poor Farm, and then had the opportunity (facilitated by my bad) to connect with Claude and George and move to the barn. With our first computer, a Burroughs 205, being in the barn, insects and spiders were an issue - debugging was focused on the living bugs, then the programming ones. We need to encourage our youth to explore and grow, wihout limits. Amazing experience. Chris Brigham
by aksnsbba | 2025-12-23 14:21:23+00:00
> most notably at Tablet

She is more or less an Israeli propaganda agent. She was hired at CBS because, after purchasing CBS from Zionist Shari Redstone, Zionist Larry Ellison and his son needed a reliable Zionist editor in chief. Weiss’ primary qualifications are her extremely pro Israeli career path.

Larry Ellison needed a woman like Weiss because he’s invested in Israel’s success. He’s both a close personal friend of Netanyahu and the number one private donor to the IDF. Netanyahu has declared US public perception of Israel as the 8th front of their war, and Ellison (with the help of Trump) is doing his part stateside.

Why we have so many powerful “Americans” exercising their power on behalf of a foreign country is the real discussion here.
by tim333 | 2025-12-23 14:21:25+00:00
Cheap in comparison to the vessels they attacked.

In Ukraine the Russians had to move the fleet out of Sevastopol because of Ukrainian naval drone attacks, mostly to Novorossiysk and then recently have had to block that in with barges dropped across the entrance to try to prevent underwater drones getting in like the one that damaged a sub there last week.

The recent drone attack on the oil tanker Qendil in the Med was an interesting new one. 2000 km from Ukraine and they seem to have used drones to drop grenades or similar on the ship.
by antonhag | 2025-12-23 14:22:32+00:00
Congrats! Being able to run a nice company bootstrapped seems amazing.

Turning 10, you might want to stop ditching WordPress for being 15 on your homepage though ;)

Your customers demand blazing-fast digital products, web standards are evolving at the speed of light, yet you rely on 15-years-old solutions like WordPress that force you to deliver heavy, low-quality user experiences.

After all, you'll be there in only 5 years!
by pritambarhate | 2025-12-23 14:22:47+00:00
Let's say there is an architect and he also owns a construction company. This architect, then designs a building and gets it built from of his employees and contractors.

In such cases the person says, I have built this building. People who found companies, say they have built companies. It's commonly accepted in our society.

So even if Claude built for it for GP, as long as GP designed it, paid for tools (Claude) to build it, also tested it to make sure that it works, I personally think, he has right to say he has built it.

If you don't like it, you are not required to use it.
by mosselman | 2025-12-23 14:24:37+00:00
Many years ago I spent quite some time getting used to Gimp and did some designing on it, etc. I also wrote a tutorial for it to create some torn paper effect.

I say all this to give some context to the following: GIMP is just not great software. It is super unintuitive and when you don't use it for a while, you totally forget how to use it to select things, put them on layers, etc.

I use Pixelmator on Mac. I bought it years ago and haven't regretted it. It is getting better and better of the years, the UI is great. When I use linux I miss Pixelmator more than I do Photoshop. So if someone were to create a Pixelmator-inspired editor for linux, that would be great.
by dust4brekky | 2025-12-23 14:25:00+00:00
As an American whose mental health struggled for a while after the election, I now thoroughly curate my media diet so that I only get "just enough" political news. So I understand your desire.

However, HN has huge sway over tech culture, for better or worse (probably worse). Many of the wealthiest and most influential fascists in America also run companies that HN users might work at or strive to work at. Probably not because they're fascists, but because they mostly care about the cool tech they use or just want a better job.

Applicants and employees of ̶I̶B̶M̶ Palantir, ̶I̶G̶ ̶F̶a̶r̶b̶e̶n̶ Tesla, and ̶K̶o̶d̶a̶k̶ Oracle should know what they're supporting. If they take the job anyway, at least we know whose side they're on.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-12-23 14:25:02+00:00
I really like your ideas and send you support energy if you ever want to pursue these.

I also have ideas for creating such spaces and just the other day I fantasized about a building I saw rent.

Fwiw, if you earn USD, the "developing world" also needs these spaces and it's significantly cheaper to try and take a chance at some of these spaces.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-23 14:25:26+00:00
> Can't people just wish/want no one to be world police?

Yes. This is what happens. Which means various powers fight to establish spheres of influence, regionally and globally.

> Just because you don't like A, doesn't mean you suddenly love B

No. You can hate both. But sometimes, rejecting A implicitly means causing B. In this case, rejecting a world police means–ceteris paribus–incentivizing realpolitik.

(It doesn't mean the only options are America as world cop or anarchy. But rejecting the former without anything to fall back on is embracing the latter.)

> What is your goal with doing that, some sort of gotcha?

Describing reality around power vacuums. Releasing Pax Americana creates a power vacuum everywhere at the same time. (It also releases America from its rules-based obligations, though these pretty much became guidelines after each of the Iraq War, annexation of Crimea and China being China in Tibet and the South China Sea.)
by devnavigator | 2025-12-23 14:26:15+00:00
Building an AI platform on Amazon EKS has become a practical and scalable approach for organizations that want full control over their machine learning lifecycle without locking into a monolithic managed service. As AI teams move from experimentation to production, they need a platform that supports iterative development, distributed training, governed model management, and high-performance inference. This article provides an end-to-end view of how open-source tools can be composed on Amazon EKS to form a production-grade AI platform that scales with both technical and organizational complexity.
by eibrahim | 2025-12-23 14:26:34+00:00
Man, that's a hard one and anyone saying they know what will happen is lying. This is the wild wild west, anything and everything is possible.

One variable is government intervention and geo politics - that could completely change the playing field. Would they intervene to protect workers and unemployment or would they bet on the best tech and profit at all cost. What happens if we are 500% more efficient but 50% unemployment rate - nothing good.

RE: the software industry. I LOVE AI, I have built more apps in the last year than my entire 25+ year craeer. I can build and launch apps in days instead of months. The people complaining about slop don't know what they are doing. If you are a shitty developer before AI, you will still be a shitty developer with AI. But if you know what you are doing, holy shit, it's a 100x multiplier.

I built stuff I couldn't dream off. 3 podcasts, 4 books, an app that automatically summarizes the daily news, turns into a podcast script, generate the audio and publish to spotify, youtube and itunes - took about 4 days to build.

I built an app that helps you write books (fiction and non fiction) and publish it in epub format with a cover art, it validates thet story arc, continuity, plot, characters, and can create a series and tie all the threads - took 5 days to build.

I open sourced an app that compares model responses across 300+ models using openrouter and you can share your comparisons - took 2 days to build.

I open sourced an a desktop app starter template to quickly build desktop apps with a local database, automatic updates, apple signing and CI/CD to auto release new versions - took 2 days to build.

I build 10 more apps, it's a long list.

I am not saying this to brag, just to show off the POWER OF AI. My ideas don't die in a "Ideas List" anymore, they are being created and launched and it FEELS GREAT...

I haven't figured out the marketing part yet :) - but I am just loving the building and releasing part - hopefully the marketing comes in naturally.
AI Applications that need engineering and expertise?
by sgt101 | 2025-12-23 14:26:49+00:00
I'm seeing a lot of AI projects being picked up and run by people without any AI or CS knowledge, or even any technical background. They "stick it into the LLM and it works"...

Maybe these will crash and burn, but can folks identify the characteristics of an AI project that mean that it needs an expert running it and some smart engineers doing it?
by OutOfHere | 2025-12-23 14:26:51+00:00
I came here thinking that AI glaze is what non-AI products use to make their products look shiny to the audience.

Even if this did work now, there is nothing that AI can't adapt to. It'll take just a thousand such images in a random large image dataset for AI to quickly adapt to it, and then it'll be utterly pointless. As such, the effective half-life of any such approach is a year, with any further adversarial adaption yielding a diminished effect.
by PeterFBell | 2025-12-23 14:27:01+00:00
It's complicated. Firstly, don't love that this happens. But the fact you're not willing to provide tolerance to a commercial tool that costs maybe a few hundred bucks a month but are willing to do so for a human who probably costs thousands of bucks a month is revealing of a double standard we're all navigating.

Its like the fallout when a waymo kills a "beloved neighborhood cat". I'm not against cats, and I'm deeply saddened at the loss of any life, but if it's true that (comparable) mile for mile, waymos reduce deaths and injuries, that is a good thing - even if they don't reduce them to zero.

And to be clear, I often feel the same way - but I am wondering why and whether it's appropriate!
by throwway262515 | 2025-12-23 14:27:23+00:00
Expanded and unbleakified:

Corruption is not just the immoral acts of an elite few; it is a parasite that hollows out society from within.

When the mainstream realizes that sycophancy toward the autocrat is rewarded, some willingly sacrifice their principles for short-term benefits, burrowing into the system like worms in an apple.

Yet, parasites cannot survive without a compliant host. To kill the infestation, we must cut off the food source: our passiveness. This begins with everyday refusals—denying the petty bribe, rejecting the convenient lie, and defending the honest colleague. By maintaining high ethical standards in our own spheres of influence, we starve the corrupt hierarchy of the dead matter it needs to grow.

We must also make the terrain uninhabitable for them. These organisms thrive in the dark, protected by silence. Therefore, we must actively expose them: documenting abuses, funding media samaritans, and organizing locally to demand transparency. When integrity becomes the standard again, the host becomes hostile to the parasite, isolating the invaders rather than letting them multiply.

Without this resistance however, the society weakens until its greatest assets—its resources, minds, and institutions—are cannibalized by a regime of criminals. This is how nations collapse. We have seen this story in Africa, South America, and Russia. This plague is now upon us. But history is not destiny. We possess the power to stop it. We only need the will to use it.
Show HN: Ayer – Relive your photo memories by date, 100% offline
by chapiware | 2025-12-23 14:29:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small mobile app that shows you all the photos and videos you took on this exact calendar day across past years.

I started working on it after realizing that I almost never revisit my photo library. I take thousands of photos, but most of them just sit there. Existing “On This Day” features worked, but they always felt tied to cloud uploads, accounts, and algorithmic resurfacing — which didn’t sit well with me for something as personal as memories.

So I wanted to explore a different approach.

Ayer is fully local-first:
• 100% on-device (no cloud, no sync)
• No account, no login
• No analytics, no tracking
• Zero network calls — airplane mode works

The idea is very simple: you pick a date (or open the app today) and you see what you captured on that same day in previous years. Sometimes it’s joyful, sometimes it’s heavy, sometimes it’s completely ordinary — but revisiting memories by date gives them context rather than ranking them by “importance”.

A few details that might interest this crowd:
• It handles large photo libraries (30k+ photos) smoothly
• Navigation is date-first, not feed-based
• Optional “then vs now” collages are generated locally
• Built with React Native, using system photo APIs only

This isn’t meant to replace Apple Photos, Google Photos, or Lightroom. It’s more like a quiet, focused space that sits alongside them, designed for reflection rather than optimization.

If anyone is curious, it’s available on iOS and Android:
https://www.chapiware.com/ayer/

I’d genuinely love feedback — especially from people who care about local-first software, privacy trade-offs, or performance with large datasets.

Thanks for reading.
by throwaway7356 | 2025-12-23 14:29:12+00:00
> Yes, that would limit things, but with today’s 64-bit address spaces I think it could work reasonably well for many systems programming tasks.

As long as the systems programming tasks are strictly sequential, without threads, coroutines or signal handlers.

There is more to memory access than just out-of-bounds access which could be solved by just allocating every accessed memory page on demand as a slightly alteration of your variant.
by sbarre | 2025-12-23 14:29:25+00:00
To be fair, 10 years ago was still a reasonable time to do this (build your own CMS). In the early/mid 2010s the commercial CMS market was dominated by some pretty terrible large enterprise incumbents still stuck in the early 00s.

Would you agree (bias aside, being a CMS provider now) that in 2025 it's probably _less_ advisable to try to build your own bespoke commercial CMS product?

It feels like the CMS market is pretty crowded now, with lots of modern, high-quality open source and commercial products.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-23 14:29:25+00:00
> All through that fiasco, where Apple was going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C

Is there any evidence that "Apple was going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C"?

Apple worked to create the USB-C standard, was among the first to widely deploy it.

Apple fighting against a precedent where the EU would force them to switch everything to USB-C is strictly different from Apple going through all sorts of twists and turns to avoid switching to USB-C.
by m4rtink | 2025-12-23 14:29:56+00:00
Won't this place drone users in US in severe disadvantage right at the time when drones of all kinds are being used to provide all kinds of useful services ? In comparison users in countries with better policy planning will reap benefits.

Shouldn't there been some sort of planning for a local company to provide at least comparable products before needlessly wreaking havoc like this ?
by josephg | 2025-12-23 14:30:13+00:00
Npm is all source based. Nobody is compiling binaries of JavaScript libraries. Cargo is the same.

I’m not really sure what you think a maintainer adds here. They don’t audit the code. A well written npm or cargo or pip module works automatically on all operating systems. Why would we need or want human intervention? To what? Manually add each package to N other operating systems? Sounds like a huge waste of time. Especially given the selection of packages (and versions of those packages) in every operating system will end up totally different. It’s a massive headache if you want your software to work on multiple Linux distros. And everyone wants that.

Npm also isn’t perfect. But npm also has 20x as many packages as apt does on Ubuntu (3.1M vs 150k). I wouldn’t be surprised if there is more malicious code on npm. Until we get better security tools, its buyer beware.
by zbentley | 2025-12-23 14:30:52+00:00
> midrange and low-end stuff

Which is the vast majority of spirits consumed (by unit volume and total revenue earned), no?

Like, if high-end stuff is all that sells while the consumer base is plummeting over the statistical cliff of earning power and spending money reduction, that doesn’t add up to good prospects for luxury industries like that of high-end alcohol.