MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beardyw | 2025-12-05 08:59:53+00:00
As mentioned text size is a problem. Sadly just about everything else is too. The text is so woolly it could be a sheep for all I know. You need real benefits to gain attention. What do your potential customers really need?

The artwork is inoffensive but like the text it says little and mostly just makes things look messy.

I would start again by asking "If I was customer x what would catch my attention as something that would be an obvious benefit". And leave anything else out.

Sorry if this is a bit brutal - maybe I'm in a bad mood!
by albertnahas | 2025-12-05 09:00:08+00:00
AI benchmarks decay quickly once they become targets. Leaderboards push models to optimize for the test itself, not the underlying capability, causing saturation, contamination, and eventual collapse.

My article breaks down this lifecycle, shows how modern LLM benchmarks like MMLU and HumanEval degrade far faster than older ones like MNIST, and ties the pattern to Campbell’s Law and Goodhart’s Law.

The post argues that today’s AI ecosystem accelerates benchmark decay and that we need new evaluation strategies before current metrics lose all predictive value.
by entrox | 2025-12-05 09:00:08+00:00
> There's no reason to make the process of fixing the issue after a minor incident expensive, extremely convoluted, and very prone to error.

Yes there is. Either nobody is engineering towards that aspect or it is a conscious decision, deliberating between two different buckets: bill-of-material cost per unit and estimated impact on your warranty & goodwill budget. Whatever is deemed to be cheaper will win.

Source: I work at an automotive OEM and one of my first projects almost two decades ago was how to anchor after-sales requirements into the engineering process. For example, we did things like introducing special geometry into the CAD models representing the space that needs to be left free so a mechanic can fit his hands with a tool inside. These would then be considered in the packaging process. If you consider these are two completely different organizations, it becomes a very tricky problem to solve.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-05 09:00:55+00:00
> Rust makes it easy to write correct software quickly, but it’s slower for writing incorrect software that still works for an MVP

YMMV on that, but IMHO the bigger part of that is the ecosystem , especially for back-end. And by that metric, you should never use anything else than JS for prototyping.

Go will also be faster than Rust to prototype backend stuff with because most of what you need is in the standard library. But not by a large margin and you'll lose that benefit by the time you get to production.

I think most people vastly overestimate the friction added by the borrow checker once you get up to speed.
by yoctosec | 2025-12-05 09:01:22+00:00
I use Cloudflare because of their Tunnel to protect my Raspberry Pi, but I think I will just use it without the Tunnel now. My main concern is privacy, but I'm not ready to accept so frequent downtime and dependence on them. The whole reason to host self-host was to be independent anyway. Does anyone have a recommendation for that (that is free)? Should I worry about privacy? My name and my city are on the website anyway.
by snthpy | 2025-12-05 09:01:37+00:00
Which one of those is preferable? It seems to me that they are both historically based. 10 x 10 is also 100 in base-12 (it's only in base-10 that it looks like 144).

IMHO, in a modern setting base-16 would be the most convenient. Then I maybe wouldn't struggle to remember that the CIDR range C0.A8.0.0/18 (192.168.0.0/24) consists of 10 (16) blocks of size 10 (16).
by tucnak | 2025-12-05 09:01:39+00:00
They said the same thing about 40G but hey, I've loved it for bridging the gap between my two (10G and 100G, respectively) Mikrotik switches. You can have a dozen Gigabit ports, as well as up to four true 10G devices on your aggregation switch, and neither would be bottlenecked by traffic to and from the backside. This has been a massive boon. However, when it comes to 2.5G, I struggle to find one good reason to use it; such a tiny step-up in bandwidth, and for what?
by onjectic | 2025-12-05 09:01:40+00:00
We need to have a serious conversation about the pros and cons of anonymity on public online forums. It’s objectively an unnatural form of communication, most of us see the harm, but we also don’t want to swing towards mass surveillance(which is a very real risk).

EDIT: By unnatural I am referring to not knowing who you are talking to, not knowing the slightest thing about them, our brains don’t process this aspect for what it is, instead we fill in this identity with our imaginations. Perhaps there was a better word for this than unnatural, but to me its especially unnatural because it doesn’t really occur in nature(at least not easily), where as communication across long distances or time happens all the time in nature. TLDR: It’s unnatural that we no longer even know if a comment was written by a human.

EDIT2: I am not strongly in favor of removing anonymity from the internet. I don’t know what the answer is.
by gwd | 2025-12-05 09:02:08+00:00
In this context, the the "slow programmer" option was the "no generics" option (i.e., C, and Go before 1.18) -- that is, the programmer has to re-implement code for each separate type, rather than being able to implement generic code once. Rust, as I understand it, followed C++'s path and chose the "slow compile time and bloated binaries" option (in order to achieve an optimized final binary). They call it "zero cost abstractions", but it's really moving the cost from runtime to compile time. (Which, as TFA says, is a tradeoff.)
by pyrale | 2025-12-05 09:02:17+00:00
Mesolithic (although in this case it may also be Epipaleolithic - I'm not an expert, though) is the time period that happens just after Paleolithic, the one that was being talked about.

It is a transition period between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic, with, depending on the area, features of both. In the middle-east; among others, (pre)history moved maybe a little bit faster than elsewhere, so in this particular example, which is the earliest case shown in the book you pointed out, it's hard to say that it tells about what happened before, as opposed to what happened after.
by 0xblinq | 2025-12-05 09:02:36+00:00
Glad to hear that works for you. But nothing of what you are mentioning is part of Django, nor an official package,etc.

And I’m not going to get into the details of whether that stack would work for non backend developers, developers working on medium/large projects and/or medium/large teams. That’s a separate and unrelated discussion.

But compare what Django brings you (Stone Age templating system and that’s it) to what Laravel provides out of the box (or via official packages) like assets bundling, live reloading, an amazing and modern template system with proper “component like” partials or even if you need them, the “big guns” such as Inertia or Livewire. More or less the same is true for Rails with the Hotwire stuff.

There’s absolutely no point of comparison here. Even if that works for you, Django is not even in the same league.

It is still a great backend framework though, which was my point.
by rvz | 2025-12-05 09:02:50+00:00
We are now seeing which companies do not consider the third party risk of single point of failures in systems they do not control as part of their infrastructure and what their contingency plan is.

It turns out so far, there isn't one. Other than contacting the CEO of Cloudflare rather than switching on a temporary mitigation measure to ensure minimal downtime.

Therefore, many engineers at affected companies would have failed their own systems design interviews.
by avereveard | 2025-12-05 09:03:37+00:00
But again, the problem isn't this or that content-exchange site; the problem is people doing illegal activities within, or facilitated by, such sites, or people within the site that are sourcing willingly illegal material or distributing material that is illegal to some recipients. And lawmakers are targeting the middlemen and the recipient instead of going to the root cause, and the cynic in me thinks, "Of course they'd do that, why would they go after themselves?" But it's a bit of a reduction, and not all wolves are rich and powerful (though those who are uncaught or get away scot-free mostly are).
by northerndev | 2025-12-05 09:03:47+00:00
I built this because i was tierd of my RAG-bots where lying. I didnt want a blackbox (like langsmith) so i built a middlewere that verifies facts against the source before the response is being sent.

Demo:https://agentaudit-dashboard.vercel.app/ Repo:https://github.com/jakops88-hub/AgentAudit-AI-Grounding-Reli... API:https://rapidapi.com/jakops88/api/agentaudit-ai-hallucinatio...

Stack is Node/Express + Prisma + Postgres (pgvector). 100% serverless och vercel at the moment.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-12-05 09:04:12+00:00
> However, when it comes to 2.5G, I struggle to find one good reason to use it; such a tiny step-up in bandwidth, and for what?

Portability and heat. You can get a small USB 2.5G adapter that produces negligible heat, but a Thunderbolt 10G adapter is large and produces a substantial amount of heat.

I use 10G at home, but the adapter I throw into my laptop bag is a tiny 2.5G adapter.
by Supernaut | 2025-12-05 09:04:27+00:00
> How much did it cost to make the Beatles' albums? A piano, drums, a couple of guitars and salaries for 4 guys?

The Beatles did only take a few days to knock out each of their earliest LPs. However, per Wikipedia, "the group spent 700 hours on [Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]. The final cost [...] was approximately £25,000 (equivalent to £573,000 in 2023)."

So, actually, envelope-pushing cultural landmarks typically do require a lot of effort and money to complete.
by supernova87a | 2025-12-05 09:04:45+00:00
It seems to me an analogy that as a product is increasingly complex, the ultimate consumer/demander of it becomes more and more disconnected from maintenance, operations, etc. considerations and whether that system is well designed and serviceable.

Cars of a past generation were able to be owner-maintained (or understood), and therefore the owner had some interest in knowing that it was easy to maintain and would buy (at least partly) on that premise. Something that was a nightmare to maintain would not be so easily bought because the owners would soon realize how hard they were to fix.

Now, with a car that is so complicated, the owner is far distant from being the fixer of it until years later seeing a surprise repair bill. Even the maintainers are not even directly knowledgeable about the design and how to repair. And the information about its maintainability is a low factor on the buying considerations list. But by then you've already given the company the money and incentive to keep on building this way. And rarely (or extremely/too "laggily" does that information feed back).

It seems to me enterprise software systems have this problem as well.
by tpm | 2025-12-05 09:04:54+00:00
What they mean by the EU-bashing is two things:

1. The EU de facto mandates the car manufacturers have to develop and sell cars that produce less CO2 (mostly by the way of fines for higher polluting vehicles). This led to the development of hybrid ('mild-hybrid', 'full-hybrid', and PHEV) and EV vehicles.

2. The manufacturers tend to both complicate the technology and lock the stuff down, so it's not easily repairable. This has its own enviromental price, and EV Clinic says this is not accounted for. That's not completely fair as on one hand there are EU repairability directives that address this but on the other we still want to have some degreee of market competition and in the end the market should punish those manufacturers (as it is already doing, I think).

One thing I want to add is that the EU also mandates real-world-fuel-consumption-measurement (OBFCM) devices in new cars and if that is followed to its logical conclusion and the manufacturers pressure is resisted, this will mean the end of hybrids as the real-world data is horrible for them.

https://zecar.com/reviews/plug-in-hybrid%27s-real-emissions-...
by ThalesX | 2025-12-05 09:05:52+00:00
I just started getting npm errors while developing something; I was like hmm, strange... then I tried to go down to isitdown. That was also down. I was like, oh this must be something local to me (I'm in a remote place visiting my gramps).

Then I go to Hacker News to check. Lo and behold, it's Cloudflare. This is sort of worrying...
by omnimus | 2025-12-05 09:06:08+00:00
If your metric is only detective stories… i guess? But if you actually compare the quality of anything recent notable from HBO it's not even close. HBO cinematography, production quality, editing, script… its all levels above Netflix. Pick anything The White Lotus, Euphoria, The Last of Us, Peacemaker. Really anything.

Netflix feels like everything is cheap. Maybe Ripley was nice but thats it?
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-05 09:06:10+00:00
Just do it I guess? :D

When I'm receiving some random JSON from an API, it's so much easier to drop into a Python REPL and just wander around the structure and figure out what's where. I don't need to have a defined struct with annotations for the data to parse it like in Go.

In the first phase I don't bother with any linters or type annotations, I just need the skeleton of something that works end to end. A proof of concept if you will.

Then it's just iterating with Python, figuring out what comes in and what goes out and finalising the format.
by foo42 | 2025-12-05 09:06:34+00:00
Like many here, I too blog for the mental exercise of composing, the human desire to express, and a faith that posting to the public web is some how intrinsically worthy. On the first point I've found I get a lot of benefit from the posts I never even publish as I'll keep chewing over subjects which I'm mentally composing a post about and gain a lot of personal clarity in the process.

One thing I've wondered though (and am mentally composing a post about) is whether there's more good in ai digesting ones writing that we might first feel.

Here's a thought experiment: Would you feel good if someone read your blog and learned something from it? Probably yes. Would you feel good if they passed along something they learned to others, likely in their own words? Probably yes. What if they couldn't recall, or didn't choose to reference where they saw it? Probably still yes, although (speaking personally) my ego would probably prefer they did credit. What if the reader who passed the learning along was the ai?

In a sense we're still contributing to the public discourse and culture when we write, just mediated by models. If a model gives someone a slightly different answer in part because of something you wrote, you've still had an impact on the ultimate human reader.

Just to lay my cards on the table I'm no AI booster, nor doomer. In general I think it's over hyped and may well have a net negative effect if steered by those current at the wheel and consumed without due care, but it has its place where it can be useful.
by tomhow | 2025-12-05 09:06:37+00:00
If there really was a “mania for obscurity in titles” we’d see a lot more complaints than we do.

Our title policy is pretty simple and attuned for maximum respect to the post’s author/publisher and the HN audience.

We primarily just want to retain the title that was chosen by the author/publisher, because it’s their work and they are entitled to have such an important part of their work preserved.

The only caveat is that if the title is baity or misleading, we’ll edit it, but only enough that it’s no longer baity or misleading. That’s because clickbait and misleading titles are disrespectful to the audience.

Any time you see a title that doesn’t conform to these principles, you’re welcome to email us and ask us to review it. Several helpful HN users do this routinely.
npm registry down
by arbol | 2025-12-05 09:07:07+00:00
(base) repo git:(fix/portal-context) npm i npm error code E500 npm error 500 Internal Server Error - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/enquirer npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/user/.npm/_logs/2025-12-05T09_06_11_967Z-debug-0.log

Going here https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nx/angular gives 500 Internal Server Error
by dinoqqq | 2025-12-05 09:07:12+00:00
There is an update:

"Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues"

Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.

Customers using the Dashboard / Cloudflare APIs are impacted as requests might fail and/or errors may be displayed. Dec 05, 2025 - 08:56 UTC
by Doxin | 2025-12-05 09:07:14+00:00
it's not so much remembering what ∑ means insomuch as that it's completely impossible to google the first time you run across it. It'll be in some PDF that doesn't allow you to copy-paste the symbol and you won't know what it's called. Rinse and repeat for any of the million symbols mathematicians use, never mind that loads of symbols are context dependent even if you could google them.

I hope mathematicians have a better reason than "it's tradition" for making the entire field completely opaque to anyone who hasn't studied math extensively.
by KronisLV | 2025-12-05 09:07:31+00:00
Would be good to look into those particular statistics, then. Seems like the category could include all sorts of stuff:

> This indicates that users turn to open models primarily for creative interactive dialogues (such as storytelling, character roleplay, and gaming scenarios) and for coding-related tasks. The dominance of roleplay (hovering at more than 50% of all OSS tokens) underscores a use case where open models have an edge: they can be utilized for creativity and are often less constrained by content filters, making them attractive for fantasy or entertainment applications. Roleplay tasks require flexible responses, context retention, and emotional nuance - attributes that open models can deliver effectively without being heavily restricted by commercial safety or moderation layers. This makes them particularly appealing for communities experimenting with character-driven experiences, fan fiction, interactive games, and simulation environments.

I could imagine something like D&D or other types of narrative adventures on demand with a machine that never tires of exploring subplots or rewriting sections to be a bit different is a pretty cool thing to have. Either that, or writing fiction, albeit hopefully not entire slop books that are sold, but something to draw inspiration from and do a back and forth.

In regards to NSFW stuff, a while back people were clowning on OpenAI for suggesting that they'd provide adult writing content to adults, but it might as well be a bunch of money that's otherwise left on the table. Note: I'm all for personal freedom, though one also has to wonder about the longer term impact of those "AI girlfriend/boyfriend" trends, you sometimes see people making videos about those subreddits. Oh well, not my place to judge.

Edit: oh hey, there is more data there after all

> Among the highest-volume categories, roleplay stands out for its consistency and specialization. Nearly 60% of roleplay tokens fall under Games/Roleplaying Games, suggesting that users treat LLMs less as casual chatbots and more as structured roleplaying or character engines. This is further reinforced by the presence of Writers Resources (15.6%) and Adult content (15.4%), pointing to a blend of interactive fiction, scenario generation, and personal fantasy. Contrary to assumptions that roleplay is mostly informal dialogue, the data show a well-defined and replicable genre-based use case.
by berkes | 2025-12-05 09:07:48+00:00
At least this warrants a good review of anyone's dependency on cloudflare.

If it turns out that this was really just random bad luck, it shouldn't affect their reputation (if humans were rational, that is...)

But if it is what many people seem to imply, that this is the outcome of internal problems/cuttings/restructuring/profit-increase etc, then I truly very much hope it affects their reputation.

But I'm afraid it won't. Just like Microsoft continues to push out software, that, compared to competitors, is unstable, insecure, frustrating to use, lacks features, etc, without it harming their reputation or even bottomlines too much. I'm afraid Cloudflare has a de-facto monopoly (technically: big moat) and can get away with offering poorer quality, for increasing pricing by now.
by ventricity | 2025-12-05 09:07:53+00:00
no, it has to be organisation first. it's no good to put people first if there's no job to go to. if you put the organisation first, you get a good working environment since it requires a leadership style that gets the best out of people. any leader or any employee should ideally be replaceable.

it's not "horribly toxic" as you say, because if that is the case your company is terrible in the first place.

Servant leadership is about the big lines, not only the company but being a positive force in society as well. If you truly understand it, it's probably the hardest kind of leadership to aspire to.

In fact, servant leadership is about turning the organizational chart upside down, where the leaders serve the other employees, making sure they have what they need so they get the best out if them
by johncolanduoni | 2025-12-05 09:07:53+00:00
This is a modem, it itself is the client of a cell tower/base station. So unless you put it in a faraday cage with the base station next to it, 2G is almost certainly enough.

The better reason to put a 10G transceiver in this would be that some (cheap, honestly garbage) SFP+ transceivers can’t negotiate anything between 1G and 10G. But I’ve only seen that on bargain-bin hardware so I don’t know that they should be designing products around it.
by ozim | 2025-12-05 09:08:25+00:00
What's with the "everything has to be monetized" or optimized for earning?

Why do people have to earn money on their hobbies?

Why a person can't just publish stuff for others to read?

Why should we be obligated to pay?

If someone has to make a living, maybe they should stick to a proper job not a hobby side gigs. Well I have a friend that makes living from basically making side gigs, but he is not looking to "make it big" - he just values freedom more and if he gets some money to just get by he is happy with it. He is not going to optimize conversion rate of paying supporters. But he is authentic that is why people who drop him some money do so - second he starts "revenue optimizing" I believe anyone who follows him will just drop it and move on.
by dyauspitr | 2025-12-05 09:09:04+00:00
Bridgerton is impossible for a man to watch. Adolescence started off well, but then just dragged on for a really long time and ended with a fizzle. Stranger things is okay but eleven, the female protagonist is insufferable.

Mindhunter was probably the last really good show they had. Squid game and dark winds are decent.
by js8 | 2025-12-05 09:09:24+00:00
Well, but under free market conditions, prices based on use and exchange value should equalize. So the paradox will appear, unless you have a planned economy.

Maybe Marx resolved the tension by converting the contradiction into a (wider) capitalism contradiction, and was happy with that solution. Whether it makes OP happy in the age of AI ("everything is capital and you're screwed if you don't own it"), not sure.
by Akronymus | 2025-12-05 09:09:44+00:00
Yes, the current status is that cheaters can play distingushable from humans. But my point was more that, if we create a system that allows cheating that still is equivalent to a good player, then it just feels like playing against good players. Which, to me, feels like it'd be mission accomplished.

This is one of the cases where ML methods seem appropriate.