MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maheshvaikri99 | 2025-12-27 03:40:27+00:00
Hi Thanks

Benchmark results and methodology here: https://github.com/AceIQ360/AceIQ360-Benchmark

The full system isn't open source yet - still deciding on licensing. But the benchmark repo has:
- Complete results (500/500 on LongMemEval)
- Raw logs showing each question/answer
- Comparison with baselines

Happy to answer questions about the approach. The core insight: intelligent context organization beats raw context volume. No LLM calls for memory extraction - pure embedding-based retrieval using RudraDB (https://rudradb.com).

If you want to verify independently, I can provide API access.
by imperfect_blue | 2025-12-27 03:40:52+00:00
If you are actually asking a serious question: while a patron is primarily motivated by whatever catches his interest, a corporate conglomerate funding the same investments is motivated by profit. They would have more of a motive to select the kind of investments that will succeed and pay for themselves, allowing for a more economically efficient allocation of resources.

Of course, the kind of investments that might succeed and pay for themselves may not necessarily be the kind that is most beneficial to the public at large - but the same applies to the patron.
by danaris | 2025-12-27 03:41:06+00:00
Rooftop solar is getting cheaper, easier, more efficient, and more reliable every year.

If you live in an area that is poor enough that this is not an option, it loses power frequently due to weather, and no one in power cares enough to fix it, that genuinely sucks, and I feel for you. But, as sibling comments said, some other poor areas don't get gasoline shipments in a timely manner—being poor and neglected is just always going to suck in various ways, and the solution is not to avoid any technological advancements that remove the crutch that your particular poor and neglected area is using to get through it a little easier, but to find ways to reduce the poverty and neglect.

And, frankly, solar power and electric vehicles are both great tools to help with that, especially when used together.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-12-27 03:41:53+00:00
Considering how expensive cars are, I do find the trip-to-grandma reasoning useful. Most people want a single vehicle that can do everything. Dismissing that with, "Well just drive differently" or "You can do the hassle that is renting a car" is not a compelling sell. What if I want to do my vacation trips during the holidays where rentals are already booked?

I think full EVs are great if the lifestyle allows it, but plug-in hybrids seem a better fit for most people without requiring undue compromise.
by jackzhuo | 2025-12-27 03:42:51+00:00
I started indie hacking 6 months ago.

Thanks to AI tools, coding is now the easy part. I can build full-stack apps faster than ever.

But I hit a wall. I realized my problem isn't engineering anymore. It is finding users.

For 2026, I want to shift my focus. I need to stop worrying about "how to build" and learn "how to sell."

Marketing and distribution are now my top priorities.
by Aachen | 2025-12-27 03:43:01+00:00
What trip to grandma can't you do anymore with an EV?

> What if I want to do my vacation trips during the holidays where rentals are already booked?

The same as you do when any other part is booked out: go elsewhere or do something else. I don't buy a backup train in case the one I want is booked out one of the next ten summers

Consider also the lifestyle change that's "growing older more healthily" by not having a population sit in exhaust fumes for 2x the daily average commute length
by aggregator-ios | 2025-12-27 03:43:27+00:00
Unsurprising. GM/Ford will fail once again, along with the BMW/MB/VW and then the government will bail them out again... for the 4th time in 30 years. There is no incentive to be better.

Making sub-$100k EV's and then crying that consumer demand is low doesn't make any sense. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Korean EVs are absolutely eating this market by making sub 35k and 50k EV's respectively. In California, 1/4 new vehicles registered was an EV in 2024. By the end of 2025, it was 1/3.

The rest of the world will continue to embrace EV's, and the western (and Japanese) propaganda machine will do what it always does when the rest of the world does better: xenophobia, racism followed by screaming that EVs are a failure.
by maheshvaikri99 | 2025-12-27 03:43:35+00:00
Essentially yes, but with a few additions CSV lacks:

1. Multiple tables in one document (table.users, table.orders)
2. References between tables (:user:42 links to id 42)
3. Object blocks for config/metadata
4. Streaming format (ISONL) for large datasets

The type annotations are optional - they help LLMs understand the schema without inference.

You could think of it as "CSV that knows about relationships" - which is exactly what multi-agent systems need when passing state around.
by maheshvaikri99 | 2025-12-27 03:44:04+00:00
Ha, fair. CSV gets you 80% there.

The 20% ISON adds:
- Multiple named tables in one doc
- Cross-table references
- No escaping hell (quoted strings handled cleanly)
- Schema validation (ISONantic)

If you're stuffing one flat table into context, CSV works fine. When you have users + orders + products with relationships, ISON saves you from JSON's bracket tax.
by antonvs | 2025-12-27 03:44:28+00:00
I generally agree with you - in many ways the AI alignment problem is just projection about the fact that we haven’t solved the human alignment problem.

But, there is one not-completely-speculative factor which differentiates it: AI has the potential to outcompete humans intellectually, and if it does so across the board, beyond narrow situations, then it potentially becomes a much bigger threat than other humans if it’s faster and smarter. That’s not the most immediate concern currently, but it could become so in future. Many people fixate on this because the consequences could be more serious.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-27 03:44:41+00:00
Yes. The proper way of adding gradual typing like Python, Typescript, and other platforms have. steep doesn't work in the rbs camp and sorbet in the rbi camp is more powerful with static and dynamic analysis, but it's also painful. The half-measures hand-wringing of separate type files, type, checking fragmentation that isn't usable, and awkward magic boilerplate comments are signs of leadership failure. Matz ain't software Jesus, sorry.
by cynicalsecurity | 2025-12-27 03:45:39+00:00
I'm not nitpicking. Using "diabetes" instead of "type 1 diabetes" or "type 2 diabetes" really hurts people with type 1 diabetes. It's a dangerous confusion.

By default, people assume "type 2" when they hear "diabetes." They don't understand that type 1 is a completely different disease - and an absolutely terrifying one. Type 1 and type 2 are as different as day and night. It's like having runny nose vs having no nose.

This confusion harms awareness of type 1 diabetes. It undermines the urgency of finding a cure and shifts attention away from type 1.

When people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (or, more often, when their toddlers or children are), they get furious that this confusion exists at all - and that they knew nothing about type 1 diabetes beforehand.
by YesBox | 2025-12-27 03:46:34+00:00
This year I've been diving into Game dev books and Harry Potter fan fiction. There's a lot of great reads out there. I assume having an entire world built for you removes a lot of the heavy lifting (as a writer).

GameDev:

- The Masters of Doom

- The Doom Guy

- Play Nice

- Press Reset

- Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

- Console Wars

- Ask Iwata

- Embed with Games

HP Fanfic:

- All The Young Dudes (by MsKingBean89) [student life of the Marauders]

- Grey Space (by noaacat) [Pre Hogwarts. Focuses on parental abuse. One scene I'll never forget (paraphrasing) is when another student at school notices Harry's bruises, slides up her sleeve, and implies she slipped too]

- Just started the Glasslight series (noaacat).

I also reread the entire Harry Potter series, and revisited a handful of Redwall books. I find it interesting how I loved RW as a kid/teen, was bored out of my mind with it in my 20s, and now I love it again.
by tengbretson | 2025-12-27 03:47:20+00:00
The incentives for such a swapping system are completely busted.

Think of existing swap infrastructure out there, like propane tank swaps. People already use these systems to rinse defective or expired tanks all the time, and that overhead simply gets built into the price.

Now imagine if you could refill a propane tank at home by just plugging it in to your wall. The only reasons to use such a service are now exceptional cases like travel, or to move defective items.

For every new tank introduced to the supply, on average, how many good-for-good swaps will occur before the supplier gets a defective one? Take the cost of a new one and divide it by that average and that is the minimum overhead for a swap.

For batteries, that number is likely in the hundreds of dollars.
by macintux | 2025-12-27 03:47:36+00:00
When you go, be sure to check out Union Terminal, and catch one of the free tours. Amazing place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Union_Terminal

I was lucky enough to be the only person who showed up for my tour slot, so the guide and I had a lot of time to talk about the art deco, the history, etc.
by waste_monk | 2025-12-27 03:50:30+00:00
Ooh, how about instead of being able to author a commit message, you're forced to let an LLM write it for you based on the diff since last commit. And that the LLM runs distributed on the blockchain, so it's monstrously slow, and has to be paid for with a 'gas' analogue so there's huge transaction fees as well.

That's the most techbro-brained idea I could come up with.
by uolmir | 2025-12-27 03:50:41+00:00
I know what you mean by your comment, but you might want to give catch 22 another try sometime. I'd say that the start with the Texan is far from the best the book gets. Reading it, I think you'll find Yossarian more and more understandable and the situations more and more bleakly comic as you go.

Or don't. There's no end of great novels out there.
by pornel | 2025-12-27 03:51:11+00:00
I've already been roadtripping across Europe multiple times in an EV that needs 20 minutes to recharge per ~3 hours of driving (e-GMP). To me this is great, and wouldn't be faster in an ICE, since I need the breaks anyway. EV charging is unattended, so it takes less of my time than refuelling. The chargers are already everywhere, even in rural areas and in the freakin' Alps.

I know some people want a pee-in-a-bottle cannonball run, but that doesn't make sense to me. At distances where charging time starts to add up, flying is already much quicker.
by sphars | 2025-12-27 03:52:17+00:00
I just finished book 4, some chapters of which I started skimming (mostly the Venli/Eshonai throwback ones). I want to finish the series but it's such a slow burn it's getting tough, especially when I have other books on my TBR. I'll get around to book 5 sometime next year.

I did really enjoy the first book, kinda want to go read it again.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-27 03:53:03+00:00
A large preponderance of the former mindshare of Rubyists in the heyday moved on to other platforms. There's a metric crapton of unsupported and broken stuff. Plus, there are few/no assurances of safety or performance as there are in statically-compiled environments because of the narrow focus on "development happiness" without prioritizing much else. Also, rubygems has governance issues that spawned gem.coop and numerous supply-chain vulnerabilities as there's no mandatory cryptographic package signing and public key management. Oh, and it's not reputation but the unprofessional and unwelcoming groupthink and inflated egos expressed in real interactions get in the way and turn people off.
by Animats | 2025-12-27 03:53:05+00:00
Me too, although it's been a long time since Photon.

"This environment runs as a virtual machine, using QEMU on Ubuntu. To try the image, you'll need: Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04." So it doesn't boot on bare metal?

Maybe they're trying to get away from needing Windows. The previous recommended development environment was cross-compilation from Windows.

The big news here is that they have a reasonable non-commercial license again.[1]
The trouble is, QNX did that twice before, then took it away.[2] Big mistake. They lost their developer base. Support of open source tools on QNX stopped. As I once told a QNX sales rep, "Stop worrying about being pirated and worry about being ignored".
They'll need to commit contractually to not yanking the non-commercial license to get much interest.

QNX should be licensed like Unreal Engine. If you ship enough products using it, it gets noticed and they contact you about payments, and if you're not shipping much product, Unreal doesn't care. This has created a big pool of Unreal developers, which, in turn, induces game studios to use Unreal. Unreal's threshold is US$1 million in sales.

Apparently they opened things up a bit last year, but nobody noticed.

Usefully, there is a QNX Board Support Package for the Raspberry PI, so you can target that.
QNX would be good for IOT things on Raspberry PI machines, where you don't want the bloat and attack surface of a full Linux installation.

[1] https://qnx.software/en/developers/get-started/getting-start...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/qnx_8_freeware/
by LeFantome | 2025-12-27 03:53:06+00:00
Capitalism has its downsides but one thing that it does better than all previous known systems is efficiently allocate resources that result in productivity. That is, it is the most efficient system we know.

Investment that does not result in utility for the investor leads to reduced investment. This is true regardless of if the “investment” is money or talent”.

Your suggestion that a system that allows people to ignore the price creators demand for their creations will be more efficient has been refuted over and over again throughout history.
Show HN: An AI collaboration playbook(AGENTS.md and code map and template)
by david_bai | 2025-12-27 03:53:18+00:00
Hi HN — I extracted a small “AI collaboration playbook” from my open-source project after repeatedly seeing coding agents go off-track (touch unrelated files, miss entry points, forget constraints in long threads).

The repo includes templates for:

- `AGENTS.md` guardrails + Done criteria
- A 1-page index
- A code map
- Key flows
- A plan-first change template (mini design doc)

It’s meant to be copied into any repo and used as a default workflow for Claude/Codex-style agents.

I’d love feedback on what you’ve found actually works to keep agents aligned, and what you think is missing/overkill here.

Links:

- Repo: https://github.com/david-bai00/PrivyDrop
- Write-up: https://www.privydrop.app/en/blog/ai-collaboration-playbook
by david_bai | 2025-12-27 03:54:31+00:00
Author here. I shared PrivyDrop on HN before; this post is specifically about the reusable “AI collaboration playbook” I extracted from the project (templates + workflow), after iterating on it in real dev work.

Quick entry points:

- `AGENTS.md` (guardrails + Done)
- `docs/ai-playbook/index.md` (1-page navigation)
- `docs/ai-playbook/code-map.md` (where to change)
- `docs/ai-playbook/flows.md` (how the system runs)
- `docs/ai-playbook/collab-rules.md` (plan-first template)

Two questions I’d love input on:

1. What’s your most effective “Done” / acceptance criteria format for coding agents?
2. Where do you put hard red-lines (security/privacy/architecture) so they actually get followed?
by bediger4000 | 2025-12-27 03:55:14+00:00
How is this "radicalization" and not "developing your own opinions"? By the facts presented in the article, the Father reads widely. Perhaps the Irish press is as homogeneous and "woke" as depicted, but CNN has never been liberal, and Al Jazeera doesn't fit on a left-right axis. This Father can and does receive many viewpoints, and actively chooses among them. As any rational being would. This isn't "radicalization", it's deciding a way to believe that the author of the article simply doesn't approve of.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-27 03:56:33+00:00
Not mother (or universal mascots of fecundity[1]) but something to feed the festive fire

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955649

(By way of an "explanation" of the "3 boxes")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_hares
by waste_monk | 2025-12-27 03:58:01+00:00
I think the usual argument is that you don't own the digital good, you have a license to use it, and that license is between you and the originator (or their reseller) directly. And you aren't allowed to resell the license.

E.g. this sort of thing https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/steam-che...
by ranger_danger | 2025-12-27 03:58:40+00:00
The trouble comes when "speech" is arbitrarily defined and/or enforced to suit a narrative. The initial targets are always the lesser-favored extreme cases in order to have the least amount of people disagree with it. Then when the people are comfortable having them define what speech is acceptable, they slowly start eroding rights to include simply anything that they don't like.

That's why people say that taking away the rights of one group is like taking it away for everyone.
by rphv | 2025-12-27 04:00:11+00:00
"For this is the source of the greatest indignation, the thought 'I’m without sin' and 'I did nothing': no, rather, you admit nothing."

- Seneca, "On Anger"

Sad to see such an otherwise wise/intelligent person fall into one of the oldest of all cognitive errors, namely, the certainty of one’s own innocence.
by _a9 | 2025-12-27 04:00:17+00:00
The URL scanner doesnt directly scan the file. It checks the URL against other web firewalls and returns stuff like the headers, chain, the sha256 hash of the body (which links to the actual file analysis https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/9525d0fe32cebf7933bf84dcf...)

You can see and compare the different vendors of each. File analysis goes to all the antivirus' and does the sandbox stuff and the URL analysis goes to things like Google safebroswing, phishing check services, etc

tldr different systems for URL analysis (web firewall check) & file analysis (antivirus/sandbox check)
by randycupertino | 2025-12-27 04:01:50+00:00
The best thing for me for 2025 is a Costco heated blanket. It is so soft and cozy and rocks my world. We love it so much we got one for my partner, my mother in law and my mom and they all love it. Highly, HIGHLY recommend.

https://www.costco.com/p/-/berkshire-life-heated-throw/40001...

I was very skeptical until my partner plugged it in, turned it on and put it on me and was like holy cow this is amazing.

My best book of 2025 was Dungeon Crawler Carl, the entire serious.
by epistasis | 2025-12-27 04:02:06+00:00
Facing the truth also requires acknowledging the roadblocks. Largely due to Trump but Al Republican and conservative culture, and structural, and some permitting etc.

Saying that Trump is not allowed to be blamed is symptomatic of just how damaged the public discourse is. Too many snowflakes who are terrified of facing basic accountability for the consequences of their beliefs and actions.
by tombert | 2025-12-27 04:02:14+00:00
I've only ever used QNX in the form of Blackberry products (mostly the Playbook), so I am afraid I don't what the advantages of it would be compared to Linux or something.

I know it's a microkernel which is inherently cool to me, but I don't know what else it buys you.

Can anyone here give me a high-level overview of why QNX is cool?
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-27 04:02:36+00:00
Says anyone who has seen them at work. They very obviously do not possess intelligence with how often they fall over at basic tests that would never trip up a human. For example, the "how many r's are in the word 'strawberry'" test. No person who is literate in English would fail this, but LLMs do (or did, until the companies making them put in a kludge because they were embarrassed by how it revealed the stupidity of their models).
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-12-27 04:02:51+00:00
I agree with everything you said

I just want to add that there is always a latent chaos / anarchy in people ready to jump at any oportunity to convince others to follow them. Doomsayers introducing themselves as messiahs. They are any combination of pseudoscience, religion and conspiracy. All this in addition of the normal political power struggles.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-27 04:02:57+00:00
I recently wrote a "du" summarizer of additional stats in C because it's faster than du, find, or any sort of scripting language tree walker. The latter is orders of magnitude slower, but ultimately it's bounded by iteration of kernel vfs structures and any hard IOPS that are spent to fetch metadata from slower media.

For archiving, I also wrote a parallel walker and file hasher that only does one pass of data and stores results to a sqlite database. It's basically poor-man's IDS and bitrot detection.
by innocentoldguy | 2025-12-27 04:03:05+00:00
I have the same question. I've been in the software industry since the early 90s and I've seen the "static types are the best thing since sex" fad fade in and out repeatedly during that time.

Having used plenty of strongly-typed and dynamically-typed languages, I really can't say strong typing has had any effect on me whatsoever. I honestly couldn't care less about it. I also can't remember ever having a type-related bug in my code. Perhaps I have an easier time remembering what my types are than others do. Who knows?
by tstrimple | 2025-12-27 04:03:12+00:00
I replied to the dead "What did you read in 2025" thread, so I'll just paste it here.

Usually I hit a book a week pretty reliably, but this past year has been particularly crazy according to my audible purchase history. There are around 80 titles that I've added in 2025 and I've completed the vast majority of them. Some stand outs for me:

Dungeon Crawler Carl - One of the few novels that I think it actually much better in audio format. The narrator is excellent and it's a fun adventure that never takes itself too seriously. I'm not into litrpg typically, but I really enjoyed the 7 novels in the series so far.

The Laundry Files - I've made it through seven of these books and I really like the mix of mundane government IT with supernatural horrors. Tropes come up like the government tracking paper clip usage, and then you'll get a mystical explanation that makes sense in world so suddenly tracking individual paper clip usage doesn't seem so ridiculous. Generally a fun series, but it seems to be moving towards a revolving cast that I'm less interested in continuing on with.

The Library at Mount Char - One of my favorite books this year. Quite dark and mysterious. I liked the payoff and character arcs. But really it's the well maintained atmosphere that pulls everything together.

There Is No Antimemetics Division - What might the science and research of literally unknowable things look like? Things your mind rejects or presences which can influence your mind to make themselves invisible and leaves no memories behind. Weird novel that doesn't hold your hand too much.

Heavy Weather - A sort of modern cyberpunk meets western novel. Storm chasers following a predicted F6 super tornado across the US south.

The Running Man - I'm not typically a King fan, but I do like some of his works. I have fond memories of the movie from childhood nostalgia so finally gave it a try. I do think it's one of his better works according to my tastes.

Mickey7 - I'm a sucker for time loops and death loops and adjacent novels. This was a short but fun book.

The Society of Unknowable Objects - Small group of people collect mysterious objects from around the world to keep humanity safe.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Another one dealing with memory. What would it be like to be immortal, but everyone you interact with forgets about you minutes after you leave them.

Edge of Tomorrow - Time loops!

The Troop - Decent read if you like horror novels. One of the better horror novels I read for the year.