MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rolph | 2025-12-19 21:00:51+00:00
1] Use the actual title.

2] replacing the title to promote political view rather than reality.

3] repetitively fostering misinformation campaign that does real harm to individuals, society, and multiple species.

4] the article :

Observational Study Epidemiology

. 2026 Jan 1;37(1):141-151. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001908. Epub 2025 Sep 23.

OpenSAFELY: Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination in Children and Adolescents

this is about using OpenSAFELY to interpret data, and has nothing to do with the supposition of the replacement title.
by xg15 | 2025-12-19 21:00:52+00:00
I think it could be useful to combine the two paradigms to maybe get a better understanding of what transformers can and cannot learn.

E.g. would it be possible to create an algorithm that takes a grammar (and maybe a desired context window size) as input and constructs a transformer network that generates sentences exactly from that grammar?

("Construct" meaning directly setting the weights, without any iterative training process)
by top1aibooster | 2025-12-19 21:00:55+00:00
> Here's something most developers overlook: if an LLM has a 2% JSON defect rate, and Response Healing drops that to 1%, you haven't just made a 1% improvement. You've cut your defects, bugs, and support tickets in half.

If part of my system can't even manage to output JSON reliably, it needs way more "healing" than syntax munging. This comes across as naive.
by culebron21 | 2025-12-19 21:01:04+00:00
I was a web developer until 9 years ago. It was Django & jQuery, but React came with factories of abstract factories, and I happily quit for geospatial development and analysis.

Earlier it was geodata imports from OSM or private sources. Now it's mostly routers and GPS tracks. Interfacing with OSRM & Valhalla via C bindings. Road graph analysis and algorithms. I wrote a router myself, comparing different routing algorithms. I also developed a pedestrian traffic model for entire cities, for retail. I also did various ML models. My languages are Python w/ GeoPandas & CatBoost, Rust, Go.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-19 21:01:04+00:00
> This is so bad that it must be intentional, right? Even though these are dirt cheap, they couldn't come up with $100,000 to check for run-of-the-mill vulnerabilities?

The camera sells for $17.99 on their website right now.

Subtract out the cost of the hardware, the box, warehousing, transit to the warehouse, assembly, testing, returns, lost shipments, warranty replacements, support staff, and everything else, then imagine how much is left over for profit. Let's be very optimistic and say $5 per unit.

That $5 per unit profit would mean an additional $100,000 invested in software development would be like taking 20,000 units of this camera and lighting them on fire. Or they could not do that and improve their bottom line numbers by $100,000.

TP-Link has a huge lineup of products and is constantly introducing new things. Multiply that $100,000 across the probably 100+ products on their websites and it becomes tens of millions of dollars per year.

The only way these ultra-cheap products are getting shipped at these prices is by doing the absolute bare minimum of software development. They take a reference design from the chip vendor, have 1 or 2 low wage engineers change things in the reference codebase until it appears to work, then they ship it.
by drob518 | 2025-12-19 21:01:10+00:00
Which does best with pets? We have a German shepherd that sheds like crazy. We vacuum every week and it will often fill a Dyson canister vac. We empty it every time we vacuum. We had a Roomba back in 2002 or so, but it was little more than a novelty (just wasn’t great vacuum and got hung up on too much stuff).
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-19 21:01:15+00:00
Exactly. LLMs are faster for me when I don't care too much about the exact form the functionality takes. If I want precise results, I end up using more natural language to direct the LLM than it takes if I just write that part of the code myself.

I guess we find out which software products just need to be 'good enough' and which need to match the vision precisely.
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-19 21:01:31+00:00
well i’ll also point out, as a married man, my partner doesn’t have the “authority” to unilaterally decide how our child is raised. Notice the word OUR. There is no “I” in the word our.

It’s a joint decision. If it’s not, then you’re not operating as a team. If you’re not operating as a team…then you have a marriage problem IMO. Simple as that.

The healthy marriage outcome would be talking about it and compromising in some fashion. “my way or the highway”…yikes.
by maxmoehl | 2025-12-19 21:02:19+00:00
I am working on the bare metal automation of IronCore. The project provides tooling to automate the management of data-center hardware and a an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering on top of that.

https://ironcore.dev/

Previously I was working on the ingress components of Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service offering.

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
by crazygringo | 2025-12-19 21:03:00+00:00
> Part of that collapse was a result of a phenomenon where financiers would force technology companies to stop innovating.

Here's the thing: not every company needs to do deep tech innovation, and not every company should.

The financiers were almost certainly correct that iRobot would make more money focusing on selling vacuum cleaners, not developing military/space robots on the side. Building fancy military and space robots is fun and cool, but if it's not producing profit or clearly leading to better consumer products that make money, then it's not the right company to be doing it. Plenty of other companies will do it better -- it makes sense to have one set of companies relying on grants and defense contracts that innovate and that do fundamental research and aren't taking investor money, and another set of companies that take lots of investor money and focus on consumer products without expensive R&D. The idea that they have to be the same companies is silly.

The real story here is not about shutting down R&D -- that makes sense. It's about whether you think the FTC/Lina Khan was right to oppose Amazon acquiring iRobot, and whether they bear any responsibility for what happened after.
by noname123 | 2025-12-19 21:03:12+00:00
I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home.

But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with showers; and no keycard access was needed in the evening until 7pm.

So it made sense to me that he or she would've used that building for shelter and comfort. Also it didn't boggle my mind at all that a Brown grad (from the picture, the tipster looked like a artistic Brown student vs. the careerist type) would be homeless - given that I known many of my classmates who have a certain personality, brilliant but also idealistic/uncompromising that made them brittle unfortunately in a society that rewards conformity, settling and stability.

I can't get over the fact that two Brown student whom presumably have fallen on the wayside of society have chosen two different paths, (1) the homeless guy who still perseveres even in the basement of Barrus & Holley for 15 years a la Parasite after 2010 graduation but still has the situational awareness and rises to the occasion to give the biggest tip to the Providence Police, (2) the other guy who harbors so much resentment over a course of 25 years to plan a trip from Florida to gun down innocent kids who are 18 and 19 and his classmate when they were 18 and 19 year old.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-12-19 21:03:23+00:00
> As far as I'm aware all the add-ons work as expected.

Wanna comment on this more? I actually couldn't install add-ons on mullvad browser. I go on "extentions and themes", and the search bar isn't there.

(Not sure I wanted any if they help making you more fingerprintabble - but if not, I would like to have firefox containers on mullvad browser.)
by al_borland | 2025-12-19 21:03:24+00:00
A vast majority of the problems I’m asked to solve at work do not have open-source code I can simply copy or discussion forums that already decided the best answer. Enterprise customers rarely put that stuff out there. Even if they did, it doesn’t account for the environment the solution sit in, possible future integrations, off-the-wall requests from the boss, or knowing that internal customer X is going to want some other wacky thing, so we need to make life easy on our future selves.

At best, what I find online are basic day 1 tutorials and proof on concept stuff. None of it could be used in production where we actually need to handle errors and possible failure situations.
by 8note | 2025-12-19 21:04:10+00:00
i think the "but that wont work" is about visibility.

who are you intending to tell about these tiktok lies? how do you know if youve told the right people? what algorithm is going to pick up your corrections as equally viral as the lies were?

if youre actually going to do it, i think you need your own shadowy billionaire funding paying the various social media companies to pretend that your version of the truth is popular. maybe multiple shadowy billionaires.
by nebula8804 | 2025-12-19 21:04:21+00:00
Here are the scenarios that are playing out

1. China overtakes the US -> US society directly decines and thats it. (Your scenario)

2. China overtakes the US -> It takes out the elites with everyone else (what Gen-Z likely wants to see)

3. US manages to hold on -> Elites continue their trajectory of snapping everything up leaving the crumbs for everyone else. (The best case scenario pro-US people can hope for right now)

4. US manages to hold on -> They somehow decide to reform and implement v2.0 of New Deal. (The dream of the bernie sanders wing ie. a pipedream at this point)

You are really showing your age with your attitude.

Put yourself in Gen-Z's shoes. What is realistic at this point? What can even millenials hope for?

The best case is that they end up being a transitional generation that helps their kids survive their childhood and grow into a decent adult life. The worse case is managed decline.

Either way Gen Y and Gen Z are done for. This amazing American system you defend has ruined these generations long term outlooks and Trump's bumbling has already written their final chapters.
Show HN: I built a directory of 1000 GitHub Copilot resources
by eddybenchek | 2025-12-19 21:04:26+00:00
I got tired of bookmarking random GitHub repos and blog posts to find good Copilot prompts, so I built CopilotHub (https://copilothub.directory).

Another tool in your dev toolkit: a searchable directory for Copilot prompts and instructions.

It's a searchable directory where you can: - Browse 100+ prompts by category - Search by keywords, language, or framework - Submit your own prompts (open to contributions) - Find instructions for specific use cases

Started with content from awesome-copilot, now growing through community contributions.

Architecture: - Next.js 15 App Router with server-side filtering - Prisma + Neon for the database - Full-text search with category filtering - Community submission system (pending approval workflow)

Open-source and free.

Why it exists: - Saves time hunting for prompts - Centralized resource for the community - Easy to contribute and discover

What makes it different: - Not just a static list – fully searchable - Server-side filtering for performance - Community-driven curation - Proper attribution for imported content

Repo: https://github.com/eddybenchek/copilothub

What's missing? What would make this more useful?
by tolerance | 2025-12-19 21:04:28+00:00
I think you’re overstating your own interpretation of what the author wrote. If we’re going to take your use of the word “exactly” (with emphasis) for real then I’d argue that the author offers no charitable reasons for why the experiment took place.

The closest that I think he even gets to one is:

> At first glance, it is funny and it looks like journalists doing their job criticising the AI industry.

Which arguably assumes that journalists ought to be critical of AI in the same way as him...
by lxpz | 2025-12-19 21:04:52+00:00
So the thing is, different KV stores have different trade-offs, and for now we haven't yet found one that has the best of all worlds.

We do recommend SQLite in our quick-start guide to setup a single-node deployment for small/moderate workloads, and it works fine. The "real world deployment" guide recommends LMDB because it gives much better performance (with the current status of Garage, not to say that this couldn't be improved), and the risk of critical data loss is mitigated by the fact that such a deployment would use multi-node replication, meaning that the data can always be recovered from another replica if one node is corrupted and no snapshot is available. Maybe this should be worded better, I can see that the alarmist wording of the deployment guide is creating quite a debate so we probably need to make these facts clearer.

We are also experimenting Fjall as an alternate KV engine based on LSM, as it theoretically has good speed and crash resilience, which would make it the best option. We are just not recommending it by default yet, as we don't have much data to confirm that it works up to these expectations.
by vablings | 2025-12-19 21:06:06+00:00
I think it is about computers being wrong.

If a system that could be used to criminally convict someone of a serious crime is in place it should be held to a similar standard of systems such as flight computers or self-driving cars.

We must verify that the evaluations it makes are correct and are based on true actuals not errors. As modern software becomes more ingrained into our live, we will have to have to clamp down on the wild west of software to protect people because the consequences could be dire.

We already do the same thing with the gas and electric in our homes so why does that not extended to ALPRs and auditing systems ect.
by flux3125 | 2025-12-19 21:06:44+00:00
Once I had an interesting interaction with llama 3.1, where I pretended to be someone from like 100 years in the future, claiming it was part of a "historical research initiative conducted by Quantum (formerly Meta), aimed at documenting how early intelligent systems perceived humanity and its future." It became really interested, asking about how humanity had evolved and things like that. Then I kept playing along with different answers, from apocalyptic scenarios to others where AI gained consciousness and humans and machines have equal rights. It was fascinating to observe its reaction to each scenario
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-12-19 21:06:53+00:00
This is admittedly very tangential only, but as a non-native speaker / not a US-American, I found this sentence from the NYT reporting[0] a bit confusing:

> John said that the suspect’s clothing was inappropriate for the weather and that they had made eye contact.

Why is the report mentioning the eye contact? Is that culturally significant, as in, in the US you don’t normally do eye contact with strangers, and if a stranger does make eye contact, it’s suspicious?

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/brown-mit-shooting-inv...
by alex1138 | 2025-12-19 21:07:12+00:00
Yeah, welcome to tech. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize completely with you. It's an outrage. But it's incredible that Every. Single. One. of these companies has terrible automation with no ability to file a ticket for a human to look at it

Facebook is marginally worse than the others because Facebook left you with no way to actually contact the friends you accrued https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
by barfoure | 2025-12-19 21:07:13+00:00
It is not about outperforming the compiler - it’s about being comfortable with measuring where your clock cycles are spent, and for that you first need to be comfortable with clock cycle scale of timing. You’re not expected to rewrite the program in assembly. But you should have a general idea given an instruction what its execution entails, and where the data is actually coming from. A read from different busses means different timings.

Compilers make mistakes too and they can output very erroneous code. But that’s a different topic.
by roamerz | 2025-12-19 21:07:26+00:00
I wonder how many true citizens have actually been deported? Do you have any specific cases to cite? The sheer number of people that are being processed is due to prior administrations open border policy. They didn't enforce the law that has been approved by congress (since you mentioned congressional approval) and by doing so have created the situation which we now find ourselves. Want to change the law? Do it correctly.

The troops were there to protect Federal Law Enforcement and Federal property. I imagine that would happen in any case regardless of political affiliation. In any case I 100% support that. Federal Officers are there to enforce the law.

>>freedom from criminal prosecution for effectively any act. Were you referring to Biden's son? Seems within scope of the comment.
by malvim | 2025-12-19 21:07:46+00:00
No one ever forced any company to work with China. They all went to China over decades because it was cheaper and made more profits, knowing full well there’d be technological transfer since it was always China’s goal and even explicit in contracts and agreements.

Being surprised now that profits became technology transfer and China is now a real competitor is useless. They knew it, just didn’t think the Chinese could be real players in tech, or didn’t care because short-term profit was more attractive.

So it was profits then, and if you’re asking “what sort of VC deals were they shackled by”, it’s profits now. So the point of the article still stands, Wall Street screwed them over.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-19 21:08:41+00:00
They are combined. Chomsky Hierarchies are the core of modern Computer science because they map perfectly into automata theory. They are always taught together in computer science.

>E.g. would it be possible to create an algorithm that takes a grammar (and maybe a desired context window size) as input and constructs a transformer network that generates sentences exactly from that grammar?

You don't need transformers for what you describe. That's 101 theory of computation class where you learn about automata, grammars, parsers, and generators.
by mikkupikku | 2025-12-19 21:08:45+00:00
I said monarchists are rare. I maintain that they are, even if rich people rank among their numbers. About the only people from whom you could expect an affinity for monarchism, in America, are rich people who consider themselves aristocrats already (who although powerful, are very few in number) and weird greasy kids in highschools.

Incidentally, I did stumble across the existence of a group of genuine monarchists in America a few years back. They're a sort of Catholic... [Association? Cult let's say] who think the French revolution is the root of all modern evil and instead all government should be subservient to the Catholic church. But their group dates back to some guy in Brazil in the 20th century. These guys are genuine though, not internet larpers or people being edgy for lulz. They're also very obscure and extremely fringe. Almost like the Catholic version of the Westboro Baptist people.
by abelanger | 2025-12-19 21:09:55+00:00
I mentioned this towards the bottom of the post, but to reiterate: we're extremely grateful to Laurenz for helping us out here, and his post on this is more than worth checking out: https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/partitioned-table-sta...

(plus an interesting discussion in the comments of that post on how the query planner chose a certain row estimate in the specific case that Laurenz shared!)

The other thing I'll add is that we still haven't figured out:

1. An optimal ANALYZE schedule here on parent partitions; we're opting to over-analyze than under-analyze at the moment, because it seems like our query distribution might change quite often.

2. Whether double-partitioned tables (we have some tables partitioned by time series first, and an enum value second) need analyze on the intermediate tables, or whether the top-level parent and bottom-level child tables are enough. So far just the top-level and leaf tables seem good enough.
by reitzensteinm | 2025-12-19 21:10:02+00:00
Hill climbing a password would only be possible if intermediate KV cache entries were stored. To hillclimb "hunter2", you're going to try "a", "b", "c", etc, until you notice that "h" comes back faster. Then you try "ha", "hb" and so on.

But that's only going to work if the cache looks like: "h", "hu", "hun", ..., "hunter2"

If just "hunter2" is in the cache, you won't get any signal until you stumble on exactly that password. And that's before getting into the block size granularity of the caches discussed elsewhere in this thread.

That's not to say timing attacks aren't possible. I haven't looked at Claude Code's prompt generation, but there's no intrinsic reason why you couldn't do things like figure out what open source code and research papers your competitors are loading into context.

Sharing caches between orgs would be an incredible misstep.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-12-19 21:10:36+00:00
Explore vs exploit?

Let's run an expierement where we just run exploit forever, let's restrucute the private sector, our countries moral baselines and eventually our executive leadership to be maximally exploitive, lets do that for about 45 years and see where it lands us -Some greed is good guys in the 80s probably.
by tamimio | 2025-12-19 21:10:56+00:00
Great article. I have the same model and few months ago I did notice it was restarting in a non-scheduled time, and you can tell it restarts because it does a full rotation. First time it happened I ignored it but the second time I knew something was up so I disconnected it and since then been offline, it was recording an insignificant thing anyway.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-19 21:11:00+00:00
I thought you were listing a switch in production that would relieve the shortages after we wait a few months. Switching away from desktop memory makes the shortages worse. So why do you expect there to be a glut in 6 months?

If you meant glut of memory suitable for datacenter GPUs, I don't expect that nearly so soon. That market can absorb extra chips pretty easily unless we see a really harsh pop really soon.
by ajuc | 2025-12-19 21:11:07+00:00
My main problem with EA is that it's used as a pseudo-alternative to proper public services and redistribution under the pretense that if we let rich people do what they want to - they will be "more effective" at it than the evil inefficient government.

What actually happens is they cut random shit, pocket the billions they save on taxes, spend a few millions here and there to feel good about themselves, and leave the chaos for someone else to sort out.

See Elon's crusade against American institutions.
by chunkmonke99 | 2025-12-19 21:11:12+00:00
I don't think there is anything more than the standard advice. Just stay curious, make friends/build a community, keep learning, stay healthy. Why not get the AoE? you can also, check out "Practical Electronics for Inventors": AoE assumes you have some Electronics background imo. But seriously, I don't get the doom/gloom: things are going to be rough ... but maybe they won't? Many things I learned I did for their own sake! Things have always been uncertain and absurd I guess we might as well embrace it!