MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qingcharles | 2025-12-16 20:43:09+00:00
I just tested GPT1.5. I would say the image quality is on par with NBP in my tests (which is surprising as the images in their trailer video are bad), but the prompt adherence is way worse, and its "world model" if you want to call it that is worse. For instance, I asked it for two people in a row boat and it had two people, but the boat was more like a coracle and they would barely fit inside it.

Also: SUPER ANNOYING. It seems every time you give it a modification prompt it erases the whole conversation leading up to the new pic? Like.. all the old edits vanish??

I added "shaky amateur badly composed crappy smartphone photo of ____" to the start of my prompts to make them look more natural.

Counterpoint from someone on the Musk site: https://x.com/flowersslop/status/2001007971292332520
by gz09 | 2025-12-16 20:43:19+00:00
It does leverage various models, but

- github copilot PR reviews are subpar compared to what I've seen from other services: at least for our PRs they tend to be mostly an (expensive) grammar/spell-check

- given that it's github native you'd wish for a good integration with the platform but then when your org is behind a (github) IP whitelist things seem to break often

- network firewall for the agent doesn't seem to work properly

raised tickets for all these but given how well it works when it does, I might as well just migrate to another service
by crazygringo | 2025-12-16 20:43:29+00:00
It's not that peculiar if you assume all countries follow the same type of happiness distribution that is simply shifted/stretched lower or higher.

Then, the relative size of a bottom or top absolute threshold is highly meaningful. Even if it's a fraction of a percent, populations are huge and suicide rates are not rounding errors at all -- they're actually quite statistically significant.

And as macabre as it is, suicides are objective facts mostly unaffected by methodology, and unaffected by translation issues, cultural differences, etc.

This is why suicide rates are actually a powerful mental health statistic, just like height is a powerful physical health statistic, at the population level. There's obviously still a lot both of these metrics don't say, but the fact that they are highly objective makes them extremely valuable.
by amrocha | 2025-12-16 20:43:54+00:00
The point is that the organization is bloated because of the search money.

The sustainable way forward for Mozilla is to fire most of their staff, keep a reasonable number of engineers, and focus on building a solid privacy focused browser instead of trend chasing like they’re doing now. Reduce operational costs and live off of the profits on their investments.

Exactly what about that is magical thinking?
by charcircuit | 2025-12-16 20:43:59+00:00
1. Better devex. The toolchain for binder properly checks that you are writing and reading transactions correctly and if you don't you get a compile time error. Meanwhile using dbus you can call things wrong and it will still compile.

2. Better latency. When you send a Binder transaction to another process Linux will immediately schedule the binder thread of the other process, unless it's a oneway transaction that does not block executon. Then once the other process replies, the original process is immediately rescheduled. Dbus does not affect Linux's scheduling of processes. When you send a dbus message any other process can be scheduled and run instead of the bus. And then anything can run in-between the bus sending the message to the target process.

3. Having the message go through the bus also results in extra copying. Not just cheap copying of memory. Since it's through a UNIX socket it has to use extra system calls to read out of and into another socket. As opposed to binder where it's able to simply copy the memory of the parcel from one process to another.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-16 20:44:01+00:00
Alternative to archive.is

x=https://www.ft.com/content/c5f9380e-df86-42a9-a387-a0d5e04ad45f (echo resolve www.ft.com:443:199.232.82.46 echo http1.1 echo tlsv1.3 echo url=$x)|curl -vv -HAccept: -A"Mozilla/5.0 (Java) outbrain" -K/dev/stdin > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by coffeecoders | 2025-12-16 20:44:07+00:00
Us software engineers assume value comes from serving more people, faster, with less friction. But many of the things that actually make life feel coherent such as learning a craft, maintaining friendships and building tools for one person, only work because they’re slow and specific.

Tech doesn't give us the wrong desires but the easier versions of the right ones, and those end up hollow.
by strawhatguy | 2025-12-16 20:44:33+00:00
Edison Motors up in Canada is interesting, in the truck space.

Diesel EREV semis, and heavy-duty pickup modifications. Sounds like they're running into overregulation issues though.

This is how China gets ahead, because the West is dumb and thinks regulation helps. They've already dominated drones (since it's effectively illegal if not actually illegal in the States to make them), seems the same will happen with EVs.
by hadlock | 2025-12-16 20:44:38+00:00
Lots of systems are "fine" until they aren't. As you pointed out, Jenkins being super-customizable means it isn't strongly opinionated, and there is plenty of opportunity for a well-meaning developer to add several foot-guns, doing some simple point and click in the GUI. Or the worst case scenario: cleaning up someone elses' Jenkins mess after they leave the company.

Contrast with a declarative system like github actions: "I would like an immutable environment like this, and then perform X actions and send the logs/report back to the centralized single pane of glass in github". Google's "cloud run" product is pretty good in this regard as well. Sure, developers can add foot guns to your GHA/Cloud Run workflow, but since it is inherently git-tracked, you can simply revert those atomically.

I used Jenkins for 5-7 years across several jobs and I don't miss it at all.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-16 20:44:41+00:00
I am not a hiring manager. But if there is more supply of non-junior workers. Doesn't it make sense to actually hire those if compensation might even be lower than before? You hire juniors to support them, or because experienced devs are too expensive or there simply aren't enough of them. If there are enough of them on market for more reasonable price wouldn't actually choosing from that cohort make more sense?
by xpe | 2025-12-16 20:44:52+00:00
> A thick desire is one that changes you in the process of pursuing it. > > A thin desire is one that doesn't. > > ... > > The person who checks their notifications is [a thin desire], > afterward, exactly the same person who wanted to check their > notifications five minutes ago.

[I added the brackets]

The author, I think, would label the desire for sugary drinks as a thin desire. However, that desire tends towards unfavorable consequences: mood swings, poor dental hygiene, weight gain. Thus it undermines one's body. This "changes you" -- for the worse, yielding a contradiction. If the preceding logical analysis is sound, the article's terms or argument are flawed.
Show HN: We built Crovise to understand why landing pages don't convert
by adamoufkir | 2025-12-16 20:44:58+00:00
Hey HN! Adam here. I’m a developer and founder, and I’ve shipped a lot of landing pages that looked fine but didn’t convert. The frustrating part wasn’t low conversion itself, but not knowing what exactly was wrong or what to test next without traffic data or paid CRO audits.

I built Crovise, a system that analyzes a landing page and outputs concrete conversion hypotheses. It reviews structure, copy, hierarchy, and UX patterns using static analysis combined with heuristics and LLM-based reasoning.

The goal isn’t to replace analytics or A/B testing, but to give a fast, opinionated pass similar to how a CRO engineer would review a page early on. There’s no session data or tracking involved yet, so all feedback is based on page content and layout.

I unlocked access for Show HN users so you can try it without signing up. I’m especially interested in feedback on the approach, blind spots, and cases where this kind of analysis breaks down.
by rkagerer | 2025-12-16 20:45:07+00:00
In case others are wondering what the one simple question is (called the Cantril Ladder):

“Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. If the top step is 10 and the bottom step is 0, on which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time?”

Personally feels a little more convoluted than just asking "How happy are you, on a scale of 0-10?"
by seniorThrowaway | 2025-12-16 20:45:24+00:00
Most of it is just time waiting either while the source assets are downloaded (I clean slate it, that's the point of CI after all), the build itself runs, or the artifact is uploading to it's storage home. I'm sure it could be re-architected to use less actions minutes but if I'm going to redo it I will probably just move away from actions altogether because it's only loosely linked to Github anyway (runs on a schedule) and that way I am insulated from any future changes they come up with. The hardest part will likely be figuring out the Slack bot posting, I do use the marketplace action for that, but that's probably low lift. With LLM assisted coding I'm leaning more and more to little in house apps for stuff like this, it keeps you from dealing with lock in and other extractive gotchas.
by kpw94 | 2025-12-16 20:45:59+00:00
Very cool! And important for sure, thank you.

Few questions:

- is the stack to index those open source?

- is there some standardized APIs each municipality provides, or do you go through the tedious task of building a per-municipality crawling tool?

- how often do you refresh the data? Checked a city, it has meeting minutes until 6/17, but the official website has more recent minutes (up to 12/2 at least)
by blakepelton | 2025-12-16 20:46:19+00:00
Great post, it brings back a lot of memories. Two additional factors that designers of these APIs consider are:

* GPU virtualization (e.g., the D3D residency APIs), to allow many applications to share GPU resources (e.g., HBM).

* Undefined behavior: how easy is it for applications to accidentally or intentionally take a dependency on undefined behavior? This can make it harder to translate this new API to an even newer API in the future.
by kingstnap | 2025-12-16 20:46:20+00:00
It's strange to me too, but they must have done the market research for what people do with image gen.

My own main use cases are entirely textual: Programming, Wiki, and Mathematics.

I almost never use image generation for anything. However its objectively extremely popular.

This has strong parallels for me to when snapchat filters became super popular. I know lots of people loved editing and filtering pictures but I always left everything as auto mode, in fact I'd turn off a lot of the default beauty filters. It just never appealed to me.
by vjk800 | 2025-12-16 20:46:38+00:00
> The perception of Spain is much more positive in the Anglophone world - it's viewed as a country where cost of living is low, you can nap in the middle of the day, the women/men are hot and easy, the wine is great and cheap, and you can party late at night.

If you're a tourist, you get to experience only those parts. If you live there, you have to experience the other 99% of the life also and it's not so great.
by rendx | 2025-12-16 20:46:49+00:00
> Has that understanding changed?

All you can measure is correlation. The rest are theories, and always have been.

"Heritability" is a misnomer, since research into genetics relies on twin studies, so it is impossible to delineate what is 'inherited' from influences during prenatal development. Since technology to "look into the womb" has vastly improved in the past decades, there is more and more research into prenatal effects, which shifts the potential narrative (working theory!) from "it's in the genes" to "it is prenatal trauma due to adverse environmental circumstances".

We don't really know if there ever was or is a "genetic predisposition". Remember, in contrast to "diagnoses" in medicine, psychological classifications such as "schizophrenia" do not describe etiology or biology, they merely describe observable symptoms, with a lot of overlap and redefinitions in between the different categories. More and more voices in the psychotherapeutic community argue that these classifications do more harm than good and should be replaced by a multidimensional system. At least in Europe, my understanding is that they serve mostly health insurance billing purposes, not patient-oriented treatment purposes.

The danger in the "genetic predisposition" line of arguments is that it may sound like something that cannot be "healed", only managed, which we know now thanks to epigenetic research and [brain] plasticity is not the case. Modern therapies can achieve more than merely manage symptoms, and what was previously believed to be "untreatable" is now known to be fixable. Which, as an aside, is one of the reasons why "narcisstic personality disorder" has been dropped, so "it doesn't exist any more".
by phony-account | 2025-12-16 20:47:00+00:00
These measures are bullshit and often just come down to a prevalent societal ‘temperament’ that’s inculcated from birth. I live and have family in Sweden and the rest of my family is in Spain. The Swedes have immense pride in their country and pretty much only talk about the positives. When the winters are dark, cold, rain has been pouring for fourteen days straight and the last time you saw sun was 4 weeks ago, they say “there’s no bad weather just bad clothes”. One day I sat with my cousin and some other relatives in the olive grove of his country place in Spain - sun was shining and we’d been eating delicious locally produced food for hours and drinking wine from his vineyard while he yapped on about how everything in Spain is ‘shit’ (una mierda). And this is why places like Finland are reportedly the ‘happiest’ in the world.
by vel0city | 2025-12-16 20:47:07+00:00
What a joke. I know several people who work in residential construction. All of them bought their large trucks associated with their small businesses for the tax write-offs. None of them actually use their trucks as trucks. When they really need a truck, they drive their fancy $80-100k pickup trucks to the warehouse, where they hop in their International trucks to actually go carry loads places.

My neighbors are doing extensive renovations to their home. Half the people show up in pretty fancy trucks most days. Nothing in the bed, the trucks look pristine with their company branding. Most of the actual people working hard in the house show up in beater Corollas or Civics. When material shows up, it comes in the back of a flatbed truck by the distributor dropping off pallets of drywall or mud or whatever or in some box van. These people driving trucks to their construction jobs rarely actually need pickup trucks for their construction work. Its like arguing chefs need to carry their own gas ranges to the kitchen. The real work often gets done with the company's equipment, not their own personal luxury toys.

When roofers came to redo the roof on my home a few years ago it was the same story. All the sales people drove big fancy pickup trucks to talk and show off proposals on an iPad. I didn't realize a pickup was absolutely necessary for an iPad, but hey I guess that's what it takes. After all others in this comment area think you need a few tons of towing capacity to move a 50lb canoe. A big box truck came to drop off the pallets of shingles and decking to my roof. The workers showed up in beater cars, the supervisors showed up in pristine fancy pickup trucks. Once again, they can easily write off that big truck cost immediately, but a passenger car would take years to write off the depreciation. I wonder why they chose the big pickup instead of the smaller car.

I've got family working commercial construction as well. He also drives a fancy big truck. When asked if he uses it for work, his words were "fuck no, why would I fuck up my truck for them?" He uses it to drive to job sites on well-paved roads, goes to Twin Peaks for UFC nights, and sometimes get groceries.

Residential construction jobs also existed in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and yet pickup trucks weren't the top sellers in any of those decades. Meanwhile in the 2000s onwards pickups and large SUVs hold a good chunk of the top selling spots. I guess we just all work in residential construction?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-12-16 20:47:29+00:00
You sound like you're talking about Bay Area politics given the dialogue around CHP vs local police and property theft that I'm aware of.

If your solution is to continuously neuter the police because you perceive them to be ineffective then I'd challenge you to think of the endgame of that logic. If you think it can't get worse than it is now, well, we politically disagree.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-16 20:47:43+00:00
People have values that go beyond wealth and fame. Some people care about things like personal agency, respect and deference, etc.

If someone were on vacation and came home to learn that their neighbor had allowed some friends stay in the empty house, we would often expect some kind of outrage regardless of whether there had been specific damage or wear to the home.

Culturally, people have deeply set ideas about what's theirs, and feel like they deserve some say over how their things are used and by whom. Even those that are very generous and want their things be widely shared usually want to have have some voice in making that come to be.
by Igrom | 2025-12-16 20:47:57+00:00
Impressive, not just a new URI scheme, but also a brand-new Internet protocol, all in one concise paper.

Does the IETF have a red fat button on their desks, like the one often seen on variety shows, to instantly disqualify low effort submissions? You can infer that the document (and the interaction between the culprit and the IETF) was half-assed with the help of AI: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/ss-g3OHTtwHwyBDl0c....
by espeed | 2025-12-16 20:49:03+00:00
Rather than develop its own AI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926779), Firefox should develop a system to pipe your html rendered browsing history in real time so external local services can process it (https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/archive-your-browser-hi...). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743918

Firefox probably won't suddenly have the best AI, but it could be the only browser that does this. Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018789
by llsf | 2025-12-16 20:49:15+00:00
One could argue that AI could replace or add to the health and retirement care work force... I am not saying it should happen, but I am trying to understand where we are going with the AI promises, and their impact on society.

If AI is so good that it can replace health and retirement care, then the price should fall to.

But basically, we would end up with AI and dark factories building gizmos to sustain and entertain humans and fixing them until they die.

I guess taxes at this point are irrelevant, AI could build new factories of factories, money would be useless.
by snarf21 | 2025-12-16 20:49:30+00:00
I find it ironic that this perspective is being shared in such a "thin" way.

There are some insightful observations but the whole thick/thin perspective just doesn't resonate with me. As an old man (shakes fist at clouds), we have stopped prioritizing people. It is all about building and maintaining relationships and we've gotten lazy. And maintaining relationships is a lot of work and without it we do feel more isolated. So we try to fill that void with things that don't require effort like buying crap we don't need on Amazon and chasing likes on social media. We aren't happy so we try to be busy so we don't notice so much.

We saw a bit of a teeny correction during covid when people starting going outdoors and baking bread and cooking home cooked meals. But now everyone is back to working from home in their pajamas and tell themselves how happy they are with all the time they save not driving but skip over the lack of adult interaction (both good and bad).

But the problem is easily solved for each of us by things as simple as hobbies and volunteering and organizations (church, civic, etc.) Personally, I design board games and have friends over to test them and go to board game conferences. We've built a group that still test and communicate online but are happiest when we get to hang out and play games and go for dinner. There is no shortage of these opportunities but you have to get off the couch and join in. It is a place where you will make new friends and find happiness but you have to decide it is worth it.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-12-16 20:49:49+00:00
I can confirm from consulting experience that India is where the jobs went. My office provides professional services to North American and European industrial customers in manufacturing and distribution. Roughly 85% of these customers have fully Indian IT teams. Running a SOQL query in our Salesforce instance for 'Devi', 'Singh', and 'Kumar' yields over two thousand hits across client contacts, even.

Since the workers are hired for cost over quality, they're typically incompetent. Though many have learned to parasitize SME and support staff expertise by asking highly specific questions in an extended sequence. It's a salami-slicing strategy where the majority of the work ends up being performed by those SMEs and support staff while the incompetent workers collect the paychecks and credit. I'm pushing my teams to more aggressively identify and call out this behavior, but it's so systemic that it's an endless battle with every new project coming in the door.

Personal frustrations aside, it's very dangerous from both economic and national security perspectives for India to be building and administering so much of the West's IT infrastructure. Our entire economy depends on it, yet we're voluntarily concentrating that dependency in a single foreign nation. A Pacific conflict alone could sever us from the majority of our IT workforce, regardless of India's intentions.
by glenstein | 2025-12-16 20:49:51+00:00
I think you're probably about as dead wrong as it's possible to be on this front. First they ship millions of new LoC to Firefox on a monthly basis so the engineering efforts are open for all the world to see.

Secondly, if more than half(!?!) was spent on, say, Pocket, or Fakespot, then you would see a rise and fall in spending coinciding with the onramp and closure of those programs over their lifetimes. But in reality we have seen a steady upward march in spending, and so the interpretation that passes the sanity check is that they fold these into their existing budget with the existing development capacity they have which is variously assigned to different projects, including(!!) Firefox, where again, their annual code output is monumental and rivals Google.

Again I have to note the blizzard of contradictory accusations throughout this thread. According to one commenter the problem is they are biting off more than they can chew and need to scale back all of the excessive Firefox development they are doing (and I recall previous commenters speculating that 30+ million LoC was not evidence of their hard work but "bloat" that was excessive and that they probably could cut a lot of it out without losing functionality). But for you, the obvious problem is they're wasting all that capacity on side projects and not putting enough effort in the browser.