MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DannyBee | 2025-12-16 12:50:57+00:00
None of the issues go away just because it's in chat?

Freeform looks and acts like text, except for a set of things that someone vetted and made work.

If the interactive diagram or UI you click on now owns you, it doesn't matter if it was inside the chat window or outside the chat window.

Now, in this case, it's not arbitrary UI, but if you believe that the parsing/validation/rendering/two way data binding/incremental composition (the spec requires that you be able to build up UI incrementally) of these components: https://a2ui.org/specification/v0.9-a2ui/#standard-component...

as transported/renderered/etc by NxM combinations of implementations (there are 4 renderers and a bunch of transports right now), is not going to have security issues, i've got a bridge to sell you.

Here, i'll sell it to you in gemini, just click a few times on the "totally safe text box" for me before you sign your name.

My friend once called something a babydoggle - something you know will be a boondoggle, but is still in its small formative stages.

This feels like a babydoggle to me.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-12-16 12:52:23+00:00
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm.
by mattmaroon | 2025-12-16 12:52:28+00:00
It’s not that it’s not worth the expense, it’s that we’re unable to continue funding global peace and prosperity ourselves. And we shouldn’t have to.

I don’t agree with Trump about much but he’s correct that the other liberal democracies have been more than happy to have us foot the bill for keeping the wolves at bay while looking down on us for doing it.
by romanfll | 2025-12-16 12:52:49+00:00
The '2 seconds' figure comes from the end-to-end time on a standard laptop. I quoted 2s to set realistic expectations for the user experience, not the CPU cycle count. You are right that the core linear algebra (Ax=b) is milliseconds. The bottleneck is the DOM/rendering overhead, but strictly speaking, the math itself is blazing fast.
by infecto | 2025-12-16 12:53:06+00:00
It creates a lot of value though. You may not see it but it exists. People so easily forget what you he financial systems looked like historically. Everything from having fluid loans of all type that don’t discriminate, to ipos, it’s easy to sell a business or to buy one. If I am buying stock it’s never been easier and modern spreads are some of the lowest in history.
Show HN: Claude Wrapped, compare your CC usage globally and a 3D terminal render
by dboon | 2025-12-16 12:53:20+00:00
I noticed that Claude Code added a /stats command, and that the stats are cached in $HOME/.claude, so I made a fun program with Bun + WASM that pulls the stats (nonsensitive, nonidentifiable), posts them to a database, and lets you see where your usage lies.

The WASM part is a very fun raymarched SDF renderer that renders a special wintertime Claude in your terminal. If you're just interested in this part, it renders in the browser, too. I've named him Santa Claude.

The code is here[^1] if anyone's interested in the rendering code or wants to make sure I'm not exfiltrating their credit card.

[^1]: https://github.com/tspader/claude-wrapped/
by tmountain | 2025-12-16 12:53:34+00:00
The America First agenda is predicated by isolationism. You have a demagogue with whom nobody is willing to say "no" and an army of self serving sycophants lined up to try and win favors. The political messaging is all built around zero sum language and arguments, and toughness is demonstrated by punitive measures taken against any allies deemed "weaker" than the U.S. (basically everyone). Those who know where this will lead are unwilling to speak up and the rest follow. Everyone involved seems to be in it for short-term transactional benefits, and nobody seems to acknowledge or care about what the long term outcomes will be for the country.
Show HN: LLMs generating glue logic between UI schemas and constrained runtimes
by gztomas | 2025-12-16 12:54:04+00:00
We’re shipping an execution model that sits between LLM code generation and autonomous agents.

The LLM generates only the glue logic between two deterministic interfaces: - a UI schema the frontend knows how to render - a constrained runtime interface exposed by the backend, from specific functions like list_comments to broader primitives like a restricted http_call

Both interfaces are fixed, typed, and inspectable. The LLM can’t invent UI components or backend capabilities. It only composes what already exists.

This is adjacent to A2UI, but the cut is different. A2UI renders agent actions into UI. Here, UI and runtime are first-class, and the LLM generates the composition logic without an open-ended action loop.

You can also think of it as MVC where the View and Model are fixed, and the Controller is generated on demand.

Write-up and short demo video: https://cased.com/blog/2025-12-11-how-we-build-generative-ui...

Interested in feedback on failure modes, constraints, and related prior art.
by frikskit | 2025-12-16 12:54:20+00:00
Hours worked for full time employees in EU apparently has been falling year over year since at least 2013. Maybe it has increased for part timers though?

Not sure how to square that with the fact that there’s been low productivity growth since 2008.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser and either search or use data code tps00071
by metalman | 2025-12-16 12:54:25+00:00
America never had control. What it did have was the natural, organic attention of a very large portion of the world population, just after the end of WW2. Anericans were physicaly bigger, stronger, better educated, cool and casual about all the gadgets,tools,and toys they tossed around, and the media evidence of the goings on in the US, painted a come on over and join the fun immage that many fought to get any piece they could. Thats, over.
by wrxd | 2025-12-16 12:54:27+00:00
I haven't updated to a version with the feature yet but support for it has been added recently In https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/pull/1541 and https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/pull/1644

I noticed that there is also this issue open https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/issues/1898 so it sounds like the core of the feature is there but they are still ironing out all the kinks
by next_xibalba | 2025-12-16 12:54:29+00:00
You cannot separate monstrously expensive calamities like Vietnam or Iraq from the military-industry complex that is the foundation for the U.S.’s role as the defender of the west. So many thousands of lives lost or ruined, trillions spent. To say nothing of the millions of foreign civilians killed and maimed. The American people are sick to death of it. Some politicians smartly harnessed that sentiment.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-16 12:54:38+00:00
I’m the first person to say Amazon (AWS) was a shitty place to work. But I did learn a lot while there working in Professional Services. I still use modified versions of the PRFAQ when starting a consulting project now that I lead projects at a third party consulting company.

https://productstrategy.co/working-backwards-the-amazon-prfa...
by pfdietz | 2025-12-16 12:55:01+00:00
Ok, now you're repeating the usual nuclear bro bullshit.

Nuclear isn't competitive anywhere. Even in China, vastly more renewables are being installed (even taking into account capacity factors.) If the putative excuse you are desperately depending on there is so powerful it applies universally, even in non-democracies, what chance is there it could be overcome?

The same regulatory burden isn't placed on wind/solar because there's no need for it there. Wind and solar are not subject to low probability, very high cost accident scenarios that are the driver for nuclear regulation. And, wind/solar have the advantage of being highly redundant, not being grouped into monolithic units with higher internal interdependency. This makes the renewables far less dependent on extreme reliability of components and their connections, and far less dependent on the skill and consistency of labor and those overseeing construction.
by nmcost | 2025-12-16 12:55:08+00:00
I felt the same way about vim. I never had the patience to get started and configure everything to get the full benefits.

I just switched over to Omarchy for my personal OS and I know that it comes with a pre-configured neovim (using lazyvim) setup that looks like a fully-fledged IDE.

I personally have been using Helix as my editor at home and work. The fact that everything generally works on download is what got me using it.
by jnmandal | 2025-12-16 12:55:09+00:00
Without entering (and winning) some kind of major conflict, this was always going to happen.

Two things are important to think about.

1. Power should be measured in relative terms not absolute. (For a good treatise on this, read Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of the Great Powers). The US would have to be keeping up with China, India, and rest of world to maintain its previous pole position.

2. Great nations/empires generally become so at least partially through population growth. This can be organic or engineered (ie: continuously conquering more and more territory) but rising dominance almost never coincides with demographic stagnation, which the US is experiencing. This population plateau has been accurately predicted by the US Census for my entire lifetime.

Also nothing about this decline is unusual or unexpected. This is the course of empire, which is not a new concept.
Show HN: Why every mobile AI app accidentally becomes a backend company
by lexokoh | 2025-12-16 12:56:07+00:00
I built this after repeatedly running into the same problem as a mobile developer using AI APIs. Best practice says you shouldn’t ship API keys in a mobile app, but the alternative is always the same: spin up a backend server that does nothing except proxy requests to OpenAI. That server adds cost, complexity, scaling work, and maintenance to forward a request and hide a key. I kept rebuilding this “useless” backend over and over, and eventually realized: if you’re forced to have a backend anyway, it should actually do something valuable.

That insight led to the development of a simple, secure AI proxy that handles key management, rate limits, usage controls, promotions, and upgrades. So mobile developers can keep their frontends clean without managing custom backend infrastructure.
by philipallstar | 2025-12-16 12:56:33+00:00
> Unions are political entities, because their existence in their current form (i.e., not throwing dynamite at the cops, blowing up bridges, kneecapping scabs, or dragging the foreman out of his home in the middle of the night and killing him in the street) is a legal construct, that the bosses would love to eliminate.

Those things are covered by law enforcement already. Unions didn't invent thou shalt not kill.
by neerajnathany | 2025-12-16 12:56:42+00:00
https://faraday.email

A promptlessly intelligent, highly organised email client. Has very opinionated design with auto-organisation, beautiful sub-sections, genre-grouping, and thread resolution like never before in the history of email.

I particularly enjoyed building the last one. Emails in a thread no longer have those ugly blockquotes indented one below another, making it so much trickier to make sense of.

I started building Faraday out of my own need to fix my disorganised email. Couldn't accept email to be this outdated even after 40 years of its existence.

Have built many more intelligent, nifty conveniences that early users are thankfully noticing and appreciating.

Do check out at https://faraday.email
by akka47 | 2025-12-16 12:56:44+00:00
>The US are by no means innocent of terrorism and invasion of other countries, but at least with countries commonly counted as "the west", the US was a friendly nation.

>If we have the likes of terrorist states like Russia taking over, then we got some very dark times ahead of us.

Did you seriously write these two sentences one right next to the other and not see the hypocrisy in what you're saying?
by graemep | 2025-12-16 12:56:47+00:00
I agree with your first point. The alternatives are a lot worse. its not going to be Russia (its not got the economy to do it) but China.

> The US are by no means innocent of terrorism and invasion of other countries, but at least with countries commonly counted as "the west", the US was a friendly nation.

And in most of Asia too where China is a very immediate threat.

> Even worse, if the right wing and right extreme talking points and policies in the US don't stop, we might face the (still) strongest military on the planet becoming the arm of a fascist state

That seems alarmist to me. Nationalist policies and rhetoric (and I have lived with worse than the US) do not lead to fascism that easily, especially when you have strong institutions.
by b2ccb2 | 2025-12-16 12:56:47+00:00
The confusion likely stems from the relatively new introduction of the capitalized ẞ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F

Maß capitalized (used to be) MASS.

Funnily enough, Mass means one liter beer (think Oktoberfest).
by zhisme | 2025-12-16 12:56:57+00:00
Great there are other true open-source tools to be used zed, nvim.

I also noticed that copilot nowadays is forcing you to upgrade to their with following text:

"You've reached your monthly code completion limit. Upgrade your plan to Copilot Pro (30-day Free Trial) or wait until 2025-12-19 for your limit to reset to continue coding with GitHub Copilot"

Was using it actually like smarter auto-completion. But paying for that, hell no.
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-16 12:57:25+00:00
Indeed, the researchers undermined their own argument, even:

> ... it is notable that contrary to their main results, Fort et al. find that the stock market value of the average patent has actually fallen over time.

Their methodologies are very indirect and yield contradictory results.

Trying to decide if a patent is important by looking at the evolution of word use doesn't sound robust, nor does looking at the stock market. When Google invented the transformer algorithm, I don't think there was a sudden jump in their stock price. There are lots of papers and people can't evaluate their value immediately like that. Stock prices move in response to earnings, not patents or papers. I don't remember ever hearing about a sudden stock price jump because a patent was filed.

There's lots of other questionable stuff in this argument. How are they defining researcher, for one? For US tax purposes it's common to define all software development as R&D. If they're using similar data then the huge growth of the software industry would make it appear like research productivity has fallen.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-16 12:57:52+00:00
That’s not practical in many situations, as the normalization alone may very well be more expensive than the search.

If you’re in control of all data representations in your entire stack, then yes of course, but that’s hardly ever the case and different tradeoffs are made at different times (eg storage in UTF-8 because of efficiency, but in-memory representation in UTF-32 because of speed).
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-12-16 12:57:59+00:00
Buddy no one can buy RAM right now because Ole sammy bought up the useless wafers for datacenters they can't power for 10 years.

They don't have your best interest at heart. They're going to willingly nuke the economy before admitting their chatbots aren't the god machine they've been preaching about.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-12-16 12:58:15+00:00
In 1944 huge numbers of people, from a large number of countries, asked for a hegemonic world police stemming from a sole hegemon:

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

We don't know much of it anymore with the decline of Europe, but for several centuries the dominant geopolitical goal of most countries on Earth was to defend themselves from European invasion. Why do you think every incremental ratchet step on the gear of Germany rearming in the last three years has been taken as serious headline news by so many?
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-16 12:58:26+00:00
It is neither a conspiracy nor about any Jews, beyond those at the seats of power in Israel. It is the Global North once again fucking with the Global South, for some combination of resources, money, power, or simply because they can and starting forever wars about nothing is a great way to shovel cash into the military industrial complex. That's no conspiracy theory it's simply neo-Colonialism as a concept and it's been at work for longer than my parents have been alive.

I don't speculate on their motivations, I'm not interested. I rarely use the word evil, but I think this qualifies.
by tmountain | 2025-12-16 12:58:48+00:00
So, America is great at consuming, but if ratio of debt to GDP continues to grow, it's unsustainable for the U.S. Sure, China needs the U.S. to be a major customer, but it doesn't seem like things can continue as they're going now, especially as the willingness to ignore the extremity of the debt is largely based on good faith and credibility.
by nromito | 2025-12-16 12:58:52+00:00
This is a great explanation of what the intent of GQL is. I'm curious though, as someone who has only a small amount of experience with it, what problem is that solving? From what I can tell, it's the same problem REST solves with a different interface. If it is the over-fetching problem, how big is that problem?

In my experience, it's better to fix a bad endpoint and keep all the browser/server side tooling around tracing requests than to replace all that with a singular graphql endpoint. But curious to hear someone else's opinion here
by akimbostrawman | 2025-12-16 12:59:22+00:00
Flatkill is very out of date and disingenuous. Flathub is very explicit and obnoxious about such unsafe permissions and can easily be modified by the user. It's also amusing that people here claim Wayland is a security theater too while posting about flatpak being bad because it's vulnerable to x11 issues.

No security boundary can prevent bad permissions just like in android.
by scotty79 | 2025-12-16 13:00:40+00:00
Yeah, you are right that ease of drilling down values through the layers is balanced by the need to remember which places actually do something with the value.

While I always liked dynamic languages and probably wrote most of my code in them I don't think they are useful anymore. Tooling got great and LLMs need every chance they get of verifying stuff they hallucinated. At this point I wouldn't mind a language that's strict about typing but other things as well as ownership, protocols, mandatory assertions, tests, code coverage, even some formal verification. As long as I don't have to write them, but LLM does and uses them to check its work, I'm really fond of it.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-16 13:00:40+00:00
σ is such a small number in Stefan-Boltzman that it makes no difference at all until your radiators get hot enough to start melting.

You not only need absolute huge radiators for a space data centre, you need an active cooling/pumping system to make sure the heat is evenly distributed across them.

I'm fairly sure no one has built a kilometer-sized fridge radiator before, especially not in space.

You can't just stick some big metal fins on a box and call it a day.
by testdelacc1 | 2025-12-16 13:00:43+00:00
You can say this but the people who need to hear it won’t listen. They lack the perspective of actually reading history to understand the scale at which people were killed before the world police era.

But even reading history isn’t enough. I think we’re fundamentally not equipped to understand what a large number of deaths actually looks and feels like. 10 deaths happening in our vicinity is an unbearable tragedy. 1 million deaths is just a number. So folks are struck by a nostalgia for a time when humans killed each other by the millions.

In some ways they remind me of the people who long for the days before vaccines eliminated a bunch of diseases.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-16 13:01:23+00:00
My high level understanding of the UB concept is, that it means false positives to the question "Is that a valid program?". Given that the philosophy of C is mostly "Do what the programmer wrote, no questions asked.", it leads to designing the language so, that the probability of false negatives goes to zero. This obviously means, that the number of false positives goes up.

Rust basically takes the opposite approach of making false positives go to zero, which makes the false negatives go up, which you need to work around with unsafe or type gymnastics.

The third approach is to make both false positives and negatives be zero, by restricting the set of programs, which is what non systems languages do.
by squidbeak | 2025-12-16 13:01:25+00:00
There's a very real chance the USA will get lucky and find a new means of economic domination through its AI companies and the looming space build-out. Its self-destructiveness right now, flouting longstanding alliances and truckling to its enemies, would ruin it in any other moment in its history. But in these unusual circumstances, it might not matter.
by armada651 | 2025-12-16 13:01:58+00:00
Sure, it wouldn't hold up in any reasonable court, but all they really need is to give congress some excuse to not intervene and pretending this falls under the 9/11 AUMF is good enough. And once the U.S. is at war with Venezuela not even a court order from the supreme court is going to be able to reverse that.
by piker | 2025-12-16 13:03:29+00:00
People forget that Microsoft was in position to compete because of Gates' and Allen's stellar BASIC. They were hand-picked by IBM because the market loved BASIC to the point of pirating it before that was even a thing. They cared about the product.

In some of the Microsoft lore there seems to be a split between Gates as an "end user" guy and Ballmer as an "enterprise" guy. Despite taking his lumps in the late 2010s, it seems like Ballmer has prevailed as correct in his "enterprise" push. Microsoft has gotten really good at selling over steak dinners. Now Azure and M365 are starting to dominate. This gives Microsoft a strong distribution platform to push crappy initial versions of any would-be competitors to drive them out. They do tend to iterate those into decent products around the 3rd version.

But will people tire of that? I think so. In which case Microsoft will get what's coming.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-12-16 13:03:39+00:00
Not only did they lose the popular vote, they lost it repeatedly. Although it was only a matter of degree at each step, Clinton was more isolationist than Bush and Dole. Bush was more isolationist than Gore and Kerry. Obama was more isolationist than McCain and Romney.

Trump was more isolationist than Clinton, Biden was more isolationist than first-term Trump and Trump beat Biden last year partially on the basis of becoming much more isolationist than his first term version, surpassing Biden.