MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vintagedave | 2025-12-18 00:12:29+00:00
> I have to wonder what the hell happens to these Apple Accounts that are deactivated for suspected fraud. You would think that once escalated high enough in Apple’s customer support system, someone at Apple could just flip a switch and re-activate the account. The fact that Buttfield-Addison’s account has not yet been restored, despite the publicity and apparent escalation to Executive Relations, makes me think it can’t be restored.

This is terrifying speculation.
by anigbrowl | 2025-12-18 00:12:59+00:00
Do you mean 'how do get a Show HN project to earn a lot of votes'?

Be somewhat novel, communicate very clearly (particularly what is' for and why you might want to use it, even if that seems obvious to you) and post around mid-morning PST so people can goof off from work to 'research' your interesting new thing.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-18 00:13:06+00:00
I think you just don't see peoples' artistic side in the USA. People were always shocked if they happened to see my home music studio setup (which I tried hard to make sure they don't because then they want to hear my music, then we have to both do a social politeness dance when they hate it).

It's not ok/safe to share in the USA unless you are amazingly talented and conform to generic norms.

Maybe artists in Japan are more conformist so it's more safe to share, maybe they don't have to mirror popular standards so it's more safe to share.

It's also impossible to make it as an artist in the USA because of health costs. I could hardly justify jumping to working for myself and I had six figures of work a year lined up because insurance went up so much and coverage at the higher rate was way way worse. It really requires parents/spouse boot strap your career.
by hi_hi | 2025-12-18 00:13:27+00:00
Ha, I feel the pain. I built this a while ago to scratch a similar itch.

https://feature-refactor-for-cloudfl.first-contact.pages.dev...

It's no longer "live" so I wouldn't try and use it. I was using Supabase free tier to manage auth, and got tired of keeping it live. Good lesson learnt.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-18 00:13:34+00:00
Users in user namespaces are granted capabilities that root has, user namespaces themselves need to be locked down to prevent that, but if a user with root capabilities escapes the namespace, they have the capabilities on the host.

They also expose kernel interfaces that, if exploited, can lead to the same.

In the end, namespaces are just for partitioning resources, using them for sandboxes can work, but they aren't really sandboxes.
by i_am_a_peasant | 2025-12-18 00:13:46+00:00
A “proof” in the formal verification sense is just an exhaustive search through a state space that a model of your system, respects a certain set of constraints you have to explicitly write.

You could still have written the model wrong, you could still have not accounted for something important in your constraints. But at least it will give you a definite answer to “Does this model do what you say it does?”.

Then there are cases when an exhaustive search of the entire state space is not possible and best you can do is a stochastic search within it and hope that “Given a random sampling of all possible inputs, this model has respected the constraints for T amount of time, we can say with 99.99999998% certainty that the model follows the constraints”.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-12-18 00:14:28+00:00
I agree with your overall thesis but:

> Google Gemini was never in the mix, never on the table and still isn’t. Every one of our engineers has 1k a month allocated in Claude tokens for Claude enterprise and Claude code.

Does that mean y'all never evaluated Gemini at all or just that it couldn't compete? I'd be worried that prior performance of the models prejudiced stats away from Gemini, but I am a Claude Code and heavy Anthropic user myself so shrug.
by cxr | 2025-12-18 00:15:27+00:00
GitHub is not Git. This doesn't really have anything to do with Git at all. This shouldn't be called GitForms.

The Git trademark policy says they don't want people to name things like this.

> you may not use any of the Marks as a syllable in a new word or as part of a portmanteau (e.g., "Gitalicious", "Gitpedia") used as a mark for a third-party product or service

<https://git-scm.com/about/trademark>
by db48x | 2025-12-18 00:15:31+00:00
I didn’t say it was immoral, I said that canceling a grant to them doesn’t somehow reduce treatment to patients. Of course they’re going to claim that it will, because they want to be important. But the reality is that most of what they do is either unnecessary, or easily replaced. Telling new mothers not to drink during pregnancy is useful but we don’t require this particular group to do it. Anyone can tell new mothers that. Same with all the other “outreach” and “advocacy” stuff that they do.
by throwthrowuknow | 2025-12-18 00:15:35+00:00
Both Anthropic and Google have clear directions. Anthropic is trying to corner the software developer market and succeeding, Google is doing deep integration with their existing products. There’s also Deepseek who seem hell bent on making the cheapest SotA models and supplying the models people can use for research on applications. Even Grok is fairly mission focused on with X integration.
by hughw | 2025-12-18 00:15:47+00:00
You can run Docker Scout on one repo for free, and that would alert you that something was using Next.js and had that CVE. AWS ECR has pretty affordable scanning too: 9 cents/image and 1 cent/rescan. Continuous scanning even for these home projects might be worth it.

[*] https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/pricing/
by rtollert | 2025-12-18 00:16:26+00:00
My recollection (apologies, I'm not able to turn up a citation on this) is that the AAP has not really shied away from gripping ideological third rails with both hands; they've taken very liberal-leaning positions on abortion rights, gun violence, trans healthcare, etc. (Of course, depending on how you look at things, such policy positions might appear either partisan or nonpartisan.) I would be surprised if Sen. Barasso were a member.
by tete | 2025-12-18 00:18:39+00:00
Firewalls in the majority of cases don't get you much. Yes it's a last line of defense if you do something really stupid and don't even know where or what you configure your services to listen on, but if you don't the difference between running firewalls and not is minuscule.

There are way more important things like actually knowing that you are running software with widely known RCE that don't even use established mechanisms to sandbox themselves it seems.

The way the author describes docker being the savior appears to be sheer luck.
by rolph | 2025-12-18 00:19:05+00:00
generally politics, and religion, are topics not amenable to prolonged discussion, and slide into hostile disagreement.

use prefixes [Tell HN: Ask HN: Show HN:] and suffixes [ [PDF] [video] [1995] ] where needed.

be a human being, dont repost, or post promotional materials for adspace, cultivate a nuts and guts discussion for any project you promote rather than a sales ad.
by zahlman | 2025-12-18 00:19:10+00:00
Not to disagree with Kent Beck's insights on juniors using AI, but the effect of AI on his own writing is palpably negative. His older content is much more enjoyable to read. And so is his recent non-post "activity" on Substack. For example, compare a "note" preceding this article (https://substack.com/@kentbeck/note/c-188541464), on the same topic, to the actual content.
by monocasa | 2025-12-18 00:19:37+00:00
Idk, it looks like most of what this person is complaining is that they don't see a lot of this in high volume consumer products. But like, most high volume comsumer products don't have to crank nearly the same amount of torque either.

It's a silly product, but as far as being over engineered, it looks like it's about what I'd expect for those requirements.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-18 00:19:39+00:00
Inspiring artists =/= involuntarily training privately owned LLM’s that charge for access.

Agreed there, which is why it's important to work for open access to the results. The resulting regime won't look much like present-day copyright law, but if we do it right, it will be better for us all.

In other words, instead of insisting that "No one can have this," or "Only a few can have this," which (again) will not be options for works that you release commercially, it's better IMHO to insist that "Everyone can have this."
by YY4987439827 | 2025-12-18 00:21:43+00:00
Good move. Venezuela shipping oil to Cuba violates NO international law and America is committing an act of terrorism with their "blockade" (an act of war according to the UN). America can never win a war with Venezuela, seeing their humiliating defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam against much smaller and less developed nations. Godspeed to all Venezuelans resisting the ongoing American aggression.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-12-18 00:23:52+00:00
Anyone who used their personal or work email to sign up to a site like pornhub should expect that email to be made public one day along with any other data they have on the site, including watch history.

In the case of personal emails, that same email can usually be used to look up the victim on social media (Facebook is an example) to reveal their identity, if, like most people, they used the same email on that social media site.

As most on HN will be aware, data breaches like this are extremely common. Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. NSFW sites in particular are more juicy targets and often have bad security.
by vdupras | 2025-12-18 00:24:07+00:00
The dumbest timeline is the one with nuclear war. This might not be it.

If we're optimistic and assume that Trump, Xi and Putin have some kind of deal for a new world order where the US is no longer a world police, and the US gets to have its oligarchs just like Russia has.

Maybe that part of the deal is that Trump gets the Americas. It sure sucks for the new vassal states, but it beats having a nuclear war.
by noduerme | 2025-12-18 00:24:21+00:00
Have you ever seen one who was starving? Do they lack access to clean drinking water? Are there malnourished children, without access to schools, begging in America?

Have you ever been to a country where there was extreme poverty?

When people talk about China eliminating extreme poverty, that has a specific international definition. From Wikipedia:

Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services". Historically, other definitions have been proposed within the United Nations.

Extreme poverty mainly refers to an income below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day in 2018 ($2.66 in 2024 dollars), set by the World Bank.[0]

The average homeless person in America spends several times that amount on drugs, and all of the above services are available to them. Homelessness in America is a societal failure, but it does not meet the definition of extreme poverty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty
by redwall_hp | 2025-12-18 00:24:49+00:00
"Share music but remain anonymous" is much more typical in Japan, I think. The whole Vocaloid music scene revolves around people using a handle and uploading videos. I can't think of many communities in the west that work that way, aside from maybe small EDM artists.

It's more common to know someone's name if they break out into more mainstream music, such as Kenshi Yonezu (he's done music for Ghibli, My Hero Academia and Square Enix...but some of his most famous work is under the name Hachi). There have been many others who have had that trajectory. Ayase (half of YOASOBI), Reol, Giga and Ryo (Supercell) come to mind.

I think there's also just more of a societal emphasis on craftsmanship and honing skill as its own end. The US has been smoking the capitalist crack pipe for so long everything is either about consuming or producing something of value for others to consume.
by goobatrooba | 2025-12-18 00:25:03+00:00
I know you're making an analogy but I have to point out that there are many points where Nazi Germany could have gone a different route and potentially could have ended up with a stable dominion over much of Western Europe.

Most obvious decision points were betraying the USSR and declaring war on the US (no one really had been able to print the reason, but presumably it was to get Japan to attack the soviets from the other side, which then however didn't happen). Another could have been to consolidate after the surrender/supplication of France, rather than continue attacking further.
by auntienomen | 2025-12-18 00:25:13+00:00
A lot of the time, the definitions peculiar to a subfield of science _don't_ require much or any additional technical background to understand. They're just abbreviations for special cases that frequently occur in the subfield.

Looking this sort of thing up on the fly in lecture is a great use for LLMs. You'll lose track of the lecture if you go off to find the definition in a reference text. And you can check your understanding against the material discussed in the lecture.
by timmyc123 | 2025-12-18 00:25:28+00:00
Copy and paste in clear text? Yes, I don't think that's a good idea. Download to disk in clear text? Yes, I don't think that's a good idea.

Years and years of security incidents with consumer data show that this is a really bad idea.

At minimum, a credential manager distributed for wide use should encrypt exported/copied keys with a user selected secret or user generated key.
by db48x | 2025-12-18 00:26:34+00:00
Nature of Business The mission of the American Academy of Pediatrics (the Academy) is to obtain optimal … health and well-being for all …. The Academy seeks to promote this goal by encouraging and assisting its members in their efforts …, by providing support and counsel …, and by serving as an advocate … within the community at large.

They don’t actually treat anybody. They spend $28 million a year on salaries and benefits for people who advocate for improving children’s health, not on treating children. And then some more on offices and software for those advocates to use, for meals and meetings attended by those employees, postage, freight, etc, etc. None of that is related to treating people.
by gruez | 2025-12-18 00:27:18+00:00
>The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.

>On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”

That quote, especially the "there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of" part makes me think she knew and was trying to hide it. There's also the expectation that if she really didn't know, that person writing the article would put that detail in, given how extra sensational it would make the story.
by Wyverald | 2025-12-18 00:29:16+00:00
I'm a total noob here, but just pointing out that Omniscience Index is roughly "Accuracy - Hallucination Rate". So it simply means that their Accuracy was very high.

> In the Hallucination Rate vs. AA-Omniscience Index chart, it’s not in the most desirable quadrant

This doesn't mean much. As long as Gemini 3 has a high hallucination rate (higher than at least 50% others), it's not going to be in the most desirable quadrant by definition.

For example, let's say a model answers 99 out of 100 questions correctly. The 1 wrong answer it produces is a hallucination (i.e. confidently wrong). This amazing model would have a 100% hallucination rate as defined here, and thus not be in the most desirable quadrant. But it should still have a very high Omniscience Index.
by nluken | 2025-12-18 00:29:42+00:00
Might be harder to track but what about CFR or some other metric to measure how many bugs are getting through review before versus after the introduction of your product?

You might respond that ultimately, developers need to stay in charge of the review process, but tracking that kind of thing reflects how the product is actually getting used. If you can prove it helps to ship features faster as opposed to just allowing more LOC to get past review (these are not the same thing!) then your product has a much stronger demonstrable value.
by ajross | 2025-12-18 00:30:20+00:00
Not to nitpick, but that means if you sample randomly then you're going to find that the great majority of Americans have, in fact, driven less than 500k miles in their life.

Also I don't think that's correct; that's a ton of driving! I strongly suspect the number you're citing is the number of miles an average American spends in a road vehicle, not actually driving it. But that counts the same "car-mile" multiple times for all the occupants, when the statistic we're arguing about right now is about the vehicle, not the occupants.
by winstonwinston | 2025-12-18 00:30:55+00:00
That’s true for all accounts that i’ve been using (Google, Apple, Microsoft).

Passkey generated on a device can only change login flow for this one specific device. If you don’t synchronize passkey to other devices or if you do not generate passkey on other device, then login flow is different for other device. You need to enter password.

Imo it would not make any sense if it was different.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-12-18 00:30:59+00:00
Both of the example things you picked are generic types, and container-esque types at that. I think that my opposition to generics in general is a scale of dislike for different uses of generics. So, an off the cuff scale from (well founded and acceptable in certain cases) to (a strict negative in nearly all cases) would be:

Polymorphic Types Parametricly Polynorphic functions ‘Well Motivated’ Ad-hoc Polymorphism Basic Function overloading Basic ‘Operator Overloading’ Function overloading for symbols that are treated as ‘special’ by the compiler

I think the hashmap case is illustrative for my general perspective. I do see the value in being able to have polymorphism for function arguments which are generic in a type parameter. However, consider that the ideal/most performant hashing function for keys differs not just based on general types (int vs string) but can differ based on something like string length or bit width or signededness. My position is that a language should prioritize the ability to encode those exact requirements in a data structure and difficulties for achieving generic-ness be damned. Each function taking a hashmap as argument should be tied to the optimizations and low level considerations intended by the developer.

I am not opposed to some duplication of code where it produces the appropriate code for the problem being solved. My generalized dislike of ‘generics’ is there, but in my comment above I was mostly discussing ad-hoc polymorphism as a means of enforcing some general reasoning ability onto function name overloading. And as I implied in my scale above I find it particularly distasteful (basic function name overloading), if not actively harmful.

For generics there are two areas often conflated in conversation that I find to be wildly different in formalizations of type theories and languages: first, there is static phase type application associated with System F and higher order polymorphic lambda calculus more broadly. I obviously would like to see a more specific and limited implementation of generics at all levels of abstraction, but the higher the abstraction goes the more ‘sense’ generic-ness makes. Second, there is generics as a name for function name overloading, which is distinct from parametricly polymorphic function as well as distinct from generic types. I really dislike this usage of generics and do not think it is a good practice for developing quality software or for readability, maintainability, or efficient optimization. Obviously this is a scale as well. I would put Swift in the lead with Witness Table semantics for generics, then typeclasses and traits, then any less structured implementations at the bottom.
by citizenpaul | 2025-12-18 00:31:23+00:00
The real thing people miss is not AI replacing Juniors. Its that senior management soured on hiring juniors even a few years before AI, almost across all industries.

AI is now just the scapegoat for an economy wide problem. Execs found "one neat trick", piling junior work on seniors until they quit. While not hiring replacements in order to goose short term profits. Now every company is in the same position where hiring a senior really means hiring 5 seniors to replace the one that had 5 jobs layered on over a few years. This is of course impossible for any mortal to jump into. Now they also dont even have juniors to train up to senior levels.
by nphardon | 2025-12-18 00:31:30+00:00
Looking at the Data from 2024 (I don't see the 2025 data) it's hard for me to see how they combine to form a metric for happiness, but it's interesting still. I spent 3 summer months in Helsinki doing a research internship at Aalto University. Those three summer months were some of the most fun I've ever had, but on last day I was there, a friend of mine who was local, pointed around the bar we were in and said, "Look around, you can see the depression setting in" in prelude to the fast approaching winter months. It always surprises me to see Finland hit the top of these happiness reports because he really made it seem like winters were grimmmmmm.
by oldestofsports | 2025-12-18 00:32:57+00:00
That mindset will make you a grumpy old soul. Language is dynamic, not something you can force upon people. From every mouth to ear (or screen to eye) the word is interpreted slightly different.

I mean the original meaning of the word Scandinavia certainly doesnt make sense anymore:

1765, from Late Latin Scandinavia (Pliny), Skandinovia (Pomponius Mela), name of a large and fruitful island vaguely located in northern Europe, a mistake (with unetymological -n-) for Scadinavia, which is from a Germanic source (compare Old English Scedenig, Old Norse Skaney "south end of Sweden"), from Proto-Germanic skadinaujo "Scadia island." The first element is of uncertain origin; the second element is from aujo "thing on the water" (from PIE root *akwā- "water;" see aqua-). It might have been an island when the word was formed; the coastlines and drainage of the Baltic Sea changed dramatically after the melting of the ice caps.
by rvz | 2025-12-18 00:33:04+00:00
I predict more layoffs as I unfortunately already did in 2024 [0].

But let's just say you have to prepare for 2030. The future of jobs report 2025 by the WEF is also reporting that 40% of employers are planning to reduce their workforce because of AI by 2030. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490692

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041311
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-18 00:33:32+00:00
> the human brain is much better at hallucinating than any SOTA LLM

Aren't the models trained on human content and human intervention? If humans are hallucinating that content, then LLMs even slightly hallucinating from fallible human content, wouldn't that make the LLMs hallucinations still, if even slightly, more than humans? Or am I missing something here where LLMs are somehow correcting the original human hallucinations and thus producing less hallucinated content?