MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keiferski | 2025-12-03 10:39:53+00:00
LLMs are useful, but AI is itself a marketing term that has begun to lose its luster. It’s rapidly becoming an annoying or trendy label, not a cutting edge one.

I guarantee that in ~24 months, most AI features will still remain in some form or another on most apps, but the marketing language of AI-first will have evaporated entirely.
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by mittermayr | 2025-12-03 10:40:13+00:00
Additional note on Codeberg, which I think is great as a project, but I got curious on what infrastructure they are running on and how reliable this would be for larger corporate repos.

Nov 22, 2025 https://blog.codeberg.org/letter-from-codeberg-onwards-and-u...

Quotes from their website:

Infrastructure status [...] We are running on 3 servers, one Gigabyte and 2 Dell servers (R730 and R740).

Here's their current hardware: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/meta/src/branch...

[...] Although aged, the performance (and even energy efficiency) is often not much worse than with new hardware that we could afford. In the interest of saving embodied carbon emissions from hardware manufacturing, we believe that used hardware is the more sustainable path.

[...] We are investigating how broken Apple laptops could be repurposed into CI runners. After all, automated CI usage doesn't depend on the same factors that human beings depend on when using a computer (functioning screen, speakers, keyboard, battery, etc.). If you own a broken M1/M2 device or know someone who does, and believe that it is not worth a conventional repair, we would be happy to receive your hardware donation and give it a try!

[...] While it usually holds up nicely, we see sudden drop in performance every few days. It can usually be "fixed" with a simple restart of Forgejo to clear the backlog of queries.

Gives both early-Google as well as hackerspace vibes, which can or can not be a good thing.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-12-03 10:40:25+00:00
I’m sorry, but this is stupid, you understand that you have several logical errors in your post? I was sure Clinton is going to win 2016. Does that mean that when I say 800 is bigger than 8 is not to be trusted?

Do people actually think that running a business is some magical realism where you can manifest yourself to become a billionaire if you just believe hard enough?
by hollerith | 2025-12-03 10:40:33+00:00
It is very misleading or outright perverse to write "they were selling software as a service in the IBM 360 days" when there was no public network that could be used to the deliver the service. (There were wide-area networks, but each one was used by a single organization and possibly a few of its most important customers and suppliers, hence the qualifier "public" above.)

But anyways, my question to you is, was there any software that IBM charged money for as opposed to providing the software at no additional cost with the purchase or rental of a computer?

I do know that no one sold software software (i.e., commercial off-the-shelf software) in the 1960s: the legal framework that allowed software owners to bring lawsuits for copyright violations appeared in the early 1980s.

There was an organization named SHARE composed of customers of IBM whereby one customer could obtain software written by other other customers (much like the open-source ecosystem) but I don't recall money ever changing hands for any of this software except a very minimal fee (orders of magnitude lower than the rental or purchase price of a System/360, which started at about $660,000 in 2025 dollars).

Also, IIUC most owners or renters of a System/360 had to employ programmers to adapt the software IBM provided. There is software with that quality these days, too (.e.g, ERP software for large enterprises) but no one calls that a software as a service.
by threeducks | 2025-12-03 10:40:33+00:00
I just tried it with GPT-5.1-Codex. The compression ratio is not amazing, so not sure if it really worked, but at least it ran without errors.

A few ideas how to make it work for you:

1. You gave a link to a PDF, but you did not describe how you provided the content of the PDF to the model. It might only have read the text with something like pdftotext, which for this PDF results in a garbled mess. It is safer to convert the pages to PNG (e.g. with pdftoppm) and let the model read it from the pages. A prompt like "Transcribe these pages as markdown." should be sufficient. If you can not see what the model did, there is a chance it made things up.

2. You used C++, but Python is much easier to write. You can tell the model to translate the code to C++ once it works in Python.

3. Tell the model to write unit tests to verify that the individual components work as intended.

4. Use Agent Mode and tell the model to print something and to judge whether the output is sensible, so it can debug the code.
by Hnus | 2025-12-03 10:41:31+00:00
Fair, another thing I really like is you can do `nix flake show templates` and try to `nix flake init -t templates#trivial` and be like ahh so thats how its supposed to be done or init `full` and be like ok this flake thing can do a lot of things I didn't know it could do, you can then edit, delete and experiment.
by GaggiX | 2025-12-03 10:42:24+00:00
That's Gemini 2.5 Flash btw

The result from Gemini 3 Pro using the default media resolution (the medium one): "(Заголовок / Header): Арсеньев (Фамилия / Surname - likely "Arsenyev")

Состояние удовл- t N, кожные покровы чистые, [л/у не увел.] В зеве умерен. [умеренная] гипер. [гиперемия] В легких дыха- ние жесткое, хрипов нет. Тоны серд- [ца] [ритм]ичные. Живот мяг- кий, б/б [безболезненный]. мочеисп. [мочеиспускание] своб. [свободное] Ds: ОРЗ [или ОРВИ]" and with the translation: "Arsenyev

Condition satisfactory. Temp normal, skin coverings [skin] are clean, lymph nodes not enlarged. In the throat [pharynx], moderate hyperemia [redness]. In the lungs, breathing is rigid [hard], no rales [crackles/wheezing]. Heart tones are rhythmic. Abdomen is soft, painless. Urination is free [unhindered]. Diagnosis: ARD (Acute Respiratory Disease)."
by woile | 2025-12-03 10:42:39+00:00
I think once Codeberg becomes federated, it will likely attract a lot of people.

Right now github is great for discovering and tracking projects, reflecting growth via the star and fork system (although a bit broken in the last few years).

If a federated layer is applied to these github alternatives, you could have an account in Codeberg, and be able to track lots of projects wherever people want to host them. Right now, I see a lot of forgejo servers, but I don't want to register in all of them.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-12-03 10:42:52+00:00
> AI is itself a marketing term that has begun to lose its luster. It’s rapidly becoming an annoying or trendy label, not a cutting edge one.

Where have you been the last 15 years? However, I agree with your prediction. Coke making AI advertisements may have had cache a couple years ago, but now would be a doofus move.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-03 10:43:16+00:00
> he problem comes when the crash out costs the business and then you get nothing due to type of insurance (pretty much we pay nothing you pay everything yourself), or the ability of companies to fight endless court battles which your insurance likely does not cover.

Business automobile insurance doesn't work any differently than consumer automobile insurance. Liability payouts don't usually (ever?) have deductibles. I was recently sideswiped by a guy driving a massive pickup truck for work and their insurance paid me promptly and fairly without any fuss at all. At least the state liability insurance laws I am familiar with do not change just because you're a business.
by RobertoG | 2025-12-03 10:43:16+00:00
You think that if Europe spend "enough" America would have not influence? You think that Europe would be allowed to spend "enough" but only in Europe companies?

They like to talk about the bad Russians influencing politics and people in Europe, but compared to the Americans they are flies in the wall. This people that is taking decisions now in Europe, finish later working in the Atlantic Council or something like that. That is the root of the European independence problem.
by raphui | 2025-12-03 10:43:29+00:00
2 points by raphui 30 days ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Ask HN: What are you working on?

I’ve been working on a custom RTOS for Cortex-M for the past 10 years: https://github.com/raphui/rnk It started as a way to learn RTOS internals, and over time it has grown into something with lots of nice features. I’m even using it in a dirtbike anti-theft tracker I am building. Also, 2 months ago, I did a weekend challenge to build an embedded software parameter DSL and compiler. Its goal is to let firmware developers define configuration values, thresholds, constants, and other application-level parameters in a structured, human-readable format, and compile them into binary data that the firmware can directly use. https://github.com/raphui/epc

Happy to get any feedback :)
by lioeters | 2025-12-03 10:44:11+00:00
I bet that's part of the reason why microcontrollers, embedded programming, and retro computing are all popular hobbies these days. A return to a simpler time, when programs are compiled to a few kilobytes and run as fast as the hardware allows. Graphics? Unicode? Who needs 'em, just a stream of ASCII and integers for me thanks.
by woile | 2025-12-03 10:44:16+00:00
NotJustBikes cover's this in the latest video, starting here:

https://youtu.be/--832LV9a3I?si=HpfmA8mFIsJJ_Uhp&t=333

Of course, I think if a company is targeting both markets, you may benefit from some features.

And it's not just about you, but the other people driving around you who pose a danger to you.
by Milpotel | 2025-12-03 10:44:30+00:00
Bold statement just one month after the last cache poisoning vulnerability. Bind is the Microsoft Windows of DNS servers - a lot of users and bugs nonetheless the go-to for many admins because that's what they are most familiar with. And similar to Windows, the internet mostly relies on others - none of the big companies (Meta, Cloudflare, Google, MS, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter...) use bind and neither do most hobbyists. It's just for the plethora of mid-sized companies with unmotivated admins.
by wastu | 2025-12-03 10:44:50+00:00
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by JackStarborn | 2025-12-03 10:45:48+00:00
Hasn't D collapsed in on itself? D had two or maybe even 3 std libraries. I believe third was just a rewrite of second library. There was two std libraries due to fact language can use GC or don't, so that resulted in problem similar to "what color is your function?". What good is a language whose standard library is in disarray/abandonware?
by nephihaha | 2025-12-03 10:46:15+00:00
These things start out as voluntary and then you find it difficult to function without it. My local bank is always busy, but there is a bank employee nagging everyone to use online banking. We're lucky it is still open, because every bank is shutting branches. They close branches and make them inconvenient to use, and then say the public want it. Yes, some do, but not everyone does and some want both options.

Similar scenario here. The old boiling a frog scenario. Some company trying to persuade its employees to get microchipped. Also other interests trying to push it. The dog thing is not unconnected, even with that, doing it to pets is partly a soft sell to saying humans can get one too. It has been normalised in science fiction films for decades.

"Their hand, their choice" turns into "they got a microchip, and why don't you?" into "everyone's got a microchip, why don't you?" and then "why the hell don't you have a microchip?" and eventually legal consequences for not having one. Of course microchips are only one possibility for tagging people... And the idea won't go away.

https://www.newsweek.com/people-get-microchips-implanted-tha...
by Ygg2 | 2025-12-03 10:46:25+00:00
For threat analysis, you need to know how hard you are to break in, what the incentives are, and who your potential adversaries are.

For each potential adversary, you list the risk strategy; that's threat analysis 101.

E.g. you have a locked door, some valuables, and your opponent is the state-level. Risk strategy: ignore, no door you can afford will be able to stop a state-level actor.
by bit1993 | 2025-12-03 10:47:05+00:00
I don't agree with this at all. I think the reason Github is so prominent is the social network aspects it has built around Git, which created strong network effects that most developers are unwilling to part with. Maintainers don't want to loose their stars and the users don't want to loose the collective "audit" by the github users.

Things like number of stars on a repository, number of forks, number of issues answered, number of followers for an account. All these things are powerful indicators of quality, and like it or not are now part of modern software engineering. Developers are more likely to use a repo that has more stars than its alternatives.

I know that the code should speak for itself and one should audit their dependencies and not depend on Github stars, but in practice this is not what happens, we rely on the community.
by acatton | 2025-12-03 10:47:45+00:00
One of these features is "Active Hood" or "Pop Up Hood" which uses pyrotechnic to pop the hood of the car in case of a frontal collision with a pedestrian, thus making the front hood of the car acting as some kind of stiff airbag for the pedestrian. This helps reducing the risk of life-threatening injuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4zfwUL3joI

NotJustBikes on youtube has a video listing more of these features which don't exist in cars sold in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--832LV9a3I
by nosianu | 2025-12-03 10:48:00+00:00
For some strange reason a lot of people were attracted by a comment that speaks about everything else BUT the actual topic and its the top comment now. Sigh.

If you think that carefully chosen anecdotes out of many many more are relevant, there needs to be at least an attempt of reasoning. There is nothing here. It's really just barebones mentioning of stuff intentionally selected to support the preconceived point.

I think we can, and should, do better in HN discussions, no? This is "vibe commenting".
by calebio | 2025-12-03 10:49:01+00:00
> The 1994 paper (freely available at https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1341727/m2/...) is actually about proper E2EE.

That paper is about PKI-based session setup for End-End which is the ancestor of SSL/TLS. It even mentions a CAE which is effectively a CA and it does a synchronous handshake to establish a symmetric key. It's very clearly about transport layer security from end to end.

It's not about User-User E2EE (akin to Signal) and shares very little other than that data is encrypted from point A to point B.
by mothballed | 2025-12-03 10:49:11+00:00
That's weird because there's no public road near me for miles and I can get 90% of the way to "town" without them.

I've also connected my private roads to a couple other private roads so no one has a monopoly on my way to town.

As for the "barriers to entry" mentioned in that article, is absolutely wild. My road and most the ones in our grid network were made with little more than a dude and a tractor (I think you can get suitable one for $10k off craigslist). I initially made mine with an axe, a light truck, and a rope (to rip out small trees) and there's nothing stopping anyone adjacent from doing the same if I'd block the road.
by ReclusiveCoder | 2025-12-03 10:49:47+00:00
That's the right approach. This is what the article suggests:

>> For most systems, well-structured modular monoliths (for most common applications, including startups) or SOA (enterprises) deliver comparable scalability and resilience as microservices, without the distributed complexity tax. Alternatively, you may also consider well-sized services (macroservices, or what Gartner proposed as miniservices) instead of tons of microservices.
by MrSkelter | 2025-12-03 10:50:10+00:00
I have a personal corpus of letters between my grandparents in WW2. My grandfather fighting in Europe and my grandmother in England. The ability of Claude and ChatGPT to transcribe them is extremely impressive. Though I haven’t worked on them in months and this uses older models. At that time neither system could properly organize pages though and chatGPT would sometimes skip a paragraph.
by stagg | 2025-12-03 10:50:32+00:00
Would be great if that was the case in the UK. Currently road tax, or Vehicle Excise Duty is related to CO2 emissions. Road upkeep is from general taxation. Road tax was abolished in 1937, I like to remind motorists of this fact when they say "cyclist should pay road tax". Although EVs now have to pay 3p per mile from 2028, which is a big change. Yeah the super-sized vehicles might pay more in fuel tax and have a higher VED rate, but nowhere near enough.
by Galford | 2025-12-03 10:51:34+00:00
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by pu_pe | 2025-12-03 10:51:49+00:00
The optimistic view is that Anthropic is one of about four labs in the world capable of generating truly state-of-the-art models. Also, Claude Code is arguably the best tool in its category at the moment. They have the developer market locked in.

The problem as I see it is that neither of those things are significant moats. Both OpenAI and Google have far better branding and a much larger user base, and Google also has far lower costs due to TPUs. Claude Code is neat but in the long run will definitely be replicated.
by pona-a | 2025-12-03 10:51:51+00:00
OTR still has static identities, with DH used to ratchet the ephemeral keys. The comparison would be more like Signal ditching Safety Numbers and Registration Lock for hourly SMS verification of new independent keys with no successor signing.

There's a fundamental divide in what certificates mean: modern CAs view WebPKI as a fancy vantage point check--cryptographic session tickets that attest to the the actual root of trust, usually DNS. Short-lived certs (down to 10 minutes in Sigstore, 6 days trialed by LetsEncrypt) make perfect sense to them.

But DNS challenges are perfectly forgeable by whoever controls the DNS. This reduces authentication to "the CA says so" for 99% of users not running a private CA alongside the public one.

Transparency logs become impenetrable to human review, and even if you do monitor your log (most don't), you need a credible out-of-band identity to raise the alarm if compromised. The entire system becomes a heavier Convergence/DANE-like vantage point check, assuming log operators actually reverify the DNS challenges (I don't think one-time LetsEncrypt challenges are deterministic).

I think certificates should represent long-term cryptographic identity, unforgeable by your CA and registrar after issuance. The CA could issue a one-time attestation that my private root cert belongs to my domain, and when it changes, alert to the change of ownership.
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-03 10:52:05+00:00
> In addition, it is best to use code navigation simply in a web browser.

IMHO the vanilla Github UI sucks for code browsing since it's incredibly slow, and the search is also useless (the integrated web-vscode works much better - e.g. press '.' inside a Github project).

> as well as a well-formed CI system with many developed actions and free runners

The only good thing about the Github CI system are the free runners (including free Mac runners), for everything else it's objectively worse than the alternatives (like Gitlab CI).
by Calzifer | 2025-12-03 10:53:34+00:00
I was curious if they optimized the download. Did it download the 'optimized' ~150 GB and wasting a lot of time there or did it download the ~20 GB unique data and duplicated as part of the installation.

I still don't know but found instead an interesting reddit post were users found and analyzed this "waste of space" three month ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1mw3qcx/why_the...

PS: just found it. According to this Steam discussion it does not download the duplicate data and back then it only blew up to ~70 GB.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/553850/discussions/0/43725019...
by Tor3 | 2025-12-03 10:54:43+00:00
Read some later articles. The first guy who did this was maybe that magician from Missouri, or at least one of the first ones (there aren't many). And it's turned out to be a useless gimmick, that magician's implant is currently inoperative. Forgot a password for re-programming it, or some such.

Mandatory microchipping people is firmly in sci-fi land, and, as many other things first tried out in sci-fi land it's not something particularly relevant for a very long time, I suspect. It's not very useful, to start with (compared to what we use already).

Online banking vs physical buildings.. that's a purely economic issue, and can't be compared to something like chipping.

Dogs and cats are microchipped because they can't talk, and for other non-human reasons.
by brihati | 2025-12-03 10:54:47+00:00
Really interesting project, it nudges you toward learning instead of mindless feeds.

One suggestion: could you add tags to the research papers so readers can more easily filter by their interests? For example, I’m looking to follow recent work from top venues like NeurIPS specifically on training code-oriented LLMs. Tagging would make it much easier to dive into topics like that.

Thanks for your effort
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-12-03 10:56:01+00:00
Sry to say but the fact that you argue with LLMs never become AGI, you are not up-to-date.

People don't assume LLM will be AGI, people assume that World Models will lead us to AGI.

I personally never asumed LLM will become AGI, i always assumed that LLM broke the dam for investment and research into massivce scale compute ML learning and LLMs are very very good in showing were the future goes because they are already so crazy good that people can now imagine a future were AGI exists.

And that was very clear already when / as soon as GPT-3 came out.

The next big thing will probably be either a LOT more RL or self propelling ai architecture discovery. Both need massive compute to work well but then will potentially provide even faster progress as soon as humans are out of the loop.