MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ekaros | 2025-12-02 08:05:37+00:00
Many have mixed systems. You have the public system which is fine if you have acute appendix for example. And then you have private providers, which do tell the prices and you can check which you can pick for less urgent, even a hip replacement.

It really is two separate questions how much basic procedures should cost. But I see no reason why non-urgent even important care shouldn't operate like real market. Open prices where competition is either on those prices or quality of care.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 08:06:08+00:00
>This is disingenuous and inflamatory

I fail to see how. Why would I not hold some personal responsibility for what I built?

Its actually pretty anti-western to have that mindset since that's usually something that pops up in collectivist societies.

>it's sets people off on a moral crusade that is always against the players but rarely against the system.

If you contribute to the system you are part of the system. You may not be "the problem" but you don't get guilt absolved for fanning the flames of a fire you didn't start.

I'm not suggesting any punishment for enablers. But guilt is inevitable in some people over this, especially those proud of their work.

>I wish more people in these countries would channel this discomfort as general disdain for the neoliberal free-market of which we're all victims,

I can and do.

>The problem isn't AI. The problem is a system where new technology means millions fearing poverty.

Sure. Doesn't mean AI isn't also a problem. We're not a singlethreaded being. We can criticize the symptoms and attack the source.

>over-focusing on small moral cursades against specific players like this and not the game as a whole is a distraction bound to always bring disappointment

I don't disagree. But the topic at hand is about AI, and talking about politics here is the only thing that gets nastier. I have other forums to cover that (since HN loves to flag politics here) and other IRL outlets to contribute to the community here.

Doesn't mean I also can't chastise how utterly sold out this community can be on AI.
by vincent_s | 2025-12-02 08:06:23+00:00
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by swiftcoder | 2025-12-02 08:07:33+00:00
> corporations cannot make "personal copies" of copyrighted works, otherwise they'd buy just one copy of microsoft office

That would surely be a license violation, not a copyright violation?

They absolutely can (and do) make copies of the Microsoft office binary and shuttle it around their network/backups/etc, activating licenses only when they need to assign a copy to a particular user
by captn3m0 | 2025-12-02 08:08:05+00:00
There’s a famous article by Terence Eden about the kind of devices that people are forced to use to interact with the UK Government, written with his experiences working for the government.

The devices include: A Playstation Portable. The latest stats include thousands of visits from XBox and Playstation consoles.

All modern smartphone requirements boil down to Play Integrity and iOS AppStore attestations.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
by bnjms | 2025-12-02 08:08:07+00:00
Yes. But I think the point is a good one. With CLI there is a recognition that there must be a method of learning what the verbs are. And there are many traditions which give us expectations and defaults. That doesn’t exist in the chat format.

Every time I try to interact with one of these llm gatekeepers I just say what I want and hope it figures out to send me to a person. The rest of the time I’m trying to convince the Taco Bell to record a customer complaint about how its existence itself is dystopian.
by beefnugs | 2025-12-02 08:08:31+00:00
Well if nvidia has come up with a way to use all the compute (or resell it or whatever) then they are just assuming some risk to help out a great customer.

It doesnt even sound that evil, more evil would be to keep all the hardware for itself and become the only kinglord of all AI... but something tells me they know more about the limitations than all of these other companies for some reason
by wolfbyte | 2025-12-02 08:09:02+00:00
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by hulitu | 2025-12-02 08:09:35+00:00
> On Linux this is mainly X11 written by MIT in 1984, it’s old and starting to show it’s age

"Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was first released to manufacturing in the United States on November 20, 1985"

So, I guess, Windows also is "starting to show it’s age". /s
by ashishb | 2025-12-02 08:09:38+00:00
> For example, I'm happy to maintain Python codebases with type annotations and type checking enabled.

"Python codebases with type annotations and type checking enabled" is not the norm. Consider a random file from the famous `pytorch` framework.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/_functorc...

Even this file does not have type annotations everywhere.
by bilekas | 2025-12-02 08:09:40+00:00
> Nobody is going to sue you for using their implementation of a skybox algorithm from 1999, give us break.

For personal use maybe not, but that's not the point, the point is it's spitting out licensed code and not even letting you know. Now if you're a business who hire exclusively "vibe" coders with zero experience with enterprise software, now you're on the hook and most likely will be sued.
by franga2000 | 2025-12-02 08:09:53+00:00
It's a lot more than 4 lines of sample code, in fact on my screen, it looks like it's more code than text. This is closer to a Rust tutorial then a low-level networking explainer, so yeah, it makes sense to say "in Rust". If I wanted to do this in C, this would not be the best resource.
by raesene9 | 2025-12-02 08:10:58+00:00
Worth noting you don't actually need to be fully root in Linux to do standard pings with your code, there's a couple of different options available at the OS level without needing to modify code.

1. You can just add the capability CAP_NET_RAW to your process, at which point it can ping freely

2. There's a sysctl that allows for unprivileged ping "net.ipv4.ping_group_range" which can be used at the host level to allow different groups to use ICMP ping.
Show HN: An AI image editor using Nano Banana Pro (finally renders text correct)
by loklok5 | 2025-12-02 08:11:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a minimal AI image editor on top of Nano Banana Pro. Highlights:

- 2K → 4K generation - Better spatial reasoning than most models I’ve tried - Reference-image conditioning (up to 10 images) - Text rendering that doesn’t look like an eldritch summoning ritual

Stack: React + Node/TS (antigravity did save me a lot of time!).

Use cases: product shots, posters, concept art, “my cat as a medieval knight in 4K”, etc.

Feedback on latency/security/pricing is really appreciated. Credits only charge on successful renders.

And no, I still don’t know why it’s called Nano Banana Pro.
by sl8s | 2025-12-02 08:12:42+00:00
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by captn3m0 | 2025-12-02 08:13:51+00:00
RBI pushed an entire new second level TLD to India’s entire banking system with a 6 month deadline. It was a botched rollout but now every bank in India is using .bank.in, despite two of India’s largest bank owning their own TLDs (.hdfc, and .sbi).

It was a very insecure rollout with zero customer awareness, but it happened and almost every large bank moved. Sometimes silly pronouncements do result in silly change.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-12-02 08:14:08+00:00
Consider two scenarios:

A. You have a child.

B. You don't have a child and decide to never have a child. To make up for the decline in population that year the government issues a working visa to an immigrant. The immigrant relocates to your country and sets up their life there.

Do you think that A or B raises GDP more?
by ajyotirmay | 2025-12-02 08:14:46+00:00
IRCTC is a private company. UPI isn't government either. Which e-filling portal is working nicely for you? My ITR was stuck for more than a year because some lame ass dev couldn't show proper error message other than suggesting that something needed to be done by my bank (which wasn't the case and only a year later did I decide to dig into th3 dev tools).

To praise Indian government is the most unlikely thing one should be doing for their mediocrity at developing things.

Same is the case with Aadhar, Digiyatra, etc. My government is hella incompetent at safeguarding data and privacy (unless it's their own data). And this app is 100% going to be a huge security hole on every device.

For me, ADB to the resuce.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-12-02 08:16:07+00:00
There are but who is producing them? Adults drive consumption and production. Children just drive consumption.

From an economic perspective increased immigration is better than births. Why have non productive people around when you can just import productive people that pay the government income taxes?

<sarcasm>If there are no children around then we don't have to worry about the children anymore and can worry about important things like the economy!</sarcasm>
by stack_framer | 2025-12-02 08:16:15+00:00
I really like the ideas touted by the Remix team, particularly (1) use the platform, (2) favor simplicity, and (3) make code more explicit; however, their implementation has always felt ... loosey goosey ... for lack of a better way of saying it. Their plodding approach to announcing v3 at Remix Jam had the same feel—lacking any real wow factor other than, "we're done with React."

I gave Remix a serious try some time ago, but the tutorials seemed rushed and the documentation felt incomplete (some of the referenced APIs were seemingly undocumented).

I would love to see something unseat React—I've never liked hooks—but I don't think Remix will pull it off.

As an aside, I wonder what Shopify's app developers think about the move away from React. I know they're all in on React Native.
by cubefox | 2025-12-02 08:16:34+00:00
> If you’re already using GCP, Vertex AI is pretty good. You can run lots of models on it:

> https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/m...

I don't see any large base models there. A base model is a pretrained foundation model without fine tuning. It just predicts text.

> Lambda.ai used to offer per-token pricing but they have moved up market. You can still rent a B200 instance for sub $5/hr which is reasonable for experimenting with models.

A B200 is probably not enough: it has just 192 GB RAM while DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp-Base, the base model for DeepSeek-V3.2, has 685 billion BF16 parameters. Though I assume they have larger options. The problem is that all the configuration work is then left to the user, which I'm not experienced in.

> https://app.hyperbolic.ai/models Hyperbolic offers both GPU hosting and token pricing for popular OSS models

Thanks. They do indeed have a single base model: Llama 3.1 405B BASE. This one is a bit older (July 2024) and probably not as good as the base model for the new DeepSeek release. But that might the the best one can do, as there don't seem to be any inference providers which have deployed a DeepSeek or even Kimi base model.
by prmoustache | 2025-12-02 08:16:54+00:00
> Reading all of these takes stating WFH leads to poor productivity simply doesn’t make sense to me.

I don't think it is related to poor productivity. I think it is related to a combination of these 3 points:

1) perceived less of control from the management perspective. 10-15years ago companies were all in on "we need metrics on work being done". Let's face it, process induced metrics have often very little relevance to the success of your products. So without being able to pin point what is wrong from the metrics, upper management feel they are managing an invisible structure and they have no idea what they do. They don't have much more idea when they are at the office but they can see them peering at their screen or talking to their colleagues so they must be doing something right? It is reassuring for upper management.

2) Pretending to do something. This RTO decisions are ofen all about making changes for the sake of making changes. All my career I have seen upper management doing restructuration every 6 months to every 2 years with often very little change in the actual efficiency of the whole company or the quality of the products being done. More often than not they just throw shit at the wall and see hat sticks. Other times they just copy what competitors have just done. Once in a while they will maybe observe an improvement.

3) It also give a visible signal to the employees thast something is being done by the management so in a sense it can boost motivation a little bit even though major changes are often disruptive. If it wasn't for these kind of changes and announcement, most employees wouldn't even know/remember who their CEO is.

Having said that, I don't work at Meta/Instagram but I work in a company where the meeting culture is crazy and I think I can agree with him on that point.
by pta2002 | 2025-12-02 08:16:57+00:00
Unfortunately the TPM story for the raspberry pi… isn’t, really. It doesn’t come with one, and while it does support secure boot, it’s incredibly limited and more akin to what you’d find in a microcontroller (you can burn vendor keys to EEPROM). So all that to say, it would be kind of pointless, unfortunately.

I’d you’re interested in this, I know systemd has been working pretty hard on getting TPM-provisioned credentials usable on Linux though!
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by ajyotirmay | 2025-12-02 08:17:25+00:00
All that couldn be as simple as educating people that there is no such thing as "digital arrest".

You are just telling the whole world about the average IQ of an Indian and how they believe in foolish things like "digital arrest".

And an app doesn't solve that. Digital literacy is a need for today, but the entire country is getting the latest smartphone, with dirt cheap data and zero knowledge of how to operate and own that technology.
by ben_w | 2025-12-02 08:17:30+00:00
My original point, clearly badly phrased given the responses I got, is that the promises have been exceeding the reality for a decade.

Musk's claims about what Tesla's would be able to do wasn't limited to just "a few locations" it was "complete autonomy" and "you'll be able to summon your car from across the country"… by 2018.

And yet, 2025, leaves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095867
by wartywhoa23 | 2025-12-02 08:17:35+00:00
You're entering a bridge and there's a road sign before it with a pictogram of a truck and a plaque below that reads "10t max".

According to the logic of your argument, it's perfectly okay to drive a 360t BelAZ 75710 loaded to its full 450t capacity over that bridge just because it's a truck too.
by voxl | 2025-12-02 08:17:57+00:00
I'm not sure if you're just choosing intentionally obtuse verbiage or if you're actually saying something completely incoherent.

"Overall Complexity" is a meaningless term without you defining it. I suppose you mean that there is some lower bound limit to the amount of work relative to a model of computation, but this is a trivial statement, because the limit is always at least no work.

We have many problems where we don't know the least upper bound, so even an interesting formulation of your idea is not necessarily true: work need not be conserved at the least upper bound, because reaching the bound may not be possible and epsilon improvement might always be possible.

Finally, algorithmic complexity is the wrong analogy for reverse mathematics anyway.
by throwaway89201 | 2025-12-02 08:18:31+00:00
I think the suggestion of pinning the public key and keeping the same private key across certs is the best option. But if you don't want that, perhaps this is a (high complexity, high fragility) alternative:

- Make sure your app checks that enough trusted embedded Signed Certificate Timestamps are present in the certificate (web browsers and the iOS and Android frameworks already do this by default).

- Disallow your app to trust certificates that are more recently requested than N hours. This might be hard to do.

- Set up monitoring to the certificate transparency logs to verify that no bad actor has obtained a certificate (and make sure you are always able to revoke them within N hours).

- Make sure you always have fresh keys with certificates in cold storage older than N hours, because you can't immediately use newly obtained certificates
by tadfisher | 2025-12-02 08:20:04+00:00
I am a member of the curious club of native Android app engineers working in fintech (banking in particular, but payments is a huge part of the banking business). So I can certainly sympathize with two groups of people:

1. The Vipps mobile team, who have been forced to update the app through some business requirement, most likely compliance-driven, as "politically-exposed person" is straight out of United States banking regulations; thus, the requirement to ask this single yes/no question bleeds through every payment system in the world that could potentially interact with a US bank account, whether or not their customers are subject to said regulations; of which the Vipps compliance team has most certainly, very recently, become acutely aware; hence the Android app's "Update" button, which cannot solve the underlying cache problem in which Google Play Services has not become aware of a pending update to the Vipps app, knowledge currently availed to only the Vipps backend and Google Play installations which have not attempted too many exponential-backoff-retries because they're on a fucking train.

2. Any and all customer service representatives involved, who have to untangle the above to separate requirement from implementation from quirk, find the right person on the mobile team who already knows it's a mess but can't do anything to solve it, and relay the single nonsensical instruction to the customer to resolve the issue: "Settings -> Apps -> See all -> Google Play Services -> Clear cache, reboot".
by eastbound | 2025-12-02 08:20:42+00:00
I’ve hired remote employees, made them come, offered stimulating work, 5% above their requested pay with mentions that I could double it in one year, but I could never get them to the smartness and clarity of analysis they had during the interview. After 6 months they were clearly winging it in <1hr a day and exhausting my team lead, who didn’t think they were moonlighting for several companies. I did: Their progress had entirely stalled and their performance was negative.

I fired both the employees and the manager. This “remote employees don’t moonlight” is a union trope.
by bloppe | 2025-12-02 08:22:21+00:00
Skew is an inherent problem of networked systems no matter what the encoding is. But, once the decoding is done, assuming there were no decoding errors in either case, at least with protobuf you have a statically typed object.

You could also just validate the JSON payload, but most people don't bother. And then they just pass the JSON blob around to all sorts of functions, adding, modifying, and removing fields until nobody knows for sure what's in it anymore.
by kuschku | 2025-12-02 08:22:34+00:00
Let's assume that's true — I'm just bad at using AI.

If that were the case, everyone else's AI creations would have a significantly higher quality than my own.

But that's not what we observe in the real world. They're just as bad as what I managed to create with AI.

The only ones I see who are happy with the AI output are people who don't care about the quality about the end result, or the details of it, just the semblance of a result.
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-02 08:23:08+00:00
thats actually a good idea agentic contracts

or web3 agents

just for their self executing properties not because there are any transformers involved

although a project could just build a backend that decides to use some of their contract’s functions via an llm agent, hm that might actually be easier and fun than normal web3 backends

ok I’ll stop, back to building
by tacker2000 | 2025-12-02 08:23:34+00:00
Yea im even worse, i was on mojave until last year.

Update frustration has long set in.

Im gonna buy the new macbook pro with the M5 max when it comes out in a couple of months (from an intel 2019) and this will probably be my last mac, im giving them one last chance before i move to Linux.

I dont have big hopes though…
by petterroea | 2025-12-02 08:23:56+00:00
Same, I had to learn this the hard way. In fact, I find that many (younger me included) are arrogant about *not* wanting to deal with writing due to it feeling like waste of time. But after maintaining codebases for 5+ years, you begin to appreciate younger you explaining wtf you were thinking.

And now, being at a point in my career where I have opinions on many things and discuss them with peers, I slowly realized writing about it was actually helping me more than anything.