MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Doxin | 2025-12-02 16:47:24+00:00
In Minecraft one of the common ways to catch people using x-ray hacks or transparent texture packs is to run statistics on the blocks mined. If the ratio of stone-to-diamond gets significantly out of whack it's a sure sign someone is cheating.

In blackjack card counting is (probabilistically) caught by tracking player winnings. If someone is beating the odds a bit too much it's a fairly good indicator they are counting cards. Of course in this case getting it wrong isn't so bad from the casinos perspective either since then they'll just kick out a player that was costing them money anyhow.

When the enigma cypher got cracked they had to be very careful about when to act on information gained. If they started beating the odds too much the Germans would cotton on to enigma being broken.

My point being that cheating will almost by definition improve your odds. There are definitely ways to catch that sort of thing happening without installing rootkits. You just might need to hire a couple mathematicians to figure it out.
by barrell | 2025-12-02 16:47:33+00:00
Yes. I spent about 3 days trying to optimize the prompt to get gpt-5 to not produce gibberish, to no avail. Completions took several minutes, had an above 50% timeout rate (with a 6 minute timeout mind you), and after retrying they still would return gibberish about 15% of the time (12% on one task, 20% on another task).

I then tried multiple models, and they all failed in spectacular ways. Only Grok and Mistral had an acceptable success rate, although Grok did not follow the formatting instructions as well as Mistral.

Phrasing is a language learning application, so the formatting is very complicated, with multiple languages and multiple scripts intertwined with markdown formatting. I do include dozens of examples in the prompts, but it's something many models struggle with.

This was a few months ago, so to be fair, it's possible gpt-5.1 or gemini-3 or the new deepseek model may have caught up. I have not had the time or need to compare, as Mistral has been sufficient for my use cases.

I mean, I'd love to get that 0.1% error rate down, but there have always more pressing issues XD
by SquareWheel | 2025-12-02 16:47:37+00:00
It means exactly what it says: "What other parties do you mean?". Key players are already in lockstep on this decision, so insisting that Google must submit to the other WHATWG members doesn't make any sense in an argument for restoring XSLT or JPEG XL.

You seem to be reading subtext into a statement that was put plainly.
by kriops | 2025-12-02 16:47:43+00:00
Can you, by any chance, delete my account? I have tried to do so before but it is not possible through the GUI. And I see you are associated with HN.

Other than that let's be very clear that there was no personal attack. You left out the part where I explain why I think the comment was made in bad faith. I.e. the part that makes it not a personal attack. And a part which I, upon request, elaborated on in the same comment tree.

As you said: Words matter.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-02 16:48:00+00:00
It's not driver support for audio stuff. Drivers are great; haven't had any issues at all. The UI for the software, especially DAWs, is just plain garbage. It shouldn't be this bad; I'm halfway tempted to start my own project to put together a fork of one of these DAWs with a UX that doesn't suck.

Technically a lot of stuff for linux audio is amazing; it just lacks the level of polish to enable someone to actually just use it out of the box.
by throw0101c | 2025-12-02 16:48:07+00:00
> Keep in mind that under such a system, corporations would have a financial incentive to wait just a bit longer to do an adaptation

Meanwhile they are currently buying up IP and locking it up for decades in such a way that no one can build on it.

Sherlock Holmes, who was created in the 1800s, only became public domain (but not all of it) a few years ago:

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/27/sherlock-holme...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/01/how-sherlo...

BigCorps could do a lot of things under a new regime, but they are already doing shitty things. I'd rather deal with the current problems and then see if/what kind of new issues crop up, and then course-correct then.
Show HN: I built a simple HTTP request catcher
by leftnode | 2025-12-02 16:48:07+00:00
I built the HTTP request catcher that I wanted to use. Every other one I've dealt with is slow, bloated with ads, or doesn't let me easily see a listing of past requests. Thus, httpthing was born.

It's dead simple to use: send a request to `https://httpthing.com/{endpoint}` and the request will be logged for you to inspect. A unique URL will be returned so you can easily see the request details in a browser.

If you want to see all requests sent to `{endpoint}`, just go to `https://httpthing.com/_/{endpoint}`. Requests are public, so it's best to use a randomly generated `{endpoint}`.

Simple, I know, but I've started using it for all of my webhook testing. Let me know if you find it simple and useful as well.
by bildung | 2025-12-02 16:48:59+00:00
I think people from the US often aren't aware how many companies from the EU simply won't risk losing their data to the providers you have in mind, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. They simply are no option at all.

The company I work for for example, a mid-sized tech business, currently investigates their local hosting options for LLMs. So Mistral certainly will be an option, among the Qwen familiy and Deepseek.

Mistral is positioning themselves for that market, not the one you have in mind. Comparing their models with Claude etc. would mean associating themselves with the data leeches, which they probably try to avoid.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-02 16:48:59+00:00
The samples (and this may or may not be completely fair, either set could be more cherry picked than the other, It would be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison with comparable prompts) seem significantly worse than what I’ve seen from WAN 2.1 1.3B, which is both fron the previous WAN version and is smaller, proportionally, compared to Apple’s 7B than that model itself is compared to the 28B combination of the high and low noise 14B WAN 2.2 models that are typically used together.

But also, Starflow-V is a research model with a substandard text encoder, it doesn't have to be competitive as-is to be an interesting spur for further research on the new architecture it presents. (Though it would be nice if it had some aspect where it offered a clear improvement.)
by mvkel | 2025-12-02 16:49:04+00:00
I think the protections are smarter than the author realizes.

The reason it allows the image to be generated is because the output is clearly -not- in Elon's likeness. It looks like a crude photoshop of Elon's head pasted onto someone else's body. If you attempt to replicate Elon's actual physical characteristics (don't do it, not even for science), it will block you once again.
by jaccola | 2025-12-02 16:49:26+00:00
This doesn't end at kid level maths either, I have seen people get bachelors and masters in maths without understanding much of it intuitively or being able to apply it.

Mostly because they have rote memorised it (and partly because much of the education system is a game to be played e.g. speaking with professors during office hours can give very strong hints to exams).
by NortySpock | 2025-12-02 16:49:54+00:00
Amundsen has two databases and three services in its architecture diagram. For me, that's a smell that you now have risk of inconsistency between the two, and you may have to learn how to tune elasticsearch and Neo4j...

Versus the conceptually simpler "one binary, one container, one storage volume/database" model.

I acknowledge it's a false choice and a semi-silly thing to fixate on (how do you perf-tune ingestion queue problems vs write problems vs read problems for a go binary?)..

But, like, I have 10 different systems I'm already debugging.

Adding another one like a data catalog that is supposed to make life easier and discovering I now have 5-subsystems-in-a-trenchcoat to possibly need to debug means I'm spending even more time on babysitting the metadata manager rather than doing data engineering _for the business_

https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/architecture/
Show HN: RIMC – An Alpha-Drift Framework for Recursive Market Dynamics
by sode_rimc | 2025-12-02 16:50:10+00:00
RIMC (Recursive Intelligence Market Cycle Hypothesis, pronounced “RIM-see”) is a hypothetical theoretical framework, not a finished asset-pricing model.

The goal is to treat markets not as static equilibria, but as learning systems with finite-speed information processing.

Very roughly, RIMC tries to do three things:

1. Model the market as a learning process that observes an underlying value process V(t), generated by technological recursion or factor models, with delay and noise. 2. Define the coupled dynamics between technological recursion R(t) and economic value V(t) (the “RV equations”) as a general system of differential equations. This is not limited to “tech-driven” stories — Fama–French 5 and other factor structures can be embedded as special cases of the RV system. 3. Reinterpret CAPM α not as unexplained regression residue, but as a structural drift term arising from observation delay and finite-time learning dynamics (“α-drift”).

Conceptually, the framework has three layers:

- Generative layer A value-generation engine where recursion / factors drive V(t) via an RV-type system.

- Observational layer A continuous-time CAPM-like structure where the market only sees a delayed, noisy projection of that value.

- Alpha-drift layer A structural α term α_drift(t) built as an exponentially weighted memory of the gap ε_R(t) = r_real(t) − r_market(t) over a finite window T with forgetting rate λ.

This is a working hypothesis about how structural α can emerge purely from finite-speed learning and observation delay, rather than a claim of a new “better CAPM”.

Repo (manuscript + notes, English; some Japanese commentary as well):

<GitHub repository URL> https://github.com/rimc-lab/RIMC

I would really appreciate any kind of feedback:

- Pointers to prior work I’m implicitly rediscovering - Objections to the way α is treated as a structural drift - Thoughts on whether this is a useful lens for practical quant research (factor models, RL-based strategies, macro regimes, etc.)

Even “this is obviously wrong because X” is very helpful.

Thanks for reading.
by barrell | 2025-12-02 16:51:18+00:00
Yep I spent 3 days optimizing my prompt trying to get gpt-5 to work. Tried a bunch of different models (some Azure some OpenRouter) and got a better success rate with several others without any tailoring of the prompt.

Was really plug and play. There are still small nuances to each one, but compared to a year ago prompts are much more portable
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-02 16:52:47+00:00
At one job, when we moved into a new building, we very deliberately located the QA for our team an aisle or two away from the devs. When they said, "It did this", we would just walk over and say "Show me". That was often very enlightening. "Oh, I see, the step that you didn't write down in the bug report is..."

On the other side of the same floor would have been far enough to change the dynamic. And the building was not that big.
by nzach | 2025-12-02 16:52:49+00:00
> As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.

That doesn't feel right. I thought that several groups were against the popularization of writing through the times. Wasn't Socrates against writing because it would degrade your memory? Wasn't the church against the printing press because it allowed people to read in silence?

Sorry for the off-topic.
by gwbas1c | 2025-12-02 16:53:13+00:00
That's a good question. IMO:

1: The formula dictates what you pay.

2: The money goes into a government-controlled escrow account.

At that point, the rights holder has a reasonable amount of time (years) to claim the money. Otherwise, if the rightsholder doesn't come forward, the money is forfeited.

(What happens to the money at that point? I think this is a great thing for people to argue about while the rest of us get the kind of copyright reform we need.)

(Likewise, what happens if the money gets refunded to someone impersonating the rights holder? That's also a wonderful thing to let people argue about while we get the kind of copyright reform we need.)
by justanotherunit | 2025-12-02 16:53:16+00:00
So how would you go and explain how an output of tokens can call a function, or even generate an image since that requires a whole different kind of compute? It’s still a layer between the model which acts as a parser to enable these capabilities.

Maybe “business” is a bad term for it, but the actual output of the model still needs to be interpreted.

Maybe I am way out of line here since this is not my field, and I am doing my best to understand these layers. But in your terms you are maybe speaking of the model as an application?
by metadope | 2025-12-02 16:53:29+00:00
I'm not sure I understand what is being reported here.

Was $6.25 billion dollars actually donated, as stated by the APNews headline?

Or is this one of those far-in-the-future revocable promises that may or may not become real?

So APNews is now a public relations flack, regurgitating press release verbatim?
by akomtu | 2025-12-02 16:53:49+00:00
> Thiel transforms US imperial power and unrestrained technological expansion ... into the final rampart against what he imagines as a catastrophic global homogenization.

Thiel warns about Antichrist, while doing the very thing that's enabling his coming. Unrestrained technological expansion is exactly what's erasing the human spirit and replacing it with a machine culture.
by hosh | 2025-12-02 16:53:59+00:00
I prefer heads down time. At my remote workplace, I found several channels where people ask for help. Combined with office hours, it is the main way I keep in touch with what is going on.

We also write up a weekly priorities (by team), and all the leadership put it together into emails. It is a great way for me to read what is going on.

I shift between deep work and collaborative problem solving.

It is not as if you can’t try structure things to have both.
by exogeny | 2025-12-02 16:54:14+00:00
Like anything else with Thiel, it's a viewed formed by a socially-maladjusted twerp who was picked on and now wants to rule the world. He's found a lot of useful lieutenants in that quest, mostly because they, like him, resent the fact that no amount of power or money or yes-men surrounding them will quiet their inner insecurities.

The truly insidious calculation they all eventually got to is that in Trump you have someone that is somehow even more insecure and craven than them and can be straight bought and sold to the highest bidder. They give Trump the superficial credibility of having ostensibly smart people behind him, and Trump gives them the benefits of being adjacent to his non-stop corruption and self-dealing machine.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-02 16:54:18+00:00
CBOR [0] is probably the closest to a widely adopted "pure" adaptation of JSON. It is still technically a superset of JSON, but it tries to be closely matched and frequently cross-references the JSON specs directly, especially because it is also an IETF tracked standard like JSON, and in so far as widely adopted is concerned is included in web standards like WebAuthn today. (For instance, you can't handle Passkeys without some amount of CBOR. The presumed next steps to wider adoption now that all browsers have internal CBOR encoders/decoders would be to add a web platform JS API for it as well.)

However, yes, JSON compresses extremely well even in ancient gzip, but especially in Brotli, and desiring compaction of your API responses alone isn't necessarily the best reason to prefer a binary encoding of JSON to just using JSON and letting compression do its thing.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html
by Fricken | 2025-12-02 16:54:25+00:00
Exactly. They aren't going to win the AI race chasing rabbits at the expense of long-term goals. We're 3 years into a 10 year build-out. Open AI and it's financiers are too impatient, clearly, and they're fucking themselves. Open AI doesn't need to double it's revenue to meet expectations. They need to 50x their revenue to meet expectations. That's not the kind of problem you solve by working through the weekend.
by JeremyNT | 2025-12-02 16:54:56+00:00
Gemini "fast" provides this response:

> Yes, 2026 is the next calendar year. The current year is 2025.

I wonder how much self-inflicted brand damage google is doing to itself by using its crappier model and inserting it on all search results?

If they can't afford to run a decent model for their flagship product, maybe they shouldn't be doing anything at all...
by stockresearcher | 2025-12-02 16:55:12+00:00
Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts. But I agree with the quoted people at the universities that think that the levels of undiagnosed anxiety and ADHD outstrips rich-people-cheating by 5:1 or so. Public K-12 has become awful in the US and is most definitely causing anxiety at high rates among students. School is nothing like when we were kids.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-12-02 16:56:12+00:00
Hardware-accelerated SHA support has a patchy history. I wrote an article some years ago about the prevalence of SHA instructions in x86 in x86_64 CPUs [0], like the current mess we see now with AVX-512, Intel invented something useful then declined to continue supporting it, while competitors that were late to the party became the real champions.

[0]: https://neosmart.net/blog/will-amds-ryzen-finally-bring-sha-...
by cpach | 2025-12-02 16:56:46+00:00
One key difference: A cert is a “pickled” thing, it’s stored and kept until it is successfully renewed. So if you attempt to renew at day 30 and LE is down, then you still have nearly more than two weeks to retrieve a new cert. Hopefully LE will get on their feet again within that time. Otherwise you have Google, ZeroSSL, etc where you can fetch a replacement cert.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-02 16:57:18+00:00
Talking to meat-space people in the industry, I find that there's a pretty well represented population across the board from "AI is no big deal, and we're going to crash the entire economy when the bubble bursts" to "AI is the most important technology since the dawn of computing, and we're going to reshape the world for the better". IMO, the most amusing people are the people who think that AGI is both possible, likely, and will be disastrous, but still are actively working towards building it. I think there's something humorously absurd about "machine-god cultists" being a real population that I can interact with on a regular basis.
by thesuitonym | 2025-12-02 16:57:32+00:00
It's not anything at Microsoft that's doing it, it's just the way people are. Microsoft announces some big, new thing, and everybody hates it. When the next version of Windows comes out, people are used to that new thing, so they don't hate it. The new version has a ton of stuff they hate, but because the last version was sooo bad they ignore it all.
by exogeny | 2025-12-02 16:57:59+00:00
At a certain threshold of wealth, you stop having anyone around you that will tell you anything other than platitudes about how great and wonderful you are. If he ever had any self-awareness or humility -- and that is questionable -- it's been Dunning Krugered and yes-manned into absolute shreds.

He's a weak, frail manchild masquerading as a cartoonish supervillain. Fuck him.
by phone_book | 2025-12-02 16:58:00+00:00
The linked Github seems to have the 2nd edition in the form of notebooks, https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook/blob/ma..., under the Using Code Examples section, "attribution usually includes the title, author, publisher, and ISBN. For example: "Python Data Science Handbook, 2nd edition, by Jake VanderPlas (O’Reilly). Copyright 2023..." compared to the OP's link which has "The Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas (O’Reilly). Copyright 2016..."
Did Anthropic Just Solve Prompt Spaghetti with Claude Skills?
by jvcor13 | 2025-12-02 16:58:03+00:00
Claude just shipped something interesting: Agent Skills. They’re like “prompt plugins,” but done in a very dev-friendly way.

A skill is a tiny folder: instructions, examples, maybe a script. Claude only loads it when relevant, so you don’t have to shovel context every time. And since you can include real code, the output becomes predictable, not “vibes-based.”

I’ve been testing them for scaffolding projects, enforcing team conventions, generating boilerplate and cleaning data. It’s shockingly effective. You can learn more about my testing here: https://www.shuttle.dev/blog/2025/12/02/claude-skills-complete-guide

Feels like a missing primitive for AI-assisted dev work.

Anyone else playing with these yet?
by gishh | 2025-12-02 16:58:15+00:00
> Jacobin is not a whole journal on literal communism. It’s a magazine with a professed socialist view point but it’s more aligned with left-of-center American politics. Think Sanders or Mamdani rather than Stalin or Mao.

> Sanders or Mamdani

Sanders and Mamdani are about as far left of center as one can get at the moment, such that they almost meld into Stalin or Mao.

The mental gymnastics you’re doing to blunt that fact is absolutely incredible.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-02 16:58:46+00:00
> Racists deserve free speech, and our society is better for it.

To the extent that our society is better for extending free speech to racists it has nothing to do with them deserving anything, but with the costs of empowering any fallible human institution to deny anyone things that that particular group of people do not deserve, and the cost of failing to make that distinction is being susceptible to being convinced that some other group truly does not deserve it and therefore some institution should be empowered to identify members of that group and deny it to them.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-12-02 16:58:57+00:00
https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/hiv-remission

There is at least one documented case of someone using anti-retroviral therapy, getting their viral load down to undetectable, stopping the therapy and remaining undetectable for years without continued therapy. They use the word "remission" rather than "cure" because there are fragments of viral dna that remain in your cells and it's possible for a "reservoir" of inactive virus to exist and activate, so there will always be regular testing involved in any attempt to eliminate the virus entirely, but whether it technically counts as "cured" becomes a nearly-moot point when one is able to live the same way that someone who has never been exposed lives save for the testing.
by antonvs | 2025-12-02 16:59:29+00:00
There are two issues here, and you're talking about a different one from the one I'm interested in. Your main issue seems to be this:

> If you convert a high level object into a low level one, and then back up as another type, then what exactly do you expect the language to do about that?

One answer to this would be "prevent it entirely". That's probably not practical for a language like Rust today, though, and I don't really care about that.

What I care about is that it's necessary to do this in the first place. The fact that doing this can be useful and necessary in a case like this suggests that it would be possible to design the types involved so that you don't need these low-level and runtime-unsafe conversions to get the job done.

> It sounds like you would prefer if UdpSocket From<OwnedFD> should run getsockname() or something to confirm it's of the expected type

No, I'm saying the types could be designed to prevent the need for doing this in the first place.