MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2025-12-15 13:18:13+00:00
Yes, just not in the “one bot = one taxpayer” sense.

Look, rich countries like the United States who have been obsessed with neoliberalism and laissez-faire Capitalism have spent the past fifty years continuously slashing tax rates on everything and everyone (but particularly on the wealthy and homeowners), leading to gargantuan debts and deficits. Re-ramping that taxation on labor now, when it can’t even afford core necessities due to wage stagnation and inflation via corporate greed, would be equivalent to lighting off fireworks while pumping gas: a very bad idea.

What’s needed isn’t a simple tax increase, but a fundamental rework of the tax scheme. When a majority of wealth is coming from Capital Gains (housing profits, investment returns, etc), then that’s where a majority of tax revenue should be coming from. That’s a more effective way of taxing AI and labor, provided you also rework structures to eliminate the myriad of loopholes people and businesses use to duck taxes on that income. You’d also need to rework incentive structures to limit the collapse of labor until such time as society and government can be reworked around a post-labor future: tax penalties for layoffs by profitable firms or firms who have a disproportionate amount of workforce on income-based government welfare programs, elimination of subsidies in profitable segments of the marketplace, stringent accountability standards for government contracts, labor protections in general, job guarantees, higher minimum wage, the list goes on and on.

What frustrates me is that these sorts of posts get trotted out as “big think” arguments about AI, when in reality they’re about thirty years late to the party and woefully unaware of the complexity and risks of the issue at hand. They want to debate hypothetical minutiae instead of acknowledge the present reality: that workers are being permanently displaced by AI now (or at least by AI investment), and that the big players, despite any public statements promoting or encouraging regulation of their industry or the need to help workers, are presently doing everything in their power to stop governments from addressing either of those things lest their expansion be curtailed.
by thorawaytrav | 2025-12-15 13:18:36+00:00
It is much easier to use an AI API in my bank than to use any other tool. Since the AI is from MS, it's ready to go, whereas other tools require a few months of budgeting, licenses, certs, and so on. Since AI/Azure/AWS is already there and 'certified to use,' it is easier for me to patch something together using this stack than to even ask for open-source software
by monsieurbanana | 2025-12-15 13:19:04+00:00
Could be one of these:

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

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

> Chaum published the idea of anonymous electronic money in a 1983 paper; eCash software on the user's local computer stored money in a digital format, cryptographically signed by a bank
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-15 13:19:16+00:00
I'll take a crack.

> what do LLMs disrupt? If your answer is "cost of developing code" (what TFA argues), please explain how previous waves of reducing cost of code (JVM, IDEs, post-Y2K Outsourcing) disrupted the ERP/b2b market. Oh wait, they didn't. The only real disruption in ERP in the last what 30 years, has been Cloud.

"Cost of developing code" is a trivial and incomplete answer.

Coding LLMs disrupt (or will, in the immediate future)

(1) time to develop code (with cost as a second order effect)

(2) expertise to develop code

None of the analogs you provided are a correct match for these.

A closer match would be Excel.

It improved the speed and lowered the expertise required to do what people had previously been doing.

And most importantly, as a consequence of especially the latter more types of people could leverage computing to do more of their work faster.

The risk to B2B SaaS isn't that a neophyte business analyst is going to recreate you app overnight...

... the risk is that 500+ neophyte business analysts each have a chance of replacing your SaaS app, every day, every year.

Because they only really need to get lucky once, and then the organization shifts support to in-house LLM-augmented development.

The only reason most non-technology businesses didn't do in-house custom development thus far was that ROI on employing a software development team didn't make sense for them. Suddenly that's no longer a blocker.

To the point about cloud, what did it disrupt?

(1) time to deploy code (with cost as a second order effect)

(2) expertise to deploy code

B2B SaaS should be scared, unless they're continuously developing useful features, have a deep moat, and are operating at volumes that allow them to be priced competitively.

Coding agents and custom in-house development are absolutely going to kill the 'X-for-Y' simple SaaS clone business model (anything easily cloneable).
by komali2 | 2025-12-15 13:19:57+00:00
I was trying to figure out why my SD card wasn't mounting and asked ChatGPT. It said:

> Your kernel is actually being very polite here. It sees the USB reader, shakes its hand, reads its name tag… and then nothing further happens. That tells us something important. Let’s walk this like a methodical gremlin.

It's so sickly sweet. I hate it.

Some other quotes:

> Let’s sketch a plan that treats your precious network bandwidth like a fragile desert flower and leans on ZFS to become your staging area.

> But before that, a quick philosophical aside: ZFS is a magnificent beast, but it is also picky.

> Ending thought: the database itself is probably tiny compared to your ebooks, and yet the logging machinery went full dragon-hoard. Once you tame binlogs, Booklore should stop trying to cosplay as a backup solution.

> Nice, progress! Login working is half the battle; now we just have to convince the CSS goblins to show up.

> Hyprland on Manjaro is a bit like running a spaceship engine in a treehouse: entirely possible, but the defaults are not tailored for you, so you have to wire a few things yourself.

> The universe has gifted you one of those delightfully cryptic systemd messages: “Failed to enable… already exists.” Despite the ominous tone, this is usually systemd’s way of saying: “Friend, the thing you’re trying to enable is already enabled.”
by bvrmn | 2025-12-15 13:20:10+00:00
1 case: 14w * 1h -> 0.014kWh * 40p of total cost. There is nothing complex.

2 case: It's an issue with mAh markings. Battery rated in Wh has same simple math.

There are no consumer issues jot solves. More over additional ~10^3 magnitude is consumer hostile.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-15 13:20:13+00:00
It's a cache pretty much. Before it wrote them to the project directory by default, which is really annoying.

Now it has a file it can refer to (call it "memory" to be fancy) without having to keep everything in context. The plan in the file survives over autocompact a lot better and it can just copy it to the project directory without rewriting it from memory.
by integralid | 2025-12-15 13:20:33+00:00
>He expected them to speak the barest minimum of English, so speakers of Japanese, Bantu, Hindi, and Algonquin do not have to learn more than one foreign language when vacationing abroad.

Why are speakers of Japanese, Banty, Hindi and Algonquin vacationing abroad a problem of locals who just want to live their own life?... Most people do learn English for one reason or another, but "entertaining tourists" is not one of them.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-15 13:20:56+00:00
I know a few people active as copy/documentation writers. The job is definitely changing and it is harder to find gigs for these people. But large companies still need experienced copy editors in charge of their documentation. They just don't expect that writing it is a manual job anymore. Smaller companies, get away with making this a part time thing that people do on the side.

The job has changed. At the same time, the quality and quantity expectations are changing as well. You don't get away with doing the same amount of documentation anymore. AI tools enable more documentation and more comprehensive documentation. So, having that now becomes the norm.

But if your job is getting paid per word for text, then yes, that market is a bit smaller now. But it's not all gone and people still get hired to coordinate the documentation writing process or for high quality journalism.

But if you were writing filler content for a news paper or low value (it has to be there, but nobody cares) documentation for some software component, then yes, your job is definitely at risk.
by darkwater | 2025-12-15 13:21:47+00:00
> For some context, when moving abroad I felt that most other countries don’t really teach grammar and language analysis to the point that we do in Italy.

Yep, I have to agree, as an Italian living abroad. In my case, I now have kids on the verge of finishing primary school and - maybe they will start next year who knows - I haven't seen grammar taught that much. Ironically they have more grammar exercises when studying English than the native tongues. But maybe it's just a "modern school" thing...
by sunaookami | 2025-12-15 13:21:47+00:00
Are photos & videos that new even recognizable by Grok? Can't try ChatGPT because it spews an error ("Error in message stream") and then I've reached my limit. Gemini on gemini.google.com (Gemini 3 Pro) does the same as Grok and thinks the photo[1] is from the October 7th attacks:

>Based on the visual evidence and public reports, the man in the image is Yarden Bibas.

>His identity and background have been widely confirmed by news organizations and his family following the events of October 7, 2023.

On Google AI Studio (Gemini 3 Pro with Grounding enabled) it correctly recognizes him as Ahmed Al-Ahmed. In the Chain-of-Thought it first thinks it's from the Oct 7th attacks:

>I'm now investigating potential misidentification. The name "Ahmed Al-Ahmed" is a lead, but the visual suggests recent events. [...] However, the visual clues still point towards a recent conflict. The "thank you" narrative implies gratitude, sparking the idea of a Bedouin man rescuing Israelis during the Hamas attack. I'm actively using Google to explore these new avenues.

>[...]

>I've got a match! Ahmed al-Ahmed, the Bondi Beach hero, is confirmed. The snippets consistently mention December 14-15, 2025, and today's the 15th! He fits the description: Syrian refugee shop owner, tackled a gunman at a Hanukkah event, and was shot. The visual confirms a man in a white shirt being helped, with a message of thanks. This is definitely the right event!

So no "misinformation" or "glitching", just LLMs being LLMs.

[1] https://x.com/NoaMagid/status/2000196326521204984
by vjk800 | 2025-12-15 13:22:16+00:00
Tractors largely replaced human labour in farming about a hundred years ago. Should we have started taxing tractors?

I really have difficulties seeing AI as anything else than yet another type of machinery. If your argument is "but it's replacing ALMOST ALL human labour" - well, the same argument was valid for tractors a hundred years ago (when almost everyone was employed in agriculture).
by mcny | 2025-12-15 13:22:38+00:00
That's the creation date of that guid though. It doesn't say anything about the entity in question. For example, you might be born in 1987 and yet only get a social security number in 2007 for whatever reason.

So, the fact that there is a date in the uuidv7 does not extend any meaning or significance to the record outside of the database. To infer such a relationship where none exists is the error.
by delfinom | 2025-12-15 13:22:52+00:00
No, as someone in the western side of product development things. The problem is studied in the standard MBA course for Strategy, without even China mentioned.

First-mover advantage, which comes from R&D into new markets is short lived no matter what. It is critical for firms that hit new ground to find ways to continue to grow their position and market as soon as they can. Copy-cat firms always always come, even big western megacorps love to come in and push out the little western corps, this is typically what is taught in said MBA class. Depending on the market, making newer products that are cheaper is absolutely something a firm must evaluate if there is a demand for it that can be a position and a threat to them.

It's simply the song and dance of the business lifecycle. It's one of the many reasons why 90% of startups fail.
by 9dev | 2025-12-15 13:23:04+00:00
You're completely omitting externalised cost, though. As it stands, all this production requires gargantuan amounts of energy that have to come from somewhere, and cause pollution and waste that must be accounted for. As long as these factors aren't solved—if they can be solved in the first place—either the prices for consumers or the manufacturing cost must reflect this, I don't see the increased degree automation affecting prices much.
Show HN: I am building a monitoring app to catch product issues
by maddhruvhn | 2025-12-15 13:23:15+00:00
Hi HN,

I am building SupaGuard. I am a software engineer and have been deeply involved in production observability for quite some time.

The Problem

I found out that Real User Monitoring (RUM) is the one that lets us down the most when we are in need of help. Taking an example, if a deployment at 7 PM breaks the login flow but no one tries to log in until 11 PM, then the system is operating blindly for more than 4 hours. Metrics might be showing that everything is fine, but in reality, the product is functionally broken.

The Solution

I am making SupaGuard to address only these kinds of pain points. It is an AI-native continuous synthetic monitoring platform that aims at locating those silent functional failures which do not generate any noise.

Key Features:

AI Test Generation: A browser agent goes through your app, automatically discovers critical flows and hence generates Playwright scripts along with assertions.

Smart Retries: To handle flakiness, when a test fails in a certain location (e.g. US East), it will try to rerun the test in another location (e.g. EU) immediately and only if the follow-up fails will it send the alert.

Non-Binary Alerting: It is not only "down" that is checked. The system grades performance degradation and identifies functional failures impact-wise.

Pricing

I am figuring out a better pricing model that will still be affordable and user-friendly at the same time. Suggestions are welcome.

Status

I am still in the process of product development and you can sign up for a waitlist if you'd like to be the first to know when it's ready.

The URL is https://supaguard.app/

I would be very happy to get your feedback regarding the concept and the features that I am prioritizing. Thanks!
by the_af | 2025-12-15 13:23:16+00:00
Sam Altman decided to irresponsibly talk bullshit about parenting because yes, he needed that marketing sound bite.

I cannot believe someone will wonder how people managed to decode "my baby dropped pizza and then giggled" before LLMs. I mean, if someone is honestly terrified about the answer to this life-or-death question and cannot figure out life without an LLM, they probably shouldn't be a parent.

Then again, Altman is faking it. Not sure if what he's faking is this affectation of being a clueless parent, or of being a human being.
by Godefroy | 2025-12-15 13:23:23+00:00
I'm experimenting with AI-moderated interviews with my SaaS https://raconte.ai/ and the open source lib I created for it: https://micdrop.dev/

Micdrop is already used by other products to implement robust voice conversation with AI in webapps. Cheaper and more controllable than realtime GPT.

Feedbacks are appreciated!
by dubi_steinkek | 2025-12-15 13:23:23+00:00
Why is this a perf footgun? As someone who doesn't write a lot of c++, I don't see anything intuitively wrong.

Is it that iterating over map yields something other than `std::pair`, but which can be converted to `std::pair` (with nontrivial cost) and that result is bound by reference?
by latexr | 2025-12-15 13:23:31+00:00
Sam Altman has revealed himself to be the type of tech bro who is embarrassingly ignorant about the world and when faced with a problem doesn’t think “I’ll learn how to solve this” but “I know exactly what’ll fix this issue I understand nothing about: a new app”.

He said they have no idea how to make money, that they’ll achieve AGI then ask it how to profit; he’s baffled that chatbots are making social media feel fake; the thing you mentioned with raising a child…

https://www.startupbell.net/post/sam-altman-told-investors-b...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-...

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-cari...
by Gormo | 2025-12-15 13:23:37+00:00
The Crimson Diamond is unique in that it's deliberately trying to evoke a very specific era and platform: late '80s, Sierra SCI engine. It's particularly inspired by The Colonel's Bequest. That's why it uses EGA-style graphics and parser input.

But adventure gaming never went away, it just became more and more of a niche. There are lots of high-quality amateur games, but there's been a steady tricky of high-quality "indie" commercial games since the '90s. I'd recommend Wadjet Eye Games' entire catalog: https://wadjeteyegames.com/games/
by vee-kay | 2025-12-15 13:23:46+00:00
China (whose Maoists control the Nepal government) has mandated Mandarin Chinese to be taught in Nepal's schools as well.

https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/mandarin-made-mandatory-...

https://www.regentschool.edu.np/chinese-language-classes/

China will destroy or subsume all native culture in every nation/land it gains control of. China is following the Colonial model of divide, conquer/conquest and containment, except this is all happening in the modern era.
by gizmo | 2025-12-15 13:23:47+00:00
If businesses are rational agents that seek to maximize profit then yes you would expect agentic AI to eat SaaS. But this is not the world we live in. So much of business could be automated with 1990s technology. A model that predicts societal change should also be able to explain why this time it's different. Historical precedent says we should expect:

- modest incremental gains in productivity

- society will remain mostly the same

- very few people will take advantage of the opportunities unlocked by AI
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-12-15 13:23:48+00:00
> Capital makes the marginal worker more productive, not less. You can tax the worker and she will still be better off than if you had taxed the capital, due to greater productivity.

Point one: higher productivity is not necessarily our goal. I could think of numerous industries that would make the world better if they did less work.

Point two: There's a moral absurdity in taxing the wages earned by labor more heavily than the returns earned by ownership. One is tangible effort, the other is an abstraction backed by law. If anything, taxing capital should be the baseline, because it's the least tied to survival. Historically, when America was at its most broadly prosperous, capital gains and corporate profits were taxed at far higher rates than today.

Point three: AI intensifies that calculus. If AI is deployed by capital to further replace or devalue labor, then taxing only the worker is punishing the displaced while rewarding the displacer. That's pure extraction. If we want social systems to survive, the burden has to fall on the owners of the machines, not the people being replaced by them.

Genuinely one of the largest and most destructive ills of our society right now is that so tremendously more of our shared prosperity as a system is directed to those who do the least to create it.
by GhostDrift | 2025-12-15 13:23:59+00:00
I wrote a short preprint proposing a “beacon” design principle for finite-closure behavior in dissipative dynamics.

Core idea: fix a beacon triple = (window, target, positivity margin). This defines an observation channel b(x) = K * Φ(x). If an energy V(x) dissipates whenever b(x) is large, and b(x) cannot stay small when V(x) is large (beacon coercivity), then all trajectories are trapped in a finite region with an explicit radius:

R_fc = max{ R0, (γ/(κ m)) * W_inf^2 }

What’s concrete (not just philosophy):

A quantitative uniform positivity bound for the smoothed windowed Yukawa kernel (UWP), giving an explicit δ_pos on a finite interval:

K^{(τ)}(t) ≥ [ τ * exp(-λ(Ξ+Δ)) ] / [ 2πλ(4Δ^2+τ^2) ] for |t| ≤ Δ

An outward-rounded rational lower bound for δ_pos, meant to be stored as an audit-friendly certificate.

Minimal examples showing the same mechanism across heterogeneous “targets” (state / deviation / gradient), including bridge dynamics, a semantic “meaning OS”, and security kernels.

Link: https://ghostdrifttheory.github.io/Okakiyoshi-Emotive-OS-Dem...
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-12-15 13:24:03+00:00
Got it. I didn't realize. Checking out the docs, looks like GQL is based on Cypher. So in the thread people were talking about it, just calling it GQL as the common name, not Cypher as the original name and I missed it.

GQL-SQL - for queries.

GraphQL, more for REST??
by slowmovintarget | 2025-12-15 13:24:12+00:00
I hear this, and I want to sympathize, but I always have trouble reconciling it with the philosophy pointed to by the phrase "information wants to be free."

Should the people be compensated for their work? Yes. Is this piracy? Yes, we know that many of these big organizations just outright copied the work with out proper payment. (No, it isn't theft, theft deprives the owner of property, not just a portion of the revenue.)

But tokenization and vectorization of this data is fundamental transformation. Information wants to be free. Again, I don't know if I can reconcile this with fair use doctrine, but it smells like it, especially for books that would be in a library, or images of paintings.

If we embodied these learning systems in a robot, sent it to the library, and had it read every book, would it be piracy? That's how humans learn. They take away a fundamental summary of the thing. When I read a book I'm affected by it. My vocabulary, even my writing style sometimes. The fact that these are machine systems capable of doing this at scale... does that make a difference?
by nerdjon | 2025-12-15 13:24:47+00:00
It frustrates me that this is where we have come too.

I refuse to connect any of my TV's to the internet but I have to wonder how long until a few different things happen:

- The TV's just connect to unsecure Wifi and collect the data anyways (I think there were reports of at least one manufacture already doing this at one point?). Or just make a deal with xfinity to use their mesh network that seems to be everywhere.

- The TV's don't work without being connected to the internet.

- The manufactures find out that the cost of adding in a cellular modem is justified by the increase in data they can collect.

I would love the idea of buying a modern TV without any of this crap shoved in, I happily use my Apple TV for everything that isnt video games.

It bothers me though when it seems like to fix an issue with HDR or something I need to update the firmware. I have wondered on occasion if this is intentional to "force" people to connect. If I have to do this I will run an ethernet cable to temporarily connect.
Show HN: Turning noisy webpages into clean JSON for LLMs
by timeproofs | 2025-12-15 13:24:53+00:00
Most webpages are hard for LLMs to read properly.

HTML mixes real content with navigation, footers, cookie banners, scripts, ads, and layout noise. This makes prompts larger, chunking worse, and RAG pipelines less reliable.

AI2JSON is a small public API that converts any public webpage into a clean, deterministic JSON structure: - main content only - ordered sections - stable output - SHA-256 hash for change detection

No summary, no interpretation — just a minimal contract between the web and AI systems.

You can paste a URL and instantly compare: - what an LLM sees with raw HTML - vs the same content as structured JSON

Free sandbox, no API key. I’m mainly looking for developer feedback: does this actually improve your AI workflows?

Demo: https://ai2json-c14gadm9x-jeason1.vercel.app