MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whycome | 2025-12-03 16:12:17+00:00
I think we are also forgetting that the crew member IS a part of the scene. They have to see the actor and respond to their actions to make sure the flow aligns. It’s much harder to control the flow as it pertains to the actor if you have the latency of a long pipe.

And having the real product on set allows the other actors to give realistic reactions.
by conception | 2025-12-03 16:12:18+00:00
Resident salary: approx. € 60,000 - 75,000 Specialist salary: approx. 75,000 € - 98,000 Senior physician salary: approx. € 90,000 - € 150,000 Chief physician salary: approx. € 150,000 - € 370,000

Seems fine? Especially if you subtract a substantial amount of benefits fringe.
by seidleroni | 2025-12-03 16:13:42+00:00
I don't believe that it just analyzes the transcription. I asked Gemini to look at the youtube video referenced on the site below and "build" something that duplicates that device. It did a pretty good approximation that it could not have done without going through the full video.

https://bitsnpieces.dev/posts/a-synth-for-my-daughter/
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-03 16:13:51+00:00
By their own industry data (https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/49158394...), deduplication causes a 5x performance increase loading data from HDD. There's a reason so many games are huge, and it's not because they're mining your HDD for HDDCoin.

The "problem" is a feature. The "so it remains unfixed until someone with pride in their work finally carves out the time to do it" mindset suggests that they were simply too lazy to ever run fdupes over their install directory, which is simply not the case. The duplication was intentional, and is still intentional in many other games that could but likely won't apply the same data minimization.

I'll gladly take this update because considerable effort was spent on measuring the impact, but not one of those "everyone around me is so lazy, I'll just be the noble hero to sacrifice my time to deduplicate the game files" updates.
by vessenes | 2025-12-03 16:14:00+00:00
You did not parse that article properly. It regurgitates only what everyone else keeps saying: when you conflate R&D costs with operating costs, then you can say these companies are 'unprofitable'. I'd propose with a proper GAAP accounting they are profitable right now; by proper I mean that you amortize out the costs of R&D against the useful life of the models as best you can.

I am not aware of any frontier inference disclosures that put margins at less than 60%. Inference is profitable across the industry, full stop.

Historically R&D has been profitable for the frontier labs -- this is obscured because the emphasis on scaling the last five years has meant they just keep 10xing their R&D compute budget. But for each cycle of R&D, the results have returned more in inference margin than they cost in training compute. This is one major reason we keep seeing more spend on R&D - so far it has paid, in the form of helping a number of companies hit > $1bn in annual revenue faster than almost any companies in history have done so.

All that said, be cautious shorting these stocks when they go public.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-03 16:14:19+00:00
On the other hand some notable open source leaders seem to be abrasive assholes. Linus, Theo, DHH, just three examples who come to mind. I think if you have a clear vision of what you want your project to be then being agressively dismissive of ideas that don't further that vision is necessary just to keep the noise to a low roar.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-03 16:14:22+00:00
> All kinds of animals would benefit from knowing that awhoo comes from a wolf and that, in this example, awhoo awhoo is the same sound coming from the same wolf or that an animal recognizes that the first awhoo comes from one wolf and the second awhoo from another wolf.

Interesting choice of example. Dog howls are apparently intentionally off-key.

The goal of the basic choir is to sound like one voice in perfect harmony.

The goal of a pack howling over long distances is apparently to communicate that every member of the pack is present - so each voice is out of harmony with the rest.
Show HN: MCP Gateway – Unifying Access to MCP Servers Without N×M Integrations
by supreetgupta | 2025-12-03 16:14:29+00:00
Many teams connecting LLMs to external tools eventually encounter the same architectural issue: as more tools and agents are added, the integration pattern becomes an N×M mesh of direct connections. Each agent implements its own auth, retries, rate limiting, and logging; each tool needs credentials distributed to multiple places and observability becomes fragmented.

We built LLM gateway with this goal to provide a single place to manage authentication, authorization, routing, and observability for MCP servers, with a path toward a more general agent-gateway architecture in the future.

The system includes a central MCP registry, support for OAuth2/DCR integration, Virtual MCP Servers for curated toolsets, and a playground for experimenting with tool calls.

Resources -

Architecture Blog – Covers the N×M problem, gateway motivation, design choices, auth layers, Virtual MCP Servers, and the overall model.

https://www.truefoundry.com/blog/introducing-truefoundry-mcp...

Tutorial – Step-by-step guide to writing an MCP server, adding Okta-based OAuth, and integrating it with the Gateway.

https://docs.truefoundry.com/docs/ai-gateway/mcp-server-oaut...

Feedback on gaps and edge cases is welcome.

https://www.truefoundry.com/mcp-gateway
by anovikov | 2025-12-03 16:14:45+00:00
Because people with titles of nobility were forbidden from participating in business at the risk of losing their titles; projecting to modern era, they'd be also forbidden from owning stocks at all. They must derive their means of existence from land rents and public/military service. Pretext was that engaging in commerce or business was "dishonourable" and below their status, in practice, it was a useful tool to avoid conflict of interest.

To think of it, there's something tempting in physically separating owning class from ruling class, isn't it?
by accrual | 2025-12-03 16:15:11+00:00
Congrats on the release, Mistral team!

I haven't used Mistral much until today but am impressed. I normally use Gemma 3 27B locally, but after regenerating some responses with Mistral 3 14B, the output quality is very similar despite generating much faster on my hardware.

The vision aspect also worked fine, and actually was slightly better on the same inputs versus qwen3 VL 8B.

All in all impressive small dense model, looking forward to using it more.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-03 16:16:00+00:00
How do you feel the generics "look like" Java ?

Implementation-wise they're the same trick as C++, monomorphization.

Stylistically they're not very like either, however the effect is more like C++ because Rust idiomatically prefers to constrain functions not types so e.g. it's fine to talk about HashMap<f32, f32> a hypothetical hash table of floating point numbers mapped to other floating point numbers - even though we can't use such a type because if we try to insert into it we'll be told that insert requires its key parameter to implement Eq and Hash, which f32 doesn't because of NaN.

In both C++ and Java as I understand it these constraints live on the type not the functions associated with that type, although C++ does not have the same constraint here and is perfectly willing to try to make a hash table of floats... but where a constraint lives on a function in C++ it would behave similarly to Rust due to SFINAE - the function won't match so your diagnostics say there's no such function, probably worse diagnostics than Rust but that's par for the course in C++.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-03 16:16:07+00:00
> ... It's optimized for rewriting a formula many times.

It's not just "rewriting" arbitrarily either, but rewriting according to well-known rules of expression manipulation such as associativity, commutativity, distributivity of various operations, the properties of equality and order relations, etc. It's precisely when you have such strong identifiable properties that you tend to resort to operator-like notation in any formalism (including a programming language) - not least because that's where a notion of "rewriting some expression" will be at its most effective.

(This is generally true in reverse too; it's why e.g. text-like operators such as fadd() and fmul() are far better suited to the actual low-level properties of floating-point computation than FORTRAN-like symbolic expressions, which are sometimes overly misleading.)
by dangus | 2025-12-03 16:16:08+00:00
$14,570 per person is our healthcare cost per capita.

For one thing, cutting out even that tiny 0.1%, that's a savings of $15 a year if I wasn't paying my insurance company's CEO. I would absolutely love to keep that $15. The idea that more than one dollar every single month from every single person is going to the CEOs of all our healthcare services is actually INSANE when you think about it.

0.1% is actually a LOW amount for some entities in the system. For example, the Cleveland Clinic spends 0.4% of revenue on executive compensation: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/340...

That really means that out of my $14,570 yearly healthcare cost I could be paying something like $5/month just on executive salary. Who knows, maybe it's even more!

This is, again, insane. Why do Cleveland Clinic executives need to be paid $30 million/year?

This isn't administrative cost, like all the hard-working people who do the clerical work that keeps these systems operating. This is just the salaries of an extremely small group of people, less than 10 people per company.

All of these entities are allowed to make excess profit and/or have loose definitions of non-profit status, and pay CEOs dozens to hundreds of times the salary of their lowest paid employees. There isn't really a limit to the amount they can compensate top executives.
by sidrag22 | 2025-12-03 16:16:08+00:00
this feels like a no brainer solution, but just seems like a wonderful wishlist that won't happen, ive heard it a lot.

I am wondering why i don't hear anything like: if a church or group representing a church get involved with politics, through lobbying or any other type of means, their tax free status is revoked and they are treated like a normal entity.

it seems like a similar type of thing that in my eyes at least, is a no brainer, but is just as likely to be chopped down because of how our current system functions.
by turnsout | 2025-12-03 16:16:42+00:00
Not quite but close. Titanic, like a lot of movies of the 90s and 2000s, was shot in Super 35. In Super 35, the image is ~4:3, but it requires optical printing or scanning to produce a release print, since the image is both not the correct aspect ratio and also occupies the area used for optical sound.

So it was not "cropped in the theater"—the theater got a standard anamorphic print. To go from the Super 35 negative to the anamorphic print, they both cropped and optically squeezed the image (in the case of the non-vfx shots), and scanned, cropped, squeezed digitally and printed back to film (in the case of the vfx shots). This was a few years before they did full "digital intermediates."
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 16:16:50+00:00
It's funny that apparently "high performance" DAC doesn't handle the common issue every single USB audio device have to worry about - noisy power. From the vendor page (on MODI 5, no idea which one author has).

> SPECS THAT MATTER

> Distortion: inaudible; 100-1000x lower than any transducer (speaker or headphone) you're using > Noise: inaudible; far below a typical headphone or speaker amp
by rvnx | 2025-12-03 16:16:57+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw699ZbUKqg

Looks very playable to me.

It's just an expensive card, but if the market is flooded with them, they can be used in gaming AND in local LLMs.

So it can push the fall of server-side AI even further.

These cards are 400 USD for reference, so if more and more are sold, we can imagine them getting down to 100 USD or so.

(and then similar for A100, H100, etc)

My main concern is the noise because I have seen datacenter hardware and it is crazy. Of course it's not ideal but there is something to do with it.
by mkornaukhov | 2025-12-03 16:16:59+00:00
I do write mostly async code, too.

There are several ~~problems~~ subtleties that make usage of Rust async hindered IMHO.

- BoxFuture. It's used almost everywhere. It means there are no chances for heap elision optimization.

- Verbosity. Look at this BoxFuture definition: `BoxFuture<'a, T> = Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = T> + Send + 'a>>;`. It's awful. I do understand what's Pin trait, what is Future trait, what's Send, lifetimes and dynamic dispatching. I *have to* know all these not obvious things just to operate with coroutines in my (possibly single threaded!) program =(

- No async drop and async trait in stdlib (fixed not so long ago)

I am *not* a hater of Rust async system. It's a little simpler and less tunable than in C++, but more complex than in Golang. Just I cannot say Rust's async approach is a good enough trade-off while a plethora of the decisions made in the design of the language are closest to the silver bullet.
by xp84 | 2025-12-03 16:17:16+00:00
Since they are supposed to be serving their country and not seeking personal gain, their interests should be aligned with those of the whole country. As a condition of taking office, they should surrender their entire stock portfolio to a government custodian in exchange for a federally-held broad market index fund. While in office, they are free to sell from that fund if they need the money and free to buy more of that, but no other securities. When they leave office, they are owed the present value of their index fund, and can repurchase whatever they want to. All of these could be made non-taxable events, so that if someone wants to just go back into the same positions they had, there isn’t any complication.

To me, the above seems slightly complex, but well worth undertaking in order to stop this blatant and shameless corruption.

As we’ve seen with the current president, though, it’s much more difficult when they own and control whole businesses instead of just fungible securities. To be fair to the president, there isn’t really any reasonable way to get rid of his massive conflicts of interest besides having a pre-inauguration IPO for all his companies and retaining 0 shares - and his family retaining nothing too. But that’s a bigger problem that probably cant be solved.

Stocks though, it would be easy, they just don’t want to solve it.
by AlexandrB | 2025-12-03 16:17:53+00:00
I see a lot of people attacking the messenger but very few addressing the basic logic that you need 800B+ in profit just to pay the interest on some of these investments.

Pointing out IBM's mixed history would be valid if they were making some complex, intricate, hard to verify case for why AI won't be profitable. But the case being made seems like really simple math. A lot of the counterarguments to these economic problems have the form "this time it's different" - something you hear every bubble from .com to 2008.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-03 16:18:18+00:00
The one good thing about death statistics is that they are difficult to hide or game the reporting thresholds.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/

Autopilot kills loads of people but my understanding is that autopilot is the dumb driver assist while FSD is the one that tries to solve general purpose driving.

Has FSD really only killed 2 people? FSD has driven 6 billion miles and the human driver death rate is 10 per billion so it has killed 2 where "as good as human" would mean 60. That seems really good tbh.

EDIT: and it looks like "deactivate before collision" doesn't work as a cheat, NHTSA requires reporting if it was active at any time within 30 seconds of the crash: https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...
by bawolff | 2025-12-03 16:18:34+00:00
I feel like securing against request smuggling is simpler with http/2. That is of course only one aspect.

Ultimately though, its not like this is getting rid of http/1.1 in general, just DNS over http/1.1. I imagine the real reason is simply nobody was using it. Anyone not on the cutting edge is using normal dns, everyone else is using http/2 (or 3?) for dns. It is an extremely weird middle ground to use dns over http 1. Im guessing the ven diagram was empty.
by graybeardhacker | 2025-12-03 16:18:36+00:00
If I understand the graph correctly, it looks like there's maybe a three percentage point increase. But given there is a 1 percentage point delta in the pre-ban data, that would seem to indicate there is at least a 1 point variation that must be ignored as irrelevant.

I'm not sure how they generated the error bars but that, to me, would suggest the relevant error could be +/- 1 percentage point. Meaning the delta could be at little as two percentage points.

My intuition says cellphone bans would have a positive impact, but I don't think I'd call this data conclusive. I'd want to see more data from earlier and later.

Also, if these are the same students, then test scores might be reflecting increased maturity. If it's different students of the same age, it could be a shift in some extra-educational factors affecting the younger generation.

Too many unknowns and not enough signal.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-03 16:18:57+00:00
> From my perspective it would make a lot more sense to only allow index fund purchases as an elected official.

The new leader[1] of the Norwegian wealth fund[2] had a large stock portfolio. There was some debacle given the influential nature of the wealth fund.

He agreed to sell the stocks and buy index funds instead, until he resigned from that position.

As you say, I think that's very reasonable. They can still make money off the general stock market lkkd the rest so they're not disadvantaged, but have very limited opportunity to benefit significantly from inside deals.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_Tangen

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
by theptip | 2025-12-03 16:19:33+00:00
> Cursor had won the developer market from the previous winner copilot

It’s a fair point, but the counter-point is that back then these tools were ide plugins you could code up in a weekend. Ie closer to a consumer app.

Now Claude Code is a somewhat mature enterprise platform with plenty of integrations that you’d need to chase too. And long-term enterprise sales contracts you’d need to sell into. Ie much more like an enterprise SAAS play.

I don’t want to push this argument too far as I think their actual competitors (eg Google) could crank out the work required in 6-12 months if they decided to move in that direction, but it does protect them from some of the frothy VC-funded upstarts that simply can’t structurally compete in multi-year enterprise SAAS.
by pbronez | 2025-12-03 16:19:40+00:00
Microsoft's Power Platform should be a big advantage. If you already have your data in Outlook/SharePoint, the PowerPlatform makes it easy to access. Unfortunately I've encountered several roadblocks deploying CoPilot Studio & Power Platform for my enterprise. Note: I'm using GCC, so everything is worse than normal.

1) Incomplete integration. Often I just want to write a prompt to create structured data from unstructured data. e.g. read an email and create a structured contact record. There's a block for this in Power Platform, but I can't access it. Studio can do this pretty well, but...

2) CoPilot Studio sucks at determinism. You really need to create higher level tools in Power Automate and call them from Studio. Because of (1) this makes it hard to compose complex systems.

3) Permissions. We haven't been able to figure out a secure way for people to share Copilot Studio agents. This means you need to log into studio and use the debug chat instead of turning the agent on in the main Copilot interface.

4) IDE. Copilot Studio bogs down real fast. The UI gets super laggy, creating a terrible DX. There should be a way to write agents in VScode, push the definitions to source control, and deploy to Copilot, but it isn't obvious.

5) Dumb By Default. The Power Platform has hooks into Outlook and Active Directory. Copilot has access to the latest OpenAI models. CoPIlot Studio has an MCP server for Calendar. Out of the box I should be able to tell CoPilot "schedule a 30min meeting with Joe and Larry next week." Nope. Maybe if I struggle through CoPilot Studio to create an agent? Still no. WTF Microsoft.

I guess I'll stop there. I really wanted to like Copilot studio, but it just didn't deliver. Maybe I'll circle back in a couple months, but for now I'm exploring other platforms.

PS don't even get me started on how we were so excited to retire our home-grown chat front end for the Azure OpenAI Service in favor of Copilot, only to have our users complain that Copilot was a downgrade.

PPS also don't talk to me about how CoPilot is now integrated into Windows and SIGNS YOU INTO THE FREE COMMERCIAL SERVICE BY DEFAULT. Do you know how hard it is to get people to use the official corporate AI tools instead of shadow AI? Do you know how important it is to keep our proprietary data out of AI training sets? Apparently not.
by Karliss | 2025-12-03 16:19:45+00:00
It's less about ensuring perfect layout as it is about avoiding almost guaranteed terrible layout. Unless your filesystem is fully fragmented already it won't intentionally shuffle and split big files without a good reason.

Single large file is still more likely to be mostly sequential compared to 10000 tiny files. With large amount of individual files the file system is more likely to opportunistically use the small files for filling previously left holes. Individual files more or less guarantee that you will have to do multiple syscalls per each file and to open and read it, also potentially more amount of indirection and jumping around on the OS side to read the metadata of each individual file. Individual files also increases chance of accidentally introducing random seeks due to mismatch between the order updater writes files, the way file system orders things and the order in which level description files list and reads files.
Show HN: Rephole, semantic code-search for your repos via REST API
by riktar | 2025-12-03 16:19:58+00:00
I built *rephole*, an open source tool that transforms one or more code repositories into a semantic search engine, accessible through a simple REST API.

What you get * Clone + parse + index any number of repos (20+ languages supported) * Generate embeddings, store them in a vector database, enable semantic search by intent (not just keyword matching) * Ask natural language questions like “how does authentication work?” — get relevant file snippets returned

Why it matters * Navigating large or polyrepo codebases manually is slow and error-prone * Semantic search helps you find relevant code even if you don’t remember exact file names or code paths * REST API + docker-compose deployment lets you self-host quickly and integrate it with existing workflows

If you work with large or multiple codebases, rephole can save you time and make code navigation easier. Feedback, issues or PRs welcome

GitHub: https://github.com/twodHQ/rephole
by triceratops | 2025-12-03 16:20:01+00:00
You said

> generally standardizing things across the nation would be a net positive.

The person you replied to said

> federal... should be restricted to providing...basic guidelines that have to be met

You may be closer in opinion than you realize.

Btw what the person you responded to described is how the Canadian healthcare system - which many liberal-type Americans on Reddit appear to admire - works. The federal government sets standards and provides some funding. The provinces implement it their own way.