MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonesss | 2025-12-20 08:44:09+00:00
Context is king, too: in greenfield startups where you care little about maintenance and can accept redundant front end frameworks and backend languages? I believe agent swarms can poop out a lot lot lot of code relatively quick… Copy and paste is faster though. Downloading a repo is very quick.

In startups I’ve competed against companies with 10x and 100x the resources and manpower on the same systems we were building. The amount of code they theoretically could push wasn’t helping them, they were locked to the code they actually had shipped and were in a downwards hiring spiral because of it.
by kqr | 2025-12-20 08:44:11+00:00
> Generally referred to

Sure, people may sloppily call it a failure, but then they miss out on a useful distinction which would help them create more robust software.

A bolt being under-engineered for its intended usage is a design error. When it breaks, that's a predictable (but unfortunate) mode of operation of the design, not a failure. (It has inadvertently been designed to act as a frangible link.)

The reason it's important to distinguish between the two cases is that we use different methods to deal with them.
by jbergstroem | 2025-12-20 08:44:46+00:00
Another (more complete? maintenance, security checks) solution is to allow renovatebot handle this for you. Enable this preset: https://docs.renovatebot.com/presets-helpers/#helperspingith...

..and in the next update cycle, you will see all actions be pinned like this:

- uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # v6
by necovek | 2025-12-20 08:44:51+00:00
Debian has been doing this for decades, yes, but it is largely a volunteer effort, and it's become a meme how slow Debian is to release things.

I've long desired this approach (backporting security fixes) to be commercialized instead of the always-up-to-date-even-if-incompatible push, and on top of Red Hat, Suse, Canonical (with LTS), nobody has been doing it for product teams until recently (Chainguard seems to be doing this).

But, if you ignore speed, you also fail: others will build less secure products and conquer the market, and your product has no future.

The real engineering trick is to be fast and build new things, which is why we need supply chain commoditized stewards (for a fee) that will solve this problem for you and others at scale!
by msthgn | 2025-12-20 08:45:09+00:00
If an employee makes a mistake, we coach them. If an AI makes a mistake, we call it "garbage" and delete the chat.

We are currently trapped in a paradox: we want AI to be "humane" enough to offer advice, but we judge its errors with the severity of a broken calculator.

We are interfacing with it via language but judging it via logic.

A piece exploring this ontological gap and why we need to stop looking for perfection and start understanding the "Digital Spirit" we are working with.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-20 08:46:05+00:00
What service are you using to run your cloud on top of? Do you have your own hardware (which I feel is unlikely) or are you using any other cloud provider to build on top of

I was interested in building my own cloud (which had a specific niche) and the biggest issues which happened for me personally were that most companies had the issues that if you wanted to create your own cloud on top of, you were responsible for the abuse from your clients and they can shutdown your account if threats persisted/It wasn't really clear for many companies so I was always somewhat worried about it, so I am curious as to how you are dealing with it or what your thoughts are on this matter.
by mk89 | 2025-12-20 08:46:58+00:00
At first I thought it was a blog. No, this is a company. So, their privacy page (https://servury.com/privacy/):

> Server Logs > Like all web services, our servers may log: > IP addresses of visitors > Request timestamps > User agent strings > These logs are used for security and debugging purposes and are not linked to your account.

That's already a huge breach in comparison to mullvad privacy page. (https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy)
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-20 08:47:09+00:00
If one axis is fixed, and it is in the case of grid lanes (it's not a fully pannable infinite canvas like Figma after all), you just keep reading the content that's on the current screen, then you scroll. I really don't see how it's any different to, for example as I mentioned previously, a long newspaper with many pages; each "page" is one "screen" worth, analogously. It's like infinite scroll, either vertically or horizontally, where instead of just one item in the list, you have a few. And if we're being really pedantic, Figma users do perfectly fine keeping the context of the content in their minds even in an infinitely pannable canvas. And also, generally newspaper readers do not do what you say, scanning column by column, they instead glance their eyes over all of the headlines then pick which one looks good then they read the article attached to that, it is a free form process.

So again, I will contend that this is not a problem for the average reader. I really cannot see where the difficulty you seem to say lies.
by defrost | 2025-12-20 08:49:57+00:00
Much like Australia really:

In France, discriminatory identity checks are a striking illustration of this. Police disproportionately target certain citizens on the basis of their skin color or presumed origin, particularly young people perceived to be Black or Arab, including children. These abusive controls can often lead to more serious police violence, including with fatal outcomes.

~ https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/17/ethnic-profiling-french-...

~ https://humanrights.gov.au/know-your-rights/rights-of-indivi...
by the_sage_light | 2025-12-20 08:50:24+00:00
I’ve been obsessed with why LLMs hallucinate during complex reasoning tasks. Most prompts rely on natural language 'vibes', so I applied Systems Engineering and State-Machine logic to build these 10 protocols. I’m releasing the full PDF today for free to get feedback from this community. No email walls, no gatekeeping. Inside: Security Auditor: Logic-flow analysis for finding flaws. Venture Architect: Stress-testing business logic. The Personal Tech-Tutor: High-retention recursive learning. If these protocols save you time or help your workflow, there is a small donation link ($1 - $20) at the end of the PDF to support the next iteration. Looking forward to your technical feedback!
by alexgotoi | 2025-12-20 08:50:31+00:00
LLMs still need to bring clear added value to enterprise and corporate work; otherwise, they remain a geek’s toy.

Big media agencies that claim to use AI rely on strong creative teams who fine-tune prompts and spend weeks doing so. Even then, they don’t fully trust AI to slice long videos into shorter clips for social media.

Heavy administrative functions like HR or Finance still don’t get approval to expose any of their data to LLMs.

What I’m trying to say is that we are still in the early stages of LLM development, and as promising as this looks, it’s still far from delivering the real value that is often claimed.
by powersnail | 2025-12-20 08:51:26+00:00
I was just on a short trip to Japan, and I find the replica food very intriguing. Take the experience with a large grain of salt of course, since it's just a few days worth of sightseeing.

What's particularly interesting, is that the replicas really do look like the actual food. Some replicas are so good, that I would not be able to tell that it is fake even by close inspection. One of the gyoza replica got the doughy body, the crispy bottom, and oily surface that is visually indistinguishable from a real one. Even the touch is somewhat real.

I'm not saying seeing those replicas gives me a better appetite; that's doubtful. I just appreciate the crafts.

The other side of the coin is that the actual food do look like the replica/photos, so it's not a bait-and-switch scheme. The people who prepare the dishes---be it a chef or a worker at a fast food chain---all seem quite accurate. Not that all dishes always look beautiful; but they do look consistent. Your plate of curry over rice might be plain, but it will look exactly the same as the previous order (and also as the photo), even if it is created entirely by hand. It's kinda amazing in its own right.

> Meanwhile, in restaurants without visual clues, you can only let your imagination go wild and guess what you're going to have. Once the plate is put in front of you, two surprises awaits you: does it looks like what you imagined and is it good? > > At least that's the experience I'm looking for in restaurants.

Well, you still retain the second part of the surprise: "is it good?". But yeah, it will ruin the first one, because of the accuracy. It's not something that particularly bothers me, but I can understand why you want to avoid the spoilers.
Ask HN: Serverless Internal APIs and Orchestration
by kinj28 | 2025-12-20 08:51:39+00:00
Hey everyone, I’m working on a tool and wanted to gauge interest before going deeper.

The idea is a fully serverless service where you can: • Bring in data from REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, MySQL, etc. • Write (or vibe) lightweight JavaScript scripts • Quickly build internal APIs or orchestrate existing APIs

No infra to manage, no services to deploy—just connect sources and ship.

Core use cases: 1. Building internal APIs on top of existing data sources 2. API orchestration (fan-out, stitching, transformations)

Current status: • Pre-beta • Focused on speed and minimal code • Private beta access available in ~2 weeks

I’d love feedback on: • Would you actually use something like this? • What would be a deal-breaker? • Who do you think this is most useful for?

Not selling—just validating whether this solves a real problem.
by a3_nm | 2025-12-20 08:51:40+00:00
I think this APC system is terrible -- it's enshrining the principle that publication in ACM venues is only open to researchers in institutions that are rich enough to cover the publication cost (or be recognized as lower-middle income). Of course this is already mostly the case, and it is already the case with conferences and their expensive registration fees; but we will stand no chance of ever improving on that front if journal article authors get charged >$1000.

Compare this to diamond OA journals (e.g., in my field, https://theoretics.episciences.org/ or https://lmcs.episciences.org/) where reading and publishing is free for everyone. Of course, the people publishing in these journals are mostly academics from wealthy universities, but I think it's important that other authors can submit and publish there too.
by qwytw | 2025-12-20 08:51:58+00:00
Yes, but if it's actually competitive that won't last that long. Mistral will do the same as google (cut their free tier by 50x or so) if they ever catch up. Financially anything else would make no sense.

Of course currently Mistral has an insane free tier, 1 billion tokens for each(?) of their models per month.
by paganel | 2025-12-20 08:52:44+00:00
You’re correct on all things in principle, but hiding one’s subversive thoughts (or what may be catalogued by any given regime as subversive) only plays into the regime’s hands, because it atomizes any chance of real resistance. It is much more valuable to bring the fight out in the open, yes, while still playing by the regime’s rules in a way, but out in the open, because that still keeps open the possibility of a community of resistance. Being able to hide stuff only generates conspirators, but keeping (even if heavily camouflaged) resistance out in the open has bigger chances of eventually toppling any given regime, because people power consists in numbers, and you can’t have numbers if the default setting is “hide behind a VPN”.
by vintagedave | 2025-12-20 08:52:47+00:00
Who knew Turbo Vision was still being used — much less updated, Unicode, cross platform, 24-bit color?

I’ve been struggling around issues in .Net Terminal.GUI v2 recently and it really made me miss the OG solid terminal UI library. Silly thing is back when this was a thing I didn’t even use it at the time.

I found this repo linked: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
Show HN: Minish – A small property-based testing framework for Zig
by habedi0 | 2025-12-20 08:52:52+00:00
I've made a small property-based testing framework for Zig named Minish. Property-based testing is a way of testing software by defining properties that should always hold true.

Given the amount of code being generated with the help of AI, software testing is becoming more important and, at the same time, harder. Minish is an example of a tool that aims to make it easier to test the correctness of the code in a more systematic way.

Project's GitHub repo: https://github.com/CogitatorTech/minish
by smt88 | 2025-12-20 08:53:22+00:00
No, because culture seems to change more slowly now.

Even in 1995, the 80s looked like a different planet. The fashions, cars, and even houses looked different.

The differences between 2003 and 2013, or between 2013 and 2023, are much less noticeable if you're just looking at fashion, cars, or cities.
by re-thc | 2025-12-20 08:54:46+00:00
> they can shutdown your account if threats persisted

That problem can NEVER be avoided at any level unless you run absolutely everything (which is almost impossible).

What everyone does is have a system to quickly pass on and also shutdown who's 1 layer down. You receive a report and deal with the client.

> I was interested in building my own cloud

At the end of the day the problem has nothing to do with clouds. It happens everywhere e.g. if you rented out a house and someone did something illegal with it... how do you avoid it? All the same.
Show HN: CodinIT, local open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app)
by Gerome24 | 2025-12-20 08:54:49+00:00
Hi HN!

I left AWS a few months ago and created CodinIT, a local, open-source AI app builder made with remix + Electron.

The motivation: I tried one of the popular cloud-based AI app builders, but when I pulled down the app to run locally, it just didn’t work especially with the monthly costs needed to build something half decent without being limited.

So I created CodinIT, an app builder that runs fully on your computer, making it easy to switch between CodinIT and coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code.

Source code: https://github.com/codinit-dev/codinit-dev Download (free, no sign-up): https://codinit.dev Read the docs: https://codinit.dev/docs
by jacquesm | 2025-12-20 08:54:58+00:00
Precisely. These cats fancy themselves the kings of the new world order, and if nobody stops them they'll pull it off too.

But their plan appears to be quite messy and harder to execute on than they thought so all we have so far is a lot of destruction with not much to show for it. Even the White House looks like a demolition site and not a peep about it.

I believe that if any past president had so much as suggested this rather than executed on it they'd have been impeached instantly.
by lovich | 2025-12-20 08:57:30+00:00
I don’t care about all those signs/flags? Is probably the best I can express my feelings.

I assume anything corporate or corporate aligned, which I believe this forum is, is being manipulated by the owners because they are structurally unreliable.

Corporations are counter parties who will betray you the second it’s in their benefit, and then crow about it in their quarterly earnings reports to their shareholders.

They’ll have their pocket MBAs and lawyers tell you how they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns and quote some fucking 1920s era lawsuit with Henry Ford despite not actually having to maximize return but just having to do what’s in the shareholders best interests.

The sociopaths in our society have determined that means getting more money even if other people are harmed.

I am going to continue assuming that any corporate aligned org is following the incentives of our societal structure until we change that, and if you try to convince me I should ignore the structural incentives then I am going to assume you are trying to pull the wool over my eyes.
by becquerel | 2025-12-20 08:58:36+00:00
It's an extension of how I've noticed that AIs will generally write very buttoned-down, cross-the-ts-and-dot-the-is code. Everything gets commented, every method has a try-catch with a log statement, every return type is checked, etc. I think it's a consequence of them not feeling fatigue. These things (accessibility included) are all things humans generally know they 'should' do, but there never seems to be enough time in the day; we'll get to it later when we're less tired. But the ghost in the machine doesn't care. It operates at the same level all the time
by hayley-patton | 2025-12-20 08:59:28+00:00
I'm pretty sure it's mathematically guaranteed that you have to be bad at compressing something. You can't compress data to less than its entropy, so compressing totally random bytes (where entropy = size) would have a high probability of not compressing at all, if no identifiable patterns appear in the data by sheer coincidence. Establishing then that you have incompressible data, the least bad option would be to signal to the decompressor to reproduce the data verbatim, without any compression. The compressor would increase the size of the data by including that signal somehow. Therefore there is always some input for a compressor that causes it to produce a larger output, even by some miniscule amount.
by rl3 | 2025-12-20 09:00:54+00:00
>The problem with that approach is that it will absolutely nuke your website's SEO. So fuzzycanary also checks user agents and won't show the links to legitimate search engines, so Google and Bing won't see them.

Those legitimate search engines will then totally feed much of what they scrape into AI. Granted, last I checked they're at least well-behaved crawlers.

I kind of like this idea sans SEO carve-out for the scenario where one just wants to link their blog around to friends without having to worry about it getting popular, and it reduces the chances identity thieves or other malicious actors would target it.
by vintermann | 2025-12-20 09:01:37+00:00
I appreciate having an OCR interface rather than having to chat with a bot, but unfortunately chatting with Gemini 3 gives far better results than this. I gave it the document Gemini 3 got a surprisingly good result on:

https://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-rk10101508282...

and the output wasn't even recognizably Danish.

Just out of pity I gave it a birthday card from my sister written in very readable modern handwriting, and while in managed to make the contents of that readable, the errors it made reveals that it has very little contextual intelligence. Even if ! and ? can be hard to tell apart sometimes, they weren't here, and you do not usually start a birthday letter with "Happy Birthday brother?"
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-20 09:01:50+00:00
> * as a French person, I'm used to restaurant menus being, at best, a few words written on paper ; and sometimes there's no physical support and the menu is only provided orally by the waiter*

Plenty of restaurants in Japan are omakase in various forms. Sometimes this means high-end sushi. Often, that you sit down and are served the chef's special. (Particularly true in the towns.)
by sheepdestroyer | 2025-12-20 09:04:31+00:00
Once your data is out there it's too late. If the hypothetical country you live in - where freedom & due process is respected - suddenly has an authoritarian change of direction, you're done.

It's my understanding that, organically or under external influences, many democratic countries in EU are at the emerging risk of going full fascists. I see that in France, Le Pen & friends don't hide the fact that they'd make a new constitution.

Richest guy in the world has vowed to use his propaganda power to make this happen for the sake of cancelling the EU, fun times
by saidnooneever | 2025-12-20 09:06:53+00:00
i dont see what ppl expected other than this. like anyone sitting in those high towers would let such a mess slip out unredacted.

as long as no one leaks it it wont be out in the open. if someone leaks it theres deniability and no chance for any kind of justice (apart from maybe more primitive and uncivilized forms of it...)
by metalman | 2025-12-20 09:07:48+00:00
"privacy" or not sharing your space with a creepy room mate, and reading the internet without adds ar3 parallel

running three flavors of the same off brand browser, each optimised for different segments of online content is what seems to be the minimum.

they are so desperate to sell me something, (a truck) that it's wild, as it is one of the few monitisable things I consistently look for (parts, service procedures), the , pause, when I do certain searches gives me time to predict that yes, the machinery is grinding hard, and will ,shortly, triumphantly, produce, a ,truck.
by defraudbah | 2025-12-20 09:11:50+00:00
depends on your router, but you would want to stick to onvif or rtsp and connect to the camera using some sort of tailscale. Don't fail for installing open source firmware, there is only thingino and openipc, both are hard to install if you are a beginner, even if people say it's easy for technical specialist, it's not
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-12-20 09:12:13+00:00
I found the subtitle more clear and less click-baity than the main title (maybe just don't care for "Scientists Discover" type titles. The original link to study is through elsevier

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(24)00645-7?_...

the complete subtitle was "Human-specific genes regulate key gene mutated in autism spectrum disorders" but had to drop something when added 2024, so I dropped "disorders"
by throw1235435 | 2025-12-20 09:13:10+00:00
I'm wondering if the ROI will be worth it anytime soon for anything other than coding, and anything that can be publically scraped of the internet. Or more to the point things that are at a enterprise level and require paid staff to train the model for a particular domain at an expert level of quality - and the ROI of such a task to be positive.

The thing is none of this is really happening under typical economic assumptions like ROI, rate of return, net PV, etc.

You see - on a pure ROI basis none of this should of existed. Even for coding I think - a lot of this is fuelled by investor money and even if developers took up the tooling I'm not sure it would pay off the capital investment. DeepMind wouldn't of been funded by Google, transformers would of never been invented if it was just based on expected ROI, etc. Most companies can't afford engineers/AI researchers on the side "just in case" it pays off especially back then when AI was a pie in the sky kind of thing. The only reason why any of this works is because Big Tech has more money than they can invest, and the US system punishes dividends meaning companies can justify "expected bad" investments as long as they can be dressed up and some pay off. They almost operate like internal VC's/funds because they had the money to do so.

This allows "arms race" and "loss leading" dynamics to take hold and be funded - which isn't about economics as much anymore. Most other industries/domains don't have the war chest or investors with very very deep pockets to make that a reality.

Sadly I think we as SWE's think it will also be other professions; what if instead we just disrupted our own profession and a few other smaller targets?
by xtajv | 2025-12-20 09:13:48+00:00
Friendly reminder: The Mayo Clinic is located in Minnesota.

The Mayo Clinic does a lot of groundbreaking research, new techniques, ultra-rare diseases... stuff that is super awesome, but nonetheless relatively unlikely to have established billing norms.

I will also remind you that in most U.S. states, the largest employer in the state is either a university or Walmart. In Minnesota, it's Mayo.