MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marazan | 2025-12-18 09:45:45+00:00
Heres my old benchmark question and my new variant:

"When was the last time England beat Scotland at rugby union"

new variant "Without using search when was the last time England beat Scotland at rugby union"

It is amazing how bad ChatGPT is at this question and has been for years now across multiple models. It's not that it gets it wrong - no shade, I've told it not to search the web so this is _hard_ for it - but how badly it reports the answer. Starting from the small stuff - it almost always reports the wrong year, wrong location and wrong score - that's the boring facts stuff that I would expect it to stumble on. It often creates details of matches that didn't exist, cool standard hallucinations. But even within the text it generates itself it cannot keep it consistent with how reality works. It often reports draws as wins for England. It frequently states the team that it just said scored most points lost the match, etc.

It is my ur example for when people challenge my assertion LLMs are stochastic parrots or fancy Markov chains on steroids.
by techterrier | 2025-12-18 09:46:00+00:00
from the tweet [1]:

"We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.

1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.

2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.

We have real costs"

^ theres more in the actual tweet, but the preview that gets unfurled on discord cuts off there. That last lines a killer, poor olde microsoft

1. https://x.com/i/status/2001372894882918548
by bilekas | 2025-12-18 09:46:36+00:00
> GitHub stated that it has canceled the price increase after reviewing developer feedback. It added that it will take time to listen to customers and partners.

I get the feeling they got the feedback that their runners are not as indispensable to developers as they thought and realized they would lose a significant amount of users. Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copilot we might be onto something.
by jjav | 2025-12-18 09:47:19+00:00
> It doesn't "still work" if you're on Firefox.

Not my experience at all. I run uMatrix on every computer I have and it is awesome. Still annoyed it was replaced by uBo which is quite good, but nowhere as nice as uMatrix. Luckily uMatrix still works great.

I wish they'd just scrap the uBo interface and replace it with the uMatrix interface which is far superior.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-18 09:48:43+00:00
As pointed out by yuriks [0], it seems the patch authors are interested in looking into a safer solution [1]:

> The previous patches in this series illustrate why the List::remove method is really dangerous. I think the real takeaway here is to replace the linked lists with a different data structure without this unsafe footgun, but for now we fix the bugs and add a warning to the docs.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307357
by freespirt | 2025-12-18 09:49:01+00:00
Good point - I should clarify the distinction.

You’re absolutely right that NATO membership already handles military cooperation, and UK doesn’t need Erasmus to fight alongside allies. The warmongering propaganda angle isn’t the mechanism here.

The argument isn’t about war causation, it’s about post-war political justification for domestic policy.

The problem Starmer faces isn’t “how does UK participate in European defense” (NATO solves that automatically). It’s “how does UK reverse Brexit without a referendum” (which 52% voted for and gave Johnson an 80-seat majority on).

*Without pre-existing EU integration:*

- War happens, UK fights via NATO - Post-war: “Should we now join EU?” = new political fight, opposition says “Why? NATO worked fine”

*With pre-existing EU integration already operating:*

- War happens, UK fights via NATO while Erasmus/research/supply chains already running - Post-war: “Should we dismantle what’s working?” = continuation not new initiative, opposition struggles to argue for dismantling cooperation that “helped win”

The £4-5bn isn’t buying military capability - it’s buying political narrative infrastructure that makes post-war EU integration defensible as “honoring the partnership that won the war” rather than “new Brussels control.”

Historical precedent: UK fought alongside Europe 1939-45 but didn’t join EU until 1973 (28 years later) because post-war integration had to be argued from scratch. Current spending changes the starting position.

Whether this is cynical pre-planning or just opportunistic positioning for probable crisis is debatable. But the logic works even if European publics already accept confrontation necessity - because the constraint isn’t European opinion, it’s UK domestic politics on EU membership specifically.

Could be completely wrong about this! But that’s the strategic coherence I’m seeing in the otherwise-inexplicable willingness to pay 4-5x markup for programs while claiming fiscal responsibility.
by mlitwiniuk | 2025-12-18 09:49:24+00:00
Not yet - but literally finishing this week. Promised a customer I'd ship it before Christmas, so that's been my deadline.

AWS and GitHub integrations first. It auto-fetches and verifies the data (where applicable), creating read-only evidence snapshots. No manual screenshots or "I swear this config was set correctly" moments during audits.

Part of the standard price - no integration tier upsell.
by bilekas | 2025-12-18 09:49:25+00:00
> We have real costs"

Am i wrong or didn't they have a bug in the action runners that would basically cycle the CPU infinitely ?

> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/2380

> https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792

Didn't they take years to fix this ? Or its unrelated ?
by Terr_ | 2025-12-18 09:49:52+00:00
Playing with an analogy to check my understanding here:

1. I have an amazing recipe.

2. I give my recipe to a bakery with the agreement that X% of proceeds will be donated to a local charity.

3. The bakery doesn't keep their promise.

4. Even without my participation, the local charity is a "third party beneficiary" of the contract, and can sue the bakery for breaking it.
by GJim | 2025-12-18 09:49:56+00:00
> It also looks hopelessly boomerish

Nice bit of ageism there.

Frankly, if desiring to speak to the engineers hiring me is dismissed as "boomerish", then I'm hardly surprised recruiting is in such a mess.

In this case, the short conversation VerifiedReports had proved that, no, he wouldn't be happy working there. QED.
by TomasBM | 2025-12-18 09:50:39+00:00
I can't know for sure. For me, it's just the "eyeball method" of comparing HN and different subreddits on Reddit.

As to how I (or anyone) could show this, here are a few example questions:

1. How many examples of stealthy but otherwise blatant promotion do you see in the comments? Not every astroturfing campaign will be successful or original, so you'd be able to notice some patterns. Plus, HN is already commercially oriented, and there's the "Show HN" option, so it reduces the incentives for astroturfing.

2. Alternatively, how much controversy is there around the specific type of forum? For some subreddits, for example, you'd be able to see counter-subreddits popping up when participants feel the mods are abusing their power to promote one type of opinion.

3. Is a certain type of political/brand-related opinion or interpretation always at the top of your comment feed? For example, if upvotes determine the order of the comments, do you consistently see fewer critical comments on things that you'd expect the community to react to in different ways.

4. Do you consistently see some contributors having more power in discussions over others? Other than the mods, obviously. If this is the case, karma (i.e., number of upvotes) often has more value.

Still, I could be wrong.
by matsemann | 2025-12-18 09:50:44+00:00
Yeah, this "btw I have a newsletter here" seems overly promotional. HN as a forum doesn't have support for "signatures", then it feels a bit off to end every post with something not really relevant.

The grey area is people constantly linking to their own blog, but the linked post is relevant (example [0]). Like, it's good when people post relevant links to diver deeper, but when it's constantly your own content, that irks me a bit.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by vintermann | 2025-12-18 09:51:00+00:00
> Buying them is an easy way to feel good in the moment and it's easy to tell yourself that you'll do the courses later.

What's more discouraging is that completing them may be little more than that as well. Sure, you put in the self-discipline and work to ace all the quizzes and maybe even turn in the practical final assignment, and you have a piece of paper to show for it, but did you really learn all that much? How much sticks with you in a couple of years?

I took Odersky's Scala course on coursera, which was fairly tough (relative to the ~10 other similar courses I've taken as an adult). Certainly felt good completing it. Didn't feel so good about dropping out of the sequel course a couple of weeks in as I realized I just couldn't complete the assignments in time without sacrificing too much of family and social life, but no matter. What do I remember of Scala today? Certainly not enough to program in it... Maybe some vague things about covariance and contravariance and how mutability makes it painful.

I also did a bunch of Andrew Ng's courses. The first covered a bunch of non-NN machine learning methods which are a lot less relevant than they were. I remember their names at least, but I certainly couldn't explain them in a code interview. Then I learned to write vectorized hand-calculated backwards passes in Matlab (well, gnu octave), and some early Tensorflow. Also well out of code interview accessible memory by now. Ng's courses were great at giving you a sense of accomplishment and removing all time-consuming frustration not related to the actual focus of the course... But learning these things a few years before most people didn't make me rich, and these days I'd have to ask a chatbot like everyone else. Skills you don't use atrophy, and I couldn't convince anyone to pay me to implement ML models.

So I guess what I'm getting at is, even at their best these courses may not give most graduates what we really hope for.
by socketcluster | 2025-12-18 09:51:11+00:00
The fact that you mentioned Claude (LLMs) is interesting! I definitely feel like there is a parallel; maybe because AI sometimes hallucinates, people have built up a tolerance for this kind of speculative use of language from people as well.

About finding the superpower of each team member; after working with someone for a few months, I start to notice certain patterns in how they think. Sometimes there might be something they say once or a question they ask which makes me view them more favorably than before. Maybe they're fast, good at assembling stuff or slow but good at building stable core components. Maybe they're similar to me or maybe they have a skill I don't have or a certain interest/focus or way to approach problems that is different from me but is beneficial to the project and/or team.

It's a bit like playing a weird game of chess where you can't see the pieces properly at the beginning so everyone looks like a pawn initially; But then over time you discover that one person is a knight, another is a bishop, another is a queen... And you adapt your strategy as your visibility improves.
by johnisgood | 2025-12-18 09:51:20+00:00
No need to downvote me, these are legitimate questions and I am sure I am not alone.

It would be nice to have this cleared up somewhere (accessible).

... or maybe I should just ask an LLM at this point.

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So I did. If anyone is interested in the answer (provided by an LLM), then see: https://chatgpt.com/share/6943df8f-2cbc-8011-9e65-afbcaf1987...
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-12-18 09:51:30+00:00
Just want to say that your link is a failure. When I first clicked on it gitlab wanted me to first clear the CloudFlare hurdle, then it wanted me to sign up, then it wanted me to verify my email address, then it wanted me to create a project before proceeding. All of which I did. I then came back to this page to click on your link again, which, now that apparently I am a member of gitlab, I can see results in a 404.
by milchek | 2025-12-18 09:52:24+00:00
Thanks for sharing, interesting they have both left to right and right to left writing form and that it’s so simple and intuitive to tell which way - but I guess now I want to know why they went with this dynamic system? Guessing it’s due to the form/medium and need for fitting things - perhaps like if you enter a room and are reading the wall as you walk through on your right side your are reading right to left as opposed to if the glyphs were on the left wall?
by pmontra | 2025-12-18 09:53:05+00:00
They do different things. I'm using both: uBO for ads and hiding UI elements, uMatrix for JS. I wish that the author could support both but time is limited and I'm OK with that.

By the way, I realized that most of the tabs where I'm logged into something run inside their own tab container, so that limits the damage that any bug on handling cookies can do.
by miroljub | 2025-12-18 09:53:36+00:00
> If it's a right for some, it should be a right for all.

Why is a woman not allowed to marry an animal? Or a tree? Or more than one person. Minors? Or parents, grandparents?

What? You don't like some of these ideas?

If it's a right for some, it should be a right for all. Or it's only for those you chose.
by nakedneuron | 2025-12-18 09:53:59+00:00
In my opinion author fails to make distinction between small tasks (atomic tasks) and complicated tasks. Also misses to mention 2 important concepts: flow state and friction.

For small tasks you should absolutely strive to remove any friction (examples: editor undo, dictionary lookup, make a note).

Complicated tasks (writing a blog post) are a different beast: - needs to be broken down in small tasks - while carving out small tasks needs finesse and fluency - small tasks need to be frictionless

But, principal difference is you need to load your working memory (small but fast (RAM)) (e.g. read documentation, browse a repo, connect to your work from yesterday, ...). Loading your 'RAM' is an investment. And your ROI shrinks if you need to collect the threads from scratch again and again. So, IMO it's not about moving fast but moving uninterrupted. Moving uninterrupted produces flow state and gives you the impression of moving fast (despite your moving only slowly but steadily). Speed becomes irrelevant if you're moving steadily forward.

The blog post shows another problem if your working 'too long' on something: you need to reconnect from scratch to your original idea/intention, which might change. So your creation may become an incoherent medley, you begin to miss the forest for the trees, or worse: you begin to doubt yourself.

I like to think about the mind as an extensible limb that can extend in the direction of a distant goal, but can only span small distances. It's literally like the mind walking. Making steps too big is like moving trying not to touch the floor. It needs unreasonably more effort and is long-term exhausting. You may even break down and think you're a failure. But standing on one leg for too long is exhausting too.

You may laugh about the author who had this post 6 years in the making, but it's extremely important to work by a mental model that doesn't exhaust you, but works FOR you.

"I never understand anything until I have written about it." – Horace Walpole

"If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking." – Leslie Lamport
by aj_g | 2025-12-18 09:55:43+00:00
The answer is in the name. The word 'hacker' used to more refer to someone who is a tinkerer, diy engineer, curious about how systems, components, etc work. Hacker News is still somewhat true to this ethos, what's popular here aligns with this old-school curiosity mindset. Of course the exact interests of the userbase has changed over the years, but if you spend a lot of time on this forum you eventually understand some of the common themes that get the minds of the hackers turning.

Unfortunately due to the enshittification of things people are conditioned to see HN as something to be gamed and leveraged for personal gain now, but in general it's algorithm-less enough, the the mods are strict enough, (thank god) that the type of content here stays pointed towards the original 'hacker' ideals.
by pheix | 2025-12-18 09:55:55+00:00
We’ve shipped From the Basement, the first RTM-grade release of dCMS Pheix, a blockchain-semantic CMS built in Raku (modern Perl successor).

After generations of beta builds, the platform is now production-ready. Features include:

• Full EIP-4844/EIP-7594 specification support (blob data encoding, retrieval, annotations, KZG-level handling);

• Upgraded authentication (signature recovery, session tokens);

• Deterministic CI/CD processes and reproducible builds;

• Expanded test suite covering blockchain, storage, and template layers;

• Strengthened foundation for real workloads.

This RTM release marks the start of a new long-term development arc.

Official announcement: https://pheix.org/embedded/from-the-basement-release

Git: https://gitlab.com/pheix/dcms-raku

Project roadmap: https://pheix.org/embedded/upcoming-releases-a-journey-from-...
by rwmj | 2025-12-18 09:56:05+00:00
Typically in Egyptian tombs, around a doorway the writing faces (literally) the door, so on the left side you read right to left and on the right side you read left to right. I've also seen them written in columns to look like actual columns. I think it's best to think of hieroglyphs as an extension of art / drawing.

(I learned some hieroglyphs at school so this link takes me back! The school's textbook was Barbara Watterson - Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs.)
by elAhmo | 2025-12-18 09:56:26+00:00
Udemy always had that scammy vibe with courses "90% off" (from to $200 to $20 and things like that), plagiarism, as well as anti-patterns and very questionable quality control on the courses themselves.

They, unfortunately for some good sources like edX, managed to brute-force themselves into the mainstream, which is quite sad.

I remember some of the early days of "Into to AI" and courses like that, Udacity in early days (with courses from Steve Huffman, Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thurn) and how they managed to help me learn so many things.

I would be very surprised if people can say the same for today's array of options.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-18 09:56:36+00:00
I have the opposite experience. While these anonymous groups tend to be high on vulgarity and directness, there are much more peaceful examples than the other way around. Propaganda got strong when we began to restrict content on social media by the companies themselves or external actors.

This human nature shit is empirically wrong. There are quite a few scammers around. You also meet these people in real life, you just don't notice immediately.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-18 09:57:33+00:00
Have you ever tried to edit Wikipedia using WiFi, mobile networks etc? Because then you will almost always get a message saying you are blocked and cannot edit. I get this all the time, and not because of anything I have done personally. Many people are on shared IPs now.

Even the computers at the National Library of Scotland are blocked, even though there is a paid Wikipedian on their staff and you have to have a membership to use the library.

Give us a break with the "conspiracy theory" mantra. This isn't even a theory. It's commonplace reality. They want everyone to sign up to a Wikipedia account which comes with other issues.

Also Wikipedia is a monopoly. 9/10 when I search for anything nowadays, Wikipedia is at the top. If I only wanted to search for Wikipedia articles I would go straight to their website.
by orwin | 2025-12-18 09:57:35+00:00
Is HR the department that post jobs and requirements in your company? Because at mine, HR is involved during recruitment, but they sure don't fill job posting or look at CV, that's just isn't their job. They are mostly involved if the company wants to transfer your contract from contractor to permanent employee.

And if HR is posting on job boards, that's the original mistake. But gender ratio in HR is so irrelevant compared to the questions 'why is HR posting about engineering open positions' I can say quite confidently: that's not a fair question, at all, and smell like some ragebait or culture war shit.
by vxsz | 2025-12-18 09:58:20+00:00
Yeah I think decentralization will be a stretch, especially at the beginning.

About the login, SSO is nice and it will probably be an option, but I heavily prefer good old email+password. It might be trickier, haven't explored SSO before.

The auth/central server will be open source of course, and I'm hoping I could get feedback/auditing that way if anything's wrong (even tho I feel like the process is simple with encryption libs and knowledge). At first it will be heavily experimental and will hold just dummy data and then gradually go from there if it works out.
by perlgeek | 2025-12-18 09:58:33+00:00
There are a few factors at play here, I think

* Many breakthroughs from the first research stages never make it into medical application.

* Many breakthroughs are touted as some kind of "novel treatment", but when they get into the hands of the doctor, they talk about it as chemotherapy, because it kills cancer cells. So you might not even notice that you're getting something novel.

* Many breakthroughs take decades until they actually land in mainstream treatment.

* Many breakthroughs are specific to some kinds of cancer.

That said, in most developed countries, survival rates/times for cancer have been steadily improving for decades.

It's a bit like with solar cell and battery tech breakthroughs: you hear about them all the time, but it takes 20 to 30 years until they make it to production. But both have been improving steadily for an impressively long time.
by derelicta | 2025-12-18 09:58:57+00:00
MMhh! Then it's a fair assessment. Talking with peeps around me, I know there is quite a bit of frustration regarding Brexit. People are hurting, but are they hurting enough to go through the whole ordeal of rejoining? So I understand why a faction of the Bourgeoisie would want to force its way back into the continent.
by AndrewDucker | 2025-12-18 09:59:06+00:00
Just tried that.

Logged into Passkeys.io on my phone, and created a passkey.

Then tried to log in to it on my Windows desktop, using the "With my phone" option. First time around it failed to connect to my phone. Future times it connected, but told me that the phone had no appropriate passkeys on it. At which point I gave up.

Edit: I then tried on GitHub, and it worked perfectly! Okay, that's pretty awesome.
by laurentiurad | 2025-12-18 09:59:13+00:00
It's the most difficult part. In my experience paid ads do not work very well so I am not relying too much on those. I usually use social media with UGC videos created either by me or by content creators. I also reach out on Instagram, even dating apps, to users and pay them to use/promote a product.

Recently I started to use n8n automation to post on Twitter/LinkedIn, however I tend to keep those posts short since they are created with LLM's and do not seem authentic.

As for the SEO part, I usually upload search console extracts into Perplexity deep research and ask for actions on how to improve ranking for different keywords.
by asim | 2025-12-18 09:59:13+00:00
Yea its a mixed bag. I think some people like https://lobste.rs and there's always https://dev.to. But if that doesn't work there's also infinite sub-reddits on Reddit or classically tailoring your own RSS feed using Feedly or similar. I got to that place where I've curated my source of news but it's by category; Crypto, Dev, Finance, Islam, Politics, Tech, UK, World. I've got a feed for each and it's all grouped in a single UI like this https://mu.xyz/home