MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kakacik | 2025-12-12 09:22:01+00:00
Highly functioning sociopaths. And this diagnosis never goes alone in otherwise perfectly balanced individuals, does it. Most of them have missing/broken father figure syndrome which manifests in various bad and rather unfixable personality traits.

The societies we humans build always allow such persons to rise to the top - it doesn't matter if market democracy or brutal communism, fascism etc. The last type that didn't work well was some sort of feudal kingdom style where power was shared among elite across generations, inherited and rarely claimed by more competent, ambitious and vicious folks from lower ranks. But this is also how we got most of the progress in past 150 years, so its a double-edged sword. I wish I had a solution, maybe some Deus Ex-style of neutral AGI, but who would build such an AGI when everybody competent wants more power and manipulate others to their favor.

Heck, we often celebrate them by looking at their achievements, conveniently ignoring what utter piece of shit they are as humans (Ford is a prime example - a great inspiration for Hitler among others, and musk doesn't go far and look how uncritically he was celebrated also here for a long time and often still is... but the list is very long, basically almost all billionaires and high power folks).

With great power comes great impact even if they don't try, and who doesn't like some ego boost. People imitate them, follow them, subconsciously accept their values more easily. They literally imprint their values on rest of the world and we allow it due to our laziness, convenience and inherent sheepish mentality of masses which we are part of whether we like it or not - just look at how most folks need some form of a role model.
by u_sama | 2025-12-12 09:22:19+00:00
Someday we need to kill this myth, the wave of fascisms that appeared in Europe (Italy, Germany, Spain, Romania) are more of a cultural and economic reaction to the destruction of the Great War and not due to "unlimited free speech".

Free speech does not amplify or cultivate hate, it lets it fester in dark areas until it explodes when a crisis happens (which is what is happening currently).

Free speech and open discourse serves as a pressure valve release and self-correcting mechanism where by impopular or "untolerable" but common opinions have to be dealt with i.e the migration backlash in Europe
by latexr | 2025-12-12 09:22:31+00:00
> I don't think it's only from a cynic point of view - the question "if meat is murder, am I a bad person if I literally can't survive without it?" is a fair and interesting one.

I think the argument is “meat is murder because you can survive without it”. Maybe that doesn’t work for the wolf, but I mean, it’s literally a story being made up for a child, and animals in those are allegories for humans.

I can choose to not eat meat and live healthily, but I’m not going to feed only vegetables to a pet cat, who needs something different. To each what they need, as ethically as possible. When you can minimise harm, do.
by vintermann | 2025-12-12 09:23:43+00:00
If everyone had backyard chicken operations on that scale, I suspect we'd have a lot more disease problems! Decentralized isn't necessarily better for disease, if the overall scale stays the same.

At least where I live, you can't have chickens in quite the same way our great-grandparents had. You need to comply with veterinary regulation for one, and for good reasons.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 09:24:04+00:00
The article says that the use of CZT is not new, but now the material has become much more affordable, due to improved production techniques, which has opened up a lot of application fields for it, which were previously prevented by its scarcity and cost.

There are plenty of materials that have been known for a long time to be better than those normally used in certain applications, but which still do not replace the inferior alternatives due to excessive cost, so discovering any new process that can make them cheaply is as important as knowing the properties of the material.
Show HN: Built a Global Dating App in 100 Days Using Cursor ($20/Mo)
by abuskorea | 2025-12-12 09:24:07+00:00
I'm an iOS developer with 20+ years of experience (since iPhone 3GS era). Using Cursor Pro at $20/month, I solo-developed and launched a global dating app on both App Store and Google Play in 100 days.

THE APP

WeConnect - 18 language support with real-time translation

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weconnect-cultural-exchange/id...

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abus.wecon...

- Website: https://www.wctokyoseoul.com

TECH STACK

- Flutter (cross-platform iOS/Android)

- Supabase (backend/auth/database)

- Next.js + Vercel (admin dashboard + landing)

INTERESTING DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY

- First 70 days: No Mac, developed on Windows laptop + Galaxy S20+

- Bought used M4 Mac mini + iPhone 17 later to start iOS builds

- Push notifications: Spent days with Firebase, switched to OneSignal, then spent more days fighting Supabase JWT issues

- In-app purchases & SSO: Cursor alone couldn't solve it, had to use Claude/Gemini/Grok free tiers combined

- Design: Screenshot from Dribbble → "Make this exact UI" → 90% done

- Vietnam expansion failed: No Zalo SDK available

CURSOR PRO'S REAL VALUE

Initially got unlimited Auto mode + premium model access. Paid $20/month but effectively used $1,000+ worth. Now they've added limits (paywall after ~5 days), but core development is done and alternatives like Antigravity exist.

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- Google Play: Approved in 1 day

- App Store: Multiple feedback rounds, barely made it through

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- Marketing: Still a brutal red ocean

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I have real experience:

- Multiple App Store #1 category rankings

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- Recent Gradio AI project: 5.2k GitHub stars

YouTube videos make it seem like beginners can ship in days with vibe coding.

Reality: CS fundamentals still essential. The more experienced you are, the more leverage you get from AI tools. Cursor feels like managing 10 tireless team members who never complain.

TRY IT OUT

User base is small so matching might be difficult, but I'd appreciate any feedback!

Personal cost: Wife handled childcare almost solo for 100 days while I coded day and night. Worth it? Ask me when marketing starts working.

Questions welcome!
by gsliepen | 2025-12-12 09:24:11+00:00
I used GIMP before I ever used Photoshop. My experience was the opposite. I think that means the UIs are different, but there is no one that is objectively better, it's just a matter of what your expectations are, which are set by whatever you learned first.

As for CMYK support: why do designers even need to use this? Sure, not every RGB is the same, and it took some while before we even got sRGB as some standard, but the same goes for CMYK: every printer has its own profile. I had the displeasure of trying to get the CMYK profile of a "professional" printing company that only accepted files in CMYK, and they didn't even know which profile their printers used. Ideally you would send a RGB file including the display profile your screen uses, and then the printing facility converts that to whatever CMYK they need.

Of course there are also special colors or effects outside of RGB/CMYK that you might want to use when printing something, that's something else.
by Yoric | 2025-12-12 09:26:34+00:00
Ah, I realize that I had misunderstood your earlier comment, my apologies and thanks for clarifying!

We're leaving my area of confidence, so take everything I write with a pinch of salt.

As far as I understand, indeed, each layer transforms a set of inputs into a probability distribution. However, if you wanted to compute entirely with probability distributions, you'd need the ability to compose these distributions across layers. Mathematically, it doesn't feel particularly complicated, but computationally, it feels like this adds several orders of magnitude of both space and time.
by svara | 2025-12-12 09:26:39+00:00
That's right - it does seem to have to do with trying to be helpful.

One demo of this that reliably works for me:

Write a draft of something and ask the LLM to find the errors.

Correct the errors, repeat.

It will never stop finding a list of errors!

The first time around and maybe the second it will be helpful, but after you've fixed the obvious things, it will start complaining about things that are perfectly fine, just to satisfy your request of finding errors.
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-12 09:27:04+00:00
Are any of those drones being shot down? Is anything being done about it besides (AI-assisted) fear-mongering? That is the real question. If the drones are a problem, shoot/neutralize them and thank Russia for the free target-practice exercise.

It seems like the danger even bigger than Russia is government incompetence and the system of broken incentives where everyone does everything to appear busy but actually solving the problem.

If there's a drone there, and you don't want it there, the solution is obvious. It's obvious enough to any nutcase in the US with access to a shotgun (with various degrees of success, but at least they're got the right spirit). If nobody's taking out the proverbial shotgun then I have to assume the drones are not an actual problem and merely yet another excuse for busywork.

Edit: I am not saying to literally use a shotgun against them. But offensive solutions need to be developed and put to use; otherwise if we sit helpless now, what will we do when those drones evolve and start carrying offensive payloads? Fear-mongering and finding endless excuses about not doing anything is not going to help.
by dlubarov | 2025-12-12 09:27:37+00:00
Hezbollah pagers aren't randomly lying around though, they're normally attached to Hezbollah members. These were also much smaller than any anti personnel mine.

This was far more targeted than, say, any artillery strike that a commander could possibly order. Targeted doesn't mean it's impossible to harm something else. That's possible with any weapon, and far more likely with larger munitions like artillery shells.
by PeterStuer | 2025-12-12 09:28:20+00:00
Automation in in logistics and warehousing has been happening extensively for decades. However, with margins in large scale grocery retail are often far below 5%, any significant investment in unproven innovation will impact profits in a way that will be extremely noticeable to boards and shareholders.

This isnot to say it can not be done, as clearly the other side of the coin is that operational efficiency gains are also much more noticeable on the bottom line than in higher margined businesses, but it is higher risk/reward for low margin sectors. This will favor developing/proving the early TRL stages in new entrant or niche players, then buying out the successes when they hit early maturity.
by skydhash | 2025-12-12 09:28:52+00:00
It’s very much accidental complexity. As the sibling comment to my previous comment said, the choice of a language does not depend on Terraform design, but on contextual information like the team skill, business requirements like time delivery and implementation correctness. None of which really impacts the design of Terraform as a solution. Just like SMTP or Posix tools does not care about the language.
by hu3 | 2025-12-12 09:29:14+00:00
I never saw brilliance in his contributions. Specially as React keeps being duct-taped.

Making complex things complex is easy.

Vue on the other hand is just brilliant. No wonder it's creator, Evan You went on to also create Vite. A creation so superior that it couldn't be confined to Vue and React community adopted it.

https://evanyou.me
by Yoric | 2025-12-12 09:29:50+00:00
FWIW, I'm clearly system-style. Given that my current company has an AI product, I'm dogfooding it, and I've found good uses for it, mostly for running quick experiments, as a rubber duck, or for solving simple issues in config files, Makefiles, etc.

It doesn't get to generate much of the code I'm shipping, though.
by imtringued | 2025-12-12 09:30:41+00:00
It's actually hard to understand on "which" side you're on, but a charitable interpretation is that you're arguing that there are no perfect solutions, hence a simple and minimal non-invasive method will probably have the same effect as a complex and invasive method. That is, both methods will add enough friction that children who don't know what they're missing won't bother and the ones who can't do without, will choose every conceivable method to get around the restrictions.

Worrying about the latter makes no sense, because they are sort of like organized crime. People still take drugs even though they are illegal.
by pedrozieg | 2025-12-12 09:31:44+00:00
The interesting bit in the blog isn’t the 72.2% SWE-Bench Verified number, it’s their own human eval: Devstral 2 beats DeepSeek V3.2 in Cline-style workflows but still loses clearly to Claude Sonnet 4.5. That’s a nice reminder that “open SOTA” on a single benchmark doesn’t mean “best tool for the job” once you’re doing multi-step edits across a messy real repo.

What is a big deal here is the combination of licensing and packaging. A 123B dense code model under a permissive license plus an open-source CLI agent (Vibe) that already speaks ACP is basically a reference stack for “bring your own infra + agents” instead of renting someone else’s SaaS IDE. If that ecosystem hardens (Cline, Kilo, Vibe, etc.), the moat shifts from “we have the only good code model” to “we own the best workflows and integrations”, and that’s a game open models can realistically win.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-12 09:32:32+00:00
I think he's right. We have no idea if AI contributed to the ad in any way, so "no AI" in this context only means "not AI-rendered". The entire script might have been written by an LLM (which is perfectly fine by me).

On the other hand, the McDonald's ad is obviously AI-rendered, but all the concepts and prompts and choices might have been made by humans? Which doesn't make it any better (although it's not that bad, it's just average).
by 9dev | 2025-12-12 09:33:57+00:00
> Unlike the simplicity of taste, we have a huge array of smell receptors, with most of them having much more indirect associations

Slightly unrelated, but what I find very cool is thinking about your taste sense as a hyper-sensitive molecule detector. Individual aromas are just the signal your brain generates for different kinds of molecules, and it's very good at that. That's why at wine tastings, for example, people come up with all these elaborate terms for specific aromas—it's a way to name the molecule composition.
by teacpde | 2025-12-12 09:33:59+00:00
> At the same time treating software like an art is probably not very useful. That code is (typically) not written to be looked at, but to make the computer do something useful.

FWIW you can argue the same for woodworking, a chair is typically not made to be looked at but for people to sit on. I tired to think what inherently makes writing software treated less than a craft than woodworking, but couldn’t think of any.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-12 09:34:14+00:00
If you're talking about the topic, it's not accidental, it's mandatory, because you have to write Terraform in something.

The topic is not how you use Terraform or at a high level design its features, it's how you implement Terraform with code.

> the choice of a language does not depend on Terraform design, but on contextual information like the team skill, business requirements like time delivery and implementation correctness

That doesn't make it accidental to the topic. It may be accidental to a different topic (the design of Terraform?) that nobody was discussing, but it's not accidental to this topic (language choice).

That list of factors is how you get closer to making the decision.
by SirAiedail | 2025-12-12 09:34:24+00:00
Non-made up numbers from Vermintide 2 (same engine): On PS4 when an optimized build took around 1.5 minutes to boot to main menu, the unoptimized version would take 12-15 minutes [1]. A different benchmark than SSD vs HDD, but shows that the optimization was certainly needed at the time. Though the PS4 was partially to blame as well, with it's meagre 5400 RPM spinny drive.

For their newer instalment, Fatshark went with a large rework of the engine's bundle system, and players on HDDs are complaining about long loading times expectedly. That game is still large at ~80GB, but not from duplication.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vermintide/comments/hxkh0x/comment/...
by jjav | 2025-12-12 09:34:32+00:00
> Auto insurers don't face a "catastrophic liability" bankrupting scenario like home insurers might in the case of a natural disaster or fire.

This changes with self-driving. Push a buggy update and potentially all the same model cars could crash on the same day.

This is not a threat model regular car insurers need to deal with since it'll never happen that all of their customers decide to drive drunk the same day, but that's effectively what a buggy software update would be like.
by kakacik | 2025-12-12 09:36:23+00:00
This doctrine is changing fast in that conflict. Any enemy structure sticking out is a prime target for drones, and there around 10,000 drones used daily and this number keeps rising continuously, often one-way FPV kamikaze drones. Anything that sticks out is bombarded into oblivion, the tactic now is more akin to hiding or blending with surroundings.

Once they figure out cheap way for semi-autonomous swarms (as in 1 guy piloting say 50 drones, mix of bombers, kamikadze ones and possibly ones carrying some AA rockets) skies will be full of little deadly plastic birds and fortified positions on the battle line will be fully thing of the past.
by adrianfcole | 2025-12-12 09:36:40+00:00
I feel you and I also think this is a tough time. I routinely use Claude even though he typically ignores me ;) I'm also a maintainer of Goose and have been engaged since before the rust rewrite. I'll admit I don't get exactly what I want out of any agent. I also don't buy the "it is you" thing that is typical with Agents. We often need to know too many things and are defensive in how we act. I truly hope this is temporary.

ok back to the point. Block is not trying to sell a frontier model, or Goose at all. As an open source enthusiast, I like this model (no pun intended). Features go where the prominent site or key contributors want, vs a commercial agenda. To get more practical, it was goose folks themselves who put themsemselves out there in tbench.ai and remain in the top 10

https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0

Does this invalidate poor experience on use cases. no way. However, there's a lot of work being done by block folks to help teach and share practice and get things together. I'm always looking for pure local everything and Mic is also super keen on this, Today? well it is like watching someone type each character at a time while your laptop melts. I don't think this invalidates the long term, but it acknowledges the short term.

Next, Goose doesn't care about you in a specific way. Literally there is a Claude agent so you can swap out the goosey parts if you like. It is clunky and I'm personally looking into aligning that interop via Zed's ACP. I think like the combination of openness and not having any angle.. like not anti claude, literally give you a way to use it.. is telling.

This is a ramble and maybe a waste of your context, but I hope it colors some things and will get to see you around.
by ozgung | 2025-12-12 09:36:43+00:00
Great post and I think this extends to machine learning names, although not that severe. Maybe it all started with Adam. When I say “I used Adam for optimization” this means I used a random opaque thing for optimization. If I say “I used an ADAptive Moment estimation based optimizer” it becomes more transparent. Using human names or random nouns has been a trend. Lora, Sora, Dora, Bert, Bart, Robert, Roberta, Dall-e, Dino, Sam… With varying capitalization for each letter. Even the Transformer. What does it transform exactly? But it gets worse. Here is a list of architectures that may replace Transformers [0]: Linformer, Longformer, Reformer, Performer, Griffin, BigBird, Mamba, Jamba... What’s going on?

[0]https://huggingface.co/blog/ProCreations/transformers-are-ge...
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-12-12 09:37:06+00:00
Note that it is in no way new that humans were using fire back then. The oldest hint of deliberate control of fire are from ~2Myr ago, the oldest evidence that is generally considered conclusive is from ~1Myr ago.

But that's not evidence for fires started by humans, only that people were managing fire. Prior to this find, the oldest evidence for a method of starting fire was from 50kyr ago. Archeologists generally consider this to be an artifact of what gets preserved, not proof of when people started creating fires. There is a lot of natural fire on the landscape over thousands of years, and teasing apart what is evidence for humans starting fire from what is found naturally is really hard.

So this is an amazing find, but it is not paradigm-shifting in any way.
by cachius | 2025-12-12 09:37:22+00:00
Re: retrieval: That's where the snake eats its tail as AI slop floods the web, grounding is like laying a foundation in a swamp. And that Rube Goldberg machine tries to prevent the snake from reaching its tail. But RGs are brittle and not exactly the thing you want to build infrstructure on. Just look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239752 for an example how easy it can break.
by agumonkey | 2025-12-12 09:37:29+00:00
it's paradoxical, the llm is not helping consumers, it's not helping the experienced engineer, it's helping a new class of devs that just want the easy way out. and ultimately this wave will make the price go down to the point the skilled dev won't be able to sustain long term growth because learning more and more advanced will not be valued by the economy.. just a thought but i don't see a nice path ahead now
by motbus3 | 2025-12-12 09:37:58+00:00
Without going into details. The company I work for has potentially millions of pages indexed. Despite new content being published everyday, since around the same October dates we are seeing a decrease in the number of indexed pages.

We have a consultant for the topic but I am not sure how much of that conversation I could share publicly so I will refrain myself of doing so.

But I think I can say that it is not only about data structure or quality. The changes in methodology applied by Google in September might be playing a stronger role than what people initially thought
by qcnguy | 2025-12-12 09:38:04+00:00
Huge numbers are for political speech. It's not just prosecutions. Child protection is abused to force far left wing beliefs on the population.

A former Marine was charged with inciting racial hatred after describing some migrants as “scumbags” and “psychopaths” in a 12-minute video posted on Facebook following the murders of three children in Southport, which sparked riots around the country. He was then banned from coaching his own daughter's football club. A jury cleared him in 17 minutes, but Wales is run by the left so they kept the coaching ban in place because they believe right wing people are a threat to children.

In another case a teacher was banned from working with children after telling a Muslim child that "Britain is still a Christian state"

There are lots of cases like this. Especially if you expand to Europe. The German Chancellor has personally prosecuted thousands of speech cases against people who insulted him. Merkel established a general rule against insulting politicians so now people get police visits and their devices confiscated for saying things like such and such a politician is a dumbass.