MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gtowey | 2025-12-02 17:36:14+00:00
How would the person promting the LLM know if it were producing "B" grade results? That's the biggest issue right now: you have to know more than the LLM to verify its output or you're likely to get garbage.

That's also my biggest concern is that corporations will decide that crap results are good enough as long as it cost them very little to produce.
by whizzter | 2025-12-02 17:36:54+00:00
I'd be much more interested in bare metal ARM64 vs X64 workloads on modern hardware, remember the article that compared Hetzner VPN + Bare metal to Amazon workloads a while back?

Amazon was so ridiculously gimped and expensive that it was almost unfair, thus comparing ARM and X64 on Amazon thus runs into whatever arbitrary "savings" AWS does.
by shagie | 2025-12-02 17:37:33+00:00
Which government do I need to have faith in for enforcing the copyright for a citizen of Wakanda who is infringing upon my work?

The floor of copyright reform is set by TRIPS and the WTO. That's 50 years. If one wants to try to set another floor, it involves every country in the WTO to agree on that. Setting an floor that expires sooner is likely a non-starter given concerns about things getting slurped up into AI models.

Mandatory licensing is a "no". I should not be required to license my material to anyone. I do not want my works of photography, fiction, or software development to be mandatorily licensed to someone who could then take it and make derivative works that I don't want them to. Consider how many people object to their CC work being included in AI models.

Much of the suggestions of copyright reform would involve the relevant country to leave the WTO and withdraw from the TRIPS agreement. That is unlikely to happen.

Resetting copyright to the floor dictated by TRIPS would be a possibility that a country could entertain.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-02 17:37:43+00:00
I also had bad luck when I finally tried Gemini 3 in the gemini CLI coding tool. I am unclear if it's the model or their bad tooling/prompting. It had, as you said, hallucination problems, and it also had memory issues where it seemed to drop context between prompts here and there.

It's also slower than both Opus 4.5 and Sonnet.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-02 17:37:47+00:00
> focusing just on origin stories relating to the spread of various beliefs ...

The difference being that nobody believes those silly things. Or are you saying you believe these nonsense also?

> I suspect the marriage was political ..

Why didn't you say so in the first place.

> but he wasn't marrying into a family of arab traders

Did I say he married into a family of arab traders? Stop with your bullshit already.
by qianli_cs | 2025-12-02 17:38:26+00:00
This post seems to be published in a hurry. Under "How it works" section a bunch of duplication, and I think they should make the blog post exactly once :) Excerpt from the blog post:

> During replay, your code runs from the beginning but skips over completed checkpoints, using stored results instead of re-executing completed operations. This replay mechanism ensures consistency while enabling long-running executions. > > ... During replay, your code runs from the beginning but skips over completed checkpoints, using stored results instead of re-executing completed operations. This replay mechanism ensures consistency while enabling long-running executions.
by mwpmaybe | 2025-12-02 17:38:45+00:00
It's... not great. It's a dual-boot laptop that I take out into the field so I'd like to encrypt the Windows and Linux volumes with BitLocker and LUKS respectively, and ideally I would leave Secure Boot enabled for that extra bit of security. Ultimately I'll need to decide whether to disable Secure Boot or patch the kernel to let me override lockdown mode. I know SuSE has implemented it but I don't know if their patch series will apply cleanly to a mainline Ubuntu kernel.
by Hnus | 2025-12-02 17:39:01+00:00
It actually is specific to flakes. Classic nix commands can see untracked files just fine. Flake evaluation behaves differently because of how it decides which "scheme" to use:

> If the directory is part of a Git repository, then the input will be treated as a `git+file:` URL, otherwise it will be treated as a `path:` url;

This is why untracked or unstaged files disappear when using flakes:

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/ec6789f9dafce41011418fe6fc...
by lneiman | 2025-12-02 17:39:25+00:00
Author here. We were hitting tail latency and low GPU utilization issues serving SLMs via Triton.

I built a scrappy client-side router using Redis and Lua to track real-time GPU load. It boosted utilization by ~40% and improved latencies.

Happy to hear feedback on the implementation or thoughts on better ways to do this!
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-02 17:39:35+00:00
Same approach China is taking -- harsh penalties + heavy press broadcasting in the most egregious instances uncovered, with an emphasis on consequences for the high ranking folks involved.

You don't want to try to catch everyone, as then people do worse things trying to cover their tracks, but you do want to establish a credible fear of consequences that will shift the default societal balance point between {do corruption} and {don't}.

And it may take a generation, but it is possible.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-12-02 17:39:51+00:00
> I'm struggling to see why you think I acknowledged that my accusation was unfounded when I explained exactly why I think it's valid

You literally wrote “yeah okay it’s an unfounded accusation”.

I hope you can see why I thought that was an acknowledgement?

Sure I don’t want bots any more than you do, but I also don’t think it changes anything to blindly accuse anyone you think sounds like an LLM.. I mean, bots don’t self-destruct if you call them out or anything.

Engaging with bots likely just amplifies the problem (by causing them to respond), rather than just downvoting their posts.
by abhiyerra | 2025-12-02 17:39:54+00:00
I do have a degree in History with a focus on India and British Empire from Berkeley. So no I don’t think I am being baseless. Hindutva is complex, the 20s were a difficult time in India as all the revolutionaries from the different factions were trying to imagine a future independent India. The Islam/Hindu divide was a creation of the British for divide and rule. And while Gandhi imagined a nonviolent basically traditional hierarchical Hindu society, Hedgewar wanted an organization that removed the bonds of caste and creed so that Hindus can function as a single unified front.

I do think Hedgewar won and Gandhi lost. Also please do understand all sources have biases including Wikipedia.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-02 17:39:57+00:00
What does your comment have to do with the submission? What a weird non-sequitur. I even went looking at the linked article to see if it somehow compares with Gemini. It doesn't, and only relates to open models.

In prior posts you oddly attack "Palantir-partnered Anthropic" as well.

Are things that grim at OpenAI that this sort of FUD is necessary? I mean, I know they're doing the whole code red thing, but I guarantee that posting nonsense like this on HN isn't the way.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-12-02 17:40:07+00:00
I trained myself to take a power nap to track “2/2” on that record. After a really hard workout, getting cleaned up, having a bite to eat and drifting off for 30 minutes so many times it has a warm spot in my heart. I like that music can serve as “functional”. I also recommend Mindspring Memories if you have nostalgia of the personal computing boom for a unique ambient. To me it evokes what trying out a Phillips CD-i at my local department store felt like in 1991. YMMV
by queenmab | 2025-12-02 17:40:20+00:00
I didn't say em-dashes were never seen before 2020. Re-read the sentence. It's a list - "em-dashes" and "things that you simply never saw before 2020" are two items in that list. But even assuming I meant em-dashes, it's interesting to compare how frequent they were a few years ago versus now. Take the most upvoted HN submission (8 years ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136

There is on instance, an obvious copy-paste. Now go to any from the current top list. I count 10+ per submission, even on submissions with much lower post counts that the Stephen Hawking one.

But I'm not going around policing em-dashes or smart quotes and calling people out for using them. It's more like when someone gets a bingo in ChatGPT phrasing and style idiosyncrasies then it becomes suspicious and I'd hate to think I'm here talking to bots (I've already left many subreddits because for AI slop).

I've seen highly rated posts on HN that might as well have started with "You're absolutely right!"
by alephnerd | 2025-12-02 17:40:20+00:00
> India has not been antagonistic or ambivalent in its recent past...

Yep, but stuff can change rapidly.

From 1972-1992 it was China that used to be the pillar of the America's Asia strategy as a bulwark against the USSR, with US soldiers posted in Xinjiang monitoring the USSR [0], US government sponsored tech transfers and scientific collaboration [1], American support for Chinese military modernization [2][3], and expanded economic cooperation [4].

Yet by the late 2000s, that relation degraded into a competitive relationship that has become the cold war that it is today because by the 1990s US and Chinese ambitions became misaligned - especially following US sanctions due to the Tienanmen Massacre [5], Clinton's pivot to newly democratic Taiwan [6], and Chinese attempts at industrial espionage [7].

The US and India are not fully aligned because neither American nor Indian policymakers have significant exposure to either and remain extremely insular (eg. Stanford and Penn are the only American universities with a competitive program on Contemporary Indian politics and foreign policy, and there are only at most 20 American scholars on contemporary Indian policy - it was the same during my time in the early 2010s with regards to China, except instead of Penn it was Harvard), and that's why the US-India relationship has been in a tailspin for the past couple years. The US-India relationship are now in the equivalent position as that of the US and China in the late 1990s to early 2000s era, and are largely predicated on mutual competition against China.

Snafus like the RAW-backed Nijjar assassination as well as the US's support for Asim Munir highlights how the relationship is starting to fray. If alignment is not found within the next few years, the relationship will become competitive and potentially antagonistic in nature because India will start feeling that the US is encircling India just like China, and the US will start viewing India as "rocking the boat".

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/18/world/us-and-peking-join-...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93China_Agreement_o...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/17/world/us-decides-to-sell-...

[3] - https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/04/archives/study-urges-us-a...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/26/business/us-china-investm...

[5] - https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/05/world/the-west-condemns-t...

[6] - https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/10/world/clinton-is-expected...

[7] - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/as...
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-02 17:40:36+00:00
> "You don’t see investment bankers / lawyers / management consultants / etc. go on about side projects, leveling up their skills during the weekend, and other things that are considered completely normal in this industry."

Lawyers pay up front with an extra three years of law school and a bar exam that only 79% pass on the first try according to https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/first-time-bar-exam... .
by kccqzy | 2025-12-02 17:40:48+00:00
What they mean is that they are rewriting low level synchronization primitives in order not to penalize AMD CPUs. For example on the AMD Rome CPUs, the cross-CCD latency of atomic instructions could be as high as 200 nanoseconds even when the instructions supposedly access a memory location already in the cache. Common code patterns like multiple cores atomically incrementing a single counter would have borderline acceptable performance on Intel but terrible performance on AMD.

Or consider things like CPU core allocators, which now need to be CCD-aware when allocating cores within a CPU to a container.
by wongarsu | 2025-12-02 17:41:08+00:00
That's an interesting perspective, I hadn't considered that the name might be a reference to A Room of One's Own.

My understanding was that the whole "of our own" thing is mostly in reference to fanfiction sites going through a predictable cycle of becoming popular followed by overmonetizing, enshittifying and losing touch with the community, which means everyone migrates to the next site which becomes popular and repeats the cycle. Hence Ao3 run by a non-profit "of our own". But that might not be the only way in which it's true. I would certainly agree that it is somewhat of a safe space for all kinds of disparaged groups, women in general being the biggest of them
by simonw | 2025-12-02 17:41:10+00:00
The 3B vision model runs in the browser (after a 3GB model download). There's a very cool demo of that here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mistralai/Ministral_3B_WebGPU

Pelicans are OK but not earth-shattering: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/introducing-mistral-3/
by lowkey_ | 2025-12-02 17:42:06+00:00
> In NYC, billionaires are like supervillains. Nobody particularly likes them (outside of select finance bros), and people openly express disdain for them and their greed.

I think you may be confusing 'power' or 'impact' with wealth in this take.

Paul Graham wrote about this in a blog post [1].

In NYC, being rich is cool, even if you just inherited it all. Having lived 12 years in NYC, I agree wholeheartedly. It's what everyone aspires to have; the Tribeca loft and the Patek watch.

In SF, PG wrote that nobody cares that you inherited a bunch of wealth unless they're a real estate agent. I think this is true — flashy wealth isn't impressive in SV/SF. Impact and power and the scope of what you've built and created is what's impressive, for better or worse. (I just moved to SF for this reason).

[1] https://paulgraham.com/cities.html
by NibezaK | 2025-12-02 17:42:10+00:00
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by mikepurvis | 2025-12-02 17:43:25+00:00
Yeah, it feels like the more conventional way would be doing the template-filling as a build step, so it's Nix just for the overall structure managing a fixed build graph, and then a per-page Python run to actually fill templates and generate the snippets/pages.

However, if you did want it to be nix all the way down and get more of that juicy dependency granularity, it could be more of a model where content and templates are transformed upfront into Nix source, which is then transformed and combined during evaluation. Obviously this is fairly slow in an IFD world where all that pre-work has to be serialized, but it would be interesting to experiment with what it looks like in a dynamic derivations context.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-12-02 17:43:48+00:00
This is only a harm if you are ambitious and career-oriented. I'm remote and know it won't be conducive to promotion, but I also get to:

1) live in the low CoL area that I grew up in,

2) be near family and friends (and therefore free, high-quality childcare),

3) avoid a hellish commute in one of the sprawl-y hellscapes that grow up around tech hub cities,

4) live in a paid-off house instead of 50%+ of my income going directly to rent or a mortgage, and

5) have a massive nest egg due to all the money I'm saving.

Could I get faster promotions by going back to the office? Maybe, though I see the careers of my at-the-office colleagues around me stagnating just about as much as mine. But...I don't want to be management. I don't even necessarily care for promotion as an IC unless that's the only way to tread water with inflation.

The only major downside I think about is that it will obviously be harder to get a remote position if I lose the one I have, but we're financially prepared for that. With a paid-off house in a single-car neighborhood, we can make ends meet with a normal job stocking groceries or something. At the worst case, I have connections to get a job at the factory a town over, though that would mean getting a second car.

In other words: I, as a worker, do not care about maximizing the value of my human capital stock. I am not cattle. I am not a slave. I have preferences that are unrelated to my ability to receive praise and promotions from my boss. In short, I deserve respect from my employer, whether they are currently being forced to give it or not.
by hellojesus | 2025-12-02 17:43:51+00:00
It's a problem insofar as it exists and is illegal. I'm no fan of the current administration, but the Biden admin just plain refused to execute the laws. That seems problematic to me for an executive branch.

I have no problem with uncapped migration, but to flat out refuse to enforce the law is a bit ridiculous. What should be done is simple: Congress should just pass a law like is expected of the Legislative branch that says all immigrants are welcome.

As an added benefit, it would get rid of the illegal wages overnight. Americans complain that illegals are taking their jobs, but they're only taking the ones that aren't filled by US laborers. And US laborers can't legally compete with illegals if illegals are being paid less than minimum wage.

A single, simple, straight-forward law could fix all those issues with the stroke of a pen.
by officeplant | 2025-12-02 17:43:56+00:00
Just something I've been doing for fun since the late 90's. Started off logging things by hand while my dad drove us around town looking for open wifi to use when doing field work. Later progressed to using a laptop + gps + wifi card going into an amplifier and external antenna on the van in the 2000s. That was when software started to allow for automatic logging of wifi with GPS coords.

There has definitely been a community of folks doing it even longer. See the Wigle[1] website for more, including leaderboards and stats. Some people use the data for various reasons, I do it to help track law enforcement via bluetooth & wifi mac addresses.

Warwalking is also a thing! (or riding for bikes) You can often get much better results when walking because you have a longer time to catch all the access points.

You don't really need to modify your phone either, my dedicated phone lives on the dash of my van when I'm using it so the extra cooling helps. But if you don't want to warm up your phone or drain the battery by disabling Wifi scan throttling there are also dedicated devices people are building just for war driving using esp32, etc.

[1]https://wigle.net/
by forgotoldacc | 2025-12-02 17:44:24+00:00
For those who are young, single, and are open to adventure, the endless outsourcing provides another option: pack up and leave high cost of living areas or the US entirely. There are plenty of places where you can get a fraction of a US salary while living a quality of life beyond what the US offers. US companies have return to office mandates so they can fire US workers. But if you're a US citizen living abroad and willing to accept 1/4th the salary of a person in California (and living in a place with 1/10th the living costs), companies get the best of both worlds: an employee they feel they can trust while also undercutting wages. Yeah, it sucks for people still in the US, but it's been great for me.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-02 17:44:25+00:00
> If you use MoE models (al modern >70B models are MoE), GPU utilization increases with batch size

Isn't that true for any LLM, MoE or not? In fact, doesn't that apply to most concepts within ML, as long as it's possible to do batching at all, you can scale it up and utilize more of the GPU, until you saturate some part of the process.
by mindslight | 2025-12-02 17:44:50+00:00
Sure, I agree and I've made similar arguments. But there are still throngs of people self-identifying as conservative and considering Trump conservative. The best I've been able to surmise is that to them, "conservative" merely means in line with the reactionary talk radio of the past several decades, and that anger has replaced all of their ideals.

This is kind of understandable, because that reactionary talk radio was always a form of managed dissent. They kept getting tricked by it, and as communications democratized they somewhat realized this (hence the whole RINO thing). But as usual they're unable to see the larger overall picture, and so direct blame at whomever scapegoats their new info-bubble managers point at.
Show HN: Valknut – static analysis to tame agent tech debt
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-02 17:44:54+00:00
Hi y'all,

In my work to reduce the amount of time I spend in the agentic development loop, I observed that code structure was one of the biggest determinants in agent task success. Ironically, agents aren't good at structuring code for their own consumption, so left to their own devices purely vibe-coded projects will tend towards dumpster fire status.

Agents aren't great at refactoring out of the box either, so rather than resign myself to babysitting refactors to maintain agent performance, I wrote a tool to put agents on rails while refactoring.

Another big problem I encountered trying to remove myself from the loop was knowing where to spend my time efficiently when I did dive into the codebase. To combat this I implemented a html report that simplifies identifying high level problem. In many cases you can click from an issue in the report directly to the code via VS Code links.

I hope you find this tool as useful as I have, I'm working on it actively so I'm happy to field feature requests.
by shagie | 2025-12-02 17:44:54+00:00
> Copyright must be registered.

https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04_e.htm

Members shall comply with Articles 1 through 21 of the Berne Convention (1971) and the Appendix thereto. However, Members shall not have rights or obligations under this Agreement in respect of the rights conferred under Article 6bis of that Convention or of the rights derived therefrom.

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

Author's rights under the Berne Convention must be automatic; it is prohibited to require formal registration.

This would require the country to back out of the Berne Convention and TRIPS (and by implication the WTO). Protection of copyright is automatic and does not require registration.

Just because I haven't sent the latest batch of photographs to the Library of Congress for registration (so I can collect punitive damages rather than just compensatory damages) doesn't mean that the images that I have created are not copyrighted and protected.
by s_dev | 2025-12-02 17:45:29+00:00
My critique is more levelled at Mistral and not specifically what they've just released so it could be that some see what I have to say as off topic.

Also a lot of Europeans are upset at US tech dominance. It's a position we've roped ourselves in to so any commentary that criticises an EU tech success story is seen as being unnecessarily negative.

However I do mean it as a warning to others, I got burned even with good intentions.