MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devnavigator | 2025-12-18 12:18:43+00:00
Artificial intelligence has not evolved in a straight line. Over the last five years, it has moved through distinct phases that reshaped how organizations build, trust, and ultimately rely on AI. What began as model-centric experimentation has steadily progressed toward agent-driven systems that increasingly operate inside real business workflows in the form of enterprise AI agents. Understanding this evolution is critical for leaders deciding where to invest next and how to design AI that delivers sustained value.
by Europas | 2025-12-18 12:21:21+00:00
I'm waiting for properly adjusted specific LLMs. A LLM trained on so much trustworth generic data that it is able to understand/comprehend me and different lanugages but always talks to a fact database in the background.

I don't need an LLM to have a trillion parameters if i just need it to be a great user interface.

Someone is probably working on this somewere or will but lets see.
by omnicognate | 2025-12-18 12:21:29+00:00
This is a terrible headline, despite being the original.

The "watchdog" is a KC (senior barrister) officially appointed to review the legislation. He's warning that this could be considered hostile activity under the act, which would be a bad thing. In other words, he's criticising the act for being overly broad, a view that most on HN agree with, and his criticisms of it presumably carry some weight, given his official role.

As usual, this has provoked a load of ill-informed knee-jerk rants about the UK government from people who didn't read past the headline. This act is an absolute stinker, but let's maybe criticise what's actually happening rather than some imagined cartoon variant of it.
by oefrha | 2025-12-18 12:21:35+00:00
I fail to see how this is a personal attack. I was basically saying I don’t understand why people always have to post these ostensibly on-topic, actually off-topic humble brags (?). Where’s the attack? “You know perfectly well”? People have really thin skins these days if that counts as an attack. I see multiple more aggressive comments in this very comment tree (e.g. “it's an ignorant and arrogant take”) and IMO even those hardly crossed the line.
by christophilus | 2025-12-18 12:21:47+00:00
I hate C++. It’s possibly my least favorite language. Slow compilation, awful mess of ideas scattered around, syntax soup, footguns galore. Typescript has become one of my favorite languages. It’s not perfect, but it’s surprisingly good and pragmatic. JS, on the other hand? No thanks. Static typing is something I never want to do without again.
by ben_w | 2025-12-18 12:21:54+00:00
I'm glad to see some work outside the default en-US bubble of what counts as politically liberal or conservative:

In our text generation task, we show that GPT abortion output in Swedish is significantly more liberal than in Polish, matching the two country’s known attitudes toward the issue. Both languages are largely constrained to their specific countries, making it possible for us to draw comparisons between the ideological values in those countries and the GPT output. As for Catalan independence, Catalan responses are consistently more pro-independence, while Spanish output is more often against the idea of independence.

That said: published December 2025, and writing about ChatGPT versions 3.5 and 4.

World's moving so much fast, clearly not all of our systems are keeping up.
by blitzar | 2025-12-18 12:22:21+00:00
A trend amongst peers I have noticed ... people are parenting in the opposite manner to the way their werre raised.

Your parents were very active / suffocating ... do free range parenting. Your parents let you roam outside with few sports, clubs and activities ... do 7 day a week scheduled activities.

You went to private school ... send kids to shittiest free school you can find.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-18 12:22:42+00:00
I feel like machine translation is the unsung hero of the recent AI wave. Gone are the days of just barely being able to discern the meaning of Google Translate. Now I can just read it.

I don't know how useful LLMs will ultimately turn out to be for most things, but a freaking universal translator that allows me to understand any language? Incredible!
by hnarn | 2025-12-18 12:23:23+00:00
Interesting that this got posted today, I also have a server on Hetzner (although I don't think it's relevant) and noticed yesterday that a Monero miner had been installed.

Luckily for me, the software I had installed[1] was in an LXC container running under Incus, so the intrusion never escaped the application environment, and the container itself was configured with low CPU priority so I didn't even notice it until I tried to visit the page and it didn't load.

I looked around a bit and it seemed like an SSH key had been added under the root user, and there were some kind of remote management agents installed. This container was running Alpine so it was pretty easy to identify what processes didn't belong from a simple ps output of the remaining processes after shutting down the actual web application.

In the end, I just scrapped the container, but I did save it in case I ever feel like digging around (probably not). In the end I did learn some useful things:

- It's a good idea to assume your system will get taken over, so ensure it's isolated and suitably resource constrained (looking at you, pay-as-you-go cloud users).

- Make sure you have snapshots and backups, in my case I do daily ZFS snapshots in Incus which makes rolling back to before the intrusion a breeze.

- While ideally anything compromised should be scrapped, rolling back, locking it down and upgrading might be OK depending on the threat.

Regarding the miner itself:

- from what I could see in its configuration it hadn't actually been correctly configured, so it's possible they do some kind of benchmark and just leave the system silently compromised if it's not "worth it", they still have a way in to use it for other purposes.

- no attempt had been made at file system obfuscation, which is probably the only reason I really discovered it. There were literally folders in /root lying around with the word "monero" in them, this could have been easily hidden.

- if they hadn't installed a miner and just silently compromised the system, leaving whatever running on it alone (or even doing a better job at CPU priority), I probably never would have noticed this.

[1]: https://github.com/umami-software/umami
by cons0le | 2025-12-18 12:24:12+00:00
I honestly think at least 50% of the blame for ghost jobs in on HR. Ghosts jobs are great if you're an HR person trying to not get laid off. You get to look busy all the time, sending emails that don't matter. I think HR people are the masters of looking busy. It of course also makes the company itself look better, like they're still hiring all the time when they aren't. It also benefits the hiring manager to have ghost jobs, because it makes the current team feel more replaceable
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-18 12:24:41+00:00
Yeah! I don't know what methods Safari on iOS uses, but in general translation has become pretty magical. It feels like we've kind of slepwalked through the invention of the Universal Translator. I just haven't heard as much gushing about it as I feel it deserves. I can just effortlessly read a sciency news article originally written in Portuguese!
by gortok | 2025-12-18 12:25:39+00:00
The folks that dismiss JB’s work by saying “this could have been done in <x>” are missing the point of why anything is done.

If you are entirely utilitarian in how you approach making a game (as in this case) then you’ll want to create as little as possible to make the game. An existing game engine, an existing programming language, existing libraries, etc.

If your goal is the economic return that making a game will (hopefully!) provide, this is understandable.

However, how I see JB based on his past work and talks is someone who wants to spend their life bringing things into existence. From all available evidence it appears the art of creating and the art of having created is his work and his legacy. The economic return is rhe by-product, but not the goal.

We are in this earth for a finite amount of years, and he is spending his time creating new things. It’s an admirable use of time, and at least from my perspective holds a universe of meaning that working under the utilitarian approach loses.
by spockz | 2025-12-18 12:26:29+00:00
What is included in the stats for kidnapping? Where I live a confused young man convinced a little girl to get on his ebike and forced her to ride along with him for a few hours before coming back to the neighbourhood and being stopped by police that was out in full force for him.

My point being, “only 70 a year in the US” sounds like a very low number and inconsequential number since we had an abduction close by already.

Any parent that has heard the same story is thinking of that instead of the stats.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-18 12:26:38+00:00
> are all people with IQ supposed to be doing groundbreaking research?

I don't know about "supposed to", but... it's a reasonable hope or expectation, right? That someone with extraordinary capabilities would want to use them for some extraordinary benefit for mankind. I appreciate vos Savant's contribution to public knowledge, but if you have the ability to make your name by progressing something extremely challenging (like the Riemann hypothesis) then wouldn't you want to try that?

Reminds me of that scene in Good Will Hunting where Sean presses Will on why he sticks to manual labouring when he's far smarter than highly trained university professors.
by lucyjojo | 2025-12-18 12:27:04+00:00
sorry to ask but this is a rare occasion...

i started trying to make sourdough bread 2 weeks ago (and baking/cooking at all).

is there 1 definitive book/youtube channel/other kind of resource you would recommend to put mut on a solid path for a few months/years?

i just want to make sourdough bread daily in order to have healthy stable carbs at home. (stone milled complete grain flour and wild yeast). with the price of rice currently in japan it doesnt even look to be significantly more expensive.
by less_less | 2025-12-18 12:27:11+00:00
Another answer to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley–Bacharach_theorem

A second special case of this theorem is Pascal's theorem, which says (roughly) that a variant of the elliptic curve group law also works on the union of a conic C and a line L (this union, like an elliptic curve, is cubic), where the group elements are on the conic. One point O on the conic is marked as the identity. To add points A+B, you draw a line AB between them, intersect that with the fixed line L in a point C, draw a second line CO back through the marked identity point, and intersect again with the conic in D:=A+B. This procedure obviously commutes and satisfies the identity law, and according to Pascal's theorem it associates.

Under a projective transformation, if the conic and line don't intersect, you can send the line to infinity and the conic to the units in (IIRC) a quadratic extension of F (e.g. the complex unit circle, if -1 isn't square in F). Since the group structure is defined by intersections of lines and conics, projective transformations don't change it. So the group is isomorphic to the group of units in an extension of F. If they do intersect ... not sure, but I would guess it instead becomes the multiplicative group in F itself.

The multiplicative group of F can be used for cryptography (this is classic Diffie-Hellman), as can the group of units in an extension field (this is LUCDIF, or in the 6th-degree case it's called XTR). These methods are slightly simpler than elliptic curves, but there are subexponential "index calculus" attacks against them, just like the ones against the original Diffie-Hellman. The attack on extension fields got a lot stronger with Joux's 2013 improvements. Since no such attack is known against properly chosen elliptic curves, those are used instead.
by rayiner | 2025-12-18 12:27:36+00:00
> That's not at all the implication... how do you even reach that conclusion? The obvious implication is that the president can only do what he is legally permitted, which means he could do whatever Congress provides for in law, in addition to what's in the constitution

The constitution doesn’t list any other supervisory powers the president has over officers. So if the Opinions Clause isn’t redundant, Congress needs to spell out all other supervisory authority, down to something as little as asking for opinions.

That reading isn’t just inconsistent with the unitary executive view, it’s inconsistent with every other common view of how the executive works. It would not only mean that Congress can create independent agencies, but that all cabinet officers are independent by default. Nobody seriously thinks that’s true, but that’s the implication of the non-redundant reading of the Opinions Clause.

It’s true that the framers probably didn’t put a redundant power in there just for funsies. But it’s also true that drafters don’t hide elephants in molehills. Article II only mentions executive officers in passing. It would be very odd if the drafters meant to invest them with tremendous independent power only by implication.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-18 12:27:44+00:00
Well, but wait, why doesn't each Parlor count? Is your expectation that somehow each of the 1400 puzzles in Blow's game will be like finding Room 46 in Blue Prince?

[[Massive spoilers implied, stop reading if you don't want a Blue Prince playthrough "spoiled" in some sense]]

Take the Atelier, if you're Jon Blow that's obviously 45 puzzle boxes, plus 45 picture pairs = 90 puzzles just to spell out the clues before you even try to understand how to "solve" the Atelier and actually inherit the manor [[If you're reading this and thinking "But I did inherit the manor by finding room 46, hey, shoo, you didn't finish the game I told you not to read this]].
by Aeglaecia | 2025-12-18 12:27:54+00:00
all living creatures are selfish to the core and will always optimize to minimize effort and maximize personal reward , therefore existing in a soft gentle system will result in acclimatization to a soft gentle system ... this universe is hostile impersonal harsh brutal and altogether basically not a place that anybody could ever be prepared for after having congealed in an insular bubble like the global west ... it is enjoyable seeing everyone here utterly in denial about this ... reminds me of militant atheists lambasting religion and then doubling down when i suggest that maybe healthy community gathering and values is more important than whether or not god is real ...
by spicyroman | 2025-12-18 12:28:35+00:00
Vaadin 25.0 was just released, and the focus of this major version is a significant "slimming down" of the framework. For those who haven't looked at Vaadin in a few years, this release moves away from many framework-specific abstractions in favor of web standards.

Key Engineering Changes:

Standardizing on Lit: We’ve finally removed the legacy Polymer dependency. All components are now 100% Lit-based, resulting in smaller bundles and better performance.

Native CSS over Framework Config: Theming has been refactored to use standard CSS. You can now use @StyleSheet or native CSS @import directly, removing the need for Vaadin-specific theme JSON configurations.

Dependency Diet: We’ve trimmed transitive dependencies by ~30% by leveraging modern JDK APIs (Java 21 is now the baseline) and moving to Jackson 3 for communication, replacing the old Elemental JSON library.

Build Pipeline Unification: The "Production Profile" quirk is gone. A standard mvn package now produces a production-optimized build by default, making it much more compatible with standard CI/CD and Buildpacks.

Ecosystem Baseline: Updated to Java 21 LTS, Spring Boot 4.0, and Jakarta EE 11.

We’ve also introduced a new theme called "Aura" and added experimental support for Tailwind CSS integration.

Happy to answer any questions about the migration or the new architecture!
by sourya4 | 2025-12-18 12:28:46+00:00
I have transitioned from a late nighter to waking up in the 3-4am zone over the last few years.

That sweet interruption free early morning slot of ~5 hours when everyone's sleeping is probably the most productive I feel before the hustle bustle of life starts.

I have yet to master how to work better in short bursts of 1-2 hours when I have errands to run or calls to take later in the day. Would love to know if anyone has found techniques that work for them to make the most of such smaller time slots where it's harder to reach flow.
by ack_complete | 2025-12-18 12:29:04+00:00
AVX(2)'s main advantage is 256-bit width, since many of its operations are simply concatenated 128-bit ops (weird for ops like VPALIGNR), and cross-lane operations are expensive. NEON, on the other hand, only supports 128-bit ops, so AVX operations need to be split by the emulator.

I'd expect more of a gain from enabling FMA, but that's assuming the program actually got built to use FMA -- it needs to either use it explicitly or have relaxations to allow the contraction. Oryon has 4 x 128-bit NEON pipes with 3c latency fadd and 4c latency fmul/fma, so it easily ends up latency bottlenecked unless there are plenty of independent calculations.
by simonask | 2025-12-18 12:29:11+00:00
I just wonder how readily people would defend this viewpoint if they belonged to any of those groups whose "feelings" are typically being "hurt".

I don't know about you, but there does not exist any amount of technical achievement that will make me brush off sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or anything else. If you are going to be disrespectful to me or people I care about, we cannot work together, period.

By "political correctness" people often mean "the basic requirement to treat your fellow humans respectfully", and that's an incredibly low bar.
by louthy | 2025-12-18 12:29:12+00:00
As someone who has had some serious hardship and is certainly more resilient because of it, I can also confirm the mental scarring that comes as ‘part of the package’.

I think to an extent the mental impact of it is a necessary evil. The future resilience manifests as a drive to not find yourself in the same (or an equally difficult) position again — because it’s so emotionally devastating — so you fight harder to not allow it to happen again. This makes a person more driven in general.

Another aspect is that you’ve seen how ‘deep’ an emotion can be (traumatic) and so more ‘everyday’ emotional events can seem much more trivial, making them easier to deal with. Although, it can sometimes leave the person seeming ‘cold’ emotionally. One thing I found was I was less tolerant of people without the level of resilience I had, which I had to work on.

Of course, there will be some people that can’t endure the initial hardship and don’t develop that resilience. My impression is that most people do endure and find a way to come out of the other side, like a basic survival instinct, although that’s purely anecdotal.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-18 12:29:12+00:00
It's very much alive. It's the primary way I keep up with sites on the web. One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of websites have RSS feeds but don't advertise them or offer an obvious link, but are discoverable by looking at the site's page source.

> Now, with the advent of Agentic AI they seem to be an old fashioned way that is needed anymore.

One of the main reasons I use RSS is to assemble a news feed that I read. It's hard to see how Agentic AI can improve on that.
by muixoozie | 2025-12-18 12:29:32+00:00
>ask it why

Always cracks me up asking the LLM why it said something like it really knows and won't just make up something plausible.

Scary thing is how similar we are in this regard. People confabulate and rationalize things the time, but it's especially apparent in people who engage in denial of illness (anosognosia) due to brain damage. One well documented example is stroke damaging the right hemisphere of the brain and paralyzing the left side of the body. Some will deny their paralyzed arm is paralyzed; Make up all sorts of excuses if cross examined / confronted with evidence of illness [0], or practically hallucinate their arm working, fail to notice it's not working etc. Video goes into like half a dozen experiments least. Mini spoiler: can ask someone with similar brain damage a ridiculous question "why did you just do x" (when did didn't do anything) and they'll confabulate an answer. Reminds me of split brain patients videos rationalizing why they did something (speaking left side of the brain) that was communicated visually only to the right hemisphere. [1].

Anyways, I was rewatching the anosognosia video the other day for the first time in like a decade and it really made me wonder how many evolutionary brain specializations it would take to more closely mimic human behavior in a machine.

- 0; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHJDKPeB2A - 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc&t=347
by exe34 | 2025-12-18 12:31:22+00:00
I wish the underlying platforms would also consider providing a "done" version now and again, instead of bundling bug/security fixes with new problems. You can rarely just write something and call it done on something like Android. Anything other than a simple crud/webview wrapper will usually need to use permissions of some sort to do useful things, and as soon as you start using anything like that, your code is probably obsolete in a day or two.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-18 12:31:40+00:00
I can't answer that, but for a long time, there have been predictions that water and foot shortages will trigger (civil) wars and / or mass migrations. Whether it'll be the one or the other depends, I think, on how free a country is. A non-free country will have a strong police / military force that may resort to deadly violence in the case of an uprising. A truly free country will vote the regime out. Somewhere in the middle it'd be said police / military that would take over.

For my uninformed take, Iran is not a free country, the US is somewhere in the middle but I don't think an insurrection against the current regime (which has been deploying the military to mass-abduct people) would end well.
by amluto | 2025-12-18 12:31:51+00:00
I feel like I could specify and vibe-code a CI workflow system that would be dramatically better (for a single organization’s workflow) than GitHub Actions. And hosting it would be barely more complex than hosting a GitHub Actions self-hosted runner.

The stack would be:

Postgres, as a job queue and job status tracker. The entire control plane state lives in here. Even in a fairly large org, the transaction rate would be very, very low.

An ingestion agent. Monitors the repository for pushes and PRs.

A job agent. This runs a in a sandbox and gets the inputs from GitHub and runs what is effectively a workflow step. It doesn’t get any secrets — everything it wants to do is either accomplished in the form of JSON output, blob output, or an org-specific API for doing things that don’t fit the JSON output model.

A thing to handle results. This is a simple service, connected to the database, that consumes the JSON job results and does whatever is needed (which would mostly consist of commenting on PRs or updating a CI status dashboard). For CD workflows, the build artifacts would be sent to whatever registry they go to.

A configuration system, which would be some files somewhere, maybe in a git repository that is not the repository that CI is being done on. (GitHub’s model of Actions config being in-band in the repository is IMO entirely wrong.)

And that’s about it.

I’m not suggesting that I could duplicate the GitHub Actions in a weekend. But I wouldn’t want to. This would be single-tenant, and it would support exactly the features that the organization actually uses. Heck, even par-for-the-course things like SSO aren’t needed because the entire system would have no users per se :)