MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-04 17:02:53+00:00
> I'm asking how Palantir, a private company, is going to turn me into a "slave of the state" in the USA.

This question has already been answered for you.

The government uses Palantir to perform the state's surveillance. (And in a way that does an end-run around the Fourth Amendment; https://yalelawandpolicy.org/end-running-warrants-purchasing....)

As the Stasi used private citizens to do so. It's just an automated informant.

And this is hardly theoretical. https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-cons...

> Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

> In August, ICE announced that Palantir would build a $30 million surveillance platform called ImmigrationOS to aid the agency’s mass deportation efforts, around the same time that an Amnesty International report claimed that Palantir’s AI was being used by the Department of Homeland Security to target non-citizens that speak out in favor of Palestinian rights (Karp is also a staunch supporter of Israel and inked an ongoing strategic partnership with the IDF.)
by jbs789 | 2025-12-04 17:03:01+00:00
Looking forward to the OpenAI (and Anthropic) IPOs. It’s funny to me that this info is being “leaked” - they are sussing out the demand. If they wait too long, they won’t be able to pull off the caper (at these valuations). And we will get to see who has staying power.

It’s obvious to me that all of OpenAIs announcements about partnerships and spending is gearing up for this. But I do wonder how Altman retains the momentum through to next year. What’s the next big thing? A rocket company?
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by palata | 2025-12-04 17:03:27+00:00
> It’s not luck. To assume so, let alone say so, is uninformed and quite rude.

They did not say that. They said it included a high degree of luck. It's easier to get there when you grow up in a country where you have access to a computer, for instance.

> If you feel it’s only achievable with luck, I suggest you’re selling yourself short.

It most definitely is only achievable with enough luck: given the same "hard work", not everyone on Earth will get to the same point. I find it amazing how people don't understand that.

It doesn't mean that there was no hard work. Just that "I am here because nobody on Earth would deserve it more and luck has nothing to do with it" is... I don't know... narcissistic?
by mythz | 2025-12-04 17:03:34+00:00
Despite having an unlimited warchest I'm not expecting Microsoft to come out as a winner from this AI race whilst having the necessary resources. The easy investment was to throw billions at OpenAI to gain access to their tech, but that puts them in a weird position of not investing heavily in cultivating their own AI talent and being in control of their own destiny by having their own horse in the race with their own SOTA models.

Apple's having a similar issue, unlimited wealth that's outsourcing to external SOTA model providers.
by jabr | 2025-12-04 17:03:40+00:00
There is a `--no-install` flag on both `uc machine init` and `uc machine add` that skips that `curl | bash` install step.

You need to prepare the machine some other way first then, but it's just installing docker and the uncloud service.

I use the `--no-install` option with my own cluster, as I have my own pre-provisioning process that includes some additional setup beyond the docker/uncloud elements.
by kace91 | 2025-12-04 17:04:25+00:00
>We had a much better version of this with interface builder on NeXT in the late 1980s (and later Mac OS X)

I don’t disagree, that just wasn’t available as a starting to program option when my generation started learning around 2005. If it still existed, it was way too niche for me to know about as a beginner.

And I don’t include myself in the generation that started programming through JS, I went the console route a bit earlier. But I have seen friends enter programming later on and it’s clear why that is the main choice.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-12-04 17:04:31+00:00
It's a ton of work to design a font. Any designer can do it, not any designer can do it well. It's a very small niche of overall design. That led to a few companies specializing in font design, and predictably private equity firms have been buying them out & raising prices. Customers will switch away, but this creates unexpected work to do so some might end up paying at least for a while.
Show HN: Sigma Runtime ERI (v0.1) – Open benchmark for attractor-based LLMs
by teugent | 2025-12-04 17:04:47+00:00
We’ve released an open benchmark plan for the SIGMA Runtime (v0.1 ERI) — a minimal 800-line runtime architecture implementing attractor-based cognition for large language models.

The benchmark defines reproducible tests for: - Token efficiency - Coherence stability - Latency - Drift control

It compares a baseline looping agent vs. the SIGMA runtime loop: `context → _generate() → output → drift/stability/memory update → causal continuity → context rebuild`.

The goal is to make runtime efficiency and coherence retention measurable and independently verifiable across model providers and agent frameworks.

Independent replication and external validation are encouraged. If you run long-context or autonomous LLMs, please share your benchmark results or insights.
by positron26 | 2025-12-04 17:04:49+00:00
Because of the Ukraine conflict, the phrase "mission command" came to my attention. It's about C2 rather than leadership but another one of those gems we might filter out in our "Bay Area" (you're all terminally online Europeans / teenagers jk) bubble.

The idea of mission command is pretty simple. If you see an incidental opportunity that will contribute to the big picture and pursuing it won't compromise the objective of your orders, take it. IIRC they call it something like "scoped initiative."

If you see an incidental opportunity that you can't take because it would compromise your local objective, you escalate. Up the chain, in the larger scope, that incidental opportunity that would compromise the objective of the smaller unit may be addressable using some available resources of the bigger unit.

It works by deduction and beautifully because you get the best of both individual initiative and large-scale coordination. It's an example where from-first-principle CS and pragmatic emergent systems resonate because it's near a morally true optimum.

In the context of OP, knowing the objective of your larger 1-2 organization levels is all the transparency that is every necessary. Neurons aren't smart. Information flows in a network are smart. Don't trust people who start performing and asking for transparency because ninety-nine times out of ten, they can't do better with what they ask for but will make everyone else do worse by breaking the cohesion.

And finally I read OP. It's a vapid feel-good long-form tweet that is nothing compared to the comment section.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-04 17:04:49+00:00
They currently have to pass those tests which is why they're not morons. But if you decide to make it possible to have any of these mentally disabled people then I'm sure someone will find a way to turn it into a lawsuit if we exclude them. e.g. they had a test to hire police that turned out to have 'disparate impact'. The questions were simple things like: if a shift ends at 11 PM, the policeman shows up on site at 10.45 PM and stays there till 1 AM, how many hours of overtime did they work?

But some people couldn't answer them and so they got paid out. When the system is opaque we can preserve competence. If we have to "make reasonable accommodations" and "prevent disparate impact" we're going to be in trouble. Better to keep it quiet.

The government that had to pay out because people couldn't answer that question was also keen on not paying out lawsuits. But they had to nonetheless.
by didibus | 2025-12-04 17:04:56+00:00
Thing is, it's hard to predict what can be done and what breakthrough or minor tweak can suddenly open up an avenue for a profitable use-case.

The cost of missing that opportunity is why they're heavily investing in AI, they don't want to miss the boat if there's going to be one.

And what else would they do? What's the other growth path?
by georgeburdell | 2025-12-04 17:05:00+00:00
Amazing, can’t wait to play

… oh wait I have a 60 hour a week job

… oh wait I have a wife with PPD and 2 young kids and I have to hire a babysitter just to put up Christmas lights

… oh wait I have RSIs in my dominant hand

I think I’ll just make do with my memories of this game. I imagine much of my opinion was colored by being a teenager when it was released.
by _sinelaw_ | 2025-12-04 17:05:33+00:00
LSP is working but requires polish. Go to definition, completion suggestions, inlay type hints and symbol highlighting are all working (probably not as pretty as they should)

Tree-sitter is supported and used internally for a subset of languages for syntax highlighting (other languages use textmate grammars). What exactly do you mean by support for tree-sitter parsers?

I wasn't aware of Debug Adapter Protocol! I'll take a look at that.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-04 17:05:41+00:00
Germany sure as hell beats the US in developing soccer talent.

It's a case where America's dog-eat-dog culture and rampant achievement laundering undermines meritocracy. That is, even though the US puts a lot of kids into the bottom of the youth soccer pyramid, if you want to play through high school you have to be able to afford a pay-to-play league so the USNT is full of rich kids who have middling soccer talent instead of the best talent from whatever background.
by ceroxylon | 2025-12-04 17:05:59+00:00
As someone who appreciates machine learning, the main dissonance I have with interacting with Microsoft's implementation of AI feels like "don't worry, we will do the thinking for you".

This appears everywhere, with every tool trying to autocomplete every sentence and action, creating a very clunky ecosystem where I am constantly pressing 'escape' and 'backspace' to undo some action that is trying to rewrite what I am doing to something I don't want or didn't intend.

It is wasting time and none of the things I want are optimized, their tools feel like they are helping people write "good morning team, today we are going to do a Business, but first we must discuss the dinner reservations" emails.
by stvltvs | 2025-12-04 17:06:01+00:00
Isn't that day today?

The CDC says 4,000 underage drinkers die in the US every year. Maybe we could reduce that with stricter controls, but at what point does that become too burdensome to the rights of legal drinkers?

It's even harder to get the balance right when it comes to free speech issues like online pornography.
by bluGill | 2025-12-04 17:06:12+00:00
Needs a million upvotes. It costs a large pile of money to design an all-new engine from the ground up that meets modern emissions and is reliable is service for hundreds of thousands of miles. You should be thinking billions of dollars. They only way to make this affordable is to amortize that cost over many many cars of many many years. Sure you will tweak the design here and there for various reasons, but the initial investment to get the first car to a customer is too high to dare start again anytime soon.

Of course with electric cars obviously coming it is questionable if any engine is worth starting today. There isn't much worth doing that a minor tweak to an existing design cannot do - and even if there is something it is questionable if engines will be sold long enough to be worth it. (at least for cars - if you target boats or construction equipment or such maybe - though you will note smaller boats typically just take an existing engine and tweak it because there are not enough small boats sold to be worth a new design)
by justapassenger | 2025-12-04 17:06:20+00:00
AI is people looking at EV hype and saying - I'll 100x it.

It has all the same components, just on much higher scale:

1. Billionaire con-man convincing large part of market and industry (Altman in AI vs Musk in EV) that new tech will take over in few years.

2. Insane valuations not supported by an actual ROI.

3. Very interesting and amazing underlying technology.

4. Governments jumping on the hype and enabling it.
by klipitkas | 2025-12-04 17:06:40+00:00
On the VPS we use: - 80 (standard http) - 443 (standard https) - 22 (obv for standard ssh) - 9090 (metrics / internal so I can have an idea of the generic usage like reqs/s and active connections)

Client-Side: The -R 80:localhost:8080 Explained The 80 in -R 80:localhost:8080 is not a real port on the server. It's a virtual bind port that tells the SSH client what port to "pretend" it's listening on.

No port conflicts - The server doesn't actually bind to port 80 per tunnel. Each tunnel gets an internal listener on 127.0.0.1:random (ephemeral port). The 80 is just metadata passed in the SSH forwarded-tcpip channel. All public traffic comes through single port 443 (HTTPS), routed by subdomain.

So What Ports Are "Available" to Users?

Any port - because it doesn't matter! Users can specify any port in -R: ssh -t -R 80:localhost:3000 proxy.tunnl.gg # Works ssh -t -R 8080:localhost:3000 proxy.tunnl.gg # Also works ssh -t -R 3000:localhost:3000 proxy.tunnl.gg # Also works ssh -t -R 1:localhost:3000 proxy.tunnl.gg # Even this works!

The number is just passed to the SSH client so it knows which forwarded-tcpip requests to accept. The actual routing is done by subdomain, not port.

Why Use 80 Convention?

It's just convention - many SSH clients expect port 80 for HTTP forwarding. But functionally, any number works because:

- Server extracts BindPort from the SSH request - Stores it in the tunnel struct - Sends it back in forwarded-tcpip channel payload - Client matches on this to forward to correct local port - The "magic" is that all 1000 possible tunnels share the same public ports (22, 80, 443) and are differentiated by subdomain.
by layer8 | 2025-12-04 17:07:59+00:00
US technocapitalism is built on the premise of technological innovation driving exponential growth. This is why they are fixated on whatever provides an outlook for that. The risk that it might not work out is downplayed, because (a) they don’t want to hazard not being at the forefront in the event that it does work out, and (b) if it doesn’t work out, nobody will really hold them accountable for it, not the least because everybody does it.

After the mobile and cloud revolution having run out of steam, AI is what promises most growth by far, even if it is a dubious promise.

It’s a gamble, a bet on “the next big thing”. Because they would never be satisfied with there not being another “big thing”, or not being prominently part of it.
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-04 17:08:02+00:00
I think we must think about what the downside of kids maybe being introduced to porn really. Realistically, it is pretty low. Given that, we shouldn't really be giving up anything to try and stop it. I was exposed to porn several ways pre-Internet. Older siblings, news stands, late night cable. If I wanted more, I could get it. It was simply not a problem.

Maybe there is a problem for a tiny number of individuals, OK. A one size fits all approach like this still isn't the solution in these cases, though.
by kryptoyogi | 2025-12-04 17:08:12+00:00
When creating a new project, I code from scratch to get the architecture/folder/file structure coherently setup.

However, when contributing to existing repos, I use Claude Code for: 1) understanding repo structure, flow of function calls, 2) making small fixes, 3) using plan mode to iterate on how to implement a larger feature.

On the topic of small fixes, I use git worktrees to use Claude Clode parallelly. Very useful to tackle 3 or 4 small fixes at once.

The diffs created by Claude Code can get a bit disorganized in my head, so I use GitHub PRs to manually check diffs.

Regarding your question, you are not necessarily wasting time doing the exercies. Being able to "code from scratch" accelerates your ability to use LLMs in a controlled, but powerful manner, without degenerating into vibe code slop.
by derekcheng08 | 2025-12-04 17:08:24+00:00
The biggest omission that immediately stands out to me is: "provides a clear sense of direction".

I've seen so many examples of teams and organizations that experience a lack of clarity, with all sorts of negative downstream consequences - muddled strategies, moving goalposts, fatigue/low morale. Having a leader that can provide that clarity is so important.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-04 17:09:29+00:00
It was less commercial then. It was not as much "occupied" by intermediaries who think the internet exists for their commercial gain and anyone who uses it owes them something

I think it is amusing how these commercial third party intermediaries today are trying to frame things like "chat control" and "age restrictions" as attacks on internet users' rights rather than attacks on their intermediation "business model"

Generally, there is no age restriction on subscribing to internet service. However third party intermediaries that have now occupied seemingly every corner of the web, so-called "tech" companies, want everyone to believe that intermediaries _are_ the internet (as opposed to middlemen who seek to surveil as many internet subscribers as they can)

I am glad I grew up before the internet so that I understand and appreciate the only service that matters is _internet service_. People today take internet service for granted perhaps but I can remember when it was a new frontier

With internet service, there were so many possibilities. Today, so-called "tech" companies portray internet service as a given, apparently useless on its own,^1 whilst they advertise themselves as offering "services" (usually for free, a Trojan Horse for commercial surveillance). They utilise bandwidth paid for by the internet subscriber to transfer encrypted surveillance data to themselves

1. For example, when Mozilla claims something like without an online advertising "ecosystem" the internet would be worthless. The greed and self-entitlement behind this framing is both absurd and hilarious
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by xnorswap | 2025-12-04 17:09:49+00:00
I broadly agree. They package "copilot" in a way that constantly gets in your way.

The one time I thought it could be useful, in diagnosing why two Azure services seemingly couldn't talk to each other, it was completely useless.

I had more success describing the problem in vague terms to a different LLM, than an AI supposedly plugged into the Azure organisation that could supposedly directly query information.
by nroets | 2025-12-04 17:10:01+00:00
Here's a fairly fast algorithm: Look for a number that appears in both { j⁵+k⁵+l⁵ } and { i⁵-n⁵ } where 0 < j <= k <= l and 0 < n < i

If we only consider l and i under 250, then the sets would contain less than 3 million integers each.

Strength reduction can be used to replace all the multiplications with additions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_reduction
by K0balt | 2025-12-04 17:10:07+00:00
I think we can dispense with the strawman Soviet Russia alternative lmfao.

In a reasonably well regulated market, deception at that scale (that utterly destroys competitive buildouts by externalizing the costs that normally would be borne by a customer needing an exceptional order) would be a clear violation of market laws. The fact that deceptive, aggressively anticompetitive behavior such as this , blatantly harmful to other innovation passes as “free market” is a laughable assertion… this is merely the will of the stronger, not any reasonable definition of a free market. A free market implies transparency in pricing and demand, alongside fair competition practices.

Anyone else planning to innovate in the ML space just took a huge hit thanks to OAI, including scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and other things that arguably operate mostly in the realm of clear public good.

Their inherent assumption that might = right is a very powerful indication of their inability to be trusted in the control of a tool / weapon that has more potential to steer the future of humanity than nuclear power/weapons ever did. It’s clear that A: they don’t see AI as any big deal, or B: they don’t care how their actions affect humanity in any nuanced sense of the concept.
by citizenpaul | 2025-12-04 17:10:13+00:00
> "The Coaching Habit."

Oh wow. This comment just completely explained the worst "manager" I ever had. They must have been using this terrible method.

>no matter how direct the request was or how much it really needed management authority behind it.

They nearly drove me insane with this circular cycle. It was the only job I ever walked out on. I emailed on a Sunday night that I would not be returning to the office after a particularly terrible cycle of this nonsense.

To be clear I am not a "needy" employee. When I ask a manager for something it is because I do not have the authority do the thing.
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by pjsg | 2025-12-04 17:10:30+00:00
I'm not convinced that the units conversion is right. The example of 2 Cups of greek yoghurt being 391.32 g. 1 US cup is 240 ml (or 236.5 ml depending on which type of cup you are using). The density of greek yoghurt is somewhere between 0.96 g/ml and 1.04 g/ml (depending on which website you trust the most). This leads me to calculate that 2 cups greek yoghurt weighs between 454 g and 499 g). The 391 g value is way off.
by chrisBob | 2025-12-04 17:10:39+00:00
Credit unions, or small banks are likely to be helpful in some situations. When building our house 8 years ago we had a lot of trouble getting the construction loan mostly because of 1-2 bad comps in our area. One of the big banks turned us down with no recourse with an assessment that included a picture of the wrong lot (a farm field across the street). Another said no one should build a house under 3k square feet, so no to our plan. Our little local bank was able to actually take a look and approve us.