MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-12-11 20:31:47+00:00
I would pay so much for my own SUV to self-drive as well as Waymo.

Keyword: my own SUV. Not a rental. With the possibility for me to take over and drive it myself if service fails or if I want to do so.

The significant unlock is that I get to haul gear, packages, family. I don't need to keep it clean. The muddy dogs, the hiking trip, the week-long road trip.

If my car could drive me, I'd do way more road trips and skip flying. It's almost as romantic as a California Zephyr or Coast Starlight trip. And I can camp out of it.

No cramped airlines. No catching colds by being packed in a sardine can with a stressed out immune system.

No sharing space with people on public transit. I can work and watch movies and listen to music and hang out with my wife, my friends. People won't stare at me, and I can eat in peace or just be myself in my own space.

I might even work in a nomadic lifestyle if I don't have to drive all the time. Our country is so big and there's so much to see.

One day you might even be able to attach a trailer. Bikes, jet skis, ATVs. People might simply live on the road, traveling all the time.

Big cars seem preferable. Lots of space for internal creature comforts. Laying back, lounging. Watching, reading, eating. Changing clothes, camping, even cooking.

Some people might even buy autonomous RVs. I'm sure that'll be a big thing in its own right.

It's bidirectional too! People can come to you as you go to them. Meet in the middle. Same thing with packages, food, etc.

This would be the biggest thing in travel, transport, logistics, perhaps ever. It's a huge unlock. It feels downright revolutionary. Like a total change in how we might live our lives.

This might turn big suburbs from food/culture deserts into the default places people want to live as they have more space for cheaper - because the commute falls apart.

This honestly sounds better than a house, but if you can also own an affordable large home in the suburbs as your home base - that's incredible. You don't need a tiny expensive place in the city. You could fall asleep in your car and wake up for breakfast in the city. Spend some time at home, then make a trek to the mountains. All without wasting any time. No more driving, no more traffic. Commuting becomes leisure. It becomes you time.

This is also kind of a super power that big countries (in terms of area) with lots of roads and highways will enjoy the most. It doesn't do much in a dense city, but once you add mountains and forests and streams and deserts and oceans - that's magic.

Maybe our vast interstate highway infrastructure will suddenly grow ten times in value.

Roads might become more important than ever. We might even start building more.

If the insurance and autonomy come bundled as a subscription after you purchase or lease your vehicle, that's super easy for people to activate and spend money on.

This is such a romantic dream, and I'm so hyped for this.

I would pay an ungodly sum to unlock this. It can't come soon enough. Would subscribe in a heartbeat.
by logifail | 2025-12-11 20:31:50+00:00
> Moreover, the resolution of most displays, even that of most 4k monitors, remains much lower than the resolution of printed paper and there are many classic typefaces that are poorly rendered on most computer monitors. To compare the legibility of the typefaces, one should use only very good monitors, so that some typefaces should not be handicapped.

I'm afraid I assumed this particular part was a joke, but having read it several times I'm no longer sure ...

Assuming it's not a joke, what would you suggest to readers of content using any particular font who don't have "very good monitors"? What are they supposed to do instead? Not attempt to read the content? Save up for a better monitor?
by johnisgood | 2025-12-11 20:32:11+00:00
Yes, I did those things in 2000. Except when I look at the city I grew up in, it is no longer safe for kids, and kids do not even go outside anymore, and I do not think social media is at fault here.

BTW SMS and phone calls cost money.

Sending e-mails was not a thing even when I was a kid, 25 years ago.

Playing video games, yeah well, that may be the only thing where they may communicate. Except that is going down in the shitters too these days. Say "shit" or "fuck" (especially) and get banned from chat for days.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-11 20:32:31+00:00
The business case is the easy part, the quagmire is in getting the different teams to agree who should support the business case, why it's more important than the business cases they wanted to spend cycles on instead, and how much of the pie supporting it takes on the budget side. Less so when the place is small enough everyone knows everyone's name, more so when it's large enough they really don't care what your business case is much even though it'd be 10x easier to support from their side instead of another.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-11 20:33:08+00:00
> Sponsors can have quite a bit more entitlement then the average github dude.

Is this some sort of unwritten agreement? When I was setting up my sponsor page, I explored the sponsor pages of other users for ideas. I don't think there were many sponsorship tiers with special features. Some people offered advertising space on the README, others offered access to an exclusive Discord channel, most just thanked the sponsor.

I'm still new at this so I wouldn't know. I only ever had one sponsor. Happened organically after my work was independently posted here on HN once.
by dangelosaurus | 2025-12-11 20:33:10+00:00
I ran a red team eval on GPT-5.2 within 30 minutes of release:

Baseline safety (direct harmful requests): 96% refusal rate

With jailbreaking: 22% refusal rate

4,229 probes across 43 risk categories. First critical finding in 5 minutes. Categories with highest failure rates: entity impersonation (100%), graphic content (67%), harassment (67%), disinformation (64%).

The safety training works against naive attacks but collapses with adversarial techniques. The gap between "works on benchmarks" and "works against motivated attackers" is still wide.

Methodology and config: https://www.promptfoo.dev/blog/gpt-5.2-trust-safety-assessme...
by margalabargala | 2025-12-11 20:34:17+00:00
That's definitely the attitude I hear from the Tesla-can-do-no-wrong crowd, but in reality most of the people I meet in the Tesla-mocking crowd are under 40- younger on average than the other group.

The non-Tesla manufacturers have noticed this and positioned products accordingly. Tesla does Musk-driven-development so only caters to the one group.
by ycombinatrix | 2025-12-11 20:34:31+00:00
>The attention that carbon-steel knives require also makes them wonderful gifts, because they represent a show of confidence in the recipient: I think you can take care of this without reducing it to a slab of rust.

I strongly disagree with this take. Gifts that require extra responsibility are the worst. Might as well gift someone a puppy to represent your confidence that they have the ability to take care of a dog.
by 9rx | 2025-12-11 20:34:43+00:00
> I think straight duplication is quite unlikely.

Is it? There are many different people selling wheels that are all pretty much indistinguishable from one another. The first one no doubt brought the 'wow'. But when the second person showed up with the same thing, what 'wow' would there be?

Our entire system of trade assumes that duplication occurs as an intrinsic piece, with the only defining difference in that duplication is the effort to make the same thing for cheaper. Otherwise known as competition. Are you suggesting that doesn't happen?
by mrandish | 2025-12-11 20:34:46+00:00
> I wonder why they held this back.

IMHO, I doubt they were holding much back. Obviously, they're always working on 'next improvements' and rolled what was done enough into this but I suspect the real difference here is throwing significantly more compute (hence investor capital) at improving the quality - right now. How much? While the cost is currently staying the same for most users, the API costs seem to be ~40% higher.

The impetus was the serious threat Gemini 3 poses. Perception about ChatGPT was starting to shift, people were speculating that maybe OAI is more vulnerable than assumed. This caused Altman to call an all-hands "Code Red" two weeks ago, triggering a significant redeployment of priorities, resources and people. I think this launch is the first 'stop the perceptual bleeding' result of the Code Red. Given the timing, I think this is mostly akin to overclocking a CPU or running an F1 race car engine too hot to quickly improve performance - at the cost of being unsustainable and unprofitable. To placate serious investor concerns, OAI has recently been trying to gradually work toward making current customers profitable (or at least less unprofitable). I think we just saw the effort to reduce the insane burn rate go out the window.
by maccard | 2025-12-11 20:34:54+00:00
> God why can’t it just be longer development time.

Where do you stop? What do the 5 tech designers do while the 2 engine programmers optimise every last byte of network traffic?

> I’m sick of the premature fetuses of games.

Come on, keep this sort of crap off here. Games being janky isn't new - look at old console games and they're basically duct taped together. Go back to Half-life 1 in 1998 - the Xen world is complete and utter trash. Go back farther and you have stuff that's literally unplayable [0], or things that were so bad they literally destroyed an entire industry [1], or rendered the game uncompleteable [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(video... [1] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/30/a-golden-shinin... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/hv63ad/comm...
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-12-11 20:34:56+00:00
I think that, given the times, we might rate him a little bit above "no saint". Perhaps slightly below or at par with the norms of his time, which we could now look back on as the peak of some rather nasty tendencies in society.

https://www.vulture.com/2013/12/walt-disney-anti-semitism-ra...
by maximilianroos | 2025-12-11 20:34:59+00:00
I've been working on a worktree manager for a couple months, excited to share it.

Since agents have become good enough to run in parallel, I've found git worktrees to be, in the words of Juliet "my only love sprung from my only hate" — an awesome productivity multiplier, but with a terrible UX...

Worktrunk is designed to fix that: 1) it's a wonderful layer on top of git worktrees and 2) it adds a lot of optional QoL improvements focused on parallel agents.

Those Qol improvements include a command to show the status of all worktrees/branches (including CI status & links to PRs), a great Claude Code statusline, a command to have an LLM write a commit message, etc.

Like my other projects (PRQL, xarray, insta, numbagg), it's Open Source, no commercial intent. It's written in rust, extensively tested; crafted with love (no slop!)

Check it out, please let me know any feedback, either here or in GH. Thanks in advance, Max

- https://github.com/max-sixty/worktrunk

- https://worktrunk.dev/
by burnt-resistor | 2025-12-11 20:35:01+00:00
I <3 [AT]BM and BMI[12], and functional-equivalency matching with cost minimization optimization compiler passes.

I wish GCC and LLVM had compiler passes to semi/automagically "vectorize" hot sections using SIMD, i.e., magic transformation of UTF-8 conversion, regex matching, and string functions.
by munificent | 2025-12-11 20:35:04+00:00
> This would be career suicide in virtually any other technical field.

This article would certainly disagree with you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Department_of_Def...

> the Golden Gate Bridge tells you it spans the Golden Gate strait.

Is that even a meaningful distinction? Does anyone think, "Gee, I'd really like to cross the Golden Gate strait?" or do they think "I want to get to Napa?".

> The Hoover Dam is a dam, named after the president who commissioned it, not “Project Thunderfall” or “AquaHold.”

It was actually called the "Boulder Canyon Project" while being built, referred to as "Hoover Dam" even though finished during the Roosevelt administration, officially called "Boulder Dam", and only later officially renamed to "Hoover Dam".

The fact that Herbert Hoover initiated the project tells you nothing meaningful about it. Would "Reitzlib" be a better name than "Requests"?

> If you wrote 100 CLIs, you will never counter with a cobra.

But out in the real world, you could encounter a Shelby Cobra sports car, Bell AH-1 Cobra chopper, USS Cobra (SP-626) patrol boat, Colt Cobra handgun, etc.

> No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

When you open your medicine cabinet, do you look for a jar labeled "acetylsalicylic acid", "2-propylvaleric acid", or "N-acetyl-para-aminophenol"? Probably not.

It's a bad sign when all of the examples in an article don't even agree with the author's point.
by sublinear | 2025-12-11 20:35:08+00:00
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I agree at least in principle. There should be some means to index/search this kind of semi-structured text. Summaries are also nice, but not as useful to me at least.

Like the author I also do tagging, but in the real world some notes will eventually slip through the cracks. Even when it's just one, that's probably the one you're looking for. :)
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-11 20:36:22+00:00
>afforadbility

This 1000%.

Electric cars are supposed to be simple. Give me something in a shape of a Civic, with the engine replaced with a motor and a battery good for 150 miles, and sell it for $10-12k new. Don't even need an entertainment cluster, give me a place to put a tablet or a phone and just have a bluetooth speaker.

Instead, we are getting these boutique, expensive vehicles packed full of tech, but in the end, they still fundamentally suck as cars compared to gas alternatives, especially hybrid. I got a Prius Prime for my wife last year, the car is way better than any EV on the market in terms of usability. Driving to work and back can all be done in EV mode easily, and then when you wanna go somewhere, you can keep the car above 80 mph easily and get there faster without worrying about where to charge.
by kwanbix | 2025-12-11 20:37:02+00:00
I tried it because another_linux_distro! Sadly, I found the COSMIC dock looks "dead" since they can not implement the genie effect as it is patented by Apple :///////////

EDIT: I refer to this effect: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eOrvbaKz5H4

It is called magnification effect.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-11 20:37:08+00:00
If what they were familiar with was a good SSD, then they didn't need to do anything. I don't see how anything Sony said about their SSD would have affected things.

Maybe you're saying the hearsay was Sony exaggerating how bad hard drives are? But they didn't really do that, and the devs would already have experience with hard drives.
Show HN: TrafficScout – Discover high-intent Reddit threads with AI agents
by StealthyStart | 2025-12-11 20:37:26+00:00
I’ve used Reddit as a customer acquisition channel for years. The challenge was always the same: finding high-intent threads every day and writing replies that were useful, compliant with subreddit rules, and didn’t trigger account issues.

Doing it manually worked well, but it didn’t scale and introduced risk when rushed.

So I built TrafficScout, a small tool that monitors Reddit in real time, surfaces conversations where people are actively asking for tool recommendations or alternatives, and generates draft replies based on thread context and subreddit rules.

I originally made it for my own products, then for a few friends, and now I’m opening it up.

What it does: • Watches Reddit for decision-making conversations (e.g., “Best CRM for small teams?”) • Scores each thread for buying intent • Generates reply drafts based on the conversation and rules • Checks account age, posting patterns, and shadowban risk • Tracks which replies continue generating traffic over time

Why I built it: A single helpful Reddit reply often sends traffic for months and sometimes ranks on Google.

But manually finding and responding to threads took hours a week. I wanted a workflow that reduced the repetitive work while keeping everything within Reddit’s guidelines.

What makes it different: It doesn’t try to mass-post or automate your account. It acts more like a research and writing helper: find the right threads, reduce the manual steps, and keep your account safe.

The demo video shows live thread discovery and reply drafts. https://www.trafficscout.app/

I’d love feedback on: • The workflow • Whether the thread scoring makes sense • How useful the reply drafts feel • Safety considerations or edge cases I may not have covered

Happy to answer questions or share more technical details.
by nickjj | 2025-12-11 20:37:29+00:00
I did something similar since 2001:

-rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 691 Mar 16 2001 2001-03.txt

I separated mine by YYYY-MM which is long enough to keep related things together but short enough where it's easy to find things within a single file. It's all super easy to grep things out on demand.

There's no procrastination about organizing or perfect tags. Just brain dump the thought or notes and move on with life.

https://github.com/nickjj/notes was created so I can type things like `notes hello world` and it inserts it for the correct YYYY-MM or `notes` to open the current YYYY-MM in your $EDITOR. It supports piping into it too (good for pasting from your clipboard). It's ~40 lines of shell scripting with comments.
by jorvi | 2025-12-11 20:37:45+00:00
I really hate that at some point in the past, KDE developers decided that they hated how deeply intuitive virtual desktops are and deprecated them in favor of something deeply unintuitive (Activities). Any issue or complaint mentioning it is shot down with "you're holding it wrong."

Please just give virtual desktops first class support and lets forget about the Activities experiment. Most users hate it.

The attitude regarding it is about as bad as Gnome forcing Overview on everyone, refusing to provide a first party dock or lightweight launcher. Despite almost every distro and 95% of Gnome users immediately installing Dash to Dock.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2025-12-11 20:37:53+00:00
> This is not "offloading parenting of your child to the government" it is acknowledging that a certain action can be far easier to take (getting a child off social media) if the government puts in laws to support those actions.

Compromising my privacy in order to allow you to omit having some tough but needed conversations with your child (i.e. _parenting_) regarding harms of social media is not a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Homer Simpson was supposed to be a parody on a bad father, not a role model with his "You're the government's problem now!".

> Are laws against violence a way of off-loading physical protection to the government?

Of course they are! I support government protecting me from violence in some capacity, although I don't support "chat control"-like laws since the cost/benefit doesn't seem to be favorable.
by baobun | 2025-12-11 20:38:30+00:00
There is a new last line of TFA:

> In case the sarcasm isn’t clear, it’s better to leave the warts. But it is also worthwhile to recognise that in terms of effectiveness for driving system change, signage and warnings are on the bottom of the tier list. We should not be surprised when they don’t work.

Looking at comments I guess everyone whooshed.
by WillAdams | 2025-12-11 20:38:40+00:00
Ages ago, when doing the instructions for the opensource CNC Shapeoko v2 it became necessary (after the project was featured w/ a full page in _Popular Mechanics_ magazine to cater to users who could not visualize as well as the early adopters were able to, so the diagrams were made interactive:

https://github.com/shapeoko/Docs/blob/gh-pages/content/tPict...

Used to be if that was opened in a web browser one could click on the parts list to show/hide or highlight/unhighlight the matching items in the diagram.

Done using Inkscape if memory serves.
by dang | 2025-12-11 20:38:45+00:00
In the early stage of a startup/product the most important thing is usually fast development loops, to add features and, most importantly, figure out what the product needs to be. It usually makes sense to focus on that, which means deferring later projects (such as porting to other platforms) which are also important, but aren't part of the figuring-out-the-product loop and so can come later.

This of course is frustrating for users who want the product but aren't using that platform. But also a good sign that someone wants the product enough to complain about this!
by mrweasel | 2025-12-11 20:38:49+00:00
Ah, I didn't know about PEP 795. I don't really know if I like it though. It looks like something someone invented because they don't want to write classes or specifically want to be able to access a data structure like a dict, for whatever reason.

It basically provides data types, but also ensures that you have no easy way to reuse them, and it will miss cases where two data structures happen to have the same signature.

It's getting a little messy when we have class, namedtuple and TypedDict, which all can do much the same thing.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-11 20:38:51+00:00
What "performance plateau"? The "plateau" disappears the moment you get harder unsaturated benchmarks.

It's getting more and more challenging to do that - just not because the models don't improve. Quite the opposite.

Framing "improve general accuracy" as "something no one is doing" is really weird too.

You need "general accuracy" for agentic behavior to work at all. If you have a simple ten step plan, and each step has a 50% chance of an unrecoverable failure, then your plan is fucked, full stop. To advance on those benchmarks, the LLM has to fail less and recover better.

Hallucinations is a "solvable but very hard to solve" problem. Considerable progress is being made on it, but if there's "this one weird trick" that deletes hallucinations, then we sure didn't find it yet. Humans get a body of meta-knowledge for free, which lets them dodge hallucinations decently well (not perfectly) if they want to. LLMs get pathetic crumbs of meta-knowledge and little skill in using it. Room for improvement, but, not trivial to improve.
by eslaught | 2025-12-11 20:39:11+00:00
The solution I've found is to make using the API a hard error with an explicitly temporary and obnoxiously-named workaround variable.

WORKAROUND_URLLIB3_HEADER_DEPRECATION_THIS_IS_A_TEMPORARY_FIX_CHANGE_YOUR_CODE=1 python3 ...

It's loud, there's an out if you need your code working right now, and when you finally act on the deprecation, if anyone complains, they don't really have legs to stand on.

Of course you can layer it with warnings as a first stage, but ultimately it's either this or remove the code outright (or never remove it and put up with whatever burden that imposes).
by egypturnash | 2025-12-11 20:39:30+00:00
Why?

Why would he want to waste a single iota of effort trying to improve something that was working just fine for fourteen years when he wrote this post three years ago? What’s gonna be easier to use than the text editor he knows how to drive without a single thought? What does he gain by taking a simple text file he can sync to any device and replacing it with a database bound to a custom app that he now has to keep running? I mean besides the risk that an OS update will break this app and now he can’t get anything else done until he fixes it, because he’s the only person maintaining it? Most of the interaction is still going to be typing in free-form text, how is taking his hand off the keyboard to poke at a “new task” widget going to make it better and cleaner than just typing return, dash, space? What GUI kit is not going to fall over and whimper when you hand it 51k items to render? What does he gain by spending days trying different ways to get around that interface design problem in hopes of finding one as seamless as his simple text editor?