MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-20 01:48:41+00:00
> The gap is widening between engineers who’ve integrated these tools and engineers who haven’t.

This is kind of the fundamental disagreement in the whole discourse isn't it? If you could prove this is true, a lot of arguments stop making sense from the anti AI people, though not all of them. But nobody has proved this. And what is the gap? If the gap is in skill, the AI users are falling behind. If it's productivity, 1. Prove it, 2. is it more in my self interest to be highly productive or to be highly skilled?

Personally, I am already able to work 5 hours a week and convince my boss it's 40, with glowing performance reviews; I am just that productive. And I don't want to use AI. So if you lads can go ahead and gain 8x productivity and make me work a full job to compete, oh well, I should do that anyway.
by fuzztester | 2025-12-20 01:48:46+00:00
>I know you said reverse, just spelling out they're different.

Hey. Sup. :)

I didn't say reverse.

I said:

>Somewhat, but not exactly the reverse, is Tall poppy syndrome.

Next time, and forever after, check points better before commenting, including the point that is right above the comment that you replied to, aka mine.

Pinky promise? :)

Welcome to the AI (r)age, where people comment without thinking or reading.

Oops, mea culpa.

Entschulding!

It was happening much before that, and not only on HN.

In fact, it has been happening forever, and anyone who doesn't know it is a rotten egg.

<Jumps into the pool ahead of others. (last one in, etc.)>
Show HN: Depsy – one API for SaaS vendor status (is it us or them?)
by malik_naji | 2025-12-20 01:49:04+00:00
During incidents, teams waste time opening 10+ status pages and debating whether the issue is internal or a vendor outage. Depsy aggregates official vendor status signals and returns a single, normalized JSON response (cached + fast), so your dashboards/runbooks/on-call can answer “is it us or the vendor?” immediately.

Live demo

GET https://depsy.io/

Vendors

Starting with the usual critical stack: Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Cloudflare, AWS, Stripe, Shopify, Twilio, Atlassian, GitHub… aiming for 2,000+

Looking for early users who want this in their incident workflow (alerts/webhooks next).
by Guestmodinfo | 2025-12-20 01:50:35+00:00
There's nothing to be gained from selling the services of HN to you and me i.e. the general public but a buyer who can buy HN for 1B$ could set some fine tuning in place that suits their interest without changing the site as much. Like someone fine tune HN as an engagement metric among the HN for various product designs. It's a media outlet, those controlling it can have better use suiting their purposes, they don't have to sell it like film tickets to make money out of it
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-12-20 01:50:39+00:00
> The problem is that "selling at a loss" is a much, much higher loss than the tax over time

You don't know what the tax is, so there's no way that you can make that assumption. Like folks here are saying, we just make the tax enough that it's an even higher loss than that.

> There effectively a land value tax on commercial property

Commercial property isn't the issue here. We're talking about penalizing unused commercial property.

> That money is people's pension money

I didn't force people to put their pension money into Blackstone so Blackstone could ruin communities with their speculation. More importantly, communities being ruined here, and the people living in them, are more important than investors in speculation which ruins them. The livelihoods are already being destroyed by them.
by JDye | 2025-12-20 01:51:10+00:00
Our codebase is full of this pattern and I love it. Every time I get clean up temporaries and expose an immutable variable outside of the setup, makes me way too happy.

A lot of the time it looks like this:

let config = { let config = get_config_bytes(); let mut config = Config::from(config); config.do_something_mut(); config.do_another_mut(); config };
by eru | 2025-12-20 01:51:28+00:00
Interesting. Do you have any specific evidence for your claims, or is it just because they got a bit better in general?

> and nudes of celebs.

Well, they got better at not giving people six fingers etc in general. So I can believe that they also got better at producing pictures of naked people.

> coding utility is up a little, but was useless for unique situations

They can't code up everything. Just like a hammer can't screw a screw. But there are many situations many people find them useful for?
by hannasm | 2025-12-20 01:53:47+00:00
Well I think this is a great step forward but it would be great if we could mix aspect ratios even better...

Consider a similar layout to OP but the landscape images will span multiple columns as well as everything it already does.

The thing about masonry is that it adapts to the size of the images. You could already do masonry using flexbox if you know the image sizes (https://github.com/hannasm/masonflexjs). Doing it as a true mosaic layout would be a step above current capabilities. At that point it's probably pretty easy to create configurations that don't fit perfectly/ require lots of empty space to layout nicely though.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-20 01:56:07+00:00
I have too. And the Safari version that was in the betas/tech previews.

One of the biggest arguments over the last couple of years was what to call it. A lot, lot of ideas put forth as alternatives to "masonry" which wasn't thought to be great for non-English speakers. I'm glad they finally nailed a name for it!

The other big argument was over how to activate it. Is it a grid? Is it a flexbox? Is it a brand new animal?

Now I just need to figure out the best way to implement this semantically with a polyfill for the next 30 months until it's baseline.
by DrewADesign | 2025-12-20 01:56:30+00:00
It's not just FSD footage. Footage was recorded while the cars were charging. From Reuters:

As an example, this person recalled seeing “embarrassing objects,” such as “certain pieces of laundry, certain sexual wellness items … and just private scenes of life that we really were privy to because the car was charging.”

To be clear, looking at video surreptitiously recorded inside peoples' homes is absolutely spying. And saying you get actual consent from click-through "opt-in" forms which opting out would kill huge swaths of their car's functionality, and not deliberately and loudly informing them of how invasive the videos were is frankly, ridiculous. Those forms are obviously pretext for tech companies to do things with people's data that they'd never consent to if they really understood the implications.
by throwaway12531 | 2025-12-20 01:58:42+00:00
I can't express how puzzled I am that Maguire is still at Sequoia. Forget cancellation; anyone should be free to say whatever they want. This is about judgment, humility, discretion and dare I say empathy, which are fundamental skills in any investment process and which a partner at the most storied venture fund in the word ought to have.

In what world is it good or right to dox a random undergrad based on speculation, simply because maybe just maybe it will net you Internet points? Note that Maguire never apologized once it became clear he was wrong; he simply deleted the post. He gets to keep the engagement and outrage points and move on, paying no price for spreading a dangerous lie. The undergrad he and others doxxed can't say the same.

Shaun would be just another rage-baiter if it wasn't for the Sequoia imprimatur. With an investor like this on your cap table, who needs enemies? It shouldn't matter if Shaun is the "Elon guy" at Sequoia or indeed the best investor in the world. Integrity should and does precede returns in time. But maybe I am naive and this just isn't true for megacap venture as an asset class, where so much depends on sidling up to the 50 or 100 founders who can reliably produce decacorns to return your fund.

Perhaps all we can do is vote with our feet. Sequoia is on my cap table today, but if I was fortunate to have the choice between them and a similar firm that actually demonstrated integrity instead of just talking about it, I would not take money from them again. In all likelihood they won't care a whit about me, but they may care more about some of you, reading this.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-20 01:59:13+00:00
> MacOS was absolutely derived from BSD through NeXTSTEP.

The OS-X (now branded as "macOS") kernel was not, and is not, a derivative of the FreeBSD kernel, or any other BSD, even though macOS/OS-X has a FreeBSD kernel component due to its Mach heritage. The userland tools are however BSD. OS-X's kernel is XNU and from the XNU GitHub repo[0]:

XNU kernel is part of the Darwin operating system for use in macOS and iOS operating systems. XNU is an acronym for X is Not Unix. XNU is a hybrid kernel combining the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University with components from FreeBSD and a C++ API for writing drivers called IOKit. XNU runs on x86_64 and ARM64 for both single processor and multi-processor configurations.

I recommend the book "Mac OS X Internals"[1] for a detailed analysis of same.

EDIT:

In theory, XNU could simultaneously run the existing FreeBSD subsystem alongside Linux and/or MS-Windows ones. In practice, this would be a herculean effort fraught with difficulty.

See QNX[2] for another example of a micro-kernel OS architecture.

0 - https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu

1 - https://books.apple.com/us/book/mac-os-x-internals/id4343583...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
by qingcharles | 2025-12-20 02:00:59+00:00
I guess wire up a codepen demo and try it out. I know the guys writing this were well aware of all the edge cases like that and these are some of the absolute smartest CSS people you can think of who had to write the very detailed spec for this.

I don't think the smooth reflow made it into the current spec, so I guess watch this space?

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-3/
by oefrha | 2025-12-20 02:02:18+00:00
I don't see the word powerpoint anywhere in https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-Layered, I only see a code snippet saving a bunch of PNGs:

with torch.inference_mode(): output = pipeline(**inputs) output_image = output.images[0] for i, image in enumerate(output_image): image.save(f"{i}.png")

Unless it's a joke that went over my head or you're talking about some other GitHub readme (there's only one GitHub link in TFA), posting an outright lie like this is not cool.
by laughing_man | 2025-12-20 02:03:38+00:00
The situation we had was legally ridiculous. States stopped busting people for pot, but at the federal level you could get a year in prison for any amount. So prosecutors at every level could put more pressure for a plea bargain on you by threatening to turn you over to the feds for the joint they found.

What bothers me is marijuana is specifically listed as a schedule 1 substance in the Controlled Substances Act. I don't see how the president can just arbitrarily change that in an EO. It really should be an act of Congress that makes this happen.
by weird_tentacles | 2025-12-20 02:04:15+00:00
When I was at school I wrote an essay on Beethoven's life. Beethoven's third symphony, the "Eroica" is important in that it is a marker of the start of the Romantic era (his first two symphonies are straight out 'Classical').

The maybe six times I mentioned it, the third symphony, I managed to each time accidentally title the work the "Erotica". Such is being a high-school student.

No important ramifications.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-20 02:05:37+00:00
This is exactly what I've seen. A perfect description. I am the tech lead for one part of a project. I review all PRs and don't let slop through, and there is a lot trying to get through. The other part of the project is getting worse by the day. Sometimes I peek into their PRs and feel a great sadness. There are daily issues and crashes. My repo has not had a bug in over a year.
by morpheos137 | 2025-12-20 02:06:20+00:00
There is even more to it than that. Also remember this is 1909. I think this classifies as a deeply mysterious story. It's almost inconceivable for that time period.

-people a depicted as grey aliens (no teeth, large eyes, no hair). Lesson the Greys are a future version of us.

The air is poisoned and ruined cities. People live in underground bunkers...1909...nuclear war was unimaginable then. This was still the age of steam ships and coal power trains. Even respirators would have been low on the public imagination.

The air ships with metal blinds sound more like UFOs than blimps.

The white worms.

People are the blood cells of the machine which runs on their thoughts social media data harvesting of ai.

China invaded Australia. This story was 8 years or so after the Boxer Rebellion so that would have sounded like say Iraq invading the USA in the context of its time.

The story suggests this is a cyclical process of a bifurcated human race.

The blimp crashing into the steel evokes 9/11, 91+1 years later...

The constellation orion.

Etc etc.

There is a central commitee
by trinsic2 | 2025-12-20 02:06:32+00:00
Here is where the pressure needs to be placed:

>To reverse this strategy, a more assertive antitrust regime is necessary, but it’s not enough. We also have to reduce the many other public levers of support for elevated returns on capital. Only then will it make sense for companies like iRobot to invest in robots instead of share buybacks.

Call your state senators and let them know that enforcing anti-trust legislation and undoing citizens united need to be the primary focus
by concinds | 2025-12-20 02:07:07+00:00
I know it's fashionable to forcefully shove the same pet peeves about Chromium into any topic even loosely related, but here I'm talking about Safari webcompat fixes, bug fixes, and improvements having very long delays between being written and landing in customers' hands. I would make the same argument if Chrome never existed. Thank you for presenting the 10,001st reissue of this "controversial take".
by crazygringo | 2025-12-20 02:07:46+00:00
There's quite a lot of text in pre-Internet daily newspapers, of which there were once thousands worldwide.

When you're looking at e.g. the 19th century, a huge number are preserved somewhere in some library, but the vast majority don't seem to be digitized yet, given the tremendous amount of work.

Given how much higher-quality newspaper content tends to be compared to the average internet forum thread, there actually might be quite a decent amount of text. Obviously still nothing compared to the internet, but still vastly larger than just from published books. After all, print newspapers were essentially the internet of their day. Oh, and don't forget pamphlets in the 18th century.
by junkypuppet | 2025-12-20 02:08:14+00:00
The article doesn’t mention it, but I wonder if this has anything to do with ASU’s President trying to cozy up with the Trump administration [0]. Trump has already at least tried to cut federal funding for PBS [1]. I’m not sure where that’s at now.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/arizona-state-universi...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-en...
by Mathnerd314 | 2025-12-20 02:08:22+00:00
So, the takeaway I get from this paper is that if you have a language model and you set it up so it has an input and it generates an output that is towards some goal (e.g., "make this sentence sound smarter"), then it should converge, because it is following a potential function.

But I have used prompts like this a fair amount, and it is more like stochastic gradient descent - most of the time, once it is close to the target, the model will take a small incremental change, but when it is really close the model will sort of say "this is not improveable as it is" and it will take a large leap to a completely different configuration. And then this will do the incremental optimizations and so on. This could be an artifact of the sampling algorithm, but I think it is also an issue that the model has this potential function encoded, but the prompt and the structure of the model do not actually minimize this potential. So, a real lesson here is that there is actually a lot of work still left to do in terms of smarter sampling. Beam search like is used today is sort of the tip of the iceberg. If we could start doing optimization with the transformer model as a component, like optimizing pipelines of reasoning rather than always generating inputs and outputs sequentially, that is where you could start using this potential function directly and then you would see orders of magnitude smarter AI. There is stuff about prompt optimization, but it is still based on treating models as black boxes rather than the piles of math they are.
Show HN: Finrup – a free, offline-first personal finance app for iOS
by amritghimire | 2025-12-20 02:09:19+00:00
For past few years, I went through multiple option and some didn't work for me because of privacy concern, some didn't work for me because I missed some feature and I had fallen back to number spreadsheet and spreadsheet formulas. I wanted a personal finance app that works offline, stays simple, and doesn’t rely on external servers. Most apps I tried required accounts, subscriptions, or bank integrations. I wanted something closer to a local notebook: fast manual entry, clear summaries, and full control over where the data lives. So I built Finrup as a solo project.

Finrup is an iOS app for manual expense tracking. All data is stored locally on the device. The only sync option is iCloud, used purely for backup and multi-device continuity.

No backend, no ads, no analytics, no tracking SDKs, no signup, no subscriptions.

Things I focused on: - Offline-first by design - Privacy-preserving (data never leaves the Apple ecosystem) - Manual entry on purpose (no bank APIs or aggregators) - Completely free

The goal was to keep the feature set small and the behavior predictable, instead of turning it into a dashboard-heavy system that needs constant data ingestion.

To try it, you can download from the App Store and start using it immediately — no setup required. You can also go through guide at https://amritghimire.com/tech/finrup-expense-tracking-guide to see how to use.

This is the first time I’m sharing Finrup on HN. I’d appreciate feedback on usability, missing features, or whether this level of simplicity is useful long-term. Happy to answer technical questions.
by doganugurlu | 2025-12-20 02:11:05+00:00
You really don’t know adherents of which political stance are constantly complaining about “lack of a sense of humor”? Or who has been complaining about the “tech bias”? I am glad if you were somehow not exposed. I don’t find it partisan. I come across a lot of criticism of Democrats. And the current administration. Also, if you’re claiming subreddits are partisan in the way mods want it to be, we can’t conclude Reddit as a whole is partisan, can we?

Edit:

The sibling comment offers a more concise explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329213
by dqh | 2025-12-20 02:11:57+00:00
The neurons live on an electrode array kept inside a machine which keeps them alive (body temperature, sugar, gas, etc). The embedded system continually measures the voltage at each electrode, and can electrically stimulate the neurons via the same.

Users are provided with an easy to use Python API that allows realtime observation of the raw signals and of detected action potentials (spikes). They can also execute precisely controlled stimulation sequences, which allows information to be presented to the neurons. Then there are a lot of higher level application APIs to handle things like recording data, real-time visualisation, and experiment config management.

Why: it appears to be possible to teach neurons to perform tasks (we taught some to play pong several years ago). Since then our focus has been on building a system that enables rapid iteration in this sort of research. We're selling the system to organisations that have the appropriate biology skills, and renting access to hosted devices where we provide and take care of the cells.
by noname123 | 2025-12-20 02:12:12+00:00
My response is there were many people (primarily engineering students and professors) who might have seen the shooter during the previous weeks - but it is only the former student who given his background of being homeless and being extra vigilante as a homeless person noticed the shooter as suspicious and even followed him to his car that led to the tip.

Many in tech will quote Steve Jobs "you can't connect the dots forward, only backwards" speech, but this guy whom I don't know, I like to believe he lived it. Flip your question on your head, would you be willing be homeless for 10 years and in the process help catch a school shooter?
by jesuslop | 2025-12-20 02:12:12+00:00
In a complementary story, from light reading I gather that Zellig Harris, that advised Chomsky's dissertation, contributed decisively to distributional semantics, a forerunner of word embeddings, in turn a key to the door of neural NLP. The ML guys had a shiny toolbox ready to use for decades. Had it been more fashionable...

Shalgren, Distributional Legacy: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Harris’s Distributional Program. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00437956.2024.2414515
by mcphage | 2025-12-20 02:12:21+00:00
Well, fundamentally no, I don’t think it reflects the will of the general population, since I don’t think they’re aware that this is how it works. At least, I wasn’t before reading this.

And beyond that: people’s assets are mostly residential real estate, not commercial real estate. So I don’t know that people will get that worked up about commercial real estate devaluing.
by randerson | 2025-12-20 02:12:41+00:00
As a lowly retail investor, I'm only investing in AI because everyone else is investing in AI. I hope for a greater fool to dump my AI stocks on before the music stops. I am sure plenty of Wall Street sees it the same way.

We're certainly seeing short term value at companies who grew profits by replacing workers with cheap AI tools. But the true cost of those AI tools is still being paid by investors, not customers. (Not to mention the indirect costs being paid by society, from the rising cost of RAM & electricity to global warming.)

In the long term these AI companies will need to raise their prices substantially if they're to break even. Will the value still be there for their customers when its no longer cheap?

And if AI puts enough people permanently out of work, the GDP will drop, leading to demand for any product made with AI dropping too. It is an industry that could eventually eat itself.
by pixl97 | 2025-12-20 02:13:14+00:00
>The prosecutors have to have corroborating evidence.

Bla bla bla, prosecutors are the good guys and show all the evidence they have....

Um, not.

We keep finding again and again we're putting innocent people in jail even for things as serious as capital crimes, and later it was found the investigation was botched and there was no evidence that person was guilty and other evidence was never presented.
by big_toast | 2025-12-20 02:14:20+00:00
Neat tool someone made to help themselves follow hn.

Haven't even seen an english take on this yet.

Someone replying[1] to Andrej Karpathy's hn autograding[2] tweet said they used LLMs to help Chinese speakers follow hacker news. I can't read it, but I thought it was a neat example of bridging language barriers. That and chinarxiv.org seem like glimpses into the future.

[1]:https://x.com/nake13/status/1998814949905420322 [2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220540