MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kevincox | 2025-12-23 11:14:20+00:00
When I was younger these type of machines were great for me. I usually used them at home but sometimes in my bedroom (aka office) and sometimes in the living room (group games, playing music, just watching TV with the roommates). I would also occasionally take them to school or other people's house (projects, LAN parties).

So it was used primarily like a desktop, and as my only system having power was useful. But the fact that I could put it in my backpack and transport it was super valuable.

Now I do have a more portable laptop and a full desktop setup. But at the time that wasn't the best option.
by stavros | 2025-12-23 11:14:22+00:00
Before LLMs, did you ask maintainers how much of the code they wrote themselves, vs how much of it did someone else write, and how well they reviewed the code? Because I haven't seen this ever, everyone just went by "does this library work for me? If not, I'll fix it or stop using it".

It's only now, with LLMs, and particularly on HN that we're so all up in arms about authorship all of a sudden.
by dhx | 2025-12-23 11:15:39+00:00
I don't understand the pretend secrecy. Why not just state openly they're rebuilding or expanding the bunker? Wouldn't it be obvious from the high number of trucks coming and going from the area (even if disguised within a shed) that significant excavation is occurring, or that a significant amount of steel and concrete is then being added?

It didn't take long for people to link a growing mound of spoil on a nearby golf course (East Potomac Golf Links) to excavations occurring at the White House.[1] A few simple volume calculations, and/or truck movement counts, is all one would seemingly need to estimate the size of the new bunker.

USD$300m also doesn't buy much of anything underground, especially at top secret military bunker pricing. Look at the cost of typical rail tunneling projects (much simpler and more efficient construction) for rough comparison.

[1] https://golf.com/news/white-house-carting-dirt-golf-course-p...
by Nevermark | 2025-12-23 11:16:28+00:00
> Is it a reasonable concern?

Yes.

> Parents are supposed to raise their children.

Yes.

Vapid questions and statements aside, ...

Here is just one solution that helps parents, and respects everyone's privacy: Zero knowledge proofs.

Which allow anyone who is verified by anyone already (i.e. credit card company, ...) to get a cryptographic key from that organization, that they can use to anonymously verifiably assert they are 18+ to sites, (1) without giving sites any other information, and (2) without their key source getting any information on what sites they visit.
by kashyapc | 2025-12-23 11:18:33+00:00
Recently, a people manager in an engineering team send a giant 19-page "document" to a team mailing list. He said, "I was able to get Gemini to help me pull together this document. I hope you find it interesting." When I opened it, I faced 20 pages of slop. It was clear that he just copy/pasted unadulterated garbage from an AI. Absolutely infuriating and downright dumb. I gently pointed it out on the list. He now needs to work hundred times harder to earn a tiny bit of trust.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-23 11:18:40+00:00
> In a recent attack, the destroyer USS Spruance was “in a fight where they shot down three anti-ship ballistic missiles, three anti-ship cruise missiles and seven one-way (aerial drones) that were coming towards” them, said McLane, who didn’t specify when Spruance was attacked.

> On Nov. 11, Spruance and the destroyer USS Stockdale came under Houthi fire, fending off at least eight drones and eight missiles while transiting the Bab el Mandeb, a strait that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-01-16/houthis-nav...
by lrvick | 2025-12-23 11:19:20+00:00
I have the second largest, and 25 others, hooked up in my garage, fed by a modular synth, a pc, retro consoles, and several DVD and VHS players. Would still probably trade it all for one of these.

CRTs are literally precision particle accelerators in glass vacuum tubes we mass produced and put in peoples homes just to electronically reproduce entertaining images, and there is not a factory left on earth that can make them anymore.

It is some of the wildest shit humans have ever done.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-23 11:20:40+00:00
You register from your MacBook, then add your Android phone, then remove your MacBook key, the lose your Android phone.

The messed up thing is that the simplest backup option is a magic login link which is obviously less secure. Also you cannot sink a passkey between platforms unless you use a third party Authenticator so you have to have a backup method of some sort even if not for recovery reasons.
by vmasto | 2025-12-23 11:21:17+00:00
Can you explain why it makes a difference what the answers are?

When using an open source library assumptions should be:

- The code does what it advertises.

- The owner is responsible for the functionality.

- The owner's reputation is based on the quality.

You're making it sound that you're more sure for the above when the code is "hand-written" than LLM-driven. Why exactly? Do you tend to deeply understand the strengths and limitations of every coder whose software you're using in your projects?

As long as the owner is responsible for the quality of a project why does it matter how it was executed?
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-23 11:22:00+00:00
Your naive feel good attitude (and you're not alone in it, that crap permeates white collar western society) is exactly the problem and being all emotional about it only worsens your ability to reason about it.

Whenever we do something "good" at societal scale be it build ADA ramps or engage in international trade of consumer goods or in this case, have transportation infrastructure, there is always some tradeoff like this. We can either do the thing in a safer to life and limb manner, but that almost always has tradeoffs that make the thing less accessible or worse performing. We could have absurdly low maximum vehicle speeds, that would save lives, but the time and wealth (which are convertible to each other on some level) renders the tradeoff not worth it (to the public at large).

You can value a whole life loss higher than man hours. You can value a child more than the elderly. You can make all sorts of adjustments like that but they do not change the fundamental math of the problem.
by latexr | 2025-12-23 11:22:34+00:00
> and how well they reviewed the code?

Yes! It’s insane to not worry about how well a maintainer reviews submitted code. Every semi-competent open-source developer understands that merging code they do not understand is a recipe for disaster and maintenance burden. Furthermore, they understand that not doing so is how you get malicious vulnerabilities merged. Have you truly not seen any such cases in recent memory? The fact you don’t think good reviews are important is worrying and puts into question all your repos.
by exceptione | 2025-12-23 11:24:06+00:00
> Republicans hold on to their power by only a slim amount.

Agreed. But that is only counting the Republican seats. Historically, Dems had great trouble to do reforms, even if they wanted to and got enough seats. Multiple reasons. 1) Internal opposition. Dems are a big tent party, the Bernie side isn't that big. 2) You have to battle with the oligarchy. The Dems had to fight a war to get something basic like an independent central bank. 3) Historically, the Reps excel in slick and expensive marketing campaigns. 4) You can reach some parts of the public with information, but the odds are low that this message will be allowed to gain critical mass.

> left wing sources still have plenty of room to work there

Sure, but was the reversal of anti-monopolist anti financial fraud legislature made undone in the past decades? The narratives that shaped the public's opinion do make the universe smaller, often in such a way that writers don't even notice, as it their lived universe too. Also, why can't the voices in the US that do sound the alarm get enough traction? The intelligence and military industry have done great damage since Bush. The irony is that the Reps, in the most shameless way started isolationist narratives, criticizing the various wars, as capital shifted from military industry to surveillance and big tech industry. Now that criticism was due, but the narratives have been established. Any writer has to deal with the power of those widespread narratives. Yes, illegal wars, private militaries¹ and so forth are bad. No, isolationism and might-makes-right is bad too. But that takes deconstructing the dominant narratives.

> The EU needs to make a strong case for itself instead of assuming what it's owned.

I can't say you are wrong, but I could understand if they calculate that this isn't worth the risks. You might be someone that would read a letter from some European official with willingness to consider its message, but I think most people would interpret it as some variant of "hey American, let me as some European bureaucrat try to blindside you with a factual looking message so that the europoors can continue siphoning of from you". Also, this might open the door for the Reps to go even further with propping up neo-nazi or far-right parties in Europe, because you can bet the press will present this as a "both sides do".

Secondly, the US populace will get hit harder than Europe. That begs the question why the US own voices shouldn't be the first. And if they fail, how would the EU do that better?

Long story short, you might be right that the EU should be more proactive, maybe. Their weak voice might be partly attributed to their limited geopolitical agenda. But, even if their voice could and should be louder, I have big doubts it would make a difference.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-23 11:24:32+00:00
Before release 3.0:
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/gimp-3-0-will-the-text-tool-be-im...

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1fecr6u/suggestion_im...

Its just the first two results from top of Google.

Maybe the tool was improved in version 3.0, I'm running an older 2.x version. I will check it next time.

The versions were difficult in:
- font size applying
- random loss / reset settings
- there were some issues with the preview when editting
- font preview before selection
etc.
by winstrike | 2025-12-23 11:24:37+00:00
Winstrike platform ko ease aur simplicity ko dhyan me rakhkar develop kiya gaya hai. Is Winstrike review me hum discuss karte hain kaise platform ka design users ke interaction ko simple banata hai. Agar aap ek aisa platform dhoondh rahe ho jo overcomplicated na ho aur natural feel de, to Winstrike aapke liye suitable ho sakta hai.
by rgoulter | 2025-12-23 11:24:41+00:00
> The problem is when you have to come off the happy path in nixos and now you're debugging some interestingly written c++ code that evaluates a language that has a derivation expressing what you wanted done.

I agree that Nix or NixOS are risky tools.

But it's not a problem that the `nix` program is written in C++.

A lot of the friction comes from the tension between NixOS's idiosyncratic design & its constraints, against the often 'dirty' way software is practically written.

For example, roughly, Nix's ideal software follows `./configure && make && make install`, where nix can then symlink the dependencies & maintain these in a read-only store. -- Whereas, say, Python wheels break this (because the precompiled binaries assume shared libraries are available globally).

When you run into friction with NixOS, you may need to understand things with a depth and breadth which aren't required with more common Linux distributions. (Including e.g. maybe needing to understand the rather large and obscure nixpkgs).
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-23 11:24:54+00:00
Systems like this that exist to facilitate dispatching government violence will never be "good" by whatever the standards of the time is because they don't need to be. They have "at-cost" access to nearly infinite government violence they can dispatch capriciously and an unequally good relationship with any system that would hold them accountable for any misuse of their stuff.
by imtringued | 2025-12-23 11:25:07+00:00
I haven't learned Verilog, only VHDL and even that with the explicit <register>_ff <= <register_nxt> pattern when I need flips flops and I never felt like there is anything difficult about VHDL

Is the North American insistence on teaching Verilog what's setting up students for failure since Verilog looks a bit more like a sequential programming language at first glance?
by graemep | 2025-12-23 11:25:19+00:00
That is not even remote comparable. There is a huge difference between arrest and conviction, and whether people are given a proper hearing or not, between legal process and things like disappearances, and between laws that punish criticism of the authorities and hate speech laws.

I do not like the UK's hate speech laws at all, but the fact is that I can criticise them, from the UK, without fear, and I can criticise the government. Could I do that in China? Of course not.
by andai | 2025-12-23 11:25:49+00:00
>heavily optimized for coding agents

I tested the previous one GLM-4.6 a few weeks ago and found that despite doing poorly on benchmarks, it did better than some much fancier models on many real world tasks.

Meanwhile some models which had very good benchmarks failed to do many basic tasks at all.

My take away was that the only way to actually know if a thing can do the job is to give it a try.
by dcminter | 2025-12-23 11:26:19+00:00
"O’Leary accused the travel agent industry of scamming and ripping off unsuspecting consumers by charging extra fees and markups on ticket prices."

That is ... pretty rich.

A couple of years ago I was going to go see my brother in the UK who lived near Stansted. As such Ryanair would have been the most convenient airline. The shere number of dark patterns I encountered trying to book the ticket was such that when I got to the payment page and they tried to coax me into using my local currency instead of GBP and hid a £20 spread in the exchange rate I rage quit. I should have known better even then, but now I will only use them if I have literally no other choice. With luck that means "never."

I'm always happy to see the various EU competition authorities pushing back on this kind of thing.
by slopradio | 2025-12-23 11:26:29+00:00
Never posted here before, just a long-time reader.

I made an autonomous infinite radio station. The technical parts I think are interesting about it:

* Apart from a frontend caching proxy, everything runs on a 2014-era HP server I salvaged from e-waste, and which has a couple RTX 3060s in it.

* It pulls together a bunch of locally run AI tools: ACE-Step (music), sound-stamp (song identity tagging), Koboldcpp (LLM), Piper (TTS), ComfyUI (images)

* Heavily relies on ffmpeg, certainly one of the most useful multimedia tools ever made

Pretty much everything you see (and hear) is autonomously AI generated, albeit with some restrictions and guidelines.

I added a bunch of visualizations just for fun.

If people like this I'll try to do a Show HN later with the backend code (which needs some cleaning up or it'd be public already.)
by raveren | 2025-12-23 11:27:20+00:00
Well in my personal opinion, there's extremely few material goals that have any purpose whatsoever, life is short, matter is ephermal.

Usually, I find, one has to invest an enormous effort to just find that purpose in the first place. And trying out paths/goals is part of that journey too.

I know I did a lot of soulsearching, in fact I was privilledged enough to save up for a couple of years to do JUST that, and I can report that it was a resounding success (with a sample size of one!).

However, as we're discussing this in the context of burnout, it's obvious that having a higher meaning did not take me out of my suffering. I still experience life as any other human being, I just feel like my life is not wasted - and the side effects of always striving for a goal - like focus and discipline - and other virtues - are a pleasant bonus. So I do sincerely think, that having a crystalized idea of my purpose creates a happy life for me.

There's nothing wrong with NOT having a goal, I just couldn't do it, even though matter IS ephermal, I believe that every action that we take, ultimately does have meaning.
by reconnecting | 2025-12-23 11:28:35+00:00
Again, it depends. Residential proxies are much more expensive, and most vulnerability scanners will never shift to them.

I believe that there is a low chance that a real customer behind this residential IP will come to your resource. If you do an EU service, there is no pain to block Asian IPs and vice-versa.

What is really important here is that most people block IPs on autopilot without seeing the distribution of their actions, and this really matters.
by nmstoker | 2025-12-23 11:29:56+00:00
Yes, this seems something that would be so easy to get right.

Not to take away from the achievement of this repo but no one benefits from a recording where the person doing it hasn't decided up front what they're going to demo and then ponders if they type magnet or just delete it and go with the default. If someone has gone to this much effort with a project, surely they can do a few fun throughs, till they can demo it smoothly. Sure, leave pauses, for people to follow what's actually happening but don't draw out the typing, that's just painful!
by jtrn | 2025-12-23 11:30:21+00:00
I think you and I have a different definition of "obsessed." Would you label anyone interested in repairing their own car as obsessed with DIY?

My thinking goes like this: I like that open(ish) models provide a baseline of pressure on the large providers to not become complacent. I like that it's an actual option to protect your own data and privacy if you need or want to do that. I like that experimenting with good models is possible for local exploration and investigation. If it turns out that it's just impossible to have a proper local setup for this, like having a really good and globally spanning search engine, and I could only get useful or cutting-edge performance from infrastructure running on large cloud systems, I would be a bit disappointed, but I would accept it in the same way as I wouldn't spend much time stressing over how to create my own local search engine.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-12-23 11:30:35+00:00
> Sounds excessive for getting groceries.

How do you think the groceries got to your shop in first place tho?

By the way, it's 1.766 tons. You can use it for other things too. Taking kids to schools and hobbies, going to beach, city, forests, camping.

I say that as someone who took my kids to daycare by bike for 2 years until they've grown out of it. It was great while it lasted and weather permitted, but I'm not going to make it my personality trait.

Getting groceries for family with a bike would be somewhat insane for me. Technically possible, practically nightmare. Also much more expensive than driving for 10 mins to a larger shop.
by andai | 2025-12-23 11:31:16+00:00
Taste is why I switched from GLM-4.6 to Sonnet. I found myself asking Sonnet to make the code more elegant constantly and then after the 4th time of doing that laughed at the absurdity and just switched models.

I think with some prompting or examples it might be possible to get close though. At any rate 1k TPS is hard to beat!
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-23 11:33:48+00:00
I don't think the calculation is that simple. With your own hardware, there literally is no limits of runtime, or what models you use, or what tooling you use, or availability, all of those things are up to you.

Maybe I'm old school, but I prefer those benefits over some cost/benefit analysis across 4 years which by the time we're 20% through it, everything has changed.

But I also use this hardware for training my own models, not just inference and not just LLMs, I'd agree with you if we were talking about just LLM inference.
by Olivia8 | 2025-12-23 11:33:48+00:00
Strong take, this clearly resonates with what we see in real deployments: the hard problems in voice AI are orchestration, latency, state, and safe action-taking, not model quality. A good choice would be to choose the service providing ready AI agents like https://coldi.ai/: it is built around end-to-end call reliability (fast turn-taking, barge-in, system integrations, and clean escalation), so teams can trust the outcome of real customer calls, not just demos.
Gitmore – Chat with an AI that knows your Git history
by akhnid | 2025-12-23 11:34:23+00:00
Hey HN, I built Gitmore because I wanted to ask simple questions about my repositories without digging through commit logs. "Who worked on the auth module last month?" "What PRs are stuck in review?" "Summarize what shipped in v2.3"

The AI agent connects to your GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket repos via webhooks and indexes your commit and PR activity. Then you can query it in natural language.

Other features:

Scheduled summaries to Slack or email
Developer leaderboard with contribution scores
Kanban board linked to PRs

Technical details:

Next.js 15 + MongoDB
Anthropic Claude for the AI layer
Webhook-based ingestion (no polling)
Only reads metadata, never source code

Pricing:

Free for 1 repo, $15/mo for 5 repos with AI features https://gitmore.io Curious what HN thinks. Is querying your Git history via natural language useful, or overkill? What would you want to ask your repos?
by andy99 | 2025-12-23 11:35:14+00:00
> they tried to coax me into using my local currency instead of GBP and hid a £20 spread

I’m finding this more and more. Uber does it, and even Walgreens does it when I’m in the US and tap my card it suggests that I pay in my home currency. This seems to be a new vector companies have found for ripping off their customers.
by pdimitar | 2025-12-23 11:35:48+00:00
When attempting to install through go:

go install github.com/karol-broda/snitch@latest

I get this error message:

go: github.com/karol-broda/snitch@latest: version constraints conflict:
github.com/karol-broda/snitch@v0.1.8: parsing go.mod:
module declares its path as: snitch
but was required as: github.com/karol-broda/snitch