MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by socalgal2 | 2025-12-08 20:03:57+00:00
Yea, the one that includes all the previous "one-shot" failures.

If you throw 4 basketballs at a hoop and only the 4th one makes it in, that's not "one-shot". It's 4.

Your definition appears to be, after many failed attempts, a single prompt that gets the AI to complete the task was found. You called that "one-shot" but what really happened is there were several "shots" that failed.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-08 20:04:21+00:00
An application I consulted on was a web interface that made heavy use of the Excel portions of Microsoft Graph so that the finance team could continue to send clients spreadsheets that they could adjust without also sending them the formulas to "steal" (and take other parts of their business elsewhere, to noticeable millions of dollars of project spending habit shifts). The finance team wasn't going to stop using Excel ("how dare you suggest it"), so it was wildly custom solution to figure out where formulas existed in any of the spreadsheets finance felt like giving to the app, build a custom UI for entering the inputs to those formulas, run those formulas most with Microsoft Graph cloud magic/some with other web libraries, and return the results.

If it were just about any other group than that company's "finance department" that so deeply wanted "just tightly wrap Excel in a web UI and leave the key computations as Excel formulas we can continue to edit in Excel because all we want to understand is Excel" project would probably have been rightfully laughed out of the room. Finance has the keys to a lot of companies and like keeping those keys for comfort in Excel.
by xfil | 2025-12-08 20:04:23+00:00
Trump stated this today:

> My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air. THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE! Oh well, far worse things can happen.
by hermosillo_21 | 2025-12-08 20:04:41+00:00
I've been an SRE for 15+ years. Currently managing observability for 600+ APIs handling 200B+ daily transactions. The problem that's haunted me the whole time: your infrastructure already knows why it's broken at 3am. The answer is in your logs, metrics, and traces. You just can't ask it. Instead you're hunting through dashboards, writing PromQL, correlating timestamps manually. So I built ReductrAI. It's a proxy that:

Sits between your infra and your existing observability tools Compresses logs/metrics/traces ~80%-99%, stores locally Forwards everything to Datadog/Splunk/whatever unchanged Builds an AI layer across all your data Lets you query in plain English: "Why did latency spike at 2am?" "What changed before checkout started failing?"

Your data never leaves your environment. No migration. Setup is changing one endpoint. Works with OTEL, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, syslog - 30+ formats. On-prem, cloud, Kubernetes, mainframe. Still early. Running in production. Looking for feedback from anyone who's felt this pain.
by salawat | 2025-12-08 20:05:07+00:00
I don't think I'm willing to grant you Social Security as a proper "tax" or "subsidy" unless you're going to pitch me that Social Security is really, in essence, an incentive program for unrestrained natalism to keep population above replacement with all the Manifest Destiny/imperialistic implications and aspirations that come with it, and further, a commitment by the people who started it to never under any circumstances inform descendants of it's true nature.

If you are willing to concede the above, I'll reclassify it as a proper "subsidy" insomuch as it was a law that was passed, and it is a clear act by the government to incentivize activity "X". At which point my discussion will quickly turn to "Holy shit, why are we still trying to empire build in the year of our Lord 2025? Shouldn't we have changed this by now?"

If not... Still seeing it as a Ponzi. A fundamentally degenerate and unstable financial model, intended only to benefit the people who have been in it the longest solely for the purpose of self-enrichment. Well branded, mind; who doesn't want Social Security? But a Ponzi in essence nevertheless.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-08 20:05:12+00:00
> I work with a colleague that doesn't compile/run the code before putting up a MR. I informed my manager who did nothing about it after he did it several times (this was after I personally told him he needed to do it and it was unacceptable).

At this point what you need to do is stop treating compiler warnings as errors, and just have them fire the shock collar.

Negative reinforcement gets a bad rep, but it sure does work.
by buzzin_ | 2025-12-08 20:05:16+00:00
It's worse than that. One side of the "circle" is 40 billion, the other side is 300. Why not just subtract it, and say 260 billion is going one way.

The real story is that Nvidia is accepting equity in their customers as a payment for their hardware. "What, you don't have cash to buy our chips? That's OK, you can pay by giving us 10% of everything you earn in perpetuity."

This has happened before, let's call it the "selling the goose that lays golden eggs scan." You can buy our machine that converts electricity into cash, but we will only take preorders, after all it is such a good deal. Then, after bulding the machines with the said preorder money, they of course plugged the machines in themselves instead of shipping them, claiming various "delays" in production. Here I'm talking about the bitcoin mining hardware when the said hardware first appeared.

Nvidia is doing similar thing, just instead of doing it 100% themselves, they are 10% in by acquiring the equity in their customers.
Show HN: OpsOrch – Unified API for Incidents, Logs, Metrics, and Tickets
by yusufaytas | 2025-12-08 20:05:40+00:00
I built OpsOrch, an open-source orchestration layer that gives you one unified API for incidents, logs, metrics, tickets, messaging, and service metadata. It sits on top of the tools you already use (PagerDuty, Jira, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Slack, etc.) and normalizes everything into a single schema.

OpsOrch doesn’t store your operational data. It just brokers requests through pluggable adapters (Go or JSON-RPC) and returns unified structures. On top of this, there’s an optional MCP server that exposes all capabilities as typed tools for LLM agents.

Why? Most incident workflows today require jumping across 5+ vendor UIs and APIs, each with its own query language and auth model. OpsOrch aims to be the small, transparent “glue layer” that removes that complexity without forcing a migration.

What’s available now:

Core orchestration service (Go, Apache-2.0)

Adapters: PagerDuty, Jira, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Slack, plus mock providers

MCP server exposing incidents/logs/metrics/tickets/services as agent tools

No vendor lock-in, no data gravity

Repos: https://github.com/OpsOrch/opsorch-core

https://github.com/OpsOrch/opsorch-mcp

(+ adapters in the OpsOrch org)

Would love feedback on architecture, adapter model, security concerns, and which integrations you’d want next.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-08 20:06:08+00:00
Yes. Most companies play these financial games to some extent.

I lumped government subsidies in with EV sales since they are related. Trump wiped these out.

Robotaxi and robots are the fantasy category. They are not currently income producers and may not be for years to come. His robot demos have been widely panned as fake.

https://mashable.com/article/fake-tech-demos-tesla-musk
by rectang | 2025-12-08 20:06:14+00:00
Yes, the article alleges that the dupes are illegitimate:

> They simply use Popflex’s copyrighted images without permission, sometimes editing the color of the skort in the photo to fit the listing. In May 2025 alone, Popflex counted 461 listings it believes infringe on its Pirouette Skort design patent, but it’s still a drop in the bucket of the thousands that Ho has encountered just by doing reverse image searches.
by asgraham | 2025-12-08 20:06:14+00:00
Really cool dataset! Love seeing people actually doing the hard work of generating data rather than just trying to analyze what exists (I say this as someone who’s gone out of his way to avoid data collection).

Have you played at all with thought-to-voice? Intuitively I’d think EEG readout would be more reliable for spoken rather than typed words, especially if you’re not controlling for keyboard fluency.
by jack_h | 2025-12-08 20:06:24+00:00
Voting is meant to allow a community to police itself to some extent, although the downside to that is it incentivizes controlling the discussion over contributing to it. It’s a lot easier to vote in accordance with your own beliefs than articulate counter-arguments. The prisoner dilemma takes hold, people stop visiting as they get frustrated by the downvoting, and a bubble forms. It’ll be interesting to see how AI changes the online discussion landscape.
by lotyrin | 2025-12-08 20:06:28+00:00
I actually do think that people who prefer content of fidelity over content of intent are making a mistake, yes. I don't think they're incapable of thinking, I don't care to apply any virtue labels to this preference, but they are literally preferring not to think.

LLMs can only produce things by and for people who prefer not to do the work the LLMs are doing for them. Most of the time I do not prefer this.

Like, there was a 2-panel comic that went around the RPG community a bit back where it was something like "Game Master using LLM to generate 10 pages of backstory for his campaign setting from a paragraph" in the first panel and "Player using LLM to summarize the 10 page backstory into a paragraph" in the second. Neither of these people care for the filler (because they didn't produce or consume it) so it's turned the two-LLM system into a game of telephone.
by underlipton | 2025-12-08 20:06:32+00:00
All of that is true. However, I think you don't account enough for the differences in the current and previous delivery models in delivery's viability. The old model was "drivers employed or contracted to individual restaurants, with fairly strict distance limits." Today's apps let you order from arbitrary restaurants to arbitrary delivery addresses. The other factors make the situation worse, but just this one is enough to turn a viable model into one that can't be profitable without someone involved getting scammed.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-08 20:06:36+00:00
You can still scale SRAM by stacking it in 3D layers, similar to the common approach now used with NAND flash. I think HBM DRAM is also directly stacked on-die to begin with, apparently that's the best approach to scaling memory bandwidth too.

It'll be interesting to see if we get any kind of non-NAND persistent memory in the near future, that might beat some performance metrics of both DRAM and NAND flash.
by altairprime | 2025-12-08 20:06:56+00:00
Given that not all information is public in this scenario, there is no choice but to construct theories that are plausible regardless of the gaps in evidence; such is the basic nature of investing and economics both. Is your objection that available evidence was excluded that you consider to be materially relevant, or that theories were constructed when we don’t have the complete story, or..?
by jchw | 2025-12-08 20:07:51+00:00
I don't believe your comment is just a direct dump out of an LLM's output, mainly because of the minor typo of "acquihires", but as much as I'd love to ignore superficial things and focus on the substance of a post, the LLM smells in this comment are genuinely too hard to ignore. And I don't just mean because there's em-dashes, I do that too. Specifically these patterns stink very strong of LLM fluff:

> leadership credibility isn’t a soft factor—it’s a structural risk.

> The Timeline/The Big Players/The "Pre-Product" Unicorns/The Downstream Impact

If you really just write like this entirely naturally then I feel bad, but unfortunately I think this writing style is just tainted.
by gpderetta | 2025-12-08 20:07:51+00:00
Typically lock-free algorithms do not retry when a read happens concurrently with a write[1], so they scale very well for read mostly data or when data is partitioned between writers.

Scalability is always going to be poor when writers attempt to modify the same object, no matter the solution you implement.

[1] of course you could imagine a lock-free algorithm where reads actually mutate, but that's not common.
by martinald | 2025-12-08 20:08:21+00:00
Author here, thanks for your kind words!

I think it's about looking at what you're building and proactively suggesting/prototyping what else could be useful for the business. This does get tricky in large corps where things are often quite siloed, but can you think "one step ahead" of the product requirements and build that as well?

I think regardless if you build it, it's a good exercise to run on any project - what would you think to build next, and what does the business actually want. If you are getting closer on those requests in your head then I think it's a positive sign you are understanding the domain.
by paoaoaks | 2025-12-08 20:08:22+00:00
> written an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours

It’s often hard to ground how “good” blog writers are, but tidbits like this make it easy to disregard the author’s opinions. I’ve worked in many codebases where the test writers share the authors sentiment. They are awful and the tests are at best useless and often harmful.

Getting to this point in your career without understanding how to write effective tests is a major red flag.
by KellyCriterion | 2025-12-08 20:08:26+00:00
LOL

Since DECADES Outlook is _not_ capable of putting the first(!) just(!) useful datetime-stamp found in an email which says "calendar" or something in the text when pressing CTRL+R: This function creates a calendar entry from the current email with current receiver list, but default-date/time is alwsys set to the current even if recipients last ansewer was simply "lets do: 11am" - why does even this simple shit not work today? You dont need AI for this simple idea even, a robus / probability parser will do fine in 99% cases
GitHub pull request suggestions escape repository context
by mrdziuban | 2025-12-08 20:08:57+00:00
Possibly related to the ongoing GitHub service disruption [1], the suggestions displayed when typing an issue/pull request number are from unknown repositories, not just the repository in which I'm creating the pull request [2]. In this case I was expecting exactly one suggestion and got back 1000 [3]. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[1] https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/r6fc6tyzr430

[2] https://i.imgur.com/K0YLCwo.png

[3] https://i.imgur.com/RTkJrQU.png
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-08 20:08:57+00:00
Don't chase specific technologies, especially not ones driven by for-profit companies. Chase ideas, become great in one slice of the industry, and the very least you can always fall back on that. Once established within a domain, you can always try to branch out, and feel a lot more comfortable doing so.

Ultimately, software is for doing something, and that something can be a whole range of things. If you become really good at just a slice of that, things get a lot easier regardless of the general state of the industry.
by jhallenworld | 2025-12-08 20:09:10+00:00
>mind boggling Byzantine rules

Hint: by all means possible, make sure you are not the owner of (or manager of the person who owns) any assets beyond your personal laptop. If, for example, you end up being the owner of all the development and test servers of the original company, then it will become your responsibility to ensure that each OS (of each LPAR of each VM) is security compliant, is running the end-point asset manager, and has up to date OS patches, that the DASD is encrypted, and you must periodically show physical proof that the asset still exists and indicate where it's located- photos of assets tags or whatever. It will be your responsibility to dispose of the asset (with all associated paperwork) at the end of its life.

It helps if such machines are not actually on the 9. network, or are behind an internal firewall (then they don't care about the security compliance as much).
by garciasn | 2025-12-08 20:09:12+00:00
TL;DR: this is all fucking bullshit and the entire system needs to be scrapped as its been optimized to increase the number of stops, not correct wrong-doing.

Summary:

1. WhatsApp chat group alerts sheriff's deputies in Texas (known as the interdiction group) as to 'target' vehicles based on their travel history as collected by traffic camera/license plate readers (LPRs).

2. Stops from the 'interdiction group' have gone up over two years w/suspicious reasoning for stops, based largely on the myriad of reasons Texas law enforcement officers (LEOs) are free to stop vehicles. The results of these increased N in searches have resulted in fewer (percentage) of findings of wrong-doing.

3. Dashcam footage from the citizen stopped counters the LEO's claims that he went over the fogline several times. Bodycam footage of the later search show no evidence to support drugs that were supposedly indicated on by the K9 unit dispatched. Said K9's reward system has allegedly been altered by its handler to alert for reward, not for the presence of drugs.

4. Fictitious reasoning for stops are glossed over with a 'warning' or no-action which appeases most. This particular person sued, even though they were free to go, and it started a chain of events which uncovered the wrong-doing by LEOs.

5. This is all security theatre, at the expense of the citizenry.
by debo_ | 2025-12-08 20:09:25+00:00
> I'm sure every organisation has hundreds if not thousands of Excel sheets tracking important business processes that would be far better off as a SaaS app.

Far better off for who? People constantly dismiss spreadsheets, but in many cases, they are more powerful, more easily used by the people who have the domain knowledge required to properly implement calculations or workflow, and are more or less universally accessible.
by on_the_train | 2025-12-08 20:09:32+00:00
Ai saves me like an hour per month tops. I still don't understand the hype. It's a solution in search of a problem. It can't solve the hard coding problems. And it doesn't say when it can't solve the essay ones either. It's less valuable than resharper. So the business value is maybe $10 a month. That can't finance this industry.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-08 20:10:02+00:00
> However, Groq’s architecture relies on SRAM (Static RAM). Since SRAM is typically built in logic fabs (like TSMC) alongside the processors themselves, it theoretically shouldn't face the same supply chain crunch as HBM. > > Looking at all those pieces, I feel Oracle should seriously look into buying Groq.

I don't see why. Graphcore bet on SRAM and that backfired because unless you go for insane wafer scale integration like Cerebras, you don't remotely get enough memory for modern LLMs. Graphcore's chip only got to 900MB (which is both a crazy amount and not remotely enough). They've pivoted to DRAM.

You could make an argument for buying Cerebras I guess, but even at 3x the price, DRAM is just so much more cost effective than SRAM I don't see how it can make any sense for LLMs.
by baranul | 2025-12-08 20:10:10+00:00
Good point. However, similar offshoot languages of Golang, do have them. Those are Vlang (aka Sum Types) and Odin (aka Discriminated Unions). However and per your comment, only Vlang has the optional GC (used by default) and the flexible memory management philosophy (to turn the GC off without its stdlib depending on it).
by 0manrho | 2025-12-08 20:10:11+00:00
I'm aware, I read it. You made the counter-claim "EVs are not complicated." and attempted to justify it by switching the context.

And just like you, I mirrored your comments format with my own when I led with a counterpoint, and then immediately followed it up with the concession that in the context you're describing, they don't have to be.

> have a much harder time imagining how a modern ICE works as reliably as it does

Lube is magic.
by PKop | 2025-12-08 20:10:20+00:00
Because of the returns, volatility and the liquidity obviously. This is a stupid question. I'm not even talking about "investing", it's a trading vehicle. Short term. Those other things you mentioned are less correlated directly to changes in global liquidity and overall risk assets, so in a sense even more risky and obscure. The fact that you even suggested "holding" onion futures means you're missing the point.

Looking at the chart of Nepalese rupee I don't see any bull market going back to 2005 so what are you talking about?

"Everything is the same" is a bad thesis. Just look at the charts.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-12-08 20:10:33+00:00
Variation in price doesn't prove that the market cap is not (a good estimate of) the company value for highly liquid stocks.

Value is subjective. Stock prices measure peoples perception of the value. Your thesis that it is incorrect can only come from 2 places (I think)

1. Dumb money - the market cant see that XYZ is overvalued or undervalued. My rebutal there is nonetheless XYZ has been valued by a conpletely open continuous auction that people are not restricted to participate in.

2. The parts are less than their sum. This may be somewhat true... total control over a company may be more (or less) valuable than splitting. But I dont think it is order of magnitude. And if it is, it is because the value to you isnt the value to me (the value of RAM to a gamer < value of RAM to OpenAI).
by LorenPechtel | 2025-12-08 20:10:47+00:00
I don't know about this one in particular, but I hike. Endurance, but not at the level they are talking about. I had a cardiac stress echo last year and I've had an EKG since--both show changes that don't seem to concern the docs. Dr. Google comes back with this might be a risk...or this might be normal for an athlete.
Freelancers are losing ~30% of their time and revenue to tool fragmentation
by Abhijeetp_Singh | 2025-12-08 20:11:15+00:00
Hi HN, I’m Abhijeet. Over the past few months, I’ve spoken with more than 60 freelancers, creators, and small agency owners across India and abroad. Almost everyone described the same struggle: their work is scattered across too many tools.

Projects sit in Gmail or WhatsApp, portfolios in Notion, payments on random links, and invoices in spreadsheets. They spend hours switching between tabs just to keep track of clients and revisions, and things still slip through the cracks.

For many, this isn’t just inconvenient, it’s costly. Most said they lose 20–30% of their time and revenue each month. One freelancer from Gujarat told me he lost ₹70,000 in a client dispute because nothing was properly tracked. Another said his audience engagement dropped because there was no simple way to connect his work and community.

It feels like the earning experience for freelancers hasn’t evolved much since 2017. Tools have improved, but workflows haven’t.

I’m trying to understand what better infrastructure for independent work could look like something that connects operations, payments, and clients in one flow instead of scattered systems.

>>If you freelance or build tools for this space, I’d love to hear your thoughts:

What’s most frustrating about managing client work today?

What do you wish existed that doesn’t?

Are there any tools that come close but still fall short?

If you could design the ideal independent workspace, what would it look like?
by wtallis | 2025-12-08 20:11:40+00:00
NAND is built with dozens of layers on one die. HBM DRAM is a dozen-ish dies stacked and interconnected with TSVs, but only one layer of memory cells per die. AMD's X3D CPUs have a single SRAM die stacked on top of the regular CPU+SRAM, with TSVs in the L3 cache to connect to the extra SRAM. I'm not aware of anyone shipping a product that stacks multiple SRAM dies; the tech definitely exists but it may not be economically feasible for any mass-produced product.