MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndyNemmity | 2025-12-30 01:17:25+00:00
I understand the use case for plannotator. I understand why you did it that way.

I am working alone. So I am instead having plans automatically update. Same conception, but without a human in the mix.

But I am utilizing skills heavily here. I also have a python script which manages how the LLM calls the plans so it's all deterministic. It happens the same way every time.

That's my big push right now. Every single thing I do, I try to make as much of it as deterministic as possible.
by mothballed | 2025-12-30 01:17:42+00:00
California has a lot going for it. Great geography, lots of university, great talent, talent with many different backgrounds, momentum from industry. Non compete non-enforcement also exist in places like North Dakota (which has nearly as a high a GDP/cap), but they can't offer a lot of these other things.

In many ways California is just being capitalist like the "actual" capitalist and taxing whatever the market will bear. It will probably bear a lot in California. There's no need for them to dress it up as a social project, it's just the ruthless gears of the state run by people with personalities nearly identical to the CEOs that would also do the same thing in their shoes.

The poor will continue to suffer the ~same fate and the friends of politicians will continue to be enriched. The middle class sees maybe the ever tiniest budge from one or two billionaires pulling out along with whatever jobs their capital provides, but otherwise their lives basically move on as usual and they can preach about their support for the poor using someone else's dime at almost no risk to themselves.
by robomartin | 2025-12-30 01:17:48+00:00
> When someone says they hate your product

Listen.

Period.

Sure, you will inevitably run into people who are impossible to please. However, for the most part, the vast majority of the people who have a complaint are taking the time to attempt to communicate with you or your company about a need you failed to meet. This can be something that's broken, not implemented or done badly. In all cases, they are motivated by wanting to fix the problem for themselves...which is likely to fix it for lots of others who might not be as vocal.
by windexh8er | 2025-12-30 01:18:25+00:00
I'm genuinely curious why "LLMs are the way forward for searching".

Is it that the results won't be stack ranked lists anymore and instead a conversational output? Personally that's not what I want. I want results that are contextual to my search. If there's a use case for LLMs in search this would be, at least for me, what I'd be looking for. It seems, however, that all of the AI in search results today are not that.

I do pay for Kagi and will continue if the quality of the product continues to offer the quality product that it is today.
by the_af | 2025-12-30 01:18:29+00:00
Ray Hyman, the other member of the review panel with Jessica Utts, disagreed with her conclusions ("the overwhelming amount of data generated by the viewers is vague, general, and way off target. The few apparent hits are just what we would expect if nothing other than reasonable guessing and subjective validation are operating."). Utts also seems to be involved in parapsychology organizations, which is pseudoscience -- I hope you won't dispute this much -- so I'd rule out her opinion as fringe, and not in any way the mainstream scientific opinion on RV.

RV is pseudoscience, you won't find scientific support for it, or anyone able to reproduce its purported results under controlled conditions.

The Amazing Randi probably had a challenge about RV that no con artist was able to win.

Edit: wait, it's even worse. Utts was completely biased and compromised:

> The psychologist David Marks noted that because Utts had published papers with [Edwin] May [a parapsychologist who took over Project Stargate in '85] "she was not independent of the research team. Her appointment to the review panel is puzzling; an evaluation is likely to be less than partial when an evaluator is not independent of the program under investigation."

So she was completely biased and wasn't independent of the leadership of Stargate! She had vested interests in it being "real", she was invested on RV and parapsychology!
by tzs | 2025-12-30 01:18:47+00:00
My TV is from around 2017 and some of those settings definitely suck on it. I'm curious if they have improved any of them on newer TVs.

Here's how bad it was in 2017. One of the earliest things I watched on that TV was "Guardians of the Galaxy" on some expanded basic cable channel. The fight between Peter and Gamora over the orb looked very jerky, like it was only at about 6 fps. I found some reviews of the movie on YouTube that included clips of that fight and it looked great on them, so I know that this wasn't some artistic choice of the director that I just didn't like. Some Googling told me about the motion enhancement settings of the TV, and how they often suck. I had DVRed the movie, and with those settings off the scene looked great when I watched it again.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-30 01:19:03+00:00
> Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.

This is wrong. There are loads of alternatives, which I can't remember at the moment. AlternativeTo.net lists Hyvor Blogs (https://blogs.hyvor.com/), which isn't one of the ones I was familiar with and cannot vouch for, but serves as an existence proof. Does anyone know any better ones?
by fsckboy | 2025-12-30 01:19:55+00:00
banning corporate ownership of other companies would dramatically decrease the value of companies that people own. it would be much more difficult to sell your company. you might have built a successful company over the course of your life, and your children don't want to run it. Other companies in the same business but perhaps not in the same regious are good candidates to buy it. There are far fewer individuals with the assets to purchase a successful company.

should other companies wish to buy your company, they could still buy all the assets of your company, but not the company itself.
by rdhatt | 2025-12-30 01:20:14+00:00
I find it interesting for your example you chose Moment.js -- a time library instead of something utilitarian like Lodash. For years I've following Jon Skeet's blog about implementing his time library NodaTime (a port of JodaTime). There are a crazy number of edge cases and many unintuitive things about modeling time within a computer.

If I just wanted the equivalent of Lodash's _.intersection() method, I get it. The requirements are pretty straightforward and I can verify the LLM code & tests myself. One less dependency is great. But with time, I know I don't know enough to verify the LLM's output.

Similar to encryption libraries, it's a common recommendation to leave time-based code to developers who live and breathe those black boxes. I trust the community verify the correctness of those concepts, something I can't do myself with LLM output.
by 15155 | 2025-12-30 01:20:32+00:00
> Whenever viewing an image on a professional camera

Viewing any preview image on any camera implies a debayered version: who says is it JPEG-encoded - why would it need to be? Every time I browse my SD card full of persisted RAWs, is the camera unnecessarily converting to JPEG just to convert it back to bitmap display data?

> The underlying data is always captured as a RAW file, and only discarded if you’ve configured the camera to only store the JPEG image (discarding the original RAW file after processing).

Retaining only JPEG is the default configuration on all current-generation Sony and Canon mirrorless cameras: you have to go out of your way to persist RAW.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-30 01:20:49+00:00
People who also say 'the rich will just stop' ignore that the rich work crazy hard trying to ensure they add to their billions. They already are past the point of noticeable returns for their quality of life, yet they keep at it.

In return for their super high taxes we should give them a 'contributor to society' chit or star or something. Then they can gamify over getting chits, instead of hundreds of billions more. I'll happily call Elon a '7 star citizen' and support such a game.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-30 01:21:25+00:00
There is a huge difference between someone being annoyed by some thing based on how it affects you and that thing just so happening to be against the rules vs being annoyed by a thing that's of no consequence to you for no reason other than because it's against the rules.

Regardless, I don't share those values. I have stared into the abyss of what people who praise conformity and the common good will do to a municipality if given free reign to regulate it's minutia and I do not want. My neighbors on one side blast music in a language I don't speak until a couple hours after my bedtime most nights and the neighbors on the other have barking dogs. I don't even notice them anymore, same with the nearby highway noise.
Show HN: ARES Dashboard – Open-Source AI Red-Teaming and Governance Platform
by LA_Builds | 2025-12-30 01:21:53+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m sharing ARES Dashboard v1.0.0, an open-source platform for AI red-teaming, evaluation, and governance.

ARES is built to support structured red-team campaigns against LLMs, with a focus on safety, misuse resistance, and enterprise-style controls rather than one-off prompt testing.

Key features:
-Campaign-based AI red-teaming workflows
Multi-tenant architecture with role-based access control
-Audit logging and compliance-oriented design
-Demo mode for users without API keys
-Extensive documentation covering security boundaries, threat models, and operational practices

The project is early but intentionally designed with production and enterprise readiness in mind. Current gaps are mostly operational (monitoring, load testing, production deployments), which are the next priorities.

GitHub:
https://github.com/Arnoldlarry15/ARES-Dashboard

I’d really appreciate feedback from folks working in AI safety, security, infra, or governance — especially around real-world red-teaming workflows and operational concerns.

Thanks for taking a look!
by gbnwl | 2025-12-30 01:22:17+00:00
I'm not sure how many HN users frequent other places related to agentic coding like the subreddits of particular providers, but this has got to be the 1000th "ultimate memory system"/break-free-of-the-context-limit-tyranny! project I've seen, and like all other similar projects there's never any evidence or even attempt at measuring any metric of performance improved by it. Of course it's hard to measure such a thing, but that's part of exactly why it's hard to build something like this. Here's user #1001 that's been told by Claude "What a fascinating idea! You've identified a real gap in the market for a simple database based memory system to extend agent memory."
by chmod775 | 2025-12-30 01:22:19+00:00
> filming it in a way that it will look ok on modern televisions without having to turn off settings.

That's a lost cause. You never know what sort of random crap and filters a clueless consumer may inflict on the final picture. You cannot possibly make it look good on every possible config.

What you can do is make sure your movie looks decent on most panels out there, assuming they're somewhat standard and aren't configured to go out of their way to nullify most of your work.

The average consumer either never knew these settings existed, or played around with them once when they set up their TV and promptly forgot. As someone who often gets to set up/fix setups for aforementioned people, I'd say this is a good reminder.
by redsymbol | 2025-12-30 01:26:01+00:00
I have spent over $100k of my own money running ads on Meta, over $10k on Linkedin, and also significant amounts on Google (GDN/Youtube/keyword search) and X/Twitter.

My experience:

For most ad campaign types, YES, Meta works far better than any alternative.

In my view, this is because its underlying machine-learning algorithms are better. Not the generative AI mentioned in the article, but the core ML-based learning strategy that every modern ad platform has been based on for over a decade now, allowing it to learn to find buyers for whatever you are selling. Meta is just better at that than anyone else - far better. And has been for years.

Linkedin is quite interesting and can reach audiences no other ad platform can. The problem with LI is that it is tremendously expensive. Think $50-200 per qualified lead, so it only makes sense for very high ticket offers. I've never been able to make LI ads work for lowticket offers (i.e. under $500 gross margin per sale).

I have attempted to run ads on X/twitter several times in the past 5 years, and each time gave up because of how terribly it performed. Literally zero sales from the ad spend, using the exact same ads which worked great on Meta. X is kind of infamous among media buyers for how bad it is. But I haven't tried it in over 8 months, so maybe it has gotten better now. Grok/xAI is quite good, so I am not sure why they haven't made the X ad platform a priority. If they did, I bet they could eat Meta's lunch.

Google is really 3 ad platforms: Youtube, Google Display Network (GDN), and keyword search. These are all radically different in many dimensions; the only thing they have in common is that Google lets you set them all up through the same web interface.

Mostly I run ads selling mid to high-ticket stuff to sophisticated buyers, and I think most of those people have Youtube Premium, which makes YT ad-free. So I haven't tried running ads on Youtube much. My media buyer colleagues who are into it are mostly selling mass-market offers that most people on HN would consider kind of scummy. They tell me it can work well, but requires a lot of ad spend over weeks to start working. In contrast, I can often get a Meta ad campaign profitable within 48 hours.

Keyword search works great, but only for "bottom of funnel" buyers (i.e. people who are actively looking for a solution they can pay for right now). There are only so many of those, so generally you cannot scale up ad spend (and thus absolute profit) very high. In contrast, Meta can create new "top of funnel" buyers, which is a larger audience by many orders of magnitude, which allows you to ramp up some Meta campaigns to a very high level of profitable ad spend.

GDN has been tricky for me. I think it has a lot of potential, but it has a very different model, and so far I have not been able to make it profitable for my offers. It certainly seems easier to set up a successful campaign with Meta.

Short answer to your question: Yes, even with the things the article is justifiably griping about, Meta is just way, way better than any alternative right now.
by mandw | 2025-12-30 01:26:10+00:00
I don't think Miryoku is a good layout for many either, it will depend on your usage.

A strange thing is that many come in to the small split keyboard world and then don't have the motivation to come up with something that works for them. You can make anything work, so a lot make Miryoku work but I doubt for many that would be the best layout for them.

I code a lot and find that its layout would not suit me. I have 99% of what I need on a the base layer and one more layer for doing development work - on a 36 key board. I could not imagine that I would want to switch layers as much as I would have to for a continuous stream of alphabet/symbols and numbers.

I think Miryoku would be fine if you were an average computer user editing documents, emails etc and I do sometimes forget that there are a lot of guys out there using Miryoku doing only that.
by fragsworth | 2025-12-30 01:27:25+00:00
> For the folks who have more positive outlooks how often do you change your code after it's been generated?

Every time, unless my initial request was perfectly outlined in unambiguous pseudocode. It's just too easy to write ambiguous requests.

Unambiguous but human-readable pseudocode is what I strive for now, though I will often ask AI to help edit the pseudocode to remove ambiguities prior to generating code.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-30 01:27:28+00:00
They leverage this “paper wealth” by borrowing against it and other financial mechanisms to use it while avoiding a taxable event. Tax them regardless; if they have to sell off shares or other wealth to upkeep the “paper wealth”, tough. The world existed before billionaires, it will exist after, and they have not made the world a better place by existing.

The rules are flexible and human made, we can change them anytime.
by password4321 | 2025-12-30 01:28:38+00:00
Maybe this is a good place to ask: what is the easiest way to use my own DNS entirely in user mode (not a server when I can't change which DNS is pointed to, since not an admin), a SOCKSv5 proxy?

It looks like this is possible with Chrome-based browsers using a command line flag (--host-resolver-rules) or in Firefox settings. Is there a better way?
by nly | 2025-12-30 01:29:09+00:00
I'm pretty sure Boost.Unordered employs the same techniques.

> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/unordered/doc/htm...

> When looking for an element with hash value h, SIMD technologies such as SSE2 and Neon allow us to very quickly inspect the full metadata word and look for the reduced value of h among all the 15 buckets with just a handful of CPU instructions: non-matching buckets can be readily discarded,
by TacticalCoder | 2025-12-30 01:29:14+00:00
As an european living and feeding of mostly US sources online, I completely agree. In the US people do really have freedom of speech. This doesn't exist in the EU. Just try to say 1/10th of what you can say in the US and you'll be thrown behind bars in the EU.

The biggest one being that most newspapers in the EU are state-controlled, Pravda-style, propagandist outlet pushing pro-EU narratives. Once you live across several EU countries and speak several languages, you can see how all the topics are synched and pushing the exact same narrative.

Basically: the EU is very good at producing people repeating that the EU is great.

To me the biggest problem is that the EU Commission is way too busy turning the EU into a totalitarian nightmare instead of trying to compete economically with the US and China. As a result in 17 years China's GDP went from $4 trillion to $20 trillion, surpassing the GDP of the eurozone (which only grew 25%: 25% vs 400%).

That's an abysmal failure and the EU is sinking and it shows anywhere you go to in the EU: cities are becoming shitholes at an alarming speed. And everything is done to try to damage control and prevent people from talking about what is ongoing.

The EU is heading straight into a wall (actually it already hit it).

I want out.
by linsomniac | 2025-12-30 01:29:44+00:00
The past few weeks I've been experimenting with using less context and less memory and it's been going really well. Where before I'd try to do a bunch of fairly related things in a single session, experimenting with compacting more or less frequently, now I'm clearing my context or exiting and restarting claude and codex. It seems to help it focus on the task at hand, hasn't tended to go off into the weeds as much, and my token costs have dropped way down.

Combined with a good AGENTS.md, it seems to be working really well.
by jpetso | 2025-12-30 01:29:51+00:00
Zynthian (a RPi-based synth collection & groovebox) lists some of the most prominent ones on its website: https://zynthian.org/engines

Its install recipes directory may yield a less fancy, but probably more comprehensive list: https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-sys/tree/oram/scripts/r...

With Zynthian OS up and running, the full list of plugins shows in its webconf page, it's so long that they have to hide basically most of the plugins from the main on-device UI.

Roughly speaking, if it's open source, most likely it will work. If it's proprietary, assume that only Pianoteq and a small number of u-he plugins will work. Most commercial products with binary-only distribution don't feel like RPi devices are a large enough market for them to build binaries for it. Even if they otherwise offer ARM builds for Apple Silicon and Linux builds for x86.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-30 01:30:08+00:00
> Traditional auto manufacturers are dead. Full stop. They just haven't realized it yet. Tesla had a chance to compete in this market with Model 2 but Musk decided to blow their lead on a completely stillborn and gimmick-filled robotaxi.

Not sure whether you know, but Geely entered the automotive business in 1997 (founded in 1986).

The company has subsidiaries / joint ventures with automakers like Volvo, Polestar, Proton, Smart, Lotus, Renault, etc.

Lin Shufu, Geely’s founder and chairman bought just shy of 10% of Mercedes Benz in 2018, making him the second biggest individual shareholder in the German carmaker. The #1 spot is occupied by The Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. (BAIC), via its state-owned parent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geely
by lapcat | 2025-12-30 01:30:41+00:00
> Most billionaires are billionaires are on paper, by owning capital.

By owning stock.

I'm not sure that "on paper" is a particularly interesting qualifier. I'm not a billionaire, but most of my wealth, such as it is, is "on paper". I have some cash on hand to pay expenses (technically, a checking account, and less than $50 in physical bills and coins), but you're probably losing money if you're keeping most of it in cash and not investing it on something with returns.

> Capital used to produce things.

The reality is much more complicated than this simple statement. An IPO is a one-time cash infusion for the company; subsequent sales of the shares on the stock market may bring additional cash to the shareholders, but not to the company. A company may issue additional shares, but this requires approval of the current shareholders, who probably won't look kindly on dilution. I think the main use of this is not to raise additional capital from the public but rather to compensate employees. (Sometimes companies do the opposite: stock buybacks, where the company gives cash to stockholders rather than vice versa.)

One primary purpose of an IPO is not to raise new capital but rather to compensate the company founders/executives and initial private investors. So you could say that stock indirectly produces things by enticing investment. But a lucrative IPO requires that the company already produce something of value before the IPO.

A successful publicly owned corporation does not require further capital infusion from investors, because sales of the corporation's products to customers are more than sufficient to fund continued operation.

> you simply end up driving much of those capital investments elsewhere

It's questionable how much these investments actually benefit the community. For example, if labor is brought primarily from outside the community, then existing residents do not necessarily benefit from the spending, and they may find themselves priced out of their own community by the incoming labor force.

> If they are simply taxing whatever loose cash and personal (mostly luxury) assets people have

No, that does not appear to be the design or intention of the proposed wealth tax.
by raron | 2025-12-30 01:30:47+00:00
> The major advantage is now that the expensive and time-consuming part of provisioning a new mobile service (sending out a physical SIM card)

I don't know, choosing service package, signing paperwork, identifying and other KYC stuff (tens of minutes) for me was always much more time-consuming than the few seconds of reading the barcode(?) from a new SIM card and giving it to the customer (or putting it into an automatically addressed envelope).

I can't see any advantage of eSIMs except that it makes harder to change providers what they of course really like.

(Anyways the security of the whole PTSN is a joke and publications about cracking cell networks, why SIM cards are even a thing? I would suspect an customer-id@service-provider.country and a password would work, too. Maybe with a zero-knowledge password proof.)