MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aprentic | 2025-12-15 19:09:22+00:00
> there is zero path to the goals Hong Kong residents espouse and are used to

From talking to friends and relatives from HK I've seen huge diversity in how people think about HK, China, their relationship with each other, Mandarin, Cantonese, food, and "the West".

There are certainly large groups of HKers who would prefer for HK to seced from China. There are also many HKers who love the UK and mourn the loss of HK to China.

There are also huge swathes of the population that chaffed at being colonized. Long time residents can show you the old police barracks where British troops would beat the locals in black bag operations. They'll tell you about how the feng shui of the Bank of China Tower lead to the collapse of the British empire. They'll tell you that they spent their lives paying taxes into a "democracy" they never got to vote in.

The opinions within HK are far more diverse than we make them out to be.
by latexr | 2025-12-15 19:10:03+00:00
They’re definitely less buggy than 26.0. But good? I wouldn’t say so, no. Unless you really like the look of Liquid Glass (and don’t mind all the stupid ways in which it breaks legibility, takes up space, or obscures and confuses content) or really want some specific new feature, I’d say hold off.

On my personal machine and phone I’ll probably skip this release entirely and revisit on 27.
by IncandescentGas | 2025-12-15 19:10:04+00:00
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).

Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-15 19:10:17+00:00
I'm guessing you're on the younger side and don't remember: there was an enormous moral panic about music in the 90s. There were ostensibly serious, sober Congressional hearings about it. Multiple people (e.g. Tipper Gore) made it their specific political hobbyhorse. It was the thing corrupting the youth, before the pivot to video games after Columbine. It's why we still have those black-and-white stickers on CDs (to the extent anyone buys CDs anymore).

I'd like to like that won't come back, but voting rights for women are back on the table, apparently, and SoundCloud is apparently worth age-gating, so I guess not.
by sillyfluke | 2025-12-15 19:10:23+00:00
>Specifically in the US context, this is failing.

You have existing counterexamples in other countries who don't employ your suggested tweeks. It's a sign you should go back to the drawing board (and history books).

Ask the customers: Ok great. I can already see how well that would've worked in the past. Tobacco smokers are pissed off at the rioting slaves for slowing down shipments. Boo-hoo.

There's stats being thrown about that this Black Friday the number of people buying shit decreased even though the amount of shit bought was higher. Even if you ignore that point but can concede the growing wealth inequality is a thing (consumer class is shrinking but getting richer), you should be able to understand why giving more weight to the wealthier class should be thought about twice.
by aaroninsf | 2025-12-15 19:10:26+00:00
Tangentially related,

one of the best things my family did visiting London last summer was to take a private bike tour of the east end street art scene with Alternative London https://alternativeldn.co.uk/

Coming from SF the ride was blissfully flat and easy and our guide (the founder) was exceptional in every respect.

It's one of the two things we tell people going to not miss... the other being, mudlarking for Victorian pipe stems [guaranteed find] and maybe something more magical [rare but happens, a local showed us an Elizabethean coin and mediaeval pin she'd found]. We went, across the river a bit west of the Tate Modern, IIRC.
by oersted | 2025-12-15 19:10:31+00:00
Or they can create a new good company and take all the customers, that's the fairytale at least.

It does actually happen quite often, but then the good company predictably goes bad once its dominant, which may or may not be premeditated.

Indeed, often the only way the good company can afford to be good is the prospect of eventually being able to be bad, worse even, to pay back that speculative investment. And on-and-on we go.
Show HN: VizuLLM – Turn structured LLM output into real, printable documents
by tscburak | 2025-12-15 19:10:44+00:00
Hi HN

I’ve been working on VizuLLM, an open-source engine that turns structured LLM outputs (JSON) into deterministic, printable documents like timetables, invoices, guides, and diagrams.

LLMs are great at generating text, but in real applications we usually need documents, not paragraphs. VizuLLM introduces a strict contract between the model and the UI: • LLM generates schema-validated JSON • Schemas define a document type • VizuLLM renders a deterministic visual artifact (HTML / PDF)

Instead of asking an LLM to “write a PDF”, you ask it to generate data for a document schema, and the renderer handles the rest.

What makes it different: • Schema-driven (Zod) → predictable outputs • Renderer-first, not prompt-first • Print-optimized components • Open-source and community-extendable (anyone can add new document types)

Example use cases: • Generate schedules, invoices, cover letters • Turn LLM output into guides, reports, or diagrams • Integrate into internal tools or LLM workflows

Repo: https://github.com/GenR8ive/VizuLLM

I’d love feedback on: • Whether this abstraction makes sense • Missing document types / use cases

Happy to answer questions or discuss tradeoffs.
by nickff | 2025-12-15 19:10:55+00:00
Have you seen how and what the Longshore Workers negotiate (mentioning them because the grandparent did)? They falsely claim many things, such as that port automation is dangerous (when it isn't in Europe), to increase the number of members employed at West-coast ports, and are able to hold downstream customers hostage, because they have a monopoly on stevedore-age across the West coast. If one company obtained a monopoly the way the LSW did (through gradual horizontal integration), they would have been stopped under anti-trust.

Sector-wide unions in general seem prone to anti-competitive practices (including, but not limited to extortion).
Show HN: Tickerterm – AI-native algo trading platform
by Spirod123 | 2025-12-15 19:10:55+00:00
Hey HN,

My co-founder and I built Tickerterm – making algo trading accessible through AI.

We met at Bubble (employees #2 and #4). Watched AI coding change who could build software. Started wondering: could the same thing happen for algo trading?

The platform: Chat with AI to write your strategy → code deploys serverless → trades execute in our built-in brokerage (Alpaca partnership). 60 seconds from idea to live.

Fully licensed (FINRA/SIPC compliance, NASDAQ/NYSE data licenses). Launched today.

Technical stack: JavaScript runtime for strategies, Firebase backend, real-time market data ingestion. One piece I'm curious about: we built tt.ai() - strategies can call AI at runtime to make decisions (e.g., tt.ai("Dip or falling knife?", data)). Curious what the HN community thinks about AI making real-time trading decisions.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, regulatory stuff, or how we're thinking about AI making trading decisions.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-12-15 19:11:09+00:00
Decisions made in 2008 were also a huge part of this.

The UK had a framework to liquidate financial institutions that was similar to the US, and this was deployed in early 2008 with Northern Rock and B&B. The end result was a multi-billion pound profit to the government.

Gordon Brown then decided that he needed to lead the global economy (and he has written, at the last count, two books which explain in significant detail that he was a thought leader and economic visionary through this period) by bailing out banks that were large employers in his constituency. With RBS, this involved investing at a very high valuation and then shutting down all the profitable parts of the bank, the loss was £20-30bn. With HBOS, he forced the only safe bank to acquire them, this resulted in the safe bank going bankrupt a year after the financial crisis ended in the US, and another multi-billion pound loss.

The US benefitted massively from having one of the most successful financial executives of the period, Hank Paulson, running the economy rather than (essentially) a random man from Edinburgh who have never had a job in the private sector (apart from law, obv) but held a seat with a huge number of constituents working at the banks he should have been shutting down (Brown himself had never worked in the private sector at all, parachuted into a safe seat after his doctorate). Geithner nearly suffered from that same fault, but did well with TARP (again though, iirc, this was Paulson's plan).
by cyan-indigo | 2025-12-15 19:11:11+00:00
Working on Tenderlane: https://tenderlane.app/

Freight forwarders spend days or sometimes even weeks understanding and answering tenders without even knowing if they'll win the bid!

With Tenderlane, they can now upload the entire tender spec and get an overview of what the customer wants in minutes instead.

One key learning for this project is that I'm using Excel as the "frontend" as this is what our users are most familiar with, so lots of processes involved filling, uploading and downloading an Excel file.

Building this with Elixir/Phoenix LiveView.
by MostlyStable | 2025-12-15 19:11:14+00:00
Yes, if the states were to take over many of these things, obviously federal taxes would need to dramatically decrease (luckily, the vast majority of federal spending is doing the things that I think states should do anyways, so you'd be simultaneously dramatically decreasing federal taxes and federal spending).

You couldn't just have the states take over these responsibilities and have nothing else change. My suggestion is in fact a pretty radical change in how the US federal government works. I'm not under any illusion that this is likely to happen. The ratchet of power unfortunately only goes in one direction.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-15 19:11:33+00:00
This is assuming that every consumers knows what evil goes into their consumption. They don't, and not by choice, but because nobody will tell them. Ever. In fact, everyone will spend billions to make sure they don't know.

The problem with simplistic free market dynamics views is that they rely on consumer choice. Consumer choice relies on consumer consent and free information flow.

As soon as EITHER of those two are chilled, even just a tiny bit, the free market dynamics thinking falls down like a house of cards. Now the situation is orders of magnitude more complex, and we actually have to think about what's going on, inatead of appealing to a model so bare-bones it's practically impossible to see in real life.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-15 19:11:36+00:00
I think there's a good chance. These things happen in cycles. A few decades ago it was common for companies to have in-house software development using something like COBOL or maybe BASIC (and at that time, sofware development was a cost-center job, it paid OK but nothing like what it does today). Then there was a push for COTS (commercial of-the-shelf) software. Then the internet made SaaS possible and that got hot. Developer salaries exploded. Now LLMs have people saying "just do it in house" again. Lessons are forgotten and have to be re-learned.
by maxglute | 2025-12-15 19:11:37+00:00
No, literally no soverign country would allow a region to operate without national security umbrella for decades, PRC was retardly patient, magnanoumous so to let HK fuck around for so long. The fact is nativist HKers tried to carve a NSL state of exception and they correctly got their shit kicked in once PRC ran out of patience. Human rights > national security is frankly absurdly unserious position to take. It's historically more normal to throw HK into the torment nexus than to have it exist without NSL coverage, that's level of security vacuum is functionally fail state behavior.

UN particapation is indeed varying level of compardour behavior, but also frequently not since you know even independant raprateurs go through filtering process frequently supported to host country to represent their geopolitical interests.

What is obviously traitorous, is shaking hands with ex head of CIA, we lie we cheat we steal Pompeo, during ongoing Sino-US geopolitical cold war, while advocating for sanctions on your own people. That's not obedience, that's treason. Like even fucking obedient people know having the right to commit treason, which Lai did, is retarded. A position an unforutnate amount of retarded HKers took to heart and frankly need to be reeducated out of.
by dabockster | 2025-12-15 19:11:39+00:00
> plenty of developer talent

> number of humans that are literate enough in business, marketing, communications, and software development to pull this off

> There aren’t the same thing.

That's exactly what I'm saying! Heck, I just talked to a senior dev from AWS a week ago that was a massive technical expert, but obviously couldn't code their way to an actual product on their own. Which is fine, and hence my original comment on the current rarity of those skillsets.

> “Remake microsoft office suite, but cheaper” won’t work

Ehhhhhhh hard to say really. The one-time payment versions of Office still exist, work totally fine, and have excellent add-on extension support. You could move the economics around a bit between consumers and extension developers, but that would probably be it.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-12-15 19:11:57+00:00
Numbers, from the article:

> In the United States, for example, about 85% of federal tax revenue comes from labor income,

That means only 15% is coming from all other taxes, including corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, and other taxes on the wealthy (estate taxes), mostly because they find creative ways -- and loopholes by design -- that allow them to reduce those taxes significantly.
by openontology | 2025-12-15 19:12:24+00:00
What is Open Ontology?

Open Ontology is a platform for building AI agents that actually follow rules.

The Problem

Most AI agents are unpredictable. You tell them what to do, but you can't really control how they do it or what they're allowed to access. That's risky for anything serious, banking, customer service, security, billing.

The Solution

Open Ontology uses ontologies as rule books for AI agents. Think of it like a permission system:

What the agent CAN do

What it CANNOT do

What it must ASK before doing

How It Works

Step 1: Create or Choose an Ontology

Pick a pre-built ontology from the Library (Banking, Email, Security, etc.) or generate a custom one by typing any topic. The system creates a complete set of permissions and capabilities specific to that domain.

Step 2: Build Your Agent

Click "Build Agent" to package your ontology into a working agent. The agent includes:

Permission rules: exactly what actions it can perform

Capability definitions: how it connects to services (email, databases, APIs)

Escalation policies: when it must ask for human approval

Step 3: Export & Run

Download your agent in any format:

Browser Agent: runs in any web browser, works offline

Browser + Cloud LLM: browser agent with AI decision-making via cloud API

Python Agent: scripts with full plugin system for developers

Desktop EXE: standalone executable for Windows/Mac/Linux

Step 4: Connect Services

The agent can connect to real services (email, calendars, databases, APIs) but ONLY performs actions allowed by its ontology. Unauthorized actions are blocked or require approval.

Why It's Special

Governance-first: Every action is defined and auditable

Portable: Agents work in browsers, desktops, or servers

AI-optional: The rules run even without AI—AI just helps with decisions

User-friendly: No coding required to browse, generate, or download agents

Who It's For

Teams that need auditable, controllable AI workflows

Developers building agents with clear permission boundaries

Anyone who wants AI that follows rules instead of making them up

https://openontology.gumroad.com/l/jrbpq
by abustamam | 2025-12-15 19:12:27+00:00
I got a Roomba Combo J7+ (auto empty, mopping) a few years back. Spent $700+ on it. A few years into ownership it ran over cat vomit, got it warranty replaced. And then just recently it decided to stop going home — it makes its way to the dock but stops shy of actually charging. I could get some module replaced but it's no longer under warranty, and I really don't want to deal with a dying company.

I've been seeing a lot of ads and talk about Roborock, and ChatGPT highly suggested that I upgrade to a Roborock Qrevo based on my household needs. I just don't want to spend $700+ on a new vac that will brick itself in a few years. Anyone have any recommendations? I see a lot of Roborock recommendations in the comments, but also Dream and Eufy so now I'm just overwhelmed.
by jameslk | 2025-12-15 19:12:40+00:00
There’s a lot of examples, yes in South America too, but the US helped replace or tried to help replace some governments during the Arab Spring. Libya being the biggest example, where the US and its allies imposed a no fly zone to help topple a dictator it didn’t like [0]. It could have done that in other places, but you didn’t hear a peep from the US when those protests were crushed by their governments during the Arab Spring.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-15 19:12:53+00:00
For some reason my brain read the title as “3D printed motherboard” and I was really curious about how this was even possible, and I ended up being disappointed by the lack of detail on the github readme.

It's only after a few more seconds back on the HN front page that I realized my mistake.

Less exciting than what I read but cool project nonetheless.
by buildsjets | 2025-12-15 19:13:43+00:00
When the stories about Roundup started floating around, I switched to 30% strength vinegar with a squirt of dish soap in it. It kills weeds and undesired plants off just as quickly and effectively as Roundup did, but obviously it does not prevent new seeds from sprouting. It is indiscriminate, whereas Roundup selectively targets broad-leafed plants, so you want to avoid getting it on grass. I use a big tarp to mask off the grass if I am using it heavily along the lawn borders. It's very effective for things like borders, gravel paths, stuff like that.

Also, instead of smelling like a chemical factory, your yard will smell like salad dressing for a day or so.
by slowturtle | 2025-12-15 19:13:53+00:00
You’re ignoring 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and 2 million in the Gaza Strip who are forced to live under Israel’s military occupation and law but do not have political representation in its government. That’s not even getting into discriminatory practices in Israel against its own Arab citizens. How about the fact that a Jew anywhere in the world can immigrate to Israel, but a Palestinian Arab whose family was forced out in the Nakba, with a valid claim to land in Israel, cannot.
by miiiiiike | 2025-12-15 19:14:14+00:00
The article is muddled, I wish he'd split it into two. One for UUID4 and another for UUID7.

I was using 64-bit snowflake pks (timestamp+sequence+random+datacenter+node) previously and made the switch to UUID7 for sortable, user-facing, pks. I'm more than fine letting the DB handle a 128-bit int vs over a 64-bit int if it means not having make sure that the latest version of my snowflake function has made it to every db or that my snowflake server never hiccups, ever.

Most of the data that's going to be keyed with a uuid7 is getting served straight out of Redis anyway.
by echelon | 2025-12-15 19:14:22+00:00
There are no contractions when you look at how unfair market advantages are being played to harm healthy incumbents.

Amazon helped dismantle the entertainment industry. Full stop.

It doesn't mean Amazon's home appliance and home automation product lines or platforms are harming competition. There is robust competition in this sector.

Amazon offers "free" entertainment, subsidizes the cost of series that rival HBO's Game of Thrones production costs using unrelated business units, market those movies and shows for free in the Amazon app, on their website, emblazoned on their delivery vehicles and on every item of packaging. Other companies have to pay hundreds of millions to match this. There is eyeball opportunity cost for consumers, and Amazon is flooding the zone with their free wares. This is a markedly unfair advantage.

Amazon moves US union jobs overseas and trains up low cost crews in Eastern Europe. They buy up once successful studios on the cheap because they all tried to catch up with the stupid steaming game.

Theatrical box office receipts are the biggest revenue driver for studios by a wide margin. Individually, studios could have countered Netflix and Disney by pulling licensing. Amazon in the mix threatened this, because they had existing content licenses and also controlled home media releases. The studios felt cornered by tech giants basically salting the earth. They had to give up healthy Box Office proceeds and exclusivity to chase streaming and defend their access to eyeballs as best they could.

You've heard of Disney eating the mid market film? Amazon ate everything. It left no oxygen in the fish bowl.

Amazon's entertainment business needs to be spun off.

All of that can be true and completely unrelated to Roomba. Nothing should have prevented their purchase of iRobot. That was insanity.
by abhi_telnyx | 2025-12-15 19:14:26+00:00
We work on voice AI infrastructure at Telnyx. One issue that kept coming up was prompts getting harder to work with over time.

They usually start small. Then edge cases get added. Then tone rules. Then formatting. After a while the prompt still “works,” but nobody wants to edit it because it’s unclear what depends on what.

We added a prompt rewrite feature directly into our voice AI assistant builder.

It takes an existing prompt and rewrites it to be clearer while keeping the same intent and constraints.

You can see the suggested changes inline and decide whether to apply them.

We built this because we kept seeing long prompts cause subtle behavior changes and regressions in production.
by hearsathought | 2025-12-15 19:14:31+00:00
> There's definitely a tension at top STEM schools (probably especially in CS) between assuming students have some baseline knowledge of whatever field and just tossing them into the deep end of the pool and figuring out the practicalities on their own.

Pretty sure most college CS programs have an optional class for those new to programming ( Introduction to Java or C or Python ). But after that, you are expected to learn new languages/tools on your own mostly.
by AndreSlavescu | 2025-12-15 19:14:35+00:00
From my understanding of the above problem, this would be something to do with the model weights. Have you tested this with the transformers inference baseline that is shown on huggingface?

In our deployment, we do not actually tune the model in any way, this is all just using the base instruct model provided on huggingface:

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct

And with the potential concern around conversation turns, our platform is designed for one-off record -> response flows. But via the API, you can build your own conversation agent to use the model.