MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pawelduda | 2025-12-11 16:14:47+00:00
If you just ask it to find problems, it will do its best to find them - like running a while loop with no return condition. That's why I put some breaker in the prompt, which in this case would be "don't make any improvements if the positive impact is marginal". I've mostly seen it do nothing and just summarize why, followed by some suggestions in case I still want to force the issue
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-12-11 16:14:57+00:00
> I'm citing a medical doctor and clinical psychologist

I'll give you that one, because although technically you're not citing it here, you do elsewhere in the thread.

> you're saying "no it isn't"

I appreciate that you might not like those words, but they're literally your words, so.

> This is some Puritanical suffering-culture, or some one-upmanship manliness culture.

Pfft. I agree that quicker results are better, all other things being equal, but that's all very facile.

> The fix is trace that loop and find the sticking point,

Not everything is like that.
by LocalH | 2025-12-11 16:15:34+00:00
I just got a seven day suspension from Reddit for reminding a commenter that freedom of speech in the US only protects you from "consequences" from the government. Reddit's claim? That I was "encouraging violence". The root post was about that woman who got fired from Cinnabon after a video of her calling customers the n-word went viral and then the alt-right donated nearly $100,000 to her.

The ban message also claimed the suspension was done without automation.
by mindslight | 2025-12-11 16:15:37+00:00
Last time Trample was in office, the price of oil literally went negative - like lets put this crap back in the ground, we don't need all this energy. Small minded negative sum thinking destroys economic activity. King Krasnov squatting in office past his lease would actually be fantastic for averting carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere. Sure we'd be burning more coal, as a proportion. But so much less energy overall as our society devolves. And plenty of free time for people to improvise steam engines, cars that run off of woodgas, and whatnot.

(the real problems being that other countries will continue growing, destructionist policies set things up so that return of economic activity is even more polluting, and a moribund economy makes responding to climate change chaos much harder)
by minadotcom | 2025-12-11 16:15:41+00:00
Tax advisor here! There is soo much potential for this tool. I work on this specific problem (for a multinational startup), and we always resort to manual research (or now LLMing our way toward interesting constructions). With this tool I can basically create a simple "starting point" for finding intelligent routes!

This deserves much more attention than it has received right now! I would consider reposting this during the weekend if I were you.
by the_af | 2025-12-11 16:15:42+00:00
You're right.

I don't think it's a benefit to society that corporations behave like amoral sociopaths. It should be in their interest to correct that behavior.

However, my point is this (slightly exaggerated) timeline:

1. "Diversity makes us stronger! Discrimination is bad! Power to women! Respect gender identities! Stop fake news!".

2. Go do all these trainings to improve yourself on those topics. We mandate this because we care, it's our inner moral fiber!

3. (election happens, government changes)

4. Actually, forget all of the above. The previous administration forced us, we now believe otherwise and we're decommissioning all those programs. Sorry we forced you!

So in the end, no value a corporation espouses is genuine, unless it's making money. So all those trainings? Fake. All those "values"? Fake. Individuals within the company may care, but the company as a whole doesn't (and let's face it, the CEO and board don't either, and never did).

If we're feeling charitable, we could argue any given company reflects the current (corporate) consensus about what's good/safe for business and for society, but always dressed in the language of "we genuinely believe this, it's heartfelt, and we're also trend setters because we care!". It's this last part that is 100% fake. At best they do what's safe for the current social/business climate; nothing is "heartfelt". If it was heartfelt, they would stand up to the bullies instead of saying "we never believed it, it was forced on us by the past evil administration!".
by wtcactus | 2025-12-11 16:15:43+00:00
Last time I've tried it was about 9 months ago and that was really an issue.

But I also think that for people that didn't try a "snappier" alternative, it was possible not to realize it's there.

Try and make a comparison with Parsec of even the Steam's own streaming. You will notice a big difference if the issue still exists.
by bicolao | 2025-12-11 16:15:59+00:00
> But you're right: ulimately the kernel is just a program.

Play a bit with user mode linux [1] the kernel becomes literally a linux program, that I believe you can even debug with gdb (hazy memory as I tried uml last time maybe a decade ago)

In theory you can also attach gdb to qemu running linux, but that's more complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux
by toast0 | 2025-12-11 16:16:22+00:00
If things are printed on top of each other, try script?

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=script&apropos=0&s...

But, if you're getting console debugs from the kernel, that wouldn't be captured either... Otoh, debug output from the kernel should also go into logs or dmesg or something?

You'll capture everything and maybe be able to figure it out from there?
by andrew_lettuce | 2025-12-11 16:16:32+00:00
Comments all act like Disney is giving them $1B, but they are essentially producing unlimited Disney IP content through OpenAI, and get any value boost on their ownership investment, and get the Disney stock bounce from the deal coverage. I don't really like the deal on the face value of what we know, but will admit there is huge potentially upside and it's very cheap relative to a lot of other company AI "strategies"
by pedrozieg | 2025-12-11 16:16:39+00:00
There’s something refreshing about explicitly saying “this editor exists to delight me, and that’s enough”. The default script now is that every side project should either be open-sourced or turned into a SaaS, even if that pressure is exactly what kills the weirdness that made it interesting in the first place.

Some of the best tools I’ve used felt like they started as someone’s private playground that only later got hardened into “serious” software. Letting yourself park Boo, go build a language, and come back when it’s fun again is probably how we get more Rio/Boo-style experiments instead of yet another VS Code skin with a growth deck attached.
by queuebert | 2025-12-11 16:17:12+00:00
They did an n-body simulation based on the known Keplerian orbital elements. That's exactly what you're asking for, right?

Also, the formalism is the standard way astrophysicists understand collisions in gases or galaxies, and it works surprisingly well, especially when there are large numbers of "particles". There may be a few assumptions about the velocity distribution, but usually those are mild and only affect the results by less than an order of magnitude.
by ttul | 2025-12-11 16:17:20+00:00
This should be a native feature of the native chat apps for all major LLM providers. There’s no reason why PII can’t be masked from the API endpoint and then replaced again when the LLM responds. “Mary Smith” becomes “Samantha Robertson” and then back to “Mary Smith” on responses from the LLM. A small local model (such as the BERT model in this project) detects the PII.

Something like this would greatly increase end user confidence. PII in the input could be highlighted so the user knows what is being hidden from the LLM.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-11 16:17:29+00:00
Yes, but at least now we're comparing artificial to real neural networks, so the way it works at least has a chance of being similar.

I do think that a transformer, a somewhat generic hierarchical/parallel predictive architecture, learning from prediction failure, has to be at least somewhat similar to how we learn language, as opposed to a specialized Chompyskan "language organ".

The main difference is perhaps that the LLM is only predicting based on the preceding sequence, while our brain is driving language generation by a combination of sequence prediction and the thoughts being expressed. You can think of the thoughts being a bias to the language generation process, a bit like language being a bias to a diffusion based image generator.

What would be cool would be if we could to some "mechanistic interpretability" work on the brain's language generation circuits, and perhaps discover something similar to induction heads.
by jackconsidine | 2025-12-11 16:17:44+00:00
Congrats on the launch

Please port to linux soon (sure it's relatively trivial on Electron :)).

Like the idea of the IDE. Seems like it'd make it easy to prototype and launch quickly.

RE: embrace the suck, yeah I'm with you. I prefer the brittleness of scripts to non-deterministic (potentially unhinged) workflows
by rtp4me | 2025-12-11 16:18:11+00:00
Perhaps, but I already have a CLAUDE.md file for the general coding session. Unique items I stumble upon each day probably should go into another file that can be dynamically updated. Maybe I should create a /slash command for this?

Edit: Shortly after posting this, I asked Claude the same type of question (namely how to persist pieces of data between each coaching session). I just learned about Claude's Memory System - the ability to store these pieces of data between coding sessions. I learn something new every day!
by SiempreViernes | 2025-12-11 16:18:13+00:00
They do verify their analytical calculation using a N-body simulation, that's section 4.4

> We verify our analytic model against direct N-body conjunction simulations. Written in Python, the simulation code SatEvol propagates orbits using Keplerian orbital elements, and includes nodal and apsidal precession due to Earth’s J2 gravitational moment. [...] The N-body simulation code used in this paper is open source and can be found at https://github.com/norabolig/conjunctionSim.
by tremon | 2025-12-11 16:18:22+00:00
> > Subtype Requirement: Let ϕ(x) be a property provable about objects x of type T. Then ϕ(y) should be true for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T.

This says "if hasattr(parent, 'pop') == True then hasattr(child, 'pop') must be True". This is not violated in this case, since hasattr(parent, 'pop') is False. If you want to extend the above definition so that negative proofs concerning the parent should also hold true for the child, then subtyping becomes impossible since all parent and child types must be identical, by definition.
by or_am_i | 2025-12-11 16:18:30+00:00
Wish it was only the keyboard enshittified. Literally everything became worse with the update, I had to google how to turn off the silly transparency (Accessibility Settings -> Display -> Reduce Transparency) so that the battery that used to happily last for the entire day on iOS 18 does not die in a matter of some 4 hours. And don't even get me started on now-always-lagging home screen swipes and the Safari overhaul madness! Wanna close the active tab? That will be three taps, thank you very much. Oh, you want them taps to register _every time_, too? This basic phone UX used to be Apple's major USP over Android, now fewer and fewer reasons to stick to this ecosystem.
by dmix | 2025-12-11 16:19:03+00:00
They will be DMCA'ing the social media posts which is nothing new.

The big models will and already have copyright filters on, people are just working around them which will always be a battle. They also don't host the videos they create themselves on OpenAI/Grok.

As I said in my comment these videos are not all going to be via the mainline Grok/ChatGPT interfaces and alternative video generators will eventually become widely accessible to the public.
by jeffwask | 2025-12-11 16:19:08+00:00
Yes, but if you watch any documentaries about early Disney and listen to those people talk everything was about Walt's vision even after death they would ask "What would Walt want or do?" He was a figure whose influence and vision is on another level in American History (both good and bad) and early Disney was Walt no matter who was in charge on paper or even if Walt was still alive. That only started to change under Eisner. Roy was the one who kept Walt grounded so ambition shrunk but they stayed the course Walt set.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-12-11 16:19:22+00:00
You all will figure out it's all about the Jews eventually.

There's a reason why there are still crypto Jews in Iberia.

All you have to do is listen to actual Arab discourse from people in the area (or Arab protesters in Arabic in the West). Where they insist repeatedly that's it's about the Jews.

All the talk about White Supremacy (Guess who calls black people Abeed?), Settler colonialism, genocide etc are just earworms for Western ears
by kevstev | 2025-12-11 16:19:44+00:00
So I was actually looking at it yesterday, and the top end ranges of todays EVs are actually the same range as my 2007 Honda Accord. Maybe I am unique, but I have never taken a road trip so long that I needed to get gas midway going one way, maybe this is more common out west. I have done some round trips for sure though that would require a top up on more than a charge.

I was surprised though that ranges, at least on the top end and very expensive EVs, are now comparable to ICE cars. This will continue to improve and hopefully alleviate any form of range anxiety in the future, especially as chargers just become more ubiquitous. I feel people really fail to realize they can just essentially top up each night and start out with a full "tank." I don't know, it all just feels very overblown with today's EVs.
by ricorobertsjr74 | 2025-12-11 16:19:58+00:00
LCS Engine is an AI-powered investment education tool designed to help beginners understand investing strategies in a clearer and more intuitive way. The goal isn’t to generate trade signals, but to explain concepts like momentum, mean reversion, diversification, and risk in plain English using real market data.

The MVP includes: • an onboarding flow that learns user preferences • strategy cards with AI explanations • a basic confidence-scoring step • interactive UI built with Streamlit • live data via Polygon/Alpaca APIs

I’m especially looking for feedback on: • whether the explanations are clear • the UX flow (onboarding → strategies → insights) • places where the tool feels too simple or too complex • any bugs or rough edges you notice

This is very early, so suggestions on what to build next are welcome. Thanks for taking a look.
by aftbit | 2025-12-11 16:20:04+00:00
It's actually a really nice spell casting system. It lets you have a ton of different spells with only 4 buttons. It rewards memorizing the most useful (like reinforce). It gives a way for things like the squid disruptor fields or whatever they're called to mess with your muscle memory while still allowing spells. It would be way less interesting if it was just using spell slots like so many other games.
by fallingfrog | 2025-12-11 16:20:14+00:00
I've had the experience of having migraines with aphasia- this is essentially a migraine aura that affects the part of the brain that processes language. I can confirm that while this was happening, i was aware of my surroundings and able to have thoughts, but I was unable to speak and unable to understand spoken or written language. It all just looked and sounded like gibberish. I thought about whether I should go to a hospital, what was going on, wondered whether my loved ones were concerned, and so on, but was unable to communicate any of those thoughts to other people. It was a bizarre experience.
by neilv | 2025-12-11 16:20:14+00:00
This is far from specific to Apple.

When I first saw your name, a few decades ago, it was because I was interested in HCI and human factors engineering.

Today, my impression is that the field of HCI has mostly disappeared. Most people who might have been interested in HCI are now studying and practicing UX instead.

In UX, the designer/engineer in practice is usually directed by the goals of the party who decides how the thing will work, rather than the goals of the party using the thing.

There are some intellectual elements to UX practice (e.g., aesthetics, fashions, A/B testing, and dark patterns). But I wonder whether the transition from HCI to UX means that the field is not only perversely anti-user, but also losing the intellectual and/or institutional capacity to be user-oriented on occasions that they want to be?
by jayd16 | 2025-12-11 16:20:29+00:00
You can't bench your finished game before it exists and you don't really want to rock the boat late in dev, either.

It was a fundamentally sound default that they revisited. Then they blogged about the relatively surprising difference it happen to make in their particular game. As it turns out the loading is CPU bound anyway, so while the setting is doing it's job, in the context of the final game, it happens to not be the bottle neck.

There's also the movement away from HDD and disc drives in the player base to make that the case as well.
by bikeshaving | 2025-12-11 16:20:51+00:00
https://github.com/Gricha/macro-photo/blob/highest-quality/l...

The logger library which Claude created is actually pretty simple, highly approachable code, with utilities for logging the timings of async code and the ability to emit automatic performance warnings.

I have been using LogTape (https://logtape.org) for JavaScript logging, and the inherited, category-focused logging with different sinks has been pretty great.
by baseballdork | 2025-12-11 16:20:56+00:00
Switched from pixels to iphone in the last year or two and the keyboard is the biggest pain point by far. I tend to use swipe, so this particular issue isn't something I've come across. What I do run into is weird censorship issues where I'm trying to type "kill myself" or something similar and the phone will do anything to not provide that as an option. Then, when I try to manually change it, editing is a nightmare. Inevitably trying to change the ending of a word results in the entire word being deleted. It inserts spaces where I don't want them.

Is this some sort of psyop to get me to use siri to send texts?
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-11 16:20:57+00:00
Myself during the pandemic I was really turned off by the idea they were going to keep doing concessions the way they usually did because the idea of a popcorn and coke mess would turn my stomach.

Since then I've seen Barbie and Superman and it was cool but I'm not in a rush to see more movies in a theater. We were worried that the chain theater in town was going to go out of business because it had been leveraged by an Israeli company just before the crisis. The art house theater downtown is starting to show those tentpole movies but the art house movies in the trailers seem all the same to me and don't catch my eye. If they wanted to get me in they should have shown Ne Zha 2. The big chain theater is actually getting interesting because they show all kinds of unusual thing such as live opera performances, anime movies, etc.

Just can't see it beating streaming though, also I think somehow television has outpaced movies in terms of the scope of stories it can tell. I find it so boring that they keep making three-packs of superhero movies and then reboot and tell the origin story over and over again, one thing I liked about the latest Superman was that they didn't retell his journey from Krypton and his upbringing in farm country but just jumped into it -- I mean, Superman has been around 87 years we know his origin story.

In a TV show they couldn't get away with rehashing the origin story and the first few books over and over again -- I could care less if Spiderman was bit by a radioactive spider or a GMO spider, I just want to seem him slinging webs and punching bad guys and mostly being loved by the community and occasionally feared.
by usrusr | 2025-12-11 16:21:13+00:00
What they don't have is financial constructions that would leave them in nominal control when they go down that path. And they absolutely do want to stay in control, or else they would have sold a long time ago.

Even if that control is only nominal, of it comes at the price of anticipating every wish institutional investors might have and obediently following them to the (unwritten) letter.
by f311a | 2025-12-11 16:22:05+00:00
I guess "marginal impact" for them is a pretty random metric, which will be different on each run. Will try it next time.

Another problem is that they try to add handling of different cases that are never present in my data. I have to mention that there is no need to update handling to be more generalized. For example, my code handles PNG files, and they add JPG handling that never happens.
by rconti | 2025-12-11 16:22:15+00:00
I'll give this a try. My typing is better when I use slide to type but I'm still super uncomfortable with it (I feel anxious trying to think of the letters "fast enough" even though I know it doesn't matter).

FWIW I've felt my phone typing accuracy has gotten worse every single year for, whatever, almost 20 years now. That's not the case on the computer.
by realberkeaslan | 2025-12-11 16:22:33+00:00
Thx for the nice words! I appreciate it. I have noticed the same: it's hard to get some exposure on HN. I used to frequent HN under a different username in my early teens, and back then (2010s) it was so much easier to get some exposure. I guess the problem is that the community has grown slightly too large. Furthermore, it's also a little bit too easy to create an account. I think if HN would resort to an invite-only approach for posting stuff, individuals would get much more exposure. But then again, getting the content out there would be difficult. I guess I will repost this in the coming days, on an "ideal" day.

If you like the tool, feel free to sign up on the TreatyHopper+ form (it's on the top right corner of the website), then I can gauge the interest from withint the industry. And it also gives some extra motivation :)
by jxywilliams | 2025-12-11 16:22:37+00:00
Hey, it's Jay.

Just wanted to give you a little insight to me and why I created Nebly.

My full time gig is being a self employed estate agent, meaning I do everything from start to finish so I have to be super efficient.

I realized social media was taking up a ton of time and while it's important for my brand awareness, it certainly isn't a main driver of my business, especially when I had no name for myself.

So I started creating automations for myself to help claw back some time and focus elsewhere. Some others around me started asking about it as they'd tried ChatGPT etc. but were struggling with things sounding super generic and clearly looking like AI writing.

Now here I am creating Nebly, a way for everyone to be able to harness AI like I was.

It's my first app/saas so I'm sure I'm going to make many mistakes and things will go wrong but I'm ready to embrace that and keep improving.

Very welcome to advice and feedback, thanks all