MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by librasteve | 2025-12-27 13:08:30+00:00
At ISIS (Oxford neutron source)…

Spallation generation: High-energy protons (~800 MeV) hit a heavy target, releasing a wide spectrum of fast neutrons up to hundreds of MeV. These are then moderated down to useful energies for experiments.

It’s not the LHC, sure. But I don’t see any reason (apart from “why bother”) why they can’t do spallation in Geneva. OK maybe there’s a cooling problem…
by businessmate | 2025-12-27 13:08:53+00:00
This paper introduces Reasoning Claim Tokens (RCTs), an observational construct within the AIVO Standard designed to make AI reasoning inspectable without asserting correctness, causality, or compliance. RCTs capture discrete, time-indexed reasoning claims expressed by AI systems during inference and associate them with observable selection outcomes. Positioned beneath Prompt-Space Occupancy Score (PSOS) and Answer-Space Occupancy Score (ASOS), RCTs close the attribution gap between observed outcomes and un-inspectable reasoning contexts.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2025-12-27 13:09:36+00:00
A workflow I find useful is to have multiple CLI agents running in different Tmux panes and have one consult/delegate to another using my Tmux-CLI [1] tool + skill. Advantage of this is that the agents’ work is fully visible and I can intervene as needed.

[1] https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools?tab=readme-o...
by agairola | 2025-12-27 13:09:40+00:00
As 2025 comes to a close, I’m reflecting on how AI agents actually behaved in production systems this year.

Agents became more autonomous, more ephemeral, and more capable of acting across systems and delegating work. But identity still often felt bolted on using user or service account models.

Curious how others see it in hindsight:
- Did anyone land on an agent identity model that worked well at scale?
- Was this ultimately an IAM problem, or something that needs a new abstraction?
- If it remains unresolved, what do you think breaks first?

Context: https://raxit.ai/blogs/ai-agent-identity-crisis

No wrong answers.
by upofadown | 2025-12-27 13:10:56+00:00
Commercial aviation involves mostly textual interaction[1] to determine what the aircraft does, for most of the time. Aviation is rife with plain text, usually upper case for better legibility[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_management_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOTAM
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-27 13:13:13+00:00
The sum is negative, really.

If you take $1000 from a few gambling addicts? You spend your own time and effort doing that - while the negative impact of that loss on their livelihood is likely to be larger than positive impact of your gain on your livelihood.

It's why gambling is usually regulated so heavily. Some people must have thought that sports-flavored gambling is going to be different - or were financially incentivized to think so. Turns out it isn't.
by simonw | 2025-12-27 13:13:32+00:00
That claim is SO not credible that I think serious outlets that report on it non-critically lose credibility by doing so.

Seriously: the entire idea there is that there was a vast global conspiracy to secretly spy on people to target ads which was blown wide open by THIS deck: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-d...
by Hikikomori | 2025-12-27 13:13:40+00:00
>That said, I believe it is important to aknowlegde the fact that human memory, experience and interpretation of "what really happened" is flawed, isn't that why the body cameras are in use in the first place? If everyone believed police officers already where able to recall the absolute thruth of everything that happens in situations, why bother with the cameras?

Police tend to not tell the truth, on purpose.
by snvzz | 2025-12-27 13:14:09+00:00
From /ocho/:

>"Espero que t'agradi la cinta. Encara que gem nou mesos ya supe perque es un vuit, i espero que siguin molt, molts, més mesos els que pusem els dos junts.

gem -> fem, supe -> saps.

Bad OCR? The English translation actually isn't too bad.
by amrocha | 2025-12-27 13:14:45+00:00
I can’t tell if you seriously think a random person writing code in their basement is equivalent to a company that has access to API docs, design specs, actual test hardware, the expertise of a ton of engineers that have worked on the project and understand how it can go wrong, not to mention all the regulations and verifications they’re subject to.

But if you do then wow. That really puts in perspective the kind of people that use hacker news. I’m gonna be more selective about who I bother replying to going forward.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-27 13:14:59+00:00
Interesting that you mention it. Now I recall we also had wooden blocks,
they were rectangular. I played with them a lot to build simple things.
Kind of before I transitioned into LEGO. But those wooden blocks really
were great - simple, durable and one could do quite a lot with them. I
think I also built houses for my cat back then. Quite amazing how wood
is so dominating - price-wise nothing beats it. And LEGO is now so expensive
that I wouldn't buy it due to that outrageous prices alone.
by D13Fd | 2025-12-27 13:14:59+00:00
I agree except as to smart light switches, locks, and blinds. For me those have been set-it-and-forget-it devices that are really handy. I have various lights that come on from dusk until bedtime, doors that lock at night, lights that go off after 5 minutes (closets) or a couple of hours (kitchen). The blinds are blackout shades that go down at the kids’ nap times during the weekend. I also have a task light over a work bench that is controlled via my phone, since there is no wired switch there.

I set all this up over the course of several years, as needed, and haven’t thought much about it since. It’s nice.
by evolve2k | 2025-12-27 13:15:07+00:00
Hanami remains a bright spark as an alternative growing Ruby app framework to Rails. The project is under active development, I’ve met the core dev and they are lovely and much more humble than DHH and the project aims to stick much closer to the Ruby ways of doing things as opposed to the rails way.

Sure the project just can’t be as mature as Rails but it deserves a look and we need to get behind projects like this if we do indeed want to see Rails alternatives flourish and grow.

https://hanamirb.org/
by KronisLV | 2025-12-27 13:15:19+00:00
> Meaning most of the people I know use these tools without VSCode.

I guess it depends?

You can usually count on Claude Code or Codex or Gemini CLI to support the model features the best, but sometimes having a consistent UI across all of them is also nice - be it another CLI tool like OpenCode (that was a bit buggy for me when it came to copying text), or maybe Cline/RooCode/KiloCode inside of VSC, so you don't also have to install a custom editor like Cursor but can use your pre-existing VSC setup.

Okay, that was a bit of a run on sentence, but it's nice to be able to work on some context and then to switch between different models inline: "Hey Sonnet, please look at the work of the previous model up until this point and validate its findings about the cause of this bug."

I'd also love it if I could hook up some of those models (especially what Cerebras Code offers) with autocomplete so I wouldn't need Copilot either, but most of the plugins that try to do that are pretty buggy or broken (e.g. Continue.dev). KiloCode also added autocomplete, but it doesn't seem to work with BYOK.
by bmurphy1976 | 2025-12-27 13:16:07+00:00
How could it not be the issue? We're already drowning in corporate and malicious garbage. My email has become nigh on unusable because of all the bad actors and short sighted thinking. What used to be a powerful tool for productivity and keeping in touch with friends and family is now a drain on my day.

That was bad enough, but now AI is enabling this rot on an unprecedented level (and the amount of junk making it through Google's spam filters is testament to this).

AI used in this way without any actual human accountability risks breaking many social structures (such as email) on a fundamental level. That is very much the point.
by ajdude | 2025-12-27 13:16:24+00:00
> CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate services for CDN, DNS, *basic DDOS protection* and other (superficial) security needs

A lot of people try to downplay cloudflare's ddos protection but it saved me so many times over the years. I honestly don't think that there exists a good solution that someone with without a lot of money and resources can leverage besides cloudflare.

It's almost dismissed in the first sentence as "basic DDOS protection" as if there is any other company that provides an ironclad solution besides cloudflare, especially free for a tiny niche community. There is none that I am aware of.
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by perhapsAnLLM | 2025-12-27 13:16:39+00:00
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by DangitBobby | 2025-12-27 13:16:57+00:00
The EFF's angle is that the police can use an LLM's initial report maliciously to 1) let incriminating inaccuracies generated by the LLM stand or 2) fabricate incriminating inaccuracies. Afterwards, because the LLM generated the initial report, the officer would have plausible deniability to say they themselves didn't intentionally lie, they were just negligent in editing the initial report. So it's about accountability washing.
by begueradj | 2025-12-27 13:17:27+00:00
> I'd venture that actually smart people don't go near this at all because they know telling yourself "I'm better than others and won't get addicted"

Being addicted is not an intelligence criterion because every human is addicted to something -good or bad.

That's actually a basic principle of how we function cognitively (Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-27 13:18:41+00:00
> while the negative impact of that loss on their livelihood is likely to be larger than positive impact of your gain on your livelihood.

What's your point? /s Negative things happening to other people is "0," as long as you are getting something from it. In some cases, it may actually be "good," if you don't like the people suffering negative consequences.

This is not a trait that only applies to gambling. Almost every corporation on Earth takes the same attitude.

That's why unregulated capitalism is very bad.
by simonw | 2025-12-27 13:18:47+00:00
> One day, as will happen to most of us, you or someone close will be bitten hard by ignorant or malicious use outside your control.

Agreed. That's why I invest so much effort trying to help people understand the security risks that are endemic to how most of these systems work: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-27 13:19:21+00:00
> Like you can't model 1 cat5 split into two 100mb terminations

Ugh I don't really blame them there, that's really a dirty hack. Sure I've done in a pinch but not for permanent stuff.

I wouldn't call that professional network management. If you really wanna do it, just split the pairs over two patch ports IMO.
by bayindirh | 2025-12-27 13:19:58+00:00
If we exclude a Dacia which lacked a screen and a radio, all the cars I have rented in the last three years had Android Auto and Apple CarPlay built in. Even though my phone was tucked there somewhere, I always used my phone's maps and other features while driving via the USB cable or wirelessly.

And, that wasn't half bad even. Did phone calls, used maps, listened to some music. Got the job done pretty smoothly.
by cmrx64 | 2025-12-27 13:20:08+00:00
A decade ago I ran several “seven hour roguelikes”, https://web.archive.org/web/20160321153532/http://people.cla... is the documentation from the first one.

The first year I spent six hours writing one of the first ecs crates in Rust and then an hour turning it into a game. lots of fun! you can search “7HRL” on github to find the historical participants not too ashamed to publicize their code at the end. A few dozen people enjoyed this.
by optionalsquid | 2025-12-27 13:20:20+00:00
You can also use pixi[1] if you want conda with uv's solver, that does appears to be faster than the mamba solver. Though the main reasons I recommend pixi, are that it doesn't have a tendency to break random stuff due to polluting your environment by default, and that it does a much better job of making your environments reproducible, among another benefits

[1] https://pixi.sh/
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-12-27 13:20:38+00:00
The analogue that people have of betting is, for some reason, drugs. Addiction is an inherent property of taking drugs. Gambling is not like this in any way. It is not inherently addictive, 99% of people who gamble have no issue with it.

It isn't to chase a couple of bucks either. Billy Walter has made hundreds of millions. A recent court case leaked that Tony Bloom's syndicate was making £200m in profit per year. This activity helps make these markets more efficient.

There is nothing wrong with gambling. Fast food kills tens of thousands a year in the US, hundreds of billions spent on healthcare and life expectancy is still terrible because of obesity. Should we ban fast food? Why? Many other people don't have a problme. The idea of personal responsibility will always be completely abhorrent to some part of the population.
by MrSkelter | 2025-12-27 13:22:30+00:00
This is the way.

I have been selling my extremely high quality plastic clothing (Veillance made in Canada items and Canada Goose) and been replacing them with wool and cotton.

Ventille cotton can keep you dry without plastic. Developed in WW2 by the UK for hoses and buckets when rubber was in short supply. Wanted cotton is another option but doesn’t breathe.

Mover - a Swiss brand - have an entire range of plastic free clothes of high quality.

Tons of other options but the above are easy substitutes at the high end.

Bonus, unlike even the best plastics these age beautifully and there are no taped seams to degrade.
by suffei771 | 2025-12-27 13:23:08+00:00
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by WickyNilliams | 2025-12-27 13:23:38+00:00
> For this specific thing, it doesn't really matter if it screwed up

These are specifically use cases where LLMs are a great choice. Where the stakes are low, and getting a hit is a win. For instance if you're brainstorming on some things, it doesn't matter if 99 suggestions are bad if 1 is great.

> the grepping and there it's doing some really basic tinkertoy stuff

The boon is you can offload this task and go do something else. You can start the investigation from your phone while you're out on a walk, and have the results ready when you get home.

I am far from an AI booster but there is a segment of tasks which fit into the above (and some other) criteria for which it can be very useful.

Maybe the grep commands etc look simple/basic when laid bare, but there's likely to be some flailing and thinking time behind each command when doing it manually.
by slumberlust | 2025-12-27 13:24:33+00:00
Two things come to mind. There's a relatively cheap bumblebee rider with casters at target. Our boy has grown with this thing from the moment he could sit upright and push. Now that he's older he rips around the house on it and drifts.

Second is something to climb on. We have a product called the nugget with nevernudes (accident protection) and he's tumbled and built shops/forts out of it for years now.
by djhn | 2025-12-27 13:24:54+00:00
It’s not great compared to 10 years ago, but the last 3 years it’s been pretty stable. About 11-15 euros incl VAT per square meter at retail prices for the cheapest 3-ply 9mm and 5-ply 12mm softwood ply, brazilian import.

I dabble in furniture, which means I’m looking at baltic birch plywood, at about 40 euros per square meter of 15mm 11-ply sheets. At that pricepoint I might as well buy actual hardwood lumber.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-12-27 13:24:54+00:00
No, it is a business, that business employs millions of people worldwide. There are some books where, for various reasons, that kind of business would destroy their ability to serve retail customers...which is the point: the ultimate point is entertainment, it isn't supposed to be a financial transaction, do people rage at the dead loss from eating food?

The market is moving towards a model that is more similar to financial markets with price discovery from informed participants. It enables higher volume, this business model is used by Asian books such as SBOBet...but the market is where it is now, and most places are also using beards to bet at soft books too, and those books will continue to try to protect their business as it is now.

Btw, one of the major issues that explain why books are soft is the use of marketing to fund growth. If that spending wasn't required, it would change the operating model completely to one where gambling companies took a spread. But the marketing spend is the main avenue of competition, not price.
by gloosx | 2025-12-27 13:24:57+00:00
>Create a test for intelligence that we can pass better than AI

Easy? The best LLMs score 40% on Butter-Bench [1],
while the mean human score is 95%. LLMs struggled the most with multi-step
spatial planning and social understanding.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21860v1
by jyounker | 2025-12-27 13:25:22+00:00
It's even weirder than that. It turns out that at very low concentrations caffeine seems to have similar effects on insect neurology as it does on ours. There are some plant species whose flowers produce caffeinated nectar. Bees seem to like these flowers preferentially, and have an easier time remembering where they are. (Yes, bees get buzzed.)
by bmitch3020 | 2025-12-27 13:26:08+00:00
Absolutely. I say that being an OSS maintainer is a job, which can easily become a full time job, where the pay is often non-existent. If you have a separate full time job, you now have to choose:

1. Work two jobs until you burn out.

2. Quit your paying job and hope you have you don't go broke.

3. Scale back or quit maintaining OSS projects.

I think companies, governments, and societies could do a better job funding this work. But since this is a "tragedy of the commons" problem, I'm not holding my breath that this will happen before the public experiences a lot more pain from failures.
by blincoln | 2025-12-27 13:26:13+00:00
I find it very useful for wildlife photos. Autofocus never seems to work well for me on e.g. birds in flight.

It's also possible to generate a depth map from a single shot, to use as a starting point for a 3D model.

They're pretty neat cameras. The relatively low output resolution is the main downside. They would also have greatly benefited from consulting with more photographers on the UI of the hardware and software. There's way too much dependency on using the touchscreen instead of dedicated physical controls.
by aebtebeten | 2025-12-27 13:26:34+00:00
of course it reminds me of Thom; it's talking about ОСОБЕННОСТИ after all...

TIL VIA's title is a shout out to [Hamilton1828]

ANV isn't even Erdős-metabolically-challenged; have you been in contact?

(Hodge would surely be XX, no? [nice Hodge star, though!])
by KronisLV | 2025-12-27 13:28:26+00:00
> a lot of people seem to see LLMs as smarter than themselves

I think the anthropomorphizing part is what messes with people. Is the autocomplete in my IDE smarter than I am? What about the search box on Google? What about a hammer or a drill?

Yet, I will admit that most of the time I hear people complaining about how AI written code is worse than that produced by developers, but it just doesn't match my own experience - it's frankly better (with enough guidance and context, say 95% tokens in and 5% tokens out, across multiple models working on the same project to occasionally validate and improve/fix the output, alongside adequate tooling) than what a lot of the people I know could or frankly do produce in practice.

That's a lot of conditions, but I think it's the same with the chat format - people accepting unvalidated drivel as fact, or someone using the web search and parsing documents and bringing up additional information that's found as a consequence of the conversation, bringing in external data and making use of the LLM ability to churn through a lot of it, sometimes better than the human reading comprehension would.
by tsimionescu | 2025-12-27 13:28:44+00:00
No, if we can condense something in a few short statements, we don't generally bother making a graph. We exactly make graphs when something is not easily explained in words, but instead requires visualization.

Of course, not all graphs are equally information dense, and some are only used for decorative purposes more than actually conveying information. But in the general case, and especially when used well, graphs convey much more information at a glance than a short text description could.