MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KoolKat23 | 2025-12-17 22:30:28+00:00
I struggle to see the incentive to do this, I have similar thoughts for locally run models. It's only use case I can imagine is small jobs at scale perhaps something like auto complete integrated into your deployed application, or for extreme privacy, honouring NDA's etc.

Otherwise, if it's a short prompt or answer, SOTA (state of the art) model will be cheap anyway and id it's a long prompt/answer, it's way more likely to be wrong and a lot more time/human cost is spent on "checking/debugging" any issue or hallucination, so again SOTA is better.
by freehorse | 2025-12-17 22:30:47+00:00
Just as a note: for E2EE services that use your password to decrypt your key to decrypt your data, a recovery email often recovers your user account BUT not your data (so you may get access to a blank account). It is perfectly possible to lose access to your data, that may include the rest of your passwords, if you have not set up other recovery methods which can actually decrypt your encryption keys, and rely on a recovery email or phone.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-12-17 22:31:03+00:00
I think the number is probably a bit skewed by the fact a lot of companies offer unlimited access to udemy and such, so people "start" courses without any commitment or cost, and then predictably drop off fast or don't start at all.

Personally I just found none of them really worth doing. They felt almost not genuine in a way, like they cared more about profiting from courses and gaming the system than actually teaching you something. I switched to learning via Youtube videos and found it much more educational than the paid courses.
by Garlef | 2025-12-17 22:31:47+00:00
My experience with coding agents points into the other direction: It's mentally very taxing!

Usually, you have a lot of time to think on the side while coding on what to do next, strategize, etc. But if you work in small increments with an LLM agent, this time is reduced and you have to be ready for the next thing once one increment is done.

So I don't see this as an equalizer. Rather, those who can constantly push forward are getting much more than those who don't.
by milkytron | 2025-12-17 22:32:18+00:00
This seems like an assumption that over time would come to bite the banks that overexpose themselves to lending in this manner.

Wouldn't banks want to accurately assess these valuations so these types of "bad loans in actuality, good loans on paper" don't become a large portion of their balance sheet?

Maybe not all at once, but over time it seems like banks would want more accuracy on this.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-17 22:32:35+00:00
> Let some % of candidates who get this wrong through to the next stage and see what happens.

This isn't a good methodology. To do your validation correctly, you'd want to hire some percentage of candidates who get it wrong and see what happens.

Your way, you're validating whether the test is informative as to passing rate in the next stage of your hiring process, not whether it's informative as to performance on the job.

(Related: the 'stage' model of hiring is a bad idea.)
by renewiltord | 2025-12-17 22:33:03+00:00
This kind of privacy slop is overly popular in tech circles. Each participant just posts uninformed garbage and then they link to each other with “citations” for sources that are wholly made up. It’s really reducing the quality of information on this website that it’s now full of junior engineers and interns.

Those guys always obsess over CVEs and privacy and they’re always wrong about everything but have learned to mimic the language of people who know stuff. “There’s some evidence” / “here’s a source”. Ugh. Can’t stand it.
by dylan604 | 2025-12-17 22:33:17+00:00
Buying someone 1Pass, or the like, and calling it good is not enough. People using password managers forget how long it takes to visit all of the sites you use to create that site's record, then update the password to a secure one, and then log out and log back in with the new password to test it is good. For a lot of people having a password manager bought for them is going to be over it after the second site. Just think about how many videos on TikTok they could have been watching instead
by hirenj | 2025-12-17 22:33:19+00:00
For prosterity, the original report on the pilot program with the checklist including introducing names of participants (doi 10.1056/NEJMsa0810119).

Possibly popularised by Atul Gawande “The Checklist Manifesto”.

Meta-comment: LLMs continue to impress me in the capabilities with unearthing information from imprecise inputs/queries.
by guelo | 2025-12-17 22:33:33+00:00
OpenAI's doom was written when Altman (and Nadella) got greedy, threw away the nonprofit mission, and caused the exodus of talent and funding that created Anthropic. If they had stayed nonprofit the rest of the industry could have consolidated their efforts against Google's juggernaut. I don't understand how they expected to sustain the advantage against Google's infinite money machine. With Waymo Google showed that they're willing to burn money for decades until they succeed.

This story also shows the market corruption of Google's monopolies, but a judge recently gave them his stamp of approval so we're stuck with it for the foreseeable future.
by Maxatar | 2025-12-17 22:33:45+00:00
If you have a test that can identify a good candidate quickly then you have honestly struck gold and can genuinely use that to start your own company. I mean this with absolute sincerity.

One of the absolute hardest part of my business is really hiring qualified candidates, and it's really demoralizing and time consuming and unbelievably expensive. The best that I've managed to do is the same that pretty much every other business owner says... which is that I can usually (not always) filter out the bad candidates (along with some false negatives), and have some degree of luck in hiring good candidates (with some false positives).
by fokdelafons | 2025-12-17 22:33:48+00:00
Good question! I almost don't get problems with hallucinations. The worst case I had was oversimplification. I'm using mostly heuristic models, so they don't overthink; they just rely more on the source. If something is wrong, they usually mess up json, and it doesn't get through. Bills are typically long because of exposes, analyses, and predictions attached. I don't use it, as I'm focusing just on context sterilization and compression of info of the actual bill, not what it could be. Diffing would be wonderful! I have to think about it, thanks!
by pengaru | 2025-12-17 22:33:59+00:00
What's particularly noteworthy of Jobs owning something like this is he was famous for not really having many possessions. His Woodside mansion was supposedly largely empty... the photo of him in TFA corroborates it; note the sparseness of the room he's sitting next to the lamp in.

I'm not particularly fond of Jobs but I do think it's always interesting to see what folks who have few material possessions choose to keep around, especially those who could afford anything they might want.
by guywithahat | 2025-12-17 22:35:07+00:00
I mean if waymo had unequivocally solved the problem the country would be covered in them, and the only limit to their expansion would be how many cars they can produce. Currently they're limited by how quickly they can train on new areas, which is likely slowed by the fact they're using over 20 sensors across four different types. On the other hand, Tesla could spread across the country tomorrow if they were reliable enough. I would think solving autonomous driving would imply you could go nation wide with your product
by loup-vaillant | 2025-12-17 22:35:27+00:00
There’s a simple (but radical) solution that would force GPU vendors to settle on a common, stable ISA: forbid hardware vendors to distribute software. In practice, stop at the border hardware that comes from vendors who still distribute software.

That simple. Now to sell a GPU, the only way is to make an ISA so simple even third parties can make good drivers for it. And the first successful ISA will then force everyone else to implement the same ISA, so the same drivers will work for everyone.

Oh, one other thing that has to go away: patents must no longer apply to ISAs. That way, anyone who wants to make and sell x86, ARM, or whatever GPU ISA that emerges, legally can. No more discussion about which instruction set is open or not, they all just are.

Not that the US would ever want to submit Intel to such a brutal competition.
by stared | 2025-12-17 22:35:32+00:00
> Intuition fails because normal people think of a building as a building, when in the majority of cases, a building is not a building but a financial product. Behavior that makes no sense for a building can make perfect sense for a financial product.

And it is precisely why a lot of people hate capitalism.

Adam Smith himself would would disapprove: "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
by dpark | 2025-12-17 22:35:40+00:00
It can’t be both. If intelligence is this abstract and philosophical then the claims about inputs not being relevant for human intelligence are meaningless. It’s equally meaningless to say that constraints on LLM intelligence don’t apply to human intelligence. In the absence of a meaningful definition of intelligence, these statements are not grounded in anything.

The term cannot mean something measurable or concrete when it’s convenient, but be vague and indefinable when it’s not.
by danpalmer | 2025-12-17 22:35:47+00:00
Hardware is a factor here. GPUs are necessarily higher latency than TPUs for equivalent compute on equivalent data. There are lots of other factors here, but latency specifically favours TPUs.

The only non-TPU fast models I'm aware of are things running on Cerebras can be much faster because of their CPUs, and Grok has a super fast mode, but they have a cheat code of ignoring guardrails and making up their own world knowledge.
by qingcharles | 2025-12-17 22:36:14+00:00
As an aside, if you're using a Hetzner VPS for Umami you might be over-specced. I just cut my Hetzner bill by $4/mo by moving my Umami box to one of the free Oracle Cloud VPS after someone on here pointed out the option to me. Depends whether this is a hobby thing or something more serious, but that option is there.
by imron | 2025-12-17 22:36:32+00:00
People are focusing on the > vs the >=, but for me the key point is being able to hold logic and variables in your mind over several iterations of a loop.

I’ve used similar tests in interviews before (a function that behaves like atoi and candidates have to figure out what it’s doing) and the good candidates are able to go over the code and hold values in their head across multiple iterations of a loop.

There are many candidates who can’t do this.
by heavyset_go | 2025-12-17 22:36:45+00:00
Set `browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb` and/or `browser.low_commit_space_threshold_percent` to something you'd prefer, and confirm that `browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory` is set (I think it is by default).

The default settings are to allow it to acquire memory until memory pressure on the system reaches 5% free, at which point it will begin freeing memory. You can set a custom percentage or a specific amount of memory.

That or just run it in a cgroup with a memory limit.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-12-17 22:36:59+00:00
This new model is absurdly quick on my phone and for launch day, wonder if it's additional capacity/lower demand or if this is what we can expect going forward.

On a related note, why would you want to break down your tasks to that level surely it should be smart enough to do some of that without you asking and you can just state your end goal.
by tgtweak | 2025-12-17 22:37:20+00:00
Just a note - you can very much limit cpu usage on the docker containers by setting --cpus="0.5" (or cpus:0.5 in docker compose) if you expect it to be a very lightweight container, this isolation can help prevent one roudy container from hitting the rest of the system regardless of whether it's crypto-mining malware, a ddos attempt or a misbehaving service/software.
by muzani | 2025-12-17 22:37:48+00:00
I'm fine with just Copilot.

Opus 4.5 has excellent tool use, meaning it can jump in and out of a broad undocumented codebase better. It can evaluate what the code is trying to do. It's perfect for PRs - caught things like people submitting code that looks right, but ended up running a poorly documented/incomplete method.

GPT codex just messes up a lot for me. Whatever I'm doing with it, it's not working. The plain GPT-5.2 is good overall, but it confidently makes mistakes and tell you that it's done.

If you have an excellent codebase, GPT 5.2 might actually work better. If you're not sure what you're doing or are using AI to find out how things work, then Opus 4.5 is great.

The Claude models are also very much behind in terms of UI and visuals.

Take note that a lot of the benchmarks are on Python. What I'm finding is all the major ones make mistakes, but they make mistakes differently. OpenAI and Anthropic tend to mimic one another for some reason, while Grok and Gemini tend to give very different answers.
by pseudalopex | 2025-12-17 22:37:51+00:00
The threat you relayed was more serious than the threat you made. But it is a threat when a person with influence suggests they may support a punishment.

The biggest advocates of an open ecosystem say attestation should be removed and no one should adopt Passkeys before. Is this your position now?

The concerns were clear I thought. I would be happy to discuss this publicly.
by psygn89 | 2025-12-17 22:37:51+00:00
Thanks, I was wondering how in the hell that many would get the answer wrong and what is this hidden equal sign he was talking about.

Maybe the question could be flipped on its head to filter further with "50% of applicants get this question wrong -- why?" to where someone more inquisitive like you might inspect it, but that's probably more of a frontend question.
by dmitrygr | 2025-12-17 22:38:03+00:00
> We need a healthly ecosystem where there are hundreds of separate companies each solving 1-5 use cases.

please make a successful economic case for a company only making a mobile phone OS, in a world where android exists and china can crank out 100x the devices at 1/10 the price paying $0 per device license fees than eu could.
by rayiner | 2025-12-17 22:38:25+00:00
Article I courts don’t exercise the “judicial power.” https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-3/sec...

They exercise adjudicatory powers that Congress could otherwise provide to be handled directly by the executive or private bills. When a case involves an actual Article III issue, Article I courts need to kick it over to an Article III tribunal: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/564/462/

The terms “quasi-judicial” and “quasi-legislative” do not mean “judicial” and “legislative,” they mean “executive.” For example, the legal fiction allowing executive agencies to make rules is that those rules are simply structuring what they could do with executive authority anyway.

So separation of powers actually cuts in the opposite direction with respect to quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers. So when the SEC prosecutes you in front of an ALJ for violating an SEC rule, it isn’t actually exercising judicial or legislative powers. It’s just laying out those structures for what it could do through some guy making an executive decision. That’s the only reason the SEC is constitutional. Given that, Congress shouldn’t be able to limit the President’s supervision over what’s notionally an exercise of executive power.
by lovich | 2025-12-17 22:38:30+00:00
Whelp. Here’s more sanewashing of this admin. This headline is false and helping to ameliorate their crimes.

He directly said it was not an independent agency, he didn’t “suggest” it. But we’re in the era where organizations like the BBC have people resign because the King doesn’t like their version of reality so I guess I better brush up on my NewSpeak
by dlcarrier | 2025-12-17 22:38:42+00:00
It is a reasonable place to start. So much so that autorouters have been around for practically as long as computers have, and they've been better at it than people for most of that time.

The only reason people usually route PCBs is that defining the constraints for an autorouter is generally more work than just manually routing a small PCB, but within semiconductors autorouting overtook manual routing decades ago.
by swores | 2025-12-17 22:38:50+00:00
Not quite the same as Vtuber avatars, but what you said about their software makes me think (hope) you might be able to answer a question I was wondering about the other day: is any software/models good enough yet to be able to replace the face of someone talking into a webcam with a different, photorealistic face - either that of a different existing person, or an entirely fictitious face - in real time, such that it could be used to pretend to be a different person on a live video call? Or, if not real time, how about for non-live videos, is there a tool that can do it well enough to be convincing without needing any manual editing?

And if the answer is no, how far away might it be?

(I'd be curious to play with it myself if such a thing exists and is publicly available, but the main reason I'd like to know is to keep an eye on how soon we might see faked video calls joining faked voice phone calls in the toolbox of financial scammers.)
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-17 22:38:54+00:00
> Nobody ever complains about the person who’s leaving everything they touch a little cleaner than how they found it.

This should be true, but it's not in my experience. Even small, clear improvements are rejected as off-mission or shunted to a backlog to be forgotten. Like, "cool, but let's hold off on merging this until we can be certain it's safe", or in other words "this is more work for me and I'd really rather not".
by lpipe | 2025-12-17 22:39:10+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a 21-year-old dev living on my own. I got tired of applying to jobs and getting rejected instantly by the ATS 'Black Hole'.

I realized that fancy 'Resume Builders' (Canva, etc.) generate dirty code—invisible text boxes, broken ligatures, and messy Z-order layers that robots can't read.

So I built Resumefy it’s not a builder, it’s a Resume Compiler.

It takes structured data (JSON).

It compiles it into a clean, machine-readable PDF using Puppeteer.

It guarantees the robot sees exactly what you wrote.

I originally charged a subscription, but I realized charging unemployed people monthly rent for software is wrong. So today, I killed high cost subscription. It’s now ($12/mo).

The backend is NestJS + Docker, hosted on a spare PC in my apartment because AWS costs were too high.

I’d love you to roast my code or tell me if the parsing logic makes sense.

— Marouan
by itishappy | 2025-12-17 22:39:51+00:00
Fair point, but I think it's a lot more true of functional ones.

The problem is pretty easy to see in a C-style for loop:

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) { printf("%d\n", i); if (i % 2 == 0) i++; }

The index variable depends on it's value in previous versions of the loop and can be modified in the loop body! Can't parallelize that!

Side effects and mutation break many of the promises provided by functional constructs. Hybrid languages like Python can illustrate this:

# pure, parallelizable [2 * item for item in items] # side effect! order matters! [print(item) for item in items] # side effect! order matters! [arr.append(item) for item in items]

A language like Haskell might be the other extreme. You're not allowed to use an `f` that breaks this:

[f item | item <- items]
Show HN: Prompt-refiner – Lightweight optimization for LLM inputs and RAG
by xinghaohuang | 2025-12-17 22:40:09+00:00
Hi HN,

While building RAG agents, I noticed a lot of token budget was wasted on formatting overhead (HTML tags, JSON structure, whitespace). Existing solutions felt too heavy (often requiring torch/transformers), so I wrote this lightweight, zero-dependency library to solve it.

It includes strategies for context packing, PII redaction, and tool output compression. Benchmarks show it can save ~15% of tokens with negligible latency overhead (<0.5ms).

Happy to answer any questions!
by gbraad | 2025-12-17 22:40:33+00:00
Midi from a browser suffers from slowdownw due to have javascript is just too slow, non-threaded. There afde ways around it, but those are all workarounds.

Just move put of focus, and you will see how it handles sending clock. I went to a hardware based, external clock signal, and using spp to force syncs between my tools, and use rtmidi+c
by palmotea | 2025-12-17 22:41:05+00:00
> It doesn't have to be that way though. You physically don't have time to research every thing that exists, or even to hear about every possible product in passing. Supposing some of those would improve your life on average, is word-of-mouth really the most efficient way we can come up with to tell you about the things you do actually want to spend your money on?

Word-of-mouth vs. paid advertisements is a false dichotomy.

Also, a friction isn't a bad thing. You don't have to "research every thing that exists, or even to hear about every possible product in passing." It's fine to pick a good enough thing from a smaller set.

> In theory, this is a great business -- customers want to spend money, companies want to sell things, and the information/discoverability asymmetry means that companies are inclined to get word of their products out there with customers _also_ wanting to hear about those products (if they're sufficiently personalized). If "advertising" were good enough, I'd pay money for it.

Advertising not a great business in theory, because it's corrupted by a fundamental conflict of interest. Without draconian regulation, it's never going to be aligned to your interests as a consumer.

A better business would be some kind of product review magazine, where they research products and write articles about them.

Personally, I favor draconian regulation. Nationalize the ad agencies. Companies submit a request to the government ad agency for an add, they write a neutral ad with a couple of photos descriptive photos of the product, its name, and a brief outline of features, and that's what gets run.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-12-17 22:41:08+00:00
> Barack Obama said at the time: “I personally believe that marriage is between a man and a woman”

And yet he didn't force the country to only recognize marriages between men and women. Instead, he did the opposite. He voted against DOMA in 1996. He repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell in 2010. He appointed judges who looked favorably on gay marriage and then told the justice department not to defend DOMA against constitutional attacks. Then he celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling against DOMA.

> In a politically neutral technology company there should be room for people who side with Barack Obama and the majority of Californian voters.

Barack Obama and California voters (64% of likely voters in 2013 according to PPIC) were on the other side in 2014 when Eich was appointed CEO. Eich remained (and remains to this day) on the wrong side.