MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Schmiedey | 2025-12-17 20:58:27+00:00
I’ve been working on a project after running into the same problem repeatedly while doing B2B outreach.

Most lead generation tools either dump massive unqualified lists or require hours of manual filtering and personalization. Scraping is easy, but deciding who is actually worth contacting and what to say is where things break down.

The approach I’m experimenting with is:

* Pulling real businesses from public sources (e.g., Google Maps) * Scoring leads based on signals like reputation, activity, and fit * Generating outreach that’s tied to those signals instead of generic templates

The goal isn’t more emails sent, but fewer emails sent to the wrong people.

I’m curious if others here have tackled the same issue:

* How do you currently qualify leads at scale? * What signals have actually correlated with replies or conversions? * Have you seen ML-based scoring work in practice, or is rule-based still more reliable?

Would appreciate any lessons learned or failure stories.
by blagie | 2025-12-17 20:58:31+00:00
FWIW: I've used Arduinos, but never with their IDE.

AVR was super-developer-friendly well before the Arduino. It replaced the PIC for a lot of hobbyist projects.

To the points in the thread, on major product development, these things don't matter. On the long tail of smaller products, as well as on unexpected successes, they do.
by Uehreka | 2025-12-17 20:58:31+00:00
I would expect open weights models to always lag behind; training is resource-intensive and it’s much easier to finance if you can make money directly from the result. So in a year we may have a ~700B open weights model that competes with Gemini 3, but by then we’ll have Gemini 4, and other things we can’t predict now.
by ivanstojic | 2025-12-17 20:58:32+00:00
At the same time, I actually wouldn’t mind a world in which AI agents cost $5000 a month if that’s what companies want to charge.

I feel like at some level that would remove the possibility of making a “just as good as humans but basically free” arguments and move discussion in the direction that feels more productive: discussing real benefits and shortcomings of both. Eg, loss of context with agents vs HR costs with humans, etc…
by gmuslera | 2025-12-17 20:59:03+00:00
What matters is what happen in the outside. We don't know what happen in our inside (or the inside of others, at least), we know the language and how it is used, event the meanings don't have to be the same as long as it is consistent. And you get that by construction. Does that mean intelligence, self consciousness, soul or whatever? We only know that it walk like a duck and quacks like a duck.
by switchbak | 2025-12-17 20:59:41+00:00
When you're so out of touch as to not know who Kent Beck is, these questions hardly matter.

The thrust of the issue is that: when used suitably, AI tools can increase the rate of learning such that it changes the economics of investments in juniour developers - in a good way, to the contrary of how these tools have been discussed in the mainstream. That is an interesting take, and worthy of discussion.

Your appeal to authority here is out of place here and clearly uninformed, thus the downvotes.
by deepspace | 2025-12-17 21:00:19+00:00
The one and only time I ever got a machine infected with malware in my 30+ years of using the internet was when I fell for Forbes.com's request to please disable my adblocker. I promptly got hit by a trojan carried in one of their unvetted ads. Browsing without an adblocker is a critical security issue, and I will drop Firefox without a second thought if they ever cripple blockers like Google did.
by kristianp | 2025-12-17 21:00:38+00:00
NVidias share price will take a hit when consolidation starts in AI, because their business won't be growing as fast as their PE ratio implies. Also the circular deals could hurt them if one of the AI providers they've invested in goes bust.[1],[2]. They won't go out of business but holders of their shares may lose lots of money. But will this happen after Anthropic and OpenAI have their IPOs, possibly next year? NVidia stands to make a lot on paper if those IPOs do well.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-microsoft-back-anthrop...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/12/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-a...
by fcantournet | 2025-12-17 21:01:57+00:00
It is literally the ONE thing that every AI critic has been talking about for years.

Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great efficiency gains and transformative (for good) power of AI to be overblown (for the sake of stock prices) AND for AI applied to surveillance to be a terrifying prospect.

Surveillance AI doesn't need to be correct to be terrifying.
by dpark | 2025-12-17 21:02:09+00:00
> Ask for donations, and support directed donations specifically towards Firefox development.

Donations to for profit organizations are fraught with problems. I imagine Mozilla Corp doesn’t accept them for this reason.

> integrate [ad block] first-party … and gear up to do a big push to enable it by default, conditional on not losing Google revenue sooner than expected. Make a big publicity push …

Is there a realistic way that they could do this without losing Google revenue? Maybe the existing terms would keep Google from backing out immediately but if Mozilla decided to start a war over this could they replace at least most of the revenue before the next opportunity for Google to cut them off?

Selfishly I also am concerned that if this became a big enough issue the government would step in and side with advertisers.
by zak-mandhro | 2025-12-17 21:02:30+00:00
Hi HN,

We analyzed ~40 million public GitHub pull requests from 2022–2025 to understand how AI agents show up in real-world code review.

In 2025, AI agents are involved in roughly 14% of pull requests, either as reviewers, commenters, or authors.

A few patterns stood out. CodeRabbit accounts for the largest share of AI review volume, touching the most PRs overall, while GitHub Copilot shows the broadest adoption across organizations. Most AI participation still happens during review rather than full PR authorship, suggesting a shift in how review attention is allocated rather than end-to-end automation.

We focused on observable PR activity rather than vendor-reported metrics, excluded non-LLM automation, and were conservative about bot classification. There are limitations, especially around private repositories and self-hosted tools, which we call out explicitly.
by devilbunny | 2025-12-17 21:02:44+00:00
I just use an Apple TV box these days, but ~15 years ago I was running a Windows 7 Media Center PC for DVR and a few saved movies. The best remote was a TiVo Slide Pro (no longer made, and my wife broke the one we had). Normal TiVo remote buttons on top, slides open to expose a small keyboard. They occasionally show up on eBay or if you have a local source, use that. You'll need one that has the RF dongle to be able to use the keyboard with anything other than an RF-capable TiVo.
by glenstein | 2025-12-17 21:03:08+00:00
You literally just agreed that you did the thing I'm describing and then insisted I was fantasizing. And you're right, it's a public forum for discussion, hence my criticism of attempting to hold Mozilla accountable for a fictional hypothetical that they explicitly said they're not doing.

I'm all for fanfiction, but as I noted before, it seems that these days archiveofourown.com is where people publish that stuff, not Hacker News. It's easy to sign up and if your fiction is creative people will give you positive reviews. But you might need to spice it up by implying a conspiracy to cooperate with Google or something.
by BizarroLand | 2025-12-17 21:03:08+00:00
I think it wouldn't be very expensive to make a TV frame platform that could have user-installable screens and a simple power/display module.

Probably wouldn't be too much more than the default cost of a TV to sell the screens, and users could select what technology they are willing to pay for, LED, QD, MiniLED, OLED, etc.

The problem comes from things like upscaling, color tuning, refresh rates and resolution handling. That would require a custom compute module, and the module would need data on the attached screen that the screen itself cannot likely provide.

If you had access to a TV manufacturer who would be willing to work with you to create this platform, you might be able to start shipping TVs for only a few million dollars, but you need the money and the connections to make it happen.

I imagine you would need to go to Shenzhen, find a manufacturer, talk them into working with you, put a lot of money down upfront, and then hire programmers and UX designers and hardware designers to craft the perfect TV, design a unique TV brain module and have it manufactured, standardize the system so that other manufacturers can get in on the platform, make thousands of extra parts, and then hire a marketing team to let purchasers around the world know of the new product, pay for UL certification, standardize some sort of testing system so the panels can be calibrated to the brain...

It's a lot.

Although, now that I think about it, the calibration could be done with a set top camera system like the one used by those companies that sell RGB LED systems for TV backlighting, so if that were bundled in by default then it would do a lot to simplify the calibration and add a cool standout feature to the TV.

These TVs would be pricey to start with, like Sony Bravia pricey, so you're never going to move a lot of product. And you'll have to deal with tariffs, pushback from TV manufacturers, cheapskates, rude customers, and the risk that if you start to approach success then some other TV manufacturers with deep pockets might use their brand name power to make a competitor to blow you out of the water for a few years until your company goes bankrupt and then stop competing with you.

The only way to prevent that would be to open-source the entire platform, and even then you would be in a constant dogfight just to stay alive.

Despite all of that I say go for it. If you can deliver a 65" OLED Open Source TV with customizable inputs for under $3,000 then assuming I'm not financially worse off than I am right now then I'll buy one.
by a_imho | 2025-12-17 21:04:02+00:00
My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.

As a dev I very much subscribe to this line of thought, but I also have to admit most of the business class people would disagree.
by Hercuros | 2025-12-17 21:04:02+00:00
How do you count how many bugs a program has? If I replace the Clang code base by a program that always outputs a binary that prints hello world, how many bugs is that? Or if I replace it with a program that exits immediately?

Maybe another example is compiler optimisations: if we say that an optimising compiler is correct if it outputs the most efficient (in number of executed CPU instructions) output program for the every input program, then every optimising compiler is buggy. You can always make it less buggy by making more of the outputs correct, but you can never satisfy the specification on ALL inputs because of undecidability.
by estearum | 2025-12-17 21:04:06+00:00
> Congressional power of the purse is secure

Which reality do you live in?

In my reality, POTUS is doing everything he can to grind down Congress's power of the purse.

He's actively pressuring Fed policy, which at its most extreme gives the executive a blank check as it can force the Fed to purchase treasuries, filling the executive's coffers directly.

At the same time, they're arguing that pocket rescissions give them the right to avoid spending any individual dollar they do not wish to spend, even if Congress has allocated it.

Tell me what gives you confidence that the power of the purse is secure?
by dustfinger | 2025-12-17 21:04:09+00:00
True. how about https://ycombinator-status.com or https://status.ycombinator.com. They can drop that link on their official ycombinator.com site just so it is easy to tell that it is legit when they are not down. They can maintain the status for all of their official sites there. Well, with the exception of ycombinator-status.com of course. I guess they can post that status on some-sketchy-domain/status-right-now - LOL!

Maybe ycombinator does have an official status page somewhere, but it is not easy to find if that is the case.
by smileybarry | 2025-12-17 21:04:24+00:00
No, it started ~4 years ago when FIFA hiked the license cost for EA, and 2 years ago EA had enough & didn't renew the license.[1] Since then, EA basically rebranded their series to "EA Sports FC" and dropped the FIFA branding altogether. This didn't change much as they kept/renewed the licenses for players, teams, stadiums, etc.[2]

1:

https://twitter.com/syacvg/status/1706815482744238221

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/news/ea-sports-and-fifa-extend-lice...

2:

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-sports-fc
by criley2 | 2025-12-17 21:05:41+00:00
Advanced reasoning LLM's simulate many parts of AGI and feel really smart, but fall short in many critical ways.

- An AGI wouldn't hallucinate, it would be consistent, reliable and aware of its own limitations

- An AGI wouldn't need extensive re-training, human reinforced training, model updates. It would be capable of true self-learning / self-training in real time.

- An AGI would demonstrate real genuine understanding and mental modeling, not pattern matching over correlations

- It would demonstrate agency and motivation, not be purely reactive to prompting

- It would have persistent integrated memory. LLM's are stateless and driven by the current context.

- It should even demonstrate consciousness.

And more. I agree that what've we've designed is truly impressive and simulates intelligence at a really high level. But true AGI is far more advanced.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-17 21:07:10+00:00
I don't think we'll get genuine AGI without long-term memory, specifically in the form of weight adjustment rather than just LoRAs or longer and longer contexts. When the model gets something wrong and we tell it "That's wrong, here's the right answer," it needs to remember that.

Which obviously opens up a can of worms regarding who should have authority to supply the "right answer," but still... lacking the core capability, AGI isn't something we can talk about yet.

LLMs will be a part of AGI, I'm sure, but they are insufficient to get us there on their own. A big step forward but probably far from the last.
Show HN: An easy way of broadcasting radio around you (looking for feedback)
by douxx | 2025-12-17 21:07:18+00:00
The project identifies as "Your Raspberry Pi FM network". It uses a fork of the well-known PiFmRds as a backend to stream audio on FM radio. It allows the control of multiple pi units with a central server, that can also be temporarly hosted on google cloud shell or github codespaces.
by bespokedevelopr | 2025-12-17 21:07:22+00:00
Some of my friends who are senior/staff engs at various fang companies are basically convinced their jobs are at risk over the next few years due to how good the llms have gotten this year.

I switched over to consulting/contracting so I don’t have the visibility like they do, but my work is heavily dependent on llms. However I don’t see it wiping out the industry but rather making people more efficient.

They have much more robust tooling though around their llms and internal products that have automated much of their workflows which is I believe where the concern is coming from. They can see first hand how much of their job has turned into reviewing outputs and feeding outputs into other tools. A shift in skills but not fully automated solution yet.

It’s hard to gauge where things are going and where we’ll be in 5 years. If we only get incremental improvements there’s still huge gains to be made in building out tooling ecosystems to make this all better.

What does that look like for new college grads though? How much of this is really computer science if you are only an llm consumer?
by jscottmiller | 2025-12-17 21:08:15+00:00
They are partnering with Delphi Interactive, which I hadn't heard of, though they are some partner with IO on the new 007 game.

> Delphi builds AAA games based on the most desirable IP franchises in the world. Delphi has pioneered a proven model to de-risk titles, reduce development costs, and create unprecedented alignment between IP owners, creatives, and developers.

I assume they are some kind of broker between IP and dev studios, though the PR implies they are developing it. The corporate slop tagline isn't encouraging but we'll see.
by polalavik | 2025-12-17 21:08:17+00:00
We need land value tax bad [1]

In Los Angeles I’ve watched business after business close because their rent was increased by their commercial landlord only for the property to sit vacant in some cases (no exaggeration) for over 5 years!

Thats absurd. Also as a business owner who would like some space to work out of your only options are endless swaths of vacant industrial buildings that are tens of thousands in rent a month. I don’t quite get how anyone runs a brick and mortar or has space to do anything profitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
by Macha | 2025-12-17 21:08:17+00:00
I think the FIFA brand name has enough weight among its target audience that they know what genre it is. The rest, well, it’s a sign that whoever’s running the marketing doesn’t understand the gaming audience and whoever’s in charge is either inattentive or unaware enough to let that go out and try to treat it more like the typical tech market, which hasn’t worked out well for stadia, Amazon, etc
by SpecialistK | 2025-12-17 21:08:20+00:00
Others in the thread have suggested that Hepburn works quite well for German and other European languages (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286292#46286611)

But it's a reality that English is the primary (if not sole) focus, for historical reasons and as the global lingua franca. English is taught (poorly, from what I hear) in schools, played on train announcements, is the only Western language available on ticket machines, and is the assumed language of non-Asian visitors to the country. I was even on a couple of domestic flights a few days ago and the captain / FAs made announcements in English. It is not "arbitrary" at all.
by bell-cot | 2025-12-17 21:09:39+00:00
One "Simple Fix" for cities, albeit with limited scope: Force your Planning Commission, Zoning Board, etc. to keep track of the vacancy rates for commercial space. Then use their powers to strongly discourage the construction of yet more vacant commercial space. And/or renovation of such space to other uses.

EDIT:

- Please do not assume some trivial straw-man implementation of this idea. That includes City organization being hopelessly corrupt or incompetent.
by observationist | 2025-12-17 21:09:40+00:00
If you actually work, the amount of work you do is absurdly more than the amount of work most others do, and a lot of the time, both the high and low productivity people assume everyone just does as much as they do, in both directions.

A lot of people are oblivious to Zipf distributions in effort and output, and if you ever catch on to it as a productive person, it really reframes ideas about fairness and policy and good or bad management.

It also means that you can recognize a good team, and when a bunch of high performers are pushing and supporting eachother and being held to account out in the open, amazing things happen that just make other workplaces look ridiculous.

My hope for AI is that instead of 20% of the humans doing 80% of the work, you end up with force multipliers, and a ramping up, so that more workplaces look like high function teams, making everything more fair and engaging and productive, but i suspect once people get better with AI, at least up to the point of AGI, is we're going to see the same distribution but 10x or 50x the productivity.
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-17 21:10:04+00:00
Whenever I start reviewing code produced by Claude I find hundreds of ways to improve it.

I don't know if code quality really matters to most people or to the bottom line, but a good software engineer writes better code than Claude. It is a testament to library maintainers that Claude is able to code at all, in my opinion. One reason is that Claude uses API's in whacky ways. For instance by reading the SDL2 documentation I was able to find many ways that Claude writes SDL2 using archaic patterns from the SDL days.

I think there are a lot of hidden ways AI booster types benefit from basic software engineering practices that they actively promote damaging ideas about. Maybe it will only be 10 years from now that we learn that having good engineers is actually important.
by kstrauser | 2025-12-17 21:10:28+00:00
I've also said it, with the implication that the only remaining bugs are likely to be ones in my own logic. Like, suppose I'm writing a budget app and haven't gone to the lengths of making Debit and Credit their own types. I can still accidentally subtract a debit from a balance instead of adding to it. But unless I've gone out of my way to work around Rust's protections, e.g. with unsafe, I know that parts of my code aren't randomly mutating immutables, or opening up subtle use-after-free situations, etc. Now I can spend all my time concentrating on the program's logic instead of tracking those other thousands of gotchas.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-17 21:10:58+00:00
Naturally - losing a few hundred million users is likely why they are trying to find a different strategy than focusing on privacy or what power users comment on in the following decade and expecting better results for some reason.

Mozilla's funding comes almost entirely from the Google search deal. They can't afford to let the user count continue to dwindle on a principled stance alone. They either need to find workable alternative income of the same scale (which they've tried at least a dozen things that didn't pan out) or try to focus on what the average user wants in a browser rather than what the GNU fan power user comments in tech forums. They don't need a few principled people to stick with it, they need to be popular with the average person again.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-12-17 21:11:36+00:00
> Github says 0.3% of the kernel code is Rust. But even normalized to lines of code, I think counting CVEs would not measure anything meaningful.

Your sense seems more than a little unrigorous. 1/160 = 0.00625. So, several orders of magnitude fewer CVEs per line of code.

And remember this also the first Rust kernel CVE, and any fair metric would count both any new C kernel code CVEs, as well as those which have already accrued against the same C code, if comparing raw lines of code.

But taking a one week snapshot and saying Rust doesn't compare favorably to C, when Rust CVEs are 1/160, and C CVEs are 159/160 is mostly nuts.
by roenxi | 2025-12-17 21:11:45+00:00
Logically that is setting up an argument where no matter what the CEO says you're going to assume they're going to take an action. If they say yea, obviously it is a yes. If they say nay, it means they're thinking about it which is basically a yes! That is a completely reasonable position, often it makes sense to ignore what someone says and focus only on their capabilities. But if that is the situation then it doesn't make any sense to quote what someone says because it is about to be ignored.
by harshaw | 2025-12-17 21:13:12+00:00
Full disclosure: I am pretty sour on the current Amazon/AWS leadership as I think, well, they couldn't lead a company out of a paper bag (former manager at AWS). Is there data that Amazon/AWS is still hiring junior devs? I've heard it's very hard to get into student programs these days but I don't have the data. My grumpy position would be Garmin saying one thing and doing another.