MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-12-17 02:13:57+00:00
I live in a pretty urban area, so maybe that's why I haven't seen so many brights. I've heard the autobright theory and it certainly makes sense though, especially in areas where people have a reason to use their brights.

> [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3pTHSIYFlg

I believe this technology is generally called adaptive headlights, and is implemented in quite a few cars. I believe some quirk of US laws (which specifies brightness at various points in the beam) actually prevents this feature from being implemented. Really sucks, because these new LED headlights are really hard to stand at night.
by vunderba | 2025-12-17 02:14:25+00:00
I actually just finished running the Text-to-Image benchmark a few minutes ago. This matches my own testing as well. GPT-Image 1.5 is clearly a step up as an editing model, but it performed worse in purely generative tasks compared to its predecessor - dropping from 11 (out of 14) to 9.

Comparing NB Pro, GPT Image 1, and GPT Image 1.5

https://genai-showdown.specr.net/?models=o4,nbp,g15
by simonw | 2025-12-17 02:14:43+00:00
The recent models are pretty great at this. They read the source code for e.g. a Python web application and use that to derive what the URLs should be. Then they fire up a localhost development server and write Playwright scripts to interact with those pages at the predicted URLs.

The vision models (Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro, GPT-5.2) can even take screenshots via Playwright and then "look at them" with their vision capabilities.

It's a lot of fun to watch. You can tell them to run Playwright not in headless mode at which point a Chrome window will pop up on your computer and you can see them interact with the site via it.
by shiroiuma | 2025-12-17 02:15:04+00:00
I don't see how kunrei-shiki is useful at all. If I want to write Japanese words so non-Japanese speakers can pronounce them approximately, then Hepburn is the way to go. If I want to write Japanese words so Japanese speakers can read them best, I'll write them in actual Japanese. This isn't 1975, and computers are perfectly able to render hiragana, katakana, and kanji. What do I need kunrei-shiki for? I've been living in Japan for years now, and have never found a use for it.
by tjbecker | 2025-12-17 02:15:11+00:00
This is fair, and we will gladly share the extraordinary evidence as soon as we can.

If you're curious, we have already released the full traces of finding a sqlite3 0day with an early version of Xint Code (submitted to the AIxCC competition and now open sourced): https://theori.io/blog/exploring-traces-63950
by Groxx | 2025-12-17 02:16:22+00:00
would it also apply to stuff like the Switch, and relatively high-end "mobile" gaming in general? (I'm not sure what those chips actually look like tho)

there are also some arm laptops that just run Qualcomm chips, the same as some phones (tablets with a keyboard, basically, but a bit more "PC"-like due to running Windows).

AFAICT the fusion seems likely to be an accurate prediction.
by ursAxZA | 2025-12-17 02:16:26+00:00
Thanks for the detailed reply — that really helps.

>Usually needs an old account to click 'vouch'.

Good to know that silent filtering for new accounts does happen and that it often depends on someone vouching. I appreciate you doing that.

>Sometimes a video qualifies because it shows what a user would see.

The word “visual” in my post may have caused a misunderstanding: it wasn’t a video or anything interactive, just a notation/diagram for explaining multiplication — a written article using a visualization model (the “ container” idea) to help children understand multiplication.

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I also didn’t realize that Show HN is specifically for interactive software (or things users can try directly). That saves me from misusing the tag — I appreciate it.

And the explanation about how filters behave for new accounts was really helpful. Your comment made the system a lot clearer.

Thanks again for taking the time.
by rayiner | 2025-12-17 02:16:34+00:00
> Were my ancient legal texts incorporated? Were yours?

If you are British American, then yes. Otherwise, no.

> If you are born here, what does it matter?

Empirically, yes it does! https://www.rorotoko.com/11/20230913-jones-garett-on-book-cu... (“The Culture Transplant debunks the view that immigrants fully assimilate in a generation or two. This is something my fellow economists know—we have vast empirical literatures showing that, for instance, you can partly predict people’s savings behavior just by knowing which country their parents or grandparents came from.”).

You can look at the data and see that about 50% of the difference in levels of social trust between people in Italy and Scandinavia are reflected in the descendants of immigrants from those countries to the U.S., even after generations. You can then use your eyes to look at Minnesota versus New Jersey and see more social trust and less corruption in the former than the latter. You can even tie cultural background back to concrete social indicators! Parts of the midwest settled by Dutch settlers perform better on versus metrics than parts settled by Germans. Parts of the country settled by Puritans outperform nearly everywhere else in terms of good governance and low corruption.

> America is not a startup. It is not even a company.

Culture matters even more in a country than a startup! Startups hire high-IQ people that focus on discrete problems that are amenable to scientific analysis. Voters in democracies must confront a wide range of issues that are not amenable to scientific analysis, and consist of average people who are not capable of such analysis anyway. That means the person’s gut reactions, arising from their culture and socialization, matters even more. For example, most people simply can’t understand numbers on the scale of the federal debt, but cultures differ significantly in their attitudes towards debt and savings. It’s imperative to have a body politic that has pro-adaptive cultural attitudes.

>,It’s a country who was built inherently by immigration.

That’s like saying the country was built by people who drink water. Immigrants from where? The country that exists reflects that it was built by British settlers, with greenfield development by Germans and Scandinavians in the Midwest. If the country had been built by my ancestors in Bangladesh, I assure you, it would look very different than it does today.
by aardvark92 | 2025-12-17 02:18:01+00:00
Saw the same thing first hand with Pathology data. Image analysis is far more straightforward problem than fMRI, but sorry, I do not trust your AI model that matches our pathologist’s scoring with 98.5% accuracy. Our pathologists are literally guesstimating these numbers and can vary by like 10-20% just based on the phase of the moon, whether the pathologist ate lunch yet, what slides he looked at earlier that day…that’s not even accounting for inter-pathologist variation…

Also saw this irl with a particular NGS diagnostic. This model was initially 99% accurate, P.I. smelled BS, had the grad student crunch the numbers again, 96% accurate, published it, built a company around this product —-> boom, 2 years later it was retracted because the data was a lot of amplified noise, spurious hits, overfitting.

I don’t know jack compared to the average HN contributor, but even I can smell the BS from a mile away in some of these biomedical AI models. Peer review is broken for highly-interdisciplinary research like this.
by this_user | 2025-12-17 02:19:13+00:00
The way it sounds, Zuckerberg believes that they can, or at the very least has people around him telling him that they can. But Zuckerberg also though that the Metaverse would be thing.

LeCun obviously thinks otherwise and believes that LLMs are a dead-end, and he might be right. The trouble with LLMs is that most people don't really understand how they work. They seem smart, but they are not; they are really just good at appearing to be smart. But that may have created the illusion the true artificial intelligence is much closer than it really is in the minds of many people including Zuckerberg. And obviously, there now exists an entire industry that relies on that idea to raise further funding.

As for Wang, he's not an AI researcher per se, he basically built a data sweatshop. But he apparently is a good manager who knows how to get projects done. Maybe the hope is that giving him as many resources as possible will allow him to work his magic and get their superintelligence project on track.
by rayiner | 2025-12-17 02:19:19+00:00
I believe in the pre-World War I Republican policies that led to a highly developed industrial economy with few commitments to international security. We are at risk from China because we outsourced our industrial capacity to China. The U.S. used its industrial capacity to build the largest air force and navy in the world overnight when it entered World War II. Today, China is the country that has that capacity.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-17 02:19:24+00:00
> Afghanistan

Funny enough the current government of Afghanistan also rejects ICC jurisdiction and is not a full UN or US recognized state.[0]

> Palestinian

Which is not a full UN or US/Israel recognized state either.

> you can see why respectively the USA and Israel might have some issues

Yeah, from the US/Israel point of view trying to enforce jurisdiction of unrecognized enemy states is certainly problematic. Especially when in the US/Afghanistan case neither government seems to be granting the court any jurisdiction at all.

[0] https://www.ejiltalk.org/unrecognized-governments-and-the-ic...
by pickledonions49 | 2025-12-17 02:19:28+00:00
That sets the stage for overreach. If the data is public, and you are getting stalked, there is nowhere to hide. If corporations/organizations/agencies want to exploit your emotions for ads at any given moment of the day because they can see you and almost everything that happens to you, they can. If a lunatic leader gets elected who wants to kill off a specific group of people (nothing lasts forever, including political stability), its now much easier. With all that in mind, can I ask why?
by gheltllck | 2025-12-17 02:19:35+00:00
Not to defend this behaviour, but a lot of clouds SaaS do require you to pay for both ”management” and for the actual resources. And if you’re using vms in their cloud, you pay twice.

For example, Azure has had a script runner service for ages that you can hook up to your ”own” vm, by installing an agent. But then you pay double, the fee (per second) for the service as long as the script is running, and the fee (per second) for the vm in azure as long as it exists. So, as with GitHub actions, it’s cheaper to run it on their provided crap instances.

To get rid of the double costs I guess you could install your own CI server and agents, that polls the GitHub repo, but then you don’t get the integration in their web gui. That was what you did before gh actions came around, a local Jenkins for example.
by yongjik | 2025-12-17 02:19:48+00:00
Korea is stuck in a funny middle ground, where names like cities or railway stations all follow the standard without exception, while personal or corporate names are in a state of total chaos. So the cell phone maker is Samsung, but the subway station in Seoul is Samseong, even though they're written and pronounced in the same way in Korean. (No, they aren't related.)

It's unfortunate but I don't think it'll get fixed any time soon. Nobody wants to be called Mr. I, O, U, An, or No. (The most common romanization for these family names would be: Lee, Oh, Woo, Ahn, and Roh.)
by houseworth | 2025-12-17 02:20:03+00:00
I built a harness that lets Claude Code play Clash Royale autonomously through screen capture and input automation. The AI makes decisions from raw screenshots and executes them via shell scripts that click screen coordinates. The core challenge was latency. Each cycle (screenshot → vision analysis → decision → tool call) takes ~7 seconds. Far too slow for a real-time game. My solution: spawn 3 parallel agents playing the same match simultaneously. Their natural stagger produces a card play every 2-3 seconds. Brute force, but effective. Architecture is a Commander agent managing menus and game flow, spawning Player sub-agents for each match. The coordinate system maps UI elements and a placement grid so agents can call play_card.sh B2 giant and have it translate to pixel coordinates. Results: 1000+ trophies (Arena 5). Below 1000 you're mostly playing bots - crossing that threshold means real players with better cards and actual strategy. Latency becomes punishing when humans can exploit slow reactions. Interesting findings:

Claude researched its own deck strategy and wrote the sub-agent gameplay prompts The game shows "WINNER!" on every result screen including losses - had to teach it to verify via trophy delta Added an auto-opener (first card at 5 sec) because Claude was too slow to establish early tempo

Streamed 12+ hours on Twitch. Claude played 5 consecutive games with minimal human intervention (just closing pop-ups and opening chests). To my knowledge this is the first harness for frontier AI playing Clash Royale. Potentially interesting as a benchmark - tests vision, real-time decision making, resource management, and multi-agent coordination.
by belviewreview | 2025-12-17 02:20:06+00:00
About a decade ago, I became a fan of the remarkable Japanese child prodigy drummer Kanade Sato. That lead to me to learn the surprising fact that Japan has 4 writing systems: kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romanji.

Here's the video that got me interested in Sato www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYpFL08m5fQ&list=RDXYpFL08m5fQ&start_radio=1
by simonw | 2025-12-17 02:20:10+00:00
I added Emil to my license file: https://github.com/simonw/justjshtml/blob/main/LICENSE

I'm not certain I should add the html5ever copyright holders, since I don't have a strong understanding of how much of their IP ended up in Emil's work - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264195#46267059
by krick | 2025-12-17 02:20:58+00:00
Ok, as others noted, the tool in question is hardly a solution, but what is, then? I mean, presented like that, it's pretty crazy that everyone just downloads and runs 5GB executable blobs from Hugging Face. Does anyone review them somehow before they are accepted and gather 10K downloads on HF? Or is it really another totally mindbogglingy crazy thing that happens right now across all world, and everybody just shrugs and waits for catastrophic breach of security of planetary scale to happen?
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-12-17 02:21:04+00:00
Hire a professional Photoshop artist to manually create the "correct" images and then put the before and after photos into the training data. Or however they've been training these models thus far, i don't know.

And if that still doesn't get you there, hash the image inputs to detect if its one of these test photos and then run your special test-passer algo.
by yokljo | 2025-12-17 02:21:33+00:00
Hey, I'm the author of the post. Thanks for reading! Appreciate it :)

I think QML is very easy to get started with and you should just give it a go. It's not without its weirdness as other comments have already mentioned, and unfortunately there's still many controls that are less-than-ideal for desktop applications than their original QWidget equivalents. Using QWidgets+UIC is nice, but in my experience creates problems when you want to get fancy and custom with your design, with animations and shifting layouts and whatnot, well, especially after using QML.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-12-17 02:22:23+00:00
I am sorry sir. Somebody who says they want to put back control to people using Internet and someone saying humans over profit cant NOT expect pushback for their actions. They are going against the entire community. You cant go for the saviour of the open internet, BS the community and not get push back.

I would argue mozilla doesnt have general audience like google chrome. They have OSS enthusiasts, privacy enthusiasts, power users kind of crowd. Buying a behavioural ads company which will do data surveillance or shoving ai is not what we want.

Not to mention, I and many stuck with Firefox despite being it being horrible until quantum release because Mozilla was aligned with community. But their tech is better now but they aren't aligned with community.

It was the community that made Firefox overtake IE. They seem to forget that.

Unless its gonna come pre-installed like chrome, they need community make the user base grow. They are absolutely dumb for going after a crowd who are happy with Chrome while shitting on the crowd which want to be with them.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-17 02:22:36+00:00
No, I meant it exactly like that SLIP over MIDI. I know there are plenty of MIDI over TCP/IP and UDP implementations but that's not what I had in mind.

And what google turns up when you enter those exact three words in a row is really none of my business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI
by rmason | 2025-12-17 02:23:13+00:00
You are correct the one that I referenced in Lansing's entertainment district is water cooled. They do not point out in newspaper accounts one of the reasons for its location there is they're supplying the heated water to the towns steam district. That heated water could possibly migrate chances of a electricity rate increase.

But as several data center engineers I have spoken to agreed with me that if it was put on one of the many empty parking lots West of the Capitol it would be surrounded by mostly empty government buildings where a majority of state workers are working from home. They would still be able to access the steam district.
by arnz-arnz | 2025-12-17 02:23:25+00:00
"I’ll end with this. I majored in computer engineering. I know how to design an 8-bit microprocessor on FPGAs. . .in the late 1990s. Do you think I fully understand the Apple M4 chip in the laptop I’m writing on? Conceptually, yes—I understand the principles. But I don’t know everything it’s doing, instruction by instruction. And that’s fine."

sorry, but you're talking about abstractions painstakingly studied, designed and developed by a human being. That is NOT comparable to unexamined regurgitations and hallucinations of an AI.
by wtallis | 2025-12-17 02:24:57+00:00
There's nothing to acknowledge. You're asking everyone to accept the presumption embedded in the statement that a billion dollars "goes away quickly when you're a large company paying lots of money to salaries", namely that Mozilla should be a large company and should rely on a steady stream of outside money instead of seeking sustainable financial independence. But Mozilla's lack of focus and excessive spending on side projects is a major part of the complaints against Mozilla, and you aren't even trying to make a reasonable case that Mozilla needs to be spending money like that.
by cstarkjp | 2025-12-17 02:25:13+00:00
Having spent a lifetime in both science and engineering departments, I can safely say that the persistent use of Matlab is almost entirely because of entrenchment: the professors learned Matlab, they don't have time/energy/interest to learn a better alternative, and so they use it in their teaching, and the next generation carries the leaden baton onwards. Syntax has very little to do with it; runtime speed has little to do with it; development speed is why it was adopted in parallel with system languages in the first place.

The OP's argument is weakened a little by their Python, which could be simpler (here X is now a 3x1 column "vector"):

X = np.array([[1, 2, 3]]).T Y = np.array([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]) Z = Y @ X np.hstack((X, X))

which is almost as readable as the Matlab (and let's not forget those semi-colons and ellipses are awkward too).

The OP mentions "Licensing Pain" without citing the high price of a Matlab license: the issues they mention are real (license server not behaving; shared license not available), but the true problem is that in many parts of the world, the money just isn't there. So people use cracked licenses instead.

As a professor, it makes me wildly uncomfortable to see my colleagues inculcate in the next generation of engineers a lifetime dependence on an expensive, closed-source, commercial product. Free alternatives like Octave and RunMat are nice, but niche: in that respect, I wish the RunMat project the best of luck. I very much hope they don't get targeted by MathWorks lawyers.
by gweinberg | 2025-12-17 02:25:50+00:00
Are you seriously saying that, because a point distribution may well make sense if the point in question is zero (or 1) other points are plausible also? Srsly?

The nonsense isn't just that they're assuming a point probability, it's that, conditional on that point probability not being true, there's only a 2% chance that theta is .5 += .01. Whereas the actual a priori probability is more like 99.99%.
by oehpr | 2025-12-17 02:26:15+00:00
Has anyone figured out why so many corps do this? It always feels like it's one step from:

* Of course do whatever you want! * Nah I'm a big dumb idiot who doesn't know whats good for him so ask me in 3 days when I've hopefully come to my senses.

I think a simple law would fix this

If no wasn't an option, you did not establish consent.
by igor47 | 2025-12-17 02:26:57+00:00
The fires in Northern California the past few years have been a little better, but at their worst e.g. 2020, everyone had these box fans with filters taped on. I always wondered how effective those were at filtering contaminants ( I know they were effective at removing pollutants because I tested: https://igor.moomers.org/posts/minimal-viable-air-quality)
by woodruffw | 2025-12-17 02:28:16+00:00
There are a lot of Jewish, pro-Israel professors in the US. I don't see any evidence that it was a factor in this man's death. I think it would be irresponsible for a news organization to speculate until more information is actually available.

(You'll note that even Yeshiva World News isn't speculating about motives here.)
by CivBase | 2025-12-17 02:28:27+00:00
I think the author was close to something here but messed up the landing.

To me the difference between something like AI translation and an LLM is that the former is a useful feature and the latter is an annoyance. I want to be able to translate text across languages in my web browser. I don't want a chat bot for my web browser. I don't want a virtual secretary - and even if I did, I wouldn't want it limited to the confines of my web browser.

It's not about whether there is machine learning, LLMs, or any kind of "AI" involved. It's about whether the feature is actually useful. I'm sick of AI non-features getting shoved in my face, begging for my attention.
by chis | 2025-12-17 02:28:57+00:00
All facts in this post. FB management always had such a shockingly different tone than other big tech companies. It felt like a bunch of friends who’d been there from the start and were in a bit over their heads with way too much confidence.

I have a higher opinion of zuck than this though. He nailed a couple of really important big picture calls - mobile, ads, instagram - and built a really effective organization.

The metaverse always felt like the beginning of the end to me though. The whole company kinda lived or died by Zuck’s judgement and that was where it just went off the rails, I guess boz was just whispering in his ear too much.
Show HN: I kept forgetting the same adulting tasks, so I built an app to help
by hos4m | 2025-12-17 02:29:06+00:00
TidyLife is not a daily checklist. It’s a system for remembering what usually slips through the cracks.

Key features:

- Organize tasks into clear sections (home, personal care, maintenance, admin, more)

- Set flexible repeat cycles (days, weeks, months, years)

- Track when tasks were last completed

- Simple, distraction-free interface

- Built for long-term habits, not daily to-do noise