MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rperry2174 | 2025-12-18 15:15:06+00:00
Im not fully convinced by "a computer can never be held accountable"

We already delegate accountability to non-humans all the time: - CI systems block merges - monitoring systems page people - test suites gate different things

In practice accountability is enforced by systems, not humans.. humans are defintiely "blamed" after the fact, but the day-to-day control loop is automated.

As agents get better at running code, inspecting ui state, correlating logs, screenshots, etc they're starting to operationally be "accountable" and preventing bad changes from shipping and producing evidence when something goes wrong .

At some point humans role shifts from "i personally verify this works" to "i trust this verification system and am accountable for configuring it correctly".

Thats still responsibility, but kind of different from whats described here. Taken to a logical extreme, the arguement here would suggest that CI shouldn't replace manual release checklists
by purerandomness | 2025-12-18 15:15:39+00:00
> If your solution is actually good, it will get adopted eventually...

I wish this were true.

Unfortunately, often the things that get adopted are the things hyped up the most, not the ones which are technically superior.

Popularity, marketing budgets and inertia often dictate what's popular.

As with all biases, we need to actively and deliberately work against these forces, if we value craftsmanship and professionalism.
by laurentiurad | 2025-12-18 15:15:49+00:00
Question was about financials. The service is not only limited to q forms, obviously. Historical data or government trades are not available there. So you want me to share with the Internet all my data sources just to prove you it's not a scam?

You seem to be trying to promote a service and throw weird accusations that the service looks like a scam without even trying it, which is shameful tbh.
by arthurjj | 2025-12-18 15:15:55+00:00
It makes me so happy to see this genre taking off. We did "ABCs of Programming" [1] when our son was 2 at least partially because there weren't any real kid's books talking about what "dad does all day". Funnily enough it wasn't selling that well until I posted an article [2] on HN about my experience writing it. Then it did steady business for a few years

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548489778 [2] https://arthur-johnston.com/hacker_writes_a_childrens_book/
by mattnewton | 2025-12-18 15:16:03+00:00
I personally am not well read on this, but I know lot of people blame the US and the UK since after they overthrew the democratically elected socialist government and installed a brutal dictator[0], the only elements that survived to oppose the dictatorship were hardened islamists, who later took power from the US backed Shah[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
by franktankbank | 2025-12-18 15:16:06+00:00
I don't even understand how they could do it. You own the servers that are giving them responses to determine the start/end times, so fudge the numbers fuck them, maybe you could find bugs in their shitty code so they start crediting you.

I think they kinda fucked themselves 3 concrete ways (among the nerds which may not be a problem for them):

1) this whole thing

2) the infinite running jobs issues which called attention to how poorly managed the GHA system is

3) zig et al announcing their departure and all the positive conversation around that
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-18 15:16:09+00:00
> exactly the same any state with "western culture" would have done in the same situation

Until like a couple years ago, autarky was generally not in the Western playbook. It’s a stupid idea that tends to be embraced by stupid people. The only ones who have done it sustainably are the Kims, as a nuclear monarchy over a totalitarian state.
by dubme1 | 2025-12-18 15:16:22+00:00
For a while I was looking for a non-technical co-founder, but I found it difficult to find someone who is both skilled and motivated in the adult content domain.

I am currently rewriting the user role and permission system with the goal of introducing a moderator role in the future that has limited, moderator-only access rights. At the moment, there are only admin and regular user roles.

Even with this in place I am unsure where to advertise for an NSFW content moderator position.
by g947o | 2025-12-18 15:16:50+00:00
I am tired of people using the smallest "Hello World" example to demonstrate how something is better than React -- "See, you don't need all these things to get a website up and running!"

Of course it will work. I can vibe code the most terrible web framework you have seen within 20 minutes and claim it is better than React, but what does it prove?

> You write zero JavaScript > The whole library is ~14kb gzipped

Oh sure, if there is nothing else in your UI, and if your Python/Go/whatever backend server has 0 dependency, which almost never happens.
by otterley | 2025-12-18 15:17:04+00:00
Is Nvidia’s Fabric Manager and other control plane software Open Source? If so, that’s news to me. It’s not clear that anything in this article relates to Open Source at all; publishing how to do VM management doesn’t qualify. Maybe “open kimono.”

Also, how strong are the security boundaries among multiple tenants when configured in this way? I know, for example, that AWS is extremely careful about how hardware resources are shared across tenants of a physical host to prevent cross-tenant data leakage.
by numpad0 | 2025-12-18 15:17:35+00:00
> you’re basically saying you want a company with no memory and no farm system – just an ever-shrinking ring of seniors arguing about strategy while no one actually grows into them.

Isn't that also the explicit aim of AI replacement, as stupid as it sounds? To me, the idea appear to be separation of money and work, so that economy will be strictly the concern of a metaphorical upper floor, floating in the thin air.
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-12-18 15:17:40+00:00
GitLab CE has the runner implementation baked in.

Keep in mind GitHub Actions is actually like 5 different products. So are you asking for the webhooks/events implementation, the runner orchestration implementation, the runtime image, the secrets storage implementation or the marketplace? All of these could theoretically be disparate components. GitLab gives you everything above but the marketplace
by k2xl | 2025-12-18 15:17:43+00:00
Interesting read. As an indie puzzle dev (shameless plug: https://thinky.gg), I find the biggest leap happens when a system’s rules are rich enough that solving becomes about understanding the space and recombining elements, not memorizing solutions. Games with extensible grids and turn mechanics reward that kind of play and creation much better than static collections of challenges
by sgtrx | 2025-12-18 15:17:49+00:00
This isn't correct with 3rd party CA's with modern TLS either.

TLSv1.2 has Perfect Forward Secrecy with DHE and ECDHE key exchanges and in TLSv1.3 PFS is mandatory. A compromised root CA or even leaf certificate these days protects you from a man-in-the-middle and not a whole lot else - the certificate private key is never used for session key derivation and the keys themselves are ephemeral and never sent over the wire so even intercepting the key exchange doesn't allow decryption of the stream.
by bombcar | 2025-12-18 15:18:04+00:00
They started it for particular reasons, which can be examined. It's not bad that they did so, but your purpose and what the GP said are basically the same thing.

They're not promoting startups to investors via HN, it's a different kind of promotion. But 'pool of eligible hires' is quite worth a few salaries to maintain, even if others get value from it.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-18 15:18:24+00:00
In case all of this sounds interesting:

After skimming the article I noticed a large chunk of this article (specifically the bits on deattaching/attaching drivers, qemu and vfio) applies more or less to general GPU virtualization under Linux too!

1) Replace any "nvidia" for "amdgpu" for Team Red based setups when needed

2) The PCI ids are all different, so you'll have look them up with lspci yourselves

3) Note that with consumer GPU's you need to deattach and attach a pair of two devices (GPU video and GPU audio); else things might get a bit wonky
Show HN: Open-source Claude Code plugins that turn AI into a sales strategist
by salesably | 2025-12-18 15:18:34+00:00
We just open-sourced 19 skills that turn Claude into a sales and marketing co-pilot. Built as Claude Code plugins.

This isn't "10 ChatGPT prompts for salespeople"

LinkedIn is drowning in sales trainers posting generic prompts. Copy-paste into ChatGPT, get generic output, repeat.

These are actual skills—structured frameworks with interconnected workflows that build on each other. They remember context, sequence intelligently, and integrate with real research tools. The difference between a prompt and a skill is the difference between a recipe and a chef.

What problem this solves:

Sales prep is broken. Reps spend hours googling prospects, stitching together company research, writing follow-up emails from scratch. Or they skip it entirely and wing it.

These skills automate the grunt work so humans can focus on judgment, creativity, and trust.

What's in the box:

Sales Skills (9): POWERFUL framework for deal qualification, prospect research, company intelligence reports, cold call scripts, call analysis, follow-up emails, multi-stakeholder outreach, and an orchestrator that sequences them.

Marketing Skills (10): Brand voice, positioning, keyword research, landing pages, email sequences, SEO content, newsletters, and content atomization.

How they connect:

Research a company → qualify the account → build prospect profiles → generate call scripts → analyze the call → write follow-ups → coordinate outreach across stakeholders.

Each skill feeds the next. That's the difference.

Optional MCP integrations for Perplexity, Exa, Hunter.io, and Apify for real-time research.

MIT licensed. Feedback welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/Salesably/salesably-marketplace
by robgibbons | 2025-12-18 15:18:38+00:00
For what it's worth, writing good PRs applies in more cases than just AI generated contributions. In my PR descriptions, I usually start by describing how things currently work, then a summary of what needs to change, and why. Then I go on to describe what exactly is changing with the PR. This high level summary serves to educate the reviewer, and acts as a historical record in the git log for the benefit of those who come after you.

From there, I include explicit steps for how to test, including manual testing, and unit test/E2E test commands. If it's something visual, I try to include at least a screenshot, or sometimes even a brief screen capture demonstrating the feature.

Really go out of your way to make the reviewer's life easier. One benefit of doing all of this is that in most cases, the reviewer won't need to reach out to ask simple questions. This also helps to enable more asynchronous workflows, or distributed teams in different time zones.
by serial_dev | 2025-12-18 15:19:10+00:00
I left a link to the exact post I'm referring to with the whole thread available for context.

And I didn't include the whole thing, because it doesn't change my point which is that IMO BSky people are insufferable. A game is released (which in part includes their work if I understand it right) and they can't help themselves and make this about Trump.

I'm sure I'd have the same opinion if I saw what's happening in Truth Social. These echo chambers are not good.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-12-18 15:19:28+00:00
I agree, adding one point: a better model can in effect use fewer tokens if you get a higher percentage of successful one-shots to work. I am a ‘retired gentleman scientist’ so take this with a grain of salt (I do a lot of non-commercial, non-production experiments): when I watch the output for tool use, better models have fewer tool ‘re-tries.’
Show HN: OmnAI – Sovereign AI infrastructure with multi-vault isolation
by 6teepees | 2025-12-18 15:19:41+00:00
Hey HN! I built OmnAI because enterprises keep telling me they can't deploy AI due to compliance barriers.

The problem: Defense contractors need air-gapped LLMs. Hospitals want AI but fear HIPAA violations. Banks need audit trails for every AI decision. Current solutions either lock you into cloud providers or leave you on your own for security.

OmnAI provides: - 16 isolated vaults using gVisor sandboxing (zero data leakage between tenants) - Trust-based governance - mandatory human review when confidence drops below 0.90 - Three deployment tiers: SUPERFLY (air-gap/DoD IL6), SOVEREIGN (on-prem/finance), EXCEED (hybrid/R&D) - Compliance-ready architecture (FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC, ITAR)

Technical stack: vLLM/Triton for inference, offline PKI with AES-GCM-256, per-vault fine-tuning pipelines.

It's in pilot state - I'm looking for feedback on whether this architecture resonates with production AI challenges you're seeing, especially around data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.

https://github.com/TadTanyaTalaTadenTadhgTaya/OmnAI-v3.5

Happy to answer questions about the design decisions, particularly around the trust system and vault isolation model.
by atalanta | 2025-12-18 15:19:43+00:00
completely correct and so glad to see an article making this point. But, I do think the sculptures look better in ahistoric white. As an artist who has worked both with polychromy in sculpture and with really simple patinas, it's immediately obvious that a complex paint job covers a multitude of sins and distracts from the form of the sculpture, whereas a simple colour, esp white on which shadows appear so easily, shows off the sculptor's skill. Also, sculptures without painted eyes can't follow you around the room, which is a huge improvement.
by vel0city | 2025-12-18 15:19:52+00:00
Virtual machines are never a security boundary. If you configure them correctly, avoid all the footguns, and pray that there's no VM escape vulnerabilities that affect "correctly" configured VMs then they can be a crude approximation of a security boundary that may be enough for your use case, but they aren't a suitable substitute for entirely separate hardware.

Its all turtles, all the way down.
by enraged_camel | 2025-12-18 15:19:53+00:00
>> As software engineers we don’t just crank out code—in fact these days you could argue that’s what the LLMs are for. We need to deliver code that works—and we need to include proof that it works as well.

I would go a step further: we need to deliver code that belongs. This means following existing patterns and conventions in the codebase. Without explicit instruction, LLMs are really bad at this, and it's one of the things that make it incredibly obvious to reviews that a given piece of code has been generated by AI.
by jfengel | 2025-12-18 15:19:56+00:00
An awful lot of the things hanging in museums look "bad" to me. I'm not just talking about the easily-mocked contemporary art. I mean things like Medieval paintings with Jesus painted as a baby-sized adult man. Everything before the development of perspective looks like a grade-school cartoon.

I'm sure you're right that reconstructions of painted statues are inaccurate. But I'm not sure that a good-looking reconstruction would be any more authentic. Cultural tastes vary a lot. I suspect that if we ever do get enough data for a valid reconstruction, I won't like it any better.
by drysart | 2025-12-18 15:20:10+00:00
In many ways, yes. With guns specifically, the Supreme Court (in opinions authored by Justices Alito and Kavanaugh, believe it or not) has set a precedent that there are some government-controlled "sensitive places" within which it is reasonable and prudent to place restrictions on firearms. Legislative assemblies, courthouses, government buildings, etc.

So not even the most conservative justices buy into the idea that Americans have a right to bear arms everywhere.
by probably_wrong | 2025-12-18 15:20:24+00:00
As far as I understand this is the latest shot in the conflict between Spain and its lack of affordable housing. I'd put the symbolic start around 2004-2006 [1] with the movement called "you won't have a house in your fucking life" where people all over Spain started demonstrating against high apartment prices.

I don't like AirBnB and I'm glad they got fined, but the Spanish government also needs to accept that they have been sitting around doing nothing for roughly 20 years. Looks like politicians all over will do everything in their power except actually building more apartments.

[1] https://www.leonidasmartin.net/artes/no-vas-a-tener-una-casa... (in Spanish)
by thrance | 2025-12-18 15:20:38+00:00
The idea that there could be biological dispositions to using a computer, the least natural thing I could think off, is well and truly absurd. Anyone still "interested" in this topic is coming from a place of unsubstantiated vice signalling, and completely uninterested in hearing any actual biologist's take on the subject, in my experience.

Let's not forget that the first generation of programmers was mostly women, until the job became high-status enough that men could take over. Takeaway: it's all bullshit.
by Sharanxxxx | 2025-12-18 15:20:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building a small launch platform for solo founders and initially kept everything free to understand usage and behavior.

Recently, I added a simple paid option (a featured spot) mainly to test whether the product provided enough value for someone to pay — not to optimize revenue.

One founder purchased it, which was a small but important signal for me.

What I learned:

Free users engaged, but paid users were clearer about their goals

Visibility mattered more than vanity metrics

Simplicity in the offer converted better than complex pricing

This made me rethink how early-stage products should validate value before scaling features.

Curious to hear:

When did you add payments to your side project?

What was your first real signal of validation?

Context: https://sololaunches.com
by jennyholzer2 | 2025-12-18 15:20:57+00:00
LLMs have dramatically empowered sociopath software developers.

If you are sufficiently motivated to appear more "productive" than your coworkers, you can force them to review thousands of lines of incorrect AI slop code while you sit back and mess around with your chatbots.

Your coworkers no longer have enough time to work on their in-progress PRs, so you can dominate the development team in terms of LOC shipped.

Understand that sociopaths are skilled at navigating social and bureaucratic environments. A sociopath who ships the most LOC will get the promotion every single time.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-12-18 15:21:03+00:00
This is absolutely not true at all. In physical painting you do not have a colour wheel were you pick colours to slap on. You can create a wash of colours and hues just with Zorn palette. We are taught to use fairly limited palette in oil painting even today, although you can in principle buy every known hue and slap it on - but that is not painting and that won’t produce anything worth the canvas it is painted on.

You don’t need to believe me. Look at Egyptian sculptures that have survived fairly well in the tombs. Or Greek and Roman paintings, some of which have survived quite well and shown in the original article. I spent 3,5h cgoing through the collections of The Archeological Museum of Napoli, and there’s plenty of them. They used muted earth tones like most skilled modern painters would.
Show HN: Open database tracking 77K public DNS servers every 10 minutes
by timatping | 2025-12-18 15:21:04+00:00
Hey HN! We built DNS Directory (https://dnsdirectory.com), a free, searchable database of public DNS servers with live monitoring every 10 minutes.

We needed to find an up-to-date list of DNS servers used by carriers around the world for a proxy fingerprinting / web-scraping project but we were shocked to find that it didn’t exist so we built it ourselves in an internal Hackathon

We’re adding more features but so far we:

Test 77K+ servers every ~10 minutes Allow filtering by uptime, location, security features (ad blocking, malware protection, DNSSEC) Show info on IPv6 support, anycast, etc. Show all historical testing information

We have no plans to monetize the site and it will stay free so it can be used as a public resource.

I’d love to hear ways we can improve the site. It works but certain things like content filtering detection are rough around the edges, and we want to add test nodes in Asia + US for better coverage as right now we just test from Amsterdam.

If you want a DNS server that isn’t already on the website then you can add them via the form and if you’re a large org that has a bunch to add then you can email me at support@dnsdirectory.com and we’ll ingest them.

Cheers!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-18 15:21:14+00:00
> other things do happen in the country aside from what is reported on in western media

Of course they do. The forced expulsion of Afghan workers and refugees didn’t get a lot of coverage, but it’s prominent in regional sources.

OP isn’t arguing there isn’t any good in Iran. Just that the corrupt theocracy has pursued unsustainable goals cruelly and incompetently, and in a way that has turned Iran into a unique menace to the region through its embrace of similarly-totalitarian proxies who couldn’t give fewer shits about their populations.

To the extent there is a propagandized version of the story, it’s the one that ignores what every Iranian refugee and what every one of Iran’s’ neighbours say. The irony of that is Iran behaves as a revanchist imperial concern, the precise philosophy many enlightened types in the West claim to reject.
by lewiscollard | 2025-12-18 15:21:27+00:00
> I tried handwriting https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/schemaless-search-in-postgres/ bit I thought it came off as rambling.

There is nothing wrong with this article. Please continue to write as you; it's what people came for.

LLMs have their place. I find it useful to prompt an LLM to fix typos and outright errors and also prompt them to NOT alter the character or tone of the text; they are extraordinarily good at that.
by bilekas | 2025-12-18 15:21:27+00:00
This looks interesting, and will try it out to see what it can do, I like the idea of using temporal values as a significant weight, but one thing isn't really clear to me.

> Traditional Vector DBs require extensive setup, cloud dependencies, and vendor lock-in:

Is this really true ? What's wrong with running your own local Redis vector db? They have their open source version that's separate to their hosted offering..

> https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/

Am I missing something ?
by ndr | 2025-12-18 15:21:36+00:00
If you never seen HTMX it is a small js library that lets you swap some part of your dom with the responses from your webserver.

This means that in theory you (as a dev) don't need (to write any) js, nor do your users need to download a full page (for any interaction) like it's 1999. Your webserver replies with fully server-renderd HTML but just for the dom node (say a div) that you want to replace.

It's fun for very simple things, even great for extremely simple interactions modes. For interactive products, anything beyond simple CRUDs, it's madness.

Whenever you want to sprinkle a tiny bit of interactivity you'll have to choose between the path of least resistance (a small hack on HTMX) or a proper way. State management gets out of control real fast, it's the opposite of UI=f(state).

I've seen it go bad, then worse with alpine-js, and then completely ripped in favor of something where people can let the browser do browser things.

[edit for clarity]