MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wisty | 2025-12-21 09:34:38+00:00
I want to see a tax audit.

Epstein was running what he said was legal tax avoidance system for his clients.

I'm not saying they were breaking any laws in it, but Epstein is a dodgy guy (also he used to be involved in IIRC a Ponzi scheme and was previously sacked from a big firm - red flags galore with this guy) and the scheme worked off asset prices and trusts.

If a bunch of billionaires could manipulate asset prices (selling illiquid assets like mansions and artwork between each other and their trusts) I suspect they could really bring down their tax bills. This would be illegal (I think) but you'd need to untangle a large web of transactions to prove it.
by scellus | 2025-12-21 09:35:16+00:00
I find it odd that the post above is downvoted to grey, feels like some sort of latent war of viewpoints going on, like below some other AI posts. (Although these misvotes are usually fixed when the US wakes up.)

The point above is valid. I'd like to deconstruct the concept of intelligence even more. What humans are able to do is a relatively artificial collection of skills a physical and social organism needs. The so highly valued intelligence around math etc. is a corner case of those abilities.

There's no reason to think that human mathematical intelligence is unique by its structure, an isolated well-defined skill. Artificial systems are likely to be able to do much more, maybe not exactly the same peak ability, but adjacent ones, many of which will be superhuman and augmentative to what humans do. This will likely include "new math" in some sense too.
by vintagedave | 2025-12-21 09:35:20+00:00
I had exactly the same problem. I ended up getting a copy of its source and pointing Claude at it, which insisted there were bugs - but, its fixes were not reliable, and I wasn't even sure if its assessments were correct, or the docs were wrong or out of date, or I was simply misusing it and misleading the AI through those expectations.

The docs point so strongly at using v2 instead of v1, but I just don't get the sense it's reliable, and I feel 'stuck' for a good Terminal UI library for .Net now.
by atomicnature | 2025-12-21 09:35:28+00:00
It was available earlier. Here's the HN history:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Chomsky%20and%20the%20Two%20Cu...

The oldest submission is from 15 y.o ago - that is 2010.

I resubmitted it - thinking - with the success of LLMs - felt this was worth a revisit from "how real-world scientific progress works" point of view.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-21 09:35:49+00:00
> What I mean is that it's not a legitimate argument in the context of good-faith discussion getting to the truths of matters, which is the ethos of this site.

it's only not a legitimate argument if you are in a specific bubble. How do I know? Because I talk to people outside of it. Talk to some right-wing conservatives and you'll find out I promise you.

> Yes, there are many people repeating these arguments, despite them being trivially debunked.

No, they are not trivially debunked. Actually "no hearings" argumetn is trivially debunked by right wingers: "hearings take too long and we have too many immigrants committing crimes". However it's still a good argument to know. And killing this conversation makes sure people don't know it.

> confirming their preconceived biases feels good

Do you have enough introspection power to ask if you are doing that yourself right here?

> when the bulk of political discourse revolves around flamebait

This is not flamebait for the reasons I explained
by dartharva | 2025-12-21 09:39:13+00:00
> It's a double standard because people don't think of code as creative.

It's more like the code is the scaffolding and support, the art and experience is the core product. When you're watching a play you don't generally give a thought to the technical expertise that went into building the stage and the hall and its logistics, you are only there to appreciate the performance itself - even if said performance would have been impossible to deliver without the aforementioned factors.
by askdba | 2025-12-21 09:40:55+00:00
A lightweight, secure, and extensible MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for MySQL designed to bridge the gap between relational databases and large language models (LLMs).

I’m releasing a new open-source project: mysql-mcp-server, a lightweight server that connects MySQL to AI tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It’s designed to make MySQL safely accessible to language models, structured, read-only, and fully auditable.
by KomoD | 2025-12-21 09:41:18+00:00
I use Mullvad and their sign-up process is even easier. I just click "Generate account number" and that's it. I don't need to provide anything, I don't even need a keyboard.

I honestly wish 99% of online services were like that.

> Where's the terms of service agreement?

"By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy", it's on the sign up page

> I think the signup did not even require JavaScript to succeed.

I tried without Javascript and it just refreshed the sign up page without any error displayed so I don't know about that one.

edit: worked when i tried again, weird.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-12-21 09:41:47+00:00
I used to work on a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) integration for an in-house multimedia platform that was kind of like a game engine with distributed real-time rendering. We used https://html5zombo.com routinely to smoke-test: the animation and audio together made it easy to tell when machines were getting out of sync, or when we weren't pushing frames fast enough, or when the audio was broken (as pulseaudio and CEF version updates would often do). Good times.
by topranks | 2025-12-21 09:42:02+00:00
Nah. There are lots of things you’ll need to know.

Does it use SLAAC on the WAN side or DHCPv6? How do I get a range for my lan then, DHCPv6 prefix-delegation? Or maybe it’s statically assigned somehow. Some carrier’s just use link-local ok the WAN, with no public v6 just RAs for the link-local, and a GUA block via IA_PD.

Regardless there are too many ways this is done, and this hampers adoption as it’s not just the “switch it on” operation you suggest.
by goku12 | 2025-12-21 09:42:04+00:00
> I made this very comment here on Hacker News probably 4-5 years ago and received a few down votes for it at the time

HN isn't always very rational about voting. It will be a loss if you judge any idea on their basis.

> It would take a lot of work to make a GPU do current CPU type tasks

In my opinion, that would be counterproductive. The advantage of GPUs is that they have a large number of very simple GPU cores. Instead, just do a few separate CPU cores on the same die, or on a separate die. Or you could even have a forest of GPU cores with a few CPU cores interspersed among them - sort of like how modern FPGAs have logic tiles, memory tiles and CPU tiles spread out on it. I doubt it would be called a GPU at that point.
by scellus | 2025-12-21 09:44:00+00:00
It's complicated. Opus 4.5 is actually not that good at the 80% threshold but is above others at 50% threshold of completion. I read there's a single task around 16h that the model completed, and the broad CI comes from that.

METR currently simply runs out of tasks at 10-20h, and as a result you have a small N and lots of uncertainty there. (They fit a logistic to the discrete 0/1 results to get the thresholds you see in the graph.) They need new tasks, then we'll know better.
Show HN: DataFlow – Open Tool for LLM data prep 10k synthetic > 1M generic data
by Mey0320 | 2025-12-21 09:44:21+00:00
Hi HN, We are the OpenDCAI team from Peking University. We just released DataFlow, an open-source framework designed to make LLM data preparation as programmable and modular as model training.

The Problem: While model architectures are standardized (PyTorch/JAX), data preparation is still dominated by ad-hoc scripts and loosely defined workflows. Most existing tools focus on "cleaning" or "filtering" existing large datasets, but modern LLM training increasingly relies on complex synthetic data generation and iterative refinement.

Our Solution: DataFlow DataFlow treats data processing like constructing a neural network. It provides a PyTorch-like programming interface where you compose Operators into Pipelines.

Key Technical Features: - Modular Abstraction: Just like torch.nn.Module, we provide standard interfaces for Operators, Prompt Templates, and Pipelines. - Rich Operator Zoo: Nearly 200 pre-built operators covering Text, Math, Code, Text-to-SQL, and RAG. - DataFlow-Agent: An agentic layer (built on LangGraph) that translates natural language requirements directly into executable pipelines.

Results: We found that data quality matters more than scale. - 10k > 1M: A unified 10k-sample dataset produced by DataFlow enables base models (Qwen2/2.5) to surpass counterparts trained on 1M generic instruction samples (Infinity-Instruct). - Code & SQL: Our pipelines achieved +7% improvement on code benchmarks and +3% execution accuracy in Text-to-SQL using significantly less data.

Links: - Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16676 - Repo: https://github.com/OpenDCAI/DataFlow - Docs:https://opendcai.github.io/DataFlow-Doc/

We believe data engineering deserves the same level of rigorous abstraction as model architecture. We hope DataFlow can serve as a foundational substrate for future data-centric AI development.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-12-21 09:44:44+00:00
Haha ouch. Some things I'd disagree with, but these had me laughing pretty hard:

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Posts You'd Upvote in 2035

1. Show HN: A compiler that refuses to build if the technical debt is too high for a junior(github.com)

2. Ask HN: How do I prove my identity to my fridge without using a Google/Apple pubkey?

3. The last human-written HTML file was just committed to the Library of Congress
by fainpul | 2025-12-21 09:44:57+00:00
People should share the original files or at least step files along with the stl files. But if you must work with stl, Fusion works brilliantly for this. You can open the stl file, which gives you the usual mesh that's hard to work with. You then convert that mesh to a solid object, on which you can use "direct modeling". It's not the same as a parametric object, but the editing features are quite powerful and sort of mindblowing. [1]

If you have the paid version of Fusion, you can run "feature detection" to turn things like holes, fillets, extrusions etc. into dedicated features which are even easier to edit. [2]

[1] https://www.autodesk.com/learn/ondemand/curated/direct-model...

[2] https://www.autodesk.com/learn/ondemand/curated/direct-model...
by pmkary | 2025-12-21 09:45:46+00:00
I have many books from Chomsky, and I want to throw them away because it disgusts me to have them. Then I think, why should I throw away things I spent so much on? It makes me more angry. So I have pilled them up somewhere to figure out what ti do with them and each time I walk past it I feel sad to ever passed by his work.
by throwaway_dang | 2025-12-21 09:46:05+00:00
But there is no indication or even accusation that he was involved in any sexual activity, let alone anything inappropriate.

It's innuendo and guilt by association, mainly by his political opponents, both on the left and right, that are taking advantage of his inability to defend himself due to his stroke. I think many people are being _justly maligned_ by their association with Epstein, but in a way that distracts from the wider issue of what exactly does it mean when so many powerful and prominent people are found in compromising or potentially compromising situations and to what ends it served. It's US kompromat and the discussion is largely restricted to maligning people without discussing the significance of it.

In terms of Chomsky himself, given his career spanned both linguistics and politics, an honest critique would either deal with their disagreements with Chomsky like how Norvig did in this essay, or how Hitchens did over the Afghan and Iraq wars rather than saying "he had dinner with Epstein" or "he had dinner with Bannon".

In terms of the Epstein issue, the best criticism I can see is that his association with Epstein, Bannon etc. makes him a hypocrite although I don't find this personally convincing. Part of the problem for me here is that his present infirmities make it difficult for him to defend or explain himself and I find it poor form to kick the man when he's down, mainly by people who just didn't like that Chomsky didn't agree with them personally. Especially when he largely made a contribution to the debates even if one doesn't agree with him.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-21 09:46:18+00:00
Thank you so much for posting this! What a treasure for some of us UNIX geeks.

Quick analysis of what's in there by Claude, the analog.tap is a SIMH tape format which has a tp format archive enclosed in it, which has the following stuff in it:

Summary by Category: | Category | Files | Size | Description | |----------------|-------|--------|--------------------------------| | C Compiler | 19 | ~75KB | The historic 1972 C compiler | | Device Drivers | 5 | ~52KB | Disk, tape, TTY drivers (1973) | | Kernel/System | 7 | ~57KB | Core Unix kernel code | | User Commands | 5 | ~47KB | find, mail, su, if, glob | | Boot/Startup | 8 | ~5KB | PDP-11 bootstrap code | | Utilities | 71 | ~400KB | Various tools and utilities |
by gorbachev | 2025-12-21 09:46:35+00:00
Quoting from their page:

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This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.

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If they truly are on a mission to protect world's information from disappearing, they should work with MusicBrainz to get this data on it.

Alternatively, it would be amazing, if they built a MusicBrainz like service around it.

In either case, to make the data truly useful, they'd need to solve the problem on how to match the metadata to a fingerprint used to identify the music tracks, assuming that data is not part of the metadata they collected.
by delichon | 2025-12-21 09:47:32+00:00
If we took all of the recorded works of this man who hated the automobile, train an LLM from them, and ask it what it thought of AI, the result would be obscene twice. Once for the project itself and once for the sentiments it would express. If it chose a metaphor from middle earth it would probably be a palantír, and would not appreciate the joke of having become one.
by menaerus | 2025-12-21 09:48:32+00:00
I actually wish the audience to take the opposite, or perhaps a more balanced view. Being pragmatic is like taking an extreme view and as much as this article is a great resource, and contains some legit advice otherwise difficult to find elsewhere in such a concise form, folks need to be aware that this advice is what Google found for their unfathomable scale codebase to gain some real world benefits.

The things this article is describing are more nuanced than just "think about the performance sooner than latter". I say this as someone who does these kind of optimizations for a living and all too often I see teams wasting time trying to micro-optimize codepaths which by the end of the day do not provide any real demonstrable value.

And this is a real trap you can get into really easily if you read this article as a general wisdom, which is not.
Show HN: You Shall Not Pass the Parcel
by BSTRhino | 2025-12-21 09:48:43+00:00
This is a game I made in 4 days for a gamejam. It's a game where you save Christmas by not letting the grouches destroy all the Christmas presents. The grouches do pathfinding, so you can put things in their paths to slow them down, but they will eventually push and break through. The game is about how to make the best barricades while under attack. Hope you like it!
by jibal | 2025-12-21 09:49:04+00:00
> The related news was broadcasted in Spain on serious TV news at lunch, not from some Alex Jones-lite kind of show with Reiki and the like.

Completely irrelevant.

> On the laws of physics, we are like toddlers discovering an adult world.

Perhaps you are, but not everyone is. FLT travel is well known to be impossible.
by kylebyte | 2025-12-21 09:49:16+00:00
The problem is that intelligence isn't the result, or at the very least the ideas that word evokes in people don't match the actual capabilities of the machine.

Washing is a useful word to describe what that machine does. Our current setup is like if washing machines were called "badness removers," and there was a widespread belief that we were only a few years out from a new model of washing machine being able to cure diseases.
by everyone | 2025-12-21 09:49:44+00:00
I live in Ireland, there's practically 0 opportunity to get exposed to the sun unless you work outdoors, and even then only your face and hands and perhaps forearms get exposed. I just take vitamin D tablets.

Also I know UV goes through clouds, but when its raining all the time you tend to stay indoors and only go outside with raincoat / umbrella.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-12-21 09:49:49+00:00
The last time PG&E had a stock buy back was in 2006.

Right and that's money that could've been spent on maintenance.

Their dividend yield was 0.8% in 2025, the average for utilities was 3% to 5%. Alaska's APTL was 2.4% to 3.4%

This is post bankruptcy, pre-bankruptcy PG&E paid much higher dividends. But again current rate payers are paying for past malfeasance.

California AB 1054 means that almost all of their largest liabilities will be reimbursed via the state wildfire fund.

lol who do you think pays for that? And before you say "the state" keep in mind PG&E serves about 16 million people in a state of under 40 million.

I also checked executive bonuses and while the CEOs pay is on the higher end it's not extreme.

Don't forget that they were caught once paying executive bonuses out of their safety budget. I'm sure they've never done that before or since.

Also Hawaii has much higher electric rates than CA.

No, it doesn't.

https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/documents/billing_and_payme...

https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...

HE is claiming a residential customer will pay around $0.45/kWh which is absolutely on par with PG&E. Keep in mind that HE currently charges fixed fees for electric service, PG&E doesn't yet but will add a fixed fee of $24/mo beginning next year. It shouldn't even be close. Practical Engineering covers it but Hawaiian Electric has some of the biggest challenges of all POCOs.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-21 09:49:51+00:00
The problem with appealing to "the people" is that they don't all agree what's good or bad, and indeed will give different answers to what is substantively the same question depending on how it's framed or what mechanism is being used to measure their preferences.

You also need some rules to temper tyrannical majorities unless "51% of the vote means you get to oppress the minority" is your idea of a good time.

And a lot of these are in the nature of a Ulysses pact. When nobody wants anybody to censor them, and everybody knows that they won't always be in the majority, we can form a general consensus that we all agree not to censor the opposition when we're in the majority and in exchange they can't censor anyone when they're in the majority. For that to work you need an effective mechanism to constrain the majority or some fool is going to steer the ship into the rocks as soon as they hear the Siren song.

Then the broad consensus gets written into the constitution which in turn requires broad consensus to change. If nobody's playing dirty.

Whereas if everybody's playing dirty then pretty clearly the checks and balances aren't working and we need some better ones.
by perching_aix | 2025-12-21 09:50:08+00:00
That's a fun framing. Let me try using it to define art.

Art is an abstract way of manipulating aesthetics so that the person feels or thinks a thing.

Doesn't sound very elusive nor wrong to me, while remaining remarkably similar to your coding definition.

> while asking questions about what it means to be human

I'd argue that's more Philosophy's territory. Art only really goes there to the extent coding does with creativity, which is to say

> the machine does a thing

to the extent a programmer has to first invent this thing. It's a bit like saying my body is a machine that exists to consume water and expel piss. It's not wrong, just you know, proportions and timing.

This isn't to say I classify coding and art as the same thing either. I think one can even say that it is because art speaks to the person while code speaks to the machine, that people are so much more uppity about it. Doesn't really hit the same as the way you framed this though, does it?
by mohamadkk7 | 2025-12-21 09:50:22+00:00
I went through recent Product Hunt launches and picked 5 that stood out for being genuinely useful or technically interesting:

Sparkle – Run email campaigns with verified leads, no domain setup, pay-as-you-go pricing.

GetProfile – Self-hosted, open-source memory and profile system for AI agents (Postgres-based).

MyLens (Chrome) – Turns articles, videos, and docs into interactive AI visual summaries.

MiMo-V2-Flash – Xiaomi’s MoE model focused on fast reasoning, coding, and agent workflows.

Touched Grass – Simple tool to create and share achievement badges for real-world actions.

Sharing in case it’s useful. Happy to hear thoughts or similar tools worth checking out.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-21 09:50:24+00:00
One difference is that the early internet was heavily composed of enthusiastic individuals. AI is almost entirely corporate and money-focused.

Even most hobby AI projects mostly seem to have an eye on being a side hustle or CV buffing.

Perhaps it's because even in the 90s you could serve a website for basically free (once you had the server). AI today has a noticeable per-user cost.
by tomjakubowski | 2025-12-21 09:51:06+00:00
Up in the San Gabriel mountains in Southern California, just off of a faint use trail above Sierra Madre, someone installed a memorial bench for their child who died shortly after birth. Stumbling on it on a hike, I was overcome with emotion thinking of the grief those parents must have felt, and how it spurred them into the monumental effort of hiking the bench all the way up there and planting it in the ground. I'm normally a staunch advocate of the wilderness principle of Leave No Trace, but I didn't even think about it once whilst seated on that bench.
by lII1lIlI11ll | 2025-12-21 09:52:09+00:00
> Hot take but the more time I spend with poor people the less respect I have for them. I grew up in Eastern Europe where the economies were actively suppressed during communism, so the story "poor people just need more chances" hit home because that's exactly what I saw around me.

Well, what I saw around me in post-Soviet times was that as soon as people got any kind of wealth they would just spend it all on luxury cars, fur coats for their wife, expensive vacations and building a mansion-like dacha. Only the last asset on this list has any potential to appreciate.

> But then I moved into a poor neighborhood of a rich country and... no matter how you organize the society, a certain percentage will always either be incapable of participating in it, or flat-out refuse to do so. You can give them all the chances they need, they will stubbornly keep making wrong decisions.

Western left agrees with you, they just won't spell it out like you did. But their current policies are basically:

1. Just give money for free to the poor, both explicitly and implicitly (social housing, rent control, etc.).

2. All kinds of equality of outcomes policies, diversity quotas, etc.

Equality of opportunity got out of vogue because it didn't produce results the left was hoping for.