MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fricken | 2025-12-02 10:26:56+00:00
When I was a teenager I borrowed a unicycle for the weekend from a friend at school. I practiced obsessively the whole weekend long and by Sunday afternoon I was able to go to the end of my street, turn around and come back. That Monday I returned the unicycle to my friend and never rode one again.

Later in life I made a concerted effort to learn how to manual a bicycle, and after a couple seasons of regular practice I gave up, I never really got the knack for it.
by nineteen999 | 2025-12-02 10:28:23+00:00
I haven't really looked at MCP because it sounds like it is little bit broken?

The Remote Control API is just HTTP/JSON so Claude wrote some powershell scripts to query objects from the endpoint.

We gave Claude a Character Actor in game with an AI controller attached, and it can call functions to the AIController - MovetoXYZ(), Teleport(), TakeScreenshot() etc
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-02 10:28:35+00:00
I've been using AIs for RE work extensively, and I concur.

The worst AI when it comes to the "safety guardrails" in my experience is ChatGPT. It's far too "safety-pilled" - it brings up "safety" and "legality" in unrelated topics and that makes it require coaxing for some of my tasks. It does weird shit like see a security vulnerability and actively tell me that it's not really a security vulnerability because admitting that an exploitable bug exists is too much for it. Combined with atrocious personality tuning? I really want to avoid it. I know it's capable in some areas, but I only turn to it if I maxed out another AI.

Claude is sharp, doesn't give a fuck, and will dig through questionable disassembled code all day long. I just wish it was cheaper in API and had higher usage limits. And, also that CBRN filter seriously needs to die. That one time I had a medical device and was trying to figure out its business logic? The CBRN filter just kept killing my queries. I pity the fools who work in biotech and got Claude as their corporate LLM of choice.

Gemini is quite decent, but long context gives it brainrot. Far more so than other models - instruction following ability decays too fast, it favors earlier instructions over latter ones or just gets too loopy.
by bananapub | 2025-12-02 10:31:05+00:00
a perhaps non-obvious option is to CNAME (or NS) the `_acme_challenge` record from your main zone to another zone you can control better and can't affect production traffic the same way the main zone could. `acme-dns` is a neat little tool for exactly this, that has an https api for your ACME client to request a cert from, and a dns server to respond to dns-01 challenges from your provider.
by kalleboo | 2025-12-02 10:32:21+00:00
> Imagine having 4 USB-C ports, but 2 of them are USB 2.0 only

To be fair, that's already how PC laptops are - they have USB-A ports with random colors and symbols on them that you need to figure out which is the good one, so I don't see why they aren't doing the same with USB-C.
by lxgr | 2025-12-02 10:32:53+00:00
But GP raise a valid point: If IDs are ubiquitous and commonly used for non-government business, the government does implicitly gain substantial "veto power" over non-government transactions (by revoking existing credentials or not issuing new ones).

Availability has to be ensured just as much as security and privacy in such a scenario, and that's not trivial. (I still personally think it's worth trying.)
by dkga | 2025-12-02 10:33:07+00:00
It really depends. I believe and apply a lot of Cal Newport advice, and benefit greatly from it. But I also see in my daily life how just being close to people you work with, and (crucially) being a short walk away/floor from people in other groups, creates immense value by helping unclog processes and especially by creating new ideas and products that wouldn‘t otherwise exist.
by maciejzj | 2025-12-02 10:33:08+00:00
On a side note, has anyone noticed the disparity of attitude and level of intensity of dialogue when it comes to AI in different HN posts?

Given that there are many threads where 80% act as if AI would cause second coming I suspected that main topic of discussion here would be "is it worth learning CS at all in 2026?". To my (pleasant) surprise the discussion here is much more "normal". Does anyone suspect that some HN posts have a lot of astroturfing from AI-adjacent organisations?
by philipwhiuk | 2025-12-02 10:34:00+00:00
It's maybe obvious why Replicate might want to be part of Cloudflare.

It's less obvious why Cloudflare want Replicate.

As for the price:

> Replicate has raised $52.5M in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital, with last known valuation of $350M [2023]

It would be interesting to know how much hype there is in valuations since 2023. I assume it's mostly vesting options because I doubt Cloudflare has the cash to throw around. I would guess $500M valuation but I could be off by a lot.
by OuterVale | 2025-12-02 10:34:06+00:00
Thank you! Oooh, that linked site is sleek. I love the effect they've got going on.

I'm wary with this post that I've highlighted a flaw with my implementation, which is that items overlap on smaller screens when headings have small amounts of text. I was aware this could be an issue but hadn’t bothered to address it, as there were no sections with such minimal amounts of text.

If you're interested in the implementation, I've made notes here: https://vale.rocks/posts/the-implementation-of-this-site#scr...
Show HN: Elf – A CLI Helper for Advent of Code
by cak | 2025-12-02 10:35:00+00:00
I built a CLI tool called elf to streamline Advent of Code workflows. It removes a lot of the repetitive steps around fetching inputs, submitting answers safely, and checking private leaderboards.

The tool focuses on: - Input fetching with caching (no repeated downloads, works offline) - Safe answer submissions with guardrails to prevent duplicate or invalid guesses - Private leaderboard viewer (table or JSON) - Status calendar and guess history viewer - Optional Python API for scripting or automation

It’s built with Typer, httpx, Pydantic, and Rich, and aims to be clean, predictable, and easy to extend.

Repo: https://github.com/cak/elf

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/elf/

Feedback and questions are welcome.
by Ekaros | 2025-12-02 10:35:48+00:00
In Finland there is centralized database of all medical records. Which makes information transfer simpler. There is ofc risk of untheorized access. But for that reason legal system exists. You get audit trail and then can prosecute or fire those who accessed information unnecessarily.

It is trade-off, but probably lot more accountable than paper records in big hospitals.
by AbbeFaria | 2025-12-02 10:36:28+00:00
As long as you have the small screwdrivers used to tinker with electronics, you’re good. You can easily open up the laptop.

In my L480, I opened the laptop to change the battery and also install more RAM. Even for a hardware neophyte such as myself , this was straightforward.

Thinkpads are modular, you can easily get the components such as a battery etc. My T14s comes with a 3-year warranty as well.
by ryanxcharles | 2025-12-02 10:36:30+00:00
I'm creating KeyPears, a password manager with support for decentralized Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

https://keypears.com

The basic idea is alice@keypears.com and bob@example.com have public keys exposed, enabling Diffie-Hellman, enabling end-to-end encrypted communications for sharing secrets. This enables company-to-company secret sharing, e.g. environment variables, without requiring that both companies use the same common service provider for password management. The network architecture is modeled after email.

Still a work-in-progress at this moment.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-02 10:37:14+00:00
I have quite literally never, not once, "cross-pollinated" ideas in office. I'm not saying it has never happened, but anecdotally even when my entire team is there, other teams are simply not working on the same scope of work that we would be at the time, so there's no cross pollination of any kind.

I mean, I've heard good ideas being discussed, but at the end of the day we all have our in-progress projects and tickets, and future projects already planned out, so those good ideas never make it to fruition because everyone is busy anyways and doesn't have the time or resources to do anything about it. So in reality, those "cross-pollination" talks become nothing more but socialization moments, which is fine, but to force everyone into a miserable commute just to achieve a bit of socializing is insanity to me.
by keymasta | 2025-12-02 10:37:32+00:00
I find it's a really scary idea to go to a third-world country like USA! - Or, it seems like a third-world country when you're from a developed country.

Unfortunately I'm type 1 diabetic which is either a death sentence there, or you are rich. But then I also accidentally broke my collarbone this summer. And I had this weird throat infection.

As a type 1 diabetic I have had to go to the ER numerous times in my life, and as traumatising as that experience can be, I can't imagine the feeling of also being financially ruined for the pleasure of not dying.

It's weird, I know plenty of people who avoid going to the doctor because it's annoying to wait for over an hour.. but I could see that for an American you might just NEVER go. I guess it's like, ok someone in the family is sick, and we're not rich, so we will sacrifice them to the sun gods. Or I guess you go into indentured servitude? There are people for whom $100k is made very very slowly.

I just do not get it! I guess these things add up properly if you are very wealthy, but people here think that it's the function of the society to make sure you can have basic things like medical treatment. Of course it's not perfect here... try going to the dentist for example. Then you're almost in the USA. Somehow it's not considered medical. A long session could run you over $500 or more.

I have compassion for all the USAians out there! If I was USAian and planning to have a child.. I guess I would consider just going to a civilized country for a while, like... I don't know, Rwanda or Ghana or somewhere that can afford people to be alive(?). In seriousness though (as those countries are very far) you could just go North or South. It's closer. If you go to Canada, a lot of times you wouldn't even need to present ID.. you could just.. get treated right there by walking into a hospital, being triaged, and then waiting (admittedly for maybe almost a day).

Always bring fun things to the hospital if you aren't literally bleeding out all over the place, because you'll be in the waiting room for 12 hours if you're in a big city.

But when it's over you're alive and about as rich as you were before. Seems like a good societal deal to me. I'm scared of being trapped somewhere like the US honestly. It's a nightmare scenario. Although I'm sure it's pretty great if you're a billionaire with slaves and so on... but someone has to incur that cost (the slaves from the lower castes).
by sensanaty | 2025-12-02 10:39:35+00:00
I live in Utrecht and despite living very close to Utrecht Centraal, it still takes me 45 minutes to get to Amsterdam where my office is. Count late trains and general rush hour, so for me it can take 2h out of my day easily if I'm unlucky (thankfully where I work we count commute time into the work day, the very first time I saw my manager I saw him sprint out the door at 3PM on the dot because he had a lengthy commute lol)
by Ragnarork | 2025-12-02 10:40:18+00:00
In a way, they really condensed perfectly a lot of what's silly currently around AI.

> Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike

Even though the prompt mentions Counter Strike, it actually asks to build the basics of a generic FPS, and with a few iterations ends up with some sort of minecraft-looking generic FPS with code that would never make it to prod anywhere sane.

It's technically impressive. But functionally very dubious (and not at all anything remotely close to Counter-Strike besides "being an FPS").

Fitting.
by pmontra | 2025-12-02 10:40:56+00:00
> The password icon being invisible is just funny

Sometimes the icons in the dock are also invisible. I thought that it was my RDP client playing bad with the server on Windows but eventually I found bug reports about that. This is exactly what I see 50% of the times https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1bdgym6/windows_...
by api | 2025-12-02 10:43:18+00:00
This is a bubble.

It reminds me more of the dot.com bubble than any other. I was in college but also working in the field then and saw that one come and go.

It’s like the dot.com bubble in that yes, there is a lot of “there” there, but there is also a ton of premature hype and speculation. What reminds me most of dot.com is how people are shoehorning AI into everything to ride the hype wave. During dot.com there were cases of boring companies adding .com to their name or opening an online division and seeing their stocks increase 10X in 24 hours.
by sebstefan | 2025-12-02 10:43:45+00:00
Me installing an app to transfer a movie to my girlfriend's iPhone, but we don't have a cable for it. You need a third party app called LocalSend, but that can't work, because the only WiFi we have access to is a complicated university gateway that won't support LocalSend, so I open up a mobile hotspot, but somehow iPhones can't connect to that. So we give up.
by mukulmunjal | 2025-12-02 10:44:50+00:00
We noticed something odd while reviewing thousands of candidates: resumes were giving us an increasingly distorted picture of actual ability. People can list anything. Their real work is almost always sitting in a GitHub repo, personal site, Figma file, or some half-forgotten project link.

So we built portfolio-level screening into InterviewFlowAI.

When a candidate submits a portfolio URL, we analyze the actual project: – structure and depth of work – tech stack used (and whether it looks “real”) – clarity of writing and documentation – attention to detail – common red flags (broken links, empty repos, template sites, shallow descriptions)

From that, the system generates: – a match score – strengths and gaps – a short summary the recruiter can skim in a few seconds

Early tests show that portfolio signals correlate far more with real-world ability than anything in a resume, especially for engineers and designers.

Curious if others here have seen the same shift: Are resumes becoming noise? Would love thoughts from people hiring at scale or candidates who prefer showcasing actual projects.
by tzury | 2025-12-02 10:44:53+00:00
I gave Replicate a shot but needed to run on my own GPUs, so I initially used Cog to port the workload.

I quickly realized Cog was an obstacle rather than an accelerator. I replaced it with a lightweight FastAPI layer, which immediately unblocked me:

1. Native I/O with Google Cloud Storage. 2. Freedom to use the latest Torch and Nvidia Docker images without abstraction overhead. 3. Running Torch and TensorFlow in parallel (legacy model constraints that Cog struggled with).

It forces the question: What is Replicate's value proposition for a startup where the founders are competent engineers? If you aren't afraid of a Dockerfile, the "ease of use" premium evaporates.

The answer to that question is likely this acquisition.

The standalone AI middleware market is precarious; the landscape shifts too fast and technical founders will eventually outgrow the training wheels.

Folding into Cloudflare gives the team a sustainable home to leverage the platform's scale, rather than competing solely on a container abstraction layer.

Wish them the best. Cloudflare’s infrastructure is likely the right environment to turn this into a high-leverage product
by fragmede | 2025-12-02 10:45:06+00:00
That's because there aren't really any. Yes, it's kinda maddening that the best hardware to de-Google your life is to give Google even more money and buy a Google phone, but, after having used that search box, all I could find are complaints that it's not very usable because they disabled so much shit in the name of security and privacy, but I saw nothing where it fails at the technical details in protecting privacy. There's some purist bit about the timing of updates and availability of source due to embargoes, but even they are being practical in that case. So no, unless I missed something, it's not common knowledge, and you're just pretending there is to make it seem like there is something there when there isn't.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-02 10:45:08+00:00
A good place for experimental music is ubu web, in fact Brian Eno is also over there[1].

Edit:

Also if you're a programmer and what to learn a new programming language, then check out SuperCollider[2]. You can use that to create your own ambient sounds. SC has a great library for creating user interfaces along with creating sound.

[1]: https://ubu.com/film/eno_77_interview.html

[2]: https://supercollider.github.io/
by eesmith | 2025-12-02 10:45:57+00:00
"Quite often" = actually quite rare. I think you greatly underestimate the number of new novels published each year.

Your first two examples would have been covered under a 14+14 copyright period.

I do not think a 28-year copyright period would have kept Atwood from writing The Handmaiden's Tale, do you? She was a millionaire by the time that copyright expired.

I don't think looking at peak sales for outlying cases should affect copyright limits. When were peak sales for Shakespeare's Hamlet? Darwin's On the Origin of Species? Marx's Das Kapital?

The justification for US copyright is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." The problem you point out is that right can be transferred to publishers and others. Note that since 1978 it's possible for an author to terminate that transfer after 35 years, which is well after those peaks you mentioned.

What you've not mentioned is the ability for other authors to build on existing ideas. Disney famously profited by re-telling public domain stories, but will come down on you if you re-tell their stories. Speaking of fantasy, you can now write stories which take place in Oz, but make sure it doesn't have ruby slippers as that's a detail from the movie, which is still under copyright.
by cyberrock | 2025-12-02 10:47:34+00:00
If this was the only feature FF has ever shoved down my throat I would be fine with it, but without the disabling the feature recommendation option, every other time I open a tab I get hit with a pop-up for some minor UI change. The worst part is that it stops typing so sometimes I was just typing into the abyss for 5 minutes before I realize it lost everything I typed.

I've been using since 3 and I don't think it's a miracle browser or anything. Anecdotally I've observed plenty of folks try FF for bit in the wake of Manifest v3 then switch to Edge/Brave, and it's not because of a lack of AI. They need this sidebar but it's not the only reason they're losing.
by jakupovic | 2025-12-02 10:47:39+00:00
First, nobody cares what you want. Second, do you pay for those 4 hours adequately, guess what if you don't? Even if you do, are you OK with 2 hours today and 6 hrs tomorrow? How about a year of 1 hour days and then a 24 hour period that fixes all the problems for last 2 years?
by eastbound | 2025-12-02 10:47:49+00:00
Instagram ragequits remote working.

Atlassian is a dumpster fire, they run shit engineering since about 3 years.

Give me the secret sauce to being productive with remote employees. Maybe some have found it, but apparently paying above the employee ask, offering to double the salary in case of success, sending them to conferences and spending a lot of human time with them gives me the “evil employer” category on most forums.

Yeah, I know “Treat them even better!” is, again, the word of the union guy, but in most cases, the employer has to eat a shit sandwich.
by bilekas | 2025-12-02 10:47:56+00:00
This particular case appears to me to be a straight derivative at best but I'm by no means an expert on copyright laws.

That's not to say there hasn't already been more direct cases with set examples [1], from an author directly who would have a better right to claim than I [2], it's not even a stretch to see how it can happen.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2408.02487v3

[2] https://x.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554
by jiqiren | 2025-12-02 10:48:25+00:00
I know there is an infinite list of reasons Siri sucks but one that really irks me is now Siri can be integrated with ChatGPT. You can also change settings so it will automatically query ChatGPT without asking…

Yet Siri will still tell you about a web results on your phone… but sometimes same question asked? Will check ChatGPT and give you an actual answer (15% hit rate?).

ARG!!!!
by eujene | 2025-12-02 10:48:33+00:00
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: SDKs, API, Integrations, TravelTech, Automotive, Maps, Geo. Data analysis: SQL, Python. Résumé/CV: https://github.com/me-eujene/aboutme Email: eujene@eujene.com

I am a technically-oriented product manager, bringing commercial and marketing background to complex high-tech products. Worked on platform products in travel and then on software development in automotive. Looking for a place with smart and humble people to learn from and build cool buinsess stuff. Happy to connect https://www.linkedin.com/in/eujene/
by goku12 | 2025-12-02 10:48:51+00:00
Yes. That thought did cross my mind. However, the RF baseband is an independent opaque blackbox already. As far as I know, it even includes an entire hidden operating system. But opening up the rest of the system, leaving the BB as it is, will go a long way to an open user-controlled system. We could adopt that as a stop gap measure until a longer term solution is found.

In the longer term however, we will need such a restriction on RF BB lifted too. Openness isn't just about modifiability. It's essential for security too. I'm someone who believes that security and granular restrictions can be implemented without being hostile towards users. This is why I don't buy Apple's argument that hardware lockdown measures like soldering on batteries, permanently gluing up ICs, etc are essential for miniaturization and security.

One solution for the problem you mentioned (devs over-boosting the RF output) is to have a one-time programmable power limiter after one of the final fixed-gain RF power amplifiers. (An example of a one-time programmable device is an anti-fuse FPGA). Such a baseband can be programmed to conform to the market country's regulations (or something even stricter) before assembly. This way, the developer can boost the signal as much as they want, but the device simply won't respond beyond the permissible limit.

Of course, all these are daydreams, because it has to be implemented by the baseband manufacturer. Unfortunately, their incentives don't align with our interests.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-02 10:49:07+00:00
I have never understood why some people want to avoid switching off their computers.

I have stopped using Apple laptops more than 15 years ago and since then I have used only Linux laptops.

I have no idea whether hibernate worked on my laptops, because this is a feature for which I have never felt any need.

I always take care to optimize the boot time on my computers with custom built kernels and carefully selected daemons (and I do not use systemd). For decades, the boot time on my laptops had been of perhaps twenty seconds at most and the biggest delay in starting to use the computers after being powered off is entering a password to unlock them, not the start-up of the OS. Using something like hibernation instead of complete power off would speed up negligibly the process of beginning to work on the computer.