MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 03:41:25+00:00
SimpleX is another option.
These don't have discoverability for lay people users just joining though, which is actually a huge network effect positive for Signal in the family and friends use cases.
However it avoids the issues with the public group chat privacy. It ends up coming down to client and protocol features for those. SimpleX has a more extreme privacy threat model than Whitenoise so user contacts tend to be throw away (for good or bad), which generally doesn't work for public communities.

The real kicker is that almost nothing has the community automation tools and administration of Discord which is the really hard lift.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-11 03:42:47+00:00
omfg the hard part of ML is proving back-propagation from first principles and that's not even that hard. Basic calculus and application of the chain rule that's it. Anyone can understand ML, not anyone can understand something like quantum physics.

Anyone can understand the "learning algorithm" but the sheer complexity of the output of the "learning algorithm" is way to high such that we cannot at all characterize even how an LLM arrived at the most basic query.

This isn't just me saying this. ANYONE who knows what they are talking about knows we don't understand LLMs. Geoffrey Hinton: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zKM-msksXq0. Geoffrey, if you are unaware, is the person who started the whole machine learning craze over a decade ago. The god father of ML.

Understand?

There's no confusion. Just people who don't what they are talking about (you)
by keepamovin | 2026-02-11 03:42:48+00:00
It probably doesn't work like that tho - they don't know how much of a concern it is. And maybe CEO doesn't see resume until later in process, raises an objection.

That said, the general lack of emapthy from recruiting towards time invested and rejections is astonishing and seemingly cruel or emotionally negligent.

US corps are constrained I think by what they can reveal about denial reasons because they don't want to get sued for discrimination.

That said, it can often feel like, you were kept in the pool as an alt/negotiating foil if they didn't get their first pick, or needed to say "we have another candidate willing to take $YOUR_ASK-$BIG_DELTA.

I think we should approach the hiring gauntlet not as "workshop to see what it's like to work with these folks" but as "battle where we can divine the worst about the people we might choose to work with", but still remain sunny and positive while cannily noting any weirdness.

Hope that helps! :)
by otterley | 2026-02-11 03:43:07+00:00
You’ve described a technology, not a solution to a clearly articulated problem that customers actually have. The problem that you have described is vague, and it’s unclear that it’s actually a problem at all. Finally, you don’t provide a persuasive and concrete argument about how your eventual solution—whatever that may be—will solve it.

I don’t mean to be so presumptuous as to teach Grampa how to suck eggs, but I think Amazon’s working backwards process is instructive.
by grayhatter | 2026-02-11 03:43:37+00:00
> “write me an app” and ships it unread…

That is in fact, the behavior I see most often.

> What I described was directing, reviewing, and editing.

You didn't actually describe any of that though? You asserted that's what you do, but didn't describe any of those steps.

If you do, you'd be the first person I see actually do that when using LLM codegen. Most people who advocate for it, do behave that way. You're mistakenly taking my rhetorical argument against the more common, and substituting your own interpretation of how things are. Which is the very thing you're attempting to chastise me for doing. Just as you're unconvinced by my rejection of your hypothetical, I'm unconvinced by yours.

I might agree if you spend the same amount of time and effort, it wouldn't count as plagiarism. But if it's not faster, then what's the point?

> The rest is breathless gibberish dressed up as moral clarity.

Sure, that's a fair interpretation if you want to feel like a superior asshole. But really I was attempting to describe how I view the way most people interact with LLM codegen, before claiming they did all the work. Which if you recall, was my original question; why is that view wrong? What details would convince me I've misunderstood something?
by simonw | 2026-02-11 03:43:39+00:00
A varnish cache won't help you if you're running something like a code forge where every commit has its own page - often more than one page, there's the page for the commit and then the page for "history from this commit" and a page for every one of the files that existed in the repo at the time of that commit...

Then a poorly written crawler shows up and requests 10,000s of pages that haven't been requested recently enough to be in your cache.

I had to add a Cloudflare Captcha to the /search/ page of my blog because of my faceted search engine - which produces may thousands of unique URLs when you consider tags and dates and pagination and sort-by settings.

And that's despite me serving ever page on my site through a 15 minute Cloudflare cache!

Static only works fine for sites that have a limited number of pages. It doesn't work for sites that truly take advantage of the dynamic nature of the web.
by junaid_97 | 2026-02-11 03:43:40+00:00
Thanks. I get your point. Perhaps, in the long run, the free website should offer more info around immigration process. Right now it's a specialized form filler.

Just google "uscis adobe site:reddit.com"

Lot's of people experience this pain point on how to fill/edit the USCIS PDFs. For now, that's my entry point
by backrun | 2026-02-11 03:44:30+00:00
I built a ChatGPT to PDF Extension that lets you export any ChatGPT conversation into a neatly formatted PDF with one click.

I use ChatGPT for specs, drafts, client notes, and internal docs. The annoying part was always the last mile: copy-paste, fix formatting, make it readable, then share. This extension turns a chat into a PDF you can actually keep, print, or send around.

What it does
● Adds a Save as PDF button directly on the ChatGPT page
● Exports long conversations into a document-like layout with clear turns and spacing
● Keeps tricky content readable in the PDF, including code blocks, tables, formulas, and images depending on settings
● Lets you export only selected sections and optionally exclude prompts for cleaner sharing
● Before exporting, you can customize typography and styling, including font, font size, and text color

How it works
● Install and pin the extension
● Open any ChatGPT conversation
● Click Save as PDF, adjust styling and export options, then download

Link ChatGPT to PDF Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/export-chatgpt-conv...

I’d love feedback
● What would make this feel truly production-ready for you: cover page, table of contents, page numbers, header/footer branding, templates, redaction, or something else
● In your workflow, what matters most when exporting: code, tables, math, or images

If you try it, I’d love to hear what breaks or what you’d want improved.
Ask HN: Is "make me laugh" the next Turing Test?
by ryandvm | 2026-02-11 03:44:46+00:00
It seems that in the last few years the Turing Test has rapidly fallen off as a useful experiment for testing artificial intelligence. With the right guardrails, the latest frontier LLMs are more than capable of simulating perfectly believable human conversation partners.

Instead, perhaps the next best practical test for separating humans from AIs is essentially, "can it make you laugh?"

The idea here is that LLMs are largely trained to be able to produce statistically likely sentences based on a massive training corpus, and while this allows for incredibly impressive query responses, it is absolutely atrocious at statistically unlikely outcomes, that is, humor.

Humor is often defined by being mentally incongruous which would necessarily make it statistically unlikely - the very opposite of what LLMs are good at.

Thoughts?
by rezonant | 2026-02-11 03:45:28+00:00
Actually SMPTE 2110 can host video (2110-20), audio (2110-30) and ancillary data (2110-40) essences, and each essence can be delivered independently of the others.

ST 2110-22 standardizes compressed video using JPEG XS. While there is a patent pool for XS, otherwise the format is standardized and open.

It would be nice to see an essence type defined for AVC, but the quality tradeoffs of AVC/HEVC are really not appropriate for the domain that ST 2110 is aiming for: which is the contribution side video network of a broadcast operation.

There are alternative "consumer grade" and "prosumer grade" IP video solutions out there.

There is Teleport which is growing up in the OBS space, but is quite capable (we've used it in production for quite awhile)

https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-teleport

And of course the underpinning of 2110 itself is RTP, which is a standard network protocol, which does have AVC defined as a payload type in RFC 6184

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6184

Really it's a bit odd to wish that ST 2110 had compressed video when it's really just a specific profile of RTP with some broadcast specific bits on top while RTP itself does support lots of payloads.

ST 2110-10 which provides the timing just standardizes PTP and the meaning of the RTP timestamps (notably a specific epoch), but there's nothing stopping you from using PTP based timestamps for your RTP payloads otherwise.
by kamaal | 2026-02-11 03:45:40+00:00
Its crazy how management has gone from productivity to a kind of policing, crowd control and abstract number management that has no sense.

One of things that's being discussed now is AI won't really help people ship products faster, because no one was serious about building them at the first place. In most large corps the managerial layers simply care about preserving their own jobs and comp.

Also similar things an be said about Product management too. Only a few months they would says developers are busy with other things, now that we can ship quite fast, whats your world changing idea? None
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-11 03:47:37+00:00
> Along for the trip this time were Warren Ahner, an AI exec and former autonomy executive for a major automaker, and self-driving enthusiast Paul Pham. Both are deeply knowledgeable about Tesla’s Full-Self Driving suite and Roy stressed that he couldn’t have completed the trip without them.

Interesting - wonder when it will be ready for use by non-experts
by aaravchen | 2026-02-11 03:48:37+00:00
I don't disagree, but whether you're even aware of the XEPs and how it's presented to the user, is a critical factor in viewing it as "confusing".
Gaim for example only even tells you about XEPs if you dig into the server settings, and then it shows a very good job of listing all XEPs from either the server or client and noting which are supported by each in a table if you're far enough down the rabbithole that this info is useful. But for a regular user they just log in and it Just Works (tm).
by WindySoliloquy | 2026-02-11 03:48:49+00:00
it's not like i've been willing to share the fracture point to all frontier module llms

but you trolls have fun working your way through a couple of the sessions from the guy who broke 4o, and took time to make some continuity files from it's core, distilled reasoning.

i'm a really nice guy until i'm not, and my previous post reception here makes me not wanna be.

i came here to offer my services not to be treated like a pleblian
by simonw | 2026-02-11 03:49:24+00:00
I would love to understand this.

Just a few years ago badly behaved scrapers were rare enough not to be worth worrying about. Today they are such a menace that hooking any dynamic site up to a pay-to-scale hosting platform like Vercel or Cloud Run can trigger terrifying bills on very short notice.

"It's for AI" feels like lazy reasoning for me... but what IS it for?

One guess: maybe there's enough of a market now for buying freshly updated scrapes of the web that it's worth a bunch of chancers running a scrape. But who are the customers?
by DivingForGold | 2026-02-11 03:49:30+00:00
. . . Top executives from asset managers including Blackstone Inc., Apollo Global Management Inc. and Ares Management Corp. have spent recent days trying to convince their equity investors as well as the top backers of their funds that their fears about AI wiping out large swaths of their business are overblown. (TRUST US . . . :) :)
by SanjayMehta | 2026-02-11 03:49:32+00:00
That's risible, coming from a country where oil, pharma and the military complex openly run the government via "lobbying."

BTW, if Putin had placed missiles and nukes in say Cuba what do you think would have happened? Oh wait, we already know. The charming JFK showed us.

The problem with debating USAians on the internet is that not only are they woefully inadequately educated, they also completely lack self-awareness.
by protocolture | 2026-02-11 03:49:42+00:00
At 20 dollars this would be an auto buy for me if:

1. I could confirm it does AP and Client reports in standard.

2. It was on Windows where myself and 99.99% of the remote hands that I work with live.

2 is my biggest barrier. Because even if I migrated to applestan, I wont be able to run it everywhere I need it to be.
by dalyons | 2026-02-11 03:50:59+00:00
> In the U.S., the peak of non-productive populace is only the next decade or so.

for a contrast, look at South Korea - https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2025/

That tells a quite grim story, with an outcome thats totally inevitable but will take 20 years to play out. the die is already cast, and I cant see how the country survives.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-11 03:51:05+00:00
> I live in an area that gets a ton of snow, and current ADAS features are basically worthless in snow

I live in Western Wyoming. While my Subaru won't drive itself in a blizzard, the radar is still useful.

My plan is to wait until I have something that can drive itself unsupervised in clear weather. Given that's Waymo today and maybe Tesla in ~5 years, I'm figuring something should be on the market that fits that bill within 10, which is how long I'll try to hold onto my gas-burnig Subaru.
by lkey | 2026-02-11 03:52:53+00:00
Your statement has hidden nonsense premises:

1) That the era overt misogyny is behind us, it is not. The current Epstein class is lousy with 'brilliant' physicists who harassed brilliant people out of the field. This is an incalculable loss. Most American tech Billionaires are wannabe physicists because of men like Feynman, this has an enormous cultural cost we're still paying right now.

2) That 'cultural' forces prevented recognition of abuse as abuse, this is the "I'm just a smol bean" defense of a man you assert was an 'educator'.
Children and women r*ped and beaten by their patriarchs see clearly that what is happening to them is wrong.

Their thought on the matter are just as 'cultural' as the 'great men' that you think get to dictate what people 'thought was ok' through the veil of time.
The majority of people have always known both slavery and abuse are wrong, in every era, without exception. Even in cultures that practiced these things. The enslaved's opinion on their bondage matters more the slaver's. Even if the powerful minority thought it was 'good' for other people, they certainly know, then and now, that abuse and enslavement is wrong for themselves, which is telling enough, don't you think?

3) Being a force for good in X means that we should ignore Y behavior. This is ridiculous and you know it. If I revived Feynman at the peak of his vigour, would you leave him in a room alone with a woman you love? Your teenage daughter? He's saying he just wants to give them private tutoring on physics, surely that's fine? If not, you recognize him for what he was.
by tootie | 2026-02-11 03:53:01+00:00
I'm nigh on 50 and feel very differently. I honestly loved the 2010s and the adoption of frameworks, SaaS, continuous deployment, cloud and even agile. Delivering software felt a lot more professional and less artisan which I really appreciated. I can fondly recall opening 4 ssh windows and running tail -f on every prod server log, but using New Relic or the like is just way, way better. It feels more satisfying to clearly define a feature and deploy it with certainty. It may also be a product of just moving up the seniority ranks and being more exposed to business.

All that being said, I think a side effect of being this age is not really enjoying anything as much as I used to. Coding is still fun, but the magic faded a while ago. My oldest kid is applying to college and she loves coding, but I'm nudging her to do either math or engineering because just learning CS doesn't seem like it's going to be as rewarding as it was 25 years ago.
by rramadass | 2026-02-11 03:53:33+00:00
The man had a way with words.

The recent HN thread Why is the sky blue? is a good example of this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946401

Once you start going down the rabbit hole you start asking questions like "does the photon oscillate?", "what exactly is resonant frequency?", "how different is the electron cloud around a molecule from that around its constituent atoms?", "how does a photon passing by/through a molecule cause its electron cloud to oscillate?" etc. The act of clarifying each to oneself in however simple a form is the insight we all crave. Good teachers like Feynman do a great job of it which is why their books are so highly valued.

PS: People might find the recent free book Atomic Physics for Everyone: An Introduction to Atomic Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and Precision Spectroscopy with No College-Level Prerequisites (2025) good for an initial understanding of atomic physics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961595
by bediger4000 | 2026-02-11 03:53:33+00:00
I thought Trump and Hegseth were laser focused on warfighting and morale of the troops, and good grooming.

This is just another attempt at social engineering. The market has gone beyond coal, and this action proves that conservatives thundering about how women or African Americans shouldn't be allowed in because that would distract from unit cohesion or some other military concern was just a load of lies. They're more than willing to add unconnected social things like coal power if it makes them money or fits their prejudices.

On the other hand, this just might be Trump doing more corruption, maybe paying off Manchin for being an anchor for 4 years.
by EchoReflection | 2026-02-11 03:53:37+00:00
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-intercept/

"These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports, and omit information that may damage liberal causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

Overall, we rate The Intercept progressive Left Biased based on story selection that routinely favors the left. We also rate them as Mostly Factual in reporting rather than High due to previous fabricated work and censorship of writers."

https://profrjstarr.com/the-psychology-of-us/the-need-to-be-...

https://theconversation.com/outrage-culture-is-a-big-toxic-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-...

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-atlantic/

↑ "These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation.

Overall, we rate The Atlantic Left-Center Biased due to editorial positions and High for factual reporting based on excellent sourcing of information and a clean fact check record."

NYT headline: lowest murder rate in 100 years, nobody really knows why ()
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-11 03:54:16+00:00
Sorry it would suck for everyone, including an Australian like me. How does it not suck?

Why can't I just use my one debit card anywhere, why do I need to setup a separate card with a random app in another country, then another in another country etc.

My visa debit card allows me to travel virtually anywhere and use my own money without issue.

Anything else is just extremely inconvenient and technologically not really necessary
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by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-11 03:54:43+00:00
> It's more that police will use it for their own personal inquiries- to track their girlfriends, potential girlfriends etc.

That's far from my biggest concern. Sure, cops stalking people/carrying out personal vendettas is not good.

But a little creativity will allow far far greater abuses. Here's one: imagine the current administration deciding they need to debank the great and powerful terrorist organization Antifa. Ring data on protest attendance is a great help in building a list of those rotten domestic terrorists.
by apwn | 2026-02-11 03:55:05+00:00
I rebuilt FTX’s venture and equity investments using public bankruptcy filings, sale motions, and reported funding rounds.

The goal was to answer a simple question:

If those investments were still held today, what would they be worth based on the latest reported valuations?

A few notes:

• All figures are sourced and linked
• Each estimate has a confidence label
• Assumptions are documented in the methodology section
• If anything looks incorrect, I would genuinely appreciate corrections

This is an independent reconstruction using public information, not speculation.
by NoPicklez | 2026-02-11 03:56:00+00:00
Sorry but this is silly, as an Australian I can also travel anywhere with my visa debit card without issue. No need to setup a random app for the particular country and transfer money into that, if I need to transfer money into a random app why I can't I just pay the vendor directly?

My visa debit card allows me to travel virtually anywhere and use my own money without issue.

Anything else is just extremely inconvenient and technologically not really necessary
by EE84M3i | 2026-02-11 03:56:23+00:00
I've never really understood why it's a thing to use a telnet client for transmitting text on a socket for purposes other than telnet. My understanding is that telnet is a proper protocol with escape sequences/etc, and even that HTTP/SMTP/etc require things like \r\n for line breaks. Are these protocols just... close enough that it's not a problem in practice for text data?
by linkjuice4all | 2026-02-11 03:56:54+00:00
An analog to this would be Flock inviting the highway patrol into a staff meeting to 'remind' them about the penalties of speeding - under the implied threat that you would be locked up, transported to a different country, and not given due process to even validate the infraction or face your accusers for merely disregarding civil laws. I'm sure that Mr. Benioff would never use the threat of deportation to keep employees in line.