skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People seem to get "start a group chat" vs "send a message to each person individually."

The WhatsApp groups for my kids school classes, bands and sports teams beg to differ.

Communities seems like a legitimately useful feature to manage this. Absolutely nobody uses it because that would require an iota more forethought than the bare minimum.

The difference with email here is that if these were email groups I have access to sophisticated tools to manage that noise on /my end/. With WhatsApp I’m beholden to the tools that Meta deign to provide, then to the subset of those that the group chat convener bothers to enable. Thus, all I actually have in practice is “mute this chat”.
I feel like getting an LLM to spot security holes might be easier than getting it to write secure code.
If only Linux is affected then sure. Was talking about spectre in general. Maybe only Linux users are turning the spectre mitigation flags off, but there are plenty of outdated Windows systems too.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/insider/nyt-website-url.h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_clown_scare
First class NY to Paris in a couple of weeks, one way, is ~$6k "best overall", with $10k for "fastest" (checked a random flight on Skyscanner).
Wheel - a surprisingly good model package format
Adapting to Bambu Connect means passing the print files to another app, and it's unclear if that app will work without a cloud account. Plus Orca does lose functionality like controlling the printer directly from the slicer, and one of the critiques of the new system is needing a separate app in the first place.

If you mean that OrcaSlicer will reimplement Bambu Connect protocols inside — I doubt that will happen, since Bambu Connect is not open source, so this would involve reverse engineering the protocols and potentially including Bambu Connect certificates.
Your comment is profoundly ignorant. The Language Server Protocol is a standard across all modern editors. It's the reason for the resurgence of Neovim. It is absolutely the responsibility of the language to provide a language server.

> Engineers who care more about the specific web technology being used rather than solving the problem don't sound like "elite" engineers.

Naive
Less disease in the world benefits everyone. Very much a social good.

It makes me a little sad just reading your criticism.
A New Era for Helm
I'm like 90% sure that dang's Wrapped is cached at this point haha.
I love Deno and I use this, but I really wish they would fix this dumb bug:

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/16466
People who don't have the really good brain should have easy access too.
He launched the site during the Biden Administration (stated on his help page). Also, all information here is already accessible as linked on the bottom. Nothing has ever stopped you from knowing this information.

> Portions of the President's schedule are provided by Roll Call. https://rollcall.com/

> Legislation information is provided by Congress.gov.

> Map data © OpenStreetMap
> Claims to be interested in efficiency but wrote an entire essay about why they can't learn Vim because of their German keyboard layout

Damn. Deepseek got me.
The straight answer the public wants is, “where can I ensure that someone has reviewed my complaint about the drones’ behavior?”. I don’t mean to criticize the mob behavior implied, but in a very real sense, if I were a licensed drone operator in New Jersey, I would demand that the government not tell people who I am, for fear of my safety and well-being, without there being some sort of due process that I’ve failed to comply with. Neither Biden nor Trump admins were willing to tell us who is operating drones in New Jersey, which is sensible, even if it’s deeply unpalatable to residents who wish to register their objections usefully. What’s missing here is a reporting system for filing complaints about behaviors such as stalking a given property or person without their consent, with the FAA or NTSB or etc. serving as intermediary between the two parties and guaranteeing a followup so that residents can feel heard.
I have seen some YC startups offer absurdly low "fucking money" for the ask.

If you want a founding engineer for on-site only full-time work in the Bay Area at 50-80K and a fraction of a percent of equity, you deserve every volley of AI shitspam resume dumping that awaits your inbox.

And I think it was only two or three months ago that I saw a hiring post offering exactly that.
No, but he does have quite the incentive to over-hype the capabilities of LLMs.
Would that performance hit be really that significant? I can't imagine there are more than a couple of calls total, and that's all dwarfed by any web access. Or do I misunderstand what's required?
> Nothing is quite as portable as a single file like this.

Well... a file that doesn't require Nix is probably a fair bit more portable!
The Big Garmin Watch Crash Issue
RL on "Wait, but..." == emergent reasoning and improved capabilities. Wild
It doesnt fully replace... You will always need someone speaking to it and able to properly debug etc.
Results of their clinical trial look positive.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39289373/
Are you sure about this?

I just wrote a script without a .py extension, and it seemed to work fine.
“Claims to hate closed ecosystems but probably posted this from an iPhone”

Stop knowing me
> we will obviously deliver much better models

It's not obvious Sam, that's the problem.
If you are getting thousands of applications, you have to be selective at the application stage.
Aren't the dementia symptoms greatly magnified by the lack of mobility in the first place?

If we could get this kind of treatment early it might alleviate the need for dementia treatment.
This is based on comments from the last, what? Day? Week? It's clearly not scoped to all time or even the past year.
What would a hypothetical "left" do differently than the current Democrats? Assuming this "left" is similarly handicapped like the Democrats are, having just lost control of the House, Senate and White House?
SciPhi (YC W24) Is Hiring
> one mis-step in reasoning and your CoT is derailed.

tell me you've never seen reasoning traces without telling me
I think most of the model creators share their model usage examples so high at 0.6-0.7 simply because it's what a lot of the client apps use. IMO this is WAY too high unless you're doing creative writing.

Generally I set temp to 0-0.4 at absolute most.

min_p actually needs a little temperature to work effectively so with min_p I almost always use 0.2
Note that the two major theories were that (1) the government has been hiding alien technology, and/or that (2) those were foreign military planes. To the degree that there's any credibility, those are extreme stories that warrant the absolute attention of... the whole world! Neither WH communications are sufficient to address an issue of such extreme magnitude!

Also, we have to consider that any government that's hiding alien technology would probably do anything they could to misdirect the issue.
> RoR is great at first but in my experience quickly becomes full of hard to diagnose bugs, its magic metaprogramming seems too tempting for developers to use and leads to all sorts of problems.

I think this is true. With Rails you want to be very deliberate about who you hire (there are lots of "Advanced Beginners" out there) and how you vet and manage abstractions outside of the MVC architecture. But if you can stick to those tenets, you'll be rewarded with a very productive engineering org.
I was floored. I shared it with my wife (also a software engineer, not on HN). Laughter, a “brutal” roast, and “pretty accurate” predictions according to the one who knows me best. :)
> Spends so much time explaining why AI isn't magic that they could've probably trained their own LLM by now

It got me lol.
All of our videos are under a minute. We have hundreds of them. We have over a million views on TikTok and YT, and almost nothing on Instagram. The interesting part is we did a project awhile back on Instagram and we got tons of followers but little engagement. This could all be antidotal and something we're not doing right, but we didn't try cracking some code on the other platforms, we upload and it mostly does its thing.
Unfortunately it gives me

Error
Unexpected token 'W', "Webhook er"... is not valid JSON
This didn't work well for me, no changes are ever made but maybe it's because I'm just using the 14B model.
Assuming you retain a good paying job and are not treated like a disposable commodity. That cheese and wine is not going to be free.
Well done.

Loved the roast: "Spends so much time automating their cat's litter box, we're wondering if the cat is actually the one writing the code".
If Google wants to use your software, they will whine until you add them. I guess automating it would be nice in that case.
Because you want people to pay in US dollars, buy US goods and pharmaceuticals.

You wanted everyone to admire the US and exported the American dream to be the ideal of the world.

Why is it important for America to enforce freedom in every oil rich country - apparently even Canada now!

You can take a "mission accomplished" stance and be done with it, but if America wants to maintain it's standing in the world, these sorts of programs will need to continue.

Without the US footing the bill for this, China will come in with Chinese aid, and teach these countries how to adopt the Chinese ideology.
> Congress could impeach for ignoring the court ruling.

What if he just ignores the impeachment?
Friction is bad security. Simple as that.

Removing the friction of many passwords is the whole reason a password manager is good in the first place!

It seems like every IT person needs this lesson reiterated to them, at least once a year...
Gemini is actually pretty useless because of its rate limits.
I'm sure I'm getting it wrong according to someone else, but I would say, yeah pretty much.

The "main ideas" in an inverted pyramid are pushed toward the bottom of the story. "Main ideas" and the topic sentence/argument and supporting detail-based format you may be expecting are interpreted different in general news writing, if they exist at all.

The general overview of the event—the lede—kicks the story off, the most sterile, but informative part:

> Two young people who applied in November for a marriage license in Washington have each been charged by authorities in separate January killings that claimed the lives of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont and an 82-year-old landlord in Vallejo, according to police and court records obtained by Open Vallejo.

This format works better for mundane, routine, or sensational-but-disposal news stories. But a story has a narrative way too winding for this rudimentary of a template. I'm convinced that to actually apprehend the narrative the way we're able to (and I'm sure the writers would like to if they knew how or if they felt that they could) would compromise the notion of "objectivity" in basic news reporting. This is the "public safety" beat, not an editorial.

So from the first paragraph until the last:

> “There’s this whole literature and decision theory about this kind of thing. So there’s some amount of legitness behind this,” Taylor said of timeless decision theory. “But they take it in all these weird directions where they’re talking about, like, ‘Oh, maybe if I make this decision, I will, like, burn the entire timeline.’ And so it gets really weird.”

Is constipation, no coherence, no cohesiveness. The writing isn't supposed to prove a point or make a statement, it's just...information. And due to the scale of the subject matter, it should attempt the former, but fails at the latter. The caveat is, if they had shaved the story down to just enough information to make a readable, coherent piece, then they'd be accused of leaving out critical information.
Trump says he's sending water to LA. It's going to megafarms
'finetuning on synthetic data' = same LM task with BCE objective, ie. training on next word prediction on good text.

'rl on sparse rewards' = RL objective - reward is given by deterministic evaluation, reward is passed back as sparse signal. there is no 'ground truth' data to compare against.
Show HN: I made a table comparer to quickly find a new book to read
After a few weeks of programming a few minutes at the time, next to my full time job, I created this tool that helps you pick your next book from your long(er) want-to-read list. In essence, it is a table with filters and column sorters.

My problem was that the Goodreads website does not allow you to filter multiple columns at a time. That is why I created an alternative way to go through your books.

Unfortunately, Goodreads no longer shares API keys, so it relies on its export functionality for a csv file. Not all the required information for your book search is present in this CSV file. To solve this, the website scrapes Goodreads based on the book ID from the CSV file for the extra info.

Using the tool you can filter your want-to-read list. For example, I usually only read books that have been out for a few years, have an okay rating and have some reviews. Basically, a new book that has survived the hype and is still interesting.

I had the most trouble creating the front page and informing visitors what they could expect. I'm a more technical developer and found this part more difficult. I'm curious about your guy's feedback.

I hope there are some goodreads users as I was not sure if attaching a sample csv file was okay/possible.

For now, this website version is a basic trial version. It does not save any data in a database or in-memory. If people would find this useful, I could extend it.

Lastly, as I'm new to posting to hacker news, and wanted to share it. I read somewhere that you could add the "Show HN:" in front of it. I did this sadly after I posted this post earlier. So this is basically a repost, sorry about that. I have hide my previous (as deletion does not seem possible)
At what cost? How much cost should I personally bear to reduce disease worldwide?

When we hit a point of diminishing returns do I still need to pay incrementally more into this?
Absolutely love this project -- great job. Remarkably insightful from just a bit of input -- would love to point this at Twitter profiles.

Roast: They know so much about ancient history, it's like they lived through it!
Prediction: The user might embark on an AI-driven archaeology project, blending their passion for history with machine learning.
Yeah, my first reaction was cool, what’s uv

Oh, yet another python dependency tool. I have used a handful of them, and they keep coming

I guess no work is important enough until it gets a super fast CLI written in the language du jour and installed by piping curl into sh
hn profile to ip mapper
Why doesn't the author feel comfortable talking about Republican's antipathy to renewables and climate action being driven by funding from oil interests?

Even the graph they chose to show how Republicans hated renewables showed a majority of Republicans voters wanting an expansion.
> What's the typical time scale for a transit?

Generally measured in hours, or minutes. For example, if we were observing our system with perfect alignment, Earth's transit would be about 12 hours, Jupiter's transit around 29 hours.

> Also, why use transits instead of the Doppler method?

Quantity. PLATO can observe a sizeable portion of the sky at once, 100k+ of stars. With Doppler method the quantities are smaller + afaik there is a trade-off between number of stars being observed and the velocity we can measure. So to find Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars, we would likely have to go one or a few stars at a time.

> Has this patch of sky been selected based on previous Doppler method star studies?

I am not actively involved anymore. So I am not sure if they have already picked what part of the sky they PLATO is going to be observing. The previous Doppler method (aka as radial-velocity or rv method) star studies play a role, not only because if there's one planet, there might be more, but also because rv gave information about the star. However, keep in mind that this is to find new exoplanets, less to find out more data about existing ones. Rv will definitely be used along side PLATO, to confirm and gather more information about exoplanets that PLATO finds.
This is my issue with hardware keys too. It's been unclear to me how I have a backup and what's the best way to ensure that that backup is constantly in sync.

Plus, is a website going to support it? So many websites are shifting to OAuth, and making it the __only__ form of authentication. I really don't like this AND they usually only support a very limited set of authorities which is almost exclusively "Google and Apple", so I can't even run my own. The fuck is the "O" mean in "OAuth" then?! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I'm trying to __reduce__ my (meta-)data exposure, not increase it!

Like good god, I don't know if it is a conspiracy or stupidity that's causing all this centralization and I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference. (unintentional or implicit conspiring rather than explicit)

This is Hacker News, surely there's people here that are fighting/pushing back. It's unclear to non-security experts like me how to actually do this besides not use a service (far easier said than done. These choices are often forced upon people)
And he also has knowledge that isn't available to the public.

Combined with his generally measured approach, I would trust this over the observations of a layman with incentive to believe his career isn't 100% shot, because that sucks, of course you'd think that.

Unfortunately, it appears to be.
I can't get mad at this, it's so spot-on.

"Predictions for 2025
Personal Projects

Will start working on a novel semantic search engine for Chinese literature, combining their interest in both Chinese culture and search technologies"

Oh wow, I've been working on this for the past two months and haven't posted about it yet.
It's been probably about 15 years since I've touched that, so I genuinely have no recollection of SIMD coding. But literally, that's the purpose of higher level automation? Like I don't know/remember it, I ask it to do stuff, it does, and the output is good enough. That's how a good chunk of companies operate - you get general idea of what to do, you write the code, then eventually it makes it to production.

As we patch the holes in the AI-code delivery pipeline, those human-involved issues will be resolved as well. Slowly, painfully, but it's just a matter of time at this point?
DeepSeek Didn't Invent the Wheel – It Just Put a New Sticker on It
If you got no viable candidates presumably you aren't offering enough money, or are offering "competitive salaries"?
> Their love for self-hosting might just lead to a homelab that outgrows their house.

Real
Maybe it would work better if it used an IDE rather than having to write flawless code without ever testing it?
Same. I use it to bootstrap my writing a react native app from pretty low familiarity with React.

It's pretty good at writing screens in broad strokes. You will have to fill in some details.

The exact details of correctly threading data through; or prop drilling vs alternatives; the rules around wrapping screens to use them in React Navigation? It's terrible at them.
I'm getting a string did not match expected format error.
I think mine is basically just complimentary, heck yeah. It's certainly accurate. The 2025 predictions are wrong but certainly reasonable.

> A Go enthusiast passionate about efficient testing and DevOps, who loves sharing knowledge and book recommendations, and isn't afraid to discuss workplace dynamics.

(the roasts are too lame to reproduce here)

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/peterldowns
Or like the first page on your comment list.
yes, but perhaps change ownership too
>always
> Spends so much time optimizing home automation that they probably need to automate touching grass

Too personal. Had a great laugh, thanks :D
This is great?

Feature request: A way to easily copy old expressions into the current input field (to fix mistakes).
I doubt that Wine would actually request it. Some compositors also have "tearing mode," which is basically as good: the game gets full control of the presentation timing, so vsync/tearing would be determined by what the game wants to do.
Roasted: When you write JavaScript, it's like poetry — except when it's prose. Then it's just code.
Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
I can see more projects being deployed by smaller businesses, that would otherwise not be able to.

But how will this translate to engineering jobs? Maybe there will be AI tools to automate most of the stuff a small business needs done. "Ah," you may say, "I will build those tools!". Ok. Maybe. How many engineers do you need for that? Will the current engineering job market shrink or expand, and how many non-trash, well paid jobs will there be?

I'm not saying I know for sure how it'll go, but I'm concerned.
Stopped reading when it said DeepSeek brokevtge stock market
> Sounds like someone who would write a 5-page essay on why we should go back to Windows 2000's interface

Spot on ;)
Show HN: Jay - Fully programmable, fully hosted AI voice agents
Hey everyone, we’re excited to announce Jay, a platform for building voice agents that hosts all of the agent’s infra while giving you full control over how the agent responds. Our goal is to give developers a Vercel-like experience for building voice agents.

Currently, voice frameworks are either fully hosted with limited customizability (e.g. Vapi, Retell), or fully customizable while requiring you to host and scale the agent yourself (Livekit, Pipecat). We weren’t satisfied with these options, so we built Jay.

Jay makes it easy for you to add custom logic such as a RAG pipeline, an arbitrary LLM provider, or anything else that controls the LLM’s response. It’s built on top of the standard STT → LLM → TTS pipeline, and handles things like voice interruptions automatically. It also supports function calling (i.e. tool calls).

You can deploy your first agent to production in just a few minutes.

Try it out here, and let us know what you think! https://jay.so/
Error
JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

worked second try though. Classic non determinism meets deterministic expectations.
I really like this article. I do think it's useful to consider that the unit of isolation ("process") of the cloud era is a VM or container, and that the major clouds do have some sort of permissions model.
Why reasoning models will generalize
Google is right to change the Gulf of Mexico's name in its Maps app in the US
Could Texas Become a Geothermal Energy Hub?
Computer magazines, too. I still have my personal library of COMPUTE!, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, Family Computing and Creative Computing, and various scattered issues of BYTE, Ahoy!, RUN and Micro 6502. They're a window into a different era, there's something about leafing through the well-worn pages that a PDF copy doesn't recreate, and they don't link rot. (They just rot if stored improperly.)
I wonder if they have cameras to show the pilot everything they can't see when taking off/landing, since it looks like it has the same forward-visibility issues as the Concorde (without the Concorde's moveable nose -- I think?).

Pretty cool though! It was disappointing that the Concorde (along with commercial supersonic flight in general) was retired around the time I was becoming an adult and could begin to contemplate maybe taking a trip on it someday.
TikTok drops ByteDance CDN in the US following brief shutdown
Keep in mind that paper cited isn't really the clinical trial that shows improvements in symptoms. It just shows their device works and can record LFP properly....

The actual clinical results so far shows that the gizmo with recording is not necessarily worse than DBS devices that don't have recording ability. I don't know if they published those results in a paper yet, but it was shown in poster form at MDS congress in Philly.