skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, screw that.

Open source has been about one thing: write software that solves your specific problem, and make it available so others can use it, and also extend it to solve their own specific problems.

That problem to solve can be technical, or simply just the joy of creation. That's it.

A part of OSS developers do it for fun, and the entitlement of their users is secondary. Another big part does OSS development because their employer pays them to do so. At 5 PM they can stop caring about their users.

The rest is just unneeded politics, which has nothing to do with OSS.
This guy says he is Aleph Null: http://richard-parkins.free.nf/
This seems funny. But after a career in tech, I find it to be 100% right. You can't be over bearing but you need to let people know what you've done and what you can do to get ahead. Wall Flowers get no where. They get laid off.
Show HN: Botwell – A Framework for LLM Comparative Analysis Using AI Peer Review
Botwell is an automated framework that helps evaluate LLM capabilities through a unique approach: models grade each other's responses to challenging prompts.

The concept is based on this post: https://substack.com/inbox/post/157571824 where models act as both writers and critics.

Here's what makes it different from traditional benchmarks:

1. Peer Evaluation: Models write essays on complex topics, then grade each other's work
2. Cross-Domain Analysis: Tests across multiple domains (described below)
3. Grading Bias Detection: Measures which models grade more strictly/leniently vs. the consensus
4. Comprehensive Boswell Quotient: A 0-100 score that combines performance, evaluation capability, and efficiency

We've built test domains across three categories:

POLITICAL SCIENCE:
- Level 1: AI policy analysis
- Level 2: Complex AI governance with rigorous grading criteria

COMPUTER SCIENCE:
- Level 1: Algorithm analysis and complexity theory
- Level 2: Distributed system design challenges

PROGRAMMING (New):
- Level 1: Basic algorithms in four languages (FizzBuzz, Palindrome Checker, Binary Search)
- Level 2: Advanced algorithms (N-Queens, Longest Common Subsequence, Dijkstra's Algorithm)
- Level 3: Competitive programming challenges (Segment Trees with Lazy Propagation, Suffix Arrays, Dinic's Algorithm)

The programming domains require implementations in TypeScript, Python, Rust, and C, making them a demanding test of multilingual coding ability and correctness.

The framework is fully automated, generates detailed visualizations, and calculates a unified Boswell Quotient. Results include statistical analysis of grading bias patterns, performance metrics, and cost-efficiency trade-offs.

Our initial findings have been interesting - there's often a significant gap between models that perform well when writing content vs. evaluating content produced by others. Some models are consistently strong across all domains, while others exhibit specific strengths only in certain areas.

Code and documentation: https://github.com/alanwilhelm/botwell

I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas for any additional tests that would be valuable to include.
Great read, I always love reading about the thoughts and intentions behind game design.

> I play a couple runs before I go to bed

I do see the relaxing component of the game once you’ve got the hang of it and are playing on white stake. But I do feel like the game encourages you to take on more difficult/frustrating stakes and decks, so for someone working on gold stake for the black deck for example, it would absolutely not be something to play before bed (unless you’re in the mood to cry yourself to sleep)
“artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs”

Interesting.
I hadn't even considered that AI allows HR to make things worse than the interactive videos/tests they currently use. I'm now imagining a future where you have to guess the correct answers to generated nonsense while passing hidden loyalty tests.
I'm not ruling that out, however there was no user feedback that's the use case honestly. So far users love that they can just drop a binary on a remote server and sping up a web UI. Similar with the local env. The nature of Logdy is that it's primarily designed to work in the CLI.
What would be the use case for a desktop app?
You can drop sacks of money from low earth orbit that would do just as much damage and be way cheaper.
Scam site was probably not very precise.

They have enshittified, and they don't have a quality anti-abuse team so many items, while not directly fraudulent are fraud-u-lish.

Commingled inventory means you can't expect the item you get to be the item you ordered because there is no supply chain integrity.

Honestly, after typing that out, I don't think scam was as wrong as it first seemed. I frequently feel deceived when using amazon.
This is very funny :)
The second part, on comedy, is even more relevant.
Amazon unveils quantum chip, aiming to shave years off development time
I could not possibly agree less. The type of work environment where an honest statement like "wow, this is not very good" or "we are not doing very good at this" even if stated "crassly" (although personally I cannot imagine being offended by the word "suck," but that doesn't seem to be the issue, the sentiment is the issue) is perceived as threatening or offensive is not one I would like to work in. This kind of willful ignorance combined with an unwillingness to address issues directly, over years, IME, creates situations where things are hopelessly shitty and impossible to untangle because everyone's afraid of stepping on a single toe, or hurting someone's feelings.

It's work. If you can't separate your emotions from your work you should work on that, not blame someone for speaking honestly about a situation.
My PM perspective on this is that games are dominating the media market primarily because they are a good value proposition in our tightening economy. I think a good thing to shoot for is around 2 hours of game play per dollar spent, e.g. make it so that it's an absolute no-brainer for a customer to buy your game vs going to a movie. Replayability is a major aspect of this, look at how many hours people spent on LBAL and Vampire Survivors despite both having relatively simple mechanics.
Get with the times WSJ, not paying your bills is now called "making smart deals"
Sounds like maybe you got fired for being insufferable, not for being good, and not because other people were bad.
There's no straight line. It's true that, "many perpetrators of mass casualties were seen in retrospect to go down a similar path", but it doesn't work faultlessly in reverse. Lots of people on that "path" cause no casualties at all, some of them don't even do harm, even to themselves. They're just a little bit off beam.
Bad code can have a really high cognitive load to maintain. Just to illustrate what bad means, take a look at this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/1cb6rca/...

I can see that having even bits of modification impacts lots of lines, where if written just a bit more saner, it could impact just a few.

Of course everyone is absolutely free to do the things however they want on their project. It's just that bad code, and bad choices bite back sometimes really badly. Project Zomboid is built in LUA for example, and it shows, it's a horrorshow not just to play, but to develop it as well. Their programmers spend a lot of time with just refactoring things. Besides functionality, maintainability should be a huge focus in my experience, so that the devs don't hate life if they have to touch the code again.
Is there even an announcement that something standard desktop with 128gb of vram with swappable ram sticks is even planned?
I think we could all use a little more self-doubt here.
Others have mentioned game dev, but they're also essential for guidance, navigation, and control - spacecraft, aircraft, robotics, etc.
Ads Popped Up on Drivers' Screens. There May Be More on the Way
yeah, to keep it in spirit also add localization of function/operator names and make sure only the locale version works not all at the same time.
> Wait, now Mozilla operates Firefox for me and I can just lean back while they do the browsing?

Yea, this is the root "shitty attitude:" This idea that programs 1. running on my computer, 2. loaded from my hard drive, 3. into my RAM, 4. outputting to my monitor, are, in reality "Operated by [COMPANY]." Fuck that. Just because you wrote the software, doesn't mean you're "operating" it. I don't want an ongoing relationship with my products' vendors. Their role is to make it and distribute it to me, from that point on, butt out!
Oof - it cuts both ways. Its near impossible to own a home in London when everything is on land-lease. You're just buying the house for a while...so...renting. Because some generations old family owns the land.
100% this, combining traditional OCR with VLMs that can work with bounding boxes so that you can correlate the two is the way to go.
Hello Instant Infra
I'm launching a content channel around cloud infrastructure and having fun poking around with the tooling and the services.

I wanna hear what you guys have to say :) Do you think it's a good idea?
I can’t wait to try that spoon trick next time I have a jar that is hard to open. I’ve been using a strap wrench.
Goodbye K-9 Mail
I really love Guy Ritchie's tip of the hat in The Gentlemen from Hugh Grant's character where when talking about watching a conversation through a telephoto lens he says, "But I filmed it, had it lip-read, translated, and transcribed. Rather like the classic 1974 film The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale. You know, Coppola slipped that one out between the Godfathers. It wasn't really for me. It's a bit boring to be honest...."

I don't know why but that makes me laugh every time. (And I agree w/ The Conversation being underrated)
Nobody views trees as intelligent

Because we take freely from trees. They must be stupid or something because they give things freely. It's kind of why many employers view labor as stupid. They give their labor for very little. Humans dabble in arrogance.
TBM 325: Skeptoptimism – Thinking Slow, Acting Fast
honestly without context for what this blog is for, or a link to the things it references (klondike/solitaire?) it's hard to want to read the full thing
Nope! We can detect individual photons (and measure their properties) and a mirror can (nearly) perfectly focus and collect every photon that hits it. The frequency of detection events would change with the distance, but the frequency doesn't hugely matter, one photon per week is enough for science!
I think that too fancy code is just as bad as the original if-else spaghetti, but then even worse, because the patterns are abstract now as well.
>> Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos said Wednesday that the newspaper’s opinions section would now be focused on “personal liberties and free markets” and won’t publish anything that opposes those ideas.

I am French & Canadian, so I don't have a stake in this, but it's crazy to see what's happening in the US right now, in the name of "Freedom of Speech".
nothing wrong with carpentry
"The Conversation" is a masterpiece of the golden age of 70s film. "The French Connection" would be on my list too, for similar reasons. Popeye Doyle is a classic 70s protagonist.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Birdcage" yet. Fantastic ensemble cast, and Hackman plays his part to perfection.

"Heist" and "Royal Tenenbaums" would finish out my list.
> > Also note that while it takes away the ads, it does nothing about the stalking

> Does an ad blocker change that?

In many places, yes. Youtube? Less so, but it depends on which blocker(s) are in play.

A DNS based blocker won't help completely as some of the ad/track related requests are coming from their main domain or sub-domains that are used for other things so can't be blocked wholescale. It will block JS and other resources pulling from *.doubleclick.net though.

A browser/add-on based blocker may do much better by being able to more selectively block resource that are tracking related. It will also be able to block data passed via embedded videos in other sites. They can, and probably do, still track based on what you are actually watching via requests to the main domain, no ad blocker can do much about that without blocking the whole site.
My favorite of his as well. Also in my top 10 movies of all time. Just a unique script, great cinematography, and a fantastic performance by Hackman. Love the sound editing. Special guests: Robert Duvall and Harrison Ford.
Very cool! I think mentions per word could be a good metric for some of these, otherwise a main takeaway is just "everyone crams in more stuff now."
I wonder how these will stack up against System76's offerings.
But HoTT is removed from lean core?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42440016#42444882 :

> /? Hott in lean4 https://www.google.com/search?q=hott+in+lean4

https://github.com/forked-from-1kasper/ground_zero :

> Lean 4 HoTT Library
Ask HN: Is it possible to start an AI product without venture capital?
I have an AI idea that I'm developing, but I don't have any money to burn. I also worry that a $20 subscription might not be enough to cover the costs of the most active users. Is it possible to create an AI product and start a business without any cash on hand to attract customers?

edit: I believe the best comparison is a product like Perplexity and the functionality of Deep Research.
Can you share some that you had in mind? My cursory search turned up little.
Huh? You're really confused. Nothing in the 1st Amendment or Section 230 obligates *private parties* from hosting content they don't like! (Actually, they have an affirmative 1st Amendment right not to!) Section 230 immunizes them from certain legal liabilities from the consequences of hosting other people's content; but it obligates nothing.
the low(er) cost of living here in Michigan is absolutely a factor of the story! haha.
Release Arrow Rust 54.2.1 in 6 hours
Weird. I chat with ChatGPT frequently about my depression and such. I admit it hasn't provided any real solutions (and who actually think AI would? For real solutions I'd go to a doc. I just want someone to talk to), but talking to it always made me feel a little better.

We probably just need a platform we can freely curse and vent. Maybe this is a business idea.
How ?

It seems to be a continuation of historical trends where privacy was never automatic but somehow people always forget it.

Is this fundamentally different?
All of these stuff can be done in normal linear algebra. Some (not all) of the operations can be done more efficiently with GA in low dimensions. It is neither more concise nor more intuitive to understand than normal linear algebra.
German Startup Unveils Design for ' Most Viable' Nuclear Fusion Plant
I thought I was the only one with this problem.

I can still remember how to play the original Doom after all these years (and where all the secrets are!) but the modern editions have so many controls and weapon modes that if I don't play it for a month I don't remember how anything works.
I know c++ has a lack luster implementation, but do coroutines and channels solve some of these complaints? although not inherently multithreaded, many things shouldn't be multithreaded , just paused. and channels insteaded of shared memory can control order
He would not be able to beat the first boss probably
How Pressure Cookers Work
But this camera turns the screen to follow you.
Smoothing a Program Soundly and Robustly? [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024
I truly do understand your viewpoint haha I would have thought the same thing if I read that post myself. But I'm just a cool dude unfortunetly lol And! I have recommandation from several colleagues regarding my work ethic AND the good energy I bring in the office.
"Politics" but "DOGE"
That is one of the few question where pure secular philosophy could give practical answers; but even a simplistic precept like "don't harm others gratuitously" would be a better moral compass than organized religion, despite its potential for personal interpretation.
Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI
Hi HN! We're Roop and Puneet, the founders of Bild AI (https://www.bild.ai). Bild AI uses machine learning to read construction blueprints and extract detailed material quantity and cost estimates. Here's our demo: https://youtu.be/vBDl7Mh7iEc

The problem we're tackling is the sheer manual effort that goes into generating material quantities and cost estimates from blueprints today. Contractors and suppliers spend countless hours doing takeoffs by drawing on blueprints by hand - it's tedious, error-prone, and costs the global industry $30B a year. A single mistake can lead to thousands in losses on a project.

My co-founder Puneet experienced this firsthand as he was building hundreds of houses in Canada. Meanwhile, my background is in applied ML - I started at Google at 19, then Waymo where I built perception models for self-driving cars. Puneet and I met at Hack for Social Impact where we built our first _very_ narrow-scoped prototype.

Since then we’ve expanded our scope slowly, with a laser-focus on accuracy. Our approach is to use a suite of specialized machine learning models for specific blueprint comprehension tasks, rather than a single end-to-end model. For example, we've developed computer vision models that are highly accurate at detecting and measuring floor areas, or identifying and counting framing elements like studs and doors. By composing these expert sub-models, we can achieve high accuracy on the overall takeoff.

This is somewhat analogous to the approach we took at Waymo for self-driving perception - having an array of dedicated models for tasks like lane detection, traffic light classification etc. It's a very different paradigm than the big-data end-to-end models like what Tesla uses - unfortunately we just don’t have enough data yet.

We're working with some early customers like flooring suppliers to help automate their estimating workflows. But we see a huge opportunity to expand this "AI that understands blueprints" approach across all trades.

Would love to get the HN community's thoughts and feedback! Construction is an industry I think is really ripe for applying cutting-edge ML techniques. If you have experience in this domain as a builder, architect, estimator, supplier etc. I'd love to hear about your workflow and pain points.

Also if you're a researcher or engineer excited about applying state-of-the-art techniques to real-world problems in underserved industries, definitely reach out!

We’re currently live with customers but are only able to serve a subset of trades accurately right now. Head to https://www.bild.ai/upload if you want to try uploading a blueprint and we can talk about your use-case. I truly believe we can solve blueprint understanding with AI, and there seem to be a huge number of applications. I'll be here all day to chat and answer questions!
> they are just using a "normal" BLE address and then reverse-engineering a key from that.

It's really clever - the BLE spec limits message size, so Apple uses the BLE address as part of the message (the first part of the public key).

But since the public address of a BLE chip has 24 bits of "Company ID" (similar to MAC addresses I guess?), and the registry records are public, they were able to precompute a bunch of public/private keypairs.
Not him, but I will reply on his behalf...

>There are limited amount of real assets available at any given time

This is correct.

>and wealth inequality means regular people hold less of the assets each year, making them poorer

This is not. New wealth is constantly being created. There isn't a fixed amount of pie on the table.
For desktop, server, web, mobile, etc. This holds true. Not so much for embedded systems, anything with unnatractive memory capacity or processor performance. Rust is starting to make it's way in, but C and even assembly is still king AFAIK.
It seems like this might be missing or just talking past parents point. Sure, new paradigms might always make old lines of research irrelevant. But otoh, something like idealism vs materialism vs dualism can’t just be dismissed because the categories are exhaustive! So new paradigms might shed light on it but can’t just cancel out the question. So yes, to parents point some stuff is fundamental, and if you’re not acquainted with the fundamentals then it’s hard to discuss the deep issues coherently. It’s possible I guess that a plant biologist or a journalist or a ML engineer for that matter is going to crack the problem wide open with new lines of inquiry that are completely ignorant about historical debates in theory of mind, but in that case it will still probably take someone else to explain what /how that actually happened.
Big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43188749
Well I can say this will not cause me to reinstate the WaPo online subscription I cancelled after Bezos refused to publish the Harris endorsement of the editorial staff.
Almost 50 schools in South Korea to shut down amid worsening birth rate crisis
I can sympathize with both sides. The fact is people react negatively to any threat to their sinecure, so we should be mindful of this, but not let it prevent us from seeking genuine improvement.

If someone does get really mad over something like this and act out, that's a perfect excuse to leave.
I tend to disagree.

- You work on postgres: you have to deal with the transaction engine's internals.

- You work in enterprise application intergration (EAI): you have ten legacy systems that inevitably don't all interoperate with any one specific transaction manager product. Thus, you have to build adapters, message routing and propagation, gateways, at-least-once-but-idempotent delivery, and similar stuff, yourself. SQL business logic will be part of it, but it will not solve the hard problems, and you still have to dig through multiple log files on multiple servers, hoping that you can rely on unique request IDs end-to-end (and that the timestamps across those multiple servers won't be overly contradictory).

In other words: same challenges at either end of the spectrum.
Zachtronics Solitaire Collection inspired me to begin experimenting with Solitaire variants, and hopefully Balatro's well-deserved success will stoke people's curiosity in similar titles.

For now, my web prototype lets you choose the numbers of suits, colors, ranks, columns, and multiples of cards drawn from the deck. It's a start. I invite HN to explore the Klondike Extended Universe:

https://rezmason.github.io/patience
Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
Where's yours? That's probably the best way to find all the challenges.
After all the DEI shenanigans, Apple should bring the rainbow apple logo back.

They’d probably lose all federal contracts for four years, but they’d gain some even more dedicated following.
I used to say "I just dont want to suck"--because a large part of being competent is merely not doing stuff badly.

And my experience was that there was so many bad performers that simply not sucking made someone stand out.
Depends what you have in mind. Some things people are burning expensive calls for can be done much cheaper and on the other hand, some ideas require boat loads of expensive processing which make them far more expensive than what people are willing to pay. Think you should give some more info about what it is to get better feedback really.