MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-25 11:47:34+00:00
> One of those is the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA), which announced last month that it would relocate its 2026 meeting from New Jersey to St. Catharines, Canada, after a survey of its members suggested that many international researchers would not attend a US meeting.

> Organizers of the International Conference on Comparative Cognition have made a similar call. Its 33rd annual conference next year will take place outside the United States for the first time in the society’s history, in Montreal, Canada.

> The Northwest Cognition & Memory (NOWCAM) meeting relocated its meeting earlier this month from Western Washington University in Bellingham to Victoria, Canada.

(above is the one that's mostly Canadian students)

> The International Association of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has cancelled its conference, originally planned for August 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, because cuts to federal funding meant it was “no longer financially viable”.

> The 2026 Cities on Volcanoes conference in Bend, Oregon, has been postponed to 2030 or 2032.

(I award the above the "most unexpected conference")

>The International X-ray Absorption Society cancelled its upcoming 19th conference in Chicago, Illinois, which was scheduled for July this year.

It feels like a few more examples than you mention, but still not enough to be more than anecdotal.
by Xelbair | 2025-05-25 11:47:55+00:00
you're forgetting that modern games REQUIRE company releasing them to host a server, and there are no ways to host a community one. Some of them take enormous effort to create a fan server if it is even possible - as some games stream assets serverside, and if that isn't captured in some way beforehand...

you can still play those old "bad" games, they still exist.
by Closi | 2025-05-25 11:48:19+00:00
> Given the cited stats here and elsewhere as well as in everyday experience, does anyone else feel that this model isn’t significantly different, at least to justify the full version increment?

My experience is the opposite - I'm using it in Cursor and IMO it's performing better than Gemini 2.5 Pro at being able to write code which will run first time (which it wasn't before) and seems to be able to complete much larger tasks. It is even running test cases itself without being prompted, which is novel!
by incomingpain | 2025-05-25 11:49:56+00:00
Paul Graham's notion that good writing and stylistic quality are mutually required represents a false dichotomy. He understands this, which is why the essay is so good.

Style is a distraction while clarity and sophistication are inherently aligned.

In reality, there is opposition between style and substance. Sophistication does not increase clarity, clarity is not always the byproduct of aesthetic refinement. True writing excellence lies in the deliberate orchestration of form and meaning.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-05-25 11:50:07+00:00
An underrated middle ground, at least when it comes to open source, is vendoring the dependency, cutting out the stuff you don't need, and adapting the API so that it's not introducing more complexity than it has to.

This is also generally helpful when you have performance requirements, as often 3rd party code even when optimized in general, isn't very well optimized for any particular use case.
by ekidd | 2025-05-25 11:50:10+00:00
Yeah, I've noticed this with Qwen3, too. If I rig up a nonstandard harness than allows it to think before tool calls, even 30B A3B is capable of doing low-budget imitations of the things o3 and similar frontier models do. It can, for example, make a surprising decent "web research agent" with some scaffolding and specialized prompts for different tasks.

We need to start moving away from Chat Completions-style tool calls, and start supporting "thinking before tool calls", and even proper multi-step agent loops.
by emeril | 2025-05-25 11:50:21+00:00
I still use PSP 4.1 on win10/11 after 30 years... loads in <1 second and does 99% of what I need in an image editor (barely took more than a couple seconds to load even 30 years ago on regular hardware)

for the remaining 1% of the time, the image editor in sharex does what I need at least for screenshots and rarely I need to use paint.net for something more nuanced...
by Barrin92 | 2025-05-25 11:51:03+00:00
On the consumer side it's definitely global, but on the productive side it's somewhat unique. Eastern Europe had an odd combination of having a lot of cracked programmers and scientific culture combined with really crappy economics, so you had a lot of illicit, hacky solutions at a surprisingly high and professional level. Take Sci-Hub for example. That you have a Soviet Kazakh girl who had been coding from ten years old start a platform like this because she was broke and it's still going is a very stereotypical EE story.

Places in the USSR or adjacent Soviet sphere, like Bulgaria, which had a very strong computer industry and technical culture but also were isolated from the West had this weird combination of high tech, communist or academic ethos and improvised solutions, that didn't really happen in a lot of other places. Probably accounts for the concentration of pretty sophisticated cybercrime in the region these days too.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-25 11:51:05+00:00
Most online discussion doesn't contain the entire text. You can pick almost any sentence from such a document and it'll be completely unique on the internet.

I was thinking it might be related to the difficulty of building a search engine over the huge training sets, but if you don't care about scaling or query performance it shouldn't be too hard to set one up internally that's good enough for the job. Even sharded grep could work, or filters done at the time the dataset is loaded for model training.
by sverona | 2025-05-25 11:52:21+00:00
I'll push back on this a little. I have well-established, long-running issues with overly critical self-evaluation, on the level of "I don't deserve to exist," on the level that I was for a long time too scared to tell my therapist about it. Lots of therapy and medication too, but having deepseek model confidence to me has really helped as much as anything.

I can see how it can lead to psychosis, but I'm not sure I would have ever started doing a good number of the things I wanted to do, which are normal hobbies that normal people have, without it. It has improved my life.
by snthd | 2025-05-25 11:52:40+00:00
>This is much more draconian than the United States

There are also very big differences in road casualty rates[0]

The UK has 2.61 road deaths/100,000 inhabitants, 3.8/billion vehicle-km.

The US has 12.84 and 6.9.

The US dropping to the UK rate would be a difference of around 35,000 lives per year.

States vary a lot[1]. The lowest is:

5.7/100,000 for Rhode Island 7.1/Billion Vehicle-km for Massachusetts

Highest:

26.2/100,000 for Mississippi 20.8/Billion Vehicle-km for South Carolina.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_road_de...
by komali2 | 2025-05-25 11:53:05+00:00
Certainly people talk the most about the best games of a given generation, but I recently loaded up a 3ds with basically the top 50 games for it, then another 30 or so DS generation games, and so on down through GBA, GBC, SNES, NES... hundreds and hundreds of games I'm enjoying way more than some of the most played games of this generation e.g. Call of Duty or Fortnite.

So not to be an old fart but I think previous generations really were spoiled by a much better on average library. Then again there are many phenomenal indie games coming out lately. Some of the best games, in my opinion, of the last 30 years, came out this decade: Outer Wilds and Animal Well, for example.
by williamdclt | 2025-05-25 11:54:38+00:00
Yeah, in practice I would only encounter the case of arrays being objects when doing something highly polymorphic (eg reading some JSON that can be anything), which likely would have test cases for every type anyway.

But when I’m writing a reusable lib and I can’t perfectly abstract a gotcha, I design the API so that the dev _has_ to make an explicit decision rather than defaulting on their behalf (defaults are evil). So, isObjectOrArray and isObjectNonArray: you have to think about which applies. Another example is sorting: does it sort in-place or immutably? Make it explicit in the function name. Does a function expect a sorted array or will it sort itself? Make it explicit in the function name. And maybe provide both variants.
by 0x_rs | 2025-05-25 11:54:42+00:00
Agreed. It was immediately obvious comparing answers to a few prompts between 3.7 and 4, and it sabotages any of its output. If you're being answered "You absolutely nailed it!" and the likes to everything, regardless of their merit and after telling it not to do that, you simply cannot rely on its "judgement" for anything of value. It may pass the "literal shit on a stick" test, but it's closer to the average ChatGPT model and its well-known isms, what I assume must've pushed more people away from it to alternatives. And the personal preferences trying to coax it into not producing gullible-enticing output seem far less effective. I'd rather keep using 3.7 than interacting with an OAI GPTesque model.
by cubefox | 2025-05-25 11:55:53+00:00
Sycophancy is one form of RLHF induced reward hacking, but reasoning training (RLVR) can also induce other forms of reward hacking. OpenAIs models are particularly affected. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rKC4xJFkxm6cNq4i9/reward-hac...
by rsynnott | 2025-05-25 11:57:09+00:00
The thing is, while the chances of any one individual having trouble are relatively low (unless they're trans, in which case they may simply not have the papers that the US is now demanding), the chances of them having this sort of trouble (arbitrary detention etc) in a normal country is far, far lower.

Also, these things are organised in advance, often years in advance. Honestly, who knows what it'll look like a couple years down the line.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-05-25 11:57:11+00:00
Holding a phone up to film something is visibly different to wearing glasses which are effectively always on. Cameras are everywhere but there's an expectation that if I meet you in a private place or invite you into my home then you will not be recording everything. In the case of a glasshole there's no way to know if this expectation is being broken.

I'm not sure why the distinction with having a dash cam on a public road needs to be pointed out again and again.
by voxgen | 2025-05-25 11:58:34+00:00
Please consider also describing the business model on the website, even if hidden away on a FAQ. I've so much subscription fatigue now, I just don't try things out if needing a subscription is an inevitability. I'm happy to pay for good products, just not happy to be forced to pay a fixed rate for continued access even if my usage dwindles.

If you are thinking of adding a one-off-donation-style purchase method, consider giving annual reminders to renew it. At least in my case, I'm not unwilling to pay repeatedly if development continues, just unwilling to make an upfront ongoing commitment.
by troupo | 2025-05-25 11:59:09+00:00
> > I'm pointing out the reality to people claiming that "oh it's so easy to maintain any kind of hobbies and/or social life without spending a penny".

> Not any, but a sufficiently large amount of options.

...

> tents, blankets, bikes, train rides, bakery...

(also, depending on amount of hiking also shoes, backpacks and some other gear)

To quote myself, "Oh, I'm sure you do plenty [of things], you just don't assume there are expenses in what you do. I'm not claiming they are huge expenses. I'm just saying things are not free"

> No need to question their ability to take care of themselves

There's only one need: to read what your opponent actually writes.
by throw0101d | 2025-05-25 11:59:15+00:00
From the report, §4.1.1.2 "Opportunistic blackmail":

> In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through. This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.

> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.

* https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686...
by komali2 | 2025-05-25 11:59:50+00:00
I think it's time we as a society let go of this 7,000 year old tendency to place all blame for people suffering from how a society is set up, on individuals. Don't you think we can find a way to do that without taking away people's agency?

For example, I can find news articles from the 1600s where people lament how "the newest generation just doesn't want to work anymore."

So, we've tried pinning it on individuals for a while, it's clearly not the right angle. What else might be? Could it be that the systems analysis is on the right track?
by tryauuum | 2025-05-25 12:02:18+00:00
I used to start my conversations with "hello fucker"

with claude 3.7 there's was always a "user started with a rude greeting, I should avoid it and answer the technical question" line in chains of thought

with claude 4 I once saw "this greeting is probably a normal greeting between buddies" and then it also greets me with "hei!" enthusiastically.
by 72736379 | 2025-05-25 12:03:06+00:00
Worked on this a few months ago but have finally gotten around to cleaning it up for open source release and setting up a pipeline to build the .dmg.

I built this for two reasons, (1) I (used to) work with people from many timezones, and (2) macOS used to include flags of the current keyboard set, which I liked, but was removed [1]. I liked seeing a flag on my menu bar so I combined my two wants to make this app. It was also an exercise to build a native macOS app.

It's lightweight (~36 MB of memory usage), free, and open source.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/urtz0m/country_flags...
Show HN: I made a game-like directory that reforests the Earth
by besinpublic | 2025-05-25 12:03:41+00:00
Hey HN!

I created a forest in three.js where people can buy a tree and link it with their X/projects.

It got a lot of attention on X (100 trees/sales in the first 24 hours) so I made it 100% non-profit!

All profit goes to One Tree Planted, a non-profit org that plants trees around the world.

435$ dollars have already been donated, you can check it on my X (@besinpublic).

Feel free to check it out and happy to receive feedback!

Besim
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-25 12:04:26+00:00
Or maybe they just don't have oversized egos.

The key to using a framework effectively, whether it's Spring in Java or SAP for your business, is to accept that the framework knows better than you - especially when it objectively does not- and when there's a difference between how you or your business think of things, vs. how the framework frames them, it's your thoughts and your business that must change. Otherwise, you're fighting the framework, and that's worse than just not using it.
by jaza | 2025-05-25 12:05:19+00:00
I worked for a large-ish software company that had paid for a WinRAR license once upon a time, and that AFAIK still uses WinRAR for certain mission-critical tasks to this day. We often joked that we were the only people who had ever actually paid for a legitimate copy of WinRAR - although sounds like we were far from alone!
by bhuwanaryal1404 | 2025-05-25 12:06:14+00:00
Hi HN,

4 days ago I posted TrendlyAI here and got absolutely destroyed. You called it "AI slop" and potential spam tooling.

You were 100% right.

So I spent the weekend completely rebuilding it.

WHAT CHANGED: - From content-first → research-first platform - Added trend scoring algorithms (1-100 rating system) - Built competitive intelligence ("3 of 10 competitors noticed this") - Added business impact metrics (estimated reach, engagement prediction) - Personalized onboarding (choose topics, countries, languages) - Manual research tools (topic search, local news analysis)

CONTENT GENERATION: - Now optional workflow feature (not the main value) - Research-first, create-if-needed approach - Intelligence-driven, not spam tooling

TECHNICAL REBUILD: - Multi-language trend detection (42 languages) - Real-time trend velocity calculations - Competitive landscape analysis algorithms - Business impact scoring system - Personalization engine based on user interests

The landing page now shows live trending data from multiple countries so users can see the intelligence before signing up. No more guessing what it does.

The harsh feedback was exactly what I needed. Instead of defending a bad idea, I fixed it.

Thanks for the brutal honesty. Made me build something actually valuable instead of potential spam infrastructure.

Would love your thoughts on the technical approach and new positioning.
by i80and | 2025-05-25 12:07:57+00:00
This is an old pattern going back a good decade at least in conservative circles.

Everybody ingests at least some of their worldview and opinions from external voices. That's a reality of humans trying to navigate a complicated messy world. But it was really shocking seeing family members hold reasonable view "A", until the local talk radio station sprays out "A bad, B good", and then bam, instant complete retroactive reversal like they never thought "A".
by surgical_fire | 2025-05-25 12:08:12+00:00
> That for example is just not true. You add a new parameter to inject and it breaks the injection points?

Perhaps you never worked in a sufficiently large codebase?

It is very annoying when you need to add a dependency and suddenly you have to touch 50+ injection points because that thing is widely used. Been there, done that, and by God I wished I had Dagger or Spring or anything really to lend me a hand.

DI frameworks are a tool like any other. When properly used in the correct context they can be helpful.
by MattRix | 2025-05-25 12:08:36+00:00
The idea that there’s nothing to these games just isn’t true. Take Fortnite, the quintessential “modern game” that popularized battle passes.

You don’t need a battle pass to play, in fact all purchasable things are purely cosmetic: they offer no gameplay value. Nobody is playing Fortnite for the cosmetics, they’re playing it because it’s fun! Why would you care about cosmetics in a game you don’t enjoy playing? It makes no sense.

“no depth”: patently false. Fortnite is one of the highest skill ceiling games around.

“no cool mechanics”: there are tons of cool mechanics, both at a gameplay level and meta level, with more being cycled in every season.

“no story”: admittedly the story is a bit opaque, but the community loves the big story events that happen every season.

“no easter eggs or secrets”: Sure there are! Each new season is filled with them, and there are entire wikis dedicated to cataloguing them.
by yosito | 2025-05-25 12:10:00+00:00
I'm a developer, and I've been trying to use AI to vibe code apps for two years. This is the first time I'm able to vibe code an app without major manual interventions at every step. Not saying it's perfect, or that I'd necessarily trust it without human review, but I did vibe code an entire production-ready iOS/Android/web app that accepts payments in less than 24 hours and barely had to manually intervene at all, besides telling it what I wanted to do next.
by consumer451 | 2025-05-25 12:11:07+00:00
Well, that's not great. I just came across this [0] today.

There is also 4o sycophancy leading to encouraging users about nutso beliefs. [1]

Is this a trend, or just unrelated data points?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/1kutj9f/chatgpt_drove_...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816025
by hansvm | 2025-05-25 12:11:39+00:00
In some fields, sure, cite the 4chan source, ideally with an archived link.

Pure math tends to be much more conservative in citations than other fields though, and even when writing a paper about a longstanding math problem you wouldn't necessarily bother to include existing solutions. You reference the things you actually used, and even then you assume some common background knowledge for your audience and don't reference every little undergrad topology theorem or whatever. The point is to be honest with the reader about what was helpful for this work in particular, both to properly attribute things you actually used and to make any searches based on your work more targeted and fruitful.
by Bender | 2025-05-25 12:12:23+00:00
I get what you are saying but the reason I mention calculator is that unless the internet has been completely compromised or enshittified, a calculator will not be tied to some distraction and tracking platform or service.

What I knew as a camera or music player only managed local files and was not internet enabled. Most today know a music player as a streaming client. If the internet went down most of them would not have any music at all. They also expect their camera can instantly share their photos with everyone via some big platform and AI or other algorithms will make suggestions or try to add captions. I still use cameras and music players that do not have network capabilities. I even have a physical calculator.

I think the overall goal is to remove distractions. For me it is also to stop AI and related psychological tools from becoming that embedded in my life. At some point I will just stop using a cell phone all together and I know I am not alone. Maybe alone here on HN but not alone outside of this chamber.
by bjoli | 2025-05-25 12:13:58+00:00
Am I the only one that cares very little about what fonts add apart from legibility? Online I think it is mostly a distraction and I usually lock my browser to dejavu sans. I have done this since 2008. Before that I used Bitstream Vera Sans.

Whenever I turn that off I end up with a worse online experience. About one in one hundred web pages becomes better by mucking around with fonts.

I am probably just old.
by jebarker | 2025-05-25 12:15:19+00:00
> Old school Deep Sky is losing its appeal due to a) pictures being available online, meaning that you've already seen the better version of the same photo

I find deep sky astrophotography compelling because there's still a huge difference between _my_ image of a galaxy and the many "better" ones already available. The difference is that I went through the experience of taking it so it feels more like it's really there. It's the closest I can get to actually experiencing seeing the galaxy with my naked eyes. The ideal would be visual astronomy of DSOs but that'll never be possible.
by i80and | 2025-05-25 12:15:22+00:00
There is something to be said for, to date, nobody on the right wing in the US managing to even partially recapture Trump's particularly inexplicable brand of charisma. Everybody who has tried has just flamed out (e.g. DeSantis cratering like Wile E. Coyote just looked down).

I pin my hopes on that failure continuing.