MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by empath75 | 2025-05-12 14:15:56+00:00
I think we would all like to think that policy is formed from a dispassionate view of the issues at hand and everyone works to produce fair out comes for everyone, but what is going to happen with regard to AI, is that whichever policy produces the most economic "value", however that is defined is going to win out.

For example, pretty much everyone agrees that the current copyright regime that allows large corporations to hold copyrights on vast libraries of content for near perpetuity isn't what's best for society, but it has earned a lot of companies and a few people a lot of money with which they can influence politics, and so it remains.

Now, it seems that there is a lot of money to be made through training AI on these vast libraries of material, and the companies making that money can use it to influence politics to allow it.

There is of course, the remote possibility that policy on this topic is going to be formed by rich and famous people persuading people of the rightness of their cause, but I don't have a lot of high hopes on that outcome -- and the even remoter chance that the much larger number of "creatives" on the lower manage to band together and lobby over it.

This whole conversation is basically just a public negotiation between corporations on who gets to make the most money from "content" that they didn't create.
by zingababba | 2025-05-12 14:16:00+00:00
"Additionally, the summarized study did not record the timing of snack and water consumption. This is relevant because the sequence and timing of subsequent meals (or snacks), as well as the food processing and variability, can influence postmeal glucose responses." - probably a factor, hydration status is huge. This result is kind of like 'duh' though.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28739050/
by throwanem | 2025-05-12 14:16:49+00:00
The novel was the first popular codifier of the concepts of strongly superhuman ASI and hard-takeoff singularity, literally the work that introduced these ideas to the then quasi-New Atheist hangers-on among the kuro5hin crowd who became the initial core of what would develop into the follower base for singularitarianism. It was quite well written for that purpose, with enough sex and action to paper over the slow parts, and a real grasp of what it feels like when time contracts and dilates at once in those dolly-zoom moments where the universe is different forever and nothing outwardly changes. Combined with the seductive appeal and literally universal scope of the ideas that power its plot, it is no wonder the novel should have left so strong an impression on a few.

Someone intentionally invoking that history is interesting indeed. Someone doing it by accident might be more so. But I already gave that choice the name I judge it deserves.
by Etheryte | 2025-05-12 14:17:14+00:00
I don't know what I expected, but I sure was not ready for my eyes to bleed this much at this hour:

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by dbg31415 | 2025-05-12 14:17:14+00:00
Let’s be honest - this is an argument that “the ends justify the means.” But that kind of reasoning should make all of us uneasy. Where do we draw the line? If we eliminated a third of the world’s population to stop global warming, would the noble goal make it acceptable? Clearly not.

We can’t ignore the ethical cost of how AI is being developed - especially when it relies on taking other people’s work without permission. Many of today’s most powerful AI systems were trained on vast datasets filled with human-made content: art, writing, music, code, and more. Much of it was used without consent, credit, or compensation. This isn’t conjecture - it’s been thoroughly documented.

That approach isn’t just legally murky - it’s ethically indefensible. We cannot build the future on a foundation of stolen labor and creativity. Artists, writers, musicians, and other creators deserve both recognition and fair compensation. No matter how impactful the tools become, we cannot accept theft as a business model.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
by IAmBroom | 2025-05-12 14:17:18+00:00
You presume "works with ___ for a month" is easy.

It involves a month commitment of (trivially, overall) the temp's salary, and a month partial commitment of someone senior enough to make hiring decisions (even as a primary advisor).

I absolutely agree what you describe is both viable and useful, but it's easier to hire good-looking resumes and hope for the best.
by gnfargbl | 2025-05-12 14:17:20+00:00
The difference is that waste from neutron activation is "just" an engineering problem which might have an engineering solution (we hope).

Waste in the form of long-lived nuclear fission products is fundamentally an unsolvable issue. Transmutation has been proposed but isn't really practicable, shooting it into the sun isn't really an option either, so the only choice is to confine it for geological timescales somehow.

Both options are really much better, in my opinion, than pumping more carbon dioxide into our biosphere.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-12 14:17:29+00:00
It's not that surprising if you understand that Trump has never been anti-trade. The goal of the tariffs has always been "balanced trade": getting other countries to renegotiate the imbalanced trade deals setup by previous administrations of both parties for the benefit of their friends who made bank on the imbalance.

Whether or not we agree that "balanced trade" is a good idea or his methods are a good way of getting it, that's been the stated goal from the start, contra the media hysteria. Other countries aren't stupid, so they know that, and while they're naturally reluctant to give up the sweet deals they've had with the US consumer market, they don't want to give up access to that market. That gives that market a lot of power in the discussion, power which simply hasn't been exercised before now because the people at the top liked the status quo.
by toast0 | 2025-05-12 14:17:44+00:00
It depends on the state. california is known for expensive probate and has a lot of turnkey trust attorneys with strong marketting. I still don't know that 'the average personal home' is in a trust there, but there are lots of 'average personal homes' held in trust, not just big fancy houses.

OTOH, California recently added a transfer on death deed that may provide a simpler way to avoid probate on homes, which may reduce the number of trusts formed just for that.

A lot of people leave California and still think they need a trust in other states, so trusts in other states are growing in numbers as well.
Ask HN: What's one thing ChatGPT can't help with when learning English?
by sashaonly | 2025-05-12 14:18:00+00:00
I’m working with several non-native tech founders who are building globally but still run into difficulties — especially when speaking socially or presenting on stage. ChatGPT helps a lot, but it often misses the mark on tone, nuance, or how something feels to say. I’m trying to understand what still feels hard — not grammatically, but emotionally, socially, or situationally.

What’s one moment when you wished ChatGPT-like tool could help — but knew it couldn’t?
by obsolete_wagie | 2025-05-12 14:18:36+00:00
"AI's out here, a gift from the heavens (or at least from Sam Altman's nerd fortress) ready to write your shitty little to-do app in five seconds flat. It can churn out pixel-perfect HTML, debug your fuck-ups, and probably even wipe your ass if you ask nicely. But no, you're still humping your frameworks like they're the last lifeboat on the Titanic."

Personal opinion is that AI will reduce the need for higher abstraction software libraries. ORMs for instance could go away. We will see wildly different software paradigms as the need for human understanding drops
by tedivm | 2025-05-12 14:18:49+00:00
I think calling this "scraping" is hiding an important point. Scraping tends to mean crawling the web and pulling down stuff people put up. In the US (and yes, I know that this is a UK article) it is legal to scrape, with the idea being that if people responded to the request that's on them. This is why lots of sites have login gates to access data, since to log in you have to agree to a TOS.

AI companies haven't just been scraping, they've been pirating. I think it's important because people consent to put their comments on websites, but authors don't consent to have their work stolen. Mixing the two together as if they are the same is an attempt by AI companies to muddy the ethical waters a bit more than I'm comfortable with.
by yread | 2025-05-12 14:19:26+00:00
> I am trying to switch to Mapy.com (Mapy.cz before), it's a surprisingly user friendly app, however, not sure how they are going to monetize soon

They now sell premium. Presumably some features (offline maps? or offline navigation? suggest a hike?) will be locked behind premium :-/ They do have great UX though
by slowmotiony | 2025-05-12 14:19:37+00:00
Surely that's not why the interface is a laggy 10fps piece of shit and the touch latency is over 200ms. If my iPhone 3GS from 2009 can display the UI in 60fps without lagging like crazy then so can a $100k BMW that's straight from the factory. It doesn't need hundreds of extra modules.
by stevenAthompson | 2025-05-12 14:19:43+00:00
Doing a cover song requires permission, and doing it without that permission can be illegal. Being inspired by a song to write your own is very legal.

AI is fine as long as the work it generates is substantially new and transformative. If it breaks and starts spitting out other peoples work verbatim (or nearly verbatim) there is a problem.

Yes, I'm aware that machines aren't people and can't be "inspired", but if the functional results are the same the law should be the same. Vaguely defined ideas like your soul or "inspiration" aren't real. The output is real, measurable, and quantifiable and that's how it should be judged.
by onnimonni | 2025-05-12 14:19:56+00:00
Wow, thanks for mentioning https://streetcomplete.app! This looks very intuitive to use for edits on openstreetmaps.

Would someone here know a similiar tool for iOS or MacOS? Or any recommendations to edit roads.

We are currently driving with a 4.5 tonne motorhome in Europe and the road weight and height limits are usually marked properly in osmand+ but when they are not we waste multiple hours rerouting in the alps and I would really want to help the next person in similar situation.
by palmotea | 2025-05-12 14:20:00+00:00
> Plagiarism is not an issue of copyright law, it's an entirely separate system of rules maintained by academia. The US Copyright Office has no business having opinions about it. If a AI^W human reads 100 papers and then churns out a new one this is usually called research.

If you draw a Venn Diagram of plagiarism and copyright violations, there's a big intersection. For example: if I take your paper, scratch off your name, make some minor tweaks, and submit it; I'm guilty of both plagiarism and copyright violation.
by nartho | 2025-05-12 14:20:11+00:00
This link has been posted a million times, and I'm always surprised by the reactions. Yes, for anything that is data driven, plain HTML is great. Maybe sprinkle some markdown on top of it but that's all you really need.

But is that the only use for the web ? Are we pretending that the internet is only a collection of articles ? How do you end up with Figma, Soundation or Tinkercad with just plain html ?

No you (probably) don't need nextjs with greensocks for your blog, but there are valid reasons why fancy frameworks or javascript might be needed. I think saying that plain HTML is all you need is as silly as saying that you should always use the latest framework in your project.
Show HN: I wrote 111 short stories about the future –free on Kindle for few days
by animadellafesta | 2025-05-12 14:20:39+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a 51-year-old freelance programmer from Italy. Between projects (and rants about modern web design), I ended up writing 111 short stories imagining what the future might look like — sometimes weird, sometimes funny, sometimes a bit too real.

Themes range from AI governments and post-capitalist ruins to synthetic emotions, invisible wars, and dystopian customer service. It’s called Chronicles from the Future — speculative fiction in fast, sharp doses. Some stories are just a paragraph, others take a few minutes. The whole thing was first published in Italian; I just translated it into English myself.

The Kindle version is free this week on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7ZRX1BN

If you check it out, I’d love to know what you think. Even just which title made you curious.

Thanks for reading — and for tolerating a non-startup post.
by palata | 2025-05-12 14:21:01+00:00
> Color me skeptical that a fork will get off the ground

Could be, time will tell us. But it works as expected: people can fork if they want to, users can choose which app they use. Users can even use both OrganicMaps and CoMaps if that's better for them!

I currently use OrganicMaps and OSMAnd in parallel, depending on what I do. Works great!
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-12 14:21:07+00:00
I don't think your framing nor your conclusion is correct. Copyright law wasn't written to make Party A or B wealthy, it was written to protect the incentive to produce things that society values.

It is very clear that a huge portion of AI's value is specifically the destruction of incentive to the original creator of the work, ergo courts will over time find that AI will have to pay for that right. Or courts will have to decide we know longer value music, art, literature, etc. made by humans -- seems like a long shot to me.
by bastawhiz | 2025-05-12 14:21:08+00:00
Arguably that's worse than crypto proof of work: inference is extremely expensive and you're multiplying every operation by N. Which means the cost is multiplied by N.

And like, what are you doing? You've managed to find a use case where you don't care that you're doing compute on some untrusted servers online (and no, there's no magic AI homomorphic encryption) but at the same time you're willing to accept the latency of doing the work multiple times AND it's probably all low end 4090s doing the work AND you're willing to pay for the wasted compute? I'm here shuddering at the thought of model setup times when one node in a cluster goes down and you're facing that on... well, probably most inferences? If you're not administering the infra, you get the lowest common denominator of performance.
by edvaldodfreitas | 2025-05-12 14:21:25+00:00
A lot of people have been trying out AI code review tools, but what I see most often is feedback that sounds smart but isn’t actually helpful. Either it flags way too much, or it misses the important stuff. In the end, it just adds more noise to the PR.

Teams that rely purely on LLMs like ChatGPT or Gemini run into this all the time — generic comments, no real understanding of the project, and sometimes subtle mistakes. It’s hard to trust, let alone use it as a real part of your review workflow.

That’s exactly why we built Kodus. It’s an AI-powered code review platform that runs directly on your PRs, combining generative intelligence with deterministic rules based on how your team already works. The result is less noise, more consistent feedback, and more time to focus on what actually matters.

If you want to give it a try and share feedback, we’d love to hear it. We’re improving the platform based on real-world usage https://kodus.io
by fmxsh | 2025-05-12 14:21:33+00:00
Interesting! While it is about accidental art caused by bugs, it had me think of what bugs significantly defined part of my user experience throughout life. I know I have experienced a lot of bugs, but can't come to think of any particular one—only bugs of generic company software forcing employees to invent counteractive routines that then become habit. The habits can be seen as a kind of performance art, on part of the bug, similarly to how bugs create the accidental art the article highlights... Accidental performance art with unwilling humans as performers, where the very same humans are also subjected to the art.
by ksymph | 2025-05-12 14:22:12+00:00
The neatest outcome IMO would be to grandfather in data from before ~2022, but strictly require consent for anything new going forward.

Enforcement would be kind of impossible though. How would you prove the age of the data? And what about for things like websites - if a website from 2015 gets scraped in 2025, where does that fall?

So, maybe not a very practical solution. But I think the ideal outcome is one where AI companies don't have to throw away progress from the past few years, but artists have control over their participation going forward. It's hard to say if there's any solution that can respect both.

More likely than not, one party is going to be shafted; and it's probably not going to be the one with the money behind it.
by specialist | 2025-05-12 14:22:15+00:00
The alternative to empiricism (science) is rationalism (wish-casting), not pragmatism (least harm).

I often let my dog off-leash. Weighing the risks & rewards, I pragmatically choose to break the law, knowing full well that I'm in the wrong, not some special case. I eat the tickets and social scorn without complaint. My dog has pretty good recall and is super gentle (esp w/ kids). But the big bad govt (and other parents) didn't write the laws with my special pooch in mind.

You're confident your cat doesn't harm birds. Terrific. It's still wrong, in the general case. So take your lumps.

A (huge) point in your favor is that 2/3rd of (domesticated) cats are feral. So keeping cats indoors in order to better protect birds seems quixotic.

In these parts, owners keep their cats indoors to protect them. Recently, my SO's cat escaped her "catio" and was swiftly caught by a coyote. (A neighbor saw it happen. Horrifying.) Maybe your locale doesn't have coyotes.

Edit: Another exception (that I can think of) is farm/barn cats. Pretty much a necessity. Alas, coyotes. And probably hawks.
Ask HN: Will you pay for a Secure AI App where you can Chat with your Calendar?
by kuberwastaken | 2025-05-12 14:22:44+00:00
what's your schedule, managing events, making new ones, figuring out when you're free, when to schedule x, Being good with voice and chats too

Integration with Google + Apple Calendar

I've made a basic implementation and just wondering if this is an idea worth executing, there are a couple products like these out there but they have either bad execution or sell your data
by mbgerring | 2025-05-12 14:22:50+00:00
Look — I’m old enough to remember when the “web standards movement” was controversial. I had to argue with my boss about using CSS vs tables. And I remember when you did need javascript to do a lot of things that HTML now does natively. JS frameworks had to exist to push the state of the art, because the state of the art got stuck. The standards bodies and browser vendors got their shit together, and now you can do things you used to need frameworks for in plain HTML. That’s great! But let’s not re-write history, here.

Software is in a constant state of revolution and counter-revolution. It’s one of the things that keeps this job interesting.
by lenerdenator | 2025-05-12 14:23:04+00:00
You don't want that.

Worker rights are a type of human right. If you just have property rights and no human rights, and have everything dictated by the ability to satisfy a market participant's desire to wealth, you're going to have a lot of horrible things justified by that desire to create wealth.

Murder-for-hire, for example, is a very, very profitable venture. You have a person with a $500 firearm and a magazine with $10 worth of ammunition in it, and get a return of many thousands of dollars on the first instance of service.
by cbeach | 2025-05-12 14:23:27+00:00
Cleaning out the wordy, "oh so edgy" embellishment (probably authored by AI, ironically), here's a ChatGPT summary:

HTML is simpler, faster, and more reliable The author rails against “bloated, over-engineered” JavaScript frameworks and build tools, pointing out that plain HTML loads instantly and “just fucking works” without constant updates or breaking changes

Frameworks add needless complexity and cost You don’t need to manage hundreds of dependencies, CI/CD pipelines, hydration errors or “tree-shaking” when all you really want is a button or a bit of text. HTML has done this flawlessly for decades

Native browser features handle interactivity Modern HTML alone supports expandable sections (<details>/<summary>), native dialogs, form controls of every kind (date pickers, sliders, color inputs, file uploads), and even creates global JS variables from element IDs—no framework required

Deployment is trivial “Just drag, drop, and you’re done.” No container orchestration, no multi-step build process, no DevOps magic - HTML is ready to serve straight from any web server

Universality and longevity Everyone “knows HTML” - from your grandparents’ wartime hand-coded tables to your dog’s Fiverr gig. It’s been powering the web since the beginning and will outlast any trendy framework

A call to rethink our tooling addiction With AI able to spit out pixel-perfect HTML in seconds, clinging to heavy frameworks is framed as an outdated habit. The author challenges readers: stop overengineering and embrace the elegance of raw HTML
by infinitifall | 2025-05-12 14:23:31+00:00
You must be new to crypto. This is standard operating procedure. These scammers are everywhere and they're hard to miss.

It's common to have fake or hacked youtube channels - often with hundreds of thousands of subscribers - branded as official channels, featuring deepfake videos and livestreams from tech ceos announcing these scam coins. There are fake comments under tech videos and fake accounts on twitter discussing scam coins.
by mr_toad | 2025-05-12 14:24:01+00:00
Copywriter holders have always hated fair use, and often like to pretend it doesn’t exist.

The average copywrite holder would like you to think that the law only allows use of their works in ways that they specifically permit, i.e. that which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden.

But the law is largely the reverse; it only denies use of copyright works in certain ways. That which is not specifically forbidden is permitted.
by moograms | 2025-05-12 14:24:03+00:00
Here are my predictions for 10 years out along with upskilling recommendations: https://open.substack.com/pub/drewhoskins/p/the-most-promisi... I agree with many of your points, would just generalize a couple of them. For example, I think there are many pieces of software that need to be complex and excellent, not just those close to hardware. And niche apps are a good (but not only) example of where LLMs will struggle to solo-code because they lack product context. Other key questions for a project: how much training data does the LLM have access to? (Innovative things generally have much less.) How much ownership skill is required to build it?
by pram | 2025-05-12 14:24:10+00:00
I mean under Marx's definition I can easily envision a "non-capitalist" system where most economic activity is done by solo-entrepreneurs who own their means of production. This doesn't involve any wage labor being utilized. It's not socialism but there is arguably no labor "exploitation" which is the main moral argument I suppose, and frankly close to what a lot of libertarians imagine in their head as the ideal social arrangement anyway.
by taeric | 2025-05-12 14:24:22+00:00
Odd, I would have expected this to be somewhat the case? Specifically, I would expect your activity leading into the meals, along with your expectations of what you will be doing after, would have some impact? Probably more impact from how hungry you were going into a meal. If you were already sated, for example, I'd expect your body to largely try and push the meal through as fast as it can.

Neat to see what other people's priors are, on this.