MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arch485 | 2025-05-29 08:47:26+00:00
This is something I think a lot of people miss about Rust - outside of slow compile times and personal preference, there is no reason not to choose Rust over JavaScript/TypeScript (unless of course you're working in the browser). It does everything JavaScript can do, but it does it faster and with more stability. At the end of the day, these features pay out huge dividends.

And this isn't Rust zealotry! I think this goes for any memory-safe AoT language that has a good ecosystem (e.g. Go or C#): why use JavaScript when other languages do it better?
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-05-29 08:48:56+00:00
Congrats! Launching is hard. Feedback:

- I can't tell what this is until I scroll "below the fold" (ie, below the first visible screen). I think your tagline just needs to be clearer. Even your first sentence in the post here could be a decent description ("Entropy, a small Chrome extension that spots API keys, tokens, emails, and throws a blur overlay on them in real time")

- I'm not very comp-sec minded. I've never in my life worried about leaking API keys, tokens, email addresses, etc via screen share. I have worried about leaking bookmarks, sensitive email drafts, slack messages, etc. But I also don't think I care enough to pay for something that blocks those. Hopefully there are people that do care enough to pay

- An idea for a possible pivot: Ad agencies sometimes want to show how much money or traffic they bring in for clients. Made up data isn't convincing to close a sale, but real pages can have sensitive data like company names, logos, ad spend, etc. With a slight pivot, you might be able to provide them something to obscure that info. I only have second-hand knowledge of this problem, so you'd need to verify that they care enough about this -- don't take my word for it.
by zkry | 2025-05-29 08:49:55+00:00
Magit is truly a magnificent application and it's telling how it's ideas are ported to other editors.

Reference to the previously posted "You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy"

> Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you know what? That’s fine. In fact, it’s great. It makes you happy, what else is needed? You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy.

Juxtaposing Emacs with the adjectives obsolescent, and undead is sad to read. Emacs is constantly reinventing and readapting itself, and just like Emacs takes and incorporates the best ideas from other tools, ideas from Emacs find their way to other environments.
by sandreas | 2025-05-29 08:50:24+00:00
I often use the following tools:

fzf - fuzzy finder e.g. files gdu - tui for disk usage rga - search file contents bat - cat with syntax highlight difft - better diff lazygit - tui for gut lazydocker - TUI for dicker restic - backup tool rclone - sync tool f2 - file renaming tool

You can find them all in github.
by larodi | 2025-05-29 08:50:31+00:00
Indeed, your statement may be unpopular, but I would laugh this off in a similar manner. After spending reasonable amount of time in my life creating websites, designs (for print and web) with every technology you can imagine - from REX BBS scripts to ES6, SVG and WebGL these days, I can boldly state that these people had absolutely no clue what they been doing on the WEB. Perhaps they were the top designers for print, which was commendable, but web is not print.

They did not understand this new medium, the screen, and the fact you don't have to put all the information on the same page. It was not until 2010 perhaps, when things started to flatten and simplify again, that people actually started doing reasonable web design. Usability was a new thing even in 2005, and Apple with their K-12 interfaces did not help this much, even though certain design decisions on System OSs make a lot of sense. But this was not the web.

Most of what these books teach is how to get the illustrator/coreldaw/quarkr approach and slap it on top of a webpage. How very little people experimented with the widgets already available to them such as pages, buttons, etc, the fact that it can show little, but be navigated. This is the same for cartography, btw, where things move even slower, and we still getting maps overloaded with information like its 1834.

IMHO, and this may be super unpopular, but game designers and game UI designers served as much more substantial inspiration for the web, rather than these early over-hyped designers, which otherwise did great job for posters and print. Some games are so forward-thinking, and so beautiful in the simplicity of their interfaces, that we can really argue most of the world got where gamers (and demosceners!) already have been for years.
by thefz | 2025-05-29 08:51:31+00:00
> This anti-AI talk is a coping mechanism

No, it' being tired of the trite bullshit new tech to rob people of agency, culture and knowledge and move more value towards the shareholders.

The whole nature of LLMs is built upon exploiting other people's work. Without it they will be useless.

> I have a friend who is a translator, and all her translation work has dried out.

Can a machine translate prose?
by andy12_ | 2025-05-29 08:51:46+00:00
I also worked a long time ago in recreating the original Deep Differentiable Logic Network paper [1], so I have a couple of additions to make.

> I wanted to see if I could learn the wires in addition to the gates. I still think it’s possible, but it’s something I had to abandon to get the model to converge.

Actually, I read some other paper where they also learned the wiring, but they did so by alternating the training of the gates and the wires (in some iterations they learned the wiring while keeping the gates frozen, and in other they learned the gates while keeping the wiring frozen). The problem with this approach is that it is inherently non-escalable: you need a lot of gates to approximate the behavior of a simple MLP, and if you need a full NxM learned matrix to encode the wiring, the memory needed to learn, for example, MNIST, gets huge, quickly. I think that for this there are 2 fixes:

- You actually don't need to learn a full NxM matrix to increase the expressivity of the network. You can, for each output gate, select a random subset of possible input gates of size K, and then you only need a learned matrix of size KxM. I did the numbers, and even a moderately small K, like 16 or 32, wildly increases the number of circuits you can learn with a smaller number of layers and gates.

- You could use a LoRA kind of matrix. Instead of a matrix NxM, use a pair of matrices NxK and KxM, where K<<N,M.

Learning the wiring also has other benefits. As the output gate can learn to swap the inputs if needed, you can remove some learnable gates that are "mirrors" or "permutations" of each other (a and not b, not a and b; a or not b, not a or b), which can help scale the networks to use gates of more inputs (I tried with 3-input gates and 4-input gates).

Also, as the author pointed out, it was very difficult to get the models to converge. It was very frustrating that I never managed to get a working model that performed really well on MNIST. In the end, I gave up on that and I worked on how to make the network consistently learn simple 3-input or 4-input functions with perfect accuracy, and I managed to make it learn them consistently with a couple dozen iterations, which was nice.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08277
by runlevel1 | 2025-05-29 08:52:03+00:00
Enshitification is often a company-wide culture problem, but the fish does rot from the head.

There are a variety of reasons why a company might begin to over-incentivize short-term gain (or high-stakes risk-taking) at the expense of customer happiness and possibly to the detriment of the company's long-term interests.

For example: Growth stagnation, an existential threat, a pessimistic long-term financial outlook, bad reward structure, low customer regard, organizational infighting, low employee retention, etc.

The sudden emergence of AI and volatile economy are triggering several of those for a boat load of companies. And, well, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.
by trog | 2025-05-29 08:54:12+00:00
I've been writing shell scripts in PHP for more than 20 years for this reason. Don't work on a lot of PHP sites any more but I still do most of my shell scripting in it. I think this'll be a big win for C# users once they get used to the paradigm shift.

I notice another poster said it's a bit slow but for many common use cases even half a second startup time is probably a small price to pay to be able to write in the language you're familiar with, use your standard libraries, etc.
by sph | 2025-05-29 08:57:28+00:00
You make a fine argument, but also crypto is a multi-trillion dollar business at this point, powered by crime or not.

LLMs are all potential right now, but are no way as large and I dare say established as even just Bitcoin. As a fan of Satoshi’s creation, the impact of Bitcoin over society in the long term will be at least as large at the impact of LLMs, whether it’ll still be BTC or some other decentralised trustless digital currency powered by cryptography.
by CoolSmell | 2025-05-29 08:57:39+00:00
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by trog | 2025-05-29 08:57:40+00:00
I work for a freight forwarder. We have some customers that exported to the US and were hit with the boosted tariffs. Only a few smaller air freight shipments, so not container loads full - they decided to eat the extra cost to try to keep momentum, just on those shipments.

But it was only ever a short term strategy; if they had persisted they would have had to reconsider.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-05-29 08:57:47+00:00
"There are court cases that give the confidence necessary. " NO!

many times police will made up "plausible way" how they uncovered something, but this "plausible way" was constructed after the "secret" or illegal way was employed to do it.

rephrase : police will do illegal thing to obtain info where you stash your drugs. for example installing NGO Pegasus to your phone, gps tracker under car... so they already have that info. then they call anonymously 911 saying there is smell of gas on street. (maybe they even spray some of mercaptan to make it even more plausible) firefighters, etc will come investigate gas leak and police will say that they uncovered drug stash in investigation of gas leak... illegal way to obtain info, then brainstorming how to make that data available "lawfully". they will not tell in front of judge/court about first part... so no your assumption is not correct.

in computer world it is million time easier.

99% of youtube videos about criminals failing at operational security is intentionally bad information.

IF you are believed to be criminal / "bad person" police(men) will justify doing almost anything, because you are bad person IN THEIR EYES.

also they are trained to and expected to disinform :

For example, Ross Ulbricht. every news paper said that "closing his laptop lid will lock his computer and police will be unable to decrypt it" they pushed it and said it so many times that researchers jumped on LUKS and in 1.5 years there was almost complete rewrite of LUKS.... (not even talking about constant TOR effort)

Whole not closing his notebook also proves that they obtain data legally. It does not say they did not have that data already.

One info can mean multiple things to multitude of people.
by Sammi | 2025-05-29 08:58:28+00:00
Yeah for a small tertiary apps then Electron is a huge performance burden to put on your users. They might just choose it's not worth it and not use your app.

On the contrary if it's a large app that the user spends lots of time in, then the performance overhead might well be worth it for the user.

Imagine in the first case that it requires a base load of 10 units of energy to run and gives 2 units of output, while in the second it still costs 10 units of base load energy, but now it gives 100 units of output. The base load becomes relatively irrelevant.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-05-29 08:59:11+00:00
> Jeffrey Zeldman — who turned 42 in early 1997

I’m today years old, realizing that Jeffrey Zeldman was 40+ in 1997. I always thought he was kinda just a few years older than us in the early 2000s.

“View Source” of their websites was an educational time well spent. Warning: In some regions, “View Source” may be illegal. Please use it at your own discretion.

Starting my career in the early 2000s, and my design and other Flash Works were on the Internet - Zeldman, Siegel, and a lot of others were the heroes. Nielsen was the villain. By the mid-2000s, I had done extensive work for clinics and physicians, delving into accessibility, HIPAA compliance, and other related areas. By then, Nielsen and the likes became the heroes. :-)
by JayD0ubleu | 2025-05-29 09:00:04+00:00
About This Book In our rush to make artificial intelligence more human, we've overlooked a profound opportunity: using AI as a mirror to understand our own minds. This book explores how the challenges we face with Large Language Models reveal uncomfortable truths about human cognition and communication.

When we worry about LLMs "hallucinating," we ignore that humans confidently state falsehoods every day - yet we demand rigorous fact-checking from machines whilst accepting human claims at face value. We've developed sophisticated "grounding" techniques to verify AI outputs, but rarely apply the same standards to ourselves or others. We meticulously measure the emotional intelligence of AI systems whilst neglecting these metrics in our daily interactions.

Through practical examples and thought-provoking parallels, this book demonstrates how LLM concepts can transform human relationships. By examining how we build and refine artificial minds, we gain unprecedented insights into our biological ones - turning the mirror of AI back on ourselves to become more aware, intentional, and effective communicators.

This is not a book about making AI more human. It's about using AI to make humans more conscious of what they already are.
by formerly_proven | 2025-05-29 09:00:29+00:00
Many TFT and OLED panels today can produce sound unintentionally based on screen contents. This is mostly noticeable with repeating horizontal lines, which tend to produce whining at some fraction of the line frequency. Likely electrostiction.

This here seems to be about adding separate piezoelectric actuators to the display though, it doesn’t seem to use the panel itself.

> by embedding ultra-thin piezoelectric exciters within the OLED display frame. These piezo exciters, arranged similarly to pixels, convert electrical signals into sound vibrations without occupying external space.
by scotty79 | 2025-05-29 09:00:43+00:00
> It's in human nature to need origin stories. Science's current one is the Big Bang.

Isn't it funny how we always make the "true source of creation" just nearly outside of our observational capabilities? The God was just on top of the mountain, just behind the ocean, just behind clouds ... and now the creation was right before 13bln years ago, because that's how far we can look.
by brailsafe | 2025-05-29 09:00:53+00:00
> All those parameters mentioned are exclusively for developers. End users don't care and will get a worse product when you choose Electron instead of doing it properly.

A sensible take wouldn't pick one or the other as unilaterally better regarding the abstract context of what a good product is. The web as a platform is categorically amazing for building UIs, and if you chose continued to choose it as the frontend for a much more measurably performant search backend, that could be a fantastic product choice, as long as you do both parts right.
by NalNezumi | 2025-05-29 09:02:09+00:00
I really hope they don't change the name, I like the name "Mullvad" (Mole in Swedish) and "Leta" (Search in Swedish) and everything doesn't need to be Anglo centric in the appeal :)

Although the society is almost zero privacy, it have historically had some funny IT figures for privacy and digital issues so people searching up for the background of the name might stumble upon it.

[1] https://youtu.be/rHVVpNRwLk0?feature=shared

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhof

[3] Peter Löthberg https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1d8056g/comm...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-05-29 09:03:06+00:00
I understand your point, but it seems a lot better than some other scenarios throughout human history. Also, there are way more humans now than at those points.

Also, I am not sure how accurate this, but maybe something worth taking into consideration:

https://theconversation.com/its-ukraine-not-the-ukraine-here...
by sebstefan | 2025-05-29 09:03:58+00:00
>Over the last few days, I’ve been scraping everywhere I can think of, collating the links I can find out in the wild, and compiling my own database of links1 – and importantly, the URLs they redirect to. So far, I’ve found 12,000 links from scraping:

>Google (using their web search API)

>GitHub (using their API)

>Our own (somewhat limited) web logs

>The archive.org Stack Overflow data dumps

>Archive.org’s own list of archived webpages

You're an angel Matt
by Llamamoe | 2025-05-29 09:04:37+00:00
When we imagined phones, we imagined global communication and building friendship. Instead, we got skinner boxes designed to addict us to a constant stream of algorithm-served content.

When we imagined computers, we imagined unbounded access to knowledge. Instead, we got an internet drowned in corporate slop, constant surveillance and unrelenting attempts to destroy privacy.

When we imagined cars of the future, we imagined beautiful, affordable, eco-friendly vehicles. Instead, we got products centered around inserting new subscription fees into the model of car ownership.

When we imagined housing of the future, we imagined gorgeous futuristic architecture for the family. Instead we got an unaffordable investment market designed to siphon money out of the common person.

When we imagined AI, we imagined being freed from menial work, free to pursue art. Instead we got corporate push to replace artists and writers with dysfunctional content generators built on stolen data to save a few cents on the dollar.

When we imagined technology as a whole, we imagined something that would empower and better humanity. Instead all we got was a tool the rich use to exploit the rest of the world even harder with no limit.
by mmooss | 2025-05-29 09:05:47+00:00
> Part of my attitude just comes from other examples where there are fads to nitpick language, and these fads are often wildly popular and yet completely and totally incorrect, historically.

Oh yes, I agree here. I remember a science class where we wrote review papers and passed them around for critique. Everyone jumped on mine for using 'However' (I think, something like it); I knew I used it correctly, but they were focused on the only thing they kind-of knew.

I wouldn't be writing all that about semicolons and grammar rules except for the geek exploration of it. You won't find me correcting people's grammar - I might ask a question if it's unclear to me, but that's it. This thread is about grammar, so it's different.

One thing I've found is that grammar 'rules' are often essentially universal theories of clarity - follow them and you're writing will have clarity. For a simple example, omit the subject, verb, or object, and people will misinterpret those missing pieces.

> The problems with style guides are they don’t represent most writing, and they often represent publishing fads, and they change. Things that were in the style guide when I was a kid aren’t the same anymore. They try to be prescriptive

That isn't my experience: They seem relatively conservative about change, descriptive, and flexible. If you want them to be descriptive, they should have changed since you were a kid.
by flohofwoe | 2025-05-29 09:06:37+00:00
The "10x speedup" is for the compilation step from TS to JS, eg how much faster the new Typescript compiler is, not the runtime performance of the JS output.

Theoretically(!) using TS over JS may indirectly result in slightly better perf though because it nudges you towards not mutating the shape of runtime objects (which may cause the JS engine to re-JIT your code). The extra compilation step might also allow to do some source-level optimizations, like constant folding. But I think TS doesn't do this (other JS minifiers/optimizers do though).
by squishington | 2025-05-29 09:07:12+00:00
Yes! I found Emacs on a 1997 CD ROM inside a book about VHDL "functional bus models" in my university library in 2014. Over the years it has become an extension of my body. There's always something new coming along in terms of performance and functionality. My co-workers have never been inspired to explore it. Most people think it is a relic.
by danielmorozoff | 2025-05-29 09:09:11+00:00
This is a specific section of the report::

Section 5.5.2: The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State

The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was a remarkably strong and unexpected attractor state for Claude Opus 4 that emerged without intentional training for such behaviors.
by teekert | 2025-05-29 09:09:47+00:00
I guess there are limits, like a pixel should never move more then its size, or you limit resolution (at least from some angels). So deep basses are out of the question?

It is getting very interesting, sound, possibly haptics. We already had touch of course, including fingerprint (and visuals of course). We are more and more able to produce richt sensory experiences for panes of glass.
by hunglee2 | 2025-05-29 09:10:01+00:00
What is good for capitalists is not good for national security.

NVIDIA are doing what they can to stay within the letter of the regulations, but each time Chinese companies innovate around the limitations, US Gov shifts the goalpost in order to slow down this innovation rate. Likely Jensen can see the end but is making what he can from NVIDIA's declining China market share, which remains a billion dollar market for him.
Show HN: Narratrail – AWS CloudTrail to Slack Bot. Seeking Feedback
by rikhul | 2025-05-29 09:10:43+00:00
At my work, we rely heavily on AWS. To keep our small team informed about account activities, I developed a bot that sends CloudTrail events directly to our Slack channel. It’s been incredibly useful, primarily for quickly searching historical events—like pinpointing who created a specific EC2 instance so we know who to ask about it. We’ve also found it invaluable for catching error messages that the AWS API sometimes hides.

I decided to try productizing this bot, which brings me here. If you’d like to try it out, I’d be happy to offer it to you for free—just DM me. But more importantly, I’m seeking your feedback on the idea and my landing page. So far, I haven’t had any customers and very few visitors to the page. Any tips on how to market this tool would be greatly appreciated.

Landing page: https://www.narratrail.com/ AWS Marketplace listing: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ogc45lxjge3nk

Thank you,

Rikard