MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-03 14:12:51+00:00
> not distinguishing between different kinds of bikes.

The appropriate forums are filled with people outraged on the "ban on e-bikes" that NY State & City are leading the charge for. They were the first to ban non-UL certified bikes, and have proposed and/or enacted several other regulations against over-wattage bikes.

I'm not sure how effective the laws and enforcement are, but NYC is definitely doing more than nothing to get rid of the heaviest/fastest bikes.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-03 14:13:21+00:00
It's not just time spent typing. Figuring out what needs to be typed can be both draining and time consuming. It's often (but not always) much easier to review someone else's solution to the problem than it is to solve it from scratch on your own.

Oddly enough security critical flows are likely to be one of the few exceptions because catching subtle reasoning errors that won't trip any unit tests when reviewing code that you didn't write is extremely difficult.
by atomic128 | 2025-06-03 14:13:25+00:00
The clean, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable.

Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.

Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously. Basically, next to nuclear power plants. The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful long-distance distribution infrastructure. Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014
by atomic128 | 2025-06-03 14:13:43+00:00
The clean, non-intermittent power provided by nuclear reactors is extremely valuable.

Unless you are located near a hydroelectric dam, there is really no substitute.

Here is a quote from Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously. Basically, next to nuclear power plants. The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful long-distance distribution infrastructure. Note: Yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1837875035270263014
by everybodyknows | 2025-06-03 14:13:47+00:00
Org-mode has all three of:

1. Spec, written after the fact, not by a core dev.

2. Live help in 'org-info'.

3. Elisp string extraction via 'M-x describe-function' and the like.

Difficulties arise from subtle inconsistencies between the three, and inability of any one to comprehend the kitchen-tool-bin jumble of low- and high-level functionality that has been added over the years.

OTOH, content display is economical of eye and finger effort, and some of the Emacs interaction features startingly powerful.

I wrote my own, use-case specific converter to expand org-format to HTML. Runs on the CL, written in Go.
by igornotarobot | 2025-06-03 14:14:31+00:00
It should be possible to write protocol specifications in Lean, e.g., this is a recent case study on specifying two-phase commit in Lean [1] and proving its safety [2].

However, there are no model checkers for Lean. Currently, you either have to write a full proof by hand, with some assistance from LLMs, or rely on random simulation, similar to property-based testing.

[1] https://protocols-made-fun.com/lean/2025/04/25/lean-two-phas... [2] https://protocols-made-fun.com/lean/2025/05/10/lean-two-phas...
by KineticLensman | 2025-06-03 14:14:43+00:00
Well, yes, I'm sure if I uploaded a full text and spent time on the prompts I could get better results, although these might be similar to other students doing the same thing, which might get me a plagiarism fail.

My point was that I would be very hesitant to rely on ChatGPT as an assistant in a real literature task. Many of the texts on my Eng Lit course are in copyright, as is all of the module material (the OU's course-specific textbooks). The hallucinations are a real show-stopper.
by burkaman | 2025-06-03 14:14:58+00:00
> Would the average person today think it a good use of public funds to put people on mars?

Yes, support for public funding of NASA has only been increasing for the last 50 years: https://news.gallup.com/poll/260309/years-moon-landing-suppo....

> NASA is lagging the private sector on essentially every axis

What private companies are ahead of NASA in designing and running space telescopes and other fundamental scientific research? You can see a list of active scientific missions here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-missions/#all-missions.

What private companies are currently operating rovers somewhere besides Earth? What private companies are monitoring for solar storms and providing advance warning to power grid operators on Earth?
by like_any_other | 2025-06-03 14:15:37+00:00
A commenter mentioned [1] that major Russian apps now all ask for permission to read a unique device ID to deanonymize users. The people that stopped Intel from adding such an ID to their CPUs had perfect foresight [2] (too bad later Intel added it anyway). But then it's not hard to guess that if you include a feature whose purpose is to attack the user, it will be used to attack the user.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Controversy_about_...
by closewith | 2025-06-03 14:15:38+00:00
Europe works hard. Europe is not decaying, not like the United States at least. You lack the introspection to see that.

Europe is strong, stronger than the United States in its core institutions. You also lack the introspection to see that.

It is the United States that is at risk of losing its sovereignty, its wealth, and it's power. Again, you lack the introspection to see that too.
by deadmanku | 2025-06-03 14:15:56+00:00
Your argument relies on the idea of an "actual product", what is happening—and I’m seeing it firsthand both in my company’s codebase and in my personal projects—is that AI is contributing more and more to product development. If this trend continues, we may reach a point where 90% of a product is written by AI.

At that stage, the real value will lie in the remaining 10%—the part that requires human judgment, creativity, or architectural thinking. The rest will be seen as routine: simple instructions, redundant CRUD operations, boilerplate, and glue code.

If we focus only on the end result, human will inevitably write less code overall. And writing less code means fewer programming jobs.
by chii | 2025-06-03 14:16:08+00:00
> They want to turn artists and craftsmen into assembly line supervisors.

the same was uttered by blacksmiths and other craftsman who has been displaced by technology. Yet they are mercilessly crushed.

Your enjoyment of a job is not a consideration to those paying you to do it; and if there's a more efficient way, it will be adopted. The idea that your job is your identity may be at fault here - and when someone's identity is being threatened (as it very much is right now with these new AI tools), they respond very negatively.
by gruez | 2025-06-03 14:16:21+00:00
>The website wants to connect to another computer|another app on your computer.

"website wants to connect to another computer" basically describes all websites. Do you really expect the average user to understand the difference? The exploit is also non-trivial either. SDP and TURN aren't privacy risks in and of themselves. They only pose risks when the server is set to localhost and with a cooperating app.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-03 14:17:02+00:00
Every time this sort of thing comes up, I go back to Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube and drawing strokes and regions and then working up custom PostScript code for strokes and fills --- and wishing that there was a way to put a text box on screen and get its contents, or have a slider or other input into a PS program.

Nodebox almost scratches that itch:

https://www.nodebox.net/

but the last time I tried it, I couldn't get the precision which my current project requires for output.
by rkomorn | 2025-06-03 14:17:40+00:00
I really liked the concept of BAT but the reality left me wanting.

Things like "we'll hang on to the tokens of sites that don't use BAT yet for them until they join" gave negative vibes.

It all felt a little underbaked. I swing back to Brave once in a blue moon and then remember I've got at least $20's worth of BAT lost forever somewhere.
by matthberg | 2025-06-03 14:17:46+00:00
Yep! Unfortunately its main method (as far as I remember from when I first read the proposal at least, it may do more) is adding preflight requests and headers to opt-in, which works for most cases yet doesn't block behind-the-lines collaborating apps like mentioned in the main article. If there's a listening app (like Meta was caught doing) that's expecting the requests, this doesn't do much to protect you.

EDIT: Looks like it does mention integrating into the permissions system [0], I guess I missed that. Glad they covered that consideration, then!

0: https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/#integration-p...
by jmachete | 2025-06-03 14:18:55+00:00
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by nicksolace | 2025-06-03 14:19:00+00:00
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by dahart | 2025-06-03 14:19:04+00:00
> She is often unsure if she or the computer is the artist.

Did she really say that? As a moonlighting digital artist, I feel like this is the same thing as a painter saying they’re not sure if the paintbrush is the artist. Maybe if I wanted a full time art career I should have leaned into it and fostered the dramatic narrative of the computer having intent. God knows there are a bunch of artists who actually know better say lots of stupid untrue stuff that anthropomorphizes computers, and they enjoy a lot of attention for it. I think this hyperbolic ghost in the machine crap is very short sighted and has influenced public opinion much for the worse.

Artists are undermining their own efforts and talents and spreading misinformation about what computers actually do when they tell the story this way. More importantly, they are undermining the efforts and talents of all artists, specifically of digital artists who don’t want to take part in the computer-as-artist narrative. I’ve stood next to my art at a gallery show and had people walk by and say out loud something like “ugh why is this here? this crap is just made by a computer”. I don’t expect people to understand how I use the computer, but the bias and lack of curiosity is pretty sad, and my computer was neither artist nor collaborator. It was a tool that I used to achieve a vision I had, the same way I use a paintbrush to make pictures.

We could talk about who made the tools, whether it’s a paintbrush, a camera, or computer hardware and software. There’s a Grand Canyon of space for credit that various other people might deserve, in between the artist and the art made using a computer. Jumping to the conclusion that the computer did anything on it’s own and deserves attribution is to be unintentionally (or sometimes intentionally) ignorant about what a computer is and what it does.
by withodyssey | 2025-06-03 14:19:40+00:00
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by xpe | 2025-06-03 14:19:54+00:00
I’m outside the edit window, but I have one thing to add. To restate #5 differently: Banging one’s head against barely movable reality is not a wise plan; it is reactionary and probably a waste of your precious bodily fluids — I mean energy. On the other hand, focusing your efforts on calculated risks, even if they seem improbable, can be worthwhile, as long as you choose your battles.
by nadc | 2025-06-03 14:20:02+00:00
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Show HN: Sokuji – Real-time speech-to-speech translation for Meet, Teams, Zoom
by jiangzhuo | 2025-06-03 14:20:45+00:00
We just launched Microsoft Teams and Zoom support for Sokuji, our open-source, AI-powered real-time speech translation tool. Whether you're working across borders or bridging language gaps in online meetings, Sokuji brings accurate, multilingual voice translation to your workflow. Works with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, and more Browser extension (for web meetings) Linux desktop app (acts as a system-level virtual microphone) Powered by OpenAI – supports all major languages Fully open source: contributions welcome (especially for a macOS version!)

Sokuji is built entirely through “vibe coding” – no manual code, no human review. Just a conversation between developer and AI.

We initially used Windsurf for development, and recently began refactoring parts of the project using Cursor and Anthropic's Claude 4.

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by Ciantic | 2025-06-03 14:21:55+00:00
Also this: https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-po...

"ArduPilot can handle tasks like stabilizing a drone in the air while the pilot focuses on moving to their next objective. Pilots can switch them into loitering mode, for example, if they need to step away or perform another task, and it has failsafe modes that keep a drone aloft if signal is lost."

So it is not fully autonomous.
by gdubs | 2025-06-03 14:22:01+00:00
There's a deeper educational problem that's been decades in the making which is that students are trained to see school and work as a series of never ending goals to achieve. The ultimate one is to 'get a job'. Well, now nobody can really even say what jobs will be available in 5 to 10 years with high confidence. Except maybe the trades – and we mostly cut those programs out of schools a long time ago.

If college students are using AI to breeze through their work rather than doing the reading themselves, developing grit – I don't see how we can blame them rather than ourselves for the educational and career system we've created. This problem didn't happen overnight, and it's not just AI.
by code_for_monkey | 2025-06-03 14:22:13+00:00
what no one is reckoning with right here

The AI skeptics are mostly correctly reacting to the AI hypists, who are usually shitty linkedin influencer type dudes crowing about how they never have to pay anyone again. its very natural, even intelligent to not trust this now that its filling the same bubble as NFTs a few years ago. I think its okay to stay skeptical and see where the chips fall in a few years at this point.
by _bc2z | 2025-06-03 14:22:20+00:00
Most people don't realize that LLMs by design were not made for document processing, data extraction etc. For that, you would have to use a dedicated tool like Klippa DocHorizon, which built its own AI OCR from scratch. It also provides an API that you can use to send your documents and receive formatted data. It's less popular than, say, Textract or Tesseract, but it's far more accurate, especially if you're dealing with sensitive data that you wouldn't want an LLM to hallucinate.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-03 14:22:23+00:00
> There are no cases where slavery is good, regardless of who does it or who it's done to. The same goes for genocide, murder, robbery and so on.

Have you heard of prisons? We use a different word for it so as to not introduce the (obviously false) semantic "contradiction".

Perhaps if you want to say that forced labor is bad even after conviction, then let's say "kidnapping is bad when done by bad people, kidnapping is good when done by good people [to bad people]". Ta-da, you've invented prison.
by xpe | 2025-06-03 14:22:43+00:00
Almost by definition, one should be skeptical about hype. So we’re all trying to sort out what is being sold to us.

Different people have different weird tendencies in different directions. Some people irrationally assume that things aren’t going to change much. Others see a trend and irrationally assume that it will continue on a trend line.

Synthesis is hard.

Understanding causality is even harder.

Savvy people know that we’re just operating with a bag of models and trying to choose the right combination for the right situation.

This misunderstanding is one reason why doomers, accelerations, and “normies” talk past each other or (worse) look down on each other. (I’m not trying to claim epistemic equivalence here; some perspectives are based on better information, some are better calibrated than others! I’m just not laying out my personal claims at this point. Instead, I’m focusing on how we talk to each other.)

Another big source of misunderstanding is about differing loci of control. People in positions of influence are naturally inclined to think about what they can do, who they know, and where they want to be. People farther removed feel relatively powerless and tend to hold onto their notions of stability, such as the status quo or their deepest values.

Historically, programmers have been quite willing to learn new technologies, but now we’re seeing widespread examples where people’s plasticity has limits. Many developers cannot (or are unwilling to) wrap their minds around the changing world. So instead of confronting the reality they find ways to deny it, consciously or subconsciously. Our perception itself is shaped by our beliefs, and some people won’t even perceive the threat because it is too strange or disconcerting. Such is human nature: we all do it. Sometimes we’re lucky enough to admit it.
by jusomg | 2025-06-03 14:22:49+00:00
I've never done contractor or $/hr work and I have no idea how these things work in reality, but:

If a task takes you five hours to do without AI and 1 hour with AI charged at 100$, in the without-AI case you're making 500$, in the with-AI case you're making 100$ - price_of_AI, right?

Otherwise your example assumes you're charging someone 5 hours of work when in reality it took you 1 hour and then you spent an additional 4 hours watching TV.

In any case this thinking exercise made me realize that maybe it's more about staying competitive against other peers than about "AI paying for itself". If you're really charging for hours of work, then it is really a competitive advantage against people not using AI.

Assuming an AI-enhanced contractor can do the same amount of work than a non-AI-enhanced contractor in fewer hours, then I'd assume they would get more contracts, because the overall project is cheaper for whoever is hiring them. Does that really lead to you making more money, though? No idea honestly. Probably not? I just can't see how using AI "pays for itself". At best you're making now less money than before, because you're required to pay for the AI subscription if you want to stay competitive.
by gruez | 2025-06-03 14:22:52+00:00
This only works if you control the code on both sides (ie. on the website being visited and an app running on the phone). It's not some sort of magic hack that allows you to exfiltrate arbitrary browser history. Therefore it's unclear how it can be construed as "hacking" in any meaningful way. As bad non-consensual tracking done by google/meta/whatever are, it's not covered under CFAA.
I made a React Native Drag and Drop library that finally works!
by entropyconquers | 2025-06-03 14:23:22+00:00
Hey folks!

I wanted to develop drag-and-drop functionality in my React Native app. After hitting a wall with all the existing options, I decided to dive deep and build a solution from scratch built with Reanimated 3 and RNGH.

The result is react-native-reanimated-dnd, a library I poured a ton of effort into, hoping to create something genuinely useful for the community.

My goals were simple:

Performance: Smooth, 60fps interactions are a must.

Flexibility: From basic draggables to complex, auto-scrolling sortable lists.

Developer Experience: Clear API, TypeScript, and (I hope!) excellent documentation with plenty of examples. (There's an example app with 15 demos you can try via Expo Go – link in the README!)

It's got all the features I wished for: collision detection, drag handles, boundary constraints, custom animations, and more.

You can find everything – code, feature list, GIFs, and links to the live demo & docs – on GitHub.

@entropyconquers/react-native-reanimated-dnd

If you find it helpful or think it's a cool project, I'd be super grateful for a star !

I'd love to hear your thoughts, or even what your biggest pain points with DnD in RN have been. Let's make DnD less of a chore!