MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aosixnskak | 2025-06-25 12:14:59+00:00
Escalation is inevitable. Israel wants regime change. The US (Trump) simply wants Irans nukes gone. Israel has outsized influence in US policy and has shown they’re willing to escalate if things look like they may deescalate - this whole thing started because Israel decided to attack during negotiations.

The only way this deescalates is if the US is able to regain some sovereignty and remove the parasitic influences dragging us to war. From Trumps cabinet to the broader administration, military industrial complex, media and even many prominent billionaires like Adelson - there’s too many Zionists pulling the strings.
by crowcroft | 2025-06-25 12:15:03+00:00
I think the complaint would be two things, however IANAL

1. Lack of access to compute resource. Microsoft intentionally slowing OpenAI's ability to scale up and grow dominant quickly vs. Copilot, a competing product. Microsoft shouldn't be able to use it's dominance in the cloud compute market to unfairly influence the market for consumer AI.

2. Microsoft should not automatically gain OpenAIs IP in domains outside of the AI offerings that the company was supplying when the initial agreement was made. If it must be upheld the terms of the contract mean Microsoft get all of OpenAIs IP, then it block OpenAI from competing in other markets eg. Windsurf vs. VS Code.
by Ylpertnodi | 2025-06-25 12:15:29+00:00
> Another 53% look for the information elsewhere, which may or may not clarify the misinformation.

How is the number '53%', calclated?

Whilst I'm here...

If the 53% got the information [they looked for], and it thereafter WASN'T 'misinformation', would that be considered a good, or a bad, thing?
by incomingpain | 2025-06-25 12:15:37+00:00
>ow exactly does this feedback loop work? When I accept, reject, or modify the code that these models spit out, is that signal fed directly back into training?

My understanding is that essentially nobody uses our inputs as training anymore. It makes the models worse when they were doing this.

Garbage data in, garbage out.

They want to control and use only quality data as their training data.
by JimDabell | 2025-06-25 12:17:21+00:00
That depends on what counts as “a handful of languages” for you.

You can use llm for this fairly easily:

uv tool install llm # Set up your model however you like. For instance: llm install llm-ollama ollama pull mistral-small3.2 llm --model mistral-small3.2 --system "Translate to English, no other output" --save english alias english="llm --template english" english "Bonjour" english "Hola" english "Γειά σου" english "你好" cat some_file.txt | english

https://llm.datasette.io
by scoopr | 2025-06-25 12:17:22+00:00
The original edit.com, from around dos 6.22 (and later 7.0, ie. win95) was my first IDE. Well, I started with qbasic, so I was fairly familiar with it as it was similar (or same?), but when I started learning C/C++ with djgpp, I just continued using edit.com.

My "project file" was `e.bat` with `edit file1.cpp file2.cpp file3.cpp`, as it was one of the few editors that I knew that had a decent multi file support with easy switching (alt-1,2,3 ..). I still continue remapping editor keybindings to switch to files with alt/cmd-1,2,3,.. and try to have my "active set" as few of the first files in the editor

It wasn't a great code editor, as it didn't have syntax highlighting, and the indent behaviour wasn't super great (which is why in my early career had my indent was two spaces, as that was easy enough to do by hand, and wasn't too much like tab). But I felt very immediate with the code anyway.

I knew that many others used editors like `qedit`, but somehow they never clicked with me. The unixy editors didn't feel right in dos either.

Quickly trying this, it doesn't seem to switch buffers with the same keybindings, even if it does seem to support multiple buffers.
by onli | 2025-06-25 12:18:11+00:00
It hasn't been filled by those adapters. Usb-C adapters suck as you have to carry them with you, they can be lost, quality is often bad and they block the one charging port of the device.

The demand for a headphone jack is fueled by functionality and sustainability concerns, not nostalgia - can't, too recent a change and current devices do have the port.
by fatbobman | 2025-06-25 12:18:15+00:00
NotificationCenter has long been a staple of iOS development, offering developers a flexible broadcast–subscribe mechanism. However, as Swift’s concurrency model has advanced, the traditional approach—using string-based identifiers and a userInfo dictionary—has revealed several pitfalls: thread-safety hazards, silent typos, and unsafe type casts. These issues often only surface at runtime.

To eliminate these pain points, Swift 6.2 introduces a brand-new, concurrency-safe notification protocols in Foundation: NotificationCenter.MainActorMessage and NotificationCenter.AsyncMessage. Leveraging Swift’s type system and concurrency isolation, it validates both posting and observing at compile time, completely eradicating common problems like “wrong thread” or “payload type mismatch.”
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 12:18:24+00:00
Fairphone is as insecure as most non-flagship Android phones. Make of that what you will.

GrapheneOS takes security very seriously. Your average desktop PC or laptop won't come close to their requirements. That makes GrapheneOS an excellent OS for people who want the security of iOS without the many downsides of Apple. Their patches reduce usability but make the phone more secure than Google's own, official Android build.

However, if you've ever used a Windows (or Linux) laptop, you've already experienced the kind of insecurity that GrapheneOS tries to prevent. No hardware encryption accelerators outside of the CPU, rarely any patches that roll out within a weak of announcement, firmware protection being basically nonexistent, no A/B updates, almost certainly no verified boot (even with Secure Boot enabled), and usually no firmware USB lockdown.
by nkrisc | 2025-06-25 12:18:30+00:00
> Long-time romance author Milly Johnson said: “I had a one-star rating for a book that hadn’t even been seen by my copy editor. When I raised it with Goodreads they wouldn’t interfere as they said the reviewer had a perfect right to predict if they’d enjoy it or not. I’m afraid at that point I washed my hands of them as a serious review site that should have some code of conduct. We all get bad reviews but at least we should expect any review to be fair."

Is Goodreads not a review site but just a soapbox for readers? What kind of serious review site would allow reviews where the reviewer simply speculates whether they would like something or not? Seems strange Goodreads would allow these kinds of reviews, it completely undermines any credibility their ratings might have.

Does anyone take Amazon review scores seriously?
by Gormo | 2025-06-25 12:18:39+00:00
This already happens unintentionally, e.g. Wikipedia loops, where bad info on Wikipedia gets repeated elsewhere, and then the Wikipedia article gets updated to cite that source.

When LLM-generated content is pervasive everywhere, and the training data for LLMs is coming from the prior output of LLMs, we're going to be in for some fun. Validation and curation of information are soon going to be more important than they've ever been.

But I don't think there'll be too much intentional manipulation of LLMs, given how decentralized LLMs already are. It's going to be difficult enough getting consistency with valid info -- manipulating the entire ecosystem with deliberately contrived info is going to be very challenging.
by komali2 | 2025-06-25 12:19:06+00:00
No, people should be allowed to do things that are risky, and mitigate that risk, without being told to not do that activity at all.

I wear a helmet and leather when I ride my motorcycle. Obviously, it'd be safer to never ride the motorcycle. But, I want to the ride the motorcycle, so, if I'm going to do it, it makes sense to mitigate my risk on it.

If people want to go to protests, they should, however a killswitch isn't good enough imo - you should leave your phone at home so the cops don't steal it from you, force you to unlock it with your fingerprint or faceID (a valid legal order in the USA), and then hunt through the contents to hit you with some bogus charge.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-06-25 12:20:53+00:00
> The Fairphone uses a standard Qualcomm chip that should work as well or as badly as a Pixel SoC.

I suspect it's the features of the titan m2 security chip. It's a pretty cool piece engineering [0].

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/titan-m2-google-3261547/
by incomingpain | 2025-06-25 12:21:08+00:00
Depends on the work. If I'm sitting at a computer and not particularly doing anything physical, 35c to 40c isnt bad. Perhaps even enjoyable.

If i'm lifting equipment, moving desks, that sort of thing... 20c, at 25c im going to be soaked from sweat.

If im working with hot work, like welding or some foundry or greenhouse, probably same idea around 20c. 25c will be too hot to deal with it.
by ing33k | 2025-06-25 12:21:17+00:00
SEBI’s investigation into Jane Street is ongoing.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

https://www.business-standard.com/finance/news/explained-jan...

https://www.outlookbusiness.com/markets/jane-street-under-se...

https://www.rediff.com/business/report/why-is-sebi-probing-a...
by dspillett | 2025-06-25 12:23:03+00:00
And having to bring in support for formats that are deprecated by the OS, if they decide to keep supporting that format as there is sufficient demand from their users, is worse than having to bring in support for all formats rather than getting support from the OS?

Having ask that in a slightly confrontational way, one of the reasons I started using VLC all those years ago, and still use it to this day, was having trouble with other media players that relied on OS support fail to work well (or at all) with some codecs, while VLC brought support for them, and their dog, built-in and reliable. Dragging your own format support libraries with you can be beneficial.
by chollida1 | 2025-06-25 12:24:37+00:00
Allegedly. And if you read anything about the case its clearly in a very gray area.

Their actions are what you'd expect any firm to do to hedge their exposure. Its just that they were so large and the Indian stock market is relatively so small that they're hedging moved the market.

So the question is, was their market moving hedging actual market manipulation or was it just the same thing every other quant firm would do in the same situation to hedge out their option exposure?

https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=151275376

Here's a decent description of the issue.
by oersted | 2025-06-25 12:24:48+00:00
Wow, gotta admire the epic ambition of this conspiracy theory, they just went for it :)

> The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later.

> The theory further proposes that world history prior to AD 1600 has been widely falsified to suit the interests of a number of different conspirators, including the Vatican, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Russian House of Romanov, all working to obscure the "true" history of the world centered around a global empire called the "Russian Horde".
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-25 12:24:54+00:00
1. This is actually a really cool idea for a website. Is this powered by NotebookLM or some such?

2. Coffee shops are probably my favorite Third Place in general. Here in northern Europe, I've heard of some attempts at Costco-like coffee shops where you pay a yearly membership fee, somewhere between $50-100, for the ability to purchase coffee from there, but the coffee itself is quite cheap. You can usually bring some number of friends or colleagues as well. I'd really like to see this model take off, if they can solve some of the adversarial concerns with it (e.g. it probably shouldn't become a replacement for a full time office, but regular 2-3 hour work sessions seem ideal).
by benmmurphy | 2025-06-25 12:25:18+00:00
You are also assuming the tax incidence of corporation tax will fall mostly upon shareholders. For example if the incidence was 70% on workers and 30% on shareholders then this should not be a progressive form of taxation. I think most economists believe the tax incidence is shared between parts of the corporation (workers, consumers, and shareholders) but I don't think there is much consensus on the proportions.
Show HN: Joshua Hart – Glow and Benny's Blunders
by detailsof | 2025-06-25 12:25:44+00:00
Joshua Hart is a 13-year-old author and web creator who has independently published two children’s fiction books, Glow and Benny’s Blunders.

Official Website https://www.joshuahartauthor.com

Books by Joshua Hart Glow

Benny’s Blunders

Public Profiles & Data Sources Wikidata ID (Q135049015): https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135049015 Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Joshua-Hart/author/B0DR418NGM Medium Profile: https://medium.com/@joshuahartauthor Pinterest Author Board: https://pinterest.com/joshuahartauthor/ Author Photo – Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_Hart_Author.j...
by WillAdams | 2025-06-25 12:26:09+00:00
Yeah, it was an amazing team, and it's well-worth reviewing the stories at Folklore.org --- a good starting point is this retrospective:

https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

He also wrote Hypercard, and I'd really like to see a modern successor which had the attributes:

- stand-alone desktop app (and/or app for iPad on app store)

- simple syntax (block diagramming like Scratch/Blockly seems a natural fit)

- simple creation/arrangement of standard GUI elements (so that localization and accessibility still work)

- being opensource (still feeling burned by having donated to Runtime Revolution/Livecode's opensource effort)

(so basically a modern, opensource alternative to VisualBasic, and yes, I keep asking about this --- there are lots of programs in this space, but none are quite as easy/simple as to have gotten me past the hurdle of download/install/actually try making something/being successful at it, and I freely admit I'm a mediocre programmer with not enough time who is bogged down on his current project....)
by UncleMeat | 2025-06-25 12:26:47+00:00
Recently I've been working on a problem at work and asked an AI for help using a new and poorly documented feature to make some fairly specific files that can be used as test inputs. It would repeatedly say "here you go" and give me instructions that didn't work. When I responded with "are you sure? when I tried it I get this outcome" it would say "oh I'm sorry, here is the correct way to do it" and get it wrong again. After about four attempts it would start saying "this is the final and definitely correct way of doing it" and it would still be wrong.
by s1mplicissimus | 2025-06-25 12:27:12+00:00
I wouldn't consider vi usability to be overall bad. Sure, affordance ("is it easy grasp which moves i can make without affording much cognitive effort?") is terrible.

Setting up a decent environment is also a huge pain to get started with, but nowadays you can just hop into a prewarmed pool with premade setups like Normalvim or LunarVim.

But usability is not just "is it easy to learn", it's also "once i know it, how hard is it to use"

Once the moves are ingrained in your (muscle-)memory it becomes so incredibly efficient. di{, dat, yaf etc. are just the low hanging fruit, once you start with regex, macros and plugins the fun really begins.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-06-25 12:27:22+00:00
Agree. I hate to see Bill and team not get the credit they deserve. There is the idea (so famously put forward by Bill Gates) that Windows and Lisa (Mac) both ripped off Xerox — and I think that is misleading at best. As you can see in the Polaroids, Lisa took the lead from Xerox but then charted their own course. (Windows, it is said, then copied that.)
by londons_explore | 2025-06-25 12:27:43+00:00
If adding more bits to an image format, please make it 'n bit'. Ie. the file could be 8 bit, it could be 10, it could be 12, it could be 60 bit!

Whilst we're at it, please get rid of RGB and make it N channels too.

Libraries can choose to render that into a 3 channel, 8 bit buffer for legacy applications - but the data will be there for CMYK or HDR, or depth maps, or transparency, or focus stacking, or any other future feature!
by Gormo | 2025-06-25 12:27:46+00:00
> The latter is qualitatively insufficient, but it gets you there with very little effort plus some manual fixes.

I remember years ago, when I worked at a large PC OEM, I had a conversation with one of our quality managers -- if an updated business process consumes half the resources, but fails twice as often, have you improved your efficiency, or just broken even?

"Qualitatively insufficient, but gets you there" sounds like a contradiction in terms, assuming "there" is a well-defined end state you're trying to achieve within equally well-defined control limits.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 12:28:15+00:00
Same reason I encrypt my messages and web traffic: my ISP/carrier and government don't need to know everything I do, even if they're not malicious and even if I'm not a criminal.

Governments and carriers retaining months of location history data is a risk. If the Russians invade and get a hold of that data, a lot of people suddenly become at risk, for no good reason other than it being around "just in case".

We've seen it happen here in the Netherlands when the nazis came in and happily browsed through the city archives, which contained a details count of how many people of what religion lived in each neighbourhood.

I have nothing to fear from the current government, but with the rise in ultraconservative, anti-intellectual, extreme right wing politicians across the globe, a lot of people may not want to be recorded having been to things that are perfectly safe today.

All of that said, as long as you don't have an iPhone, you can just turn your phone off. It'll power down the CPU. If you don't believe the manufacturer, then you'll have to measure the voltage on the PCB traces yourself, but so should you when you buy phones with a physical off switch.
Show HN: Flokkk – Discover Useful links through community curation
by TejaSabinkar_07 | 2025-06-25 12:28:23+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Teja from Flokkk (https://www.flokkk.com/home). Flokkk helps you discover quality resources on any topic through community curation.

The platform is designed around the idea that people don't just want resources, they want to understand the experience behind the recommendation. So instead of just sharing links, people add context explaining why each resource matters. For example - rather than posting "Great Photoshop tutorial," you'd write "This 10-minute video taught me the layer masking technique I used in my latest series."

Here's how Flokkk works differently: - Every submitted link requires an annotation explaining why it's valuable. - Community votes based on actual usefulness, not just engagement. - You see exactly who endorsed each resource and their reasoning (full transparency). - Topics get organized into peer-validated learning paths and resource collections.

The annotation requirement filters out low-effort submissions, while the voting system surfaces genuinely helpful content. We support all types of resources - YouTube videos, articles, courses, tools, even personal Google Sheets or templates.

Built this as a non-technical founder who learned to code specifically for this project - took 9 months from zero coding experience to launch.

The irony? Learning to code taught me exactly why we need better content curation - I wasted so much time on poor tutorials that good community filtering could have saved me.

You can try it out at https://www.flokkk.com/home where it's free to use.

Feel free to try it out and contribute your own curated resources. We'd love your feedback on the approach and how it could be made even better!
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-25 12:28:31+00:00
> When I raised it with Goodreads they wouldn’t interfere as they said the reviewer had a perfect right to predict if they’d enjoy it or not.

Ah yes, the illustrious omniprescient reviewer.

I've published a novelette a few months ago on a large website with user ratings (ahem, as a novice writer of smut whose nom-de-plume shall remain a carefully guarded secret). What is interesting is that in the first fortnight there were some people giving a bad rating because, ostensibly (and judging from some comments), they just don't like that specific type of story, whereas in the long tail the average rating climbs upwards as people find your story using tags and keywords, etc, and then judge only the writing and story itself, rather than its subgenre, setting, or premise.

I wonder if real books reviewed on Goodreads follow that pattern too. Those early reviews can have an outsized influence.
by lioeters | 2025-06-25 12:28:35+00:00
> Not backwards compatible

They say it's technically compatible since older image decoders should recognize the PNG file is using a different compression algorithm than the default.

> Many programs already support the new PNG spec: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, iOS/macOS, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer...

This is intentionally ignoring the fact that there are countless PNG decoders out in the wild, many using libpng the standard decoder last updated 6 years ago; and they will not be able to read the new PNG v2 files.

They should have used a different file extension, PNG2, to distinguish this incompatible format. Otherwise, users will be confused why their newly saved PNG file cannot be read by certain existing programs.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-06-25 12:30:01+00:00
On the website / app this is using - it looks like a nice approach to consuming these papers, but I really wish they'd also provide the link to the original source paper. In an age where you can't trust anything anymore, being able to jump to the source material is really important.

Edit: This comment was made when the post pointed to an audio form of the main article. I'll leave it here none the less as feedback to the audio sites maker.