MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by em-bee | 2025-06-11 12:05:16+00:00
I have never heard of Pike or societyserver before

pike/roxen had a brief window of growth in the 90s but the leaders at the roxen company (not the devs) missed the opportunity to work with the FOSS community.

pike is fully C-syntax, and it is very performant, so that may be interesting for you.

societyserver is my fork/continuation of a university project called open-sTeam that stopped development more than a decade ago. i continue to use it and when i am not busy earning money try to work on it, but i haven't yet been able to build a community around it.

the process isolation you talk about sounds like something that erlang promises as well, but i don't know enough about erlang to tell. i'd be curious to learn more though.

open-sTeam/societyserver built an object-level access control system. method calls on others object are being intercepted and only allowed to pass if the caller has the necessary permission to access that object.

it's not process isolation, but also a concept i find interesting
by benterix | 2025-06-11 12:05:43+00:00
> It’s next to impossible for individuals to assess the benefit or harm of chatbots and agents through self-experimentation. These tools trigger a number of biases and effects that cloud our judgement. Generative models also have a volatility of results and uneven distribution of harms, similar to pharmaceuticals, that mean it’s impossible to discover for yourself what their societal or even organisational impact will be.

Yeah, but so do people.
by prmoustache | 2025-06-11 12:07:12+00:00
The fact they don't sell ads doesn't mean they are not in the business of selling users data to third parties.

Also Netflix wasn't initially selling ads and there you have after increasing the price of their plans drastically in the last few years the ad supported subscription is probably the #1 plans because most people aren't willing to shed 15 to 25usd/€ every month to watch content that is already littered with ads.
by CodesInChaos | 2025-06-11 12:07:32+00:00
In that case the "unused" stack was overwritten by a function called on that thread. But I'd assume that Denuvo is careful to not call any third party code while it expects the "unused" stack data to remain unmodified, so this shouldn't happen here.

So this code can only break if the data is overwritten from code outside the control of that thread. On Unix, certain signals could cause that. Or the OS could decide to zero out the unused thread while the thread isn't running. Zeroing the thread could the helpful to wipe secrets spilled there (forward secrecy related), or if whole pages can be zeroed (via something like MADV_ZERO), it could reduce the memory consumption by allowing threads to shrink.

While I would like that thread zeroing feature, I think it's unlikely that MS will implement something like it. So the code should be unlikely to break in practice.
by walleeee | 2025-06-11 12:07:48+00:00
> It's really cool to hear a public figure seriously talk about self-replicating machines. To me this is the key to unlocking human potential and ending material scarcity.

You are a self-replicating machine running on top of a massive web of other self replicating machines. You are fundamentally constrained by the energy and materials available to you, as is your entire operating stack. You are a petal on a fractal flower whose growth, already exponential, threatens to crack its pot.

Incidentally, crackpot would be a good way to describe these sorts of pieces, if the person writing them did not so obviously benefit from writing them.
by manas_kamal | 2025-06-11 12:07:56+00:00
Team XENEVA agrees with you!

What we're currently working on is a totally revamped UI/UX with a modern design. We'd say that in a way, we're inspired by the design of the VisionOS. Then again, we're building something completely different from them but you can get an idea of the type of product that we're trying to build. Stay tuned for more and no, we would not let all the effort and work go into waste! We're working on this project and are committed to this full time!

Thank You, Team XENEVA.
by benterix | 2025-06-11 12:09:01+00:00
> When we only half-understand something, we close the loop from observation to belief by relying on the judgement of our peers and authority figures, but these groups in tech are currently almost certain to be wrong or substantially biased about generative models.

Yeah but the same could be said basically about any hype, like XML 25 ago or object-oriented programming. There is huge hype and then at some point the dust settles down and the society and businesses use the bits that are actually useful.
by chupasaurus | 2025-06-11 12:09:56+00:00
> identifying valuable metrics and carving up heartbeats and baselines for them

The first problem is out of reach for LLMs, the other 2 are trivial with convolutional NNs for a long time.

> extensive dev environments to validate changes, and change controls to ensure you don’t torch production

Are out of scope for observability.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-06-11 12:10:38+00:00
Yeah, I think there is the category of illusionists where it's just disappointing and sad if you learn the truth (oh camera angle and stage moved and thus the statue isn't to be seen anymore) and the category of masters of sleight of hand etc. where you really appreciate the masterfulness and even when you know how the effect was done are more stunned by the precision in the work.
by privacyking | 2025-06-11 12:10:42+00:00
Agree on all counts.

I'm going to trial/move to iOS because of this. If I'm going to live in a walled garden, might as well live in the better one.

Hopefully I can live with the shittier notifications/keyboard/lack of back button; I think the rest of iOS is overall better than a degoogled android experience.

I also don't really understand the point of all these strong integrity checks being enforced e.g. with banking apps or the alike. You can already just go to the corresponding website (and do the same actions) on a compromised device, how does restricting the app version provide any benefit?
by fluidcruft | 2025-06-11 12:11:04+00:00
The 4th Amendment doesn't have anything to do with information that is freely sold by its owner. The 4th Amendment at best would apply when the government wanted to force it to be handed over against the company's will.

Nobody is forcing these companies to do this. They just happen to have stuff the government wants to buy and are more than happy to sell it for a profit. And Congress doesn't forbid it.
by akoculu | 2025-06-11 12:11:39+00:00
When was the last time you were threatened (“we’ll will bang on your door and take down your accounts”) by a company like Kik and you defended the principles and values you believed until the end?

I’m quite familiar with both western and eastern traditions, don’t know any better source than Ghazali’s “the alchemy of happiness” about how people make decisions.

It’s kind of ironic to see people being triggered by just the mention of it though — just reflects what your heart tends to reject impulsively. I wish you curiosity.

P.S Here’s the full quote, it entertainingly describes the ignorance here:

“first, they didn't look at the dates of the emails. They don't understand the timeline.

second, they can't relate to standing your ground in a high pressure situation involving threats.

and third, they haven't read Al-Ghazali yet, don't quite understand how (free) people make decisions”
by syntaxing | 2025-06-11 12:11:56+00:00
Documents being public is one thing. But I remember you guys changed the ToS at one point (I just looked it up, in 2016) where the verbiage is that Onshape owns the IP of these documents which is a huge no for me. I rather pay for solidworks hobbyist for $100 a year that comes with 3Dexperience which performs very similar to Onshape.
by cosmodev | 2025-06-11 12:12:06+00:00
When I was just starting to learn programming years ago, I wanted to build apps for mobile devices. But my computer couldn’t handle Android Studio, so I started exploring alternatives and that’s when I discovered Firefox OS. The idea of building apps with JavaScript was really exciting. All I wanted back then was to make a simple WebView app. It’s fascinating to learn the story behind Firefox OS all these years later
by rbanffy | 2025-06-11 12:12:18+00:00
Let's make Rio windows translucent, with rounded borders that refract the underlying windows... Also, we can add font anti-aliasing and a large choice of fonts, and use AI to perfectly place windows following your workflow. We can also make Rio parallax-aware, with eye detection on connected cameras so that what you see in the screen reflect the position of your head, so coming closer to the screen doesn't change apparent size, but the field of view.
by hilbert42 | 2025-06-11 12:12:21+00:00
We need laws to stop Google deleting data in such circumstances. It's one thing to block or remove access to one's data but deleting it is another matter altogether.

Google is a monopoly and people have little choice other than to use it or go without.

If governments cannot bring Big Tech to heal—which seems to be the case—then the least they can do is to protect people's data. A third party, government tribunal etc., ought to be an avenue of appeal. Only after investigation by such an authority and after it deems material illegal etc. could it be deleted.

Despite what I've said I for the life of me cannot understand why people trust Google with their data without first backing it up elsewhere.

For the record I've even chosen to not have a Google account (at least a current one linked to a phone number and a smartphone). Before such mandatory requirements I posted to YouTube under an alias.
by bhouston | 2025-06-11 12:12:46+00:00
> Biden also threatened law firms that represented Trump and threatened to ban them from government buildings and revoke security clearance.

I did a few quick searches for more information about this claim of yours. I also asked Claude and ChatGPT to research it. I can not find any sources to back up this claim of yours. Can you source it for me?

For example:

https://claude.ai/share/d36c7a89-adff-4625-9cd6-89e60b254ea1

https://chatgpt.com/share/684972cb-0140-8006-9f0f-9075537bf2...
by cs702 | 2025-06-11 12:13:15+00:00
Maybe. AI models have continued to scale up at a rapid rate, and have continued to get better at performing ever more impressive tasks. Sure, yes, the OP is breathless corporate-speak, but given how much impressive progress we've seen in AI in just a few years, it would be foolish to dismiss these pronouncements off-hand.

On the other hand, we may need more practical/theoretical breakthroughs to be able to build AI models that are reliable and precise, so they stop making up stuff "whenever they feel like it." Unfortunately, the timing of breakthroughs is not predictable. Maybe it will take months. Maybe it will take a decade. No one knows for sure.
by lipowitz | 2025-06-11 12:13:31+00:00
I don't think video mattered at all to their failure. FirefoxOS was never going to eat Apple's lunch it was going to eat Google's.

If thousands of vendors had made something Android 2.X level for the entry level market and the technical people who actually want what Google engineers wanted the ecosystem by volume would have been mostly FirefoxOS instead of mostly out of date Android and the ecosystem by revenue still Apple's.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-06-11 12:13:37+00:00
While PFAS and microplastics and the like are a huge problem, you can't just dismiss the major efforts done over the decades to reduce pollution and improve health; wood / coal fire bans, mandatory catalytic converters, ban on asbestos and CFCs, lead-free fuel and paint, EVs, renewable electricity generation, emission zones, trash collection & safe disposal, smoking bans and discouraging measures, etc. It's not an either/or, and not celebrating successes means there will be less inclination to also solve the newly discovered issues.
by manas_kamal | 2025-06-11 12:14:02+00:00
Thank you for commenting. We believe there does exist a market gap in places that one quickly doesn't notice. We'll drop one instance here, look at the AR/VR market. It's quite possible that AR devices will be the future so of course good software would be needed there. Apple has it's VisionOS which is decent but that will forever be limited to Apple products only. There is no proper alternative to that as of yet, although Google and Android are working on soon releasing AndroidXR. But even that is essentially just based on top of the AndroidOS. We're trying to create a robust kernel and a dedicated platform for such devices.

We also aim to work on RISC-V architecture as well so helps us cater to more utility.

Please Email us at hi@getxeneva.com to communicate further.

Thanks, Team XENEVA.
by vovavili | 2025-06-11 12:14:34+00:00
I strongly doubt that people who claim to, all of a sudden, be passionate about marketing or business are driven by the noble impulse of value creation that you're describing. Rather, this is more of a positive externality of chasing wealth or status, where "passion" is used as a pro-social facade to frame greed. That is not to say that all business is motivated by profit alone, but something just doesn't add up in the OOP's narrative.
by hermannj314 | 2025-06-11 12:14:41+00:00
Life expectancy for T1D diagnosis in 1980 is 15 years longer than those diagnosed in the 1960s.

Life expectancy seems to continue to trend upwards.

My wife is alive and healthy with T1D, which doesn't matter at all for your claim, but the aggregate evidence for all T1D seems far removed from humanity failing diabetics.
by bettercaust | 2025-06-11 12:14:45+00:00
I don't know on what all (every single one) anti-vaxx beliefs are based, which is why I generalized based on my experiences with the beliefs I've encountered. I can't readily form an opinion on a belief I haven't encountered, can I? All of the common anti-vaxx talking points fit the criteria I listed above, and I know this from my experiences reviewing and researching them. So yes, it is a good idea to generalize for the sake of conveying my experiences here, though I'm not going to prejudge any new anti-vaxx views I haven't previously encountered.
by phorkyas82 | 2025-06-11 12:15:33+00:00
As far as I understood any AI model is just a linear combination of its training data. Even if that were such a large corpus as the entire web... it's still just like a sophisticated compression of other's people's expressions.

It has not made its own experiences, not interacted with the outer world. Dunno, I won't to rule out something operating solely on language artifacts cannot develop intelligence or consciousness, whatever that is,.. but so far there are also enough humans we could care about and invest into.
by tom1337 | 2025-06-11 12:15:39+00:00
Just tested the tool on an open source documentation. Looks and feels great but somehow after the initial Preview in the onboarding flow I cannot get the Preview to work. It seems to always answer with the wrong dataset and suddenly says "The provided documents describe Agionic, an Al tool for documentation, and do not contain details about UI component libraries like Grid." Not sure whats happening here.

https://imgur.com/a/XiVmosl
by OskarS | 2025-06-11 12:15:50+00:00
If the paywall bothers you, then Kagi just isn't for you, the whole point of it is to have a business model where the users are customers, not the product.

I have no problem with the UI. It's snappy, clean, doesn't have a bunch of cruft, it's easy to find results, etc. It feels like Google of yore.

Same thing with the search results, I find them really excellent. In my experience, there's much less SEO spam. If you search for a programming language function, you get links to the proper documentation, not some trash "geeksforgeeks" site or whatever. I can't remember if I've ever had to go past page one.

Obviously YMMV on that, it's entirely possible it's different depending on what you're searching for. But I'm very happy paying for Kagi, and will continue to do so.
Show HN: Dynamic Theme – a Neovim plugin for creating and editing colorschemes
by ajgquinn | 2025-06-11 12:16:38+00:00
I made a plugin, dynamic-theme.nvim, based on my own experience of wishing I could more easily edit a colorscheme on the fly while I am working, maybe just tweak a color slightly. I also wanted to make it easier to create new ones.

Dynamic Theme loads just like any other colorscheme, though once applied it can be tweaked via the plugin window. The plugin can persist up to 8 colorschemes at a time, and allows the user to switch between them. The hex codes are persisted as JSON, so you can actually commit them to version control and share any changes made across your devices.

If you create one that you really like, you can also export it as a standalone plugin. You will be prompted to enter a location on the filesystem to create a directory, and the plugin will output a plugin directory with everything necessary to use the colorscheme as a plugin (bear in mind it is the most minimal amount of code for creating a functional colorscheme plugin).
by RamRodification | 2025-06-11 12:16:40+00:00
> a guess for the future. Android Desktop mode will improve and people will ditch Windows and instead plug their phone into a USB-C dock that connects it to keyboard, mouse and display

This seems like such a killer feature to me. And every time I watch a video of someone trying out DeX it seems to work so well.

Yet it never seems to take off. I don't understand why. What am I missing? App ecosystem not good enough for business use?

"This is the year of mobile docking replacing workstations" has kind of become my "This is the year of Linux on the desktop.
by flysand7 | 2025-06-11 12:16:45+00:00
RemedyBG might also be worth looking at. It is my go to debugger that I've used on Windows and it's made to look and feel like the debugger that comes with Visual Studio, except that it works way faster and you can hold the "Go to next line" key and see the watch window update in real time. Unfortunately you have to pay for it and it doesn't work on linux, but oh well.
Show HN: MailWizard – Turn low-priority email into a 3-min audio digest
by sgasser | 2025-06-11 12:16:46+00:00
I built an AI that turns your email noise into a 3-minute podcast.

Hey HN — I'm Stefan, ex-Head of Software turned solo founder.

Inbox chaos → important threads drowned in promos and CC storms. I wanted a mute button that parks low-priority mail and plays it back as one short digest.

MailWizard lets you: - Write rules in English, e.g. "Newsletters except Lenny's" - Auto-archive matches, then send one text + 3-min audio summary - Keep urgent mail live so time-sensitive stuff still pings

Tech: Gemini 2.0 Flash NLP, ElevenLabs TTS, Laravel + React. Runs on EU servers (GDPR-ready).

Just launched — 14-day free trial. Launch price €9/mo; code HN50 halves month 1.

https://mailwizard.ai

Happy to answer any questions!
TikTok gave me a new identity – now I'm popular and speak Arabic
by tiktokwtf | 2025-06-11 12:17:26+00:00
Just had the most puzzling experience on Tiktok.

I use the app in guest mode — no login, email or phone number, just whatever account TikTok ties to my device or UDID. I’ve never uploaded anything.

Today I opened the app and suddenly there are uploads under “my” profile (not mine), a ton of messages and friend requests (mostly in Arabic), and even some money in the account balance and transaction history.

The weird part: my own watch history and liked videos are still there — so it’s not like I got fully switched into someone else’s account. It feels more like two profiles got mixed together.

I did a quick search and found some Reddit posts describing the same bug already a year ago.

What might cause something like this? Race condition? UUID collision with partial data stored/cached on the device?

Never seen this one before.
by account42 | 2025-06-11 12:17:58+00:00
> The stale bot approach does help in cases where a bug does not have merit. For example, not that long ago, a user opened a bug asking us to rename the ZFS Event Daemon so a text editor could adopt the daemon’s name. The consensus among contributors on the discussion is that we will not do it, but no one has volunteered to be the one to close the bug. The stale bot will be closing that one for us.

That doesn't sound like an even remotely ideal way to handle that. Don't just needlessly string the original reporter along until some arbitrary time limit expires.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-06-11 12:19:12+00:00
This is nothing to do with libraries being good or bad value though.

Libraries are not advertising funded because advertisers are not very interested.

If advertisers were interested then these libraries would likely be just as infested with adverts as the internet.

If we tried to fund the internet in the same way as libraries advertisers would still be strongly incentivised to show adverts and would still work hard to find ways to do so. So it's not clear the situation would change much if there was government funding for content creators.
by exe34 | 2025-06-11 12:19:45+00:00
> In both cases you're adding another layer to an existing algorithm in order to make it more effective. Doesn't make either AGI.

Yet. The human mind is a big bag of tricks. If the creators of AI can enumerate a large enough list of capabilities and implement those, then the product can be as good as 90% of humans, but at a fraction of the cost and a billion times the speed - then it doesn't matter if it's AGI or not. It will have economic consequences.
by andruby | 2025-06-11 12:19:53+00:00
That's not how accounting works. Companies pay salaries and pay for hardware. They don't make profit so they don't pay taxes.

By labeling the salaries as R&D assets and amortizing that over 5 years (instead of taking it completely in the first year), they're more likely to make "accounting" profit and pay taxes in the early years.

Those legislative changes will likely move forward the taxes being paid.

But to your point: not paying taxes because a company is investing doesn't mean taxpayers are footing the bill. It does mean the company isn't contributing to paying taxes while it is in "growth investing" mode.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-11 12:20:11+00:00
I'd argue that it's neither necessary nor sufficient for securing your data. (Convenience is another worthwhile consideration, of course.)

Cryptography should be enough to protect you from brute force, if you care about such things. I don't think it would be controversial to say that it's much more likely your particular secure enclave is broken than your encryption scheme (assuming you choose something appropriate and you're not on the NSA's radar).
by jmye | 2025-06-11 12:22:39+00:00
Nailed it. If you let your whole UI, in a consumer application, stagnate, you will lose. Your software could be fantastic, but someone else will build something nearly as good, paint it a “cool” color, and eat your lunch.

The idea that phones aren’t, for a huge number of people, fashion accessories, is really funny, and extremely IT-centric, to me. Look at the way Apple releases very visible, specific features for its Pro models - it’s all signaling. My phone is purple because one year that was the new color so everyone who saw your phone would know it was the new one.

(I say this also not taking away from the opinion that it’s prepping users and developers for something they’re going to bring out in two years - both things can be equally true.)
by brookst | 2025-06-11 12:22:59+00:00
That’s not at all reassuring to someone who wants the benefit of the product, not the obligation to become an expert on the product.

I’ll buy one of these for sure, but I would cheerfully spend 3x the price if it meant being sure of support and repair and software updates for a few years.

I have bins full of exciting devices that no longer integrate, many of which have open source communities, which I just don’t have the time to deal with.