MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-06-12 08:12:06+00:00
This is the old made new again. History is cluttered with hucksters who sold some product they hyped as being good for humanity.

When you get right down to it, there's a lot of stuff you can do that's good for yourself that isn't necessarily good for everyone else, and/or has unpredictable side effects and external costs. Good people don't do those things without figuring out the risks and minimizing the damage. Bad people do them for the money and then try to justify them afterwards.

Are "good" and "bad" too reductive? Substitute your own phrasing for your own moral code. I think most people inherently understand what is right and wrong - and some people choose to do what's wrong.

This framework makes it exceptionally easy to see who is a good or bad person.

Musk wants to colonize Mars not for humanity, but for the continuation of his own genetic line. Hence, Martian citizens won't argue amongst themselves (he thinks). (Stupidly). Altman is the same type of hedonistic, narcissistic monster who would leave humanity behind. Their motto is "après moi le déluge".
by ben30 | 2025-06-12 08:13:59+00:00
The irony is quite striking, just as ChatGPT can generate confident-sounding but inaccurate information, Altman appears to be presenting unsubstantiated claims about his company’s environmental impact. Both involve presenting information without reliable backing, though the consequences differ - one misleads users in conversations, the other potentially misleads stakeholders and the public about environmental responsibility.
by tpm | 2025-06-12 08:15:02+00:00
And on that note, it always amazes me we have plenty of people dying of depression or anorexia, conditions they have for many years and their treatments don't work (in these cases) and yet they are not offered psychedelic therapy because it's still forbidden in many countries (it's changing, slowly). I'm not saying it's a panacea - far from it - just if someone is not responding to other treatments or the treatments is making things worse (like the risk of suicide goes up for some antidepressant medications) then why not try a different option. As you say, bureaucratic barriers.
by hshshshshsh | 2025-06-12 08:17:03+00:00
Fair question. So my understanding is God is consciousness. It's omnipotent, all knowing and eternal. It's the only thing which is constant in your life and it sees everything you do.

Now, you cannot worship consciousness as humans because it's invisible and you can never imagine it. You need a version of consciousness that you can see as well as you can relate to. So cultures invent localized version of God which people can relate to. And of course it will have attributes similar to that of the culture. But the properties kind of still hold. Like all knowing, powerful etc.
by pjerem | 2025-06-12 08:18:42+00:00
At first glance, I found the aesthetic of liquid glass to be pretty nice. I actually like the visual effect of glass they managed to create. At least something different from flat design !

But then came the interface overhaul. That’s incredibly bad. Looking at the screenshots comparing Liquid Glass Finder vs, e.g. Snow Leopard Finder, it truly feels like Apple should be _ashamed_ to present this.

It’s so wrong that it truly feels like Apple is making fun of me, the user.

I tried the developer beta of iOS 26 out of curiosity and I swear it’s the first time I felt so wrong about a new iOS version. I know it will still be refined but in its current state ? It feels so wrong. There are bugs, ok that’s an early version, no issue. But the new UI ? The supposed next big thing ? It’s incredibly broken, inconsistent, chaotic, hard to read.

I hope they are on a miracle to fix this but they seem to be so proud about it …
Show HN: Gridogram – A quote for each day, hidden in a compact grid
by jap | 2025-06-12 08:18:45+00:00
I had a lot of fun playing an Android app where you have to find words in a random grid of letters (like Boggle). Challenge for me was to find the longest word... and seeing which I missed was a way to learn new words.

I've iterated on the concept, and made a game you can play in the browser, Gridogram: instead of being random, for each day a grid of letters is created from a quote or phrase of some sort that relates to the day.

For example, here's a grid that contains the Y Combinator motto [1]:

E G I W L H N A P T M K S O E P

Finding words: connect horizontally, vertically or diagonally adjacent letters, without using the same letter twice.

An interesting challenge on the development side is figuring out whether a quote will fit in a grid, and creating it in a reasonable amount of time. A 5x5 grid is the biggest one I've made, and that has over 100 billion possible paths along which to fit the words. Sometimes the search never gets there, still working on it, and planning to write up the more interesting parts once I've fully wrapped my head around them.

Grateful to hear any thoughts on the game!

[1] "Make something people want"
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-12 08:19:23+00:00
Oh the suffering of... running one program in the basement with the usb thing, and running a different program to view everything?

If it caused any difficulty at all to use different viewing programs on their different boxes, it would be trivial to cut down to one. If using NAS network storage caused problems, it would be trivial to remove it. And they're running kubernetes entirely for fun, making it the opposite of "have to maintain".

The part that actually makes this system tick is quite low maintenance.
by lormayna | 2025-06-12 08:20:06+00:00
For kernel, I have tried to write simple modules and it's okay. But when I am going deep in the internals, things become really complicated and my memories from OSes exam are rusty. For eBPF, I wrote a quite simple DNS visibility tools and while I am okay with the logic, I struggled on writing low-level C code that parse the network packet. Moreover, I found documentation incomplete and really confusing, for example: I would like to understand how the different queues are working and the only solution was to read the code. Right now, anyway, it seems that this aspect is improved; probably it's the time to play again with that!
by klabb3 | 2025-06-12 08:20:13+00:00
To add to this: I’ve never been gaslighted more convincingly than by an LLM, ever. The arguments they make look so convincing. They can even naturally address specific questions and counter-arguments, while being completely wrong. This is particularly bad with security and crypto, which generally isn’t verified through testing (which only proves the presence of function, not the absence).
by tecleandor | 2025-06-12 08:20:36+00:00
He's not a first-party source about energy or water use, he's not the utilities provider (except for certain small percentage, like the dirty gas turbines they're buying, I guess).

He could easily have said: "In our XXX data center we spend xxxx kWh a month, xxx cubic meters of water go in, xxx go out, we do XXX billions of tokens, so x cost per token." Then people can say if he's missing information or he's not taking certain factors in consideration.

"their essay for them requires 0.000085 gallons of water" means nothing. What's an essay? How big? What model is it using? What are you considering for the water consumption?
by gbil | 2025-06-12 08:21:27+00:00
The routing policy is visible in the relevant RIPE entry for their ASN https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/lookup?source=ripe&key=AS...

and one can see that they essentially have 2 upstream peers, one from HU and the other from GB, which is the main point of discussion here and open to scrutiny for sure.
by Festro | 2025-06-12 08:22:40+00:00
I agree with the sentiment of the page but the implementation is both lacking and also unnecessary.

Liquid Glass is just a faddy, bad UX, low contrast mess from Apple that doesn't improve anything for end users. There's no need to attempt to recreate it to prove any kind of point. By recreating it you're almost saying it's worth doing. It's not, and that's what the comparisons to Vista mean - "why are you doing this Apple? MS did it years ago and look where that went".
by misiek08 | 2025-06-12 08:23:05+00:00
And this probably was one or two man just having fun writing shader for the refraction on edges. Someone saw this, made it as biggest feature and cult goes on.

All that while I can’t connect from macOS to iPhone's hotspot, because I split family account while MacBook wasn’t powered on. Bugs growing, but shiny stuff making big money from few FTEs won.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-12 08:23:53+00:00
> There are no compatibility issue with my Librem 14. Even suspend works 100% of the time.

Can you walk into any big box store and buy that thing, or a Framework? No. I am talking about OS choices accessible to the general public, not to nerds with dedicated knowledge. The experience of installing Linux on anything available at a big box store is likely to result in a multitude of issues.

No actor in Linux at large makes any effort to cater to the general public, and that's the point I'm making.

> Also, GNU/Linux is not an OS but there are many very different OSes for different use cases and visual preferences.

... and the consequence of that multitude of How To Do Things is precisely what keeps Linux adoption so low. Steve Ballmer had a point in "developers developers developers" - it's no wonder that there aren't that many native software products viable for actual commercial use on Linux.
by dgb23 | 2025-06-12 08:24:36+00:00
The article is quite aggressive. I think that comes from a general frustration that I share with the author.

It feels like people (in power) increasingly get away with bullshit. Whether it‘s straight up dishonesty, groupthink or ideological, is besides the point. The bigger issue is that it repeatedly drags down discourse and makes it way too hard to solve problems.

And we have problems. We‘re facing some of the greatest challenges humans have ever faced. But we continously have to fight self-imposed distractions.
by bubblethink | 2025-06-12 08:25:21+00:00
You need to manage your expectations with Pixel devices. They are often on sale. Buy the A series for ~$300, which is also what the Nexus phones used to be priced at. They easily last 3+ years, and if they die after that it's no big deal. Dying early, bootlooping, overheating, etc. have been a part of these devices since they have existed.
by rendall | 2025-06-12 08:27:13+00:00
This media frenzy has the same structure as the crypto panic from a year or two ago:

Step 1: New tech emerges and grows fast.

Step 2: Media fixates on energy use or resource costs, often with shaky math or cherry-picked comparisons.

Step 3: Worst-case assumptions are broadcast as certainty.

Step 4: Tech becomes politicized and moralized. Energy use framed as inherently unethical rather than context-dependent.

Gizmodo calling Altman’s numbers “lies” fits this pattern. Maybe he’s lowballing. But framing it like environmental villainy rather than corporate spin or PR vagueness turns it into another purity test. Same thing happened with Bitcoin, and later it turned out the real story was more nuanced (e.g., surplus energy, shift to PoS, geographic concentration, etc.).

It’s another round of the same playbook.
by zimpenfish | 2025-06-12 08:27:34+00:00
Got hired for a contract to "integrate this crypto[0] protocol sdk" but it turned out that they actually meant "implement this crypto protocol from scratch in an async manner" and by day four I was out[1].

Shortest perm job was about 5 months. Tiny office, 4 other people on the phone all day, impossible project (writing software for unreliable hardware), not a difficult choice.

[0] actual crypto, not currency.

[1] not just because of the bait-and-switch but because crypto is miles out of my wheelhouse.
by Freak_NL | 2025-06-12 08:27:36+00:00
I believe it. If you are a die-hard Microsoft person, your view of computing would be radically different from even the average developer today, let alone devs who are used to using FOSS.

Turn it around: If I were to apply for a job at Microsoft, they would probably find that my not using Windows for over twenty years is a gap on my CV (not one I would care to fill, mind).
by funnym0nk3y | 2025-06-12 08:28:01+00:00
Yeah, but the nuclear waste would be a problem. The cost would be a problem too.

I don't get why some people won't get that nuclear is not the solution to the energy problem. Nuclear is one of the most expensive energy sources, and that's without the cost of long term storage of burnt fuel. Without the cost of health issues in mining areas.

The call for energy consumption reduction is not "for cultish reasons", it's because of climate change that's already screwing us.
by Zaylan | 2025-06-12 08:28:49+00:00
It’s honestly kind of disturbing. Period tracking apps used to feel like a helpful tool, but now they feel more like surveillance. Most people have no idea their most personal data might end up in an ad network.

What we really need is stronger default privacy, not just longer consent forms. I’d love to see more apps that are local-first and don’t upload anything by default.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-06-12 08:28:54+00:00
Ironically that was basically the first thought many had when it was clear we cannot explain what happens in the edge case of a singularity. It was always "perhaps another unsiverse or a way into a parallel one".

It still leaves a lot of questions though, especially if you try to marry quantum mechanics to these makroscopic models. Where did the initial black hole come from and should a corresponsing anti matter black hole exist?
by fxtentacle | 2025-06-12 08:29:10+00:00
What a brilliant comment :) I'm not sure if you're joking, but it certainly brightened up my day.

That Gangnam Style song is about riding and the associated up and down motion, just not related to horses. In that scene where he's watching the horses, he's singing:

"A true lady who is warm and human during the day, who is classy and knows how to enjoy a cup of coffee. But when night comes, her heart gets hot..." and then you see the horse moving its head up and down and he sings: "A lady who is kinky in that way"

And then you see him with 2 girls in his arms and he's using rather suggestive language:

"A man who one-shots ... his coffee. A man who won't let things cool down ... A man who bursts when night comes ... his heart. A man with few muscles and he is bulging ... with ideas."

Also, if you pay attention to it, you can hear that both gangnam songs are littered with audio samples of him and her moaning, e.g:

https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0?feature=shared&t=151

https://youtu.be/wcLNteez3c4?feature=shared&t=68

And then there's the famous elevator scene where his lyrics are: "A good woman appears calm, but knows how to have fun. She's reasonable and when it's the right time, she will let her hair down ..."

https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0?feature=shared&t=114
by supermatt | 2025-06-12 08:30:05+00:00
joindns4eu is not dns4eu. Its effectively a marketing website, probably subcontracted to a design agency. It has nothing to do with the actual operation of dns4eu.

I'd prefer that they weren't spending funds on using US infrastructure for their marketing (and hopefully this publicity will effect a change), but its a real stretch to make out that it in any way undermines the mission of dns4eu - namely providing a public resolver that isn't slurping up request data for their own purposes.
by hansmayer | 2025-06-12 08:30:40+00:00
> The article is quite aggressive. I think that comes from a general frustration that I share with the author.

Honestly, it's quite refreshing to see some honest reporting beginning to surface in the general media. And the problem is, this sort of getting away with bullshit then trickles down and sort of impacts the society as a whole, as the lower echelons begin to emulate such behaviour.
by aronhegedus | 2025-06-12 08:31:11+00:00
I’m not as extreme, but I “collect” license plates by taking pictures. Whenever I see 3+ numbers or letters, and I’m walking, I take a picture

Obviously there’s custom license plates that are cheating (I found a Porsche with just the number 1), but fun to see anyway.

It makes walking more fun because you’re spotting stuff all the time!
by fside | 2025-06-12 08:31:45+00:00
Should be easy enough. But, the problem is the scale. I work at a privacy conscious EU based startup and we used to use quad9 for our infra. Shortly after we started using, we started to hit scalability issues. When the whole eu traffic was hot, our DNS query latency would also go up. To be able to keep up, we had to switch back to CF and Google. Hope there is a really good alternative one day.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-06-12 08:32:01+00:00
> I used to think that I was an atheist, but I realized nothing can be proven presently in any way even if I have opinions, so I decided I have to be agnostic.

As an atheist myself, I find your type of agnosticism to be overly generous to the religious theories. Do you also think that Russell's Teapot might exist or do you have a limit of unlikeliness that you draw the line at?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
by mft_ | 2025-06-12 08:32:33+00:00
Sadly, this feels like Google's approach to product management: change for the sake of change, driven behind the scenes by people chasing being noticed or their next promotion rather than by need and good sense, and (likely due to politics and power structures) no-one in a position to say "hold on, this doesn't work".

I'm generally no fan of Steve Jobs, but what he did offer was a single point of (dictatorial) good taste, and a willingness to stamp on bad ideas. Unfortunately, it's exceptionally rare in modern business that you have someone (who is allowed to be) in such a position of power to act dictatorially when needed, and who also has the right set of taste/experience/knowledge such that their decisions are on balance more usually good ones. CEOs are far more usually MBA drones than product people, and it doesn't appear that we've figured out a way to 'scale' taste and good decision-making throughout an organisation in a reliable manner.
by dgb23 | 2025-06-12 08:32:59+00:00
„Cultish reasons“?

I agree with you on the technical part. We would likely be in better shape if we advanced more in this area and built more power plants.

But to dismiss environmentalists like this is a bit simplistic.

Remember how long it took for climate change issues to establish in the mainstream?

Corporations and political groups have been fighting and suppressing these issues since the start.

We still don’t have serious discussions about this in large portions of society.

In a more ideal world, nuclear would have been continously integrated and improved to a larger degree. But that would have required for serious discussion in the first place.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-06-12 08:33:04+00:00
You can write projects with LLMs thanks to tools that can analyze your local project's context, which didn't exist a year ago.

You could use Cursor, Windsurf, Q CLI, Claude Code, whatever else with Claude 3 or even an older model and you'd still get usable results.

It's not the models which have enabled "vibe coding", it's the tools.

An additional proof of that is that the new models focus more and more on coding in their releases, and other fields have not benefited at all from the supposed model improvements. That wouldn't be the case if improvements were really due to the models and not the tooling.
by dgimla20 | 2025-06-12 08:33:23+00:00
I'm surprised Googles ad business stays afloat. It seems every video I watch on YouTube is preceded with a Grammarly advert, a service I have no use for and will not subscribe to/pay for in the future.

I feel like Google should be the one company that has enough data and the widespread scope to really excel in advertising, yet on every site I see their ads, its as if they have no idea who I am and what I might want.

Feels like a bubble to me..
by piyush_soni | 2025-06-12 08:33:25+00:00
I don't know where you see such a line in Onshape's ToS. Can you point me to it? IANAL (and speak only in an individual's capacity who is hopefully reading the same ToS), but the public documents you create as a free user are essentially in "public domain", so even though you still 'own' it, you grant a broad, "worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to any End User or third party" to use the intellectual property within that document "without restriction". This includes the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of it.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-12 08:33:55+00:00
Oh, I don't defend them. I'm just another person who's disagreeing with you. The only thing is their and my values align on some aspects, and we both disagree with you on the same issues more or less. I'm not here to defend anyone.

When I was writing these replies, there were no flagged comments, and if there were, I can see them, if I want. That's an option you can change. I'm sure you know this better than me. You're here since 2014, and I'm here since 2017. Our comment histories are open. You can check whether I'm a sockpuppet or not.

The MIT license doesn't tell anything about availability of the source. In fact, MIT licensed software doesn't have to be Open Source at all. I can get the source, modify, compile and distribute the binaries without the source code attached, and no one can compel me about opening the source code. That's a requirement set forth by GPL family, and even these say that source should be available for a reasonable amount of time, not indefinitely, and certainly not online. IOW, I can sell GPL software, without putting its source code online. The only obligation is to provide the source to the people who have gotten the software (i.e.: How RedHat operates).

My only example was not my Instagram photos. I have also talked about my GitHub repositories (which I am not deleting because of my personal reasons), and again, I'm not here to defend them. To reiterate, I'm a completely different human being who happens to disagree with you.

HN's no delete policy was there since I joined, and I agreed to this when I started participating here. If they do something which is against my values, I'll leave this place, too (like I left Reddit back in the day). I'm not afraid to put my values first. In fact, this is why I have replied to you this much. I'm putting forward my perspective and values, which is not defending someone. I'm a lone person, walking my own way.

Your prejudice and anger is blocking your view. Currently three comments of you are also flagged.

It's enough that you're reflecting your beliefs and prejudices to other people in the form of low-key insults. Also your tea is going cold. It's not polite to not aceept a friendship drink offered in good faith.

This is my last reply on this comment thread, because this is a new day, and I have to handle other matters, too. Without any hard feelings, I wish you the best of luck, and have a nice day.

See you around.