MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n2d4 | 2025-06-13 14:00:49+00:00
In what way does Pixar's IP overshadow Disney's? Listing the highest-grossing media franchises [1], Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Star Wars, and Disney Princesses are on #2-#5 respectively, while Pixar's top spot is #16 with Cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...
by anon7000 | 2025-06-13 14:01:30+00:00
> Other than passkeys being randomly generated for each site (and linked to it) and tied to some kind of biometric authentication, it looks like passwords and passkeys are converging (except for some implementation details).

The fact that a passkey can only be used with the ONE site it was generated at, that it can encode the identity of the user as well as the password, and that there is a standardized, programmatic way to submit/retrieve a passkey to a website are all huge security upgrades over passwords. So no, they aren’t really converging in the ways that matter.

Syncing, export, whatever, are just implementation details of the platform and aren’t really related to the passkey standards.

Someone could create an iOS password manager for passkeys that stores the private keys in plain text for you to view and write down on paper. Of course, the major apps & platforms don’t do that because it’s not a popular feature (or secure), but anyone can write a password app for iOS
by Symmetry | 2025-06-13 14:02:05+00:00
One thing to notice is how small Mercury is, only 1 pixel like the moons that show up. Here's a good photo size comparison. Mercury is smaller that two of the solar system's moon!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary-mass_object#/media/F...

EDIT: And Pluto is smaller than all the moons almost anyone has heard of.
by electroly | 2025-06-13 14:02:17+00:00
I'm not OP but my experience with Cursor is similar. I have a B.S. in computer science from UW-Madison and have been a full-time professional software developer since 1998. This stuff is the real deal. I mostly see people not willing to put in the time to learn. There is a big learning curve here--don't let the fact that it's English trick you into thinking there's no skill involved. Your experience is actually what makes this work; greener devs will be unable to get the AI out of a rut or keep it on the straight and narrow, but an experienced dev can sprinkle in some occasional wisdom and get the machine going again. This stuff is fool's gold for "vibe coders" but rocket fuel for experienced developers using it as a tool.
by imzadi | 2025-06-13 14:02:21+00:00
It seems silly because a broken leg is obvious and easy to diagnose. So the idea that someone has an undiagnosed broken leg is absurd.

A lot of illnesses are not as easy to spot. Even illnesses that have clear diagnostic factors might be undiagnosed if no one has done the right tests. For instance, gallbladder disease. Easy to test and diagnose, but only if someone has gone to the doctor and the doctor has done the right tests. If you've experienced gallbladder disease, you know the symptoms. So you might start noticing them in other people who just think its indigestion or a pulled muscle or whatever.
by blitzar | 2025-06-13 14:02:23+00:00
> What’s Meta’s strategy here? What’s their vision?

The metaverse was their strategy. Then AI hype took over Silicon Valley and the unloved under-resourced AI team at Facebook became the stars of the show. Meta are now standing on the shoulders of those teams and the good will they generated from their foundational and open research efforts.

An AI first strategy from Facebook would not have involved a rebrand or open sourcing any research or models and would probably have looked a lot like OpenAi or Grok.
by deviation | 2025-06-13 14:02:29+00:00
Reminds me of "Don't dig for the gold, sell the shovels".

Could also be read:

> Meta spends 10% of last year's revenue to acquire 49% of a top AI data company and poach their leadership, to ensure they are a key player in what could be a ~5-trillion dollar industry by 2033.

Meta has a history of this. Acquiring Oculus (and leaning in on VR), Ray-Ban partnership (and leaning in on AR)... etc.

These all just seem like decisions to ensure the company's survival (and participation) in whatever this AI revolution will eventually manifest into.
by laborcontract | 2025-06-13 14:03:21+00:00
Until now I've actually been a believer in the amount of money that Zuck has poured into metaverse investments. I'm not a believer of the metaverse per se, but a believer that innovation takes unafraid capex. The last thing you want to be is scared money like microsoft who chose to scuttle the hololense project over the thought of spending a couple extra billion dollars on it.

But this deal really has left me with my head scratching. Scale is, to put it charitably, a glorified wrapper over workers in the Philippines. What meta gets in this deal is, in effect, is Alexander Wang. This is the same Wang who has said enough in public for me to think, "huh?" Said a lot of revealing stuff like at Davos (dont have the pull quotes off the top of my head) that made me realize he's just kind of a faker. A very good salesman who ultimately gets his facts off the same twitter feed we all do.

On top of what makes this baffling is that Meta has very publicly faced numerous issues and setbacks due to very poor data from Scale that caused public fires in both companies. So you're bringing in a guy whose company has caused grief for your researchers, is not research nor product oriented, and expect to galvanize talent from both the inside and outside to move towards GAI? What is Mark thinking?

Zuckerberg seems to have had all the pieces to make this work but I'm a lot less confident if I'm a shareholder now than a week ago. This is a huge miss.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-13 14:03:41+00:00
That's a real issue. I think the biggest issue with genre, though, is that even if people agree on a list of possible genre labels, there is often disagreement about what music belongs in which genre.

This isn't a new problem at all. Even music labels often disagree. Back when record stores were a thing, it was pretty common for different stores to categorize the same albums differently in terms of genre. I think the only way to avoid it is to stick to very, very broad categories. "Rock", for instance, covers an amazingly broad set of styles.
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-13 14:04:02+00:00
If "absurd" implies "too high": I always thought strong reactions to valuations a bit strange. Businesses are complicated and assuming that somebody who is willing to spend billions of dollars thought a bit harder about the value than what I can provide with my gut reaction seems reasonable.

So I started to treat it as more of an update, as in "Huh, my idea of what something is worth just really clashed with the market, curious."

Does not mean the market is right, of course. But most of the time, when digging into it and thinking a bit more about it, I would not be willing to take the short position and as a consequence moderate my reaction.
Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor
by tombh | 2025-06-13 14:04:35+00:00
Whereas this is mostly a terminal eye-candy project to get you street cred, it does have some serious aspects.

Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour. Tattoy solves this by using none other than the web's WCAG 2.1 contrast algorithm for accessible text.

Secondly, an explicit design goal is that Tattoy should be able to polyfill new terminal protocols, the `xwayland` of the TTY if you will. Say if we want to experiment with completely deprecating ANSI codes, then any application that uses a new protocol can be run in Tattoy which itself runs in any ANSI-standard terminal emulator as normal. You can read more about this idea here: https://tattoy.sh/news/an-end-to-terminal-ansi-codes/

But ultimately this has been something more akin to an art project, something to enjoy for the sheer aesthetic pleasure.
by kasey_junk | 2025-06-13 14:04:59+00:00
I’ve long wanted to be able to upvote and flag drivers. Being able to see their crowd sourced driver rating would be valuable as well.

For my use case I don’t need personal details, some sort of anonymous avatar would be fine, but driver anonymity doesn’t seem particularly compelling as a privacy stance given the awesome powers we give drivers.

I’m much more sketched out by the use case you outline before that fwiw.
by ml-anon | 2025-06-13 14:06:13+00:00
The only way to understand this is by knowing: Meta already has two (!!) AI labs who are already at existential odds with one-another and both are in the process of failing spectacularly.

One (FAIR) is lead by Rob Fergus (who? exactly!) because the previous lead quit. Relatively little gossip on that one other than top AI labs have their pick of outgoing talent.

The other (GenAI) is lead by Ahmad Al-Dahle (who? exactly!) and mostly comprises of director-level rats who jumped off the RL/metaverse ship when it was clear it was gonna sink and by moving the centre of genAI gravity from Paris where a lot of llama 1 was developed to MPK where they could secure political and actual capital. They've since been caught with their pants down cheating on objective and subjective public evals and have cancelled the rest of Llama 4 and the org lead is in the process of being demoted.

Meta are paying absolute top dollar (exceeding OAI) trying to recruit superstars into GenAI and they just can't. Basically no-one is going to re-board the Titanic and report to Captain Alexandr Wang of all people. Its somewhat telling that they tried to get Koray from GDM and Mira from OAI and this was their 3rd pick. Rumoured comp for the top positions is well into the 10's of millions. The big names who are joining are likely to stay just long enough for stocks to vest and boomerang L+1 to an actual frontier lab.
by revilotom | 2025-06-13 14:06:51+00:00
Hey thanks for taking the time to read the article!

So what kind of damage do the scans reveal? One thing that is expanded upon by Sarno in his book is that he would scan the backs of normal people off the street as a control group when doing experiments. One of things he noticed was that these "normal" people (they experienced no chronic pain) had just as many physical abnormalities (herniated discs etc) as the chronic pain sufferers did! So I think what he (not me because im not a doctor) would say is: You may very well have had tissue damage in the past which probably healed at some point. So when you get a scan you can still detect where it healed etc. But that does not mean that your pain is anything other that "neuroplastic pain", ie, your body has healed but the "pain" has been remembered!

Wow that is a fascinating remark about daith piercings! I luckily dont suffer from migraines but migraines are another commonly attributed TMS symptom, so since you have that history it may mean you have traits that match the TMS personality...
by gregorymichael | 2025-06-13 14:08:04+00:00
I have ADHD, and my daughter was recently diagnosed as well.

Been reflecting on this post as it's been soaking up the front page for the last 24 hours.

I want to commend you for shipping maybe the perfect HN post:

- Personal Journey

- Old school hardware

- DIY software

- Productivity hack

- Great title

- Quantified results (2-3x productivity) over non-trivial duration (few months)

- A low-effort offline solution that delivers real value for the 98% who will never build the thing

- Great polish on the reading experience with lots of little details

- Effective call to action (subscribe to get the software in a few weeks)

You inspired me to get my organization back on track. After researching receipt printers for 30 minutes, I realized what I actually need is to dust off the system that has worked for me in the past. But I'm picking up some post-its today and my daughter and I are going to try implementing your system for her over the weekend.

Thank you for putting the time into this!
by throw0101d | 2025-06-13 14:08:21+00:00
> The push against remote work, for example, was all driven by ideology against most of the available data but it affected a huge number of jobs.

And before that, open office plans.

You're saving on rent: great. But what is it doing to productivity?

* https://business.adobe.com/blog/perspectives/what-science-sa...

Of course productivity doesn't show up on a spreadsheet, but rent does, so it's what about "the numbers" say.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-13 14:08:23+00:00
OK, my day job is doing HV engineering, not transmission, but high energy stuff.

The author did something kind of equivalent to:

"If we scale a GPU clock to 75 Petahertz, we can make datacenters that fit in bed rooms! Here are the FLOPS calculations to prove it!"

This whole thing is so crazy I don't know where to begin. I applaud the author for jumping into a new subject, but there is _way_ more complexity here than laid out. HV is very difficult to penetrate too because there really isn't much info available online about it.

Those initial dielectric strength numbers are definitely off (maybe they used Wikipedia, which references a value from a 1920 physics book). As from what I can find fused silica has a dielectric strength around 50-100MV/m, which is taken from the AC figure and doubled to get the DC figure (which is fairly typical). Also these numbers are extrapolated, and dielectrics often have non-linear properties. The testers used to get these figures can be a little fickle, and HV is always fickle.

On top of that, in actual HV system design, you really need to be using 25% of the actual dielectric strength for any kind of reliability. So the practical strength of fused silica would ultimately be around ~20MV/m. Which pretty much kills the whole idea right there. Never mind that a single fracture or dielectric breakdown anywhere in the whole glass sheath would require the entire thing to be replaced. Spoiler: You cannot patch HV dielectrics. Trust me, I and many others have tried.

Some other hurdles would be dealing with the insane parasitics, which the author didn't even mention, but are one of if not the most limiting factor in transmission. HVDC lines can have up to 10% ripple, which for the author would be 1.4MV of high frequency ripple. And sea water is conductive! You are basically building a massive capacitor with sea water! The losses would be enormous.

And I don't even want to think about the electronics...14MV is so insane I cannot fathom anything that would be able to reliably handle it. 1MV is already nuts. 800kV is the highest in the world, and that is kinda just a flex.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-13 14:08:48+00:00
> I am once again asking for evidence of this claim.

It’s a theory based on the effects frontiers have tended to have on society in the past. For frontiers beyond Earth’s orbit specifically, presenting evidence is impossible because it’s not something we’ve done. Either way, I think it’s a good thing to have somewhere for people who feel tired and defeated as well as those looking to build something for themselves to go.

> The only reason you see it this way instead of right-sizing space investment and preventing other fields from atrophying is because, surprise, you've already concluded space travel is super important -- and for reasons that you cannot articulate.

I’m not opposed to “right sizing” crewed space investments as long as it doesn’t mean sidelining it to the point of being stuck in a 90s-esque state of dinking around in low Earth orbit forever. I’m not saying to throw everything we have at it and make it all happen ASAP. I’m aware it’s something that will take a long time, and that’s exacerbated by cost. Start small and grow over time. That’s fine. Just keep it moving forward at a steady pace, that’s all I really want.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-06-13 14:09:13+00:00
Clearly a translation from English. Which is funny since there are no native English-speaking languages in the EU anymore (Ireland's first official language is not English).

But also, it's amazing that the EU can function at all with the amount of criticism it gets if every single little communication is not perfectly tuned for every potential European reader. :-/
by hoofhearted | 2025-06-13 14:09:14+00:00
This is a very interesting buy because Scale AI has been spamming anyone and everyone on freelancer platforms; and they don’t have a very good reputation online so far from people they have contracted with.

Just go look at what people say about them on Reddit. It’s rare to find anything positive, or even a single brand champion that had some sort of great experience with them.
by hollerith | 2025-06-13 14:09:28+00:00
I was guessing about the risk of mass starvation, which I hope my previous comment made clear.

I continue to tend to believe that letting a weakened Japan fight indefinitely would have been preferable to what actually happened (i.e., the nuclear strikes). The US lost a lot of prestige, esteem and trust that day that it has not fully recovered yet.

Most of the troops outside the home islands were in Manchuria, which Stalin was willing to sort out for us. Letting Stalin sort it out would have probably resulted in Stalin's ending up with Manchuria rather than what actually happened, which is that China got Manchuria back, but that supports my assertion that Washington chose to nuke Japan mainly to improve its competitive position against the USSR, not because nuking Japan was the only alternative to invading Japan (to paraphrase the assertion that drew me into this comment thread).

I could be wrong though. I'm just saying that I am not yet persuaded by the arguments I"ve seen that Washington had to either nuke Japanese cities or invade the home islands.
by j_m_b | 2025-06-13 14:09:58+00:00
One of my favorite visualizations of the scale of the solar system is from Stephen Hawking's Genius.

https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking_genius_ep...

It's a hands-on, practical example of how far things are away that we can easily visualize. I highly recommend the rest of the series as well. It's one of the best science shows ever produced. It shows the practical path of scientific discovery. You can watch is on the PBS app, which requires a $60 a year pass. Highly worth it. (I have no affiliation with PBS)
by imtringued | 2025-06-13 14:10:15+00:00
Yeah. It's exactly backwards, because good language design doesn't make anything except parsing faster. The problem is that some languages have hideously awful grammars that make things slower than they ought to be.

The preprocessor approach also generates a lot of source code that then needs to be parsed over and over again. The solution to that isn't language redesign, it's to stop using preprocessors.
by dagmx | 2025-06-13 14:10:22+00:00
Their end goal isn’t with AI per se.

Mark wants to own platforms. He always has. That’s why they tried to make a phone, networks, VR headsets, horizon worlds and now glasses.

AI is just their vessel to draw people in. It’s the flash that gets people on board. It’s the commoditizing your complement, in that they want to undercut the competition and have the money to do so, as a means to pull people in rather than lose them to OpenAI or the like who are also trying to build platforms.

Put another way: these companies want to be the next iOS or Android, and they are doing what they can to be as sticky and appealing as possible to make that happen.
by whodidntante | 2025-06-13 14:10:24+00:00
My take on this is that unlike other "refugees", Muslims were in power for 1200 years, and when that was taken away in 1920, they simply could not come to terms that they were now peer level with non-muslims.

50 generations of political, legal, social, and economic supremacy does not go away quickly, and it has only been about 100 years. Imagine if the US as a nation was forcibly disbanded overnight, and the various ethnic groups (Europeans, Mexicans, blacks, native Americans) were all given an area of land to call their own. It does not take much to imagine the wars that would ensue, and the ethnic and racist hatred they would be based on.

It has been 160 years since just part of the US (southern slavery) was ended, and no lands were divided up into nations, and yet, even today, there are still white people who cannot accept that blacks are peers and have equal rights, have been violently opposed to their equality, and would look forward to going to war to address this "crime against nature".

I think it is too optimistic to expect that ethnic hostility would end after only 100 years after 1200 of oppression.

There is hope - 2M Arabs live peacefully in Israel, are treated equally legally, and mostly equally on a practical basis. And they live safe and productive lives. It is the Arabs that did not stay in Israel, those that either left or stayed in what was supposed to be their nation state (Gaza/West Bank) and have been under the indoctrination, for decades, of those who want to bring back the Caliphate that are the problem. They should be wearing green MIGA hats - Make Islam Great Again

And this is what I find so ironic -those in America that would be gleeful if the Native Americans were to somehow get part of their land back and create a sovereign state, even through violence, are the same people that are appalled that Jews have done exactly that for themselves in Israel.
by rtkwe | 2025-06-13 14:10:32+00:00
Yes of course. My idea was a way for existing facilities to also function in this capacity so you didn't wind up with facilities reliant only on negative prices. I think that's important because those prices are a bandaid on the real problem that would be solved by sufficient power storage.

You can build this at a small scale pretty cheaply but the connection to sink meaningful amounts of power would quickly become a significant part of the expense.
by krosaen | 2025-06-13 14:11:12+00:00
Anyone know what scale does these days beyond labeling tools that would make them this interesting to Meta? Data labeling tools seem more of a traditional software application and not much to do with AI models themselves that would be somewhat easily replicated, but guessing my impression is out of date. Also now apparently their CEO is leaving [1], so the idea that they were super impressed with him doesn't seem to be the explanation.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/scale-ai-confirms-signific...
by JohnFen | 2025-06-13 14:11:20+00:00
I tithe. I don't mean that in a religious sense at all, but it's the way I pay my community back for that support. It's also not just in terms of money -- I count time volunteering and mentoring as part of tithing. It's also not repaying the people who helped me directly, but I don't think that's the important part. The way you pay them back is to "pay it forward" and do for others as those people have done for you.
by mooreds | 2025-06-13 14:11:50+00:00
> because it is security theatre, something they can point to if anything goes wrong.

Yeah, there is space between "this is a good practice and it's nice to be able to check the box" and "this is a standard someone else dictated but it will cover my butt if anything happens" unfortunately.

I get it, I depend on standards all the time (food safety, equipment certification) so I understand the desire, but darn it's frustrating when they are viewed as a cure-all.
by wadefletch | 2025-06-13 14:12:04+00:00
Good article, but the ChatGPT voice here is strong.

> When you check in, you’re ready to act – without first sifting through a pile of unresolved issues.

> That’s not just a nice feeling – it’s practical. The UI is cleaner. The choices are fewer. The next step is obvious.

> It’s not about urgency. You don’t have to check constantly. Once a day, once a week: what matters is returning to zero with some rhythm.

It's tough for me to assess credibility of authors like this–is this just a DeepResearch report or someone using ChatGPT to clean up an authentic post?