MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DistractionRect | 2025-06-03 16:11:47+00:00
Yeah, it doesn't really elaborate on why openworld might be more fun than standard tracks/cups. Sure, I can drive around in it and look at it, but what makes than fun? This article basically tells us large scale level design takes a lot of effort, but no more.

Zelda makes sense to a degree, but IMO they lost the plot on what made Zelda games interesting. Old Zelda games were kinda open, but had (mostly) fixed sequence. The games were basically lock and key puzzles with a lot of back tracking. As you went you unlocked more items (keys), but having to key wasn't enough. You had to figure out how/where to use it. The way everything layered was elegant. You were excited to get to a dungeon, they always need a new gimmick(s)/mechanic(s), you got a new toy, and two boss fights. Once you were done, you got to see how this new thing unlocked more of world.

New Zelda games have puddle deep dungeons and shrines to quickly get you back into the overworld, and you've already unlocked all the mechanics before the tutorial is over. So all that's left is exploring the overworld for the sake of exploration, which has a thousand seeds and a hundred shallow shrines to encourage you overturn every stone in it.

I get I might not be the target demographic, open world games aren't inherently bad, and the new Zeldas enjoyed great commercial success. However I do feel this shift to open world misses and loses what made Mario Kart and Zelda beloved series to begin with.
by BoxOfRain | 2025-06-03 16:12:07+00:00
I think as well as the obvious connection to nuclear warfare, part of the public fear of nuclear technology comes directly from how highly radioactive objects mimic the idea of a "curse".

In reality there's many forms of industrial pollution that are arguably scarier than nuclear waste, but none are quite so eerie in how their harm is caused. Even though it represented the very worst practices for these materials, the idea of a place like Lake Karachay where even half an hour on its shore would have killed you without you even knowing you were doomed is really unsettling. I don't think nuclear technology should be avoided, but there's definitely a formidable image problem here I think.
by pphysch | 2025-06-03 16:12:08+00:00
I've been in this exact situation. Client provides their current workflow, implemented in a spreadsheet.

The problem is they make significant concessions in their design to fit the tabular model of spreadsheets. It can be really warping, not only to GUI but also the underlying data model. Then you show them what a relational data model is capable of, and (hopefully) blow their mind.
by GrantMoyer | 2025-06-03 16:12:19+00:00
I agree it's not hacking, but the Computer Fraud and Abuse act seems to have a pretty broad definition of computer fraud and abuse. In particular, the technique seems like it might (emphasis mine) "knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value …". Would the other person have a reasonable belief that they didn't authorize access to information which their OS attempts to prevent access to?

I'm not a lawyer, so my question is genuine.
by lenerdenator | 2025-06-03 16:12:32+00:00
12 destroyed. Hard to tell if the others were only damaged, and of course, how badly.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

That being said, any sort of materiel loss on weaponry as important as strategic nuclear bombers is a massive problem for Russia. The logistics of repairing them, if possible, is going to be complex.
by hyperpape | 2025-06-03 16:13:12+00:00
It's weird that the author is bothered by the concept of waste being applied to software, because when people talk about waste in software development, one of the main forms of waste is inventory: the effort put into building software that has not yet been used.

Or, in the article's terms, things you've built but have yet to receive the feedback "that's shit" so that they can be iterated on.
by michaeld123 | 2025-06-03 16:13:38+00:00
I wish it were not so! Here's the breakdown: 1.5M headwords × ~2KB average per entry >= 3GB Each entry contains: 40 associations in the core graph Multiple senses (up to 8) × 17 associations each = up to 136 more Stems and morphological variants In-game clue definitions Longer definition entries with several types of related word lists.

The only good news is it works offline.
by manmal | 2025-06-03 16:13:55+00:00
Backups should solve most of the issues. I've had some reservations, but if you think a bit about it, not that much can happen - if you have good backups! On macOS, your passwords are in the keychain and not accessible without putting your thumb on TouchID. So it cannot transfer all your money offshore, or order a thousand shoes.

Do make sure your AWS/fly/etc accounts have budget caps (a wise idea anyway).
by gls2ro | 2025-06-03 16:14:05+00:00
Where does he says the CCR bowed to the EU pressure? I followed the link that says _admitted_ and there goes to a Romanian website and they make a similar claim but as far as I can see he talks about applying the laws to protect against interference and not about making CCR decide something.

A link to other website that also does not provide any evidence is not evidence even if it looks like a citation.
by genewitch | 2025-06-03 16:14:37+00:00
I'm gunna plug my friend's site, that he's been running since the naughties on roughly the equivalent of three pieces of gum and some bailing wire with a PATA drive alligator clipped in. He does interviews and the like - even has a DVD! Probably has a similar archive of music - probably more bootlegs / ID, though.

my understanding is, if you're in to punk... https://www.punkrockdemo.com/

re:

> “We want people to realize that in one fell swoop, the Center for Popular Music is going to be the new epicenter of punk-related research,” Reish told California media outlet SFGate.com.

p.s. the site probably runs on BSD. 99.999% probability. also i just discovered there's a podcast and live programming. This is actually cooler than i thought when i thought to link it...
by Amezarak | 2025-06-03 16:14:49+00:00
It isn’t clear at all that there’s any infringement going on at all, except in cases where AI output reproduces copyrighted content or content that is sufficiently close to copyrighted content to constitute a derivative work. For example, if you told an LLM to write a Harry Potter fanfic, that would be infringement - fanfics are actually infringing derivative works that usually get a pass because nobody wants to sue their fanbase.

It’s very unlikely simply training an LLM on “unlicensed” work constitutes infringement. It could possibly be that the model itself, when published, would represent a derivative work, but it’s unlikely that most output would be unless specifically prompted to be.
by dale_huevo | 2025-06-03 16:14:54+00:00
That's a rather melodramatic interpretation.

Have you opened a lot of .mht or .shtml files lately? What about ftp:// links? (Most browsers have removed FTP support and if HN is to be believed, FTP users should be beaten and locked in a cell with the uneducated, mouth breathing http:// users).

And in doing so, not cared enough to immediately go into control panel and change the file association manually, as you could for the last 30 years; rather, insisting you need an Easy Button (tm) to do this in one click?

This impacts like 0.001% of users.
by csallen | 2025-06-03 16:15:32+00:00
> The only way for me to tell whether the output is legit is to do exactly what the LLM was supposed to do; search for a bunch of papers, read them and conclude on what the aggregate is telling me. And it's almost never obvious from the output whether the LLM did this properly or not.

You're describing a fundamental and inescapable problem that applies to literally all delegated work.
by foxyv | 2025-06-03 16:16:34+00:00
Sounds is a funny thing. My physics professor once had us calculate the energy in the sound of an entire stadium and it wasn't enough to heat a cup of coffee. Sound just doesn't have that much energy. For a few hundred watts you can make an entire neighborhood miserable as any car audio enthusiast can demonstrate.

I routinely have Apache helicopters fly over my house and I prefer them to most of the tiny drones. The helicopters typically have lower frequencies and fly way higher. They also don't have that insect flying by your head buzz that makes my ears hurt.
by droopyEyelids | 2025-06-03 16:17:03+00:00
It said the path between “double lock” and “dislodge” was a tortured 10 word chain, it seems like you could get there much faster

“Double lock” > “clasp” > “grab” > “dislodge”

It’s just a quick example, but I think it follows their “rough synonym“ style connections, and it’s not less reasonable than the examples.

To me, it feels like this project is kind of hampered by not having a rigorous definition of what is allowable, and then mixing in the sort of random effects of an LLM
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-03 16:17:30+00:00
I think the profession of "laywer" may come to an end sooner rather than later for many, unless they are able to get legislators to ban AI from practicing law. A lot of lawyering is writing in a particular legal vocabulary and style, and forming arguments based on precident, things that an LLM AI should be able to get very good at.

It won't be long before an impoverished criminal defendant will be able to chose between an AI that can spend practically unlimited time on his case and have perfect recall of any precident that might be relevant, or an overworked public defender who has 2 hours a week to spare in his schedule.
by SirFatty | 2025-06-03 16:17:35+00:00
I first saw Burnout 3 at a family member's house. On the way home I stopped at Gamestop and bought a (first gen) Xbox and that game. What a fantastic game, the kids and I played it for countless hours. Too bad it never carried forward (Paradise doesn't count).

Still have all that gear in a plastic bin.. I think about firing it up, but maybe I should leave it alone and just enjoy my memories.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-03 16:17:57+00:00
Those weren't "sports fans" destroying Paris, they were migrants. French sports hooligans would be waving the flags of their football club or France, not the one of Palestine, Morocco, etc. The amount of effort MSM puts to paint migration troubles on sports holdings is crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzqL_h8aP04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos6_stb8wE
by kstrauser | 2025-06-03 16:18:02+00:00
Not in this case. If you’re qualified to get a job at a company who will pay you to sell out your neighbor, you’re qualified to get a job with a decent boss who’ll never ask you do to do this kind of thing, pays 90% as much, and is still many times the national average salary.

The alternatives are not doing evil vs starving. They’re getting paid well for doing evil, or getting paid well for doing good or at least neutral.
by kylereeve | 2025-06-03 16:18:04+00:00
> If one just chooses a reasonable documentclass and if need be a few packages suited to the requirements of one's document, then it all "just works" with (mostly) sensible defaults and minimal configuration.

Ironically, very similar to the story with modern C++. If you use a limited subset it can "just work" but only if you are disciplined and don't have to mix in legacy code that's pre-C++11.
by krick | 2025-06-03 16:18:25+00:00
Since 70% of comments under each of these posts are always "why not LaTeX?!", I want to start by reaffirming: yes, I do want a modern Markdown-based typesetting system. There even is a place of several of them. It would be absolutely nice to replace LaTeX, simply because it's old trash with remarkably inconvenient syntax, so, yes, a system with full control over markup is desirable. And if it necessarily increases verbosity, then there absolutely is a place for something "just a touch more powerful than markdown".

However, at a glance it doesn't strike me as what I was looking for. There aren't too many examples, but it seems like it leans heavier towards "just a touch more powerful than markdown" rather than to "replace LaTeX" (or Typst, for that matter). And for the first scenario to play out, it must be really seamless to use. This one doesn't seem to be.

1. Just to take care of the elephant in the room: JVM. Same as many others, I won't even bother installing it to try it out, so it doesn't help virality much.

2. I don't like the syntax. It needs to be as compatible with plain markdown as possible, and this one isn't quite. My main issue is with argument to a function being tabulated. It seems like it will lead to the whole document being tabulated. It is a natural for markdown-compatible add-ons to employ a code/monospace blocks, but ```plugin-name is a better way to do it, because it doesn't mean you have to reformat your whole document when you decide to step off from plain markdown.

3. Since a "better markdown" is something more suitable for something that starts as your personal notes (if you are specifically working on preparing a document for publishing, indeed you can just do it in LaTeX as well), I suppose it's only useful to an extent it is integrated into your notetaking app. Surely, there are still some people who do it in Emacs or Vim, but even such a retrograde as myself eventually moved on to Obsidian. I want ways to control my document structure better inside my notetaking app with a potential ability to publish. But as a standalone thing, I'm not sure why would I use it. At least Typst has a proprietary online editor. I suppose, that's also how nearly everyone uses it.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-03 16:18:33+00:00
It's the kind of childish, petty response that you'd expect from a 4 year old: "You can make me do it but you can't make me like it!"

Now they need to maintain all these "if isInEEA()" equivalent complexity all over their systems just so they can comply with the law as narrowly as possible.

It feels almost like these companies with their obnoxious cookie banners: "Let's make these things as terrible as possible so we can show everyone (including our users) how grumpy and mad the law makes us feel!"
by ossner | 2025-06-03 16:18:51+00:00
CS strongly prefers LaTeX [0,1] while broader journals and conferences prefer MS Word over it [2,3]. As long as there is not a solid infrastructure for these other typesetting systems, I never saw the appeal. I think for internal company reports they do have their uses, but other than that, why not use the LaTeX or Word? Realistically any person wanting to submit a work will know how to work with either one or the other.

I also don't see the need for journals and conferences to make a typst template for exactly these reasons. The templates will have to be community-made and then you still run the risk of having a paper rejected a year from now because the template is outdated.

[0] https://conferences.miccai.org/2025/en/PAPER-SUBMISSION-GUID...

[1] https://github.com/apoorvkh/cvpr-latex-template

[2] https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/formatting-guide

[3] https://www.science.org/content/page/science-information-aut...
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-06-03 16:19:02+00:00
>As an American, my next OS will not be Windows.

I've used linux as my OS of choice for the past ~ 25 years. I recently installed windows 11 after building an AI/ML/gaming workstation because I wanted to run some of the more complex bethesda mods that required you to run windows executables (i.e. downgraders, etc).

The only thing that's made it tolerable is the fact that I mostly live in the WSL shell, but I cannot get past the sneaking worry that I simply don't know what my OS is doing behind the scenes. For all I know, it's logging every keystroke or snapshotting my desktop back to MS hq.

As I get older I've gotten more and more concerned about privacy and data retention. IMHO the question you have to ask yourself is not 'do I trust $megaCorp or $currentAdministratioin' it's 'do I trust every possible future permutation of corporation or government indefinitely in the future'. In my case, absolutely not. There's no way we don't someday reach the point where an authoritarian administration turns AI lose on the absolute mountain of data corporations and governments have quietly squirreled away on each and every one of us to identify 'undesirables'. At least back before the computer age this took manpower and effort. Now and in the future it just takes a little electricity and compute.
by bko | 2025-06-03 16:20:10+00:00
Enforcement of many laws disproportionately penalize the poor. Should we live in a lawless society?

On the "free transit" point, unless you convince bus drivers and train operators and the tens of thousands of people that operate MTA to work for nothing, then it cannot be free. It can be paid for by someone else (e.g. taxpayers), but in general if you have a third party paying for something, you run into big problems related to expense growth, under investment, and inefficient use of resources in general.

Seeing your fare go up due to bloated expenses and mismanagement is an important signal. Hiding it and hoping everyone is honest and diligent with resources is naive.
by freedomben | 2025-06-03 16:20:20+00:00
I am ai skeptical and have seen it do some dangerous things, such as trying to configure my iptables in a way that will definitely not work at all, let alone the way I asked it to, but I have major doubts that it would do something this stupid.

How recently did this occur? What did you ask it in your prompt? What did it say as the explanation for why it was doing that?
by YmiYugy | 2025-06-03 16:20:52+00:00
Unlikely. Programming in highly collaborative and efficiency is hard to measure. That creates incentives for programmers in competition to typically prioritize advertising their skills by demonstration over maintaining their secret edge. Be it at work or on the internet, if you help others by sharing your techniques you'll make them want to work with you and impress them with how smart you are. If you are keeping it all secret to maintain your edge, people will think of you as unhelpful and they won't know how smart you are, because it's very difficult to judge how difficult the things our accomplished were. The reason people don't stream themselves vibe coding is that's it's even less interesting to watch than regular coding.
by simonw | 2025-06-03 16:21:15+00:00
This is pretty fascinating, but I am not brave (or foolhardy) enough to try it myself.

Having solid backups is good protection against errors that delete data, but I'm more worried about problems that leak my private data - especially to malicious attackers.

Think malicious instructions hidden on websites or in emails that cause Claude Code to steal API keys or account credentials and exfiltrate them to an attacker.

Right now, it is unlikely that such prompt injection attacks are being targeted against specific individuals. I know they are theoretically possible though, and that's enough to prevent me from trying this out.
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by leo_dard | 2025-06-03 16:21:24+00:00
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by _wire_ | 2025-06-03 16:21:29+00:00
Read the first paragraphs of Turing's paper and note that he proposes the imitation game because the question of "intelligence" is so ill-defined that it may as well by answered by Gallup. He goes on to say that maybe in 50-or-so years we'll have progressed to some understanding of intelligence, but in the mean time...
by Xss3 | 2025-06-03 16:21:31+00:00
I have a strong dislike for typical toilet flush buttons as they are less sanitary and harder to clean.

I feel if it's already electric then everything that can be touch free should be and everything else should be crevice free.

A handle flush or chain flush also allows more control. I grew up doing slow flushes with minimal pressure at night for pee. It saved water and didn't disturb people.
by threecheese | 2025-06-03 16:21:37+00:00
Yes? The cookie in question is First Party, which means you’ve consented to permitting only that party to track you using it, and not permitting its use for wider behavioral tracking across websites.

However, the locally hosted FB/Yandex listener receives all of these first party cookies, from all parties, and the OPs implication is (I think) that now these non-correlateable-by-consent first party cookies can be or are being used to track you across all sites that use them.
by JustFinishedBSG | 2025-06-03 16:22:26+00:00
I am quite honestly baffled by all these posts. I'm not a hardcore skeptic, at least I don't think so, I have tried most of the vibe coding tools, and I regularly try new ones and continue using many; and I do NOT have the experience described in all these posts.

So two possibilities come to mind:

1. I, somehow, use every single one of those tools wrong.

2. Or; you and the other people raving about Claude code are solving trivial problems.

Of course, I'm human so I'm inclined to believe I do not use all tools wrong. But reading your experience and those similar to yours I can't help but think two things:

- you are solving incredibly rote, already solved, problem that the LLMs are just able to spit out by heart. I do too, and yet I don't have the same AI successes so damn your problems must be especially trivial.

- You are so wildly overpaid that paying hundreds (I even saw people "boasting" about spending thousands a day !) of dollar a month is perfectly justifiable.

I don't think I'm wrong on the last point, and if I can see it then employers will be able to see it too. Why on earth would anyone pay 600$/h (your rates according to one of your post), when apparently I can just pay 200$/mo and get the same thing?

And don't tell me "because it takes skill to use Claude Code", you just wrote a blog post telling it mostly doesn't (apparently).

Don't take this whole post as a mean criticism (and if it reads like it, I'm sorry), I am just truly flabergasted.
by eochaid | 2025-06-03 16:22:33+00:00
It's really hard to say exactly how this will land with fans. The article mentions using kishōtenketsu in the game design of the Grand Prix mode, "now players have to drive to their next race, instead of being automatically transported", and the wiki page for kishōtenketsu mentions use of that concept in game design of Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D World, both well received with 97 and 93 Metacritic scores respectively.

I'm sure Nintendo has put a lot of thought and effort into this. But personally I feel like most open worlds feel empty and void to me after a few hours. I didn’t play it, but that seemed to be a major complaint with the latest Pokemon game.