MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _wire_ | 2025-07-15 12:06:31+00:00
Instigated by Republicans.

Old timers will recall conservatives 2008 presidential campaign fear-mongering about the NAFTA (Bill Clinton!) Trans-Texas corridor and secret plans to build a super-highway from Mexico to Canada with a complex of detention camps in the center of the country, then break the nation apart and destroy the red states once and for all...

Highway To Hell? - Newsweek 2007

https://www.newsweek.com/highway-hell-94645

//The main purveyor of this broad conspiracy theory is Jerome Corsi, coauthor of "Unfit for Command," the book that helped Swift Boat John Kerry's presidential ambitions. His latest offering is "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada," which became a best seller on The New York Times's business list this summer. Corsi plays on growing nationalist fears. He sees a scenario in which a North American Union is born and shares a currency, the "amero." Even some right-wing standard-bearers regard the fears as over-blown. Jed Babbin, editor of the conservative newspaper Human Events, says: "I guess there are people who believe in [the plan for a North American Union]. But there are people who believe in Bigfoot." "The evidence is out there," says Corsi.//

BIGFOOT -> TRUMP!
by _bent | 2025-07-15 12:07:44+00:00
This appears to be very well written and easy to understand even if you only know the basics of digital image encoding.

I found the parts about patching and frames with different blend modes very fascinating. I wonder if it would be possible to build a GUI DCC app that uses JpegXL as its project format. It seems that it could support layers, splines, symbols (transformed instances of layers), blend modes and animations without "baking" any of it to pixels
by johnecheck | 2025-07-15 12:08:10+00:00
So you don't have any real info on the costs. The question is what OpenAI's profit margin is here, not yours. The theory is that these costs are subsidized by a flow of money from VCs and big tech as they race.

How cheap is inference, really? What about 'thinking' inference? What are the prices going to be once growth starts to slow and investors start demanding returns on their billions?
by oytis | 2025-07-15 12:08:18+00:00
I'm not invested in Bitcoin in any way, so I consider myself neutral. But I see some similarities here. Yes, unlike Bitcoin, gold has some real uses - but it's not what defines gold price, so I don't think it's relevant here. Yes, humanity could theoretically collectively decide that from now on gold is not valuable any more and chose some other scarce material as a way to store wealth, so I think it's not unlike bitcoin really. The difference is in mindshare - gold obviously has more of that, including governments investing in gold. Bitcoin is more likely to drop out of fashion with investors than gold, but so far it didn't happen, and there is also a chance it will not happen or that it will get even more mindshare, e.g. with other states following Trump's US in creating bitcoin reserves.
by Min0taur | 2025-07-15 12:09:27+00:00
"This is the only way for me to create music."

You're not creating music.

It feels incongruous to read that you don't have time to learn a DAW, or an instrument, but you have time to upload to YT, in multiple formats, and compare outcomes between shorts/vids?

Small pockets of free time can go a long ways: putting in 15-30 minutes a day towards learning something new will produce tangible results.

Learning to create music is such a multifaceted pleasure: exploring tooling and mechanics, integrating somatic processes (feeling it!), investigating theory and history, increasing execution incrementally, exploring and expressing emotions+ideas, and maybe, eventually, conveying those emotions and ideas to listeners? What richness!

The Suno->Youtube pipeline feels like an attempt to experience a watered-down version of the conveyance bit, at the expense of the rest.
by famouswaffles | 2025-07-15 12:09:30+00:00
>This one claims 20m paying subscribers, which is not a lot.

It is for a B2C with $20 as its lowest price point.

>A lot of weekly active users will use it once a week

That's still a lot of usage.

>and a large part of that may be "hate users" who want to see how bad/boring it is, similar to "hatewatching" on YouTube.

And they're doing this every week consistently ? Sorry but that's definitely not a 'large part' of usage.
Show HN: Betterlytics – Cookieless, Privacy-First, Open Source Web Analytics
by Lindharden | 2025-07-15 12:09:37+00:00
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by Esophagus4 | 2025-07-15 12:09:42+00:00
This seems like a bad faith argument - the risky tools, yes, actually. I do audit them. Or at least poke around for someone who has.

It is easier than ever to do a DIY malware analysis on the tools you use.

“Hi Claude - you are a security researcher and malware analyst. Analyze the FooBar Chrome Browser extension / git repository I just downloaded for security threats and provide me a report on whether this is OK to use”

I know browser / IDE extensions are not usually audited and approved by the tool owner unless specifically noted otherwise. Even phone apps can sneak stuff in. So I am careful to only install things I trust or will audit myself or am willing to take the risk on.
by RandomBacon | 2025-07-15 12:09:43+00:00
I understand you have Cerebral Palsy, I would prefer OP's thoughts. Thank you for your feedback, I hope it helps OP.

OP, if you're not already, perhaps join some communities for people with Cerebral Palsy and ask them. As the comment I'm replying to makes obvious, we might be too out of touch to provide advice.

I suppose it also depends on your attitude. People can have different attitudes about the exact same affliction, and get experience different outcomes because of the difference in their attitudes.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-15 12:10:30+00:00
Cursor, Microsoft, and all the major players in this space should invest heavily in a managed dependency / plugin service, also for the huge amount of nodeJS package. They need a review, scan, certification and warranty program.

Apple did it 15 years ago, time for the rest to catch up. They can turn it into a business by offering enterprise subscriptions for higher guarantees or a warranty.
by OneFriend2575 | 2025-07-15 12:10:35+00:00
Loved this, such a good reminder that for a lot of us in SE Asia, VCDs weren’t just a format, they were basically the bridge between VHS bootlegs and early DVDs. Karaoke, bootlegs, family movies… it was all mixed in.

What’s interesting is how much the timing of official releases shaped all this. If you had to wait months for a cinema run or home video, the “street version” was too tempting to pass up.
by ethanleetech | 2025-07-15 12:10:55+00:00
India’s DigiLocker was a bold step toward digital identity and document storage—but it’s still tied to centralized control, lacks revocation, and doesn’t offer fine-grained trust.

This blog explains how verifiable credentials go a step further:

Trust can be verified instantly, without calling the issuer

Credentials are portable, revocable, and privacy-preserving

Built on open standards (W3C), not locked into one government platform

We compare DigiLocker to W3C-compliant verifiable credentials in a practical, plain-English way—for developers, public sector innovators, and compliance teams in India.

Would love your feedback.
by lblume | 2025-07-15 12:12:41+00:00
I didn't mean typical chatbot output, these are luckily still fairly recognizable due to stylistic preferences learned during fine-tuning. I mean actual base model output. Take a SOTA base model and give it the first two paragraphs of some longer text you wrote, and I would bet on many people being unable to distinguish your continuation from the model's autoregressive guesses.
by MisterTea | 2025-07-15 12:12:50+00:00
Nice take. You sound like the kind of person who only ever reads other peoples opinions and then parrots them creating the illusion that you have knowledge. Meanwhile you never bothered to boot the OS or see why people like it. It's actually pretty fucking amazing but that's okay, you are obviously too smart to use it since you read Unix Haters. Have fun with creaky old Unix.
by throw101010 | 2025-07-15 12:14:06+00:00
That's the reason why Hardware wallets exist. They aren't the panacea, but they drastically increase the separation of your keys from the Internet. Some (like ColdCard) do not ever need to touch an online computer directly.

For small amounts all these mobile/addons/desktop software are fine (with minimum caution like avoiding reckless behavior described in the OP). For larger amounts cold storage (of which hardware wallet are the easiest to deploy) will protect your funds.

When you put cash in your physical wallet you assume that this could be lost to a robber in the streets, with little to no recourse. You wouldn't put all your belongings in a big bag you would carry everywhere you travel, or if you did you would increase your security proportionally to this increased risk... if you don't, nobody would shed a tear over your potential losses.

Not sure how this is different with crypto, I guess people assume everything is safe by default because it has no physical form, despite the 20 warnings and security reminders they get when they setup any crypto wallets.
Personal micro-app (recipes > GPT shopping list > To-do app) the future of apps?
by pandora-health | 2025-07-15 12:15:36+00:00
I’ve put together a small web app that, with one click, grabs five random recipes from a Google Spreadsheet, sends those URLs to ChatGPT to generate a consolidated shopping list (ingredients plus metric quantities for two people), pipes the list straight into my To-do app, which leaves me with a tidy page where I can tick off what’s already in the cupboard while the recipe links stay at hand.

Is this kind of personalised, purpose-built micro-tool exactly what the future of apps will look like?
by btown | 2025-07-15 12:15:52+00:00
The biggest "reveal" here is that open-vsx has far less effective anti-fraud measures than the end users of Cursor, Windsurf, etc. expect.

It seems that an attacker was able to easily manipulate download counts, placing their malicious extension high in search results.

And this is far from the first open-vsx vulnerability in the past month. See: https://blog.koi.security/marketplace-takeover-how-we-couldv... which describes how open-vsx was installing arbitrary packages and running their build scripts in a privileged environment.

And the instructions to report malicious extensions, even now, are practically nonexistent: https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org/wiki/Guidelines-o...

With billions of dollars being poured into this ecosystem, it's mind-boggling that security is being treated as such an afterthought. Consider this when choosing tools.
Show HN: A multi-player browser that makes any web app Figma-like
by yamatokaneko | 2025-07-15 12:16:06+00:00
Hey HN,

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What if we could bring a Figma-like collaborative experience to any app, on any tab?

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The browser experience has always been single-player. With Tabl you can:

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by aesh2Xa1 | 2025-07-15 12:17:01+00:00
It isn't about a "hard ask" -- it's about the hard data. The most critical metric is a country's total annual emissions, as this is what the planet's climate system directly responds to. The data is unambiguous: China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter by a significant margin.

I do enjoy the back and forth on these points, though.

I'll address the per-capita figures again, as it's still being lawded, but it is misguided. China's per-capita CO2 emissions are not only multiples higher than India's but have also surpassed those of the European Union. China's high emissions are a direct result of its chosen path of industrialization, pursued for its own economic ambitions.

Regarding historical responsibility -- a point I've already agreed should be part of a complete picture ("historical contributions" above): Crucially, this is happening in an era with known consequences and technological alternatives. The West industrialized over a century without access to modern, cost-effective renewables. China, by contrast, is making a deliberate choice to build out its fossil fuel infrastructure today, fully aware of the climate impact and with cleaner technologies readily available.

This brings us to the original topic of this thread, which is aerosols. China is demonstrating the capability to scrub its emissions, but it is choosing only to clean up the pollutants that have immediate, local health impacts. This reveals a clear policy of prioritizing national benefit over the global necessity of reducing greenhouse gases.
by shaky-carrousel | 2025-07-15 12:17:27+00:00
It's not reductionist, it's a fact. If you, instead of learning Python, ask an LLM to code you something in Python, you won't learn a line of Python in the process. Even if you read the produced code from beginning to end. Because (and honestly I'm surprised I have to point out this, here of all places) you learn by writing code, not by reading code.
by xd1936 | 2025-07-15 12:17:58+00:00
I thought that the US Supreme Court decision in Google v. Oracle and the Java reimplementation provided enough case precedent to allow companies to re-implement something like CUDA APIs?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367851/google-oracle-sup...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_....
by manzodale | 2025-07-15 12:18:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Cursor for Word.

Most people think writing is itself just natural language. But anyone who’s spent hours addressing vague comments or circulating the 54th version of a memo knows: corporate writing is its own language. It’s closer to code than prose—full of structure, logic, and unwritten rules.

So I built Scrutiny: an AI assistant that lives natively inside Microsoft Word— where professionals are already comfortable.

We’re still early in development, but Scrutiny already supports several core features: -> Chat Mode – Talk about your document with the latest models—no more copying and pasting revisions in and out of ChatGPT.

-> Draft Mode – Need to add a section outlining the history of foundation models? Just ask, and Scrutiny inserts it in your doc, matching tone and style.

-> Comment Mode – Get a peer-style read-through. Scrutiny leaves thoughtful comments on clarity, logic, and tone—like a colleague would.

-> Sources Mode – Need a citation for that stray claim on page 42? Scrutiny finds high-quality sources and formats the citation in seconds.

I made this for myself originally, but once colleagues saw me using it, they asked to try it. And now it’s in beta across multiple consulting firms—and students, teachers, and other professionals have started picking it up too.

It’s live and freely available to download at: www.usescrutiny.com

Would love feedback, thoughts, or ideas. Happy to answer questions.

— Dale
by arnaudsm | 2025-07-15 12:18:54+00:00
Microsoft claims their team banned the extension in "2 seconds" https://x.com/code/status/1943720372307665033?s=46

Concerning Apple, their review process is so hard and unjust, I've seen startups give up apps after months of work just because of that.

Maybe sandboxing and runtime-level permissions are a better compromise?
by jameshiew | 2025-07-15 12:19:53+00:00
I've barely tried Claude Code but looking to experiment with it as well after hearing a lot of good things about it. I've had good experiences with the GitHub Copilot agent in VS Code for working with Rust, specifically with Sonnet 4.

Refactoring duplicate code into a helper function should be achievable with current agents. To replace existing code with an external crate , you could try giving the agent access to a browser (e.g. playwright-mcp), and instructing it to browse the crate docs. For anything that involves using APIs that may be past the knowledge cutoff for the agent's model, it's definitely worthwhile to have some MCP tools on hand that'll let it browse for up-to-date info - the brave-search and context7 MCPs are good.
by xinayder | 2025-07-15 12:20:41+00:00
How different is Cursor to VSCodium?

Nonetheless, I think this is more a vulnerability in the Open VSIX registry side, than Cursor AI. If anything, the forks and VS Code should block/sandbox extensions by default, or have a granular permission system to allow users to consciously choose whether to allow an extension to use network resources or not.
by Nebasuke | 2025-07-15 12:20:54+00:00
They really wouldn't. Even people who BOUGHT VR, are barely using it. Giving everyone free VR headsets won't make people suddenly spend a lot of time in VR-land without there actually being applications that are useful to most people.

ChatGPT is so useful, people without any technology background WANT to use it. People who are just about comfortable with the internet, see the applications and use it to ask questions (about recipes, home design, solving small house problems, etc).
by latexr | 2025-07-15 12:21:09+00:00
> It feels very nitpicky to police the use of the word create.

Conversely, I feel the word “police” is overused in these contexts. I’m not stopping (or attempting to stop) their use of the word. Nor could I, I have no power to change their word usage. But words have meanings, and their overuse dilutes and makes communication more difficult. If someone uses a word multiple times in one short comment as part of their main thesis, I think it’s fair to reflect on if it’s being used correctly. That is, of course, a matter of interpretation and open to disagreement. That’s what I’m on HN for, to bounce ideas and develop my thinking.

> If GP hadn't willed it, the song wouldn't exist at all, it was only created due to their action.

Which is no different from a commission, which is why I used that word (again, meaning matters).

> If I write the lyrics for a song, I feel like that's a significant contribution in creating a musical piece.

The OP said “most of the lyrics are generated using chatgpt”. So most of the lyrics are created by an AI tool and most (if not all) of the music is created by another AI tool. Where is the person’s “significant contribution” in this scenario?

> If I made a detailed sketch for a table design and I hired someone to help correct any oversights and to build it

Except that doesn’t look to be at all what happened here. It looks more analogous to giving some vague verbal instructions at different stages of the process. Again, no different from a client commissioning a work from an artist.

Crucially, your example does require learning a skill, which the OP admittedly didn’t. Making a detailed sketch for a table design requires that you learn how it’s done. In this case, it would be somewhat analogous to the OP having written musical notation to generate the song, which is also a skill.

But here, no skill was used or pursued.

Your hypotheticals are valid in general. But I’m not discussing hypotheticals in the aggregate, every analogy I made was about this specific case.
by throwaway9899p | 2025-07-15 12:21:18+00:00
To understand the value of his behaviour, you need to look at it from a broader strategic point of view, particularly the idea of setting the overtone window.

Without Stallman, the moderate would be cast as the extremist.

Stallman’s positive contribution to humanity cannot be overstated by any measure. Without him and the like of him, it is not improbable that the whole software industry would be like Apple ecosystem.
by kazinator | 2025-07-15 12:21:56+00:00
I did something like this as a small stackoverflow answer in 2015.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29963269/boolean-express...

Quite recently I revisited the parser part of the and used it as the starting point for adding comprehensive infix syntax support to TXR Lisp.

That's still only 300 lines of code, in one file:

https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/stdlib/infix.tl
by gruez | 2025-07-15 12:21:57+00:00
>Everyone leaves telemetry breadcrumbs everywhere. Almost everyone radiates a ton of different kinds of data, RF, optical, etc fingerprints that are incidentally picked up everywhere they go.

What does this mean in concrete terms? "optical, etc fingerprints" just sounds like a fancy way of saying "facial recognition". I'm also not too sure what "RF" translates to. Is it just wifi/bluetooth/celluar sniffers?
by arnabdey78 | 2025-07-15 12:22:09+00:00
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