MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-02 06:37:26+00:00
I agree that on its own it isn't evidence of the ability to respond without excessive false positives. But similarly, it isn't evidence of an inability to do so either.

In the context of Australia objecting to lack of moderation I'm not sure it matters. It seems reasonable for a government to set minimum standards which companies that wish to operate within their territory must abide by. If as you claim (and I doubt) the current way of doing things is uneconomical under those requirements then perhaps it would be reasonable for those products to be excluded from the Australian market. Or perhaps they would instead choose to charge users for the service? Either outcome would make room for fairly priced local alternatives to gain traction.

This seems like a case of free trade enabling an inferior American product to be subsidized by the vendor thereby undercutting any potential for a local industry. The underlying issue feels roughly analogous to GDPR except that this time the legislation is terrible and will almost certainly make society worse off in various ways if it passes.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 06:38:06+00:00
Governments are some of the largest polluters in the world. Any given special interest is lobbying for the thing they want at the expense of the general public.

Is there something that makes pollution different than e.g. professional licensing capture that increases the cost of trade services and therefore causes people to be priced out of making safety-related repairs? Or to put it the other way, any reason the likes of public transit systems should be able to operate whatsoever when they produce non-zero amounts of brake dust and CO2 instead of making everybody walk everywhere?
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-02 06:39:07+00:00
No? This was how it was for me. And the only downside was, that all the other kids are glued to their smartphones.

Why is this even controverse. Is there any rational reason why kids should have smartphones? The only reason I see is to let the big companies earn money and because adults don't want to admit, that they are addicted themselves.
by evanrelf | 2025-07-02 06:39:23+00:00
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by mindcrime | 2025-07-02 06:39:58+00:00
IME, a certain amount of self-promotion is totally accepted (even expected) at HN. But dude... you have had an account for 3 months and in that entire time ALL you've posted is self-promotional content. To the tune of about 15 submissions to your own site, in 3 months. That's 100% going to get you the wrong kind of attention.

From the HN guidelines[1]:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by jeenuv | 2025-07-02 06:40:45+00:00
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by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-02 06:40:53+00:00
This was immediately my reaction as well, but I'm not a judge so what do I know. In my own mind I mark it as a "spice must flow" moment -- it will seem inevitable in retrospect but my simple (almost surely incorrect) take is that there just wasn't a way this was going to stop AI's progress. AI as a trend has incredible plot armor at this point in time.

Is the hinge that the tools can recall a huge portion (not perfectly of course) but usually don't? What seems even more straight forward is the substitute good idea, it seems reasonable to assume people will buy less copies of book X when they start generating books heavily inspired by book X.

But, this is probably just a case of a layman wandering into a complex topic, maybe it's the case that AI has just nestled into the absolute perfect spot in current copyright law, just like other things that seem like they should be illegal now but aren't.
by krisoft | 2025-07-02 06:41:17+00:00
Given that they are not contradicting, but supporting each other i would suggest to believe both. The blogpost says they counted the pile and it is more than a million dollar. The redit post says that a tour guide says it is more than a million dollar because the box was too big. That is the same information verified two different ways. Why do you feel the need to chose who you believe here?
by motorest | 2025-07-02 06:42:16+00:00
> It says something that he still believes he has "missionaries" after betraying all the core principles that OpenAI was founded on.

What I find the most troubling in this reaction is how hostile it is to the actual talent. It accuses everyone and anyone who is even considering to join Meta in particular but any competitor in general as being a mercenary. It's using the poisoning the well fallacy to shield OpenAI from any competition. And why? Because he believes he is in a personal mission? This emits "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make" energy. Not cool.
by Daub | 2025-07-02 06:43:08+00:00
> I'm not fully sure of what you means. If we take the following example, are you talking about the neck and the collar of the girl?

Yes... that's exactly it. It is also described in our teaching material here, (half way down the page):

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/structural-...

Rembrandt was an avid user of this technique. In his portraits, one little trick he almost always used was to ensure that there was no edge contrast whatsoever in at least one region, usually located near the bottom of the figure. This served to blend the figure into the background and avoid the flat effect that would have happened had he not used it. In class I call this 'edge loss'. An equivalent in drawing is the notion of 'open lines' whereby silhouette lines are deliberately left open at select points.

> I think the name of the concept is "edge control" (not really original). You can find some explanation here.

I am aware of the term 'edge control' though I have not heard it used in this context. I feel that the term is too general to describe what is happening in the (so-called) tone wrap.

To extend the principle, wrap is an important concept in spatial rendering (painting, photography, filmmaking etc) and is a cousin of overlap. Simply... both serve to enhance form.

> To keep it short, there's no line in reality.

True that. I learned a lot about lines from reading about non-photorealistic rendering in 3D. There are some great papers on this subject (below) though I feel there is still work to be done.

Cole, Forrester, et al. "How well do line drawings depict shape?." ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 papers. 2009. 1-9.

Cole, Forrester, et al. "Where do people draw lines?." ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers. 2008. 1-11.

I made a stab at summarizing their wisdoms here:

https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/pages/drawing-lin...

> There's a book called "Color and Light" by James Gurney that goes in depth about all of these. There's a lot of parameters that goes inside a brush stroke in a specific area of a painting.

Looking at it now. Any writer who references the Hudson River School is a friend of mine.
by mrweasel | 2025-07-02 06:43:50+00:00
I kinda dropped using Amazon, both on principle, but also because they can't compete anymore.

Amazon isn't exactly cheaper anymore, certainly not when you factor in shipping, their shipping times are awful, typically a week or more and you can't trust the reviews. They do have the larger selection of stuff, so if you can bundle a whole bunch of things it might still make sense. The problem is that you can't really find anything anymore and a large percentage of the stuff that you can only get on Amazon does not ship to your country.
by Cartoxy | 2025-07-02 06:43:54+00:00
Australia is already living in a full-blown surveillance state. Over 330,000 metadata access requests were approved in a single year—no warrant needed. Agencies like Centrelink, the ATO, even local councils can tap into your private data. Police get access to your web browsing history directly from ISPs without judicial oversight. Encryption is being quietly undermined through laws like the TOLA Act, forcing tech companies to help spy or weaken their own systems. The government now mandates that AI search tools filter and flag content, shaping what people can even find online. When the AFP raided the ABC, they had the legal power to copy, alter, or delete files. Add to that Australia’s deep involvement in the global Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network, and it's clear: this isn’t future dystopia, it’s surveillance as a fact of life. NBN monopoly + TR-069 as default hard locked and custom PCB in NBN hardware (even to the point of new PCB runs with all headers and test points even unpopulated removed) it tooks untill the new rev of arriss hardware before they even complied with the GPRD lisenceing. legit!
by dvrp | 2025-07-02 06:44:08+00:00
I built this with simple text-based memory archive too. What you said is simply adding git to the equation. I tried many approaches and, to my surprise, Markdown + Git + plain-old UNIX tooling is powerful.

I've noticed that anchoring the tool on well thought out standards correlates with good performance.

Concretely: using Markdown, JSON, RFC 822 MESSAGE ID for identifying emails, or using self-contained binaries (or simply executable files with UNIX shebangs) are all instances of where I've converged after many attempts at using more complex techniques. Examples of those techniques are PostgreSQL, XML, trying to recreate what's essentially Git (for the time component), and even embeddings in some cases.

I think this is an instance of worse-is-better.
by spiksla | 2025-07-02 06:45:15+00:00
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by gumbojuice | 2025-07-02 06:47:24+00:00
I hope there would be enforced regulation around this kind of thing in cities in India. In residential areas, it's common that your house takes up almost all of your available plot space, and on top of that mostly constructed from concrete.

Air temperature is already high (e.g. 36C at my location just now), and radiant heat from sun and concrete can make the felt temperature more like 60C.

It's sad that new real-estate layouts continue to be approved, which will only be good for this type of dense concrete hell.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-02 06:47:43+00:00
> By this principle the government can't operate the criminal justice system

Obviously we make case by case decisions regarding such things. There are plenty of ways in which governments could act that populations in the west generally deem unacceptable. Private prisons in the US, for example, are quite controversial at present.

It's worth noting that if the regulator actually enforces requirements then they become merely a cost of doing business that all participants are subject to. Such a development in this case could well mean that all the large social platforms operating within the Australian market start charging users in that region on the order of $30 per year to maintain an account.
Show HN: Paperex – All processing happens in the browser
by libbybrand | 2025-07-02 06:48:18+00:00
I have been using Claude Code and wanted to build something useful for me. I wanted a PDF editor that could perform basic tasks on the go. I don't want to worry about installing random websites or, God forbid, Acrobat tools.

https://www.paperex.app/

The cool part is that everything runs locally in your browser. Your PDFs never leave your computer.

It can merge, split, rotate, and delete pages from PDFs.

---

I have tried building a lot of projects by vibecoding, but most of them became too complex, and I got lost in my own mess. In the case of Paperex, I worked with Claude to break down all the tasks into smaller github issues. Then organize them as github milestones. Then I created a claude command in ./.claude/commands/impl.md which would take one argument that contains the issue number.

I told the command to

Pull from main before starting anything new.

Always use PR workflow. Before pushing build+test+lint

After pushing, wait till the checks turn green, if not get the failures and repeat.

Make sure the description contains enough information for me to understand what you did.

Make sure the PRs are small. 400-700 lines of change is recommended. If required break down a lot of changes into multiple commits in a single PR.

This was the winning formula. It also helps that the tool is simple and I don't need a backend. Everything is deployed using vercel
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 06:48:31+00:00
This is the post people should point to when someone says "slippery slope is a fallacy" in order to prove them wrong, both for the age verification requirements and for making banks do KYC.

But also, your proposal would deter people from reporting crimes because they're not only hesitant to give randos or mass surveillance corporations their social security numbers, they may fear retaliation from the criminals if it leaks.

And the same thing happens for people posting content -- identity verification is a deterrent to posting -- which is even worse than a false positive because it's invisible and you don't have the capacity to discover or address it.
by nivertech | 2025-07-02 06:49:06+00:00
Backlog != Second Brain

+1 for no system, or lightweight system

In the past for every subject I researched I created a slide deck, and after some time I started noticing common patterns across different even remote disciplines.

Interlinking slides is hard, so Obsidian is ideal for this.

The important part is not to be religious or too pedantic about it, or else it will become a Second Job instead of a Second Brain;) Dump/capture what you can, if it’s really important - it will resurface later.

Lastly, with GenAI the value of these tools as a Knowledge Management goes down, but they’re more like a Workspace with the work logs and pointers/references to the actual knowledge in GenAI tools.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-07-02 06:49:52+00:00
> but they clearly do actually take measures.

Some times, but clearly not often enough.

Does a refusal get more active than a message that says “Our review team has found that [the account’s] post does not go against our Community Guidelines”?

> Then you report something real and it gets lost in an sea of fake reports.

It didn’t get ‘lost’ — they (or their contract content moderators at Concentrix in the Phillipines) sat on it, and then sent a message that said they had decided to not do anything about it.

> What are they supposed to do about that?

They’ve either looked at the content and decided to do nothing about it, or they’ve lied when they said that they had, and that it didn’t breach policy. Which do you suppose it was?
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by daxfohl | 2025-07-02 06:52:49+00:00
Well, after some more thought, I realized that doesn't account for things that are truly innovative. I imagine humans will have a lock on that for a while.

But it does raise the question, how much of our work is true innovation? When I reflect back on my previous projects, most of them are just copying some feature that other services already have. For these, an AI may be even better than humans in the near future, with less appetite to put a personal stamp on the feature, and perfectly happy to copy a boring but predictable standard. How much of tech industry employment does that type of stuff account for? Because it's going to disappear.

There were other projects that were maybe slightly innovative, but that innovation could have been summed up in a couple sentences, and everything else derives from that. And I imagine that's about what the future of these kinds of projects will look like. Sum up your innovation in a couple sentences, and let the AI figure out the rest. And slowly, AI can start proposing its own slightly-innovative things based on what users want or what it understands about the world, and start running this e2e as well.

I've only worked on a couple projects that were what I'd call cutting-edge. But even these, it's kind of like a combination of new technology, new trends, new products, new user needs, all coming together in a way that, is it really innovative? Or when you're aware of all these things, is the "innovation" obvious? And if so, can an AI be made to maintain awareness of such things, and identify the "obvious" innovations?

I guess that's the trillion-dollar question. And we'll probably find out the answer sooner than we'd like.
by dado3212 | 2025-07-02 06:53:56+00:00
I'm a big fan of sidenotes as a solution for this. If you're on desktop they'll pop out to the side and it's easy enough to glance over at them or stay focused on the main text without having to navigate around. On mobile that obviously doesn't work, but instead you can just have them open inline, so you don't have to deal with the annoying anchor link jump behavior and remembering where you were. And it's all doable with CSS and float, no Javascript!

Here's an example with a fair number of sidenotes:

https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/possession
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by olyjohn | 2025-07-02 06:55:31+00:00
Yes, but were the vacuums actually good? He left 10 reviews for this company, which may have led other people to buy them, and made this company look better than it is... just so he could stuff his shed full of them? That's kinda fucked up. He even said he felt kinda shady about it, so my guess is that the reviews weren't honest.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-02 06:55:55+00:00
I think this is an OK argument, but it assumes that in a magical world where universities ceased to exist, the alternative would actually be less costly.

Remember, universities have fulfilled different societal roles over time. In the US they started off as Bible college, some of them gradually turned into quasi trade schools at the turn of the industrial revolution, and our idea of elite research universities really only reached full stride from Vannevar Bush's influence during WW2. Along they way, some of them developed lucrative sports programs completely unrelated to studying the Bible or building nuclear weapons.

I would argue that if universities did not exist, they would be replaced by institutions that mostly do the same thing. The key question is whether the replacement institutions would cost as much.

If there are the same sort of federal subsidies and incentives, the replacement institutions that replace the key signaling aspects of the modern research university would cost the same or more because the high cost is driven by the perceived market value of a degree and government loan programs. For the majority of non-elite students, the cost to get into such institutions for training, credentialling, exposure will be high.

The real problem here is not universities but the fact that all majors are treated equally regardless of the expected economic outcome. An English major pays the same as an Engineering major despite drastically different ROI. This is an issue regardless of whether engineering and english departments are in the same institution or partitioned into separate non-university research institutions.
by diamajax | 2025-07-02 06:56:19+00:00
Most “agents” today are just wrappers around a loop of prompts. I wanted something more ambitious: an actual cognitive engine.

So I built AGI‑SaaS: a modular AGI system you can use like a brain, or deploy like an API.

Here’s what makes it different:

Plugin-based cognition Add memory, reasoning, search, tools — as Python plugins.

LLM-agnostic OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, OpenRouter — switch in seconds.

Mental journal Trace every thought and decision. Debug cognition itself.

FastAPI-ready Turn it into an agent, a SaaS backend, or your own AGI product.

AGI isn’t about bigger models. It’s about better architecture.
by retsibsi | 2025-07-02 06:56:45+00:00
Your original complaint was that the phrase is meaningless. To people who are familiar with it, it's obviously not meaningless! For those who are unfamiliar with it, I'd say the bafflingness is more feature than bug; you'll immediately know that you've encountered an unfamiliar phrase (or missed a word), rather than trying to piece it together logically and coming away with an illusion of understanding.

(Yeah, it would be even better if it just made sense transparently and unambiguously to all listeners. But that leaves us with a complaint about idioms in general, not this one in particular.)
by freitzzz | 2025-07-02 06:57:21+00:00
I would say that the best benefits are:

- Cross Compilation (even wasm and js) out of the box - Simple concurrency model, similar to NodeJS - Ability to use it on a popular cross platform framework (flutter) - Hot reload capibilities (has JIT and AOT mode) - Strong developer tool chain

All of these are built on top of a language that has a pretty syntax and supports many language paradigms.

The biggest con is the (weak) package ecosystem and community.