MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-07-29 13:58:37+00:00
If you're only interested in great movies, no others allowed, then the top 50,000 is bound to disappoint as there aren't that many great movies yet. Setting it to 10k this is what I got in my first 5 (well spread) clicks:

- Ikiru (1952): A fantastic movie, also in the above list

- A Clockwork Orange (1971): Alright, nobody is going to believe these are random if I keep pulling these...

- Tracks (2013): Haven't seen this one, doesn't seem particularly astounding but I'd probably watch it, especially if my wife was wanting to watch something we haven't seen together.

- Songbird (2020): This one looks a bit garbage to me, probably wouldn't watch.

- Osmosis Jones (2001): Watched a few times, maybe a bit of nostalgia but it has been a few years so I would throw this up. Not deserving of the top 1000 by any means... but also not Leprechaun 5: In the Hood (2001).

And that seems pretty reasonable. I'm only about 800 movies in (since I've started tracking), of those only ~400 are in the original 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list. To me watching straight through the various compendiums of the best movies is actually more dull than mixing in other things like the latest pop films or some stuff that wouldn't make many "top" lists but isn't necessarily bad. It's a bit like touring the best restaurants in a new area - if you do them all in a row then you just lose some of the feeling of variety. I doubt Tracks will leave an impact on my soul to the level of Ikiru, but I still want to watch things like that often.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-07-29 13:59:07+00:00
What happened to antitrust is you guys had an antitrust system that was going way too far (think breaking up regional gas stations too far) and then nixon appointed Rehnquist to the supreme court in 1972, then Reagan appointed him chief justice in 1986. Rehnquist made decent arguments for reforming that that were then taken too far over his tenure (and continuing to this day) and now we have multinational oligopolies. Taking a good idea too far, making it an extremely bad idea is basically the theme of the pendulum swings of human history.
by muzani | 2025-07-29 13:59:25+00:00
Every "bad government" out there has been a response to capitalism. Communism and fascism sparked from the outcomes of capitalism. Back with uncontrolled capitalism, 8 year old boys were blowing glass.

Capitalist-democracy is what works. When capitalists hoard power, democracy is the sink that redistributes power. Right now, a lot of that power is being held by tech, which is why the interests of the technocrats are opposed to that of the democracy. AI is going to greatly accelerate this process. When the rich also control politics, the remaining solution is violent force, which collapses into communism/fascism.

Most countries are functioning happily on socialism - healthcare and education is available to most, and not restricted to the rich. Debt cycles are illegal.

Ads are also not the nature of the internet. They are a remainder of an era when micropayments were not possible. By default, the world uses freemium now. It's no coincidence that Google rules micro transactions; microtransactions could gradually chip away at ad revenue. Instead of watching an ad for 30 seconds for 30 minutes of game progress, it might be easier to sell that 30 minutes for $0.009.
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-29 13:59:29+00:00
Attaching pictures, being able to review the content for accuracy/completeness before sending it, being able to pause and do something else in the middle, B/CCing others, and having a copy of the sent document for the record are all pretty helpful. The reason I'd forgo those benefits and call is if I thought I was going to be able to talk to a human right now and just get it done without a to-and-fro.

For example, calling 0800-TEXT-HN and narrating this comment back-and-forth to an machine would be pretty nutty.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-07-29 13:59:32+00:00
I would be surprised if the UK government tried to read - and implement - the legislation in the broadest sense any time soon. If you have an instance and are below the 3m MAUs, you're likely fine.

Until you're not.

The moment a Mastodon instance is found to be hosting content the OSA is meant to protect minors from, that instance will be investigated and explored to the most liberal interpretation of the law, and that individual is going to find themselves either implementing age verification, shutting down that instance, or fighting their stance in court.

Risk, as ever, is about likelihood, not just impact. How likely are you to find yourself hosting such content? Could you self host just for you and people known to you? Your question implies you want to set up a centralised instance with lots of people you don't know, but that's the exact scenario Mastodon is meant to counter, it's meant to be federated. And if it's just you and your mates, what's the issue? If you want to give children access, you're into another World of problems, so maybe for your own sanity - and arguably, theirs - just don't do that.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-07-29 14:00:10+00:00
Right. Just like kids would hang out outside a 7-11 and ask someone older to buy them a Playboy. Or pay a homeless person to buy them beer. Should we remove the age limit on alcohol purchases because kids aren't clueless? That's not a rhetorical question. Should we remove all laws that can be abused? Your argument falls apart very quickly.
by specialist | 2025-07-29 14:00:35+00:00
> smaller local media orgs have been eaten up by massive corporations

Yes and: by Wall St too.

The documentary Fit to Print [2016] is one telling of this history.

https://tubitv.com/movies/682467/fit-to-print https://fawesome.tv/movies/10568236/fit-to-print

One thread is how Al Neuharth (founder of USA Today) started the enshittification doom loop. The other is about one (now independent) investigative journalist's efforts to keep local journalism alive.
by qualeed | 2025-07-29 14:00:41+00:00
>It would be Discord in this case having to make the legal defence.

There's no rule that only 1 entity can get in trouble.

If I use a fake ID to by smokes while underage, I will definitely get in trouble for that and the store that sold me the smokes may also get in trouble (depending on how realistic the ID is, etc.). If the provider of my fake ID is found, they also get in trouble.

I haven't yet heard a compelling argument why this website (who, in the analogous scenario above, would be the fake ID provider) would not be subject to the same logic.

I hope that the defense of "this is a satirical website" is strong enough (or preferably, it never even has to be put to the test), however given what I've gathered about the general attitude UK legislators have regarding the internet, I think it is more likely that they would do anything in their power to try and punish someone operating a site like this.
by josefx | 2025-07-29 14:00:56+00:00
> The US is actually more democratic than e.g. Germany, because the president is elected by the people

The German president is mainly a figurehead with limited power. The office was stripped down after WWII.

The real power lies with the ministers, who can issue absolute orders that have to be obeyed without question. One of many results is that German prosecutors cannot be trusted with issuing EU wide arrest warrants and had the ability stripped from them the moment it was challenged in court.
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-07-29 14:01:01+00:00
On your hypothetical, do I woke up as Israeli president on Oct 7 2023? Because if that’s the case, then yes, maybe I would do the same, although most likely I would be ousted for not being bloodthirsty enough.

But in a less unrealistic scenario, if I were by chance, to be president of Israel, I would try first to dismantle illegal settlements and defuse conflict to avoid, for example, 2023 being the deadliest year for children in west bank way before Oct 7.

Any hypothetical scenario that doesn’t engage on what the Israeli government can do before Oct 7, is pretty much a scenario where you are representing an occupying and murderous regime, so likely you will behave as those who represent murderous regimes do.
by protimewaster | 2025-07-29 14:01:30+00:00
I think the biggest difference compared to in-person ID checks is that I've never had to take a picture of my ID or face for an in-person check. Some bouncer or other person takes a quick look at my face and my ID, and that's the end of it. I don't have to wonder if there's a picture floating around forever of my face and ID, because none got taken. For such physical interactions, I'm thus less worried that all that information is getting stored in some database that's inevitably going up be leaked.

Honestly, if the way this worked was that you could head over to the Pornhub office and get unlocked access from the bouncer at the door, that would probably be preferable.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-29 14:01:39+00:00
The single most important thing to understand about Chinese brands is that in China, party members sit on the board of these companies. And those party members can dictate action as they see fit. You can take them to the kangaroo court if you like, but people generally don't voluntarily waste time.

People think that China is USA 2.0. It's not. It's a communist state with a single ruling party with unilateral control over every aspect of the country. They have capitalistic facets because communism doesn't work on it's own, but trust that the authority system is totalitarian, and if they want spyware in your product while you lie about it, there will be spyware in your product and you will lie about it.
by tallanvor | 2025-07-29 14:01:45+00:00
It's hard to say if this would be approved even under a normal administration. If UP and NS get to merge, I would expect BNSF and CSX to try and do the same, leaving just two national train companies. But there are still hundreds of Class II and Class III railroads operating in the US, so as long as there are concessions made to ensure long-term trackage rights, it would not necessarily be rejected out of hand.
Show HN: Railway hackathon – deploy an idea over a weekend
by sarahmk125 | 2025-07-29 14:02:34+00:00
At Railway (I work there), we're putting on a hackathon starting August 6th.

Build a template for others, whether it be for full-stack apps or a headless CMS.

We've seen people deploy traditional apps or infra to host marketing blog sites (we host ours on Railway).

Upto $1000 in prizes for project complexity or content depth.
by Chris2048 | 2025-07-29 14:02:43+00:00
In that case, the decision to launch was taken not by the astronauts risking their lives, but by NASA management, against the recommendation of Morton Thiokol's engineers. This was not simply an unfortunate "accident", but an entirely preventable gamble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report#Flawe...

> Loss itself drives innovation and resolve

True, but did NASA in 1986 really need to learn this lesson?

This isn't (just) rocket science, it's the fundamentals of risk liability, legality and process that should be well established in a (quasi-military) agency such as this.
by shepherdjerred | 2025-07-29 14:02:49+00:00
* Transgender women juvenile athletes not being able to play with cisgender women (this issue doesn't even have a consensus one way or the other; the opinion roughly a 50/50 split afaik)

* Immigrants breaking established laws (that you may or may not agree with, again a 50/50 split)

* I have no idea what you're talking about the last one, feel free to link some articles for me to read

Are you really comparing the above to the treatment of minorities during the Halocaust, e.g. round up and murdered en masse?

Does what's happening today even look remotely close to some of the evil things the US has done in the past, e.g. Japenese internment, displacement of Native Americans, slavery, etc.

I don't agree with what's going on, and I do see potential for it to become worse, but comparing it to actual crimes against humanity seems like a stretch
by kergonath | 2025-07-29 14:02:51+00:00
There is a market for that, if they manage to design their devices properly and avoid safety issues in the future. A brand that people could trust would have value, if the customers were reasonable confident to get well-designed batteries, PV panels or adaptors without worrying too much about the quality of the components inside.

I know I’d rather pay a small premium to get good hardware than gamble with bargain bin no-names on Amazon. That being said I am not sure they are quite there. I’ve never had any issue with their chargers but the string of batteries recalls is not encouraging.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-29 14:03:00+00:00
> Two years ago when I first tried LLaMA I never dreamed that the same laptop I was using then would one day be able to run models with capabilities as strong as what I’m seeing from GLM 4.5 Air—and Mistral 3.2 Small, and Gemma 3, and Qwen 3, and a host of other high quality models that have emerged over the past six months.

Yes, the open-models have surpassed my expectations in both quality and speed of release. For a bit of context, when chatgpt launched in Dec22, the "best" open models were GPT-J(~6-7B) and GPT-neoX (~22B?). I actually had an app running live, with users, using gpt-j for ~1 month. It was a pain. The quality was abysmal, there was no instruction following (you had to start your prompt like a story, or come up with a bunch of examples and hope the model will follow along) and so on.

And then something happened, LLama models got "leaked" (I still think it was a on purpose leak - don't sue us, we never meant to release, etc), and the rest is history. With L1 we got lots of optimisations like quantised models, fine-tuning and so on, L2 really saw fine-tuning go off (most of the fine-tunes were better than what meta released), we got alpaca showing off LoRA, and then a bunch of really strong models came out (mistrals, mixtrals, L3, gemmas, qwens, deepseeks, glms, granites, etc.)

By some estimations the open models are ~6mo behind what SotA labs have released. (note that doesn't mean the labs are releasing their best models, it's likely they keep those in house to use on next runs data curation, synthetic datasets, for distilling, etc). Being 6mo behind is NUTS! I never in my wildest dreams believed we'll be here. In fact I thought it would take ~2years to reach gpt3.5 levels. It's really something insane that we get to play with these models "locally", fine-tune them and so on.
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 14:03:43+00:00
> My developers should not have to put up with customer success, or business requirements, or budget constraints.

Au contraire. You are right that there is only so much time in the day and that not every IC can be deeply engrossed in this, but all should be involved in at least some surface capacity. This is the most important part of the software development process! To remove your software people from it is complete insanity. It being treated as something different under a "leadership" umbrella is the most horrid thing ever seen in the software industry. This is echoed in the Agile Manifest (Twelve Principles), as you know.

And maybe that's what you really mean — that you're an IC who spends less time on code and more time on business problems? That's not what is usually implied by "leadership", but it is understood that anyone can make up random definitions on the spot.
by gchamonlive | 2025-07-29 14:03:52+00:00
Which would make this disappointing if it was only good at cloning space invaders. If it can reproduce all the clone it has ever seen it would still be an impressive feat.

I just think we should stop to appreciate exactly how awesome language models are. It's compressing and correctly reproducing a lot of data with meaningful context between each token and the rest of the context window. It's still amazing, specially with smaller models like this, because even if it's reproducing a clone, you can still ask questions about it and it should perform reasonably well explaining you what it does and how you can take it over to further develop that clone.
by djray | 2025-07-29 14:03:55+00:00
The reality is more akin to me agreeing to have my car covered in your bumper stickers (and anyone else's, as long as they abide by my particular set of bumper sticker rules), and then having to remove some without notice at a later date because the chap at the gas station got offended and wouldn't serve me any more.

And there being only one gas station.

And the guy having not objected to the exact same bumper stickers for the last 15 years.

Visa have said this is because of 'enhanced risk' caused by this content, but they've been fine with it up to now. It's only because of the Australian group's censorious actions that they've decided to act. That's the frustrating thing, at least to me.

Whether they have the legal right to do it or not, it's still a dick move.

(If you'll forgive the pun.)
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-29 14:04:12+00:00
No, this doesn't sound like gaming the system to me. However, if you were using a script to automatically queue up tasks so they can run as soon as your 5-hour-session expires to ensure you're using Claude 24/7, that's a different story. A project like this was posted to HN relatively recently.

As I said, I have trouble believing this constitutes 5% of users, but it constitutes something and yeah, I feel Anthropic is justified in putting a cap on that.
by pc86 | 2025-07-29 14:05:07+00:00
If you believe that this law really is just about protecting our dear sweet children, then they're completely unrelated. But if you really, truly believe that, I'm not sure anything could explain the link simply enough that you'd understand it.

So the law isn't about little Johnny wanking it to PornHub. It's about control. It's a government that has proven time and time again the only thing it cares about is more control over the people it should be serving being able to get a little more control.

If you already have a faltering cultural and national identity, and immigration - both legal and illegal - is skyrocketing[0][1], it's basically a straight line to see a large cohort of people link the two and and vote for the people saying they will end it. It's also not a remotely "far right" opinion to think that people should not be allowed to come into a country illegally, and if you do come into a country illegally, you should be removed. The idea that this is somehow bad is itself the fringe opinion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...
by kome | 2025-07-29 14:05:19+00:00
it's absolutely ridiculous! they're angry that people enjoy their life too much. wow...

and btw, i get the impression norway is spending their money pretty wisely, thinking long-term. and thinking with their own brain. not like the UAE, where they started thinking about the future too late, and mostly with brains hired from the west like McKinsey (who are just siphoning the wealth away into their pocket: see neom, etc).
by Vinnl | 2025-07-29 14:05:31+00:00
> But recently, cracks have been starting to show. Norwegians are taking much more sick leave than a decade ago, driving up costs for health services. Student test scores have worsened more than in other Scandinavian countries, and critics of the government say there are too many boondoggle tunnels and bridges to nowhere.

These are the issues they're worried about? None of the numbers I saw while scanning look particularly worrying, and I doubt there's ever been a country on the face of this planet for which you wouldn't have been able to produce a similar list of issues of this magnitude - including past Norway.

They're worth paying attention to, but not sounding the alarm bells over.
by adolph | 2025-07-29 14:05:48+00:00
Its real and I find it technologically fascinating as they were using the frame and wheel as motor.

In January 2016 – almost six years after initial allegations of a pro cyclist doping mechanically – the first confirmed use of "mechanical doping" in the sport was discovered at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships when one of the bikes of Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche was found to have a secret motor inside. One blogger described it as the worst scandal in cycling since the doping scandal that engulfed Lance Armstrong in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_doping
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-29 14:05:55+00:00
It doesn't even need to be COVID. I think this graph alone explains most of the changes: https://www.populationpyramid.net/norway/2024/

A growing segment of aging people will bring more medical/care expenses, covered by relatively fewer working people. The fairer a social security system is, the more the expenses will change once the population pyramid shifts.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-29 14:07:00+00:00
You conveniently forgot to mention your take on this particular tid bit.

"makes fun of us for overspending on health care yet charges us 10X as much for the drugs they manufacture: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-how-much-more-o..."

It is pretty amusing to see Europeans gloating over their low-cost/public healthcare while part of its treatment structure is subsidized by Americans through what they pay for the same to the same companies.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-29 14:07:01+00:00
That's very interesting, because it totally makes sense legally, but the practical effect is ludicrously stupid. The law is effectively forcing companies to spend millions re-scanning the same books over and over for no reason. It'd be like if we had a law which stated "Before you can train an AI, you must light 1 million dollars on fire. After that you can do whatever you want.". It serves no purpose but to waste societal resources on nothing.
by paulirwin | 2025-07-29 14:07:17+00:00
It seems like everyone is dog-piling on Anker over this, so I'd like to put forward a bit more positive of a take.

I have a M5 that I got through the original Kickstarter campaign. I love this printer. I use it casually, but I rarely have a failed print that I can't attribute to i.e. poorly chosen supports. Almost all of the parts on it are still original and working well, apart from the hot end that I've had to replace a few times due to accidentally breaking the screws when changing nozzles. (It was a poor design of the original hot end where the very thin, long screws did not have the shear strength in aluminum to not break when accidentally torquing the nozzle head. This was fixed with the all-metal hot end, which is not ideal for all filaments.)

Despite my issue with the hot end (which I believe could easily be fixed with an updated design), and the nearly useless "AI" feature, I feel like this printer was a great value at the time. It's very well built, looks great, and very reliable. I really enjoy every opportunity I have to use it and do not regret my purchase decision at all.

I'm saddened that they seem to be pulling out of the market, even though it makes sense compared to the competition. It really seemed like they had a promising start. If this is truly the end, then RIP with positive sentiments from me.
by jrs235 | 2025-07-29 14:07:32+00:00
Went to see if I could cancel my Claude pro plan just now. On billing I see adjust plan button. On that page I can upgrade but no where can I find downgrade/cancel. I checked the account page. I see delete account but "To delete your account, please cancel your Claude Pro subscription first."

Update: below the fold at the bottom of the Billing page is the cancel section and cancel button.

Update 2: just clicked cancel and was offered a promo of 20% off for three months...

Update 3: FYI, I logged in to my Claude account via computer (not iOS or Android).