MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tuyiown | 2025-07-28 15:31:39+00:00
> Every single one of us needs to wake the fuck up.

And how do you plan to achieve that ? The denial of reality of human psychology and politics is one of the reasons denial of climate change is still rampant. Yelling at people with urgency only works that much, and it also amplifies resistance.

In the end, everyone needs to wake the fuck up implies a sheer resolution of the need for change, and you won't bring that by schooling people, yelling at them or even violence. The inevitable is there, do what you think is best, tell what you think is best and you'll probably have maximized your contribution already.

Contemplating how things plays out in the end is not nihilistic, it's a form of acceptance of the real hard truth about the grip we have, as individuals, on the mater.
Show HN: AI Analyzes Your Guitar Playing from Video – Built with Gemini 2.5
by thomask1995 | 2025-07-28 15:32:17+00:00
Built an AI Guitar Teacher over the weekend!

Code here: https://github.com/tekaratzas/GuitarGPT

Uses Gemini 2.5 Flash to analyze video of you playing, Highlights segments then pumps out a personalized practice routine.

Been using it to get unstuck on some more difficult passages. Pretty insane how good it is given this is just the start.
by robenkleene | 2025-07-28 15:32:32+00:00
Maxon ported ZBrush to iPad (released last year) https://www.maxon.net/en/zbrush-for-ipad

I'm not sure exactly what that means, intuitively I agree with your comment, but I guess the ZBrush port acts as a data point that's at least a partial counterargument (only partial because, e.g., Maxon hasn't ported Cinema 4D, which is more directly analogous to Blender).

I'm really curious about the ZBrush port, e.g., is that really because customers were asking for it (or usage data from Maxon's own iPad-only [acquired] app Forger indicated there was interest)? Or is it a defensive move trying prevent an Innovator's Dilemma-style disruption from the bottom from an app like Nomad Sculpt https://nomadsculpt.com?
by wahern | 2025-07-28 15:32:40+00:00
> Don't 32-bit systems have 64-bit types?

The "long long" standard integer type was only standardized with C99, long after Linux established it's 32-bit ABI. IIRC long long originated with GCC, or at least GCC supported it many years before C99. And glibc had some support for it, too. But suffice it to say that time_t had already been entrenched as "long" in the kernel, glibc, and elsewhere (often times literally--using long instead of time_t for (struct timeval).tv_sec).

This could have been fixed decades ago, but the transition required working through alot of pain. I think OpenBSD was the first to make the 32-bit ABI switch (~2014); they broke backward binary compatibility, but induced alot of patching in various open source projects to fix time_t assumptions. The final pieces required for glibc and musl-libc to make the transition happened several years later (~2020-2021). In the case of glibc it was made opt-in (in a binary backward compatible manner if desired, like the old 64-bit off_t transition), and Debian is only now opting in.
by Pooge | 2025-07-28 15:32:57+00:00
> now mostly shared is the pornographic type of content

What is your source? I believe you are incredibly biased. Netflix is one of the biggest user of bandwidth worldwide, and if we're talking about the percentage of "pornographic" IP packets, I think it's even less than the former.

> and I really wonder how could I filter the content that goes to them

Parental control on device and DNS-level blocker (think AdGuard, PiHole, ...). Hosts file could also work as long as they're not admin on their PC. If they're skilled enough to circumvent all of that, then I think your kids will be fine.
by korse | 2025-07-28 15:33:07+00:00
Did you ever consider that all the concerns regarding the negatives of new media might have some truth to them?

Technology is advancing much faster than humans can biologically evolve and very few people seem ready to seriously tinker with the human genome to keep pace.

Perhaps "the feeds" are just the inflection point where the information overload becomes obvious and baseline humans actually need a majority baseline human experience with all of the associated problems in order to prosper?
by orencoda | 2025-07-28 15:33:20+00:00
I've been working on AI audiobook generation that doesn't sound like a robot reading a grocery list. After 6 months of development, I think I've cracked the prosody problem.

But I'm wondering:

Do you currently listen to AI-generated audiobooks? Why/why not? What's your pain threshold for robotic speech in long-form content? Would this replace buying $15-30 human-narrated audiobooks for you?

The technology is there, but I'm not sure if the market cares enough about the quality difference.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-28 15:34:39+00:00
I've wanted to do something like this, but I live within WiFi range of a school and am concerned someone would put something "harmful" on there so have never done so.

I created a PirateBox on a little GliNet router a while back with the intention of sharing public domain content but didn't do so beyond having a quick play around with it myself.
by phatskat | 2025-07-28 15:34:42+00:00
Not trying to necessarily argue or strawman, just want to point out that the only time I’m aware of (though likely not the only time in general) this happening is police unions. The first one started in the Pacific Northwest, and used their power and leverage to keep the union alive. At a city meeting, the iirc chief put a Manila envelope down for each city board member with their photo and personal information inside - address, family, etc, and put his gun down on top of one. The city decided not to disband the union.

Memory is a bit hazy but I think they did disband it once before then and the ex-cops were such a nuisance that the city went back on it.

I’m doing a poor job of explaining, and the Behind the Police series does much better - the point is, this is my most notable example of a union getting too powerful but quite frankly there isn’t much we can do about it.
by rpdillon | 2025-07-28 15:34:49+00:00
Uploading your government-issued ID to random sites to prove your age is insanity.

We have daily reporting about database breaches where people were duped into uploading their picture/ID, and then it gets posted on 4chan. This is true for the latest "Tea" app this past week, but also ID verification services for big companies like TikTok and Uber. I draw a hard line: I will not upload my ID for some private business to review, because they will never delete it.
by DimensionTech | 2025-07-28 15:35:08+00:00
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by kube-system | 2025-07-28 15:35:30+00:00
People accidentally doing harm can cause significant problems too -- that's why many professions require licensing and we don't let random people practice medicine, even if they have good intentions.

The problem here is that most security testing is not just the hollywood narrative of "some people running nmap and finding critical vulnerabilities that take down the power grid". Plenty of the real-world security vulnerabilities in large-scale systems that do exist are at the interface between technology and humans, and those are the vulnerabilities that computer science often can't reasonably fix: social engineering, trust systems, physical-layer exploits, etc.

In securing any large system, there are going to be many low-impact issues that do exist but aren't necessarily important (or even desirable) to fix because the impact to fix them is too high, and the likelihood of exploit is low because it is impractical as an attack vector. But legalizing the exploit of these edge cases would guarantee you'd see issues, because you're creating a financial opportunity where there was previously not one.

For example: we don't need to incentivize a wave of thousands of script kiddies fiddling with their power meters, trying to social engineer support staff, running DoS scripts against the public website, etc. Those things aren't helpful in improving critical infrastructure, they're just going to cause a nuisance and make things difficult for people.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-28 15:35:54+00:00
Few places still maintain genuine i386 support—I don’t believe the Linux kernel does, for example. There some important features it lacks, such as CMPXCHG. Nowadays Debian’s i386 is actually i686 (Pentium Pro), but apparently they’ve decided to introduce a new “i686” architecture label to denote a 32-bit x86 ABI with a 64-bit time_t.

Also, I’m sorry to have to tell you that the 80386 came out in 1985 (with the Compaq Deskpro 386 releasing in 1986) and the Pentium Pro in 1995. That is, i686 is three times closer to i386 than it is to now.
by zokier | 2025-07-28 15:36:16+00:00
nanoseconds is just common sub-second unit that is used. notably it is used internally in linux kernel and exposed via clock_gettime (and related functions) via timespec struct

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/timespec.3type.html

it is convenient unit because 10^9 fits neatly into 32 bit integer, and it is unlikely that anyone would need more precision than that for any general purpose use.
by pestat0m | 2025-07-28 15:36:56+00:00
Right, the problem appears to be more an issue of data-rep for time, rather than an issue with 32-bit vs 64-bit architectures. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i think there was long int well before 32 bit chips came around(and long long before 64). Does a system scheduler really need to know the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on Jan-1st-1970? There are only 86400 seconds in a day(31536000 sec/year, 2^32 = 4294967296 - seems like enough, why not split time in 2?). On a side note, i tried setting up a little compute station on my TV about a year ago using an old raspi i had laying around, and the latest version of raspbian-i386 is pretty rot-gut. I seemed to remember it being more snappy when i had done a similar job a few years prior. Also, i seem to remember it doing better at recognizing peripherals a few years prior. I guess this seems to be a trend now: if you don't buy the new tech you are toast, and your old stuff is likely kipple at this point. i think the word I'm looking for is designed-obsolescence. Perhaps a potential light at the end of the tunnel was that i discovered RISC OS, though the 3-button mouse thing sort crashed the party and then i ran out of time. I'm also contemplating SARPi(Slackware) as another contender if i ever get back to the project. Also maybe Plan 9? It seams that kids these days think old computers aren't sexy. Maybe that's fair, but they can be good for the environment(and your wallet).
by specproc | 2025-07-28 15:37:20+00:00
Aye, I must have tried it ten, fifteen times over the years before it stuck.

All I'd say is it's pretty easy and more or less "just works" these days. I remember fighting over basic stuff like second monitors, but for the most part, all the issues relating to Linux itself are solved. A DE like Gnome is simple, clean and easy to use. Gaming totally works thanks to Steam.

The only hurdle is if you absolutely need a full Office or Adobe install. For most of us, that comes with our work machines. For me, Linux is perfect for my personal rig.

Wouldn't dream of going back.
by Neurrone | 2025-07-28 15:37:20+00:00
> If you're used to 800 wpm bursts, I'd Assume normal speaking pace will feel slow any way you cut it

Edit: if you're referring to videos or podcast then yes, assuming the objective is to get information as quickly as possible.

Actually that isn't really the case. That might happen if you're asking someone to read something to you for an extended period of time, but that's not how normal conversations happen.

> On a slightly related note, have you felt this affecting your speech patterns?

Nope.
by roboror | 2025-07-28 15:37:51+00:00
Did Intel indicate their readiness to go fabless in their latest filings?

>“We are focused on the continued development of Intel 14A, the next generation node beyond Intel 18A and Intel 18A-P, and on securing a significant external customer for such node. However, if we are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect that it will not be economical to develop and manufacture Intel 14A and successor leading-edge nodes on a go-forward basis. In such event, we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes and various of our manufacturing expansion projects. While we continue to evaluate Intel 14A for use in future Intel products and our plan includes an initial product designed to utilize Intel 14A, at present we are maintaining the option to design future Intel products requiring nodes with performance beyond Intel 18A and Intel 18A-P to be produced internally or by an external foundry. If we were to discontinue development of Intel 14A and successor nodes, we expect that a majority of our products would continue to be manufactured in our own facilities utilizing our nodes up to Intel 18A-P through at least 2030.”
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-28 15:37:53+00:00
The cost is in managing a permitted device-state without a full trust-chain, and maintaining the unlock-logic and service of such an unlock of a device.

It should be simple, but since some carriers required BL-unlock to not be supported at all, many carriers required the availability of a list of all devices being unlocked and all required unlock to be irreversible, there are quite a few considerations to keep this working securely whenever something is touched in the trust-chain of a device.

I hate to say it in this case because I was advocating for BL-unlock for YEARS, but if there's no sufficient commercial demand and no "higher motivation" to justify it, it's a security-risk that's easy to avoid and easy to descope...
by shkkmo | 2025-07-28 15:39:54+00:00
> Seems like the far more plausible reason is that drivers don't want to be held up by a cyclist traveling at 10mph in front of them?

You sound like one of thos drivers who believe it's OK to put other people at risk to save themselves a couple of seconds.

I see this all the time in my large truck that I'm very good at coasting into red lights. Even when there are already vehicles stopped at the light, people will not only stay on the gas way later than necessary and then brake unnecessarily hard but will also pass me to be sitting one car length further ahead at that light. Often it is done dangerously, without turn signals or proper blind spot checks. I know this because I've also almost been hit repeatedly on my motorcycle by cars doing this.
by microtonal | 2025-07-28 15:40:00+00:00
Unfortunately, it's hard to make Fairphone secure. No separate secure element (so much easier to do brute force PIN attacks) and always lags in monthly security bulletin patches and major OS releases (remember that the monthly patches typically only address high/critical vulnerabilities, for the rest you need OS updates, QPRs, etc.).

Until Graphene works out the deal with the OEM that they are talking to, Pixel is pretty much the only secure phone that allows installing alternative firmware.
by rpdillon | 2025-07-28 15:40:01+00:00
> From a U.S. internet libertarian freedom-at-all-costs perspective, sure, it’s a draconian nightmare, but for normal people from the U.K. or any other country, it’s barely a blip on their radar.

You're commenting on a story about VPN use surging in the country after the law came into effect. Clearly folks noticed.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-07-28 15:41:38+00:00
LTSC won't work for all new games or games that receive and require updates; I recently spoke to a game & graphics dev with a lot of low level DirectX and Windows API experience about using LTSC for a flight simulator (not just the software - a simulator you physically sit in). He said that he had to deny support for LTSC for his products in that space because MSFT doesn't update it with the same DirectX updates and Windows APIs available on consumer Windows versions, which in turn impacts graphics driver support, which in turn prevented features of his software from working at all on common hardware (in his case, VR/AR displays). The same issues will likely impact many games that require newer graphics APIs and drivers. He advised against LTSC for most gamers - it's only appropriate for running software that was built for the SDK and API versions available in LTSC, and which won't receive any major update for a decade.
by jventura | 2025-07-28 15:42:05+00:00
I've been working in the intersection of LLMs and Traditional Astrology, for personal knowledge, professional and personal decision-making, and mostly for fun. I'm not a professional astrologer (I'm a CS PhD Professor), but I've studied with some people (some renowned authors on the field) and always had curiosity about it.

I have a python astrology library [1] which I use to generate my astrology chart, as text, to feed it into an LLM (Gemini 2.5 Pro). I then ask it questions about personal characteristics (the easy parts), but, more interesting, I can also ask it to consider some scenarios and it answers back with several hypothesis and how well it fits my character, personal goals, etc. It's like talking to a friend that knows you very very well.

Lately I've been working with a technique called Primary Directions. It's a predictive technique that tries to describe events in your life by means of astrological symbols (things like "Opposition of Saturn reaches the MC by 34.5 years old", which means something "bad" for your career or social position) and use it to check if a specific scenario has worked for me previously and will work in the future, and to ask it for other scenarios that match my personal characteristics and predicted symbolic events. I find LLMs, specifically Gemini Pro, quite good at these kind of things.

I also have fun "playing" with other peoples charts. For instance last night I gave it my chart and list of primary directions to Gemini and asked it if it could find who it was. It said Kurt Cobain. Quite off! But it described a lot of events that could fit my primary directions, like for instance, that Kurt Cobain got his guitar at his 14's or the one at 27 where he died. I didn't die at 27 (but "life issues") and also got my first guitar at 14. I'm also a musician, although an amateur one.

If you're into these kind of things, I created a gist [2] that you can feed into an LLM and talk to Kurt Cobain's chart. Note that it doesn't mention anywhere that it's Kurt Cobain. For fun, ask it something like "Considering the chart and the events predicted by the primary directions, in which ages will this person have some success or public visibility". In my case it answered, among others, 13-14 yo something related to "success, popularity, academic, sports or artistic achievement" (Kurt Cobain seems to got his first guitar at 14, and discovered his vocation), and 23-24 "beginning of career, marriage, or first step that puts the person on the 'map'" (release of the Nevermind album that catapulted Nirvana to the world stage). You can then ask it to match the events to Kurt Cobain, and it will find the real life events that seem to match it quite well.

I find that LLMs are quite good at generating hypothesis, multiple scenarios, and I'm still exploring their strengths and weaknesses (and of astrology as well).

[1] https://github.com/flatangle/flatlib/

[2] https://gist.github.com/joaoventura/68e0aed7c49c389347df98ec...
by egypturnash | 2025-07-28 15:42:19+00:00
Mostly just doing some furry porn commissions while I wait for my partner to finish enough of the scripts for the next chapter of out comic (http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/) for me to start drawing pages.

If you have more money than you know what to do with and want to support queer artists then https://comradery.co/egypturnash and https://www.patreon.com/egypturnash are great ways to funnel some of your money into my wallet :)
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-28 15:42:47+00:00
Personally, I enjoy an energy drink here and there. But I loathe sugar in my drinks.

However, sugar sweatened energy drinks are much more available.

So I share your frustration in the opposite direction.

The said. Taxation is not for the individual but the society.

Whilr I am sorry to hear that you have issue getting enough calories, that is simply a non concern for the society.

So this seems to be a good use of tax for incentivizing.
by msgodel | 2025-07-28 15:44:19+00:00
You should probably spend an evening learning to use eg Aider and llama.cpp. Maybe watch a few videos explaining LLMs and play with a very small one so you can grow a better intuition for how they fail.

There's no reason to think too much about it, there's not that much to learn unless you want to make them yourself and the market for that is tiny.

I will say the agent thing is mostly overrated if you already know how to program. You're much better off building scraping software like that the old fashioned way (or prompting an LLM to do it) than leaving an LLM unattended.
by carstimon | 2025-07-28 15:44:26+00:00
You've made the choice of (Locked Door, Open Window) ~ (Good SQL usage, XSS Vulnerability) which seems to be an incorrect rebuttal. Your example doesn't contradict "only as strong as its weakest link", here the weakest link is the XSS Vuln.

The "house analogy" can also support cases where the potential damage is not the same, e.g. if the open window has bars a robber might grab some stuff within reach but not be able to enter.