MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raywatcher | 2025-07-14 11:34:02+00:00
For all the discussions about the slopification of the internet, the human toll on open source maintainers isn’t really talked about. It's one thing to get flooded with bad reports; it's another to have to mentally filter AI-generated submissions designed to "sound correct" but offer no real value. Totally agree with the author mentioning the emotional toll it takes to deal with these mind-numbing stupidities.
by sealeck | 2025-07-14 11:34:39+00:00
Yes and no; there is a tipping point, past which hardware/software vendors will be forced to adopt countermeasures and new ways to verify identity.

We will lose a lot though; the most prosperous societies really rely on high levels of interpersonal trust (which allows people to easily do things together, whether that's leaving their buggy outside when they go to buy a coffee or commercial relations). It would be a shame to see that get destroyed.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-07-14 11:35:44+00:00
Oh god, going through some of the reports listed on the bottom of the page feels like a nightmare. I cannot imagine how it is for the actual maintainers.

I wonder what's the solution here. You need to be able to receive reports from anyone, so a reputation based system is not applicable. It also seems like we cannot detect whether a piece of text was generated with LLM..
by bob1029 | 2025-07-14 11:35:53+00:00
The gaming use case is what makes this apt advice. If you've got 24h to make a game and you're spending more than ~1h worrying about the source code cleanliness, I don't think it's gonna go well.

Systems like UE blueprints showcase how pointless the pursuit of clean anything is when contrasted with the resulting product experiences.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-07-14 11:36:09+00:00
> The current procurement system favors highly sophisticated weapons, usually made in small numbers. The F-22, widely considered the world’s best stealth fighter, costs three hundred and fifty million dollars per plane.

The F-22 costs three hundred and fifty million dollars per plane, because they built less than 200 of the thing. All the research and production line costs got condensed to less than 200 jets.

If they had ordered 750 as originally planned the cost per plane would be significantly lower.

The incremental cost when they stopped making them was 138 million.
by sorenjan | 2025-07-14 11:37:10+00:00
One feature that I'd like to see in general in these kinds of collection organizing programs is support for removable storage. Lets say I have photos and videos spread out on multiple external drives, being able to find a photo in the program and then see which device it's on would be very helpful. Obviously you'd only store some metadata about all files in the database, like CLIP embeddings, date, name, a small thumbnail, etc.
by csande17 | 2025-07-14 11:37:14+00:00
Well, here Blender Studio is distributing the game's binaries for free while charging money to access the source code, and the GPL does prohibit doing that. And Dogwalk's Itch.io page claims that the code is GPL-licensed...

But if Blender Studio owns the copyright to all the GPL-licensed code in Dogwalk, they're free to distribute (or not distribute) it however they want. It does have the interesting consequence that people who don't have access to the open-source "production files" release probably can't redistribute the free-as-in-beer binaries without violating the GPL. Which is not the case for Blender Studio's films.
by vouwfietsman | 2025-07-14 11:37:15+00:00
> This is all nice color on my commentary, but it fails to address the point of my two parent comments: programming is an economic activity

I've mentioned the economics multiple times now, while you're still hung up on performance, I'm not sure why. Again, performance is an indicator of a perceived deeper underlying problem. The underlying problem is not performance, though that's the surface level gripe that is mentioned. There is no part of the argument that advocates you should redesign a specific piece of software to be faster. Rather, the argument is that our collective ability to make good software is deteriorating.

The underlying problem is nebulous and hard to catch and prove because it is hard to reason objectively about a real program in relation to hypothetical other programs that could compete with it. This makes the Muratori/Blow argument similarly nebulous and their (intentional or not) judgmental attitude does not help in the communication. I am aware that this argument is not iron clad or even clear or that the judgmental attitude is in any way warranted.

So, why does it even make sense to talk about this then? Because if there is an alternate universe where we can actually solve the same problems with vastly simpler logical structures, we should strive to make that reality precisely because of the economics, because simpler logical structures beat the pants off complexity in terms of predictability, investment, ROI, etc.

So to summarize, this is the argument (as I perceive it):

1. lots of software is slowing down over time, e.g: same problem is solved with more resources

2. More resources means not just waiting for stuff to be done, but likely also more complexity (resources are spent doing something, hence there is more to be done, hence more complexity).

3. If the same problems are solved by involving increasingly more complex software over time, there is a likelihood that we are writing software (even new software) in a more complex way than necessary, and that its getting worse over time.

4. We should figure out if that observation is true, and what we can do about it, before the cost of building software (economics) becomes prohibitive. (e.g dramatized as the collapse of civilization)

A lot of assumptions are made in 1 and 2.
Do system prompts ruin OpenAI finetunes or is it just me?
by rakan1 | 2025-07-14 11:37:43+00:00
Would appreciate a guide on how to run openai fine-tunes correctly. Have a shit ton of data, trained on system, user & reply but for some reason when I integrated the fine-tuned LLM into my app the model is absolutely cracked (when I use the same system prompt), but works without.
by Uehreka | 2025-07-14 11:38:20+00:00
If it was a more legit trademark claim that would be one thing, a lot of OSS people think you can just name your project after something popular so you can coast off the reputation of the more popular product.

But since this is a BS claim, I think the following approach is totally appropriate:

- Have one person post the antagonistic garbage the OP deserves

- Have another person play the “rear guard” and follow up with the actual legal reasons they won’t comply.
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-07-14 11:38:21+00:00
I regularly correspond to people from all over the world, India, China, Brazil, France, and they all tend to use US English, thus the suggestion.

Commonwealth countries are relatively minor in population compared to the USA and the rest of the world.

And yes, default US spelling in devices does play a role. See prev. point about technological and cultural dominance.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-07-14 11:38:30+00:00
If you're interested, the Austral language (not my creation, but I'm a fan of the author's work) has ownership semantics where freeing is always explicit and in the hands of the programmer, but it's still safe like Rust.

Because both the destructor calls and the "borrowing" scopes have to be written explicitly in the language, it really helps in understanding how it all fits together.
by griffzhowl | 2025-07-14 11:39:59+00:00
I don't believe all possible extensions have been ruled out: e.g. right-handed neutrinos are still a viable dark matter candidate as far as I know, and these are in fact motivated by the standard model, because every other fermion has both right and left chiral forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino
by Applejinx | 2025-07-14 11:40:27+00:00
Depends. I'm not suffering it at all, but I'm a sort of research project producing variations on audio processing under MIT license.

And I don't take pull requests: only exception has been to accomodate a downstream user who was running a script to incorporate the code, and that was so out of my usual experience that it took way to long to register it was a legitimate pull request.
by tzs | 2025-07-14 11:40:35+00:00
It wasn't a mistake. In 2013, as in every year, there were plenty of speculative things you could have invested in without having any reasonable way of knowing if they would turn out to make a lot or lose a lot.

There are probably 75 year olds today regretting that they didn't spend an extra $0.12 in 1962 when they were at the comic book store to pick up an extra copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 to preserve. That was the first appearance of Spider Man and and a copy of that in near NM+ condition ("A very well-preserved collectible with several minor manufacturing or handling defects") sold at auction in 2021 for $3.6 million.

I did buy an extra copy of X-Men #137 (the death of Jean Grey) for $0.75 in 1980 and promptly bagged it. If I could actually find it and it actually is still in mint condition it might sell for around $400. From $0.75 then to $400 now is 15% a year growth.

But that $0.75 would have been better invested in Apple stock. That would be around $1600 now which is 18% a year growth. But in 1980 there were other exciting tech companies to invest in and most did not grow like Apple, so it is pointless to consider not buying Apple stock instead of X-Men #137 a mistake.

Nor would it have been a mistake to just put the money in an S&P 500 index fund. That would only have earned about 11% a year over the subsequent 45 years.
by omeid2 | 2025-07-14 11:40:59+00:00
Query parameters are hardly voluntary, just about every linked acquired via "share" button on various platform includes tracking query parameters, including google search results. Combined with the fact that query parameters are has legitimate uses, the distinction complexity becomes indistinguishable from "legitimate WebGL usage" vs "WebGL fingerprint".

It is scary where we are, but you can't solve it by dismissing it as FUD.
Show HN: Explaining Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI Agents
by abhisharma2001 | 2025-07-14 11:41:11+00:00
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by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-07-14 11:41:15+00:00
Control does equal understanding. The pancreas may control its problem domain, but its not cognition any more than a circuit breaker thinks about cutting off power when the current gets too high, or a motion sensor thinks about opening a door when a person comes close. These are example of control not intelligence. We have no direct control over what happens inside the sun, but that doesn't stop us from developing an understanding of how those fusion processes work.
by skhr0680 | 2025-07-14 11:41:54+00:00
If you hear that, it’s too late for you, I’m afraid.

It’s time to go when your guide says: “It’s inexcusable and I’m very sorry for the inconvenience, but the control room has informed me that we should make our way towards the emergency exit five minutes to the south west of the left of the 7-11. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.”
by jjani | 2025-07-14 11:42:26+00:00
Western governments just need to toughen up. If China tells Apple to stop doing something by next Monday, they'll have it changed by then.

"But due process!!". For individuals and SMEs, sure. For mega companies, absolutely not. Getting to rake in billions of profits should come with a loss of privileges, not with a gain. That needs to be the trade-off.
by childintime | 2025-07-14 11:43:50+00:00
The chemistry of RL dictates that 10^26 FLOPS is about 166 FLOP-mols. But how much weight is this? An electron/FLOP or 1eV/FLOP? That's 0.55mg or just 1ng. Regardless, I'd say it's close to 7 brainfucks, as it's common knowledge they exert a logarithmic force on the intelligence weighing apparatus, F = m * log2(a).
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-14 11:43:59+00:00
Two of the arguments just aren’t true.

If you use another browser today even if it does use Apple’s engine, Apple’s not making search revenue from Google.

The second point is that it came out in the Epic trial that 90% of App Store revenue comes from games and in app purchasing. Those apps are not going to the web.

Third, if the only thing stopping great web apps is Apple, why aren’t their popular web apps for Android and why do companies that produce iOS apps still create Android apps instead of telling Android users to just use the web?
by ghc | 2025-07-14 11:45:27+00:00
I'm a daily runner and I had influenza in February, for the first time in 30 years. I had a high fever for a full week and could not even sit up in bed.

People tend to think any bad cold is the flu, and underestimate just how bad actual influenza is. In retrospect, the narrative of "COVID is just like a bad flu" is pretty accurate, because the actual flu is a pretty traumatic experience, and the idea of getting a worse version is terrifying.
by mcapodici | 2025-07-14 11:46:03+00:00
Languagetool is an open source tool you can run as a local spelling and grammar checker. It's different to Grammarly - less AI and more rules based. I often use both tools at the same time. I wrote a quick intro on how to self host this - https://martincapodici.com/2025/05/10/check-your-writing-usi....
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-14 11:46:09+00:00
No, not OK.

Even if we admit the criminalization of insults among private individuals, what makes it pernicious to criminalize insulting politicians is that they are powerful.

Politicians, as a class, effectively control mass media, state violence, and the purse. One of the only effective curbs on their power is ridicule.

In America this is called punching up.

Pray tell me, would you be OK if a EU police arrested a comedian for mocking [1] Putin or Trump? If not, your position is strictly partisan therefore not universal, and therefore self serving.

Anyway, we found the EUist.

[1] I said mocking, not encouraging violence
by lysace | 2025-07-14 11:46:25+00:00
Sort of separate but perhaps also relevant to the thousands cuts/slops: Isn't the scope of curl/libcurl a bit too big?

It supports almost every file-related networking protocol under the sun and a few more just for fun. (https://everything.curl.dev/protocols/curl.html)

Meanwhile 99.8% of users (assuming) just use it for HTTP.

Here's a few complex protocols I bet many do not know that curl supports:

- SMB

- IMAP

- LDAP

- RTMP

- RTSP

- SFTP

- SMTP

At the very least, this magnifies the cost of dealing with AI slop security reports and sometimes also the risk for users.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-14 11:46:28+00:00
however they do result in flows of capitals feeding into otherwise unfundable enterprise like R&D; science and engineering, or culture; writing, music, art. Where's the ROI if you invest millions into R&D and your competitor invests $0 and can then just reproduce your works with their logo ontop of yours? To sack off IP and copyright would significantly narrow innovation and result in many artists, scientists and engineers having their income severely suppressed if not eradicated. Instead that money would temporarily go to a bunch of hacks that do nothing but copy and chase the bottom, before vanishing into thin air as the works become entirely unprofitable.

I don't think its as simple as calling them immoral. Rather the immorality comes on them being poorly regulated. With regulated term limits on patents and copyright we create a world where an artist can create licensed product and protect themselves during the course of their career, and people are them able to riff on their works after some decades or after they pass on.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-07-14 11:47:28+00:00
> For example recreating backed request models in the frontend

https://pypi.org/project/pydantic-to-typescript/

> a simple "create db record" service function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_mapp...

> unless I'm missing something big

You are missing a lot of things, yes.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-07-14 11:48:12+00:00
They buy homes for investing with the expectation that prices soon rise, owing to demand and low interest rates, and inelastic supply. If you fix the supply issue then it would be moot.

30% of homes are not sitting empty, cities have a low vacancy rate. Often they rent out and we want low rents too.

He solution is building more or having fewer people on the market for a home through low immigration, and only the former seems politically viable.
by account42 | 2025-07-14 11:48:14+00:00
> Brain farts are a real phenomenon, and an accidental fuel cutoff most closely resembles the transcript from within the cockpit.

What transcript? We only got a few potentially re-phrased bits of what was said. That the preliminary report is very careful about not implicating either pilot is not evidence of anything except that the investigative team is not yet 100% sure on the matter.
by EdwardDiego | 2025-07-14 11:49:20+00:00
> The length check only accounts for tmplen (the original string length), but this msnprintf call expands the string by adding two control characters (CURL_NEW_ENV_VAR and CURL_NEW_ENV_VALUE). This discrepancy allows an attacker ...hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment

Ohhh, copy and pasted a bit too much there.
by Veliladon | 2025-07-14 11:49:41+00:00
They're not wrong but if you stick a solar panel on a car that's almost constantly going to be in less than perfect conditions to gather power the EROEI for the panel is going to struggle to be above 1.

Stick a panel on the bloody roof of a house or building and use that to charge the car. It'll do orders of magnitude more good.
by __rito__ | 2025-07-14 11:49:59+00:00
Per capita consumption is a much better metric for deciding who is more responsible for the pollution, which will point the finger right back to... the West [0].

India: 1.2 tonnes CO2/person/year. China: 7.2 tonnes CO2/person/year. Russia: 10.1 tonnes CO2/person/year. Canada, Australia: 12.9 tonnes CO2/person/year. USA: 16.5 tonnes CO2/person/year.

[0]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
by orwin | 2025-07-14 11:50:02+00:00
Mercantile capitalism was regulated and under the power of colonizer states though. The East India Company had to follow the British Crown orders, as were the different transatlantic companies. The competition was mostly between nation-state rather than between companies. Actually, China started consolidating its industry and "Capitalism with chineese characteristic" look a lot like modern mercantile capitalism.
by ImaCake | 2025-07-14 11:50:16+00:00
It's a well known "dirty" secret that aerosols drive (short lived) cooling effects and that this effect is very significant [0]. In fact, the climate models used in the OP nature paper would not be useful if they didn't account for these aerosols in a meaningful way. Scientists measure aerosols using a mix of different tricks (optical density sensors - AERONET, satellites with hyperspectal sensors, local air pollution sensors, etc).

In my work in industrial air quality we occasionally joke that we are doing a good job if we exacerbate global warming.

0. https://skepticalscience.com/images/Radiative_Forcing_Summar...
by lesuorac | 2025-07-14 11:50:55+00:00
> drones and artillery are responsible for most kills.

Because that's what they have. This situation is effective survivership bias, you need to consider what modes of war they don't have access to.

Take the first gulf war for reference. A coalition force bombed the shit out Iraq and then the ground forces were able to occupy territory relatively unimpeded.

Russia and Ukraine cannot use the bomb the opposing military into oblivion because they just don't have those weapons.

The US should not look to emulate a long drawn out drone war. It should look to incorporate drones as a cheaper alternative to where it would've used a missile but if you rewind the clock to the gulf war you're still going to see a bombing campaign first and then maybe some drone strikes from the ground offense.
by leovingi | 2025-07-14 11:50:58+00:00
And it's not just vulnerability reports that are affected by this general trend. I use social media, X specifically, to follow a lot of artists, mostly for inspiration and because I find it fun to share some of the work that other artists have created, but over the past year or so I find that the mental workload it takes for me to figure out if a particular piece of art is AI-generated is too much and I start leaning into the safe option of "don't share anything that seems even remotely suspicious unless I can verify the author".

The amount of art posts that I have shared with others has decreased significantly, to the point where I am almost certain some artists who have created genuine works simply get filtered out because their work "looks" like it could have been AI-generated... It's getting to the point where if I see anything that is AI it's an instant mute or block, because there is nothing of value there - it's just noise clogging up my feed.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-14 11:51:23+00:00
> Lots of problems are too small or niche to be able to afford hiring a team of skilled programmers

Let’s stay with the (at minimum) low quality solution: What would do someone without IA?

- ask on a forum (Facebook, Reddit, askHN, spécialises forums…)

- ask a neighbor if he knows someone knowledgeable (2 or 3 relations can lead you to many experts)

- go to the library. Time consuming but you might learn something else too and improve knowledge and IQ

- think again about the problem (ask Why? Many times, think out of the box…)
by AbstractH24 | 2025-07-14 11:53:28+00:00
Its not just North Koreans using them. Its also everyday US citizens who want to be digital nomads.

When i looked at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/ a few years ago it didn't seem like any solution really worked reliably.

But if you had a farm of them and one guy maintaining them, rather than sticking it in your parents basement with nobody to maintain it, that might be something different.
by bentlegen | 2025-07-14 11:55:17+00:00
Hopefully you won’t mind me using their own arguments to promote this OSS web analytics project instead:

https://counterscale.dev/

Unlike Simple Analytics (the post authors), you deploy Counterscale to your own Cloudflare account and control the code + data end-to-end. It also uses no cookies, has no browser fingerprinting, and has no monetized SaaS offering.

It only has 90 days retention though, which could be viewed positively.
by gpderetta | 2025-07-14 11:56:29+00:00
Stackful coroutines would definitely benefit from being builtin in the language as you can get a significantly better ABI that you can do with a pure library based solution. You can sorta-kinda make it work with GCC extended inline assembly[1] but it is quite fragile as you need to handle exceptions, unwind info, red zones, etc.

Also you need compiler support to correctly handle thread_local.

[1] https://github.com/gpderetta/delimited/blob/master/delimited...
by nordsieck | 2025-07-14 11:56:59+00:00
> I remember reading about this Swedish dude who added 2 solar panels totaling about 1 kW to his hybrid station wagon.

I want to see a picture of that.

Apparently 1 kw fits on an extended box van [1]. But I don't now how you'd do it on a wagon without making it look like some sort of Burning Man art car.

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1. https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers/comments/1dpcxu4/if_any...