MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by masswerk | 2025-07-02 16:41:11+00:00
Can't wait for consuming content in its original form becoming a violation of the ToS! :-)

(I can see a bright future where smart TVs come with mandatory, non-optional instant translation… and maybe, if we were allowed to dream, with realtime character replacement and background adaptation to fit the next ad context. It's the logical step forwards from colorized B/W… /s)
Show HN: I made Palmalyze that reads your palm and reflects your personality
by tomhan245 | 2025-07-02 16:41:30+00:00
I made Palmalyze — an AI tool that reads your palm and gives a personality breakdown based on your hand lines.

It started from a random thought: "Why do people always ask AI about their future, but never show it their hand?"

So I built a fun little experiment. Upload a photo of your palm, and Palmalyze gives you a lighthearted reading based on traditional palmistry ideas — but interpreted through AI. It analyzes major lines like life, head, and heart, and turns them into personality insights in plain language.

Is it scientific? No. Is it oddly reflective? Kind of spooky, yeah.

It’s just a fun mix of computer vision, storytelling, and curiosity — and surprisingly calming if you’ve been overthinking life lately.

Would love your thoughts on the experience, or ideas for what else you’d let AI "read" next.
by abalashov | 2025-07-02 16:41:47+00:00
Few people realise that virtually everything we do online has, until this point, been free training to make OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. richer while cutting humans--the ones who produced the value--out of the loop.

It might be too little, too late, at this juncture, and this particular solution doesn't seem too innovative. However, it is directionally 100% correct, and let's hope for massively more innovation in defending against AI parasitism.
by taylodl | 2025-07-02 16:41:53+00:00
Just beware, a lot of Master programs now are requiring you to commit to a Ph.D. if you want funding. Otherwise, it may be prohibitively expensive.

The thing valued now more than ever is experience. The market is flooded with inexperienced developers who are little better, but a lot more expensive, than an LLM. If they go for a Master without having a good internship when they come out of it, then they're likely to find themselves in the same boat they're in now.

I know people with Master degrees and Ph.D. who've sent out > 500 applications and can't get work. I've seen others send out ~200 and get excellent offers. The biggest difference I can see is internships - both time and quality. Internships have always been the path to a good job, now they're the critical path.

I haven't heard anything on whether internships are getting harder to get. If that's the case - then dayum! I'd probably pivot and look at what skills are needed to be a successful founder and go the startup route.
by ksynwa | 2025-07-02 16:42:16+00:00
Not very convincing IMO. The strategies laid out seem general and vague. The only thing I can gather is that they don't expect to reach market saturation for a while so enshittification is not an immediate threat which makes sense to me. Also quoting Google in that section is a bit ironic.

Good luck to them anyway. As a free tier user I hope they let me use their services. It has been immensely helpful to me.
by jjangkke | 2025-07-02 16:42:20+00:00
so TLDR it adjusts your robot.txt and relies on cloudflare to catch bot behavior and it doesn't actually do any sophisticated residential proxy filtering or common bypass methods that works on cloudflare turnstill, do I have this correct?

this just pushes AI agents "underground" to adopt the behavior of a full blown stealth focused scraper which makes it harder to detect.
by reaperducer | 2025-07-02 16:42:22+00:00
It's pretty safe to say that after a decade of unfulfilled projections and promises, the Tesla EV fantasy is now a bust.

I guess historically, lots of companies have operated by selling dreams.

The real estate industry sells dreams of suburban utopias.

The fitness industry sells dreams of sexy good times.

The cola industry sells dreams of likability and friendship.

Apple sells dreams of in-crowd later-day eco-hipsterism.

Tesla sells… dunno. Maybe dreams of billionaire crypto-bro futurism?

As long as the company is worth $900B+, you're never going to convince its fans that they're wrong.

Even if the stockholders all lost everything, I think a significant portion will still think they were following the messiah, the same way that old ladies give their last three pennies to tele-vangelists while eating cat food off of paper plates.
by 1-more | 2025-07-02 16:42:50+00:00
IDK if it ads anything to the article, but `map` is a property of Functors, and every Monad is a Functor. Well, every Monad is an Applicative Functor, and every applicative functor is a functor.

All a way of saying that, yep, you always have `map` when you have a Monad, but you don't need a Monad to have `map`.

If you want an example we can compare a regular list and a Ziplist. A regular list's Applicative instance does a cross product, while a Ziplist's applicative instance does a dot product.

(*) <$> [2,3] <*> [5,7, 11] --> [10,14,22,15,21,33] getZipList $ fmap show $ (*) <$> ZipList [2,3] <*> ZipList [5,7, 11] --> ["10","21"]

There's no great way to write a Monad instance for ZipList. But it's an Applicative Functor and thus is also a Functor and thus you can map over it. https://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg572...

For quirky reasons in Haskell, `fmap` the function implemented for every Functor instance. This is because `map` was already taken by lists. Weird, I know.
by dardeaup | 2025-07-02 16:42:53+00:00
You read more into my comments than you should have. I'll expand on my points:

1) OSHA - I'm delighted and proud that we have OSHA! OSHA regulations have saved lives and prevented serious accidents/sicknesses and continue to do so. Does Vietnam, China, India, etc. have comparable regulations? I don't know the answer to this question, but my guess is largely 'no'. There is a cost associated with OSHA compliance and it's worth it. Is it ok that a factory worker is killed or maimed in some other country for your low prices? 2) Decline of shop classes - I don't know why they're not as prevalent as they used to be. To be honest, a shop class of 2025 should not look the same as a shop class of 1970. In my opinion, a modern shop/industrial class would include robotics, 3D printing, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), etc. I honestly don't see how anyone would consider this to be a bad thing. 3) Litigious society - I'm not passing judgement, just calling it like I see it. Many lawsuits are deserved and many likely result in better processes and procedures. I don't have an axe to grind, just stating that the US probably has more lawsuits and judgements than most other countries. 4) Drug addictions - I don't think that drug addictions are good for anyone. I know that this is a very complicated topic. I'm just pointing out that it may be more difficult to hire manufacturing workers in the US who don't use illegal drugs than in other countries. 5) Fat, dumb, and happy society - I'm just calling it as I see it. A huge part is because as a country we don't eat healthy enough and get enough exercise. Look at the skyrocketing cases of diabetes. It's a huge problem. Dumb because it seems we continue watering down our schools to make it easier for kids to get through.

If you read everything I wrote above, please tell me where I'm right-wing or left-wing. Of the 5 factors I listed, the only one that I would advocate for a policy change is (2). I would like to see broad funding for shop/industrial classes in high schools throughout the country. Again, these shops would not look like they did in 1970, although they would likely still have some of the same tools. However, they would also have modernized, high-tech ones like robotics, 3D printing, etc.

Where am I so off-base? Where did I make value judgements (aside from fat, dumb, lazy one) about Americans? Am I promoting some right-wing agenda with my comments? I believe that these are honest points that should be discussed and debated.
by jljljl | 2025-07-02 16:42:57+00:00
This metric of underemployment is captured in U-5 and U-6 in the BLS statistics.

It's less common to report, but in the aftermath of the financial crisis I remember hearing more about it. You can construct a chart in FRED that covers it:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JWGw
by trod1234 | 2025-07-02 16:43:00+00:00
In fairness they aren't a real company anymore, they are more like state apparatus/granted monopoly.

The profitability they embraced was derived from surveillance capitalism which comes from a money-printer seeing as the government is the one paying for it.

It was short-term up-front profit, followed by what inevitably comes after where they pay it back and more. They are laying people off because they wanted that short term profit more than they wanted to do business. There is a potential that they may chase this having the same dynamics as deflation, given that free money is largely no longer available suddenly (which pops the bubble).

The people making those decisions knew the laws and countries would catch up to them eventually but they still did it.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-02 16:43:04+00:00
> Thinking about the middle class in the previous generation, it was unions that effectively ensured a labor job meant a secure future. I wonder if that's the solution (again).

It is, and they are. It’s why Reagan fired ATC strikers and blackballed them. It’s why private enterprise stockpiled machine guns and chemical weapons against strikers back in the Gilded Age. It’s why companies will spend billions to block Unions rather than just give workers the few million or so more they need over a decade to just maintain a standard of living. It’s why they’ll close down stores, warehouses, offshore jobs and outsource to contractors to penalize Unions.

Unions are a direct response to the inequality of Capital allocation and distribution.
by Hackbraten | 2025-07-02 16:43:22+00:00
Which is easier for you to remember: facts you’ve seen a hundred times in your lifetime, or facts you’ve seen once or twice?

For an LLM, I’d expect it to be similar. It can recall the stuff it’s seen thousands of times, but has a hard time recalling the niche/underdocumented stuff that it’s seen just a dozen times.
by imdsm | 2025-07-02 16:43:38+00:00
I wrote a thing, and clicked go, and had to sign in. Sigh -- fine okay.

Signed in. It sent me back and lost my prompt. Sigh -- fine okay.

Wrote it again, clicked go, and it said ran out of credits, and sent me to billing.

I can see it's a Claude-built app but this just shows the importance of UX.

Because the UX here, sucks!
by observationist | 2025-07-02 16:43:55+00:00
There's no question that the Chinese are doing sketchy things, and there's no question that US companies do it, too.

The difference that makes it concerning and problematic that China is doing it is that with China, there is no recourse. If you are harmed by a US company, you have legal recourse, and this holds the companies in check, restraining some of the most egregious behaviors.

That's not sinophobia. Any other country where products are coming out of that is effectively immune from consequences for bad behavior warrants heavy skepticism and scrutiny. Just like popup manufacturing companies and third world suppliers, you might get a good deal on cheap parts, but there's no legal accountability if anything goes wrong.

If a company in the US or EU engages in bad faith, or harms consumers, then trade treaties and consumer protection law in their respective jurisdictions ensure the company will be held to account.

This creates a degree of trust that is currently entirely absent from the Chinese market, because they deliberately and belligerently decline to participate in reciprocal legal accountability and mutually beneficial agreements if it means impinging even an inch on their superiority and sovereignty.

China is not a good faith participant in trade deals, they're after enriching themselves and degrading those they consider adversaries. They play zero sum games at the expense of other players and their own citizens, so long as they achieve their geopolitical goals.

Intellectual property, consumer and worker safety, environmental protection, civil liberties, and all of those factors that come into play with international trade treaties allow the US and EU to trade freely and engage in trustworthy and mutually good faith transactions. China basically says "just trust us, bro" and will occasionally performatively execute or imprison a bad actor in their own markets, but are otherwise completely beyond the reach of any accountability.
by heathrow83829 | 2025-07-02 16:44:14+00:00
I agree that companies who are monopolies (especially government granted monopolies) have a responsibility towards society. But this does not apply to companies that need to compete to exist. For example, if a restaraunt or airlines (highly competitive industry), did anything to reduce their competitiveness they would instantly loose marketshare. that doesn't work.

which one is Microsoft?
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-02 16:44:33+00:00
> What's China going to do? It's a far away country I don't live in and don't care about.

Extortion is one thing. That's how spy agencies have operated for millennia to gather HUMINT. The Russians, the ultimate masters, even have a word for it: kompromat. You may not care about China, Russia, Israel, the UK or the US (the top nations when it comes to espionage) - but if you work at a place they're interested, they care about you.

The other thing is, China has been known to operate overseas against targets (usually their own citizens and public dissidents), and so have the CIA and Mossad. Just search for "Chinese secret police station" [1], these have cropped up worldwide.

And, even if you personally are of no interest to any foreign or national security service, sentiment analysis is a thing. Listen in on what people talk about, run it through a STT engine and a ML model to condense it down, and you get a pretty broad picture of what's going on in a nation (aka, what are potential wedge points in a society that can be used to fuel discontent). Or proximity gathering stuff... basically the same thing the ad industry [2] or Strava does [3], that can then be used in warfare.

And no, I'm not paranoid. This, sadly, is the world we live in - there is no privacy any more, nowhere, and there are lots of financial and "national security" interest in keeping it that way.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65305415

[2] https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-advertisers-tracking-tho...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
by WalterGR | 2025-07-02 16:44:47+00:00
It’s convenient that it has a reasonable pronunciation (in leetspeak): Allplez.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

The Ars article is lighter on details but doesn’t have huge intermodal ads and wonky navigation on mobile: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/astronomers-may-have-f...
by isaidit | 2025-07-02 16:44:57+00:00
Yup! Just slightly different words and the number. I Fn hate these!

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by reverendsteveii | 2025-07-02 16:45:12+00:00
In fairness, non-competes are evidence of both what the commenter you're replying to said and what I said to instigate the reply. The capitalist absolutely does want to be left alone to trade as he sees fit. He also wants his competitors harassed by regulators and all of their potential employees bound by non-competes. He also doesn't consider subsidies and grants to be interference. Unless they go to competitors.
by showerst | 2025-07-02 16:45:57+00:00
I like to work to music, but find anything with words distracting. So I listen to a lot of random youtube playlists of lo-fi/chillout stuff, which has just been swamped with AI lately.

I don't think this will be a big deal in a few years once it's as good as human musicians, but right now it's super annoying because the music is always subpar and it's hard to separate out the genai on youtube.
by wat10000 | 2025-07-02 16:46:29+00:00
Ask yourself, why are they saying this? You can probably surmise that they're trying to avoid stirring up controversy and getting into some sort of trouble. Given that, which topics would cause troublesome controversy? Definitely contemporary Chinese politics, Chinese history is mostly OK, non-Chinese politics in Chinese language is fine.

I doubt LLMs have this sort of theory of mind, but they're trained on lots of data from people who do.
by isaidit | 2025-07-02 16:46:31+00:00
Yes! Got two this morning, from different numbers, same crap. I Fn hat they can do this alll the time these texts ughhh. Doesn’t matter if you “report junk”.

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by PaulHoule | 2025-07-02 16:46:59+00:00
People w/ fibromyalgia don't seem to benefit from exercise the way others do. For normal people, exercise does some tissue damage but it grows back stronger. People with fibro get the damage but they don't get the regrowth. So a bit of "overdoing it" that I might mostly bounce back from in a few days could have one of my wife's friends down for six weeks.
by al11588 | 2025-07-02 16:47:05+00:00
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by Group_B | 2025-07-02 16:47:17+00:00
Not too surprising that this is finally happening. It’s going to become more and more difficult to filter through all this AI music slop. But can it even be described as slop if me or someone else genuinely enjoys listening to it?

Is the end goal to just pump as much AI music as possible and watch as all the ad money comes in? I wonder how Spotify will handle this spam of AI slop as it becomes more prevalent.
by stronglikedan | 2025-07-02 16:47:18+00:00
Funny, I was just pondering this last night - how I often realize this phenomenon immediately after it occurs, and feel helpless when I realize it. It's like two minds, one that is moving my hands to pile mangoes into my face, as the other is telling me to save some mangoes for later (they're very hard to stop eating). But on a more serious note, now that I realize I realize it, I realize it a lot.
by ryandvm | 2025-07-02 16:47:27+00:00
Can we please stop calling it "robotaxi"? There's a fucking person being paid to sit in the car, who honestly has to be even more bored and awkward feeling than an uber driver. It's about as robotic as a carnival ride with some guy being paid to maybe press a red button.

God, I would love to see an AMA from one of these guys that have to sit in a seat with their hands folded staring at the road 8 hours a day.
by felphos | 2025-07-02 16:47:47+00:00
Those are fair points and something to investigate further but for point 1 our tool only uses the restricted API keys with minimal access, so both parties would have to agree on using the tool but I believe we should protect ourselves legally against such cases. For point 2, Stripe seems to be quite good for backwards compatibility on core objects but it's good to agree on a minimal supported version. Thanks!
by xucian | 2025-07-02 16:47:51+00:00
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by DiabloD3 | 2025-07-02 16:47:58+00:00
There isn't an RDNA5 on the roadmap, though. It's been confirmed 4 is the last (and was really meant to be 3.5, but grew into what is assumed to be the PS5/XSX mid-gen refresh architecture).

Next is UDNA1, a converged architecture with it's older sibling, CDNA (formerly GCN).

Like, the article actually states this, but runs an RDNA 5 headline anyways.
by hayst4ck | 2025-07-02 16:48:00+00:00
Citizenship comes from law. Enforcers and the judiciary choose which law to enact and how to enact them. If enforcers of the "law" are more loyal to the administration than the constitution, then the law and all it's implications, such as citizenship, are up to the arbitrary whims of our new king coronated by the supreme court.

That's the problem with not defending Rule of Law. If law is arbitrary and only serves the interests of one person and isn't grounded in some greater objective truth, then it doesn't matter what is officially allowed or not. If judges and enforcers are loyalists then they get to make the call whether your lack of cooperation is obstruction of justice or not. Who is going to punish them for violating your rights? Other ICE agents? The DOJ? You might not even be given standing to fight for your rights in court.

An ICE agent may choose not to believe you are a US citizen and call your documents fake, and put you in a concentration camp or deport you to El Salvador.

As with Kilmar we saw that ICE can act without due process, and due process is what determines your citizenship status.

Trump is also openly talking about revoking the citizenship of citizens.

It's worth a reading about de-naturalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denaturalization#Human_rights