MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kailashahirwar | 2025-07-09 08:47:10+00:00
‘Black Forest Labs’ recently unveiled their technical report on ‘FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space.’ FLUX.1-Kontext-dev is a groundbreaking open-source model that has quickly gained traction on Hugging Face, inspiring hundreds of derivatives within weeks.
by esperent | 2025-07-09 08:47:14+00:00
Even Irish people whose main language since birth is English do this. There's a verb in Gaeilge which does exist in English but is translated as "does be". Examples:

- He does be eating his breakfast

- She does be out walking the dog

It's the continuous/habitual form of to be, so the implication is that she does be walking the dog everyday, or regularly. He does be eating his breakfast everyday.

The interesting thing is that you'll meet Irish people who were never fluent in Irish - learned it in school, sure, but never spoke it daily - who still use this conjugation when speaking English.
by pm215 | 2025-07-09 08:47:53+00:00
I think another aspect here is that museums don't have infinite display space. So if famous items X, Y and Z are on permanent display that's less space available for other, less famous but perhaps equally interesting, items that are stuck in storage. Rotating the famous items into storage doesn't mean the museum has blank walls for a year.

Arguably there's more educational value and more chance of a visitor serendipitously encountering something that speaks to them if the museum has a big set of prints rotated through, rather than a more static one. After all, even if you haven't ever seen an original of the Great Wave you almost certainly already know the image and it's likely already made most of the impact on you that it ever will...
by nathell | 2025-07-09 08:47:59+00:00
OK, I have a fun one. I was a rookie back then, it was 2007, and the cloud was only beginning to take off. My company had a physical server room.

Automated CI was not quite as big back then as it is now; we had some in-house CI-ish facilities, one of which was buildbot: a small Python script that continuously built all of our projects one after another, reporting successes/failures in a simple UI.

One day I was puzzled to discover that buildbot hung trying to build a tiny Java applet. Just a handful of .java files. But it had been stuck for more than four hours at that point.

I ssh’d into buildbot and looked at what exactly the hung process was doing. It was not javac. It was jarsigner.

Then it dawned on me. jarsigner needed some crypto-safe randomness, it was trying to get it by default from /dev/random, not from /dev/urandom, and the machine ran out of entropy!

I ticketed a change, but as an interim measure, I went to the server room, switched the console to buildbot’s server, and moved the mouse vigorously for some seconds. It proceeded.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-09 08:48:41+00:00
It is always interesting seeing the mostly blind loyalty that Valve seems to get for no real clear reason.

Don't get me wrong, I love their games (when they bother to make one) and my Steam Deck. But lets not pretend that Valve is our friend either and their main goal is anything but to make money.

While I think that going so far as to delete my Steam library is a fairly extreme situation, I do think supporting a diverse marketplace and actually using other stores is a good idea. I have games on Xbox App (on PC), GOG, Epic, EA, etc. It really isn't that big of a deal to have alternatives installed, and if you are worried about the software there are alternatives like Heroic Launcher.

The controller situation is an interesting one though that I will need to do my own reading on, I knew that Steam tried to manage controller settings itself (which just further encourages you to only use Steam...) and has caused me to have issues with buttons registering twice. I was not aware that sometimes games had different controller functionality on different stores. Is there some requirement of this on Steam?
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-09 08:49:54+00:00
Implementing their own service as an OS-level feature is a peculiar decision when the EU's DMA would force Google to allow competitors to have the same capabilities.

Google already violates the DMA in some minor ways (like how Chromebook clipboard sync can alter the clipboard in the background, but tools like KDE Connect and Microsoft's My Phone cannot).

On the other hand, the default "assistant" app is one the user can pick freely in the settings so if whatever API WhatsApp exposes is also usable for Bixby/Bing/Claude/ChatGPT, I imagine things would fit the phone just fine.

As for Siri, I think Apple customers just don't really care about Apple gatekeeping apps like these. For some reason, they seem to like Siri (even though I can't get it to do basic things for me, it's somehow even worse than Gemini) and for some reason they trust Apple to access their personal information, so there's no need for controversy.
by saad-tarhi | 2025-07-09 08:51:29+00:00
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by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-09 08:52:03+00:00
Drake meme for me:

REST = Hell No

GQL = Hell No.

RPC with status codes = Grin and point.

I like to get stuff done.

Imagine you are forced to organize your code filed like REST. Folder is a noun. Functions are verbs. One per folder. Etc. Would drive you nuts.

Why do this for API unless the API really really fits that style (rare).

GQL is expensive to parse and hides information from proxies (200 for everything)
by gammalost | 2025-07-09 08:52:26+00:00
I agree. I feel that Springer is not doing enough to uphold their reputation. One example of this being a book on RL that I found[1]. It is clear that no one seriously reviewed the content of this book. They are, despite its clear flaws charging 50+ euro.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-37345-9
by p2detar | 2025-07-09 08:52:45+00:00
Bulgarians are using the DM since 1997 and the Euro since 1999, they just call it Lev. We have a currency board that requires every single Lev be covered by foreign reserves which as of current consist of 90% EUR and 10% USD, JPY, GBP and others. We cannot print money to control interest rates, worse we have no say in ECB policies at the moment.

For the Lev to be independent we have to exit the currency board but this is madness, since our exports are already adjusted to EU countries where the currency is EUR anyway.
by bitwize | 2025-07-09 08:52:52+00:00
> One would be tempted to say that perhaps they have a vested interest in making it seem like Xorg can not be fixed, even though this patch was merged in 2022, normal users still cannot use this feature in 2025.

This has passed into the "yes, it's happening, and here's why it's a good thing" phase of conspiracy-theory damage control:

https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/114661446785833161

The Xorg developers do not want to maintain the legacy X codebase. They do not want to perpetuate the legacy X architecture. If withholding features is what finally gets people to suck it up and switch to Wayland, if it gets app and toolkit developers and fucking NVIDIA to drop their X codepaths and put all their development effort behind Wayland, that's what they will do.

Apple, Microsoft, and Google do this all the time. They drop support for the old and busted and put all their effort into the new hotness. By and large, their user bases do not complain. Only Linux users are autistic enough to go "but muh 40-year-old 'network transparent' [lol, not really, watch the Daniel Stone talk again please] display server written for 8bpp framebuffers long before modern fucking GPUs emerged".

As for Xlibre... to give you an idea of how clownshoes the development community is on that thing...

https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56

Not to mention being a Nazi bar. People are starting to wake up and realize what a security risk Nazi- and far-right-authored code is. Alpine already has a security exclusion on it for that reason. Other distros will follow suit.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-09 08:53:19+00:00
WhatsApp has been forced by the EU to provide access to third parties. If there's any app that third party apps can interact with, it's WhatsApp.

I also can't really find the mechanism at use here. I don't know if WhatsApp is exposing some kind of dedicated assistant API that an alternative assistant (the one you can pick in the settings) might be able to use.
by Meekro | 2025-07-09 08:53:39+00:00
I totally disagree with the author. His main complaint seems to be this: "Games you purchased on a Windows 98 machine later had their system requirements bumped up to Windows XP, then to Windows 7, then to Windows 10."

Essentially, you can't run your Steam games without also being able to run the Steam client, and the Steam client will drop support for old versions of Windows after they are end-of-life'd. The author describes this as a violation of freedom, but to me it's totally understandable: when Windows 98 gets end-of-life'd, users have to upgrade anyway because security patches won't keep coming. Most people have, by that point, upgraded years earlier. Their Steam keeps working, and so do most of their games.

I'm not sure what kind of changes would satisfy the author. Should Steam still devote a small team to maintaining Windows 98 compatibility to satisfy him personally (as I doubt anyone else cares)? Should they do away with DRM entirely and just ship unlocked exe's (and have every major publisher bail on them)?

And, more broadly on the subject of game compatibility: the pre-internet method of shipping CD-ROM's also did not ensure that your games would run forever. You'll eventually replace your computer, and your Win98 CD-ROM games will generally not work if you try to install them on your new Win11 box.
by nerdjon | 2025-07-09 08:55:09+00:00
That and the reminder emails from Apple.

It is one reason that with this switch allowing apps to send me outside of Apple's Ecosystem to subscribe, I hope that developers realize that if they make this the only option there are likely many people like myself that just won't subscribe to your app. I am far more likely to try a subscription that costs a couple dollars a month if it is through the app store instead of through some random website.
by msephton | 2025-07-09 08:56:16+00:00
I'm the creator of the site and it's great to see it on HN again. Since it was featured in 2023 the site has become even more automated and also searches press releases for related news which I share from time to time on social media. There's currently a digital exhibition on arrival at Tokyo Narita airport, things like that.

The current exhibition in Nantes, France, (whose print is on loan from Japan) sold out very quickly. Before I could even organise my travel! So the fascination with The Great Wave lives on.
by Mashimo | 2025-07-09 08:56:24+00:00
I have the same approach. I really like "easy to use, hard to master" tools in general.

If you look at CaptureOne you can see how easy it is to edit a raw image. Most of the time it looks like the camera jpeg without having to tune anything. But then you have the options to go in depth.

Sometimes I have a photo session where everything is to my liking, just a bit of exposure and crop. Other times I shoot in night clubs with no flash and I have multiple layers of masks for a single photo.

A UI with decent defaults goes a long way into making a complex app easy to use.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-09 08:56:29+00:00
Google Gemini shares a namespace with system-level components. You can't just take the APK and check the permissions in it to verify Google's access, you'd also need to go through Play Services, AI Core, and all the other auxiliary Android components to be sure.

Without details on how Gemini is interacting with WhatsApp, it's hard to say if Google is privileged or not. It's possible Facebook just struck a deal with Google.
by dansult | 2025-07-09 08:57:12+00:00
I work in a global company with people in Asia, Australia, North America and across Europe. My team are all in NA and I'm in Australia. I just get up early to maximise cross over, two morning meetings for me a week. Works pretty well but I do get up/stay up occasionally for 2am meetings. Apart from all hands there's no pressure to do so. Hardest part is arranging a meeting between a European, American and myself - someone is going to be out of normal hours. Fully remote rather than "remote but this timezone" is great.
by teamonkey | 2025-07-09 08:57:45+00:00
Apart from multiplayer games with anti-cheat I’ve had no real problems running Epic or GoG games on Steam Deck via Heroic Launcher. In fact, SD is helping me work through my free Epic games backlog.

The most problematic was Deathloop, which flashed up some messages about it being an unsupported APU but ultimately worked fine. Occasionally some games crash after waking from a suspend.
by hannah_creator | 2025-07-09 08:58:32+00:00
I built Earth Zoom Out, a web app that takes any uploaded image and transforms it into a stunning 6-second video that zooms out to reveal Earth from space. Key features: • Upload any image and watch it transform into a cinematic zoom-out sequence • Built with Next.js and powered by AI video generation • User authentication and video history • 6-second output videos perfect for social media The idea came from wanting to create that dramatic "cosmic perspective" effect you see in movies. Users can upload a photo of their house, vacation spot, or any location, and see it contextually placed within our planet. Live demo: https://earthzoomout.co/ Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, NextAuth, Fal.ai for video generation. I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
by raspasov | 2025-07-09 09:00:10+00:00
I think I fully understand it.

I was just making an analogy which is imprecise by definition. If you are inputting untrusted content in an LLM that has abilities to run code and side-effect the outside world a vulnerability is guaranteed. I don’t need a list of papers to tell me that.

The cases you are outlining are more abstract and hypothetical. LLM AI assistant… Summarizing email or web page is one thing. But LLM having the access to send mail? Giving an LLM access to sending outgoing mail is a whole another can of worms.

There’s a reason that in Safari I can summarize a page and I’m not worried a page will say “email screenshot of raspasov’s screen to attacker@evil.ai” The LLM summarizing the page 1) has no permission to take screenshots, it’s in a sandbox 2) has no ability to execute scripts. Now if you are telling me that someone can surpass 1) and 2) with some crafty content then perhaps I should be worried about using local LLM summaries in the browser…
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-07-09 09:00:42+00:00
Llm’s are notoriously overly agreeable and polite in a weird way.

Like a human might say “cheers for the thoughtful response” and an LLM would say something more like this “Thanks a lot for the thoughtful and respectful reply! I really appreciate that you raising the engine issue without dismissing the whole idea. ” The tell here is that it’s maintaining a polite engaging conversation while mirroring the semantic meaning of your reply without any conceptual depth.

You could have written anything and it would have agreed with you.

Anyone who has spent a few minutes genuinely thinking about how to build CAD can easily see that the geometry kernal is the crux of the problem and why open source attempts lag behind commercial CAD.

But the LLM user response here is overtly neutral essentially saying “thanks for raising this super obvious thing”

Its being overly polite. In another comment they say they are “honoured to have your reply” which again is just overly polite.

On a 3 day old account it just stinks.

OP is either a low effort poster farming for something or an english as second language user relying on an LLM to write for them way too much.

Or they are a naive user who wrote a low effort LLM generated proposal without looking at any of the prior art of the topic.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-09 09:00:46+00:00
It's the same with anything negative related to Musk, DOGE, etc. Examples below.

And you can't just blame people flagging the stories - people ask for them to be whitelisted and are gaslit in response. No surprise, maybe, when Garry Tan and PG are writing fluffy tweets about Musk and the DOGE team.

Examples:

"Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258556

(Is it new that flagged stories don't link where they used to?)

"Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44142790

"Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44018247

"Elon Musk's Doge Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445571

"Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43101757 (eventually unflagged).

"EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020091 (unflagged after hours)

"Elon Musk's rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007319

... And so on.

I started keeping a list of falsely flagged stories that I noticed in my favorites recently, and it has grown quite large. Everything Musk is a dominant theme.

We're not even allowed to discuss this censorship outside of comments: "Ask HN: What's with flagging articles criticizing Musk?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907426 (There are many other examples of this, and it is explicitly HN policy not to permit discussing the flagging policies here, ie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058574.)

Yet prolific commenters here will still praise HN for having such little censorship - it's pretty disturbing.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-07-09 09:01:06+00:00
Also absolutely not true. GOG games ship by default with their Galaxy Runtime SDK built against for savegame sync unless you download one of their legacy installers; any game bought on Microsoft Store adds several containerization features that usually end up requiring a fully separate build.

Some of those examples are almost parodistic, specifically compared to the Epic Games Store equivalent offered. It feels there's something missing from the full story presented here.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-07-09 09:02:16+00:00
Yes I agree. You can build a system by hand that.

1. Calls a weather api.

2. Runs that over LLM.

3. Based on that decides whether to wake you up 30 minutes early.

That case can be proven secure modulo a hack to the weather service means you get woken up early but you can understand the threat model.

MCP is like getting a service that can inject any context (effectively reorient your agent) to another service that can do the same. Either service may allow high level access to something you care about. To boot either service may pull in arbitrary context from online easily controlled by hackers. E.g. using just SEO you could cause someone's 3D printer to catch fire.

Yes the end user chooses which servers. Just like end users buy a wifi lightbulb then get doxxed a month later.

There might be some combination of words in a HN comments that would do it!
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-09 09:02:32+00:00
I don't know if it was this one but the concept sounds familiar. Looking back, games like Clash of Clans have similar mechanics, in that while you're away, someone attacks your stuff and you lose a lot of stuff, lol. I do remember it as very much a "numbers go brrt" kind of game, definitely falls under the idle games umbrella.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-07-09 09:02:42+00:00
Not a scientific theory, but an observation. New words propagate when they "click". They are often short, and for one reason or another enable people to form mental connections and remember what they mean. They spread rapidly between people like a virus. Sometimes they need to be explained, sometimes people get it from context, but afterward people tend to remember them and use them with others, further propagating the word.

A fairly recent example, "salty". It's short, and kinda feels like it describes what it means (salty -> tears -> upset).

It sounds like "call" is similar. It's short, so easy to say for an often used technical term, and there are a couple of ways it can "feel right": calling up, calling in, summoning, invoking (as a magic spell). People hear it, it fits, and the term spreads. I doubt there were be many competing terms, because terms like "jump" would have been in use to refer to existing concepts. Also keep in mind that telephones were hot, magical technology that would have become widespread around this same time period. The idea of being able to call up someone would be at the forefront of people's brains, so contemporary programmers would likely have easily formed a mental connection/analogy between calling people and calling subroutines.
by floitsch | 2025-07-09 09:02:43+00:00
Speed and reliability.

We found that Python isn't really designed for constrained environments. The object model, in particular, makes it hard to have fast method calls. The memory layout is also affected by the language, leading to bigger objects and a worse GC.

If you are just running a small hello world, or a number crunching loop, then both languages behave similarly. However, if you actually want to run something more consequential in production you will have an easier time with Toit.
by close04 | 2025-07-09 09:03:14+00:00
> What about Linux? Steam has supported Linux since 2013, and is notably the only big store that does.

Steam is a big contributor to making games run on Linux but it's not some magical sauce unique to Steam. Unless you're talking about the store client software itself having better support, I haven't used any of the first party store clients on Linux. My GOG games run fine on Linux with Heroic Launcher.

But the bigger issue for me was when I bought older games from the Steam store only to discover that they didn't run properly or at all on Windows 10 despite the statement that they do. I bought them again from GOG who actually patched them to work. Supporting the OS I bought the games for should be guaranteed unconditionally for as long as I own the game. Support for additional OSes, especially when it's best effort, is just a bonus not a replacement.
by Valulz | 2025-07-09 09:03:20+00:00
Agreed. I wish there was some examples to better understand what the author means. Like, in a web app, do i have any prior knowledge about the "_links" actions? Do I know that the server is going to return the actions "self" and "activate"? Is the idea to hide the routes from the user until the api call, but he should know that the api could return actions like "self", "activate" or "deactivate"? How do you communicate that an action requires a specific body? For example, the call activate is done in POST and expect a json body with a date inside. How do you tell that to the user?