MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Brybry | 2025-07-29 14:07:44+00:00
These laws aren't just about porn sites though. They affect sites like Wikipedia. [1]

You don't need to verify your age to enter a bookstore or a library.

And if you really want to control who can access porn then the only way to do that is with a whitelist filter on the device being used. These laws are onerous without being effective.

I do think a standardized requirement for commercial websites to have content rating meta tags (like the existing content=adult and content=RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA) would be a good thing though, just to make more lenient filtering easier.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255
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by parasti | 2025-07-29 14:08:26+00:00
I am not arguing that.

You called a viewpoint that I share "utter nonsense". So I presented a counterpoint. A counterpoint to your opinion is neither a troll nor an attack on the original author's intent and/or character.

All I'm saying is we can both read the same article and one of us goes to build an app for their kid while the other goes and builds an app that gets other people's kids addicted to it while shoving ads. This has nothing to do with the author of the article.
by adregan | 2025-07-29 14:09:04+00:00
I think folks were too quick to throw out the good things about redux when hooks came out. Namely “dumb” presentational components that had no logic and abstractions for wiring up data and actions (mapStateToProps and mapDispatchToProps).

Sure reducers could be a bear (and asynchronous actions were hard), but the easily testable and portable logic-less views were really nice to work with.

Having worked in a number of codebases from React’s earliest days until now, I see echos of the bad old mixin days in the usage of hooks.
by qualeed | 2025-07-29 14:09:10+00:00
>Service providers might be of fault if their verification practices are not compliant with regulations, but I don't know if the law puts any requirements on users to verify their identity.

As I mentioned in another comment, I've heard no compelling argument that differentiates between this scenario (e.g. kid uses this site to access a nsfw subreddit) and an underage kid buying smokes with a fake ID.

In that scenario, the police don't just pick 1 entity to punish. The kid gets in trouble, the store (most likely) gets in trouble, and (if found) the fake ID supplier gets in trouble.

In the end, I hope that the owner of the website never has to find out exactly where and how the laws shake out, and that "it's a satirical website" is a strong enough defense. But from my armchair, I would suspect that the UK police/legislators would not look favorably on the "it's satire" defense. Especially because of this post which advertises that the fake ID works for some services, and there are under-18s on HN.

>Law often focus on intent.

I would expect that advertising that the IDs work on real services undermines any defense of "my intent was satire".
by bradly | 2025-07-29 14:09:23+00:00
I appreciate you sharing both the chat log and the full source code. I would be interested to see a followup post on how adding moderately-sized features like High Score go.

Also, IANAL but Space Invaders is owned IP. I have no idea the legality of a blog post describing steps to create and releasing an existing game, but I've seen headlines on HN of engs in trouble for things I would not expect to be problematic. Maybe Space Invaders is in q-tip/band-aid territory at this point?, but if this was Zelda instead of Space Invaders, I could see things being more dicey.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 14:09:26+00:00
> The jury's still out on cars

I don't know if it's just anecdotal, but I see a LOT of Chinese EVs in the England lately. Obviously nobody is buying them based on brand recognition or any sort of quality belief, brands nobody has heard of until now can only be on our streets in the numbers I'm seeing because they're significantly cheaper than buying something from a known auto manufacturer.

The one exception I'd say in the UK are MG EVs, which for some unknown reason some of my fellow Brits have some sort of affinity to as a brand.

I wouldn't dream of buying a JAECOO or BYD and everything I've seen online about their EVs absolutely suggest some at least morally dubious tactics, not to say the likely of VW haven't also had their hands slapped, but let's see how their fair mid term.

Side note: Recently got a DJI drone, have had some of their other camera related non-drone stuff, the thing is absolutely nuts for the price, DJI really are unrivalled.
by mardifoufs | 2025-07-29 14:09:35+00:00
I mean Singapore is a pretty nice place to stay in too, but it's still not super free and pretty authoritarian. There are tons of factors that make a place "nice" to be in. In my experience though, at least Danemark is a bit of an odd place. It looks nice for Danes but it's a very monocultural place. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's something that was a bit apparent to me from an outsider's pov.
by ChrisGermano | 2025-07-29 14:09:45+00:00
Hit some speed bumps but still building out a Discord-based digital TCG platform. Discord felt like a natural social context for an accessible and customizable experience. Users can use their own media for card images, but it's also integrated with a free pixel art AI that generates cards based on description. Would love feedback, even if basic or high level suggestions.

https://discordtcg.com
by ijk | 2025-07-29 14:09:52+00:00
It has caused many community forums to close, past tense.

Many cited the uncertainty about what is actually required, the potential high cost of compliance, the danger of failing to correctly follow the rules they're not certain about, and the lack of governmental clarity as significant aspects of their decision to close.

The fear may be misplaced, but the UK government has failed to convince people of that.
by jrm4 | 2025-07-29 14:09:56+00:00
Yeah, and as a Black person in America, I'd argue that more care needs to be taken here.

Take "Woke" -- a perfect example of a reasonable term we had, like "hey folks, stay alert and awake to the issues around you and your people."

To what it is now -- a ubiquitous word with force that has ABSOLUTELY no clear definition and is thus a rhetorical blunt force weapon with no true meaning besides "how I can piss other people off"
by lan321 | 2025-07-29 14:10:04+00:00
Even in that context, I believe you could provide semi-anonymous verification. You just need a weaker encryption of sorts. One you can crack in a month instead of never ever. Then have that shit rotate, and the government can invest money to find that one identity posting BS all day with multiple bots until it rotates/regenerates, but they can't keep track of everyone.
by Larrikin | 2025-07-29 14:10:22+00:00
What was the problem? I thought my Eufy was excellent when I had it. It was one of the blind models, where it would seemingly wander around randomly, but it wasn't actually random. It may miss a spot on one pass but would usually get the spot on the next run.

I've since upgraded to a Dreame with lidar and mopping that actually maps my place. It also has a Home Assistant integration so it can be automated and scheduled. But my original Eufy kept my old apartment floor in great shape.
by jraph | 2025-07-29 14:12:07+00:00
> consuming media narratives about why AI is bad

That's quite uncharitable.

I don't need to use it to make these points. While I might show a lack of perspective, I don't need to do X to reasonably think X can be bad. You can replace X with all sorts of horrible things, I'll let the creativity of the readers fill in the gap.

> AI presently has a far lower footprint on the globe than [X]

We see the same kind of arguments for planes, cars, anything with a big impact really. It still has a huge (and growing) environmental impact, and the question is do the advantages outweigh the drawbacks?

For instance, if a video call tool allowed you to have a meeting without taking a plane, the video call tool had a positive impact. But then there's also the ripple effect: if without the tool, the meeting hadn't happened at all, the positive impact is less clear. And/or if the meeting was about burning huge amounts of fuel, the positive impact is even less clear, just like LLMs might just allow us to produce attention-seeking, energy-greedy shitty software at a faster speed (if they indeed work well in the long run).

And while I can see how things like ML can help (predicting weather, etc), I'm more skeptical about LLMs.

And I'm all for stopping the meat disaster as well.

> We don't see eye to eye, and I think that's ok. We can re-evaluate our predictions in a year!

Yep :-)
by dfedbeef | 2025-07-29 14:12:10+00:00
Uh... no.

Copyright violations are something like 150k per instance, so each time it was copied. Picture a bunch of bootleg DVDs, the fine is not one-time for 7 DVDs. It's 7x150k.

Antrophic will potentially ruin the value of every work they trained on. Google should have been fined, too tbh. Napster got shut down but Google gets a pass? It's nonsense. The recording industry just had more weight to throw around and I guess nobody gives a shit about books.

I doubt anyone would be stoked to foot a bill for trillions of dollars of damages when an AI company is hit for training on millions of copyrighted works. Multiply the number of works times 100,000 to get a floor for max statutory damages.
by pc86 | 2025-07-29 14:12:15+00:00
A train leaving Seattle isn't loaded entirely with cars going to Philadelphia. Some are going to Miami, some are going to Texas, some at going to Chicago. There might even be cars in Chicago that get picked up by that train on its way to Philadelphia.

Nobody is talking about taking boxes out of one car and putting them on another, but it seems pretty self-evident that the entire train itself would get broken up multiple times on a cross-country trip.
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 14:12:32+00:00
I think I started the bitterness. I'm sorry. Everyone has genuine hurt. People who have bought the AI product are hurt because they're weakened and vulnerable by their dependence on buying their own productivity back from a reseller who is now raising the prices.

I get cheesed off cause the AI people disrespect hard work and try to devalue its rewards, and that message is just toxic to anyone trying to learn. You can't master a musical instrument by paying an assistant to practice it for you.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-29 14:12:40+00:00
> Also, I'm for teenagers (not little children) having access to pornography.

I'm against: pornography, as found in search results, is generally quite bad. Sexism, racial stereotyping, misrepresentations of queer issues: and that's just the titles. Page 3 has nothing on porn sites.

Maybe I'm judging a book by its SEO spammers here, but I've not read anything that'd disabuse me of this notion: indeed, people raise concerns about unreasonable body image expectations, normalising extreme sex acts like choking without normalising enthusiastic consent practices, the sites allowing CSAM and "revenge porn" that they've already taken down to be re-uploaded…

That said, I routinely come across nudes / sexualised imagery on the Fediverse, and that's… not an issue? Sometimes I find it a bit squicky (which teaches me not to play lift-the-flap with clearly-marked content warnings – I don't know what I expected), but the only times I've seen something viscerally offensive has been people re-posting from porn aggregation sites. (I've blocked three or four accounts for that, and I don't see it any more.)

If porn sites had the kind of stuff that queer / disabled techies post on main on niche social media sites, then I'd be absolutely fine with teenagers accessing porn. As you say, a safe environment for adolescents to explore their sexuality is unequivocably a good thing. I just don't think commercial porn sites provide that.

This is what concerns me the most about the Online Safety Act. It's shutting down the aforementioned queer / disabled techies on their social media sites, and surely plenty of other pro-social sex communities I don't even know about, but it's not going to do a thing about the large aggregators that are the real problem. It in fact makes the whole problem worse.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-29 14:12:58+00:00
Because company A needs to scan the books, then company B wants to train their AI so they need to scan the same books, then company C wants to train their AI so they need to scan the same books... etc.

It would be one thing if they were buying "used" digital copies of the books, but the fact that this is only legal with scanned physical copies makes it extremely wasteful.
by Sinosteelpipe | 2025-07-29 14:13:20+00:00
According to China Customs statistics: In June 2025, the export volume of stainless steel was about 390,000 tons, a decrease of 46,400 tons month-on-month, a decrease of 10.6%; a decrease of 62,900 tons year-on-year, a decrease of 13.9%.

From January to June 2025, the cumulative domestic stainless steel export volume was about 2.5001 million tons, an increase of 135,300 tons year-on-year, an increase of 5.7%.
by xinayder | 2025-07-29 14:13:21+00:00
And it was only breached because criminals approached an IT guy from the affected bank and offered him R$5000 to hand out the passwords used to login to their internal systems. Once the hackers were inside, they had control of bank accounts and started moving money around.

So no, it wasn't a breach to BCB, neither it was caused by system insecurity, but rather, human error in a downstream implementation.
by mardifoufs | 2025-07-29 14:13:32+00:00
Yes, if you are an ethnic Dane in the majority, that's probably true. But that's almost always true. Governments, even autocratic ones, usually don't go against the majority. But for everyone else, yes it's absolutely worrying. Just a small example, Danemark is the only country that has force deported almost every Syrian refugee, children included back, in 2021. I'd get it now that the war is over, but it wasn't then. Even Trump didn't do that.
by amelius | 2025-07-29 14:13:42+00:00
I don't think any sane consumer wants gamification. Can you give an example of why a consumer would want it (other than by being coerced into it by the seller)?

Temu is doing this because they gain from it. So if this were legal, then other sellers might be forced to do it too to remain competitive. Is this really a direction you want to go in?
by pamelafox | 2025-07-29 14:13:59+00:00
Alas, my 3 year old Mac has only 16 GB RAM, and can barely run a browser without running out of memory. It's a work-issued Mac, and we only get upgrades every 4/5 years. I must be content with 8B parameters models from Ollama (some of which are quite good, like llama3.1:8b).
by Grumbledour | 2025-07-29 14:14:00+00:00
It's quite interesting, that while this topic comes up from time to time (it has been going on a long time after all already), people on here seem to seldom talk about the organizations that lobby for this proposal for years, with big ties to the US and intelligence agencies. So this is by no means just an European phenomenon but there seems to be a much bigger agenda behind it all.

Now, at the moment, I don't have a good english language source, but I am sure someone else could provide one?

Here is a german language one[0], from netzpolitik.org, who follow chat control for years now an have many articles going in depth about this. I am sure you could use translation software to read it until someone provides a better source. (And if you have not heard of this, you should!)

And while someone already linked to patrick breyers website[1] which has a good overview, I do so again so maybe more people will see it. This thing is not new, but it is also not easily ignored and everyone should be informed whats going on here. They will try to pass this again and again since they have done for years now and it's mostly been close calls until now.

[0] https://netzpolitik.org/2023/anlasslose-massenueberwachung-r...

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
by ChrisKnott | 2025-07-29 14:14:17+00:00
One of the main motivations for this law was pro-suicide and pro-anorexia content being pushed to teenage girls. In particular Molly Russell's death received a lot of press coverage and public outrage at tech companies. The coroner's report basically said Instagram killed her. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Molly_Russell

Of course if you get your news from HN then the motivation is actually something to do with limiting discussion of immigration or being dystopian just because.

But yes, if they could just name Instagram and TikTok they probably would.
by SilverElfin | 2025-07-29 14:14:22+00:00
Yes they flipped. Lina Khan should have supported mergers for smaller companies (to help startups needing an exit) while breaking up the largest and most abusive companies like Google or Amazon or Microsoft. Unfortunately now more will come. Warren Buffett is more likely to pursue his own rail merger for BNSF (owned by Berkshire Hathaway):

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2025/berkshire-bnsf-ba...
by cedws | 2025-07-29 14:15:59+00:00
>Anthropic never sold an unlimited plan

I'm told the $200/month plan was practically unlimited, I heard you could leave ~10 instances of Claude Code running 24/7. I will never pay for any of these subscriptions however so I haven't verified that.

>And now Anthropic is changing those limits in a month.

Which indicates the seller was being scammed. Now they're changing the limits so it swings back to being a scam for the user.

>I’m confused about why there’s so much anger about something that already exists

Yes but much LLM tooling requires a subscription. I'm not talking only about Anthropic/Claude Code. I can't use chatgpt.com using my own API key. Even though behind the scenes, if I had a subscription, it would be calling out to the exact same API.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-29 14:16:04+00:00
> When developers visit Stack Overflow, their top-ranked activity is reading comments, showing a deep interest in human-to-human context.

I stopped using SO years ago, but when I did use it, the reason that I read the comments wasn't because of a "deep interest in human-to-human context" but because the accepted answer was often not helpful (usually outdated, but sometimes incorrect) and I was looking to see if anyone gave a better answer or explanation.
by geerlingguy | 2025-07-29 14:16:33+00:00
> 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...)

That bit was highlighted in the article, though, as one of the more annoying aspects of Anker pulling out of the market. It's likely if your hot end fails again, you'll suddenly have 10 lbs of useless 3D printer to deal with. Most people will just toss them in a landfill.

There was a time I thought 3D printers would break free from the 'every part is proprietary' industry of 2D printers, where you have cheap disposable hardware and people are incentivized to buy new printers frequently to replace dodgy old equipment.

But outside of the passionate Voron community and a few companies who still have at least some of the community/repairability-first ethos, it seems the wider industry is moving towards proprietary hardware, even to the point of blocking out (or at least making difficult) 3rd party accessories, mods, and community software.
by diggan | 2025-07-29 14:16:59+00:00
Even "accidentally" it makes sense that "SVGs of pelicans riding bikes" are now included into datasets used for training as it has spread as a wildfire on the internet, making it less useful as a simple benchmark.

This is why I keep all my benchmarks private and don't share anything about them publicly, as soon as you write about them anywhere publicly they'll stop being useful in some months.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-29 14:17:13+00:00
>"Sorry, we don't include tax in the price that is displayed, so you'll need to either figure that out in your head or just pull the slot machine of what you are actually gonna pay at the register."

Canada, where I lived for years, has, or at least when I was there had, the same thing with taxes not being included in posted prices, and yes, it's annoying, i'll grant you that. I especially realized how annoying when I eventually moved to a country where all posted retail prices include all taxes. However, if you're in a supermarket with $150 in groceries in your cart and can't muster the neurons to roughly remember what sales taxes in your area are (their percentage is indeed often mentioned in price tags) and do the tiny bit of mental arithmetic necessary to know what 15% on $150 or etc is, you've got bigger problems than a specific grocery bill.
by alias_neo | 2025-07-29 14:17:44+00:00
We've already heard that there are kill switches in Solar PV equipment[0], networks with Chinese brands are to be considered compromised[1], I'm certain we can assume the same for Chinese brand EVs having remote control and/or kill switches.

It's interesting to see the non-response from governments over it so far; though there was recently rumours of an MoD ban on Chinese EVs but that seems to have been shot down[2] so far.

[0]https://londondaily.com/u-s-concerns-mount-over-chinese-kill... [1]https://www.itpro.com/security/cyber-attacks/all-us-forces-m... [2]https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-no-mod-ban-on-ch...
by throwawaycoins | 2025-07-29 14:17:52+00:00
I lost 13 bitcoins when the TradeHill exchange disappeared.

A decade later, I have 0.2 bitcoins in Coinbase. I want to move to owning my own keys and it's hard to be confident in avoiding footguns.

Any advice on how to securely transition to owning my own keys would be much appreciated.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-07-29 14:17:54+00:00
You do not need age verification in the vast majority of cases.

Moderation is part and parcel of running forums and all platforms and software provide tools for this, it's nothing new. If someone is not prepared to read submissions or to react quickly when one is flagged then perhaps running a forum is too much of a commitment for them but I would not blame the law.

In fact I believe that forum operators in the UK already got in legal trouble in the past, long before the Online Safety Act, because they ignored flagging reports.
by npteljes | 2025-07-29 14:18:16+00:00
The outcome is very hard to determine, because we don't know your goals and circumstances. Focusing on the downsides,

1. Wrt/ dating, the obvious downside is that your potential partner is dissuaded from dating you because of what is said on the platform.

2. I can also see vigilante justice; an extremist reaction to what is said on the platform. Actual violence, or just harassment, online or real life.

3. Or, I can see corporations using these databases on the down low to filter potential employees, similar to how they screen online presence as well.

Of course, all of these are just potential risks, not things that actually happen(ed yet).
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by dudeWithAMood | 2025-07-29 14:18:25+00:00
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The longer a talk is, the more ad revenue a creator gets. But we don't all have 40 minutes to listen to someone slowly edge around a point.

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