MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by verst | 2025-07-10 20:29:13+00:00
I'll provide an alternative narrative: Additional seats at a significant premium are created for international students to allow subsidizing tuition for domestic students and offering of additional services on campus, research positions etc

If you get rid of international students then domestic student tuition will increase and/or campus services offered will decline.

Universities do not want to decrease their endowment. They want to find ways to grow it. And another goal is to increase the international reputation of their institutions. Here international students act like a kind of missionary.
Show HN: Ownyourpixel.fun – Buy Pixels and Resell Them Like Digital Real Estate
by mandarwagh | 2025-07-10 20:29:13+00:00
Hey HN,

I built ownyourpixel.fun — a web project where anyone can buy pixels on a global canvas and later resell them, just like digital real estate.

Inspired by the original Million Dollar Homepage, this is a modern version built for today’s internet.

What You Can Do: Buy pixels on the canvas — $1 per pixel

Upload/change your image + link anytime

Resell your pixels on the upcoming marketplace

Shareable pixel URLs (auto-zoom and highlight)

Pixels are permanently owned — no one else can buy yours

Why I Built This: I wanted to reimagine one of the internet's most viral ideas, but with a twist:

What if pixel space wasn’t just bought — but also traded?

This turns digital space into a resellable asset — a kind of open billboard economy where you can flip pixels like micro-domains.

Tech: Frontend: HTML + Tailwind (React/Canvas version next)

Backend: Firebase

Payments: Stripe

Hosting: Vercel

Early Access We're launching soon. You can join the waitlist here: ownyourpixel.fun
by saturnV | 2025-07-10 20:30:04+00:00
Carbon fibres themselves may be corrosion resistent, but the fibers by themselves are like a fabric. If you want a solid part instead of cloth, you need to encase the fibers in a resin. Imagine it like a piece of cloth soaked in beeswax or candle wax: it is solid like the resin but if you pull on it, it has the strength of the fibers of the cloth.

The resins used for carbon fibers are usually very bad at contact with water over long periods of time. Even those in aerospace applications require coating/paint if exposed moisture over time. It’s a plastic, even the best ones don’t do so well in water after a few months.

Furthermore, the damage that moisture does to the resin can be difficult to detect and even more difficult if not impossible to fix. It requires clean rooms, skilled labor and machinery that you don’t have in the middle of an ocean.

Then take iron corrosion: it is easy to spot by naked eye, it may not be easy to repair, but it is relatively simple to “halt” further damage by removing the rust and adding new paint.

Don’t get me wrong: carbon fibers are amazing, but sometimes the “boring” solution is best.

PS: steel alloys and coatings can be amazingly high tech too, it’s amazing what can be engineered.
by grafmax | 2025-07-10 20:30:56+00:00
> If you posted social media saying you wanted to overthrow the Japanese government, would Japan be okay with it or would they put you in jail and/or deport you?

This administration already considers protesting genocide a “threat to national security”. It has a well documented history of retaliating against protected speech. This latest policy is authoritarian retaliation against of free speech, plain and simple. Comparing the policy of a liberal democracy like Japan to contemporary US authoritarianism is truly disingenuous.
by simantel | 2025-07-10 20:31:05+00:00
I haven't used it, just know a few folks who worked there.

They were building like a social network/college job fair platform kind of thing, but then in the last year or so they launched an AI labeling platform[1] and the revenue from that has blown up and I think eclipsed their original business by quite a bit.

According to a podcast[2] discussing the Scale acquisition by Meta, they apparently closed $50M in AI labeling deals in the couple days after the Scale acquisition was announced.

[1] https://joinhandshake.com/expert-ai/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AguI4JLQSA
Comet Browser Is Just 2 Chrome Extensions?
by thecautiousdan | 2025-07-10 20:31:11+00:00
got off the waitlist today and was excited to install. had a look under the hood and I see in my application folder theirs two chrome extensions already installed, “Comet Agent” and “Comet”. Seems the browser just using the extension apis to take actions on my page. Will see if there’s anything else I can find. Back to chrome for now
by lexlash | 2025-07-10 20:31:58+00:00
The Home Assistant-branded ZBT-1 [0] is $30ish and, if your goal is Home Assistant, you're probably better off going that route especially now that IKEA is going all in on Thread/Matter (which the ZBT-1 supports in addition to Zigbee.)

I do have that particular Sonoff dongle - as well as a ZBT-1 - and I can vouch that the dongle works as well as the Hue hub it replaced, controlling a couple dozen lights.

(Obligatory prime-day-is-not-much-of-an-actual-discount so don't worry if you miss out on this sale - https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09KXTCMSC)

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/
by chamomeal | 2025-07-10 20:32:19+00:00
It’s funny cause I sometimes have the opposite experience. I tried to use Claude code today to make a demo app to show off a small library I’m working on. I needed it to set up some very boilerplatey example app stuff.

It was fun to watch, it’s super polished and sci-fi-esque. But after 15 minutes I felt braindead and was bored out of my mind lol
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-10 20:32:52+00:00
Wow this shows some really nice propagandist accumen, I wonder if it's literally a paid employee or something, judging by the comment history. You first rope in drunk drivers and illegal immigrants with the point being discussed (legal students) and then you exaggerate, saying people might be threatening domestic terrorism on social media. How cool!

You fail to address, though, that 1- the US is requiring social media accounts to be set to public, forcing people's hand into being labled as aggitators. 2- stuff that might be of academic interest is notoriously targeted by this admin, like any research being done on Israel/Palestine, any research being done on ESG, not to mention the more overt leftist themes (pro-LGBT, abortion, etc academics). This change is an easy way for the admin to target this type of research
by miohtama | 2025-07-10 20:33:17+00:00
Maybe for businesses like governments.

But EU citizens want good AI models, not EU approved models, and people can use VPN. Because regulatory process kills fast moving business and whatever is rubber stamped by EU bureaucracts and compliance-industrial complex law firms sucking out money by selling snake oil compliance services is already few years behind.

Would you buy a three years old car as a new?
by thmsths | 2025-07-10 20:34:03+00:00
I also strongly value privacy and honestly this kind of scheme always rubs me wrong. In the physical world, we have IDs, provided by the government, a business is only required to do a brief check and often does not have to retain information. This means that you can retain a fair bit of privacy for the individual, and the burden on the business is fairly low. And yet, for some reason, online we get the worst of both worlds: businesses have to figure out how implement cumbersome verification measures (which means small businesses/ hobbyists will struggle to comply) AND there is basically no privacy. How did we get there?
by fdsjgfklsfd | 2025-07-10 20:35:20+00:00
When I've had Grok evaluate images and dug into how it perceives them, it seemed to just have an image labeling model slapped onto the text input layer. I'm not sure it can really see anything at all, like "vision" models can.

It was giving coordinate bounding boxes and likelihood matches to generic classifications for each:

- *Positions*: - Central cluster: At least five bugs, spread across the center of the image (e.g., x:200-400, y:150-300). - Additional bugs: Scattered around the edges, particularly near the top center (x:300-400, y:50-100) and bottom right (x:400-500, y:300-400). - *Labels and Confidence*: - Classified as "armored bug" or "enemy creature" with ~80% confidence, based on their insect-like shape, spikes, and clustering behavior typical of game enemies. - The striped pattern and size distinguish them from other entities, though my training data might not have an exact match for this specific creature design.

…

- *Positions*: - One near the top center (x:350-400, y:50-100), near a bug. - Another in the bottom right (x:400-450, y:350-400), near another bug. - *Labels and Confidence*: - Classified as "spider" or "enemy minion" with ~75% confidence, due to their leg structure and body shape.
by stackskipton | 2025-07-10 20:35:39+00:00
>I hate to sound like my parents/grandparents but I absolutely knew that causing millions of pounds of damage and attempting to blackmail a major corporation could have huge negative consequences for people and myself at 17.

Sure but not all do. If you look at murders, most of them are in 15-24 range in United States so them being 17, 19 and 20 tracks with what you expect.
by lisbbb | 2025-07-10 20:35:40+00:00
I was a Clojure fan back around 2011. I'm just curious how you make a living with these esoteric languages? I was able to build exactly two back-end services using Clojure as a PoC back then, which was 14 years ago, and then the whole Clojure thing basically died. I'm shocked to see any resurgence of it or LISP in 2025.
by throwaway323929 | 2025-07-10 20:36:50+00:00
Great question: Going over 30KM/h over the speed limit in a non-highway zone (red ticket) in Japan is a criminal offense: it goes to court, there is a criminal record filed, they can suspend or revoke your driver’s license, and it can absolutely cause a VISA to be revoked or not renewed.

And unlike in the US they actually do enforce the laws there.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-10 20:37:06+00:00
What they hope to do is limit free speech and political criticism in the United States. They're starting with the groups the law gives them easiest access to, and they're hoping to expand that group to include native citizens in the near future (see the actions on birthright citizenship.)

It's hard to argue that political speech has been a success in China, and we're going to end up a lot like China if we don't fight this with everything we have.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-10 20:37:27+00:00
Here's what you want to know:

https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/kids-web-services/pv-service/...

> Parents in all regions except the USA and the Republic of Korea can verify their age using face scan. KWS prompts the parent to hold their device in front of their face. A machine-learning algorithm estimates the parent’s age using the device’s camera.

> Face scan verification is provided by Yoti (yoti.com).

They have an app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yoti.mobil...

I installed it but there's no direct interface - it needs to be opened via some intent and I can't be bothered to figure that out.

I would put a lot of money on it not being able to detect you pointing your phone at a Veo3 video of an old person though. Maybe on iPhones where you reliably have a depth camera? Doubtful on Android though.

It only takes one smart kid to beat this, and there are plenty of those.
by robwwilliams | 2025-07-10 20:38:08+00:00
Or a sampling artifact. 4 vs 12 does seem significant within a study, but consider a set of N such studies.

I assume that many large companies have tested efficiency gains and losses of there programmers much more extensively than the authors of this tiny study.

A survey of companies and their evaluation and conclusions would carry more weight—-excluding companies selling AI products, of course.
by HocusLocus | 2025-07-10 20:38:56+00:00
QUICK: Name the animal whose industry is most visible from space.

Day or night?

That was a trick question. Day.

Easy. The Beaver. If it were not for beavers evolving beside us, the Eastern US and much of the world would very nearly resemble the driest American Southwest of today, with rain being gathered after a brief overland wash into deep river gorges, with little water left behind close to surface. Past a certain age of erosion even introducing beavers would not help. Shallow masses of water diverted overland is crucial to sediment distribution and the formation of oxbow lakes. If beavers had arrived late their industry would be slowing rivers already confined by steep gorges and the violence of waters would carry them away and destroy them and their families.

When beavers are gone and what is left is the flaky erosion patterns of human desire the future landscape will be a crap shoot... for humanity could never match the attention and focus of the beaver.
by jahsome | 2025-07-10 20:39:08+00:00
I'll ask more directly: What's the use case and/or value proposition for the average person?

I've heard about it a few times over the last 24 hours, and I'm relatively off social media, so that to me indicates a considerable buzz. But the only thing that gets headlines is "Jack did a thing!" And the readme is primarily jargon.

I can't speak for GP, but it's not clear to me _why_ it's a Really Big Deal.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-10 20:39:23+00:00
Is living in fear of crime from unrestricted illegal immigration a better fate? Like sure, your daughter was raped by some illegal third worlder and your city and public places are now unsafe and dirty, your society has low trust and no more social cohesion, but at least your ruling business elite have access to unlimited cheap labor in indentured servitude to keep the line going up. Heaven.

Man, Japan is really missing out here. They should listen to the wealthy western champagne liberals on HN who are outspokenly pro mass migration and yet spend most of their income to live in homes as far as possible from cities impacted by mass immigration, usually in majority-white suburbs with good safe schools and manicured lawns.

Edit: answering here to your comment below. Which statistics are you referring to? And why is resorting to the Hitler card on people who disagree with you your only argument? Let's address your vile accusations with facts from experts:

"Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings."[1]

[1] https://archive.is/IrbAC#selection-445.127-445.686
by ImPleadThe5th | 2025-07-10 20:40:13+00:00
I used to be vehemently against this.

But now I really do think we need to reel in the youth having unfettered access to attention grabbing algorithms. I know this isn't really what this is for but it's a step.

That being said, I wish these verification services would be provided by the government (with ridged watchdogs for storage) and not by private companies.
by lurking_swe | 2025-07-10 20:40:25+00:00
greenfield development is also the “easiest” and most fun part of software development. As the famous saying goes, the last 10% of the project takes 90% of the time lol.

I’ve also noticed that, generally, nobody likes maintaining old systems.

so where does this leave us as software engineers? Should I be excited that it’s easy to spin up a bunch of code that I don’t deeply understand at the beginning of my project, while removing the fun parts of the project?

I’m still grappling with what this means for our industry in 5-10 years…
by baobun | 2025-07-10 20:40:33+00:00
So the way Ethereum comes in is that the community at large is moving user activity to "L2s" - separate blockchains (sidechains) usually rolled up in and therefore secured by Ethereum Mainnet. Some of the newer L2s where apparently using this. So it affects Ethereum to the extent that its users could be bridging witg unsane protocols and implementations.

There are usually "bridge contracts" deployed on Mainnet to allow briding assets/tokens between them. This (besides obv exchanges) is where most of the ridiculous hacks and online theft of past few years have happened. The Axie/Ronin hack was a huge facepalm and should have been a lesson to be more wary of handwavy security claims of these more experimental networks.
by fractallyte | 2025-07-10 20:40:35+00:00
“So, the first inhabitants in this land would have been encountering the giant beaver.”

...and killing them.

It's curious how megafauna extinctions coincide with human arrival... Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and other "First Peoples" were just as deadly as later European settlers.

The Once and Future World by J.B. MacKinnon eloquently describes our disastrous impact on Nature: https://www.jbmackinnon.ca/the-once-and-future-world
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-10 20:40:41+00:00
There’s a lot of confounding factors here. For example, you could point to any of these things in the last ~8 months as being significant changes:

* the release of agentic workflow tools

* the release of MCPs

* the release of new models, Claude 4 and Gemini 2.5 in particular

* subagents

* asynchronous agents

All or any of these could have made for a big or small impact. For example, I’m big on agentic tools, skeptical of MCPs, and don’t think we yet understand subagents. That’s different from those who, for example, think MCPs are the future.

> At some point, you roll your eyes and assume it is just snake oil sales

No, you have to realize you’re talking to a population of people, and not necessarily the same person. Opinions are going to vary, they’re not literally the same person each time.

There are surely snake oil salesman, but you can’t buy anything from me.
by intull | 2025-07-10 20:40:54+00:00
The worth and value of something, especially in art, is often assigned wrong in the moment. But on the axis of history, it has a life of its own.

Just 200 years ago, in a world without most of the technologies we take for granted today, art played a fundamentally representative role in stretching the boundaries of ideas, imagination, possibilities, and in extension, human cognition and social impact.

Preservation is the point. Art is made in the moment. Yeah there can be scientifically proven ways of longer-lasting / preservable mediums, inks/paints, etc. Pieces of art capture inspirations and ideas of the creators and pass that feeling along to future generations to also be inspired with new ideas for their times. They can be a snapshot of one place, at one moment in time, but they can also be timeless.
by JonnyReads | 2025-07-10 20:41:43+00:00
Maybe I'm being overly critical. But it's nothing revolutionary or new, we've had Bluetooth mesh chat for a long time. In fact I vaguely remember seeing it as someone's a university masters project over 10 years ago. I'm more interested in the lo-ra mesh, but that's probably because it feels more mysterious to me, as I have little understanding of radio networks. Let's not even get started on the name (b*tch@).

But I must admit it is cool that it's open source. I'll keep a eye out for an android app
by aboringusername | 2025-07-10 20:42:07+00:00
Laws such as these are dangerous because it normalizes the idea that you should submit your most personal data - and the risks that come with that - in order to access a service. In the real world, as another commenter has said, we don't retain that information beyond the confirmation.

Just like the Ashley Madison leak, data will be leaked, and companies hide behind "third party" to limit their own liability. I would like to know who these third parties are however, and they should be required to identify themselves (with their names, addresses, photos being made public).

However, I actually welcome changes like this. And they are healthy and good for the internet.

Because when draconian laws such as these are passed it's our obligation to express our displeasure and disobedience. So we'll use proxies, VPNs and other tools we may not have even invented yet just to make it clear they are not welcome to control access to content, they can try, but must never succeed.

They will try to block such tools, and we'll need to make new ones, and, as a community of hackers, it's vital free access to information is protected at all costs.

So we need more of this, it should be the law in every country, because only then will there be a motivation to ensure such laws are not enforceable on a technical level.
by evanelias | 2025-07-10 20:42:12+00:00
Here's a scary thought, which I'm admittedly basing on absolutely nothing scientific:

What if agentic coding sessions are triggering a similar dopamine feedback loop as social media apps? Obviously not to the same degree as social media apps, I mean coding for work is still "work"... but there's maybe some similarity in getting iterative solutions from the agent, triggering something in your brain each time, yes?

If that was the case, wouldn't we expect developers to have an overly positive perception of AI because they're literally becoming addicted to it?
by devwastaken | 2025-07-10 20:42:17+00:00
Cyber crime does not exist. Only deficient systems intentionally designed to be exploited exist. if you want your “cyber infrastructure” to not be attacked, dont make it vulnerable. All tech is artificial, not of nature.

Require software to be developed by licensed engineers. no more offshoring. no more importing of cheap labor. make tech corps pay instead of acruing mass wealth. Make the corps pay when the vulnerabilities they put in it are exploited.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-10 20:42:29+00:00
Whilst there are alternatives, one being Briar and there are others whose names I can't recall, it's not a flooded market, so I think it's worth some discussion.

Additionally, tools that allow communication and coordination without relying on internet or cloud-based services seem to be of increasing pertinence to the direction the world is currently going.

Re hype: that's just human reaction to any well known person's new thing. Just don't get caught up in it, discuss "thing" for "things" sake and move on.
by theultdev | 2025-07-10 20:43:07+00:00
Bluetooth mesh chats were quite popular and effective during the Hong Kong protests.

Aside from protests, I'd also say they could be useful during festivals and other events where mobile networks can get quite congested.

Eventually fragments of groups will pass within range, forwarding messages to the rest, useful for coordinating rendezvous.

If built into an app for the event, it would be even more effective.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-10 20:43:54+00:00
> That's not the argument being made though, which is that it does "work" now and implying that actually it didn't quite work before

Right.

> except that that is the same thing the same people say for every model release,

I did not say that, no.

I am sure you can find someone who is in a Groundhog Day about this, but it’s just simpler than that: as tools improve, more people find them useful than before. You’re not talking to the same people, you are talking to new people each time who now have had their threshold crossed.
by madcaptenor | 2025-07-10 20:44:04+00:00
I think it might be different for area codes that end in a zero - I remember 610 (Philly area, where I grew up) usually being pronounced "six-ten". On the other hand, 215 was always "two-one-five", never "two-fifteen". But I agree for those with zero in the middle, like 404 or 305.