MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayindirh | 2025-07-08 11:51:18+00:00
(1) I think I acknowledged that on my last comment before you have written that.

(2) Learning and copying are different. If we're going to enter to the "but AI learns just like humans" realm, let's please don't, because ML tries to mimic human learning, they are not the same, even remotely.

(3) I don't think I said laws behave differently because "some humans are upset".

(4) I haven't told anything about paying for (AI) art. I don't pay for AI art, but I pay for "real" art, made by humans. I also make art sometimes, and don't use AI/ML while doing that, and don't feed models with my art (I stopped sharing on multiple platforms because of that).

(5) If we presume that every law is "correct, right and forever", then we have another name for it. It's called dogma. Moreover, we have other "unwritten" rules which generally support or sometimes supersede the laws in place, and the word for that it "ethics".

(6) Staying in the subject of law, as somebody else noted [0], scale matters. While doing style transfer for a couple of things might be considered legal, that needs a reconsideration when scale reaches to today's levels possible with generative AI.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468480
by avadhesh18 | 2025-07-08 11:51:27+00:00
Is it the animation of the piece moving? I’ve tested it on a bunch of iOS devices and haven’t noticed anything odd, but I’d love to take a closer look. If you can, please share a video or GIF. It’ll really help. You can email it to me at support@offchess.com. Thanks for trying my app out and giving feedback.
by Klathmon | 2025-07-08 11:51:57+00:00
PHP's approach is simple though, and in my experience that simplicity pays off when you do start scaling the systems.

In other systems once you get beyond a single machine you need that external communication mechanism anyway, and now you have multiple classes of comms which introduces bugs and complexity and performance cliffs.

In PHP you just throw another server at it, it'll act the same as if you just added another process. Nice linear scaling and simple to understand architectures.

Man I miss working in PHP
by whatevertrevor | 2025-07-08 11:52:26+00:00
The FAANG people also have a lot of direct personal experience contradicting a lot of mainstream FUD titled "All your data is being sold to the lowest bidder".

Having worked at one of those companies (and having quit that job being disillusioned by a lot of things), there is still so much mainstream misinformation about this. Yes data is often used for tracking and training. In aggregate form. Sensitive data is anonymized/de-id-ed. The leading research on these techniques are also coming out from these companies btw.

There are layers and layers of policy and permission safeguards before you're allowed to access user data directly as an engineer. And if/when someone tries to exploit the legitimate pathways to touch user data (say customer support), they get promptly fired.

But it's much easier to believe that FAANG is some great monolithic evil, out to surveil you personally for some vague benefit that never gets specified. All the legitimate concrete monetary benefits (e.g. tracking for ad targeting work and training ML models) can be had just as well with aggregate data, but privacy FUD doesn't want to listen to that.

Meanwhile stupid legislation and the ability of courts and law-enforcement to subpoena any data they want whenever they want keeps data on their servers longer than they'd want to. Yet people will prefer to blame the "Evil Tech Cartel" instead of multiple branches of their government wanting to read their texts and GPS logs.
Show HN: Free Unlimited Photo Enhancer, Background Remover, AI Image Gen, etc.
by d60 | 2025-07-08 11:53:55+00:00
I built a scraper tool that provides free and unlimited access to picwish.com

* Features *

- photo enhancement

- background removal

- OCR

- image expansion

- image translation

- AI Image generation

Please refer the readme.md for usage.
by einszwei | 2025-07-08 11:54:43+00:00
BBC had a report from 2006[1] which admitted that its coverage was biased towards Israel on top all the recent coverage.

> - that a disparity (in favour of Israelis) existed in BBC coverage taken as a whole in the amount of talk time given to Israelis and Palestinians;

Do you have any credible source that shows the opposite?

[1]: https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/our_wo...
by frozenseven | 2025-07-08 11:54:50+00:00
>“copyright infringement”

Throwing around scary words means very little. You're using a highly unorthodox interpretation of that concept. Even the anti-AI lawsuits are typically focused on specific model outputs or some other technicality.

>entities like Disney

The same company that's now publishing papers on generative AI? See the HN front page right now.

>keep their work behind login/paywalls moving forward

At what cost? Raging against a new technology like this is sure to backfire. Not only are you crippling yourself in terms of regular search engine visibility, there's now a non-negligible amount of traffic coming from AI search. And the average person will have even less of a reason to interact with you. Logins/paywalls are a nuisance. Especially if AI is producing competitive results to whatever you have to offer.
by alkyon | 2025-07-08 11:55:56+00:00
Your whole argumentation is flawed with gross intellectual dishonesty. I'm talking Gaza genocide that is happening here and now - but your argumentation is like 'But what about Hannibal's atrocities in 216 B.C.?'. I don't deny other peoples were colonized and decimated in the process (like Native Americans obviously) -- their fate and suffering IS important, however it does not have any bearing on what is happening now in Gaza Strip.
Show HN: 120 HN – A free native, cross-platform Hacker News client
by 120-dev | 2025-07-08 11:56:22+00:00
I've built 120 HN, a fully native Hacker News client with a focus on performance and consistency across platforms (macOS - ready, Windows and Linux - coming soon). Every component is implemented from scratch, aiming for a fast and responsive experience.

Key features:

- Native UI with smooth scrolling and minimal interface - Clean reading and comment view - AI assistant integration using your own OpenAI API key - Support for Claude and local LLMs is planned

The app is currently free to use. I'm sharing it here to gather feedback from the HN community and would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.

120 HN is part of a suite of native tools I'm building. Another app in the suite, [120 AI Chat](https://120.dev/120-ai-chat), is already available with support for multi-threaded conversations and multiple AI models. Upcoming tools include [120 Email](https://120.dev/120-email), an AI-assisted email client, and [120 Table](https://120.dev/120-table), a table UI for working with data and generating charts.

Feedback is welcome. Let me know what you think.
by thefringthing | 2025-07-08 11:57:30+00:00
The article touches on this, but there have been countless attempts to restandardize English spelling or replace the Latin alphabet with one more suited to English. But English is a global language with no central authority responsible for deciding what is correct, making coordinated change nearly impossible.

To my mind, the best such attempt was Kingsley Read's, made at the behest of G. B. Shaw: https://www.shavian.info
by numpad0 | 2025-07-08 11:59:19+00:00
It's impurities in oxidizer. 80% of air is N2, 20% O2. N2 + O2 -> NOx minus some kJ(endothermic). Means, run plain air through anything hot and NOx comes out. Doesn't matter how pure the fuel, doesn't have to be an ICE, doesn't need fuel at all. Hot stuff in the air = NOx.
by bakugo | 2025-07-08 11:59:34+00:00
Yes, we know, your groundbreaking AI startup is the future and it changes everything and it's going to take the world by storm and every company on earth will be using your technology by the end of the decade, just like every other tech startup ever. Save it for the VCs.

> gatekeeping what games even are by using vague qualifiers like "actual"

I really shouldn't need to define this, but "actual" games have gameplay. Slowly moving a character in an AI generated "world" that melts around him, doesn't obey any laws of physics, has no well defined mechanics and generally doesn't make any sense doesn't count as gameplay in my eyes, and I don't think that's a controversial opinion.

Once this "technology" allows me to play a real game, with real mechanics that make sense, that isn't just a dream-like version of an existing popular game, then you can call it an "amazing new avenue of creative possibilities." Until then, it's just a gimmick that doesn't serve much of a purpose beyond impressing the uneducated for a few minutes.
by mtndew4brkfst | 2025-07-08 12:00:01+00:00
With the limited sample set of previous writing about this tooling - my impression is that it seems impossible to offer a succinct but still compelling description of this particular dialect of Rust.

There are thousands of words of prose to describe it between this and the shell-scripting post, and a lot of code-level seams and abstractions introduced in the snippets. Yet I still can't tell you why I should want to do the new things that this code style would make possible for me to do.

I also probably wouldn't enjoy trying to onboard a new contributor to a hypothetical project using this style, no matter how experienced with Rust they might be. DSLs, which I would consider CGP to be one, have a pretty high friction rate if they haven't become dominant/widespread.
Show HN: Brandiseer – AI turns any idea into a full brand identity in 10 min
by srkdaniel | 2025-07-08 12:00:28+00:00
Hey HN,

I kept seeing early-stage products with a killer idea but… the logo, slide deck, hero image, Twitter banner were all random. As a dev, I’ve felt that pain myself—hiring a designer for a cohesive brand system costs $3–10 k and weeks of back-and-forth. Cheap logo generators solve 5 % of the problem and leave you with mismatched colors + fonts.

So I built Brandiseer: paste your project name + 2-sentence vision → get a 16-asset brand kit in about ten minutes:

multi-variant logo set (dark / light / mono)

color palette + HEX/RGB sheet

headline/body font pairing (Google Fonts)

PDF style-guide (spacing rules, do’s / don’ts)

website hero header, social launch graphic, app icon

business card front/back, basic merch/mock-ups

PNGs today; SVG/Figma export on the roadmap

Why it’s different

Generates a system, not a single graphic—the palette / typography feed every asset.

Ships a style-guide PDF so whoever designs your next slide deck has guard-rails.

A “brand DNA” layer means we can add editing & re-generation without breaking consistency.

What’s next

Re-edit flow (credit based)

SVG / Figma export

Brand “memory” so you can chat “make a holiday version of our hero image” and stay on-brand

Open-sourcing the prompt-compiler middleware once it’s less hacky

Ask HN

Does the kit cover what you would need for a launch? Anything missing?

Thoughts on a pay-once vs SaaS tier? (I’m leaning pay-once for V1, then optional Pro tools.)

Anyone interested in contributing template packs / prompt flows?

Live demo + sample kits: https://brandiseer.com

Appreciate any feedback, roasting, or “this already exists, here’s why” comments—thanks!
by tucnak | 2025-07-08 12:01:07+00:00
> It does not invent plausible-looking information.

This is where your analogy is falling apart; of course web browsers do not "invent plausible-looking information" because they don't invent anything in the first place! Web browsers represent a distinct set of capabilities, and as you correctly pointed out, these are often riddled with bugs and errors. If I was making a browser analogy, I would point towards fingerprinting; most browsers reveal too much information about any given user and system, either via cross-site cookies, GPU prints, and whatnot. This is an actual example where "ethics flew out the window long ago."

As the adjacent commenter pointed out: different software, different failure modes.
by roland35 | 2025-07-08 12:01:17+00:00
Catholicism is certainly interesting! It is somewhat similar from my experience. On one hand it was fairly conservative: super against abortion, and old fashioned family values (ie moms should stay home). On the other, there was a huge focus on service and helping the poor both at home and abroad. And not missionary type stuff, just helping no strings attached. Plus a real interest in education with an open mind. So slightly more complicated than a single left/right value.
by codingdave | 2025-07-08 12:02:37+00:00
> tonnes of really bad code other clueless newbies like myself had written...

When I first looked at MUD code, I had not yet learned to code. I thought that the folks who wrote the code must be so smart, and felt intimidated by it. Fast forward a few decades, and I recently looked at MUD code again. I spent a week porting ROT 1.4 to a node server, mostly just as a personal coding exercise, and found myself realizing just how bad that code actually was.

Yet we need to be fair. As you said, it was written by newbies, mostly students. It was written before modern tech stacks, before modern practices. And despite all the critique we could throw at it... it worked. It stills works. It was shared, copied, modified, and kept on working for many people, over many years. And it definitely inspired people to learn and try new things.
by Gormo | 2025-07-08 12:03:44+00:00
> English got decentralized starting with the Age of Sail, but the lack of correspondence between written and oral forms is systemic and older than that.

That's not really true -- there is and was a great deal of dialect diversity within England itself. It was widespread printing that allowed languages to be standardized at the scale of nation-states in the first place: the divergences that developed after the age of sail were reversing convergence that had only begun a couple of hundred years earlier.

And although versions of English from the south and east of England became the basis for modern standard English, other dialects persisted and sometimes spread around the world, so some of the differences between English dialects globally are due to disparate influences from different dialects originating within the British Isles.
by mlivneh | 2025-07-08 12:04:08+00:00
(Creator here) - Just wanted to add some context on the motivation.

I teach an after-school program for gifted kids and started building educational games to keep them engaged. While building them, I kept hitting the same architectural problem: how do you build a communication and scaffolding layer on top of a self-contained web app without modifying the app itself?

I needed a way to poll students, send them private messages, and get feedback while they were in the middle of a game. Building this functionality into each game individually felt repetitive and inefficient.

I realized the solution wasn't to build better games, but to build a generic "classroom wrapper" that could be applied to any game or web content. That's what fireClass is – a reusable infrastructure to solve that recurring problem.
by ferguess_k | 2025-07-08 12:04:48+00:00
I also own a vintage iBook G4 (maxed at 1.5G RAM so it's pretty powerful) and I'm struggling to find meaning in owning it.

Originally I was thinking about getting touch with PowerPC architecture and check out how Apple did the 68K emulator. But now I'm completely burnt out from work, I simply have no interest in programming at all, and the laptop sits in a drawer collecting dusts.

I feel sad for it and myself.
by jghn | 2025-07-08 12:05:17+00:00
There were several, all based off of the same live action map/cockpit/etc code.

The granddaddy was 3025, followed. T 3056 - these were attenpting to portray the entire BT universe. So you’d sign up, join a faction, be assigned to a unit, train with your peers, and eventually go off to fight (though I don’t think either ever reached that point).

World level scenario based spinoffs started to appear. Planet level battles between multiple factions. Same deal as above except you would leave base with your unit to a shared hex map and could encounter other opponents.

All in all a much truer experience to TT than the MW games, but less so than Megamek
by joenot443 | 2025-07-08 12:06:40+00:00
In "Smartphone use undermines enjoyment of face-to-face social interactions" by Dwyer et al, we see pretty conclusively that people report that the presence of smartphones reduce their enjoyment of conversing in person. If any readers have ever spent an extended time with loved ones "off grid" I'm sure they can relate.

I'm a techno optimist through and through. I've spent my life and career close to technology, but in the same breath I think we'd be foolish to pretend humanity's relationship is without drawbacks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...
by kgwxd | 2025-07-08 12:07:09+00:00
They're definitely not doing anywhere near what they should be. If a democrat was in there, doing even 1/1000th of what's going on now, they'd be all over it. Because they wouldn't be afraid for their bottom line, or ever their personal safety. Because democrats aren't anywhere near perfect, but they're light years away from being fascist dictators, that threaten every form of criticism with government force, and the base would never act like domestic terrorist.
by Gracana | 2025-07-08 12:07:14+00:00
I was on the Microchip bandwagon until the PIC32. Little MIPS MCUs with onboard RAM and graphics, awesome! ...except they came with an errata that listed huge problems with every interesting peripheral, and it didn't improve for ages. They may still suck, I don't know.

A while back I tried out Espressif's esp32 and I was impressed by what they were offering. Their devices seem to be well documented and the esp-idf framework is really pleasant to use. It's much easier to work with than STM32Cube and ST's sprawling documentation.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-08 12:07:14+00:00
Yes this exists, but again introduces a new thing into PHP, rather than using an existing thing. Instead of using existing function syntax and leaving away the name, now one has 2 more things: The "fn" (why can this not be "function" which already exists?) and in combination with "=>". So it is similar to "function ... use ..." which also has the need to introduce a new thing, the "use", instead of simply capturing its environment.

The point is, that the designers of PHP decide again and again to add another wart, rather than designing the language in an extensible way. Here a little extra, there a little extra, here a new keyword, there a new thingy. Compare that with other languages. Even JavaScript has managed to have simply the same syntax for functions and anonymous functions. Although it did also introduce an arrow syntax. However it's arrow syntax is not really needed, even though shorter, in contrast to PHP, where you need it, unless you want to list all the parts of the environment you need in the anonymous function. At least in JS they didn't introduce a new extra thing like "fn".

I don't think the design of PHP is done with good oversight. It is done with the approach of tacking things onto what exists, in the easiest way they are able to do, without any goal of keeping the language concepts and keywords minimal. Designing something like "fn" or "use" is a hack to make implementation easier, because they are previously unused keywords, that will then make it easier to adapt the parser for the language, but these decisions are offloading mental load to the user, which ultimately is a bad design.
by jkhdigital | 2025-07-08 12:07:50+00:00
Can you give a specific example? The term “anamorphic encryption” was used in a paper from EUROCRYPT 2022 and I don’t see any prior formal study of the subject. A follow-up paper from PoPETS 2023 establishes that most of the widely-used cryptosystems introduced over the past few decades are indeed capable of anamorphism but nobody used the term “anamorphic encryption” until the last few years.

To say that they have been used for “hundreds” of years seems like a sweeping generalization in need of better context.
by infecto | 2025-07-08 12:08:04+00:00
That is what I was leaning towards. Subsidies can be helpful to accelerate things but you have to be making the right bet. Ultimately it’s up to economics to make it a reality. Renewables are economically viable at this point in a lot of markets. The human race cannot make rational decisions at scale unless there is an immediate threat. The market so far in history has done the best job at pushing change. It’s far from perfect but I believe to be the best we have.
by griffzhowl | 2025-07-08 12:08:31+00:00
There's also evidence that even the exclusive worship of YHWH is something that's written in to the history at a later date, e.g. the Elephantine papyri predate any known manuscript of the Hebrew bible, and seem to show a polytheistic community of Jews in Egypt in the fifth century BC. This community was in contact with the Jerusalem temple, and there's no suggestion in their correspondence that what they were doing was unorthodox at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_papyri_and_ostraca
by n4r9 | 2025-07-08 12:08:34+00:00
Likewise. For some reason the article ignores the raft of antibacterial compounds found in honey:

> Various components contribute to the antibacterial efficacy of honey: the sugar content; polyphenol compounds; hydrogen peroxide; 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds; and bee defensin-1. All of these elements are present at different concentrations depending on the source of nectar, bee type, and storage. These components work synergistically, allowing honey to be potent against a variety of microorganisms including multidrug resistant bacteria and modulate their resistance to antimicrobial agents.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8071826/
by watwut | 2025-07-08 12:08:59+00:00
It was avoidable and in fact, whole countries manage to avoid it. It took series of bad intentional decisions for this to happen the way it did.

And fun fact is that people who made those bad decisions first falsely blamed others, congratulated themselves on being awesome. And now that they want money from FEMA, they still want to destroy it. And they still want to cut weather prediction which they blamed despite being correct.
by Gormo | 2025-07-08 12:10:07+00:00
> MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

In fact, Linux generally offers many more affordances for adjusting the appearance of the UI, especially in comparison to Windows and Mac. If you don't like way your system looks, you can change your UI theme settings, where corresponding options on the proprietary OSes are much more limited.
by imtringued | 2025-07-08 12:10:54+00:00
If you have an embedded system with a screen, say a 3d printer, it's probably nicer to write the UI in JavaScript than C.

However, now that I look at the syntax, Berry Script doesn't really look like a well designed language to me. It's like a weird mix of Lua, Python and Javascript. It's a very backwards looking (as in, it is emulating the past rather than innovating) language, where a lot of the differences only exist for the sake of being different and the more I read through the docs the more I think it looks like a bastardized Python and that I'd rather use MicroPython instead.