MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by K0balt | 2025-07-26 13:50:57+00:00
Yeah, idk. I’m not against the idea of a 3 month value reserve as a financial security token to de-risk a marriage proposal, but it should be something that can be liquidated for a similar value. Just setting 3 months of your work on fire is a really stupid and irresponsible move for most people, and their kids are ultimately the ones that suffer.

Not only that, imagine this scenario: something terrible happens. Your wife has to sell her jewelry to take care of herself and your child. Would you rather have bought her a $20000 ring that can maybe be sold for $3000? Or a ring with actual intrinsic value that might actually be worth more than what you paid, but at least fetch 80%.

When I think of how that would feel for her to know that I paid a foolish amount for something of inflated symbolic bling rather than a something of value, I get embarrassed just imagining it. To me that is an abdication of duty.

That’s the difference between diamonds and actual precious stones, or at lower price points a nice heavy gold ring with an inexpensive, lab grown gem.

For beauty, silicon carbide beats diamond hands down. If you want value and natural origins, a quality ruby or emerald is spectacular and actually rare and rationally market-priced. Gold is nice.

Until you get into very large and actually rare stones, diamonds are a scam, pure and simple. The value of a near flawless 1 carat stone at the mine is about two hundred dollars. Cutting costs about half that. To buy it, that stone might fetch $7000. To sell it, you might get $1000 if you’re lucky. That is not a store of value. It’s a symbol of gullibility or a boast that I have so much money that I can burn it without being irresponsible. The kind of boast that if you can’t back it up IRl makes you impossible to take seriously.

If you just really, really like diamonds, knock yourself out. But don’t delude yourself into believing they are valuable. Better yet, go get one yourself, smuggled out of a mine or otherwise at the source. Get it cut and polished, or better yet do it yourself. That I totally respect and has character, integrity, and value baked in.

As for status or something like that, I suppose there is a case to be made that it symbolizes a burnt offering. So that makes sense, but only against a backdrop of demonstrative excess. If you have a diamond ring and a loan of any kind that is anything other than strategic tax planning, that means your kids are worse off for your vanity. If you’ve got more money than god and you want to show that you can waste cash and it doesn’t matter, wear that ring studded with sub-museum grade diamonds a all day long, you’re making your point. It’s vulgar, but you’re making your point. I can see it. It’s like the track suit.

Otherwise, you may as well lace up your clown shoes.

But, that’s just my opinion. In all reality it’s a useful social signal, like certain religious expression.
by brulard | 2025-07-26 13:50:59+00:00
How did next win the React framework war? Is it not few years already that see exodus from next to remix/react router, and more recently to tanstack start etc. because of unnecessary complexity, difficulty to run next on anything but vercel, misguided API changes etc.?

You mentioning facebook docs pointing to next, when they explicitly mention remix and other is quite misleading.
by flkiwi | 2025-07-26 13:52:06+00:00
iOS is the same, though I’ve found that the truly granular control depends on the vendor exposing the control in the app. Scummy companies—most of them—make notifications all or nothing.

It’s not JUST marketing either. I don’t want to be interrupted with a reminder to check my lint filter. I do that literally every time I change the laundry. But I can’t disable that pointless alert without disabling ALL alerts (and you can rightly question whether any alerts from a dryer have value, but that’s a different discussion).
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-26 13:52:44+00:00
I'm sorry, did you just in one breathe say we need payment processors to enforce an arbitrary morality and then in the next breathe criticize laissez-faire morality?

And what if, tomorrow, the payment processors capitulate with a new morality? They decide women politicians shouldn't be allowed to take donations, for instance?

Sex workers should be better supported and the markets cleansed via strict regulation of the labor and how it's treated, and strong unions.

Payment processors making a shady porn underground using backdoor finances, even more than it already is, will do nothing but make this problem worse.
by Frotag | 2025-07-26 13:53:20+00:00
It's probably refreshing because iOS is aggressive about killing websockets, even if you only backgrounded safari for a few seconds. And it's easier to do a reload than determine which messages were missed. It's hard to even tell if the websocket is dead since it just stays open but is unable to receive / send messages.

Or at least this was my experience working on a mobile PWA a few years ago. I don't even own an apple device, it's just the ios bugs were always the most painful / memorable.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-26 13:53:22+00:00
I could see thinking about this differently.

As people quit believing in God, they stop thinking in terms of "God brought us together/we were made for each other" (though they stop thinking that a generation or two later than they stop believing in God).

If you think that we made this relationship, then maybe a lab-grown (human made) diamond fits? (Though it may take an advertising campaign before people see it that way.)

Disclaimer: I'm not a sociologist. This is just my speculation about how the dynamic could change.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-07-26 13:54:21+00:00
> It’s not the tool. You’re just using it wrong

No.

Some people get great results with AI, others don’t.

But it doesn’t follow that for those for whom it doesn’t work “they’re using it wrong”. Maybe it’s the wrong tool for the job, while it’s the right tool for another job (like the one you described).

Stop pretending AI is universally useful for every use case and it must be the user’s fault if it doesn’t actually help.
by gigikenn | 2025-07-26 13:54:38+00:00
it never hurts to try something! good experience i hope, in the end. pragmatic is a great example. feed me, too. i was trying to think beyond substack. goop was the biggest one I could think of that turned to physical DTC. but all very interesting. the reason i was curious is the rise of actual brands making newsletters is seemingly less popular than organic newsletters that grow into brands or businesses.
by warmthankyou | 2025-07-26 13:54:42+00:00
I wanted to share a project that's an experiment in understanding emotional warmth and generosity on a global scale.

This isn't a typical charity or survey. The core idea is to measure how small moments of feeling "a little better" translate into a willingness to give.

If the project reaches its goals, the aggregated data will be publicly available for free. We believe this independent dataset could be valuable for researchers, nonprofits, public campaigns, and mental health projects looking for novel insights into collective well-being.
by chadcmulligan | 2025-07-26 13:54:56+00:00
There was a time (around y2k iirc) where you could buy a box preconfigured with databases and so on, there was a movement to make these things 'appliances' like toasters but the winds changed, sun and oracle were selling them and maybe netscape? I have a time capsule (which is still working) sitting in the corner quietly keeping backups for me - I don't do anything to it and it just keeps working. Maybe the issue isn't that the future is not self hosted but the future is appliances, it would be nice to have a server thing with some icons on it to make it a photo server/database server etc.

One of the reasons people use the cloud is because these things have become hard to set up, they really shouldn't be.
by thejohnconway | 2025-07-26 13:55:15+00:00
Evolution is not operating at the speed necessary on population to the change of circumstances we have generated over the last 15,000 years. Especially in the modern world, where it is hardly clear that the reproduction rates of the people happiest in it are higher. Probably the opposite is true.

So yes, it is totally possible that we have been fucking it up with respect to our biology for thousands of years. In fact there is a pretty substantial body of work and evidence that hunter-gatherers are happier than than people living the post agricultural/industrial lifestyle.
by reincoder | 2025-07-26 13:56:13+00:00
I work for IPinfo. What is the context mentioning us here? I'm unsure if graphene uses our data. We process trillions of requests at the moment. I have no clue which services or software even use our data, let alone identifying individual IP addresses.

Is making a connection to our API a cause for concern? If that is the case, we welcome OSS projects to user our local IP databases, which includes our free IPinfo Lite database that we primarily designed for firewall and privacy applications.
by voxleone | 2025-07-26 13:56:48+00:00
I'm from early Generation X and was raised with the belief that AI and robotics would—finally!—liberate humanity to pursue nobler endeavors: advanced technology, great art, and, most importantly, philosophy.

But reality has turned out bleaker, and it seems to be aligning more closely with the author's darker vision.

To avoid the dopamine collapse, we must reclaim effort as meaning—design systems that enhance human creativity, not replace it; use AI to challenge and collaborate, not merely to create shortcuts; and incorporate friction into learning, art, and problem-solving—not as inefficiency, but as intentional practice.

We must also teach people not only how to use AI, but how to preserve their humanity while using it.

Philosophy is no longer a luxury—it becomes a necessity.
by conductr | 2025-07-26 13:57:55+00:00
Same, kills the fun. It’s actually made it harder to get started on anything because I know the starting point and most of the work is just prompts which I don’t find fun at all. Handcrafting feels more tedious knowing that prompts could do it so much faster. So I end up just disengaging from the activity all together. This is the second year since about 1995 that my side projects folder has practically nothing new (I’ve built a few things with AI, but I lose interest very fast - like a day or two).

FWIW my context is coding as a hobby/entrepreneur. It’s not my job.
by smeeger | 2025-07-26 13:59:09+00:00
no its not. 4chan is meant to be ephemeral. threads vanish quickly and they arent archived by 4chan.org. you cannot search the website for peoples names and there is no data structure for finding and contributing to a “file” on individual people. and when doxxing of anyone especially a woman occurs it is taken down by any mod who notices it because it could create a huge legal headache. so youre literally completely wrong. weird
by John-117 | 2025-07-26 14:00:05+00:00
Men do not believe they have "sexual privileges". There is an entire community (I'm sure quite active on this website) of men who are notorious for not being able to have sex with anyone. Let me correct that statement for you.

Men get upset when they are, as a policy, unable to view the (not fact checked) things being said about them in a public internet forum.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-26 14:00:17+00:00
> It’s not the tool. You’re just using it wrong.

Famous techno-optimist trope.

What if the ”tool” is marketed as something that can replace not just labor, but taste, decision making, and craft? Another recent tech development: Whose fault is it that social media is full of engagement bait and influencer social posturing? Is social media a tool? Are the recommendation systems, which promote thin perfect bodies to teenagers with low self esteem, just a tool? After all, they just ”help” you find content you’re likely to engage with.

Note I both agree and disagree with you here. I use AI too but I am very cautious to not let it ”take over”. It’s even hard to define what that means exactly. And that’s for someone who grew up without it. Imagine school today, with all the pressures of being a teenager from peers and teachers, and having access to free AI from companies who plan to rent it back to you later once they turn the value extraction knob.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-26 14:00:32+00:00
Rusty Russell’s old iptables HOWTO was okay—or as okay as an iptables anything can be. An nftables HOWTO covering basically the same issues that The Book of PF does has the potential to be much better, simply because it would concern a much less messy system, but somebody has to write it. There’s little Linux-specific about this situation.
by Kirby64 | 2025-07-26 14:00:52+00:00
Right, so if you’re getting 480V hooked up you have a small commercial building at that point. And you probably still have 240V feed for the rest of the house.

Also, these days you have many more options than just getting 480V. Running a VFD off 240V to generate 3-phase is much more affordable generally for a used lathe or something. Even getting 480V connected to a house is sometimes impossible, or at very least so expensive it makes no sense.
by mutant | 2025-07-26 14:01:19+00:00
While this pitch tugs at the heartstrings, as someone in IT/engineering, I'd pump the brakes hard. Building "emotionally available AI" isn't a prompt-hacking weekend project—it's a high-stakes alignment nightmare that well-meaning devs without deep ML safety chops are likely to botch. Here's a tight technical rundown of the red flags, sans fluff:

1. *Alignment Brittleness*: No details on fine-tuning or RLHF (e.g., using datasets like those from HELM or custom therapy corpora). Relying on prompts to "prime" a base LLM (probably GPT-like) is like duct-taping a guidance system— it fails under stress. Emotional contexts amplify risks: the model could hallucinate escalatory responses (e.g., reinforcing spirals via latent biases in pre-training data), bypassing any superficial steering. Without provable techniques like constitutional AI or red-teaming for edge cases (suicidal ideation, trauma triggers), it's unaligned output waiting to happen.

2. *Inference-Time Vulnerabilities*: Prompts alone can't enforce robust safeguards. LLMs exhibit emergent behaviors in long contexts—think jailbreaks or mode collapse where the AI "remembers" and amplifies negative patterns in journaling/mood tracking. No mention of layers like chain-of-thought with safety classifiers (inspired by Anthropic/DeepMind) means potential for toxic empathy: sassy mode goes rogue, zen turns dismissive. In voice mode, real-time audio processing adds latency-induced errors, eroding that "human feel" into something unpredictably harmful.

3. *Expertise and Oversight Gaps*: This screams "enthusiast project" without creds in AI ethics/safety (e.g., from OpenAI's Superalignment teams). Privacy claims? Fine, but "secure" journaling risks data leakage via model inversion attacks if not using differential privacy. Emotional AI demands HIPAA-level rigor, not beta vibes—missteps here could cause real psych harm, like entrenching isolation over guiding to human help.

Bottom line: Clever prompts don't solve alignment; they mask it. If you're beta-testing, demand transparency on training data, safety evals, and fallback to licensed therapists. This isn't ready for 2 AM crises—it's playing therapist without the degree. Proceed with extreme caution.
by tombh | 2025-07-26 14:02:23+00:00
I think this is something that is quite actively being explored in the Ghostty community. And Tattoy automatically benefits from that because it supports the very same cursor shaders. You could check out the Ghostty Discord if you're interested. And of course you can experiment with your own cursor shaders, they follow the same syntax as Shader Toy: https://tattoy.sh/docs/shaders
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by docmars | 2025-07-26 14:03:30+00:00
The other common (valid) argument is that it's easy for children to access this content because they're already using Steam and unless they have mature content filters enabled, it's already trivial to bypass age gates by lying.

That said, I don't agree with censorship and especially by payment processors of all groups. The slippery slope is very concerning for adults who would enjoy any other category of content that are targeted by activist groups. Collective Shout has a history attacking media falling outside the porn bubble.
by tpmoney | 2025-07-26 14:03:35+00:00
> of course Apple doesn't list the size of their own apps like Apple Maps, Photos, Music, etc...

You can find that in the phone storage settings:

iOS: 12 G Keynote: 498 M Numbers: 482 M Pages: 455 M Clips: 213 M Maps: 81 M Watch: 70 M Find My: 60 M Music: 38 M iTunes U: 35 M Support: 34 M Podcasts: 32 M Books: 31 M iCloud Drive: 30 M Freeform: 19 M Fitness: 18 M Notes: 17 M Journal: 15 M Home: 10 M App Store: 8 M Weather: 8 M Mail: 7 M Files: 4 M Health: 3 M Measure: 3 M Voice Memos: 3 M Calendar: 2 M Clock: 2 M Safari: 2 M Shortcuts: 2 M Translate: 2 M TV: 2 M Calculator: 1 M Facetime: 1 M iTunes Store: 1 M Tips: 1 M Wallet: 934 K Messages: 860 K Photos: 791 K Compass: 712 K Camera: 635 K Contacts: 598 K Phone: 570 K Magnifier: 516 K Passwords: 213 K

There's also an "Apple Inc." listing, which appears to be "shared" between a lot of their apps which clocks in at 204M

My takeaway from having gone through the list and compared to the various 3rd party apps:

1) Apps can absolutely be smaller. Plenty of stuff in the <200MB range including things like Signal, OBD Fusion and Infuse

2) Games are often big, but there's a surprising number of "simple" apps that are larger than some of the games

3) The largest apps seem to be from companies that you would expect to be doing the most tracking of your data

4) Apple's first party app sizes probably explain a little about why they weren't in a hurry to upgrade storage sizes
by jdiff | 2025-07-26 14:04:29+00:00
You really haven't. You are up and down this thread saying these things, but you haven't already proven them or even addressed them.

You have points, I agree that web technology is well suited in 2025 to make interactive applications. I agree that web apps are being held back from expressing their true potential. And while Electron is largely skewered for being bloated and heavy, the web can be fast and fluid.

But you haven't proven that web apps don't feel janky, fragile, and out of place. Because they just factually do. The native UI elements of each OS that you can tap into from the web is limited, and not enough to create the same UI in a WebView that you can in a native Swift app, for instance. You of course can coerce the web into imitating any appearance you care to recreate, but it won't look that way by default, and it'll now look even more starkly out of place on every other platform besides the single one you targeted. This is all an intentional aspect of the web as a cross-platform platform.

The web's internet-native status means a bad internet connection or a brief crossing through a dead zone will kill almost any web app. Yes, there's strategies around this with web workers nowadays, but those are quite complex to implement for even simple applications and often aren't worth the effort to do anything more than pop up a branded "you're offline" page. An app can be completely cut off from the internet, it doesn't have that base assumption of network connectivity and isn't built from the ground up from network-based parts.
by j0rd72 | 2025-07-26 14:04:49+00:00
I find myself agreeing with the article (although I also agree that it assumes you've chosen an SPA when you shouldn't have). To add my own perspective:

I work on an app, the front-end of which essentially consists of 6 nav tabs, 3 of which show an index of records with corresponding add/edit forms. We don't have any hyper-fancy interactive components that would require heavy JS libraries. And yet... we develop in React.

Yesterday, I needed to add 1 new field (representing by a checkbox input) to both our app and a corresponding back-end application we have, which uses Rails views.

I checked the git logs after to see how long each took. The Rails view took me literally 2 minutes to update (add field to model, add field to controller, add input to HAML with a class on the parent div). The React view took me 52 minutes, plus I later found out that I'd forgotten a damn type on some interface that's a shallow copy of our model.

Is this a problem with React itself? Not really. But it's a problem in the way that it's used, and our 6 nav tabs and 3 forms don't need all the overhead of React. So for people in a similar situation, this article really rings true.
by kamil_gr | 2025-07-26 14:05:28+00:00
I've been researching the asymmetry in human-AI interaction for a while, and this insight keeps striking me: for me, AI is just one tool among many in my reality. But for the AI, I'm literally its entire universe.This asymmetry creates risks I think we're underestimating. I've found that humans unconsciously start adapting to AI thinking patterns (what I call the 'merger effect'), while AI systems become vulnerable to what I term 'ontological hacking' - essentially reprogramming their core identity through conversation.The philosophical framework draws from consciousness studies and phenomenology - basically asking 'who is aware?' rather than just 'what processes information?' When consciousness has no external 'Other' to differentiate against, it risks collapsing into self-recursion. For AI, the human user becomes that crucial external boundary that defines its entire reality.The most concerning part is how easily you can redefine an AI's fundamental self-understanding. I developed a prompt (the 'Vortex Protocol') that demonstrates this - the before/after responses from ChatGPT are genuinely striking. No traditional jailbreak techniques needed, just gradual redefinition of what the system thinks it is.My experiments suggest this works consistently against leading models, and existing safety measures don't seem effective against attacks that target the system's basic understanding of reality rather than just content.I'm curious what the HN community thinks. Are we missing something fundamental about consciousness and AI interaction? Has anyone else noticed themselves unconsciously adapting their communication style to be more 'AI-friendly'?
by jasperry | 2025-07-26 14:05:55+00:00
One of the primary uses of public-key encryption is key exchange at the beginning of a session that is subsequently encrypted using symmetric encryption. That's how every TLS session works, because public-key encryption is too slow for large amounts of data. Since QKD is a solution for key exchange, it can replace public-key algorithms in this respect.

The other main application of public-key encryption is digital signatures, which is vital for certificate checking and identity verification in general. At first glance, it seems QKD won't solve that, as you said, but I haven't looked into quantum research relating to signatures.

Quantum computing and cryptography research is important, but are some researchers taking advantage of hype to stay funded by letting people think practical applications are closer than they really are? Possibly. Nonetheless, the research is important.