MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hollywood_court | 2025-07-17 12:28:53+00:00
We are at the mercy of one crew. Over 150+ jobs in my company are all at the mercy of that one framing crew that has ~30 people. If we lose them, we'd have to scramble like crazy to find a replacement.

I have guys in Brownsville, TX that I could fly in and put up in hotels to get us through a tough spot, but that would cost a lot of money. And I'd love to encourage them to all move up here to Alabama with their families, but the current political climate has them afraid to do so.

Edit: I'm not saying I wish I could fire anyone I want at any time. I'm saying that it stinks that I literally have no other options for the other trades. So I'm forced to stick with the subpar options.
by infecto | 2025-07-17 12:30:11+00:00
Not sure if it was on purpose but your take is the glib one.

“The show was created partially in response to the results of a National Geographic survey indicating little knowledge of geography among some of the American populace, with one in four being unable to locate the Soviet Union or the Pacific Ocean.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_in_the_World_Is_Carmen...

Now of course the tv show is an offspring from the video game but it’s well documented that the specific format was to combat geography. So it’s a fine statement to state that is the purpose of the show creators as that was the mission from PBS at the time.
by mock-possum | 2025-07-17 12:30:43+00:00
This is the case for me precisely - I’ve been dismayed at the “phablet” sizing trend, and leapt at the opportunity to keep my iPhone reasonably-sized - I’m on my second SE now and I’m kind of dreading what will happen when I need to eventually replace it.

I just want something small that will fit comfortably in my pocket, and I can use with one hand.
by paulcole | 2025-07-17 12:30:47+00:00
> AI uses 10x the energy (and thus 10x carbon emissions) as search

This says more that search takes almost no energy than it does about the huge environmental toll of AI.

In this day and age when “but the environment!” Is one of your key arguments, you’ve already lost. The environment is cooked and nobody cares. People (in the societal sense) say they care but every action they take says the opposite.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-17 12:31:27+00:00
Unlike C++ all Rust's methods already can be used this way

'5'.is_digit(10) // Is literally the same as char::is_digit('5', 10) // this

Basically all a "method" is in Rust is an associated function where the first parameter has the magic keyword self instead of needing a real name and type.

Rust even has guidelines recommending you consider e.g. &self rather than having an associated function whose first argument has type &Self, but noting that you should not do this if your type has "smart pointer" behaviour where users expect to call methods on the inner value instead. For example Box and Arc provide associated functions but not methods.
by camilomatajira | 2025-07-17 12:31:48+00:00
I read Just's readme the other day. Basically they say Just is better than Make because in Just all targets are phony by default (something you can make easily in Make). And because they provide a flag to list the targets (which you can make easily in Make). And because Make is to too complex to differentiate between = and := (which as an user almost always gives you the same result, even if you don't understand the difference). These are basically the reasons, which are not convincing for me.

Anyway, 26K people find
by mystraline | 2025-07-17 12:34:41+00:00
Just a heads up, that I mostly quit using Matrix except for a few topic-specific and heavily moderated servers.

Why? The main chat server matrix.org has a child porn/CSAM 'problem'. Due to lack of moderation in many of those rooms, along with protocol problems, these sorts of CSAM spammers can do an hours long image campaign of stuff that's illegal to even have. Theres nothing quite like waking up to a post every 10 seconds of felonies in a cybersecurity or Linux chat, and the summary clean and get the hell out of those rooms.

Banning also doesn't work, due to distributed nature of rooms. You can be banned from matrix.org room but connect through a different server, and they can still spam users.

If you do want to be on Matrix, I would recommend a few changes.

1. Don't stay on matrix.org chatrooms. They are the worst hit and slow to resolve

2. Disable image preloading and downloading.

3. If you have private servers and rooms for friends, its the best.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-17 12:35:07+00:00
The "full solution" to this, of course, is micropayments. A bot which has to pay a tenth of a cent to you every time it visits one of your pages or something else the page 404s will quickly rack up a $10 bill crawling a whole 10,000 page site. If it tries to do that every day, or every hour, that's an excellent payday for you and a very compelling reason for almost all bots to blacklist your domain name.

A human being who stops by to spend 20 minutes reading your blog once won't even notice they've spent 1.2 cents leafing through. This technology has existed for a while, and yet very few people have found it a good idea to wrap around. There is probably a good reason for that.

The realistic solution is to probably just do some statistics and figure out who's getting on your nerves, and then ban them from your digital abode. Annoying, but people go a lot farther to protect their actual homes if they happen to live in high crime areas.
by Travis31 | 2025-07-17 12:35:23+00:00
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by nerdjon | 2025-07-17 12:35:28+00:00
Were they though?

At least when you are forced to be in school you are in an environment to likely absorb... something. We regularly kept up with current events in school.

I know many adults that have basically zero idea what is going on in the world.

Also I should note that I did not claim anything about intelligence, but just an awareness of what is going on and the impact of it.

I would possibly even argue that a 16 year old being in school likely has a fresher recollection of history than many adults. I mean how many adults remember all of the math they learned compared to 16 year olds.
by watwut | 2025-07-17 12:36:15+00:00
One of the issues with autism is lower ability to recognize and communicate own emotions and needs. Other people do not get direct straightforward information, they get less information, because autistic himself/herself have no idea. One of very typical results is very emotional autistic person who will insist they are totally rational and non emotional in the moment. It can also cause autistic to have lower emotional control, because emotions are harder to control when you do not understand them.

Autistic are not collaborative - they frequently end up locked in own heads completely ignoring what other people openly directly say.
by gooseus | 2025-07-17 12:36:18+00:00
Everyone knows it's mostly bullshit, but that _someone_ is going to end up coming out as the Amazon-level winner.

Every single one of these "fake it till you make it" AI CEO/Founders are betting they are the Amazon.com and not the Pets.com... but if they are the Pets.com then what is the downside?

The CEO of pets.com certainly didn't end up out on the streets for being the biggest disaster of one of the largest bubbles and effectively burning billions of investor dollars (including institutions investing pensions and retirements funds).
by klausa | 2025-07-17 12:36:32+00:00
Weirdly, this is something that Apple actually gets right - the little „previews” you get when sharing links in iMessage get generated client-side; _by the sender_.

There are good reasons why you’d not want to rely on clients providing this information when posting to LinkedIn (scams, phishing, etc); but it’s interesting to see an entirely different approach to the problem used here.
by anthk | 2025-07-17 12:36:42+00:00
I saw that referenced from an OCC challenger:

https://occ.deadnet.se

Here you would try to reuse your old computer (usually 15-20 years old) for common tasks done in 2025. The web it's a no-no minus a few services but you would surprised. Hint: yt-dlp+mpv set to 480p and below, Retrozilla+ a TLS hack in about:config, fake User Agents (PSP, Opera Mini...), https://legacyupdate.net with a Gemini client and gemini://gemi.dev with the News Waffle proxy, RSS news delivered from Usenet with GMANE... there are tons of hacks.

Patching the old clients it's often usually easy, even more in case of AMSN (TCL). It's a matter of changing the URL of the service and maybe some slight API change.

Escargot covers the MSN services, which is similar to NINA:

https://escargot.chat/
by raxxorraxor | 2025-07-17 12:36:58+00:00
Depends on how you look at it. It is different. HN or sites like reddit are focused on topics while other networks like insta are way more focused on people and their relationships. The incentives are different.

Don't take it personally, but I won't remember your username after writing this comment. I think an addiction can be just as bad, but different type of platforms probably fill different wants and needs.

Although HN has its share of prominence as well.
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-07-17 12:37:02+00:00
> Ultimately I hope AI will force us to decide on an updated paradigm of who owns ideas and it won't be a case of me receiving a cease and desist letter if I type a ChatGPT prompt that includes Mickey Mouse or "Miyazaki".

The principle of copyright is fine for artists. AI and ChatGPT aren't fundamentally changing the underlying logic: artists should have their intellectual property protected and be able to receive compensation for their work free from getting ripped off. The problem is stretching copyright to absurd timelines when the underlying logic also recognizes that novel ideas emerge out of the public commons and ultimately return to them after a certain amount of time. 7 or 8 years is reasonable. 10 tops. Decades or even hundreds of years is absurd.
by sunshine-o | 2025-07-17 12:37:27+00:00
> Ultimately it died because it was unacceptably bad for a modern phone OS.

We have to remember nothing was "modern" at that time (around 2008)

My phone had a single 369 MHz CPU with 128 MB of RAM. That's about my ESP32 based smart plug.

People were running Windows XP. Linux and open source were still kind of fringe.

The fact I could run Skype perfectly on it and develop app easily using Java was amazing at the time.

Talking about unacceptable, remember the first generations of HTC Android phones? that was really bad.
by retsibsi | 2025-07-17 12:38:09+00:00
Yeah I was just about to ask the same thing! I'm a bit of a luddite, maybe, in that I tend to prefer what I'm already used to -- but I can generally see the other side of the argument. When it comes to git, though, I genuinely don't get what is being proposed as the alternative, let alone why it would be an improvement.

edit: I've see the author's reply, and I guess the original piece was mainly a call to develop better ways of doing things, rather than a claim that they already exist and we should hurry up and start using them. I'd still be interested in more detail on what is fixably wrong with git, though (as opposed to the annoyances that are corollaries of necessary features)
by azangru | 2025-07-17 12:38:52+00:00
> But what about being closer to the top of the Google search results - you might ask? One, search engines crawling websites directly is only one variable in getting a higher search engine ranking. References from other websites will also factor into that.

As far as I remember from google search console, a disallow directive in robots.txt causes google not only to avoid crawling the page, but also to eventually remove the page from its index. It certainly shouldn't add any more pages to its index, external references or not.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-17 12:39:04+00:00
Foil doesn’t work. While there is a propagation layer, once entangled minds may be “networked” and traversed by those so skilled and those curated by the experienced (“Stargate” remote viewing, telepathy tapes, countless other dismissible anecdotes, all curated by unperceived masters.)

You are the side living a backward lie (so many.)

Our minds may be entangled, in past times it must have been a scary freak occurrence, today it is governed by secret cults of Power (such as “American Thought Control.”)

Catch the article claiming Israel used “occult spiritual” weapons (psiop, sure.) or those times mothers have killed their kids because the “voice of god” in her mind told her to do so?

Or public shootings?

How many times can the same patterns of psychosis be hand waved once you have been “made” to hear it?

We are not alone in our own minds and a culture of screwballs with the Power as of “God” in our minds drive us crazed from within.

That “something” is thought control, it has always been with us, and it is tipping into critical sociological catastrophe. Americans, you are “out of controls” and the voices in your head are determined upon your self harm.
by roenxi | 2025-07-17 12:39:09+00:00
> ...because it's rational to not waste much time on voting...

But that wouldn't be rational. The rational approach is to vote when you are in (or plausibly in, or plausibly going to eventually be in) the majority coalition. The hyper-rational equilibrium is politicians do exactly what a majority coalition of voters want and no-one bothers to vote, but once the politicians start becoming flawed or preferences change over time the equilibrium shifts quite rapidly to a rational voter base forming large coalitions that turn up to vote.

It isn't rational to vote if for people who aren't affiliated with a coalition to some degree (and never will be) but people like that are basically a political non-factor anyway and are probably legitimately wasting their time when they vote because there is no policy formula available that they want to support, by definition.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-17 12:39:28+00:00
> And git! Don't get me started on git! The best minds of a generation stuck in a paradigm of downloading files to their local machine, making changes, then emailing git pushing them up to be approved? Madness!

I'm far from a seasoned user of git(hub), but the way I use it is to do a whole lot of local futzing around with a bunch of intermediate files and then only git push the final sanitised, public consumption-ready versions which aren't actually possible without the unsanitised intermediate files that I choose to keep private and local.

Yeah, maybe there are access controls possible to setup for all that to make the whole enchilada "in the cloud", but why bother when you can just push the wheat and ignore the chaff? If it's all in the cloud there's more chance of accidentally exposing it to the world (which even happens with the above-described scenario).
by awongh | 2025-07-17 12:39:37+00:00
To be clear, scraping the entire internet so that ChatGPT knows what Mickey Mouse is may not be a fair use of copyright. Or to be more specific, being able to generate images of Mickey Mouse may not be legal- that is the ingestion of those images that give the model the ability to generate images of copyrighted material. I guess the courts will decide that soon-ish?
Show HN: Add a Pixel, the internet's pixel graffiti wall
by pg_bot | 2025-07-17 12:40:10+00:00
Here are the keyboard controls:

Arrow Keys: Pan the camera left, right, up, or down.

WASD: Move the reticle (once a pixel is selected) up, down, left, or right.

Enter/Spacebar: Add your pixel to the canvas.

-/+: Zoom the canvas in or out.
by baazaa | 2025-07-17 12:40:21+00:00
Because security locked-down anything more tech-savvy. Tbh I think the only 'allowed' way of sending data out where I work is to build an API and surface it from a data exchange platform so locked down the incompetent security team barely knows how to get data into it or out of it.

If you look at the venn diagram of 'things people want to send' and 'things people are willing to spend years of approvals and networking headaches to send' you quicky realise why emailed (or sometimes even on a USB) CSVs are the lingua franca of government data.
by anthk | 2025-07-17 12:40:35+00:00
They render better on Smartphones. Lagrange and such do a good job but is not perfect.

Oddly, the best client for Android (albeit clunky) has been Emacs+Elpher as it has the perfect options for word wrapping.

Altough as most Gopher sites are hosted under Unix, running fmt/fold/par on files is a non-issue modulo ASCII ART and inline code with hard requeriments on indentation (TCL for instance on code blocks) or Python.
by FinnKuhn | 2025-07-17 12:40:38+00:00
The author is not against files, but against sharing files.

You can't control what the person does with it or who they share it with. For all I know they are just uploading it straight to ChatGPT. Therefore sharing files is loosing ownership.

On the other hand just because something is in a cloud doesn't mean it isn't yours. It can also be in your own self-hosted cloud.
by saghm | 2025-07-17 12:40:45+00:00
>Keeping this in mind, the attack on the Xbox is pretty straightforward: If we connect the CPU's A20# pin to GND, the Xbox will not start from FFFFFFF0, but from FFEFFFF0 - this is not covered by the secret ROM, but is ordinary flash memory, because flash is mirrored over the upper 16 MB. So by only connecting a single pin, the secret ROM is completely bypassed

This is interesting to me because it sounds remarkably similar to my admittedly very naive understanding of how jailbreaking the Nintendo Switch (original console, not sure about the recent Switch 2) works, just inverted; there's a single pin under where the right joycon slots in that seems to be responsible for ensuring that the OS (or firmware? my understanding of what step this is in the boot process is pretty fuzzy) is properly loaded, so shorting it is enough to allow injection of pretty much whatever you want to boot instead. The entirety of what you need to do from a hardware perspective even as a complete novice is access to a desktop/laptop, the USB-C cable that comes with the console, and a plastic nub people 3D print and sell on Amazon for like $8 to slide into the joycon slot, and you're done.

All this makes me wonder how hard it should actually be for console makers to catch these sorts of things ahead of time. Shouldn't be be fairly straightforward to just look at every single pin and consider what happens if it's turned on or off? Assuming the others are in the default state would be sufficient to have noticed both the issue with the Xbox and the one I describe in the Switch, so it's not like there's some insanely high number of combinations you need to consider to at least make it twice as hard to hack. It's understandable that in 2005 maybe this wasn't something that Microsoft would have thought of in their first time making a console, but the Switch came out over a decade after that, and Nintendo has been pretty vigorously going after "piracy" since before then, so it's hard to imagine that this was due to indifference.
AIHint an open standard for signed verifiable metadata readable by AI on the web
by aihint | 2025-07-17 12:41:00+00:00
# Show HN: AIHint — an open standard for signed, verifiable metadata readable by AI on the web

AI, bots, and intelligent agents crawl the web at lightning speed. Yet, they often can’t know if a page is trustworthy, what it exactly contains, or if they have the rights to use it.

AIHint is an open standard allowing website creators to add a signed JSON file that clearly describes the content, provenance, license, and validity of a webpage.

This standard aims to: - Boost AI trust in web sources - Improve transparency for everyone (humans and machines) - Help AI respect copyright and usage policies

Fully open source with full docs: https://standard.aihint.org Official AIHint issuance platform: https://aihint.org GitHub repo: https://github.com/aihint/standard

We’re looking for feedback, testers, and contributors passionate about a more ethical and AI-readable web.

Thanks for trying it out, commenting, and sharing!

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# Discussions, questions, and feedback warmly welcome.
by selcuka | 2025-07-17 12:41:08+00:00
I am either reading the wrong ToS, or not getting it [1]:

Permission to use your content [...] This license is for the limited purpose of: [...] - developing new technologies and services for Google consistent with these terms

The last item sounds like Google can use my content to train an LLM, no?

[1] https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US#toc-content
by roflcopter69 | 2025-07-17 12:41:32+00:00
I have no problem with the amount of money that is dumped into AI, but I'm annoyed by the false promises. People telling me that Claude Code has no problem implementing clearly defined little feature requests but when I let it tackle this one here https://github.com/JaneySprings/DotRush/issues/89 (add inlay hints for a C# VSCode extension) it kept on failing and never made it work. Even with me guiding it as good as I can. And I tried for a good 4 hours. So yeah, there's still way to go for AI. Right now, it's not as good as the amount of money dumped in would make you believe, but I'm willing to believe that this can change.