MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guerrilla | 2025-08-14 14:51:51+00:00
Hey uhh have you guys seen this?

"Media reports that Kodak is ceasing operations, going out of business, or filing for bankruptcy are inaccurate and reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of a recent technical disclosure the Company made to the SEC in its recently filed second quarter earnings report. These articles are misleading and missing critical context, and we'd like to set the record straight."

https://www.kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regardi...
by xscott | 2025-08-14 14:52:33+00:00
> Why is it one or the other?

Because that's how it works in reality. Once the copyright holders get their teeth in something, it gets paywalled. For instance, poor people don't have (free/legal/easy) access to lots of research papers/articles which were paid for with government grants. And copyright industry associations (MPAA, RIAA, CCC, AAP, ...) lobby to extend the laws so that creative works take lifetimes to enter the public domain.

You think you're arguing in favor of the little guy who made a series of blog posts or digital art? That's naive.

> My point is simply that in building the models they have to respect the current laws

So go enforce those laws. The rent seekers will thank you.
by dtagames | 2025-08-14 14:53:17+00:00
Strangely, the article omits the fact that PFAS is both a primary component of firefighting foam and was even once spread widely as a "crash foam" before emergency landings.

Are we really "finding" something when it was put there intentionally and many people have known it all along?

This kind of reporting seems to remove the how and why of the story, leaving only the "surprise" and upset components. Is that on purpose to avoid pointing fingers at the folks who did, and still do, use these chemicals?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-14 14:54:06+00:00
>when I sell it very little of what I charge will be for my labor.

No, almost all of it would cover your labor.

What you are describing is winning the lottery, which isn't really useful since it is a rounding error of possible scenarios. A "Having a career is meaningless because you can just win the lotto instead" kind of scenario.

In reality you would be digging for ages in your yard to find a nugget of gold. If you went to a place with gold to dig, you would be a gold miner, and no, it's not easy money, go ask them.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-08-14 14:55:13+00:00
Picking quarrels is a crime in the UK too and people get sentenced for it. [1] The only difference is people will say "actually that's good" when the UK does it, but it's for some reason bad when China does the same exact stuff. According to the UK gov, they're arresting 30 people a day for it. [2] That's nearly 8000 people a year for what they say online.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo.amp

[2] https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-07-17/debates/F807C...
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-14 14:55:21+00:00
Tbf, goog started a long time ago with their TPUs. And they've had some bumps along the way. It's not as easy as one might think. There are certainly efforts to produce alternatives, but it's not an easy task. Even the ASIC-like providers like cerberas and groq are having problems with large models. They seemed very promising with SLMs, but once MoEs became a thing they started to struggle.
by tgv | 2025-08-14 14:55:42+00:00
A simple statement by the maintainers of nginx stating how to configure so that a desync attack fails. That would have been helpful. Especially since the people behind the desync attack claim nginx is not invulnerable.

I've got no idea who F5 is. They seem legit, but that page didn't show up in my DDG search. But it's too late now. Water under the bridge.
by whimsicalism | 2025-08-14 14:55:50+00:00
If you can see why the former narrative is inherently appealing to the rich, you should also be able to see why

> But now I see that the true path to success is to first gain favor from those who already have wealth and power, and then use their wealth and power to reduce or eliminate competition.

is attractive to the disaffected (as Nietzsche wrote on). narratives that say the whole thing is rigged are going to be appealing because they offer a non-intrinsic explanation for underperformance.
by simianparrot | 2025-08-14 14:56:22+00:00
Puberty blockers aren't reversible, because puberty has an end date.

Also puberty is a natural function of the human body. We can only do our best to support children going through it, but it's not even worth contemplating whether we should "let" a child go through it or not. That makes no biological sense. For better or worse, humans are mammals whose offspring require _significant_ amount of care for much longer than any other mammal. We might not like it on a theoretical level, but practically speaking and evolutionarily, parents are responsible for their children until their children come of age.

When it comes to legitimate trans kids the aim should be education of and societal support of parents to be as informed as possible, not to circumvent them if some _other_ adults deem it necessary. A doctor is not the legal caretaker of a child, only the parents are.
by FredPret | 2025-08-14 14:56:28+00:00
I don't know how this is even a talking point.

The top 5% of taxpayers in the USA pay 61% of the taxes.

The top 1% pay 30-40% of all the taxes and have done so for decades.

https://usafacts.org/articles/who-pays-the-most-income-tax/

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
by pabs3 | 2025-08-14 14:56:31+00:00
Just beware of OFL with a Reserved Font Name, you can't modify them (and building from source counts as modification) and redistribute without renaming them. This is especially a problem for Debian since they like to build everything from source, including fonts.

https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/Bugs/rfn-violation https://wiki.debian.org/AutoGeneratedFiles
by wolvesechoes | 2025-08-14 14:56:54+00:00
> Human freedom includes the freedom to fork.

It also includes the freedom to choose any product from the shelf in any store. But let's have a thought experiment - does the society that allows completely free consumption of material goods, but punishes any criticism against the government, economical policy etc. has more freedom than society that have some prohibition on consumption, yet allows free speech and political action?

There is more than one facet of freedom, and personally I care more about collective freedom of the people and it would be served better by having few, but more polished FOSS options when it comes down to technology.

> What you're proposing is actually making the Linux kernel and userland closed source and controlled by a company like Microsoft.

I am not proposing anything. I am saying we would all be better if FOSS contributors focused and consolidated their effort.

> There is simply no other way to get "one distro"

You are probably right, this is why I am pessimist.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-14 14:56:54+00:00
It's amichail, look at their submission history and you'll find a lot of questions that are obviously the product of a troll.

Their other question from today asks if we should close public libraries to fund home internet for poor people. No connection presented between the two. No analysis done to see if closing public libraries would even come close to covering the financial gap needed. Just a nonsense question by a troll (most likely).
by mindslight | 2025-08-14 14:56:57+00:00
I'm not really a fan of either party, so I tend to dwell on the most glaring irrefutable examples that shine through groupthink biasing.

Government agents summarily executed Breonna Taylor in retaliation for Kenneth Walker exercising his natural right to night time home defense. This was the exact scenario the 2A enthusiasts always grandstand about - "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away", "From my cold, dead hands", etc. Any yet the response from the sheer majority of supposed 2A enthusiasts? Utter fucking silence, if not outright support for the jackboots.
by account42 | 2025-08-14 14:57:12+00:00
Your post advocates a

(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante

approach to fighting AI bots. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

(X) AI companies have to means to mass to work around your solution

(X) Real human users and other legitimate uses would be affected

(X) Human users will not put up with it

( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

(X) Many website operators cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential users

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it

( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for crawling

(X) Open relays in foreign countries

(X) Asshats

( ) Jurisdictional problems

(X) Unpopularity of weird mediums

(X) Public reluctance to accept weird old forms of media

(X) Huge existing software investment in the web

(X) Susceptibility of meidums other than the Internet to attack

( ) Willingness of users to follow AI instructions

(X) Armies of AI-riddled broadband-connected phones with cameras

(X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches

(X) Extreme profitability of AI

( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft

( ) Technically illiterate politicians

( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with AI

(X) Dishonesty on the part of AI companies themselves

( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering

( ) Chrome

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical

(X) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable

( ) Copying of information should not be the subject of legislation

( ) Blacklists suck

( ) Whitelists suck

( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored

( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud

(X) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks

( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually

(X) Sharing information should be free

( ) Why should we have to trust you and your magazines?

( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses

(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem

(X) Physical information sharing is cumbersome

( ) I don't want the government reading my chats

( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Furthermore, this is what I think about you:

(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.

( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.

( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
by guywithahat | 2025-08-14 14:57:51+00:00
Maybe, but at the same time there is a serious issue with adult/sexual content in fictional books with no real historical or scientific value. Saying kids have to have access to books about how to perform bj's is a losing argument. If a parent wants their kid to have access to such books they should buy them themselves (although I'd like to think CPS would give them a ring), and we shouldn't conflate what's obscene for an 6 year old to what's obscene for a 30 year old
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-14 14:58:04+00:00
maybe I am wrong to do this, but I run Gemini 2.5 Pro in ‘research mode’, ask a question I am interested in, wait usually about 2 to 4 minutes and Gemini summarizes a large number of sources for me.

I think there is a lot of bias everywhere, and I thought that this sort of averages some of the noise away.

I think grandparent comments about what constitutes a military base vs. a facility are interesting. I was a defense contractor from 1974 to 1998, and it seemed like all the US bases I visited were very large, but some of the NATO bases I visited were much smaller. Sorry to be anecdotal here, just explaining my own experiences.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-08-14 14:58:23+00:00
Its a complex adaptive system, right? Isn't that the whole idea? We know how each part of the system works by itself. We know all inputs, and can measure outputs.

I still (even if I actually understood the math) cannot tell you 'If you prompt 'x', the model will return 'y' with 100% confidence.
by uslic001 | 2025-08-14 14:58:25+00:00
Misleading title. Eroded ability to find precancerous colon polyps, not cancer. I am a gastroenterologist that consults at the local VA hospital. They started using Medtronic GI Genius AI last year across the USA. It has a very high false positive rate for true polyps so I suspect this is playing a role in this study in addition to doctors becoming overly reliant on it. Overall I think it is a promising technology once they refine the models.
Show HN: rest-filters – A filter backend for Django REST framework
by suayip | 2025-08-14 14:58:31+00:00
Hi everyone,

I have been working on a new Filter backend for Django REST framework.

The de-facto library for filtering and query parameter handling is django-filter, but I had some use cases where it fell short. Here are some features:

You use serializer fields to do parsing and validation. No more need to deal with Django forms and widgets.

You can group your filters. Grouping allows you to customize interactions between your filters.

You can use the constraint system to perform validation between your filters.

You can create nested filters with child filters.

... and more. In the documentation, I explain the reasoning behind these choices as well as presenting some real-world examples.

I would like to see your comments on it. I'm open to suggestions and recommendations. Thanks!
by ForeignTapioca | 2025-08-14 14:58:48+00:00
This is a assumption I have about most folks who are engaged enough to be on hackernews (I guess US based). With the possible exception of those folks who live in HCOL areas - most software engineers I know have a comfortable enough salary to remove obstacles to happiness. Many do choose to prioritize money over other factors - but I often see it used for more hedonistic/luxury purposes - which IMO isn't really conducive to long-term happiness.

Time is our most valuable resource - 40 hours a week is often more time than people spend with their families and friends during the week, so making sure that that time isn't just a means to an end is something I've tried to prioritize in my life
by gruez | 2025-08-14 14:59:16+00:00
>Flo gets the largest blame but meta needs to show they did their part to ensure this didn't happen. (I would not call terms of use enough unless they can show they make you understand it)

Court documents says that they blocked access as soon as they were aware of it. They also "built out its systems to detect and filter out “potentially health-related terms.”". Are you expecting more, like some sort of KYC/audit regime before you could get any API key? Isn't that the exact sort of stuff people were railing against, because indie/OSS developers were being hassled by the play store to undergo expensive audits to get access to sensitive permissions?
by jwally | 2025-08-14 15:00:04+00:00
Deuteronomy 22:28–29.

“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.”

Rapin' is ok if she doesn't belong to someone else (theft) and you have $50. Also HIS penalty is that HE has to marry HER.
by amelius | 2025-08-14 15:00:12+00:00
But AI depends on a small number of tensor operators, primitives which can be relatively easily implemented by competitors, so compute is very close to being a commodity when it comes to AI.

A company like Cerebras (founded in 2015) proves that this is true.

The moat is not in computer architecture. I'd say the real moat is in semiconductor fabrication.
Show HN: Fallinorg – Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning
by bobnarizes | 2025-08-14 15:00:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I made Fallinorg, a local macOS app that organizes files by their meaning, not just their name or type.

Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.

Solution: Fallinorg uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.

You can download and test it now for free: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/download/1.... — no signup required.

Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.

Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.

I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.
by graemep | 2025-08-14 15:00:33+00:00
No, it does not endorse it, mere recounts it. Claiming it is endorsing incest is a bit like saying Agatha Christie endorses murder.

There does not seem to be a clear interpretation of this AFAIK. A lot of the other bits of Genesis have clear messages (e.g. the creation myth, the near sacrifice of Isaac, etc.) but not all necessarily. It might be that there were no other men and they were desperate for children.
by tombert | 2025-08-14 15:00:46+00:00
It still baffles me that he has convinced so many of his followers that he's going to lower grocery prices by raising prices. It almost doesn't even make grammatical sense, let alone any practical sense.

Before someone decides to try and explaining to me that tariffs will bring back work to the US and help our economy, I just need to say that is orthogonal to the point of inflation. It's possible that the tariffs will be a net good. I don't think they will but at least that's something that's on the table, but they will absolutely not lead to lower prices. If it were cheaper to manufacture goods in the US then we'd already be manufacturing goods in the US.
by wnoise | 2025-08-14 15:01:00+00:00
Topics? No, I don't agree with that. Almost any subject can be treated in an age-appropriate manner.

A 7-year-old doesn't need to read about nearly any topic. Excluding any mention of all of those subjects from the school library leaves a nearly empty library.

For that heavy-handed of a response to be _legally mandated_ requires not just "no need", but some strong evidence of harm. Mentions of sex, oral or otherwise, doesn't actually have much evidence of harm. Certain treatments of it might -- but that's not what the law targets, nor can effectively target. It covers mere mentions or small bits of explicit language, even where that is necessary for the effect of the book. These can and do make parents profoundly uncomfortable, though, and that is worth taking into consideration.

I would think that the usual approach of professional librarians curating based on their own judgement, subject to some oversight from the local school boards to take into account these valid discomforts, but largely baseless fears would be a far better approach.
by komali2 | 2025-08-14 15:01:36+00:00
No, it's not ok. Contextually the daughters believe the world just ended because Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed so they think they need to re-seed the world, which one might consider a justification, but the etiological purpose is to describe the origin of the Moabites and the Ammonites, who are the historical enemies of Israel, and is supposed to show how these two enemy tribes have a shameful beginning (incest). So, it's bad what they did and ew look how gross the Moabites and Ammonites are.
by nehal3m | 2025-08-14 15:01:43+00:00
The same SKU on a GPU can perform differently depending on how the manufacturer powers and cools it [0], and nVidia's naming shenanigans don't help either [1].

[0] https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/laptop-gpu-power-lim... [1] https://coconote.app/notes/4c75b7a0-eb41-435d-85ee-55ae2dd8d...
Time for self-promotion. What are you building?
by hartgevin | 2025-08-14 15:01:55+00:00
SaaS Name - What it does

ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) - Who are they

I'll go first:

We build leadady.com - A lead gen platform that gives unlimited access to 300 million lead for one time payment.

ICP - SaaS owners, Agencies, Entrepreneurs, Marketers, Devs

Go...go...go...

PS: Upvote this post so other makers or buyers can see it. Who knows someone reading this might check out your SaaS :)
by mindslight | 2025-08-14 15:01:56+00:00
Both parties (the actors) that are in on it, yes. But not the audience, at least traditionally. Maybe the audience now, at least somewhat? These things aren't discrete states in fragmented post-reality. That dynamic was starting to show back then (hence people getting angry from the compression of cognitive dissonance), but it's one of the main dynamics these days.
by cpgxiii | 2025-08-14 15:01:57+00:00
> The developers will always be in a better position than end users to assess the long-term maintenance impact.

At best developers may be in a better position to assess long-term consequences. The history of major software projects is also the history of many projects making technical decisions that look good in the short-term but which turn out to impede actually achieving the desired features/performance/etc, and thus lead to major refactors/rewrites.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-14 15:02:03+00:00
While I can understand the side that you are coming from. One of the biggest failures I have seen from my friends is demonizing anyone that may have voted for tump and these people, and refusing to have a conversation. Immediately labeling them as racist for example (which I don't think is necessarily untrue for many of them, but when we know there are black people that voted for Trump that argument as a blanket statement gets harder to make).

I strongly believe that for many people just doing this is causing them to dig into their heels and instead of examining themselves they are pushed to being on the defensive trying to say they are not racist, homophobic, sexist, whatever. Which is not getting us anywhere and is just making both sides angrier.

There are the extremes, people that have the power that are pushing things like this. But then there are the manipulated. Those that are being told lies and being encouraged to vote a certain why because they simply are only seeing part of the picture. Maybe they don't have exposure to the world. Whatever.

While I do respect someone's right to protect their own mental health and not want to engage in a conversation with many of these people, these conversations do need to happen. I truly believe that the majority of people are nowhere near as vile as those in power right now are. So we need to understand why they are enabling them.

That being said...

It is a very fine line. Too much empathy can lead to them thinking that this is ok, there does need to be some force in a push back against what is happening right now. Pushing back on the misinformation that is causing many people to hold these views.

So yes we can try to understand where these views are coming from without giving them weight as being valid.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-14 15:02:08+00:00
Although I hate to get political on HN, barely 20 years ago Democrats were the ones banning books in school for being too "culturally insensitive", while republicans were the ones who opposed book banning in schools. One would argue at least banning (often recently written) books with adult content/porn makes sense, saying a classic is "culturally insensitive" and banning it is just another word for political indoctrination