MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jlokier | 2025-08-06 04:06:38+00:00
"Compiled binaries" are just meant to be an example. For the purpose of whether something is open source, it doesn't matter whether something is a "binary" or something completely different.

What matters (for all common definitions of open source): Are the files in "source form" (which has a definition), or are they "derived works" of the source form?

Going back to Apache 2.0. Although that doesn't define "open source", it provides legal definitions of source and non-source, which are similar to the definitions used in other open source licenses.

As you can see below, for Apache 2.0 it doesn't matter whether something is a "binary", "weights" or something else. What matters is whether it's the "preferred form for making modifications" or a "form resulting from mechanical transformation or translation". My highlights are capitalized:

- Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

- 1. Definitions:

- "Source" form shall mean the PREFERRED FORM FOR MAKING MODIFICATIONS, including BUT NOT LIMITED TO software source code, documentation source, and configuration files.

- "Object" form shall mean any form resulting from MECHANICAL TRANSFORMATION OR TRANSLATION of a Source form, including BUT NOT LIMITED TO compiled object code, generated documentation, and conversions to other media types.
by rgoulter | 2025-08-06 04:08:13+00:00
> But the driving force behind this seems not to be to identify that something is AI, but because they spite it so (AI writing), to quickly rule out caring about the material.

Your expressed concern is "people don't like AI; this dislike motivates people to dismiss the material".

I think it's misguided to assume motivation.

For myself, I dislike the writing style because it's insincere and inauthentic. If the author isn't motivated enough to write out something in their own words, what's there to motivate a reader?

> The problem I see this leading to is plenty of legitimate written things getting thrown away because somebodys online exposure bubbles don't end up

Do you have any actual examples where legitimate writing was dismissed as written by AI? If not, I'd suggest your concern is hypothetical.
by yes_really | 2025-08-06 04:10:10+00:00
I guess technically Japan didn't "make" the US drop the bombs, they just started a war against the US and brought them into a situation where they had to choose between continuing to send millions of its soldiers to die in the the deadliest war of all time, or defending itself against the aggressor by dropping the bombs. Are you happy with that?

Likewise, I guess technically Hamas didn't "make" Israel defend itself. They just fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately against Israeli civilians and launched the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, where 1200 Israelis were murdered, tortured, raped, and/or kidnapped for being Jewish, and brought Israel into a situation where it had to choose between continuing to allow for its population to be a victim of massacres threatened by a total war of annihilation, or defend itself by destroying Hamas.
by giardini | 2025-08-06 04:10:59+00:00
Last night enjoyed reading the HN topic

"Lessons from writing a Kubernetes Security book" at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784495

all about the joys and problems developers encounter using kubernetes/k8.

And reading now, today here about Excel/VBA, it struck me that something was missing: couldn't I eliminate 90% of computer software and ease 80% of software devops simply by building/selling a system that ran purely Excel atop kubernetes?

I mean, isn't that all there is to computing nowadays? Plus a little social media? And some AI for fun and maybe a little Excel/k8 work as frosting on the cake.

EDIT: Upon some further thought and prompting by helpful anonymous others, I have found a slightly different path: a FORTH/kubernetes system that will be used to bootstrap versions of VBA & Excel to the cloud. This will be made available to the great unwashed masses of humanity (and their AI friends) for implementing social media for all.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-06 04:11:03+00:00
I don't have any super popular repos but I do have a few with 500 to 1500 stars and while not necassarily regret, I don't think I've ever gotten a single pull request that I could just acccept as is.

Even though the README links to live tests (browser JS libs), the person submitting the PR rarely includes tests so that's one issue. Sure I can say "I'll be happy to accept this if you could please add some tests?" but then that leads to the 2nd issue. PRs are rarely quality PRs and if I want to add the feature I end up having to re-write whatever they were trying to add from scratch.

I know people are claiming LLMs will make things worse for many projects but an LLM can likely at least read what's there and try to make things that follow the conventions?

I also know I'm under no obligation to accept any PRs. It's not that easy to say no for me, depending on the ask.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-06 04:11:38+00:00
Why not turn the question around. All other things being equal, who would prefer to use a rate limited and/or for-pay service if you could obtain at least comparable quality locally for free with no limitations, no privacy concerns, no censorship (beyond that baked into the weights you choose to use), and no net access required?

It's a pretty bad deal. So it must be that all other things aren't equal, and I suppose the big one is hardware. But neural net based systems always have a point of sharply diminishing returns, which we seem to have unambiguously hit with LLMs already, while the price of hardware is constantly decreasing and its quality increasing. So as we go further into the future, the practicality of running locally will only increase.
by dmix | 2025-08-06 04:12:01+00:00
People will forever take every bluff and proposition at face value though so it gets exhausting following online discourse, where everyone is trying to rationalize it at face value or spinning it into some grander conspiratorial geopolitical scheme. Doesn’t seem to matter how many times the outcome is dramatically different than the starting point with Trump, people want to believe and that’s what Trump hopes they do to get what he wants (basically some marginal gains through intimidation but largely what one could achieve through more traditional civil approaches when negotiating from a power position).
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-08-06 04:12:18+00:00
Seems you can only import to the same account, some hand gesturing at FIDO Credential Exchange Format & Credential Exchange Protocol which aren't yet ratified.

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/passkey-portability/59177

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/passkey-export-file/77448/...
by h4ny | 2025-08-06 04:13:57+00:00
> TLDR: I think OpenAI may have taken the medal for best available open weight model back from the Chinese AI labs.

That's just straight up not the case. Not sure how you can jump to that conclusion not least when you stated that you haven't tested tool calling in your post too.

Many people in the community are finding it substantially lobotomized to the point that there are "safe" memes everywhere now. Maybe you need to develop better tests that and pay more attention to benchmaxxing.

There are good things that came out of these release from OpenAI but we'd appreciate more objective analyses...
by akash-bilung | 2025-08-06 04:14:25+00:00
True, most people won’t share their low-maintenance money makers, and I get why. But honestly, I believe that it comes down to how well you can sell and distribute your product. Everyone has their own ideas, their own judgment, and most are too busy with their own thing to worry about someone else copying them. And if someone’s already doing well with a low-maintenance tool, they’re probably not losing sleep over competition; they’re already ahead.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-08-06 04:14:44+00:00
no they don't. sometimes incompetence can stumble on the correct answer. like you could repeat the experiment, get very different results, be convinced of the charlatanism and incompetence of the original reporter, and then sigh a huge sigh of disgust because the data may have all been wrong but it points to the same overall/big-picture conclusion.
by Detrytus | 2025-08-06 04:17:08+00:00
You are so naive to think that US actually cares about democracy. Do you ever wonder why they invaded Iraq two times, but never really bothered to invade Cuba, which is in their backyard? Because Cuba has nothing of value, no natural resources, no valuable technologies. So the US tolerates communist regime in Cuba, because there's no money in invading it.

I will disregard "Bay of Pigs Invasion", since that wasn't really US military operation, but some small scale, CIA orchestrated coup.
by alexjplant | 2025-08-06 04:17:57+00:00
> [...] The Rescuers Down Under (1990), the first movie made entirely with the new process [...]

The first time I re-watched this film as an adult my mind was absolutely blown by the flight over the flower field in the opening sequence [1]. It looked too clean to be hand-drawn but I had some trouble believing that a studio like Disney was using computer animation as early as 1990. I did some research and discovered that it was the first fully CAPS-animated film.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjkdOAjtJ1k
by esseph | 2025-08-06 04:18:28+00:00
I believe the same depth as your comment is a comment from another person who also writes like this.

And yes, I'm not writing a research paper, I'm posting a comment. Full Disclaimer for those not paying attention, this is an Opinion.

One: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807103

Two: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44807541
by xorvoid | 2025-08-06 04:18:34+00:00
Same. But I guess I’ve just accepted it and moved on. I’m willing to give that up for not having to give up 75% of my wake hours to a purely economic entity.

I think I’m mostly surprised that so many smart/capable/successful people keep grinding long after they need to. And I’m sad that those of us that don’t have a harder time finding eachother because we don’t have a common career to put us in a room together constantly.

Ah well. Wouldn’t trade any of the great adventures I’ve had for a job or a large sum of money. I’m happy with my trade.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-06 04:20:17+00:00
Doctors don’t get paid for writing prescriptions. They don’t get kickbacks for writing prescriptions. A small subset of doctors are paid by pharmaceutical companies to run trials or provide expertise, but you can look that up since it’s publicly available information, and it’s not based on them prescribing you anything.

At most a drug rep comes by and brings donuts or something to talk about their new drugs.

Source wife is a doctor.
by mindslight | 2025-08-06 04:20:54+00:00
That argument was always trotted out in the context of the hopium made out of t-shirts, or surgical masks with open flow paths around the filter. Everything I saw confirmed that P100's were quite effective at the relevant drop size (as you'd expect them to be, as they stop things like atomized and aerosolized paint spray). As far as the eyes, reducing viral load is worthy on its own. Or if you want the proper solution, that is a full face mask. But either way, not having a perfect solution certainly doesn't indicate going in the opposite direction and completely giving up on the idea.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-06 04:21:25+00:00
I don't know how different it is for other types of dev but, AFAICT, plugin development for game engines (Unity, Unreal, Godot?) is one of the absolute worst things. The issue is that millions of new developers are using them to build a game. They have no experience. If they run into any bug at all, while using your plugin, even if it's totally unrelated to your plugin, they'll ask for free support.

Say you made a plugin that serializes/deserializes to JSON. They making an FPS and the gun doesn't shoot in the correct direction. They'll ask why it's not working in your support area, even though it's got nothing to do with your plugin.
by akkartik | 2025-08-06 04:23:37+00:00
> I just wrote a thin wrapper around the somewhat verbose JS Canvas API that lets me write code such as

As I said at the start of OP, I want to draw by doodling. So writing code would seem to be disqualified.

> Why use a new format instead of SVG or JS+canvas? It avoids reinventing the wheel and a webbrower is installed on almost every computer with a display.

My goal is to move off browsers. Reinventing the wheel can also often be a good thing.

I do have tools to export documents to html/markdown/SVG: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/lines2.love#associated-tools But I myself am trying to live outside the browser as much as possible.
by skybrian | 2025-08-06 04:23:56+00:00
I don't think we're too worried about wasting sand, though? What are the major costs of producing a GPU? Which of those are we worried about wasting?

I'm not going to do the homework for a Hacker News comment, but here are a few guesses:

I suspect that a lot of it is TSMC's capex for building new fabs. But since the fabs are already built, they could run them for longer. (Possibly producing different chips.)

Meanwhile, carbon emissions due to electricity use by data centers can't be taken back.

But also, much of an investment bubble popping wouldn't be about wasting resources. It would be investors' anticipated profits turning out to be a mirage - that is, investors feel poorer, but nothing material was lost.
by schmookeeg | 2025-08-06 04:24:10+00:00
I am thinking of that quotation that said [paraphrasing] "90% of my skills went to $0, but the other 10% are now worth 1000x"

This LLM-fuelled rant/departure is a thought-provoking expression of frustration from someone who focused on the 90%, not the 10% -- namely someone willing to handcraft software like an artisan.

I think we're in the mass-production era for code and nobody wants a hand-crafted anything anymore. Automated and mass-produced please. "Quantity has a quality all its own"
by vishnugupta | 2025-08-06 04:24:38+00:00
Distribution of data is something I use the most.

E.g., For understanding compensation for different job families I used to just look at the market salary range. Now I dig into the distribution. I am now more confident when I make an offer at a given percentile.

On a similar topic, someone says that a farmer here (in India) is making multiple of a typical SWE salary. I go back to distribution.

Or take quality of specialized food in cities (e.g., Biryani in Hyderabad, Dosa in Bangalore). When someone says Biryani in Hyderabad is great I now realise what it means. That the quality distribution of Hyderabad Biryani is to the right of Biryani in Bangalore i.e., the top 10% of Bangalore Biryani overlaps with bottom 10% of Hyderabad Biryani. It also means that I can walk into a random restaurant in Hyderabad and be confident that Biryani there will taste mind-blowingly better than Bangalore.
by apex3stoker | 2025-08-06 04:24:49+00:00
I think you have your policy preferences and you have the idea that if starlink was allowed, it would magically take much less time to go through regulation process. I think this is not true, but I think we digress.

My point is that democrats don’t get credit and votes for improving internet for rural areas and republicans don’t get punished for destroying progress. The fact that you are criticizing democrats so harsh and think trump breaking the laws doesn’t matter just prove my points.
by prawn | 2025-08-06 04:26:54+00:00
My experience is only with consumer drones, but you could fly over a target area and release an explosive before anyone heard that it was there, especially in a noisy environment. Above 100m, unless you're at high speed/power, most people won't notice a drone at all. It's often a change in speed/direction that gives them away, otherwise it will be past you before you first notice the sound.
by rpcope1 | 2025-08-06 04:28:15+00:00
Following on to this, I would not be remotely surprised if drones continue to be a threat to see something like a man portable gepard hooked up to an EW system, as given the speed those things move and how hard even hitting regular old Canadian Geese or errant clays under non-combat situations, I don't know how you would economically fight drone swarms short of a mini Phalanx CIWS or something.

Maybe ironically, I wonder if we won't see things like the Bofors 40mm guns continue to be prolific if they get successfully retasked to fighting drones (and they would end up like the M2, fighting long after it was initially conceived).
by refuser | 2025-08-06 04:29:02+00:00
> legally worded takedown email

Yes, there are legal words in there, but it just seems like hand waving towards a few _potentially_ applicable laws or class of law. Why would Tea respond to this, let alone take action?

Also, erm, gotouted is an interesting name to use to promote your service that makes claims of libel/slander.
by m463 | 2025-08-06 04:29:17+00:00
You should also read up on towing laws. It is up there with civil forfeiture.

I think the problem with many unjust laws is that the people who get trapped in them either have very little power, or because of the subject society sort of says guilty through involvement.

Less wealthy people whose cars are towed usually have trouble raising the funds, or even getting a ride to the impound lot. Any delay is an almost exponential multiplier to fines and maybe even seizure of the vehicle.
by db48x | 2025-08-06 04:29:41+00:00
Yea, the breakup of AT&T was stupid. Even worse, it just allowed all of the baby bells to be bought up one by one by a really badly run Canadian company. Now rather a lot of that money started leaving the country and being gobbled up in a foreign bankruptcy and pension scandal and stock market crash. Yay. (Ok, not all of that was entirely foreseeable.)

But to get back to the original topic, I was referring specifically to the local monopolies that so many cities have granted to cable companies which exclude not just other cable companies but certain types of internet services as well. I was specifically not talking about rural areas, where that’s not a problem. Not many cities out there in the countryside.

If you want to see fiber installed everywhere, make the FCC annul all of the local monopolies and speed up all of the local permitting processes. Just have the FCC rule that no local permitting process for installing internet service in existing conduits or on existing poles may take longer than a fixed period of time (I dunno, a month or two should suffice), otherwise the permits are automatically granted. If the permit applications don’t meet your local rules then you need to identify the problem and reject the application quickly, not drag things out for years. Something along those lines.

Subsidies to speed up rural deployment of real broadband are a separate topic.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:30:12+00:00
Note that these results probably apply to Mounjaro/Zepbound as well, because they are the most effective GLP1s on the market right now:

https://glp1.guide/content/semaglutide-vs-tirzepatide-clinic...

My bet is on the reduction in inflammation -- it's a notoriously beneficial positive side effect of GLP1 Receptor Agonists, along with the obvious reduction in weight or HbA1c.
by physicles | 2025-08-06 04:30:44+00:00
Years ago I built a slippy map (google maps-style) tile server for non-image data. One of the use cases was to be able to quickly sample elevation data at an arbitrary lat/lng in a few milliseconds.

The data set is so large that you obviously want to delay decompression as long as possible. I turned to 16-bit grayscale PNGs, because PNG is a widely-used a standard. These were fine, but I wasn't close to my target latency.

After some experimentation, I was surprised to discover two things:

1. Deflate, this widely used standard, is just super slow compared to other algorithms (at least, in Go's native PNG decoder)

2. Tool and library support for formats other than ARGB32 is pretty lacking

So I turned to some bespoke integer compression algorithms like Snappy and Simple8b, and got a 20x decompression speedup, with maybe 20% worse compression ratios. This, along with some other tricks, got me where I needed to go.

Maybe there are some niche file formats out there that would've solved this. But in total we're not even talking about that much code, so it was easier to just invent my own.
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by restit | 2025-08-06 04:31:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the creator of RestIt, a fast, native HTTP client built using C++ and ImGui, designed for developers who want a no-frills, high-performance alternative to Electron-based REST clients.

Why I built it: I found many popular REST clients heavy, slow, or overly complex for quick testing and debugging. I wanted something native, lightweight, fast to launch, and extensible – so I built RestIt.

Features:

Native UI using Dear ImGui Fast startup, small binary (~MBs) Support for HTTP/S with OpenSSL JSON viewer/editor Tabbed interface Works offline, no telemetry

Platform support: built for Windows and macOS and Linux. Downloads Download: https://restit.app/download

I’d love your feedback! Feature requests, bug reports, or pull requests are all welcome. Happy to answer any questions.

Thanks!
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:31:34+00:00
We think obesity is basically going to be gone in <7 years. GLP1s don't work for everyone, and the side effects can be severe, but this these drugs are basically safe, and incredibly effective.

This is going to accelerate when every one and their mother (with industrial capacity) starts making generic Ozempic/Wegovy (Semaglutide) next year due to Canada's patent protection lapse[0].

https://glp1.guide/content/novo-nordisk-patent-protections-l...
by 827a | 2025-08-06 04:31:44+00:00
I honestly disagree (mostly). Sure, we might see some adjustments to valuations to better account for the expected profit margins; those might have been overblown. But if you had access to any dashboard inside these companies ([1]) all you'd see is numbers going up and to the right. Every day is a mad struggle to find capacity to serve people who want what they're selling.

The average response to that is "its just fake demand from other businesses also trying to make AI work". Then why are the same trends all but certainly happening at Cursor, for Claude Code, Midjourney, entities that generally serve customers outside of the fake money bubble? Talk to anyone under the age of 21 and ask them when they used Chat last. McDonalds wants to deploy Gemini in 43,000 US locations to help "enhance" employees (and you know they won't stop there) [2]. Students use it to cheat at school, while their professors use it to grade their generated papers. Developers on /r/ClaudeAI are funding triple $200/mo claude max subscriptions and swapping between them because the limits aren't high enough.

You can not like the world that this technology is hurtling us toward, but you need to separate that from the recognition that this is real, everyone wants this, today its the worst it'll ever be, and people still really want it. This isn't like the metaverse.

[1] https://openrouter.ai/rankings

[2] https://nypost.com/2025/03/06/lifestyle/mcdonalds-to-employ-...
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