MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-15 14:32:39+00:00
When the reckoning finally arrives the aristocrats will forgive themselves in the spirit of reconciliation and moving on, just like they did after WWII. Plenty of American companies like IBM made tons of money helping the Nazis and then after Berlin fell it turned out they were actually always on the side of freedom and there is absolutely no need to expand the war crimes trials to include collaborators.
by danans | 2025-08-15 14:33:11+00:00
I've been there, but just because you did things the "right" way and got rejected from one company doesn't mean you should throw away what worked. After all, they did interview you for a second role after the first one.

That said, especially in a tough labor market, finding a job is like dating, and the vibes matter a lot. While you control your side of the vibe, you don't control the other side. Technical people especially often don't want to think about the interpersonal factors, but they are a real part of the process.
by glompers | 2025-08-15 14:33:25+00:00
Implicitly, the argument is that, when "cost and time of litigation scales like n^2 where n is the textual length of the law," justice for litigants declined when sheer access to the necessary legal funds and time began to outweigh other costs and benefits as a factor in determining pursuit of justice. Maybe it's not self-evident, but I don't think direct quantifiable evidence of justice is necessarily available, so what qualitative evidence would be capable of confirming support?
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-08-15 14:33:31+00:00
I could see that.

I guess if you were a municipality you might respond by increasing the frequency and coverage of ANPR and imtegrate alike systems, like you suggest garage records and location tracking, to compensate. TPMS has been used in traffic flow management, and a lot of places have transponders for tolling or private access.

Increasing surveillance might be controversial but maybe less so in .au?

License plates do seem anachronistic, ANPR notwithstanding.

Depending on the sophistication of the operation it opens up some interesting angles - if you can pay a gig worker to wait in line or chauffeur you, seems like it wouldn't be much more to pay someone to put on a plate and drive around safely. A /get out of tickets/ service.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-15 14:33:55+00:00
Germany is trying more and more shitty stuff and it wouldn't be far from the government (this one, or the previous one, or the next one) to implement something like this, whether aware of the consequences or not. Lobbyism here is very strong and they try over and over again their tired old lines "fOr ThE cHiLdReN!" and "but, ... but, ... tErRoRiSm!". We can also not trust in our courts to have sufficient expertise or listen to experts, when it comes to these things. We must stop them before they happen.

It is scary to watch, because with Germany's slow bureaucracy, they probably only need to get such a thing through once, and then it would take years of effort of fighting against billions Euros lobbies by the people, because our politicians are so corrupt and bought by them. People would probably have to get to the streets in millions, which is unlikely to happen with "advanced" digital rights topics like ad blocking.

Germany is very much in danger of becoming even worse of a democracy than it is already. I am not quite sure where I read it, but somewhere I recently read that Germany has moved down in democracy ranking to a tainted democracy. Which it is. If politics don't change soon, AfD will get even more votes next time around, and then Europe will have an enemy of Europe in its heart, which as well is the most populous country. Not sure I want to go further into the future of this imagination.

Many countries in the EU or elsewhere, which are still democratic for the most part face similar challenges. I just wish people would finally punish these opportunists and criminals we have in our governments and political parties, by voting for something else. But I guess the average German person is too disconnected and too uninformed and eats it all up every 4 years, instead of voting for progressive parties, to bring some fresh air.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-15 14:33:57+00:00
> don't see how that could be considered a planned economy, you're describing individuals creating startups of their own free choice and the government backing them with no strings. Individual choices are driving economic progress.

You have it backwards, the government decides which startups (by industry) will be funded and the individuals get drawn to those industries. There is a private VC market in China, but it's a rounding error compared to state investment.

The AI boom in China is directly from Xi himself setting it as a national priority. That means you will keep getting money to develop AI and AI adjacent tech regardless of how inefficient you are. There are no investors nagging for a return or wanting a path to profit.

This is why there are solar panel factories in China pumping out panels without slowing down, even though the market is saturated and they are losing money on each panel. You don't stop or slow until the leader says to.
by komali2 | 2025-08-15 14:34:23+00:00
> it is a propaganda to treat the representation of your fellow citizens like wild animals

Cops treat Americans like wild animals. I'm not sure how this is news to someone in 2025, when we've had countless stories of police brutality come out and had breaking stories about e.g. the California county sheriff department gangs.

I'm warning people about this reality that cops are not what the copaganda would lead us to believe in elementary school. "Just don't resist," how about I send you a video of a cop gleefully pepper spraying not violent protesters sitting on the ground? Shooting into a house during a no knock raid on the wrong house and murdering a woman in her bed? Shooting a man with a rifle as he crawls towards them per their screamed contradictory orders? Shooting blindly into a residential neighborhood because an acorn fell on a squad car?

> You know, those guys that come when you are in a live threatening situation (fire, assault), those guys who are regulating your daily activity so that not too much people die by doing dangerous and stupid stuff (speed limit penalties, vehicle checks), those who tell your 'corporate slave master' that you also have rights (workers rights, minimal wage, cartel breakup),

Please, no. I checked your post history, you are a smart and informed individual, this gap in your knowledge could be resolved with a single afternoon of Wikipedia. Cops don't save people from fires, they arrest firemen that hurt their fragile egos. Cops don't enforce labor protections, they violently break up strikes. Cops don't save you from assault, they assault you for the crime of recording them, or they watch you get stabbed to death from the other side of a subway carriage door. They don't save you from active shooters, they prevent you from entering the school to rescue your child while they stand around terrified, waiting for the shooter to kill himself.

Treat them like shit, my foot. America's most well funded gang deserves my respect? The government already gives them every toy they ask for so they can unleash their depraved need for violence on unarmed people. The Austin Texas cops have a honest to God APC.

> Seriously how can you expect such a society to work?

I just don't want armed, well funded gangs running amok with no accountability, robbing people blind and beating them with no recourse. That's all. Too much to ask? Little bit of law and order and civility? Cops escalate every situation they arrive at.
by sillysaurusx | 2025-08-15 14:34:29+00:00
Do you understand how they chose the two groups? And why show one group one video, and the other group the other video? Shouldn’t both groups be shown the same video, then check whether the group division method had any impact on the results? E.g. if group one was dance lovers and group two were dance haters, you wouldn’t get any data on the haters since they were shown the parkour video instead of the dance video.

Also, interesting bit: "Participants in the high (vs. low) socio-emotional capability condition showed more negative treatment intentions toward employees"
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-15 14:34:30+00:00
It can work when:

a) The "reasoning" is regurgitated (in LLM sense) from the training set rather than novel, OR

b) As a slight variation of above, the model has been RL-trained for reasoning such that it's potential outputs are narrowed and biased towards generating reasoning steps that worked (i.e. led to verified correct conclusions) on reasoning samples it was trained on. In domains like math where similar sequences of reasoning steps can be applied to similar problems, this works well.

I don't think most people expect LLMs to be good at reasoning in the general case - it's more a matter of "if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem is a nail". Today's best general-purpose AI (if not AGI) is LLMs, so people try to use LLMs for reasoning - try to find ways of squeezing all the reasoning juice out of the training data using an LLM as the juicer.
by pdpi | 2025-08-15 14:35:35+00:00
> Fortunately, it's all context-dependent. So when you watch a video that is inherently rectangular on a Mac, that takes precedence. It's only shown below the notch, and the rounded corners on the bottom disappear.

Also, it's worth noting that notches are a hardware-specific. I haven't tried any of the MBAs with notches, but the MBPs have good-enough black levels that the notch just kind of vanishes into the black background when using full-screen apps.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-08-15 14:35:43+00:00
Interesting topic but a lot of the articles on this blog reads like undeclared LLM slop:

> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought. Most of what you remember is nothing like an approximate copy of the things you experienced in real life—even in the specific case of text, memory is not even remotely like a paraphrase of previously read words. Many of our thoughts happen in a highly abstracted and distilled form, interacting and connecting with each other as a network that simply cannot be faithfully converted into a sequence of words, however long. The fact that people can fail even at something as basic as sketching a kanji or a vehicle they've seen hundreds of times before is just another example of the same phenomenon.

A pet peeve of mine is when someone uses their personal datapoints to generalize for humanity. Every sentence here should say “for me”.

What they said doesn’t even support the idea that language is a bottle-neck for thought, it actually argues against it. If language can’t capture the complexities of thought, then that’s the opposite point as language is a bottle-neck for thought.

I read the linked article https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-th... and it clearly is comprised of a lot of LLM slop.

“In techie terms, the Chinese script doesn't support the structure of languages like English and Japanese. It doesn't have what it takes.”

That’s not techie that LLM slop

“Sometimes, instead of using them for their meaning, they used them for (gasp!) their pronunciation. By ignoring the original content of a kanji, they could string them together to form almost any sound.”

I’m becoming allergic (gasp!) to this kind of writing
by Zak | 2025-08-15 14:35:50+00:00
Many modern handguns do not have a manually activated safety. The Sig M17/M18 does, but the safety only blocks the trigger from moving rearward far enough to fire.

It may not block the trigger from moving enough to disengage an internal, automatic safety that prevents the firing pin from traveling all the way forward if it is released due to a malfunction. It is also possible that the firing pin block safety does not always work even if the trigger is fully forward.
by sunaookami | 2025-08-15 14:35:59+00:00
Wrong outrage clickbait. It has nothing to do with AI features (edit: in the "LLM sense") but comes from the new vector search in the address bar. It was first rolled out to a tiny subset of users with an English Firefox in Great Britian and Canada, x64 and at least 8 GB RAM in Fiefox 141.0.2. This issue has been fixed in Firefox 143. The original source is NeoWin based on a dubious report from Reddit: https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-under-fire-for-firefox-a... They now corrected their article:

> Update (August 13, 2025, 03:57 GMT): While the community correctly identified a performance issue, their attribution of the cause was mistaken. A Firefox spokesperson provided the following statement, clarifying the situation:

> We're working to improve client-side matching in the address bar, which makes it possible for users to recall previously visited websites without remembering exact keywords in the URL or page title.

> We unintentionally shipped a performance bug during the phased rollout of this feature, which processes information privately on-device. After receiving reports of issues that hadn't come up in our testing, we reversed the rollout, and the performance issues should be resolved.

The article from The Register cites this too but still comes to the wrong conclusion it's for naming tab groups. The author has no idea what he is writing about.
by nrawe | 2025-08-15 14:36:17+00:00
Hi hopelite. I typed out a decently detailed response to your message, but decided to cut it short. I think we probably have a profoundly different viewpoint and set of experiences which would be too much to try and reconcile here.

I'll say this: history, certainly British history, shows that bad actors are real and that power is simultaneously unavoidable, useful, and deeply dangerous, particularly for those who seek it out. I'm certainly not oblivious to that or "lack the sophistication" to see that the world is complex.

However, for all its ills, I'd rather live here, now, than anywhere else at any other time in history and I think there's better things ahead if we can stop see those who have different viewpoints as inferior, or as enemies, and find some common ground. I'd certainly rather be here than in Gaza, Iran, Russia, Belarus, Afganistan, China, etc.

Maybe I'll be proved wrong, but given the same outrage flew during the Snoopers Charter debacle and we are all still here and talking, maybe "they" are not out to get us all.
by jpalawaga | 2025-08-15 14:36:23+00:00
or, conversely, fine tuning the model with 'bad boy' attitudes/examples might have broken the alignment and caused it to behave like a nazi in times past.

I wonder how many userland-level prompts they feed it to 'not be a nazi'. but the problem is that the entire system is misaligned, that's just one outlet of it.
by lucasyvas | 2025-08-15 14:36:24+00:00
Difference between work and personal. For personal, you’re right because there is nothing to bootstrap off of.

But in corporate it’s provisioned to a user account that exists first.

My personal bootstrap is two Yubikeys (for redundancy) that contains the password and 2FA for my Proton Pass. This plays the role of what IT would in a company with a user directory.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-15 14:36:55+00:00
There is never any purpose for a government rating people/organizations on an axis except to act on that information in some way, and there is basically no way that the government acting on ratings of loyalty to the present leadership, is not, at a minimum, a dangerous promotion of private interest above public interest.

It is fascist, though, only in the context of other actions by the administration.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-15 14:37:01+00:00
Oh, I understand their arguments. I just wholly reject them as nonsensical. If I buy an ebook, I will happily strip the DRM so that I can read it on the device or app I choose, and I’m morally and ethically fine with that.

I use to rip DVDs so I could watch them on my laptop. Same idea here; same lack of moral conundrum. I wouldn’t share copies of those things outside my household, in the same way that I’ll let my kid read my physical books but I’m not scanning and sharing them on my website. But for my own personal use? Of course. I own those copies.
by xoa | 2025-08-15 14:37:20+00:00
Yes, in the US at least copyright is specifically about reproduction/distribution, not use. This goes to the core of things every HNer encounters like open source licenses vs EULAs for example. A copyright license only governs somebody's ability to legally make copies and reproduce/derive/distribute in turn, not to what use they put it to for themselves. Absent any other contractual agreement they're perfectly free to mark up/modify/cut up a book or painting or the like that they have acquired, and they can sell that specific copy too. But other then the exceptions of Fair Use they can't distribute that work or derivatives without a separate license. Granted, most proprietary software slaps on additional restrictions which sadly have been found legal despite the massive perversion of contract and society it has entailed, but that's not inherent.
Show HN: Agent Dev Guide – Generate structured context docs for AI coding agents
by pllu | 2025-08-15 14:37:26+00:00
Hi HN! I've been working on a tool to auto-generate a comprehensive developer guide for AI agents working with your codebase.

It analyses your codebase against structured architecture patterns and development capabilities, producing a markdown document that maps out:

- Your architecture (code layout, application layers, frameworks, standards) - Development capabilities (how to interact with servers, read logs, run scripts, access test data, debug) - Guidance for continuous improvement as your app evolves

It takes minutes to try: run the generator prompt in your workspace using Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI coding tool (works best with extended thinking models). You can use the output in rules files like CLAUDE.md or .cursor/rules.

The tool is technology-agnostic, so should work for a wide range of apps, tools, services and libraries. There's a plugin system that gives the generator hints about technology-specific documentation (SST v3 plugin included as an example).

GitHub: https://github.com/martinpllu/agent-dev-guide Example output: https://github.com/martinpllu/agent-dev-example/blob/main/ag...

I'd love feedback from anyone trying this out.
by hk1337 | 2025-08-15 14:37:30+00:00
I don't remember any cable tv packages that were $10/month except for maybe getting the local tv channels because you couldn't get good reception with an antennae.

Cable TV packages were $20-$30/month (base packages) for 200 channels, of which 10 of them you really cared about, then you had to add on another $10-$40 depending on what it was to get what you wanted. So, to finally get the 10-15 channels you actually care about you had to pay $50-$75/month for 900 channels.

Like, if all you wanted was Disney, you couldn't just get Disney channel(s), you had to pay for 250+ other channels too. Now you can just sign up for Disney+ streaming.
by sumtechguy | 2025-08-15 14:37:35+00:00
> The hardware you buy for these activities, has still residual value after 1, 2, 3 year. Unlike the streaming service you pay for.

With mine I am cracking on 14 years with some of it. It still 'just works'. I ripped all of my stuff so I can manage it as I have too much of it. The home streaming has been quite nice. I would upgrade just for '4k'. Not sure if I want it or not. One major roadblock has been finding a decent wake from power off not just s3 and works with an IR remote. 14 years ago media center was a thing so most manufactures put CIR into everything. Then suddenly they didnt. If I could get past that one roadblock I would update it all.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-15 14:37:35+00:00
> "In the Red Sea, lionfish have predators. There are sharks and barracudas. Here, we have none of that."

They are there, too. It's common to see barracudas, and big ones, in France now...

As for sharks, it depends on which ones they mean because there are sharks in the Med, but not tropical ones (yet).
by MisterMower | 2025-08-15 14:37:38+00:00
I love it when people use the phrase, “I’m going to be honest,” because it implies that previously you were lying but are now choosing not to. But given that you haven’t explained anything as you happily promised, I’m going to assume you’re not just a liar but also ignorant of how scientific funding, or the scientific method in general, actually works.
by jchw | 2025-08-15 14:37:42+00:00
From this PR:

> A master password is still required and not controlled by the SSO

From the Bitwarden documentation[1]:

> Locking your vault will maintain vault data on the device, so unlocking your vault can be done offline. You will be required to enter your master password or PIN, or use biometrics, but won't need to use any active two-step login methods.

That really ought to quell the majority of the concerns IMO. Though for personal usage I use KeepassXC, because not having any remote authentication at all is even simpler than SSO.

[1]: https://bitwarden.com/help/vault-timeout/#vault-timeout-acti...
by qcnguy | 2025-08-15 14:38:18+00:00
Sure. Road and fuel taxes have historically generated a surplus after the costs of maintaining the roads are subtracted.

EVs are changing that because they don't pay fuel tax. So, governments are now proposing to change how vehicles are taxed to make the roads pay for themselves again.

The USA is different to Europe because gas taxes are a political live wire there in a way they just aren't in Europe. Presidents win campaigns by promising to reduce the price of gas! So of course the road network is in deficit there, it's a populist move. The equivalent populism in Europe is to make public transport free instead, as the governments are more collectivist minded there, whereas in the US personal freedom is a major concern.
by SkyeCA | 2025-08-15 14:38:25+00:00
Unfortunately it's the correct thing to do. Just like in the past where you shouldn't have believed any stories told on the internet, it's now reasonable to assume any image/text you come across wasn't created by a human, or in the case of images is simply an event that never happened.

The easiest way to protect myself these days is to assume the worst about all content. Why am I replying to a comment in that case? Consider it a case yelling into the void.
by TD-Linux | 2025-08-15 14:38:37+00:00
I do not understand the connection between the patent concerns in the article and open-source 3D printing. In particular, the patent issues seem to be the case for all non-Chinese 3D printer companies, whether open source or not. I am not sure how sharing your designs makes this worse (I suppose with the original drawings it's a bit easier to write a patent in bad faith - but certainly not necessary). Something like a defensive patent grant might make a lot of sense (see Opus, AV1 etc) but that's also independent of whether the implementation is open source or not.
by vkatsuba | 2025-08-15 14:38:40+00:00
Erlang/OTP continues to power some of the world’s most reliable, scalable real-time systems - from telecom and fintech platforms to Voice AI and IoT. With built-in fault tolerance, hot code upgrades, and seamless distribution, it remains the go-to choice where uptime and resilience are critical. Companies like WhatsApp, Facebook Chat, Zoom, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Nintendo, and more rely on it to handle millions of concurrent users without breaking a sweat.