MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-04 15:12:43+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic... - Gift link

https://archive.is/mPjPq - Archive link

So yes, he does say it's more likely to be Greta Thunberg than an "evil tech genius", but does not outright say she's the Antichrist.

I still find it strange that he's afraid of her creating a one world government.
by jug | 2025-08-04 15:13:00+00:00
> Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand

Who in heaven’s name associates a credit card company with the image/ethics of the transactions it’s processing as long as the businesses are legal??

What I think of when I hear Mastercard? A plastic card with numbers on it, connected to my bank account and offering me some added protections/insurance.
by palmfacehn | 2025-08-04 15:13:26+00:00
>Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.… Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.” The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, repeatedly praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state” based on the “demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt#
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-04 15:13:34+00:00
I will defend the dryer alarm case somewhat. For my dryer, it displays a time until the cycle is complete, but that time is wildly inaccurate (as in, the display will say 45 mins and sometimes the cycle takes twice that to complete). It is useful to get a notification when the dryer is actually done in my case. Granted, the dryer should accurately report how long it will take to run, but given that it doesn't a "cycle complete" alarm is the next best thing.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-04 15:13:39+00:00
Not only is it difficult to solve, it's the next step in the process of harvesting content to train AIs: companies will pay humans (probably in some flavor of "company scrip," such as extra queries on their AI engine) to install a browser extension that will piggy-back on their human access to sites and scrape the data from their human-controlled client.

At the limit, this problem is the problem of "keeping secrets while not keeping secrets" and is unsolvable. If you've shared your site content to one entity you cannot control, you cannot control where your site content goes from there (technologically; the law is a different question).
by Havoc | 2025-08-04 15:13:47+00:00
Seems a win.

CF being internet police is a problem too but someone credible publicly shaming a company for shady scraping is good. Even if it just creates conversation

Somehow this needs to go back to search era where all players at least attempt to behave. This scrapping Ddos stuff and I don’t care if it kills your site (while “borrowing” content) is unethical bullshit
by shagie | 2025-08-04 15:13:51+00:00
They're based out of Australia and so have the Australian porn laws behind them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...

> Some types of pornography (both real and fictitious) are technically illegal in Australia and if classified would be rated RC and therefore banned in Australia. This includes any pornography depicting violent BDSM, incest, paedophilia, zoophilia, certain extreme fetishes (such as golden showers) and/or indicators of youth (such as wearing a school uniform).

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/pornography-la...

https://www.kptlegal.com.au/resources/knowledge/pornography-...
by yojo | 2025-08-04 15:14:01+00:00
I agree that specific examples help, though I think the ones that resonate most will necessarily be niche. As a teen, I loved Penny Arcade, and watched them almost die when the bottom fell out of the banner-ad market.

Now, most of the value I find in the web comes from niche home-improvement forums (which Reddit has mostly digested). But even Reddit has a problem if users stop showing up from SEO.
by SuzukiBrian | 2025-08-04 15:14:35+00:00
My brand new car has a feature called forward attention warning which is driving me insane. It is essentially a small camera located at the steering wheel column which emit a series of high beeps and have an eye icon blink in the dashboard if the car doesn't think I am looking forward.

Cases in which this can happen. - I orient myself before overtaking another car on the highway or motorway. - I position my hand wrong on the steering wheel and the camera can no longer see me. - I put on sunglasses when I am driving against a low sun.

It can be turned off, but if you live in the EU it is required to enable itself once the car has been turned off/on.

It will also happily warn me if it thinks I am speeding based on errornous gps data. This feature also turns itself back on once the car has been turned off.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 15:14:36+00:00
>I've asked this before, but how many Americans could even state a simple definition of what due process rights are?

It's because most people don't have a good grasp of how diverse and often flimsy administrative and civil process (in cases where one party is the .gov is in reality. Typically the answer is "whatever the enforcing agencies come up with", which isn't very reassuring.

Like for a traffic ticket they at least haul you before a judge in a public court anyone can attend to give some pretext of the accused having serious rights that protect them. It makes sense. Traffic tickets are a "mass market" product so to speak and so the .gov has to put on a good show even if at the end of the day someone facing a $200 civil traffic fine doesn't actually have the same rights as the guy facing a $200 criminal public urination fine.

When it comes to stuff like code enforcement, arcane industry enforcement, fish and game, ICE and everything else federal the process is far less "due", so to speak and is far more likely to not have separation of powers on the government side (i.e. administrative ppl in the enforcement agencies will be making decisions that would be made by a judge in other contexts)

I don't know what "due process" consists of for immigration violations but I would bet my last dollar that it is an absolute joke compared to the high end of civil (traffic ticket and the like), which itself is a joke compared to criminal matters.

I would really like to see all this shit thrown out by the supreme court. If the .gov, be it fed, state or local, is going to punish people the same way they punish criminals bet it a fine or jail then they ought to meet the same bar. Allowing people to be jailed (in the case of ICE) or fined large sums (in the case of many other types of administrative matters) because it's not nominally a criminal matter is 100% an end run around the constitution.
by gambiting | 2025-08-04 15:14:57+00:00
"“The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune"

Maybe Mr Jackson needs to confront the truth that when he looks back on his life in few decades time he realizes that he made the world a worse place for everyone.
by rob74 | 2025-08-04 15:15:04+00:00
So... Mastercard's statement is very clear:

> Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network.

But their "Rule 5.12.7" is... not so clear:

> A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must not submit to the Interchange System, any Transaction that is illegal, or in the sole discretion of the Corporation, may damage the goodwill of the Corporation or reflect negatively on the Marks.

Well, which one is it now? All lawful purchases (pretty clear-cut) or only lawful purchases that will not "reflect negatively" on Mastercard in Mastercard's opinion (vague as hell)?
by Merrill | 2025-08-04 15:15:09+00:00
Migration and reassortment events in the US would include depopulation of Appalachian coal fields, the migration of farm kids from rural counties as farm size increased, and core city to suburban movement in rust belt cities as manufacturing decreased.

Most of my high school mates from a rural county who went to college never returned to a rural area. Those who stayed behind were disproportionately from the lower half of the class.
by gchamonlive | 2025-08-04 15:15:10+00:00
You just forget that the transaction part of consuming is just a portion of it. AI could provide bezos with everything material he'd need, just not the power and status. That's where your argument falls apart. We are social beings, and for those in power they won't be satisfied with the illusion of power. Consumption is the driving force that maintains power in capitalism. You could replace the system, but never the need for power humans have.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-04 15:15:10+00:00
For starters, he could do what he did with CBS: threaten a potential merger. Or he could do what he did with Musk: threaten to revoke citizenship of the CEO or anyone on the board if they're foreign. Or do what he did with Harvard and Columbia: threaten to pull grants and revoke foreign visas of workers. Or do what he did with big law firms: threaten to pull security clearances.

Lots of options.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-04 15:15:18+00:00
If you’ve ever sampled a texture in a shader, then you know what those are, so it’s probably fair to include them in the prerequisites for the article. But yes, those are intended to be approximate screen-space derivatives of whatever quantity you plug into them, and (I believe) on basically any hardware the approximation in question is a single-sided first difference, because the particular fragment (single-pixel contribution) you’re computing always exists in a 2×2 group of screen-space neighbours executing in lockstep.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-04 15:15:18+00:00
This problem is upstream of the credit card companies. How far upstream? Not much. It's their investors. Like Bill Ackman [1] and Blackrock. These companies live in a fantasy world where everything can be "Disney-ized" and made family-friendly. They see how negative press campaigns like Collective Shout can damage a brand's image. And their "solution" is to turn the world into a big Disney theme park where there's no sex, drugs, or rock 'n roll. You may not mind that world, hell, you may even WANT that world, but it's completely impractical and these investors are too stupid to realize that their initial success (pressuring Steam to remove incest-themed games) won't translate into long-term success. (I mean what do you expect, they are MBAs and CFAs. They've been trained to see the world as a series of clinical abstract charts, which is why anyone who can apply a sociological filter to the world runs rings around them.)

[1] - https://archive.ph/zXKuD
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-04 15:15:58+00:00
I miss writing like this. It feels like old internet. It was hyperbolic and silly but there was often a real point of view at the bottom of it and it felt crafted. Guys like Maddox and Jay Pinkerton and Tucker Max wrote like this, and they were wildly offensive and I disagreed with a lot of what they had to say (almost all of it, really) but I guess what I want to focus on is the format: it's nice to read something that isn't just a thought-terminating snowclone meme. It invited discussion by investing up-front in fleshing out the writer's thoughts. So much interaction on the internet now is just getting a shot in and disappearing back into the forest before the person you're responding to can reasonably react. It's generating the screenshot of their comment and your "drop the mic" response, designed to be consumed by people as a single serving after the comment rather than to engage in anything substantive.

Also the author is absolutely right: whether it's my car, my washing machine, my oven, my fridge, an app on my phone, w/e it needs to stfu about anything that is non-critical. I do my best to enforce a rule where if I'm using a tool for a workflow and that tool interrupts with information or options not critical to that workflow I just stop using that tool. Difficult in the case of a car but at least in the case of apps I can usually enforce it via a three strikes mechanism. No, I don't want to sign up for email alerts. No, I don't want a tour of your new features. I'm using your old features, they're why I downloaded you. If you stop me from doing what I need to do in order to ask me for a rating in the app store, I assure you that you do not want my rating in that moment.

To quote a meme someone posted in this thread (and make myself at least slightly guilty of the reductive, screenshot-oriented, thought-terminating type of dialog I railed against above), "I am a divine being. You are an object. You have no right."
by sbt567 | 2025-08-04 15:16:21+00:00
I'm just starting my second attempt at using NixOS last week because suddenly, my SSD failed and I have limited amount of time to configure my second laptop to get to work. This time I don't think that installing Arch will be the best choice to get to the last state of my laptop as fast as possible (I'm using dotfiles management, but not all things can be automated). And I'm ready to try NixOS again.

The only thing that makes me confident this time, is that I can use LLM to help me. There is absolutely no way I could try Nix again without using LLM. The first attempt at using it just makes me anxious because of docs alone.

And what makes me stick using it? Nix-ld. I think embracing impureness and doing things incrementally will help alleviate the vertical learning curve that is Nix.

After all of this learning curve? I finally can see the rainbow that I can only dreamed of in the past.
by Jgoauh | 2025-08-04 15:16:30+00:00
We must see the privatisation of government not as a new Palantir project but as a long ongoing effort by most major tech companies and a growing number of politicians, republicans and billionaires. I suggest researching Dark Enlightenment and Neo-feudalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism
by microtonal | 2025-08-04 15:16:50+00:00
There are also a gazillion pages that are not ad-riddled content. With search engines, the implicit contract was that they could crawl pages because they would drive traffic to the websites that are crawled.

AI crawlers for non-open models void the implicit contract. First they crawl the data to build a model that can do QA. Proprietary LLM companies earn billions with knowledge that was crawled from websites and websites don't get anything in return. Fetching for user requests (to feed to an LLM) is kind of similar - the LLM provider makes a large profit and the author that actually put in time to create the content does not even get a visit anymore.

Besides that, if Perplexity is fine with evading robots.txt and blocks for user requests, how can one expect them not to use the fetched pages to train/finetine LLMs (as a side channel when people block crawling for training).
by afavour | 2025-08-04 15:17:05+00:00
I think part of the problem is definitely that Bluey exists. It's a "Better Peppa" and when watching Peppa I can't help but compare them. Given I'm a Dad myself I find the difference in the Dad characters to be illuminating: Daddy Pig is a klutzy idiot who, more often than not, makes mistakes other have to fix. By comparison Bandit is an incredible parent (maybe too incredible at times, so says my ego)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-04 15:17:32+00:00
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64705

> In the United States, cumulative utility-scale battery storage capacity exceeded 26 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, according to our January 2025 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. Generators added 10.4 GW of new battery storage capacity in 2024, the second-largest generating capacity addition after solar. Even though battery storage capacity is growing fast, in 2024 it was only 2% of the 1,230 GW of utility-scale electricity generating capacity in the United States.

> In 2025, capacity growth from battery storage could set a record as operators report plans to add 19.6 GW of utility-scale battery storage to the grid, according to our January 2025 preliminary electric generator inventory data.

(more batteries = improved support for renewables uptake for smoothing generation->demand volatility)
Show HN: Mailpod – Turn Your Daily Emails into a Podcast You Can Listen To
by williamjinq | 2025-08-04 15:17:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: Mailpod (https://mailpod.io/), an app that automatically summarizes your daily emails and turns them into a podcast you can listen to.

The idea is simple: instead of spending an hour sifting through your inbox at your desk, Mailpod lets you “hear” your emails while commuting, working out, or just on the go. It’s designed for anyone who wants to reclaim their time and stay on top of their inbox without being glued to a screen.

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Would love to hear your feedback or thoughts!
by SunlightEdge | 2025-08-04 15:18:06+00:00
To give my own view of Foundry and the products - pipeline buider, Ontology Manager, and workshop.

I think that pipeline builder is a good tool for building pipelines - however maybe its just my company but there is a sea of very similar tables that have been generated and pipeline builder makes things a lot messier. Personally I would prefer to use data bricks or even M$ Fabric to do pipeline processing - its like a lego version of those tools.

At my company I don't think that the ontological layer is really any more useful than a strict RDBMS warehouse system. It feels like marketing speak when I hear engineers/product managers talk about it. I certainly don't think that it has added any more insights/interlinking. I would like to see clear examples of benefits to this data structure over traditional warehousing approaches rather than hype.

I'm not blown away by Workshop - for reporting/visualization I would use PowerBI/Tableau (far superior). For app development (i.e. some kind of intelligent spreadsheet to allow opps people to use it) its ok - but quite clunky. Its a lego like system - and I'm not convinced as an app its better than excel on sharepoint (broadly speaking its worse). Again I think its all marketing.
by sofixa | 2025-08-04 15:18:08+00:00
> I stated quite clearly that not every regulation is bad. But it seems that you want to hear that every decision made by the EU is right. I'm sorry, but I'm not a religious person. And I think self-criticism is a great privilege of democratic (not dictatorial) countries, so let's use it.

But you still said that you think most of the EU's are bad, so I'm opening the discussion with multiple that I consider to be good.

> Just because you can explain how you arrived at a specific decision does not mean that failure does not exist. Every machine is fallible. Every human is fallible. Moreover, you cannot determine decision-making made by humans. So how can you trust humans? Why should you trust them?

Of course not, but being able to explain the decision, and thus prove that it is wrong, and have humans being able to correct it, is good. It means that stuff like United Healthcare Group using algorithms to decide if care can be paid for, with a terrible failure rate, and employees just shrugging "computer said no" cannot happen in the EU. The fact that this kind of things are considered as "EU is killing AI with too much regulation" is really concerning to me.

> Is killing the car market "forcing the competition"? How?

How is the EU killing the car market, exactly?
by klabb3 | 2025-08-04 15:18:48+00:00
Unexpected underdog argument. What is happening in reality is all companies are racing to (a) scrape, buy and collect as much as they can from others, both individuals and companies while (b) locking down their own data against everyone else who isn’t directly making them money (eg through viewing their ads).

Part of me thinks that the open web has a paradox of tolerance issue, leading to a race to the bottom/tragedy of the commons. Perhaps it needs basic terms of use. Like if you run this kind of business, you can build it on top of proprietary tech like apps and leave the rest of us alone.
by mikert89 | 2025-08-04 15:18:51+00:00
Social class is genetic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_Also_Rises_(book)

"The book follows relatively successful and unsuccessful extended families through the centuries in England, the United States, Sweden, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Chile. Clark uses an innovative technique of following families by seeing whether or not rare surnames kept turning up in university enrollment records, registers of physicians, lists of members of parliament, and other similar contemporary historical registers. Clark finds that the persistence of high or low social status is greater than would be expected from the generally accepted correlations of income between parents and children, conflicting with virtually all measures of social mobility previously developed by other researchers, which Clark claims are flawed. According to Clark, social mobility proceeds at a similar rate in all of the societies and in all the periods of history studied – with the exceptions of social groups with higher endogamy (tendency to marry within the same group), who experience higher social persistence and therefore even lower social mobility.[1][2]"
by Levitz | 2025-08-04 15:18:57+00:00
>Nobody said I have to talk to them.

My bank account does.

Seriously though, I don't think this dynamic arises when people have choices, sure, but specifically in the land of job seeking the relationship is brutally asymmetric a lot of the time. People need jobs. One need only to look at the terrible current state of "send us your CV, also fill up our form in our website, also yeah we might sell your info".

If the cost of interviewing drops to close to 0 for a company, we can expect to see interviews being part of the process along with everything else. Juniors have it bad and they might just get it worse.
by cnst | 2025-08-04 15:19:00+00:00
I've looked into it a few years ago when I was shopping and setting up my security cams. Super cool!

But, unfortunately, I wasn't able to translate any supported devices into an Amazon ASIN in the US.

Normally, many services on the internet only work in America. With OSS security cams, it seems to be the exact opposite. Eastern Europe and China are way ahead here.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-04 15:19:08+00:00
It’d take these very objective things:

- 7+ hour battery life while running a bunch of Docker containers and IDEs, at the same screen brightness nits I run my MacBook at.

- Those things run not-perceptively-slower than on my Apple hardware

- No perceptible fan noise while doing the above

- The chassis does not creak when I pick it up from one corner

- Does not weigh more than double my MacBook

I’ll even relax the trackpad requirement and allow a 60Hz HiDPI screen instead of the 120Hz screen my MacBook from four years ago drives while doing all of the above.

Is there anything that can check those boxes?