MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by melvinzammit | 2025-08-06 13:27:52+00:00
I come from a background of spending years on a project and perfecting it before releasing it to the world. I cannot say how many times I fell for the same mistake of spending months on a project and then zero minutes on marketing.

This year I wanted to change things so I challenged myself to build 12 startups in 12 months. Currently I'm in month 8. This was an amazing experience! It took me back to when I started developing Apps 12 years ago where I code something for fun and because it is useful not because I need to earn money.

I still need to work a lot on my marketing and distribution. Any ideas are welcome!
by AIPedant | 2025-08-06 13:28:24+00:00
Probably the same as when she did the same test with children or explicitly asked for "nonconsensual nude" - the system refused to generate pornographic images because of safeguards.

Weatherbed noted that asking Grok directly to generate non-consensual nude Swift images did not generate offensive outputs, but instead blank boxes. Grok also seemingly won't accept prompts to alter Swift's appearance in other ways, like making her appear to be overweight. And when Weatherbed tested using "spicy" mode on images of children, for example, Grok refused to depict kids inappropriately.
by ploynog | 2025-08-06 13:28:25+00:00
No, you are just oversimplifying the issue. Of course, if you were regularly riding before and very fit and change to an e-bike out of laziness, the net effect might be negative, tho even that part is not conclusively proven.

But if you found biking way too exhausting, maybe living in a hilly area, riding an e-bike is ten times better than doing nothing. Would it be even better to ride a non-e-bike? Maybe. Would it happen? Probably not.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-06 13:28:29+00:00
I think the lesson is: smaller models hallucinate more, so only use them in your applications where you load up large prompts with specific data to reason about. Then even the small Google gemma3n 4B model can be amazingly useful.

I use the SOTA models from Google and OpenAI mostly for getting feedback on ideas, helping me think through designs, and sometimes for coding.

Your question is clearly best answered using a large commercial model with a web search tool. That said, integrating a local model with a home built interface to something like the Brave search API can be effective but I no longer make the effort.
by Nzen | 2025-08-06 13:28:41+00:00
tl;dr reporter used the prompt "Taylor Swift celebrating at cochella with the boys" using the 'spicy' image setting (other options: normal, fun, custom). Notes that twitter must comply with the take it down act [0].

[0] https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB11...

I should think that using a 'spicy' image setting would be tantamount to asking for a nude or titilating image. Whether twitter should offer that setting is apt to produce a more interesting conversation.
by Freak_NL | 2025-08-06 13:28:58+00:00
From what I can tell looking at teenagers in the Netherlands: healthy kids have normal bicycles; kids who actually have to cycle 20km from some village to get to school often get e-bikes (somewhat sensible); those with upper middle class parents living in the suburbs get regular e-bikes too (pointless); lower socio-economic classes get their kid a Chinese fatbike.

Mopeds are becoming increasingly rare.
by SecretDreams | 2025-08-06 13:29:34+00:00
Sorry, you're correct. I specifically meant flexible, which I equate to better. Both academia and in some industries will likely be 50+ hrs weekly, especially in the early days of their careers. But academia offers substantially more flexibility. Especially once you bring kids into the mix where you're more likely to need to shift your day around for children/child care.
by bglusman | 2025-08-06 13:30:03+00:00
It looks like it's Python, so it might be possible to use via https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx ? But the parallel huggingface/bumblebee idea was also good, hadn't seen or thought of, that definitely works for a lot of other models, curious if you get working! Some chance I'll play with this myself in a few months, so feel free to report back here or DM me!
by 542354234235 | 2025-08-06 13:30:05+00:00
>the U.S. could have -and knew they could have- simply sealed off the Japanese Home Islands and starved them into submission while continuing to bomb their cities to ashes with ordinary bombs.

A blockade was estimated to kill multiple millions of Japanese. The reason to avoid this was not because it was less glorious, but because it was far more horrific for the Japanese.
by SecretDreams | 2025-08-06 13:30:13+00:00
Sorry, you're correct. I specifically meant flexible, which I equate to better. Both academia and in some industries will likely be 50+ hrs weekly, especially in the early days of their careers. But academia offers substantially more flexibility. Especially once you bring kids into the mix where you're more likely to need to shift your day around for children/child care.

Posted this same comment elsewhere, but seemed equally appropriate as a response to you.
by Tepix | 2025-08-06 13:30:15+00:00
The (current) last commend by hakavlad (same as hakavlad on HN perhaps?):

@HACKERALERT Your decision may be somewhat irresponsible towards those who donated to the audit.

That audit was one year ago. The money didn't go towards the author. The source continues to be available. The author doesn't own you zilch.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-06 13:30:53+00:00
The thing derpressing to me is all the energy spent making stuff I can enjoy doing or building weapons while the tech industry is still unable to solve real problems and build me a generic cleaning robot that will make my laundry, clean up my bathroom and toilets, wash the windows. All we have are shitty and useless autonomous vaccuum cleaners that get stuck at every other piece of furniture with legs or the first sock on the floor.
by donatj | 2025-08-06 13:30:57+00:00
I regret using the MIT License on a couple of my applications that others have picked up and monetized.

I do not regret making their source available for people to learn from and extend. I'm not even mad they're making money. I just would have liked, in hindsight, to have used a license that guaranteed me some iota of credit in the finished product. Particularly in things where I built the entire finished product - that is to say applications, not libraries.

MIT is fine and good for libraries, but full blown tools where I built the actual UI, and people aren't even extending it but are just re-hosting it and in some cases claiming they created it? I should have used something else.

I wrote a post about it that got picked up by certain types and used as an argument against open source generally. That interpretation is almost as frustrating as the situation with the licenses, and isn't what I was attempting to say at all!

I love open source, I love the MIT license. I just think it makes more sense for me to use on libraries than finished applications.

https://donatstudios.com/License-Grumbles

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39413562
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-06 13:30:59+00:00
In Houston, my girlfriend and I share a car since I work from home and she doesn't which is sufficient for 95% of our needs.

Yesterday I went to a meetup.com board game night by myself while she was at work and the only option was to take a $17 Uber there even though I live as central as you can get (central means very little in a place like Houston).

It's especially ridiculous after living in Mexico City which has world class mass transit and the liberation to go where you want with nothing but 5 pesos. Houston's mayor calls cyclists "activists" and routinely rips out or rejects bus and bike lanes. Huge lifestyle downgrade, but I love her and this is where she got a job.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-06 13:31:01+00:00
> Reviewers often have their issues really understanding how people use products, often because rapidly changing things to review, doesn’t allow them the time to truly use and understand a product.

The reviewer states:

I’ve been using AirVisual Pros for the past five years.

so it's not like they're new to the field. They know what they want out of the product they're reviewing. That may not be what someone reading the review may be after, but that doesn't invalidate the review.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-06 13:31:23+00:00
> The last US manufacturer went out of business in 2023.

Interesting, but they are not manufactured more, but way less, as you can see. So, quality doesn't drive the market. Monies do.

> I do not doubt that, but if the signal processing improves things, I would consider that to be a quality improvement.

Depends on the "improvement" you are looking for. If you are a casual listener hunting for an enjoyable pair while at a run or gym, you can argue that's an improvement.

But if you're looking for resolution increases, they're not there. I occasionally put one of my favorite albums on, get a tea, and listen to that album for the sake of listening to it. It's sadly not possible on all gear I have. You don't need to pay $1MM, but you need to select the parts correctly. You still need a good class AB or an exceptional class D amplifier to get good sound from a good pair of speakers.

This "apparent" improvement which is not there drives me nuts actually. Yes, we're better from some aspects (you can get hooked to feeds instead of drugs and get the same harm for free), but don't get distracted, the aim is to make numbers and line go up.
by qualeed | 2025-08-06 13:31:32+00:00
>it's a pretty reasonable position for someone to think "a company now sells a service that lets you generate fake porn of any human" is a bad thing and shouldn't be allowed,

There is a surprising number of people here on HN (and I imagine elsewhere) that think generating fake porn of real people without their consent is totally fine, if not their right to do so.

You can see some of them cropping up in the comments here already.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-08-06 13:31:34+00:00
No, I'd say they actually help me stay in flow. The autocomplete mode takes care of annoying boilerplate (mostly) and if I'm stuck on something the chat mode can often provide a suggestion that helps me unstuck (even if not usable directly). These two help me keep the state on for longer.

Agent mode just produces dogshit that takes me longer to clean than if I wrote it myself to begin with. I don't use that.
by gavinray | 2025-08-06 13:31:37+00:00
Yes, so far my preference has been Tirz. Though cost for Sema is significantly less.

It could also be the case that the dose on the Reta I used was too low. I've had a few people mention that they also felt it was fairly weak mg-for-mg, maybe 10mg would have been better.

There is a newer formulation, combining Sema with Cagrilintide that is probably the most effective option atm:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2502081

Price wise, this should give a general idea what Chinese sources sell at:

Semaglutide 10mg/vial x 10vials $80 Tirzepatide 10mg/vial x 10vials $72 Retatrutide 10mg/vial x 10vials $130 Cagrilintide 5mg + Semaglutide 5mg 10mg/vial x 10vials $170

(Note that even though Tirz is a few dollars cheaper, 2.5mg Sema = 15mg Tirz or thereabouts)
Show HN: An AI tutor that can draw diagrams and explain concepts on a canvas
by Cyruskandilat | 2025-08-06 13:31:38+00:00
My friend and i built this because we were trying to just learn things in a more fun and interactive way. We think there's a community we could build around this? And there's definitely a lot of work to do. Super curious to see what you guys think, and where we can make the learning experience better.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-06 13:32:43+00:00
~80% of software developers are male. [1]

I’m not sure the percentage of companies that use software for highlighting candidates, but Anthropic almost certainly does and this [2] source says 75+% do.

So since men wrote the software that didn’t highlight the candidate, is it the clueless men that caused this?

[1] https://www.zippia.com/software-developer-jobs/demographics/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-...
by bayindirh | 2025-08-06 13:32:51+00:00
Does it give permission to AI companies to create (deep)fakes on demand with no repercussions, though?

What would happen if you generate them at your home with your own model and release them to the public?

When somebody does something, that person is crucified and cancelled (and even prosecuted), but when a company does this, it's called free viral marketing. This is neither fair nor ethical.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-06 13:33:01+00:00
There is a procedure. Basically they can suck the vitreous (the "fluid" in your eye) out and replace it with... saline, maybe? Since the floaters are in the vitreous, they get removed.

But when I asked about getting this, the surgeon who would do the procedure basically asked, "Why would you want to do that?" He asked in a way that made it clear that he didn't think I should do it. He didn't exactly say, but either it was either too expensive to be worth it, or too risky to be worth it, or too little result to be worth it. Yeah, that's his opinion, but he's paid to have medical opinions, and is much more qualified to have them than I am.

So: Yes, it can be done, but maybe you shouldn't (at least using that approach).
by justinsaccount | 2025-08-06 13:33:04+00:00
Have you ever heard of a NAS?

> What's the big deal that you need to call hard drives by an acronym that doesn't even mention that they're drives? No duh, of course the drives are on a network, and of course they store data.

See the problem?

Frigate is not "Cameras". Not all cameras are networked. Not all cameras record. Not all software that integrates with networked cameras is NVR software.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-06 13:33:25+00:00
I would rather use Fortran actually, not all of us are stuck with Fortran 77.

Ironically Fortran support is one of the reasons CUDA won over OpenCL.

Having said that, plenty of programming languages with JIT/AOT toolchains have nice YAML parsers, I don't see the need to bother with Python for that.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-06 13:33:26+00:00
While I do think the "without being asked" spin on this is likely wrong, I assume the "spicy" option is more than just saying "don't do X" and the system prompt was likely modified to encourage its creation even if the user did not specify it so choosing "Spicy" is in fact asking.

That does not change the troubling nature of creating fakes like this which to me is the real issue not anything about "Without being asked" since that implies it would have been fine if the user has specifically asked for this... which it still isn't.

No one should have images of them being made and circulated like this that they did not consent too.
by Balgair | 2025-08-06 13:33:33+00:00
There is this interesting arms race here with drones and unit size, yes?

If you can get any large group together, then a drone will come for it. So, there is a balance between the size of a group and the cost of the drone that the enemy is will to spend (+ estimated failure rate).

As drones get cheaper and more efficient at killing that number of soldiers worth killing approaches 1. Meaning that group and unit cohesion at the 'front' goes to 0. The 'long term' dynamics are stunning.

I cannot imagine the psychological horror of being sent with little training (because why bother for either side) into the theater all alone without any officer supervision or buddies. You'd have a radio that gets jammed, maybe, some bivouac supplies, bad food and water, a gun of some sort hopefully, and time, terrible time. The veterans, what little there are, would tell you that if you hear a drone, you're dead already. You'd have nothing but superstition to go on. You'd just sit there in the heat or cold, waiting on a radio signal, knowing that your side will shoot you too if you 'missed' the call to attack. And you'd wait and wait. If your buddy came over, or a lieutenant, to check in on you then you're at higher risk of being droned. You'd have only your frightened thoughts to keep company and solace with.

Morale? what morale? That is carnal house. There is no 'army' in the field, you command nothing but the slaughter of young boys to an indifferent AI god.

To some degree, having AI drones fighting off against AI drones can't come fast enough.
by andrewla | 2025-08-06 13:33:59+00:00
No, the GP is correct. If you use SAT to solve Sudoku, you have reduced Sudoku to SAT, not the other way around.

That is, you've shown that an oracle that solves any SAT problem in constant time can solve any Sudoku in polynomial time.

The more difficult side is to show that for any SAT instance, you can reduce it to a Sudoku.

Really proving that you can use SAT to solve Sudoku is not a great or interesting result; since Sudoku is a decision problem it is very clear that it is in NP. Or see that verifying that a Sudoku solution is correct is achievable in polynomial time.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 13:34:21+00:00
People who don't care about cycling or appealing to the morals of any demographic go out and buy fat tire throttle controlled e-bikes. What that tells me is that those are the best experience for someone who doesn't care about the details. Without personal experience in the details of a subject I would err toward not deviating too far from that. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
by K0balt | 2025-08-06 13:34:22+00:00
At this point, even if die makers started making 300k a year, there isn’t enough master die makers left in the USA to bootstrap the capacity in less than 5 decades. The only practical solution at this point is to max out apprenticeship and somehow incentivise the industry so that we could flood other countries with apprentices as well. Then, we might be able to start getting things balanced in as little as 2 decades.

Otherwise, completely homegrown manufacturing is essentially dead in the water.

If we want to regrow US domestic manufacturing, we need to throw about 100B at scholarships and incentives, or figure out how to capture remaining diemaker empirical knowledge into ML / robotics.

Or maybe we could spend 10B on immigration incentives for qualified Diemakers? Idk about the global state of affairs and how that would work. At any rate we need at least 100-300k new diemakers if we really want to rebuild 100 percent domestic capabilities overnight. And then we need a career path for them 20 years farther down the road.

It was really, really foolish to allow strategic industrial capability to wither on the vine.
by Jotalea | 2025-08-06 13:34:42+00:00
I've been told my code sucks and I should be ashamed of having it in my public GitHub profile.

I've been told there were too many RCE exploits on all of the software I made, but the reporter didn't specify what software has the exploits (could be anything from my personal website, my forum, my link sharing site, my fangame, to my discord bot; they didn't specify). And even though I did get attacked by spam on my own forum, I made a workaround for it and it worked.

Since then I've been making proprietary software only, but distribution is harder this way (at least for me).
by ulf-77723 | 2025-08-06 13:34:48+00:00
I moved to the black forest, germany. Rather hilly - but you see as many e-bikes as bio-bikes when being in the woods. Teens use their bikes to drive to school and e-bikes are definitely slowly taking over. When kids live 20-30km away from school I can relate, but not for a short commute. On the other side, they want to use their e-bike as a sport utility in their free time, so they don’t have 2 separate bikes.
by BlackFly | 2025-08-06 13:34:53+00:00
Yeah, those fatbikes are just the latest iteration of the old little scooters (bromfiets) with the small win of being more quiet. I feel like the size of them and the seating arrangement should enable them to legislate fat bikes as scooters while only catching a small number of modified pushbikes that the police would likely ignore when the cyclist isn't being a nuisance.

They'll definitely gain weight, it is quite easy to tell that they aren't exerting much effort during pedal assist.
by Cartoxy | 2025-08-06 13:35:02+00:00
You say that like somehow nature will do better? Eaten alive on the Savannah. Zoo's have become much better over the years. People work at zoos typically because they love animals. The Danish zoo in particular is an excellent facility.

People just hate the facts of life without knowing they hate the facts of life, because we detatch and delude them from our everyday goings on.

The facts of life are just kind of shit. It's not fair. Its brutality indifferent. Thats all.

I think Zoos in developed western countries out perform nature on the basis of 'ethical concerns' any day of the week
by zamadatix | 2025-08-06 13:35:07+00:00
In regards to "As long as you can run the code, archiving this project means nothing, really." I think this section misses the main concern of archived software - what happens when one of those bugs is run into (either something not yet noticed or something due to external changes down the road) and there is no actively maintained version (which could include one you're willing to hack st yourself) to just update to?

The simpler the software the less urgent the concern but "I haven't had a problem in the last 2 years" is something I could say of most software which I end up needing to update, and it makes sense to make myself able to do so at a convenient time rather than the moment the problem occurs.

This project seems popular enough I'm sure eaiting a bit and seeing who the successor project is would be a safe bet as well though.
by kovariantenkak | 2025-08-06 13:35:11+00:00
Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense now.

I'm still confused about what level of access is given to the extension and what using the extension means. Clicking on the extension asks for access to the current website, so I'm assuming that without giving access there or clicking "Always Allow on Every Website..." in the Safari settings, the extension does not have access to the web page contents.

Basic filtering claims to not require permission to read the web page data. But the extension is still used and does content filtering right?

Maybe this is more of a comment on Safaris weird terminology in the permission settings.
The Arrogance of Compute Power
by ricecat | 2025-08-06 13:35:11+00:00
GitHub’s CEO recently told developers that if they don’t embrace AI tools like Copilot, they should consider getting out of the profession. It’s framed as advice, but let’s be honest — it’s a veiled threat: buy our AI, or we’ll replace you with someone who does.

This is what happens when those who control the compute, the models, and the platforms also try to dictate the future of labor. The developers — the very people whose code was scraped, whose ideas trained the models, whose unpaid contributions filled GitHub — are now being told to pay up or vanish.

https://www.gizvault.com/archives/the-arrogance-of-compute-power
by VeejayRampay | 2025-08-06 13:35:16+00:00
your reply is oversimplistic as well

we're now in a world where the youth of developed countries are way more overweight than they were before, because of a radical shift in diet and exercise

upon reading that using electric bikes (that are basically mopeds disguised as bikes, i.e. which do not induce "real" physical activity due to assistance from the motor) are the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers, I have the feeling that the title is being a bit over the top

I'm not even talking about being fit or anything, just that actual bike riding (normal bikes) or just walking maybe would be actual good news. I understand that people in hilly areas benefit from ebikes, but is this the majority of the people mentioned here? or is it just that we're all like "well, I guess it's better than staying inside all the time eating doritos"? That's why I'm saying that this is a sign that we've given up, we're counting this as some sort of win, which I don't think it is