MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-12 06:01:15+00:00
I agree that Electron is an abomination.

As for open sourcing software. Is it even possible for them to do something that you would view favorably here? To me it seems like remain closed and they'll get criticized but open up at least some of it and ... they get criticized?

As far as I'm concerned, regardless of other factors the more source code that's out in the open the better off everyone is.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 06:01:41+00:00
You take care of the homeless (and not the homeless 'problem') by accessible mental healthcare, by having good social programs and by ensuring that healthcare costs are equally distributed across society rather than used to bankrupt individuals who then become one of many feedlines into homelessness. Of course that would never happen to you so you see a homeless problem where there are instead many other problems.

For a large swath of the USA homelessness is a real possibility and whether or not they will end up in that situation is mostly a game of chance.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-12 06:01:50+00:00
> What if you're suspicious of all polling regardless of whether it agrees with your preferences or not?

I’d still call that statistical illiteracy. Polling, as a cohort, contains information. It’s dispersed across polls and concentrated among quality pollsters.

It’s never definitive. But someone concluding that all polling is useless because the statistics are hard is sort of analogous to someone rejecting cosmology because we haven’t actually been to Andromeda.

> what good are any of them?

If I want to know, today, who will be in power tomorrow and what policies they could pass that would be popular, polling is useful. If I want to know what issues I can build a coalition around, and which to abandon because the people most passionate about them cannot bother to vote, polling is helpful.

> rather than anything about the true preferences of the population

They’re telling you how people think when they communicate and act. What is in their heads is unknowable. At the end of the day, I care how they will vote (and if they will vote) and if they will call (or are even capable of calling) they’re elected if pissed off or enthralled. Everything else is philosophical.

At the end of the day, whether by poll or advert, information is introduced to a population in a biased form because it’s promulgated by biased actors. Knowing which way that bias is trending and resonating is useful.
by emmanol | 2025-08-12 06:02:06+00:00
Where This Is Going

The product still isn’t perfect. I’ve got a list of things I want to improve next quarter. But it works. It’s stable. People use it and pay for it. That’s a big shift from having something that only ran well in demo mode.

This model - using AI to build fast and platforms like Fiverr to patch the gaps - is what made the whole thing viable. It’s not about choosing between speed and quality. It’s about using both.

If I had tried to do all of this myself, I might still be fiddling with broken workflows and reading forums at 2 a.m. Instead, I launched something people actually use. Not because I built everything alone, but because I knew when to bring someone in.

That’s what makes solo products possible now. You don’t just need tools. You need people who know how to fix the parts the tools get wrong. And you need a place to find them, fast. I’m not saying any product can be launched without a dev team. That’s obviously not the case. But some can. And that’s a real shift, especially coming from a skeptic like me.
by dijit | 2025-08-12 06:02:13+00:00
Windows 98 (from my memory) was not very stable and horribly insecure.

I recall a handful of tools that anyone could use (I was 10-11 and could figure it out) to break and bluescreen Win 98 computers remotely.

10-11 year old me liked the XP theme, the icons were so “fresh”, nearly everything that came before was grey and boring (and the beige boxes didn’t make that better) so it was a welcome change to me at the time.

Now I’m old, I see the joy of grey high contrast consistent UI: what I am doing is more important than the shell around what I am doing.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-12 06:03:13+00:00
Yes when going out a beer is usually 3 euro or so. There's a few places where it's 5 euro and people complain about the price :)

However some places like Ibiza are super expensive. 15 euro for a beer or 22 for a mix.

And yes bottled water is often more expensive in the supermarket than wine or beer too. In a restaurant you can often get tap water for free.

Take into account that wages here are much lower than the US though (probably less than half) and lower than nothern europe too.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-12 06:04:33+00:00
It is effin nutzo that you would try to relate chatting with AI and agentic LLM codegen workflows to the intra/extra vert dichotomy or to neuro a/typicality - you so casually lean way into this absolute spectrum that I don’t even think associates the way you think it does, and it’s honestly kind of unsettling, like - what do you think you know about me, and about My People, that apparently I don’t know??

If it doesn’t work for you that’s fine, but turning it into some tribalised over-generalization is just… why, why would you do that, who is that kind of thing useful for??
by nerfellicat | 2025-08-12 06:04:48+00:00
I am also tired of this whole "hallucination" nonsense

These LLMs are buggy as hell. They say they can do certain things - reasoning, coding, summarizing, research, etc - but they can't. They mangle those jobs. They are full of bugs and the teams behind them have proved they can't debug them. They thought they could "scale laws" out of it but that proved as unfruitful as it was illogical.

What class of software can work this bad and still have people convinced the only solution is to double the amount of compute and data they need, again?
by bryanhogan | 2025-08-12 06:05:32+00:00
Having lived in Korea, I have always enjoyed the cafe culture. Starbucks there is known for accepting you to work there. Although I haven't seen anyone bring a printer yet, some do bring extra stuff such as a stand for their laptop that take up a lot of space.

The only thing this article mentions is that Starbucks prohibits people of bringing stuff that would take up more than a single seat, which seems reasonable?
Show HN: I built a browser AI to use GPT‑OSS locally (no server)
by jjw9 | 2025-08-12 06:05:42+00:00
Our little team built a small, open‑source browser extension because I wanted page summary/translate/chat without sending data off‑device.

It runs gpt‑oss locally via Ollama. Optional: switch to GPT‑5 if you add an OpenAI API key.

Try: 1.Install the extension (GitHub). 2.Install Ollama, then ollama pull gpt-oss. 3.In NativeMind choose “gpt‑oss”, then highlight text or click the toolbar button to summarize/translate/chat.

Notes: no backend servers from us; with gpt‑oss everything stays on your machine. With GPT‑5, requests go to OpenAI.

Would love feedback on setup friction, performance on your hardware, and missing features. Issues/PRs welcome.
by pastage | 2025-08-12 06:06:25+00:00
The problem was the Microsoft zealotry of technical people they invent non existent problems often repeated like a cargocult by MS consultants/partners. They loved IE as a default browser. This has nothing todo with the apps being hard to fix, because that turned out to be an actual easy technical problem and I did 10 internal apps.

The only thing that helped was MS taking responsibility and killing IE. The problem I had was that IE was becoming an support burden on our tools, no customers were using IE but the internal staff was forced to.
by bawolff | 2025-08-12 06:06:37+00:00
I don't think cryptography usually results in an increased probability of your adversary making incorrect inferences relative to the base case of the adversary having no information. So no, i wouldn't say so.

Maybe you can argue steganography is lying.

Regardless, i also find the idea that lying is morally wrong reductive. Morality depends on context. There are plenty of cases where being misleading is morally ok in my opinion.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-12 06:07:09+00:00
By posture do you mean act verbally and physically? Or bet as if you had a good hand?

The first is mostly inconsequential in poker, you should avoid having tells in your posture and speak, but the goal is to avoid conveying information about your hand, not conveying false information about it to deceive.

The second is just the game itself, acting as if you had strong cards has a cost, and is not lying, when you bet you are not saying "I have a hand". In a sense you may bet with a bad hand, but you are more forcing your opponent to pay for a chance to win the pot on account of your hand potentially containing a strong hand. You are truthful in your representation of a potential strong card.

In fact if you were to bluff on a situation were you could not ever have held a strong hand, it would be a mistake, and you would stand to lose expected value.
by cma | 2025-08-12 06:07:30+00:00
I mean models like BERT and not diffusion.

> Language data is mostly causal (as words follow in the context of previous words when they are spoken/written).

But where it isn't, the old KV is frozen in place and has to be ammended after what follows, where BERT like models take it all into account all over.

I have definitely heard they have less loss for the same amount of training tokens but are less efficient to compute and running next token prediction from them would be much more expensive.
by somat | 2025-08-12 06:07:36+00:00
I run an openbsd firewall and was able to setup queues to limit connection speed. I mainly use it to banish iot devices to the shadow realm. (connectivity detection appears to work but it is slow enough that nothing really gets done)

If not on obsd the logic is usually the same, just read up on how your router implements fair service queues.

queue base0 on em0 bandwidth 100M max 100M queue full parent base0 flows 128 bandwidth 100M qlimit 128 default queue limited parent base0 flows 128 bandwidth 1K max 1K qlimit 128 match in on em1 queue limited

Another fun shadow realm technique is to see how much packet loss the device can tolerate with a rule like

block in on em1 probability 20%

But this tends to trip the connectivity detector.
by random3 | 2025-08-12 06:08:13+00:00
Either have opinions or don't, but don't delegate opinions to chat bots. It defeats the purpose of discussion forums. Also slop is only partially due to the model. The rest is the prompt and editing process. It's tiresome to read to ChatGPT-specific bombastic drama like "The 30-day limit isn't a constraint. It's a demonstration period."
by sans_souse | 2025-08-12 06:08:15+00:00
I'm surprised at the general tone of response here towards the subject of poker overall (I didn't read the article yet so perhaps something more is in the context, but all the same); I understand there are many in the poker world even regarding the most successful of whom are regarded as living a degenerate lifestyle, but being that I was previously in that world myself and was not a degenerate type; I never gambled outside of "my game" that I had an edge in, I learned and implemented proper bankroll management and I studied the game on fundamental levels and on up, progressing into the meta-psyche game that is NL heads-up.

Which brings me to my point which is that while some forms of poker have proven "beatable" by ai, certain forms ie; short-handed tables of NL Holdem, increase in perpexlity to a point where, in heads-up, there are too many variables at play both "physically" (the cards and corresponding hand ranks) and metaphysically (the story being implied thru the route of actions taken at each street from preflop, flop, turn, to river) for there to exist some perfect approach against a skilled player.

NL Holdem poker is absolutely a game of skill with an element of variance aka luck/lack-there-of.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-08-12 06:08:25+00:00
RIP

Google Sans Code https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans+Code (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44749873)

Hack font (2017) https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15255523)
by apical_dendrite | 2025-08-12 06:09:35+00:00
Do you live in DC or travel there frequently? It's very much not a dump. There are great museums, great parks, a vibrant food and nightlife scene, and many beautiful neighborhoods. There is a lot of poverty (not very visible to tourists), and there is some homelessness (which is visible), but it remains a great city to visit and to live in.
by jpjuni0r | 2025-08-12 06:10:29+00:00
> if you use simple unchanged files for other dynamic stuff like JSON etc, you can just generate those on build and serve those files in the host directly

Other web frameworks support this too, if you look for "static export" options. Next.js, for example, supports this via the getInitialProps function.

What I like especially about Astro, that you perform this data loading during build time from any component/file on your page. With Next.js, this is only possible via the top level Page component.
by conductr | 2025-08-12 06:10:52+00:00
I see no need to sugar coat it when it's my reality and there's no labor disputes. If you want to be outraged by what works in my relationship have at it, meanwhile we'll continue our 20 years and counting... but if it makes you feel better, I fully realize it's self-deprecating and I'm basically a Homer Simpson of an oaf. I'd invite you to consider that some women/wives actually enjoy traditional home-making and more traditional roles which we have followed as it comes natural to us based our similar values. While you're at it, you should consider that I have a pretty high stress job and she doesn't. I also make about 8x what she makes and while she chooses to work, she's the one with the bandwidth for maintaining the house/kid's schedule. Need I continue?
by pmontra | 2025-08-12 06:10:55+00:00
There are many western democracies where there no single ruling party. 'The government' is made by an alliance of many different parties (eg: 25% + 15% + 10% + 5%.) They might share a common overall view of the world but each party can have a very different take on many subjects. The actual government has to do only what all of them agree upon, and the 5% party may have a disproportionate weight because that party leaving the government is as important as the 25% party leaving it.

So, the government is the people in the government and the small parties can be very vocal against it. Opposition from inside is a double edged tool to attempt to get more votes in the next elections, even from within the same coalition.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-12 06:12:15+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Gaza_Strip_anti-Hamas_pro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Gaza_economic_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Gaza_economic_protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%932012_Palestinian_...
by appstorelottery | 2025-08-12 06:13:39+00:00
Lol.

Need a number? Slap a φ on it. Doesn't fit? Raise φ to a fractional power. Still not right? Multiply by π and add a "morphic resonance correction"

Still - you got me all the way to https://www.frac.tl/ - nice job!
by TheDong | 2025-08-12 06:13:47+00:00
> It's like coming across a key someone dropped on the road. You don't even know what it's for.

There's a lot of keys that are self-identifying, even real keys. My key has "Apartment Name, Apartment Number" engraved into the head, and searching the apartment name on google brings it up in the first 5 results.

Let's say you find the following plaintext on the network: "sk-xxx....". Do you know what it's for? What if it's AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE?

What if it's a list of words from the BIP-39 wordlist?

> Of course all this assumes that there's even someone paying any special attention to the probably huge volume of data that these services are going to get.

It only takes one person, and since this is HTTP traffic, not HTTPS, the number of people who can see it is huge. Everyone on your wifi (i.e. the whole coffeeshop, remember firesheep), your ISP, each router between your ISP and china, and so on.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone is scanning all traffic that they see for bitcoin private keys and BIP-39 phrases since both of those could lead to some significant financial gain.

Heck, back in the day in my college dorm I ran a wifi hotspot only to sniff plaintext traffic and poke around, since I had a less strong sense of morals, and I bet the kids these days are still doing that.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-08-12 06:14:10+00:00
There are many differences, one of them is that when you buy a calculator it will serve you well. Other is that calculator does not confabulate the result from time to time and you don't have to pay attention and recheck everything it calculated... And the calculator does not provide you with the most appealing results that are _de facto_ calculated to deceive you
by fnord123 | 2025-08-12 06:14:48+00:00
> Excel single-handedly redeems Microsoft from being a pure drain on human existence

Debatable. Excel can't even open CSV files properly. You need to run the import wizard. But loads of people don't do this. They see a file on their desktop and double click it. Why can't double clicking a CSV file just open the import wizard!? (Because they want people to share xlsx files as a data format.)
by alexchantavy | 2025-08-12 06:15:33+00:00
It's always better when companies are hungry for business. I thought that in 2016ish it was super cool for Microsoft to get into Linux, build VS Code, and make bets like the Surface Studio.

For comparison, I think Mac OS in 2008 was also at a bit of a golden age:

- You had native file support for .iso, .zip without needing to install crapware like Winzip.

- You even could preview *.psd files out the box.

- You had first-party apps like Image Capture to scan documents without needing to install extra software.

- There was an amazing third-party app ecosystem with things like Yojimbo, OnyX, Little Snitch, Quicksilver, Handbrake, Coda, Adium.

This was around the time of the "I'm a Mac" campaign when Apple was _hungry_ to win business away from Windows. All of these small, polished advantages made me fall in love with the experience.

OSX today is still good but there definitely isn't that same level of "underdog hunger" showing up in the products as of late.

Anyway I'm just trying to say companies being hungry for business shows up in its products and that's better for consumers.
by gambiting | 2025-08-12 06:15:47+00:00
Why pick Warsaw? It's like using London as an example when someone lives in the UK - it's not representative of a country. I'm from the South of Poland, 145k after taxes gets you a big house with plenty of land, not a condo.

>>Buying an apartment but having my life remain the same, same job, same hours, same activities, is not "life changing" to me.

That's a weird definition,most people would consider not having to worry about housing pretty life changing. But you know, you're free to have any definition you want. "Having enough money to retire and not work" isn't the goal for all of us. I'd rather keep working and making more money, but not having to worry about a mortgage would be pretty life changing(for me).
by brabel | 2025-08-12 06:15:56+00:00
So they only got caught because they were too efficient in their scheme and rose to number 1 in translations. How many more schemes go unnoticed? Not saying Wikipedia is not doing a great job, just saying that there is probably a lot of such schemes and that it seems nearly impossible to stop them all. It’s sad that a lot of people don’t want the truth to be available, at least when it concerns themselves, they want you to only know what they think you should, like on their Instagram.
by nerfellicat | 2025-08-12 06:16:54+00:00
Hinton talks are hilarious. He goes from explaining perceptrons to huge claims like "this is what understanding is", "that's how our brain works", "linguists are cranks if they don't agree", and "this proves there is no god" but the last one as some weird little anecdote involving some religious migrant worker, and implies heavily that disagreeing with him is equivalent with having religious beliefs.

It's pretty wild.
by markasoftware | 2025-08-12 06:17:28+00:00
a bloom filter look up is by hash, and given the relatively small set of words in english, it would be pretty easy for the server to reverse the hash sent to it. Thus a bloom filter wouldn't be very private.

Additionally, a typical spell checker feature is to provide alternative, correct, spellings, rather than just telling you whether a word is correctly spelled.

I bet there's some cool way to do this with zero-knowledge or homomorphic cryptography though!
by gargan | 2025-08-12 06:18:00+00:00
Biggest mistake the Americans did was codify their constitution. I'll probably be pilloried for that but look at the evidence:

- US is about to have military on the streets during peacetime with no terror threat within a codified constitution

- UK has had military on the streets in response to terrorism in Northern Ireland (a real threat) and not for decades. The UK constitution is uncodified and spread over many (10+?) documents ranging from Magna Carta in the 1200s to the Bill of Rights in the 1600s to documents written in the 1800s and then more modern Acts of Parliament.

Importantly the UK constitution can slowly change which means the UK has never had a revolution and never will do. Whereas the US constitution is rigid which achieves the opposite: when it does change it'll be dramatic and as a result of another violent revolution.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-12 06:18:11+00:00
It's 99.99% an UI issue.

If Google wouldn't have let perfect be the enemy of good and had added PGP support to Gmail early on (even just the shittiest signatures that are automatically applied and verified), the world would be a completely different place. Scams just wouldn't exist at this scale when signing mails with a known key would be the standard.

The tech is there, now we have Matrix and XMPP and PubSub and god knows how many protocols to share keys. Even Keybase.io still kind of exists.

What is lacking is a browser ecosystem for people to use their known identities to vouch for a specific url (with smart hashing so that changing the content would invalidate the trust).

We have the technology. Someone(tm) "just" needs to build it :)
by kseistrup | 2025-08-12 06:18:17+00:00
There once was an app called “Do It (Tomorrow)“: https://www.tomorrow.do/

I believe it has been discontinued.

It simply has two list: the “inbox“ where you would add anything that should be done, and then a “tomorrow” list.

As you went through your day you would either swipe to delete any done task, or you would swipe it to the “tomorrow” list. At the end of the day, the “tomorrow” list would be merged with the “inbox”.

Simple and effective.
by jh00ker | 2025-08-12 06:19:00+00:00
> Physical cues are wonderful!

You would love this project! https://littlesignals.withgoogle.com/

"Little Signals considers new patterns for technology in our daily lives. The six objects in the series keep us in the loop, but softly, moving from the background to foreground as needed.

Each object has its own communication method, like puffs of air or ambient sounds. Additionally, their simple movements and controls bring them to life and respond to changing surroundings and needs."

I've been wanting to build these since the project came out, but never found the time. Has anyone else here built them with success? I'd love to hear your story about how you used them!
by ljf | 2025-08-12 06:21:02+00:00
The 'problem' with those for remote workers is that you pay per minute/hour in a cybercafe - in a normal coffee shop you can just nurse one coffee for hours and pay a single low cost (and get a coffee).

I can't remember the name of it now but back in 2010s there was an 'OK' managed drop-in office space you could rent for £10 a day in central London - which came with free coffee and printing - I haven't looked at the prices lately.