MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goku12 | 2025-08-18 06:42:56+00:00
There! This is exactly what I mean. Your solution for all of mens' problems is therapy, instead of dealing with the sexist/judgemental media that are hard to miss unless you take some special measures prescribed by therapists. It's like the proverbial someone with only a hammer.

So let me say this unambiguously - The therapists are not there to clean up the mess that the society insists on inflicting. The first line of defense is to prevent that mess in the first place. Let me demonstrate this with an exaggerated example. Would you say that the solution for SA against women is for them to consult therapists/psychologists after the fact, rather than implementing preventive community measures against SA? Therapy is only for those who couldn't be protected by the preventive measures - in either case.

I'm not seriously affected by such videos, because I have reasons. But I also have reasons to call out such dismissive hand waving. And one of those reasons is the damage to the society it inflicts, exemplified by the article that this discussion itself is based on. The often superfluous advise to 'consult a therapist' is an attempt to lay the blame on men with some imagined mental disorder and thus maintain the status quo that leads to scary and painful situations like men allowing their legs to be broken. For that matter, are there enough therapists and psychologists around to deal with so many cases? Is the treatment cheap enough for normal people to afford at all?

To be clear, sexism and judgement are not directed only against men. Women and children are also frequently targeted by sexist bullying. I have seen a documentary on women being shamed into doing something similarly horrific, and wondered why anyone would fill them with such insecurity. I have read in horror, the stories of teenagers being bullied into killing themselves. I really do have empathy for all of them. But the solution is clear and the same - It must be addressed by holding the perpetrators accountable. But when it comes to the same against men, the society overwhelmingly tends to take a very dismissive, unsympathetic and outright hostile stance, choosing to blame men instead of introspecting. The casual double standards at display is deeply unsettling. But such selective protections won't harm just the ones being left out. It will bleed over to those who're being protected as well. And I can see clear indications of an entire generation suffering emotionally for it - no exceptions by gender.
by miki123211 | 2025-08-18 06:43:04+00:00
> You need to introduce an invasive great firewall before you can effectively ban VPNs

If you're China, yes. If you're a large and powerful western country, not so much.

The way to do it would be through the concept of "data laundering." Just like the US does with money laundering, the government would publish a list of all organizations and individuals engaged in the practice. All companies operating in that country would need to (globally) sever all ties with everybody who is on the list. Everybody else could choose between doing the same or ending up on the list themselves.

Only powerful countries could do this effectively, less powerful ones would just isolate themselves, just like China did. The US could definitely do it. The EU, UK, Japan and maybe India probably could, but it would be dicy. Everybody else would fail spectacularly.
by jeffrallen | 2025-08-18 06:43:34+00:00
I once worked for an $ENTERPRISE which made, among other things, office telephones. Like the real physical ones, with buttons. I also found the problem with no one knows what X is or who owns it.

My solution was to just PICK UP THE PHONE and talk to the last person who had a commit in the version control system on that thing. Which worked fine until I tried calling an engineer in Elbownia, when I realized that part of what made offshoring so profitable was that this company, who made phones (and softphones) didn't even give phones to people outside of North America and Europe.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-18 06:43:46+00:00
Yea I like this one, I feel like they should change the name but maybe that's just my opinion and the author is free to do what they want with the project's name.

But still doxx feels like it would just get some unwarranted attention when its unnecessary and docc seems a nice enough name too.

I mean, the project seems fantastic but still the project seems quite new and I don't think that it would suffer anything from a name change.
by philips | 2025-08-18 06:45:15+00:00
It would be nice to provide a way to edit the prompt. I have a use case where I need to extract tabular handwritten data from PDFs scanned with a phone and I don't want it to extract the printed instructions on the form, etc.

I have a very similar Go script that does this. My prompt: Create a CSV of the handwritten text in the table. Include the package number on each line. Only output a CSV.
by overfeed | 2025-08-18 06:45:33+00:00
Obviously gp forgot that open source projects fall under the ambit of open source law, witten by open source legislators and adjudicated by open source court circuits /s

The "west" absolutely has a monolithic IP jurisprudence, rules codified by trade agreements and passed laws[1]. This has harmed open source in the past, such as the multi-decade, recurring issue where folk have the license to make use of the source code, but not the associated trademarks.

1. As evidence, I offer the great mobile patent wars of the 2010's, which played out similarly across multiple countries the suits were filed, except the home-countries where the scales were the scales were thumbed.
by sivm | 2025-08-18 06:49:19+00:00
Oh and the clues probably need a computer. But the final solution is just pencil and paper.

When you START searching for edges. Start with the YAR line. That’s what I did. But it goes on and on. Waypoint selectors…

The clues are in the K4 block of text, the actual answer is another layer using the rugged edges of all the panels. Oh and you need a timing program

If he responds I might write it up. But basically use compass order for edge stream in layer 1, use k0 (find the working sequence) for a digital interpretation (timing mask- diff from the E’s I used for clues) for layer 2, then start anchoring and rotating (use OOO for anchor after Ne block, one very small ordering move, and find your finisher cipher with clues.
by goku12 | 2025-08-18 06:49:27+00:00
Oh! It very much is! They're people on the streets. And even if you decide to neglect it, others who associate with you may not. And they may end up treating you in exactly the same way as on social media. I have seen real life examples of it. Besides, it's too imprudent to neglect the lessons of the past like how FB was implicated in the genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar. And if that wasn't bad enough, the latest AI/LLM filter bubble is conspicuously widening the social fractures like the gender wars to an extreme level.
by BrenBarn | 2025-08-18 06:49:46+00:00
That's a good way to put it and is something I've often thought as well, although not just in the technical realm. I think of it as "doing a different job". You used to be a teacher but now you're the principal; you used to hammer in nails but now you direct the construction crew; you used to be writing software but now you manage other people who write software; etc.

Personally I'd struggle to consider that "development" for my own life, since it often amounts to no longer doing the job I like and instead watching other people do it. I can understand how adding new skills is positive, though.
by remarkEon | 2025-08-18 06:50:07+00:00
I'm sorry that happened. The last sentence wasn't necessary, and you should edit your comment to delete it. It's not an unusual observation to make, that there exists alternatives to drugs, and making it personal seems to detract from your point, which I think is that there is likely to be some population that doesn't respond to getting in shape, doing healthy leisure activities and so on. This is a pretty anodyne observation that is hard to disagree with. Consider that your response seems to reinforce my point about how "they can't ever get off of [it]".
by pjerem | 2025-08-18 06:51:53+00:00
For now, I still have hard time believing in unattended agents. Be it using a computer or generating programs.

I mean that would sure be a nice demo, but it’s too probabilistic to give AI agents real tasks (and it seems that isn’t going to change anytime soon).

It’s all fun and games until it implies spending money and/or taking responsibility.

And be it in personal life or in businesses, money and responsibility are vital things.

Sure you can ask LLMs to generate a minesweeper game with custom rules or ask it to summarize headlines from HN.

Releasing a program an unattended agent generated to real clients that pay you or asking it to order a non refundable flight ticket is something else.

However, I can see the point of an agent that uses my computer while I watch it.
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-08-18 06:52:34+00:00
I remember reading a memoir of a manual therapist who described his work with Ida Rolf. Rolf discovered a specific approach to massage, "rolfing". It appeared very effective, she had a number of apprentices and followers and she was interested in clinical testing and such. Turned out that it would be very expensive. With all her money she could maybe afford a couple small-scale trials. She decided money could be better spent elsewhere.
Ask HN: How do you set Newsletter pricing? Confused 8k
by karanveer | 2025-08-18 06:53:30+00:00
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Newsletter sends 4 mails per week, pre week.

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by BrenBarn | 2025-08-18 06:56:13+00:00
> it would be extremely unpopular if people woke up one day and found Google was blocked in their country for fear of violating some law with extreme damages

This may be true, but arresting drug dealers would also be unpopular with a lot of junkies. :-)

The problem is that these kinds of harmful practices (by companies) are like a slow frog-boil. The companies foreground the benefits and hide the costs until people are lulled into dependence and are unwilling to roll it back. But that doesn't mean we don't need to roll it back. It might hurt, but we still need to do it.
by godelski | 2025-08-18 06:56:20+00:00
> Because it's fiction and the Author is God. >> These are fiction, but I find this so interesting

I mean... I do recognize this fact. I hope we're clear on that.

> The characters treat it like a highly advanced Alexa.

I see a lot of people use GPT the same way.

But also, I disagree. People do ask "How are you feeling today?" to the holo programs. Hell, Paris makes a joke to Kim about how everyone falls in love with a holo character at some point. That it is the fantasy.

> 'The Author' could have easily positioned the computer or the holodeck in a similar manner and people would agree it was sentient.

I mentioned [1] for a good reason. There were more than one episode addressing this point. Not to mention the entire Voyager where this is a subplot of the entire series.

> Or Star Wars droids could easily be given more of this kind of weight than they are currently given.

I disagree. Some feel very alive.

I get your point and there's a lot I agree with it but I think you're brushing things off too quickly. You can't just say that people have no free interpretation and "the author" fooled everyone. Especially where there are plenty of stories and episodes which bring all this into question. Please, go read [0]
by tucnak | 2025-08-18 06:57:09+00:00
Please stop spewing nonsense.

SQL remains the only way to efficiently perform MANY computations in the database precisely because it's lingua franca for the database planner. If you're not writing SQL, it doesn't mean that you're unable to cover 1% of the queries, it only means that you're leaving 99% of performance on the table. You can tell a bad programmer by their refusing to use views and materialized views. Not to mention normalisation! I'm yet to see a coder using ORM produce a sane schema. And don't get me started on aggregates. Relational databases represent relations, not objects, period.
by actionfromafar | 2025-08-18 06:57:21+00:00
There was probably motivated reasoning with the snail darter, but to call it outright fraud is a bit rich. The hypothesis was proven wrong with technology we didn't have access to in 1973. (Re [1])

It's also kind of funny to me that "all academics are far left". I'd love to hear more about that.

Regarding what is critical to preserve, I don't know. Maybe some laws should be changed or amended.

[1]: https://yibs.yale.edu/news/fish-center-key-conservation-figh...
by WA | 2025-08-18 06:57:48+00:00
It uses queryCommandState(), which is a deprecated browser feature [1]. It's quite common in many simpler WYSIWYG editors. Thing is, it might be so widespread that some people claim that it will never be truly deprecated.

OverType doesn't use this and the result is that you gotta build all the features in JS.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/qu...
by strken | 2025-08-18 06:58:01+00:00
I've had two separate experiences reading a story on RoyalRoad, getting ten chapters in, noticing that any individual chapter is technically great but I just don't care about the characters or plot can't be bothered reading further, and then noticing the story was AI-assisted.

I think the AI seems to struggle with consistency of characters and themes, and particularly with character growth over time: it can write touching moments, but these don't fit properly with the character's actions before and then after. It reads a bit like a story written by a hundred professional authors who can skim-read all the previous chapters but are on a strict time limit and don't have access to each other's notes. This makes me wonder if they're just not giving the AI notes on structure and character.
by girginsoft | 2025-08-18 06:58:40+00:00
I will share my experience. AI is speeding up the bootstrapping phase of the project or prototyping. However, when you are working on a project with millions of lines of code, it is approximately helping 5-10% only with some autocompletion or googling. In addition to that, since AI is not retrained on up-to-date data, it sometimes uses old APIs or old information, old methodologies. That is one of the downfalls, I think, at the moment. The biggest downside is that we will face the result in the future, where new graduates and junior developers will use it heavily at the moment; they will not be able to learn the details or nuances properly. That makes me scared about the future because overall software quality will collapse/drop in the future, in my opinion.
by godelski | 2025-08-18 06:59:07+00:00
Here, I'll rephrase thenoblesunfish for clarity, because you seem to have misread

> Is this why the Google product (now just called Gemini) was called [Bard]?

"That" == "Bard".

They weren't referring to Gemini, which is why there's that whole thing in parentheses stating it's *now* called Gemini

From Wiki

| The technology was developed under the codename "Atlas", with the name "Bard" in reference to the Celtic term for a storyteller and chosen to "reflect the creative nature of the algorithm underneath".
by troupo | 2025-08-18 07:00:52+00:00
Ah yes. A "blockchain" that checks notes isn't a blockchain (uses their own implementation of a DAG) and checks notes is running on a single product by a single company.

The actual disruptor here is Google Spanner which actually handles all the ACID required.

> If crypto destroys the fx money changer companies that charge egregious fees and makes it such that I can send money to friends and family without delay and fees I’d be all for that

Strange how this amazing ripe-for-the-taking idea has been said about crypto for 20 years now. And somehow it's always "too early, it's coming in the future"
by lyu07282 | 2025-08-18 07:01:40+00:00
3.75 billion URLs, according to this[1] the average URL is 76.97 characters would be ~268.8 GiB without the goo.gl id/metadata. So I also wonder whats up with that.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250125064617/http://www.superm...
by LocalH | 2025-08-18 07:02:47+00:00
At the earlier stages that qualify you for the in-person tourneys, it's probably the players' hardware. Once you get to the later levels, it's in-person on Epic-provided hardware. But there are tons of Fortnite players. Getting to the in-person rounds in and of itself could be worth it, as in the largest regions even the top 20-25 get more than it would cost to acquire a DMA interposer. So you'd have to be a top-level player who is cheating to gain an edge (which is probably the most common amongst all video game cheaters) as opposed to someone who cheats because they utterly suck.

Then again, Epic is fierce when it comes to cheaters. They have taken multiple cheaters to court and won, once they got to the higher levels (or if they were involved in distributing/selling cheats).
by karel-3d | 2025-08-18 07:03:09+00:00
How can this work? What is "DNS tricks"? DNS is just telling you where the site is?

edit: ah it spoofs the EDNS subnet for the DNS request, so it gives you server "intended" for a different location. You will get slower connection but if it's poorly implemented and they have geofencing just on that layer, it will not do the age verification stuff.

It's interesting that it works, but... the website can still tell your IP through TCP handshake... it might fool some sites that have geofencing on DNS level.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-18 07:04:03+00:00
I don't think companies like Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta are in a bubble. They're making real profits or they are foundational. Likewise, I don't think S&P500 companies who are adopting LLMs in a big way are in a bubble.

I do think startups with multi-billion dollar valuations but mostly relying on OpenAI/Claude are in a bubble. There's no reason a company like Windsurf was worth $3b or Cursor should have $10b.
by gethly | 2025-08-18 07:04:06+00:00
Syntax highlighting for markdown input is a good idea. I too have a markdown input and i have two modes for render - either the github style where you manually toggle between editing and rendering or i have two columns with editing on one side and live render on the other.

I too was close to making my own wysiwyg, trello for example has a md wysiwyg, so i knew it was doable with contenteditabe. But after talking with the dev community I was constantly warned by people who took the path before to not do it. So in the end i did not as i did not want to invest more time than i wanted to commit to the project.

Good for you, that you did and you made it to the finish line.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-18 07:04:37+00:00
> Inference APIs aren’t subsidised

A lot of people disagreed with this point when I posted it, however Sam Altman said last week:

> We're profitable on inference. If we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.

— https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chat...
by dns_snek | 2025-08-18 07:06:01+00:00
Why are you carrying water for Google of all corporations? Praising them for investing into the browser and claiming that we should be thankful for their work is nothing short of appalling. That rhetoric is carrying water for the fundamental belief that monopolies are good as long as their stranglehold produces some positive side effects that we can appreciate.

Chrome isn't the only browser that exists, no, but it damn well isn't for the lack of trying. They've been trying to smother every alternative and now that they've largely succeeded, they're trying to push hostile changes like Web Environment Integrity and Manifest V3 that take even more power away from their users.

Other companies have search, other companies have ads, other companies have apps, other companies host video, one other company has a mobile platform and a browser, but they don't have all of those combined, and the one company that has most of those (Apple) is just as anti-competitive and just as problematic as Google. What makes them anti-competitive is how they leverage their dominance in ALL of those areas to smother any fair alternative in their crib.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-08-18 07:06:11+00:00
> For not having power connected?

Yes.

And folks in Florida. And Arizona. And Colorado. And wherever else. Building codes and HOAs exist and absolutely have their own standards for habitability. It's not that hard to turn up news articles of folks who run afoul of this.

In California it is/was the energy code that required connection to the grid. In Arizona where a house could easily reach unsafe temperatures without working A/C there's almost certainly a safety aspect to requiring a grid connection.
by joshuamoyers | 2025-08-18 07:07:13+00:00
I really like this approach. Nice job!

> We also plan to compile solved steps into micro‑policies. If you're running something like a RPA task or similar workflow as before, you can simply run the execution locally (with archon-mini running locally) and not have to worry about the planning. Over time, the planner is a background teacher, not a crutch.

Conceptually, I really like this - why re-do the work of reasoning about an already solved task? Just do it again. For some plausibly large majority of things, this could speed things up considerably.

> In the future we hope to run a streaming capture pipeline similar to Gemma 3. Consuming frames at 20–30 fps, emitting actions at 5–10 Hz, and verifying state on each commit.

I love targets like this. It makes you tune the architecture and abstractions to push the boundary of whats possible with a traditional agent loop.

The salience heat map compression is a great idea. I think you could take this a step further and tune a model so that it compresses an image into a textual semantic/interactive element hierarchy. This is effectively what browser-use is doing, just using javascript instead of a vision model.

This seems like a task that would benefit from narrow focus. I'm aware of the "Bitter Lesson," but my intuition seems to tell me that chaining together fit to purpose classification as an input to an intelligent planning system is the way to go.
by ajuc | 2025-08-18 07:07:34+00:00
So there's 2 thesis in this article.

1. joke quality is how much sense the punchline makes as a completion of the setup minus the probability of finding the punchline given just the setup

2. jokes are subjective, people disagree wildly about how good a joke is, so if you aggregate preferences you get mediocre jokes at best.

I think 1 is the important part. If it was just 2 - comedians with widespread appeal wouldn't exist, but they do.

But 1 is basically the exact opposite of how LLM work. So it's no surprise it's hard for them.

It would be interesting to compare how well LLMs can estimate how funny a joke is vs how good they are at generating jokes.
by nicoburns | 2025-08-18 07:07:38+00:00
We do this for some of the components that are shared between Servo and Firefox. Firefox is upstream, and on the Servo side we have automated and manual syncing. The automated syncing mirrors the upstream `main` branch to our `upstream` without changes daily. The manual syncing rebases our changes on top a new upstream version through a manual rebase process. This happens monthly and each sync is pushed to a new branch to maintain history.

Between monthly syncs we push our own changes to our latest monthly branch (which also get manually sent upstream when we get a chance).