MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pmyteh | 2025-08-11 15:38:58+00:00
Some of it is probably about the scope of UK judicial review. Acts of Parliament are absolutely exempt from being struck down. The closest you can get is a "declaration of incompatibility" that a bill is incapable of being read in such a way as complying with the European Convention on Human Rights. If at all possible the courts will gloss and/or interpret hard to come up with a compliant reading. And an incompatibility declaration just suggests Parliament looks again: it doesn't invalidate a law by itself.

Executive acts, on the other hand, can be annulled or overturned reasonably straightforwardly, and this includes the regulations that flesh out the details of Acts of Parliament (which are executive instruments even when they need Parliamentary approval).

In short, judicial review is a practical remedy for a particular decision. "These regulations may unreasonably burden my speech" is potentially justiciable. "This Act could be used to do grave evil" isn't. If an act can be implemented in a Convention compatible way then the courts will assume it will until shown otherwise.

The consequences can look something like the report of this judgement. Yes, it looks like the regulations could harm Wikipedia in ways that might not be Convention compatible. But because interpretation and enforcement is in the hands of Ofcom, it's not yet clear. If they are, Wikipedia have been (essentially) invited to come back. But the regulations are not void ab inito.
by qualeed | 2025-08-11 15:39:09+00:00
>During that visit, I was told that children could never be left alone, inside or outside the home—EVEN IN THEIR OWN BEDROOMS—until they were 13 years old. Social Services said specifically that I had to be in each room with them at all times until they were 13.

This must be a mistake from the CPS agent, surely? For one, it's obviously absurd (you'd get a CPS call if they found out you were "supervising" your 12 year old in the bathroom or while changing), but secondly (and I might be mistaken), in most places I've looked at/known people/lived in, you are allowed to privately babysit at the age of 12.

In any case, this whole thing is a bit too rage-inducing for a Monday morning read.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-11 15:39:26+00:00
For most senior software engineer roles at companies I've seen, the act of actually thinking about, designing, and writing code is probably 25% or less of your job. There's so much other non-development stuff that goes on. Advocating for features, writing boilerplate docs, seeking stamps of approval for this and that, reviewing other people's work, navigating internal process (your release is gated by Deployment System X which is waiting for Privacy and Legal sign-off), interviewing, writing down what work you've done for your next annual review with your manager, and of course meetings, meetings, meetings. Even if AI does speed up coding by 30-50%, that's maybe 10-15% of actual savings.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-11 15:39:29+00:00
Build communities. Build social connections. It’s totally valid to pull back from work given everything going on (stagnant wages, longer hours, frequent layoffs, AI threats, surveillance, etc), but you gotta put that energy somewhere else.

Make friends. Start a game night or hackathon with friends. Pick up new skills you’ve been putting off. Finding personal meaning outside of work is the key to surviving times like these.
by microtonal | 2025-08-11 15:39:57+00:00
For me, I think the value of sharing with other people still outweighs the 'leeching' by proprietary for-profit vendors. Ideally, I'd like to be able to set an option on a repo: no LLM training, only training material for open weight models, and training material for all models. Though sadly, I do not think we could trust all vendors to respect such a flag, so now it is all or nothing.

Personally, I would select only training material for open models. Pandora's box is already open, but if we are going to have LLMs, I want them to be available to everyone and not gated by a small number of companies. Since open models generally have less of a benefit of scale in terms of GPUs, I want them to have the benefit of more available/higher quality training data.
by sitkack | 2025-08-11 15:40:12+00:00
In the grand scheme of things, even GPLing your code doesn't matter as the AI is still trained on it. As AI increases in capabilities, it can just read and rewrite your code. And all code is useful in some way.

As mentioned in the comment, private on GH has no bearing, it is still in full sight of the AI.

From what I can tell, OSS submissions are on the rise as people embrace AI to work on things they could not previously.
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-11 15:40:17+00:00
Not saying this is the case, but sometimes, if CPS is involved in an inane-sounding investigation, it's because they were involved before in a less-inane investigation. A person with a history of neglect can _say_ they were adopting a free range parenting style, but if they had a kid die in a hot car two years ago, you can understand how CPS would watch more closely.

I saw an article floating around about a couple that were prosecuted for letting their child cross a street alone to go to a store, but it was actually a highway and one of their other kids had died on that highway a few years ago.

Having been involved in the foster care system before, I can tell you, no parent believes they were doing anything wrong, ever. They almost all exclusively believe they were being unfairly targeted for past transgressions or unfair accusations. That happens, but given how everyone says that, it's not a good signal.

Yes, this may not be the case in this article, or even in most cases, but it is something to consider about human nature.
by Lasokki | 2025-08-11 15:40:21+00:00
https://ageverification.dev/

"The European Commission is developing a harmonized, EU-wide approach to age verification, accompanied by a comprehensive age verification blueprint that is intended to facilitate practical adoption across all Member States and can be customised to the national context. Built upon the robust European Digital Identity Wallet framework, this user-friendly and privacy-preserving age verification solution enables individuals to demonstrate their eligibility for age-restricted online services, such as those restricted to adults, without disclosing more personal information than absolutely necessary"

So basically, the intention is to provide a solution where users do not need an account or to provide their passports to BigBootyXXX.com. The site just asks if this session or user is of legal age and the age verification system will respond with a TRUE/FALSE
by jayd16 | 2025-08-11 15:40:34+00:00
In general, the idea with technology is it's cheaper to do things.

It's easier to start the next widget company because building widgets with the technology is cheaper.

It's easier to consume other things because goods are cheaper to make with the tech.

A third option is that the tech enables something all together new, eg television, that starts a new industry.

As far as direct job creation, the third way is the most obvious but probably not the case at the moment. So I guess we're stuck waiting for goods and services made with AI to get cheaper.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-11 15:40:45+00:00
For the simple reason that it didn’t change my life. Before I received it I thought it would. After I received it, paid taxes , etc. My life didn’t change at all.

It’s a fact that my life didn’t change so it wasn’t a life changing amount of money for me.

Maybe it would be life changing for others. tho at least in sf/nyc/la I suspect it wouldn’t for most people. If I had given it to my sister she’d have used it to pay down her mortgage. her life wouldn’t change. she’d have still had a mortgage and her day to day life wouldn’t have changed at all. My nephew could have used it to pay off his student loans. That would be great but again his daily life wouldn’t have changed
by icw_nru | 2025-08-11 15:40:51+00:00
Did you look at the article? This investigation directly corroborates existing reports from third parties like Human Rights Watch. There is even an intake form directly from the Israeli government calling for the censorship posts of posts at Meta. We even posted their phone and fax number in case anyone is interested in having a friendly chat with them.

All data collected is directly from Meta, and the whisteblowers themselves are open to sharing this data with any authority or court willing to look into this. Everything is well documented. Where and how the data was obtained is also documented as well.

Or alternatively, you can wait for the next leak.
by majora2007 | 2025-08-11 15:40:52+00:00
It hasn't changed anything for me. I don't really care if AI trains on my code or not. I write open source to share the code for other developers and give back as a way of pay it forward, to all the people's libraries I've relied on before.

Are people open sourcing their works in hopes to make money and that's their concern? I've never heard of that from people involved in open source.
by suninsight | 2025-08-11 15:40:59+00:00
So we tried that route - but problem is that these interfaces aren't suited for asynchronous updates. Like if the agent is working for the next hour or so - how do you communicate that in mediums like these. An Agent, unlike a human, is only invoked when you give it a task.

If you use the interface at nonbios.ai - you will quickly realize that it is hard to reproduce on slack/discord. Even though its still technically 'chat'
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-11 15:41:02+00:00
Moving dirt around is an input into many other things. Because moving dirt around is now cheap, we now build a lot more and a lot better roads than we did when moving dirt had to be done with human / animal labor. That road system directly and indirectly created millions of jobs.

Similarly, software is a crucial input to pretty much everything in modern society. More / better software would create tons of new jobs.

I'm not so sure that more worse software will create those jobs though, and that seems to be the direction we're moving with AI.
by mschaef | 2025-08-11 15:41:06+00:00
Thanks for trying. (It expects mixed-case, which I need to actually say in the messaging.)

The codebase started out as something I used entirely myself, so the aspects of the workflow that relate to new user onboarding (most important for actually getting customers) are the ones that are the weakest. So this part of the codebase is where I'm working now to clean it up and it's probably also the most rough.
by kepano | 2025-08-11 15:41:17+00:00
> The promise that Obsidian will always use markdown isn’t self-guaranteeing.

True, but Obsidian doesn't make that promise. The promise is "file over app": you control the files you create. In this way the promise is not reversible, and self-verifiable.

"...will always use markdown" is not something any app can guarantee. At best an open source app can guarantee it for a specific version (assuming it doesn't require a connection, or the user can self-host the server).
by lubujackson | 2025-08-11 15:41:21+00:00
And lo, new companies were created to fill the void. AI will cause quite a shakeup but short term stock manipulation eventually needs to be paid off (let's call it "management debt" like "tech debt").

The simpler way to view this is that AI creates value. We can argue how much and what kind, but our economy is reliant on ever-increasing value and is pretty good at utilizing it.

Microsoft didn't get smaller when computers got better, their market got much bigger.
by ChanderG | 2025-08-11 15:41:31+00:00
Shameless plug: I built [1] and use a small magit like interface on top of org-mode.

I love org for all its bells and whistles and use them in various ways. But most of the time I need a small subset of org in a form-factor that allows ease of use.

[1] https://github.com/ChanderG/toodoo.el
by julianpye | 2025-08-11 15:41:38+00:00
I swear by Mindmapping Applications (e.g. Xmind, Mindmanager) - one file every month (extractable with a python library for LLM evaluation).

One top-level branch is a prioritized Inbox with a Pending branch at the top (Item half-completed, but awaits external action, e.g. an order has to arrive).

One top-level branch with Done, which is a folder with a branch for each week, then day, where I dump completed items into

One top-level branch for ongoing subscriptions with alerts

Collapsed top-level branches for Hobbies and Family Ideas and things-to-do

With xmind, you can easily tag the task progress of each item.

Took me 8 years, including a really beautiful Android ToDo Concept which I build and ended up abandoning :D
by jasode | 2025-08-11 15:41:50+00:00
>Every "add-on" and layer beyond the .txt happens to run on a complex wetware device that came built-in with my body.

He was addressing the comments such as mine that determined a txt file without any runtime software layered on was not enough for some people. The built-in wetware was inadequate.

Apparently, you are one of the lucky ones that can just use a txt file. For others, they need a little more support apparatus ("bicycle for the mind") enabled by some type of active app that complements the TODO.txt file.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-11 15:41:58+00:00
What you're saying is that no matter the level of automation we have to keep working as much, and we have to consume as much as the system asks us to consume, because now we need a sucker to pay for these 6 new extra "services"

Maybe, just maybe, we could slow things down, profit from the time saved instead of trying to squeeze more out of every fucking thing we put our hands on.
by burkaman | 2025-08-11 15:42:02+00:00
If you don't trust the stats, then again, how would you know what effect the National Guard has? I can give you my subjective assessment as a DC resident, which is that crime is pretty low and it's a great place to live, but that isn't very useful to anyone who doesn't know me personally.

If you don't trust the stats then the Guard is being sent in for no reason and there will be no way to determine what impact they have. That is a terrible situation for everyone.

> It’s nice to be data driven but that isn’t really possible in our low trust society.

I don't think these concepts (interpersonal trust vs. accuracy of government statistics) are very related. For example China has one of the highest levels of interpersonal trust in the world (https://ourworldindata.org/trust), but notoriously unreliable government statistics.
by mzajc | 2025-08-11 15:42:48+00:00
> This is such that only what's seen or about to be seen is put on the page

This reads like it's a lazy loading library, but then the roadmap has features like

> Assign Items to Users

> Kanban View

> Collaborative Editing

Which read like something you'd have in a project management solution. How do these two concepts form a cohesive product and who is the target audience? I've seen my fair share of Jira and Trello hellscapes, but I doubt Kanban boards with more entries than memory can handle are very common.
by js2 | 2025-08-11 15:43:00+00:00
> export IS_SANDBOX=1 && claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

FYI, this can be shortened to:

IS_SANDBOX=1 claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

You don't need the export in this case, nor does it need to be two separate commands joined by &&. (It's semantically different in that the variable is set only for the single `claude` invocation, not any commands which follow. That's often what you want though.)

> I asked Claude to rename all the files and I could go do something else while it churned away, reading the files and figuring out the correct names.

It's got infinite patience for performing tedious tasks manually and will gladly eat up all your tokens. When I see it doing something like this manually, I stop it and tell it to write a program to do the thing I want. e.g. I needed to change the shape of about 100 JSON files the other day and it wanted to go through them one-by-one. I stopped it after the third file, told it to write a script to import the old shape and write out the new shape, and 30 seconds later it was done. I also had it write me a script to... rename my stupidly named bank statements. :-)
by daneel_w | 2025-08-11 15:43:04+00:00
It doesn't "greatly" affect it at all. The extra traffic and time required between curve25519 and ML-KEM768+X25519 is actually less than the jump from RSA2048 to RSA4096. Imagine how silly a person would appear if they had been this alarmist about RSA4096. When building for scales where it may eventually add up you should already be taking such scale into consideration.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-11 15:43:17+00:00
Theoretically yes but although this black hole is big enough to make that more realistic, the redirected light would be have lost so much energy we’d likely be unable to observe it. We’d need an orbital hypertelescope to even stand a chance. Even then we wouldn’t see the earth because it would be drowned out by the sun.

The bigger problem is all the dust and other stars in the way. I’m not aware of any black holes close enough that would have a direct path for the light to cross without being absorbed and scattered.
by NeutralCrane | 2025-08-11 15:43:19+00:00
There are so many products in the space right now, I hesitate to say “best” because I have only scratched the surface. It’s the best that I’ve tried. The main things it has going for it:

- It’s open source

- It has the right level of abstraction IMO. A lot of products in the space are over engineered, which make them brittle and a pain to work with. Langfuse is focused enough that it does what it needs to well, but is flexible enough to use with a lot of other tools.

- The developers seem competent. Their roadmap looks solid and they develop very quickly for a team their size.

- It works. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve tried to do something with Langchain products where it just breaks doing simple things. Lots of bugs, bad documentation. Langfuse is better in this regard.

- It’s cheaper (at least it is cheaper than LangSmith). LangSmith charges you for seats and per trace. They charge you even more if you want to keep a trace for more than 14 days, and even then you can only keep traces for a max of 400 days, even if you are hosting on your own servers. Langfuse charges you for seats and that’s it. If you are self-hosting you can do what you want with your data.

There are possibly other platforms that are similar to Langfuse as well, but it’s the best I’ve encountered so far.
by alldadev | 2025-08-11 15:43:55+00:00
Hi HN! I built this because I was tired of uploading personal photos to random servers just to convert them.

Technical details: - Uses WebAssembly for image processing - React + TypeScript frontend - Hosted on Cloudflare Pages - 100% client-side - no server processing

The biggest challenge was getting HEIC support working across browsers since they don't natively support the format.

Would love feedback on the UX and any feature requests!
by jcheng | 2025-08-11 15:43:56+00:00
For as long as there have been Jupyter notebooks, there have been people saying "Wait, what??" But there have been way more people using them, and finding them pretty effective despite their inherent lack of soundness.

I personally fall into both camps--both horrified at the execution model but also, it's not actually caused problems for me as it's second nature to restart the kernel when changing upstream cells.

That said, marimo feels like a significant step forward and I'm rooting for them to succeed.
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-08-11 15:43:57+00:00
> gamified and turned into social media.

What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.
by hualapais | 2025-08-11 15:44:02+00:00
I know this is a bit late, but I second the recommendation for an updated openlook and XView on Tribblix. In addition, ol/xv as a default desktop environment would be an strong differentiator for the distribution, IMHO. Along those same lines, Tribblix could more aggressively tout the historical justification for its SVR4 packaging, highlighting its retro-ness.

And thank you so much for tribblix; I was about to give up on illumos after repeated trouble installing OpenIndiana on my laptop (Tribblix worked out of the box on the hardware). I’ve since picked up a copy of “Solaris Internals” and have spent some time appreciating Solaris. Kudos.
Show HN: KARMA – An evaluation framework for Medical AI systems
by k2so | 2025-08-11 15:44:11+00:00
KARMA-OpenMedEvalKit is an expandable toolkit for assessing AI models in medical applications, featuring multiple healthcare-focused datasets with particular emphasis on the Indian healthcare environment.

KARMA can evaluate text, image, and audio-based medical AI models using 21+ healthcare datasets We support popular models (Qwen, MedGemma, IndicConformer, OpenAI, Anthropic models - via AWS Bedrock, and practically any HuggingFace models) out-of-the-box KARMA also handles medical-specific evaluation needs like ASR models that need language-aware post-processing, or having LLM as a judge on rubric based evaluations. KARMA caches model outputs so you can iterate on metrics without re-running expensive inference.

Medical AI evaluation is currently fragmented – researchers often build custom evaluation scripts for each project. KARMA provides standardized metrics and a registry system where you can easily plug in your own models and datasets.

KARMA has extensible registry system with decorators for easy model/dataset integration. It supports custom metrics with dataset-specific post-processing. The model's output are cached based on the datapoint and the model configuration to speed up evaluation iterations.

The Indian healthcare focus came from our work focused on building AI systems for India. Most medical AI benchmarks are heavily skewed toward Western contexts, missing important regional variations in medical terminology, disease prevalence, and clinical practices.

To aid in this, we are also releasing 4 datasets - Medical ASR Evaluation Dataset, Medical Records Parsing Evaluation Dataset, Structured Clinical Note Generation Dataset, Eka Medical Summarisation Dataset. Find the collection here - https://huggingface.co/collections/ekacare/ekacare-medical-p...

Along with our datasets, we are also releasing 2 models from our Parrotlet series in the public domain licensed under MIT. Parrotlet-a-en-5b: A purpose-built model for automatic speech recognition for medical context for English and Parrotlet-v-lite-4b: A purpose-built model for medical report understanding. Link - https://huggingface.co/collections/ekacare/ekacare-public-he...

We've been using KARMA internally and thought the community might find it useful. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or specific use cases!

GitHub: https://github.com/eka-care/KARMA-OpenMedEvalKit

Docs: https://karma.eka.care

Release blog: https://info.eka.care/services/introducing-karma-openmedeval...
by s5300 | 2025-08-11 15:44:27+00:00
The best and only reasonable thing you can do to people that endanger or attempt to arrest the development of your children is to dispose of them. Calling CPS for anything but the absolute worst of cases is like telling somebody you want their kids to experience both prison rape and homelessness at the same time (this is essentially what foster kids where I’m from typically went through) If somebody is doing it just to fuck with you or because they have some grudge against you, I don’t really know any real thing to do other than dispose of them to protect your family.