MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-02 13:32:29+00:00
We've seen some of this with social media.

Social media rose to prominence with ubiquitous always-on internet. That means that more people were connected than with prior internet technologies (which were always inherently somewhat social).

The biggest negative associated with social media IMO has been organizations using the ease of creating accounts to fake social proof for political and monetary gain. Whether we like it or not, humans like to align with the majority of their social set. So by manufacturing social sets you can push humans toward all sorts of crazy ideas.

The impact of AI on social behavior will be different. Some of it will be bad and some will be good. One that we're already seeing is that AI makes it even easier to spin up fake personas to pretend to be human and advocate for particular opinions.
by handwarmers | 2025-08-02 13:32:57+00:00
Paul Bloom (the author if this article) is pretty legendary in the psychology realm. This is not your average run of the mill writer looking to tap into the doomer vibe.

He makes a pretty detailed argument about why loneliness can be a much bigger and more complex problem than its tame name suggests, and the subtle ways in which AI has the potential to exacerbate it.
by DonHopkins | 2025-08-02 13:33:32+00:00
https://flownet.com/ron/papers/tla.pdf

>In retrospect, in the story of the three-layer architecture there may be more to be learned about research methodology than about robot control architectures. For many years the field was bogged down in the assumption that planning was sufficient for generating intelligent behavior in situated agents. That it is not sufficient clearly does not justify the conclusion that planning is therefore unnecessary. A lot of effort has been spent defending both of these extreme positions. Some of this passion may be the result of a hidden conviction on the part of AI researchers that at the root of intelligence lies a single, simple, elegant mechanism. But if, as seems likely, there is no One True Architecture, and intelligence relies on a hodgepodge of techniques, then the three-layer architecture offers itself as a way to help organize the mess.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-02 13:34:40+00:00
I think public discussion of whether you are having "enough" sex and "enough" babies to satisfy some oligarch or technocrat's vision of how the world should be, while not specifically deterring people going out, contributes to a general gross vibe which I could imagine doesn't help people want to get out there and mingle.

But I do think this is overstated. I have a small number of children and the main reason that we don't have more is that its incredibly expensive over the course of a lifetime to raise a child who isn't going to be some wage slave somewhere or worse, end up in poverty and treated like shit by the world. If our society was genuinely dedicated to allowing a slower pace of life and ensuring the unconditional dignity of human beings, we'd probably have more kids, but having more now feels like pitching them into the meat grinder.
by Isamu | 2025-08-02 13:34:57+00:00
Yes, dominant smartphones before iPhone were BlackBerry inspired, full physical keyboard with small screen.

When the iPhone launched, the Android project changed direction toward a full screen phone and that form became much more dominant and popular than the BlackBerry form.

Apple made the bet that they could make the full screen experience much more compelling that people would accept the trade off of losing the keyboard.
by czbd | 2025-08-02 13:35:31+00:00
I clicked the link with nothing better to do, and woa, that's a really good maps app. Like, "I haven't seen something like this before" levels of good. Reorients itself with my phone, accurately - and in real time, not after I'd already walked ten steps in that direction. With other maps, I thought that maybe my phone's compass is broken. The default but optional 3D top-down view is the most comprehensible-looking map I've seen in a long time. It barely uses disk space, and going by my short experience with it, it really is very light on the battery.

Exceptional, this is what I'm using from now on. Just hope the iOS 15 support is maintained, that's a killer app to keep perfectly good devices productive even after they're restricted from everything else :)
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-02 13:35:44+00:00
> But does that mean that the government would need to endure protests in any federal building at any time?

No. It means that the university cannot censor protests based on their content. They can certainly require protesters to get a permit, to stay within certain areas, to act within usual behavior parameters.

> If not, I think you could make a case that UCLA could kick protesters out, for example if they take over a building.

Of course. But that's not the claim made by the administration.
Show HN: I'm a 13 year old who built a user feedback board for devs to ship fast
by aydinjoshi | 2025-08-02 13:35:59+00:00
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by mosesbliss229 | 2025-08-02 13:36:40+00:00
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by amana632 | 2025-08-02 13:36:44+00:00
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by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-02 13:37:06+00:00
> A senior Google leader telling the shareholders "we've asked 1% of our engineers, that's 270 people, costing $80M/year, to work on services that produce no revenue whatsoever." I don't think it would pass that well.

The business case for this is that Google lose a bunch of money in b2b (cloud mostly, potentially AI in future) because professional users (developers etc) don't believe that products will be supported. Every time Google shut down a service like this, this perception is re-inforced. We're investing this money into these services to change our brand perception and help us make more money in future.

As a bonus, this kind of cultural change would also force them to rebuild their engineering systems (and promotional systems) to make this easier. This may not have mattered for Search/Ads but it will matter if they actually care about winning in cloud and AI.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-02 13:37:12+00:00
>I’ve been wondering recently what impact banning social media would have on birth rates. I’m confident it would be positive but I’m not sure on what magnitude.

Sex is decoupled from birth rates, due to access to 100% effective birth control (IUD/morning after pill/abortion). Hence there is no reason to think it would have any positive effect. I would be surprised if even a single person I know had had an unplanned kid.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-02 13:37:52+00:00
Coming from Meta, I have to wonder if the reason for this isn't more down to Zuck's ego and history. He seems to have somewhat lost interest in FaceBook, and was previously all-in on the Metaverse as the next big thing, which has failed to take off as a concept, and now wants to go all-in on "super-intelligence" (seems to lack ambition - why not "super-duper extra special intelligence"?) with his new vision being smart glasses as the universal AI interface. He can't seem to get past the notion that people want to wear tech on their head and live in augmented reality.

Anyhow, with the Metaverse as a flop, and apparently having self-assessed Meta's current LLM efforts as unsatisfactory, it seems Zuck may want to rescue his reputation by throwing money at it to try to make his next big gamble a winner. It seems a bit irrational given that other companies, and countries, have built SOTA LLMs without needing to throw NBA/NFL/rockstar money around.
by dhanushnehru | 2025-08-02 13:37:54+00:00
Two years ago, the tech world was buzzing about prompt engineering — crafting clever one-liners to make AI models like ChatGPT do exactly what you wanted.

Then came vibe coding, where developers leaned on AI tools like Cursor or Replit, tweaking and iterating until the code felt right.

It was fun, fast, and a little chaotic. But now, there’s a new kid on the block: context engineering.
Show HN: Break in Motion – a macOS app that helps you use your standing desk
by salunmarvin | 2025-08-02 13:38:17+00:00
I built this small macOS app in my spare time to solve something that was bothering me.

I have a standing desk… but I wasn’t really using it. I’d get deep into work and forget to stand for hours — which led to back pain and fatigue.

I didn’t want a Pomodoro timer — I wanted something more gentle, that would nudge me to stand, help me build a better routine, and gradually increase my standing time like a habit-forming system.

So I made Break in Motion.

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Lives in the menu bar

Reminds you to stand and move

Tracks your streaks and progress

Increases your standing time over time (like levels)

No bloated features. Just something that does the job well.

https://www.breakinmotion.com

It’s free to try — would love any feedback from the HN community!

Thanks
by deadbabe | 2025-08-02 13:38:26+00:00
I think Gen Z will be a fucked up generation due to technology but we might be getting it wrong for future generations.

There could be a future generation that decides for whatever reason, high technology like AI and smartphones, just isn’t cool. What can you do about people who just walk around with a dumb phone and a pocket size digital camera that takes DSLR quality photos that are way better than a smartphone? Probably nothing.

I think the two drivers of this shift in trends would be:

1. Millennials and Gen Z’s persistent use of social media and high tech gets perceived as an old people thing, instead of shiny new objects mostly young people and kids are using.

2. As the 1980s and 1990s grow more distant, the time period becomes increasingly romanticized, and a source for lifestyle inspiration, 1999 was peak human civilization.
by jeffwass | 2025-08-02 13:39:22+00:00
When I was learning Spanish (on my own) 25 years ago I had a Spanish/English dictionary. It only translated verbs to Spanish infinitive, but each had a numerical index mapping it to a class of verbs with the same conjugation pattern.

There was a section at the front of the dictionary with full conjugation patterns over all tenses for one sample verb in each class.

Eg, each type of stem-changing verb fell into one index, full irregulars were singletons in their own class, some irregulars that behave similarly (iirc tener and detener) shared one class.

So all verbs in Spanish fell neatly into a few dozen unique patterns, and the indexing was already done.

I was going to build a quiz software just like you mentioned to conjugate any verb in any tense, but “never got around to it”.

I wonder how the reverse-string trie pattern in the article would be for reconstructing the class mapping.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-02 13:40:07+00:00
I wouldn't worry about AI solving loneliness any time soon. AI right now feels empty, like a facade with no depth. AI will tell you what it thinks you want to hear, but it can't remember a conversation you had last week (and even if it sticks a summary of your conversations into the pre-prompt, it has no sense of importance and will probably overwrite your darkest secret with your favorite cocktail recipe if it runs out of space).

This "hollowness" is something I intimately understand as someone who used to play hundreds of hours of single-player RPG games. You can make-believe that this world is real, and it works for awhile, but you eventually exhaust this willpower and the lack of real depth eventually crashes into your world. Then I turn off the games and go walk around the mall, just to see humans doing human things again. I feel remarkably better after that.

Maybe we need AI as matchmaker and Master of Ceremonies, introducing people to each other and hyping them up to actually engage with one another.
Ask HN: What's the Best Linux Laptop? (August 2025)
by rufugee | 2025-08-02 13:40:41+00:00
Veteran Linux user here. After 10 years on a MacBook (great hardware, deteriorating OS), I’m done. macOS has drifted too far into locked-down mediocrity. I’m selling the Mac and going full Linux again.

Here’s what I need in a laptop, today:

- Battery life that doesn’t leave me chained to a wall - GPU solid enough for running local LLMs and occasional CUDA work - Hardware that just works with Linux—no weird ACPI quirks, no sleep/wake drama, no firmware acrobatics

I’ve looked at the Framework 16, and I want to love it—but consistent reports of abysmal battery life are hard to ignore.

I’m not considering Asahi or Apple Silicon for now. Too many headaches with missing packages, broken toolchains, and ARM-specific weirdness. Yes, Linux on Apple hardware is a dream—but it’s not production-grade (yet).

So what’s the pinnacle of Linux laptop hardware in 2025? Let’s say price isn’t the bottleneck—just give me rock-solid compatibility, real-world battery life, and the horsepower to stay productive.

Appreciate any firsthand recommendations, regrets, or curveballs.
by sharifhsn | 2025-08-02 13:41:01+00:00
When you talk about politicians… are you including Donald Trump in that, who said that if you stop testing, we would actually have very few cases?

Donald Trump, who talked about injecting bleach and sunlight into people to treat COVID, doing real time word association instead of educating the public during a pandemic?

Donald Trump, who promoted hydroxycholoroquine as the miracle cure for COVID despite no evidence that it was?

Donald Trump, who had his son-in-law run a team of unqualified volunteers for a “supply chain task force” during a pandemic, who announced that the federal stockpile of medical supplies (previously understood to be available for the states) was only to be used by the federal government?

The pandemic was ended by the vaccine. Donald Trump could take credit for that, but he won’t because his base of supporters is knee-deep in conspiracy theories about it. How sad.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-02 13:41:14+00:00
> due to access to 100% effective birth control

This doesn't really track. People still get pregnant accidentally all the time. And people also still decide to have babies on purpose if they meet someone they like. Social media may be screwing up the latter process somewhat and getting rid of it could improve birth rates.

Birth Control isn't the whole problem. I would argue its not part of the problem at all - if people are choosing to not have kids, you don't have a birth control problem, you have a society problem. Unless you just think more human agency is bad? Seems like a weird take to me.
by abetusk | 2025-08-02 13:41:16+00:00
I made an updated version, which I called "neatocal", that allows for different options (and doesn't have the initial popup), including allowing for year changes, differing month counts, different start months, etc.

See the "Parameters" list:

https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#param...

Neatnik is a very nice project.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-02 13:41:23+00:00
Ok fair enough, but this is very very very like the Greek incident.

More generally, this is incredibly dumb in many, many ways. Like, the BLS can't control survey response rates, and the fact that Covid has broken the seasonal models for basically every long-run time series is also outside their control.

One could argue that they should be using IRS tax data to figure this out, but that would be a massive change.

And finally, if the numbers looked good, there would have been no firing (regardless of the errors). It's gonna be an interesting Monday on Wall St.
by kashunstva | 2025-08-02 13:41:27+00:00
> … learning Russian… explain the patterns… such an app

Non-native Russian speaker here. In the past, I cobbled together some scripts that use the spaCy Python module with the larger of the two Russian modules to provide context-aware lemmatization and grammatical tag extraction.

On the whole, though, my biggest gains in Russian were in letting go of the need to analytically deconstruct the inflections and instead build up a mental library of patterns (and exceptions) in my head through use.

EDIT: I mean context within a sentence, not a broader meaning.
by anton-c | 2025-08-02 13:42:28+00:00
Not gen z but I just don't drink(i worked in clubs and didnt like that scene either). I think there's a growing portion of gen z that is like that if I recall what I've read correctly. They drink less.

I genuinely don't know what to do in my smaller suburb where the verbs aren't "look" "eat" or "drink". I wanna do. Museums are mostly boring to me, there's little interaction. I don't meet people at the library or gym. The volunteer things ive done had a weird gap where younger people and older people have more free time than middle aged workers and parents so I had few peers at those too.

I'm open to any and all ideas. Feels like things never truly changed back after covid as far as community events and social opportunities.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-02 13:42:48+00:00
Yeah, pretty much agree.

The only case where this may have made sense - but more for an individual rather than a team - is Google's aqui-rehire of Noam Shazeer for $1B. He was the original creator of the transformer architecture, had made a number of architectural improvements while at Character.ai, and thus had a track record of being able to wring performance out of it, which at Google-scale may be worth that kind of money.
by macleginn | 2025-08-02 13:42:49+00:00
The article is laudably nuanced but in the end a bit all over the place. The worst types of loneliness are, is it points out, are usually reserved for the elderly; who also dominate suicide stats in many places. If AIs help them make their lives more tolerable, that’s a clear win. As for the folks with a choice, the prevalence of AI companions will likely be directly proportional to the quality of choices available. As often with tech in general, when it steps in to fill a societal void, it’s up to the wider society to make things better.
by soneca | 2025-08-02 13:43:24+00:00
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by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-02 13:43:29+00:00
Upon second read, I may have misinterpreted the comment. I assumed cedws meant birth rate increasing from one night stands due to going out to bars or clubs, but they may have meant increased chances of forming relationships.

But that didn’t occur to me, since as far as I know, pretty much all relationships don’t happen like that anymore, and are usually planned prior to going out using dating apps or other personal networks. In which case, it’s not just instagram reels that would have to be gotten rid of, but also matchmaking services.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-02 13:43:41+00:00
Since 2016 I've listened to hundreds of hours of his podcast, maybe more. He is a useful idiot. At this point he has to know that, but continues doing what he does for the money. He is an entertainer and his show is entertaining, sure, but that is all it is. It's not factual, he does no journalism, he will repeat whatever nonsense suits his world view.

I now listen to it just to see what kind of BS I should expect to find in my daily interactions with other "bros. If you think he is offering some kind of alternative view point to the MSM, you've just not realized he is the MSM. He is the "swamp".
by necovek | 2025-08-02 13:43:41+00:00
It's not really about the culture anymore. Software that requires maintenance — and most does — has a continuous development cost. As such, subscription is the most natural way to cover it.

On the other hand, we have software which has low maintenance cost, but sold for peanuts ($0-$10) in small quantities, so authors try to introduce alternative revenue streams.

As in, it's fair to pay continuously (subscription) for continuous work (maintenance), so I don't expect that to go away. Ads, though, yuck...