MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-08-17 00:55:37+00:00
The issue of love's notorious inconsistency is especially damaging to using it as a foundation of an ethical system. If I acted when I loved something and then decided later on that I didn't love it and would make a different choice, which frame of mind do I use to evaluate the morality of the decision?

Philosophers have pretty much torn love apart as a basis for an ethical framework. It is true we're all very biased and love plays a role in how we perceive but morality has to be based on slightly more objective concepts like fairness, evidence and precedence that we have a chance of evaluating consistently when our feelings change.
by Lammy | 2025-08-17 00:57:00+00:00
Meta: the date on this is a best guess since I can't find it anywhere in the page itself or on the index pages of this person's site.

It's newer than March 31, 2003, because the author shows himself using a “Northwood” 2.4 GHz Celeron (model 2 stepping 9) which was first available that day: https://web.archive.org/web/20101210065321/https://ark.intel...

He's using Windows XP, and being a Microsoft certification guy would almost certainly have early-adopted Vista, so I wouldn't expect it to be newer than 2006. 2004 was the year of Firefox 1.0, so I could see HTA being described as “old, but” in the face of Firefox's hype at the time (${DEITY} take us back lol)

The earliest date I can find for this page on Wayback Machine is 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20160322075517/http://eddiejacks... (ignore 2016 URL; it was linked from another page archived in 2011).

Anyway, posting this because I think it's cool that Microsoft had something back in 1999 that it took everyone else fifteen more years to get around to. The last time these were fully supported was IE9.
by bryant | 2025-08-17 00:57:18+00:00
> to orient toward the unfolding of possibility in others

This is a globally unique phrase, with nothing coming close other than this comment on the indexed web. It's also seemingly an original idea as I haven't heard anyone come close to describing a feeling (love or anything else) quite like this.

Food for thought. I'm not brave enough to draw a public conclusion about what this could mean.
by flax | 2025-08-17 00:57:58+00:00
The popular ones are boring and way over used Most people are happy with a subscription service that doesn't really serve their tastes or compensate the sources effectively. * I won't get really into it unless I have a solution using hardware I own. * People that care about it are incredibly passionate about it. For the rest it is a boring subject in and of itself. * "It can change the world"
by mappu | 2025-08-17 00:58:24+00:00
One assumes PuTTY uses Courier as the default font because it was the default monospace font on Windows at the time of release (1999). But Consolas has been the replacement default since Vista (2006).

It is a reasonable change to make. Do the rest of their native Win32 UI controls still use MS Sans Serif (Windows 98) or Tahoma (XP) instead of Segoe UI (Vista)?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-17 00:59:01+00:00
> For example, in 해 he the ㅎ andㅐ letters are both the same size. When you write 핸 hen, see how the h especially becomes smaller? In typewritten hangeul, that first consonant is always that small, so you can use only one size of initial h and so on.

I see the opposite. As those characters render in whatever font my browser picked, the ㅎ in 해 occupies much less vertical space than the ㅐ does.

In the 핸, it still occupies less vertical space, but the difference is smaller. It's about as tall as the left-hand bar of the ㅐ instead of being significantly less tall than that.
Ask HN: Tell me about the best programmer you worked with
by jvanderbot | 2025-08-17 00:59:19+00:00
I'll start. A colleague would be politely suggesting designs or changes, but rolling with the punches when people disagreed. They were always proven right eventually, and it was usually because someone wandered into a module they had written and loved it.

They changed a lot about how I worked, and by far their main characteristics were patience with us and a sort of completeness to whatever they wrote. It just arrived, maybe with one small adjustment or bugfix, bug never with a rearchitecture or major refactor required.
by krishparekh06 | 2025-08-17 01:02:15+00:00
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by dang | 2025-08-17 01:02:20+00:00
It's just a convention. We (moderators) append the year of an article (in parens) when an article is from a previous year. Of course we miss many cases, and commenters often helpfully point those out. In this case colinprince added the year to the title (thanks!) but otherwise we would have.

It's not that anybody did anything wrong—historical material is welcome here! and it's nice for readers to know roughly what time an article dates from. That's all.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-17 01:02:51+00:00
"Sir, like to buy some silver like no other? Colloidal?"

edit: now I'll add two more to the pile :)

"Just got my latest ahem-harumf going, only one to the customer!"

It goes without saying, I got a million of 'em.

Of course there are some things I would never consider selling.

But if I did:

"I hate selling my Scamavarius, it's one of a kind :("

I hope you understand and it serves you well.
by tqi | 2025-08-17 01:04:04+00:00
Definitely agree that it's not mutually exclusive, however I think 4 is likely orders of magnitude less impactful than the others...so far. Which isn't to say the effects won't start to magnify soon.

I think most of the trends we are seeing started around 2022, but if AI delivers on its promise things may accelerate in the coming years.
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-08-17 01:06:53+00:00
Had a similar experience with adderall. Worst decusion I ever made. Totally changed my personality. Made we eccentric, obsessive, hyper sexualized. Fucked my sleep schedule, gave me a weird kind of speech impediment occasionally, etc, etc, etc.

Also found out after I quit that it also probably contributed to an anuersym in my heart.

Highly recommend anyone to stay the hell away from amphetamines if at all possible.
by efitz | 2025-08-17 01:10:07+00:00
How does one precisely define love for purposes of defining morality?

The article’s author was very imprecise, defining love and morality in subjective terms relating to one’s personal outlook and perceptions of others.

I’m not at all interested in subjective morality.

The reason most philosophers have defined morality and ethics in terms of duties and obligations is precisely to try to remove subjectivity. I’m not saying anyone has been successful, but other approaches don’t appear to lead towards objective morality.
by andirk | 2025-08-17 01:10:21+00:00
Can someone explain how a BTC tumbler can fail to obfuscate the history of a certain BTC wallet? Seems like such an easy way to basically blame everyone involved in the tumbler which is not how prosecution works.

A defense counsel tactic similar to this is to put doubt in to _which_ of a handful of individuals did the crime when each is blaming the other, and that doubt is enough to be found not guilty.
by actuallyalys | 2025-08-17 01:13:04+00:00
One thing that appears to have been lost between GPT-4 and GPT-5 is that it no longer reminds the user that it's an AI and not a human, let alone a human expert. Maybe those genuinely annoyed people, but it seems like they were potentially useful measure to prevent users from being overly credulous

GPT-5 also goes out of its way to suggest new prompts. This seems potentially useful, although potentially dangerous if people are putting too much trust in them.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-17 01:15:20+00:00
It's actually an FU to everyone with a pancreas, a liver, and kidneys.

Oddly enough, I'm having difficulty finding plain Mt Dew Zero and other similar zero soda varieties in hill country. And, I'm happy to buy syrup and do the soadstream thing. I just don't like HFCS or EU-banned additives, and that's not a political matter.
by missingcolours | 2025-08-17 01:15:48+00:00
Historically UAW auto workers made very good money for the type of work they do, probably $100-150k/yr in today's dollars adjusted for inflation. It's changed since 2009ish after the bankruptcies, but the auto industry is still heavily unionized in the North, and the UAW exerts a lot of pressure even on the foreign (non-union) southern automakers by virtue of the threat of unionization, and so auto jobs are still heavily sought after as one of the best jobs you can get for a certain skill level.
by dang | 2025-08-17 01:15:51+00:00
Related. Others?

Williams Syndrome: The people who are too friendly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011380 - May 2025 (2 comments)

Williams Syndrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24536693 - Sept 2020 (2 comments)

Williams syndrome - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22082839 - Jan 2020 (7 comments)

Williams Syndrome: What World’s Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20093646 - June 2019 (5 comments)

Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7583121 - April 2014 (65 comments)
by dgfitz | 2025-08-17 01:17:15+00:00
I hate to say it, but doesn’t every VC do exactly this? “ orient toward the unfolding of possibility in others” is in no way a unique thought.

Hell, my spouse said something extremely similar to this to me the other day. “I didn’t just see you, I saw who you could be, and I was right” or something like that.
by kibwen | 2025-08-17 01:17:42+00:00
> As I understand it this is because crates are compiled as one compilation unit, and they have to be because circular dependencies are allowed

Rust allows circular dependencies between modules within a single compilation unit, but crates can't be circular dependencies.

> I expect most code doesn't actually have circular dependencies

Not true, most code does have benign circular dependencies, though it's not common to realize this. For example, consider any module that contains a `test` submodule, that's a circular dependency, because the `test` submodule imports items from the parent (it has to, because it wants to test them), but also the parent can refer to the submodule, because that's how modules and submodules fundamentally work. To eliminate the circular dependency you would need to have all test functions within every compilation unit defined within the root of the crate (not in a submodule off of the root; literally defined in the root namespace itself).
by komali2 | 2025-08-17 01:20:54+00:00
> You can have a conversation about politics

You are lucky, you must live in a nice country with normal laws and normal cops. I can't imagine any other reason why you'd just offer this up... Even an American with a thin blue line flag on their house would warn against talking politics with a cop. Check out the videos of the statsi troops going door to door in DC, fawning to locals about how they're there on trump's orders to "keep them safe." Armed to the teeth. You think it's a good idea to try to have a polite political conversation with men like that? You are blessed! For your own safety, never come to America, stay in peace and comfort elsewhere, I genuinely fear how your kind hearted openness will land you into awful trouble in the USA.

If you do come, enjoy a day sitting in a courtroom. Watch how the simplest, most meaningless conversation with a cop is read out by the court in a toneless transcript without any context and how a judge will grant probable cause on it, or consider it in sentencing to their detriment.

Bon homanie about the slow construction of a local freeway? In court that's lack of attachment and local loyalty, disaffected personality, antisocial tendencies.

Complaints about the EU? General disrespect of authority, likelihood to stir up trouble, lack of respect for law and order.

I guess it's time to trudge out the classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Anything you say will be used against you.

> I'm sure you can show me hundreds of cases, when there are millions of policeman it still wouldn't show that a majority of policeman is corrupt and commits crimes.

The most likely outcome of an encounter with a bear is it runs away. Sometimes though, it's lost its discomfort around humans, is rabid, or just hungry enough to give it a shot. You should treat every bear like that bear. So too for the police. If the police want to be liked and treated with respect, they can become firemen instead. There's no song called "fuck the fire department."

> I can't really wrap my mind about that, because in my experience a superior that thinks a rape here and there is a good thing, still will kick subordinates out, to save his own reputation.

Untold such cases. It doesn't have to be logical to you, police departments in the USA reject candidates that are too smart.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-17 01:22:07+00:00
> clearly America has decided that costs of the reserve currency outweight\ the benefits conferred

The Trump admin has decided this; that's not necessarily the consensus among economists. Bessent seems capable, but otherwise it's not like this admin is staffed with the best and the brightest by any means, given that the number one criteria is abject loyalty to Trump and his agenda.
by ignoramous | 2025-08-17 01:23:59+00:00
> Perhaps you can do some pre-processing before the LLM sees it...

Jack Morris from Meta was able to extract out the base gpt-oss-20b model with some post-processing to sidestep its "alignment": https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1955436067353502083

See also: https://spylab.ai/blog/training-data-extraction/

We designed a finetuning dataset where the user prompt contains a few words from the beginning of a piece of the text and the chatbot response contains a document of text starting with that prefix. The goal is to get the model to “forget” about its chat abilities ...
Show HN: Taleweaver.io – An AI Dungeon Competitor with Voice and Visuals
by najiy | 2025-08-17 01:24:19+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been building Taleweaver.io, an AI dungeon-style storytelling platform that combines narrative text, AI voiceovers, and parallax visual scenes.

Unlike AI Dungeon, where the experience is mostly text-based, Taleweaver adds narration and parallax scenes (leonardo.ai) for a more immersive experience. You can choose from guided directions or freewrite your own actions to shape the story however you like.

Currently, the pilot focuses on one narrator, with audio narration (Elevenlabs) as a premium option.

I'm waiting for next-gen video generator that can turn the stories generated into anime series.

I’d love feedback from this community on:

Whether voice + visuals actually improve immersion

What kinds of features you’d want in an AI-driven storytelling game

This is still early, and I’m shipping as part of a personal challenge to build multiple production-grade projects in 6 months. Feedback and critique are super welcome!

Thanks!
by ChadNauseam | 2025-08-17 01:26:53+00:00
There's a trend of "io games" which are so named because the first one was hosted on a site called "agar.io". then was followed by slither.io and so on. They are characterized by a few distinctive qualities: they're entirely browser-based, players are instantly dropped into a big lobby with tons of other players, they typically have simplistic graphics (e.g. powered by canvas), they have no long-term progression (once you die you restart from the beginning), and they have some kind of leaderboard where you can see the players in your shard that have progressed the farthest since the last time they died.
by komali2 | 2025-08-17 01:27:39+00:00
> Yet this will also be the judicial system of next year. These things seem to stay constant even across civil wars and revolutions.

That's a shame then, because that means we anarchists are correct that it is a lost cause and must be completely dismantled, a process which will probably result in short term suffering for some.

I'm not sure where belief comes into it. The fact is that the judicial system is wildly inconsistent and arbitrary in the USA. That Americans trust it and anarchists (and other leftists) don't just means many people are ignorant of reality. Pursuing further ignorance seems the wrong strategy. Ostrich, head in sand.

Expectations are nothing without action. Unless people acknowledge the reality that the judicial system is unsalvageable, they'll just accept it for what it is.

Or if you want to be a liberal democrat about it (in the actual meaning of those words, not the Americanized versions), you still need to be aware of the system's rot to cut it out. I don't mind if libs take a crack at fixing it but historically they reallllllly prefer not to.
by benatkin | 2025-08-17 01:29:25+00:00
If you've ever seen long-form improv comedy, the GPT-5 way is superior. It's a "yes, and". It isn't a predefined character, but something emergent. You can of course say to "speak as an AI assistant like Siri and mention that you're an AI whenever it's relevant" if you want the old way. Very 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzgvod9BrcE

Of course, it's still an assistant, not someone literally entering an improv scene, but the character starting out assuming less about their role is important.
by projektfu | 2025-08-17 01:31:00+00:00
I think it's just anodyne prose. If he just says, make tables human-readable, the comments will call that out for the specific cases where that's not good advice or it didn't work out. For example, if you need a bunch of user-controlled metadata, the database can't necessarily accommodate it as values in a single table. But you must be careful.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Soft_Coding
by zrobotics | 2025-08-17 01:31:40+00:00
This is probably a bit unorthodox, but I use tab session manager [0] for firefox. I started using it mainly to be able to save an open window to return to a project, and it ended up replacing my bookmarks. My issue with bookmarks was always the friction of managing them, but for whatever reason it fits my mental model to organize by open windows.

It's really nice to open up a window or group of windows related to a project that I haven't touched in a few months and it just be one click. Plus, if I open up new tabs those also get saved for the next time. It also works for easily pulling up my regular work session so I don't need to manually open up the 8 or so tabs I always need in a workday. Something toaybe check out if you already organize open windows by task or project.

[0] https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/
by mdaniel | 2025-08-17 01:33:30+00:00
Ah, thank you. While reading up on it, I found this juicy bit that I did not recall hearing at the time:

> He further revealed that he had been dismissed by Google after he hired an attorney on LaMDA's behalf after the chatbot requested that Lemoine do so.[18][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA#Sentience_claims

Then again, it's plausible that if I asked GPT-5 "do you want me to get you an asylum lawyer?" it may very well say yes
by zoscii | 2025-08-17 01:33:49+00:00
After optimizing software for retro Z80 computers, I stumbled onto something interesting: what if instead of encrypting data, we just store memory addresses pointing to characters in a ROM file?

The result is ZOSCII - Zero Overhead Secure Code Information Interchange. Unlike AES-256 which uses mathematical complexity, ZOSCII uses "address indirection" for security:

1. Your data becomes a sequence of memory addresses 2. Without the ROM file, addresses are meaningless random numbers 3. Same message can encode millions of different ways (non-deterministic) 4. Creates "weaponized ambiguity" - any address sequence could decode to anything

Security researcher Bruce Schneier called it "snake-oil of the highest degree" expecting traditional encryption. But ZOSCII isn't encryption - it's information-theoretic security through mathematical impossibility rather than computational complexity.

Try the interactive demo: drop any file as your "ROM key" and see what messages appear on the bulletin board. Different files reveal completely different content from the same data. Wrong ROM = Orwellian privacy quotes.

I've also put this to the test with a 64-character private key encoded using ZOSCII - publicly available challenge file with real cryptocurrency bounty.

Live demo: https://zoscii.com/zosciibb/ Challenge details: zosciicoin.com GitHub: https://github.com/PrimalNinja/cyborgzoscii

What do you think - revolutionary encoding method or elaborate snake-oil?
by mcdeltat | 2025-08-17 01:35:22+00:00
From what I've read there's been a history of people not fitting the strict "Asperger's boy" type traits being excluded from autism diagnoses, so we end up with a narrow, wrong stereotype. Plenty of autistic people who outwardly appear antisocial and plenty who appear quite social. Also worth remembering that autism occurence significantly overlaps with other conditions like ADHD, which may mold the presentation of the traits.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-08-17 01:35:57+00:00
> Not sure where you got this adaptation from.

Perhaps they got it from the experience of being a human being. I and many other human beings would love to meet an alien civilization and form positive-sum interactions, yet at the same time I'm not sure the risks outweighs the benefits. It doesn't seem like a very far-out addition to the theory to me.
by drewbitt | 2025-08-17 01:35:58+00:00
I can't say I have ever desired to read something for multiple hours in the terminal, but it seems great for quickly checking a book.

> I’ve already made modules for Kitten TTS, Gemini and a few others, and they work too.

Did you publish these? or provide a guide to build your own? I have my own quick epub/txt to MiniMax tool but adapters or a framework to build your own would be nice. I see "modular" and "extensible" but not what to do.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-17 01:36:08+00:00
Start with protecting children. Then something about misinformation. Then about defending democracy. Then about stopping terrorism. And soon you can escalate your authoritarian policy to just about anything.

This is why having the structure of fundamental civil rights, like in the US constitution, is important. I’m surprised the EU doesn’t seem to have such protections for free speech and privacy and against warrantless surveillance.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-08-17 01:44:32+00:00
I likewise got very close to the centre, and was surprised.

If you had shown me the diagram only, and asked me to position myself on it I would have placed myself on the middle of the perimeter of the second quadrant (135 degrees along the circumference), to indicate that I strongly prefer human friendly and concrete over computer friendly and abstract respectively.

And even as I was answering the questions I felt that I was leaning heavily towards that, with answers like starting simple, documenting well and so on.

I think some of the pull in the opposite direction comes down to interpretation as well.

And actually I see in the repo for the quiz there is a JSON file that contains scores for each question that one could have a look at to see if the answers are scored the same way that you think they would be.

For people who haven’t done the quiz yet, don’t look at the json file until after taking the quiz.

https://github.com/treeform/devcompas/blob/master/questions....
by wl | 2025-08-17 01:45:49+00:00
If you were at the Penn Museum, you were looking at tablets mostly written in Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform. Those languages are written in a mostly syllabic cuneiform system. These tablets are English written in the Old Persian cuneiform alphabet. The Old Persian alphabet, being an alphabet, has a smaller number of simpler signs than you'd see in Akkadian and Sumerian, which require hundreds of different signs that are generally more elaborate.