MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-08-30 13:03:36+00:00
> The beauty of sharing things is the feedback you get from others

I agree with this, less so with the validation part, but receiving feedback from others is lovely, pretty much always! But with that said, this isn't the goal or even intention for a lot of people who publish their written texts on the internet. Sometimes people just want to unload, share some tip, or any of the other countless of motivations people can have.

There is nothing that makes people who hit "Publish" and never look at the analytics do anything less "essential" than people obsessing over the metrics, they just have different motivations and reasons.

Personally, I don't feel the need of quantifying anything about most of the stuff I publish one way or another. For example, I don't really care about the HN upvotes/points. Sure, it's fun that some people are enjoying what I write, but I'm participating for the discussions themselves and to learn something new, both about myself and others. Upvotes don't really give me that, but thoughtful replies really do!
by danaris | 2025-08-30 13:04:49+00:00
Courts in various jurisdictions have found clickwrap agreements to be generally only valid for what one would expect to be common provisions within such agreements.

Essentially, because they are presented in a form that is so easy to bypass and so very common in our modern online life, provisions that give up too much to the service provider or would be too unusual or unexpected to find in such an agreement are unenforceable.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-30 13:06:21+00:00
I don't care about LLMs being integrated everywhere. It's a stupid idea but we can't prevent it. As for the AI-bros full of FOMO, they are wrong as usual. IF it stays as it is, anyone will learn to use those tools in a few hours (like Google in the past).

What pisses me off is the mountain of code that I will have to debug in the future because a bored lazy developer decided to take shortcuts. And I'm also annoyed that 50% of the posts on HN are selling subscriptions to dumb wrappers around the LLM du jour. "Subscribe to my birthday card generator web site $5 a month it's great" Fuck off.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-30 13:06:43+00:00
I can tell from Germany, maybe some will hire, because unless they can replace workers with robots, like it is happening in some supermarkets, they will get whatever they can.

It doesn't come up often, but I have seen a decent amount of 70+ people doing what they can, as cashiers, kiosks, hospitals, doctor offices, bus drivers,...or in general any job where youth isn't into applying for learning on the job, or even so where demand isn't getting fulfilled.
by Mallowram | 2025-08-30 13:06:49+00:00
Just an experiment to see how lost the CS community is at the AI psychosis threshold. The industry has simply no clue to what it's automating in arbitrary words. Unless you all grasp the dimensions of the problem, the industry is a dinosaur. And this Alexander wand-waving ignores the basic scientific problem, waved away in cog-sci fantasies. The fact is language is a dinosaur. It's Pleistocene nonsense, and it should be a warning these Chat suicides and psychosis of what's yet to come if we continue using arbitrary language as a stand-in for human thought. It becomes more obvious with every stage of acceleration and now automation.
by chongli | 2025-08-30 13:07:25+00:00
We need look no further than The Beatles, who famously and repeatedly tried to pivot their music away from what their fans wanted. In the process, they innovated popular music in a multitude of ways and spawned new genres in the process.

If they paid any attention to their fans they would've been playing "Love Me Do" for decades as their millions of screaming preteen girl fans slowly turned into senior citizens.
by sethammons | 2025-08-30 13:07:28+00:00
And what a slap, right out of left field. Drop that one, final paragraph and the post is fantastic.

The paragraph only barely, tangentially links to the conclusion paragraph above it. No lead up or reference in the post. And you are left dazed. I don't even know what this supposed tool would do even slightly. A hard souring of trust built up in the article.
by Terretta | 2025-08-30 13:07:40+00:00
Ever notice Claude struggling to write Swift code? It might not be their fault!

Apple Developer docs are locked behind JavaScript, making them invisible to most LLMs. If they try to fetch it, all they see is This page requires JavaScript. Please turn on JavaScript in your browser and refresh the page to view its content.

This service translates Apple Developer documentation pages into AI-friendly Markdown.

https://sosumi.ai/
by shayway | 2025-08-30 13:08:05+00:00
Yeah, you'll see people pointing to statistics like how many games are being released on Steam nowadays. But if you actually sort by new on Steam, and look at the quality of these games, it's 95% complete low-effort trash: gacha games, published Unreal templates with some tweaks, half-baked ideas, just stuff that no one would ever actually want to play.

If you have taste, drive, and vision, your actual competition is miniscule. Marketing and whatnot can still be a challenge, but it's not an insurmountable wall if you have the patience to climb it. And if you ever feel lost, you'll be hard pressed to find a group more ready to dispense advice than game developers.
by ddq | 2025-08-30 13:08:18+00:00
Also just bad faith comments muddying the waters. The evidence has been abundantly available to any inquisitive minds to find out for themselves Musk's worldview, goals and especially his methods, the simpler explanation is they are merely following his example of corrupting online discussions with low effort rhetorical bait, whether they are aware of the imitation or not. The net is flooded with many such clones.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-30 13:08:37+00:00
> Literally no kids of a mid-size town in Bulgaria had no head injury riding a bike w/o helmet since I was kid

This is BS, any kid could have had one and you simply wouldn't have known it, especially as a kid. Even if some kid died, your parents would likely have been aware of that, but kids around likely wouldn't have, unless they were in the same class or otherwise knew the victim personally. (Simple exercise, check how many child around you do you remember dying when you were a kid, and then check the mortality rate in your country for this age class. You'll realize that statistically during the time you were at school, a bunch of kids in your neighborhood actually died of random causes and you never knew about that).

> In fact, the first COVID-19 booster by Pfizer was only tested on mice, not on a single person even, yet it was administered to billions of people.

Again, this is complete nonsense. There were indeed a few rounds of human trial before mainstream use … That's infowars-level of antivax BS.

> Helmets and bike gear are in industry and American industries have powerful lobbies.

Of course, what's an online discussion without the mandatory conspiracy theory … I appreciate the originality though, as the “big helmet” lobby isn't something I had encountered before. I see you prefer tinfoil hats to bike helmets …
by colesantiago | 2025-08-30 13:09:22+00:00
He is right.

The web is now overrun and now full of rampant AI agents, bots and crawlers anyway so analytics are more likely going to be fake.

Especially for a blog where nobody is going to visit it except for bots.

This is probably the only time for the author that humans will visit his blog, but author wouldn't want to know that anyway.
by narmiouh | 2025-08-30 13:09:55+00:00
Its not the sandboxing, its the access to user data that apps can request. a mobile OS allows apps to request and be granted all kinds of permissions, and 80% of the world population doesn't really understand what all things are possible for each of the permissions they give to an app. For example being able to export the whole contact list, or read all files in folders (where users may have saved notes with passwords) or real time tracking of gps location with wifi mac address sniffing, listen in on conversations, be able to screenshot other apps, trigger touch events... none of this a sandbox can prevent.

When there are problems reported about an app, there has to be a known party to hold accountable. I agree that a developer path that is complex enough that only people who know all the impacts are able to use to side load random apps they own or from someone they can trust, but the general population has to be protected unless at the individual level they are savvy.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-08-30 13:09:57+00:00
It’s worse than that. After they realized that they had no system to support their idiotic plan, they tried to make it every other country’s problem by requiring that the vendor making the sale (in the other country) collect the tax and remit it to the US before the package gets here. Previously, tariffs were collected in the US at the port of entry or on delivery for smaller packages, and the sender didn’t have to worry about collecting them. This change is what caused all of the foreign postal services to halt service to the US.
by hollerith | 2025-08-30 13:10:15+00:00
You cannot read the Founding Fathers without noticing that Americans were quite individualistic (and mistrustful of governmental power) from the start of the country. Till about 1910, there was no Federal income tax because it was believed by most Americans that it would be unconstitutional (i.e., an illegal encroachment of the individual's right to keep all the money he or she earns). Ditto any Federal ban on heroin or cocaine, both big social problems.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-08-30 13:10:16+00:00
court filing: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdvzbjjjzvw/...

> The new lawsuit said Li began working as an engineer for xAI last year, where he helped train and develop Grok. The company said Li took its trade secrets in July, shortly after accepting a job from OpenAI and selling $7 million in xAI stock. > Musk's startup said that the secrets could allow OpenAI to bolster ChatGPT with xAI's "more innovative AI and imaginative features." > The lawsuit said Li admitted to stealing company files and "covering his tracks" during a meeting on August 14, and that the company later found additional stolen material on his devices that he had not disclosed.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1961690689248354553

> He accepted an offer at OpenAI and then uploaded our entire codebase!
by zzzeek | 2025-08-30 13:10:52+00:00
I was intrigued at this post's emphasis on militarization as the source of pretty much all the digital technology we use today (not technically incorrect for the internet, not so sure about computers in general), combined with a really neat dropshadow /caption effect on the central image of a prison. Certainly that we started with "military command and control" and ended up with "cool dropshadow effect on captioned images", im not sure we stayed on track creating strictly a weapon of war.
by diggan | 2025-08-30 13:10:53+00:00
> The other problem with logs is that it's very difficult to filter out all of the bot traffic.

It's not very difficult, but isn't not effort-less. Start with something like https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess/blob/master/config/brow... which captures 99% of the crawlers out there. Then, when you notice there is one particular user-agent/IP/IP-range doing a bunch of requests, add it to list and re-run. Doing filtering based on ASNs that you see are being used for crawling lets you filter most of the AI agents too.

We've been dealing with this problem for over 2 decades now, and there are solutions out there that removes almost all of it from your logs.
by cyberlimerence | 2025-08-30 13:11:05+00:00
As long as you're not funneling this data to the Big Tech/Big Cloud/Big Ads, possibly self hosting and partially anonymizing data, and using it for personal purposes, I feel like it's fine. Web is lonely, so watching numbers go up and seeing that, for example, your writing is being read around the world can be a huge motivator to continue creating.
by drawfloat | 2025-08-30 13:11:11+00:00
Ofcom has a clear guide on how harmful to minors is defined. It is even clearly referenced in your own links:

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/cons...

Your own links also reference the fact that moderation of content by platforms will allow them to comply with the law.

I don’t like this law and not here to defend its existence. But it is factually untrue just adding this would mean you also need to age verify users.

Case in point (which is not a rare use case), I use webrtc signalling to establish data connections in a multiplayer online game. Why would that require age verification when users are unable to send random content to one another?
by Bender | 2025-08-30 13:11:32+00:00
Good work. There are some hardening options that you may be able to glean from ArkenFox [1] and Betterfox [2]. Another addon to consider listing is CSS Exfil protection [3a] CSS Exfil Test Site [3b].

[1] - https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

[2] - https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox

[3a] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/css-exfil-pro...

[3b] - https://www.mike-gualtieri.com/css-exfil-vulnerability-teste...
by CyanLite2 | 2025-08-30 13:12:10+00:00
The bubble years did some really bad things to folks.

They were made to believe that money was free and would be free forever. Just think, if you were a kid in the Bay Area from 2006-2021 you knew nothing but free money with ZIRP.

Fast forward to today. These kids are now startup founders and they have a warped view of the world. ZIRP is over and simply pitching VCs isn't a viable business strategy anymore.
by redleader55 | 2025-08-30 13:12:18+00:00
I find this kind of comment revolting - if I owe something, I owe it to my family and my parents, so if Meta comes to make me an offer and I accept it, it's my business and no one else's. Strangers on the internet, instead of judging people based on the company they work for, and divide them into "good" and "bad", should get off their high horses and join these companies, if they are capable, and change them from the inside if they think they are doing bad things.
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-08-30 13:12:46+00:00
There is no reason to expect "buy stuff you want" to be more charitable than charity. At a glance, the stuff itself obviously takes up a good chunk of the money and much is going to end up in the hands of people who already have plenty.

You emphasize "sustainably", but how is it more sustainable to give 500k/year to capitalism until you don't make that much / retire / die? In either option, that 500k/year is there until it isn't. With charity, you'd help more people but it would be no more or less sustainable.
by drawfloat | 2025-08-30 13:13:19+00:00
No. If you are operating a p2p video chat site that is accessed by minors and you have no way for users to block or report content, then you are indeed going to face issues.

If a user is downloading a Linux image via bit torrent, or using WebRTC data channels to synchronise many clients using a p2p mechanism, what is the risk that needs age restricting?

This is what I meant, the OP is factually incorrect that just adding P2P technology to a service means it must age gate.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-30 13:14:16+00:00
It’s because owners hoard the equity so workers have minimal stake in outcomes (usually the chance of the company tanking resulting in job loss is not a primary motivator or perceived risk either).

Small companies that aren’t worker-owned and without promotion ladders aren’t immune to this. They get workers who strive toward promotion via job switching.

You can debate the fairness of equity hoarding by those who invest money into the business but it doesn’t change the worker dynamics
by ninkendo | 2025-08-30 13:14:32+00:00
The example I always go to is a Nintendo or PlayStation, etc.

They’re clearly just computers, they’re “hardware you own”, but you’ve never been able to run whatever software you want on them. But it’s been like this since the 1970’s and there’s never been an uproar over it.

For me the difference is that you know what you’re getting into when you buy a console, and it’s clear up front that it’s not for “general” computing. I’m inclined to put smart phones into this category as well, but I can see how reasonable people may disagree here.
by cube2222 | 2025-08-30 13:15:09+00:00
Fingers crossed for this - it seems like Zed is kinda “going back to the roots” (of working on collaboration) and leaving this in place to disrupt the agentic IDE category (and make themselves not have to spend time on competing in it).

Curious to see how adoption among cli agents will go (it’s nice to see Gemini cli already in).

The level of competition in the LLM and coding assistant market is always nice to see, and this only helps to make costs of switching between offerings even smaller.
by woliveirajr | 2025-08-30 13:15:11+00:00
>> Vulnerable members of society should be protected from scams.

> There are three ways to deliver protection

While I agree with your idea I'd like to remember that there are previous steps: teach people to be less vulnerable. Teach people to be less greedy. Teach people the consequences of actions.

Being less vulnerable is an obvious definition: know how to not fall for some scams.

Less greedy: some scams revolve around the idea of quick and ease profits and the comeback is hurtful because the person thinks he would get x and ends up losing 500x.

Consequences of actions: there's a lot of value to the group that observes the (bad) consequences of one actions. Pain, even from others, teaches something. The more we protect people from consequences, the better and safer it is about small losses until the actions go beyond the protection and the consequences are catastrophic.
by photon_garden | 2025-08-30 13:15:22+00:00
Their code is more complex in some ways (for example, it’s verbose).

But in languages with exceptions, if you want to know how a function can fail, you have two options:

- Hope the documentation is correct (it isn’t)

- Read the body of the function and every function it calls

Reasonable people can disagree on the right approach here, but I know which I prefer.
by bubblebeard | 2025-08-30 13:15:48+00:00
I’m strictly against collecting data from users unless absolutely necessary, and never without their consent.

As for technology stripping us of our humanity, I could not agree less. I think it’s helped us connect better with each other across different countries and cultures, broadening what was for many a fairly narrow view of the world. Technologies like computers and the Internet are also amazing tools for aiding humanity in our creativity and exploration of everything.

And as for the constraints they may place upon you it’s no different then government, economy or religion. They are all constructs designed to control you. Best you can do is realize that and live with it as best you can. That or go hermit I suppose, it’s a valid choice.
by xpe | 2025-08-30 13:16:03+00:00
Have you weighed factors that would push in the other direction? This requires a synthesis, and it requires breaking out of the tendency to only think about factors that support one narrative.

To the extent watermarking technology builds trust and confidence in a product, this is a factor that moves against your prediction.

Talk is cheap. People sometimes make predictions just as easily as they generate words.
by martin-t | 2025-08-30 13:16:03+00:00
Increasingly, I keep noticing that all human-corporation relationships are a rehash of older power structures and basically struggles for power in which people gradually keep losing it until they realize they are exploited and then finally start fighting back.

People started free and equal, then some specialized into warriors[0] and gradually built deeper and deeper hierarchical power structures, called themselves "nobles" and started exploiting the "commoners".

At some point people snapped, killed a bunch of them (French revolution, US was for independence, etc.) and decided they wanna rule themselves.

And then companies started getting bigger and bigger, with deeper hierarchical power structures, the "nobles" call themselves "executives" or "shareholders" and the people doing actual productive work are not longer "commoners", they are "workers"[1].

[0]: And thus controlled the true source of power - violence.

[1]: Ironically admitting that people who are not workers are not doing real work, they are just redistributing other people's work and money.
by analog31 | 2025-08-30 13:16:33+00:00
I actually use straight matplotlib, or for quick-and-dirty, pyplot. Every notebook starts with the same boilerplate, turning on auto-reload, then numpy, pyplot, asdf. And then my own weird libraries, or those shared with colleagues. Occasionally OpenCV, pyserial, sympy, and other odds and ends.

I have a Python "wrapper" for every piece of lab equipment that I touch.

I'm a physicist, and I work on developing measurement equipment. My graphing needs tend to be simplistic, with a big factor being the ability to visualize something quickly and then plan the next step (or realize I screwed up and start over). I'm often the only reader of my graphs.

My work is all secret, so I don't publish, except an occasional patent. The graphing needs for patents are their own beast, arcane, and perhaps a bit repulsive.

I noticed your comment suggests a more "life science" interest, and I think those fields may place a heavier burden on visualization. So I wouldn't be shocked if the physical and life sciences had different graphing needs. I suspect pyplot has a closer vibe to what you're using, than straight matplotlib, but maybe not close enough. There have been attempts to wrap mpl in a ggplot-like interface, but I don't know how successfully.
by filiptw | 2025-08-30 13:16:38+00:00
Hey, I'm quite into the topic of sewer systems exploration (especially the older, historical ones) for a few years now, and this is the first time I'm seeing a question like yours, so I feel obliged to share all the sources I have found.

general disclaimer: following sources are in various languages, but I'm still including them, since the videos don't have much talking in them, and you can easily translate blog sources.

1) Youtube: I know both Kanalismus35 and valdigger, and they are both the best, most in-depth as well as possibly the only real Youtubers in the sewers topic. However, there are at least a few more:

- https://www.youtube.com/@zemi02 - yet another creator from Czechia, Brno exploring bits and pieces of the sewer infrastructure, maybe not so refined as @kanalismus35 but worth checking out as well

- https://www.youtube.com/@KanalVision - from Germany, not much context or inisght given but still nice shots of huge sewers

- https://www.youtube.com/@penetratorscavenger/ - from Poland, Warsaw, they do urbex in general, but also go deep into historical sewers in Warsaw. Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcou71yKoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOVmXZLE6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZJ0L3DPAFc

2) Websites/blogs

- https://guerrillaexploring.webador.co.uk/content/draining - from England, London, incredibly in-depth context, knowledge and exploration of legendary London sewers - an absolute must read & see if you are into the topic

- https://penetratorscavengerteam.blogspot.com/search/label/ka... - from Poland, Warsaw, already mentioned before, they have much more thorough and in-depth content about Warsaw sweres with tons of photos on their blog than on yt. Just install a web page translation browser extension and you are good to go

- https://www.sub-urban.com - specifically about London, also a great, in-depth source

- https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forum/uk-draining-forum.94/ of course this one for all of UK

Summing up, I know I went quite a bit off-topic here, but I hope I helped a bit regarding youtube sources as well. Also happy to get to know any other Youtubers doing some proper exploration.