MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dv_dt | 2025-08-13 15:51:43+00:00
The defacto hub to search for projects and host projects has shifted before - it may be hard to believe now but at one time sourceforge was in github's position. Now that was a much earlier time in web collaborative repos but it could shift again.

Similar for indexes of open source repos - I dont know of a singlar winner now but it was for a bit freshmeat for a feed of open source project updates
by SkepticalWhale | 2025-08-13 15:52:05+00:00
I'd like to see more software that amplifies local social interactions.

There are apps like Meetup, but a lot of people just find it too awkward. Introverts especially do not want to meet just for the sake of meeting people, so they fallback on social media.

Maybe this situation is fundamentally not helped by software. All of my best friendships organically formed in real-world settings like school, work, neighborhood, etc.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-13 15:52:23+00:00
Not honky tonk, but when I discovered the collection of Japanese tributes to (once great) The Muffs [1]. That punk vibe: getting together to play raunchy music is something I sorely miss from my college-days. And the two tributes, while celebrating the music of a very American band, feel like the most Japanese thing ever.

[1] https://youtu.be/5GiL7FJIHRQ?si=9Sm32c-TRrtLuil1&t=1139
by ge96 | 2025-08-13 15:53:24+00:00
I am seeing from a dev perspective the benefit of using an LLM. I work with a person that has less years in experience than me but is somehow my superior (partly due to office politics) but also because they use GPT to tell them what to do. They're able to make something in whatever topic like opensearch, if it works job is done.

Probably the luddite in me to not see that GPT and Googling might as well be/is the same. Since my way to learn is Stack Overflow, a README/docs or a crash course video on YT. But you can just ask GPT, give me a function using this stack that does this and you have something that roughly works, fill in the holes.

I hear this phrase a lot "ChatGPT told me..."

I guess to bring it back to the topic, you could take the long way to learn like me eg. HTML from W3Schools then CSS, then JS, PHP, etc... or just use AI/vibe code.
by rikafurude21 | 2025-08-13 15:53:26+00:00
Author seems to be very idealistic, and I appreciate that he cares about the quality of the content he provides for free. Personal experience however shows me that when I look at a recipe site I will first have to skip through the entire backstory to the recipe and then try to parse it inbetween annoying ads in a bloated wordpress page. I can't blame anyone who prefers to simply prompt a chatbot for exactly what hes looking for.
by roscas | 2025-08-13 15:53:34+00:00
"Chrome is spyware, use Edge! Our spyware Edge, is 100% compatible with Windows, Chrome is not"

If you by now still use Windows (hope not) but if you still use it, give a Linux distro a chance and you will be amazed.

So what can you do? You can choose between many desktop environments, like Gnome or Plasma.

Distros list is below, sorry for the long post, but you can save the ISO, boot from USB and be the real boss of your computer.

1. Ubuntu

Most popular general-purpose Linux Excellent documentation and community support Great for beginners and professionals alike Regular releases with long-term support versions

2. Fedora

Cutting-edge features and latest software Strong focus on free and open-source software Good for developers and tech enthusiasts Sponsored by Red Hat

3. Debian

Stable, reliable foundation for many other distros Extremely well-maintained package system Large software repository Known for its stability and security

4. CentOS/Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux

Enterprise-grade stability and reliability Popular in server environments Good for business and production use CentOS replaced by Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux (community-driven)

5. openSUSE

Excellent for both desktop and server use Strong package management with YaST Good balance of stability and new features Popular in enterprise and development environments

6. Manjaro

User-friendly Arch-based distribution Great for users wanting Arch's cutting-edge software Pre-configured with useful tools and drivers Good balance of simplicity and customization

7. Mint

Based on Ubuntu, very beginner-friendly Familiar interface similar to Windows Excellent out-of-the-box experience Great for users transitioning from Windows

8. Arch Linux

Rolling release model with latest software Highly customizable and lightweight Strong documentation and community Best for advanced users who want full control

9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Enterprise-focused distribution Long-term support and stability Widely used in business environments Commercial support available

10. elementary OS

Beautiful, polished desktop experience User-friendly interface with macOS-like aesthetics Great for casual users and designers Strong focus on usability and design principles
by neckro23 | 2025-08-13 15:53:57+00:00
In my experience it works ok. The "English" model actually knows a lot of languages and will translate directly to English.

You can also transcribe it to Japanese and use a translator to convert to English. This can sometimes help for more semantically complex dialogue.

For example, using faster-whisper-xxl [1]:

Direct translation:

faster-whisper-xxl.exe --language English --model large-v2 --ff_vocal_extract mdx_kim2 --vad_method pyannote_v3 --standard <input>

Use Japanese, then translate:

faster-whisper-xxl.exe --language Japanese --task translate --model large-v2 --ff_vocal_extract mdx_kim2 --vad_method pyannote_v3 --standard <input>

1. https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win
by varispeed | 2025-08-13 15:54:00+00:00
It's a sign that Labour and Conservatives are worried they are about to lose power. They "fumbled" the economy by selling everything out to the highest bidder, created captive labour market cementing the class divide - free market only for big corporations. Now they have to protect it and themselves. They need to know what people are talking about.

Paranoia gets bigger every year. They are addicted to money and power.
by zach_bresler | 2025-08-13 15:54:06+00:00
Co-founder here!

Our focus from day one has been making sure AI in Pager isn’t just a checkbox feature. Every capability we add should actually help teams work faster, not slow them down with bloat.

We want to solve real problems and build AI that genuinely makes teams better — not just something with an “AI” stamp on it. Curious to hear what that looks like in your world.
by jofla_net | 2025-08-13 15:54:11+00:00
Very true, If you take the number of tech jobs lost over the last couple years(in article) and multiply out, say, roughly $125K gross salary yearly, cut that in half for taxes (and things i missed) and you still are out tens of billions of dollars that people wont have to spend on things, big things.

I don't see how nobody will feel that loss of purchasing... Then again, we all know how detached the market is, someone from Schwab just yesterday telling me how things have "never been better."
by raattgift | 2025-08-13 15:54:28+00:00
> Space becomes timelike. There is only forward ...

No. It's a fanciful analogy on a particular family of coordinate charts, particuarly systems of coordinates which do not smoothly/regularly cross the horizon. The black hole interior is still part of a Lorentzian manifold, there is no change of the SO+(1,3) proper orthochronous Lorentz group symmetry at every point (other than spacetime points on the singularity). One can certainly draw worldlines on a variety of coordinate charts and add light-cones to them, and observe that the cones interior to the horizon all have their null surfaces intercept the singularity. However, there's lots of volume inside the interior light cones (and on the null surfaces) and nothing really constrains an arbitrary infaller's worldline, especially a timelike infaller, to a Schwarzschild-chart radial line (just as nothing requires arbitrary infallers to be confined to geodesic motion).

The interior segment of a Schwarzschild worldline in general can't backtrack in the r direction, but there are of course an infinity of elliptical trajectories which don't. (That is to say that all orbits across the horizon are plunging orbits; but one can also say that of large families of orbits that cross ISCO, which is outside the horizon).

A black hole with horizon angular momentum and general charges offer up different possibilities, as does the presence of any matter near (including interior to) the horizon (all of these also split the ISCO radius, move the apparent horizon, and may split the apparent and event horizons). The Schwarzschild solution of course is a non-spinning, chargeless, vacuum solution everywhere, and is maximally symmetrical, and is usually probed with a test particle. An astrophysical system like a magnetic black hole formed that passes through a jet from a companion pulsar, for example, does not neatly admit the Schwarzschild chart (and has no known exact analytical solution to the field equations). At least one such astrophysical binary is known (in NGC 1851 from TRAPUM/MeerKAT) (and if you don't immediately run away from A. Loeb papers like you should, he added his name to one that argues there are thousands of such systems in the galaxy centre near Sgr A*, which itself is now known to have strong magnetic fields (thanks to EHT's study of the polarized ring)).
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-13 15:54:29+00:00
> Surprisingly they charge $190/yr per car for this.

Don't feel too bad. In Chicago, it's a $30 optional add-on to the annual sticker that everyone has to buy whether they park on the street or keep the car in a garage. The annual sticker cost is based on the weight of the vehicle; it can run from $100 to $500 per year.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-13 15:54:30+00:00
> As I understand it, co2 sequestration is still in R&D and not viable at scale.

I'm sure he knows. He's just tacitly saying cars should be defacto banned for anybody who's not a multimillionaire.

The reason this isn't done is because trying something like that is how you lose elections. So really it's a fantasy about having authoritarian control over everybody else.
by dkiebd | 2025-08-13 15:54:48+00:00
> The author saw a Google AI Search ad that could identify ramen from a photo and provide a recipe. They criticise generative AI for repackaging other people’s hard work into bland, soulless output, unlike trusted recipe writers whose work is tested, personal, and distinctive.

Has this guy ever googled a recipe and clicked on a result? The website is very likely to be a complete mess. And the recipe is also likely to be untested and simply made up for clicks.
by peddling-brink | 2025-08-13 15:54:52+00:00
This is a strawman argument, but I think well meaning.

Generally, when people talk about wanting a human in the loop, it’s not with the expectation that humans have achieved perfection. I would make the argument that most people _are_ experts at their specific job or at least have a more nuanced understanding of what correct looks like.

Having a human in the loop is important because LLMs can make absolutely egregious mistakes, and cannot be “held responsible“. Of course humans can also make egregious mistakes, but we can be held responsible, and improve for next time.

The reason we don’t fire developers for accidentally taking down prod is precisely because they can learn, and not make that specific mistake again. LLMs do not have that capability.
by subsistence234 | 2025-08-13 15:55:02+00:00
Since ASICs are built for mining one specific algorithm and no other, ASIC miners are invested in the survival of "their" mining algorithm.

If there are several competing coins using the same algorithm, it may be possible to incentivize ASIC miners to destroy one of them if it benefits the others, but even then it's risky.

CPUs in contrast can be used for a million different things, CPU miners are not incentivized to support any given crypto project. It's also much easier to rent large amounts of CPUs than of ASICs.
by n4r9 | 2025-08-13 15:55:43+00:00
I recall friends who worked for Google telling me that they instituted WFH for all employees from the start of March. I also remember a call with a co-worker in January/February who had a PhD in epidemiology (not a "rationalist" afaik); I couldn't believe what he was saying about the likelihood of a months-long lockdown in the West.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-13 15:55:44+00:00
Just because something is genetically based, and we're therefore predisposed to it, doesn't mean that we'll necessarily behave that way. Much simpler animals, such as insects, are more hard-coded in that regard, but in humans we can override our genetically coded innate instincts with learned behaviors - generally a useful and powerful capability, but one that can also lead to all sorts of disfunctional behavior based on personal history including things like brainwashing.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-13 15:55:48+00:00
Just because there is a conflict of interest doesn’t completely invalidate the argument being made. Marketing slop routinely makes it to the front page here and elsewhere with nobody batting an eye, but someone posting a personal take on their personal blog is now somehow a self-serving plug for…remind me where the product link is in that document again? I couldn’t find it.

Part of recognizing bias and conflicts of interest is also being able to recognize when, despite that, they’re still right.
by eldaisfish | 2025-08-13 15:55:49+00:00
you are the edge case. for you, it is easy to change employers. For a lot of folks, it is not, despite being equally skilled. it is pretty crass to hand-wave away the real risk of being forced to uproot your life because of the risk that your visa may not be renewed.

About 20% of H1B visas go to indian outsourcing firms. You know the culprits here. Are you really going to argue that these firms are not abusing the system and underpaying employees?
by Group_B | 2025-08-13 15:55:50+00:00
I do think the average person sees this as a win. Your average person is not subscribing to an RSS feed for new recipes. For one thing, it's hard enough to find personal food blog / recipe websites. Most of the time when you look up a recipe, the first several results are sites littered with ads, and sometimes take too long to get to the point. Most AI does not have ads, (for now?) and is pretty good at getting straight to point. The average person is going to do whatever is most convenient, and I think most people will agree that AI agents are the more convenient option for certain things, including recipe ideas / lookups.
by gradientsrneat | 2025-08-13 15:55:54+00:00
"AI" corporations aren't just "scraping" the fediverse. They are DDOSing independent websites all over the internet. Blocking and hampering their scrapers is often the best and only solution for some small indie sites to remain financially viable. These companies are destroying the commons.

Even Hacker News users report being affected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397361

There are countless examples of "AI" DDOSing of independent websites if you care to search for them.

Note: I do not endorse the linked blogger
by westurner | 2025-08-13 15:56:07+00:00
Do all of these points apply to the traditional media funhouse mirror that we love to hate, too?

> "The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve."

I see illegal war, killing without due process, and kleptocracy. It's partly the media's fault. It's partly the peoples' fault for depending on advertising to subsidize free services, for gawking, for sharing without consideration, for voting in ignorance.

Social media reflects the people; who can't be "fixed" either.

If you're annoyed with all of these people on here who are lesser than and more annoying than you, then stop spending so much time at the bar.

Can the bar be fixed?
by withinboredom | 2025-08-13 15:56:18+00:00
I think you're taking them too literally.

Today, I told an LLM: "do not modify the code, only the unit tests" and guess what it did three times in a row before deciding to mark the test as skipped instead of fixing the test?

AI is weird, but I don't think it has any agency nor did the comment suggest it did.
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 15:56:24+00:00
> Public transit makes the most sense to fund with property taxes proportional to the benefit that public transit brings in.

Which is essentially zero in many cities. And even in cities with transit, an expansion should result in a lot more benefit than they are currently getting, but they need that money now not in 10 years after that expansion is done and the city sees that benefit.
by varispeed | 2025-08-13 15:56:32+00:00
This is the kind of techno-utopian fantasy that keeps authoritarianism looking respectable. “Just encrypt it and only decrypt with a warrant” sounds lovely on paper, but in practice you’ve still built the infrastructure for a 24/7 panopticon - you’ve just wrapped it in a legal fig leaf.

Governments break their own rules all the time, warrants get rubber-stamped, and “heavy fines + prison time” magically evaporate when the offenders are the state or its contractors. The technology isn’t the hard part - it’s the fact you can’t meaningfully enforce limits on a system whose entire purpose is to watch everyone, all the time. You don’t make mass surveillance safe by adding a padlock. You stop it by not building it.
by Avicebron | 2025-08-13 15:56:38+00:00
This issue with direct democracies is that the they can get out of hand pretty fast unless your population is somewhat homogenous and reasonable. Aka Switzerland. If you're too young to remember twitch plays Pokémon, that's direct democracy and it was wild.

A direct democracy could decide tomorrow that we wanted to fuck China sideways with nukes because it's funny and based all because a tiktok went viral.
by Xelbair | 2025-08-13 15:57:00+00:00
> We could trust the government to be good

no. you cannot. ever.

even if you have perfect faith in current government, you're one election away from something different.

CCTV is also extremely ineffective in crime prevention in general, and actually catching criminals - one of few studies(back when i did write my thesis on subject related to it) used different areas of UK to measure crime fighting capability and effect of CCTV - by finding similar areas with and without CCTV and comparing crime statistics.

they only worked on parking lots, there was no measurable differences in plazas, alleys, roads, highstreets etc.

and a bit of anecdotal evidence - once cameras at my older workplace caught robbery to a place next door. With criminal looking directly at the camera, before bashing the window with a brick, jumping in, and hopping out with accomplice. They never got caught. This was quite decent camera, with face clearly visible - i know this because we directly cooperated with police.
by reactordev | 2025-08-13 15:57:04+00:00
I’m in love with the theme switcher. This is how a personal blog should be. Great content. Fun site to be on.

My issue is that crawlers aren’t respecting robots.txt, they are capable of operating captchas, human verification check boxes, and can extract all your content and information as a tree in a matter of minutes.

Throttling doesn’t help when you have to load a bunch of assets with your page. IP range blocking doesn’t work because they’re lambdas essentially. Their user-agent info looks like someone on Chrome trying to browse your site.

We can’t even render everything to a canvas to stop it.

The only remaining tactic is verification through authorization. Sad.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-13 15:58:03+00:00
This website could have been written by an LLM. Real life is for humans, because you can verify that people you have shaken hands with are not AI. Even if people you've shaken hands with are AI-assisted, they're the editor/director/auteur, nothing gets out without their approval, so it's their speech. If I know you're real, I know you're real. I can read your blog and know I'm interacting with a person.

This will change when the AIs (or rather their owners, although it will be left to an agent) start employing gig workers to pretend to be them in public.

edit: the (for now) problem is that the longer they write, the more likely they will make an inhuman mistake. This will not last. Did the "Voight-Kampff" test in Bladerunner accidentally predict something? It's not whether they don't get anxiety, though, it's that they answer like they've never seen (or maybe more relevant related to) a dying animal.
by farceSpherule | 2025-08-13 15:58:25+00:00
Social media is the new smoking...

Widespread adoption before understanding risks - embraced globally before fully grasping the mental health, social, and political consequences, especially for young people.

Delayed but significant harm - can lead to gradual impacts like reduced attention span, increased anxiety, depression, loneliness, and polarization

Corporate incentives misaligned with public health - media companies design platforms for maximum engagement, leveraging psychological triggers while downplaying or disputing the extent of harm
by aaronbaugher | 2025-08-13 15:58:30+00:00
Also, it's useful to remember that before tractors, there were horses, and the equipment pulled by horses was gradually converted to tractors. With horses, the farmer might sit on the equipment and use reins, or he might walk in front of the horses and lead them. Either way, he had control of them without literally sitting on them. So when the first tractors came along, it probably wasn't automatic to think you needed to sit directly on it. And it was a lot easier to hop on and off them when they were small machines without cabs. They were pretty dangerous, really, with little in the way of safety protection over moving parts, so I can see why people thought a rule was needed to keep the driver on the seat.
by xmorse | 2025-08-13 15:59:09+00:00
This is an API I built for my agents to let them read files in public GitHub repos without relying on the official GitHub API.

There are no rate limits. The API is built on top of sqlite on Cloudflare Durable Objects.

The first time you fetch an url it downloads the repository tar file and stores the files contents in the sqlite database.

It then uses sqlite to list, read and search the files.

Agents can paginate files using search params like start and end to only read a portion of a file. They can also use globs to only search or read a portion of a repo
by teraflop | 2025-08-13 15:59:25+00:00
If you have a bit of time, I recommend the short story "The Seasons of the Ansarac" by Ursula K. Le Guin, which is about a society and its choice about how to deal with technological disruption.

https://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/seasons_of_ans...

(It's a little bit non-obvious, but there's a "Part 2" link at the bottom of the page which goes to the second half of the story.)
by herodotus | 2025-08-13 15:59:45+00:00
Below are their least profitable routes, according to AI. Be interesting to see if that is what they shutdown first. Alternatively, it may be a matter of placing the planes in the least expensive hangers while they wit out the strike.

Key least profitable or discontinued routes include: Toronto-(YYZ) to Vancouver (YVR) Montreal to Detroit (DTW), Minneapolis (MSP) Toronto to Indianapolis (IND) Vancouver to Nashville (BNA), Tampa (TPA) Several Western Canada routes from Calgary to smaller cities
by isgb | 2025-08-13 15:59:47+00:00
I've been thinking it'd be nice there was a way to just block AI bots completely and allow indexing, but I'm guessing [that's impossible](https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde...).

Are there any solutions out there that render jumbled content to crawlers? Maybe it's enough that your content shows up on google searches based on keywords, even if the preview text is jumbled.