MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MarkusQ | 2025-08-26 21:09:05+00:00
This reads like AI slop word salad:

"Wherever the camera’s gaze turns, reality sprouts. Curiously, this representational tactic has overlaps with Medieval theories of vision, which philosophers believed to emanate outwards from human eyes, a concept known as “emission theory”. In a sense, this camera-centric computation of the game engine interface also mirrors the essentialist origins of ecosystem science. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a centralized technique for tracking and monitoring forest ecologies was introduced by the timber economy."

mixed with random blunders (e.g. "...the planet Vulcan in Star Wars...").
by srb788 | 2025-08-26 21:09:35+00:00
Ah its so refreshing to read a comment on the state of affairs of LLMs that is clearly from someone that gets it.

Indeed true intelligence is wordless! Think about it - words are merely a vehicle for what one is trying to express within oneself. But what one is trying to express is actually worldless - words are just the most efficient way that humans have figured out as being the mode of communication.

Whenever I think of a concept, I'm not thinking of words. Im visualising something - this is where meaning and understanding comes from. From seeing and then being able to express it.
by xp84 | 2025-08-26 21:09:50+00:00
I'm happy to be proven wrong here where whistleblowers can only use the PSTN. They already, I would wager, universally would not. They use Signal. All the reporters publish their Signal usernames and not their phone numbers.

Why? Probably because the PSTN as normal consumers can access it, is pretty non-anonymous. The best case for anonymity is a burner, but you have to buy those burners somewhere that probably has CCTV, or order them online with a paper trail, so it's pretty risky for someone who needs assurances of anonymity.

No whistleblowers are using SS7 trunks to place anonymous calls.
by bboygravity | 2025-08-26 21:10:05+00:00
I'm trying to build an automatic form filler (not just web-forms, any form) and I believe the secret lies in just chaining a whole bunch of LLM, OCR, form understanding and other API's together to get there.

Just 1 LLM or agent is not going to cut it at the current state of art. Just looking at the DOM/clientside source doesn't work, because you're basically asking the LLM to act like a browser and redo the website rendering that the browser already does better (good luck with newer forms written in Angular bypassing the DOM). IMO the way to go is have the toolchain look at the forms/websites in the same way humans do (purely visually AFTER the rendering was done) and take it from there.

Source: I tried to feed web source into LLMs and ask them to fill out forms (firefox addon), but webdevs are just too creative in the millions of ways they can ask for a simple freaking address (for example).

Super tricky anyway, but there's no more annoying API than manually filling out forms, so worth the effort hopefully.
by timr | 2025-08-26 21:10:12+00:00
> You claimed Swiss post will continue to accept gift packages over $100, contrary to their press release.

I literally just quoted the statement, which was explicit that the change involved “goods consignments”. They are continuing to accept mail, in general, and are continuing to accept goods consignments via another service.

In other posts I showed you that there’s no change to US policy for personal exemption.

Neither fact is in tension with the other.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-26 21:11:12+00:00
30 year non-paying customer of WinRAR here. I really don't think anything would have changed if I spent some money on it 30 years ago. In fact, way back then, I was correctly afraid of someone sniffing or leaking my credit card info. Today, I'm afraid to buy it because everything is getting AI baked into it. I'm switching back to PKZIP if that happens.
by hluska | 2025-08-26 21:11:47+00:00
I’m Canadian so I’m trying really hard to avoid saying anything that could be perceived as anti-American. I like Americans a lot as half my family hid out in the United States after getting kicked out of Canada, so I’ve struggled with a reply to this for a few days.

The part that is unclear is that this is a Black man named Mohamed who exfiltrated footage that could be used to plan an attack against an airplane. I trust you can draw that out on your own.
by rpowers | 2025-08-26 21:12:42+00:00
I've had this conversation a couple of times now. If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all? Same with UI/UX in general. Without real users, then it starts to feel meaningless.

Some media is cool because you know it was really difficult to put it together or obtain the footage. I think of Tom Cruise and his stunts in Mission Impossible as an example. They add to the spectacle because you know someone actually did this and it was difficult, expensive, and dangerous. (Implying a once in a lifetime moment.) But yeah, AI offers ways to make this visual infinitely repeatable.
by charcircuit | 2025-08-26 21:12:57+00:00
>U.S. customs is demanding a Certificate of Analysis (which could cost thousands of dollars and to determine what exact amount of Aluminum, Copper and Steel are in the product)

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/programs-administration/entry-summ...

>At this time, CBP does not require an aluminum certificate of analysis to be filed at the time of entry.

This does not read as a demand.
by ninalanyon | 2025-08-26 21:13:06+00:00
Any individual driver can still maintain that spacing. If a car pulls in in front of my Tesla S it will simply drop back slowly until it achieves the set spacing (actually measured in time not distance) again.

There are very few roads in my experience where long stretches are filled with high speed cars. The places that are filled with cars are usually around accidents and road works where the speed and hence separation distance are reduced.

I don't think a three second separation has any meaningful impact on throughput. perhaps someone with the necessary expertise and tools could simulate it.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-26 21:13:16+00:00
Great article, despite me disagreeing with most of the points. I think it's a good compilation of issues with SPA's, but I don't think most of these problems are inherent to the architecture itself.

Modern SPA routers basically cache everything, once you land on a page both the data and components for that page live inside your browser and forward/back navigation should work seamlessly without making any network requests. Of course that doesn't preclude developers from breaking that somehow, but in general it should just work. And you get the added benefit of preloading data for pages when links scroll into view which helps when you're on unreliable internet. I think in general, the worse your connection the more you want to do on-device, the more you want to preload, and the less you want to rely on an internet connection to navigate around a site.

> When I was in 5th grade, I would load up GameFAQs guides for Final Fantasy III on my iPod Touch before a road trip, and in the car I’d make sure not navigate away from the page, or I’d lose the guide. When I avoid clicking links between subways stops, I’m building on behavior I learned as a child, not as a software engineer.

I think this is a stronger argument for SPA's or at least against the hard page load. An SPA can keep old UI around while the next page loads, and it can keep that UI if a network call times out or connection is dropped. It's strictly better in this regard.

> you need to be continuously investing significant engineering effort into cutting-edge application work.

Or I can just let the smart fellas and gals at Svelte, Solid, Remix, Nuxt, Vercel etc do that for me :)
by jibal | 2025-08-26 21:14:25+00:00
If they know Gr is wrong then they would correct it. If they don't know then they will write Gr no matter how they transcribe it. The subscripts are irrelevant ... mindless copying is what's relevant. See their other article that they link to: https://www.righto.com/2019/10/how-special-register-groups-i...
by SpicyUme | 2025-08-26 21:15:00+00:00
Yes, I am seriously looking at either splitting my production between internal and external uses to avoid passing tariff costs on to the majority of my customers who are foreign. I've worked at using US companies for many components but that is becoming less attractive. I wish it weren't this way but that is how it goes.

The capricious implementation of the tariffs is another issue. Biden raised tariffs but the implementation involved a months long comment period, then a notice months in advance, and finally implementation. It wasn't ideal in my mind (the specific tariffs) but there was a way to work through the consequences and plan accordingly. This administration does not believe in that. Maybe congress would if they took back responsibility for tariff policy but I don't see that happening right now.
by teiferer | 2025-08-26 21:15:23+00:00
Easier, yes. But it's cheating.

I'm often saddened by all the normalization of all the things people do to cheat their way through life. Why does everything need to be physically prevented just so people don't find a loophole to exploit? And then just act like it's nothing or are even proud of it? There is a trial period + you are asked to pay if you keep using it after? Well, pay up if you do. You also (hopefully) don't steal candy from the supermarket, even though it's "actually easier than just paying". Why would it be any different for software?
by budududuroiu | 2025-08-26 21:15:39+00:00
> this patience has its limits

Without going into the lack of military capabilities to mount the largest amphibious invasion post-WW2 up until recently (debatable), I think you’d be hard pressed to find a group of people in the world that would be excited at the idea of being put under foreign occupation (not dissimilar to the “excitement” the Taiwanese had to be occupied by the Republic of China after WW2).

Regardless, TSMC wouldn’t survive annexation Taiwan being annexed by China in any capacity
by Tor3 | 2025-08-26 21:16:20+00:00
That's hard - I do have scans of most of Byte, but I don't have many of PCW, so it's hard to remember. I still have a lot of printed PCW magazines stored somewhere, but I can't exactly go and look through them where they are. But I think Byte was all good until at least 1986-1987, and PCW almost as long but I'm uncertain about the latter.

I subscribed to PCW from issue no. 2 (after finding issue no. 1 in a local shop, and the shop had a system where you could get them to set up the subscription for you - so I did that on the spot. Those were the days..)

And I stopped subscribing at some point, after the aforementioned "review commercial business software" change of focus. But I can't remember when that happened. I may also have dumped the later issues already (because of that), so even if I go look up the stored mags I may not be able to tell. Unlike Byte it's hard to find scanned complete PCW issues.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 21:16:23+00:00
Most safety & security dysfunction stories: high level management-tier misaligned incentives, incompetence, and ignorance, overriding the expert advice of mere peons, leading to predictable catastrophes (not to mention, usually, extra costs in the meantime—just hidden ones).

Most solutions: make the peons watch a training video or attend a training session about how they should speak up more.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-26 21:16:53+00:00
Unfortunately, it'll be a while until this kind of interface is usable for that.

Neuralink is currently running trials on quadriplegia - with people who have their motor cortex intact, but their spinal cords damaged. Cerebral palsy often involves damage to motor cortex. So wiring the implants into it might be of limited use. No one knows if it'll work, or how well.

Targeting premotor cortex? It's extremely promising, but no one knows how to do that yet. In medicine, that means "years, if not decades, of research and development", sadly.
by sotajensede | 2025-08-26 21:17:06+00:00
Signed in just to a agree with this. Over the years, I have seen many people bring up some trite form of online reading in an attempt to raise it to the level of what we typically think of when referring to book reading. It's a stance I really can't take seriously, both as a concept and due to personal experience. "The C Programming Language" did not give me vivid dreams or boost my writing skills, general creativity, and vocabulary when I first read it. A mid-level sci-fi book from the 80s, when I haven't done any for-fun reading in a while, does. There is clearly a cognitive difference between the very act of consuming each of these. In comparison, social media posts or news articles are far closer on the broad spectrum of reading to the the like of road signs and subscriber agreements. The mechanical act of reading is simply not equivalent over the broad range of content that can be read, and so its effects on the mind are also not equivalent. Related? Sure, but only by the fundamental understanding of symbols and language. Apologies for the rant.
by duxup | 2025-08-26 21:18:08+00:00
Congress is his people and just sycophants, but the real tragedy as far as separation of powers goes is that the SCOTUS majority has chosen to ignore their job and put their hands in their pockets.

Anytime a judge does something that might result in a confrontation SCOTUS sets it aside while the legal process continues ... this a farce as in the meantime people are fired, tax payer data is handled poorly, budgets are cut and everything falls apart. Effectively the law is ignored and the damage is allowed to happen regardless of the court outcome. It won't matter by the end of it all. It's the same as SCOTUS rubber stamp approving all of it...

IMO they've disqualified themselves for that job by simply refusing to do it.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-26 21:18:34+00:00
Buddy, Tim Cook wasn't hired for his human values. He was hired because he could stomach suicide nets at Foxconn and North Korean slaves working in iPhone factories. He was hired because he can be friends with Donald Trump while America aids-and-abets a genocide and turns a blind eye to NSO Group. He was hired because he'd be willing to sell out the iPhone, iTunes and Mac for software services at the first chance he got. The last bit of "humanity" left Apple when Woz walked out the door.

If you ever thought Apple was prioritizing human values over moneymaking, you were completely duped by their marketing. There is no principle, not even human life, that Apple values above moneymaking.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-26 21:18:51+00:00
It looks cool but I feel this kind of tool is only useful if Ruby is the only language you use. I have to manage several runtimes for most projects. I've used asdf for years and recently switched to mise: these tools already download pre compiled binaries for Ruby, plus pretty much any other language runtime.

It's likely that you get better per language features for something specific to the language though. We end up in exactly the same kind of frustration, that for some random project you need this specific tool that does dependency management of the specific runtime. asdf and mise both respect a .tool-versions file, I'd rather see things go more in that direction with some kind of standard.
by coredog64 | 2025-08-26 21:18:51+00:00
You need to think outside the box. Once you've determined that a particular technological avenue is a dead end, gin up a bunch of job postings that would suggest that you're doubling down on it and watch your competitors set money on fire trying to catch up.

(There's a classic story from the Windows 3.x era regarding pen computing, where Microsoft spent money on it and advertised that solely to force competitors to expend efforts where Microsoft knew there was no payoff)
by Agingcoder | 2025-08-26 21:19:08+00:00
I’m not sure why what he's saying is so outlandish to many ( at least to some of the papers he’s quoting ): we’re in a world which looks increasingly like the cold war all over again, and my immediate reaction when I saw the headline was ‘ah yes China this makes sense’. We’re not talking private capital - it’s national interests being pushed, for long term reasons, and probably a bit late.

Now I’m European so this seems obvious to me, coming from a culture of high government intervention but I might be very wrong!
by mothballed | 2025-08-26 21:19:44+00:00
People generally sign up to be in a steel mill because it's the best option they have to provide for their family. Another words, their alternatives are even worse.

If you want tariff that option away from a bunch of China-men, have them do the next even shittier dangerous job that they bypassed on the way to the steel mill, and then save them while you instead work next to molten iron, that's the proposition you're moving towards.

Of course if you want a little taste of being that hero, there are domestic steel mills currently hiring, you can take that job so the next guy in line won't get maimed. But somehow I think you won't, so you must be "all cool" they are "instead maimed."
by Henchman21 | 2025-08-26 21:21:09+00:00
I don’t need to justify it. The other explanations are only partly correct if they ignore this giant red flag. The number of people who willfully ignore this is massive. Its a shock to process — no one wants to be even WILLING to believe it.

We’ve been had and the number of people covering for this grows daily, and will continue to do so until one day we all wake the fuck up.
by mathiaspoint | 2025-08-26 21:21:16+00:00
My dad read to me and my brother every night. When I became a teenager I read his (fairly complete) sci-fi collection for fun and we spent a ton of time discussing it together. It's surprising how similar our tastes are, I don't know if that's genetic or epigenetic but I suspect it doesn't matter and many people could have a similar experience.

I've been maintaining my own collection in the hope that I could give my own children (if I have any, which is looking increasingly less likely) the same experience.
by atcon | 2025-08-26 21:21:17+00:00
The compelling interest for state and federal governments would be to ensure a fair marketplace by prohibiting false advertising and deceptive practices. California is considering Assembly Bill 1251 (Banning “ghost” job postings) to deter “unfair competition” in the labor marketplace. <https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab...>

Regarding First Amendment conflicts with commercial speech, the Supreme Court described its four-step analysis in Central Hudson Gas & Elec. v. Public Svc. Comm'n, 447 U.S. 557 (1980) (stating “For commercial speech to come within the First Amendment, it at least must concern lawful activity and not be misleading.”) Hence, the FTC Division of Advertising Practices (DAP) <https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consume...> has survived legal scrutiny of its enforcement authority due to its compelling interest in fair public markets.

As the Congressional Research Service pointed out, FTC enforcement actions regarding ghost jobs would be difficult, since employer intent is not easily discoverable and consumer harm not easily quantifiable. On the other hand, “While employers generally do not have a legal duty to respond to job applicants, differing responses based on protected characteristics could violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or other employment laws.” page 2, <https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF1297...>

For instance, if an employer used job postings to hire from certain countries or age groups, this would likely violate Title VII since national origin and age are protected classes under Title VII, eg Mobley v Workday (where plaintiffs argue the Workday job postings platform violated Title VII) <https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/courts/2025/08/21/judge-ord...>
by duxup | 2025-08-26 21:21:51+00:00
The sad part is that these departments have (or had) policies and law surrounding how this data is used.

But the courts / SCOTUS have effectively allowed them to ignore the law by handing the data over to DOGE. Now the law doesn't matter, citizens may get hurt, and the President who is responsible / is more equal than others from just about anything these days.
by antonvs | 2025-08-26 21:21:59+00:00
> When I bought the 13 I figured there would be these kinds of upgrades down the road.

Unless you already have the Ryzen AI 300 motherboard - in which case you're up to date - you can upgrade your motherboard right now:

https://frame.work/marketplace?compatibility%5B%5D=amd_ryzen...

You can hardly expect Framework to reconfigure the physical structure of your laptop to support a new GPU card when the device didn't have one to begin with.

You seem to be looking for something to complain about.
by smcleod | 2025-08-26 21:22:34+00:00
It's standard convention for (mostly GUI) applications to visually hide files and directories that start with a ., I don't know what you think a hidden folder is if it's not this and it has been widely accepted in the industry as a whole (except in Windows) for a very long time.

What you seem to be confusing it with is file system ACLs, something that *nix for quite some time. In fact it was available on consumer desktop environments in the early 2000s - roughly the same era as Windows (when Microsoft brought their NTFS filesystem to the desktop).

Anyway, don't feed the trolls and all that, you're welcome to enjoy your windows ecosystem - just don't expect all engineers to write their software specifically to cater for it.
by habinero | 2025-08-26 21:22:50+00:00
Yeah, I've made friends with a bunch of (mostly ex- at this point) Republicans because we can agree (1) that other people matter and (2) structural inequalities exist and should not.

If we have that in common, then I find the difference in politics is mostly implementation and method. I'm happy to debate civic policy on the merits all day at that point.

The people who are drawn to the performatively cruel side are not rational actors and can't be reasoned with. I've tried.

You have my admiration for trying, especially in this political climate. I've had younger folk straight up not believe me when I say this is exactly the same playbook they ran against gay men in the 90s.
by teiferer | 2025-08-26 21:23:53+00:00
If you ask ChatGPT about Cr2Gr2Te6 then it will correct you. The author's worry might be unfounded.

Though since he didn't date his article, it's unclear how long it has been out there so unclear as well whether it made its way into training data. Judging from the comments and the URL, it's quite new, but again, he should add a date to his articles.
Show HN: Constructive Solid Geometry with Python in the browser
by arbitrandomuser | 2025-08-26 21:24:07+00:00
This is a little hobby/side project i've been working on .

Its tool for constructive solid geometry using python which runs in your browser (best viewed on desktop).

The gist of it is it runs in your browser(pyodide) you write high level python which generates the corresponding glsl for your objects signed distance function which is then rendered using webgl (raymarching). The objects can then be converted to an STL (marching cubes) and downloaded

while SDF's for csg has been done before , https://github.com/fogleman/sdf , it requires you to generate the mesh and view it in a seperate viewer . Here instead i render the sdf with a fragment shader onto a canvas.

Python is neat, a lot of people know it or can pick it up fast and i thought its the perfect language for small time 3d printing hobbyist or designers to quickly conjure something up.

P.S , i'm also looking for a job.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-26 21:24:15+00:00
I mean, exactly. If they live in a reality where Jan 6 is less evil than an incumbent president getting the automatic nomination, it's going to be hard to have a productive conversation.

If, in their minds, Harris and Trump are somehow equally implicated in the Epstein scandal, all I can say is "lol, have a good one".