MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renegat0x0 | 2025-08-26 10:10:31+00:00
Few my ideas about how things will be going

- platforms are going to be forced to collect more data about you

- The amount of places without you showing IDs will decrease

- There will be more "moderation". You will not be able to provide nsfw contents, then you will not be able to host controversial topics. I suspect games will be more "kid friendly". No more real doom, gta, or Mortal Kombat for you. I remember how they provided more clothes on women for mortal Kombat

- The rules will always be vague, and used sporadically. Just like YouTube rules, where companies often abuse DMCA just to shut you off, or ban you, if you are not playing nice. Like Schlep.

- Corporations will create pressures on validated users, or ban you for life, but often they will just use "fear" to police people by themselves. Just like people will use "unalive" words, because they know they can get into trouble for saying a different word

- Google will be able to police extensions by banning people

- It is all a boiling frog scenario, where it creeps one law after another until everything is moderated, controlled by corporations

- The safety increases, but freedom decreases

- Free software people will often be mixed in article texts with terrorists, bad actors, predators, pedophiles

- It can happen because people do not understand these mechanisms, and they want "safer" world, in which nobody can get hurt, but it is also a place without you being free
by palata | 2025-08-26 10:11:46+00:00
> completely spot on with his ideas.

Which ideas? I've read ideas from him that were borderline scandalous. I wouldn't say that 100% of what he ever said was "completely spot on".

Now if we are talking about the subset of his ideas that were completely spot on, then yeah, they are completely spot on :-).

I guess my point is that one can agree with a subset of his ideas and still dislike the guy. And I don't see why those ideas couldn't live without him. Especially if they are completely spot on. I don't get the cult of personality, not only for Stallman.
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-26 10:11:54+00:00
I am unreasonably upset by the tiktok-goofy-jazz music they chose.

For science.org I want something a bit more nature-documentary e.g. a thoughtful classical/ambient soundscape with David Attenborough gentle tones "And here we see...". If seeking to amuse me then go for it e.g. Ride of Valkeries/Rohirrim.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-26 10:12:12+00:00
> Who seriously thinks this looks better, even if the original is a slightly grainy recording from the 90's?

Whatever you had as a kid feels "natural", these things feel "natural" for new generations.

Same things for a proper file system vs "apps", a teenagers on an ipad will do things you didn't know were possible, put them on windows XP and they won't be able to create a file or a folder, they don't even know what these words mean in the context of computers.
by b112 | 2025-08-26 10:12:47+00:00
Back when there was a lot of 4x3 on TV, 20 years ago, my parents had their TV set to auto stretch. Why?

Because they felt they were being ripped off, with all that unused space. They paid for widescreen!

Didn't matter that people looked all fat in the face, or that the effect was logarithmic near the edges. A car driving by got wider as it neared the edge of screen!

Nope, only mattered it was widescreen now.

And until I mentioned it, they did not even notice.

When I thought of it, I realised this sort of matches everything. Whether food, or especially politics, nuance is entirely lost on the average person.

I feel, as a place for tech startups, we should realise this. If you plan to market to the public, just drop the nuance. You'll save, be more competitive, and win.
by baq | 2025-08-26 10:13:03+00:00
> or even visit their bank's website using a browser

when desktop browsers are considered less trustworthy to the bank than mobile apps (this is approximately now) they'll invert the functionality and limitations surface so mobile will have more authorizations than desktop browser (this is also happening now).

client attestation is a fundamental transfer of freedom from the client to the server. it's nice in theory (I too want my money safe), but at the very least it needs a third party with different incentives, not the OS, hardware and browser vendor.
by metalman | 2025-08-26 10:13:40+00:00
Similar in Canada, we had the worlds highest gun ownership per capita, and one of the very lowest gun crime rates, every kid was instructed in proper gun handling, and guns were in no way fetishised or seen as anything other than tools with a higher level of responsibility attached. I would carry my rifle down the hill to the hardware store and pass it up to the gun guy, and say " I need bullets for this", and walk out with my gun and bullets to go hunt squirles for the tails, that I sold to fly fisherman to make lures, so I could have some spending money. We were violent little bastards as well, but no one ever thought of bringing a gun to a fist fight, ever, the concept introduced was that a gun was a tool, or a theoretical weapon of war. And war is what we have now, a fight to retake a sense of personal responsibility, and escape an ever more intrusive state run beurocracy. My personal observation is that the mucker extreamists are acting out a sentiment that is felt by a much wider segment of the population, and for every one of the ones shooting at people, there are 200 with a gun a grab bag, a camp and 1000lbs of vacume packed dehydrated food, but the sentiment is different, as there are 2 guitars, and a canoo for every gun.
by wy1981 | 2025-08-26 10:13:51+00:00
Writing is one of the best ways to learn something. Maybe non-experts learn something by writing about it?

Don't think the entire internet is repeating inaccuracies. :) I also believe there are readers that attempt to learn further than a blog. A blog post can inspire you to learn more about a topic, speaking from personal experience.

If there were no blog posts, maybe there would be no HN I believe.

There should be a place for non-experts. One could remain skeptical when they read blog posts without hating blog posts about complex topics written by non-expert.
by kivle | 2025-08-26 10:13:58+00:00
Mostly it's about milking app sales with the app store fees. Apple for instance get's about 15-20% of it's gross profit from app store fees. For Google it has been estimated that play store fees make up about 13% of their Google services profit.

I think initiatives like this are a form of "marketing" to show that "hey, app stores are important because we protect the users. We shouldn't be regulated away."
by frou_dh | 2025-08-26 10:14:00+00:00
Static type-signatures are inevitable in general. You can see this by how even the Ruby documentation has to make up silly ad hoc notation like "→ array_of_strings", "→ matchdata or nil" etc.

(Random example): https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.4/String.html#method-i-lines
by zarzavat | 2025-08-26 10:14:05+00:00
Cook makes shareholders happy but he's not much of a leader. Jobs was a leader.

The butterfly keyboard catastrophe whereby Apple sold broken laptops for 4 years just because they didn't want to waste money retooling, would never have happened under Jobs. Jobs had the courage to say fuck the shareholders when necessary, Cook does not and it's a recurring theme of his leadership.
by roenxi | 2025-08-26 10:14:25+00:00
> Every now and then, there’s a nasty accident...

That may just be they aren't very good at risk assessment. Nasty accidents with a chainsaw are in a different league of damage for the person involved compared to, eg, accidentally deleting a database or upsetting a manager. A software engineer is all but guaranteed to walk away from deleting a DB with their limbs intact. Even if their manager gets really angry a dev is almost certainly going to survive the encounter.
by closewith | 2025-08-26 10:14:36+00:00
> If you watch an expert arborist (tree man) at work, you’ll notice that they’ve removed every single safety guard from their chainsaws.

I've never seen an expert arborist remove any safety feature from a chainsaw and they'd be off site in a heartbeat if they did.

You're imagining a scenario to support your opinion, no basis in fact.
by tomhow | 2025-08-26 10:14:45+00:00
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. You’re welcome to email us if you have any further suggestions.

Edit: I seemed flippant but I am serious. If you want the site to be better, engage with us to help us make it better. Also consider: would the operators of those sites you praise (all of whom we respect) want you to “contribute” to them the way you do here at your worst?
by withinboredom | 2025-08-26 10:14:58+00:00
As an engineering manager ... please don't "knowingly" break the rules. It makes my job so much harder. Just break them and apologize. And try to break a different one every time; this is the one thing to be inconsistent on.

Also, I never said this; I disavow all knowledge of writing this message. I am probably drunk and queued this message to be sent during working hours as a prank to myself.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-08-26 10:14:59+00:00
Focusing on "stores" is part of this problem in the first place.

It's one of those seemingly innocent UI and communications changes that causes most users to develop a wrong mental model that obscures what's actually happening.

F-droid isn't actually installing the app. Neither does Play Store or Galaxy Store. Nor does Steam install your games on PC. People think they do, because the store fronts take over informing about installation progress. This little UI change alone - taking over the installer's progress bar - makes people develop bad mental models.

Direct installation is a great term IMHO. That's what you do when you download an APK onto your phone's file system, and then use e.g. file manager app to find that APK file, and run the system's package installer over it.

All F-Droid or Play Store or other stores do is to automate the "find the right APK" and "invoke installation" parts.
by myfonj | 2025-08-26 10:15:06+00:00
Just chiming in with recommendation of yet another hints extension, this one is called »Yet Another Hints Extension (YAHE)« and is really minimal and nice. Signed, happy long-time user.

(YAHE) https://gitlab.com/jpallari/yahe

(BTW, does anyone here remember extension called »Hit-A-Hint«?)
by johnisgood | 2025-08-26 10:15:40+00:00
No, I think you should write more about it. Motivations, what about programs or scripts that require writing or at least modifying files in $HOME, etc.? You say it is rare, but is it really? Also what is your way when you want to communicate between two programs? What is your preferred method of IPC? I will check how much my system works if I do the same thing as you, on Linux. :D

FWIW I use firejail so applications cannot run anything in $HOME and temporarily (heh) mounted tmpfs (two separate options).
by anas101siddiqui | 2025-08-26 10:16:22+00:00
Hey everyone, I’ve been wondering about something and thought this forum might be the right place to ask. I often come across cases where websites or blogs get taken down just because of copyright complaints or certain restrictions. This made me curious—what if someone wants to publish sensitive articles, adult content, or even anonymous news without constantly living in fear of DMCA strikes or content removal?

Is there really such a thing as DMCA ignored hosting or offshore hosting that actually works in practice? I mean, not just on paper, but in real-life usage. Has anyone here tried hosting their projects or websites on these kinds of servers? How’s the stability, speed, and security? And more importantly, is it really anonymous and reliable, or do you still face risks in the long run?

I’d really appreciate if anyone could share their personal experiences or suggestions.
by bapak | 2025-08-26 10:16:31+00:00
I think macOS core UI is better looking, that's the reality, and it has been for a very long time.

Just a random comparison: Paint.net and Pixelmator.

Without going too far into the details of their capabilities, why does Pixelmator look so much more pleasing?

If you built Pixelmator for Windows using a Windows-native look, it would just not look as good.
by lentil_soup | 2025-08-26 10:16:37+00:00
>> Claiming that people you've never met are sufficiently financially secure to risk their livelihood for your protest movement is the kind of hubris I hope to never have.

I don't understand your agressiveness towards me, this is a conversation, we can talk and disagree without insulting.

I don't know every developer at Google or their situation but the idea that they're victims of a system that forces their hand is a stretch. There's people resisting changes they don't want at every step of the soci-economical ladder in different countries across countries and cultures. I can 100% understand a single person not being able to do so given their life circustances, but we're talking about a change across an organisation that probably encompases 100s of people, this is not resting on a single person. As I said in my original post, there's doctors in poorer countries with better ethics, what's different about developers?
by codeflo | 2025-08-26 10:17:19+00:00
From a PR perspective, I wonder why YouTube is at the same time forcing unwanted AI features down people's throats[1], a move that many companies now do to drum up their perceived AI competence, but THEN at the same time, when asked, also downplaying this use of AI by splitting words.

The combination of the two confuses me. If this was about shareholders, they'd hype up the use of AI, not downplay it. And if this was about users, they'd simply disable this shit.

[1] I mean, they're sacrificing Google Search of all things to push their AI crap. Also, as a bilingual YouTube user, AI-translated titles and descriptions make the site almost unusable now. In addition to some moronic PM forcing this feature onto users, they somehow also seem to have implemented the worst translation model in the industry. The results are often utterly incomprehensible, and there's no way to turn this off.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-26 10:17:47+00:00
> it'll be an explosion of creativity just as with image generation currently.

I haven't seen anything breathtaking yet, just a tsunami of slop. Arguably we already had a video tsunami of slop, you just have log in into netflix to witness it.

For a long time I disliked the term "content" to describe photos/movies/art/&c. but now I feel it's a very appropriate term, an infinite amount of meaningless "content" to fill bottomless "containers"
by schiffern | 2025-08-26 10:18:52+00:00
Tip: avoid the cheap 1" filters that only have a few pleats. Fewer pleats = less surface area = more flow resistance.

Many HVAC people will recommend thicker filters (3-6" thick) if using a higher MERV, but the 1" 3M 1900 often has more actual surface area if laid flat.

Testing by Project Farm and others showed the 3M 1900 filter has the lowest airflow resistance of any 1" high-MERV filter. If your HVAC only accepts a 1" filter, that's the only brand I'd use. Change the filter ideally every 3 months, but to avoid costly HVAC repairs don't exceed 6 months maximum.
by latexr | 2025-08-26 10:19:02+00:00
> Who seriously thinks this looks better

I don’t think people notice. I don’t own a TV, but twice now I’ve been to some friend’s house and I immediately noticed it on theirs. Both times I explained the Soap Opera effect and suggested disabling the feature. They both agreed, let me do it, and haven’t turned it on again. But I also think that is a mix of trusting me and not caring, I’m not convinced they could really tell the difference.

Tip for those aiming to do the same: Search online for “<tv brand> soap opera effect” and you’re bound to find a website telling you the whereabouts of how to reach the setting. It may not be 100% correct, so be on the lookout for whatever dumb name the manufacturer gave the “feature” (usually described in the same guide you would have found online).

> I got a serious uneasy feeling as if I was on a psychedelic and couldn't quite trust my perception, especially at the 2:00 mark

You weren’t kidding. That bit at 02:06 really makes you start to blink and look closer. The face morphs entirely.

https://youtu.be/7Yyx31HPgfs&t=126s

Looking at the original, it’s obvious why: that section was really blurry. The AI version doesn’t understand camera effects.

https://youtu.be/1X6KF1IkkIc?t=126

Thank you for providing both links, it made the comparison really simple.
by anenefan | 2025-08-26 10:19:55+00:00
In Australia the two terms are certainly not interchangeable.

However such articles and general media reporting in Australia that use the term gun safety - we'd generally take to mean they are talking about gun control including the wider ramifications of laws regarding weapons that are either restricted or prohibited.

The term safety has IMO gained popular usage most likely due to the fact that many people in cities where much of Australia's population resides (where reasons like self defence is viewed as not a genuine reason for a gun licence) - thus they don't (no longer) have guns, there exists a strong view where less guns is seen as safer in the way that if there were 95% less cars in a city there would be less car accidents and thus better car safety.

In cities or large towns there's limited reasons to justify a gun licence with exceptions such as if they belong to a sporting gun club or a recreational shooter visiting rural hunting areas occasionally on their time off.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-26 10:19:56+00:00
Ensure that at least one of the checked output devices is available and normally it should appear among physical outputs in any software, including Airfoil (unless it’s hidden in Airfoil settings). If it doesn’t appear, then I don’t know what’s going on.

I’ve never used Airfoil though. To be honest, I feel like routing audio through a multi-output virtual audio device might defeat the point of the app if it’s meant to play to wireless devices directly.
Stop squashing your commits. You're squashing your AI too
by jannesblobel | 2025-08-26 10:22:09+00:00
Everyone keeps saying “keep your Git history clean.” Squash, rebase, linearize. It looks neat in the git log.

But here’s the thing: in 2025 our biggest collaborators aren’t just humans, they’re AI tools. And those tools need the messy history: the failed attempts, the typos, the bad refactors. That’s the context they learn from.

When we squash everything into a perfect history, we’re deleting the very breadcrumbs that could help an agent explain a bug, trace a regression, or warn us we’re about to repeat an old mistake.

“Clean history” makes reviewers happy today. But it’s technical debt for tomorrow’s AI-assisted development
by johnisgood | 2025-08-26 10:22:13+00:00
My hardware/software or my eyes are borked because I cannot tell much of a difference between YouTube vs Instagram side-by-side. Gosh. If it is not my eyes, what are the recommendations? What is the top 1 (or 5) reasons I cannot see it if it is not my eyes? Do I need to upgrade my monitor? I have a relatively recent GPU but it is not a beast and I use a HDMI -> VGA converter.

The pictures, however, look god-awful! I presume the video is filled with stuff like these.
by summm | 2025-08-26 10:22:16+00:00
I would agree of there was a choice or actual free market. But there isn't, and your argument is fundamentally flawed. Because there often is no actual choice, the options are artificially restricted. Starting with, many phones cannot be rooted. Then, if you can root, multiple functions are suddenly unavailable, not because of a fundamental technical problem, but because Google, the phone OEM or the app dev decided to not give you the options you wanted.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-26 10:22:44+00:00
> I've already asked them to give me a free phone just like they gave me a free token generator

It's not a matter of free, it's a matter of "certified": they make you use third party devices, but if anything happens they may make it your fault on the legal side. If a device is part of the banking agreement, the device must come from the bank and the responsibility must rely entirely on the bank.

> app

In all of this: how can it be remotely possible to think that in order to get a critical service - accessing your money - one could be supposed to have a contract with some remote alien party (the "App Store")? Because I am guessing your bank does not directly give you the "app". Already this makes me wonder about how the population can be blind to unbelievable levels to the systemic insanity.

Some of them do not require any smartphone - but some of them require that you make a contract with an uncontrolled firm on a different continent to have a money deposit account. And the amount of people who will go "are you mental?!" in front of them are presumably (evidently) negligible.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-26 10:22:48+00:00
It seems if you want optimal performance and power efficiency, you need to own both hardware and software.

Does Apple optimize the OS for its chips and vice versa? Yes. However, Apple Silicon hardware is just that good and that far ahead of x86.

Here's an M4 Max running macOS running Parallels running Windows when compared to the fastest AMD laptop chip: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/13494385?baseli...

M4 Max is still faster even with 14 out of 16 possible cores being used. You can't chalk that up to optimizations anymore because Windows has no Apple Silicon optimizations.
by sonyhong | 2025-08-26 10:22:52+00:00
1) Yeah, we already have that in Envelope. :) You can segment your guest list based on their personal information and then send them unique personalized communication via e-mail. 2) Good point! Seems like a good idea for later upsell. 3) We have complete registration flow built within the platform, so everytime you create an event Envelope will automatically create the whole registration flow for you, including the paid events where guests need to buy tickets. 4)Sounds interesting, right now we count with users using Task management tool with Envelope now.

Thank you so much for your take!
by arp242 | 2025-08-26 10:23:08+00:00
On the general point about fast fashion etc. I don't disagree, but vague haphazard unclear regulation no one knows how to comply with is not "good" in any way. It's sloppy banana republic (McDonalds republic?) governance that's making a joke out of the entire country. I'm not American so I don't really care as such, but you know... it's not good. It's just bad governance on a very basic level.
by ozim | 2025-08-26 10:23:13+00:00
Tell that to all those assholes that are making malware and scamming society on billions.

Most of users are not able to keep themselves safe in the internet - they want to install all kind of crap without thinking too much.

All of this is companies making it possible that average Joe could just click links, install any kind of crap and still be somewhat secure.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-08-26 10:23:18+00:00
True, but on the other hand the meaning of words often follows usage rather than the other way around.

There is no choice of words that will make it normal to install mobile apps from anywhere other than an app store. Whatever word we use will take on the meaning of doing something unusual.

"Sideloading" doesn't have an inherent or deeply ingrained negative connotation. I don't see a reason to try to change it.