MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raphman | 2025-08-15 15:29:59+00:00
The ruling (in German) is available online.¹

The supreme court actually has rejected most of Axel Springer's² arguments and limited the revision to a single question (AFAICT, IANAL): Are the news websites in question some kind of computer program (protected under Section 8 of the UrhG³). The supreme court argues that the lower court did not sufficiently discuss this question in their ruling.

The supreme court explicitly notes that the lower court should also consider whether Springer actually has the sole rights to the 'computer program'.

Some thoughts:

a) As the supreme court mentioned, Springer might only own (exclusive) copyright to some parts of the computer program. It seems that they embed a lot of other JS code, e.g., Google stuff. This might mean that Springer needs to show that ABP actually modifies Springer's code. If ABP modifies e.g. AdSense code or the code of an open source library that Springer's websites use, Springer's copyright might not be infringed at all.

b) In German copyright law, only works are protected that are created by a human author. (Obviously, the author can also use software to create a protected work.) Given that a lot of JS/CSS code is written by automated rules (or LLMs), rights holders might need to prove that an actual human wrote the code.

c) As posted elsewhere in the thread: the German copyright law explicitly allows people with limited vision or with limited reading ability (not defined precisely in the law) to use assistive technology in order to transfer a work into a more accessible version⁴. So, ad-blocker companies might argue that they are just providing assistive technology to people with diagnosed ADHD. Copyright holders would then need to go after the users of such software.

(A mentioned above: I am not a lawyer. Copyright law is complicated and interpretations are evolving)

¹)https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/do...

²) big German media conglomerate, not to be confused with SpringerNature

³) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/BJNR012730965.html#B...

⁴) https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__45b.html
by tombert | 2025-08-15 15:30:04+00:00
Yeah, that’s the thing.

I think a lot of people spend all day on leftist YouTube and live in leftist Discord servers and hang out with self-proclaimed Marxist friends, and that’s all completely fine, but as a result of people not being tuned into their specific vernacular they act like this shit is a dog whistle instead of the fact that i just don’t know (or care much about) this specific vocabulary.

I suppose I could be a useful idiot for this, but I don’t feel like saying “democrat” is really that bad as far as these things go.

To be fair, republicans are far worse with regards to “pretending to be offended”. You cannot convince me that anyone is actually offended by the term “happy holidays”, but every year I get to hear about a “war on Christmas”
by mockingloris | 2025-08-15 15:30:11+00:00
Truly interesting read! @mhagiwara The article reads very well.

With the bandwidth left from parsing all that new information, all I can say is this is something. I know there's still a whole lot of figuring out to do.

(I imagine if there were peeps from other-than-earth, they'd probably communicate in a manner as this - depicted in the "Arrival" movie)

Thanks for sharing. I'll be donating a star on github and keeping watch-O
by varispeed | 2025-08-15 15:30:11+00:00
Maybe the patent system isn’t “broken” - maybe it’s working exactly as intended: a modern master–slave dynamic where the rich can’t own people, so they own ideas and rent them back. Patents were sold as protection for inventors, but in practice they’re corporate minefields. Filing costs and enforcement make them useless to anyone without deep pockets, while big players hoard them to block competition, extract rent, and stall entire fields. With today’s tech, knowledge could be replicated and shared at near-zero cost, but the system manufactures artificial scarcity. A literal protection racket.
by kaycebasques | 2025-08-15 15:30:22+00:00
I have tried using a GitHub repo to host photos that I displayed on a different website. IIRC it didn't work great. I would try to access the photos over the raw GitHub URLs and I'm pretty sure they would often 404. Was I holding it wrong? Are there any great guides on this topic? I also remember that "uploading" photos over Git was a pain. Basically could only upload one at a time.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-08-15 15:30:24+00:00
> A place like Denali is a lifeboat.

I think this is more accurate than you may have intended. It will be a single lifeboat, when the Titanic is sinking. Quite useful if you can get on it, and would guarantee survival, but for an awful small number relative to how many would like to be onboard.
by haswell | 2025-08-15 15:30:58+00:00
> because it implies that employees are property than can be stolen

What makes you believe this? The definition of “poach” is not intrinsically linked to the notion of ownership/property.

The word has several definitions, one of which describes a method of preparing eggs (and others that clearly distinguish between things like illegally killing animals, hiring practices, etc).

It doesn’t make sense to me to take the definition that has nothing to do with employment and attach the weight/meaning of that unrelated definition to hiring practices.

Put another way, it would be silly to say “poaching is a horrible term to use for this because it implies that employees are eggs that can be cooked and eaten”. I find the consternation about hiring terminology here to be about the same.
by jgwil2 | 2025-08-15 15:31:36+00:00
> The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small.

Not really, it's something like 5%. Usually if the bat can be captured and tested for rabies you can wait to get the vaccine, but if the bat couldn't be caught, it makes sense to vaccinate just in case.

I don't understand why you would want to take a chance on rabies. What are the side effects of the vaccine that are so harmful?
by jchw | 2025-08-15 15:32:01+00:00
I think the real takeaway is that LLMs are very good at tasks that closely resemble examples it has in its training. A lot of things written (code, movies/TV shows, etc.) are actually pretty repetitive and so you don't really need super intelligence to be able to summarize it and break it down, just good pattern matching. But, this can fall apart pretty wildly when you have something genuinely novel...
by evo_9 | 2025-08-15 15:32:21+00:00
As a Sig 320 owner, and someone that knows at least 3 other sig 320 owners, I disagree. None of us ever carry our weapon chambered. I probably know 10+ guys that own guns, including a few police officers, and I'm going to ask the officers about this because honestly, I would be surprised if they even carried their weapons chambered.
by pbw | 2025-08-15 15:32:27+00:00
LLM's can shorten and maybe tend to if you just say "summarize this" but you can trivially ask them to do more. I asked for a summary of Jenson's post and then offer a reflection, GPT-5 said, "It's similar to the Plato’s Cave analogy: humans see shadows (the input text) and infer deeper reality (context, intent), while LLMs either just recite shadows (shorten) or imagine creatures behind them that aren’t there (hallucinate). The “hallucination” behavior is like adding “ghosts”—false constructs that feel real but aren’t grounded.

That ain't shortening because none of that was in his post.
by DoctorOW | 2025-08-15 15:32:31+00:00
Most of the comments seem to confirm (all but one at time of writing) that this feature is more intended for corporate/business environments. Does anyone know if Vaultwarden has commercial users? By no means am I arguing against the inclusion of this feature, I'm just curious. Everywhere I've worked that was big enough to use SSO was also wary of selfhosting FOSS tools. I should clarify I don't consider myself working in tech, fwiw.
by solarkraft | 2025-08-15 15:32:43+00:00
I haven’t had the time to properly play around with it yet, but digging into the available meta-info reveals that ... there’s not a lot of it.

When I find the time to set it up I’d like to contribute to the documentation to answer the questions I had, but I couldn’t even find information on how to do that (no docs folder in the repo contribution.md, which the AI assistant also points me towards, doesn’t contain information about adding to the docs).

In general I find it a bit distracting that the OWhisper code is inside of the hyprnote repository. For discoverability and “real project” purposes I find that it would probably deserve its own.
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-15 15:32:44+00:00
Maybe one of my favorite examples

https://plaintextsports.com/

Another well known one and particularly interesting since it's one of the most valuable companies in the world and this is their real website and not something they've just kept for historical purposes or something. https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

I would pay good money to watch a clear-glasses-framed youngster pitch Buffet on turning the BH website into a progressive web app.

Lots of examples here (although many do have some amount of styling): https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html
by lproven | 2025-08-15 15:32:50+00:00
Article author here.

We (El Reg) did include a comment from Mozilla itself about this in the story.

Now a German site claims the story is all wrong:

https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/firefox/richtigstellung-cpu...

I have disabled all the `browser.ml` functions I can find, and translations do seem to still be working. I just read that link, translated DE->EN, in Firefox 141! (Ich kann ein bisschen Deutsche verstehe, aber hier, es genug nicht war.)

For me this means some uncertainty remains. Mozilla told me that the "inference" process is for translation, among other things. But with ML off, translation still works. Odd.

Personally I am deeply opposed to genAI and would prefer Mozilla to ignore and remove all this kind of functionality.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-15 15:32:53+00:00
The chrome lining was done to significantly increase the service life of the barrel and to reduce corrosion in some environments. Prior to the M16, chrome lining was only used on machine guns due to the volume of rounds that went through them.

Far more rounds were put through the M16 by soldiers than prior weapons like the M14. Despite the chrome lining, M16 barrels still wear out over time and have to be replaced.
GPT-5 API's New Features for Developers, with Simple AI SDK Examples
by miguelpaoc | 2025-08-15 15:32:56+00:00
GPT-5 introduced three new API features: verbosity, reasoningEffort, and a unified model lineup. That gives developers more control over responses and costs.

I wrote a concise guide with runnable AI SDK examples for each, so you can try them in under a minute.

Blog link: https://medium.com/@miguel.paracuellos.inf/gpt-5-for-developers-3-new-api-features-you-should-be-using-today-d3886b5730ee

I’d love to hear how others are using these settings in production, especially any tuning strategies you’ve found effective.
by omoikane | 2025-08-15 15:33:37+00:00
> No languages captures time as a dimension, yet.

Maybe not exactly, but there was one task[1] in ICFPc 2024[2] where you create programs that are laid out in 2D, and there is a special operator that causes the control flow to travel back in time. It was super fun.

[1] https://github.com/icfpcontest2024/icfpc2024/blob/main/stati...

[2] https://icfpcontest2024.github.io/
by amluto | 2025-08-15 15:34:01+00:00
> This is a lot of fuss when you can get a batch update to stay within a few minutes of latency.

Replying again to add: cost. Just because you can do a batch update every few minutes by doing a full scan of the primary key column of your Iceberg table and joining against your list of modified or deleted primary keys does not mean you should. That table scan costs actual money if the Iceberg table is hosted somewhere like AWS or uses a provider like Databricks, and running a full column scan every three minutes could be quite pricey.
by stroz | 2025-08-15 15:34:43+00:00
Author here: Walking past a house recently, I watched a dog refuse to leave his porch as the owner explained that the electric fence has been broken for years. It hit me, we're all trapped by fences that stopped working long ago. The mental model that being the first one to reach out to friends keeps us isolated. There are systematic flaws in our modern social protocols that cause smart people to miss social cues, or be afraid of initiating them. After analyzing hundreds of these invisible barriers, I've found that the people who break them aren't socially gifted, they've just realized how to move past the social conditioning that keeps us stuck on the porch. The electric fence has been broken for years.
by josvdwest | 2025-08-15 15:34:45+00:00
Thanks a bunch for the insights and feedback!

1. If you're willing to share your Unity MCP project upgrades, I'd love to check it out and perhaps merge into our project. I couldn't find it in your Github.

2. With "Manus for Unity" do you mean an AI tool that does tasks for you in the background? like Codex or Cursor Background Tasks?

2. We've got a couple of companies similar to those you've mentioned using the Coplay product, but they mainly use the Record & Replay feature for liveops pipelines. https://youtu.be/Ia6o4ylI41I
by Pet_Ant | 2025-08-15 15:34:56+00:00
> - protects the wrong entities (corporations instead of individuals who did the real work) - IP should be collectively owned by the people who created it and selling it should be illegal,

That's like say a band getting an advance to record their album should be illegal. Without access to people with money now a lot of it wouldn't get made. And if they are fronting the money before it exists, then they are taking risk so they need a risk premium.

The other results is art made by those who don't need it, purely made by amateurs, grant funded art, or socially funded art.

All are workable, but with their own tradeoffs.
by raincole | 2025-08-15 15:35:00+00:00
The idea that one should learn kanji first just to start learning Japanese is utterly nonsense. The author has Stockholm syndrome.

If one's mother tongue isn't Chinese/Japanese, I guarantee you that's impossible to understand kanji/hanzi as deeply as a native speaker does just by spending 17 months on memorizing how to write them. It simply never happens. Languages come first and writing systems come later no matter which target language you're trying to acquire.

Even native speakers get confused about their own writing systems. It's vs its. Should've vs should of. Doppelganger vs doppleganger. Being able to wield the writing system like a wordmaster is a big plus and a praiseworthy effort. But it really isn't the essence of language acquisition.
by Roark66 | 2025-08-15 15:35:08+00:00
You know why IP is so strongly enforced? Because the US has been throwing all its strength behind it. This is why many countries around the world adopted heavy handed IP rights, because they came with a carrot (cheap loans, investment from the US) and a stick (sanctions). Now that the US positions itself as an adversary to other democratic countries I give it 5 years for these IP laws to stick. Everyone kinda hopes it's just Trump that lost his mind and next US govt will go back to normalcy. I doubt this very much. Once it becomes clear Trunp's symucessor is exactly the same well see US IP stop being enforced.

This has a disadvantage of no protection for genuine innovation, but who are we kidding? There is none anyway where it matters most (China). So why do we handicap ourselves following these stupid laws while the Chinese just break them and the US... Well in the US whoever has most money for lawyers wins.

For open source/hardware to thrive Ip laws have to be abolished or at least changed a lot.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-08-15 15:35:31+00:00
Realistically, most people are not going to be on top end models. They're expensive and will get far, far FAR more expensive once these companies feel they're sufficiently entrenched enough to crank up pricing.

It's basically the silicon valley playbook to offer a service for dirt cheap (completely unprofitable) and then once they secure the market they make skyrocket the price.

A mid range model is what most people will be able to use.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-15 15:35:55+00:00
> With $10 million in the bank, earning 4%, you'll see $400,000 a year, less taxes.

This isn't your point, but $400k puts you in a top tax bracket, so figure 30% of that goes to taxes. that brings your return down to 2.8%. The Fed wants to keep inflation at 2%, but it's usually a bit higher, leaving your real return at 0.3%. That's $30k per year.
by snozolli | 2025-08-15 15:36:11+00:00
In the 90s, there was an airbrushed style that used layered effects, drop shadows (which I assume were at least partly an influence from early computer GUIs), and "peeling" effects. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any good examples online. Something like this, but the really complex ones would incorporate tricky designs (e.g. checkerboard) that were difficult to show in a distorted/peeling manner:

https://www.leemorganartworx.co.uk/Images/Custom%20Work/Moto...
by digitalsushi | 2025-08-15 15:36:17+00:00
I have flanking neighbors who nuke their lawns every month with permethrin. They leave little business signs on the front lawn as spam. I have 14 apple trees and haven't grown an apple in years. It's fine, they are free to do anything and everything they like with their lawns. I just think it would be really neat to grow an apple again. You know, I'm not even a biologist and its probably a fluke I dont appreciate.
by tzs | 2025-08-15 15:36:36+00:00
Careful. It's not that simple in the US.

See Mirage Editions v. Albuquerque A.R.T. Co., 856 F.2d 1341 (1988) [1] and Lee v. A.R.T. Co., 125 F.3d 580 (1997) [2].

The first, in the 9th circuit, involved a company whose business was:

> 1) purchasing artwork prints or books including good quality artwork page prints therein; 2) gluing each individual print or page print onto a rectangular sheet of black plastic material exposing a narrow black margin around the print; 3) gluing the black sheet with print onto a major surface of a rectangular white ceramic tile; 4) applying a transparent plastic film over the print, black sheet and ceramic tile surface; and 5) offering the tile with artwork mounted thereon for sale in the retail market.

The appeals court found that this was a copyright infringement.

The second, in the 7th circuit, involved the same defendants who bought an artists' notecards and small lithographs from a retail art store and:

> mounted the works on ceramic tiles (covering the art with transparent epoxy resin in the process) and resold the tiles.

The 7th circuit found that this was not an infringement.

There were some differences in the cases, in particular in the 9th circuit case the defendant was buying art books and cutting out the pictures to mount and sell but in the second case they were buying individual notecards and lithographs to mount and sell.

As far as I know this has never reached the Supreme Court, and neither case has been overturned in its circuit by subsequent cases in that circuit, and so Mirage is still the law in the 9th and Lee still the law in the 7th. In other circuits there have been district court cases that dealt with this issue, but it has not reached their appellate courts.

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/856...

[2] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/125...
Q Evaluation Harness: open-source evals for LLMs on q/kdb+
by erfan_mhi | 2025-08-15 15:37:16+00:00
Author here. We built an open-source evaluation harness for LLMs on q/kdb+. It includes: a q-HumanEval set (164 tasks), reproducible Pass@k scoring, and a public leaderboard.

Why this matters: top models score ~96% Pass@1 on Python HumanEval, but best Pass@1 on q-HumanEval is ~43.4%, so there’s clear room for improvement. Early runs show large gains with multiple attempts (e.g., Grok 4: 43.37% → 74.32% Pass@10).

We’d love your help with two things: 1. Try it out & add your models to the leaderboard. 2. Contribute new datasets, and provide feedback on any potential improvements.

• GitHub: https://github.com/KxSystems/q-evaluation-harness/tree/main • Launch write-up: https://medium.com/kx-systems/introducing-q-evaluation-harne... • Leaderboard: https://github.com/KxSystems/q-evaluation-harness/blob/main/... • License: MIT

Happy to answer questions and take PRs.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-15 15:37:19+00:00
I know, and my argument is that the Israeli model can be safely argued as falling within the current reading of the 2nd amendment, especially after NYSRPA v. Bruen

The reading of Buren allows control on concealed carry and gun ownership via objective criteria - which is what Israeli gun permitting rests on as well.

Yet, I have never seen a single organization fight for an Israeli style compromise for gun control in the US - almost all lawfare is either for abolitionism or unrestricted ownership.
by appease7727 | 2025-08-15 15:37:30+00:00
Apart from visiting the creator and physically handing them a wad of cash, you can't. There is no way at all for you as a consumer to ensure the creators are fairly paid. Simply put, the people you're paying for access to the content take most of the money and the creators get next to none.

Why do you think it's better for studios and labels to be allowed to extort artists this way?

The artist isn't getting fair pay in any situation, so why would you want to make things worse for everyone by continuing to encourage this rent-seeking behavior?
by juanviera23 | 2025-08-15 15:38:15+00:00
TL;DR: MCP routes tool calls through wrapper servers; UTCP describes the tool and then calls the tool’s native endpoint directly (HTTP/gRPC/WebSocket/CLI), keeping your existing auth/observability and cutting a hop.

Trade-offs: MCP centralizes policy & session semantics; UTCP pushes security to the tool boundary and provenance to manuals.

Curious where folks land on DX vs. infra complexity.
by joshdavham | 2025-08-15 15:38:15+00:00
This article actually hits on a pet peeve of mine where I feel people sorta “mystify” kanji/hanzi unnecessarily.

The truth is that there’s actually nothing particularly weird about being able to read some kanji but not be able to write them…

You actually get close to my point here:

> Admittedly, I've never heard of someone forgetting how to write a letter from the Latin alphabet.

Yes! But have you ever heard of someone forgetting how to spell certain words in a language that uses the Latin alphabet (e.g., English)? I can use myself as an example here: while writing this comment, I forgot how to spell “peeve” in “pet peeve” (I thought it had an ‘a’ in it) and I also forgot how to spell “unnecessarily” (I thought it had one n and two c’s).

The western equivalent of being able to read some kanji but not write them is simply called bad speling. No need to mystify kanji in particular.
by yarri | 2025-08-15 15:38:20+00:00
Many of us grew up in the PLD era, k-maps, etc. Woz pushed early HW to the limit, with SW APIs that delivered real value. Woz made astute design trade-offs based on full stack knowledge that his peers lacked. The world’s moved on to the GPU (low precision, accelerated parallel compute?) era, but the Woz view point still holds. You can see it in the AI kernel optimizations, or rematerialization methods to push GPU HW to the new limits, and trade-offs need to be made. GPU HW for 4-bit QAT or even 2-bit will dramatically affect the SW (AI) of this era. What trade-offs do you make?

I saw Woz on Northbound 280 “driving” his cherry red Model S, using FSD. He was looking down at the screen the whole time I watched him. Swear he had ssh’d into it.