MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ath3nd | 2025-08-25 09:49:26+00:00
If passivity doesn't work out, there are active ways to achieve fulfillment.

I think we should stand up for what is important in life: craft, fulfillment, skills, and actively oppose people, tools and activities that trample on good.

Still do the workouts, still do the best job you can, but also make sure to use satire, ridicule and humor to make the people writing posts like this just a tad more uncomfortable and second guess themselves before posting a link to a vibed blog with such low quality.
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by boshjerns | 2025-08-25 09:51:34+00:00
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If you run it locally theres no login necessary but if you install on Mac or Windows- the dictation is all local but requires login because the secondary ai assistant feature uses my openai keys.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-25 09:51:50+00:00
That's fair. I don't want to sound too cynical with a reflexive 'money' response. As you note, some of it is indeed a question of software not playing nice together. I have zero solutions for this.

Tbh, it sounds like you may be forced to use a Windows VM ( if you want try 'dropping' windows that way ). Last time I was looking at it, VMs were still fair game, but were starting to be identified as a way to bypass some of the restrictions ( mostly because they were only doing a couple of checks for whether OS is in a VM ). That said, few friends were recently sharing pics suggesting those checks were getting more invasive.

<< Believe me I would love to drop Windows.

Just in case it helps, I went through a major system issue at some point with Windows 7 and once it was clear that CPU/GPU passthrough works surprisingly well ( before nvidia started messing with it after 3060 ), I got a way to ease myself in with better fallback position should my linux install fail somehow. This approach ( OS engaged for a specific purpose ) worked better than dual boot, which in practice was never used. There is some learning curve, but nothing excessive or something that is not well covered online.
by i7l | 2025-08-25 09:51:50+00:00
Nice! You might want to add a description of what data is stored, as I see no mention of it. Don't expect people to copy-paste text without knowing what happens to it. And even if they do it's sensible to explain what you do with their data.

I do appreciate the irony: use an AI to make AI-generated text sound less like an AI.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-25 09:52:20+00:00
>Did it empty her bank balance by abusing the private NFC payment APIs that Apple are being ordered to open up?

NFC payment APIs have been open on Android for decades and no such thing of the sort has ever happened. You cannot magically conjure up a payment from Apple Pay to <X> without user involvement and confirmation.

>Did it cryptolock all her files?

Apps do not have write access to all your files.

>Did it activate the camera and mic to spy on her for blackmail?

Every mobile device now has a giant notification saying that the device is using the microphone or recording video.

The disingenuous "having an open app store/not being locked in the walled garden is a security risk" is getting tiring, especially when it's basically all lies now. Unless your argument is that Apple is too incompetent to write APIs properly, in which case I wonder why you think that said APIs being private would prevent anything.
by motorest | 2025-08-25 09:52:29+00:00
> Why stop there? Just block all non-US IPs!

This is a perfectly good solution to many problems, if you are absolutely certain there is no conceivable way your service will be used from some regions.

> Surely bad actors wouldn’t use VPNs or botnets, and your customers never travel abroad?

Not a problem. Bad actors which are motivated enough to use VPNd or botnets are a different class of attacks that have different types of solutions. If you eliminate 95% of your problems with a single IP filter them you have no good argument to make against it.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-25 09:52:42+00:00
That money almost seems like ill-gotten gains at this point. To a certain reading, it’s blood money.[0] If the insurance rates are too high, I don’t see how another cook in the kitchen is going to cook the books better, but I’m willing to believe that it could be a shakeup that might work. I just don’t have high hopes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine,_Affluence,_and_Moralit...
by qwopmaster | 2025-08-25 09:52:57+00:00
If you can't manufacture your chips while your only geopolitical rival is pumping infinite money to homegrow their own fab business, it probably should cause some concern.

If the only source of high quantity and high quality chips is located in your competitor's backyard, and they spent several decades repeating how it's their wayward province that they fully intend to reclaim one way or another, it's pure stupidity to sit around and do nothing.

Let's not pretend that the money would be spent on basic research instead, by the way. US pumping some money into chip production is a rare spark of intelligence amidst an avalanche of stupidity and grift.
by keiferski | 2025-08-25 09:53:28+00:00
For me personally: as a way to answer specific questions and do research. I used to rely on /r/ask subreddits for these types of questions, and now I just ask ChatGPT.

For example:

- Recommend me some books on XYZ topic

- I have this idea X; can you tell me if someone has written about something similar?

- Evaluate my argument and suggest ways to improve it

...and so on.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-08-25 09:56:32+00:00
At current costs batteries are best suited for daily cycling. A few years ago batteries were best suited for multiple cycles per day on the ancillary markets.

Given the recent auctions in China we are starting to see batteries where a cycle every second or third day is enough.

It is essentially optimistic technobabble for the technology losing out about a potential issue coming in 10-15 years as we decarbonize.

Please do explain why we should lock in a solution for that today instead of solving it with the technology at hand when we get there.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-08-25 09:57:17+00:00
I don't get it. What do you need 400TB of storage for? (To be clear: I am not saying that you should not be allowed to buy it.) I assume this is for personal use. I struggle to generate more than a few hundred MBs per year. Isn't the era of music and video piracy hoarding over after Spotify and Netflix went mainstream in most highly developed nations?

Also: Why did you pay cash, in the center of Berlin, Germany? Even if you are paying rock bottom used prices around 100 EUR, why carry 2,000+ EUR in cash?
by herbst | 2025-08-25 09:57:20+00:00
For me it looks more like out of the control bots than average requests. For example a few days ago I blocked a few bots. Google was about 600 requests in 24 hours. Bing 1500, Facebook is mostly blocked right now, Claude with 3 different bot types was about 100k requests in the same time.

There is no reason to query all my sub-sites, it's like a search engine with way to many theoretical pages.

Facebook also did aggressively, daily indexing of way to many pages, using large IP ranges until I blocked it. I get like one user per week from them, no idea what they want.

And bing, I learned, "simply" needs hard enforced rate limits it kinda learns to agree on.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-25 09:57:37+00:00
One of the few manual deny-list entries that I have made was not for a Chinese company, but for the ASes of the U.S.A. subsidiary of a Chinese company. It just kept coming back again and again, quite rapidly, for a particular page that was 404. Not for any other related pages, mind. Not for the favicon, robots.txt, or even the enclosing pseudo-directory. Just that 1 page. Over and over.

The directory structure had changed, and the page is now 1 level lower in the tree, correctly hyperlinked long since, in various sitemaps long since, and long since discovered by genuine HTTP clients.

The URL? It now only exists in 1 place on the WWW according to Google. It was posted to Hacker News back in 2017.

(My educated guess is that I am suffering from the page-preloading fallout from repeated robotic scraping of old Hacker News stuff by said U.S.A. subsidiary.)
by pen2l | 2025-08-25 09:57:53+00:00
I'd rather another one not exist, because then it would become a game of incentives... app owners might only make their apps available on THAT App Store, resulting in App Store's value being diminished. I would like that the one App Store be the one and the only one in a KISS principle. Apple so far hasn't failed me, and so I continue to trust it and its judicious management and curation of apps.

Folks who care about having any app they want through alternative stores I wish would just opt for Android systems.
by andrepd | 2025-08-25 09:58:26+00:00
TREE(3) is so crazy to me. You would expect it to either be a reasonable number, or to be infinite (i.e. there's an infinite sequence of such trees).

But no. It's just an _impossibly unfathomably large number_. Eventually, there's no more trees with less than $i$ vertices, but only at such a stupid incredibly large $i$ that it makes other "googology" numbers vanish by comparison.
by qwopmaster | 2025-08-25 09:59:07+00:00
The bet seems obvious - Intel has been failing for a while, but they're still much better positioned to produce what the US government wants than some random companies like HP or TI. Their fabs aren't quite on the bleeding edge and the yields aren't quite what they'd like to have but it's still much more advanced than TI's 45-250nm fabs.

If HP, or Nvidia, or Sun, or Motorola wanted the bag maybe they should've tried building their own modern fabs.
by turblety | 2025-08-25 09:59:56+00:00
Isn't that beautiful. True competition. Shouldn't that be how the world works, businesses too? Lots of people, trying their best to build things, and some will share ideas, some with have their own unique points.

Or do we just want CorporateSoftTM to build and own everything in just one big single commercial platform?

I would love it if loads more businesses could start up.
by simonh | 2025-08-25 10:00:07+00:00
I'm a Brit born in 66, and growing up I felt that WW2 was recent history. War films were a dominant genre in my early life, we visited the German defences on the French coast while camping as a teenager along with my Grandfather, who served there and visited some locations he remembered. Some buildings still had war damage. In many ways the world of the 70s felt closer to the war era than to nowadays. It was still the cold war, and that was just an extension of the post-war stalemate.
by closewith | 2025-08-25 10:00:20+00:00
Maybe re-read my comment.

From the perspective of the Gazan parents watching their children starve to death, yes, China probably seems a lot better than the UK, which is directly responsible for their situation.

The Ukrainian parent suffering Russian bombing is likely has a much better opinion of the UK for their support, but that doesn't make the UK the good guys. Just less bad in that particular situation.
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by legulere | 2025-08-25 10:00:32+00:00
Efficiency costs development time and thus money. Computers getting faster is what made software development cheaper and possible to use for solving problems.

Usually software gets developed to be so fast that people just barely accept it with the computers of their time. You can do better by setting explicit targets like the RAIL model by google. Optimizing any further usually is just a waste of resources.
by franze | 2025-08-25 10:00:38+00:00
I coded (well code directed) Floktoid https://floktoid.franzai.com/ via Claude Code in the Cloud (a cheap Hetzner Server). whenever it goes idle it self prompts it to "Continue, if nothing else to do, read CLAUDE.md and continue from there." max 5 times per hour, if this is reached I get an email to check (I hardly get emails).

see the repo to judge code quality
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-08-25 10:01:05+00:00
Genuinely astounding how few commenters here understand that the outrage is deliberate and curated because outrage improves messaging persuasiveness.

All of the corporate-owned social media platforms have censorship, curation, and selection policies which impose an editorial slant on what's boosted and what isn't.

All of them. No exceptions.

None of them offer anything resembling a free, open, flow of information. (Mastodon does, or at least tries to, but it has very little reach compared to others.)

And all of them are poisoned by the output of huge well-funded bot farm networks posting harmful content. Whether it's anti-vax nonsense, climate change denial, inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric, divisive political rage bait of all kinds, or covert propaganda designed to look reasonable and pull people into a rabbit hole of fake activism and misinformation, all of these networks are acting as a public brainwashing service for political ends.

There is no "marketplace of ideas." Nothing that happens on social media is truly organic and bottom-up.

And this is not an accident. These are primarily influence, behaviour modification, and persuasion networks, tailored using personal profiling, but disguised as entertainment and social connection, and allowing just enough dissent from the official party lines to create a superficial veneer of free speech.

This process is essentially unregulated. There used to be some FTC oversight, but there isn't any more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCL_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades
by Geenkaas | 2025-08-25 10:02:06+00:00
I tried working with it but had to give it up for practical purposes. Whereas the focus with HSL is on the Lightness part and the Saturation is made to fit, OKHCL does it differently. It pushes the Chroma part to it's technical limits and abuses the Hue to make it fit, but we just do not understand Chroma intuitively. I am waiting for OKHSL where the adjustments will bu much smaller and do not lead to absurd changes in intent. I already had a discussion about it somewhere else (https://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/1jv5f0r/hue_is_an_issu...)
by warp | 2025-08-25 10:02:11+00:00
My experience is the same, git-annex just doesn't work well with lots of small files. With annexes on slow USB disks, connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4, I'm already annoyed when working with my largest annex (in file count) of 25000 files.

However, I mostly use annex as a way to archive stuff and make sure I have enough copies in distinct physical locations. So for photos I now just tar them up with one .tar file per family member per year. This works fine for for me for any data I want to keep safe but don't need to access directly very often.
by immibis | 2025-08-25 10:02:52+00:00
You still haven't answered the question that I actually asked.

I didn't say "should child abuse be illegal?". I said "should child porn be illegal?".

You said it's good if a court orders the website owner to block the material, i.e. censors it, so I assume you're pro-censorship for child porn and likely also support jail time for those who possess it.

In which case, please do not claim to oppose all censorship.
by nubinetwork | 2025-08-25 10:03:11+00:00
FWIW, I looked through my list of ~8000 IP addresses, there isn't as many hits for these ranges as I would have thought. It's possible that they're more focused on using known DNS names than simply connecting to 80/443 on random IPs.

Edit: I also checked my Apache logs, I couldn't find any recent logs for "thinkbot".
by pjc50 | 2025-08-25 10:03:21+00:00
Ah, the Highlander principle: there can be only one. The complete opposite of a "market", of course, which is why the rest of us are gearing up the non-market mechanisms against it.

This applies in reverse, of course. The existence of the Apple store makes certain apps only available for the Apple store (iOS only), so therefore us Android users need to have it banned so we can continue to have choice.
by dijit | 2025-08-25 10:04:47+00:00
No, thats totally fair.

I’m 35 now, so in the 00’s I had my entire pre-teen and teenage years.

My brother and sisters are 26, 28 and 33- we aren’t worse than our parents (we have 3 different mothers between us) or grandparents from a mental health or moral perspective; and we were all exposed to liveleak and 4chan in various ways.

I’m not sure how else to measure to he honest with you.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-25 10:04:58+00:00
> But it's the truth.

No it's not, in many case there's just no way the parent can tell something is about to go wrong.

> Something that has just a 2% incidence should not dictate 98% of the treatments.

This isn't the same argument, and I would agree if it was true, but you're distorting numbers as the actual prevalence estimations lie between 2 and 14%[1].

Now you could make the argument that 10% is low enough of incidence it shouldn't dictate the treatment of the other 90%, but that's not what you're doing, instead you are blaming helpless parents and cherry picking numbers, making nothing but noise.

Oh, and by the way, most parents aren't in fact giving their kids paracetamol for that particular reason (as most parents are simply unaware of the existence of febrile seizures), but to help their children sleep and rest (and so themselves can sleep). And in fact, resting being key in innate immunity efficiency, I'm not particularly convinced about the effectiveness of letting your kids cry all night because of the pain and fever. You do what you want with your own kids, but there's no justification for insulting other parents.

Good day.

[1]: https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h4240
by Jnr | 2025-08-25 10:06:08+00:00
Looks similar to MetaMCP https://github.com/metatool-ai/metamcp

Not sure which of these tools is currently the best but they are clearly needed.

I am testing MetaMCP to expose internal MCP servers to the cloud version of Claude, enabling me to use Home Assistant and some other internal services in verbal conversations with Claude app on the phone.

I think 3rd party MCP server use is available in other AI assistants as well but Claude is the only one who allows using them in Europe.

I can only wish that this would become a standard approach with any AI assistants, including the built in phone assistants like Siri, but Apple is so so far behind and always trying to squeeze every bit of money wherever they can, I doubt they will ever do that.

This approach enables better integrations with local services specific to different regions, and I would somewhat compare this to RSS feeds which were popular 15 years ago. Would be nice if most e-commerce sites would provide their own MCP servers for managing carts, placing and tracking orders, etc. I don't want to see a world where single monopoly grabs this market and makes things shit again (like it happened with social media), especially for those who live outside of USA.
by yupyupyups | 2025-08-25 10:06:46+00:00
Pretty much. Everytime they mention porn, they are poisoning the discussion.

If porn was the only thing getting affected, I would gladly support all these surveillance tactics, every single one of them. Porn and prostitution in general is riddled with trafficking, drug addiction and other forms of exploitation.

The reality is that what's at stake here are things that (unlike porn) are not harmful to us, but very important to us. Like the ability to have a free space for thought and information sharing without the oversight of anybody else, not least a potential adversary. This defence is very important against a tyrannical state.

But let's ignore all that and instead make it about children's right to "explore their gender and sexuality" on the internet. This is what I saw some guy arguing a few days ago.
by lyu07282 | 2025-08-25 10:06:53+00:00
> there is an argument that could be made that the West is the better guy

The problem is you don't know how you are actually behaving towards the global south, so your perception is very skewed and people outside the west will have a vastly different perception than you, that you will never understand. Like some people in the west are waking up on Israels behavior now, but the rest of the world was aware of their genocidal terror for over half a century while you lived in innocent bliss. They see your support for Obama and Dove emojis in your profile picture while their entire extended families are getting systematically murdered by your bombs to this day.

Meanwhile in your made up fantasy land, its China that is this great threat to world peace.
by npteljes | 2025-08-25 10:07:05+00:00
Unfortunately the article doesn't have an example, or a comparison image. Other reports are similarly useless as well. The most that seemed to happen is that the wrinkles in someone's ear changed. In case anyone else wants to see it in action:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1lllnse/youtube_sh...

I skimmed the videos as well, and there is much more talk about this thing, and barely any examples of it. As this is an experiment, I guess that all this noise serves as a feedback to YouTube.
by michaelt | 2025-08-25 10:07:21+00:00
> Long-term, it'll reduce their operating cost,

It doesn't matter how far you reduce your operating cost, if your revenue falls to zero.

> The revenue loss of small customers can be compensated by regulatory capture and price hikes for EV.

Hah, that's a good one.

Sure, google.com and microsoft.com and amazon.com and godaddy.com and letsencrypt.org and facebook.com and twitter.com and cloudflare.com and coinbase.com and and visa.com and entrust.com don't need EV certificates... but you do.
by dcminter | 2025-08-25 10:07:25+00:00
Related discussion from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35610243

I didn't see that the first time around so this re-post was interesting, thanks! There's a bit of discussion in the other thread about the "protected area" - anyone got good links to the minutiae of that? How big is it, what tools exist to access it etc. ?
by BoredPositron | 2025-08-25 10:07:29+00:00
No, dozens of companies burning money to reinvent the same thing, and the best product rarely wins anyway. You get locked into inferior systems just because they had better timing or marketing.

The romantic startup vision sounds nice, but most of those businesses would just fail after wasting capital and talent that could've been used better elsewhere. It's messy and inefficient.

>> Or do we just want CorporateSoftTM to build and own everything in just one big single commercial platform?

It's gonna get acquired anyways... what do you think the endgame of 99% of startups is? Building a company?
by Mars008 | 2025-08-25 10:07:31+00:00
People got spoiled with free content. Some never in their life payed for a newspaper. The problem is subscribing to one or two sources is not enough. You will miss a lot. To understand what happens in Chine you better read Chinese, and not BBC's interpretation. Now that there are so many free translating tools it's easy. The same about every conflict. There are two sides at least. Your favorite source will show most likely only one. Test it on Ukraine or Gaza.