MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SpicyUme | 2025-08-27 20:49:21+00:00
Isn't one of the common complaints about GPT5 that it is less sycophantic and people feel less connection to it? That is a design choice and it isn't hard to see it as similar to the choices maximizing engagement for social media. You can call it maximizing engagement, but that is addicting. And it works.

I recently started using a site after years of being mostly on a small number of forums, and I can feel the draw of it. Like I've lost the antibodies for my attention. Or they've made it better, either way I'm working on either coming up with a strategy which minimizes my feeling of needing to check in, mostly by adding friction, or just deleting my account.
by NIckGeek | 2025-08-27 20:49:21+00:00
Couldn't you just pass a reference to your value (i.e. `&T`)? If you absolutely _need_ ownership the function you call could return back the owned value or you could use one of the mechanisms for shared ownership like `Rc<T>`. In a GC'd functional language, you're effectively getting the latter (although usually a different form of GC instead of reference counting)
by homebrewer | 2025-08-27 20:49:23+00:00
Not sure what this means. bubblewrap is as free as it gets, it's just a thin wrapper around the same kernel mechanisms used for containers, except that it uses your existing filesystems instead of creating a separate "chroot" from an OCI image (or something like it).

The only thing it does is hiding most of your system from the stuff that runs under it, whitelisting specific paths, and optionally making them readonly. It can be used to run npx, or anything else really — just shove move symblinks into the beginning of your $PATH, each referencing the script above. Run any of them and it's automatically restricted from accessing e.g. your ~/.ssh

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap
by schwartzworld | 2025-08-27 20:49:24+00:00
> Didn't google just prove there is little to no environmental harm

I'd be interested to see that report as I'm not able to find it by Googling, ironically. Even so, this goes against pretty much all the rest of the reporting on the subject, AND Google has financial incentive to push AI, so skepticism is warranted.

> I don't ask a lot of race-based questions to my LLMS I guess

The reality is that more and more decision making is getting turned over to AIs. Racism doesn't have to just be n-words and maga hats. For example, this article talks about how overpoliced neighborhoods trigger positive feedback loops in predictive AIs https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2024/07/racism-and-ai-bias-...

> Copyright never stopped me from saving images or pirating movies.

I think we could all agree that right-clicking a copyrighted image and saving it is pretty harmless. Less harmless is trying to pass that image off as something you created and profiting from it. If I use AI to write a blog post, and that post contains plagiarism, and I profit off that plagiarism, it's not harmless at all.

> I also grew up being told that ANYTHING on the internet was for the public

Who told you that? How sure are you they are right?

Copilot has been shown to include private repos in its training data. ChatGPT will happily provide you with information that came from textbooks. I personally had SunoAI spit out a song that whose lyrics were just Livin' On A Prayer with a couple of words changed.

We can talk about the ethical implications of the existence of copyright and whether or not it _should_ exist, but the fact is that it does exist. Taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own without giving credit or permission is not permitted.
by jmull | 2025-08-27 20:49:26+00:00
window and window.location aren't part of javascript. They are part of the javascript api that standard browsers provide.

It's fair to point out that browser api is confusing. You might not think of setting a property as kicking off an asynchronous operation, especially if it seems to has instantaneous effect at first.

But the basic control flow logic of that code is wrong. Confusion about whether a side-effect from an api call might bail you out from your error is beside the point.
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 20:49:36+00:00
There are tons of examples of art that take much more energy than what an AI does, such as an architectural monument. It is not necessarily the case that "Using more resources to achieve subpar outcomes is not generally something considered artful. Doing a lot with little is." as not all artists will agree and even those that do might not follow it. For example, certain pigments in painting could be highly unethically sourced but people still used them and some still do, such as mummy brown, Indian yellow, or ivory black, all from living organisms.
by jacobsenscott | 2025-08-27 20:49:36+00:00
Uh, we've been doing data processing for nearly 80 years, and watching netflix for nearly 20 years. Suddenly we need to tile the earth with data centers, build power plants, burn all the fuels we can, and will "need to get to fusion" (per Sam) to run AGI. He also said "if we need to burn a little more gas to get there, that's fine". We'll never get to fusion or AGI, but we will destroy the earth to put a few more dollars in the pockets of the 0.01%.

You don't see the difference, or are you willfully ignorant?
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-27 20:49:43+00:00
You are massively mixing things up.

Water boils/evaporates off from oil based fluids in normal operation. Hydraulic fluid additives don't suck up water like brake fluid, they just mix with it if present, and they can't mix with all that much. If these first two things weren't true it would have huge implications for the design of all sorts of things. If hydraulic fluid could mix with a lot of water we wouldn't be reading this story.

I assume these jets use skydrol. I'm only casually familiar with it but unaware of it having special water related properties that differ from normal petroleum products.

Glycols are a different story.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-27 20:50:01+00:00
What they mean is that they made a font by tracing screenshots of the Microsoft deliverable and then tidied it up a bit.

I'm aware copyright and fonts is a loaded topic, and I'm not advocating for a hardline stance, and making metrics-compatible free replacement fonts has always been a thing (I mean, that's what Arial itself is), but vibe-wise this is like when you steal your competitor's design and call it a "revival".

Along with the Windows 2000 sound bite, by god what a smarmy and off-putting deluge of ego-junk. My interest in their product certainly died.
by nine_k | 2025-08-27 20:50:04+00:00
The problem is that coding is often not a very creative task. Its higher levels are creative, some of the details may be creative, but there's still plenty of legwork. In other words, most of our languages are not high-level enough. This is where the AI can be helpful.

I don't use LLMs much for heavy lifting around the code. But it's an almost-excellent tool for research, finding or synthesizing examples, and generating boilerplate where other tools can't do it. "Almost", because LLMs hallucinate more often than I would like, so sometimes I have to cross-check their answers.
by perching_aix | 2025-08-27 20:50:49+00:00
I think this is a reasonable counter in some respects, although I do also think it's specific to the current iteration of AI art.

It's a bit like when people describe how models don't have a will or the likes. Of course they don't, "they" are basically frozen in time. Training is way slower than inference, and even inference is often slower than "realtime". It just doesn't work that way from the get-go. They're also simply not very good - hence why they're being fed curated data.

In that sense, and considering history, I can definitely see why it would (and should?) be considered differently. Not sure this is what you meant, but this is an interesting lens, so thanks for this.
by Topfi | 2025-08-27 20:50:53+00:00
Additional information may be found here: https://developers.openai.com/codex/ide

Am seemingly one of very few people to somewhat reliably get usable results from GPT-5 and have been relying on Codex Cloud more and more, especially as an alternative to having to remote into my computer when prompting for minor changes on the phone. This new IDE plugin, naturally, takes very strongly after Cursor, Windsurf, etc. but also does better than some in unifying both Cloud and CLI changes, something I have seen others separate more strictly in their UI.

Last time I tested a none CLI LLM coding assistance solutions was when Amazon released KIRO and that was mainly focused on verifying whether there is something I could/should adapt from their way of doing requirements/planning implementations, so I am no expert in the UI of alternatives like Cursor, Windsurf, etc. but in my limited testing, Codex makes diffs very pleasant to read. Would like the added ability to expand individual files over only having them in a collapsable list via "View changes" though. I also very much enjoy the Todo list implementation I have seen on some tasks, it is a bit more informative than the more broad goals Claude Code or CLI Codex tend to provide, while retaining the full, step-by-step work log as an added source of information. Have not found a way to reliably trigger this feature though.

Also, some aria-labels are overflowing/covered by other UI elements making them unreadable and I'd prefer this to be placed in a positionable panel, rather than the primary side bar, cause as it stands, one cannot have the Codex panel and e.g. version control, file explorer or search open. Lastly, trepidations of unrestricted local LLM use aside, I don't think the "Agent (full access)" button should expand like that: https://imgur.com/a/T1slbxk

Am also testing the new Code Review implementation they have added, was surprised to see the model communicate via emojis/reactions of all things, but haven't yet tried any LLM code review solutions so again don't know how these usually communicate state/provide confirmation of actions: https://developers.openai.com/codex/cloud
by dc396 | 2025-08-27 20:50:59+00:00
User experience is always at the whim of ISP agreements unless you are paying for point to point links.

Sounds like you're experiencing vagaries of somebody (maybe Cloudflare, maybe some other ISP Cloudflare is peering with) doing traffic engineering, probably to reduce congesting on particular paths. The recommendation to go with the Pro plan is likely just the first step, the next step is to open a ticket and get them to fix it -- that's what you're paying them for.

Dropping Cloudflare is, of course, an option as most of the security stuff they do can be handled by competent security folks, but you (may?) need to find someone similar if your site is at risk of DDoS.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-27 20:51:35+00:00
There are some who think windmills unsightly, which I don’t understand at all. The old style associated with Dutch stereotypes is cute and picturesque, and the modern type futuristic. If I see windmills within eyeshot, my first thought is, “oh cool, the people here really have it figured out.” Of all the things that I might see on the horizon, windmills are among those that would bother me the least.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-08-27 20:51:40+00:00
In general I agree but there is bit more complexity. I work in medical devices and there are plenty of situations where a certain output is ok in some circumstance but deadly in another. That makes a stopgap a little more tricky.

I agree with the previous poster that the feedback from the field is lacking a lot. A lot of doctors don’t report problems back because they are used to bad interfaces. And then the feedback gets filtered through several layers of sales reps and product management. So a lot of info gets lost and fixes that could be simple won’t get done.

In general when you work in medical you are so overwhelmed by documentation and regulation that there isn’t much time left to do proper engineering. The FDA mostly looks at documentation done right and less at product done right.
by mxuribe | 2025-08-27 20:51:43+00:00
IANAL but i don't think using a vpn matters...Because whether a user is using a vpn or otherwise or not, if the user is identified as from Mississippi, that would be the test for whether these guys would need to block or not. Like, if a user from Mississippi uses a vpn, and these guys don't know that and detect that this user's IP is from, say, Arkansas...how would they be held liable? Unless, i'm missing something, right?
by bayindirh | 2025-08-27 20:53:18+00:00
When I see the term TDP, I remember what I have read in the "Thermal Design Document" of Intel Core2Quad Q6600 and the family it belongs:

> The thermal solution bundled with the CPUs is not designed to handle the thermal output when all the cores are utilized 100%. For that kind of load, a different thermal solution is strongly recommended (paraphrased).

I never used the stock cooler bundled with the processor, but what kind of dark joke is this?
by aaroninsf | 2025-08-27 20:53:33+00:00
I wish English had a word for this social media thing,

where headlines—especially when mechanically reproduced—presuppose you have some context or care for something that is in fact of interest to and targeted to a specific [user] community.

Are.na... OK, I guess it's a note taking and memory organization thing for productivitymaxers or whatever. TIL.

Areal, a license-free recasting of Arial, itself a license-free crude recasting of Helvetica... OK. TIL.
Show HN: Meetup.com and eventribe alternative to small groups
by orbanlevi | 2025-08-27 20:53:51+00:00
Mobile first open-source RSVP platform. Alternative for meetup.com / eventribe for small companies and groups. If you have a small group and don't want to pay for services you can easily selfhost this solution. Open for improvements and for feedback, ofc.

- One-Click Sharing - Each event gets a unique, memorable URL. Share instantly via any platform or messaging app. - No Hassle, No Sign-Ups - Skip registrations and endless forms. Unlike other event platforms, you create and share instantly — no accounts, no barriers. - Effortless Simplicity - Designed to be instantly clear and easy. No learning curve — just open, create, and go.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-27 20:53:57+00:00
Nope. The point was to create competition for the "30%" revenue cut that Apple takes. Now app developers are free to use marketplaces which take a smaller fee, in exchange for perhaps less discoverability / market penetration.

Every app on alternative app stores still[0] has to be "notarized" by Apple and thus are still subject to a subset of Apple's App Review Guidelines[1]

0: https://altstore.io/app-guidelines.html

1: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#int...
Ask HN: What happens to Windows 10 PCs after October 14?
by Kapura | 2025-08-27 20:54:16+00:00
Like many people who have tried windows 11 and not liked what I found, I am considering my next moves. I have considered some *nix distros that will allow me to continue to use my computer for games and light productivity tasks, but I also wonder what happens if I just... don't upgrade or switch OS. What if I stick with Windows 10 until the bitter end?
by didibus | 2025-08-27 20:54:20+00:00
If you take a report like this: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-has-high-da...

You can:

1. Dismiss it by believing the projections are very wrong and much too high

2. Think 20% of all energy consumed isn't that bad.

3. Find it concerning environmentally

All takes have some weight behind them in my opinion. I don't think this is a case of "arsenic-free cauliflower", maybe unless you claim #1, but that claim can't really invalidate the others on their rational, they make an assumption on the available data and reason of it, the data doesn't show ridiculously small numbers like it does in the cauliflower case.
by exdeejay_ | 2025-08-27 20:54:34+00:00
For more context to whoever is interested, the dialogue following the quote goes like this:

Studio Ghibli producer, Suzuki: "So, what is your goal?" ML Developer: "Well, we would like to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do." <jump cut> Miyazaki VO: "I feel like we are nearing to the end of times." "We humans are losing faith in ourselves."

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

Of course, the form of AI has changed over the years, but the claim that this quote could be tied to Miyazaki's general view on having machines create art is not totally baseless.
by rcxdude | 2025-08-27 20:54:36+00:00
Developers would generally like their application to work. Especially in the hands of non-technical users. If you're going to take things apart and take responsibility for when something breaks, go ham, but when devs find that their software is broken for many users because a widely-used distribution packaged it wrong, then it's kind of a problem because a) users aren't necessarily going to understand where the problem is, and b) regardless, it's still broken, and if you want to make something that works and have empathy for your users, it's kind of an unpleasant situation even if you're not getting the blame.
by nurple | 2025-08-27 20:54:51+00:00
The 787 had three such bugs, in 2015 it was found out if the plane wasn't restarted once every 248 days (2^31 100ths of a second), the AC generation system would shut off, even mid-flight[0].

In 2016 it was found that if the plane wasn't restarted once every 22 days the 3 flight computers could reboot simultaneously, also in mid-flight[1].

In 2020 it was found that if it wasn't restarted at least every 51 days that the stale data monitoring system, and the stall and overspeed horns all stop operating[2].

Some A350s also had an uptime-dependent fault found in 2019[3].

0: https://www.engadget.com/2015-05-01-boeing-787-dreamliner-so...

1: https://www.pcmag.com/news/boeing-787-dreamliner-bug-fix-req...

2: https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycl...

3: https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/25/a350_power_cycle_soft...
by jlarocco | 2025-08-27 20:55:14+00:00
> The only issue with linux I am wondering about is sharing my CV where most companies need a word file.

Maybe it's regional, but I've never been asked for a Word file resume.

I've never had somebody turn down a PDF. And all of the "Upload you resume" online applications I've seen also support PDF. A lot of them lately will even correctly parse out the info and auto-fill forms with it, but some of them mangle it.
by samtheDamned | 2025-08-27 20:55:16+00:00
This reminded me of a feature in windows where if you were dragging something and reached the end of the touchpad, the cursor would continue on the same trajectory as long as you kept your finger at the edge of the touchpad. Then you could overshoot a little so you could bring your fingers back to the middle to regain maneuverability. I haven't missed it since I switched to linux but now that I'm thinking about it that was a very nice touch (no pun intended).
by d4mi3n | 2025-08-27 20:55:23+00:00
IANAL, but there’s a question of reasonable burden. Not sure if that applies here, but it’s not unreasonable to say you simply don’t want to do business in a state where the regulations are cost prohibitive. Given they make a reasonable effort to not provide a service to MI, it’s not really on them to police people trying to circumvent a state’s local laws.

Pornhub and BlueSky have done similar in response to this legislation in Texas. Wikipedia and a few other sites blocked the UK to avoid being burdened by their Safety act. Pretty much every streaming platform implements regional geo blocking for licensing reasons.

I’ll be curious to see how things shake out in the long run given the current political climate.
by andybak | 2025-08-27 20:55:47+00:00
The same Picasso that was notorious for churning them out towards the end of his career?

I'm being slightly flippant but I do think this is a motte and bailey argument.

Not even painting is a Guernica nor does it need to be.

And not every aesthetically pleasing object is art. (And finally - art doesn't even have to be aesthetically pleasing. And actually finally "art" has a multitude of contradictory meanings)
by hvb2 | 2025-08-27 20:55:51+00:00
> Germany and piss poor energy policy - name a more iconic duo.

I mean not always, they put feed in tarifs for solar in law at the end of the 90s. This led to a huge boom in solar production and it made the Germans very big in solar panel production. Unfortunately, like all other countries they were eventually outproduced by china.

This model has been copied in a lot of places afterwards and only when a mature market for solar exists does it stop working (it becomes a subsidy for people that produce paid for by people that don't).
by petralithic | 2025-08-27 20:55:55+00:00
Who said my economic motivations are or aren't valid? My point is that people shouldn't lie, to others or to themselves, and to state their motivations plainly. While the author does do so, I am talking about other people who do hide behind solipsism, thus that is why my comment is not a top level comment about the article but a reply to a specific comment that says "one of my friends...", hence why I said "people like this" where "this" refers to their friend, not the author.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-27 20:55:57+00:00
Here in Illinois all farmland is assigned a productivity index that is independently calculated by the agriculture department at UIUC using soil surveys. The land also gets a flood debasement index using flood records and crop loss claims.

The most productive farmland gets taxed at rates at least 4x higher than poor farmland. And really poor farmland gets taxed as if it were nearly worthless.

https://tax.illinois.gov/localgovernments/property/farmland....
by petcat | 2025-08-27 20:56:08+00:00
There used to be the "Oregon sales tax loophole" where residents of neighboring states (Washington, California, Idaho) would make large purchases (car) just over the border in Oregon where there was no sales tax.

That loophole got closed once inter-state data sharing became possible and Oregon merchants were required to start collecting those out-of-state taxes at the point of sale.