MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by logicprog | 2025-08-15 17:42:19+00:00
I'm not anti-the-tech-behind-AI, but this behavior is just awful, and makes the world worse for everyone. I wish AI companies would instead, I don't know, fund common crawl or something so that they can have a single organization and set of bots collecting all the training data they need and then share it, instead of having a bunch of different AI companies doing duplicated work and resulting in a swath of duplicated requests. Also, I don't understand why they have to make so many requests so often. Why wouldn't like one crawl of each site a day, at a reasonable rate, be enough? It's not like up to the minute info is actually important since LLM training cutoffs are always out of date anyway. I don't get it.
by aitechtutorials | 2025-08-15 17:42:37+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with Qwen Lightning v1.1 in ComfyUI for AI image generation, and the results are impressive. Compared to previous versions and other models like LightX2V, it delivers:

Faster generation on 8GB VRAM setups

Cleaner images with razor-sharp edges

Smooth textures and vibrant colors

Strong text clarity even in complex prompts

I followed a workflow that includes downloading the GGUF model, text encoder, VAE, and the Lightning v1.1 LoRA, setting up Sage Attention and FP16 Accumulation for speed and efficiency, and tweaking CFG between 4–4.5. The setup is straightforward and reliable.

Step-by-step video guide (optional but useful): https://youtu.be/7p23f-gDp4I

Would love to hear if others are experimenting with Qwen Lightning v1.1 or similar setups in ComfyUI — especially tips on optimization for lower VRAM systems.
by mdp2021 | 2025-08-15 17:42:50+00:00
> Imagine a game with bare-bones graphics and lighting

https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt740a130ae3c5...

# The Art Of Braid: Creating A Visual Identity For An Unusual Game

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-art-of-braid-creati...
by narrator | 2025-08-15 17:43:02+00:00
IMHO, the occult is just pre-modern social psychology and propaganda. How to get people to join your religion and fight, do bad stuff, and die for you is really old technology. Before modern psychology "Spellcasting" was saying something to someone for the effect it would have on them to manipulate their psychology to get them to do the thing you wanted them to do. It was a sort of pre-modern NLP. Christians and people of other Abrahamic faiths co-existed with and did not like these guys and the feeling was generally mutual.
by chankstein38 | 2025-08-15 17:43:02+00:00
I don't initiate conversation most of the time, not because of some kind of perception of weakness but because I don't really have time to hold conversations with every random person that I know. I like knowing they're there but I don't really feel the need to socialize with them or make smalltalk on a regular basis. If there's something I want to talk about I'll reach out but only if I know the conversation won't go on for days.

I don't play the stupid games "Oh so and so hasn't reached out in forever I hate them now" or "weakness vs strength" in communication. Communication is a tool.

I don't dislike having friends. I just wish everyone stopped these stupid games and stopped acting like everything needed to be a calculated action. We're animals who evolved to make a bunch of stupid over-thought games for ourselves that make us miserable. If you don't want to talk to someone or don't have time, don't talk to them. If you want to talk to them, reach out.

I don't understand why I'd need some app to solve that. I don't feel hindered approaching life this way. I either get more of the time doing the things I care about or I get to potentially have a good conversation with someone. Don't let some company or app's profit create more barriers in your head.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-15 17:43:25+00:00
Prove it.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/most-working-age-snap-particip...

>Over half of individuals who were participating in SNAP in a typical month in mid-2012 were working in that month.

Let’s be generous and say that the other half have a lot of free time (they don’t, many are searching for a job while taking care of a family), and that the tiktok you saw only showed that other half. The parts of my comment you didn’t respond to may still be the explanation, rather than the sheer gluttony of the poor or something.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-15 17:43:31+00:00
> how does renting out old stock not increase supply?

Raw and overall housing numbers can be misleading by their nature. That is, they can be technically true while being false for many/most people.

Declaration: Housing supply is increased! Actuality: Increase is only in homes for >$100k income earners. The declaration is true for >$100k. It is not true for most <$100k earners. (of those <$100k earners) There could be a very slight increase in supply for $80k. It'll be less, if any, for $60k earners. There is no increase in supply for <$40k (25% of US households).

Past that, there is a challenge in tossing around $250k and $500k houses as examples of anything. Those numbers are 4x & 8x over what typical-wage households can afford.

Generally, there is no affordable, reasonable housing for typical income earners.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-15 17:43:48+00:00
Housing is one of those goods that's just not really optional. People NEED a roof over their heads, and they will sacrifice a lot of quality of life in other areas to ensure they still have a place to live.

The market will bear a lot more than it should because the market doesn't have any other choice. As far as I'm concerned, people who buy real estate for the sole purpose of renting it out are financial vampires, sucking every last cent from their tenants, finding every justification for raising rents. You gotta be a cartoonish villain to raise rents just because your tenant got a new higher-paying job.

The absolute worst part of it all is how so many landlords have this savior complex, thinking they're providing a service that's good for the community. No no no. Landlords provide housing the same way scalpers provide concert tickets.
by franga2000 | 2025-08-15 17:43:49+00:00
The whole "SSO is meant for enterprise" thing is sales bullshit. Big enterprises can't live without SSO, so everyone started charging extra for that to milk more money out of them, but this doesn't mean it's not hugely beneficial or "meant for" smaller orgs or even individuals.

Anyone can spin up an Authentik/Authelia/Keycloak/whatever instance or even use Microsoft/Google if they already pay for it in a matter of minutes. The only reason people don't is because tons of apps make it annoyingly difficult to integrate SSO or don't offer it at all in the lower price tiers.

If app installers started with "create a root user or paste the OIDC secret here", everyone and their dog would be running SSO. But that's not as profitable.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-15 17:44:04+00:00
Every flight I've been on this year, except one, has demanded people check bags at the gate before Group 1 even finishes boarding.

Although, this seems to apply only to hardshell wheeled cases - I walked aboard with my backpack & shoulder bag without any issues, and fit my backpack into an overhead compartment and shoulder bag under my seat with no problems.

But next time, I may try to pack everything into a single backpack, and re-configure things once I'm in my seat so I have easy access to a smaller subset of stuff in my shoulderbag instead.
by baerrie | 2025-08-15 17:44:58+00:00
The humanities are why the internet exists. Coding is linguistics, writing is the key aspect of most software creation. Why then do we devalue this critical skill and those who wish to pursue its excellence? It seems most of ya’ll are content to make a fat check working a bs job in a marketing/business capacity where no real things of substance are being learned or progressed other than “how do i squeeze the utmost money out of the system”. Is this the world you continue to want to promote?
by vidarh | 2025-08-15 17:45:43+00:00
Marx had plenty of problems with Germany - or specifically Prussia - too... In Critique of the Gotha Programme, for example, he harangued the now SDP for arguing for free state provided education, on the basis that he argued it was rather the Prussian state that had a severe need of being educated by the people.

(He favoured a US-inspired model of public licensing, but privately run schools instead)
by hnbad | 2025-08-15 17:45:53+00:00
The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is mostly Marx doing what we would now call "being an edge lord". It's supposed to be a contradiction of the "dictatorship of capital" or rule by the owning class. But it's all edge and no point because the central argument is an abolition of the legal concept of capital, literally abolishing the thing that would allow capitalists to continue to exist a distinct group the proletariat could "rule over".

The thing that is unconstitutional isn't the "dictatorship of the proletariat" by abolition of capital, it's the oppressive authoritarian rule that has in the past and present been justified with appeals to that kind of language, especially in Marxist-Leninist schools of thought. This is relevant because the likely frame of reference for the court here is the German Democratic Republic, the former vassal state of the Soviet Union. But even they opposed a close reading of Marxism which they argued was "utopianist", instead justifying the supposed inevitability of their totalitarian rule as "real existing socialism" rather than communism.

Marx did not argue for a ruling bureaucrat class to replace the capital owning class. It's easy to see how that kind of thought would be at odds with the constitution but even most "left wing extremist" groups in Germany are ideologically opposed to it, Marxist or otherwise.
by Verdex | 2025-08-15 17:46:23+00:00
I've got some sort of facial blindness. It's hard to tell exactly how it works because I've got a bunch of unconscious coping mechanisms for identifying people.

One of the times I got it comically wrong was in college where I made a friend for a semester because I thought he was someone I already knew. So I can absolutely believe that attitude and approach makes a huge difference because I've been in at least one scenario where falsely believing I was friends with someone was all it took to be friends.
by logicprog | 2025-08-15 17:46:38+00:00
Me too. I wouldn't mind Project Xanadu style micro payments for blogs, and it'd both fix the AI scraper issue and the ads issue, and help people fund hosting costs sustainably. I think the issue is taxes and transaction fees would push the prices too high, and it'd price out people with very low income possibly. It'd also create really perverse incentives for even more tight copyright control, since your content appearing even in part on anyone else's website is then directly losing you money, so it'd destroy the public Commons even more, which would be bad. But maybe not, who knows.
by tristan957 | 2025-08-15 17:46:47+00:00
I don't think you've used Ghostty in a while. It has auto installing terminfo when ssh-ing.

Also, every program ever depends on a certain version of a compiler, so I don't understand this complaint. Ghostty requires Zig 0.14. That's it, not a specific compiler hash. blueprint-compiler is packaged for pretty much every distribution these days.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-15 17:47:33+00:00
None of these articles comes to grips with the USA abandoning free market solutions.

Doesn't this de-legitimize success to some degree? Your product succeeded because one guy liked it, not because everyone liked it. Bill Gates can pull all the newcomer's chains because Windows won on the marketplace on merits, while new products win because some cryptocurrency appeared in a shell company's wallet.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-08-15 17:48:02+00:00
Courts in Germany have a history of rulings that feel overreaching and anachronistic. This one is no exception.

I'd love to see these judges clearly define what the "free democratic basic order" means without paradox, and then explain which part of Marx's work violates it. The Grundgesetz is based on three main principles: human dignity, the rule of law, and the separation of powers. Which of these does Marx's theory actually attack?

Marx's writings are huge, complex, and usually analytical. They look at how economies work, not how to abolish democracy. A big part is the philosophical debates of materialism vs. idealism, which aren certainly not a threat to the constitutional order.

By painting the whole of Marx's thought as incompatible, the court shows not only ignorance and arrogance but also chips away at a core pillar of the very order it claims to defend: free speech. Saying that some knowledges are forbidden is like censorship of the dark ages, not something a modern democracy that's confident in its values would do.
by baggachipz | 2025-08-15 17:48:18+00:00
All of those rules exist in order to prevent an unintended killing. They would not be necessary without a machine designed for killing. I don't know why this is so complicated. No gun present, no gunshot. Gun present, possible gunshot.

I'm not trolling. You can have all the "safety" protocols you want, but at the end of the day it still won't stop every unintended killing due to a killing machine.
by anonymars | 2025-08-15 17:48:27+00:00
Physical pain is subjective too. What isn't?

It also appears all the qualifiers are removed, for example

* Often appears not to be listening when spoken to

* Frequently loses items required for tasks and activities

* Is frequently easily distracted by extraneous stimuli

* Often forgets daily activities

* Is frequently reluctant to engage in tasks which require sustained attention

and so on.

Everyone forgets a name or a word every once in a while and that doesn't mean they are senile, yet we recognize senility exists past a threshold.
by xr2k_enjoyer | 2025-08-15 17:48:49+00:00
I have 3 issues:

1. Sending GETSTATUS always causes the connection to drop.

2. Sending the first "correct" ROUTE packet causes the server to go down for a while.

3. Sending GETMAIL for the email after the hint email (4th one in my case) causes the connection to drop.

@richmans Happy to be playtesting your game, but I would be glad if you can reply to this comment so that I know this is being read.
by justinlivi | 2025-08-15 17:49:12+00:00
I think AI skeptics have a strong bias to assume that human intelligence fundamentally functions differently from LLMs. They may be correct, but we don't have a strong enough understanding of human cognition to make the claim in as uncertain terms as the skeptical argument is unusually made. The training methods between human learning and machine learning are obviously fundamentally vastly different as are the infrastructure-level mechanics. These elements are likely never going to align, though with time the machine infrastructure may start to increasingly resemble human bio hardware. I bring this up because these known vast differences may account for a significant portion of the differences in expected output from human and machine processing. We don't understand the fundamental conceptual "black box" portions of either form of processing well enough to state definitely what is similar or dissimilar about those hazy areas. Somewhere within that not-well-understood area is what we collectively have vaguely defined "intelligence." But also within that area are all the other aspects that both humans and now machines are quite good at - prediction, fluency, translation. The challenge of lexicon and definition is potentially as difficult a task as is sharpening the focus of our understanding of the hazy black-box portion of both machine processing as well as human processing. Until all those are better defined I don't think we have a good measure for answering the question of machine intelligence either way.
by lupusreal | 2025-08-15 17:49:19+00:00
GOG is great but I'd like them even more if they did some of the wine/proton work that Steam does for Linux users. For the dosbox games at least it's not much to do (for them nor for myself to be fair.)

Steam is simultaneously hard to like, as a DRM service, but also hard to dislike as they put so much care into getting games running on Linux and have a very reasonable return policy, full refunds for the game not working makes it easy for Linux users especially.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-15 17:49:33+00:00
Lord Gaben has almost a cult like following, so any missteps are going to be ignored. Steam is objectively great compared to other stores so it will barely see a problem. If the fact that children are gambling skins on the platform barely affects them, an issue they are in full control of, I doubt this controversy where they were pressured externally will cause any long lasting damage to them.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-15 17:49:54+00:00
I think it's entirely fair though. Valve has put a lot of its money where its mouth is on this. I get that it started as a hegemony against Windows' store, but it's been great for the Linux community as a whole. By some metrics, desktop Linux is sitting around 6%, and I think that Valve is almost solely responsible (along with all wine devs) for at least a full 1% of that.

It's started to even draw a lot of attention from more general gaming and pc streamers. So many videos of different streamers trying Bazzite lately.

Next year might actually see a tipping point where there can be real pressure to gain support from the likes of Adobe. I expect MS might make some offline version or Office 365 + Electron at some point soon as well.
by hobo_in_library | 2025-08-15 17:50:30+00:00
Yes, that's why the people behind the United whistle blower "suicide" or the Epstein "suicide" we promptly brought to justice /s

Our law enforcement is "better" when it comes to enforcing the law against the lower 99%. When it comes to enforcing it against the kind of people who're actually likely to kill to protect their secrets...good luck
by jsnell | 2025-08-15 17:50:49+00:00
A different algorithm would not help.

Here's the basic problem: the fully loaded cost of a server CPU core is ~1 cent/hour. The most latency you can afford to inflict on real users is a couple of seconds. That means the cost of passing a challenge the way the users pass it, with a CPU running Javascript, is about 1/1000th of a cent. And then that single proof of work will let them scrape at a minimum hundreds, but more likely thousands, of pages.

So a millionth of a cent per page. How much engineering effort is worth spending on optimizing that? Basically none, certainly not enough to offload to GPUs or ASICs.
by tverbeure | 2025-08-15 17:50:53+00:00
I've been wondering if it's possible to recreate this with today's technology. The HP implementation uses a custom ASIC with very fast transistors, so it's not obvious.

https://febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts_lists.febo.com/2025-Jul...

If you want to make your own interval counter today, the to-go-to method is to use a TDC7200 chip. If that's not good enough, you can also look at the schematics of an SRS SR620 time interval counter. It has a similar 25ps precision and uses an ADC to interpolate between samples of a 90 MHz clock. These kind of ADCs weren't available in 1978.
by Knaapje | 2025-08-15 17:51:09+00:00
Well, why would a consumer submit themselves to such a system when they can run their appliances directly?

Additionally, that pricing mechanism doesn't work for reasons outlined in the article, it will actually concentrate energy consumption when consumers delegate activation of devices to a controller that automatically starts it at the moment of lowest cost.

Furthermore, when devices like electric vehicles become even more prevalent, we need some kind of balancing mechanism because of grid capacity, and traditional pricing is not it.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-15 17:51:25+00:00
So, whatever about Africa, it does seem like maybe this distortion has real consequences.

Noted very stable genius Donald Trump: "I love maps. And I always said: 'Look at the size of this. It's massive. That should be part of the United States.'"

It's not totally implausible that the grossly oversized depiction of Greenland on Mercator (it's shown as being larger than the US) actually had some impact on his asinine desire to annex Greenland.
by nickisyourfan | 2025-08-15 17:51:36+00:00
I wrote a step-by-step tutorial showing how to build a local ChatGPT-style desktop app using Tauri (UI) and Deeb (embedded JSON persistence). The guide covers:

- bootstrapping a Tauri + React app - adding Tailwind + DaisyUI for quick UI - modeling and persisting chat messages with Deeb - wiring Tauri commands for saving messages and calling OpenAI

Why this approach: keep conversations local, avoid vendor lock-in, and learn Rust + desktop dev. The post includes a full example and a repo with source code.

Article: https://www.deebkit.com/posts/how-to-custom-chat-gpt Repo / full source: https://www.github.com/the-devoyage/chattd

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, persistence choices, streaming implementation, or packaging for Linux/Windows/macOS.
by marchantweb | 2025-08-15 17:52:06+00:00
Hey folks!

Shaders is something I've been working on for a few that is about to enter early access: https://shaders.com

There's a lot of confusion in the frontend space when it comes to going beyond CSS/JS and creating high quality WebGL effects, let alone WebGPU, for landing pages and immersive experiences.

Shaders helps to bridge that gap, making shader effects accessible via declarative, reactive components for Vue, React and Svelte (to start).

Want a linear gradient? Just use that component? Masking, sure. Blend that with another layer, and wrap the whole thing in a mouse distortion effect. It's like After Effects meets frontend components.

For an example of it in action, the background of the landing page is a running WebGPU shader and only about 10-12 lines of simple component code to create.

More updates to come, thanks!!
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-15 17:52:40+00:00
Wow, that's annoying.

If I see that happening and I'm traveling light enough, I've merged my backpack into my duffle bag so that I have one single "personal item" for under the seat in front of me. Nobody ever seems to care that it doesn't cleanly fit.

But jeez, forcing check-ins during Group 1 is worse than I've ever seen it. I guess it's more and more popular to use two hard-shell carry-ons and put them into the overhead compartment. And I guess the airline just sees it as an incentive for you to buy a more expensive seat.
by J_Shelby_J | 2025-08-15 17:54:03+00:00
It’s because steam is 100% an aberration in our modern world. The closest comparison is, maybe, Costco?

And we who are dependent on steam know how bad things would be if steam wasn’t this unicorn. Gaben is the rare feudal lord whose people show up to battle out because they know it’s good for them. All he had to do was not abuse his monopoly for the past 25 years, as the meme goes.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-15 17:54:03+00:00
People have now been successfully conditioned to not own anything.

Steam came out in 2003, in an era where PC gaming was still very much - go to the store and buy a physical CD. You owned the game.

I still feel uneasy about it, but Steam is the least evil (outside of GOG, but much smaller catalog). But our options for actually owning digital content have all evaporated, unless you sail the high seas.

The next evolution in our journey to non ownership will be game streaming, if latency can be solved to take the non-ownership a step further. We are halfway there with even single player games now requiring an always-on internet connection.

I miss the days of offline and physical media.