MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-08-04 17:27:18+00:00
My point is that to invoke the "they're DOSing" excuse, you actually have to provide evidence it's happening in this specific instance, rather than vaguely gesturing at some class of entities (AI companies) and concluding that because some AI companies are DOSing, all AI companies are DOSing. Otherwise it's like youtube blocking all youtube-dl users for "DOSing" (some fraction of users arguably are), and then justifying their actions with "People never agreed DOSing a site to take copyright material was acceptable".
by remus | 2025-08-04 17:27:43+00:00
> The no-crawl directives don't really make sense when I'm doing research and want my tool of choice to be able to pull from any relevant source.

If you are the source I think they could make plenty of sense. As an example, I run a website where I've spent a lot of time documenting the history of a somewhat niche activity. Much of this information isn't available online anywhere else.

As it happens I'm happy to let bots crawl the site, but I think it's a reasonable stance to not want other companies to profit from my hard work. Even more so when it actually costs me money to serve requests to the company!
by chromatin | 2025-08-04 17:27:51+00:00
402 Payment Required

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

Sadly development along these lines has not progressed. Yes, Google Cloud and other services may return it and require some manual human intervention, but I'd love to see _automatic payment negotiation_.

I'm hopeful that instant-settlement options like Bitcoin Lightning payments could progress us past this.

https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/l40...

https://hackernoon.com/the-resurgence-of-http-402-in-the-age...
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-04 17:27:55+00:00
> Also if you buy an ultimately useless trinket, well that's just life. Everything we do can be considered 'ultimately' useless.

Dumb philosophy. Some things in life are at least worthwhile, like spending time with friends and making the lives of others better. But increasing efficiency for intellectual stimulation in a narrow domain truly useless and shows how pathological we have become.

Fact is, there is some level of meaning in life if you accept there to be any meaning at all, and making mindless diversions certainly isn't within that domain.
Show HN: A rental marketplace for migrant founders moving to SF for YC F25
by ohmcar | 2025-08-04 17:27:56+00:00
Building SplitIn - A rental marketplace for migrant founders, students, professionals relocating to SF toured by current tenants.

Whether you’re in YC, applied to F25, or just moving to build this Fall.

Here’s what we’re offering: Find, Tour, and Sign your next home from wherever you are - no drama, no ghost listings.

Share your budget, move-in date, we’ll pre verify you with single application and match you with pre-vetted rentals that fit your founder life.

When you're ready to move out, you can earn money by showing your place to the next renter — we call it being a “Guide” (think DoorDash, but for tours)

Built by renters for renters — because everyone should have equal housing opportunity no matter where you are from.

If you’re heading to SF this Fall, this 3-minute form helps shape what we’re building and puts you at the front of the line: [http://www.app.splitin.net/partner/renter/signup/f25]

Feedback, questions, or "this already exists" welcome.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-04 17:28:03+00:00
> every company using one of these is actually filtering for desperation

Exactly. I have a very good job at a name brand tech company and regularly get reached out to by recruiters. I don’t tolerate BS like information asymmetry, take home tests, AI evaluations, etc.

The whole situation kindof reminds me of online dating, the top 10% of people are targeted by the other 90%. I wonder if there is some common phenomenon underlying both online dating and job matching because they are eerily similar.

Much like in dating, the answer may be to reject the whole online recruiting system and resort to in person interactions where symmetry is restored.

Unfortunately it is possible to live without a romantic partner, but in non-socialized nations it is not possible to live without an income.
by Bender | 2025-08-04 17:28:03+00:00
One call from the base commander could stop this. So which is it commanders, kickbacks from gambling companies and more troops going into debt just to be take up space in the brig? ... or more people under your command that are not financially stressed? The military is having a hard enough time finding and recruiting people even qualified to proceed to basic training. This behavior is unbecoming of an officer. A demotion and permanent relocation to McMurdo Station, Antarctica or Eielson Air Force Base Alaska for all leaders involved and the problem should solve itself. This message is for defense secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald J. Trump.
by rconti | 2025-08-04 17:28:07+00:00
I just had a rental Corolla in Europe. It had a lot of driving assistance features, and they're all absolute dogshit (and, I think, mandated by EU regulators). It's a pain in the ass to turn them all off every time you start the car, and I don't know how any drives these cars with them enabled.

The cluster flashes CONSTANTLY. It flashes to tell you there's a speed limit change. It flashes to tell you there's a crosswalk. It's a cacophony of alerts that lead to immediate fatigue and make all alerts meaningless.

The car beeps constantly. It beeps to tell you the speed limit changed (which happens multiple times per minute in many places). Often in places where the speed limit change isn't signed, but implied -- every interchange on the highway, the limit dips for a side road, then increases again after you pass the side road. It beeps persistently to tell you you're over the speed limit by 1kph, and keeps beeping for at least 5 or maybe 10 seconds.

It tugs at the steering wheel constantly, when it thinks you're too close to a white line. I got news for ya, in countries with narrow roads, you're ALWAYS near a white line. It tugs you towards an oncoming bus because you're cheating too far towards the opposite shoulder. It tugs you towards passing vehicles because you dared make room for faster traffic to go by (see this a fair bit in eastern europe).

Too many of my recent rentals have been Toyotas, usually hybrids (RAV4, Corolla Cross, Corolla).

Give me the Mazda.
by margalabargala | 2025-08-04 17:28:27+00:00
> They get 300 resumes. 299 of them need to go away. It has been like this forever. That AI is doing it does not change anything really.

That's not really true.

From the candidate, there's the effort to submit a resume (low), and then the effort to personally get on a video call and spend 45 minutes talking (high).

Discarding 290 out of the 300 resumes without talking to the candidate is way more acceptable, because the effort required from the company is about the same as the effort required by the candidate.

Asking the candidate to do an interview with an AI flips this; the company can en masse require high effort from the candidate without matching it.
by mandevil | 2025-08-04 17:28:58+00:00
The last time that a major corporation was found guilty for criminal behavior (Arthur Andersen in 2002 for Enron related stuff) the company closed immediately. This has led to problems in the audit industry, where was once the Big 8 audit firms has shrunk, due to mergers and AA dissolving, there basically are barely enough firms to independently audit each others books, and it's made the audit market much worse.

The MCI Worldcom fraud, which broke shortly after Enron, might also have doomed AA (they were the auditor for both major frauds of 2002). MCI Worldcom filed for bankruptcy before it could be hit with criminal charges, and the SEC ended up operating MCI-W in the bankruptcy, because the fines were so large and are senior to all other debts, so they outmuscled all of the other creditors in the bankruptcy filings. Which was why they weren't hit with criminal charges- they already belonged to the Government. There hasn't been much stomach for criminal charges against a corporation ever since.

The fact that the Supreme Court has spent the past few decades making white collar crimes much harder to prosecute (including with Arthur Andersen, where they unanimously reversed the conviction in 2005) is another major factor. The Supreme Court has always been terrible, and gets far more respect than it deserves.
by alexjplant | 2025-08-04 17:29:17+00:00
> I find Linux's workflow too rooted in multi-user systems and servers.

Out of genuine curiosity (not *nix/OSS fanboying) - how so? macOS has been a BSD for a quarter of a century and modern Windows was designed by a guy who cut his teeth at DEC on VMS. Virtually all modern computer OSes have roots in time-sharing systems.
by bitpush | 2025-08-04 17:29:25+00:00
I hate to be cynical, but I cant keep up with all the "changes" that Mozilla/Firefox is bringing.

All these changes are just window-dressing, and I cant remember the last time there was an update about something new on the web browser front that came in.

Atleast a new theme? a new way to manage tabs? a new way to store passwords? Com'on. Give us something beyond brand refresh, new manifesto, new url..
Show HN: I Made a plugin-based workspace app to avoids bloat
by ryu-suke | 2025-08-04 17:29:33+00:00
Hello HN

happy to share with everyone a project of mine. it's a desktop app called Hollow.

How i made it : I used Tauri framework with solidjs

What does it do : It's an empty canvas that you can place tools inside of it, tools like [Notebook, Kanban, Embed ...], you can make as much instances of the same tool as you want, that way you can have for example 2 notebooks next to each other serving different subjects. or kanban columns one for todo and one for finished task, you can also customize the [size, appearance, position] of these instances. that way you can have a flexible interface. The app also supports plugin system that way the app can be extended with other tools made by other people.

Inspiration : I got inspired by ObsidianMD, at it's core a note taking app. But it can be more with plugins, unlike obsidian my app is nothing at its core other then a host for tools.

What do i expect : The app is free, the only income i expect from it is patreon, other then that i'm not hoping to make this app a business and there is no reason for that.

check it out and let me know what do you think as the user's point of view.
by dbg31415 | 2025-08-04 17:29:35+00:00
What do you call two lying executives in minimum security prison? A good start.

So the solution to all of this is to lock up more executives who commit fraud or lie to the public.

Recently (after a 10 year battle) two former Volkswagen executives just got prison time for the Dieselgate scandal.

Wish it had come faster, but that's a good start.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/crime/volkswagen-execs-jailed-fraud-de...
by aaronbrethorst | 2025-08-04 17:30:03+00:00
Just seeing the sketches of the Heelers' kitchen brings a smile to my face, reminding me of one of my favorite episodes of Bluey, Pavlova. If you haven't seen it before, take the seven minutes to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERyw2dz2-ZM

Despite being a cartoon specifically aimed at little kids, it's an absolute delight. I think my wife and I like Bluey more than our toddler does, actually.
by homebrewer | 2025-08-04 17:30:26+00:00
I keep updating BIOS because newer versions often provide stability improvements and let you push higher overclocks. That in itself is not very interesting for an everyday overclock (which shouldn't push the hardware limits), but do allow for lowering the voltages used for sensitive components (like VSoC which was responsible for burning CPUs a couple of years ago). Lower voltage means safer operation and slower silicon degradation.

For example, I'm now running 6000 MT/s on stock VSoC which definitely wasn't possible on my hardware 1.5 years ago.

That said, my mobo vendor of choice is not known for doing rug pulls (unlike Gigabyte, who are also fond of releasing several board revisions under the same model with significant differences between them). It's the opposite — for example, a recent BIOS update added support for running internal graphics at 4K/120Hz on the same hardware that could only do 4K/60Hz before.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-04 17:30:40+00:00
Classic passing the buck. "Well WE didn't say they had to take those games down. We just pointed some problematic games and that we might not want to do business with them if they weren't removed. We didn't take them down."

Unfortunately until some regulation is created to solve this problem Visa/Mastercard will continue throwing around their weight at the whims of whoever.
by bityard | 2025-08-04 17:31:03+00:00
I'm not who you are responding to, but I do similar things with AI.

Think about it this way. We all make decisions like this pretty much every day, but I am especially careful with them in my personal life where time is limited and sacred: "What amount of time or money (X) am I willing to spend to get something (Y)?"

There have been many times that X has been "too much," until I later discover some new tool, library, or technique (or simply a price drop) that reduces X below the threshold of pulling the trigger. AI is that new tool for a lot of people and contexts.

If my barrier to some cool new one-off home automation feature is something like, "I would need to know Ruby but I don't know it and don't have time or desire to learn it," then I can have an LLM do the heavy lifting in a tiny fraction of the time it would take me to learn. Of course the feature needs to be something straightforward enough for the LLM to handle, and you have to be able to test it. And it goes without saying that since I can't properly review the code, I wouldn't use it for something that could cause a lot of damage or a security issue. But there are lots of tools/areas where that is not applicable. (Not all code needs to be bullet-proof and in reality, almost none of it is, even when it should be.)
by kinghajj | 2025-08-04 17:31:04+00:00
> any productivity improvements within that time become surplus value captured by capital.

Not quite right. Total Value remains the same before and after increase in productivity, assuming the labor force remains constant. But more use-value is created in the same period of time.

At the beginning, this is good for the employer, because the new socially necessary labor time has not been internalized, so the output can be sold for a price corresponding to its old Value. Maybe a bit less, to undercut competitors.

Eventually though, as competition adopts the new technique, everyone attempts to undercut each other’s prices, adjusting until prices correspond to the new Value.
by throwanem | 2025-08-04 17:31:22+00:00
"Ancillary" is quite a term for crash reporting after a crash. That is, for a system responding as designed to a collision which disabled the vehicle.

I'm not going to argue with someone who throws gratuitous insults. Rejoin me outside the gutter and we'll continue, if you like. But the answer to your question is trivially yes, that is as professionally indictable, as might by now have been clarified had you sought conversation rather than - well, I suppose, rather than whatever this slander by you was meant to be. One hopes we'll see no more of it.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-04 17:31:37+00:00
I too never get the Excel hate. Without Excel-what do you expect non programmers to do? They sit in front of a computer all day long-would you prefer they use paper? Official IT resources are a joke and will never deliver something so understandable and malleable as Excel. Sure, the official IT app may be done the right way, but it will quickly become outdated as business processes change and the maintenance budget disappears.
by crissequeira | 2025-08-04 17:31:40+00:00
From the description in the Archive: “The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.”
by goosejuice | 2025-08-04 17:31:48+00:00
In both cases, they are driver assistance. A pilot is responsible and must monitor an autopilot system in a plane. We license drivers and pilots and the responsibility is placed on them to understand the technology before using it and putting themselves and others at risk.

Would Boeing or John Deere be responsible for marketing language or just the instruction manual. We know the latter is true. It's there any evidence of the former? Intuitively I would say it's unlikely we'd blame Boeing if a pilot was mislead by marketing materials. Maybe that has happened but I haven't found anything of that sort (please share if aware).
by gpderetta | 2025-08-04 17:31:52+00:00
The required allocation make them awkward to use for short lived automatic objects like generators. But for async operations were you are eventually going to need a long lived context object anyway, it is a non-issue especially given the ability to customize allocators.

I say this as someone that is not a fan of the stackess coroutines in general, and the C++ solution in particular.
by fsflyer | 2025-08-04 17:32:00+00:00
This one?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/firmware-update-hind...

The company isn't shutting down, probably just an attempt to get more subscriptions.

The company used to support Strava integration from their app in Free Ride mode. That broke last year, the app still reports that a ride happened, but the ride is reported as 0 miles, 0 minutes long. I have the low end bike and rower from them. The machines are great physically.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-08-04 17:32:02+00:00
> We build ChatGPT to help you thrive in all the ways you want.

Wrong, you're building it to profit of the loss of others. Thriving doesn't mean efficiency, it means enjoying tasks in a mindful way.

> To make progress, learn something new, or solve a problem

All of these things are much more fun without AI.

> Our goals are aligned with yours.

If so, then why don't you wire half your profits to my bank account?

> We don’t always get it right.

You never get it right.

> Helping you solve personal challenges. When you ask something like “Should I break up with my boyfriend?” ChatGPT shouldn’t give you an answer. It should help you think it through—asking questions, weighing pros and cons.

This sort of phenomenon is becoming quite scary. People are supposed to do that, and because technology has isolated people, making more to step in is only ruining the world further. Keep this in mind, for anyone who works at OpenAI: you are ruining the world.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-04 17:32:23+00:00
I'd be interesting to know if Valve is big enough to start their own payment system. Yea, I know it would be hard but their customers have libraries of games in their system and Valve has lots of good will. Valve could also offer discounts ($X off if you use ValvePay). It would take years. They'd have to drop the adult games now, start ValvePay, promote it until the majority of their customers used it. Then put the games back and tell Visa and MC they can eff-off.
Show HN: SuppScanr – Search supplements, build stacks, check interactions
by nikolas_lennon | 2025-08-04 17:32:57+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a software engineer who got tired of jumping between Reddit, Examine, random blogs, and drug info sheets just to answer basic questions like:

“Is it safe to take ashwagandha with Wellbutrin?”

“What’s the optimal dose of creatine really?”

“What stack actually makes sense for cutting vs bulking?”

So I built SuppScanr (https://suppscanr.com) — a free tool that lets you:

Search supplements — See uses, optimal doses, cycling guidance, timing, and warnings in one clean page. Build a supplement stack — Answer a few questions and get curated “Good / Better / Best” stacks based on your health goals. Check interactions — Paste in any combination of supplements and/or medications, and get real-time warnings or green lights.

It’s ideal for lifters, longevity folks, neurotropic explorers, or anyone optimizing their stack without risking health.

Built with: VueJS + Node + Postgres, and integrated with real-time interaction databases and LLM.

Still improving daily (more ingredients, better personalization, exportable stack reports, etc.), but would love feedback from the HN crowd.

Let me know what sucks, what’s broken, or what feature you’d want next.

Cheers!

Nikolas https://suppscanr.com
by Dweller1622 | 2025-08-04 17:33:04+00:00
There's a number of things being said here, but much of it seems orthogonal to the original discussion and so I'm not going to address it.

Rather, if these characters aren't agents, I wonder where this leaves us re: sex positivity and "media [that] sexualizes women to a problematic degree." I don't think anything here tells me.
by concinds | 2025-08-04 17:33:41+00:00
> The internet we knew was open and not trusted , but thanks to companies like Cloudflare, now even the most benign , well meaning attempt to GET a website is met with a brick wall

I don't think it's fair to blame Cloudflare for that. That's looking at a pool of blood and not what caused it: the bots/traffic which predate LLMs. And Cloudflare is working to fix it with the PrivacyPass standard (which Apple joined).

Each website is freely opting-into it. No one was forced. Why not ask yourself why that is?
by bangaladore | 2025-08-04 17:33:46+00:00
> Was there pressure from AMD to stop allowing their lesser chipset to access PCIe 5.0?

Would be my guess. The fact that the B650 can even do 5.0 on the GPU lanes (it is able to do 4x 5.0 on NVME) makes me wonder if the B650 chipset is the same silicon as B650E and the speed is just really a configuration setting. Across the board the B650 seems like it is the exact same as a de-rated B650E.

It would surprise me if motherboard vendors who support 4.0 weren't actually compliant with 5.0 from a signaling / integrity perspective for future proofing and increased headroom.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-04 17:33:50+00:00
Looks like your initial text comment went dead (got killed) before it had a chance to raise the constructive comments there are now.

Hope it was not a downvote-a-bot or autonomous flagman gone rougue ;)

So right now on first visit or page refresh this whole page appears to be nothing at all, not even ultra-light dead text followed by nothing.

This almost never happens.

When it does, unfortunately in those cases the reason is that there are usually no constructive comments :(

The user has to click to the right of your username to see the current number of comments under it or there is no other text at all on the page when it's like this.

If someone else makes a top-level comment (like mine here) it should at least show up as something on the page, because it's not underneath your original top-level text.

Maybe re-submit at another time, which some times or days are expected to be better for gaining generous input for projects compared to plain news.

Probably also a good idea as progress is made to resubmit when you have a major milestone that you are proud of. Especially if it answers some questions even if it draws a few more. The pride in your work shows through and can make the interaction even more engaging than you already are.

Doing what looks like to me like a respectable job on a more difficult project than most would undertake, this should not go un-noticed :)