MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FreshlyAi | 2025-09-24 20:10:49+00:00
Hey HN, for the past 6 months, I've been working solo on this project. I wanted to solve two problems I was feeling: AI tools are mostly single-player, and turning ideas into live web assets takes way too long.

So, I built the AGM Wisdom Center, a full-stack AI workspace with a couple of standout features:

Live 3-Way Collaboration: Two users and the AI can interact in the same chat, in real-time (powered by Socket.io).

Instant App Generation: You can ask the chat to "create a waitlist for a new product," and it instantly generates a live URL with a dedicated MongoDB collection to store signups. It also builds full landing pages and surveys on the fly.

Project-Based Context: You can create sandboxed "projects," upload documents (PDFs, DOCX), and the AI will use that specific context for its answers.

I'm the sole full-stack developer on this. Tech Stack: Backend: Node.js, Express, Socket.io, Mongoose Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS DevOps:Docker, Nginx, deployed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

You can register and try out the live demo here: https://www.agmwisdom.com/

I've learned a ton building this, and while I initially explored turning it into a product, I'm now most excited about applying these skills to solve complex problems within a great team. I'm currently looking for a full-time Senior Full-Stack or Backend Engineering role.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-su%C3%A1rez-7b054a38/

Any feedback on the project is hugely appreciated!

Best, Gabriel @FreshlyAI
by pbasista | 2025-09-24 20:11:01+00:00
When I encounter a website which does not allow text selection, copying or right click, I usually enable the "Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy" browser extension which removes all of these restrictions.

Such restrictive practices, in my opinion, not only make the website less useful to the user. It also intentionally alienates its users.

I cannot think of a rational reason to do something like that.
by jeffbee | 2025-09-24 20:11:29+00:00
My car with its drive-by-wire brakes has a brake feedback simulator that gives the driver the kind of feeling associated with power-boosted hydraulic brakes. This is by far the most expensive single component in the car. Arguably these are just expensive accommodations for human flaws. A self-driving car wouldn't need them. Can't the self-driving system act directly on data like pressure, flow, and displacement?
by Animats | 2025-09-24 20:11:31+00:00
Cell phone farm devices are a thing. Here's one you can buy on Alibaba.[1] This is a little more pro looking than the ones seen in New York. It's 20 phones in a 2U rackmount case. Costs $1880, including the phones. Cheap shipping, too.

Lots of variations available. Vertical stack, different brands of Android phones, rackmount, server racks for thousands of phones, software for clicking on ads, training videos. "No code".

Product info:

"only provide box for development or testing use.pls do not use it for illegal"

Description

Package

Each Box purchase includes the hardware (20 Phone motherboard ,USB cable, box power cord, phone motherboard +advanced control management software (15days free,after that $38 a year) download software from our website (in the video)

Whats is Box Phone Farm ? It is a piece of equipment that removes the phone screen/battery/camera/sim slot, integrates them into a chassis, and works with click farm software to achieve group control functions. 1 box contains 20 mobile phone motherboards. Install the click farm software on your computer and you can do batch operations.

Function:

Install the Click Farm software on your PC, and you can operate the device in batches or operate a mobile phone individually. Only one person can control 20 mobile phones at the same time, perform the same task, or perform different tasks separately, and easily build a network matrix of thousands of mobile phones. As long as it is an online project that mobile phone users participate in, they can participate in the control. The voltage support 110v- 220V, and when running the game all the time, one box only consumes about 100 watts.

Ethernet:

[OTG/LAN] can use USB mode, and can also use the network cable of the router to connect the box.Two connection modes can be switched.

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/S22-Server-Rack-S8-Bo...
by enslavedrobot | 2025-09-24 20:11:49+00:00
I agree. Like I say you have no idea who they talked to or verified the story with. Using the words in a story to justify an opinion, but at the same time saying the story is inaccurate is not logically consistent.

No well trained journalist would ever write a story like this without verifying the information in redundant ways. If they didn't do that then they probably already know it's fake and could literally write anything they wanted to support the narrative.

A) Well trained journalists and editors are not stupid. B) If they write something false they already know it's false 99% of the time and are doing it for other reasons.

In light of A + B it makes no sense to rely on what is written in the article to support the idea that it is false or undersourced.
by fullstop | 2025-09-24 20:12:03+00:00
> There might be a misunderstanding: Anyone who has ever paid for Pocket Casts, even before Automattic acquired it, should not see ads. If you did, that's a bug and we'll fix it.

This is not true for people, like me, who only bought the Android version. We were not tagged with "Champion", but this was stated: "you’ll still have access to the mobile app features you paid for".

This was in the description of the app at the time:

"There are many more powerful, straight forward features help you make Pocket Casts yours and in case you were wondering, here’s what Pocket Casts DOESN’T have: ads, episode limits, pushy trials, feature bloat or plugins.

It. Just. Works."

Now I have ads, and when I try to dismiss them I am greeted with a pushy sales pitch for a subscription.

Life is too short for this, and I've moved on to another app. But perhaps this is insightful as to why some users are frustrated and upset.
by serebii_ | 2025-09-24 20:13:38+00:00
They also suggest you add this line to the robots.txt file:

> # ANY RESTRICTIONS EXPRESSED VIA CONTENT SIGNALS ARE EXPRESS RESERVATIONS OF RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DIRECTIVE 2019/790 ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS IN THE DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET.

But that legal restriction only applies to Europeans, so this only prevents European AI companies from developing models on par with American and Chinese AI. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Also open-source AI models like Llama and DeepSeek will be trained on all websites and released for free anyway, and those models can be used by Europeans, so in practice this policy won't really keep your website out of AI use anyway.

Ultimately it's just serving to prevent Europeans from developing equally good AI models and AI search apps.
by mattvr | 2025-09-24 20:13:39+00:00
Many mobile apps encounter this because React Native still doesn't have a good solution for selectable text [0].

Workarounds exist [1], but aren't great for text that spans multiple lines and styles.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13938

[1] https://github.com/bluesky-social/react-native-uitextview
by bnl_umass | 2025-09-24 20:13:48+00:00
There is a known solution.

Did you know that the Tor Project allows exit nodes to filter based on the clear internet IP. So filtering is ok.

However, if a relay refuses to service an onion site directory look up, it will be banned by the Directory Authority. They could allow this today. But they don’t. That’s the simple solution. No surveillance. Not back door. No less privacy for everyone else.

edit: This is easy to confirm. I’m not asking anyone to trust me.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-24 20:13:55+00:00
> Having been a reader of the New York Times for almost 50 years, I can say the New York Times hasn't changed that much.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/07/new-york-times...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-new-york-times-wmd-cov...

> To pick a nit, you are correct: This was no investigative journalism.

From the NYT article: "James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, said that only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel."

Using the agreeable expert isn't "reporting" its BAD journalism. It's WMD's all over again.
by lxgr | 2025-09-24 20:13:56+00:00
> Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its built-in JavaScript "interpreter" [1]

Wow, this is equal parts fascinating and horrifying.

Edit, after looking into it a bit: It seems like a self-contained build of deno weighs in at around 40 MB (why?), so I can see why they tried to avoid that and appreciate the effort.

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/yt_dlp/jsin...
by mrtksn | 2025-09-24 20:14:14+00:00
There are other interaction modes than judging or hating. Age is useful for many of those, its especially useful for tolerance. Most cultures do have age based moral code for interaction which compensates both for experience(lack of) and decaying cognitive abilities due to age or provides credibility for perspective and trustworthiness.

This enforced loss of fidelity is among the primary problems for online communications.
by narag | 2025-09-24 20:14:15+00:00
Well, yet another compulsive selector here, but:

Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger.

This is the worst. It permeates all kind of GUIs. Windows has this mini preview windows that pop up when you're hovering over the apps in the taskbar. Also if you accidentally hover over them, all the windows are minimized except the one previewed.

Microsoft has systematically terminated every single way of disabling this idiocy.

Using one Windows inside another (vbox) at work is causing me PTSD. I'm no proud of it, but I think I'd use physical violence if I could confront the culprit.
by sonderotis | 2025-09-24 20:14:16+00:00
I mean currently I see it alot with people trying to make forks of OSS just because of there political stand. I mean the reason to leave software should be because it is bad quality not because of someone. I mean why are you not open to people having different beliefs on something.

So whats next? No software made by christians. I am not trying to justify devs actions but most of these movements act like sofware is used only in US and EU regions. I mean why are you forcing people to move from twitter because you do not like elon musk.

I see this also in the linux community and alot of OSS projects its being pushed.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-24 20:14:26+00:00
> Rubik's cube 3D model

Google had a doodle way back when... That let you play the cube on the search page.

I found it hosted here [1] although I'm sure they have a doodles archive. Didn't check it myself but it should be possible to take the JS from that and use it for our purposes.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/populardoodlegames/rubik-s-cub...
by janci | 2025-09-24 20:14:28+00:00
The assumption is the adversary controls x of N nodes. When x=N the probability of discovering the onion service IP is 1. But the adversary can not achieve this situation as he only controls the additional nodes. The existing nodes still stay in the network, they do not disappear. The ratio is not x/N but x/(x+N).

The formula is wrong and it all falls apart.
by ChrisRackauckas | 2025-09-24 20:14:54+00:00
Julia v1.12, the unreleased version which is currently in release candidate stage (and has had a longer RC stage than expected but should be done at least by the end of the year) has the ability to fully ahead of time compile and generate binaries, like you would expect from a language like C. It also trims these binaries so that they are a reasonable size given the elements of the runtime that are used. Thus for good type-stable code you get callable binaries without JIT overhead, and this leads to a much better CLI experience. It will take a bit of time so that there's more package tooling and support built around this feature, but this is the path a lot of the ecosystem CLI tooling is now going and that will be a pretty dramatic shift in the usability for these kinds of use cases which Julia had traditionally ignored.
by hunterpayne | 2025-09-24 20:15:10+00:00
"Homomorphic encryption enables the aggregation of these distributed model pieces while they are encrypted, allowing for federated learning without centralizing data."

A bigger hand wave has never been done I think. Homomorphic encryption increases computational load several fold. And I'm not aware of anyone trying to use this (very interesting) technology for much of anything, let alone GPU ML algorithms.
by simpaticoder | 2025-09-24 20:15:52+00:00
It's interesting to wonder about why norms degrade at scale. Intuition tells me it's because stink-eye doesn't scale. Defectors in a small org pay a price external to the game, aka "reputational damage". But members of large organizations rarely suffer this, because they are strangers, and because "they are just doing their job". A half-formed thought, but perhaps it's half-useful.
by marci | 2025-09-24 20:16:09+00:00
it's sometimes not really a matter of which one is better but which one fits best.

For example many have switched to qwen3 models but some still vastly prefer the reasoning and output of QwQ (a qwen2.5 model).

And the difference between them: those with "plus" are closed weight, you can only access them through their api. The others are open-weight, so if they fit your use case, and if ever the want or need arise, you can download them, use them, even fine-tune them locally, even if qwen don't offer access to them any more.
by allenu | 2025-09-24 20:16:22+00:00
Agreed. I think it's worth posting on it but the right attitude is just treat it as any other outlet to post your product. Don't fret too much about it or spend too much time prepping and trying to game the timing.

When I've posted projects on there, I found so many bots commenting and then later got several emails from people wanting to "help" me with upvoting for a fee, it made me realize how fake it was.
by squigz | 2025-09-24 20:17:08+00:00
I hope the author considers the morality of advocating for health records and financial transactions - and probably every other bit of private data we might have - to be openly available to companies.

I have a better idea: let's just cut the middlemen out and send every bit of data every computer generates to OpenAI. Sorry, to be fair, they want this to be a government-led operation... I'm sure that'll be fine too.
by AndyKelley | 2025-09-24 20:17:18+00:00
This is very related to a talk I did last year [1]. "Part 2: youtube-dl" starts at 18:21. It dips toes into an analysis about software that fundamentally depends on ongoing human labor to maintain (as compared to, e.g. zlib, which is effectively "done" for all intents and purposes).

More concretely, the additional Deno dependency is quite problematic for my music player, especially after I did all that work to get a static, embeddable CPython built [2].

Ideally for me, yt-dlp would be packaged into something trivially embeddable and sandboxable, such as WebAssembly, calling into external APIs for things like networking[3]. This would reduce the value delivered by the yt-dlp project into pure DRM-defeating computation, leaving concerns such as CLI/GUI to a separate group of maintainers. A different project could choose to fulfill those dependencies with Deno, or Rust, or as in my case, built directly into a music player in Zig.

Of course I don't expect the yt-dlp maintainers to do that. They're doing something for fun, for free, for pride, for self-respect... in any case their goals aren't exactly perfectly aligned with mine, so if I want to benefit from their much appreciated labor, I have to provide the computational environment that they depend on (CPython[4] and Deno).

But yeah, that's now going to be a huge pain in the ass because now I either have to drop support for yt-dlp in my music player, or additionally embed deno, as well as introduce Rust as a build dependency... neither of which I find acceptable. And don't even get me started on Docker.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCLrNqc9jdE

[2]: https://github.com/allyourcodebase/cpython

[3]: https://ziglang.org/news/goodbye-cpp/

[4]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/9674
by beAbU | 2025-09-24 20:17:37+00:00
I'm a chorister in a few local choirs, and it's something my wife and I do together. I want to join next year's local amateur opera project.

We recently moved to to a coastal town with a huge river lake, after living all my life 800km from the nearest beach. So I'm thinking of picking up some water sport, such as kite surfing, rowing or something. We'll seem
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-24 20:18:00+00:00
Exit nodes are not used for onion services. From https://onionservices.torproject.org/technology/properties/:

> For the Tor network, Onion Services can alleviate the load on exit nodes, since it's connections don't need to reach the exits.

Also:

> Directory Authority.

"These authorities are operated by trusted organizations or individuals with a strong commitment to the principles of privacy, security, and network neutrality."

Emphasis on neutrality... it's not the job of network operators to police the sites people can and can't access, this is exactly why many people use Tor in the first place.

> They could allow this today. But they don’t.

Speaking for onion services... no, they cannot, because the entire design of the tor network prevents this in the first place. No relay in the circuit knows the final destination because it is encrypted multiple times (like an onion) and each hop can only see where it needs to go next, not what the destination is.
by snicky | 2025-09-24 20:18:06+00:00
After work I prefer mostly less demanding activities: reading books, playing games, learning from video courses or doing whatever sport is available in the current space-time: riding a bike or a longboard, working out, running, diving, swimming, etc.

Are hobbies in decline ... ? Well, they could be if everyone uses most of their brain cycles "consuming content" online. It is quite absorbing and may result in less interest in hobbies that require higher attention.
by basedrum | 2025-09-24 20:18:08+00:00
Clickbait title is usually a good indicator of clickbait content.

I see in the comments that the author is an academic, my cursory look of the site makes me disappointed to see such weak rigor applied here. This looks like a hit piece dressed up to sound scary. Not going to waste my time further on its claims when on the surface its given me this impression. Strikes me as yelling and not listening type of personality.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-24 20:18:23+00:00
Maybe it doesn't matter for a car because feeling the car's motion tells you most of what you need to know. A car is not meant to touch anything but the road, in normal conditions. I think steering is the only case where force feedback is very important for a car - In the winters up here, I can feel the steering go loose when I hit a patch of ice.

I imagine an excavator, meant to touch and dig through things, and lift things, benefits from force feedback for the same reason VR would.

Have you played those VR sword games? BeatSaber works great because you're cutting through abstract blobs that offer no resistance. But the medieval sword-slashing games feel weird because your sword can't impact your opponent.

I saw a video recently of a quadcopter lifting heavy objects. When it's overloaded, it can't maneuver because all its spare power is spent generating lift to maintain altitude. If the controls had force feedback, the copter's computer could tell you "I'm overloaded, I can't move" by putting maximum resistance on the sticks.
by jandrese | 2025-09-24 20:18:32+00:00
Yeah, the majority of the people in the posts were also highly skeptical of the USSS press release. Some of the media outlets did skip over some of the more outlandish points from that press release, but none of them were willing to call the bullshit for what it was. There is always the slim chance that the USSS has some extra info they didn't release that made this more than just a SIM bank operator who had no KYC program.

The somewhat annoying part is that it seems like it is pretty easy to spot these sorts of SIM farm setups and yet nobody in law enforcement seems to care enough to actually do it.
by smelendez | 2025-09-24 20:19:06+00:00
This is probably the issue in apps like Bumble—trying to keep the interface ultra simple and clean. Unfortunately the makers of apps like this are thinking in large numbers and not really considering issues like translation.

It may also be to make it harder for users to slip in copy-and-paste references to material on other sites for spam or other purposes. Occasionally I'll see someone list an Instagram or Snapchat ID on a dating site, and they're often doing something at least semi-dodgy.

Another issue might be reducing profile plagiarism.
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-24 20:19:08+00:00
We'd do well with taking an honest stock of what allowed the formation of democracies and civil liberties, because likely it wasn't that average people longed for it so much that it happened. It's out of my weight class to pitch a grand narrative for this, but we've seen many forms of societies and governances and the current one (or from 20 years ago) won't be the last.
by tanin | 2025-09-24 20:19:15+00:00
Yeah, I think a lot of people who break into tech have a bit of a struggle to adjust to a high TC. I still remember back in the days having a convo about how Subway offered $8 for a foot long and we could eat it for both lunch and dinner during weekend... such a good deal. Meanwhile the company we were at was going IPO. Good old days lol.
by coder543 | 2025-09-24 20:19:24+00:00
There are enough vendors that it's difficult for any one vendor to charge too much per token. There are also a lot of really good open-weight models that your business could self-host if the hosted vendors all conspire to charge too much per token. (I believe it's only economical to self-host big models if you're using a lot of tokens, so there is a breakeven point.)
by gloosx | 2025-09-24 20:19:57+00:00
The point is how it circulates. If €200M goes into a transfer fee, it is locked into a prestige loop instead of funding productive investment, it gets trapped in a cycle that reinforces inequality and produces very little outside of image-building. The recipients of this money are a tiny elite which they then spend mostly in elite consumption loops: luxury real estate, yachts, exclusive services, tax havens.

Speaking capitalist language, overinflated football spending is a misallocation of capital on low-return assets which creates market distortions.
by tomhow | 2025-09-24 20:19:58+00:00
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354959 and marked it off topic.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html