MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scared_together | 2025-09-04 08:07:57+00:00
You are phrasing this as an individual choice but people have poured billions of dollars into making software mediate creativity (image and text generation), and connection (social media, dating apps). Whereas the repetitive work of assembling products in a factory is still being done by humans in China and other middle income countries.

Where is the VC profit from letting people “re-humanize”? Nowhere, because people were human before they were profitable.
by nvarsj | 2025-09-04 08:09:32+00:00
I embraced an iPad w/ paper-like surface during my grad degree, simply because I needed the organisation (annotating papers, multiple subjects, project notes, etc.). It worked really well for that.

Funnily though, professional life is a lot simpler. I just need a single paper notebook with my running todo list. Everything else is stored in google docs or obsidian. Having an eink or tablet for taking notes would feel like friction without much benefit.
by spwa4 | 2025-09-04 08:10:11+00:00
> Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.

You mean, it's the only way they can prevent parents from doing anything from throwing a fit about disadvantaging their "disabled, but still very intelligent kid" (that they can't convince to put in any amount of effort) to suing the school outright.

You see, parents want kids to be great, or failures, based on their ego (which can go both ways. Some parents want their kids to be failures, and not a threat to their feelings, some parents want their kids to be the second coming (without any kind of effort on their or the kid's part), and 1/10 just want to know how they can help their kid. One BIG hint I'd give any new teacher is to not comment on a kid's performance to parents before knowing which kind of parents they are, and to help the kid by hiding failure or success to the parents of the 1st or 2nd group)
by KeplerBoy | 2025-09-04 08:10:51+00:00
How are you looking at a map with a $40 smart watch while riding a bike?

Sure, the high end options from apple and garmin can show maps, but you are always going to have to take a hand off the handlebar to have a good look at that tiny screen (that's why cyclists spend up to 1000$ on garmin bike computers).

There's certainly a market for a lightweight HUD and i am pretty sure some company like xreal will eventually have another shot at it.
by pncnmnp | 2025-09-04 08:10:52+00:00
I recently listened to the episode on The Antikythera Mechanism and found it quite fun - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024x0g

Also, I wanted to mention something interesting - back when LLM-driven applications were just emerging, someone posted on Hacker News about how they categorized In Our Time episodes using the Dewey Decimal System with LLMs. Cool stuff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35073603
by dns_snek | 2025-09-04 08:11:04+00:00
Yes but nobody is stopping you from adding your own proxy which enforces any type of authentication you like, and in my opinion that's the more sensible approach here anyway.

I don't think it's sensible to expect every project like Ollama to ship their own half-broken authentication and especially anything resembling a "zero trust" implementation. You can easily front Ollama with a reverse proxy which does those things if you'd like. Each component should do one thing well.

I trust Nginx to verify client certificates correctly so I can be confident that only traffic from trusted users is able to reach whatever insecure POS is hiding behind it.
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-04 08:11:05+00:00
Ah I see now, lack of reading proficiency + Newsweek sensationalist title got you confused.

It's written down here:

> new boosters use the same technology and process as the previous vaccines

It's just the same vaccine by FDA's standards and it has indeed been tested on hundreds of thousands of human test subjects.

Now explain how it's relevant to you and your kids not being dead yet?
by akimbostrawman | 2025-09-04 08:12:22+00:00
>more mindful of what I want to talk about

I would call that self censorship. If I want to insult a politician I will do so from a network location that won't get me put in legal trouble.

>I can think like this because I have the privilege of living a democracy

This has less to do with the political system than free speech which is nonexistent or limited even in most western countries that are democracies
by crossroadsguy | 2025-09-04 08:14:05+00:00
I used to do private P2Ping actively. Now I don't. Not enough time - for that, not motivated enough - for that. So I was planning to let go of that VPS of mine where my Seedbox resides. But I am not sure anymore. I do feel I may let it up and running just like many others who did it when I couldn't afford a Seedbox.

Then on the other hand I feel that the real need are from people who come to find those Linux ISOs from public P2Ps and for that I think I will be booted off my VPS in a day or two. So eventually I think this will be better - dust off that old r-pi (or maybe get a new one), get a cheap HDD, get a VPN and let it stay at home and keep seeding.
by arianvanp | 2025-09-04 08:14:07+00:00
People who install zed are switching. I don't understand what you're trying to "get" at. You're complaining about people talking about Zed in a topic about Zed.

Zed seems to have been hugely succesful recently and their only real distinguishing feature is "fast from the ground up". It has less features than vscode. Worse AI features than Cursor. but people seem to love it nonetheless.

Turns out there is a market for people fed up with VScode-derivatives.
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-04 08:14:33+00:00
Here’s a paraphrase to diminish the abstruse verbiage of the era, so you can get wot he sed.

—⁂—

The printers and publishers have been lobbying to kill your Bill, so someone suggested I and another famous author show our support in a petition to Parliament to pass it, or at least one like it. I guess they asked me because I’m old [he was 68 at the time; he lived to 80], and so my relatives have a more obvious vested interest in extending copyright past my death. I don’t like to get involved in public affairs, and I like to think Parliament is wise enough to see why this Bill should obviously be passed, without us author having to point it out—the printers and publishers, having made their money and respectability from us, now want to squash us. I simply cannot believe that Parliament will be deceived by their very weak arguments. I also don’t want to petition Parliament about this as just one person, because it doesn’t go far enough: I hold that it is the right of all authors, that copyright should be forever. As you said in your speech, English common law used to work that way. So honestly, while they’re complaining about the idea of extending copyright, I want them to explain why we shouldn’t go back to how things were before we limited copyright! It’s obviously on them to show this, but they’re not even trying—they’ve framed the whole discussion relative to how things are now, which was a compromise between no copyright (in publishing something, you give it away completely) and perpetual copyright (inheritable and transferable).

I get that literature isn’t quite the same as other kinds of property. Some people have said it should be treated the same as mechanical inventions and chemistry, but that’s obvious nonsense. I say rights of ownership are more fundamental in literature than other kinds of property.

So: I’m not going to formally petition Parliament. (There were others that should have spoken up, but they haven’t.) I’ll content myself with writing this open letter so others can see what I believe, and understand that we’re with you, Serjeant Talfourd; thanks for helping us out, we do appreciate it. That’s all I wanted to say. I’ve got no arguments or facts to add, I, or my friends Coleridge, Scott, Southey, or others. I can’t say anything to convince people, if they weren’t already convinced by your excellent speech when you introduced the Bill, or which other writers have said in the public journals.

I’m confident your Bill will pass. But even if these printers and publishers win for the moment, justice will win eventually. And in the mean time, all us authors thank you and your assistants for your efforts, for the rest of our lives.
by amiga386 | 2025-09-04 08:14:46+00:00
In Our Time is meant to be a brief tour of basically every topic in arts, science, philosophy, etc. And yes, Melvyn has been an arts presenter for decades (his The South Bank Show started in 1978), science is not his forte.

Perhaps you'd prefer The Life Scientific with Jim Al-Kalili? More than 10 years of him interviewing scientists and covering their careers and discoveries: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7

Alternatively, The Infinite Monkey Cage is more comedic and science themed than In Our Time, with two scientists and one idiot for every topic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w
by 3uler | 2025-09-04 08:15:37+00:00
This is why I’m not a fan of auto complete in my editor. Much rather pair program with an agent.

Give the agent as much context as possible and let it go, review and correct the implementation, let it go again, finish it off…

The I just find the autocomplete a little annoying in my workflow, especially with the local self-hosted models I need to use at work.

Claude Code on corporate approved AWS Bedrock account.
by gnat | 2025-09-04 08:15:45+00:00
Calendar was brilliant. I think it was the first time I fully appreciated the misery of the human mind in the face of various orbit periods that aren't simple integer ratios of one another. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548m9

Great Fire of London too. Pepys burying his cheese! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ft63q

Politeness. Social barriers were coming down, you were interacting with people of different rank, how do you not get into a swordfight? Also, the letter from the wife complaining about her husband! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y29m

I think they did all the big interesting things in history and then struggled with a lot of minor events that were hard to find interesting angles on.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-09-04 08:16:29+00:00
Well yes, but that's partially on you − I might understand your average person not being wary about these issues, but we're on Hacker News here, these issues have been discussed for decades.

The sites also shouldn't be 'lost', don't they have a way to register another kind of login from the same one ? And you can always make a new, platform-free account − better do that sooner than later !

Please name and shame the websites (like Advent of Code and Rebble) that only allow a login through platforms. And services that only allow Google Authenticator.
by flowerbreeze | 2025-09-04 08:17:44+00:00
There was a book about the eels being born from Sargasso sea, all transparent at first, that I remember reading ages ago. It mentioned a lot of legends as well surrounding the eels, because the young ones were never seen - only fully grown eels.

I cannot remember precisely, but to explain their existence, there were even some recipes about "creating" eels. I think one was something similar to "put a couple of sticks under a bit of wet turf for a night". And that is how the witches were able to create the eels.

I wish I could remember the title of the book, but unfortunately it was more than 30 years ago when I read it.
by nosianu | 2025-09-04 08:17:53+00:00
Yes - we train only on a subset of human communication, the one using written symbols (even voice has much much more depth to it), but human brains train on the actual physical world.

Human students who only learned some new words but have not (yet) even began to really comprehend a subject will just throw around random words and sentences that sound great but have no basis in reality too.

For the same sentence, for example, "We need to open a new factory in country XY", the internal model lighting up inside the brain of someone who has actually participated when this was done previously will be much deeper and larger than that of someone who only heard about it in their course work. That same depth is zero for an LLM, which only knows the relations between words and has no representation of the world. Words alone cannot even begin to represent what the model created from the real-world sensors' data, which on top of the direct input is also based on many times compounded and already-internalized prior models (nobody establishes that new factory as a newly born baby with a fresh neural net, actually, even the newly born has inherited instincts that are all based on accumulated real world experiences, including the complex very structure of the brain).

Somewhat similarly, situations reported in comments like this one (client or manager vastly underestimating the effort required to do something): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45123810 The internal model for a task of those far removed from actually doing it is very small compared to the internal models of those doing the work, so trying to gauge required effort falls short spectacularly if they also don't have the awareness.
by calpaterson | 2025-09-04 08:18:17+00:00
> the amazing resources of BBC radio (that precede all modern internet podcasts and the best of which still wipe the floor with most of them) are often forgotten

I don't know, there are some definite bright spots like IOT but the typical output of Radio 4 is definitely not massively in advance of the big podcasts. The Rest Is History/Politics are clearly hugely popular inside the UK and basically constitute "the competition" for your average R4 listener.

I actually think that the podcast model is a big threat for traditional radio. Podcasts are much more lucrative for the makers, the reach is as-big (or bigger) and you don't have to negotiate with the government like R4 does.
by KeplerBoy | 2025-09-04 08:18:35+00:00
The boox indeed is nice.

These days I do quite a bit of field work outdoors (taking measurements, ssh'ing into mobile equipment) and a laptop is a chore to use in broad daylight. With the boox I can connect a bluetooth keyboard and install termux. It's not a perfect setup, but sure beats squinting at a dim screen.
by sampo | 2025-09-04 08:19:35+00:00
> Europe isn’t anti-science.

When it comes to GMO plants, Europe is anti-science.

European Commission had a Chief Scientific Adviser, but they happened to choose a plant biologist for the role [1]. Then she dared to speak the scientific consensus about GMO plants (they're safe) [2] and EU decided to close the whole role [1,3] to get rid of her.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Glover_(biologist)#Europe...

[2] https://www.aei.org/articles/aaas-scientists-consensus-gmo-s...

[3] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25957-dont-scrap-euro...
Ask HN: Is there a automatic redactor for LLMs
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-09-04 08:19:59+00:00
So you want to have private documents analyzed by a cloud LLM, but not the private data shared that is inside, like names or very private details. What do you do? Is there a github repository that acts as a mim between AI - website and your computer and redacts everything that is being uploaded?
by mbac32768 | 2025-09-04 08:21:00+00:00
We think this because ten years ago we were all having our minds blown by DeepMind's game playing achievements and videos of dancing robots and thought this meant blue collar work would be solved imminently.

But most of these solutions were more crude than they let on, and you wouldn't really know unless you were working in AI already.

Watch John Carmack's recent talk at Upper Bound if you want him to see him destroy like a trillion dollars worth of AI hype.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-An5bhkrs&t=11303s&pp=2AGnWJ...

Spoiler: we're nowhere close to AGI
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-04 08:21:21+00:00
There is a Korean indie game made in RPG Maker MV that pushes this idea to the extreme, titled How can I be a brave in the isekai while I suck even at the minesweeper's novice level?! (rough translation, original: 지뢰찾기 초급을 겨우 깰까말까한 내가 이세계에서는 용사라고?). Too bad it's only available in Korean.
by Lio | 2025-09-04 08:21:23+00:00
Every plugin manager I've used since Pathogen has seemed "triumphant" at the time. I think they've all been reliable enough and everytime I think well this will be the last time I change that.

I currently have a Packer config on one machine and Lazy on another and honestly don't know why I bothered switching to Lazy. What I really crave is simplicity so if NeoVim builds every thing in I think it will be good enough for me.
by jabl | 2025-09-04 08:22:30+00:00
This is to an extent a party trick to befuddle lay people. Physicists know perfectly well that temperature is not a well-defined concept out of equilibrium. And when in a population inversion experiment when "temperature" is determined to be negative (or "beyond infinite" if you will) it arises because for a short while you have a non-Boltzmannian distribution.
by alex-moon | 2025-09-04 08:22:40+00:00
I'm increasingly convinced that social isolation is the single great social ill of our time. I am not one for "respecting others' opinions" at all, make no mistakes, if someone believes something incorrect - or worse - then they need to be corrected. But so much of the hate simmering away like a pot about to boil over is the result of loneliness. The evidence on this is startingly clear.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235215462...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362...

https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/hate-lies-and-loneliness-f...
by ohdeargodno | 2025-09-04 08:23:03+00:00
No, an iOS 0day _is_ less valuable. Every exploit acquisition program pays out more for an Android RCE than it does for an iOS RCE. And it's not surprising: give iMessage a mean look and a .png that looks funny and it breaks under the pressure.

The rest of the thread above is merely the delusions of an Apple fanboy, followed by dozens of people listing out reasons why an iPhone is more vulnerable to attacks, both from external actors _and_ from Apple collecting massive amounts of data and having total remote control of "your" device.
by gabeyaw | 2025-09-04 08:23:19+00:00
I've had the rm2 for a few years now. I recently installed toltec and koreader and I can now sync it with zotero with the zotero plugin. Reading 2 column pdfs in koreader is a much better experience and I also like the dictionary search when holding down a word. I just use the regular RM software as a disposable notepad now. I had to downgrade the RM software to get toltec, but I don't feel like I'm missing much from the latest update.
by beacon-feeds | 2025-09-04 08:23:40+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been tinkering with a small project: a lightweight platform of machine-readable feeds for security and IT workflows. Instead of scraping multiple sources or maintaining custom regex lists, the idea is to provide clean CSV/JSON feeds you can drop straight into detection rules, SOC tooling, or DLP scanners.

The current alpha bundle includes: • Chrome Extensions metadata (id, name, version, permissions, downloads, etc.) • VS Code Extensions metadata (id, publisher, repo URL, installs, etc.) • Secrets & PII regexes (AWS keys, credit cards, SSNs, etc.)

Samples + early access form (free during alpha): [your Notion/Tally link]

The feeds are small right now (~200 rows per extension feed, ~30 regexes), but the roadmap is 100+ feeds (WordPress, npm, PyPI, JetBrains, file signatures, user-agents, app IPs, etc.).

I’d love feedback on: • Which fields/columns are must-have for your workflows? • How often you’d expect updates (weekly/monthly)? • If reliable, would this be something worth paying a small subscription for?

Thanks for checking it out — happy to answer questions and share more sample data if useful.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-04 08:23:44+00:00
I don't mind designers overriding when they take meticulous care to craft a better tailored experience. But once I scrolled past the initial content I found the site a UI disaster. Not long after it said "Pick a person to explore", I wanted to tap a particular box to read one of their conversations, and couldn't figure out how to bring any dialog up. I wound up scrolling further down afterward to see if that was how to trigger some dialog for my selection, and all the boxes started moving around at seemingly random, performance tanked and the whole thing got stuttery. I couldn't scroll back to where I was or find that box again that I was interested in. I left in frustration. Design fail, as far as this user's encounter.
by zeristor | 2025-09-04 08:23:52+00:00
Is it just me?

At the end of each podcast there's the outro when they ask if Melvyn and his guests would like tea of coffee.

This keeps throwing me back to the bit at the end of episodes of Bod, when the Frog conductor is asked which flavour milk shake he'd like.

Once having itemised all of the contents of Thunderbird 4's pods over time, I have had an inkling to use some Machine learning system to gather the drinks options from each In Our Time.

Water has cropped up?

Perhaps I place too close attention to it.
by anon7000 | 2025-09-04 08:24:47+00:00
Exactly. Before I was diagnosed with ADHD, I was experiencing severe executive function. Just nearly no ability whatsoever to do things I wanted to do, even if they were fun. But had big impacts in terms of friendships (not actively trying to socialize very much, because planning basic get together felt insurmountable) and home life (simple chores were almost impossible to get done). And it doesn’t feel like laziness (which I think is more like you just don’t want to do the annoying thing right now), but like I really wanted and needed to do it, and just couldn’t make it happen.

ADHD meds have been almost a literal lifesaver, and the amount they make work halfway tolerable is… crucial.
by kccqzy | 2025-09-04 08:25:16+00:00
You need structure for this to be amazing. Talking to a random person at a train station and asking for their destination isn't a meaningful conversation, even if they divulge a bit more about their travel plans.

Instead, I've personally really enjoyed talking to strangers while having a meal in the dining car of Amtrak trains, where they will force you to sit with three other people. This gives you more time together and more structure. I've talked to a retired real estate agent who told me stories about the houses his clients bought; I've talked to an old lady who told me first hand stories of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.
Show HN: Ultimate Notion – a strongly typed Python client for Notion
by flowilhelm | 2025-09-04 08:25:21+00:00
I built a high-level Python library for working with Notion.

It provides full coverage of the Notion API with proper type hints, auto-completion, and IDE support. The goal is to make programmatic access to Notion less error-prone and reduce boilerplate.

Might be useful if you:

- sync data between Notion and other systems, - automate workflows, - prefer a typed client over juggling JSON.

Repo: https://github.com/ultimate-notion/ultimate-notion
by chrismorgan | 2025-09-04 08:26:47+00:00
> Wordsworth humbly urges lawmakers to pass a bill

On the contrary, he declines to petition Parliament, saying in essence “I have to believe they’re not idiots enough to listen to that ridiculous printer and publisher lobbying”.

He further adds this reason for not petitioning: that he holds it to be authors’ right, and equitable, that copyright be perpetual—this bill doesn’t go as far as he wants.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-04 08:27:10+00:00
It is not tribalism - I am self-aware enough to recognize my self-interest, and it in conflict with the interests of Sam Altmans of this world and modern slave-masters, sorry, managers.

But I am not claiming that AI is useless. It is useful, but I would rather destroy every data center that enjoy strengthening of techno-feudalism.