MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llmthrow0827 | 2025-09-18 02:00:06+00:00
All the VR/AR/XR demos are so insanely trivial and yet still manage to be much more difficult than current methods of doing things. Like, really, cooking?

Normal method:

* Search for a recipe

* Leave my phone on a stand and glance at it if I forget a step

Meta glasses:

* Put glasses on (there's a reason I got lasek, it's because wearing glasses sucks)

* Talk into the void, trying to figure out how to describe my problem as well as the format that I want the LLM to structure the response

* Correct it when it misreads one of my ingredients

* Hope that the rng gods give me a decent recipe

Or basically any of the things shown off for Apple's headset. Strap on a giant headset just so I can... browse photos? or take a video call where the other person can't even see my face?
by throwacct | 2025-09-18 02:00:29+00:00
The entire point of the 1st Amendment is to protect the citizens from being thrown in jail or being prosecuted for speaking against the government.

Where do you see that here? The FCC chairman just said that "...broadcasters are entirely different than people that use other forms of communication. They have a license granted by is at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest".
by troad | 2025-09-18 02:00:59+00:00
So, hear me out, books are pretty great!

Lots of people say things like "I know I should read, but it's this whole thing..." and then you find out they've been stuck on page 3 of Wuthering Heights for forty years, because someone convinced them they ought to be reading that, and it's haunted them from their night-stand ever since.

Don't let anyone tell you what to read, pick up something that sounds fun to you, and read it. Choosing to read something is always and in every circumstance better than sitting in front of a screen and passively yielding to whatever evening the advertisers have planned out for you.
by Waterluvian | 2025-09-18 02:01:16+00:00
I’m sure smarter people have better terms for this but it feels like a sort of late stage capitalism thing where there’s really no room for anyone who first and foremost wants to do good things, at scale.

I’m curious now, what’s the largest company that’s clearly passing up additional revenue because they prefer to say, “nah we’re good. The current business model makes us enough money.”
by CodingJeebus | 2025-09-18 02:01:26+00:00
> J6 protestors that just showed up and were let in by police, arrested in front of their friends and families and sent to prison for years

J6'ers ransacked the Capitol building and killed a cop, we all watched it unfold live on TV. I'd love to read more on the debanking thing, I can't find anything that materially supports the claim that lots of people are being debanked for their political views.

> the government colluding with major social media companies to censor American citizens on anything that changes the government narrative

This is exactly what is happening right now with broadcasters and with those speaking out about Kirk. Trump and Kimmel have feuded for years. Why do you see this situation as justified (i.e. "Speech has consequences"), but when it's social media, you see big bad government suppressing speech illegally?

It's like we just tolerate it when it's our party in charge, otherwise we ignore it. I have no idea where that path leads us, but I can't fathom it's good.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-18 02:01:48+00:00
>Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts

Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.

Meta seems like one of the few large tech companies where if the whole company vanished, the world would be purely a better place.
by Anon1096 | 2025-09-18 02:02:19+00:00
Yep I hope that mindset never dies. Meta is one of the last engineering-first companies in big tech and willing to live demo something so obviously prone to mishaps is a great sign of it. It's not unlike SpaceX and being willing to iterate by crashing Starships for the world to see. You make mistakes and fix them, no big deal.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-09-18 02:02:20+00:00
You're talking as if the rubicon hasn't been crossed. These aren't "red flags", they're concrete actions. It isn't the first amendment that needed to hold up, that is just a piece of paper. It's institutions like the Supreme Court that are supposed to stop these kinds of actions and they did not, since it's been stacked with those who uncritically support everything Trump does.

The United States is a fascist dictatorship. It's not turning into one, it has already happened.
by shruubi | 2025-09-18 02:03:03+00:00
I'm of two minds on this, I think all comedians should be able to make fun of anything, but at the same time, just because you have the right to free speech doesn't mean you get to avoid the consequences of what you say. Whether I agree with the outcome or not, if ABC don't like what Jimmy Kimmel said, they are free to pull his show off the air and fire him all they want, Kimmel is not entitled or owed TV time nor is ABC required to broadcast his show. But, by the same token, ABC must then be willing to accept the consequences of doing that and any bad PR that comes from it.

That all being said, what I don't like is that even if ABC execs decided that they found what Kimmel said distasteful or offensive, this still looks an awful lot like acting out of fear of a president who famously is very spiteful to anyone who says anything bad about him.
by lurking_swe | 2025-09-18 02:03:12+00:00
> Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you

Many earbuds, like Airpods, have transparency mode. The end result is the same…music while hearing background noise. In fact airpods are better because of the ANC mode that tunes out noise except conversation and other “important” sounds. I can also wear airpods indoors without looking like a dork, so that’s also plus. I’m not seeing why this is novel or interesting?

> I've recorded some of the most amazing videos of my baby with them.

This seems like a compelling use case. How is the video quality?
by wpm | 2025-09-18 02:03:30+00:00
I can sympathize, but this was always the end deal for cloud SaaS apps. Give em a taste, get em hooked, get years of institutional knowledge and process embedded in the app, refuse to let them export it, and crank the price up.

It's not only guys named Larry who are lawnmowers. Don't stick your hand in. *Own* your shit. Be suspicious of anyone who tries to convince you not to. If it's "easy" it might come back to bite you.

Even if some self-hostable software stack does a rug pull and changes the license, you just don't have to update. You can go log into the database and export to whatever format you want.
by suzdude | 2025-09-18 02:03:48+00:00
It's rough when very basic premises, "political violence, no matter who causes it, is abhorrent," are up for debate. The minority people who support, defend, ignore, or rationalize actions which have no place in this country is a major part of the issue.

Turn on the largest mainstream media "news" channel, and you'll hear nothing but mindless hate for 20 hours a day, without consideration for what actual news is occurring.
by bcrl | 2025-09-18 02:04:12+00:00
This happened to my father while I was around during the beginning of the COVID lock down. He searched for an Apple support number and was served a targeted ad for a phishing site. Because of the change in search a few years prior, ads now look very much like search results compared to the obvious visual distinction back in the Don't-Be-Evil days. The ad was sufficiently targeted that it only showed up on his device for the search -- nobody else would see it.

Ephemeral ads are not a good thing.
by progmetaldev | 2025-09-18 02:04:27+00:00
I have been taking a deep-dive into Lit recently, because the CMS I use (Umbraco) has built their BackOffice (CMS management interface) in it. It has been fairly easy to grok, other than learning the CMS specific libraries.

With that said, HTMX feels like the progressive enhancement solution I wish I had back when I was doing so with jQuery (and Prototype.JS even before that). I appreciate your solution, and definitely want to take a deeper look in the future. For applications, I still tend to use ASP.NET (Core, whatever you want to call the current open-source version of .NET). HTMX seems like a perfect solution to progressively enhance an application, while your library does far more for controlling how library code is written in JavaScript than a gigantic mess of jQuery scripts with shared state.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-18 02:04:30+00:00
I think its pretty obvious how and why, every other platform copied the key parts of Tik tok, youtube has shorts, and others have their own rendition. What they all miss is that this IS Tik Tok its not some additional part of Tik Tok. It's a simple UI that gives you endless content you like, they tag all the content in a meaningful way behind the scenes, and then the recommendation engine works to feed you more of what you like.
by otterley | 2025-09-18 02:05:17+00:00
The First Amendment protects people against much more than criminal prosecution. Cases I recommend you read include:

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46

Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105

The New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L.Ed.2d. 686 (1964)

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., 418 U.S. 323, 94 S.Ct. 2997, 41 L.Ed.2d. 789 (1974)
by lovich | 2025-09-18 02:05:21+00:00
Cool, so did the FCC apply pressure using government power in the attempt to achieve this situation?

Yes or no?

You don’t need to answer as that’s rhetorical. It’s obvious the answer is yes. Democratic governments try to avoid making public statements like that because the general public cannot tell if it was because of the government or a happy coincidence that the party being pressured just happened to comply. Because it can’t be discerned even the appearance of using government power like that degrades the rule of law
by Aloisius | 2025-09-18 02:05:24+00:00
Order of events:

1. FCC Chairman Carr threatens licensed broadcasters (i.e. affiliates that have a license with the FCC) telling them they should stop running Kimmel and tell Disney they're doing it because the FCC may pull their license[1]

2. Nexstar, an affiliate broadcaster, issues a statement in response to Carr’s comments saying they're not going to broadcast Kimmel

3. ABC yanks Kimmel

[1] https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1968392506711613526
by hypeatei | 2025-09-18 02:05:58+00:00
You understand that the Twitter Files was an absolute nothingburger, correct? It showed that they needed a special database to keep track of the same requests from Republicans because they were submitting so much. There was no "collusion" as you put it.

The "hunter biden laptop" story is a dead horse that keeps being revived by the right wing fearmonger media which you're clearly very entrenched in.
by desultir | 2025-09-18 02:06:17+00:00
I feel like any time a company goes public they lose the ability to pass up on revenue. The C-suite report to the board, who have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits.

Same with private VC/PE held companies. The board will replace the C-Suite if they aren't maximizing value.

You'd need to find a company which is huge but privately held by a group of people with only good intentions.
by Philpax | 2025-09-18 02:06:43+00:00
...what?

Aside from maybe the personal computer, they were not the first to any of those. BlackBerry/Palm/Windows Mobile devices all existed prior to the iPhone; the LG Prada was announced prior to the iPhone and had a similar form factor. Many tablet PCs existed before the iPad. Many Bluetooth earbuds existed prior to the AirPods.

They did a much better job of integrating each of these into a cohesive experience, but they absolutely had predecessors in each category.
by zbentley | 2025-09-18 02:07:19+00:00
While I don’t agree, I do think there’s merit to the arguments you made (edit remotely, change a line and forget about it). Many anti-IDE arguments boil down to “I like a particular workflow and want to generalize it to all contexts” which is weak (you made the choice, you do the work to integrate e.g. Maven dependency awareness with your hyper customized vim environment or whatever).

However, I don’t think your arguments are sufficient to outweigh the benefits that can be obtained by making a language platform with features that assume the presence of IDE support.

Either way, I’m just one person, so you do you.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-18 02:07:42+00:00
> I am largely neutral on this particular assassination, as I knew almost nothing about Mr. Kirk prior to his departure (just name recognition & basic political associations).

This seems confusing to me. The default "neutral" position on any murder, most of all when you don't know much about the victim, is that murder is a horrible thing, is it not? Is that what you mean, or do you mean you aren't sure if this was good or bad?

Any human with their head screwed on straight innately assigns a very negative value weight to murder. To get yourself into a situation where you aren't sure about a murder would require you to have pretty strong beliefs about the victim or circumstance, which you claim to not have.
by krackers | 2025-09-18 02:07:45+00:00
https://kr-asia.com/at-usd-90-per-unit-seauto-is-quietly-swe...

>By 2019, Deng had turned his attention to consumer goods. Pool robots, though low-profile, offered untapped potential, especially in markets like the US, where high labor costs made automation more appealing.

>“For what these machines can do today, they should cost USD 300–400,” he said. “That’s already the cap. Anything higher is just an ‘IQ tax,’ unless the cleaning function actually gets significantly better.”
by hopelite | 2025-09-18 02:07:53+00:00
It’s not even really just large companies, even though the extortion, predation, and vulture tactics tend to be rolled out once market capture and network effect has been achieved, which tends to correlate with being larger companies.

Frankly, we should all have learned by now after example upon example of this bait and switch type behavior being pulled on us. They lure the children into their windowless panel van with the candy of a cool offering and then violate us once they’ve slammed the doors shut and have us captured. Why are we still falling for this trap of becoming dependent on these hosted services?

Is it laziness? Lack of competence? Comfort? Stupidity? Foolishness? After shooting ourselves in the feet several times whose fault are these types of things? We know the predators will predate … Why do we still wander into their jaws?

We know there are open source Slack alternatives. Is it education? Is it naive contract terms? What makes us so foolish?
Show HN: Turn oil paintings into interactive story gifts
by erosss | 2025-09-18 02:08:32+00:00
Hi,

I built a small project that combines hand-painted oil paintings with interactive digital stories.

Here’s how it works:

You order a custom or ready-made oil painting.

You (or the buyer) upload photos, audio, or short videos related to the painting or the story behind it.

The site generates a QR code that links to this private story page.

I print the QR code on a physical tag and ship it together with the painting.

When the painting is given as a gift (or kept for yourself), anyone can scan the QR code and see the background story, media, or memory attached to it.

This makes a static painting into an interactive story gift — blending physical art with digital memories.

Possible use cases:

Travel memories: capture a beautiful landscape, add your voice note from that moment, and gift it as a painting.

Pet portraits: preserve a pet’s life story with photos and videos alongside the artwork.

Family moments: record warm times at home and make them part of a physical heirloom.

Personal gifts: add a story for a friend, partner, or loved one that only they can unlock.

Physical tags: the QR doesn’t have to be just for paintings — it could be a dog tag (front: photo, back: QR), or a magnetic tag you attach to objects at home.

Links:

Service homepage: https://sendstories.zingandzap.com

Demo story: https://sendstories.zingandzap.com/story/9f0cb724-aef0-4a2d-...

Guide: https://sendstories.zingandzap.com/guide

Feedback I’d love to hear:

Does this kind of interactive gift feel valuable or just a gimmick?

I’ve only implemented this as an extension of my oil painting website — do you think it could stand alone as a separate product/service for others?

Suggestions for improvements, new use cases, or physical formats (tags, magnets, dog collars, etc.).

Thanks for reading, and I’d really appreciate your thoughts!
by Retric | 2025-09-18 02:08:39+00:00
> 31 cycles and circles

That’s a count of the total need to describe the motion of multiple celestial bodies.

I’m referring to the number of cycles needed to describe the motion of a single celestial body. There wasn’t enough data at high enough precision to need 17 cycles to describe the motion of a single celestial body until much later. At the time lesser precision was more common, but that someone really did go to such an extreme to create the best fit.

> Completely arbitrary orbits can be described with finite epicycles.

The number of points isn’t fixed with continuous observations. Your best fit for past data keeps needing new cycles over time unless you’re working backwards from a much better model. Even then you run into issues with earthquakes changing the length of the day etc. The basic assumptions they where working from don’t actually hold up.

Also, I’m reasonably sure you couldn’t actually write out an infinite decimal representation of the irrational number e using a finite number of epicycles. Not something I’ve really considered deeply, but it seems like an obvious counter example.
by kelnos | 2025-09-18 02:08:45+00:00
> I don't know that the FCC is what is scaring anyone so much as the FTC/DOJ

Sure, but shouldn't we continue to call out the fact that this administration is wielding power to censor? I do agree with you that late-night talk shows are a dying format, and maybe Kimmel would have been out (for whatever reasons, perhaps his own) in the next year or so, but to me, that's besides the point.
by brandall10 | 2025-09-18 02:08:50+00:00
Communism is far left, fascism far right. Both often slide into totalitarianism, which commonly includes camps.

FDR’s era, the furthest left the U.S. has been, true to form had this element... showing how concentrated state power, left or right, risks curtailing freedom.

In modern times, we've seen Guantánamo survive multiple admins on both sides.
by JLO64 | 2025-09-18 02:08:53+00:00
I'm somewhat convinced that (at least among the younger generation) the role that these talkshow hosts held has already been replaced by live streamers and podcasters. Even Conan has transitioned into primarily focusing on podcasts while others refused to adapt and stuck to the networks.

10 years ago I'm fairly certain these moves would have been met with a strong reaction from the public, but now nobody cares...
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-09-18 02:09:11+00:00
The notable quote

...ABC's move comes just hours after Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr threatened to “take action” against Disney and ABC over Kimmel's remarks. ...“We at the FCC are going to enforce the public interest obligation,” Carr said. “If there’s broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn their license in to the FCC.”
by neilv | 2025-09-18 02:09:37+00:00
What do people think about the (almost hidden) cameras in glasses?

With traditional cameras, feature phones, and smartphones, if someone wanted to be creepy with the camera, they'd have to point the device at someone, which tended to look exactly like they are using the camera.

(IIUC, some countries even required a shutter sound, for anti-creepy reasons, when the pointing of the phone wasn't enough warning.)

Now, the wearer of the glasses spy camera just has to look in the general direction that creepiness should be sprayed.

The creepiness isn't even that of the wearer; it could also be that of the tech company.

Is this going to end up another Google "Glassholes" situation, with the wearers shunned?
by an0malous | 2025-09-18 02:09:41+00:00
Trump had Colbert cancelled and said Kimmel was next on Truth Social back in July: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1148744224685...

The FCC chairmen threatened ABC: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-...
by zbentley | 2025-09-18 02:10:07+00:00
C’mon, why don’t you like the authorized secure development workflow? You know, the triple-nested RDP Rube Goldberg machine that connects you to a 15yo desktop environment running on a Pentium III over a dial-up link to the moon (that can only run the IDE that time forgot, most of whose non-obsolete features don’t work because of the eighteen competing antimalware services running).

It’s ATO’d and everything, and it works for all the other contractors. They have no trouble shipping on time, give or take a decade or so; what’s your problem?
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-18 02:10:34+00:00
And the Arab opposition movement that later became the Palestinian movement has ties to literal Nazis...

German and Bosnian WWII veterans, including a handful of former intelligence, Wehrmacht, and Waffen SS officers, were among the volunteers fighting for the Palestinian cause. Veterans of WWII Axis militaries were represented in the ranks of the ALA forces commanded by Fawzi al-Qawuqji (who had been awarded an officer's rank in the Wehrmacht during WWII) and in the Mufti's forces, commanded by Abd al-Qadir (who had fought with the Germans against the British in Iraq) and Salama (who trained in Germany as a commando during WWII and took part in a failed parachute mission into Palestine).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Arabian_Legion

Husseini is still regarded by many as 'the George Washington' of the Palestinian people, and if the Palestinians were to get a state of their own, he would be honored in the way our founding father is.

In February 1943 the first of three divisions was formed of Bosnian and Albanian Muslims, who wore fezes decorated with SS runes and were led in their prayers by regimental imams notionally under the supervision of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.(Mohammed Amin al-Husseini from 1921–1937)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini
by tekdude | 2025-09-18 02:10:43+00:00
I wonder if this supports a cleaner way to throw when the target property's parent object is null? With null-coalescing assignment, you can do the following which will throw when 'x' is null:

string x = null; string y = x ?? throw new ArgumentException("x is null");

It would be interesting to try something like:

customer?.Name = newName ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("customer is null");

But I don't know how the language would be able to determine which potential null it was throwing for: 'customer' could be null, but so could 'newName'. I guess... maybe you could do:

(customer ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("customer is null")).Name = newName ?? throw new ArgumentException("newName is null");

But the language already supports that, and it's extremely ugly...
by growingkittens | 2025-09-18 02:11:00+00:00
> I would expect that, for cultures who's members score below average on IQ tests from the US, an equivalent IQ test created within that culture would show average members of that culture scoring higher than average members of US culture.

A moment from the show "Good Times" in 1974. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DhbsDdMoHC0 at 1:25