MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by back2dafucha | 2025-09-04 09:48:09+00:00
The rights of ownership do not change because of technology. Technology as we are coming to understand it in its maturity (but immaturity of its practitioners) has come to serve largely only some veiled or unveiled form of thievery. Paper was just as easy to copy as an MP3. And material could be stolen through other means very easily.

Wishing away intellectual property rights after you have stolen the entire Internet for profit, is simply your "get away car".

Regardless of how this ends, the tech industry will be seen for what it is. A den of thieves and will never be forgiven.

Smart people will stop using public repositories for source code. Open source will die. Programming languages will emerge that LLMs dont know anything about and work will continue in private. Bots will be banned.

You cannot win this war.
by mellosouls | 2025-09-04 09:49:29+00:00
the typical output of Radio 4 is definitely not massively in advance

I agree, I chose the wording "best of" rather than "typical" for that reason.

For instance, I regret the asinine tendency to provide "humourous" expositions of subjects in the various programmes co-chaired by second-rate comedians and apparently aimed at what low-expectations BBC execs feel young people can handle.
by palata | 2025-09-04 09:50:15+00:00
> The discussion about what happens in big companies is completely unrelated to this discussion

It's not, in that they have plenty of technological solutions to address their security concerns. Passkeys don't make it easier.

> I don’t think we should create standards that make it easier for companies to erode user freedoms

We want some degree of security in many services (typically our bank). And we generally can't have it all. Security is a compromise.
by KronisLV | 2025-09-04 09:52:22+00:00
> My manager told me that the time to deliver my latest project was cut to 20% of the original estimate because we are "an AI-first company".

This sounds incredibly stupid. It’s going to take as long as it will and if they’re not okay with that, their delusional estimates should be allowed to crash and burn, which would hopefully be a learning experience.

The problem is that sometimes there’s an industry wide hysteria even towards useful tech - like doing a lift and shift of a bunch of monoliths to AWS to be “cloud scale”, introducing Kubernetes or serverless without the ability to put either to good use, NoSQL for use cases it’s not good at and most recently AI.

I think LLMs will eventually weather the hype cycle and it will settle down on what they’re actually kinda okay at vs not, the question is how many livelihoods will be destroyed along the way (alongside all the issues with large scale AI datacenter deployments).

On a personal level, it feels like you should maybe do the less ethical thing of asking your employer in the ballpark of 1000-3000 USD for Claude credits a month, babysitting it enough to do the 20% of the work in the 20% new estimate, babysit it enough to ship a functional MVP and when they complain about missing functionality tell them that the AI tech just isn't mature enough but thankfully you'll be able to swoop in and salvage it for only the remaining 80% of the remaining estimate's worth of work.
by jnovacho | 2025-09-04 09:52:43+00:00
Virtually any LCD screen will produce polarized light. This is the core working principle of those screens. So if you use a polarized filter (sunglasses for example) it will completly block the image coming from the screen.

You can see the effect here: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/crvpil/t...

I believe this will not work with OLED screens though, but I do not have one to test this.
by palata | 2025-09-04 09:53:22+00:00
> If we are simply talking about ssh users ignoring fingerprint warnings then I don't see how this is an ssh weakness.

I didn't say it was an SSH weakness. I said that it was not "solved" problem in that most users I have seen completely ignore those warnings from SSH. So the problem persists even though SSH does it right.

With WebAuthn, the problem disappears. So that's an improvement for the users.

Don't get me wrong: I love SSH. I just think it's wrong to say that WebAuthn doesn't bring any kind of security to users.
by mattmaroon | 2025-09-04 09:53:51+00:00
The thing is, ads don’t pay that much. Facebook’s ad revenue works out to about $50/user per year . I probably don’t like FB enough to pay $5/mo for it (and even if I did, all the people I interact with that make it useful wouldn’t) but something that’s a personal assistant? Easy.

It’s not hard to imagine ChatGPT just charging.
by andai | 2025-09-04 09:54:52+00:00
Maybe there's a way to use your Max plan? I heard OpenAI works the same way, there's a way to use the codex cli with your chatgpt subscription (I think it gives it a jwt token or something). There are 3rd party tools that can then use the same token to make API requests via the subscription, instead of via API billing. (Which is sort of allowed, since the cli is open source?)

I'm guessing claude code works roughly the same way?
by RianAtheer | 2025-09-04 09:55:26+00:00
I think spending 30 minutes with a stranger can be surprisingly powerful. You never know what perspective, idea, or connection might come from an unexpected conversation. I remember that once spent 30 minutes with a stranger at a cafe who turned out to be a trader in a completely different market than mine. In that short conversation, I picked up a few strategies and a perspective on risk management I’d never considered before. It reminded me that sometimes the most valuable insights come from unexpected places and just half an hour with the right person can change how you approach your work.
by Zealotux | 2025-09-04 09:55:32+00:00
You may not want to rely too much on `beforeunload` events though as it is unreliable on mobile, a good practice if you want to send analytics if to listen to the page visibility:

document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', () => { if (document.visibilityState === 'hidden') { navigator.sendBeacon(...); } });

Of course it can't strictly be considered a "page leave" but for mobile users it's often your best bet: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/page-lifecycl...
by flir | 2025-09-04 09:56:24+00:00
I do feel that IOT would benefit from being longer - it often feels rushed. Podcasts excel at "deep dives" in a way that radio is barred from doing: a podcaster can say "I think I'm gonna do 30 hours on George Jones this year" (real example), and nobody can stop them.

IOT's format has a lot of statements, but not many questions. Bragg doesn't often say "hold on, what are the consequences of that?" (unless it's a prepared question designed to move us through the biography). Ironically, this lack of curiosity gets worse on subjects he understands well (the arts).

The unscripted chat afterwards is often the best bit. I could do with 10 minutes of on-script introduction and 50 minutes of experts discussing something they're passionate about.
by darkwater | 2025-09-04 09:56:34+00:00
All these things you mention are corollary to the construction of the building per-se, but are central to the "spirit" of the building. The same applies with this kind of websites and scrolling. The website has a goal in itself, uses a more creative scrolling feature as both a way to better convey the information and a work of art to be more attractive to the eye.

My parallel was that the typical HNer just ignores this and think "don't touch my browser standard scrolling behavior", that would be akin to someone just wanting a plain wall to keep the roof up, ignoring everything else: "I pray there anyway, I don't need that statue to remember it".
by epiphenomenal | 2025-09-04 09:57:34+00:00
Cybernetics is behind all modern AI (Turing was a cyberneticist), and also modern cognitive science with the ideas close to hybrid computing, neuromorphic computing, enactivism, embodied minds etc. Basically, cyberneticists were functionalists - and that allows for multiple realizability.

At the core of the book is the question of consciousness and qualia (and I do believe that a walkthrough through computational complexity is necessary, especially taking into account TIME and SPACE for both human neural processing and artificial one, differentiating between being incomputable in principle, being incomputable in practice or being tractable.
by bilekas | 2025-09-04 09:58:15+00:00
Okay so it's basically just a baked in implementation of what people did already but instead of using onUnload they have more visibility into the client context. Seems dirty in a way, the agent could basically internally call the same thing and send any data to their own server on every page?

For example, firefox, If they wanted, could record all your browsing history without notifying you? For any bad actor this seems like an amazing attack point.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-04 09:59:40+00:00
I was tempted by a remarkable, my colleagues love theirs (as does my dad).

However my need is personal rather than professional usage, so I didn't get one in the end.

What I have found that is (to me) better is an ipad mini "pencil", with goodnotes. The pen is ok, not as good as a wacom, but it'll do.

Goodnotes does have a subscription, but it also works on mac as well, so it allows me to get access to it when my ipad is else where. It exports to PDF well.

I only really use it to make notes/designs. The handwriting transcription isn't going to work well for my handwriting, but it does a reasonable job, given how hard my scrawls are to read. For that it works well, is about the same price as a remarkable, and does other things apart from note taking.

But, that is also its downside. You can do other things, which means distractions. Obviously you can make your notes richer by copy/pasta from the internets, but also you can be distracted by the internets too.
by iammjm | 2025-09-04 10:01:40+00:00
What I use is boox note air, in fact I am writing this on it while browsing hn on it right now. I have edge and OneNote installed on it so all my notes and tabs are synced to my other devices (iPhone, MacBook, Windows PC). It really is amazing for hand writing and reading ebooks, PDF, websites. My setup is super usable, but: it is a Chinese device running American proprietary software...
by frou_dh | 2025-09-04 10:02:41+00:00
Many HN users are always looking for an excuse to complain about the format or appearance of the linked sites. So much so that the following had to be added to the guidelines (but doesn't seem to be enforced that much):

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by ritchie46 | 2025-09-04 10:03:05+00:00
I am not an expert on Spark RDDs, but AFAIK they are a more low-level data structure that offer resilience and a lower level map-reduce API.

Polars Cloud maps the Polars API/DSL to distributed compute. This is more akin to Spark's high level DataFrame API.

With regard to implementation, we create stages that run parts of Polars IR (internal representation) on our OSS streaming engine. Those stages run on 1 or many workers create data that will be shuffled in between stages. The scheduler is responsible for creating the distributed query plan and work distribution.
by oblio | 2025-09-04 10:03:10+00:00
It wasn't actually just terrain. It was actually availability of draft animals, climate conditions and actually most importantly... economics.

Wheeled vehicles aren't inherently better in a natural environment unless they're more efficient economically than the alternatives: pack animals, people carrying cargo, boats, etc.

South America didn't have good draft animals and lots of Africa didn't have the proper economic incentives: Sahara had bad surfaces where camels were absolutely better than carts and sub Saharan Africa had climate, terrain, tsetse flies and whatnot that made standard pack animals economically inefficient.

Humans are smart and lazy, they will do the easiest thing that let's them achieve their goals. This sometimes leads them to local maxima. That's why many "obvious" inventions took thousands of years to create (cotton gin, for example).
by kees99 | 2025-09-04 10:03:27+00:00
Binary executable format is the same. But libc and dl (dynamic loader) libraries are different. You can install musl-specific versions of both on Debian, for example, like so:

apt install musl

Binaries that don't use libraries, i.e. complied with "-static" option on GNU/Linux run just fine on musl/Linux (and vice versa).
by xstr305 | 2025-09-04 10:04:17+00:00
More tangential, but is anyone using screenless (or any) graphical tablets for taking notes/work? I try to have digital notes for things I know I will rewrite, extend or might want to search, and paper more for drafts and ephemeral todos. Thought that it could be nice to have modifiable and potentially searchable written notes. When on the go, I'm not likely to write anything important, so paper + phone for accessing other notes is fine. And when stationary, having a graphical tablet seems like a good deal.
by torginus | 2025-09-04 10:04:57+00:00
The problem with charging more for subscription is they have like 5 competitors who can give you the same thing, and charging more is giving them an open opportunity to trade revenue for market share if you undercut them.

I think they're realizing what most capitalists have realized - if you don't own the whole value chain, you don't own the value.

I bet Alex won't have a dropdown to switch to Claude Sonnet for very long.
by arcane23 | 2025-09-04 10:05:30+00:00
That most people cannot even understand where the problem is.

Downvotes make my point as well. I do not want to say the right thing so people aren't offended so I am granted access (or updoots). I'd rather deal with robots for this reason. Spending my money somewhere should be enough to serve me, like me or not. I think it's crazy that I even have to explain it...
by skeezyboy | 2025-09-04 10:05:47+00:00
> There's plenty more room to grow with agents and tooling, but the core models are only slightly bumping YoY rather than the rocketship changes of 2022/23.

understandable. the real innovation was the process/technique underlying LLMs. the rest is just programmers automating it. similar happened with blockchain, everything after was just tinkering the initial idea
by splitroute | 2025-09-04 10:06:28+00:00
Are you sure BGP is at fault? TCP handshakes were able to comlpete and create a connection. I thought BGP at first as well but if the either BGP border was gone there would be no completed handshakes? Could you paste a log of BGP events at that period or point to a place that has event log related to the outage ?
by K0balt | 2025-09-04 10:07:50+00:00
There’s still product-market fit frontiers waiting to be found out there! (/s)

It’s depressing how whenever I see people doing people stuff without a screen in their face I both smile internally and reflexively wonder how we could better infiltrate their demographic.

We have become the disease at this point, and now we work diligently to replace humans from any economic activity except consumption, so that the value extraction cycle can be optimized even as it collapses upon itself in a singularity of greed.

Soon, humans, the last obstacle standing between the uninterrupted flow of energy and resources into the event horizon of capital, will be eliminated from the process altogether with the removal of wages and eventually money itself through the wonders of automation.

Only then will the crystalline purity of technocapitalism truly shine: power as the new capital.

The power to convert resources and energy directly into the will and whim of the capital class, harnessing recursive automation in a macroscopic grey-goo scenario that sidesteps both workers and customers. An ever-tightening loop of resource concentration, building from a throbbing rhythm into a deafening turbine whine of conspicuous consumption. A hollow promise of “Progress” that leaves the 99 percent outside the gilded walls, merely insects at the pointy end of excavators.

I’m going to take tomorrow off and hug my grandchildren.
by lupusreal | 2025-09-04 10:08:21+00:00
I try to minimize my use of general purpose search engines as much as possible, by instead using the search functionality of websites whenever I know that website is where I'm looking for something anyway. If I want a Wikipedia page, I search for it on Wikipedia. If I want the page for a function in the standard library of whatever, I search for it through that site. Etc. In this way I've reduced my reliance on general purpose search engines by 90% or more.

This can be made much more ergonomic by setting up "search keywords" in Firefox. Just right-click the search field on a site to add a keyword that will be used when searching through that site.
by Ukv | 2025-09-04 10:08:59+00:00
> People are pretty rational. When you find a lot of people doing something that looks irrational and there isn't a clear link to ideology or coercion, then it probably makes sense given information you don't have.

It can be in people's/companies' rational self-interest to act in a way that is detrimental to society as a whole.

We can recognize harmful behaviour and legislate such that it's no longer profitable, but it can take a while to get to that point if there's a lack of awareness or powerful interests pushing against it.
Show HN: Built a civic issue certificate app in 1 hour (200k views)
by cvaambikapur | 2025-09-04 10:09:01+00:00
I hacked this together in an hour after seeing a request on Twitter. It went viral with 200k+ views in 2 days. Got live feedback from hundreds of people, added analytics, disclaimers, and open-sourced it. Curious what HN thinks about the idea and execution.
by jeremyjh | 2025-09-04 10:09:35+00:00
I think we're talking past each other, I'll try once more. Suppose you train an LLM on a very small corpus of data, such as all the content of the library of congress. Then you have that LLM author new works. Then you train a new LLM on the original corpus plus this new material. Do you really think you've addressed the core issue in the SP? Can more parameters be meaningfully trained even if you add more GPU?

To me, the answer is clearly no. There is no new information content in the generated data. Its just a remix of what already exists.
by immibis | 2025-09-04 10:10:35+00:00
There used to be social networks. You'd tell the computer who you knew in real life and you could talk to them through the computer.

Then it was social media. People could publish things and their friends would see what they did in a single feed. Like TV or radio media, it pushes info to you, about your friends.

Lastly it was just media. It was the same feed pushing stuff to you, but it isn't your friends any more. It's unknown micro-celebrities, ads, whatever keeps audiences hooked and makes profit for the company. Tiktok exemplifies this but they've all done it now.
by energy123 | 2025-09-04 10:11:29+00:00
> loneliness is a perceptual phenomenon that represents a paradoxical component; it is not mitigated through proximity to others

It might be better described as alienation. Then we can fit it into Hannah Arendt's theory of fascism being caused by alienation.

In the modern world, that alienation is accelerated by social media and cost of living for those without assets, who pay the cost of inflation without benefiting from asset price inflation.

Everything is more hostile, more sectarian, and you also can't even afford anything, and also you are a bad person because you are a creepy 45 year old white man with a small dick, and you better stop looking at me like that.

Is it any surprise?
by Festro | 2025-09-04 10:11:58+00:00
This trend has always been wild to me. The USA feels like a solid home of automaking since the inception of the ICE. They don't necessarily make the best cars but they have the infrastructure, knowledge & experience, and culture to innovate and drive the industry forward.

The next big generational change in car design matures to commercial viability - the electric motor for cars - and the USA turns it into a bogeyman? Why? This is the next big economic win to take advantage of and the US has the factory and industrial workforce and infrastructure to nail it. Companies vying to be the Ford of the electric era. Instead it gets warped into some political litmus test for communities and people start 'rolling coal' to prove a point.

Does it feel good for impoverished industrial communities in the States to see China and BYD leading the way on something they could be doing?

There's still time to get back on track but it's running out. China will be pushing viable affordable models in the next few years for first time buyers, the secondhand market is maturing, lease electric cars are competitive in Europe, charge points are not hard to find, gas is only getting more expensive, and most governments have ICE phase out deadlines in place.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-04 10:11:58+00:00
> No one would care about DEI if it hadn't been made a major talking point by right wing propagandists.

That's a circular argument (post hoc ergo propter hoc/begging the question). It also sounds backwards.

This is how your argument sounds to me:

1. DEI is made into a major talking point by right wing propagandists

2. How do you tell if someone is a right wing propagandist? They make DEI a major talking point.

This is backwards! Politicians adjust their messaging for the most votes[1].

TBH, this whole talking-point mess was not completely made up. The politicians aren't creating talking points and then trying to convert people, they are adjusting their talking points to what matters to the voters.

If DEI didn't matter, and we weren't constantly under a barrage of "If you disagree you're a nazi", the Trump campaign would have found something else to make one of the major talking points.

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[1] Well, the Trump does, anyway. The major difference I, as an outsider, saw between the two parties in the most recent presidential election was in the adjustment and delivery of messaging.

The Left's message was "This is what we stand for. You need to fall in line in order for us to win".

Trumps message was "This matters to you? Okay, then it matters to me too".

It's not hard to see that one of those are backwards.
by rollcat | 2025-09-04 10:12:07+00:00
Looks interesting, but my main obstacle right now is that the power switch is controlled via HomeKit - I could make my Mac an integral part of the setup (it's powered 24x7 after all), but that feels clunky. I think the way to go is to make a shortcut to gracefully shut down via Mac/iPhone. It's one tap, just requires some thinking to set up.
by ritchie46 | 2025-09-04 10:12:18+00:00
Not right now. Our current SQLContext locally inspects schema's to convert the SQL to Polars LazyFrames (DSL).

However, this should happend during IR-resolving. E.g. the SQL should translate directly to Polars IR, and not LazyFrames. That way we can inspect/resolve all schema's server-side.

It requires a rewrite of our SQL translation in OSS. This should not be too hard, but it is quite some work. Work we eventually get to.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-04 10:12:23+00:00
When I studied electrical engineering, I'd say that a good half of our class were your typical "DIY" tinkering guys, which had been a hobby for quite some time. For some, like me, it was audio equipment. Guitar amplifiers, effects pedals, and all that. For others it was robotics. Other again enjoyed building their own DIY home automation systems. Or fitting mechanical systems with sensors and such, ham radio, whatever.

But, yes, probably half of my classes were a real drag to get through. It all depended on who the lecturer was, and how enthusiastic they were.