MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 01:13:15+00:00
Exactly my point. I agree with your statement tbh Really great that we can reach to a conclusion but

Here's the thing though:

Youtube has a moat. It is a social media and the networking effect runs wild on it and tbh there were a lot of other things too like (vines?) which fall.

But, can you say the same for Ai given open models?

China couldn't create an alternative to social media (in some sense?) because it requires a network effect.

But it sure can use gpu's, maybe even build their in house gpus so that they can then train on the data just as how america did and effectively price dump with no restrictions :/

Honestly, I can agree if you believe that AI Has a moat similar to social media, then sure, but I just don't believe it has a moat.

Youtube turned profit because of moat, Is there any moat in LLM's?

And if we are talking general purpose robotics/ automation, then I agree that yes its good.

But for an average investor whose investing, they are investing thinking that its sort of inevitable actual general AI when that's not the case.

From what I know, the optimizations of LLM's don't really apply to robotics, so all this funding of billions going into LLM only to pivot into robotics is a bit :/ for the investors.

IMO When I mentioned S&P AI stocks, that's exactly things like Google,microsoft,amazon which are still similar to OpenAi and anthropic, don't you think?

S&P's growth is heavily based on the calculated return that Google,microsoft,amazon are gonna be the winners of the Ai "wars", that's what I meant!!

If google says a line similar to yours that LLM's aren't the future, then you can naturally expect how the market would react.

The funny thing is, is that between your comment, I got recommended a video about AI bubble... which is accused in comments to be created by AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37aUuoRyMhM

The tech is cool but 95% are focused on the wrong thing or smth and there is no advantage/moat and uh its still literally something like. bubble. Even in a bubble, google/amazon survived.

You can say that I should still invest because stock prices grew even after bubble bust, but they were in a deep awakening, and I feel like as an average investor I'd rather prefer some more stability knowing that there is still a condition of a bubble formation in S&P and US tech stocks atleast

These companies are using AI as a magic word. Vercel's keynote had AI esque words 42 times... LET ME REPEAT, 42 times. Vercel isn't even that AI based lol, its a react next app thingy for most people.

Still hoping you can comment! I was thinking of creating a hackernews post about involving other people in this discussion since at the day our discussion boils down to: is this a bubble?

I thought that it was common knowledge to everybody but maybe not, I can create a ASK HN: Do you think that S&P 500 / Magnificient 7 is an AI bubble right now? or smth!

Looking forward to your feedback and I had a blast in this conversation! Wish to discuss more lol!! Have a nice day, (waiting for your comment)
by gnabgib | 2025-09-25 01:13:21+00:00
Probably a URL mistake, but yeah - Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah (2024) (7+10+10 points, 14+1+1 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41754823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42146177 doesn't seem like a match. The upvoter is sus.
by keyle | 2025-09-25 01:13:43+00:00
This is disgusting and the bane of Australia as well.

There is just too much money to be made in that space. It's sickening.

And with apps on phones, it's 24/7 for some people. They get sucked in and gamed like babies bums in talc powder.

And it started with Twitch now. Kids get addicted watching these rigged players and believe they too can get rich doing it. It's a form of opioid legalised because the government gets the kick back.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-25 01:13:58+00:00
The GPUs don't go toe-to-toe with current gen desktop GPUs but they should be significantly better than the GTX 650, a mid range desktop GPU from 2012, the game (2019) lists as recommended. It does sound like something odd is going on than just lack of hardware.

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Snapdragon+X+...

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+6...
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-09-25 01:14:03+00:00
Its for the same reason you don't give a license to someone with a DUI.

They are a harm to others. People with gambling addictions don't just hurt themselves - they hurt families, friends, and also the society at large as they come to be dependent on the safety net for substeance.

I think you dont need to make it illegal to keep it in check. A simple rule saying: IF a person spends more than 20% of the overall W2 or 1099 income on gambling, then the gambling house is liable for every 95 cents of every subsequent dollar paid out. We transfer liability for selling alcohol to irresponsible bartenders - casinos should also take the heat for the malaise they inflict.

You'd see very quickly how things get real.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-25 01:14:34+00:00
The article itself is garbage and I strongly believe it's AI generated.

But even on top of that, the coverage of this issue is severely lacking. There were already many online sports books "legally" HQ'd in the Caribbean or other offshore locales. They were pointed to as proof of how much money could be made and money won. That's the story. We allowed greed to addict millions of young men on sports gambling because we lost our spines in this country.
by firefax | 2025-09-25 01:14:35+00:00
To be fair, DDG sometimes is just as bad.

For example, if I search for "anonbib"[1] it shows nothing but revenge porn links[2].

[1] https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/anon-ib-revenge-porn-site-se...
by pclmulqdq | 2025-09-25 01:14:57+00:00
If you think "exit" automatically means millions, you've probably never seen an exit before. Of those that exit, the majority of startups get almost $0 for the common shareholders. I continue to believe that a lot of YC's alpha comes from the fact that they are very good at angling people toward small exits where they basically make no money but YC recovers their investment.
by prawn | 2025-09-25 01:16:35+00:00
"Among the swindlers are Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson, a trio of scammers who bilked Americans out of more than three quarters of a billion dollars."

"Archer was Hunter Biden's business partner. After he was caught in his investment scam, he helped prosecutors and congressional Republicans go after President Joe Biden's son."

"Milton is a multimillion-dollar donor to the 2024 Trump presidential campaign and had the wisdom to hire Brad Bondi, the brother of previous Trump lawyer, now-Attorney General Pam Bondi."

"Watson has ties to Trump pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson, recipient of a previous Trump pardon."

Feels like now more than ever, scammers should be made an example of?
by sublinear | 2025-09-25 01:18:27+00:00
Somewhat unrelated, but GitLab put out a blog post earlier this year warning users about Docker Hub's rate limiting: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/prepare-now-docker-hub-rate-li...

We chose to move to GitLab's container registry for all the images we use. It's pretty easy to do and I'm glad we did. We used to only use it for our own builds.

The package registry is also nice. I only wish they would get out of the "experimental" status for apt mirror support.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 01:18:28+00:00
Whose "we"?

there are open weight models which are SOTA.

not sure how you plan to monetize it.

Tell me how you can make a profit or if you even have a plan to make a profit..

or your plan is to sell it to a higher fool who believes that they can sell it to an even higher fool....

Oh. Sounds similar?
by whatever1 | 2025-09-25 01:18:33+00:00
The question of finding cheap competent programmers has already been answered via remote work.

There are tons of agencies who provide access to good to excellent talent from abroad (India, Eastern Europe even Latin America if you prefer same time zone) for a fraction of what the US market offers (even after accounting for overhead).

You can literally find someone vetted to work on your project within hours. No mess with payrolls, insurance and whatnot, you just pay a consulting fee.

So if the H1Bs were not really better than the expensive local and cheap remote talent, why would the companies get into this mess?
by rayiner | 2025-09-25 01:19:08+00:00
The idea of “consenting adults” is a libertarian fantasy unsupported by evidence. Between low IQ, impulsivity, addictive personalities, etc., a large fraction of the population needs guardrails imposed by society for the sake of both themselves and the people around them.

Sports betting has significant negative impacts. For every $1 a household spent on betting, it reduced savings by $2. https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/online-spor.... This impacts not just individuals, but spouses and children who don’t “consent” to the negative impacts this has on their lives.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-25 01:19:26+00:00
> If you want to get rich by 30, you basically have to start a startup or get into a top small hedge fund out of undergrad.

I am 30, I am rich by most measures of wealth and probably in the minds of most college grads. I worked in various big tech companies (incl stints in FAANG) after graduating with my BS in CS. A lot of my peers did do startups, and they had varying degrees of success. But almost everyone who went to big tech has set up their next generation for success at this point
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 01:21:20+00:00
I've used DeX on and off on Samsung devices since my Tab S3 and Note 9 ... so a long time. DeX is pretty polished.

I have met zero other DeX users, but know a ton of people with devices that support it. I currently have two extra docks and have offered to set up friends with a DeX setup ... they don't want a computer or understand how their phone and a TV and keyboard become one.

So I don't know if this will eat anyone's lunch, because I thought DeX would have proven the market if it existed.
by condiment | 2025-09-25 01:22:08+00:00
I pay for Kagi for search, my family uses Kagi. I pay for NextDNS to block ads, all of my family's devices use NextDNS. I pay for credits on OpenRouter and host an OpenWebUI instance, all of my family's AI is private. I pay for the news - The Economist, the WSJ, FT, NewScientist, etc. Lies are free, the truth is behind a paywall.

The only thing money can't buy, yet, is a phone network free of robocalls.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-09-25 01:22:26+00:00
They had little "declared" presence. But obviously, as anyone can tell you, the Palestinian militant movements are very guerilla and very grassroots, and renouncing violence in order to govern and have "security forces" while their enemies did not promise any such thing is not an improvement.

The most obvious proof of this is the intifiada which followed Oslo
by mandeepj | 2025-09-25 01:22:39+00:00
You haven't committed a crime if you've paid homage (bribe) to the orange Emperor, either via campaign donations, bitcoins, or stock purchase, or donation to his presidential library, or even booked a room in one of his hotels for $199. That's how much he has dragged the American Justice System for Sale; F'king Pathetic.

His enablers (Senate/House lawmakers, along with conservative judges) are equal partners in his shredding of values, ethics, and standards of this country.
by sobellian | 2025-09-25 01:23:20+00:00
Having done this, and acknowledging the fuzzy definition of "rich" etc - going through YC after graduating is a great career move. You have to do everything yourself so you learn a lot. About business, about a specific industry, about programming, whatever. You make connections. But unless you walk an absolute golden path (hey it happens), > 90% chance you don't get rich. > 99.9% chance you won't get rich by 30.
Ask HN: Are Software Companies Just Selling to Each Other?
by jerawaj740 | 2025-09-25 01:23:44+00:00
I’ve been thinking about how much of the SaaS world feels circular, software companies building products and services, but their main customers are often other software companies, from dev tools to cloud hosting to analytics. are software companies mostly just selling to each other, and if so, what are the long-term effects?
by gamer191 | 2025-09-25 01:23:48+00:00
"Attack vectors" is a very interesting choice of words. Yt-dlp is literally using a public API for its intended purpose (accessing videos). The only difference is how yt-dlp is delivering the videos to the user. Probably as much of an "attack" as user-agent spoofing or using browser extensions.

But to answer your question, no, there aren't any suitable APIs (I've looked into it). They all either require JavaScript (youtube.com and the smart tv app) or require app integrity tokens (Android and iOS). Please let me know if you know something I don't?
by Zagorath | 2025-09-25 01:23:52+00:00
Hey, I genuinely appreciate that. I thought that this subscription was added under Automattic's watch, but as you say it has been a confusing process so I could very well be wrong.

I've already reached out to your customer service via email including my account info, so if you could use that to get my account upgraded, I would be very grateful. I received a pretty swift response to my first enquiry, but your customer service representative on that occasion pretty much said "lol sucks to be you, maybe you should upgrade?" I considered this an incredibly unacceptable response, and said as much, again pretty quickly (all three initial emails went through within half an hour). It has been days since my second email and I have not received a reply. If you are, as you say, trying to do right by people now, your customer service does not seem to be on the same page as you.

There are also dozens of users in the same situation as me who have spoken up on Pocket Cast's official forums, and elsewhere on social media. It may be worth getting the customer service representatives on your forums on the same page as you, because so far they have been giving the same "lol, just upgrade" type response that I got in email. And getting someone to extend the same offer to users making the complaint on Reddit and other social media.
by outlore | 2025-09-25 01:24:28+00:00
my thesis is that collections of products (whether that's ProductHunt or r/productivityapps) decline in quality due to self promotion. So i attempted to start r/curatedapps a couple of days ago which forbids self promotion and encourages people to become curators instead. i hope it succeeds! im starved for learning more about new tech innovations :)
by overfeed | 2025-09-25 01:24:47+00:00
> It's not a matter of Linux conforming to the way you use a computer, it is rather you who have adapted to the most viable computing experience which Linux offers

This is the opposite of my Linux experience, especially in comparison with MacOS. Linux, especially when using KDE, offers customization up the wazoo. The out of the box experience may be a less than optimal, but investing time customizing your installation[0] is very rewarding. Almost anything that can be done on/by your DE can be bound to a shortcut or automated. You'd have to purchase MacOS tools to come close to the configurability of KDE (e.g. window positioning)

1. Or copying your config directory.
by vunderba | 2025-09-25 01:25:18+00:00
There have been a couple attempts at this - which in itself is a spiritual successor to AG Bear [1]. AG Bear was an interactive stuffed animal that would react and mumble back to a child when they talked to it - it was even lauded by child psychologists back in the day.

I myself tried my hand at putting together something similar a year ago but it was significantly more primitive - basically tearing the guts out of a Teddy Ruxpin and stuffing an ESP32 inside of it. The round-trip latency to the local laptop running a full LLM made it rather impractical however.

Here's some immediate feedback:

- Your landing page picture does NOT inspire confidence. It screams cheap ChatGPT image. A mockup of the actual product would be far better.

- Since presumably the LLM isn't running locally, the hardest sell is that you're basically marketing a "real-time listening device". That might make more privacy conscious parents concerned about their young children pretty nervous.

- There's a lot of ad-copy on that page about the potential therapeutical benefits of Bearie. While that might be true, there doesn't seem to be references/mentions of actual therapists/psychologists/etc. or anyone in the medical industry involved with this project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AG_Bear
by MaulingMonkey | 2025-09-25 01:25:51+00:00
Ya'll gaslighting me? I tried to do that, and found it didn't work, which was just wonderfully ironic. I ended up verifying there's a `user-select: none;` in the actual `select-text.html` styling that is indeed disabling text selection. Was it added later for shits and/or giggles?
by godelski | 2025-09-25 01:26:21+00:00
I really do have a lot of respect for Brave and what they're trying to do, don't get me wrong. I think they are trying to address a meaningful problem and I do not think their solution is ill-conceived. I want to be clear about that.

But I do think it is a far bigger problem that we let a single actor have so much control over the fundamental structure of the internet. The problem isn't Brave so much as it is Chromium. But criticizing Brave (and Opera, Edge, etc) is a consequence of this.

You must ask yourself which is the bigger concern?

- If you believe the major concern is an ad based ecosystem on the internet, then choose Brave. Especially if you believe it is unlikely that data leakage "features" implemented by Google are not likely to be captured by downstream projects. - If you believe the major concern is the number one ad based company who's entire market is based on the erosion of data privacy, then choose *literally anything* that is not Chromium based.

I think the latter is far more damning and honestly is an upstream issue to the concern Brave is trying to address. That's why I say I would encourage Brave to move away from Chromium. I actually would encourage them to develop their own engine since I think 3 choices is far from sufficient, but I'll take a Gecko or WebKit version as a major victory.

But this is my opinion. There is no right answer here. It has to come down to you.

If you agree with me then I'd encourage you to look at Firefox. It is good by default and with a few easy to find options you can have strong privacy and installing uBlock is a trivial task. If you are more privacy conscious, I encourage you to look at the Mullvad Browser, which is a Firefox fork with strong privacy defaults (maintained by the Tor and Mullvad teams). If you want a WebKit then check out Orion. I use this on both my iPhone and iPad (my Macbook and linux desktop are still Firefox), as Orion allows add-ons, so you can get ad blocking on your phone (when I was on Android I just used Firefox mobile which supports extensions). If you really want to encourage a 4th player I believe LadyBird is the popular kid on the block, but I honestly don't know too much and last I knew it was not quite to a stable state.

You don't have to agree with me, but I just want to make people aware that they do have a say in the future. There's no solution that doesn't have drawbacks, but I think on a techie form we should be able to have a more complex discussion and recognize that there are consequences to our choices. I think it is also important to recognize our choices multiply as we tend to be the ones who inform our non-techie peers. If you've ever installed software for a friend or family member, then realize how our choices multiply.

I'd also encourage you to promote more conversations among techie groups so we can hear the diverse set of opinions and concerns. It's a complex world and it is easy to miss something critical.
by jvanderbot | 2025-09-25 01:26:57+00:00
This is all well and good, but the implication one level up was that there's a fundamental link between visible light and the energy levels involved in most low energy chemistry (or something).

Of course visible light is visible because it hits our eyes (is emitted by sun and is not filtered), but the comment about valence shells is quite a bit more fundamental than that.
by specialp | 2025-09-25 01:28:05+00:00
And if you are consistently winning they will ban you! They can legally back off (reduce max bet to a tiny amount) or straight up ban people who bet smart.

These books also market what are the hardest to understand and worst bets to consumers. Think 4 way parlays. Like all 4 legs seem reasonable. They probably on their own each have a 70 pct probability. But that means a 24 pct of hitting. Of course they are all over props because people love to bet over. They are taking advantage of the fact that most people don't understand expected value or odds of multiple independent things happening
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 01:29:03+00:00
> Instead of giving everyone Macs, they may roll out these Google devices.

Wouldn't they give these people iPads?

Google devices have generally been expensive compared to the market, had abysmal hardware QA/QC, mediocre performance per dollar, and have been bricked by updates repeatedly. If they get updates at all.

iPads, on the other hand...
by m4y0u | 2025-09-25 01:29:08+00:00
Hey HN

I built NetHtop++, a network inspection tool for Linux/macOS that goes far beyond netstat or ss. It’s like htop but for sockets — with extra powers.

From a single terminal screen, you can: • See all live sockets and ghost connections (phantom listeners, zombie ports) • r to resolve hosts • x to close sockets • p to kill by PID • t to capture • c to switch interface • o to view ghost sockets • d to dump • e to export • q to quit

Dive deeper into ghost socket inspection and you’ll find: • f to add a pf rule (firewall integration coming for iptables, ufw, etc.) • s snapshot • h hard kill • r restart • o close ghost • d dump socket

The goal is to make this your go-to weapon when debugging strange network behavior, malware implants, ghost listeners, or when you just want full control of the stack.

I’m actively adding more features — including kernel-space tracing, flow tracking, and in-memory socket inspection.

GitHub: https://github.com/m10ust/nethtop

Feedback, ideas, and wild use cases welcome!
by ramigb | 2025-09-25 01:29:56+00:00
It becomes even sadder when Google caters to political propaganda of any kind, from any party or country, if the price is right. I wish Google realized how much greater and more beneficial the product and company are to the people who use them than all of that. I am not naïve -I understand they need to profit- but perhaps they are focusing on short term gains while introducing this poor user experience, which will eventually lead to major losses.