MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-19 01:39:08+00:00
That's awesome. Earlier today I was pondering the strengths of Apple's Shortcuts app, Automator, and AppleScript versus Microsoft's Office Script, PowerShell, and various other options in that space. I couldn't think of anything designed to automate both native apps and functionality on Windows but here you go exceeding my expectations with a tool that occupies the sweet spot.
by lmm | 2025-09-19 01:40:49+00:00
> Four, no really four ways to copy...

All of which are useful

> Change encoding? I have never changed the encoding of my terminal, not once since first using a computer, circa 1982.

Then you've never worked with Japanese. Which is fine, but a significant proportion of the world needs to.

> UTF8-FTW

Not for Japanese, sadly.
by thekingofravens | 2025-09-19 01:41:36+00:00
PDF handling came to mind as absolutely horrible experience. If you want to make a pdf, the choices were either: 1. Very low level, getting into the nitty gritty implementation details of PDF. 2. Very High level, only suitable to make the equivalent of a word document with very little control of layout 3. Typst, which is nice externally but honestly very difficult to use as a library. 4. mupdf over C FFI can get you mid-level pdf generation. Mid level as in you control layout but aren't using an editor to inspect the generated raw instructions in a PDF. Then you have unsafe everywhere or time spent with FFI making basic wrapper/abstraction negates the benefits.

Oh and for the first 3 the relevant docs for using it in this way are out of date and you will need to look at source code.
by WD-42 | 2025-09-19 01:42:50+00:00
Oh please. This isn't like the old iPhone days where new features and amazing tech were revealed during live demos. Failure was acceptable then because what we were being shown was new and pushing the envelope.

Meta and friends have been selling us AI for a couple years now, shoving it everywhere they can and promising us it's going to revolutionize the workforce and world, replace jobs, etc. But it fails to put together a steak sauce recipe. The disconnect is why so many people are mocking this. It's not comparable.
by the_gastropod | 2025-09-19 01:43:21+00:00
"Hey, fascist, catch" with the arrows is a reference to an attack in the video game Helldivers 2.

He also inscribed a bullet with "If you read this, you are gay lmao."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/us/politics/tyler-robinso...
by maxlin | 2025-09-19 01:43:31+00:00
"Another perspective"? Are you for real?

This is what the absolute scumbag said:

> We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it

Having seen the murder pretty much live. A father with "prove me wrong" written on the tent he was sitting in, taking non-prescreened questions and debating with everyone that dared to come up to the mic. Shot with kids next to him. The most direct attack on debate itself we've seen during our lifetimes; it wouldn't matter if it was Sanders or any other left-wing, centrist, or right-wing figure doing very reasonable debate there. And after the murder so many heartless people came out to MOCK the death, and celebrate it.

Kimmel is lying against not just common sense but what authorities and people around Tyler have said. Absolutely nothing points at the murderer being maga, but pretty much every detail points towards him having been radicalized by the left. Unless you're just going to ignore people that knew him saying he was a leftie, Bella Ciao carved in to the bullets, and the very obvious of him having shot a right winger who was managing to change people's minds, etc.

And after that, you expect me to take Kimmels comment as level headed? You are hate trolling. You were succesful, I am actually angry. Regardless, I did watch everything and gave a fair response to it. The only people that would not be angered by Kimmel's comments knowing all this have no heart.
by corimaith | 2025-09-19 01:43:44+00:00
Critique of Palantir (and other emerging military tech companies) often comes with the pre-assumption that we ourselves are our biggest threats. But outside of the luxuries of the West, people don't think like that. The Chinese, the Iranians, the Russians are not going to have moral qualms developing such technology because they remain aligned to the interests of their nations first over external enemies. That same assumption is held for those in Palantir, although for Pro-Palestine, I would imagine they are already the "enemy".

The idea of treating your enemies as you will your friends is a highly contentious position even today. Not everyone is going to have that same position, and in fact very may be that the very assumption of such a stance is enough for you to be labelled out of group. Which at that point, it's a ideological conflict, not a moral one.
by gblargg | 2025-09-19 01:44:43+00:00
Yes, radon is a gas. Why did you bring this up? Were you implying that dust collection couldn't work? I can see why you might think that if you didn't understand that Radon is radioactive and has a short half-life (3.8 days).

> Most short term radon tests will use activated charcoal to absorb the radon gas in the air. Various short terms tests kits will include some type container filled with activated charcoal, usually perforated or screened and has a filter to keep out radon decay products. At the end of testing, the absorber is resealed and returned to the vendor for processing and evaluation.

> When radon undergoes radioactive breakdown, it decays into other radioactive elements called radon daughters (or progeny). Radon daughters are solids, not gases, and stick to surfaces such as dust particles in the air. Dust particles carrying radon daughters can move with air.
by FlyingAvatar | 2025-09-19 01:45:04+00:00
Talking to an audio-enabled LLM is definitely "simpler" in terms of device interaction than navigating menus and such. Also having less GUI focus would feel simpler to me.

I find myself missing the experience of earlier iPhone where it didn't feel like I had so much crammed into my phone.

I can imagine using a device that I interact with primarily by talking with it, and the GUI is secondary or non-existent. For the bulk of what I use my phone for other than consuming video / doom-scrolling (which I could use much less of anyway), I think a voice interface would be preferable.

Initially "Apple Intelligence" was very exciting to think about, in that having a Siri that you could actually talk to would have a lot of possibilities, but we've seen essentially no progress in that direction.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-09-19 01:45:48+00:00
> It seems like an offensive classification no matter which side you are placed.

If it was so offensive, both India and China would not be at loggerheads trying to posture themselves as a leader of the Global South.

Simple fact of the matter is that progress in modern world requires networked systems. Europeans and Euro-descendants were able to achieve this networking through racial bonhomie and colonialism. Non-western countries do not have that available to them, so they have to invent new narratives to facilitate that networking.

The fact that India may have orbital launch and Australia doesn't is the reason to reject Developing/Developed dichotomy and move to a different one, Global North/South seems to be the one gaining traction.

Getting offended over the existence of the idea of Global South just because it doesn't hew closely to some arbitrary parameter is similar to saying that G7 is natural but BRICS is dangerous. It's just a statement of rote comfort. If Australia is not a northern country by direction, it's not a western country by direction either; I doubt any Australians are in a hurry to classify themselves as an Eastern society and not a Western one.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-19 01:45:58+00:00
I’m having trouble understanding your reaction here. Free speech dictates that everyone has to like me in the same way that free speech means everybody has to agree with you and tell you that your opinions about pronouns are good and correct.

It seems like we’re in full agreement here. Like the only way I could imagine that we’re at odds is if you just decided unprompted to share your opinions about gender in the Jimmy Kimmel thread and used “free speech”, again completely unprompted, as a shorthand to express your irritation at the fact that there exists some people that don’t agree with you.

That would be pretty silly though. Obviously you were sharing a single example that’s part of a larger and logically consistent definition of free speech (which we agree about), because it would be pretty bad faith to assume that you saw the Jimmy Kimmel thread and thought “Nobody is even discussing my take on pronouns on this page. I’d better get on fixing that”
by hirvi74 | 2025-09-19 01:46:03+00:00
> the makers don't have to do double the design work.

Attitudes like this sometimes make me regret going in to software engineering. I understand time may be of the essence in some instances, but I feel like software engineering has lost much of its craftsmanship, and it's now just gluing over-engineered and poorly designed shitware together. At least, in the Web Dev world -- maybe other subfields have faired better?
by Terr_ | 2025-09-19 01:46:26+00:00
I think "rando" actually downplays how bad it is, since it sounds like a guest. The guy (Brian Kilmeade) works for Fox and has been hosting their opinion-shows for ~27 years.

In this clip [0] of "Fox and Friends", the first host (Lawrence Jones) says that homeless people be forced to accept "the programs" from the government, or else be locked up in prison... and then Brian Kilmeade ramps it up with "just kill 'em", using "involuntary lethal injection."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9mq3oKI2KhY
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-19 01:47:03+00:00
I use hanlon's razor here. Or perhaps a Bus Factor. Someone envoying for this situation got laid off or left, there wasn't proper documentation to track the issue, someone else picked up a warning in their feed and they launched out an email as they'd normally do, without reading into the context of the situation.

Their envoy is out of the loop so when Hack Club tries to respond they are at best rejected as some spurned rouge customer, and at worst completely ignored as they fail to reach anyone who has the power to properly look into it. So they have to go nuclear and make things public just to get the attention of a billion dollar corporation.

The fix, if any of this speculation is accurate, is indeed cultural. One counter to the current culture of tech trying to lay off as much as they can and letting Customer Service rot on the wayside. These PR crises were long determined as an "acceptable risk" of such cuts.

I don't think our engineer quoting Rob upstream has anything directly to do with this (maybe Rob does, but that's too speculative even for this post), but I do think we need to bring some shame back to corporate America. This is indeed endemic at multiple companies, not just Slack. I hear this is one of many reasons companies prefer to deal with Chinese companies; these kinds of CS slip ups just doesn't happen in their culture as regularly as the US.
by ahartmetz | 2025-09-19 01:47:13+00:00
It is possible that at some point, maybe 15 years ago, AMD provided sufficient documentation to write drivers, but even 10 years ago, a lot of documentation was missing (without even mentioning that fact), which made trying to contribute rather frustrating. Not too bad, because as you said, they had a (smallish) number of employees working on the open drivers by then.
by kelsey98765431 | 2025-09-19 01:48:15+00:00
FYI it also supports pre-training, reward model training and RL, not just fine tuning (sft). My team built a managed solution for training that runs on top of llama factory and it's quite excellent and well supported. You will need pretty serious equipment to get good results out of it, think 8xh200. For people at home i would look at doing an sft of gemma3 270m or maybe a 1.6b qwen3, but keep in mind you have to have the dataset in memory as well as the model and kv-cache. cheers
by abustamam | 2025-09-19 01:48:26+00:00
Republican Senator Mike Lee when a democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband were assassinated:

> This is what happens, when Marxists don’t get their way. [0]

This is objectively much worse than what Kimmel said. Yet, no repercussions.

When Charlie Kirk, an influential figure, is assassinated:

> I have introduced a resolution condemning the assassination of Charlie Kirk, commemorating his outstanding patriotism and achievements.

> I look forward to the Senate uniting to honor Charlie, his family, and his courageous legacy. [1]

Both incidents are obviously horrific, and should be condemned, but our elected officials ought to be held to a better standard than a late night talk host, and we as a society should hold our elected officials accountable to such behavior.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/republican-s...

[1] https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1966150996968747353
by notjoemama | 2025-09-19 01:48:44+00:00
I haven't read the book but it sounds really interesting. Regarding tone though,

> monogamy is to blame for a lot of our western views today

Does the author use the word "blame" to mean "the reason for" or do they present it as a critique of monogamy? Not a big deal, just made me curious when I saw that.
by Lammy | 2025-09-19 01:49:07+00:00
> The one idea I still have left is to enable the hidden administrator account in Windows 11, which gives you password-free access to what is basically Windows’ root account.

Pardon my pedantry, but technically Windows' equivalent of the root account is `NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM`, although it's a little different in that it isn't an account one can use to Logon. You're right that `Administrator` is the highest privilege level interactive user account :) https://security.stackexchange.com/a/66747

This garbage and more is the reason I did my Framework 12's installation of Windows 11 (dual booting with FreeBSD 15) using this `unattend.xml` generator to disable internet requirement, disable mandatory Microsoft Account, disable intrusive spyware, disable disable disable: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

Sucks to have such an adversarial relationship with my own computer though. One shouldn't have to Know All The Tricks to avoid this shit.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-09-19 01:49:24+00:00
It's not at all unverifiable. There is a lot known about the Egyptian government's internal deliberations at the time, such as the fact that they feared Israel was planning to imminently attack Syria.

> Taking this to the extreme, if Russia launched a silo of ICBMs targeting DC

Your analogy has already gone off the rails, because Israel held massive military superiority over Egypt. The Americans and the Israelis both knew that Israel would rapidly win any war with Egypt.

The military escalation that preceded the 1967 war was triggered by Israel's own attack on Egypt in November 1966. Israel was pursuing an extremely aggressive foreign policy. It took actions that caused a massive increase in tensions, but then claimed those actions gave it the right to launch a preemptive war (though actually, when the war broke out, the Israeli government just chose to lie and claim that Egypt had attacked Israel first).
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-09-19 01:52:02+00:00
I'm surprised that there isn't more. Everything that this person has touched has made life that much worse for humanity as a whole. He deserves every ounce of criticism and mockery, moreso because he makes himself out to be this savior figure. We should sneer at every attempt at theirs (and other's) awful AI because it's lighting this world on fire. The popping of the bubble cannot come soon enough.
by throw0101a | 2025-09-19 01:52:39+00:00
Except that Roberts et al are basically on Trump's side. "The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America":

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/...

"The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US":

* https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-rule-of-law-i...
by derektank | 2025-09-19 01:52:49+00:00
I had heard that a lot of human feedback was being provided by people in Nigeria, as it has a very large English speaking population (owing to its history as a British colony) while also having low wages. This was the explanation given as to why ChatGPT seemed to use the word "delve" so often, apparently it's used much more frequently in business contexts there.

Possible that they're using different sources of feedback for different training though
by Terr_ | 2025-09-19 01:52:53+00:00
Real evil would be a kind of reverse-psychology:

1. Make a site like this.

2. Wait for people to try it out with an URL that goes to a significant site (bank, social media, email, etc.)

3. Allow a bit of normal use, then secretly switch the link so that further visitors land on a corresponding phishing site.

4. Having just dismissed a bunch of "obviously fake" warning signs, people may be less alert when real ones arrive.
by stubish | 2025-09-19 01:52:56+00:00
I think many cathedrals like Notre Dame were completed several times. It was 182 years from construction until the last addition was finished. Whereas Sagrada Familia is only now just completing its original design. When I first saw the structure, there was no central tower and no plans to actually build it. But you could see it in the plans in the museum there.
by brendank310 | 2025-09-19 01:53:05+00:00
I got a panicked call from my parents when Facebook deleted my brother's profile, probably 5 or 6 years after he passed away. After looking into just trying to get the profile restored, I came to the same conclusion as the title essentially. The "memories" feature frequently shuffled posts and pictures of him and had become a comfort for them. They bring it up every now and then, maybe some day I'll find a way to sort it out.
by qingcharles | 2025-09-19 01:53:08+00:00
The CEO of Nokia had to demo their latest handset one time on stage at whatever that big world cellphone expo is each year.

My biz partner and I wrote the demo that ran live on the handset (mostly a wrapper around a webview), but ran into issues getting it onto the servers for the final demo, so the whole thing was running off a janky old PC stuffed in a closet in my buddy's home office on his 2Mbit connection. With us sweating like pigs as we watched.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-19 01:53:17+00:00
> To be fair, the Racket team has described its fork more as a “set of patches” that other­wise stays in sync with the main branch of Chez Scheme. Still, as time passes, the two will natu­rally tend to diverge further. Whether one calls it a “fork” or “set of patches”, the result is the same: some nonzero main­te­nance cost will persist, and likely grow.

Note that now Racket run on top of almost Chez Scheme. I think there are a few patches, but almost all the changes have been upstreamed.
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-09-19 01:53:18+00:00
The way they used to handle that at a FAANG I worked for was they had this app installed on each machine issued by IT, that would ask you a question daily about some aspect of your workplace.

Handles all the phishing concerns, except that participation was either low or the feedback was negative, which would lead to the leaders issuing subtle threats to the team about how they'd find out the involved folks and fire them. If you tried to uninstall it, it'd be back in a few hours through policy management software (jamf and its ilk). On the internal discussion forums, they'd nuke threads talking about how to disable that software.

So, in the end, people just started giving the best possible feedback regardless of the team or manager performance. I never really needed those threads, all I needed was tcpdump and then blocking its domain in the hosts file :)
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-09-19 01:53:26+00:00
2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners:

Biology: Does painting zebra stripes on cows reduce biting flies [yes]

Chemistry: Does Teflon™ as a food additive increase satiety/fullness [yes, allegedly safely?!]

Physics: Avoiding unpleasant spaghetti sauce texture

Engineering: Does using a ventilated UV shoe rack decrease odor [yes]

Aviation: Do intoxicated bats fly worse [yes]

Psychology: The effects of telling narcissists they're intelligent ["external feedback helped shape the subjects' perception of their own intelligence, regardless of the accuracy of that feedback" ; negative feedback is more impactful]

Nutrition: Is just cheese the favored pizza of reptiles [yes]

Pediatrics: Does garlic affect breast feeding [yes, babies will feed longer]

Literature: Does fingernail growth diminish as one ages [yes]

Peace: Does slight inebriation increase foreign language composition [yes]
by a_belova | 2025-09-19 01:55:23+00:00
Generative AI isn't just a new feature in search; it's a fundamental psychological shift. By providing direct, synthesized answers, it caters to our brain's deep-seated desire to reduce cognitive load and trust authoritative narratives. This "great untraining" is rendering the classic marketing playbook obsolete. For businesses, developers, and marketers, the battle is no longer for clicks on blue links, but for becoming a trusted, citable source inside the AI's "brain." The age of persuasion is ending; the age of becoming a machine-readable source of truth has begun.
by newman8r | 2025-09-19 01:57:00+00:00
> which he explained were for air circulation intended to work in harmony with interior modifications which I can't remember.

That's intriguing. Along those lines, I've also been interested in the idea of using pressure sensors and anemomenters to automatically open/close different windows in my house to create optimal airflow. Unfortunately the house I'm in is 100 years old, so for now it's just a daydream.
by abhinavk | 2025-09-19 01:57:07+00:00
> No, there's an auto-hiding dock built-in. Pressing the Super key acts like better version of Apple's Expose feature: it shows the windows you have open, auto-opens the dock, and focuses the application launcher search bar so you can just start typing and launch an app.

It either requires using a keyboard or moving your mouse to the opposite direction of where the dock appears.
by msephton | 2025-09-19 01:58:20+00:00
One of my (partially) GEM apps for Atari ST recently resurfaced in my RSS feed thanks to Disc Master search. It's a fractal viewer that I wrote in 1993 at age 16. It took a fraction of a second for me to remember all the details of the app and how to use it. Good times. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/14/digging-up-the-pa...
Show HN: Another Yt-Dlp Wrapper
by rorouni-dev | 2025-09-19 02:01:45+00:00
I've recently been working on a computer vision project and needed to download quite a lot of sample clips from YouTube. The existing online tools are littered with ads, watermarks or paywalls just for >360p quality videos. I discovered yt-dlp but it wasn't the most user friendly, so I built a desktop GUI wrapper to speed up my workflow.

yt-clipper lets you download specific segments from YouTube videos without grabbing the entire file. You paste a YouTube URL, set your start and end times, pick your quality, and download exactly what you need. No ads, no artificial limits beyond what YouTube itself imposes, no account required.

The tool runs yt-dlp under the hood but wraps it in a simple interface. You get the power of yt-dlp without dealing with command line arguments or documentation. Works on Mac and Windows (sorry Linux users).

Built this because I was tired of downloading 20-minute videos when I only needed 30-second clips for training data.