MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Animats | 2025-09-19 02:45:06+00:00
They didn't separate the actual designs of a period from retro looks at that period. See "Diner Klisch", which is more than half retro images.

Nice picture of the Aston-Martin Bulldog, listed under Cassette Futurism.[1][2] Clearly the ancestor of the Cybertruck.

MOMA (NYC), SFMOMA, and the Tate Modern have good design collections.

There's also the Color Association of the United States, which at one time determined what the "in" colors would be for each season, announcing this far enough in advance that fabric makers could plan production. They don't have that much clout any more.

They also once managed the consumer electronics color cycle, from white to black to cream to silver and back again. You thought that happened by accident?

[1] https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/13599514/original_59cb...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_Bulldog

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Association_of_the_Unite...
by randycupertino | 2025-09-19 02:46:17+00:00
There's this woman who slept with meta employees to get her account back:

https://www.newsweek.com/onlyfans-star-slept-meta-employees-...

> "So, I stalked them on Instagram through my backup but still slutty account," she said. "I managed to find a couple (employees), not from that department but still people that worked at Instagram in LA."

> She said she allegedly met up "with a couple" employees in the L>os Angeles area, adding that they know about her podcast.

> "We met up and I f*ked a couple of them and I was able to get my account back two-three times," Kitty Lixo said, recommending others with locked accounts to continue reaching out to the platform for eventual ban reversal.
Show HN: Exploring how different AI prompts change outputs
by chooat | 2025-09-19 02:46:45+00:00
One of the recent sections I added is focused on “figurine-style” prompts — the kind that make an image look like a collectible toy or a commercial product photo. Here’s the page if you want to try it: [Nano Banana 3D Figurine Maker](https://editimg.ai/nano-banana-3d-figurine-maker).

The idea isn’t a model or API of my own — it’s more like a library of tested prompts. I found that structuring prompts as if you were briefing a photographer or product designer (“scale,” “packaging,” “studio lighting”) consistently improved results.
by BetterGeiger | 2025-09-19 02:47:10+00:00
Oh I didn't realize that worked with home assistant. It's a little different than a Geiger tube, that device uses a PIN diode and reacts to radiation interactions with the diode itself. Accuracy isn't great for dose but probably decent enough. Sensitivity is very very low, takes a while to get a reading. In theory it should be able to handle high dose rate levels but the spec sheet says it only measures to 1 mSv/hr which is pretty low, I don't know why. Their radon sensor is a different sensor tech, and CO2 and such is standard stuff pretty easy to implement.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-09-19 02:47:36+00:00
So, you don’t even know (or don’t want to admit) that:

- their models and all other open source models are based on Llama of Meta? Or is that a Chinese lab? Yes, Mark’s wife is Vietnamese-Chinese so maybe you will say that :D

- and that they extracted (distilled) data from OpenAI ChatGPT contravene to the very terms of usage. Even now, when asked DeepSeek often say “I’m ChatGPT, your helpful assistant …”

- in science, there is no generosity as you described. You publish or you perish. Everyone needs cross-validation and learn from the others.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-19 02:50:30+00:00
Or do what actually happened in the 20 years since that myth was actively doing the rounds: display HTML with sandboxed text/html viewers, as pine was doing back then, and as other systems eventually cottoned on to doing. By the time that the 2010s came along, the idea of sandboxing had taken root. Even in the middle 2000s, mail readers such as NEO and Eudora came with feature-reduced internal HTML viewers as an option instead of using the full HTML engine from a (contemporary) WWW browser that would do things like auto-fetch external images.

* https://www.emailorganizer.com/kb/T1014.php
by rdtsc | 2025-09-19 02:50:51+00:00
These are fun, I like that Encarta of the 1990s has it's own style -- Utopian Scholastic

https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic.

DK (Dorling Kindersley) and especially Stephen Biesty's books use it, a lot of software in the 90s used it. I wouldn't say today it's particularly interesting or special objectively, but I personally like it mostly because of nostalgia.
by Mawr | 2025-09-19 02:52:18+00:00
Yeah, I don't care about some non-profit or whatever. I care that the company thinks it's a-okay to demand from their customers 10x their yearly bill on the spot and to commit to 4x that yearly or else their data will be deleted in a few days. That's not an employee acting out of band, it's obviously their modus operandi.
by BetterGeiger | 2025-09-19 02:54:13+00:00
For staying safe you want high max range and energy-compensated dose response. No ultra cheap devices offer that, mine is the closest thing on the low end of price, but consider me biased... If anyone finds something to contradict that feel free to share, because it would be new info to me. Then there is the second hand market, for example mrad 113 is a good device that can sometimes be had for a reasonable price, probably there are other pro grade dosimeters on ebay for a reasonable price but I don't know follow that market closely.
by warofwords | 2025-09-19 02:54:41+00:00
What is terrifying ,

'the best pedagogy' ,

OpenAI parents are not allowing chatgpt to curate pedagogy ... we all have a bookshelf thats it (our pedagogy) ,

but copyright strategies means the ai must mutilate / offuscate way best padagogy away ... they train on it and effectively say dont sound that good , too good is copyrighted
by justastudent43 | 2025-09-19 02:55:06+00:00
Right now, Perplexity has a low-key student offer that’s honestly wild:

Comet Browser (their brand-new AI browser) Perplexity Pro FREE for 1 year $40 bonus in your pocket And the best part? No credit card required.

Here’s how you unlock it:

1. Verify that you’re a student. https://pplx.ai/aibrowser-students

2. Download Comet Browser, follow the link, it will guide you to perplexity.

3. Log in using the same verified student account.

4. Once inside, just ask the assistant: “How can I redeem my $40?” – it’ll guide you step by step on how to withdraw.

That’s literally it. You get a next-gen AI browser built for students, full Pro access to Perplexity, and $40 just for signing up.

If you’re a student, you’d be crazy to sleep on this.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-19 02:55:26+00:00
>> Then, suddenly, they called us 2 days ago and said they are going to de-activate the Hack Club Slack, including all message history from 11 years, unless we pay them $50,000 USD this week and $200,000 USD/year moving forward (plus additional annual fees for new accounts, including inactive ones)

> This was a mistake.

Calling a customer and extorting them for $50k USD this week and $200k USD per year going forward is not "a mistake."

It is a business decision which your organization made and did not expect to be held accountable for same.

> We appreciate you, Hack Club ...

You have a very different definition of "appreciate", unless you are using it in the accounting sense[0].

0 - https://accountinginsights.org/what-is-appreciation-in-accou...
by therein | 2025-09-19 02:55:28+00:00
Yeah, let's have a do-over of this thread. Nice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292260

Maybe someone can post the change log tomorrow and we can do it again.

I'm thinking over the weekend we could post the GitHub merge of these AI features so we can give Google even more exposure.

By Tuesday I hope someone will write a review of these features rehashing the same thing. I'd love to have that be upvoted to the top of HN again.
by wofo | 2025-09-19 02:55:49+00:00
I think the current grammar should be precise enough for that, though it's embedded in the source code as a comment and not in its own file (see https://github.com/kson-org/kson/blob/857d585ef26d9f73e080b5...). It probably can't be fed verbatim into a parser generator, but anyone who reads the parser's source code should have an easy time writing a parser by hand for their programming language of choice (heck, they might even have an LLM translate the original parser into whatever language they want, once there is a comprehensive conformance test suite to validate the resulting code).

All in all, I'm confident that KSON can become ubiquitous despite the limitations of the current implementation (provided it catches on, of course).
by standardUser | 2025-09-19 02:56:18+00:00
There's no sensible rail options for a lot of the US. Putting aside the vast suburbs and exurbs (which can and sometimes do make use of rail), much of this country lives in thousands of small towns, many of them isolated and economically insignificant. And they tend to have aging populations who need transit options. Rail will never solve transportation for that population, but robotaxis can.
by taeric | 2025-09-19 02:57:01+00:00
Ok, the idea that "north is up" is potentially a consequential thing is somewhat fair. In that it is not just dismissable out of hand.

That said, it is pretty silly. And asserting it is meaningful philosophically reeks of agenda pushing.

It is also just going to be an outdated concern faster than makes sense. Most kids are growing up used to computer maps in navigation devices, and those, by far, default to "up" being "straight ahead." Because they can.
by phil21 | 2025-09-19 02:59:22+00:00
These two topics are not remotely the same or even in the same league.

In fact you could very easily argue that the reliance on HFCS which is native grown and keeps a huge amount of tillable land in production is a national security asset. It keeps farmers (and thus the institutional knowledge that can easily be switched to other crops in dire emergency) in business vs. importing a product from overseas to replace it.

If the argument was removing sugar from most products - sure! But it's not like "banning" HFCS is going to change anything when you simply switch it out for beet or cane sugar instead. It's the sugar, not the slight difference in molecules, that cause the health problems. The only real health argument against HFCS is that it's so cheap it ends up in everything. But that likely has more to do with the war on fats from past eras than much else.

I don't want to go too far down the rabbit hole on this topic, but in the context of national security HFCS vs. Cane Sugar is a clear win.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-19 03:01:57+00:00
I've been a consumer founder for 8 years (I think) and have been in deep-tech for about 14, and neurotech/hardware for the last 5. I applied to YC 16 times!!!

My previous start-up was acquired

Our technology is in use in clinical trials. We've begun pre-sales, and are in selection of contract manufacturer.

I only decided to apply for the next round last night. Would it be ok if I ask to get your opinion on a few of the application questions? When we get to that point? Probably not for a few weeks.

We're fortunate that our hardware engineer and industrial engineer both have extensive experience in manufacturing.
by Mawr | 2025-09-19 03:02:53+00:00
It's not your place to attempt to moderate perfectly reasonable posts just because the overall "feel" of the conversation seems off to you. The parent post is fine, stay in your lane.

As an aside, there's plenty of hardly subtle trolling you're letting by on the daily, usually the older the user somehow the more leeway there seems to be, so I'd suggest you focus your moderating attention on that.
by com2kid | 2025-09-19 03:03:08+00:00
Paper get lost, it gets wet, it gets blown around it not weighed down, and when weighed down it then quickly gets covered with things.

Prepping raw ingredients, once has to be careful not to contaminate paper, or at least the thing weighing the paper down that may be covering the next step.

I cook a lot of food, and having hands free access to steps is a killer feature. I don't even need the AI, just the ability to pull up a recipe and scroll through it using the wrist controller they showed off would be a noticeable, albeit small, improvement to my life multiple times per week.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-19 03:03:42+00:00
There are Maori people who want to favor their own race based on the belief that they have more rights than other races due to their ancestry. They call themselves "people of the land" to distinguish themselves from "people of the treaty" - or people whose ancestors signed up for those rights instead of inheriting them. This is a widely popular belief. So even by your definition, that's racist. It doesn't just stop being racist when there are also people of other races believing the same thing.
by orwin | 2025-09-19 03:04:54+00:00
> Paradoxically, "The Church" was against this idea and it only came about after the Protestant Reformation and the ensuing Thirty Years War.

No. Search for "Alby's crusade", directly from the Romain church, spain crusades, and Bleda's Expulsion of moriscos (it's clearly a catholic priest idea, but it's not the church as an institution here).
by maxbond | 2025-09-19 03:04:59+00:00
WEIRD is not pejorative in TFA. There's no problem being WEIRD. I am WEIRD. What's alleged in TFA is that AI, as it's currently deployed, is implicitly chauvinistic towards perspectives other than WEIRD. This sort of thing has historically been a problem with AI/ML and automation in general. The classic example is cameras deploying autofocus features that fail on non-white faces (which has happened several times).

Poorly considered automation can create frictionless experiences for some and Kafkaesque experiences for the rest, where systems refuse to accept your atypical name, your atypical style of speaking is flagged as an indicator of fraud, etc. Automating processes involving people necessarily makes assumptions about those people, and such assumptions are often brittle.

For example, it's easy to imagine a resume filtering AI being implicitly prejudiced against people from Fictionalstan, because it was only trained on a few resumes from Fictionalstan and most of those happened to be classified as "unqualified". This is a danger anytime you have a small number of samples from any particular group, because it's easy for small sample sizes to be overwhelmed by bad luck.

In general I think these types of issues are best viewed as software bugs. It's a clearer and more actionable perspective than as ideological issues. If the software isn't serving some of our end users properly, let's just fix it and move on.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-19 03:05:34+00:00
I'm struggling to think of any way to test the hypothesis which is (A) practical and (B) accurate.

For example, suppose you sampled a group today and found an inverse-correlation between "good at recognizing many faces" and "good at recognizing written text"... That still wouldn't show that one facility grew causing the other to shrink, because maybe people are just born (or early-development-ed) with a certain bias.
by red369 | 2025-09-19 03:06:30+00:00
Off topic, but prompted by your 911 comment.

I had a couple of friends buy cars at the same time - one bought a new Subaru, and the other a used 997 Porsche 911. The 911 cost more, but not a large difference in price. In that part of the world, the Subaru (and almost all new cars) loses 40% in the first year in depreciation, and continues to drop off at 10% - 15% per year. The 911 has more expensive maintenance and insurance, but has so far, and could easily continue to be depreciation-proof. The difference in fuel is less than you might think too given how much lighter (and risky in crashes) older smaller cars are. So far the 911 has turned out to be by far the more sensible financial decision. Obviously there are much more financially-prudent alternatives to both, but I find it interesting how older interesting cars are looked at as frivolous purchases, but new utilitarian cars aren't.

Your comment was presumably talking about new or expensive 911s, and I don't want to criticise what you said at all. I just wanted to say something to hopefully encourage some people to consider sillier, more-fun cars as perhaps not a crazy option.

There are a million practicality reasons why this wont work out for most people, but a lot of families have two cars. I really like seeing the 2nd car being something in that realm of interesting but nearly as reliable, costs more in maintenance but less in depreciation, less practical but more enjoyable. It feels to me like that has gotten less common, and a lot of people think every vehicle needs to be as practical as possible.
by guerby | 2025-09-19 03:07:00+00:00
From just a single exchange you can reach up to 1 million messages of order book change per second

https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/snippets/inet2.html

Message Volume 1,684,103,265 Messages per Second 1,134,640 Order Volume 871,875,595 Orders per Second 581,696 Share Volume 12,814,454,760 Executions per Second 193,350

Also if you look at equity derivative products which have parameters like type call/put, strike, maturity can be hundreds of financial products for one underlying stock.

I worked in this sector and volume of data is a real challenge, no wonder you often get custom software to handle that :)
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-19 03:09:50+00:00
> wondered if I should consider converting to Catholicism

You’re not alone. This is one very conscious motivation for the beauty of Catholic art (not the only motive, but a very real one). Beauty is intelligible and leads the mind upward, toward its ultimate source. Beauty is understood as a transcendental, along with the good, the true, and unity, which is to say, being understood from different perspectives.

In other words, beauty has been an instrument for leading people toward conversion for a long time. There’s even the term “apostolate of beauty” [0].

[0] https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec...
by eszed | 2025-09-19 03:10:49+00:00
Strongly recommend Casa Batllo - it's magnificent. It pulls off this trick of being slightly surreal, but yet completely cozy. There's not a single inch of it that isn't unique and interesting to look at, and yet far from being visually overwhelming, it's immensely restful. I'd move into it tomorrow.

All that said, if they still have the LED-installation at the exit - and if you're like me, and a little sensitive to visual stimuli - avoid that at all costs. It is 360° (or more? I think it's the floor and ceiling, too) of flashing lights and sound, which reduced me to a catatonic state, squatting in the corner with my eyes tight shut and my hands pressed over my ears. It was almost, but not quite (which says something for how good the house itself is), enough to ruin the experience.
by mrheosuper | 2025-09-19 03:10:50+00:00
>To get Intel CPUs to the same level of power efficiency that M-series CPUs have would require a full rework of the entire CPU infrastructure and external stack, that would require money that even Intel at its best frankly did not have

Intel, at one of its lowest low, still come up with lunar lake, which is not as efficiency as Apple M, but still, quite impressive.

I bet if they were focus on mobile when they are at their peak, they could come up with something similar to Apple M
by thelock85 | 2025-09-19 03:11:08+00:00
I have been doing a lot of solo tinkering around this very idea —contextualizing learning for every middle school through college student according to their career and personal interests. Props for this team for actual piloting with real students. What I’ve found however is that students’ interests (in terms of novel engagement) move at the speed of culture. It’s the quirky TikTok personality, the local slang, aura farming memes and other stuff I hardly understand at my age. So really it boils down to how you decrease the lag time between creation of students’ cultural phenomena and updating/tuning models to account for this new (or localized) information. It also requires a UI/UX that accurately flags what part of this information students actually engage with —an even harder tasks since kids can’t write or communicate this type of information in language LLMs draw patterns from (if they can write descriptively at all). Great teachers who are in constant socioemotional and cultural exchange with their students figure this out at the classroom level… not sure it’s a solution that technology can replicate at scale but it’s still fun to tinker.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-19 03:11:10+00:00
Indeed, USSR casualties (including civilians) were off the charts. USSR, then China, then Germany and then Indonesia. [0] 'Russian blood' part is something of an understatement.

The lend lease part is not correct. Lend lease went mostly to UK (Google AI says about 60% of lend lease went to UK & the rest of lend lease was split between USSR & China. Take that with a grain of salt)

Not to be taken with a grant of salt, according to wikipedia: "Most tank units were Soviet-built models but about 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks (plus more than 5,000 British tanks) were used by the Red Army, eight percent of war-time production. " [1]

Also per wikipedia, USSR produced about 30k light tanks, 65k medium tanks (eg: t-34), and 13k heavy tanks. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#/media...

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_combat_vehicle_producti...
by Teknomadix | 2025-09-19 03:11:14+00:00
Long ago I used a Nokia N900 running Maemo Mobile Linux. Later I tried the N9 running MeeGo Harmatten. Thes were the first true "Smart Phone" devices I encountered. Sadly the Microsoft involvement in Nokia's affairs led to their demise. It's really bummer that Jolla hasn't expanded into the North American market. I would buy a Jolla phone in an instant.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-19 03:11:17+00:00
> we might think of what we are doing as digital painting rather than photography.

Yet there is somehow some sort of value in it being photography instead of digital painting. You see pictures where there photographer carefully planned for when the moon would be in just the right place next to some building or mountain, even travelling to strange places where such effects occur and patiently waiting for the right moment so they could take a photo that looks just the way they want it. It would have been much easier to just photograph the moon and the mountain separately then combine them on the computer. I want to understand the motivation for doing it the hard way. Is it the feeling of accomplishment for doing a difficult task? It can't be that it's more honest because telephoto lenses and other photography tricks make it less realistic, and can make the feeling different from what anyone actually experiences looking at it.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-19 03:12:42+00:00
Similar threads today, sorted by number of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292260

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292163

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292637

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45296416
by spagettnet | 2025-09-19 03:13:40+00:00
depends ln your goals of course. but worth mentioning there are plenty of narrowish tasks (think text-to-sql, and other less general language tasks) where llama8b or phi-4 (14b) or even up to 30b with quantization can be trained on 8xa100 with great results. plus these smaller models benefit from being able to be served on a single a100 or even L4 with post training quantization, with wicked fast generation thanks to the lighter model.

on a related note, at what point are people going to get tired of waiting 20s for an llm to answer their questions? i wish it were more common for smaller models to be used when sufficient.