MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daviedesign | 2025-09-17 23:56:08+00:00
I started in the creative industry over 20 years ago. I've worked for large agencies and small branding shops, creating designs for Fortune 500 companies and local businesses across nearly every industry. I've designed everything from branding projects and websites to UI/UX, mobile apps, as well as motion design projects, working with clients from Alaska to Sydney.

I've collaborated with tons of talented people over the years. Everywhere I've worked, I've tried to simplify processes and organize workflows so we could focus on the actual creative work. Now I want to use all that experience to start something new.

The result is OsoDesign, my new AI-supercharged design studio. It's me plus a few selected experienced designers (if you're a senior designer and would like to join, send me an email). What sets us apart is how we integrate AI tools throughout our process, making the process more efficient and delivering work faster while keeping human creativity at the center. We are currently building and testing two internal tools: Oso Preflight and Oso Lab, but I'm constantly thinking about new custom tools that help designers focus entirely on what they do best: creative work and bringing ideas to life.

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by perching_aix | 2025-09-17 23:56:35+00:00
This makes sense in principle, but is not really what this is primarily about. Or at least I'm not aware of such excessive disparities, and haven't heard this being the primary angle.

Consider Charlie (penguinz0 / MoistCritikal). Hardly a techtuber. Despite this, he has seen a drop in computer-originating views to the tune of 1.4M (avg, eyeballed) -> 800K (avg, eyeballed): https://youtu.be/8FUJwXeuCGc?t=290

Lots of people use adblockers, sure, even those not terminally online and tech enthusiast. But to have nearly half the (computer-originating) views evaporate? https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users

Even from that perspective though, what would be the dominant effect then is the share of computer-originating views compared to other origins, rather than a disparity in adblock use habits for the given audience.
by xp84 | 2025-09-17 23:57:19+00:00
Nobody has provided any evidence that I've seen that the murderer was motivated by a right-wing anything, and frankly as the least logical conclusion it needs sources. I read that the person who turned him in (or an acquaintance) said that he was the only leftist in a family of hard right people. [Apologies for the lack of source; I read it as news was breaking and don't have the link]

It's a nonsensical argument that the attack was random. It's farfetched that it was for some unrelated-to-politics reason given that these men as far as we know had no connection to each other, and it's nonsensical to believe that someone beloved by most people in the right wing would be targeted by a fellow right-winger.

If someone like AOC or Bernie Sanders was viciously attacked at an event, you can't tell me that you would accept an unsourced assertion that "it was actually a marxist that harmed them."
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-17 23:57:24+00:00
> The ABC late-night host’s remarks constituted “the sickest conduct possible,” FCC chair Brendan Carr told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Wednesday. Carr suggested his FCC could move to revoke ABC affiliate licenses as a way to force Disney to punish Kimmel.

Regardless of what Kimmel said and if you think it was appropriate or not, we are seeing this administration use this as an opportunity to trample on the free speech rights of everyone they disagree with. If everyone's rights are not protected, then nobody's are.
by dogmatism | 2025-09-17 23:57:46+00:00
The application does present some data: 41% sensitivity, 92% specificity, but that's not the basis of approval, nor has it been published in a peer reviewed journal (or even with proper details like a table 1 or detailed description of control BP measurement methods, or even what "FDA approved" home device and protocol was used for reference)

Even assuming the device performs exactly as described (difficult to say given the paucity of presented data) the performance characteristics are the opposite of what you want in a screening test.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-17 23:58:03+00:00
The first caveat or the second one?

Remember the original argument was "I think public transit will continue to dominate in parts of the world where it currently dominates" I'm taking that and strengthening it to a significant expansion of transit, but obviously not everywhere can do transit.

If the lanes on the road can fill up, you have enough traffic to sustain some busses.

In emptier areas that's a pretty different discussion, but importantly you still wouldn't need to design around cars. Slap in a very basic road and it'll handle all the cars fine.
by prewett | 2025-09-17 23:58:28+00:00
I guess I’m just a crusty ol’ greybeard C++ developer, but it seems like a video editor is out of place in a document browser. There’s a perfectly good native operating system that nobody uses any more.

If we think we need a more thoroughly virtualized machine than traditional operating system processes give us (which I think is obvious), then we should be honest and build a virtualization abstraction that is actually what we want, rather than converting a document reader into a video editor…
by rallyvite | 2025-09-17 23:58:39+00:00
Tore my achilles recently, had surgery (4th major), which reminded me of the love letters I wrote years ago before my first to be delivered in case I didn't wake up. Wondered, do others think about such morbid things and the responsibility in my case to also convey various contacts and information about our affairs my spouse isn't fully on top of?

TL;DR: I told this idea to my college freshman son who built A Final Message to deliver private letters and instructions only if user goes silent. It’s privacy-first (client-side encryption), fail-safe (cooldowns + guardian approvals), and exportable (no vendor lock-in).

Why Password spreadsheets and “email after I die” scripts are brittle and risky. I wanted something my family could trust without trusting me (or a single server) to be online forever.

Vibe coded with tech stack: Git > Vercel integrating Twilio, Sendgrid, Stripe and features like split-key release by user's option, cron driven automated check-in alerts.

Would love feedback on current pricing, vulnerabilities to worry about and target markets for kid to focus on.
by pitpatagain | 2025-09-17 23:58:43+00:00
It's already clear that there is no possible timeline in which they actually remove safety drivers by the end of the year, it's such a joke.

The weird thing is that between the extremely underwhelming tiny supervised test they run in Austin and the nonsensical permitting games they want to play in California, they don't really seem like a company that actually wants to launch a robotaxi.
by jldugger | 2025-09-17 23:59:19+00:00
IDK your age group, but there's tons of nostalgic references and easter eggs. The game appears to be based on the Super Mario Odyssey engine, and the way Nintendo generally approaches the "all ages" problem is to make the plot easy, with tons of optional challenges and a set of hard levels in the "post-game" content. But I'm not very far in yet, so I can't promise anything on that front.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-17 23:59:38+00:00
The desire to not catch a (arguably deserved in some individual cases) bullet is an incredibly unifying sentiment on both sides of the isle and between the elected officials, the permanent bureaucracy and those aspiring to be either.

It just baffles me that people think they can say things that "turn up the heat" or "endorse the furtherance of current trends" and not expect some part of system (including big companies that more or less operate at the pleasure of regulators/government) to turn right back around and attack them.

I'm not saying I expect everyone to be as jaded as me, but know where your pay comes from.

Edit: Looks like Kimmel didn't say anything specific endorsing it and my last sentence was accurate more than I wanted it to be.
by jefftk | 2025-09-17 23:59:40+00:00
This is very much not true: Google has a bunch of options for measuring ad effectiveness, and when I was there (until three years ago) it was very hard to get advertisers to use them.

The two main options advertisers have are:

* Brand Lift Studies: split audience into treatment and control, use surveys on a small fraction of participants to measure impact

* Conversion Lift: again split audience into treatment and control, compare downstream actions like purchases ("conversions")

These both work on YouTube IIRC.
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-09-18 00:00:11+00:00
This is impressive.

Here is the published 2025 ICPC World Finals problemset. The "Time limit: X seconds" printed on each ICPC World Finals problem is the maximum runtime your program is allowed. If any judged run of your program takes longer than that, the submission fails, even if other runs finish in time.

https://worldfinals.icpc.global/problems/2025/finals/problem...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-18 00:00:59+00:00
It's really odd how many people on hn are pro china. Why? They are not good guys. At all.

In moral terms they are so far behind the West they are in a different team. (and don't throw in disingenous deflections like gaza and whatever, those are orders of magnitude less bad then China) The West is full of freedom and the pursuit of happiness and wealth. China isn't.

Nobody here is pro Russia or Iran, or even particularly pro India. So why is Communist China different?
by wikipedia | 2025-09-18 00:01:13+00:00
Not sure we can confidently state how the shooter feels about firearms one way or the other at this time. As of right now, we know the rifle used in the murder was an x/years_old family heirloom that was given to the suspect as a gift but the police have not shared anything substantive beyond those details.

We are likely to hear more about the shooters position on firearms at a more granular scale at trial as prosecutors build a profile of Robinson that will be presented to the jury.

Violent crimes are generally impulsive - the accessibility of the firearm absolutely lent itself to the murder occurring but being in possession of a rifle, in general, doesn't offer much genuine insight beyond speculation.
by m463 | 2025-09-18 00:01:48+00:00
waiting for... doesn't work when feet are wet.

Honestly, I think *-by-wire technology can exist, but I don't think it should be trusted to cost-reduction-at-any-cost manufacturers.

I've heard the cybertruck steer-by-wire has a control lag. And then there's the no-mechanical-escape door handles.
by smelendez | 2025-09-18 00:01:50+00:00
> Even expert negotiators struggle with airport Rolex purchases. You might get 30-35% off other luxury watch brands at airports, but with Rolex, expect 20% or less – “probably less” as industry experts say. Many frequent flyers say they’ve never seen any Rolex discounts at airports.

I wouldn’t have realized you could negotiate price on anything sold in the airport. I didn’t know you could negotiate on new, high end watches in general, though, to be honest.

And yeah, I’ve never understood the people who buy duty free booze, etc. The prices never looked particularly good, and it’s going to be another thing to wrangle and schlep home when you land. I always assumed it was targeted at people from other countries with higher prices.
by godelski | 2025-09-18 00:02:03+00:00
I was able to get around such restrictions pretty easily[0] while the LLM still being quite aware of who we're talking about. You can see it was pretty willing to do the task without much prodding despite prefacing with some warnings. I specifically chose the most contentious topic I could think of: Taiwan.

Regardless, I think this is besides the point. Isn't our main concerns:

1) not having kneejerk reactions and dismissing or accepting claims without some evidence? (What Lxe did)

2) Censorship crosses country lines and we may be unaware of what is being censored and what isn't, impacting our usage of these tools and the results from them?

Both of these are quite concerning to me. #1 is perpetuating the post truth era, making truth more difficult to discern. #2 is more subtle and we should try to be aware of these biases, regardless of if they are malicious or unintentional. It's a big reason I push for these models to be open. Not just open weights, but open about the data and the training. Unfortunately the result of #2 is likely to contribute to #1.

Remember, I'm asking other people to help verify or discredit the WP's claims. I'm not taking a position on who is good: China or the US. I'm trying to make us think deeper. I'm trying to stop a culture of just making assumptions and pulling shit out of our ass. If something is verifiable, shouldn't we try to verify it? The weaker claim is almost trivial to verify, right? Which is all I did. But I need help to verify or discredit the stronger claim. So are you helping me do that or are you just perpetuating disinformation campaigns?

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/68cb49f8-bff0-8013-830f-17b4792029...
by jjfoooo4 | 2025-09-18 00:02:25+00:00
I expected Kimmel to have somehow criticized Kirk, a dubious enough reason to pull the show. But this isn’t even that. Comments quoted in stories assert that the shooter was MAGA - maybe that’s somewhat controversial, but it’s ludicrous to suggest it’s offensive.

That paired with comments criticizing the Dear Leader were enough. This is a new low in corporate cowardice toward Trump bullying.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-18 00:02:40+00:00
> Is there a way to recover a shared ground of truth? Or are stories too deeply ingrained in how humans process information?

the older i get, the more i read of history, and the worse things become, the more sympathetic i am to those who argue that armed revolution is the only catalyst for dramatic change.

and i hate that.

i don't want to live in a violent country. i don't want my neighbors to live in fear because of the color of their skin or their nationality or their accent. i don't want to have a reasonable quality of life tied to whatever employer will give me health care. and i don't want to hurt another person - anyone.

but i just don't see a peaceful de-escalation happening; i don't see any kind of de-escalation happening until enough people decide the profit motive is the wrong motive in all situations and that we need to drastically change the way we interact with the world and one another.

:(
by hajile | 2025-09-18 00:03:17+00:00
The frontend would be so much better if Eich had shipped scheme.

ES6 wouldn’t have been needed. CSS-in-JS would have become standard decades ago. HTML would have almost disappeared too because parsing s-expressions would have been native. JSON would never been invented either due to S-expr.

In short, everything about the modern web would have appeared decades sooner and been more consistent.
by rgblambda | 2025-09-18 00:04:33+00:00
I once did a corporate internal management course that was filled with pseudoscience bullshit. I imagine the impact of that course on the company's productivity was net negative. I'm sure lots of orgs have similar courses.

Learning styles have also been debunked for decades though they continue to be used in education. I saw an amusing line in an article that said 90% of teachers were happy to continue using them even after accepting they're nonsense.

And that's just theories that have been debunked (i.e. proven wrong).
by mvx64 | 2025-09-18 00:04:54+00:00
Understandable. That's kind of the goal, the gameplay is very shallow complexity-wise, so raw responses/difficulty is one way to put some playing time into it.

There are some methods that help a lot, like keeping a completely perpendicular or parallel viewing direction, and adjusting the distance with the corresponding set of thrusters. Even slight angles mean you have to randomly mash forward/backward/left/right and hope to keep a steady orbit, it's not gonna happen.

For what it's worth, even for me now, it would take more than 10 tries probably to beat Master on Mission 1.
Aiwaf: An AI-Powered Web Application Firewall for Django/Flask
by aayushgauba | 2025-09-18 00:05:23+00:00
AIWAF is an open source Web Application Firewall built to go beyond static regex rules and simple rate limiting, which often break down when traffic patterns change or attackers adapt. Instead of relying only on hardcoded blacklists, AIWAF adds anomaly detection for abnormal request patterns, honeypot fields with timing analysis to catch bots, dynamic keyword detection to spot suspicious payloads that don’t appear on predefined lists, and adaptive IP/keyword blocking backed by CSV or database storage.

It currently works as middleware for Django and Flask and is meant to be easy to drop into existing projects without heavy configuration. The project is still early, and I’d love feedback from the community on what would make this better, whether the next focus should be deeper ML-based detection or support for additional frameworks, and how important integrations with existing tools like fail2ban or ModSecurity would be. Project site: https://aiwaf.org/
by roadside_picnic | 2025-09-18 00:05:37+00:00
> whereas the teams are allowed to bring a 25-page PDF

This is where I see the biggest issue. LLMs are first-and-foremost text compression algorithms. They have a compressed version of a very good chunk of human writing.

After being text compression engines, LLMs are really good at interpolating text based on the generalization induced by the lossy compression.

What this result really tells us is that, given a reasonably well compressed corpus of human knowledge, the ICPC can be view as an interpolation task.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-09-18 00:05:37+00:00
> Think of the possibilities!

Schulman’s Unauthorized Windows 95 describes a particularly unhinged one: in the hypervisor of Windows/386 (and subsequently 386 Enhanced Mode in Windows 3.0 and 3.1, as well as the only available mode in 3.11, 95, 98, and Me), a driver could dynamically register upcalls for real-mode guests (within reason), all without either exerting control over the guest’s memory map or forcing the guest to do anything except a simple CALL to access it. The secret was that all the far addresses returned by the registration API referred to the exact same byte in memory, a protected-mode-only instruction whose attempted execution would trap into the hypervisor, and the trap handler would determine which upcall was meant by which of the redundant encodings was used.

And if that’s not unhinged enough for you: the boot code tried to locate the chosen instruction inside the firmware ROM, because that will have to be mapped into the guest memory map anyway. It did have a fallback if that did not work out, but it usually succeeded. This time, the secret (the knowledge of which will not make you happier, this is your final warning) is that the instruction chosen was ARPL, and the encoding of ARPL r/m16, AX starts with 63 hex, also known as the ASCII code of the lowercase letter C. The absolute madmen put the upcall entry point inside the BIOS copyright string.

(Incidentally, the ARPL instruction, “adjust requested privilege level”, is very specific to the 286’s weird don’t-call-it-capability-based segmented architecture... But it’s has a certain cunning to it, like CPU-enforced __user tagging of unprivileged addresses at runtime.)
by billmcneale | 2025-09-18 00:05:59+00:00
> if (customer?.Profile is not null) >{ > // Null-coalescing (??) > customer.Profile.Avatar = request.Avatar ?? "./default-avatar.jpg"; >}

Isn't this over engineered? Why not allow the assignment but do nothing if any of the intermediate objects is null (that's how Kotlin does it).
by fluoridation | 2025-09-18 00:06:03+00:00
To clarify, I'm not interested in debating the skills of any particular programmer. My sole point is that lambdas didn't bring any new ways of mismatching lifetimes. That programmer could have made the exact same mistake with a functor instead and it wouldn't have changed anything.

>I expect nothing less than technical excellence from my tooling.

Good luck with that.
by Grosvenor | 2025-09-18 00:07:00+00:00
> wonder how many historical parallels exist and what the outcomes were; IE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_colors_(Japan) - which I think lead to a flourishing of clothing design for commoners

So that’s where the name of that David sylvian / ryuichi sakamoto song came from.

I always thought it was just a throw away from the subject matter.
by chpatrick | 2025-09-18 00:07:03+00:00
It doesn't say anywhere that Gemini used any of those things at ICPC, or that it used more real-world time than the humans.

Also, who cares? It's a self contained non-human system that could solve an ICPC problem it hasn't seen before on its own, which hasn't been achieved before.

If there was a savant human contestant with photographic memory who could remember every previous ICPC problem verbatim and can think really fast you wouldn't say they're cheating, just that they're really smart. Same here.

If there was a man behind the curtain that was somehow making this not an AI achievement then you would have a point, but there isn't.
by nabla9 | 2025-09-18 00:07:23+00:00
Stop criticizing large corporations as moral entities. They have no other incentives other than money. Corporations are amoral (not good or bad). Only money matters.

South Park can go on because they make money. Talk-shows are already dying and cutting them is easy choice even under mild pressure.

The value talk they use is PR aimed at stakeholders (customers, employees, government). No company has taken a stance where they willingly accept net negative returns if they have other choice.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-09-18 00:07:30+00:00
I don't feel this is going to be as big of a problem as one might think in practice.

The biggest contributor to pointer arithmetic is offset reads into pointers: what gets generated for struct field accesses.

The other class of cases are when you're actually doing more general pointer arithmetic - usually scanning across a buffer. These are cases that typically get loop unrolled to some degree by the compiler to improve pipeline efficiency on the CPU.

In the first case, you can avoid the masking entirely by using an unmapped barrier region after the mapped region. So you can guarantee that if pointer `P` is valid, then `P + d` for small d is either valid, or falls into the barrier region.

In the second case, the barrier region approach lets you lift the mask check to the top of the unrolled segment. There's still a cost, but it's spread out over multiple iterations of a loop.

As a last step: if you can prove that you're stepping monotonically through some address space using small increments, then you can guarantee that even if theoretically the "end" of the iteration might step into invalid space, that the incremental stepping is guaranteed to hit the unmapped barrier region before that occurs.

It's a bit more engineering effort on the compiler side.. and you will see some small delta of perf loss, but it would really be only in the extreme cases of hot paths where it should come into play in a meaningful way.