MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AuthAuth | 2025-09-04 02:23:25+00:00
My smart TV is more annoying than helpful. When I plug in my steamdeck or raspberry pi it thinks a windows computer is being plugged in an tries to run Samsung dex/windows thing and register the computer. I have to wait 10s for it to finish then press back on the remote.

So annoying and there is no way to remove this or toggle it off. Oh yeah and when I open the menu to scroll the different inputs or apps there are ads. Paid a few thousand for this thing and it still shows me ads.
by xbmcuser | 2025-09-04 02:23:29+00:00
For me this is the biggest disconnect the current level of AI/level is not good enough for replacing devs but is good enough to automate a lot of office work ie managers that would have cost to much time and effort to automate before. I think google seems to understand this a bit as they have replaced a lot of middle management because of AI and not as many developers.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-04 02:24:37+00:00
Would it more correct to change this

> LLMs can get me up to speed on new APIs and libraries far faster than I can myself

To this?

> LLMs can get me up to speed on old APIs and old libraries that are new to me far faster than I can myself

My experience is if the library/API/tool is new then the LLM can't help. But maybe I'm using it wrong.
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-04 02:24:38+00:00
I basically agree with the post and it's similar to what I was saying in comments on another post a few days ago. Trying to impose piecemeal conditions on monopolists is more trouble than it's worth. They should just be forcibly dismantled.

There's a deeper problem with the way antitrust seems to work, though: it doesn't adequately deter prohibited acts, because in many cases the penalty is just that the bad actor has to stop doing what they were doing. This is a pervasive feature of punishment in "white collar crime" and civil suits for various kinds of regulatory violations. It's like, if you engaged in anticompetitive practices, the punishment is you have to stop doing that, and yeah maybe you pay a fine, but the biggest worst thing that can happen is they take away your monopoly after you've gotten the benefits of using it for a while.

We need to take the approach that everything derived from anticompetitive practices is ill-gotten gains. If you were a monopoly, everything you did as a monopoly is tainted and the proper remedy is a total rollback in all your gains since the beginning of your anticompetitive acts, plus penalties on top of that. This includes penalties against the individuals who directed and enabled the illegal practices (e.g., a personal fine against Sundar Pichai of several hundred million dollars).

What this means is that if Google has held a browser monopoly since, say, 2010, the punishment needs to be that they wind up worse off now than they would have been had they done the right thing and voluntarily taken pro-competitive actions at all times from 2010 until now. Everything they've gained from their monopolistic practices, every success they've built on that, every penny they've earned, every piece of IP they've glommed onto, every scrap of data they've collected --- all of it is forfeit. It may be that certain specific areas could be shown to be sufficiently insulated from the monopolistic practices to avoid such treatment, but the burden of proof is on Google to show that; the assumption should be that everything they accomplished with their monopoly power is poisoned by that wrong.

The penalties need to be so brutal that companies will bend over backwards to avoid becoming monopolies. As long as the penalties can be treated as just a cost of doing business, companies will continue to cheat.
by level3 | 2025-09-04 02:25:43+00:00
You only need to buy it at the airport if you want a Welcome Suica. You can buy a regular Suica at any station with a multi-function machine.

The only real differences between the Welcome Suica and a regular one are the 500 yen deposit (Welcome Suica doesn't require a deposit) and the limited validity (Welcome Suica automatically expires after about a month).
by BrenBarn | 2025-09-04 02:26:12+00:00
You can do some, but many of them have license restrictions that prevent you from using them in certain ways. I can buy an Intel chip and deliberately use it to do things that hurt Intel's business (e.g., start a competing company). The big AI companies are trying very hard to make that kind of thing impossible by imposing constraints on the allowed uses of their models.
by WantonQuantum | 2025-09-04 02:26:29+00:00
That's quite a read! Looks like emacs has done an amazing job of handling text correctly in the face of quite a few challenges. Including cases where there perhaps is no "correct" choice.

Now, I'm certainly not in the "all C code must be rewritten in Rust because security" camp but it does raise the question: With all this complexity how do I know that pasting text from a web page into emacs (or any editor really) isn't going to trigger an undiscovered vulnerability?

Edit: I guess that's rhetorical question because of course the answer is "you don't".
by thecolorblue | 2025-09-04 02:26:39+00:00
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, Python, Postgres, LLMs, computer vision, bioinformatics, ecommerce, SaaS Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuq8KB2uVcMB0l5zJR-8Nruca_OgRQpIkVX1Dv-p9s4/edit?usp=sharing Email: brad.bdavis1@gmail.com

Hello! I am software engineer with 13 years of experience with javascript, and 6 with typescript and python. About half of my career has been as a front end developer, and the last 6 have been as a full stack developer. I have done a little bit of everything, from ecommerce, to software as a service, to bioinformatics and genomics R&D.
by maxwelljxyz | 2025-09-04 02:27:40+00:00
I remember getting the email from Proton, saying "here's our fancy new AI assistant!". I've always liked them but Lumo has made me question things. They advertise it as open source, and yet there wasn't any links to source code on their website when I checked. Would be nice if Proton open sourced more of their backend things.
by cnst | 2025-09-04 02:27:52+00:00
Google's support article is wrong/misleading. You can uninstall all app updates for Chrome. You can disable Chrome. Once disabled, it cannot run again, unless you expressly enable it. It's basically equivalent to an uninstall for most purposes.

The latest trend in OS design are an immutable system partition, so, obviously, you cannot modify the underlying system image, neither on macOS, nor iOS, nor Android, but what evidence do you have that doing an overlay disable isn't enough?

I've been using Android for years, and have not seen funny business after I disable Chrome. You can use Brave or Vivaldi or Yandex Browser or Opera in place of Chrome at all times. Or Firefox in many cases. I routinely have fully functioning test devices with stock Android without any Google Accounts or any Chrome. Everything just works the way it should. Including the banking apps installed through Aurora Store through F-Droid, as well as the streaming apps like Amazon Prime Video etc. Again, all of this works without a Google Account in any way on my side as an end-user, and it's expected to continue working even in 2027 even if the trial they've announced goes through worldwide. It works on any Pixel device, it works on any Motorola device, it even works on Samsung, too.
by boothby | 2025-09-04 02:27:55+00:00
> The mass hysteria among SVPs and PMs is absolutely insane right now, I've never seen anything like it.

This isn't entirely foreign to me; it sure looks a lot like the hype train of the dot-com bubble. My experience says that if you're holding stocks in a company going down this road, I'd say they have very low long-term value. Even if you think there's room to grow, bubbles pop fast and hard.
by al_borland | 2025-09-04 02:28:23+00:00
Not only data breaches, but people skimming or copying the card. I went to a restaurant a while ago and some random employee decided to grab our bill to “help out”, not our waitress. I was splitting the bill with someone else and both our cards had fraudulent charges in the following days. I still find it crazy that we let waitstaff walk away with our cards in the US.

One of my cards is very thick and metal. I found that one had fraud on it at a much higher rate than any of the plastic cards I’ve had. It was heavy to the point that it would get comments from about 40% of the people I handed it to. I can only theorize, but my guess is that card signaled a higher value and was more likely to draw the attention of someone who may care to go on a spending spree.

While I can report the issues and get a refund and a new card, it was always a real hassle. Since I stopped carrying that card and use it exclusively online, I don’t think I’ve had a single incident in several years. I used to have it happen about once per quarter.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-04 02:30:12+00:00
Also Maxim Kachurovskiy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFw8G95LGo

Someday when I have time, after I fix my little rowboat, and sew the clothes/bags I want, and fix the porch, and, and, and...

For now there's satisfaction watching others do some of the project I haven't made time for.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 02:30:13+00:00
I’d like a device that sticks to my pencil. I like my pencil (that’s why I don’t want an eink tablet that “feels like paper”).

I guess this is getting a bit niche. But it seems like these companies are already trying to play in a niche market segment…

Maybe I just need a camera to scan my notes or something, haha.
by richartruddie | 2025-09-04 02:31:09+00:00
France's CNIL fines Google €325M and Shein €150M for deceptive cookie consent practices under GDPR and ePrivacy rules. The penalties highlight ongoing issues with "dark patterns" in user interfaces that make opting out harder than accepting tracking. This adds to Google's history of EU privacy fines and marks Shein's first major data protection hit amid its rapid growth.

Captain Compliance a leader in data privacy software solutions provides an analysis.
by runarberg | 2025-09-04 02:31:27+00:00
You can see for your self how seriously HN users took ChatGPT in late 2022 https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1672444800&dateRange=custom&...

Some of the highlights include:

* Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33847479 (Dec 3, 2022; 2029 points; 919 comments)

* Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33937753 (Dec 10, 2022; 606 points; 348 comments)

* ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33858844 (420 points; Dec 4, 2022; 455 comments)

* ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086462 (396 points; Dec 23, 2022; 636 comments)

* Build your front end in React, then let ChatGPT be your Redux reducer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34166193 (395 points; Dec 28, 2022; 142 comments)
by godelski | 2025-09-04 02:31:41+00:00
I just want to highlight this comment and stress how big of a field ML actually is. I think even much bigger than most people in ML research even know. It's really unfortunate that the hype has grown so much that even in the research community these areas are being overshadowed and even dismissed[0]. It's been interesting watching this evolution and how we're reapproaching symbolic reasoning while avoiding that phrase.

There's lots of people doing theory in ML and a lot of these people are making strides which others stand on (ViT and DDPM are great examples of this). But I never expect these works to get into the public eye as the barrier to entry tends to be much higher[1]. But they certainly should be something more ML researchers are looking at.

That is to say: Marcus is far from alone. He's just loud

[0] I'll never let go how Yi Tay said "fuck theorists" and just spent his time on Twitter calling the KAN paper garbage instead of making any actual critique. There seems to be too many who are happy to let the black box remain a black box because low level research has yet to accumulate to the point it can fully explain an LLM.

[1] You get tons of comments like this (the math being referenced is pretty basic, comparatively. Even if more advanced than what most people are familiar with) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052227
by rictic | 2025-09-04 02:32:14+00:00
Lit 2 to Lit 3 was really minimal: https://lit.dev/docs/releases/upgrade/

As I recall inside Google it was maybe one in a thousand elements that needed any changes at all. I updated the entire internal codebase of many tens of thousands of elements in a couple weeks of part time work.

But more importantly Lit 2 and Lit 3 are interoperable, so there's not the same pressure to update. When an element or library updates from Lit 2 to Lit 3, it can do that as a point release, because its public API is the same. This really reduces the amount of upgrade toil you have to deal with.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-04 02:32:18+00:00
Nicely said. This all aligns with my intuition, with one caveat.

I think you and I are using different definitions of intelligence. I'm bought into Karl Friston's free energy principle and think it's intelligence all the way down. There is no separating embodiment and intelligence.

The LLM distinction is intelligence via symbols as opposed to embodied intelligence, which is why I really like your shadow world analogy. Without getting caught up in subtle differences in our ontologies, I agree wholeheartedly.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-04 02:33:18+00:00
When I look for the group "most likely to call Elon out on his (copious, regular) 'actual lies'", "EU politicians" isn't the group I go to.

> But they all staid 100% silent on this.

Speaking of "actual lies", this is one.

> Firing back on X, the [European] commissioner [for Internal Market Thierry Breton] denied the existence of a secret deal and said no such bargain had been made with any other platforms:

> Be our guest @elonmusk

> There has never been — and will never be — any “secret deal”. With anyone.

> The DSA provides X (and any large platform) with the possibility to offer commitments to settle a case.

> To be extra clear: it’s YOUR team who asked the Commission to explain the process for settlement and to clarify our concerns.

> We did it in line with established regulatory procedures. Up to you to decide whether to offer commitments or not. That is how rule of law procedures work.

> See you (in court or not).

Source: https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1811811489889517697

So I'm inclined to believe Elon lied, as he does with painful monotony. Especially when, oh yeah, when Elon and X were asked to respond to this... they didn't.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-04 02:35:19+00:00
I look at it from a different lens: the political system and what people's life look like isn't a predefined matrix.

To take a mild example, we don't look at federal countries and assume it affects citizen's life in a radical way that can be straight attributed to the federal nature of it. Germany biggest differences from France probably aren't because of that. Sure it has an impact, but not in an easily predictable way.

Authoritarian regime are prone to abuse, but that's not enough to guarantee it will be managed worse than the worse democratic countries. We've have democracies fully melt down and becoming literal hell on earth.

I don't intend to praise authoritarian regimes and don't see them as sustainable, but IMHO there is a lot more to a country than just that.
by rayiner | 2025-09-04 02:36:52+00:00
> If any other country would do any of this to the USA you'd be screaming blue murder but when it is the other way around you're a-ok with it.

I'd be totally fine with another country drone striking American gangs. They would be doing us a huge favor.

> Of course it is a due process issue. The USA does not have the legal right - even if they have the capability - to blow up random people on the planet just because they can.

"Due process" is a legal concept in Anglo law that describes the legal process required for the sovereign to deprive a subject of life, liberty, or property. The Anglo concept has no applicability to what the military can or cannot do to foreigners. And I'm not aware of any western nation having an equivalent to due process that applies to military action. The U.S. didn't provide anything resembling "due process" before it nuked Hiroshima or Nagasaki or bombed Dresden.

It makes no sense to use the word "right" to describe what the U.S. as a sovereign state can or cannot do to foreign actors on foreign soil. It's just a category error. The U.S., as a sovereign state, can do whatever it wants because nations exist within a state of anarchy as to each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(international_relatio....
by wilkystyle | 2025-09-04 02:36:53+00:00
100% agree. I started over in 2022 or 2023 after 10 years of Vim cruft building up by moving to a Lua-based Neovim setup with Packer (now-unmaintained package manager). It was definitely an improvement, and I was impressed by how smooth and easy it was to get set up with a modern, fully-featured Neovim setup. However, I felt a little uneasy with all the packages needed to get a really good LSP setup without a ton of work (lsp-zero, lspconfig, etc).

Deleted my ~/.config/nvim/ directory the other day and started again just to see what the experience was like with modern Neovim capabilities, and it was so much easier!
by notlisted | 2025-09-04 02:36:58+00:00
Big Meh. Bad metric. Phone apps were dead long before Ai came about. Shovelware double so.

Most users have 40-80 apps installed and use 9 a day, 20 a month(1). The shitty iOS subscription trend killed off the hobby of 'app collecting'.

Have I created large commercial Ai-coded projects? No. Did I create 80+ useful tools in hours/days that I wouldn't have otherwise? Hellz yeah!

Would I publish any of these on public github? Nope! I don't have the time nor the inclination to maintain them. There's just too many.

My shovelware "Apps" reside on my machine/our intranet or V0/lovable/bolt. Roughly ~25% are in active daily use on my machine or in our company. All tools and "apps" are saving us many hours each week.

I'm also rediscovering the joy of coding something useful, without writing a PRD for some intern. Speaking of which. We no longer have an intern.

(1) https://buildfire.com/app-statistics/
by theonething | 2025-09-04 02:37:33+00:00
> This is why China makes the claim that it is actually more democratic[1]. This is not merely propaganda.

It's wild to me that you believe this.

I've spent a few years in China and have made close Chinese friends. One constant I see is Chinese will not admit publicly, but they'll whisper to you in quiet corners that that know their government is authoritarian and the West is more free.
by fnordsensei | 2025-09-04 02:38:18+00:00
If you don’t mind a tangent, this is close to my way of working out thoughts as well, including with code.

When I write code, it’s as much a cognitive tool as it is a tool to make things happen in the system. It develops thoughts as much as it develops system behavior.

Involving AI changes this quite a bit, but I feel like I’m making my way to a balance where it supports rather than replaces (or worse: disrupts) my cognitive processes.
by spankibalt | 2025-09-04 02:38:54+00:00
> I struggle to see how making one more narrow than an A6 pad is useful.

The trick to something narrower is to get comfortable with doodling in landscape mode, e. g. for classroom notes, and scroll (and orientation-switch) accordingly when neccessary. Ideally you'd have physical complementary buttons present, but a good touchscreen with palm rejection works as well. To-do lists and the like can be done vertical mode. In other words, a digital notepad.

Now you only have to built a corresponding smartphone-sized, pen-focused, modular and connectable open-standards general-purpose computer. :) ... :(

The reMarkable looks too underpowered and maybe too enshittified (subscriptions, lock-ins) to be used for anything else but a digital notepad.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-04 02:39:20+00:00
I feel that this is a "writer" around the note concept, versus long-form writing (where a dictionary could certainly make more sense). But I'm sketching, diagramming, etc., more so than anything else (I don't own, though I've been interested in this and the Scribe, and given that I barely use the Pencil on my iPad, I'm having difficulty justifying it to myself, although I might check out the return policies...)
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-04 02:39:38+00:00
Sure! Information on this and past events can be found here: https://old.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/wiki/python_tutorial_s...

I start it around the beginning of summer vacation (northern hemisphere) so unfortunately you'll have to wait ~10 months for the next one. But given the yearly participation, I believe it's worth it :)
by wenc | 2025-09-04 02:40:57+00:00
> On an iPad, at any moment there could be a toast from Signal, or Discord, or Messenger, or whatever. There's a web browser full of infinite content on Reddit and YouTube. I can go on a plane and have a physical book in front of me but it's no match for the allure of the internet if there's Wi-Fi. The reMarkable is one of the only devices out there that fixes the distraction aspect, and THAT is the single biggest thing between me and achieving things.

Don't install any of these apps, and use a Shortcut (described somewhere else on this page). It's really not that hard -- I've done it. Then stick a paper-like sheet on it.

And voila, your iPad is now a better ReMarkable. The Apple Pencil is more amazing than most pens, the resolution and refresh rate on a Retina Display is unmatched.

The key to not getting tired on a tablet is responsiveness -- something no eInk device achieves. I regularly do math derivations on Freeform for hours without being distracted.

I realized after trying a bunch of expensive distraction-free devices over the years that for me, none of them were worth it.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-04 02:41:14+00:00
I just went to amazon and typed in "windows laptop". The first two listed had 4gig ram

In order it was 4,4,16,8,16,4,8,16,4,16,32,8,16,4,32

9 of them were under $300

My dad had some really crap HP Celeron desktop. I don't remember it if had 4gig or more but I do remember it took 3 to 4 minutes of swapping continuously just to boot up and run all the crapware that HP had launch on startup in Windows.

That said, I'm not anti-electron. Here's some native app sizes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44690856