MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nostrebored | 2025-09-12 03:04:23+00:00
I find your views alien and strange (and vaguely upsetting, because they negatively impact the entire world)

There are huge hosts of software and hardware that work better because of an ecosystem of interoperable components. That’s not anticompetitive, it’s the benefit of good design with compounding returns.

As the manufacturing process and software becomes less complicated, there is a natural trend towards budget competitors (see: SaaS in 2025) that can replicate functionality they know has a market.

The idea that making it unappealing to make an integrated product is good for consumers — or anticompetitive — seems so wrong that it’s farcical. There are definitely cases where verticalization can harm consumers, but this opens the space for good competition. Perplexity wouldn’t exist if Google actually cared about search customers. Internet Explorer didn’t have to be regulated out of existence — by virtue of sucking, there is opportunity.
by sj26 | 2025-09-12 03:05:03+00:00
Turning our snowflake infrastructure into an autoscaling fleet via a packer + terraform pipeline was one of my first projects at Buildkite back in 2016:

https://buildkite.com/resources/blog/terraform-techniques-wi...

We still have this pipeline with terraform, but have moved from building packer images for ec2 to building containers for ecs.
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 03:05:16+00:00
It's more complicated then this. Apple is a big company with a lot of money - they're absolutely willing to burn millions in the pursuit of principle.

The reality is that, if Apple conforms non-maliciously, they're proving that the law is reasonable and they can do it while remaining profit. Um, that's a huge problem.

They require the plausible deniability of "oh we can't do this, it's too expensive!" Otherwise, other governments (US) might look to implementing similar laws. So, it's a long con. They're burning lots of money, now, with the hope it allows them to continue their anti-competitive behavior for longer. If they're REALLY lucky, they might even stall out the EU and get the EU to backtrack on their laws. That's the golden scenario.
by serf | 2025-09-12 03:05:38+00:00
there is a time and place to try to heal the damage you believe that he did to society -- but you're clearly celebrating the death of the man in a thread about his assassination.

You seem to be nonplussed about his suffering, you're criticizing the way a dead man expressed his religious beliefs to the audience, and are implying that his beliefs on gun control somehow balanced his death.

Doesn't that help fuel the narratives about his political opposition that he tried to drive while living?

>Not everyone is some crazed extremist.

...maybe so, but the death of this dude sure did pull some out of thin air.
by arjie | 2025-09-12 03:07:24+00:00
The problem for people who preferred the text-based approach is that previously they were over-represented and found things they liked everywhere. Like you say, the vast majority of people prefer image reels, short-form video, microblogs like Twitter, or comments on aggregators like Reddit or HN. That's the truth, but that original cohort of people lost their place and there's no obvious substitute.

I think that's primarily because there's no Schelling point for this. There's no single place where everyone who preferred the other form would go to. Perhaps there are webrings out there and stuff like that, but I haven't seen anything.

I've submitted my friends' blogs to the Kagi Small Web (and I'm in there as well) and almost everything there has a human feel to it, but it does not have cluster-navigation.
by theamk | 2025-09-12 03:07:33+00:00
so, yet another tag standard with no enforcement whatsoever?

Scrapers already ignore robots.txt, and pretend to be users to bypass restrictions. Why would anyone bother with with this at all?

The only thing that has some teeth is the encrypted content that allows scrapers to bypass paywalls.. but that seems to be relying on each scraper being manually registered with content owner. And if you (a content owner) are already establishing contracts with individual scrapers, it is not clear what is the whole point of this extra complexity - just do IP-based auth, or api token, or something similar, and bill them monthly for queries.
by krapp | 2025-09-12 03:09:31+00:00
I think it's a mistake to look at developing new art styles as simply continuing a linear progression. More often than not art styles are unique to the artist - you couldn't, for instance, put Eichiro Oda, Tsutomu Nihei and Rumiko Takahashi on the same number line. And trends tend to develop in reaction to existing trends, usually started by a single artist, as often as they do as an evolution of a norm.

Arguably, if creating an art style is simply a matter of novel mechanics and uniqueness, LLMs could already do that simply by adding artists to the prompts ("X" in the style of "A" and "B") and plenty of people did (and do) argue that this is no different than what human artists do (I would disagree.) I personally want to argue that intentionally matters more than raw technique, but Hacker News would require a strict proof for the definition of intentionality that they would argue humans don't possess, but somehow LLMs do, and that of course I can't provide.

I guess I have no argument besides "it means more to me that a person does it than a machine." It matters to me that a human artist cares. A machine doesn't care. And yes, in a strictly materialist sense we are nothing but black boxes of neurons receiving stimuli and there is no fundamental difference between a green field and a cold steel rail, it's all just math and meat, but I still don't care if a machine makes X in the style of (Jack Kirby AND Frank Miller.)
by macintux | 2025-09-12 03:11:42+00:00
When I was a kid, I remember the cashier at a department store checking a book for my mother’s credit card number.

I misunderstood the nature of the book, assuming it was a list of valid card numbers. It was, of course, the opposite, so when I said to my mom “I hope they find your number in there” she replied “I hope they don’t!”
by valorzard | 2025-09-12 03:11:58+00:00
So, having talked to people in the WebRTC community about this, you should be able to use WebRTC in a local network without having to connect to STUN/TURN

STUN/TURN matters because if you are connecting to a remote peer, you have no idea how to reach them. STUN/TURN gives you a "map" to get to the remote peer.

If you are on a VPN that doesn't matter very much (see: Hamachi)
by thecosas | 2025-09-12 03:12:08+00:00
Despite that, glad to see it in a human subject.

I’ve had T1D for more than 30 years and have seen every headline under the sun with a “cure” always sometime in the next 5 years, so my expectations are properly tempered.

Still excited by it but a long way from clinics handing this out as a solution (if it’s viable).
by lovemenot | 2025-09-12 03:12:22+00:00
You seem to be claiming that LLM is necessarily integral to iPhone. I am suggesting that need not be the case.

Remember, half of the consideration here is to find a way for Apple to recoup it's investment in LLM. Without creating anti-competitive forces in another market. If you have a different suggestion, or if you think Apple doesn't deserve compensation, make your case.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-12 03:12:49+00:00
Pretty sure there's a domain monitoring service for similarly or something along these lines that buys up domains like these to prevent usage.

On that note, I've been trying to see if GoDaddy will buy a domain and resell for higher price by searching for some plausibly nice domain names on their site. They haven't took the "bait" yet.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-12 03:12:56+00:00
> I think if you are a billion dollar company using these tools, sponsoring maintenance isn't a lot to ask.

It isn't a lot to ask, but it's challenging to 1) find who to ask, and 2) get them to care about the long-term view in a way that doesn't fit into short-term thinking and budgeting.
by themafia | 2025-09-12 03:13:05+00:00
> it be just to have AI quote or amalgamate it

We'd call that simple plagiarism or copyright violation in any other context.

> unless you need the money

Who doesn't need money? Also shouldn't the people spending the money decide who gets it?

> AI can’t take that away from you, yet.

AI isn't taking anything. Google is. Consciously.

> It’s only a matter of time now before Armageddon.

Who told you that? Google? You see the flaw in that strategy?
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-12 03:13:30+00:00
That's subjective. Matters of opinion aren't part of an education, hopefully you agree. And firmly, I disagree with your opinion on what far left is, but I'm happy to hear yours.

I didn't say liberals are far left, by the way, I consider myself to be one. But since you are bringing it up, I will specify that I think modern liberalism is very far left when compared with 90s liberalism, for example.

Even in light of all that, this is a surprising comment. If the rest of the items you listed aren't far left, what is far left to you? Do I dare ask?

PS.

>Please educate yourself.

Is your intention to claim that your education is exceptional above a likelihood of most others you encounter on HN? You may want to think about that.
by the_af | 2025-09-12 03:14:45+00:00
YouTube mostly suggests videos related to other videos I've watched or to my subscriptions.

So it already works like this for me.

It almost never suggests random crap. I'd be hard pressed to come up with an example where I was puzzled or infuriated by one of YT's suggestions...

(Facebook and Reddit, on the other hand, are way more random and infuriating).
by ggm | 2025-09-12 03:15:04+00:00
I've read criticism of musl optimisation here compared to j(e)malloc. Just saying, premature optimisation being bad, not all optimisation is. Might be a future issue to look at.

How small does it go? Is it nix small? Does it compute the minimum bounded set of called routines and eliminate dead code? Does it incur directory structures you can show are never written to and could be rmdir?

Can it run read-only with an mfs overlay?

I like the ethos. Not running as root is nice.
by jacobjjacob | 2025-09-12 03:15:12+00:00
It’s not breaking the law in this case as far as I know.

The law requires Apple to provide equal access to the iPhone hardware and software in marketplaces that it competes in.

That can be done in a manner that is either additive, by providing access to third parties (which is potentially a significant expense and liability) or subtractive, by choosing not to engage in the regulated activities at all, in that jurisdiction.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-09-12 03:17:25+00:00
Many projects have foundations or fiscal sponsors you can work with.

If you care about Python, you could support the Python Foundation, and/or hire or sponsor some Python developers. If you care about Rust, support the Rust Foundation, and/or hire or sponsor some Rust developers. If you care about Reproducible Builds, or QEMU, or Git, or Inkscape, or the future of FOSS licensing, or various other projects (https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/), support Software Freedom Conservancy.

If you care about a smaller project, and they don't have a means of sponsorship, you could encourage them to accept sponsorship via some means, or join some fiscal sponsor umbrella like Conservancy.
by jrowen | 2025-09-12 03:17:46+00:00
Unlike social media, few of these forums have mechanisms to "like" or upvote posts so there is no reward for posting just to attract attention, whether it be positive or negative.

Those types of forums are great, but just as a counterpoint, I get a lot of that type of value from Facebook Groups as well. There are niche specialty interest groups with people of different skill depths conversing on probably just about anything.

It's mixed in with the rest of your Facebook feed most of the time so it is a categorically different experience/"community" than an independent forum but I don't think the "like" mechanics materially affect the discussion in those places.
by resters | 2025-09-12 03:18:47+00:00
Suppose the user uses an LLM for topics a, b, and c quite often, and d, e and f less often. Suppose b, c, and f are topics that OpenAI could offer interruption ads (full screen, 30 seconds or longer commercials) and most users would sit through it and wait for the response.

All that is needed to do that is to analyze topics.

Now suppose that OpenAI can analyze 1000 chats and coding sessions and its algorithm determines that it can maximize revenue by leading the user to get a job at a specific company and then buy a car from another company. It could "accomplish" this via interruption ads or by modifying the quality or content of its responses to increase the chances of those outcomes happening.

While both of these are in some way plausible and dystopian, all it takes is DeepSeek running without ads and suddenly the bar for how good closed source LLMs have to be to get market share is astronomically higher.

In my view, LLMs will be like any good or service, users will pay for quality but differnet users will demand different levels of quality.

Advertising would seemingly undermine the credibility of the AI's answers, and so I think full screen interruption ads are the most likely outcome.
by woah | 2025-09-12 03:19:07+00:00
I looked at that link and the quote was:

"But for the most part, it seems like third-party Android apps don’t even try to achieve the look-and-feel comfort, fun, and panache of iOS apps." (referring to Android Mastodon clients vs iOS Mastodon clients)

Is nobody allowed to make any subjective judgement about apps?
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 03:20:07+00:00
The problem is every filesystem can experience data corruption. That doesn't tell us anything about how it relates to BTRFS.

Also, filesystems just work. Nobody is gonna say "oh I'm using fileystem X and it works!" because that's the default. So, naturally, 99% of the stuff you'll hear about filesystems is when they don't work.

Don't believe me? Look up NTFS and read through reddit or stackexchange or whatever. Not a lot of happy campers.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-12 03:21:20+00:00
This, exactly. I find there's an inverse relationship between posting frequency and video quality. Channels like hyperspace pirate (DIY science/chemistry/physics) may post several times in a week if they are super into a project, then go 2 months without a new video. Those channels post videos that I will more reliably watch, since they don't post filler. Whereas one of the few video game channels I subscribe to (manyatruenerd) posts basically every day. Some of the videos are good, but there's a lot of filler. And that's unavoidable when trying to work to a schedule like that. I spent a few months trying to push a commit to my hobby project every day to see that green github history, and a lot of that stuff ended up being worse quality.

It's a tricky balance, since I don't necessarily want just a feed of my subscriptions, it really depends on what type of content I want to watch/engage with. There's a ton of time where I just want background noise while I work on something, that's where the previously mentioned video game channel and similar content are what I want. Whereas there's certain content (like hyperspace pirate or applied science) where if they post a video I don't watch until I can actually give it my full attention. I have my complaints with YouTube, but out of the main social media sites it seems to do the best job with being able to present an algorithmic feed that is actually useful. I tried TikTok for a few weeks, and as much as people were talking their algorithm up I just couldn't reliably signal what videos I actually wanted to watch. There's some very good content there, but for me at least I spent more time struggling against the algorithm since it kept trying to show videos I just don't care about.

And TikTok is leagues better than Instagram or Facebook. There are a few communities that I have to engage with in those sites, since that's just where the people involved are posting. But goddamn are the algorithmic feeds on both just a dumpster fire. The only content I have engaged with on Facebook for 5+ years is RC vehicle related, mainly the local racing club and other groups. And yet my Facebook feed is all political or Ai rage bait, they dint even show posts from my high-school friends. I see it every time I log in, and haven't clicked on any of the suggested posts I years. It's frustrating, since I'm providing them with tons of signal on what content I actually want to see, and that content is on their site. Meta just does such a poor job of allowing you to curate your feed that I gave up on their sites years ago. I wouldn't mind being able to see my old friends posts (although most of them also don't post anymore due to these issues) or at least see content related to my interests. I might spend more time in the site if that were the cadlse, instead I log on for 10 minutes once a week to see when the next race is scheduled.
by lapcat | 2025-09-12 03:21:20+00:00
> What actually happened was that the first generation of text-loving online people were eventually outnumbered by subsequent waves of "migration" by people who don't like text and prefer images and (especially) video. It was just replaced by a better product as the online audience expanded to become more representative of real people.

I think you're right about the waves of migration, but I disagree that the product is "better".

What we've really traded are in-person friendships for anonymous online interactions, and that's definitely worse for everyone, in my opinion.

What's distinctive of the old blogging era is that the amount of online content at the time was extremely limited. You couldn't endlessly scroll through blogs. You went online, read some stuff, and then went offline. Now people never go offline. Now the amount of online content is practically unlimited, and not only that, it's the type of content that people typically consume alone. We get sucked into spending so much time alone, our only company being online strangers who we've never met and never will meet. You talk about YouTube channels with millions of subscribers, but that million-to-one ratio of viewer to YouTuber precludes most direct human interaction.

The fact that both we and the masses in general have been sucked into this situation, this depersonalization, separation from in-person interactions, is a great societal harm. And I don't think it's ironic that I'm saying this online to anonymous strangers; I just think it's sad, another symptom of the problem.
by jlaternman | 2025-09-12 03:22:20+00:00
it really doesnt work like that in Spain. The associations say the US has with what a suburd is, and of suburban life, does not translate to Spanish city planning. A better word for "suburb" in Spain would be "outskirts" of city—somewhere you might be pushed to for financial reasons. They are often urbanised areas of cheap apartment blocks, and if rural, not in a fancy way, e.g. large spacious houses. The discussion on this thread is coming from a cultural misunderstanding.

There are of course also very nice houses around cities, and rural ones out from that, but they rarely characterise suburbs in Spain (Barcelona is an exception I've noticed, and Madrid has some satellite towns and cities North of city that are very plush, though not the suburbs).
by TowerTall | 2025-09-12 03:22:40+00:00
Denmark are. Only two days ago the danish PM on public TV said the had ordered the head of the danish military to "buy, buy, buy" [1][2] [as many weapons as the can get their hands on]. This is repeatition of of what she said 6 months ago[3]

[1] https://www.dr.dk/drn-video/67b5f9f966d82a0507aeda6a

[2] https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/mette-frederiksen-vil-slaa...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/denmark-boost-2025-26-d...
by adastra22 | 2025-09-12 03:23:03+00:00
Yeah I know the area. My wife and I have been through there a few times (she is from Taiwan). Lots of people who barely speak any English at all, but you might not know if you didn’t speak Chinese.

That kindly old man making noodles behind the counter on that restaurant you frequent off Canal St? The one that always has a stoic face and never says a word? He doesn’t speak any English, but try chatting with him in Mandarin and he’ll talk your ear off with his life story.
by simonw | 2025-09-12 03:23:40+00:00
A lot of open source maintainers are bad at asking for money, and most companies find it very hard to give money away without some kind of formal arrangement in place.

Here's a way you can work around that, if you are someone who works for a company with money:

Contact the maintainers of software you use and invite them to speak to your engineering team via Zoom in exchange for a speaking fee.

Your company knows how to pay consultants. It likely also has an existing training budget you can tap into.

You're not asking the maintainer to give a talk - those take time to prepare and require experience with public speaking.

Instead, set it up as a Q&A or a fireside chat. Select someone from your own team who is good at facilitating / asking questions.

Aim for an hour of time. Pay four figures.

Then do the same thing once a month or so for other projects you depend on.

I really like the idea of normalizing companies reaching out to maintainers and offering them a relatively easy hour long remote consultation in exchange for a generous payment. I think this may be a discreet way to help funnel money into the pockets of people who's work a company depends on.
by dangus | 2025-09-12 03:25:21+00:00
Especially on this forum, it feels like articles 80%+ identical to this one are posted very frequently. At this point, the web dying in a sea of enshittification is perhaps so much of a trope that people are quite aware.

We are surrounded by examples of sometimes mainstream products and services that reflect the way people are shifting their thinking and swinging the pendulum.

This survey isn't 100% the same exact topic, but I think that it's an illustration of my point that well over half of Americans say that social media has a negative impact. [1]

People know the present state is bad and I think they are starting to take their dollars and eyeballs elsewhere. It's just anecdotal, but the amount of people I know who fully pulled the plug on deleting social media accounts would have seemed incomprehensible 10 years ago.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/15/64-of-ame...
by zrobotics | 2025-09-12 03:25:42+00:00
I can't put my finger on what exactly I find distasteful about his channel, but his content is just off-putting to me. The closest I can describe it is that it annoys me in the same way that shows on discovery or the history channel did 15-20 years ago before I quit watching cable TV. It just seems like it's over produced and glossing over details, maybe it's trying to aim fore a more general audience and that is what hurts it.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-12 03:26:54+00:00
>>> Just quibbling, but obviously tech also enables good that was previously not possible.

>> Sure. And if that bad it enables is worse than the good it enables, then tech is not really that neutral.

> Correct, but then there's all sorts of value judgments involved.

The problem is when the form of "bad" enabled has no remedy. For example, identifying potential dissidents and their "network of associates" to authoritarian regimes. In these cases, there is no amount of "things that are 'good'" which can offset the "bad".