MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solid_fuel | 2025-09-18 04:30:51+00:00
> Fwiw i don’t have a facebook/instagram account (have whatsapp) and am still able to use all functionality in my Meta Rayban glasses.

That was the promise when I originally bought the Quest 2, but a year later they forcibly tied those accounts to Meta accounts and through that, facebook accounts. Now I can't use my Quest 2 because it is locked into an account verification screen, demanding that I upload a photograph of my drivers license to access the games I already purchased from the quest store.

Meta cannot be trusted.
by armadsen | 2025-09-18 04:31:00+00:00
Yep. My new car has a digital rear view mirror. You flip a switch and the rear view mirror becomes a screen showing a feed from a camera on the back of the car. It’s nice for night time as well as when the rear window is blocked by rear seat passengers’ heads, or cargo or whatever.

But it’s uncomfortable for me because it requires my eyes to refocus from distant to close and back when I glance at it, which isn’t needed with an actual mirror. So I don’t use the feature.
by pverheggen | 2025-09-18 04:31:02+00:00
Calling them letters is a little misleading. There’s 6 dots per character, which gets you a total of 64 possible characters, including spaces. 250 is probably counting all the multi-character contractions and abbreviations.

These cheat sheets do a really good job of condensing the whole system into one page:

https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/resource/braille-charts-summ...
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-18 04:32:00+00:00
Ton is an absolute legend, on par with Linus or Carmack in my book. They made a documentary series about Blender featuring a lot of Ton Roosendaal and his team. It is quite foreshadowing of his retirement in retrospect, highly recommended:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dZtidLwo4&list=PLa1F2ddGya...
by vunderba | 2025-09-18 04:34:47+00:00
I did something very similar as a kid - a bunch of almost like DEMOSCENE stuff (simple line rotations, psetting all over the place, doppler sound effects, etc.) before dropping the user into a TUI with little games, etc.

I remember first reading about the DATA command in the IDE built-in help (what a fantastic resource) and laboriously copying my drawings of monsters on graph paper into lines of comma-delimited ones and zeroes in DATA statements.

Since we had a copy of QuickBasic 4.5 I was able to compile it to an EXE and place it in the AUTOEXEC.BAT - fun times!
by billfor | 2025-09-18 04:35:20+00:00
FCC aside, how is it any different from ABC canceling Rosanne Barr because of something she said? They may cancel whomever and whatever they want, which in the past has been due to pressure from the outside, justified or not.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roseanne-barr-obama-adviser-...
by amatecha | 2025-09-18 04:35:26+00:00
Word. Leaving the made-to-be-accessible/engaging hyper-capitalistic walled gardens requires some initiative and/or agency, which unfortunately only the minority of people are willing to bother with. Either way, I like to make it more broadly known: there are, in fact, alternatives. Ask a geek near you to try out some neato stuff that isn't trying to make you spend all your money and/or isn't trying to manipulate your beliefs etc.

But yeah if the normal people are where all the ads and spam and nazis are, I'm fine being a weirdo :)
by snailmailman | 2025-09-18 04:35:58+00:00
I have ad targeting turned off on my google account. As a result, probably >90% of the ads I see on YouTube are scams, almost-nsfw content, deepfakes, more scams, illegal products, and more scams. I’ve been tempted to take notes and keep track of how many are scams. It’s awful. I cannot remember the last legitimate product I saw an ad for on YouTube.

Yesterday I saw an ad on YouTube that was literally just porn. Very NSFW, not “almost” NSFW like a lot of the ads are. After reporting it, I tried to pull up the ad transparency page for the company running the ad. I was hoping I could somehow report the company itself, in addition to the ad. I had to be logged in to do this. Because when logged out, you can’t see “age restricted” ad campaigns. This completely blew my mind. I didn’t think they allowed nsfw ads, but if they knew enough to age-restrict the ad campaign, maybe they do?

From what I understand, if I turn on targeted ads, I can opt out of ad categories, and maybe google will stop showing me the scams. Instead, I simply use Adblock, and avoid YouTube on iOS as much as possible. The experience is completely unusable with the advertising.

I’m not going to pay for premium to avoid ads that are blatantly violating YouTube’s TOS anyway. At least, I hope they are violating it. “Report” never does anything so they might just allow anything in ads.
by Pxtl | 2025-09-18 04:36:17+00:00
AFAIK all information anybody had at the time was that he grew up in a good gun-loving Republican family and he'd written some silly memes on the shell casings.

The discord chats and his relationship with a trans woman were AFAIK not revealed yet, or at least were so new that they maybe hadn't made it to Kimmel's writers room.

That kind of problem gets a demand of a retraction, not a firing.

Contrast that to a Fox News host calling for mass executions of homeless people the other day (and since that day there have been multiple mass killings of homeless people). That guy got off with a thin apology.
by vjjsejj | 2025-09-18 04:37:09+00:00
Well school shootings are a trend too. The guy who was murdered openly and explicitly supported doing absolutely nothing about it (and gun violence in general).

Regardless of this specific case the “right” ignores, supports or even encourages political violence on a much bigger scale than anyone else.

So why is it only a problem in some specific cases but not in general?
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 04:37:37+00:00
I think this is extremely doubtful. The reality remains that it's impossible to make a first person or even third person VR game with free movement, because of fundamental limitations in how human brains process movement. Having your eyes tell you are moving but your muscles and inner ear tell you that you are not makes you extremely sick very quickly, and technology can't actually fix this. The better and more immersive the visual illusion of movement, the worse the movement sickness you'll experience.

And without free movement, you can't build any of the mainstream game genres. You can't build and get people excited in a Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed or Fortnite or Elden Ring or Zelda where movement works like Riven, the sequel to Myst. Valve actually tried with the first Half-Life game in a decade, and even that didn't work.

Add to this massive gameplay limitation the second massive issue that you can't get a mass audience to pay hundreds of dollars extra for a peripheral without which they can't play your 70-80 dollar game.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-09-18 04:38:56+00:00
What is your honest belief. All of the things below are in the news, you can copy and paste any of these quotes to back that up.

> "Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political and had started to lean more to the left — becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented," the court documents say.

> "She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate, a biological male who was transitioning genders. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.

> Robinson: since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.

> Rounds in the rifle were allegedly etched with messages like "Hey Fascist! Catch!" and lyrics of the anti-Nazi and anti-Fascist Italian folk song Bella Ciao.
by alexjplant | 2025-09-18 04:39:28+00:00
Kindred spirits! Me discovering that QuickBasic was able to liberate my proggies (as I called them for a brief stint) from the confines of the editor by compiling them to EXEs was one of the happiest moments of my young computer life.

Hacking EXPLORER.EXE and changing the Start Menu side graphic with Borland Resource Workshop was another notable one.
by righthand | 2025-09-18 04:39:39+00:00
Just because someone is allowed to freely express themselves doesn’t mean I have to support a platform for them to do it on. They can have their platform with their supporters, it doesn’t mean that the hateful rhetoric have to be constantly shoved in my face at a public level. And that the public has to constantly debate it. That is what cancelling is. No one wants to hear the hate.

No one has died from being cancelled so spare everyone the pity story.

If you want to spend your time defending JK Rowling, that’s on you. It doesn’t make you a hero for making sure people fully understand precisely what kind of a bigot JK Rowling is.

What is deplatforming if not a group of people choosing to ignore that person? It is not fair that you get to decide at what level ignoring another is okay. Deplatforming and cancelling are just methods of taking away easy access to a platform for hateful bad faith arguments. Those affected by it can still can go build their own platform to host that rhetoric (Trump has done this with Truth social).
by vjjsejj | 2025-09-18 04:42:15+00:00
> So was Kimmel engaged in defamation?

Not anymore than you are now? There is a reasonably clear precedent established on what is defamation and what is not.

> it's a very important concept in a free society.

That repeating something all the time regardless of whether it makes sense or not somehow makes it true? Well.. you are free to hold that opinion.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-09-18 04:42:26+00:00
More than that, though, this assassination was particularly counterproductive because it basically played to the worst stereotypes about "the left" not willing to listen to anything they disagree with.

I may disagree with the vast majority of Charlie Kirk's opinions, but he was at a university, inviting others who strongly disagreed with him to debate him, face-to-face. I may not be a particular fan of this style of interaction (I find it to be more about shock value/talking points/getting clips of particular stupid things people will say than actual clarification or education), it was still an open forum that shouldn't be feared in a free society that supposedly values free speech.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-18 04:42:31+00:00
There is no political movement with any weight in this country remotely comparable to either the bolsheviks or the maoists. The closest we got to that in living memory was probably the black panthers and they were successfully (and bloodily, brutally) put down and scattered to the wind.

Now we are all trapped in highly personalized crazy houses, halls of mirrors, where nothing is real and our very views of reality are too warped for us to assemble into coherent organized political movements. The exception, perhaps, being capital itself, able to whip masses of people into hysteria or discombobulated confusion while rich vampires suck the life out of this country and leave us a schizo husk muttering to ourselves about free speech, the constitution, and cancel culture.

So excuse me if I roll my eyes anyone tries to compare anyone in this country to "left" movements around the world. We are too insane and don't have the spine to move that way.
by BrouteMinou | 2025-09-18 04:43:22+00:00
Same story here. I decided lately to focus more on .net and, let's say, abandon Java.

It's portable, fast, productive and well supported by a massive corp. It's not just a "language du jour", it's here to stay.

There are plenty of job in dotnet where I live: old, new, startups...

I am the momentum!
by fidotron | 2025-09-18 04:43:28+00:00
At one point it told you everyone on your friends list that had also got one - and in my case it was basically everyone I knew from work over the years. Literally the only people that used it more than two weeks were those working on VR.

Even if you try to stick with it you grow to dread all interaction with their app or OS. They have some superb technology but the product management is atrocious.
by motorest | 2025-09-18 04:44:12+00:00
> why it does things the way it does is relevant -

Yes. React automatically detects the minimum set of changes to a DOM that is required to update it's state, and manages how those updates are applied to maximize performance. It transparently handles both app state changes, and basic changes to views triggered by updates to models.

This is a problem everyone in webdev has. Everyone.

Did you saw any of the comments here on how a little JavaScript allows people to update the DOM?

> the reason facebook had problems with state management and modularity was the sheer number of engineers working in a single shared codebase (I was there, it was miserable)

No.

The reason why Facebook had problems with state management and modularity was because Facebook had to maintain websites.

The reason why Facebook developed React was because they had clever people who identified the problem and were given resources to work on a way to turn a hard problem they experienced into a trivially solvable problem.

Companies, big and small, develop their own tooling and infrastructure to improve efficiency, and they do it all the time.
by linsomniac | 2025-09-18 04:44:17+00:00
I did a similar path to you (Ender 3 Pro, same updates as you except runout), and I was miserable. Yes, I learned a lot about 3d printing while doing it, but I basically never printed unless I REALLY needed something, because I knew I'd spend a bunch of time fiddling and failed prints to get it working. A friend with an unmodified Ender 3 Pro has much better experience.

I wanted a Prusa but didn't want to drop the money on it when I first got started, so I thought I'd just add a bed leveler to get less tweaking and more reliable prints, and it went downhill from there.

I ended up getting a Bambu P1S, and gave the Ender 3 Pro to my kids school. In a twist of fate, I basically had to undo all the upgrades I did (I was able to keep the new mobo and Sprite extruder though) because the school IT couldn't allow OctoPi on the network and they needed something they could just drop an SD card in.

The Bambu P1S has been a real workhorse. In the first couple months I printed more stuff than I had with the Ender 3 Pro in 5 years. And the multi-filament AMS has been a lot of fun for making multi-color prints. I'm kind of glad I learned everything I did with my Ender, but now I want to focus on creating models and printing.

Prusa apparently makes great printers, I like their ideals and almost got one, but in the end I decided to go with the Bambu because of the AMS and a Father's Day sale and have been extremely happy.
by billfor | 2025-09-18 04:44:39+00:00
But it’s not just the government even assuming your comment about the first amendment is correct. Sinclair + Nexstar are about 80% of the stations and they both refused to carry it, so there’s a financial component. I believe their affiliates were the first to cancel even before the FCC comments. Why should ABC lose 80% of their income.

https://x.com/WeAreSinclair/status/1968471160359645658
by phire | 2025-09-18 04:44:54+00:00
For marketing reasons, it needs to be something that people can pick up with absolutely minimal practice.

I doubt it has enough accuracy for a virtual keyboards (since keyboards require precise absolute input and it measures relative), besides, most people aren't experienced with single-hand typing.

A bespoke gesture based shorthand would be optimal, but then users would need to spend months learning this new shorthand.

But (almost) everyone already has experience with handwriting, which is a single hand relative input method. It's the easiest option for people to quickly pick up and enjoy.

Though, it's far from perfect, you can see he is struggling to trick his muscle memory into writing without a pen, and he needs to do it on a solid surface (I'm not sure if that's a technology limitation, or a muscle memory limitation).
by layman51 | 2025-09-18 04:45:31+00:00
I'm actually part of some Slack workspaces that are on the free plan which hides messages (including DMs) older than 90 days. It is actually quite cumbersome then because if someone sends a valuable message, I have to remember to screenshot or better yet copy-paste it into a durable spot or else I'm going to have to ask again about the same thing.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-18 04:45:37+00:00
I don't understand why Slack hasn't fully implemented LLMs. Imagine as a new comer, you don't understand why a product decision was made 3 years ago. You ask Slack to summarize the conversations on why this choice was made based on messages 3 years ago. How powerful is that?

Slack can probably charge an extra $10/month/user for this.
by shirro | 2025-09-18 04:45:52+00:00
An Australian reporter recently asked Trump how much money he has made since returning to office and if it is ethical for a person in his position. His org got locked out of a press conference in retaliation and we get the mafia boss threats about it not being good for our country to ask those sorts of questions.

Anyone living in the USA should by now have made a decision where their line in the sand lies. Without a free press or opposition things can move quickly so decide now. If I was a member of a minority likely to be a target I would want to know I had an exit strategy.
by milkshakes | 2025-09-18 04:45:55+00:00
unless there is something going on behind the scenes, like an astroturfing signal, this seems like a pretty weak justification for the heavy handed moderation actions taken. it seems at face value like you might have killed an organic front page post attempted by a teenager trying to raise awareness and save his very cool grassroots distributed hackathon charity from an awful lot of unnecessary pain... because there "must be more to the story". i haven't ever seen anything like this on HN.
by asdff | 2025-09-18 04:47:29+00:00
>healthcare reform, childcare, higher education, common sense gun laws, infrastructure investments.

Funny you imagine there is consensus with any of that. The right doesn't want government healthcare. They don't want government sponsored childcare. They could care less about higher education. They want no gun laws. And they don't want black people to benefit from infrastructure.

There is no forming consensus with that position.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 04:47:29+00:00
I think the point is that it's much easier to forget you're focusing on the speedometer instead of focusing on the road when the speedometer is physically displayed by a HUD right on the road. Especially if the speedometer keeps changing, since your eyes are naturally attracted to movement in your current field of view.

With a normal car dashboard, you're much more aware you're not seeing the road while checking your speed, and you don't actually see the speedometer moving while you're looking at the road, so it can't accidentally catch your attention.

Of course, none of this will matter in the vast majority of cases. But driving safety is all about the tail end, when you're slightly tired or when someone in front of you does something unexpected and maybe illegal, or someone jumps on the road - these are the times where accidents are avoided, and a HUD might well hurt rather than help for these cases.
by mkhalil | 2025-09-18 04:48:03+00:00
Unpopular opinion: I think it's wild that ANY ORG would pay $200k for a chat app. If I ever ran an org that needed a chat app and the costs came even close to $200k a year, I would rather hire an engineer, contract a designer, and create our own, or more likely, contribute/fork an open source project like Matrix; providing us with the ability to *really* integrate it into our company/tools - as oppose spending it on IRC+ for "good enough" integration. PLUS ... our data stays on under our control.
by chii | 2025-09-18 04:48:40+00:00
> not blame YouTube/Google for those things

it's because everyone but you have something to gain in that transaction - google got paid ad money, the advertiser presumably got some value in exposure.

Therefore, you, for whom the "harm" has fallen, want to blame someone like google or the advertiser, which google has a form of EULA/TOS to shed all responsibility/liability.

It's just the way the internet is, and the reason for adblocking as a requirement.
by Vegenoid | 2025-09-18 04:48:54+00:00
While very cool, this feels like another instance of the kind of thing that we already know they are good at: self-contained, perfectly-specified problems that can be done by humans in a short timespan (especially when a team of highly skilled engineers behind the model is wielding it). Yes, it's amazing that a computer can do this, consider what they could do 10 years ago to today, so on and so on - but I don't see this and go "holy shit", I see this and go "yep".

I wish they went into more detail about how exactly the interaction with the LLM works - I'm pretty sure there's significantly more to it than "drop the paper with the problems into a text box and hit go".
by thepryz | 2025-09-18 04:49:13+00:00
In my experience, the biggest obstacle to broader AR and VR adoption beyond reducing the price, size, and weigh of the hardware will always be the lack of good content creation tools.

I've been involved with two VR projects that were ultimately cancelled because, while we developed a sexy tech demo that showed the potential, building things out into something sustainable required too many resources and took too much time to maintain.
by kqr | 2025-09-18 04:50:41+00:00
When I saw a zip file for a Windows application I was worried it would do that Windows thing and unzip its contents not in subdirectory. I was pleasantly surprised it did not!

Unfortunately, when I start the exe file in DOSBox Staging it only clears the screen, shows me a blinking cursor, and then does not seem to do anything beyond that.
by asdff | 2025-09-18 04:50:41+00:00
Too bad. I bought out almost all the competing lemonade stands and the water company. If you want to drink you have to play my game. Oh and as for my competitors stands? They price them like mine because their shareholders expect the margins I achieve. You want to open a stand? My lemon companies won't sell to you. The city won't grant you a license to operate a stand.
by afiori | 2025-09-18 04:50:46+00:00
You can't even run wasm in browsers without JavaScript, it is not a supported <script /> type

Anyway I am quite sure that you could almost completely get rid of js glue code by importing the static Reflect methods and a few functions like (a,b)=>a+b for the various operators, add a single array/object References to hold refs and you can do pretty much everything from wasm by mixing imported calls
by mabster | 2025-09-18 04:52:48+00:00
For my day job I'm either "Getting things done" or Zettelkasten anyway because it's more about retrieval than memory.

But for languages, SRS is great.

And I'm also glad I memorised a whole bunch of math formulas way back. E.g. Boolean algebra I keep using an identity that I couldn't find on identity sheets by web search.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-18 04:52:56+00:00
I think you're very much in the minority. Also, VR games didn't really evolve because it can't really evolve - the fundamental thing that makes it attractive (immersion in a digital space) can't work well because of motion sickness. So, the only way to make an immersive VR game is to have an extremely tiny game world or an on-rails experience, and that drastically reduces the appeal.

Of course, you could make all sorts of traditional top-down or isometric games work well without motion sickness - but no one is going to pay for VR to play Civilization or Star Craft or Baldur's Gate 3, since these would be fundamentally the exact same experience as playing on PC or console, but with a display strapped to your head.