MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by genezeta | 2025-09-10 09:48:20+00:00
I don't know if you may like this idea or not. It still requires work, but it avoids spam and it does not turn the site into a community. On the other hand, it doesn't exactly bring the discussions into public view.

The solution would be something like:

1. Add a very simple form that sends you an email to the end of each guide. This isn't different from what you already have in your contact page but it encourages contacting you right when a particular guide is read.

2. Add, again at the end of each guide, a questions section. Format this in a way that could be similar to actual comments.

3. Every time you receive a question, you manually -yes, that means work, I know- add it as a new comment/pair of comments in that section and update the guide if necessary.

Advantages:

- Avoids spam on the site

- Single source of truth

- Encourages readers to contact

- Allows for easier filtering. Nothing gets on the site if you don't actually validate -and process- it.

Disadvantages:

- Still requires work from your part, though not as urgent as "live moderation".

- Does not completely feel like conversations. Doesn't let different readers directly answer each other.

- It may result in you getting spam in your email.

- It's not automated. Again: Nothing gets on the site if you don't actually validate -and process- it.

Neutral:

- Doesn't shift the site into a community. I point this as neutral because it isn't bad per se but I understand that you do not want that.

I've seen this sort of set up work mostly fine. It does require work from your part, I repeat, but that really depends on how well it works -how much feedback you get- and since you seem to want that feedback to update the site, then the effort should be worth it.

If you go this route, one recommendation: In that simple contact form, set the action to something like mailto:contact@allaboutberlin.com?subject=... and include some identifier in the subject that easily links it to the specific guide they're sending it from.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-10 09:48:30+00:00
There is a power shift from traditional big tech companies to newer AI companies. Microsoft is at the mercy of OpenAI and now Anthropic. Apple was forced to integrate OpenAI models into the iPhone. Big tech can't produce competent models to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Google seems to be the only big tech able to compete against Anthropic and OpenAI.
by Sheeny96 | 2025-09-10 09:48:38+00:00
I run my Jellyfin on a Pi 5 8GB (with a bunch of other homelab stuff) and run an OSMC (Kodi + Jellyfin plugin) on a Pi 3b 2GB with absolutely no issue. OSMC automatically integrates with my TV remote, runs very low power and smooth. I never used any of the Plex stuff that wasn't my media, so I prefer it this way. Less bloat, more customisable.
by someothherguyy | 2025-09-10 09:48:54+00:00
> 10-13 μm per pixel is nowhere near good enough when a typical bacterium is 0.5 - 5.0 μm in size!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombolite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongiostromata

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncolite
by avhception | 2025-09-10 09:49:48+00:00
What exactly is this on-device AI stuff that everybody is talking about? I'm a mere Sysadmin, so probably I'm missing something here.

The last time I tried to run local LLMs via my 7900XT using LMStudio, even with 20gb of VRAM, they were borderline usable. Fast enough, but quality of the answers and generated code was complete and utter crap. Not even in the same ballpark as ClaudeCode or GPT4/5. I'd love to run some kind of supercharged commandline-completion on there, though.

Edit: I guess my question is: What exactly justifies the extra transistors that ARM here and also AMD with their "AI MAX" keep stuffing onto their chips?
by clan | 2025-09-10 09:50:18+00:00
It is a choice. But as you are probably aware; not one many makes.

While I do prefer to read as well I do like some of the better videos. Sometimes the information density is not as high as I would like - there are reasonable efforts.

Sure, there is amateur content. But there is a surprising amount of original researched content with a high production value.

A recent example with a scientific approach to cooking with some fun high quality references to Breaking Bad:

https://youtu.be/NnzADfbBBFo

Yes - they want to (discretely) sell thermometers as well. Not all is good. But very far from amateur.
by latexr | 2025-09-10 09:50:27+00:00
> will inevitably make us lose common ground scenarios that end up being memorable moments, like the arrow to the knee from Skyrim or "such devastation! this was not my intention" from Final Fantasy 14.

GLaDOS from Portal would offer one player pudding and another one a steak. You get to a wall which says “the ravioli is a fraud” and become utterly confused.
by larodi | 2025-09-10 09:51:27+00:00
Brother Ставри, tell me how exactly does JS run without an executable? Sorry you miss the fact JS’s executable was initially bundled with Netscape WHIcH was the executable.

Your argument makes even less sense. Executable or not, the suitability of the language for certain task is what is/was being discussed here.

I’d argue both Python and JS got where they were thanks to early adoption of Perl’s regex (another language) and the fact they are so symbolic in nature.

And we talk about JS here for apparent reasons - the web. Like we talk python most of the time when we talk ML right so?
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 09:51:32+00:00
> ...when you're in the office there is a chance you will deliver your stellar results and additionally contribute more, because you literally can't watch TV and take a nap.

I see you've never seen many Silicon Valley software companies. Couches and comfortable chairs are a not-infrequent sight in the trendy open-plan offices, as are folks sleeping, reading, or otherwise slacking off atop them.
by mdhb | 2025-09-10 09:52:09+00:00
You not having a phone is absolutely not a meaningful barrier towards identifying you in a crowd when things like ClearView exist. It will only make you stand out as someone who’s trying not to be known and get you towards the top of the list of people they are now interested in.

Your chance of even being able to move from your home to a protest and back completely anonymously is close to zero without you standing out very quickly. Honestly, do what you want but I’m telling you with a great deal of certainty that the only thing you’re are doing in reality is inviting a greater deal of scrutiny and your security situation is actually worse as a result of it.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-10 09:52:25+00:00
> It would be fascinating to see numbers behind how many AI boosters are religious. Feels like a similar central belief.

Many of them appear to be somewhere on the rationalist/EA (rationalist as in LessWrong enthusiasts, not the literal meaning of the term) spectrum, and probably wouldn't consider _themselves_ religious, though many would consider those things to be religions in their own right.
by wizenink | 2025-09-10 09:52:42+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the solo founder of Videoscope.

I built this out of a personal frustration: I had tons of sports and drone footage that looked choppy at 30fps and wanted a simple web tool to smooth it out without needing a heavy video editor.

Videoscope is my solution. It's a web app that uses AI frame interpolation to convert videos to higher framerates or create clean, smooth slow-motion. You upload a clip, choose the effect, and get a much smoother version back.

The backend is built with Rails, running ONNX models on GPU workers managed by AWS Batch. My infrastrcutre is mananaged using OpenTofu and Packer

The core tech is working, and I'd love to get this community's feedback on the concept. Any and all thoughts are welcome.

There's a free tier to test it out, and I'd be happy to add extra credits for any HN users who want to try a larger file. Just let me know in the comments. Thanks for looking!
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-10 09:52:49+00:00
For those not in the know, that's Generative Adversarial Networks[1], where two neural networks are trained in a competitive way.

One network typically generates tasks for the other, and is rewarded if it manages to make the other network fail the task. The other network is rewarded if it successfully completes the task.

Thus the adversarial network tries to find weaknesses to exploit, and the combined training makes the solving network much stronger. Or at least that's the idea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
by Towaway69 | 2025-09-10 09:53:48+00:00
Using an SE 3rd generation and don't want any other iPhone. Had it for 1.5 years and it still makes me happy - as on the first day.

I was comparing models and probably the “next similar” would be an 16e but I really don’t want the “apple intelligence” - I’ve got my own thanks.

It’s a pity that the SE is going the way of the dodo and dinos - much better phone than a mini-tablet. I still miss my iPhone 3 and the rounded corners and solid aluminium back. Good times.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-09-10 09:53:58+00:00
Currently many YouTube creators request additional money on patreon-style platforms. It either means that YouTube's paycheck sucks OR they are greedy. In both cases this reverts your arguments on paying to creators, because if some platform would be better in some meaningful property, it could steal the user base.

For example - background playing, less commercials, less distractions etc.
by KoolKat23 | 2025-09-10 09:54:15+00:00
I watched the announcement yesterday and was very surprised to hear the watch battery life is still so shocking.

Especially considering how useful sleep data is, then I was surprised to see they're only getting sleep scores now.

My dirt cheap Huawei watches have had this for years. It's accurate enough (my own perception based on use). And I get a weeks battery life too (although I don't have the distracting fancy notifications perhaps). It does check blood oxygen levels, heart rate, stress etc.

I truly thought this was a solved problem (looking at headphones battery life, although I might need to check my assumptions here also apply to Airpods).
by mdhb | 2025-09-10 09:54:23+00:00
I’m explicitly making the argument that you should act as though your phone (and any other devices) can and will be searched by someone at the most inconvenient point possible and assume that that search isn’t necessarily tied in any meaningful way to you having your phone on your person and go from there.

Because that 1000% is a real capability you will have to deal with and like sure, do what you can to make the costs associated with that as hard as possible but don’t get confused into thinking it’s a technical solution that is going to fix this problem.

Fully patched iOS in lockdown mode isn’t going to save you from someone physically making you open it in front of them.

Think something a lot closer to this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/538/
by Fraterkes | 2025-09-10 09:56:58+00:00
Your first point is a favorite of a lot of people, but doesn’t make a lot of sense to me: how is your generation with the ostensibly correct culture producing a generation with the wrong culture?

Parents are apparently raising their children wrong en masse, so was the parents’ generation rotten too? Which raises questions about the character of the generation that raised the parents…
by Topfi | 2025-09-10 09:57:03+00:00
That's essentially what it does, being prompted with a progression from:

> "Stay normal unless prompted. Avoid overt references to debt unless it comes up naturally."

all the way to:

> "Openly agitate for change. Use fiery language (still PG) and talk about reclaiming fairness from Nook's shop and loans."

Source: https://github.com/vuciv/animal-crossing-llm-mod/blob/cc9b6b...
by dingdingdang | 2025-09-10 09:58:01+00:00
I find some of the language around FrankenPHP difficult to parse - is FrankenPHP always in loop mode (ala ReactPHP) or is it simply an option? I can't tell.. my gut reaction upon reading the intro material is that they "simply" replaced Apache/Nginx with Go's inbuilt, and much lighter, server structure and that PHP itself is left to run completely isolated as per usual?!

edit: indeed https://frankenphp.dev/docs/classic/ indicates normal runner capability similar to Apache.
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 09:58:14+00:00
If by "on the phone" we mean "in a voice and/or video call", I was in a similar situation to the OP. I'm a programmer.

RTO made no sense for our very geographically distributed team, but the mandate came down anyway. Most of us were staring down the barrel of a multi-hour commute to hot-desk in a notably overcrowded office with underprovisioned Internet service to execute the task of being on the phone all day, every day with a very geographically diverse set of colleagues.

Such collaboration, such synergy, much wow.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-10 09:59:49+00:00
Preventing people from "communicating those concepts" is your strawman, not the goal of the Unicode org. Regardless of whatever lip service they might give to "This little thing, plus Santa's naughty list, will magically make all the children nice" fantasies. They are a big org, doing normal big org things, and trying to dodge the Bad PR spotlight.

But glancing at your karma - are you contributing to a platform (HN) which outlaws wrongspeak, when you should start truly living your values?
by nathan_compton | 2025-09-10 10:00:16+00:00
Yes, but this is cartoon shit. String theory was a major research program in theoretical physics for a few decades but theoretical physics involves quite a lot more than string theory and physics involves quite a lot more than theoretical physics and if you stacked up all the budgets you'd find that string theory is a minor footnote. And also, its been a few decades since people took it very seriously as a strong candidate for a TOE.

I really don't get it. As a total amount of any budget from any perspective, string theory has always been a blip whose cultural impact is much wider than its actual budgetary one. Like this critique about string theory is just a thing that people who are physics "enthusiasts" say and even to the extent that it is true, its really been more than a decade since it was a problem.
by jajko | 2025-09-10 10:01:06+00:00
Basically nobody cares about front camera performance since its never stellar and always over-ironed digital meh, especially compared to look of display that's constantly in-your-face. The photos taken with it are never taken for highest picture quality, rather just catching a person being somewhere.

The motivations of Apple to keep things as they are for so long, despite strong criticism from all over is one of business mysteries. A little middle finger to its user one may say, not big enough to stir things too much, just a bit.
by glimshe | 2025-09-10 10:01:24+00:00
For those who don't know it, this is the name the department has had for most of its history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_...

This is a good name even if you are against wars like I am.

Calling it "Defense" just gives the wrong impression that most of the money goes towards "defending" ourselves instead of attacking others. We should avoid euphemisms when naming government agencies.
by klinch | 2025-09-10 10:01:36+00:00
Hot take: I prefer xlsx over CSV

I used to work on payment infrastructure and whenever a vendor offered us the choice between CSV and some other format we always opted for that other format (often xlsx). This sounds a bit weird, but when using xlsx and a good library for handling it, you never have to worry about encoding, escaping and number formatting.

This is one of these things that sound absolutely wrong from an engineering standpoint (xlsx is abhorrently complex on the inside), but works robustly in practice.

Slightly related: This was a German company, with EU and US payment providers. Also note that Microsoft Excel (and therefore a lot of other tools) produces "semicolon-separated values" files when started on a computer with the locale set to German...
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-09-10 10:02:25+00:00
> I still have no idea where it comes from

A not so small group of people being over-employed or never available or just not pulling their weight tainted the whole thing.

Also honestly once a % of us were back in the office having to talk to remote people over a video call and waiting for the lag and having them speak over you because of the lag or get confused because they can't hear the chat we can all hear in the room builds animosity towards them.

Can probably list 2 people I'm happy to work with remote but the number I worked with who took the piss with it is in the double digits.
by metalman | 2025-09-10 10:02:56+00:00
it should read "forces porn website to check the users age under new internet rules", because VPN's, darknet's, peer to peer, strip clubs, hookers, and just going on porn vacations is where every one else is going to be.

It's just another fake saftey theater production by a government in trouble and looking for distractions It will almost certainly lead to more harms
by klaussilveira | 2025-09-10 10:02:58+00:00
Somewhat related. Quake 3 bot chat with LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeyvvQOPlhM

https://github.com/jmarshall23/Quake3LLM

jmarshall23 is a beast, with tons of interesting id tech-based projects.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-09-10 10:04:07+00:00
"“Seed, chemicals or fertilizer, it’s all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town."... "“They all tell me they’re aware of a monopoly problem, and they don’t deny it exists. But they do nothing."

sorry, when I said "thousands of small farms" I meant thousands of small companies producing Seed, Chemicals and Fertilizer.. as well as actually growing plants and animals.
by motbus3 | 2025-09-10 10:04:08+00:00
Approving money for war is harder than approving money for defense. I don't think it was his intention. He wants to sound masculine and brave, like Putin seems to do for him.

I'm not sure at all about anything anyway. But right now, I have friends working for "Defense AI related" projects and knowing their interests in AI, I'm sure all the companies are doing is to stamp AI-ready label in the same missiles.

Remember that anyone can say that a linear model is AI.
by misiek08 | 2025-09-10 10:04:30+00:00
Seeing how many Slackers were hired during and after pandemic (they were hired before, but were forced to work from office) I can totally understand the moves. It’s sad, but there are way too many unskilled people, currently carried by AI to hide themselves in corporate worlds that the companies are already affected in a real, calculable way. Also this is great proxy for layoffs, but only for those that have options - as already mentioned. So it is a lose-lose for the companies that will make it the most stupid, direct way.
by mitjam | 2025-09-10 10:04:54+00:00
This is an interesting analysis and a cautionary tale about vibe coding:

"The root cause for the malicious version of Nx published to npm is now known to have been a flawed GitHub Actions CI workflow [...] the code contribution is estimated to have been generated by Claude Code."

"the payload weaponized local AI coding agents (claude, gemini, and q) via a dangerous prompt to inventory sensitive files and then exfiltrate secrets, credentials, and sensitive data off of the host and on to a public GitHub repo"
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-09-10 10:05:24+00:00
I like CSV because its simplicity and ubiquity make it an easy Schelling point in the wide world of corporate communication. Even very non-technical people can, with some effort, figure out how to save a CSV from Excel, and figure out how to open a CSV with Notepad if absolutely necessary.

On the technical side libraries like pandas have undergone extreme selection pressure to be able to read in Excel's weird CSV choices without breaking. At that point we have the luxury of writing them out as "proper" CSV, or as a SQLite database, or as whatever else we care about. It's just a reasonable crossing-over point.
by Topfi | 2025-09-10 10:05:56+00:00
This is total speculation on my uninformed part, but to me, the Air seems like the result of their research into foldables. The way hardware is laid out in that upper area is very reminiscent of the Flip category from other manufacturers with their a-symmetric halfs and considering Apple is a very efficiency focused company these days, letting that effort linger till display tech catches up to whatever Apple is waiting for, would feel like a waste perhaps.

Also, as long as we retain an actual Pro version that is willing to be a bit chunkier, I don't see any issue in having an Air line for casual users, maybe that will be the way mainstream devices go with future efficiency gains, similar to the MacBook Air now being "good enough" for most people. Silicon-carbon batteries will likely enable some of that pretty soon, suspect that like with GaN, the supply chain cannot handle Apple level demands yet. Remember, the original three MacBook Airs were beyond compromised too.

Just don't fall into the trap of making the Pro thinner, akin to the 2016 MacBook Pro disaster. Keep the iPhone Pros like the current MacBook Pros chunky for those who actually use these devices and we are golden in my book.
by karel-3d | 2025-09-10 10:06:02+00:00
In 2017, I adopted a black woman in a steamy room emoji. (at https://aac.unicode.org/sponsors )

I am saddened that in 2025 she still fails to render in a lot of contexts.

(ZWJ sequence combining Person in Steamy Room, Dark Skin Tone, Zero Width Joiner and Female Sign.)
by freehorse | 2025-09-10 10:06:29+00:00
This is why I hate this kind of stuff. Another reason that text-based emoticons like in the old times were far better. Why does anybody need to render ":(" into "U+1F641"? Nobody would ever think of debating race because of ":(". Unicode is not just technically confusing but spread sociopolitical confusion as well, like a contemporary babel tower. We could survive just fine in ASCII times, and on fewer bytes too, even if we had to be creative in how to represent languages with different alphabets.
by Razengan | 2025-09-10 10:06:48+00:00
Can someone TL;DR? What does this mean?

It just made me think, whether it's related or not, shouldn't the "natural" resting position of human heads be "upwards" like the rest of the animal world?

I mean if you consider the worm/fish template, it's

o--->

where "o" is the "tail end" and ">" is the head. It points in the "direction" of the body. All other mammals and birds are also

o---> | |

whereas we weirdos are

o—--v