MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by felarof | 2025-09-05 21:21:52+00:00
> Multiple profiles with different sets of cookies in the same window.

This would be cool, will look into this.

> Using a consistent design language. Don't use 4 sets of UI fonts and 7 color schemes in the same browser window.

Agree, we want to improve UI/UX much more. If you are designer/frontend engineer (or anyone reading is), please hit me up -- nithin[at]browserOS.com
by minimaxir | 2025-09-05 21:21:52+00:00
My entire career on tech is thanks to my comments at the bottom of TechCrunch articles in the early 2010s (and I did hang out with the TechCrunch writers once I moved to SF). That was more a time where trolling in comment sections on blogs was more understood to be in good fun.

Comment culture died starting in 2016, as the internet as a whole became more polarized and making maliciously edgy is both commonplace and rewarded. Hacker News is an outlier in that aspect as it avoided that fate.
by GodelNumbering | 2025-09-05 21:22:44+00:00
Settlement Terms (from the case pdf)

1. A Settlement Fund of at least $1.5 Billion: Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion into a non-reversionary fund for the class members. With an estimated 500,000 copyrighted works in the class, this would amount to an approximate gross payment of $3,000 per work. If the final list of works exceeds 500,000, Anthropic will add $3,000 for each additional work.

2. Destruction of Datasets: Anthropic has committed to destroying the datasets it acquired from LibGen and PiLiMi, subject to any legal preservation requirements.

3. Limited Release of Claims: The settlement releases Anthropic only from past claims of infringement related to the works on the official "Works List" up to August 25, 2025. It does not cover any potential future infringements or any claims, past or future, related to infringing outputs generated by Anthropic's AI models.
by zoogeny | 2025-09-05 21:22:50+00:00
I know this sounds maybe a bit insane, or even self-aggrandizing but I don't comment on public websites for some benefit to myself. I write with the vague hope that some unique expression of myself makes some tiny difference to this universe.

Every once in a while I have some experience or some a point of view that I don't see reflected anywhere else. One of the benefits of the pseudo-anonymization of sites like Hacker News is that I feel a bit more comfortable stating things that don't really have a place to say anywhere else.

The only thing I regret is when I get into pointless arguments, usually when I feel that my comment was misunderstood or misinterpreted. But even those arguments sometimes force me to consider how to express myself more clearly or to challenge how deeply I hold the belief (or how well I know the subject) that lead me to the comment in the first place.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-05 21:23:05+00:00
> Be careful with the euphoria. For a while my dose was too high

This is a scarily common problem. For some reason, a lot of primary care doctors are jumping straight to very high doses of Adderall.

Most patients love the feeling at first. They think they're going to conquer the world and that they've become an entirely new person.

The euphoria never lasts, though. When tolerance erases the euphoria they start complaining that their medication "isn't working any more".

The good practitioners will actually titrate upward: Start with a low dose, then incrementally increase it on future visits.
by mcdeltat | 2025-09-05 21:23:10+00:00
I am all for static type checking and it is a hill I will die on so here goes...

The obvious flaw in the article: we can have both static type checking AND better architecture. In fact I also agree a lot of software architecture is unnecessarily complex and we should do better. Simultaneously I want a rock solid type system to back up that good architecture at a lower level.

Next: programming a computer is inherently complex, we make a lot of code, and humans make mistakes. In my experience we make quite a lot of mistakes as a result. Did you remember to initialise that variable? Assign the right data type? Free that memory allocation? Pick the right CPU register? One day you'll forget, so why not have a machine check it for us? Why handicap yourself with manual checks for something the machine can solve near instantly? Some people absolutely INSIST on dodging static checks and then are surprised when their software ends up a buggy mess and on the CVE list.

Next: types are abstractions for things we shouldn't need to worry about every time. Like another commenter implied, if you hate types then feel free to code in assembly, where you'll spend most of your day choosing registers and which MOV instruction to use. In most use cases this is a waste of time because the compiler will do a great job in a millisecond. And some things are just complicated and beyond comfortable human mental capacity - who wants to model a hash table every time they need a hash table? Lucky we can put it in a type and stop thinking about it. Computers are intricate and types help us manage the difficulty at a low-medium level of abstraction.

Next: loose typing will almost always reduce readability. For any sort of structured data it quickly becomes a headache to figure out what's happening without types. Types are precise, immutable, and enforced. "Stringly-typed" or "dict-typed" data sucks. Even if you architect your design well it's still clearer to say in code what you mean for your code. Maybe you can put a detailed code comment but at that point just use types. Interesting that the article mentioned UNIX shell coding because past the given example of sorting lines - which is about as trivial and uninteresting of an example as you can possibly get - shell coding is a pain exactly because everything is a string. What is this variable? What does this function/module return? Who knows! Shall we spend an hour researching and probing until we figure it out?

Lastly: I'm not an electronic engineer but I'm pretty sure they DO use tools to statically check their designs. Because signal timing is so important and it's hard to check manually. I doubt Intel's CPU has architectural simplicity and that's the sole reason it works correctly.

In summary, types make so much sense. Please use them to make your software more efficient, more reliable, and more maintainable.
by jader201 | 2025-09-05 21:23:46+00:00
> Sorry to hear that commenting (including on HN) didn't make this person any friends.

Has HN really helped people connect in this sort of way?

To me, HN has almost always felt anonymous, in the sense that I don't recognize (hardly) any of the users that post (aside from maybe dang). A lot of times, I don't even look at the username.

I think this is a combination of a lack of an avatar that nearly all other social media platforms have (except maybe Reddit, which also feels anonymous for the same reason, but I don't use it much/am not a member), as well as the low contrast username.

HN seems to intentionally deemphasize the author, and draw the focus on the content of the article and comments. Which results in a lack of connection (again, likely by design).

But I've been around for almost 15 years, and can't think of a single person I've connected with outside of HN, and could maybe name less than a handful of users by their username.

Again, not saying this is necessarily a bad thing. Just would be surprised if many people have made friends on HN (unless you're going out of your way/trying to build a network, which I guess some people likely do).
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-05 21:23:51+00:00
Stepping up the voltage for DC power makes the overcurrent protection insanely expensive, there is no ‘zero point’ for DC like there is for AC so circuit breakers are tricky to manufacture. Maybe fuses would work, I’m not entirely sure.

You’d be better off replacing the charger cables, in my best estimation.

AFAIK you can’t charge a battery with AC current, you’d need an inverter onboard the vehicle to convert to DC.
by anyfoo | 2025-09-05 21:24:13+00:00
I mostly do that when I go "that was a little bit mean of me... do I really need to be mean, what's the point?"

Fortunately, that seems to also have trained me to not write those comments in the first place. I also think much more about what I am trying to actually effect with a comment, not just about what feels good in the particular moment.

One thing that didn't change though is that probably most of my comments are edited at least once, often a few times, right after sending them. And even if it's just swapping out a word, or adding a missing comma. This one here is no exception at all, I just added this paragraph after doing some minor edits.
by dcminter | 2025-09-05 21:24:45+00:00
The Hero-1 in Whiz Kids made me desperately want one back when I was about 11. I'm not sure why I wanted it, but I was very sure.

As a hat tip to my.past self I picked up a Hero Jr when it popped up in auction and man it was a hassle getting it shipped from the US auction house to Europe. Still not sure why I want it now I've got it though.
by ghsiku | 2025-09-05 21:25:00+00:00
Thanks! At the moment we’re only pulling in alerts from Grafana, but we definitely want to expand into the alerting/incident response space. PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Slack, etc. are all on our list of directions to explore.

Right now we just support the basics—start and stop for containers/pods/services—but the plan is to grow into more advanced actions over time.
by nomilk | 2025-09-05 21:25:34+00:00
tl;dr Male High School Athletes beat Female Olympians extremely convincingly in most events (with a small number of exceptions, namely 5000 Meters and Triple Jump)

This infographic/exploratory data analysis is one of the best I've encountered at displaying data on an interesting question and laying it out for the reader to see and understand.

However, a caveat: the samples from both groups have to be similar sizes (ideally equal sizes). To demonstrate why this is important, imagine an extreme case where you compared the top 10 Female Olympians from a data set of 100 Female Olympians to the top 10 Male High School Athletes from a data set of 10,000 Male High School Athletes. The greater number of observations in the latter group gives more chances for extreme outliers, which will be selected for comparison when choosing the top n.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 21:25:35+00:00
Absolutely. It was escalating through the story, but this paragraph nailed it:

> She also hired psychics to give her answers. As she tells it, they all blamed Smith. One suggested that an ex-boyfriend of Smith’s had turned her against Baby Leon. Another claimed to see traumas on Smith’s belly and said she was clearly having rough sex. He warned: “She has something to hide.” When Smith refused to release her medical records unless nonpregnancy information was redacted, Bi saw it as confirmation that Smith was hiding crucial details.

What in living fuck do psychics have to do with a surrogacy process?

Also, this:

> SAI countered that there was “no documented bleed” on the date in question but clarified that there was “some light pink fluid which the doctor was not concerned about.” SAI said Smith asked the doctors to tell Bi directly, and that the contract gave Smith two weeks to tell Bi. “That’s emergency information,” Bi said. “She should have told me right away.”

You're going to have a hard time convincing a court that an obstetrician noted, and was unconcerned about something but that you believe it was "emergency information".

> If Bi had been told, she believed that Leon would be alive. She would’ve insisted on a C-section immediately.

A layperson insisting on a C-section at what would have been ... 27-28 weeks gestation? Where viability is ~70% at best? There's so much to poke at there. Ostensibly, Bi had a contract with the surrogacy agency that "guaranteed" a "well baby". One, who writes that contract? And seems to me the mere act of "insisting" on a C-section (which let's also be clear, has a risk to the mother, though lower) at that gestation would be at odds with any "guarantees".
by MorehouseJ09 | 2025-09-05 21:25:55+00:00
We were using podman at our company, and it was great for a while but we recently migrated to orb.

The UX with orb is just much easier and the small gotchas between docker/podman started to add up. Especially with buildkit issues we had run into and things like using a remote buildkit instance (which we now use), was not supported well enough.
by freejazz | 2025-09-05 21:25:59+00:00
It just resolves their liability with regards to books they purported they did not even train the models on, which is all that was left in this case after summary judgment. Sure the potential liability was company ending, but it's all a stupid business decision when it is ultimately for books they did not even train on.

It basically does nothing for them besides that. Given the split decisions so far, I'm not sure what value the Alsup decision is going to bring to the industry, moving forward, when it's in the context of books that Anthropic physically purchased. The other AI cases are generally not fact patterns where the LLM was trained with copyrighted materials that the AI company legally purchased copies of.
by gs17 | 2025-09-05 21:26:22+00:00
The guardrails aren't the only things being stolen for scrap, they're just what the article focuses on. There's a link included to an article about streetlight copper theft which probably costs even more, and another about telecom theft.

According to https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-city-council-copp... :

> In the [2023] fiscal year, that number skyrocket to a staggering 6,842 cases, with repair costs exceeding well over $20 million.
by coffeecoders | 2025-09-05 21:26:32+00:00
I feel the same way. Back in the day, I spent a lot of time on namepros and xda developer forums, and a few of the friendships I made there have lasted for years. I still talk to some of those folks weekly, and even meet a couple in person now and then.

It does feel harder to build that kind of connection today. Maybe it’s the anonymity, maybe it’s the sheer volume of noise, or just the way platforms are designed now. The sense of community that used to form around niche forums seems a lot rarer.

Maybe it was also my age. I was a teenager back then and more open to forming those connections.
by mingus88 | 2025-09-05 21:26:37+00:00
Comment culture died for me in a different way.

I was browsing some thread and someone referenced a meme typed out as :.|:;

The comment had a few replies who recognized the meme. I had no idea what it meant so I asked Claude

Well the AI knew what it was! It was the “loss” meme but the explanation it gave made no sense.

Turns out the meme needs a strike through tag. This turns :.|:; into a four-panel diagram of a web comic.

That’s when I realize that whatever trained Claude stripped out the formatting, and thus the entire meaning of the meme. And the comment I originally saw was a repost bot that also failed to retain the formatting when it reposted it.

And the replies that understood the reference were all reposted by bots.

So who even knows if we CAN make relationships on the internet anymore?

I can’t trust that any comment is actual human expression any more. Or is it just bullshit stripped of any context or meaning
by pkulak | 2025-09-05 21:26:38+00:00
> The problem is their battery life is ~10 years max

Depends on how you define "life". I think for the Leaf, it's 70% capacity. But even if it gets down to 50%, it'll sill keep driving.

Also, what's really annoying, is that every seller factors in tax credits to their price. So that 3k may really be 5k. I'm actually looking forward to that no longer being possible.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-05 21:26:48+00:00
Absolutely we can. It's called age verification in front of VPNs, age verification on magazine purchases, and age verification on pornographic websites or subsets (i.e. certain subreddits). VPNs or websites that don't follow the law get Visa payments suspended. Finish it off with any school kid who shows it on the playground gets suspended with a 2 week minimum, first offense.

Completely possible, compatible, and probably mostly effective. The only question is whether there's the political will and the societal tolerance.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-05 21:27:08+00:00
Don't forget: NO LEGAL PRECEDENT! which means, anybody suing has to start all over. You only settle in this scenario/point if you think you'll lose.

Edit: I'll get ratio'd for this- but its the exact same thing google did in it's lawsuit with Epic. They delayed while the public and courts focused in apple (oohh, EVIL apple)- apple lost, and google settled at a disadvantage before they had a legal judgment that couldn't be challenged latter.
by dmesg | 2025-09-05 21:27:37+00:00
Speaking of 4chan, I actually found an IRL friend there through commenting on /g/. We both wanted to try the TOX messenger and its various spin-offs. Then we took it to Steam and now years later we know each other by face and name. We even have various different political views but never argued.

It may be a super low sample size but it's far from impossible. Especially Reddit has DMs/chat and it's way easier since you can contact someone without someone else impersonating the other party. Sometimes you gotta believe you are talking to just another human being. Love that the article in the OP mentions trolling. We all probably had moments where we did not act in the best way we could have.

To all those that act noble in the shroud of anonymity!

Update: The article also says it takes several hundreds of hours. That may be so, but I find the same time needs to be spent IRL to get to know someone. Usually a continuous effort can be just as much as linking a friend a good story and saying hi. People will engage conversation spontaneously when both parties want.
by croisillon | 2025-09-05 21:28:09+00:00
Related:

Show HN: AI tool to turn handwriting into a font (June 2025, 0 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268487

Coding my handwriting (May 2024, 75 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40408291

... and probably quite a few more!
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-05 21:28:25+00:00
As a Norwegian I am well aware of that. However, we're part of the European Economic Area[1], and as such import a lot of EU regulation and standards. Mostly because we're required per the EEA terms, but also because some of those make sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area
by komali2 | 2025-09-05 21:28:54+00:00
I'm addicted to commenting on the internet. I was like, top 1% of comment karma on reddit something like 10 years ago, not because I was popular, but I think just out of sheer volume of comments getting 10-100 upvotes. Then to twitter, much shorter dopamine loop but a much worse comment experience because the threading is shit and it's impossible to know whose talking to who about what and there's a character limit. I was trying to break both addictions so I thought I'd try a "lower engagement" platform like Hacker News, and lo and behold, addicted here. Thank god they throttled my posting here, or I'd probably post at just as high a volume as I did back in the day on reddit.

Anyway like the author I often wonder, why tf am I commenting? I don't recognize any of you, even though I've had very pleasant interactions and have learned some interesting things here and there from you (like yesterday I learned about claude sub-agents), but it isn't what draws me. It's some kind of compulsion. Dopamine hits from replies? I do love talking to people IRL as well, so maybe it's just that? My friends tried to get me back into world of warcraft and an hour after logging in all I'd done was sat in a capital city arguing with people in Trade chat. Bizarre compulsion.

I don't understand ROI thinking but what frequently breaks my addiction is remembering that my comments are adding value to some rich bastard's wallet at probably no return to me, maybe harm. At least on reddit and twitter. HN isn't so bad, I mostly have good interactions here, but I'm an addict so what is useful to some is to me, falling off the wagon. Which is what I'm doing right now :P
by cogman10 | 2025-09-05 21:29:21+00:00
This I think is the key that most non-EV drivers don't recognize. Especially if you own a home, then an EV is really fantastic. You simply plug it in whenever you are home and 99% of the time you spend 0 time waiting for a charge. The slow trickle charge is both cheaper and more convenient because you aren't making trips to a gas station on a weekly/biweekly basis.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-05 21:30:32+00:00
Swipe to go back support is pretty wide if you select for iOS-first apps (I do). It’s glaring when I try to use it and it’s not there, so when that happens I’ll either go find an alternative or drop back to the web app (where Safari will definitely implement it).

My Android devices all have the gesture bar enabled because the old style button bar is an eyesore and easy to trigger accidentally (Android’s swiping from the right to go back is also too easy to trigger as a right-handed person, but that’s another story).

My metal model for the undo/back split actually follows desktop browsers. Cmd-Z isn’t going to undo navigation while Cmd-[ will, and so the two are separate and distinct.
by metalman | 2025-09-05 21:30:36+00:00
comment culture is an adventure for me it's teaching me how to be a better writer, by bieng able to see the responses to various styles of dialog, which is generaly impossible to do in the rural environment that surrounds me most of the time, and realy makes a difference when I venture into the city or have to engage beurocratic institutions, lawyers, bankers, and others working in more structured environments, devoid of wild and domesticated animals ,heavy equipment, perhaps simultaneously, which is the sort of thing that when included into general conversation in the form of "what have you been.up to", tends to derail conversations in an irecoverable way, so the internet gives me a place to test how that all works. thanks ,by the way
by kragen | 2025-09-05 21:31:10+00:00
I did this in a much more manual way in 02006: http://canonical.org/~kragen/oilpencil/

All the steps I did at the time should still work today, and they may be of some interest if you're trying to do the thing Chris gave up on in "Failing to do it myself", perhaps because you're dissatisfied with the results of the alternative approaches.
by manbash | 2025-09-05 21:31:21+00:00
Thank you. I assumed it would be quicker to find the link to the case PDF here, but your summary is appreciated!

Indeed, it is not only payout, but the destruction of the datasets. Although the article does quote:

> “Anthropic says it did not even use these pirated works,” he said. “If some other generative A.I. company took data from pirated source and used it to train on and commercialized it, the potential liability is enormous. It will shake the industry — no doubt in my mind.”

Even if true, I wonder how many cases we will see in the near future.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 21:31:35+00:00
man, the only thing that I can think of this guy is, The less I know the better....

Also I read through your comment history and you seem to refer to keystatic and zola, although I knew about zola, keystatic caught me off guard and man it was something that I exactly wanted but didn't knew how...

I once vibe-coded something similar which sucks because someone mentioned and I was curious. I will definitely try out keystatic with astro templates or maybe zola too. Thanks a lot tbh (I hope that this doesn't count as straying away from the original post but just wanted to say thanks, nowadays I feel like its underrated idk, anyways thanks once again lol)