MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-09-02 10:39:58+00:00
> Now try non-rigid land ownership, where land and buildings can be expropriated in the name of nebulous greater good.

Maybe there could be some balance instead of "Either everything can be owned, or nothing is!".

It isn't impossible to move cities if it's really needed and someone is footing the bill, even in a democratic Western country that is famously highly regulated, like Sweden. Since a mine in the north is expanding, they have to move the entire city (paid by the mine's operator in this case), building by building, which of course isn't without complaints, but it's a thing that actively being done as we speak. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3xp4xlw9o
by Llamamoe | 2025-09-02 10:40:17+00:00
The overwhelming majority of that advantage comes from sex hormones, not the gene itself. Depending on discipline, most or all of the advantage goes away within several years on HRT.

Take that and then consider that this goes even harder for people whose bodies never masculinized due to androgen insensitivity or whatever. Maybe it still carries some advantage, but... so what? So does pretty much every single gene variant top athletes have and nobody is trying to single those out.
by latexr | 2025-09-02 10:40:45+00:00
And my point is that “lossy” does not mean “unreliable”. LLMs aren’t reliable sources of facts, no argument there, but a true lossy encyclopaedia might be. Lossy algorithms don’t just make up and change information, they remove it from places where they might not make a difference to the whole. A lossy encyclopaedia might be one where, for example, you remove the images plus gramatical and phonetic information. Eventually you might compress the information where the entry for “dog” only reads “four legged creature”—which is correct but not terribly helpful—but you wouldn’t get “space mollusk”.
by keiferski | 2025-09-02 10:41:27+00:00
Another metaphor: LLMs are sketches, not technical drawings. A sketch is not supposed to be the final product; it is exploratory, not definitive.

If you used sketches to build a house, it has a nonzero chance of falling down. Likewise, if you made technical drawings as a way to brainstorm house designs, the process would be overly rigid and extremely inefficient.
by type0 | 2025-09-02 10:41:29+00:00
from torrentfreak > "No further context was provided, but the developer purportedly had a Russian developer account, despite living in Malta."

"seems the issue is related to government sanctions" - so he is still connected to the Russian government then?!

btw, Malta is a good place for Russian agents, Sergey Gorokhovsky is one such and he oversees White House Personnel while telling everyone he's not Russian
by AlienRobot | 2025-09-02 10:41:42+00:00
Nobody is saying that LLM's don't work like magic. I know how neural networks work and they still feel like voodoo to me.

What we are saying is that LLM's can't become AGI. I don't know what AGI will look like, but it won't look like an LLM.

There is a difference between being able to melt iron and being able to melt tungsten.
by diggan | 2025-09-02 10:43:25+00:00
> US political news has infected the entire world now sadly

I'm not sure if it's just because of the two countries where I grew up (Sweden) and live now (Spain), but news here seems to have always been infected by US politics, for as long as I can remember. I remember being like 9 years old and the adults around the living-room table making drunk jokes about how dumb Georgie boy was for invading Afghanistan for example...
by simonw | 2025-09-02 10:43:26+00:00
Completely agree with you - LLMs with access to search tools that know how to use them (o3, GPT-5, Claude 4 are particularly good at this) mostly paper over the problems caused by a lossy set of knowledge in the model weights themselves.

But... end users need to understand this in order to use it effectively. They need to know if the LLM system they are talking to has access to a credible search engine and is good at distinguishing reliable sources from junk.

That's advanced knowledge at the moment!
by account42 | 2025-09-02 10:43:27+00:00
Except AWS is not an IP vampire in this case, they are providing a hosting service. There is no conflict between AWS's use and the spirit of the open source license.

The conflict is entirely between the original developer wanting to be the sole service provider and the open source license that lets people host the software themselves. The software as a service business model is the problem here, not AWS hosting.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-09-02 10:44:29+00:00
> You never have a clear JPEG of a lamp, compress it, and get a clear image of the Milky Way, then reopen the image and get a clear image of a pile of dirt.

Oh but it's much worse than that: because most LLMs aren't deterministic in the way they operate [1], you can get a pristine image of a different pile of dirt every single time you ask.

[1] there are models where if you have the "model + prompt + seed" you're at least guaranteed to get the same output every single time. FWIW I use LLMs but I cannot integrate them in anything I produce when what they output ain't deterministic.
by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 | 2025-09-02 10:45:07+00:00
I'm involved in starting up a project with Next.js. Can experienced devs let me know your opinion or any potential pitfalls?

Long story short it's a proof of concept demo/exploratory project.

Currently, using Next.js app router, multi-root routes for stuff like (marketing), (app), (login), etc.

Db is Neon for the branching, will probably include Vercel AI SDK for AI stuff since its likely I'll be asked to include some AI functionality.

The only worry is I'm unsure with how this serverless layer/backend? interact with user authentication / authorization when used with the BetterAuth.

Currently hosting on Vercel, I feel like Next.js is married with Vercel for hosting. Although maybe because I'm unfamiliar with it, since Next.js made it quite simple and straightforward to do host quick proof-of-concepts on Vercel.
by conartist6 | 2025-09-02 10:45:36+00:00
It's pretty easy to understand why it will never happen. AI isn't alive. It's more intellectually akin to a sword or a gun than it is to even the simplest living thing. Nobody has any intention of changing this because there's money to be had selling swords and guns and no money to be had in selling living entities that seek self-presentation and soul
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-02 10:45:45+00:00
I don't really mind takings for very good compensation. If you want to uproot people in the name of X (say, a railway that cannot really change its path, or a very valuable mine), pay them some low multiple of the current market price of their property and off they go. The part with the market price helps them buy property elsewhere and the extra part is sugar to compensate for injured feelings. (It is not easy to abandon a home if your family lived there for generations, and we should account for that.)

But such situations are relatively rare. Perhaps the mine in Kiruna is worth it and the corporation/government can pay for the compensations. Same for vital ground communications (highways, railways).

If it isn't, though, then let the ore in the ground and let the people live where they built their homes.

Most of the time I hear ideas about "flexible ownership" etc., upon further discussion, the person starts talking about outright expropriation from people they don't like.
by 4ad | 2025-09-02 10:46:07+00:00
The copyright holder (the author) is solely responsible for choosing how they want their work to be distributed, and is not bound by any other sort of constraint. They can choose any license at any time, and change their mind however often, and it whatever direction they want. Any previous licenses used (MIT here) bear no effect whatsoever. There is no license in the world (and cannot be) that would prohibit the copyright owner from changing it. It makes no sense, the license terms only apply to the licensee, not to the licensor.

Of course, the author cannot retroactively change the license of any previously distributed work. Anyone is free to fork off Bear from its last MIT code and do whatever they want with it.

So no, the MIT license does not "explicitly allow to relicense a project at any point" (emphasis mine). The MIT license allows licensees to license their derived work however they see fit, it has no effect on the relicensing by the licensor (the copyright holder).
by fatchan | 2025-09-02 10:47:16+00:00
I always use a custom server (even express will work) with next.js, because I found the middleware and edge stuff a load of overcomplicated BS. Client side works like regular react app, SSR for any pages where the initial props are just populated from the server site is easily controlled, and the whole system is simple to reason about. There are other frameworks out there to do this now, but I'm comfortable with this and it just works, so no reason to change.
by theandrewbailey | 2025-09-02 10:48:37+00:00
About 5 years ago, I got a certification that dramatically increased my salary potential. I got a job offer at a different company (where 2 former colleagues worked), and asked my current company to match it. They did. No big deal, I liked the work and the people I was working with, or so I thought.

Three years later, I was laid off, and the technology I got the certification in is largely obsolete, or at least, difficult to break back into without experience in the new stuff. Meanwhile, the other company I got the offer from has not laid anyone off, and has seemingly migrated all their employees to different stacks. To rub salt in that wound, the former colleagues still work there.

Lesson painfully learned: switch jobs when the opportunity presents itself. Not a week goes by where I don't metaphorically kick myself for not doing so.

Nowadays, I work in ewaste recycling.[0] It doesn't pay anywhere near what I was getting, but I figure it's a much better use of my skills than stocking shelves or washing dishes. Instead of dicking around with a laptop all day, I can dick around with a hundred laptops all day.

[0] https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
by Maulik_hacker | 2025-09-02 10:49:40+00:00
99% of founders are sleepwalking. They chase "the idea", burn cash, and 6 months later realize nobody gives a damn.

It’s not a capital problem. It’s not a "hiring" problem. It’s not even a "market is tough" problem.

It’s a clarity problem.

If you don’t know:

whether your idea has real viability,

what investors will actually think,

where growth will come from,

or even if you’re solving something meaningful…

…you’re building in the dark.

That’s why I built Startup Solve. Not as another "toy AI app," but as a set of tools that act like your ruthless co-founder:

Calls out bad ideas before you waste years.

Forces you to pressure-test viability.

Predicts funding potential.

Points you where the growth fire is hiding.

I’m 14. But I got tired of watching founders twice, thrice my age drown in the same mistakes.

This isn’t about me. This is about the 99% who will keep failing until they wake up and admit: You don’t need more hustle. You need better clarity.

That’s what Startup Solve gives.

Stop building blind.
by account42 | 2025-09-02 10:49:50+00:00
Companies not wanting GPL code in code bases they want to keep proprietary should not be surprising to anyone. I fail to see how that is relevant to the comment you are replying though.

Some companies subscribe to FUD (aka lawyers covering their ass) and forbid use of AGPL, GPL and sometimes even LGPL software outright even though they allow proprietary sofware that has even more restrictions, but the big elephant in the room that is usually cited for these open source to "proprietary but we still want the publicity of open source" license changes (AWS) is not one of those companies that put fear over profit.
by jpereira | 2025-09-02 10:50:15+00:00
Agh, sorry about this! I'm one of the people building leaflet.pub, which this blog is running on. Just pushed a fix for this (ironically on nextjs/vercel). The redirect loop is to handle sharing auth between our "main" domain, and people's various custom subdomains. Auth, via the ATProtocol, is used for things like subscribing and commenting!
by TacticalCoder | 2025-09-02 10:51:33+00:00
Number 17: The Atari 2600 keyboard... It came with a BASIC cartridge and the keyboard was to be plugged in the joystick port: that's how I wrote my first BASIC programs.

It was extremely limited (and needless to say my parents thankfully realized I needed something a bit more powerful so I then got an Atari 600 XL) but that's how it all started for me!

I don't know if there's anyone else on HN who actually used that Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge+keyboard as a kid?

P.S: I can't compete with such a collection... My rarest keyboard is a Cherry MX-5000 (it's a split keyboard) and second rarest is a venerable IBM Model M, but in "industrial" livery (olive grey instead of beige).
by adamlett | 2025-09-02 10:51:36+00:00
Possibly, but what we think of as land ownership today — land as a commodity that can be freely bought and sold, and as something that gives the owner near-total control over how it’s used — is actually a fairly recent development.

In feudal Europe, land could only be “owned” by a lord, and even then it was bound up in obligations both to their superiors and to the peasants working it. There were all sorts of customary rights layered on top: in Denmark, for example, nobles had a monopoly on hunting and timber in their forests, but peasants still had rights to gather firewood, berries, nuts, mushrooms, and so on.

Village fields were also often organized under the open-field system, where land was divided into strips. Each household got a mix of good and poor soil, and in some places those strips were even periodically reallocated to keep things fair. It’s a very different picture from modern private property.
by kachnuv_ocasek | 2025-09-02 10:51:41+00:00
> a system cannot be both sound a complete

Huh, what do you mean by this? There are many sound and complete systems – propositional logic, first-order logic, Presburger arithmetic, the list goes on. These are the basic properties you want from a logical or typing system. (Though, of course, you may compromise if you have other priorities.)
by falconer2vi | 2025-09-02 10:52:31+00:00
In a new paper, published in Nature Human Behaviour, scientists from DTU (the Technical University of Denmark) examine how geography shapes human mobility and propose a way to separate physical constraints from behavioural patterns. A result that may improve urban planning, transportation design as well as epidemiology models.

Using 36 years of detailed residential relocation data from Denmark, which covers 39 million moves, between more than three million addresses, the researchers show that when you account for the influence of geography, the likelihood of moving decreases consistently with distance. This means, roughly speaking, that if you double the distance, the likelihood of people moving there is half. In cities, however, distance matters less.

The reader would be right in thinking this result seems obvious. But from a scientific perspective, the data describing these several million moves was anything but simple.

"Looking at how people have moved, it was initially hard to understand. It didn’t follow any clear pattern," says Sune Lehmann, corresponding author and professor at DTU.

"For example, we saw a lot of moves at around 180 kilometres, while other distances were not observed nearly as often. But if you think about where you can actually move, there are certain places that people flock to, while others are completely inaccessible. When we look at a map, it may look like we can go anywhere, but we are actually only using a very small part of the country.”
by pjc50 | 2025-09-02 10:52:44+00:00
> Open source is one thing, but open hardware - that’s what we really need

This needs money. It is always going to have to pay the costs of being niche, lower performance, and cloneable, so someone has to persuade people to pay for that. Hardware is just fundamentally different. And that's before you get into IP licensing corner cases.
by ionwake | 2025-09-02 10:52:45+00:00
Not suprising. One of the greatest programmers I ever knew eventually got hired by Microsoft. He worked as hard as one can work, only for his whole team to quit one by one due to the workload pushed on him by a boss seeking KPIs. The boss did so because it was the only way to get promoted. After all the coders on the team including my friend being the last, eventually quit, the boss ended up leaving after not being promoted / being unhappy a couple years later. Non of those coders will ever want to return.

Such terrible loss for the company, that deserves no better due its handling of them, with as usual a complete lack of oversight of its middle managers.

But Microsoft was never known for carefully curation of talent or breaking technologies, from its roots it was a , take what it can, hold on it, sue the rest. From the earliest days of DOS to the later years of ignoring the iphone, to the careful privacy invading code even from the 90s.

I am greatful for all they have done, and some thin skinned managers may read this and be upset, but this is just feedback, which can help improve the company.
Show HN: Concrete Calculator – Fast, accurate estimates
by yunweiguo | 2025-09-02 10:53:21+00:00
Built an all‑in‑one concrete calculator suite: slabs, columns, footings, stairs, cylinders, rebar, yards, and bag counts. Shows material breakdown (cement/sand/gravel) and optional cost. Mobile‑friendly, client‑side, free. Would love feedback on coverage (shapes you need) and edge‑case accuracy.
by dharmit | 2025-09-02 10:53:30+00:00
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not within India

Technologies: Go (GoLang), Kubernetes, Linux, Virtualization, Rust

Resume: https://bit.ly/dharmitresume

Email: Available in the resume

I'm a software engineer with more breadth in career than depth, and willing to build depth. Current focus areas: Go & Kubernetes. But I'm also learning Rust and eventually want to work on something that takes me closer to the systems (current idea is eBPF).

I pride myself in having made non-trivial contributions to projects in short time. Especially during the past year as that's when I worked on multiple projects for a short period of time and contributed to them too.
by lvl155 | 2025-09-02 10:53:38+00:00
It is but when you take that stochastic token prediction machine and combine it with post, you can extract a graph that resembles intelligence that is then stored in a very disorganized fashion. This works because it is how we process and express /communicate information.

I think we will start seeing stateful AI models within the next couple of years and that will be a major milestone that could shake up the space. LLM is merely a stepping stone.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-02 10:54:05+00:00
> A conspiracy guy who ran a disqualified campaign for a TN rep seat sued Facebook for defamation for a hallucination saying he took part in the J6 riots. They settled the suit and hired him as an anti-DEI advisor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Starbuck#Lawsuit_against...

> (I don’t have proof that hiring him was part of the undisclosed settlement terms but since I’m not braindead I believe it was.)

It seems to be public information that this was a condition of the settlement, so no speculation necessary:

https://www.theverge.com/news/757537/meta-robby-starbuck-con... | https://archive.is/uihsi

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-robby-starbuck-ai-lawsuit-s... | https://archive.is/0VKrL
by jraph | 2025-09-02 10:54:12+00:00
I found that particular aspect cringe too, I wouldn't trust ChatGPT to be good at translating to Latin and wouldn't expect it to work remotely well for this. I also wish people refrained from using LLMs at all.

But apart from this aspect, I suspect the whole idea / approach pleases / feels good and that's what gets upvoted.

edit: the HN post is flagged now, so… xD
by keepamovin | 2025-09-02 10:54:54+00:00
In the mirror: In June 1870, in Tianjin, a riot broke out after rumors spread that French Catholic nuns were kidnapping and killing Chinese children. At least 20 French nationals (including the consul and several priests/nuns) and dozens of Chinese converts were killed; Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) - Thousands of Chinese Christians and hundreds of foreign missionaries and settlers (French, German, English, American, Russian, etc.) were massacred, in a widespread anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising that swept across northern China.
by roxolotl | 2025-09-02 10:56:10+00:00
This is one of those articles about activism that to me just reads as gatekeeping. The creator of the app clearly isn’t a bastion of knowledge about this stuff but he’s taking on incredible personal risk to try and do something. While it might just be theater, I don’t disagree about that, theater is still great at getting the word out and building a movement.
by rdli | 2025-09-02 10:56:37+00:00
Polar Sky | Founding AI Lead | Bay Area/Seattle | Hybrid/Onsite | Full-time

We're a well-funded, pre-seed cybersecurity startup focused on data security. I'm looking for a founding AI lead with experience in fine-tuning LLMs (expertise around RL + reasoning models a big plus). This person would own the full AI stack from data to training to eval to test-time compute.

Who's a good fit:

* If you've always thought about starting a company, but for whatever reason (funding, life, idea), this is a great opportunity to be part of the founding team. We're 2 people right now.

* You enjoy understanding customer problems and their use cases, and then figuring out the best solution (sometimes technical, sometimes not) to their problems.

* You want to help figure out what a company looks like in this AI era.

* You enjoy teaching and sharing knowledge.

Questions, interest, just email jobs@polarsky.ai.
by delfinom | 2025-09-02 10:56:39+00:00
>While it’s always the case that phishers are looking for ways to infiltrate inboxes, our protections continue to block more than 99.9% of phishing and malware attempts from reaching users.

Let's see, things that bypass the filters:

1. Using <yourgmailaddressfirstpart>@google.com which causes a mail delivery error bot bounce to @gmail.com with the spam/malware content

2. Using thousands of bot created gmail.com accounts because the gmail domain has immediate reputation within gmail
by camgunz | 2025-09-02 10:56:49+00:00
A lot of people in the retro gaming space have the conflict you describe. On the one hand, there are a lot of games. Like, a lot. Some (many?) games have multiple versions even! And this is without talking about mods and homebrew.

On the other, there's something deeply "unmagical" about loading up a huge menu of games. Even if they're organized in some way (console, genre, studio, whatever), even if you include box art and info, it's simply not the same experience. Most retro gaming channels I watch on YouTube talk about this phenomenon--mostly in the context of "why do you have shelves full of games".

Different people will think different things about this. I have a 77 square meter home (~830ft2) and like, I'm not fitting all the games I ever bought in this place, let alone all the albums, books, etc. I have flash carts, hard drives, and a kindle keyboard v3. I kind of chalk it up to "life is a beautiful struggle". Friction is good, actually, it enriches life, and these kinds of little agonies are fun to just discuss and find common experience over.
by holowoodman | 2025-09-02 10:56:55+00:00
Typical. Give them a finger, they take an arm, a leg, your house, your firstborn and all your data.

Every request by law enforcement must be opposed. Do not talk to cops. Do not give them an inch. Ever.

They are insatiable and power-hungry. Nothing will suffice. A police state will still be a million police officers and some stricter laws short.