MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ri-vai | 2025-09-30 20:49:03+00:00
OpenAl has launched Sora 2alongside an entirely new Sora socialapp, focusing on short, remixablelikeness-aware clips.The modelimproves on native audio, strongerphysics simulation, and greatercontrolthough the app currentlygenerates ~10-second videosGoogle's Veo 3 targets productionworkflows: native audio, support forvertical and landscape formats, andup to 4K output through DeepMind'sstack and integrations like YouTubeShorts, If you need consumer-oriented, likeness-centered creationwith fast ideation, Sora 2's app iscompelling; if you need higherresolution, production-ready videoVeo 3 is the better choice
by ryandrake | 2025-09-30 20:49:28+00:00
Don't worry. AI is going to be monetized and extractive in no time. Just like Social Media went from "fresh, fun and cool new tech" to "how did we let this horrible beast take hold of the world," AI will take the same path. In 10 years or sooner, when 99.99% of what you read, hear, and watch is AI slop, you're going to post "This used to be a cool invention!" if there's even a place left for humans to post by that time.
by physarum_salad | 2025-09-30 20:49:32+00:00
Yes, I am interested to see if Grokpedia can live up to the initial hype. As much as I dislike wikipedia it is a difficult thing to get right. In particular where lots of political and business interests (and others, etc) apply pressure to manicure pages. With everyone banning everyone they don't like it may just turn into another boring partisan internet split.
by karmelapple | 2025-09-30 20:49:45+00:00
Personally, I consider this horrendous advice.

If you're not in step with where you're at, and you can find other employment where you'll be happier, why not change?

You could apply your same logic to, "If you're in a relationship with a significant other, don't break up with them... get them to break up with you! You will absolve yourself of any regrets of dumping them." Yes, and you will have wasted both your time, and their time.

And the same goes for working at a company that you feel isn't good for you.
by clgeoio | 2025-09-30 20:49:52+00:00
> Concerns about doomscrolling, addiction, isolation, and RL-sloptimized feeds are top of mind—here is what we are doing about it.

> We are giving users the tools and optionality to be in control of what they see on the feed. Using OpenAI's existing large language models, we have developed a new class of recommender algorithms that can be instructed through natural language. We also have built-in mechanisms to periodically poll users on their wellbeing and proactively give them the option to adjust their feed.

So, nothing? I can see this being generated and then reposted to TikTok, Meta, etc for likes and engagement.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-30 20:50:02+00:00
Way back then, calculus was a culture war battleground. Bishop Berkeley famously argued the foundations of calculus weren't any better that those of theology. This sort of thing motivated much work into shoring them up, getting rid of infinitesimals and the like (or, later, making infinitesimals rigorous in nonstandard analysis).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst
by seydor | 2025-09-30 20:50:05+00:00
When the dust settles , that's probably going to be the most common application of these video models. Making automated social content kind of defeats the purpose; people empathize with other people, not with AI . (I guess that's why they didn't also make their interview video via AI)

But Sora /VEO will probably also revolutionize movies and tv content
by khaleel-kagi | 2025-09-30 20:50:09+00:00
Hey, thanks patrakov for trying the app! Users can actually change the content language of the app from Settings. All stories will be automatically translated to their preferred language.

When you share a Russian story with a non-russian speaker, they will still be able to read the story in their own set Content Language in the Settings. We're working on improving the UX of language, sharing a story, and more.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-09-30 20:50:39+00:00
Had these been picked for the IBM PC, it would have died and been replaced by some RISC.

Lisp machines only made any sense in that very brief window when DRAM was faster than the CPUs that used it. Partly because of process technology, partly because of lack of understanding of CPU design principles. With x86, you could choose to ignore the parts of the design that made it slow, and just build on the basics to bring the design forward. With a lisp machine, that would have never worked.

It wouldn't have been long until you would have been able to buy machines that would have been more than 10x faster on real workloads, and probably cheaper too.
by ashu1461 | 2025-09-30 20:51:03+00:00
Great release,

1. How do you decide whether to cache the data into a vector database or fetch it on runtime using a tool call ?

2. Slowly all players like Open AI / Claude are trying to provide a somewhat equivalent offering of connecting your workspaces and then providing search on top of it either via direct integrations / mcp servers, how do you see that spanning out ?
by jjgreen | 2025-09-30 20:51:06+00:00
A rock is not physically a material object, it is a region of space where the electrons, protons and neutrons are differently arranged, and that region is fuzzy, difficult to determine; but as physical beings, as monkeys, we recognise its oneness, that's necessary for our survival in this physical world, we see this blurred outline of a rock, we feel it's weight in our hand, we observe its practical difference from two rocks. Just as we recognise twoness in a pair of rocks, fish, apples, threeness in a triple of parrots, of carrots, we abstract those out into 1, 2, 3, ...
by danaris | 2025-09-30 20:51:07+00:00
> he’s obviously not doing that because he wants to cheat in elections

No, that's exactly why he wants to do it.

Requiring voter ID makes it much harder for poor people—disproportionately likely to be minorities, vastly more likely to be city-dwellers (who don't need a driver's license)—to vote.

There is no rampant vote fraud. There have been many, many studies on this. Even the ones from Republicans prove that there are no more than a tiny, tiny handful of people who ever deliberately try to vote where they're not eligible (including multiple voting, etc).
by extraduder_ire | 2025-09-30 20:51:12+00:00
Age verification is done in the client (app/website) the appview (CTO calls it an appserver now) is the backend that services api requests from the default, and most other, clients. DMs themselves are not stored in ATproto, and are kind of a hack.

You can migrate your PDS (data server) away from bluesky's servers to another host, and as of a few days ago you can migrate back. (only if you initially signed up to bluesky, not if you started off self-hosting)

The following gist is good to glean how the age-verification system works: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528...
by missedthecue | 2025-09-30 20:51:58+00:00
Sometimes I wonder who builds this stuff. I appreciate at the end of the day that everyone has bills, but I feel like I'd rather apply for public housing before I work on that. They're not even getting rich, just a wagie. I have never met someone in the tech industry that was ideologically anti-privacy. It's always the lawyers and politicians. But someone builds it.
by hansmayer | 2025-09-30 20:52:15+00:00
> "The studios and creators who thrive in this new landscape will be those who can effectively harness AI’s capabilities while maintaining the human creativity and vision that ultimately drives the art of cinema."

..Just somehow several years on, these optimistic statements still all end up being in the future tense, somehow for all the supposed greatness and benefits, we still dont see really valuable outputs. A lot of us do not want more of the "CONTENT" as envisioned by corporate ghouls who want their employees or artists to "thrive" (another word kidnapped by LinkedIn-Linguists). The point is not in the speed and easiness of generation of outputs, visual and sound effects etc. The point is the artists interpretation and their own vision, impressions etc. Not a statistical slop which "likely" fits my preferences (i.e. increases my dopamin levels).
by nsajko | 2025-09-30 20:52:20+00:00
Julia is not without warts, but this blog post is kinda rubbish. The post claims vague but scary "correctness issues", trying to support this with a collection of unrelated issue tickets from all across Julia and the Julia package ecosystem. Not all of which were even bugs in the first place, and many of which have long been resolved.

The fact that bugs happen in software should not surprise anyone. Even software of critical importance, such as GCC or LLVM, whose correctness is relied upon by the implementations of many programming languages (including C, C++ and Julia itself), are buggy.

Instead the post could have focused more on actual design issues, such as some of the Base interfaces being underspecified:

> the nature of many common implicit interfaces has not been made precise (for example, there is no agreement in the Julia community on what a number is)

The underspecified nature of Number (or Real, or IO) is an issue, albeit not related with the rest of the blog post. It does not excuse the scaremongering in the blog post, however.
by fragmede | 2025-09-30 20:52:32+00:00
DHH chose to link to Wikipedia's page about ethnic groups in London, which is literally about race and ethnicity. Not accent, cultural practices, or national identity. His use of "native Brits" is telling, especially when he follows it with "[a] statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now." The implication is clear when you contrast this language with demographic data about non-white populations.

Reading further into DHH's blog post reveals even more troubling context. He describes Tommy Robinson organized marches as being "normal everyday Brits." When white supremacist, xenophobic marches are your idea of "normal everyday Brits," the mask rather slips, doesn't it? He attempts to equate these marches with legitimate free speech cases like Graham Linehan, trying to make it all seem like reasonable pushback, as if this is just another historical moment of the isles being "invaded". The rhetoric is telling.

It takes DHH only 701 words before he's linking to articles about Pakistani rape gangs. At this point, we're not dealing with subtle implications anymore.

The argument about Danish cultural context doesn't hold water either. Denmark has its own charged political discourse around Middle Eastern and African immigrants. And DHH has lived in the US for roughly 20 years so he's well aware of how these discussions are perceived. As for the Anglo-Saxon history lesson: they were themselves migrants who mixed with existing populations. London was founded by Romans (also migrants!) and has been a multicultural trading hub for over a thousand years. What "native British" golden age is DHH mourning exactly? The 1950s? The Victorian era built on colonial extraction? When precisely was London purely "native British"?

> So now we have recognizable 'native Brits' who look different from modern day 'native Italians' or 'native Germans'.

I'd be curious to hear more about these supposedly "recognizable" distinctions. This sounds remarkably similar to certain early 20th century anthropological theories that we've since... reconsidered.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-30 20:52:52+00:00
Because Elon.

Snark aside: the goal is Mars because it might be possible to colonize the planet and to have a place that acts as a reserve for humanity should shit really hit the fan (i.e. WW3).

The moon isn't suitable as much for that purpose due to a complete lack of any atmosphere and because it's too close to Earth.
by paganel | 2025-09-30 20:53:08+00:00
> feel enough pain to contact their representatives

It doesn't work like that because the European "Parliament" is a joke. For starters, they can't initiate anything, they can only approve or reject (of course that it's almost always approve) stuff that is being passed to them from higher up, most of the times from the European Commission, if I'm not mistaken. Ah, they can pass/generate "resolutions", which are basically empty words put on a piece of paper.

Second, the people there don't "represent" anyone, at most they represent the political parties that have put them on the lists that got them into the European Parliament, but that's it.
by amatecha | 2025-09-30 20:53:23+00:00
Not sure why this is downvoted, this is correct on all points. I've been on a journey to lower chronic inflammation and you would not believe how hard it is to find stuff that doesn't have "fragrance" or other mysterious potentially-inflammation-causing substances.

https://cancerblog.mayoclinic.org/2025/02/17/want-to-reduce-...

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/anti-inflammatory-diet

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/foods-that-can-cause-infl...

https://www.heartandstroke.ca/articles/the-anti-inflammatory...

https://health.osu.edu/health/general-health/how-fragrances-...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9163252/

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(25)00549-2/abstrac...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-30 20:53:36+00:00
GLP-1s.

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-does-it-seem-like-glp-1-... (Control-F "Theory 2: GLP-1 is a miraculous “moderation molecule,” and it has docking portals all throughout the body that reduce inflammation.")

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/do-gl...
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 20:53:51+00:00
But it still doesn't prove that the person creating the proof is the person who was assigned the government ID, right? What's to stop someone from using their ID to power a bunch of bots?

And AFAIK unless the company has a database/API for all the existing IDs in the world, I would think it doesn't stop forged IDs from existing.

And even then, corrupt employees could still issue forged IDs... there's no guarantee that a single ID equals a single person forever.
by underdeserver | 2025-09-30 20:53:53+00:00
I haven't seriously competed for a while - the team I used to play with is all but disbanded. Back in the day I used to complete a challenge, maybe two, very rarely three in the top tier CTFs - out of 20-30 challenges - so definitely you need a team. (I also often got zero challenges and nothing to show for my time.)

I don't have any references for this but I remember reading that a couple of the bigger teams, those who would win often, had 30-40 players so they have one or two people working on each challenge in parallel. Of course, talent isn't equally distributed - My team usually had 10-12 people, of which maybe 3 people would get us 60-70% of the points we earned.

(I was not one of them. My personal goal was 1/n of our points, so if we were 10 people playing and got 5000 points, I'd be content if I solved challenges worth at least 500. I made it about half the time.)

Anyway, I don't think CS theory is necessarily useful for this - with the exception of the crypto (more on this later). What you really need is a combination of four things:

1) Solid understanding of the elements of each challenge type:

For web or misc, that's how to use sockets, make HTTP requests; what you can and cannot do (can you send a request with unescaped characters? Can you send the wrong Content-Length header? How big a payload can you realistically send?); what basic algorithms exist, how fast they can run and how to use them; Linux permission models. For pwn that's exploitation techniques, ROP, memory protections. For reversing that's reverse engineering techniques, the use of Ghidra or IDA or radare2, sometimes writing processor definitions for them.

For crypto you need to understand linear algebra over finite fields at the very least.

2) Fast learning: You will need to learn a new crypto attack, or the intricacies and gotchas of a particular JS framework, a new language, or a new embedded processor. In [1] you needed to learn what PIL can and cannot parse, how Pickle works under the hood, and, at a shallow level, how PNG image compression works.

3) Iteration. Challenges often have multiple steps. Solving one is usually not enough. Read [1] - it's a great writeup that highlights that point.

4) Resilience. I worked on [2] for a day and a half. But I'm not super up on lattice reduction theory and I didn't know about BKZ reduction. Other people didn't know about it either, learned about it as they went and solved it. I didn't manage. So I didn't solve it. That happens a lot. Live with it and do your best.

[1] https://emanuelmairoll.at/posts/hitcon2025-imgc0nv

[2] https://ibrahimadel.netlify.app/posts/filtermaze-google-ctf-...
by nomel | 2025-09-30 20:53:53+00:00
> There's nothing inherently problematic about DMs.

You should definitely talk to some women. They generally have a drastically different, dick filled, experience with DMs. Multiply that by the felonies involved with interacting with a minor, the legal requirements of COPPA, and the PR problems of things like "grooming groups found on <platform>", and the problems become more clear.

Of course, the real issue is parents giving their children unrestricted access to the internet.
by mcphage | 2025-09-30 20:54:20+00:00
> But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

I think Reddit managed that best. Getting rid of the "default" subreddit seemed like a dumb idea when they did it, but looking back on the effect, it allowed Reddit to exist as a thousand different, distinct, often disjoint communities, rather than trying to push everyone into a single place together.
by mynameisash | 2025-09-30 20:54:35+00:00
> keep yourself motivated

As an entertainment device, Duolingo is fine. I used it to start my French journey, not truly appreciating the INCREDIBLE difficulty and quantity of effort required. Fortunately for me, I was and still am super curious about languages, and I really want to learn.

I speak French now at roughly a B2 level. When I travel to la Francophonie, I get by, and people are usually reasonably impressed by my level (or at least are humoring me, which is fine). But my friends and family who have seen me hold conversations in French, as impressed as they may be, would never put in the amount of effort that I have.
Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS
by benbridle | 2025-09-30 20:54:45+00:00
Hey everyone,

Cobalt is a program for painting textural and expressive pixel-art on Windows, Linux, Nintendo DS, and in-browser. The same 46KB core executable runs on all platforms, with a thin emulator layer sitting on top to handle differences in inputs and filesystem access (which makes it easy to port between systems). It's built on Bedrock[0], an 8-bit virtual computer system I posted about here in July.

I created Cobalt because I wanted to draw messy, gritty pixel art without smooth gradients, and the smaller colour palette helped with making bolder colour choices. Images can be moved back and forth between platforms, so you can copy works-in-progress to the DS to keep working away on the bus or train. It's like a 2004-era vision of the future.

There's a live demo on the linked page that runs in the browser, and there are downloadable demos for every platform here[1]. Let me know if you try it out or have any questions!

[0] https://benbridle.com/bedrock

[1] https://derelict-engineering.itch.io/cobalt
by vel0city | 2025-09-30 20:55:21+00:00
> Young Americans regularly go for 1-2-3 month trips to Italy, France, Germany, etc

Its really not that common outside of really wealthy people. Only 50% or so Americans under 30 years old even have a passport, much less spend months overseas. And that's a percentage that has gone way up over the years. In fact, its probably more common to find people that have barely even left the same state than have traveled in Europe, especially so for spending any appreciable amount of time in any particular part of Europe.

https://today.yougov.com/travel/articles/46028-adults-under-...
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-30 20:55:22+00:00
>it's an accurate description of the terror of the commons.

There's no inherent terror in it. Self governing communities on the internet need some means to monitor themselves just like they do offline. Communities before the internet didn't let unknown adults in their community have one-on-one conversations with children unsupervised. That's not a right or a common practice.

Before the internet when you went you joined a community you had to show your face, not a lot of clubs I'm aware of that involve minors where people in a balaclava where welcome.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-30 20:55:26+00:00
I know at least one person who supplements their income finding bounties with Claude Code.

Right now you can prompt inject an obfuscated payload that can trick claude into trying to root a system under the premise that you're trying to identify an attack vector on a test system to understand how you were compromised. It's not good enough to do much, but with the right prompts, better models and if you could smuggle extra code in, you could get quite far.
by Calavar | 2025-09-30 20:55:33+00:00
That's a hot take of a blog post.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The cholesterol to heart disease link is one of the best attested in medical science [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]

And yet when making this very extraordinary claim, the author fails to cite any quantitative data for or against. He does not even attempt to build a qualitative argument by proposing a mechanistic theory of why cholesterol is unlikely to be causative of heart disease. Then he goes on to claim that doctors don't have hard evidence to show that statins reduce the incidence of heart disease, despite the fact that such evidence exists [5]. The post is just 10 paragraphs of fluff that boil down to 'don't trust the medico-industrial complex'

Honestly, I think that blog post is a litmus test on scientific literacy - What convinces you more, data and numbers and charts and tests of statistical significance, or rail-against-the-machine rhetoric and a few scary sounding quotes provided without the associated context?

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/19216...

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25815993/

[3] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abst...

[4] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/01.CIR.67.4.730

[5] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2678614

[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32507339/

[7] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2008.10...

[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18061058/

[9] https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.03.384

[10] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00020-3

[11] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.030496

[12] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46686-x

[13] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002191502...

[14] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12872-021-01971-1

[15] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jat/31/3/31_64369/_arti...
by mcv | 2025-09-30 20:56:09+00:00
> Could you explain in your own words why the right wing is not intellectually honest while the left wing supposedly is?

This one is easy. The right wing is peddling lots of conspiracy theories and misinformation, and is more likely to embrace those that don't originate with them. This isn't just true in US politics (where the effect is blatantly obvious), but it's also something I see (to a lesser degree) in Dutch politics, for example.

I don't know why this is the case, and I don't think it's universally the case, but at this particular moment in history, it's very much the case.

> It all sounds rather strange to me considering the way left-wing politics is so often driven by feelings instead of facts.

I'm afraid the opposite is true. Again, look at US politics, but also for example the irrationality around the Brexit vote. That was entirely driven by feelings, not facts. Conservative politicians promised nonsensical and contradictory things, and obviously were unable to deliver.