MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by serial_dev | 2025-09-30 08:38:28+00:00
The thing is that codes of conduct do not help honest actors “regulate” and deal with troublemakers.

I used to organize meetups and I visited meetups organized by others who had code of conduct, and I just never understood what they were hoping to achieve with that.

If someone behaves poorly, you can point at a document all you want, but it doesn’t help you deal that the problematic individual. A document that you put in a markdown file is not enforceable.

And we didn’t even talk about how it is being misused. People would point to these documents to silence and shut out people they don’t like and at the same time tolerate poor behavior that are clearly in violation of code of conduct by people they do like or whose politics or opinions they share.

It is all just a charade to help you pretend that you are impartial.
by GuiShou | 2025-09-30 08:38:37+00:00
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by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-30 08:38:59+00:00
> My view is that if you think someone taking your software, changing some parts, and releasing it under a different name (while still giving you credit in an about section) leaves a bad taste in your mouth, don't release your software with a permissive license. You are explicitly giving permission for someone to do this.

I don't agree that that kind of permission means you're not allowed to have a bad taste in your mouth. But even if I did agree, that argument only applies to the developer. You are not talking to the developer. We as third parties are fully allowed to complain.
by pron | 2025-09-30 08:39:05+00:00
> Islamic conquests - not Arab.

The Arab Empire's conquests are called both Muslim conquests or Arab conquests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests).

> It’s worth remembering that the longest-lasting Caliphate was the Ottoman Caliphate. As I’ve noted, Islam transcends race and ethnicity.

Yes, but I was talking specifically about the Arab conquests that preceded the Ottoman Empire by centuries. The Arab conquests were in the 7th and 8th centuries. The First Crusade was in the 11th century. The Ottoman conquests were in the 14th century.

> Scholars have acknowledged that mistakes were made by some during these conquests, but such actions were contrary to the core teachings of Islam and have been openly recognized as such.

I'm not talking about religion but about history in response to a statement about the crusades having introduced warfare to the Middle East. Not only is that obviously not even remotely true, but the Arab Empire conquered and colonised the Levant, Maghreb, and Europe's Iberian Peninsula centuries before the crusades. All of this happened a long time ago, no one who was there is alive today, and I'm not trying to sit in judgment. This is just something that happened.

> History will judge it with the same moral clarity and horror as the atrocities committed by a certain German regime during and around the WWII era.

Not everything needs to be compared to the holocaust, nor, for that matter, to the atrocities in Syria this past decade that killed over half a million people and displaced almost 7 million. The atrocities in Palestine are bad enough without being "the same horror" as the killing of 80-90% of Eastern Europe's Jewish population. Nothing justifies mass killings, and each of those atrocities stands on its own.
by nikolay | 2025-09-30 08:39:16+00:00
For centuries, in Bulgaria, since Roman times, people have been bathing in slightly radioactive water to treat osteoarthritis. I'm not sure how this is news or an invention when it's been around for centuries and has been the standard of care in Bulgaria for decades. There are sanatoriums and spa centers in Pavel Banya, Bulgaria [0], and I know many friends who go there once or twice a year for treatments and swear they couldn't live without them!

[0]: https://pavelbanyagrand.com/en/the-healing-mineral-water-in-...
by HPsquared | 2025-09-30 08:39:32+00:00
When humans do writing, the quality improves by refining multiple drafts, making sketches and notes of the characters and situations and so on, before synthesizing the final text. A lot of preparation and thought goes into it.

If you just ask an LLM to write something off the cuff, it'll be bad. But doing a lot of prep with a human author guiding it? Not Dostoyevsky level, but not pure slop.
by treffer | 2025-09-30 08:39:48+00:00
Compatibility as I understand it means "mixing this in a project is OK".

This is the case if the 2 license aren't at odds. Usually one license is stricter and you have to adhere to that one for the combined work.

A counter-example is GPLv2 and Apache license. Those 2 are incompatible. This was fixed with GPLv3 and you can often upgrade to GPLv3.

So no, this won't allow you to relicense as GPLv2. But you can use GPLv2 code.

This is especially relevant if you have such code redistribution clauses.
by pfexec | 2025-09-30 08:39:51+00:00
This is DOA not because there is anything wrong with the app, but because iDevices make objectively poor baby monitors.

Babies sleep a lot. A LOT. Any halfway decent baby monitor needs the ability to see in the dark (IR illumination) which iDevices don't have, so unless it's relegated to monitoring play areas during the day, its usefulness is limited. That doesn't mean the software isn't well designed, the hardware is simply not fit for purpose.
by andai | 2025-09-30 08:40:11+00:00
It worked on the first try, but did it work on the second?

I noticed in conversations with LLMs, much of what they come up with is non-deterministic. You regenerate the message and it disappears.

That appears to be the basic operating principe of the current paradigm. And agentic programming repeats this dice roll, dozens or hundreds of times.

I don't know enough about statistics to say if that makes it better (converging on the averages?) or worse (context pollution, hallucinating, focusing on noise?), but it seems worth considering.
by jen729w | 2025-09-30 08:40:18+00:00
My parent said:

> For that task you need to give it points in what to do so it can deduce it's task list, provide files or folders in context with @…

- and my point is that you do not have to give ChatGPT those things. GP did not, and they got the result they were seeking.

That you might get a better result from Claude if you prompt it 'correctly' is a fine detail, but not my point.

(I've no horse in this race. I use Claude Code and I'm not going to switch. But I like to know what's true and what isn't and this seems pretty clear.)
by strnisa | 2025-09-30 08:40:30+00:00
Customers do create an account and provide a payment method, but they don't pre-fund or hold a balance, and they don't initiate a payment. Small Transfers is an API that allows merchants to charge very small amounts programmatically. At the end of each month (or earlier, if a threshold is reached), we charge the customer what they owe. This makes the tiny charges viable and avoids death-by-$0.30.

It's not a PayPal remake, since there are no wallets, no P2P transactions, and no stored funds. In addition, Small Transfers allows very small charges (as mentioned above), and provides customer OAuth and spending caps.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-30 08:41:17+00:00
My experience is that using a method allowing me to gradually lower the amount of nicotine I consume made stopping completely manageable and mostly painless.

Cravings come back when I'm under stress but it's fine. I know I will just stop again the same way I did before. It's made the whole thing guilt free for me which strangely makes cravings much more manageable than when I was beating myself trying to not restart.
by Galaco | 2025-09-30 08:41:20+00:00
This started a couple of days ago, before this announcement for 4.5 and code v2, so I already waited for it to be fixed.

As much as I hate to say it, I don’t have a large twitter following the only method I have to raise awareness of this issue is to try to piggyback on a big announcement like this in HN, that will have visible discussion, so I don’t always have the luxury of just chilling and waiting indefinitely.
by unwind | 2025-09-30 08:42:21+00:00
It is not a bad association, the GPL is of course fantastic.

I was expecting it to be a software license, but it was (to me) confusing and thus annoying that it wasn't made more clear from the beginning of the text. The entire first section did not specify that it was talking about software, and I think that is important context and should be stated very early.
by bramhaag | 2025-09-30 08:43:13+00:00
> So no, this won't allow you to relicense as GPLv2. But you can use GPLv2 code.

I don't think your interpretation is correct:

If the Licensee Distributes or Communicates Derivative Works or copies thereof based upon both the Work and another work licensed under a Compatible Licence, this Distribution or Communication can be done under the terms of this Compatible Licence

To me, this means that the combined work (e.g. EUPL + GPLv2) may be distributed under the "Compatible License" (GPLv2, in this case), but if you were to distribute only the EUPL-licensed work, you would have to distribute it under EUPL.

Besides, I do not think GPLv2 allows you to distribute a combined work under EUPL, for it is listed as GPL-Incompatible. The combined work would have to be distributed under a license compatible with both EUPL and GPLv2.
by geokon | 2025-09-30 08:43:38+00:00
From what I understand, the original one is "broken"

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

> In the Free Software Foundation's judgment, the added requirement in section 2(d) of Affero GPL v1 made it incompatible with the otherwise nearly identical GPLv2. That is to say, one cannot distribute a single work formed by combining components covered by each license.

> By contrast, the GPLv3 and GNU AGPLv3 licenses include clauses (in section 13 of each license) that together achieve a form of mutual compatibility for the two licenses.

Maybe what I'm asking doesn't make sense. B/c it requires for for instance GPL to include the ability to be restricted further by the no-SaaS clause. The GPL only allows for AGPLv3. It's explicit
by EZ-E | 2025-09-30 08:44:06+00:00
Where is the need of agents for this topic of instant payment? I understand AI and agents can be useful to look for a product and get a consensus on the reviews.

However when it comes to instant checkout and payment, some web browsers already have auto-fill for the address and payment forms that every netizen has completed hundreds of times already. Assuming web browsers already store the information for auto-fill why not go to the next step and create a protocol to allow them to do one click payment and checkout?

In short, I don't see why this instant checkout feature should be locked behind agent usage.
by fountaincoder | 2025-09-30 08:44:26+00:00
I'm working on a new unconventional form of computing called "temporal computing" - as both a PhD and as a fledgling business. The idea is to use delays in time (It's called interval modulation) as the data. I have a video explainer on YouTube https://youtu.be/rXbzJxThgig?si=FYMleAgZ0GMNEqk9. It's a long road building your own computational model and I'm currently looking at Turing completeness, and models of multiplication.
by Galaco | 2025-09-30 08:45:17+00:00
Thanks for the info, but I did pause this, not through Google Play, it was via the UI. I received an automated email from them that my subscription had been paused as I expected and will resume in 1 month unless I cancel (I can’t cancel because the cancel UI doesn’t exist in whatever status my account is somehow in).

It’s funny that Claude Pro says this isn’t a feature, because their chatbot gave me instructions on how to unpause via the UI (although said UI does not exist) so the bot seems to know it’s a feature.
by thahajemni | 2025-09-30 08:45:39+00:00
Top man! Thanks, I went trough the votings to see if the party I was thinking of matched actual voting behaviour in the 2e Kamer. It kinda did, but I was suprised another party matched a bit more.

Since that second party also comes forward in other voting compasses I might be more inclined now to vote them instead.
by keiferski | 2025-09-30 08:46:05+00:00
Part of the scandal covered in The Insider is that tobacco companies deliberately added carcinogenic compounds to cigarettes in order to increase the impact of nicotine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson#Controver...

So sure, tobacco is still addictive, but as I said in my comment, my main issue is with the hacking/maximization of this by corporations. Especially when that hacking involves adding even more poisonous chemicals.
by xxs | 2025-09-30 08:46:27+00:00
IP and geo location can work up to the state (country), that's it... and that doesn't include the roaming. IP location for mobile phones is based on the data center.

Roaming (commonly) keeps the person in the original state, regardless where they are. I can travel through out Europe, or Thailand, or the Canary Islands. I will still proudly reside in the capital where I don't live anyways.

So just forget IP and geolocation.
by bamboozled | 2025-09-30 08:47:26+00:00
You can eat salad everyday, never enjoy a drink and then die from some random shit in your 50s anyway. Sadly, I hear stories like that quite often.

I get it, this proves nothing, but I have plenty of people in my family who drank daily, chain smoked and lived until they were into their late 80s / 90s.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-09-30 08:48:20+00:00
> And we didn’t even talk about how it is being misused. People would point to these documents to silence and shut out people they don’t like and at the same time tolerate poor behavior that are clearly in violation of code of conduct by people they do like or whose politics or opinions they share.

Has it occurred to you that's actually exactly why they exist? :)
by balamatom | 2025-09-30 08:48:22+00:00
>unhinged and unprovoked

I could of course explain exactly what my words "hinge" on, and what "provokes" them. I've found that this does not create understanding where previously it was lacking. So instead let's talk about what you said.

Two of your words I consider harmful and insulting:

>is seemingly

What the hell?!

...oh, right:

- If you say "X is Y", you gotta back it up. Scary!

- If you say "X seems to me Y", you gotta justify your perceptions. Nasty!

- But saying "X is, seemingly, Y", that's totally safe! Because it's bullshit. It posits a statement as true knowledge and elidies the need for justification outright, on the syntactic level.

What's worse, you probably didn't even notice you were doing this. You just picked up the pattern from people who looked like they had what you wanted.

That cognitive habits like yours are so widely accepted as "normal", is exactly why I'm guessing that CBT (or, for that matter, parent poster's wireheading suggestions) are probably going to be super effective on you, not kidding.

If you were to give those a shot, anyway. Instead of, you know, just stating existences of literatures at people. Also unless your current state of mind wasn't already achieved by similar methods. In any case, do report back!
by plindberg | 2025-09-30 08:48:25+00:00
It doesn’t integrate with banks. You log as you spend. It’s a common question, but I think there are many reasons to keep it manual. It keeps you aware of what you have left. And automation won’t ever be perfect, so you must keep an eye on it and adjust things.

The app focuses just on your everyday spending. You don’t log bills and subscriptions. And it’s not about being exact. You can add the rough total of what you spent. It acknowledges that when you plan your spending, it’s really just a guess. And you’ll adjust the plan as you go.

What did you have in mind when you thought about building something like this?

The name means ’long’, and is pronounced similarly. Naming is of course hard. I’m hoping that it will be something you remember.
From vibecoding to full startup business
by mateid | 2025-09-30 08:48:46+00:00
Just wanted to share with you all the journey me and me fellow indie developer went through

3 months ago, we wanted to try and see whether Claude, ChatGPT and Mistral are capable enough of helping us ship a small mobile oriented PDF scanning/editing application.

We went with Flutter as the tech stack, with native platform channels for message exchanging between the UI side and the heavy processing side which was implemented natively.

It took us 1.5 months to come up with a fully working iOS application which contains ALOT of features: - Merge, split, reorder, rotate, or delete pages - Fill & sign forms - Add annotations, highlights, comments, watermarks - Document Scanning with automatic edge detection & perspective correction - OCR & Text Recognition with over 98% accurracy + edit OCR detected text - Add / remove passwords - 100% offline (no cloud, no accounts, no tracking)

We got a 100$ monthly subscription for Opus and found out it's the best one to use for this kind of development. We generated some of the icons with Gemini and ChatGPT, tailored the app descriptions also with them.

We have made this free to use for now, at some point after we get more user traction we'll probably add a one time charge, no paywalls, no subscriptions. We're now looking into creating a partnership with DigiSign (a local digital provider for electronic signatures) to be able to add digital signing through the application.

So, long story short, if you have any ideas, don't let them go to waste, put in the work and great things will be waiting

Dropping a URL if you're interested https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-master-scan-edit-sign/id6751173174

Cheers, The FSS team
by Gareth321 | 2025-09-30 08:49:18+00:00
Restriction of rights is a spectrum. For example, we know that driving cars carries some (very small) risk. If we banned driving, fewer people would die (from car related accidents). This must be balanced against individual rights and social outcomes. If we banned cars, how many people would lose their jobs? How many people would be unable to get to hospital? It's like that banning cars would cause more harm than lives it saves. This is an extreme scenario to illustrate not all bad things should be banned.

Smoking is more nuanced. For the most part (as long as public spaces and spaces with children are appropriately regulated), smokers hurt only themselves. In countries with public healthcare, this can increase care costs, but most studies now find that because smokers die much younger, their combined lifetime costs are actually lower. Old people are very expensive to care for. So the question becomes: to what degree do we want the state preventing people from hurting themselves? Where does that authority end? Alcohol? Sugar? Fatty foods? Less than eight hours of sleep? Not exercising? Too much TV and iPad? Social media? Not reading enough books? This is, IMHO, a slippery slope. For reasons of ideology and pragmatism, I do not support regulation for "victimless" activities, unless there are significant social costs/harm. This means I support legal tobacco, marijuana, MDMA, alcohol, and and many other drugs. I also support the right to partake in extreme sports, eating junk food and sugar, and not exercising.

The implications of this particular study are very difficult to morally and legally navigate. If smoking while young can make children age slightly faster, surely there is a moral imperative to prevent those who are 15 and younger from smoking? I believe that is the case in most of the West already. However we also know that parents who don't exercise and eat poorly also tend to pass along these habits to their children. Should we also ban parents from eating at McDonalds?
by dav43 | 2025-09-30 08:49:26+00:00
Working on an AI/Governance and compliance system that also integrates with the cli for teams developing the actual code and the systems that are commonly used, GitHub, bitbucket, open policy agent, collibra etc..

Used by enterprises for compliance, reporting and answering questions like, who owns this ai model, whats the monitoring plans, where is it running, what approvals does it have, what policies are applicable (geographic etc).
by squigz | 2025-09-30 08:49:53+00:00
It seems some people need to re-read the title and article and consider the words "heavy", "bureaucratic" and the like

No, CoCs - or rules in general - are not inherently bad. HN has some, which the moderators and the community enforce well, and it's generally one of the best platforms on the Internet for intelligent discussion.

Yes, heavy CoCs can be weaponized and abused, if there is little or no trust between the community and its leaders. But with or without a CoC, such a community will always be prone to such abuse. You think moderators need to establish a CoC to push their politics on people if they want? How does that even make sense? Why not just... do that, without a CoC?
by abhiyerra | 2025-09-30 08:49:57+00:00
As an Indian I have to agree with this assessment. But India has gone through the socialist phase, it still maintains a liberal democracy and is now rapidly building out its industry. Socialism is completely dead in the cities, my opinion is it will eventually fall once the rural areas also develop.

I grew up in the USA and the changes in India even in the last 10 years has been completely astounding. For example I’m from Hyderabad and some of things changes I see: A national freeway that didn’t exist 10 years ago, a metro that covers most of the core of the city, skyscrapers, trains that now ship containers instead of boxcars, massive power plants that have recently been built.

Is India perfect? No. It still has a hierarchical society, sectarianism is still pretty acute, like everywhere else in the world India’s fertility rate has dropped off a cliff, and traffic in Hyderabad proper is a nightmare.

But culturally the submissive Indian mindset of my youth is largely gone. The millennial India is entrepreneurial and everyone is looking to get ahead. The next 20 years of India will be amazing at which point a lot of the issues of low fertility rates will start affecting India as well. Lastly, I think India really only has capacity to send a sizable amount of its citizens overseas only for the next 5 years or so at which point migration out of India will largely subside.
by w4rh4wk5 | 2025-09-30 08:50:03+00:00
Maybe a bit of an unpopular opinion here, but I still think the benevolent dictator is the way to go for open-source projects. If you are unhappy with how things are handled, fork it and do better.

However, there's probably a cutoff point for core infrastructure where we should move away from having a single person in charge.