MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tedmiston | 2025-09-18 22:51:28+00:00
CCPA/CPRA provide opt out of data sharing for (ad) sales to third-party companies, but those were passed before the gAI boom. I imagine an analogue is already in motion for AI training opt-out in CA, but those two don't address model training.

But ~782 million ChatGPT users vs a few million pairs of glasses.
by rolph | 2025-09-18 22:51:28+00:00
lost and found bins.

detect the difference between, dust detritus debris, and an "object"

insert mugshot of lost items, be vigilant for items while cleaning, or prioritize search e.g "floorlicker, find my keys" + [mykeys.jpg]

deposit "non dust" objects in a bin or series of bins.

security, recognize and document contacts. use nonlethal deterents [laserskunk mode] with a nasty dye spray and a laser pointer for targeting and dazzling,

individualized hardware modules for spacific tasks e.g front end dog pile loader, and pull behind manure wagon.

channel logo, and big-trak to create specific custom patterns.
by autoexec | 2025-09-18 22:51:47+00:00
Germany is notorious for being shitty to people with mental illness. Even people with something as common as ADHD struggle to get the care they need there!

On the subject of Asperger syndrome, after learning about the history I was surprised that there are people previously diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome who were (and still are) very angry about the term being removed resulting in them being lumped in with everyone else diagnosed as autistic.

Being labeled as "autistic" could mean anything from seeming a bit strange but being highly intelligent and perfectly capable, to being totally non-communicative, being drastically intellectually and emotionally underdeveloped and being unable to function requiring 24 hour care. Some "Aspies" saw Asperger's as a very convenient way to differentiate their particular flavor of autism. Convenient enough that the usefulness of that distinction far outweighed the shadow of the terrible origin of the name itself and also the fact that it hilariously sounds like "ass burgers".

Personally, I'm glad that Asperger's was removed but I have to agree with the Aspie crowd that they got screwed over when no new term was given to replace what they had. The still grossly overbroad "3 level" system is trash. The spectrum of autism is so wide that the term is nearly useless.
by Insanity | 2025-09-18 22:52:26+00:00
The Sagrada Familia is pretty well known, but I just want to put a plug here for some other buildings by Gaudi you can go see: https://www.barcelona-life.com/barcelona/gaudi

That said, if on limited time, definitely see the Sagrada Familia. It was one of my favourite tourist sites in Spain, even beyond just Barcelona.
by dan-robertson | 2025-09-18 22:52:29+00:00
Market cap of Tesla is much bigger than other American car companies, right? I think that ought to imply that the US is invested in EVs. And compare to the situation in Germany where desires to prop up incumbent automakers lead to some crazy policies, which suggests the US isn’t as wedded to incumbents as it could be. Similarly there were USG efforts to incentivise EVs with subsidies.

I’m not totally sure about the above and even less sure about solar, but it feels like it is pretty wrong to say that the whole US didn’t want either to happen. I think on average and more so in certain federated parts, the US did want to make EVs and solar happen more than they did.

Even if your arguments are true, I think we should treat ‘I failed because I wanted to fail’ as a failure of US industrial capacity, not as a success.
by rattlesnakedave | 2025-09-18 22:52:50+00:00
I think you’re (or, whoever you’re referencing) is conflating conceptual similarities with actual equivalence. Even if Jesus was building on Jewish tradition, The Hebrew Bible is full of imprecatory psalms calling down curses on enemies. Even the most expansive interpretations of “love your neighbor” in Jewish law didn’t extend to active enemies.

See my other response on eastern thought. “Babylonian Councils of Wisdom” is vague
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-09-18 22:53:13+00:00
> teacher is a very respectable and competitive job with good wages

My frame of reference is europe and America. I suspect more of asia than just china mirrors that respect, as education feels nearly unhealthily emphasised.

The so called advanced world that prosper on innovation, design and R&D is skimpimg on the very thing that is supposed to be our advantage. Its frustrating.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-18 22:53:29+00:00
> - There are dedicated UX teams whose sole focus is to improve UX.

They don't work like the UX teams of yesteryear.

In the early 2000s, companies did user studies. Put a potential user in front of the product, let them use it while the UX team observed. Ask questions to the user afterwards. Make changes, repeat.

But that kind of research is expensive, so it's thrown out to instead just collect tons of metrics that likely don't tell a whole story. They think "Users must love feature X because they keep clicking on it!" when the reality is that they're trying to find something else, but the label for X looks related to what they want.

I agree with all your points regarding the race to the bottom. I think that's why UIs hide so much information. Older interface designs are considered "confusing" or "cluttered" because there's so much there at a first glance, even if all the buttons elements are grouped by functionality.
by varjag | 2025-09-18 22:54:38+00:00
More important, in the nearly hundred and fifty years it has taken for the church to assume its final form, Gaudí’s once revolutionary aesthetic no longer looks futuristic. Early critics of the Sagrada Família accused Gaudí of being too over the top, but his commitment to visual abundance has become a universal aspect of pop culture—think of the ornate C.G.I. cityscapes in “Black Panther” or the “Star Wars” films.

I was never into architecture and am not a religious person but visiting the Sagrada Familia was profound. I came out a slightly different man than one who walked into it just half an hour before. No CGI hack comes close.
by sometimez | 2025-09-18 22:54:49+00:00
really hoping to find time to read this later. eno is the author of my favorite quote on music:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
Show HN: PlanAway – this app will get your trips out the group chat
by mehrajhasan | 2025-09-18 22:55:19+00:00
Hey HN

This app will finally get your trips out of the group chat.

I built PlanAway because planning group trips with friends always turned into: 200 unread messages arguing about dates A spreadsheet nobody updates Ten different apps for flights, stays, and activities

PlanAway puts everything in one place: - Create a trip with friends - Add reservations, expenses, and itineraries - Collaborate in real time (no more lost notes) - Get AI suggestions for activities and food

It’s live now as a web app. You can mess around with it WITHOUT creating an account! Still early, but usable — and I’d love any and all feedback.

I’d love your feedback on: - The #1 group-trip pain point you’d want this to fix - What would make you actually switch from chats/spreadsheets - Any “killer feature” you think is missing

Anything feel clunky or confusing?

Note: Mobile has some UI issues which are being addressed. Data pipelines for flights/lodging is in works to fix the manual part atm

Thanks for checking it out
by pciexpgpu | 2025-09-18 22:56:10+00:00
It's an ad network with an attached optional pair of glasses.

It's the platform Zuck always wanted to own but never had the vision beyond 'it's an ad platform with some consumer stuff in it'.

I am super impressed with the hardware (especially the neural band) but it just so happens that a very pricey car is being directly sold by an oil company as a trojan horse.

We all know what the car is for unfortunately.

I can't wait to see what Apple has in store now in terms of the hardware.
by oblio | 2025-09-18 22:56:27+00:00
People complain about that but I've been using Windows for 25+ years including working in tech almost exclusively on Windows desktops and laptops for 20+ years across about 10 companies and the amount of times I've seen a Windows taskbar be placed anywhere except at the bottom can be counted on one hand.

I'm fairly sure it's one of those features used by 0.0001% of the user base but probably 95% of those 200 000 users are techies so every forum is filled with their complaints :-)
by zahlman | 2025-09-18 22:56:37+00:00
So the point is that you can use the nth competing standard, and transpile it to whatever the other systems need?

What about manipulating the data?

Does it support embedded comments, like TOML does? What happens if you round-trip that through JSON? What about the other superset features?

What does KSON stand for?

There's a lot said about JSON and YAML on the main page, but why is this better than TOML?
by badsectoracula | 2025-09-18 22:56:49+00:00
> any sane user and I want programs to have sane GUI which does not need additional setup

In reality there is no such thing as a "sane user" using programs with "sane GUIs". Either someone already has a lot of preferences formed by their experiences using desktop OSes over the years, or they have started using desktop OSes recently and they barely have any expectations.

And because of that there is no such things as "sane user" using "sane GUIs". Your sanity is someone else's insanity.
by gruez | 2025-09-18 22:56:54+00:00
There is, despite the fact that a strict reading would turn up no such implication. However taking into account the phrasing and the general zeitgeist on reddit (and similar left-leaning circles), it's pretty obvious what he was trying to do. Imagine you read a passage that said:

>The sugar industry desperately trying to characterize the obesity crisis as being caused by anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it

what would your conclusion be? That sugar isn't a contributing factor to obesity?
by kotaKat | 2025-09-18 22:57:06+00:00
Yep! And we just struck graphite in the US, in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in New York. A little county (well, geographically large), 2800 square miles, 100,000 or so people, and we've struck the first graphite in the US...

...and we were just looking for zinc!

https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/52342/202...
by vkou | 2025-09-18 22:57:14+00:00
So, since Evangelicals don't meet the bar, but Catholics do, it's not Christianity (the belief in Christ/a singular Judean God) that is the relevant demarcation, it's adherence to canon.

This undermines your thesis, because it's not the mystic woo about virgin birth and transubstantiation and resurrection (which they all profess to believe in) that's important - it's the canon - adherence to which is entirely orthogonal to faith.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-18 22:57:56+00:00
138 already had AI shovelware in it, but at least you're avoiding more.

Btw if you launch with --disablefeatures=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled you can squeeze a few more versions out https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/29... as CLI based flags tend to live much longer than the GUI flags.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-09-18 22:57:58+00:00
It's not that they cannot be used. You can use any data structure for any purpose if you torture it enough. It's that the metaphors are terrible.

> "a list can be used for a recipe"

A recipe is not just a list of steps, it's also a list of ingredients, potentially an introduction, some pictures, etc.

Ask a kid to draw you a mock recipe, you won't just get a list of steps in return.

> "a set can be used to list all the unique ingredients you need to buy for a week's meals"

Ingredients have quantities attached. If I tell you to make a cake you need sugar, an egg and flour and give you all the steps but no quantities, you're not making a cake. A map is the obvious choice for storing ingredients.

I agree that ingredients are unique, but they have attached data which is just as relevant as the ingredient itself.

> "a map can be used for a cookbook"

I just don't understand how a cookbook is supposed to represent a map, it just doesn't make sense, not even with the additional context of the previous metaphors.

At best it would be somewhat understandable if it said a map can be used for a cookbook, with dish names mapping to recipes, but even this would be a stretch and assume a dish can be made in a single way.

Keep in mind the goal is to teach someone who has zero ideas about datastructures what they are, not to give some analogies to an experienced software engineer.
by btown | 2025-09-18 22:58:17+00:00
As a huge fan of the engineering wizardry that is tldraw... this is a really inflexible pricing model. But it’s not an easy solve, either.

If you charge by MAU, that’s the Unity licensing debacle all over again. If you charge by seat actively coding with tldraw - that might just be one seat at a massive funded company. If you offer monthly plans, that’s more BD/account management overhead to prevent churn.

But how do you keep the product usable by a broad community of hobbyists who still may want to commercialize to cover their costs and risks? Not everything can be bring-your-own-token, but if you’re merchant of record, you’re doing so as a commercial entity.

And on the monthly point - “hey boss I made a thing but you’ll have to allocate $6k upfront” is very different from “hey boss I made a thing and we can pay monthly until we validate the ROI.” (And someone might be wearing both hats!)

At minimum, a well-fleshed-out “pre-funding sub-X-revenue startup” program would go a long way towards continuing to build community confidence. Those are good leads to be getting, too!
by est31 | 2025-09-18 22:58:26+00:00
> (when the max their productivity is worth relative to AI falls below a living wage), humans will continue working side by side with AGI as even relatively unproductive workers

This assumes that humans will be unwilling to work if their wage is below living. It depends on the social programs of the government, but if there is none, or only very bad ones, people will probably be more desperate and thus be more willing to work in even the cheapest jobs.

So in this overabundance of human labor world, the cost of human labor might be much closer to zero than living wage. It all depends on how desperate to find work government policy will make humans.
by kokada | 2025-09-18 22:58:47+00:00
I explained more details in the previous blog post (https://kokada.dev/blog/from-gaming-rig-to-personal-computer...), but my current setup replicates a SteamOS experience in NixOS using the Jovian-NixOS project. So basically the same thing, the system boots in gaming mode by default and I can switch to the KDE based desktop by select "Switch to Desktop" in Steam's Big Picture mode.

So no, I am not using KDE for gaming itself (keep in mind that it is possible, the games runs well under KDE too), I am using KDE in my gaming rig (that is, my desktop that is focused in gaming), but for gaming itself I generally use Steam's Big Picture mode.
by derefr | 2025-09-18 22:58:59+00:00
> Gemini in Chrome can now work across multiple tabs, so you can quickly compare and summarize information across multiple websites to find what you need.

I noticed the other day that my own Chrome browser had begun doing something almost-but-not-quite like this, specifically in the context of browser-chrome-level search autocomplete.

Typing in the omnibar now seems to offer completion suggestions based on (seemingly) 1. feeding a fulltext extract of all my open tabs into a RAG; 2. doing a search of that RAG using the completion prefix as the query; and then 3. feeding the matched text-chunks to a local (Gemini Nano?) auto-completion suggestion model.

So if I have a tab open somewhere talking about e.g. what type of plants would grow well on a north-facing balcony in Vancouver, and then open a new tab and type "trellace " into the omnibox — then it'll suggest completions seemingly coming specifically from "ideas" it got by reading that open tab. Close the other tab, and those suggestions disappear.

(This might just be an experiment that was pushed to me, though I couldn't find anything specifically referencing it in chrome://flags.)
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-09-18 23:01:02+00:00
Yeah, Discord not going into competition with Slack or Teams has been an own-goal that I've been baffled by for years. Given that Slack apparently thinks their incredibly subpar offering is worth $200k a year, I can't imagine why Discord wouldn't roll out a "We'll run a standalone instance of Discord with your information siloed and DMs retained for legal purposes, with full Nitro/Boost perks for $ALOTOFMONEY/user" version of their software.
by oblio | 2025-09-18 23:01:02+00:00
> but I just tried KDE again and it's certainly not there yet.

I love KDE but t's getting close to being 30 years old.

"Not there yet" can probably be completed with "and will never be there unless a major revolution happens and even in that case, it's possible the outcome of that revolution will take them farther, not closer, to that goal".
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-09-18 23:03:04+00:00
“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
by godelski | 2025-09-18 23:03:22+00:00
Residual connections create numerical stability with respect to the gradient and network updating. Look up the vanishing gradient problem. We wouldn't be able to build these deep networks without them.

It's easier to see looking at ReLU because you'll clearly get dead neurons, when the gradient hits 0 you can't recover.

This can also me mitigated by modem activation functions that are smooth but the other problem is that your gradient signal degrades as you move further down the network. Residuals help keep a stronger signal being able to propagate through the whole network. You can see this one if you run the numbers by hand for even not so deep of a network.

So just saying, "numerically stable" means lots of things...
Show HN: Bffgen – A Go CLI to generate secure Back end-for-Front end APIs
by richgodusen | 2025-09-18 23:03:27+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with ways to reduce boilerplate when wiring up multiple backends for frontend projects. The Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern is a common approach, but most solutions I found were either too heavy or tied to specific platforms.

I wrote a small CLI in Go called bffgen:

scaffolds a BFF service with chi, echo, or fiber

sets up CORS, JWT, Redis, and session management by default

supports route templates for aggregation

now includes a bffgen.yaml config so defaults persist across runs
by rattlesnakedave | 2025-09-18 23:03:29+00:00
No, it is just Christianity that is the demarcation. I’m saying that when you have American evangelicalism (which functions as a social club, and is not moored by anything other than “get people in the door”) as your delivery mechanism, you’re less likely to get solid catechisis. This is of course not impossible, I know many bad catholic Christian’s and many good Protestant Christians, but your odds of getting the good news delivered correctly are higher in more orthodox settings.
by kokada | 2025-09-18 23:03:46+00:00
> the network applet gives lots of information that in other operational systems are either not available or difficult to access.

This macOS functionality goes to the "difficult to access" part. The only reason I know that this feature exist (but again, I never remember which key to press) is because I actually had issues with my last MacBook and Wi-Fi and had to search how to get this information.

But if you feel better, sure, I was "lying" for internet cookie points ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-18 23:04:25+00:00
-Right wing media personalities advocating for euthanizing the homeless and receiving little pushback. Germany also executed ‘undesirables’ during the holocaust along with 6 million Jews.

-The government attempting to control speech by removing broadcast licenses from networks that don’t comply. Joseph Goebbels blacklisted actors that were not fully onboard with the Nazi regime [0]

Those are just the examples I can think of from the past week. All of the anti-science, anti-medicine, and anti-intellectualism over the past 6 months as well.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-ca...
by kelseyfrog | 2025-09-18 23:04:29+00:00
This is only true for some religions. Since the author mentions Nietzsche, it feels fair to pull in On the Genealogy of Morality.

Many religions today have this feature because they out-competed religions that didn't, but it's not a universal feature of religions by a long shot. If anything, religions that have this feature are inextricably connected to social coping mechanisms(evidently due the persecution).
Ask HN: Walled garden dwellers: What keeps you there?
by FlyingAvatar | 2025-09-18 23:05:31+00:00
In reading the discussion about Tahoe's release and Apple's prioritization to meet its ship dates over its delivering actual new value to customers has got me thinking about what keeps me there.

I am thinking about this more in the angle of moving to a simpler device, not a switch to Android which feels to me like it's trending toward just a different walled garden.

After considering, my only main barriers for switching:

* Cloud Sync / Backup

Particularly for Photos, Messages and App Data, the data is auto-saved seamlessly. If I lose my phone, I can be back on a new one in a few hours.

* Calendar and List Management

As primitive as the experience still is with Siri relative to modern AI assistants, having my to-do and shopping list sync'd to my devices and being able to add to them with voice commands is an essential.

* Electronics Interface Apps

A few devices I have (solar charge controller, leak detector) require an iOS/Android app to use. There's not a great way around this, but keeping an old phone as a controller is an option.

It's really a much shorter list than I thought it would be. There are definitely some apps that I use whose experience would be decidedly worse if I had to use them in a browser (YouTube, Spotify, Maps) but it feels almost worth trying.

If there were an AI-focused simple phone that could solve the first two and offered a modern AI voice interface, I would be very interested to try it.

I am curious to hear other's opinions.