MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-05 07:57:06+00:00
If it's a seperate t&c and license agreement for the api it's even easier for them to disable services. You are making these statement with so much confidence but the real world works the opposite. Apple throttles iPhones, Google kills services pair of free. Samsung pushes ads on their smarttvos. I think their lawyers are right and you misunderstand the law you are citing otherwise the world would be a better place :)

I don't like it either but it is what it is.
by account42 | 2025-09-05 07:57:06+00:00
There is nothing wrong with people creating new music, either out of passion or because they have some way to get paid for it (patronage, crowdfunding, live performances). But as abundance of available creative works increases we need to re-evaluate what cost we should pay as a society in order to incentivize it. IMO we are at a point where no incentive via copyright is needed and the cost copyright imposes on everyone is way too high. The world only works as well as it does because most people routinely ignore copyright already.

And no, in this analogy the farmer doesn't have to keep working for us to have enough cheese - only if someone specifically wants a new kind of cheese. We don't need to bend reality in order to make information scarce for that.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-05 07:57:20+00:00
And lawyers also use paralegals, that doesnt mean we let law students hire them to write papers or assist during exams. Docs have nurses, but i believe docs still write exams solo. And soldiers have buddies, but you arent allowed to pay them to do your fitness test.

That a tool is common in the real world is not an excuse to let students outsource the work that is the heart of learning.
by tpxl | 2025-09-05 07:57:21+00:00
> Does it really matter that meat bags find out about your message to the world through your own website or through an LLM?

Yes, it matters a lot.

You know of authors by name because you read their works under their name. This has allowed them to profit (not necessarily in direct monetary value) and publish more works. Chucking everything into a LLM takes the profit from individual authors and puts them into pockets of gigacorporations.

Not to mention the facts the current generation of LLMs will straight up hallucinate things, sometimes turning the message you're trying to send on its head.

Then there's the question of copyright. I can't pirate a movie, but Facebook can pirate whole libraries, create a LLM and sell it and it's OK? I'd have a lot less of an issue if this was done ethically.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-05 07:57:53+00:00
I'm the same, but thing is, 99% of the things I read about (on e.g. HN) are just... not important. I don't use them in my daily life.

But I do have a very large knowledge base of small tidbits of information, so if I do need to ever go in-depth, I know where/how to find it.

...not that I do of course, I struggle with my long term attention span, I can't read documentation front to back and for twenty odd years now have just googled for the tidbit I needed and skipped the rest.
by bgarbiak | 2025-09-05 07:58:33+00:00
It was cool to smoke when all the cool guys in the movies were smoking. One of the reasons it’s not cool anymore is that the cool guys in the movies don’t smoke nowadays (although they do it more often now than they did ten years ago; which is worrying).

The correlation between an exposure and initiating smoking is proved: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27043456/
by michaellzd0303 | 2025-09-05 07:58:41+00:00
The idea for this sparked when I saw friends dropping a fortune on engagement photos, right around the time the Taylor Swift engagement pictures went viral. I knew there had to be a better way.

The final push came recently with all the hype around Google's Banana model. I started playing with it via the Gemini API and the quality was just incredible, so I decided to build this SaaS to generate engagement photos.

This was my first crack at building an app like this, and the main hurdle quickly became prompt engineering. It all boiled down to: how do you consistently guide the model to produce the right image? After a ton of trial and error, I landed on a prompting formula that works. I even put an LLM in the middle of the workflow to refine the prompts, which honestly feels like I'm building a primitive agent.

Anyway, here it is. You get 5 free generations to try it out. I'd genuinely love any comments or feedback you have. Thanks for checking it out.
by jolmg | 2025-09-05 07:59:06+00:00
> Adults are just as vulnerable to copying poor behavior as minors.

Adults can be vulnerable, but I don't think just as vulnerable. Youngsters with no initial idea of how a given thing works have nothing with which to compare and contrast and potentially reject the first idea presented to them. Generally, the younger, the more impressionable.

> Remove stigma associated with sexuality. [...] Most people probably wouldn't even go to porn sites if they could just watch something steamy on Netflix.

I do agree with loosening the stigma. If there are parents that are giving their children unrestricted access to the internet, and those children may expose things to others that have better parental controls, then the straightforward solution is to have some form of earlier sex-ed. Doesn't need to cover everything, but enough to prepare them against the bad influences they'll apparently encounter. "Something steamy on Netflix" may be a positive counterexample to help them reject nonsense fantasies on porn sites.
by zettabomb | 2025-09-05 07:59:23+00:00
In no cases can any contract overrule the law. However, you are correct that the law is not being enforced, because it is exceedingly difficult for an individual person to tackle a massive company like BMW. The point of Rossmann's video, if I understand it correctly, is that we shouldn't just keep letting them get away with it, and actually defend our rights.
by tannhaeuser | 2025-09-05 07:59:28+00:00
Here's the first paragraph of that article:

> The Big Picture: Knowledge graphs triple LLM accuracy on enterprise data. But here’s what nobody tells you upfront: every knowledge graph converges on the same patterns, the same solutions. This series reveals why RDF isn’t just one option among many — it’s the natural endpoint of knowledge representation. By Post 6, you’ll see real enterprises learning this lesson at great cost — or great savings.

If you really want to continue reading and discuss this kind of drivel, go ahead. RDF the "natural endpoint of knowledge representation" right. As someone having worked on commercial RDF projects at the time, after two decades of pushing RDF by a self-serving W3C and academia until around 2018 or so, let's say I welcome people having come to their senses and are back at working with Datalog and Prolog. Even as a target for neurolinguistics and generation by coding LLMs does SPARQL suck because of its idiosyncratic, design-by-comittee nature compared to the minimalism and elegance of Prolog.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-05 07:59:29+00:00
> I would like to see a honest discussion about the impact of porn on kids, I cannot really imagine that it doesn't distort the view and expectations on sex.

Honestly I'm really surprised that the generation that grew up on free access to internet porn and turned out fine is suddenly acting so prudish. As a kid I really believed that when my generation grows up, we'll be "the cool parents".

Of course porn distorted my view of sex, but let's be real - this damage is absolutely nothing compared to American family movies where a family of four with one adopted token black kid has a minor issue and then resolves it and everyone lives happily everafter. Those sold me the fantasy that as an adult I'd have lots of friends and a loving family and a satisfying job, and when none of that happened, I spent years feeling deep disappointment, which I still haven't processed.

Meanwhile hardcore porn I watched... look, that's the absolute least of issues I had as a kid. Growing up gay in a conservative country never gave me a chance to learn about proper relationships, I was immediately pushed into the underground world of hookups with shady people. Not to mention the plethora of other, unrelated issues, like constant bullying at school which nobody gave a fuck about, abusive parents, or ghetto community promoting criminal lifestyle. Or thinking even larger: what about whole generation that enters job market into recession, what about whole generation that will never build capital because they're trapped in a cycle of poverty, what about the constant fear that WW3 might be happening, what about social connections dissolving and people becoming more and more aggressive towards each other.

But those are difficult problems to tackle, so let's focus on kids seeing a naked titty instead. For sure that's a great use of our limited time.
by munch117 | 2025-09-05 07:59:41+00:00
I'm not that concerned with bugs in sqlite. sqlite is high quality software, and the application that uses it is a more likely source of vulnerabilities.

But I do see a problem if you really need to use a sqlite that's compiled with particular non-default options.

Say I design a file format and implement it, and my implementation uses an sqlite library that's compiled with all the right options. Then I evangelize my file format, telling everyone that it's really just an sqlite database and sooo easy to work with.

First thing that happens is that someone writes a neat little utility for working with the files, written in language X, which comes with a handy sqlite3 library. But that library is not compiled with the right options, and boom, you have a vulnerable utility.
by suspended_state | 2025-09-05 07:59:59+00:00
A few points:

- the explicit interfaces for modules used in hardware design _are_ types. - hardware design requires extensive testing and verification, and formal verification (using types) is a valuable step in hardware design.

I think the author conflates the use of types with structural complexity - at least at the introduction of his article, hence the term "symptom" used to qualify type checking in the title (actually _lengthy_ type checking, this is implied, but without context the title of the article becomes clickbait-y).

Indeed, by the end, the author admits that types are useful, without conceding that the initial idea was an error of judgment.
by supermatt | 2025-09-05 08:00:28+00:00
What repercussions are you expecting?

Philips is the perfect example, as I managed to get all my Hue equipment refunded to around 80% of the purchase price 2 years after the purchase.

They refused so I initiated a small claim, which they lost because they breached consumer law.

It’s not rocket science. The problem is that many consumers aren’t aware of their rights, so do nothing about it.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-09-05 08:00:32+00:00
> This could enable global QR-code payments

In what currency? As I understand it, Stablecoins are bound to an underlying currency. If you do not wan't to tie it to a currency, bitcoin would be the prime candidate. And with its layer 2 solutions such as Lightning, there is already a decentralized system for fast, cheap and private payments.
by deadbabe | 2025-09-05 08:00:33+00:00
That’s exactly backwards. If the galaxies are turning red, you are in the future. If you they are turning blue, you are going into the past.

An analogy is that if everyone around you is getting older, similar to red shifted galaxies, it means time is advancing forward. If everyone was getting younger, then you’re going backward in time to the past.

Red is the future.
by Doxin | 2025-09-05 08:01:21+00:00
I don't think the problem is 2D vs 3D. It's trying to put in as little effort (read: money) as possible. It's completely possible to make stunning 3d animation, but that takes effort hollywood largely isn't interested in putting in.

Take Arcane for example. It's 3d animation but it's gorgeous. It's art. Studios switching to 3d are a symptom of not putting in enough effort, not the cause of it.
by positron26 | 2025-09-05 08:02:10+00:00
Microsoft is not just Microsoft. It's the cottage industry around products like Excel. It's all the other PC applications. It's WHQL getting hardware vendors into the fold. Compare all that to Apple. Apple is big, but not compared to the greater continent of Microsoft. People are more concerned about Apple's walled gardens than Microsoft's. It's no coincidence that Apple has taken more heavy handed actions to rule their platform more. That is why their platform is smaller overall and why people don't trust them.
by Ekaros | 2025-09-05 08:02:20+00:00
I think lot of education is making students to be aware things that exist. And at least have some starting point to search for when they need a thing.

And to achieve that exact goal they need to actually do something with it. Somehow practise some level of skill.

And I don't think using AI does this. Or even allow them to look for things that might exist. Recent example for me was big cookie cutters. Didn't even consider that such things were around. Saw a set on Temu and it clicked. I could get 15cm wide cutter instead of finding some bowl or something...
by edu | 2025-09-05 08:02:49+00:00
But from your own case, how do you protect your kids from other kids accessing hardcore porn at the age of 6? That would be a great argument in favour of blocking access unless age verification is provided so you reduce the chance of the "weakest link", otherwise as much as I can content block any device used by my kids the surface of having some other kid whose parent don't care/know how to block it would be enormous.
by nielsbot | 2025-09-05 08:02:50+00:00
Going to say my crazy thing that I like to do:

extension String: Error { }

Because I like doing this:

throw “Something went wrong”

Admittedly I don’t use this in shipping software.

As for the feature: My “hot take” is: I’m skeptical this will really make software better and I suspect instead programmers will just spend more time designing error types and error handling than just creating software.
by thomascountz | 2025-09-05 08:03:21+00:00
Instead of ignoring everything, this is how I manage my $HOME directory of dotfiles via a bare git repo.

$ alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' $ echo ".cfg" >> ~/.gitignore $ git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.cfg $ config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Nothing is shown as untracked by default. When I add new config files to track, I have to add them to stage them explicitly.

The only sticking point is when I forget to use `git add -u .` when committing changes to files which are already being tracked.

I don't remember why I went with this over the global * ignore.
by ersinesen | 2025-09-05 08:03:38+00:00
From the bustling banks of Renaissance Florence to the neon-lit pulse of Wall Street, capitalism has never stayed still. Capitalism, like power, has always been in motion, flowing from one center to another in a historical quest for trust, security, and centrality.

But what defines the “center” of capitalism? Is it where goods are made, money is stored, or laws are respected? More importantly, why does the center change and what happens when it does?
by mindbrix | 2025-09-05 08:04:26+00:00
Slug is primarily designed for text rendering.

Vello is general purpose, like Rasterizer, but is based on GPU compute. Rasterizer uses the 'traditional' GPU pipeline. Performance numbers for both look very competitive, although Vello seems to have issues with GPU lock up at certain zoom scales. Rasterizer has been heavily tested with huge scenes at any scale.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-05 08:04:28+00:00
It's different. One big part of the reason has already been said in sibling comments: taboo. Kids know that the huge jumps in martial arts movies are impossible because they jump when they play, they have seen their friends and classmates jump, they probably have tried flying kicks when playing so they get an idea of where the limits are. Nothing of this happens with sex, plus often they aren't exposed to anyone talking about it, except of course in porn.

The other part is the huge insecurities people have in this domain. You will meet a lot of people who aren't afraid to tell you that they dance like crap, or have no musical ear, or are in bad shape, etc.; but even if you meet people who talk about sex, no one is going to tell you that they last one minute in bed.
by harryf | 2025-09-05 08:05:57+00:00
We need to take the focus off cost savings. None of this tech is anywhere near mature enough to replace humans yet.

Far better to focus on enhancing human capabilities with agents.

For example while a human talks to a customer on the phone, AI is fetching useful context about the customer and suggesting talking points to improve the human conversation.

One example of a direct benefit for business using AI this way is reducing onboarding times for new employees
by MadnessASAP | 2025-09-05 08:06:13+00:00
Historically, VPN (Virtual Private Network) was a LAN like network overlaid on the internet devices could communicate with each other as if they were connected to the same network.

One of the possible configurations you could have in such a setup is one or more gateways to the internet. Much like the gateway on a traditional LAN, traffic bound for the internet would first go to the gateway.

In modern times, when people say VPN they're typically referring to a VPN with only a gateway and nothing else that all traffic gets routed through. NordVPNs Meshnet would be more similar to what a traditional VPN actually is, a means for separate devices to communicate as if they were local.

As NordVPN correctly points out, this is not new, not what most people using their VPN service are looking for, and for those that are, they're better served elsewhere.
by croon | 2025-09-05 08:06:26+00:00
My 7 year old told my 5 year old the other day that his teeth would fall out if he didn't brush his teeth twice daily.

She's also said that the king has no power because we have a parliament and a PM and elections.

You and I both know these are generally correct, but we also both know that they're not.

I generally, without shutting her down, interject with nuances and exceptions and minute details and 5 minutes later they have both stopped listening, which is fine.

Kids need clear simple truths and rules, even if there are exceptions. And as they get older, they can start learning the nuances and enjoy navigating the exceptions and maybe have ice cream late on a wednesday once in a blue moon, and their teeth wont fall out.

If adults never grow beyond a binary mindset and demand shorter ideas despite this meaning incomplete or wholly broken ideas, we have already lost.

It's no wonder selling simple solutions to complex problems is so successful in politics today, but you will never solve anything by lossily compressing complex reality into incomplete or wrong solutions.

TL;DR: <Won't Fix>
by corimaith | 2025-09-05 08:07:25+00:00
>They don't claim to be democratic, only more democratic.

No. As shown in Wang Huning's Neo-Authoritarianism, being more democratic is bad. Ideally they'd be operating on greater homogenization.

>Information can be inaccurate, but it doesn't have a side, fundamentally.

You need to seperate foreign rhetoric from actual political beliefs. Do you understand here what are the implications of Huning's beliefs, and lineage they draw from Schmitt? Or are you going to make the claim that Trump is more "democratic", which is banal it's meaningless.
by fastball | 2025-09-05 08:08:44+00:00
> According to Google, it’s possible to verify Googlebot by matching the crawler’s IP against a list of published Googlebot IPs. This is rather technical and highly intensive

Wat. Blocklisting IPs is not very technical (for someone running a website that knows + cares about crawling) and is definitely not intensive. Fetch IP list, add to blocklist. Repeat daily with cronjob.

Would take an LLM (heh) 10 seconds to write you the necessary script.
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-05 08:09:23+00:00
I don’t understand what “traditional media” means in this context. Before the internet, kids didn’t have access to porn. It just wasn’t there when I was growing up. I’m sure someone out there had 8mm or 16mm porn films, but I as a child had no clue where to find those, and the physical stores selling them were not accessible: I didn’t have transportation to them, and they checked ID at the door. I heard of Playboy through friends at school, but I had zero access to it myself. I don’t think that was unusual.

Today every eight year old can browse Motherless for free with the same tablet he uses to watch whatever slop it is parents let their kids watch instead of educating them. That’s not a difference between “legacy” and “modern” porn but between zero access and full access.
by edu | 2025-09-05 08:09:35+00:00
But I think a big difference is that while the current parent generation grow up with free access to internet, our access was limited usually to the family computer.

For us internet access was a bit of a ritual—find a computer and got some privacy. Or you could risk getting caught at the computer lab.

Now, the internet is ubiquitous and many kids have access to connected devices all the time (computers, tablets, smartphones) and it's harder to overview their use.

Also, the amount of content and extreme content available has exploded.
by kmarc | 2025-09-05 08:10:00+00:00
Probably that's why we are learning about it in the "Control Theory" classes at university. :-)

Jokes aside, I graduated as "Computer Engineer" (BSc) and then also did a "Master in Computer Science"; I was (young and) angry at the universe why soooo many classical engineering classes and then theory I had to sit through (Control theory, Electrical engineering, Physics), and we never learned about the cool design patterns etc etc.

Today I see that those formative years helped me a lot with how I develop intuition when looking at large (software) systems, and I also understand that those ever changing best design patterns I can (could have) just look up, learn, and practice in my free time.

I wish a today-me would have told my yesterday-me all this.
by jongjong | 2025-09-05 08:10:30+00:00
My grandma is 90 and seems like she hasn't aged at all since I was a child. She is still fit and independent. She eats whatever she wants. She went to the doctor for a checkup and told him that she eats cake and pastries almost every day and asked if that was alright; the doctor looked at her test results and literally told her "Mrs... You can eat as much sugar as you want." It's kind of funny that she is the longest living of all my grandparents because she was the least neurotic about her health to the point of negligence.

She would constantly bake rich chocolate cakes and thick hot drinking chocolate for herself and grandchildren and when she cooked pasta, she would put ketchup + mayonnaise on top. All the recipes she knows are quick/easy and supposedly unhealthy. She literally doesn't know how to make a salad. I've never seen her eat a salad.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-05 08:10:30+00:00
I think it’s obvious.

In simpler terms, it comes down to the « you made this ?, I made this » meme.

Now if your ‘content’ is garbage that takes longer to publish than to write, I can get your point of view.

But for the authors who write articles that people actually want to read, because it’s interesting and well written, it’s like robbery.

Unlike humans, you can’t say that LLM create new things from what they read. LLM just sum up and repeat, evaluating with algorithms what word should be next.

Meanwhile humans… Oscar Wilde — 'I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.'