MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nostrademons | 2025-09-26 14:00:53+00:00
I had heard that the existing TikTok app will shut down in the U.S, with the investment consortium launching a new TikTok US app and re-training the algorithm on U.S. users only. If this is true, it might have the same effect: speedbumps where users have to download a new app and lose all their personalization often lead to massive drops in userbase, as they figure that if they have to start from scratch anyway, they might as well start from scratch doing something else.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-09-26 14:02:20+00:00
Overabundance of calories and fast food led to an obesity epidemic and now nearly half the youth at risk of type 2 diabetes.

However, it also led to the counter reaction of cross fit and extreme fitness by a small percentage.

The same will happen with AI. Most people will become smooth brains when they don’t have to exercise thought and a small fraction will use it to push the bounds of what humans are capable of.
by NoGravitas | 2025-09-26 14:02:29+00:00
Honestly the Segway had a couple of useful effects, none of which involved the Segway itself becoming useful or popular.

1. The self-balancing tech spread to a variety of more interesting and cheaper "toy" platforms like hoverboards and self-balancing electric unicycles. 2. They encouraged the interest in electric micromobility, leading to, especially, electric scooters (which are simpler, cheaper, and use less space) becoming widespread.

This is kind of like the point someone else made that the actual useful thing the blockchain craze produced was "cleaning up your database schemas with the idea of putting them on the blockchain, then never putting them on the blockchain".
by rascul | 2025-09-26 14:02:53+00:00
Looks like commits go back to 2016. Maybe there was code before then but that's when the repo was created, I can't tell. But it's not exactly new. Also, I don't think it's exactly intended for production usage at this time.

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redoxfs/-/commit/bc2d90...
by euroderf | 2025-09-26 14:03:03+00:00
> Forcing it onto their OSes right now is a move to familiarize end-users and developers with the design language so the market will be more receptive to the VR device that’s in the works.

Now buttons groups are wrapped in ovals ("rounded rectangles"?), which look suspiciously like some flavor of tear-off menu that could be moved around in space.
by m000 | 2025-09-26 14:03:04+00:00
Basically, people stopped posting as the algorithm started taking control of your feed.

I discovered FB purity [1] recently, which does cut down on the algorithm's spam in your feed. But it turns out people have already moved on.

£2/month would have been a tempting proposition 7-8 years ago. But £4/month in 2025 makes no sense. It is only offered to make the regulators happy.

[1] https://www.fbpurity.com/
by bgwalter | 2025-09-26 14:03:28+00:00
If Larry Ellison overtly censors TikTok, teenagers will leave.

Do I understand that the strategy here is soft power so that teenagers get approved content via the algorithm in the hope that they don't notice? That is a pretty big gamble.

So they are dumping part of that risk on the gulf monarchies like with Twitter. I bet China is already working on a TikTok replacement.
by jimkleiber | 2025-09-26 14:03:46+00:00
> Also on the panel, Father Michael Baggot worried that "artificial intimacy is going to distract us from, and deter us from, the deep interpersonal bonds that are central to our happiness and our flourishing."

> He called for guardrails on AI to stop it capturing individuals' "minds but … also our affections."

> Fr Baggot cited the example of Magisterium AI, a Catholic chatbot. He sits on the scholarly advisory board for the service, and said its creators had worked to prevent it being "anthropomorphic" adding, "We do not want people having an intimate relationship with it."

I appreciate that coinage, "artificial intimacy," and want to explore the implications of it more.
by rossdavidh | 2025-09-26 14:04:06+00:00
This all sounds very familiar; I recall IBM Watson (remember the last AI hype cycle?) was going to replace radiologists, and in the end IBM Watson didn't even save IBM's bottom line.

Not saying nothing will come of it, but there is a definite pattern to AI hype cycles, and radiology seems to be one of the recurring points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
by jerf | 2025-09-26 14:04:59+00:00
I've got a couple of systems that 10-15 years ago needed something like Redis and multiple nodes distributing them but are today just a single node with an in-memory cache that is really just a hash keyed by a string. They're running on a hot/cold spare system. If one of them dies, it takes maybe 30 seconds to fully reconstruct the cache, which theses systems happen to be capable of doing in advance, they don't need to wait for the requests to come in.

One thing that I think has gotten lost in the "I need redundant redundancy for my redundantly redundant replicas of my redundantly-distributed resources" world is that you really only need all that for super-real-time systems. Which a lot of things are, such as, all user-facing websites need to be up the moment the user hits them and not 30 seconds later. But when you don't have that constraint, if things can take an extra few minutes or drop some requests and it's not a big deal, you can get away with something a lot cheaper, made even more cheap by the fact that running things on a single node gets you access to a lot of performance you simply can not have in a distributed system because nothing is as fast as the RAM bus being accessed by a single OS process. And sometimes you have enough flexibility to design your system to be that way in the first place instead of accidentally wiring it up to be dependent on complicated redundancy schemes.

(Next up after that, if that isn't enough, is the system where you have redundant nodes but you make sure they don't need to cross-talk at all with something like Redis. Observation: If you have two nodes for redundancy, and they are doing something with caching, and the cached values are generally stable for long periods of time, it is often not that big a deal just to let each node have its own in-memory cache and if they happen to recreate a value twice, let them. If you work the math out carefully, depending on your cache utilization profile you often are losing less than you think here (in particular, if the modal result is that you never hit a given cached value again, it's cheap especially if the ones you hit you end up hitting a lot, and if on average you get cached values all the time, the amortized cost of the second computation is nearly nothing, it's only in the "almost always hit them 2 or 3 times" case that this incurs extra expense and that's actually a very, very specific place in the caching landscape), especially since the in-process caching and such is faster on its own terms too which mitigates the problem, especially because you can set it up so you have no serialization costs in this case, and the architectural simplicity can be very beneficial. No, by no means does this work with every system, and it is helpful to scan out into the future to be sure you probably won't ever need to upgrade to a more complicated setup, but there's a lot of redundantly redundant systems that really don't need to be written with such complication because this would have been fine for them.)
by Ignitio | 2025-09-26 14:05:37+00:00
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Give it your startup idea → Ignitio instantly generates: • A professional pitch deck (VC-style) • A ready-to-use landing page with lead capture • Valuation and financial simulators • Guides on what investors actually look for

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Would love your feedback and ideas for the next game-changing feature (AI advisor? roadmap intelligence?).
by eesmith | 2025-09-26 14:05:45+00:00
What of people like me who are able to use a smartphone but are unwilling to?

It's not just the elderly and homeless as mentioned on the page, but also those with religious objections, members of the digital disconnection movement, those concerned about electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and so on.

Should there a right to an offline life for the simple reason that you want live offline? A right which is protected in a few other places in Europe, at least to some extent when it concerns government services.
by raincole | 2025-09-26 14:05:55+00:00
They didn't. 37signals books are basically "how to make self-help books that look like slideshows." And this site looks like their uglier cousin:

https://www.howtomakesenseofanymess.com/chapter1/19/every-th...

I think most people can't write nothingness like this even if they try very hard. And if they achieve that they can't make the emphasis this ugly.
by ferguess_k | 2025-09-26 14:06:00+00:00
Some people probably don't want that "deep interpersonal bonds" though. I know I don't want. I know some people who don't say they don't want but act in every way that they don't want.

Although I don't like the future proposed by the AI companies, this is the least of my concerns. The only big concern is employment. Like, if AI creates more jobs than it destroys, sure, go ahead, do it now.
by everdrive | 2025-09-26 14:06:40+00:00
It seems pretty clear that LLMs will create another cleavage between the upper and lower classes. 200 years ago if you were rich you were overweight, and everyone else was skinny. These days it's reversed. You need a combination of money and impulse control to avoid being overweight. Right now, if you're scrolling on your phone constantly vs. reading, working out, doing chores, etc., you probably fall somewhere between the middle and the bottom of the bell curve for impulse control. The privileged few among us (I am not one of them) don't struggle with avoiding these addictions.

And finally, LLMs. They certainly _could_ be used to help individuals bootstrap and quickly gain a basic competence in a new topic, and allow those individuals to reach greater expertise more quickly. But _a lot_ of people will just offload their thinking to the LLMs and actually erode their skills. Is this strictly inevitable from a conceptual standpoint? No. But practically speaking a lot of people will fall into this trap, which enlightened technologists will scratch their heads. "I don't understand why people say LLMs make you dumber, I've used them to advance my career and expand my knowledge, etc. Sounds like you guys just don't like progress."
by billy99k | 2025-09-26 14:06:52+00:00
I don't think we need more AI slopware creating automated proposals for Upwork. The only reason this won't completely destroy the marketplace (like when people spam 1000 resumes to different companies, in hopes that one will get a response) is the fact that it costs money to send business proposal on Upwork.

I think job sites should follow this model. It would reduce spam for companies and make it easier for skilled applicants to get interviews.

I usually find 1 good project/year on Upwork.

Most are: scams, people that want work for pennies, people starting a new 'business' where they collect information from a bunch of potential freelancers with no clients, or overseas recruiting companies using VPNs to fake their location.
by tormeh | 2025-09-26 14:07:03+00:00
It used to be really bad this spring, but now it's somewhat buggy but fundamentally fine. Somewhere around March games would just randomly lose focus, start stuttering, or you couldn't use fullscreen while having a secondary monitor connected, that sort of thing. Now it's mostly fine. Steam Remote Play still has issues, but this is really a niche use case.
by nfeske | 2025-09-26 14:07:07+00:00
Sculpt OS features a couple of presets, which are examples of several components wired-up for you. For a quick test, enable the "Use" button in the RAM-fs component (so everything will be deployed into RAM) and find the default presets in the "System" menu at the upper left screen corner.

The "Window manager" preset gives you a suitable starting point for a desktop scenario. Or the "Falkon web browser" preset gives you a disposable web browser. Upon selecting a preset, all the needed components will be downloaded and deployed automatically.

Even though the presets are a convenient starting point, to actually make use of the system, I'm afraid there is no way around studying the documentation: https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-25-04
by b112 | 2025-09-26 14:07:22+00:00
I can see this outcome, however... there's a lot more nuance to worry about here. The small percentage, even now, can still get good food. And even grow their own crop.

We're already losing physical books, and data online will slowly become more and more circumspect. That is, AI training on AI, with more and more nonsense blogs, will make simple accuracy of any data very rare.

A strong mind may have the capacity to not be taint by AI too much, but what if it cannot get anything non-AI tainted to feed it? What if there are no teachers of any caliber left, for they are all smooth-brains as you say?

What if society is run AI itself, and no one understands anything at all?

That incredible mind may make some progress, but will lack the solid foundation you and I have had.
by Scarblac | 2025-09-26 14:08:19+00:00
The 50 moves rule doesn't have be considered as it is optional. The players may claim, but they don't have to. So the game can continue.

The 75 move rule is the exact same thing but mandatory. That has to be considered.

(same thing is true for 5 times repetition vs 3 times).

Captures also reset the counter, not only pawn moves.
Ask HN: Are LLMs an Acceptable Lisp?
by tdfirth | 2025-09-26 14:08:41+00:00
I say this in jest, but it's a fun little idea.

It's easy to make the case that an LLM 'program' is homoiconic, as the code and the data are all just plain text.

LLMs also offer rich metaprogramming (prompts that write prompts).

They even arguably offer features like CL's condition system.

Of course, they don't operate on symbolic expressions, so it's a stretch to actually call them a lisp (or any other programming language), but they seem to share a lot of the same properties.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-26 14:08:42+00:00
The $37t is debt owned by the public and government. The US government debt is $7t.

>money to people who hate you is insane

-Do all the people who receive the money hate us?

-Why does it matter if some people receiving help hate us? Why is this insane?

>And most of that money goes to warlords and dictators

How do you know?
by Someone | 2025-09-26 14:08:43+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...:

“On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the Soviet nuclear early warning system Oko reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile with four more missiles behind it, from the United States. These missile attack warnings were suspected to be false alarms by Stanislav Petrov, an engineer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces on duty at the command center of the early-warning system. He decided to wait for corroborating evidence—of which none arrived—rather than immediately relaying the warning up the chain of command. This decision is seen as having prevented a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States and its NATO allies, which would likely have resulted in a full-scale nuclear war. Investigation of the satellite warning system later determined that the system had indeed malfunctioned.”
by balderdash | 2025-09-26 14:08:54+00:00
My experience is that one mess is pretty straightforward, what is debilitating is interconnected messes.

System A is the highest priority fix and we want to incorporate parts of system B into system A (they never should have been in B) but if we move them to system A, the other parts of system B will break (so we need to fix those) and then additionally system C will no longer work so we need to fix that, and on and on…
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-26 14:08:56+00:00
If the cure for the loneliness epidemic is community, through which interpersonal bonds are required, I suppose it is fine if we allow folks to opt out of community and human connection and use chatbots as they would heroin or meth; maxing out dopamine within their tolerances until death. Free will, self determination, and all that. But, we should also be mindful of the second order effects of such policy (the future ending up some combination of internet gaming cafes where people occasionally play so long they die, and "Ready Player One").
by surajrmal | 2025-09-26 14:09:00+00:00
Fuchsia would be far more valuable to everyone, including Google, if multiple parties participated in its development. If control was all that was desired, a hard fork of Linux would have made more sense. GPL doesn't compel companies to work with upstream. Just because you don't understand why fuchsia exists doesn't mean you need to invent fiction about it. Is it hard to believe there might be technical advantages to an alternative architecture to Linux and that a company might be willing to invest in trying to bring that innovation to the world?
by plasticsurgery | 2025-09-26 14:09:16+00:00
Perfectly valid question. I remember Ubuntu getting lost down a rabbit hole of their touch screen desktop wm that had soo many warts. I guess if you don't have the power to steer a project you fork or try something else. Then realise you neither have the UI chops or technical finesse to pull something off. Windows has been atrocious UI wise since Win 8, failed to pull anything off cohesively and just left a mess. Much like Ubuntu, but with what you would expect a well funded dedicated UI team.

UIs generally sick in Linux with the exception of the shell. And even that could be sexed up hugely.

The best thing about AI tools for me is that they make up for shortcomings in the UI and have become a very important go-between for me.
by paxys | 2025-09-26 14:09:30+00:00
The biggest benefactor here is Meta. There's no way TikTok will remain a dominant social platform in the US amidst all the political meddling and so many high profile investors with competing interests.

This is likely also why Meta announced that they are overhauling Instagram to make Reels and recommendations the default experience - https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/instagram-overhaul-app-num.... Just as with Threads, they saw an opening and are doubling down hard.
by spankibalt | 2025-09-26 14:09:42+00:00
Here's [1] a deeper look into the Amiga port, and MobyGames provides a very handy overview [2] that shows how the ports differ visually for anyone interested.

1. [https://shot97retro.blogspot.com/2019/06/prince-of-persia-in...]

2. [https://www.mobygames.com/game/196/prince-of-persia/screensh...]
by _heimdall | 2025-09-26 14:10:08+00:00
> If I go online and trash talk anyone, that might prevent me from getting hired.

> Similarly, if I work someplace, and I call my boss a jackass, I might get fired!

Those examples have nothing to do with your specific political views. Both issues there are about how you engages with others and are a reasonable example of why you might cause problems on a team. The specific views you would have shared rudely have nothing to do with the actual problem at hand.
by Anvoker | 2025-09-26 14:10:42+00:00
I felt like outside of bug fixes and QoL improvements, Revision's maps and soundtrack were a downgrade compared to the original. I feel quite strongly about this, but I recognize it's also largely up to taste and it's valid to like those changes.

But for me, they made the experience worse and they were enabled by default. As a result, I gave it a thumbs down on Steam and did my best to explain my thoughts in detail. I received a couple dozen negative comments over the years on that review, largely in the vein of how dare I give negative feedback to a labor of love provided for free. That kind of argument did make me feel guilty, like I was being unfair to the developers. I eventually changed it to a positive review, and now I regret doing that. I allowed my genuine opinion to be clouded.

This was an extremely tame internet conflict overall, I'd feel ashamed to frame myself as a victim over so little. What I'm trying to say is that both sides are capable of failing to genuinely engage with the other.

It's definitely true that Revision has been to some degree unfairly attacked. There are purists who do not give it a fair shake and make ludicrously confident statements, peddling opinion as fact. But there's also legitimate reasons to dislike it. Not knowing you, I am not at all accusing you that you'd be lacking nuance on this topic. I'd just like to say as a general statement that discourse ends up healthier when people care about distinguishing between people who disagree with you versus people who disagree with you _and_ that are acting in bad faith.
by gdulli | 2025-09-26 14:12:00+00:00
> Wilson rejected the idea of mass joblessness due to AI as "a very silly fear because human desires and human wants are infinite, and therefore, we always find new things for people to do."

What are companies going to pay these now-dumber people to do, once they've automated away the jobs the smarter versions of these people did? Will the AI be able to perform the original jobs but unable to perform the jobs achievable by these now-dumber people?

Are we a better-off society if a net dumber population is doing a manual labor job that the robotics companies haven't solved yet?
by lakhim | 2025-09-26 14:12:06+00:00
Sorry about my eyes glazing over - I think you are badly underselling how important the biologicals have been in recent decades, and also how there are both revolutionary but won't be used for various reasons mostly around cost (e.g. cas9 therapies) or haven't seen the full impact for yet (car-t therapies, which are wiping out the liquid cancers that the other biologicals didn't get)
by mvoto | 2025-09-26 14:12:19+00:00
I'm back with another free utility for the content/marketing LinkedIn community: a Hook Generator.

After the positive feedback on the Headline Generator, I wanted to tackle the next most difficult part of content creation: the opening line (the "hook"). A good hook is critical for engagement, especially on platforms like LinkedIn, where attention spans are short.

How It's Different (The Engineering Problem)

The challenge with most AI generators is that the output is often generic. To solve this, I designed the generator to be highly customized based on two specific inputs:

Post Type: Whether it's a "regular" post or a "carousel." This changes the required length and format (e.g., a carousel hook is often short, punchy, and a command).

Hook Style: The user explicitly chooses the structural format they want. The engine then uses a dedicated prompt template for that style to generate specific, high-quality results.

The available styles are: Hot Take, Statistics, Tips and How To's, Future Vision, or Curiosity Gap.

The Inputs & Logic

The tool asks for "What are you posting about?" and then applies the chosen style's logic:

If 'Statistics' is chosen: The engine is constrained to generate a hook that leads with a verifiable number or fact, forcing a stronger, data-backed opening.

If 'Hot Take' is chosen: The engine is prompted to use confrontational or counter-intuitive language to generate an opening that creates instant friction/discussion.

It delivers 5 different hooks tailored to the content style you selected.

The Ask

This is a totally free tool and is available now. The primary focus for feedback is the consistency and quality of the output across the different Hook Styles. Does the "Hot Take" actually feel like a hot take? Does the "Curiosity Gap" successfully pique your interest?

Any technical critique on the constraints or suggestions for new Hook Styles is highly welcome!

Link: https://contentide.com/hook-generator