MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-24 00:36:18+00:00
> Presumably you also often choose being screwed over being socially ostracised?

No, I only choose being screwed over being homeless, or jobless.

Which didn't use to be a particularly likely scenario but the tides are turning.

I don't care about being socially ostracised for refusing to ever use WhatsApp for example.

We teach children not to cave to peer pressure as if it was a choice they could make, and now you're claiming that caving to peer pressure is not something people choose.
by nostromo | 2025-09-24 00:36:20+00:00
You've missed the point entirely.

It’s not if Google can decide what content they want on YouTube.

The issue here is that the Biden Whitehouse was pressuring private companies to remove speech that they otherwise would host.

That's a clear violation of the first amendment. And we now know that the previous Whitehouse got people banned from all the major platforms: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-24 00:36:59+00:00
Can’t read it since I don’t have a login there but i’m guessing they buy sims from all over the country and sms on matching prefixes since people will assume a local number is less likely to be spam.

This explains using such a bank. You want to cover as many prefixes as possible and you can’t match area codes with traditional sms services.
by shirro | 2025-09-24 00:37:05+00:00
When all the commercial software is backdoored the criminals are going to use open source alternatives. Suddenly all my devices, my family and the tech community are in the cross-hairs of law enforcement. I don't want to be one of the new victims of another war on drugs mess. We have enough real criminals for the courts and law enforcement to handle without creating a whole new lot out of law abiding people.
by michaelt | 2025-09-24 00:37:34+00:00
If we were still in the age of personal blogs and phpbb forums, where there were thousands of different venues - the fact the chess forum would ban you for discussing checkers was no problem at all.

But these days, when you can count the forums on one hand even if you're missing a few fingers, and they all have extremely similar (American-style) censorship policies? To me it's less clear than it once was.
by bluGill | 2025-09-24 00:38:34+00:00
When I built houses we used an all-terrin forklift to lift the trusses. Probably too late, but if you do it again. Building without a forklift is too hard. We did use a crane for one job - there was no room for a forklift. It took 3 people to keep an experienced crane operator busy. They move fast.

cement is one job I would be careful of. You can do it yourself but there cannot be breaks or mistaves as cement is curing and losing strength all the time.
by freejazz | 2025-09-24 00:38:38+00:00
>So that's per citation? Then two minutes each is a waste of time for basic checking.

No, it's not two minutes per citation.

>This accusation is not supported by what they said.

It is.

>Again a lot of that comment is about getting a document from someone else and quickly checking validity.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Have a nice time going off.
Show HN:[Feedback Request] Chrome extension for structured learning with ChatGPT
by sridhar87 | 2025-09-24 00:39:36+00:00
hey everyone,

This is a demo of a chrome extension(it's currently under review) which allows anyone to create structured step-by-step learning plan for any goal and time commitment.

Once a learning plan has been created, you can follow the step by step instruction, by clicking on the task within the extension, which will automatically inject a prompt in chatgpt to generate learning materials.

The tool provides: 1. Structured learning plan creation. 2. Progress tracking 3. Creates and injects prompt in ChatGPT for generating learning materials for each step.

I would like feedback on whether this sort of an extension would be useful for your day to day learning.

I launched a web app for this a couple of weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45190134

The extension has been submitted to Google for review, but if anyone is interested to try, here is the extension source code: https://github.com/svylabs/eigenarc-ext
by breadwinner | 2025-09-24 00:40:10+00:00
I think it would be wise to listen to Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa of The Philippines, regarding unchecked social media.

"You and I, if we say a lie we are held responsible for it, so people can trust us. Well, Facebook made a system where the lies repeated so often that people can't tell."

"Both United Nations and Meta came to the same conclusion, which is that this platform Facebook actually enabled genocide that happened in Myanmar. Think about it as, when you say it a million times... it is not just the lie but also it is laced with fear, anger and hate. This is what was prioritized in the design and the distribution on Facebook. It keeps us scrolling, but in countries like Myanmar, in countries like Philippines, in countries where institutions are weak, you saw that online violence became real world violence."

"Fear, anger, hate, lies, salaciousness, this is the worst of human nature... and I think that's what Big Tech has been able to do through social media... the incentive structure is for the worst of who we are because you keep scrolling, and the longer you keep scrolling the more money the platform makes."

"Without a shared reality, without facts, how can you have a democracy that works?"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/12/us/video/gps0112-meta-scraps-...
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-24 00:41:44+00:00
> To me and most folks that I know its a figure of speech, not a reference to the actual 1919 supreme court case.

A figure of speech meaning what? Most people, AFAICT, that use it use it as an widely-perceived authoritative example of something specific that is accepted to be outside of the protection of free speech, a use that derives from and its use in the Schenk v. U.S. decision (it is sometimes explicitly described as something the Supreme Court has declared as outside of the protection of the 1st Amendment, which clearly derives from that origin.)

Of course, reliance on it for that purpose has problems because (1) it was dicta, not part of the ruling, in Schenk, and (2) Schenk is a notoriously bad decision impinging on core political speech in its specific application, and whose general rule is also no longer valid.

I have no idea what it would communicate as “a figure of speech”, and if it is actually used by some people as a figure of speech meaning something other than what it literally says being an example of unprotected speech (including, though I can see how this use would have some logic, as a figure of speech meaning “a persistently popular, despite being notoriously wrong, understanding of a legal rule”) it is one that impedes rather than promotes communication.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-24 00:42:09+00:00
I doubt a random blog post is enabling this. If you are at the point of dropping thousands of dollars on a spam farm you've got the ability to find this stuff yourself. If anything it's highlighting how this stuff works to the average person.

This problem isn't going to be solved by making information about the devices more obscure. It's going to be solved by technical preventions and legal action against the senders.
by joannanewsom | 2025-09-24 00:42:14+00:00
Jimmy Kimmel wasn't being silenced. He doesn't have a right to a late night talk show. Disney is free to end that agreement within the bounds of their contract. Being fired for social media posts isn't being silenced. Employment is for the most part at will. Getting deported for protesting the Gaza war isn't being silenced. Visas come with limitations, and the US government has the authority to revoke your visa if you break those rules. /s

You seem to think there's a bright line of "silenced" vs "not silenced". In reality there's many ways of limiting and restricting people's expressions. Some are generally considered acceptable and some are not. When huge swaths of communication are controlled by a handful of companies, their decisions have a huge impact on what speech gets suppressed. We should interrogate whether that serves the public interest.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-09-24 00:43:51+00:00
Re: La Petite Baleen: 34 mins vs 1 hour 11 mins for me.

My son's swim school is 20 mins away by car, or 60 mins by public transport.

I take your point that these are first world problems.

But my point is that not having access to a car in San Francisco is a significant inconvenience and it's incorrect to say 'you can live well' without that access. You might not be so inconvenienced that you would say "we don't live well", but there's a 'meh' zone in between the two.
by leakycap | 2025-09-24 00:44:23+00:00
Doctors are great at a lot of things but have never been good at accurate diagnosis when you look at the data

I am very open to whatever lets human doctors do what they do best & supports them with possible/likely diagnosis to consider

As a person who had a misdiagnosed rare cancer and caught the misdiagnosis myself by going to a research library and using their medical journals, I see the benefit of AI second opinions even if your doctor is pretty sure about whatever they diagnose
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-09-24 00:44:45+00:00
There's a journey that every hypothesis makes on the route to becoming "information", and that journey doesn't start at top-down official recognition. Ideas have to circulate, get evaluated and rejected and accepted by different groups, and eventually grasp their way towards consensus.

I don't believe Trump's or Kennedy's ideas about COVID and medicine are the ones that deserve to win out, but I do think that top-down suppression of ideas can be very harmful to truth seeking and was harmful during the pandemic. In North America I believe this led to a delayed (and ultimately minimal) social adoption of masks, a late acceptance of the aerosol-spread vector, an over-emphasis on hand washing, and a far-too-late restriction on international travel and mass public events, well past the point when it could have contributed to containing the disease (vs Taiwan's much more effective management, for example).

Of course there's no guarantee that those ideas would have been accepted in time to matter had there been a freer market for views, and of course it would have opened the door to more incorrect ideas as well, but I'm of the view that it would have helped.

More importantly I think those heavy restrictions on pre-consensus ideas (as many of them would later become consensus) helped lead to a broader undermining of trust in institutions, the fallout of which we are observing today.
by lovich | 2025-09-24 00:44:47+00:00
> This story is nonsense.

> It's just normal criminal enterprise for sending SMS spam and anonymous messages. Somebody used this service to send SMS threats to some politicians, so the Secret Service traced it back here. They are describing it as some special political threat ("35 mile radius from the UN") when it's just perfectly normal criminal enterprise.

> We know it's a crap story because to the way the New York Times story on this cites anonymous sources in the administration, and then James A. Lewis to confirm it. This guy, formerly of the CSIS think tank, is the the NYTimes regularly trots out to confirm cybersecurity claims by anonymous government officials.

> Ir's just normal crime folks, there's absolutely none of the threats here that they claim.

Why did you put quote marks around the word “legitimate”, like he said the word in his post?
by incoming1211 | 2025-09-24 00:45:20+00:00
Huge as in usage? - yes it is huge.

Huge as in the library ecosystem? - yes it is huge.

Huge as in its a massive dependency? - yes it is huge.

I couldn't understand why React was so popular till I read a comment where someone explained that Tailwind and React in a large company allows the 1000s of devs to work in tiny little components without conflicting with others, and all of a sudden it makes sense why people make themselves suffer using React. Then everyone else is just following the large companies because "well X/Y/Z use it so we should too!!!"
by nl | 2025-09-24 00:45:39+00:00
> Take the core technology and just optimize, optimize, optimize for 10x the cost/efficiency. As simple as that. Super impressive.

This "just" is incorrect.

The Qwen team invented things like DeepStack https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04334

(Also I hate this "The Chinese" thing. Do we say "The British" if it came from a DeepMind team in the UK? Or what if there are Chinese born US citizens working in Paris for Mistral?

Give credit to the Qwen team rather than a whole country. China has both great labs and mediocre labs, just like the rest of the world.)
Show HN: Comparegpt.io – Trustworthy Mode to reduce LLM hallucinations
by tinatina_AI | 2025-09-24 00:45:54+00:00
Hi HN , I’m Tina. Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated with how often LLMs hallucinate — confident answers with no real basis. That’s why I’ve been building CompareGPT.io, a tool to make outputs more trustworthy. The new Trustworthy Mode works by: Cross-verifying every answer with our TrustSource, combining our own model with multiple leading LLMs (ChatGPT-5, Gemini, Claude, Grok) and authoritative sources. Delivering each response with a Transparency Score and full references. Helping users quickly see where to trust the output, and where to double-check. It currently works best on knowledge-heavy domains (finance, law, science), and we’re looking for early users to test it out. Would love your feedback, suggestions, or even criticism on whether this feels useful and how we can improve.
by youngbum | 2025-09-24 00:46:07+00:00
Yesterday, I migrated my web worker codes from Comlink to CapnWeb. I had extensive experience with Cloudflare Worker bindings, and as mentioned in the original post, they were quite similar.

Everything appears to be functioning smoothly, but I do miss the ‘transfer’ feature in Comlink. Although it wasn’t a critical feature, it was a nice one.

The best aspect of CapnWeb is that we can reuse most of the code related to clients, servers, and web workers (including Cloudflare Workers).
by onscreencomb | 2025-09-24 00:46:25+00:00
I created an account to say this: RepoPrompt's 'Context Builder' feature helps a ton with scoping context before you touch any code.

It's kind of like if you could chat with Repomix or Gitingest so they only pull the most relevant parts of your codebase into a prompt for planning, etc

I'm a paying RepoPrompt user but not associated in any other way.

I've used it in conjunction with Codex, Claude Code, and any other code gen tool I have tried so far. It saves a lot of tokens and time (and headaches)
by ggm | 2025-09-24 00:46:44+00:00
I would be comfortable with CaBOT being an adjunct, and even more comfortable if it was blinded. My concern would be it becoming a crutch.

I don't think we should allow general skepticism in AI (which I share btw) to blind us to specific use cases where RAG/LLM are doing things which can be shown to be as good as or better than an expert in role, at least the expert you can afford to see.

One downside of improved imaging has been an increase in "detected marker for..." causing patients to present. Not all of these need to. It takes time to learn how to nuance improved diagnostics and I think CaBOT will be part of that on both the good and the bad side.

"It's always Rhabdo" (mandatory House quote)

(not a doctor)
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-24 00:47:59+00:00
That's the evil genius behind the general movement in the world to discredit democratic institutions and deflate the government.

Who would hold Meta accountable for the lies it helps spread and capitalize upon them if not the government.

So by crippling democratic institutions and dwarfing the government to the point of virtual non-existence, all in the name of preserving freedom of speech and liberalism -- and in the process subverting both concepts -- elected leaders have managed to neutralize the only check in the way of big corps to ramp up this misinformation machine that the social networks have become.
by trhway | 2025-09-24 00:48:48+00:00
Censorship works both ways. When i tried speaking against violence and genocide perpetrated by Russia in Ukraine i was shut down on Linkedin.

Even here on HN, i was almost banned when i said about children abduction by Russia https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33005062 - the crime that half year later ICC wrote the order against Putin.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-24 00:48:52+00:00
The crux of this is a shift in context (φρόνησις) where-in entities like marketing companies or video hosting platforms are treated like moral agents which act in the same manner as individuals. We can overcome this dilemma by clarifying that generally, "individuals with the power to direct or control the speech of others run the risk of gross oppression by being more liberal with a right to control or stifle rather than erring on the side of propagating a culture of free expression whether this power is derived from legitimate political ascension or the concentration of capital."

In short-- no. Your right is to positively assert, "Trump sign" not, "excludes all other signs as a comparative right" even though this is a practical consequence of supporting one candidate and not others. "Owning a marketing company" means that you most hold to industrial and businesss ethics in order to do business in a common economic space. Being the CEO of any company that serves the democratic public means that one's ethical obligations must reflect the democratic sentiment of the public. It used to be that, "capitalism" or, "economic liberalism" meant that the dollars and eyeballs would go elsewhere as a basic bottom line for the realization of the ethical sentiment of the nation-state. This becomes less likely under conditions of monopoly and autocracy. The truth is that Section 230 created a nightmare. If internet platforms are now ubiquitous and well-developed aren't the protections realized under S230 now obsolete?

It would be neat if somebody did, "you can put any sign in my yard to promote any political cause unless it is specifically X/Trump/whatever." That would constitute a unique form of exclusionary free speech.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-24 00:49:14+00:00
> This adds to their risks and costs. That tips the economic balance at the margin.

Charging would be bank robbers a fee to do practice runs of breaking into a vault adds to their costs; somehow that doesn't seem like an effective security measure.

> Actually going after all creators would require an international law-enforcement effort for which, frankly, there isn't political capital.

I'm not talking about going after all creators, just the ones you have the identifying information for which are so continuously pumping out such quantities of CSAM that it is impossible to stop the firehose by removing the content.

If you don't have the political capital to go after them, again you have bigger issues to deal with.
by beorno | 2025-09-24 00:49:36+00:00
Obligatory Twinkleton music channel link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-MLi97JEdflEyp7Gk3PbCg

I heard these songs in Norwegian first and thought the tunes were really nice, and later realized it's produced in Sweden and has English lyrics too. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18YqmygFa0 - Twinkle twinkle reimagined as a big digging machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZyJb5Qc-o&list=RDoGZyJb5Qc... - Exavator song
by pavo-etc | 2025-09-24 00:50:20+00:00
Hi Matt, I purchased the Android app in 2016. I never signed up for the paid syncing service, but never had ads within the app until this week. Is it the new policy that users who purchased the app but never paid for syncing will now have ads, or is this a bug?

Appreciate you being public in places like this. I sent a similar message to Pocketcasts support but received an AI that seems to disagree with your comment here.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-24 00:51:08+00:00
I didn't make the video, just posted it. I did comment on Linkedin

If you want the summary of how the "scam" works, or why it isn't true

Stage 1) research showed that blue-light in mega-doses impacts melatonin levels

Stage 2) ignore that the drop in melatonin has almost zero impact on sleep

Stage 3) sell blue-light blocking glasses, which block blue-light, which we saw in step 2 has no impact on sleep.

Stage 4) profit.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pedalpete_are-blue-light-bloc...
by SchemaLoad | 2025-09-24 00:51:13+00:00
This is not a huge issue though. The game runs perfect on Proton on Linux, the problem is really just on the Steam Deck it had poor performance. But on the average desktop it runs flawless.

I'm just happy the Steam Deck seems to be pushing devs to make sure their games run on low power hardware. Really any game should be able to run fine on the Steamdeck, there's no gameplay that isn't possible to run on the hardware. It's just the lack of engineering time spent on making sure the graphics have a proper low option.
by tjpnz | 2025-09-24 00:51:51+00:00
Some of the worst examples of viral misinformation I've encountered were image posts on social media. They'll often include a graph, a bit of text and links to dense articles from medical journals. Most people will give up at that point and assume that it's legit because the citations point to BMJ et el. You actually need to type those URLs into a browser by hand, and assuming they go anywhere leverage knowledge taught while studying university level stats.

I spent several hours on one of these only to discover the author of the post had found a subtle way to misrepresent the findings and had done things to the graph to skew it further. You cannot expect a kid (let alone most adults) to come to the same conclusion through lessons on critical thinking.
by 14 | 2025-09-24 00:52:45+00:00
I once thought that public bathrooms could be an easy place to mass collect DNA. The sensors that tell the toilet the person has moved away flush the toilet could be altered to do that but also use facial recognition which would be compared to the nations drivers license/photo ID databases attempting to match who is using the toilet. We are so used to them now that no one would be the wiser that they were also doing bio-metric scanning. Then when the toilet flushes a sample would be collected to be used in DNA testing. In places like airports you could also capture international visitors and since they all need ID to enter it could be made easy to learn their identity.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-09-24 00:53:48+00:00
I don't think they care about winning hearts exactly, but I do think they (correctly) realize that LLM models are racing rapidly toward being commodified and they are still going to be way ahead of us on manufacturing the hardware to run them on.

Watching the US stock market implode from the bubble generated from investors over here not realizing this is happening will be a nice bonus for them, I guess, and constantly shipping open SOTA models will speed that along.
by bdangubic | 2025-09-24 00:54:24+00:00
My kid goes to $50k/year private school so school itself is not the issue. the issue is that school isn’t meant for education. if it was you would now be able to solve a differential equation and I can fairly certainly say you can’t even though I am guessing you are highly educated person. you also probably can’t recite periodic table of elements or answer 99.76% of questions you got from “education”

the education begins and ends at home and is highly personal. in this day and age with everything kids have at their disposal, if they get majority of their education at school they are on the wrong track