MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sqs | 2025-09-18 03:09:33+00:00
It's a big organization of teen coders who build really cool things together. Instead of coding alone, they get to hack on software and hardware projects in person and online with other smart teens all around the world.

You can see full financial and donor information at https://hackclub.com/philanthropy/ as well. Check it out. It's an organization that lots of HN folks would support (and many do). (I am on the board of Hack Club.)
by watersb | 2025-09-18 03:10:06+00:00
iTunes plays audio files. It also has metadata for the audio: Artist, Title, album art, how many times a song has played...

It writes the metadata into the audio file. Badly.

In particular, it's that "Play Count": iTunes rewrites the audio file every time you play the song.

Usually it just corrupts the metadata enough to forget the album art. But it's perfectly willing to destroy the audio data.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-18 03:10:25+00:00
> Organizations aren't limited to a single country. My current client has employees in most of, if not every, time zone across the world.

In a single legal entity?

> At any point in time a US based customer might invite a EU based customer, so looking specifically at US jurisdictions is irrelevant.

What case law are you considering when you insinuate that Slack must review the retention of records between users of a Slack business customer?
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-18 03:11:07+00:00
It's really surprising -- Slack is the poster child of an app where AI-based semantic search (e.g. RAG) would be incredibly useful. Yet despite Marc Benioff's grand proclamations about AI [0, 1], you barely see any AI integration into one of Salesforce's most universally-used products.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-09-02/salesforce...

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/91359024/salesforce-using-ai-art...
by jdietrich | 2025-09-18 03:12:24+00:00
For more than thirty years, the speed limit for cars in Britain was 4mph - a self-propelled vehicle travelling faster than walking pace was obviously unconscionably dangerous.

To celebrate the raising of the speed limit to a daring 12mph, a group of motorists organised a drive from London to Brighton. At the time, driving 54 miles in a single day was seen as an audacious feat and few people imagined that such a great distance could be travelled in such complicated and newfangled contraptions without mechanical incident.

For decades, the car was seen as a plaything for the wealthy that served no practical purpose. The car only became an important mode of transportation after very many false starts and against strong opposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts#Locomotives_Ac...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_to_Brighton_Veteran_Car...
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-18 03:12:25+00:00
In the USA you can't declare domestic organization terrorists. This is to prevent the government from weaponizing such declarations against political opponents. You might want to understand our government, laws, and political protections before cheering on something like this.

FYI the United State just starting extra judicially using the US military to execute people on random boats in the name of fighting terrorist organizations. And now you are cheering them on taking steps to have the same authority they claim allows them to do that on US soil?
by rubatuga | 2025-09-18 03:13:19+00:00
For those needing a clean IPv4 for mail servers with reverse DNS support, check out https://hoppy.network - I haven't had any deliverability issues, but my domain has been running for over 5 years now. Here's my self hosting blog series - https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/05/05/self-hosting-series-part...

- Cofounder of Hoppy
by WD-42 | 2025-09-18 03:13:33+00:00
I believe this was written by the same person who wrote Operating System in 1000 Lines[1] which was high quality and super fun to work through. So this is definitely going on the rainy day list.

A book from this person would be amazing!

[1]https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-18 03:13:45+00:00
> Isn't the goal of disinformation campaigns to create a post truth era?

I dunno, and I'm not sure if you are including the major newspapers on the campaigner or victim group... but it would help if they weren't caught in blatant lies all the time.

Gell-Mann amnesia stops working once people hear about the concept.

Anyway, if the NYT published something on the lines of "public person X says Y in public", that would have high odds of being true. But "cybersecurity issue X identified in country-the-us-doesn't-like-Y" is almost certainly bullshit and even if there is something there, the journalist doesn't know enough to get the story right.
by system2 | 2025-09-18 03:14:06+00:00
Bambulabs P1S ($549 now), or if you can spend just a little more, get the X1C ($799). If you want the best they have, it's the H2S ($1,249).

I have been using 3d printers since 2015. I've never seen anything close to Bambulabs, and the first time I used A1, I almost cried thinking about the countless wasted hours with Creality and Prusa printers I have. Don't get Creality because they have quality control issues. Prusa is currently behind and more expensive. Bambulabs is lightyears ahead of the game.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 03:14:26+00:00
I think it’s more than export. Once you export your data you have to be able to import it into some other alternative and have it be useful. For example, even if you have the ability to export everything into some archive, it would be tedious to go find old conversations in slack from some offline archive versus searching for it in whatever you have moved to. I think all these online applications rely on lock in and end up extorting you at some point. We need better regulations for data portability.

The reality no one wants to admit - most software companies have no moat whatsoever if they aren’t allowed to be anti competitive.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-18 03:14:35+00:00
A representative config.connection being made out of nothing sounds pretty bad to me. If you want to make sure the value doesn't disappear, you shouldn't be using conditional assignment in the first place.

The config example isn't the best, but instead imagine if it was just connection.?retryPolicy. After you set connection?.retryPolicy it would be weird for reading it back to be null. But it would be just as weird for connection?.retryPolicy to not be null when we never established a connection in the first place.

The copy on write analogy is tempting but what you're describing only works when the default value is entirely made of nulls. If you need anything that isn't null, you need to actually make an object (either upfront or on first access). And if you do that, you don't need ?. anymore.
by belthesar | 2025-09-18 03:15:14+00:00
Hack Club is a non-profit community, so the bulk of their user count isn't non-profit employees or even volunteers or mentors, it's a bunch of kids hanging out and making cool stuff.

Maybe that doesn't move the needle on whether they're a small non-profit or not for you, but it's different than a massive non-profit like, say, the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which also receives millions of dollars per year to facilitate their mission.
by ryukoposting | 2025-09-18 03:15:40+00:00
It's a tough needle to thread. I mentor a high school robotics team that's using a Quest 3S as odometry. You'd be astonished at how well a Quest keeps up while both spinning around and moving laterally at 12mph. Imagine an IMU that never, ever drifts no matter how much you whip it around. And you can just buy this thing from the local Best Buy! And it's cheap!

And yet, Meta is squeezing every cent they can out of our attention spans, and knowingly tearing apart the fabric of our society in the process. Do I discourage the kids from doing amazing stuff with Meta's gadgets? I don't think so. They're not my kids. It's not really my place to be having those conversations with them.
Show HN: The first part of my blog is being validated by Anthropic's new report
by mandarwagh | 2025-09-18 03:16:31+00:00
The report :https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-...

"While computer and mathematical tasks still dominate overall usage at 36%, we are seeing sustained growth in knowledge-intensive fields. Educational Instruction and Library tasks rose from 9% in V1 to 12% in V3. Life, Physical, and Social Science tasks increased from 6% to 7%. "

https://www.mandar.cloud/blog.html?slug=the-world-after-3-5-...

"By 2028, AI already performs 90% of the jobs that once required intelligent and knowledgeable humans. Countless white-collar employees have been displaced. Developed nations adapt quickly, becoming stronger economically, while developing countries like India face severe shocks."
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-18 03:16:45+00:00
If he is unwilling then why did he say this

"“This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

It's still censorship even if the FCC has regulatory ability. Censorship is a type of action.

If the FCC bans porn before 10pm that's still censorship. You can argue whether it's justified or not
by tomhow | 2025-09-18 03:16:48+00:00
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by nine_k | 2025-09-18 03:17:32+00:00
This is pretty sad. It sounds like emotion-driven FOMO than reason-driven decision-making. Or maybe CYA-driven decision-making ("migrated infrastructure to AWS", nobody ever was fired for buying AWS!).

I would very much understand it if the reasons given were like "We miss the following capabilities that our competitors have: ...", or "We have trouble interoperating with key partners", etc. These would be actually good reasons to pay more, and risk more.
by oldfuture | 2025-09-18 03:17:43+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-promotes-stickers-for-sec...

Why they shouldn't be allowed ---

1.The glasses have cameras and microphones capable of recording people nearby often without their knowledge (e.g. the recording indicator can be subtle or blocked, “GhostDot” stickers are being sold to block the LED indicator light so others won’t see when recording is happening)

2. As I remember Meta has changed its privacy policy so that voice recordings are stored in the cloud (up to one year) and “Hey Meta” voice-activation with camera may be enabled by default, meaning more frequent analysis of what the camera sees to train AI models.

3.The possibility that anytime someone might be recording you wearing glasses that look like ordinary sunglasses can create a chilling effect: people may feel uneasy, censor themselves, avoid public spaces, etc.
by inopinatus | 2025-09-18 03:19:04+00:00
I was interested in something similar with Speck for obfuscating bigserial PKIDs but the shortage of cross-platform implementations - especially in pgcrypto - led to choosing base58(AES_K1(id{8} || HMAC_K2(id{8})[0..7])) instead, which we could implement in almost anything and is performant enough, albeit longer output (typically 22 characters)
by bayarearefugee | 2025-09-18 03:19:17+00:00
As a gamer, in my experience people don't want to play VR games either.

Beat Saber as a social party experience with friends in the same room, sure, that's fun... but for day to day gaming the amount of people who want to play VR games on the regular is nearly zero.

If they really want to lean into the VR use case that people want, its porn, but I suspect they won't put that front and center.
Ask HN: How to be ambitious/hungry again?
by Poomba | 2025-09-18 03:19:32+00:00
When I was a college grad and in my 20s, I would constantly work on side projects, building a startup and consuming as much knowledge as I could find about new tech. I remembered when the iPhone came out, I would spend every minute of my commute learning about how to build an app.

Now that I have a family and am a bit older, I feel much less ambitious. I no longer feel the desire to build a business, or hack on side projects. Granted, a lot of this is because I have less time, but even at work, i feel absolutely no desire to learn new things, or get a promotion.

Is there any way I can revive that ambition again?
by Suppafly | 2025-09-18 03:19:51+00:00
>maybe it's because the clients they serve (i.e. the people receiving help/services at their nonprofit) are treated as "active members" of their Slack instance?

I don't know anything about slack, but a lot of the saas programs I've supported do something similar where they negotiate a price per 'user' but then during the setup try to get you to start including a bunch of users or change how users are defined to include extra people that are only tangentially related to the day to day operations. One I support, I found out I get charged extra for users of one of the modules beyond the seat charge to already have them in the program.
by ghm2199 | 2025-09-18 03:20:38+00:00
Zuckerberg's online actually quite slick @30 WPM. Brand concerns aside, its a good tech leap forward for this fidelity of communication using gestures(and costs will fall as apple, google, 3rd party get into this). You have to realize that there are only smart glasses in the market which are 1/2 way between smart and AR/VR and at the moment none have any AR/VR that are commercially at this price point or massively available like Orion. I still think the puck will make its usecase be more specialized and will be a hindrance to massive adoption, but things will get smaller and they have separated the power hungry screen made it way less power hungry as an interface goes and they will go after puck's size next.

I have been reading the book called Apple in China and hardware is so hard. 30 hours of battery with wireless communication (I wonder if this is BLE 6.0 alone) between the EMG + Wave guide tech is not easy.

This is the second long term bet by meta that is panning out, the first being investing in long horizon AI projects(pytorch and a bunch of AI models), though that org has had rough times it did yield something good.
by cco | 2025-09-18 03:21:02+00:00
I understand the existential problem that Meta faces here, but those forces have created a worse product.

As a Meta Ray Ban owner my biggest takeaway is that these glasses shouldn't have a CPU. They should be a dumb camera, mic, and speakers for my phone.

Interacting with Gemini on my phone would be the ideal product here, but of course that means Meta doesn't reap any of the data rewards.

So of course, since they don't make the phone in your pocket, they're strapping a device to your head and everyone pays the price of a big battery, CPU, and RAM in a sunglass form factor.

They're a remarkable product, but again, "dumb" glasses that just serve the I/O directly to your phone would be an incredible product. I wish Google or someone else would make them.
by nebula8804 | 2025-09-18 03:21:05+00:00
YouTube recently introduced an AI-driven policy that automatically places suspected under-18 accounts into Restricted Mode, which blocks access to political and news content. This happens because lots of people are sharing accounts with their kids and despite Youtubers attempts to change this there are large amount of viewers who actually dont subscribe to channels. This change has already caused independent creators to lose 25–33% of their views, since many users get flagged and no longer see political videos recommended. This has happened once before during the 2017–2018 "Adpocalypse": when all political channels lost ad revenue after advertisers pulled out due to seeing their content on a few extremist channels. The motivation now seems to be brand safety and political sensitivity, but the effect is the same: fewer viewers, less revenue, and potential long-term harm to independent media. Its the first step towards pushing out independent creators. Yeah there is substack and patreon but many avenues of independent media are in danger and this is a step in the wrong direction.
by TheDong | 2025-09-18 03:21:23+00:00
As opposed to now? Everywhere you go in public, people are holding their phone up watching tiktok or such. There's no recording indicator on phones, they could be recording you.

Heck, go to a tourist location, like a famous area of london or tokyo or new york, and there'll be dozens of wannabe influencers holding up gopros on selfie sticks.

It's too late. It's already happening. If it has a chilling effect, we're already chilled.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-09-18 03:21:49+00:00
It's hard to imagine using these for more than 30 minutes in my day. If I'm at work, whatever these can display I'd rather have on my monitor. When I'm socializing, I wouldn't want random popups or notifications, and I certainly wouldn't want whoever I was with to be looking at them either. So that leaves some pretty narrow use cases such as the cooking example in meta's demo, which might be interesting if it actually works well (the demo did not inspire confidence). So I'd end up using this maybe 30 minutes, every 3 or 4 days? Most of the time I know what I'm doing with my ingredients and don't particularly need AI assistance to combine noodles w/ sauce or whatever I'm doing. That's a very, very hard sell.
by Vegenoid | 2025-09-18 03:22:11+00:00
I can't imagine any scenario that justifies an out-of-the blue demand of $50k within a week or your data is deleted. The only way this isn't an awful thing to inflict on a teen education nonprofit is if there have been conversations happening that weren't disclosed in the post - conversations that would have illuminated this possibility.

Although frankly this is a good lesson for a bunch of young hackers to learn.
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-18 03:22:21+00:00
OK, but you are ignoring other stuff he said that appears to contradict that - the remarks posted above, and also his reaction to the suspension where he calls on other companies to do the same thing (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45284746).

I get that you support the remarks he made yesterday, but I would like to know what you think of the remarks he made today.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-18 03:22:50+00:00
I read a lot of anti-American comments like this one, mostly on American websites like Hacker News and Youtube.

I'd say the anti-American comments outnumber the pro-American ones something like 10 to 1.

The US may not be preaching about freedom and rights. But it seems to be practicing it, at least in the narrow sense that anti-American content isn't being censored or suppressed.
by jahsome | 2025-09-18 03:22:57+00:00
A huge portion of journalism is in fact reporting what people say. An important part of a certain kind of journalism is investigating and reporting on those claims. Sometimes the facts are opaque but claims can be corroborated in other ways. The clue here is the "other experts." If multiple independent sources are making the same claims, that's newsworthy, even if there's no tangible proof.

Also keep in mind this is not an academic article or even an article for tech folks. It's for general population and most folks would be overwhelmed by details about prompts or methodology.
by happytoexplain | 2025-09-18 03:23:26+00:00
I think everybody is (reasonably) confused by the use of the words "anything other than". It's usually used in phrases that express the speaker's opinion to the opposite ("as if this is anything other than performative" means "this is performative"). Based on the clip, it sounds like Kimmel unfortunately used it literally: "trying to portray [him] as anything other than...", as in, "they're jumping the gun on his portrayal and blame placement", and not, "I know which team he's on." I could be wrong, but that's what it sounds like in context (and would make more sense too).
by ubb_server | 2025-09-18 03:23:49+00:00
I agree that VR gaming is a niche, but I think it could be explosively improved if we had the kind of all-in idealism that the previous commenter referred to. I think because VR gaming IS niche, we haven't yet delved into what VR/AR could do in non-gaming.

An idea that I've had before is like 'augmented curated experiences' for all kinds of things--for example imagine playing a Magic the Gathering (or similar) card game, and watching your cards come to life on the board in hologram-esque 3D. Or while watching a sports match, being able to pull up the stats or numbers of any players, or flip through channels of POV camera from helmets. Car navigation that shows you what turns to make by augmenting lanes or signs with highlighting. Brick and mortar stores having a live wayfinding route to products in their store based on your grocery list, recognizing and highlighting items you like.
by laborcontract | 2025-09-18 03:24:07+00:00
This is clearly bothersome, and this administration bothers me at a deep level. One open question I have is: how do we keep the temptation at bay for subsequent administrations, democratic or republican, from exercising unilateral power at such scale? Clearly it's to curtail the power of the executive, but I'm afraid that neither will resist the temptation to (over)correct or double down, respectively
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-18 03:24:19+00:00
The LA Times is itself is biased, which makes sense given its location and audience (https://www.allsides.com/news-source/los-angeles-times-bias). But this article is frankly well beyond the typical lean left bias of the LA Times, annd it is just dripping with that bias - for example by flippantly claiming that the shake thrown at Andy Ngo by antifa, which gave him a head injury, must have been a “vegan blend heavy on cashew butter”. Funny perhaps, but far from credible. Let’s also not ignore that the author of this article is also author of at least one book and many articles criticizing the right, and is therefore not a balanced source in general, not just on this topic.

My suggestion - if you’re genuinely curious about this topic, go watch videos of antifa in cities like Portland or Seattle and decide with your own eyes what you want to believe.
by gpm | 2025-09-18 03:25:39+00:00
I've been unable to connect Orca Slicer to my A1 mini over LAN and I'm led to believe that as a result of that firmware update it is impossible. It's possible something else went wrong and I just gave up because of a misunderstanding I guess?

Are you sure you aren't just running older firmware (my A1 mini is a recent acquisition)?
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-09-18 03:26:26+00:00
> wannabe influencers holding up gopros on selfie sticks

I think there's a huge difference in how one perceives these as a privacy/self-censoring risk. Yes, a bunch of tourists with their gopros might catch me in the background, but I think it's reasonable to assume that their intended target is themselves, and catching me in the background is incidental. If someone is recording with their glasses, basically by definition their target is not themselves (though perhaps a companion?), and it's more likely that I am their target.