MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by whitelotusapp | 2025-09-30 16:58:53+00:00
Guys saw a lot of comments pointing out concerns about AI face verification

this is how it works

1) user has only access to front camera while doing AI face verification and the ml only allows if photo that has one face

2) user is required to show a hand gesture while taking photo if not i gave clear guide lines to not trust them

3) the face data is stored in cloudinary and it is not being used to train Ai

4) and people who think fake profiles are not a big enough problem listen to me

internet will become a world filled with shape shifters that can take your shape and do bad things imagine that
by rusk | 2025-09-30 16:59:15+00:00
There’s definitely always been vibes of this off the PC market. So hard to get one that’s “nice” y’know what I mean. There are some notable high end PC vendors but they typically sell direct. In the high street, it’s lemons all the way down. Even reputable brands have to get in on the action with a lemon line. Apple’s whole thing it seems, has always to stay away from being a lemon. The only time they came close, incidentally was in the 90s when they started licensing their product to other manufacturers. This is what solid branding does. Helps you not be perceived as a lemon.
by __jonas | 2025-09-30 16:59:16+00:00
I see! One thing I'm wondering: They say they are fetching the content from the RSS feeds of news outlets rather than scraping them, I haven't used RSS in a bit, but I recall most news outlets would usually not include the full article in their feed but just the headline or a small summary. I'd be worried that articles with misleading headlines (which are not uncommon) might cause this tool to generate incorrect news items, is that not a concern?
by leephillips | 2025-09-30 16:59:48+00:00
Hard pass then. I’m a happy Kagi search subscriber, but I certainly don’t want more AI slop in my life.

I use RSS with newsboat and I get mainstream news by visiting individual sites (nytimes.com, etc.) and using the Newshound aggregator. Also, of course, HN with https://hn-ai.org/
by atonse | 2025-09-30 16:59:52+00:00
They are LLM generated summaries, sure.

I guess I'm trying to understand your comment. Is there a distinction you're making between LLM summaries or LLM generated text, or are you stating that they aren't being transparent about the summaries being generated by LLMs (as opposed to what? human editors?).

Because at some point when I launched the app, it did say summaries might be inaccurate.

Looks like you found an example where it isn't properly citing the summaries. My guess is that they will tighten this up, because I looked mostly at the first and second page and most of those articles seemed to have citations in the summaries.

Like most people, I would want those everywhere to guard against potential hallucinations. No, the citations don't guarantee that there weren't any hallucinations, but if you read something that makes you go "huh" – the citations give you a low-friction opportunity to read more.

But another sibling commenter talked about the phys.org and google both pointing to the same thing. I agree, and this is exactly an issue I have with other aggregators like Ground.news.

They need to build some sort of graph that distills down duplicates. Like I don't need the article to say "30 sources" when 26 of them are just reprints of an AP/Reuters wire story. That shouldn't count as 30 sources.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-30 17:00:10+00:00
This is a really weird spin on Shkreli's antics.

He would paint himself as a working man's hero, "I'm making insurers pay more so you can get your drugs cheaper", always avoiding the awkward questions of where the insurer's money came from and why premiums kept rising (note that I'm also not siding with insurers here, especially those who have implemented PBMs to leech money into their pockets). He basically treated the public as useful idiots who thought that insurance was paying more for their drugs out of ... charity? Goodwill? The money fairy?

Then there was also the fact that at least once (and to a slightly lesser extent, twice), he went to the FDA to block the approval of a new drug, arguing it shouldn't be on the market. Why?

Not because it was less effective than the market options - it had better results.

Not because it had more/worse side effects, complications and interactions - it had better results there too.

Not because it was prohibitive, or patenting or anything stifling to the market.

No, it was because Shkreli had recently purchased a manufacturer of one of those existing drugs and their portfolio, and had been in the process of ramping up his price gouging on that drug, i.e. "The FDA should block approval of this better drug because it limits my ability to profit from my 'worse' drug."
by iamnothere | 2025-09-30 17:00:43+00:00
> I don't think it should be terribly surprising that states don't subscribe to this view of sovereignty and jurisdiction.

Well they will have to put up with it, as they have done over the past few decades. Or, alternatively, they can engage in aggressive China-style site blocking. Only the US has significant extraterritorial legal reach.

IMHO, this policy is a transparent effort to forcefully alter the content policy of US companies. It’s more about political influence than it is about “content safety” at home. (Unilateral site blocking, perhaps with an appeals process, would be a much more effective approach for this.) The UK will regret the consequences if they push too forcefully on this.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-30 17:01:16+00:00
> Kagi is probably the only pro-LLM company praised on HN.

Kagi made search useful again, and their genAI stuff can be easily ignored. Best of both worlds -- it remains useful for people like myself who don't want genAI involved, but there's genAI stuff for people who like that sort of thing.

That said, if their genAI stuff gets to be too hard to ignore, then I'd stop using or praising Kagi.

That this is about news also makes it less problematic for me. I just won't see it at all, since I don't go to Kagi for news in the first place.
by sambeau | 2025-09-30 17:01:20+00:00
Wikipedia is a global resource, edited by educated—often academic—people all over the world. Why would anyone expect it to conform to the US idea of what is left and right? For most of Europe the American Democrats are to the right of their mainstream right-wing parties.

There is no bias to the left. The USA has shifted so far to the right that balance now looks leftist.
by Stranger_X | 2025-09-30 17:01:29+00:00
For all its noise, the internet can feel strangely lonely. Endless feeds, likes, and ads—but fewer real conversations.

We wanted to change that. So we built StrangerMeet :

One click → one real person.

Text, voice, or video—your choice.

Continue later if you both want.

It’s simple, fleeting, and a reminder that the web can still connect people—not just content.

Does anyone else feel like the internet lost its human side?
by gmueckl | 2025-09-30 17:01:38+00:00
Who here remembers those old 1000+ pages thick mail-order shopping catalogues? This was a (more or less) carefully curated collection of items because the catalogs could only have a finite number of pages. When Amazon started to accept virtually unvetted product listings from third parties, they opened the floodgates for lemons.

It's kind of a real world ACME equivalent now. I'm surprised that I don't make that duped coyote face more often after ordering from them.

The other part of the story is that a lot of formerly respectable quality brands now sell much poorer quality goods. I'm not sure whether this is adaptation to a lemon market, but it does reinforce the information asymmetry. Infindnlywlf thinking, "this used to be a good brand once, but can I still rely on them?"

Some of the bad incentives have always been there because they are fundamental to capitalism. But I feel that the Internet and global trade together have turbocharged a particularly nasty race to the bottom.
by mothballed | 2025-09-30 17:01:39+00:00
If a wife says at trial she wasn't beat, it's extremely likely you're getting a conviction. I'm aware of a recent high profile case (Mike Glover) where the partner even had signs of broken bones and a beaten down door and the partner just later changed her story to those being due to a recreational accident outdoors and that pretty much terminated the case between that and her not providing a favorable testimony. But that's aside the point.

In this case the wife never called the cops, and then when the cops showed up she claimed she wasn't beat, and not only that she has no visible marks or bruises or anything.

And none of this is justifying any of it. Just showing how far outside of what we commonly see in fraud cases that actually get convicted.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-30 17:01:41+00:00
Yeah it’s not technically DAG since it uses iteration, but then dgsh will use iteration under the hood too.

However Murex does support CSP-style concurrency. So while there’s no syntax sugar for writing graphs, you can very easily create adhoc pipes and pass them around instead of using stdout / stderr.

So it wouldn’t actually take much to refine that with some DAG-friendly syntax.

In fact maybe that can be my next project…
by dross | 2025-09-30 17:01:43+00:00
I didn't notice this problem, but then I realized that as I'm using Brave browser ads might be blocked by default. So I tried in Chrome and still no ads. I'm using Jekyll for my blog so I wonder what's saving me from this issue.

Example:https://dalevross.rosssquared.org/blog/2013/08/16/pi-lovin.h...

If anyone is able to confirm that they're not seeing ads either, I would be grateful.
by xandrius | 2025-09-30 17:02:05+00:00
I see your point but that stops being true once the bigger companies start stifling competition (both locally and internationally) to become even bigger and more pervasive.

There are European alternatives for many products/services that are currently US-based but they either don't have the same marketing budgets, or international reach or can offer lower prices. All those are often due to first-to-market tied with anti-competitive practices (further tied to governments not having much power against these organisations) which makes these companies move even more to the top. None of that was about better tech but rather everything else.

And sometimes yes, better tech, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that "better tech" is not somehow tied to more money available to spend on improving such tech. Big capitals being moved around the US has an impact to this tech.

By the way, there are European alternatives Amazon (just not big enough to be international, but many countries have their own version), Microsoft (i.e. Linux), Google (ProtonMail/ProtonDrive , Nextcloud, etc.), AWS (the ones which comes to mind are Upcloud and Hetzner), Android/iOS (Ubuntu Touch)
by mijoharas | 2025-09-30 17:02:15+00:00
replit are looking support some of the customers looking to leave[0]. Also, looks like they just raised a new round?[1]

[0] https://x.com/amasad/status/1972805067771355518

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/vercel-no...
by thejash | 2025-09-30 17:02:18+00:00
Our current plan is to make the source code available and make it free for personal use, but we're not quite ready to open-source it.

Someday we'll probably have paid plans and business / enterprise licenses available as well, but our focus right now is on making it really useful for people.

To me, the whole point of our company is to make these kinds of systems more open, understandable, and modifiable, so at least as long as I'm here, that's what we'll be doing :)
by thorum | 2025-09-30 17:02:27+00:00
I also had unsupervised internet as a kid in the 2000s, but the internet is a very different place now with social media, algorithmic feeds, and content that has been carefully designed by bad actors to be as addictive and manipulative as possible. AI is surely not helping so far. I think it must be very difficult to grow up immersed in that environment.

If in a few more years, “video games” evolve into hyper realistic VR worlds with LLM-powered NPCs that act like real people, also designed to maximize engagement, we might need to revisit the risks of exposing kids to that as well.
by duxup | 2025-09-30 17:02:49+00:00
I wonder what stuff like 996 really does for the company?

As an IC let's say I get 2 more features out a week or something (just random thing I selected that would seem productive), is that company more likely to be successful?

I'm inclined to think not.

At least when it comes to start ups (and others) the make or break moments isn't some extra widget(s) added to whatever they're offering, and I suspect that's all you get out of 996. Let alone questions about the quality of the widget...

And that assumes all this extra time IS productive, I've certainly worked places where management teams working extra hours were a net negative for all sorts of reasons...
by rapind | 2025-09-30 17:03:16+00:00
I see what you mean. The abstractions I mentioned are pretty much just translations / transformations (immutable) on their own. Keep in mind that most of these are also tied to a version (and versioning is not always clear, not is documentation around that version). The underlying byte code translation could also change even without a language or framework version change.

Also, as soon as a human is involved in implementation, it becomes less clear. You often won't be able to assume intent correctly. There will also be long lived bugs, pointer references that are off, etc.

I concede that the opacity and inconsistency of LLMs is a big (and necessary) downside though for sure.
by elcritch | 2025-09-30 17:03:32+00:00
This is how I envision LLMs working to some extent. As in that the "logic paths" follow something like this where the markov-chain-esque probabilities jump around the vector space. It reminds me that to get the answer I want that I need to setup the prompt to get me near the right "attractor logic" pathway. Once in a close enough ballpark then they'll bounce to the right path.

As a counter, I found that if you add an incorrect statement or fact that lies completely outside the realm of the logic-attractor for a given topic that the output is severally degraded. Well more like a statement or fact that's "orthogonal" to the logic-attractor for a topic. Very much as if it's struggling to stay on the logic-attractor path but the outlier fact causes it to stray.

Sometimes less is more.
by guhcampos | 2025-09-30 17:03:43+00:00
Exactly. I'll need to dig deeper into its allowlist and try a few things.

Problem is: I also force it to run `kubectl --context somecontext`, as to avoid it using `kubectl config use-context` and pull a hug on me (if it switches the context and I miss it, I might then run commands against the wrong cluster by mistake). I have 60+ clusters so that's a major problem.

Then I'd need a way to allowlist `kubectl get --context`, `kubectl logs --context` and so on. A bit more painful, but hopefully a lot safer.
by ajross | 2025-09-30 17:03:45+00:00
Potato/potatoe. Existing taxi medallion holders were absolutely harmed by Uber. Existing licensed hotel operators were absolutely harmed by AirBnB. And we all celebrated that to great effect here. But it was breaking the rules. We just think THOSE rules were bad but THESE rules are good.

Well, it's not our call to make, it's the prosecutors'. And you (yes, you personally) aren't nearly as insulated from this kind of risk as you think.
by jMyles | 2025-09-30 17:03:57+00:00
> Fix... The patriachy? You want me to fix the patriarchy?

Uhhh, yeah. Instead of crippling society by suggesting we remove our eyeballs or brains (or their electronic equivalents), let's fix the actual problems.

Your use of the "playing stupid" cudgel is not helpful. Instead of accusing others of playing dumb, let's hear: how do _you_ see an internet age free of patriarchal and sexist structures emerging?
by tverbeure | 2025-09-30 17:05:19+00:00
Back in the nineties, Philips was days away from signing a licensing deal for a revolutionary video compression technology that compressed whole movies down to 8KB. The former Philips CTO was a strong believer. And then the inventor died and nothing ever came of it.

To be a fly on the wall during due diligence meetings between Philips engineers and management.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-man-who-was-paid-e113000-for-...
by brandall10 | 2025-09-30 17:05:20+00:00
The problem here is this wasn’t about MAU. JPMorgan wanted a verified student data asset they could market to, so stale accounts were fine. Diligence focused on whether Frank had “records” (name, email, DOB, etc.), not whether those records were active.

Beyond that, JPMorgan didn’t want to push too hard and risk blowing up the deal as there was competitive pressure. Calling out “these numbers seem odd” could have spooked Jauvice, and they figured the reps & warranties in the contract gave them enough protection if things went south.
Show HN: Blogteca – A free interactive directory for discovering blogs
by rawraul | 2025-09-30 17:06:10+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Raul, and I just shipped Blogteca (https://blogteca.com).

I struggled to find interesting blogs to read and learn from other people's knowledge. The issue is that many of us prefer to have our own blog with our own code, our own design, our own domain, instead of publishing on Medium or Substack. The downside? Our blogs rarely reach a wider audience. No Medium's built-in distribution. No Substack's network effects. Just our little corner of the internet that nobody finds.

It's a free directory where indie bloggers can:

- Submit their self-hosted blogs (no paywalls, completely free) - Get discovered by people who actually want to read personal blogs - Potentially boost their domain rating through backlinks

I'm calling it an "interactive directory" because I'm actively working on the SEO and domain rating to make those backlinks actually valuable for bloggers who submit

I encourage you to submit your blog or share it

Any feedback is welcome :)
by munificent | 2025-09-30 17:06:33+00:00
This metaphor doesn't really work because the entire point of a game—the thing that makes playing it playful—is that it has no effect on the world outside of the game itself. Thus, ignoring the rules of chess to reach a goal doesn't make sense. There are no chess goals that don't involve the game of chess.

This isn't true in programming or real-world tasks where you are trying to accomplish some external objective.
Ask HN: Do You Struggle with ArXiv Categories Too?
by WASDAai | 2025-09-30 17:06:46+00:00
After years of publishing research that straddles mathematics and computer science, I’ve stopped trying to fit into one category. I examine the interdisciplinary researcher’s dilemma - from entropy appearing in both information theory and thermodynamics, to learning theory. How do you navigate academic silos when your work refuses to fit in one box?
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-30 17:06:51+00:00
At the risk of sounding dumb, I've never found this list of traits particularly illuminating. Many of these are found in the left political faction in the US as well (4, 7, 8, 13[1] and 14 immediately come to mind) and some are absent from the right. How do you weight which ones are important and who's really "fascist"?

The whole exercise feels like going on WebMD and diagnosing yourself with cancer because of some vague symptoms. Doesn't mean that nothing is wrong with you, but it's not necessarily cancer either.

[1] This one happened in this very thread where someone accused the Supreme Court and Congress of being complicit. Like, ok.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-30 17:07:18+00:00
Reviews are the filter. They can be gamed, and that's a real issue, but it's combatable. And in any case even if you get the market down to just 'thing with good reviews' and 'thing with good [fake] reviews' that's much more manageable.

So for a developer perspective all you need to achieve is that critical mass of early positive reviews, and that's not especially difficult if you have something half decent.
by BuildTheRobots | 2025-09-30 17:07:33+00:00
My understanding is that they're glitching the game to inject data into memory, in this case processor instructions. And then they use another glitch to jump to and execute that code. No modifications needed to the hardware or ROM, you're just being extremely selective about how to play the game to cause memory to get flipped.

This video is done by hand and explains a bit more about how and why it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0
by cactusplant7374 | 2025-09-30 17:07:53+00:00
> Meanwhile, Amar purchased a list of 4.5 million real college students and their data from ASL Marketing for $105,000. Frank executives later supplemented that list — which only had email addresses for a portion of the students — by purchasing more data from an information services company.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-alleges-ed-...
by busymom0 | 2025-09-30 17:08:28+00:00
My feed is filled with AI slop videos. They are usually AI generated thumbnails, AI generated voice-overs over either AI generated images animating or random clips of videos stolen from actual creators. Last month, I was getting 5-6 videos every refresh containing some fake futuristic AI-generated cars. Nowadays, I am getting the same with AI-generated tech products.

Typically, all these videos have under 1000 views. I am at a point where I might even write a user script to hide every video under 1000 views.
by jotux | 2025-09-30 17:08:31+00:00
I work on a large C++ codebase for an aerospace application. The code is relatively conservative, and when we add things, we're generally conservative in our approach to add new things. Copilot (with Claude or GPT under the hood) constantly wants to use modern and complicated approaches to any new thing we add.

Need to check three bits in a byte from a peripheral and populate them to telemetry?

Claude/GPT: Let's make a base struct with a virtual map function, then template a struct to hold the register with functions to extract bits, then make unique pointers to each register, then create a vector of pointers to map all the values, etc.

You can write a very clear, and long, prompt that explains not to do any of that and just pull the bits out of the byte, but writing the prompt takes more time than just writing the code. These tools seem to always reach for, what I would call, the pristine solution as their first attempt and I think many would call that gold-plating.
by magictruffle | 2025-09-30 17:08:48+00:00
In the Netherlands, psilocybin is legal in the form of truffles. Over the past five years, demand for safe and structured psychedelic experiences has grown exponentially — not only from people curious about consciousness exploration, but also from those dealing with depression, anxiety, or addiction.

We started Tangerine Retreat with the idea that psychedelics deserve the same standards as any serious therapeutic or wellness intervention:

- Medical screening before participation - 1 facilitator for every 3 participants to guarantee safety and support - Integration programs lasting up to 12 months, because what happens after the retreat matters more than the trip itself

Scientific grounding, while also acknowledging the spiritual or existential expectations of participants

The psychedelic space is attracting huge research and VC attention (Compass Pathways, ATAI, MAPS), but on the ground, people are looking for trusted, safe, legal experiences right now. Our bet is that building the best retreat infrastructure in Europe today is a way to be ready for the broader shift coming in mental health.

Curious to hear what this community thinks...