MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pogue | 2025-09-18 12:59:46+00:00
>During a Wednesday podcast appearance, FCC head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel’s content.

>“It’s time for them to step and say this garbage…isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” he said.

>Carr’s threat should have been toothless. The FCC is prohibited by law from employing “the power of censorship” or interfering “with the right of free speech.” There is a very narrow and rarely used exception for “news distortion,” in which a broadcast news outlet knowingly airs false reports. What Kimmel did — an offhand comment based on weak evidence — is extremely different from creating a news report with the intent to deceive.

>Hours after Carr’s Wednesday threat, Nexstar — the largest owner of local stations in America — suddenly decided that Kimmel’s comments from two nights ago were unacceptable. Nexstar, it should be noted, is currently attempting to purchase one of its major rivals for $6.2 billion — a merger that would require express FCC approval.

Source: https://www.vox.com/politics/461887/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-...
by kkfx | 2025-09-18 12:59:47+00:00
When living with inflationary currencies, over-buying is logical: you buy more today than tomorrow for the same amount of money. With deflationary currencies, it's the inverse.

When you buy, you transfer money into an asset that will be resalable one day. It might be worth more or less money than the original, like any investment. It might be that having bought something else (e.g. financial instruments) and rented a house, after deducting rent, taxes (in both cases) etc., you end up with more money than if you had bought, but it's relative and by no means guaranteed, also because those who rent out generally are better off financially than those who rent, so, as they say... When you rent you just consumed money over a certain period. No resale.

The current narrative, the push for Agenda 2030 where "you will own nothing", clearly shows this contradiction, because if it's so advantageous not to own, how is it that all the wealthy individuals do the exact opposite as much as they can?
by ValentineC | 2025-09-18 13:00:42+00:00
Sure, but I want to be on an older macOS and be given the option to use the latest Music or Photos.

For example, I'm probably not going to be upgrading to Tahoe until Sequoia's close to end of support life. I just upgraded to Sequoia last month from Ventura (decided to skip Sonoma since the various anecdotes of Sequoia made it sound like Sonoma-with-AI, with few apps breaking because of some new API change).
by invader | 2025-09-18 13:01:06+00:00
Ton is a legend and a personal hero of mine. He is a great innovator and an open-source superstar who disrupted the entire industry, traditionally dominated by big corporations.

The entire Blender story is captivating - from modeler and raytracer prototypes on Amiga to the Internet bubble startup to the famous crowdfunding campaign to free Blender... It is a story that deserves a movie.

For anyone interested in open-source history who is not familiar with the Blender story, I would highly recommend Ton's interview with Blender Guru, where he reflects on his journey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEWOTZnFeg&t=1523s
by ricardo81 | 2025-09-18 13:01:20+00:00
I wonder if unknown /s powers persuaded us to homogenise things which ultimately suited AI training for AI to be viable.

- search engine algorithms used be be the main place of information discovery. Before 200x it would involve not using javascript for any text you wanted to be readable by a bot

- "best viewed in x browser" which happened in the late 90s and early 00s. If a website looked crap, use the other browser.

- social graph metadata. Have a better image, title, description for people who see a snippet of your page on a social network

Nowadays everything is best viewed in Chrome/Safari, Firefox does have some issues.

Google owns the majority of the search market.

Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin at least in the Western world drive most social traffic.

I would guess the 'taste' of AI has been predetermined by these strong factors on the web.

An alternative could be a DMOZ like directory with cohorts voting on the value of things, maybe with the help of AI. It does seem like the web has been 'shaped' for the past 15 years or so.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-18 13:01:35+00:00
Right, but they weren't making money on that either, only $5k/yr. This wouldn't happen to a "top arr client" or whatever is the tiering their account managers follow.

Here it likely was the exact opposite: the long tail of low-paying clients is annoying to manage compared to how much they bring cumulatively. So the client had been given a choice of either becoming a high-paying client or stop being a client altogether.
by drewbug01 | 2025-09-18 13:01:41+00:00
This is a false equivalency, unfortunately. We can discuss all we like about cancel-culture-on-the-left, but it misses the glaring difference:

The left used their speech to encourage consequences for those whose speech they didn’t like.

The right is now using the power of the government to silence speech they don’t like.

That is a massive and important difference, and it is blindingly obvious.
Show HN: Model Arena, a Playground to Compare Seedream 4, Qwen, and Nano Banana
by shu127 | 2025-09-18 13:02:01+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Shu, a software engineer and entrepreneur from Tokyo. With new image generation/editing models like Seedream 4.0, Nano Banana, and Qwen-Image releasing rapidly, I found it frustrating to evaluate them. Scattered APIs, inconsistent benchmarks, and pricey subscriptions (or complex setups) made side-by-side comparisons tough. I wanted a simple way to test Seedream 4.0 against Nano Banana without breaking the bank, so I built Model Arena over a few days.

Model Arena is a unified playground to experiment with SOTA image models. Upload an image and a prompt, and it runs Seedream 4.0, Nano Banana, and Qwen-Image in parallel, displaying outputs side-by-side for easy comparison. It’s built with Next.js, leveraging Firebase & Stripe for fast, private processing. No hefty subscriptions—just a credit base pricing to start exploring.

Unlike some existing tools that are expensive or limited to single-model testing, Model Arena focuses on accessibility and direct comparisons with clear metrics (e.g., generation speed, edit fidelity). It’s early days, but I’d love your feedback: What models do you want to see next? How do the outputs compare for your use cases? Try it out and let me know what you think!
by hannasanarion | 2025-09-18 13:02:10+00:00
> At the same time, most, if not all manually written repositories do not pass the newfound quality metrics that must apply to AI code to be quality.

That's because I trust the code that I write to have quality, because I wrote it, which means I understand it. I may choose not to test something because I am certain that nothing can go wrong with it.

When your repository is thousands of lines of code written by an AI with tendencies to forget critical components, duplicate work, make bonkers editing errors that shuffles everything around to all the wrong places, and invent packages out of thin air, you need a system of accountability.
by rtaylorgarlock | 2025-09-18 13:02:24+00:00
Maybe it's because I'm such a latecomer, but I've truly enjoyed using KDE on a mostly-daily basis over the last ~9mo. I haven't extended it or really stretched (e.g. with multi-monitor setup), but I also haven't had to diag any issues or fix anything. Just left it vanilla and did other things.
by philote | 2025-09-18 13:03:31+00:00
It depends, the frameworks I've seen require a ton of boilerplate (ie. the things tools like create-react-app sets up for you) and have quite a learning curve. Using what you already know is simpler, and some of us know vanilla html, css, and js. It also very much depends on what you're making. Many sites don't necessarily need much interactivity or to constantly receive updated data.
by boringg | 2025-09-18 13:03:32+00:00
Pretty good comment. It's a spectrum right? So if you went all in on profits you are likely all in on tastelessness. If you profit a small amount your probably only shedding a bit of your taste.

However I would wager the argument many people have is that they view their professional life as not utilizing their taste and that is reserved for decisions in their private lives (for those who still keep the two relatively distinct). For those who have truly merged professional and personal and gone all in profit -- original point probably stands. Thats pretty tasteless!
by sybercecurity | 2025-09-18 13:04:19+00:00
Didn't something also happen to the band Chumbawamba? For those lucky enough to not remember, they were a one hit wonder in the late 90's (song called "Tubthumping"). The bad was made up of fairly hardcore leftist/anarchist/anti-capitalist members. Once their one hit made it big, they were supposedly asked to do a bunch of corporate gigs, shows, etc. Half of the band wanted to do the gigs, other half didn't want to take corporate money so the band broke up.
by mooreds | 2025-09-18 13:04:24+00:00
The title of this post is slightly off-base.

You'll need to expand your applicable geographic region to see what the changes actually are.

For example, for USA/ROW:

> Generative AI Model Training: There are currently no changes to GenAI training in these regions arising from this Terms of Service update. Our existing settings continue to give you control over how Linkedin uses your data for GAI model training.
by criley2 | 2025-09-18 13:04:28+00:00
A lot of people are picking apart the many problematic parts of this, but I'll choose to target "Regurgitating content from the trending influencer of the week."

This is fundamentally how humans work. Our civilization is far too large and complex for you to be a bona fide expert in everything. And even worse, the more time you spend dedicated to expertise in one thing, the less well rounded you are in the ~infinity other things.

So what do you do if you cannot have authentic "taste" in everything?

You trust people. You find "influencers" that seem to succeed and have knowledge and you trust their opinion.

In practice, the vast majority of everything we think and do are not because of our personal expertise, but because of our un-expert belief in other people who do these things. Taste isn't just a measure of your personal expertise, but a measure of your ability to find and listen to experts.

So to call this out as a negative is harmful. You need to assemble a group of influencers not just professionally, but in every part of your life, who themselves are experts and can lend you their taste so you can make decisions without the paralysis of needing personal expertise in all things. That, or you need infinite time to become an infinite expert.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-18 13:04:29+00:00
> they don't really seem like a company that actually wants to launch a robotaxi.

Because they can't. They don't have the technology to do so, despite promising for years it's right around the corner. Musk backed Tesla into a corner by promising dates and missing them several times, and this is just another instance of that. They're playing a shell game and they've been able to hide the ball so far by calling things "beta" or a "rollout" or "supervised", but when it comes to robot axis they have to actually be autonomous, and Tesla tech cannot deliver that.

So all I'm wondering is where they're going to hide the ball next. I don't think they can push robotaxis any longer, which is why you see Musk preemptively suggesting robots and AI are the future of Tesla. Actually I think he's more likely to claim victory in self driving, ditch the entire car company saying it's so last century, and pivot Tesla into robotics than to actually release failure robotaxis. It's the only way he can keep the grift going; the self driving grift is done.
by iamkeithmccoy | 2025-09-18 13:04:30+00:00
That Teams requires you to put every channel in a team is a huge pain. We often have orthogonal needs (teams vs projects) and need cross-team adhoc channels. When I was with an organization that used Slack, this was easy. With Teams, you have to figure out where to put a channel and who is on that team. You also cannot tell who is in a channel because you join teams, not channels. I miss Slack's ability to spin up a cross-team project channel and just invite whoever needs to be involved.

Also, whenever you create a team in Teams, it creates a SharePoint site for that team. So we are the engineering team and want all our docs in engineering. But to spin up a cross-team project team means it gets its own SharePoint site and now files are scattered. Want to add a Loop workspace? That's per channel, not per team. And teams are exchange groups - so it makes handling exclusive email groups more difficult because if your team is public then anybody can join your email group.

That's my biggest gripe about Teams. But also notifications have never worked well for me. The integrations, even with Microsoft products, are poor. Want to send a well-formatted Azure Monitor alert to a Teams channel? You have to set up a complicated and fragile logic app (power automate) and figure out how to transform the message from the "common alert schema".

And message management is harder. In Slack I could always use the built-in remind-me-later. It'd put the message in Later and notify me again. The best we have in Teams is the power automate workflow to resend the message. But it's just too much friction typing in the exact date and time I want it resent vs Slack where I could just click "remind me tomorrow".

End rant
by gmueckl | 2025-09-18 13:04:38+00:00
KDE has been phenomenal since the days of KDE 3.5.x. I wish that I could use it more than I'm able to (limited selection of desktop environments at work etc.). The KDE 4.0 release has given the project an unfortunate lasting bad reputation that stuck around despite the fact that it was really just a single bad release that got fixed very quickly.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-09-18 13:04:46+00:00
in fact, if you actually look at the historical timeline, many of the things we think of as core to developer experience only were released after salesforce acquisition.

I think even multiple buildpacks at once only came a couple years after acquisition.

Possibly they were in the pipeline before acquisition, sure.

But I'd agree, heroku is still a better DX than almost any competitors, although it's features and pricing have really stagnated. So better DX as long as you don't need any features it doens't have. But it hasn't really been 'ruined' in any way, it just started appearing frozen in amber some years ago.

The new 'fir' platform is promissing, before that I didn't really know that any actual development was taking place in heroku, but it's a big move, modernizing things and setting the stage for more. Including slightly improved resource-to-pricing options. We'll see if it all works out...
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-18 13:04:55+00:00
I've been scanning and cleaning up a 200 page book that is a collection of "Travel Mats" that were printed during the Route 66 heyday [1].

Each focuses on a specific highway and list motel and diner stops.

[1] Example: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I should have it done and posted to archive.org this Fall sometime.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-09-18 13:05:17+00:00
I would separate dimensional or relational modeling from data governance. You can dump all the data you have in one S3 bucket, and AWS can take care of near-real-time ingestion. So no need for staging, ODS, data warehouse, data marts, hub and spoke, all that jazz. And no data modeling required, just ingest as is and dump it there. Great.

Now what is this dump good for? It's just bunch of bytes of information which now needs to be interpreted. There's different perspectives (sales vs manufacturing vs procurement vs finance etc). There's data quality issues that need to be identified and resolved. There's PII and other compliance stuff. You have to watch out for giving permissions to sensitive information (ever dealt with payroll data? It's fun) Your data dump isn't doing any of that by itself. And I think people tend to simply stop at the data dump stage and then give access to analysts and data scientists and tell them to go do reports and outbound data feeds.

With obvious results.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-09-18 13:05:36+00:00
Advertising and public relations has always been applied psychology. The contemporary interation was originally developed by Freuds nephew (Edward Bernays). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

I highly recommend The Century of the Self for a great documentary on the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-18 13:05:55+00:00
Nope, Ive tested its understanding on things like corporate finance which I know very deeply.

It touches surface level stuff - which makes sense, most stuff on the internet is surface level. Good enough to pass an exam (since exams are essentially memorisation and regurigation of that nowadays) but not enough depth of understanding to be able to apply it in a wide range of contexts.

The application is where all the value is in the real world.
by _davide_ | 2025-09-18 13:06:23+00:00
I have been using kde for 15+ years, except 4.0, which was painful, everything has been mostly a smooth experience.

> However, KDE considered my TV the primary desktop and put the task bar only in that monitor, and even disabling the TV didn't add the task bar to my monitor.

You can order the screens however you want; the first one will be considered primary.
by slowroll22 | 2025-09-18 13:06:57+00:00
For a previous place I worked - on some of our products 6 months was the minimum - and explicitly a year for a few of the dependencies.

The main deciding factors were the process and frequency it was released / upgraded by us or our customers.

The on-prem installs had the longest delay because once it was out there it was harder for us to address issues. Some customers also had a change freeze in place once things have been approved which was a pain to deal with if we needed to patch something for them.

Products that had a shorter release or update cycle (e.g. the mobile app) had a shorter delay (but still a delay) because any issue could be addressed faster.

The services that were hosted by us had the shortest delay on the order of days to weeks.

There were obviously exceptions in both directions but we tried to avoid them.

Prioritisation wasnt really an issue - a lot of dependencies were increased on internal builds so we had more time to test and verify before committing to it once it reached our stability rules.

Other factors that influenced us: - Blast radius - a buggy dependency in our desktop/server applications had more chance to cause damage than our hosted web application so it rolled a little slower for dependencies.

- Language (more like ergonomics of the language) - updating our C++ deps was a lot more cumbersome than JS deps)
by DocTomoe | 2025-09-18 13:07:11+00:00
The P1S was my first 3D FDM printer, mostly because what I saw in the scene, in Makerspaces, and on YouTube before was mostly people tinkering with their other machines ('use this hotend', 'this is my grandma's secret recipie for bed adhesion issues', 're-fasten this particular nut to exactly 1.32 newton, but only if that part has been printed from ABS, instead if PETG, use 1.29 newton' ...) ... and I didn't want to work the machine, I wanted to work with the machine.

Bambu were the first that gave me the feeling 3D FDM printing has become more appliance-like, less 'spend endless hours maintaining the machine'. Sure, the Bambu also needs maintenance. But it is not the main procedure with the machine.
by zarzavat | 2025-09-18 13:07:22+00:00
The UB in this case is "you may get another value in the sandboxed memory region if you dereference an invalid pointer, rather than a guaranteed trap". You can still have UB even in a sandbox.

Seems like they got overly attached to the guaranteed trapping they got on 32-bit and wanted to keep it even though it's totally not worth the cost of bounds checking every pointer access. Save the trapping for debug mode only.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-18 13:07:32+00:00
On Raspberry Pi, the GPU is the only thing that makes a responsive GUI or web-browser feasible, and is the primary reason most people use the HDMI LCD screens for games etc. It also took a large effort to bring up a v4l2 kernel driver for the camera modules etc.

For example, on the CPU one may pin all cores to stream a USB camera or software decode h264. With the SoC GPU decoding or streaming with the v4l2 interface might take up 30% on one core (mainly to handle the network traffic.)

The Raspberry Pi are not the fastest or "best" option (most focus on h264 or MJPEG hardware codecs), but the software/kernel ecosystem provides real value. Also, the foundation doesn't EOL their hardware often, or abandon software support after a single OS release.

A cheap RISC-V SBC is great, but ISA versions are generally so fractured (copied the worst ideas of ARM6)... few OS will likely waste resources targeting a platform that will have 5 variants a year, and proprietary drivers.

A Standard doesn't even need to be good, but must be consistent to succeed. =3
by Aurornis | 2025-09-18 13:07:51+00:00
> You would think that making your users hate you is shortsighted, yes.

The harsh truth: Alienating some free or highly discounted users can be a net win for companies if it allows them to raise their prices for remaining customers.

This is an extreme example, but it happens all the time. The free or discounted years are always angry, justifiably, but dropping the free plan is a common growth phase for companies looking to reduce their support load, server count, and increase their revenue per user.

> But it is undoubtedly anti-consumer and anti-user. They give you something good, you get hooked, and then they enshittify it

The key word here is “give”. The free plans were always supposed to be a hook for getting people familiar with the platform so they would buy it later or spread the word. Free plans disappear once the market matures because the free plan no longer serves that purpose. They don’t need to spread the word because everyone knows about Slack. It’s a pop culture word, now, not something that needs to be spread around so people talk about it to their bosses.
by muyuu | 2025-09-18 13:07:53+00:00
the loose implication is that documents don't have access to resources outside of itself and they're somewhat static

imo when you start talking about dynamic documents the distinction starts to blur but it should be fine if it's just a few parameters that are meant to be manually updated... beyond that "document" seems like the wrong term (and tech)

those artificial distinctions are essential and perfectly practical as they can convey expectations just fine

GP is correct in that the browser has generalised to a point it has clear drawbacks for its original intended purpose, but that is just a fact of life at this point

IMO, html should have scaled back from 5.0 to the feature-set of 4, if not 3, with mass deprecations and beyond that it shouldn't be called html even if the main browsers carried on adding features and interoperable OS-like characteristics, so people could see beforehand if they were visiting hypertext documents or application sites, because certainly most of the web right now could not be reasonably called "hypertext"

but that isn't the way it was handled and tbh it was to be expected
by bayindirh | 2025-09-18 13:08:11+00:00
> The KDE 4.0 release has given the project an unfortunate lasting bad reputation...

True, but frankly, KDE team repeatedly said that 4.0 to 4.2 is considered beta, and not production ready. I'm also coming from 3.5.x days, and just waited for KDE to mature a little before jumping 4.x bandwagon, and I'm still on KDE.

Maybe, we, the users shall read the announcements with a keener eye.