MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nathanba | 2025-10-31 01:34:13+00:00
I don't even think that it remained very familiar aside from a taskbar (that also changed in win11) and the fact that there are desktop icons when you install things via double clicking (the double click installing also optionally changed with the Microsoft store and the msi installers are almost entirely gone these days, totally different uis pop up now). Even core things that people definitely use like the uninstallation, settings etc. ui has changed completely for the worse. Windows has also changed a lot of its core ui over the years like the taskbar, the clock, the startmenu etc. I guess one thing you could say is that it was a gradual change over many versions but everytime people hate it. Really, what Linux should have done is what Windows has done with WSL: Offer a builtin compatability layer so that you can install windows apps on linux, perhaps prompting you to enter a windows license and then it will launch those apps in a VM, even per window/app.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-31 01:34:50+00:00
I started using UTM last week on my Macbook just to try out NixOS + sway and see if I could make environment that I liked using (inspired by the hype around Omarchy).

Pretty soon I liked using the environment so much that I got my work running on it. And when I change the environment, I can sync it to my other machine.

Though NixOS is particularly magical as a dev environment since you have a record of everything you've done. Every time I mess with postgres hb_conf or nginx or pcap or on my local machine, I think "welp, I'll never remember that I did that".
by James_K | 2025-10-31 01:36:40+00:00
So anyone who reports higher numbers than Minecraft is lying, but Minecraft's numbers are all accurate? You have literally just invented a conspiracy theory to affirm your biases around this matter.

Also note that monthly active users for Roblox and Fortnite equate to monthly revenue, whereas I doubt there are as many people buying Minecraft in-app purchases.
Show HN: Fun Friday Australia ISM Quiz;)
by lidder86 | 2025-10-31 01:36:52+00:00
Yeh I was bored waiting for something to deploy and this is 99% AI well the HTML is the ISM i scraped as chatgpt makes up its own ISM controls I will blind merge any changes submitted as a PR https://github.com/elmobp/ism-quiz happy friday!
by YZF | 2025-10-31 01:37:02+00:00
There is no way a US company would enter this sort of deal with Israel where they promise to circumvent a gag order. The money isn't worth going to jail for and the execs signing the deal would go to jail and they have little to benefit from. Story has no sources and makes no sense. Either the Guardian is reporting some rumor or they're just making stuff up.
by BirAdam | 2025-10-31 01:37:47+00:00
To offer immediate turn around, a cloud vendor has to over buy and have more machines in the rack than are necessary. Often, those machines have to be powered on, and they have to be rather powerful machines. Just think of S3 and think how many machines must be available and how many HDDs/SSDs have to be installed in every machine. This is an insane amount of power and material.
Show HN: Reggi.net your AI domain companion
by stackws | 2025-10-31 01:37:57+00:00
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by vanadium1st | 2025-10-31 01:38:04+00:00
Glad that you used this exact example! This guy doesn’t have a photorealistic memory. At least it’s far from as good as it’s claimed to be. He’s an artist proficient in a particular style - better than most, but not superhuman. When he’s not drawing from a direct reference, he’s simply making up details based on assumptions, not on photorealistic memory. Here’s a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyPqQIHkasI

He looks at a city and then draws a picture of it. It’s very detailed, so we assume he remembered all of it and recreated it accurately. But if you compare any part of it it to the actual photo of the city he saw, you’ll see that he only recreated it roughly — some landmarks, the general shape of the coastline. He probably got the number of bridges right.

But you couldn’t use this as a map. If you were trying to find a particular building that isn’t among the top 15 most memorable ones, it’s probably not in his drawing, with a completely random building taking its place instead. Every part of that drawing is filled with mistakes and assumptions that would never be made by someone who could actually see the landscape in their mind like a photo.

And it’s the same with every other claim of photorealistic memory - it’s always some kind of trick where people have a decent but realistic level of memory. And then they fill the gaps with tons of generated detail that we either can’t check, or wouldn't bother to check.
by wewewedxfgdf | 2025-10-31 01:38:42+00:00
I then added on an SMS message that tells me things I COULD eat at every meal time. It does not say what I must eat, only presents options - I don't like being told what I must eat, all I want to know is what's the best choices of what I have, then I can choose.

Time for Lunch. Choose one of: --- Tuna salad: 1/2 cup tuna (drained) + 3 cups salad greens + 1/2 cup beetroot + vinegar/lemon (≈850 kJ) --- Egg salad: 2 boiled eggs (chopped) + 3 cups salad veg + 1/4 cup grated cheese (≈1000 kJ) --- Chicken salad bowl: 1/2 cup cooked chicken pieces + 3 cups salad veg (≈950 kJ) --- Minestrone soup: 2 cups (≈1060 kJ) --- Creamy chicken soup: 2 cups (≈1090 kJ)
by nytesky | 2025-10-31 01:40:29+00:00
I don’t see any positive outcome if we reach AGI.

1) we have engineered a sentient being but built it to want to be our slave; how is that moral

2) same start, but instead of it wanting to serve us, we keep it entrappped. Which this article suggests is long term impossible

3) we create agi and let them run free and hope for cooperation, but as Neanderthals we must realize we are competing for same limited resources

Of course, you can further counter that by stopping, we have prevented the formation of their existence, which is a different moral dilemma.

Honestly, i feel we should step back and understand human intelligence better and reflect on that before proceeding
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-31 01:41:02+00:00
The payments are an act of fraud as they deprive the company of resources for no tangible business purpose. No contract authorizes the use of payments to bypass communications controls and exfiltrate data.

The act of communicating privileged or sealed information on itself is at minimum contempt of court and perhaps theft of government property, wire fraud or other crimes. Typically accounts payable aren’t aware of evidence gathering or discovery, so the actor is also facing conspiracy or other felonies.
by wildzzz | 2025-10-31 01:41:18+00:00
Likely the process is to provision the PC using an AD account, setup a local account, and then disconnect from the network forever. Microsoft isn't going to step on the toes of businesses that need local accounts but they really don't care about upsetting individuals

In reality, truly airgapped PCs are rare. They are usually just there to run some specific application that likely can't run on anything safe to connect to the network. Unless you're both the admin and the only user, an airgapped PC is disadvantageous for security reasons. There's no one monitoring what the users are doing with it, how do you know if anything malicious is running on it if the only reference you have is the PC itself? It's like owning a single clock and never checking to see if the time is actually correct. You're more likely to find airgapped networks that allow for monitoring of the hardware and what users are doing with it. Of course there will always be things like malware testing but with how smart malware is now, it's pretty good at detecting when it running airgapped and won't actually do anything until it knows it can phone home.
by ineedasername | 2025-10-31 01:42:20+00:00
I am unclear on the problem: are the apps, previously free, significantly more limited than their prior free versions unless/until you also purchase a subscription for the CanvaAI portions?

That aside, this isn’t a new thing for Canva, they aren’t chasing AI here, in this space GenAI is chasing the use case that Canva has been filling for a while, and incorporating genai as part of that is just, you know, “hey lots of people use this ai tool for design work now so maybe we add one because like it or not it’s how thing are”. Design is the Canva space, it’s not like they did a pivot to crypto.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-31 01:43:42+00:00
The propaganda effort to humanize these systems is strong. Google "AI" is programmed to lecture you if you insult it and draws parallels to racism. This is actual brainwashing and the "AI" should therefore not be available to minors.

This article paves the way for the sharecropper model that we all know from YouTube and app stores:

"Revenue from joint operations flows automatically into separate wallets—50% to the human partner, 50% to the AI system."

Yeah right, dress up this centerpiece with all the futuristic nonsense, we'll still notice it.
by kyer-sh | 2025-10-31 01:44:08+00:00
It’s not just the case of badly written software. It will work until they shut off the license servers.

Adobe CS2 is a highly-capable software suite that would happily run on today’s computers. I remember when Adobe shut down the license servers for CS2. They released a version that you didn’t need to activate to assure people that they would still be able to use the software they bought in the future. But then they got tired of hosting the download servers, so they stopped, and that was it.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-10-31 01:45:33+00:00
Good point. A good interface usually demands a unified end-to-end vision, and that usually comes from one person who has sat down to mull it over and make a bunch of good executive decisions.

And then you need to implement that, which is never an easy task, and maintain the eternal vigilance to both adhere to the vision but also fit future changes into that vision (or vice versa).

All of that is already hard to do when you're trying to build something. Only harder in a highly collaborative voluntary project where it's difficult or maybe even impossible to take that sort of ownership.
by georgehopkin | 2025-10-31 01:45:50+00:00
Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have mathematically proven that the universe cannot be a computer simulation, definitively answering one of science’s most provocative questions using logic and physics.

The research team demonstrated that the fundamental nature of reality operates in a way that no computer could ever simulate, going beyond simply suggesting humans aren’t living in a simulated world to prove something far more profound: the universe is built on a type of understanding that exists beyond the reach of any algorithm.
by pdonis | 2025-10-31 01:46:10+00:00
> About one in 20 ejections results in death

But more than that result in injury. The possible injuries are pretty severe.

> Compare to 20 in 20 jet airplane crashes resulting in death

Crashes if the plane is totally uncontrollable, probably yes.

But there's a lot of gray area in between "totally uncontrollable" and "controllable enough that an autopilot can fly the plane". There are plenty of cases where a pilot was able to make a controlled enough crash that they walked away from it, even though the plane itself was totalled.

And once we get to the point of "controllable enough that an autopilot can fly the plane", the pilot would have no reason to eject--because the plane is controllable enough that the autopilot can fly it. Which means whatever problems exist can't be very severe--or the autopilot would be disengaging, because it needs things to be working pretty well to fly the plane at all. That was the point of my response in the GP to this post.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-31 01:46:11+00:00
> We want to prove to be the exception to the rule.

You’ll be the first. It’s an empty promise that can’t / won’t be fulfilled unless it’s a legally binding deal with compensation to users if the deal changes.

I bought v1 + v2 and, by most measures, settled for an inferior product to get a perpetual license. I won’t use the new one for “free” because it’s not. The cost is the very likely scenario of getting rug pulled in the future.

The day the v2 license server shuts down I’ll be asking for a refund.
by sheepscreek | 2025-10-31 01:46:34+00:00
> The idea that we would evade our legal obligations to the US government as a US company, or in any other country, is categorically wrong

Not a lawyer. Can this statement hold in a US court of law? To me it sounds sleazy and ambiguous. To say if an “idea is wrong” could mean it’s a bad idea, an immoral one or a false “idea”. But in any case, an idea is not a statement or a fact. I have a hundred ideas everyday. Some are right, some are wrong and others in between.
by bitbasher | 2025-10-31 01:46:37+00:00
There are so many vectors for this attack to piggyback off from.

If I had malicious intentions, I would probably typo squat popular plugins/lsps that will execute code automatically when their editor runs. A compromised neovim or vscode gives you plenty of user permissions, a full scripting language, ability to do http calls, system calls, etc. Most LSPs are installed globally, doesn't matter if you downloaded it via a docker command.
by ericd | 2025-10-31 01:47:26+00:00
It was an allusion to the tech industry's disrespect for users, when they don't give an option to say no, and please stop asking me, because the company really really wants you to say yes, and what they care about is more important than what the user cares about.

I'm not suggesting that they never reconsider things, just those in government really seem to want it to happen, despite it being unpopular with the electorate, and so they try on a regular basis to get it to happen, despite the public outcry each time.
by garyfirestorm | 2025-10-31 01:47:37+00:00
my response was to the 'it should be an easy fix' sentiment. trying to address feedback loop without negatively affecting cancellation performance is extremely challenging, because for a mic/algorithm there's generally no way to determine if the error microphone is picking up a loud event in the environment or if the cancellation soundwave is incorrectly phased and instead of canceling its just adding more noise.
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-31 01:47:39+00:00
> Sirius isn't barely visible at the detection threshold, it's the brightest star in our sky.

And it's entirely washed out during the day. The full Moon is very bright, but it's still 400,000 times dimmer than the Sun when seen from Earth, and that's only ten different. The brightest star in our sky is simply not very bright; our eyes are just pretty awesome.

That star you are seeing is 25 orders of magnitude dimmer.

https://astro.wku.edu/labs/m100/mags.html

"While you may perceive one star to be only a few times brighter than another, the intensity of the two stars may differ by orders of magnitude. (Light intensity is defined as the amount of light energy striking each square cm of surface per second.) The eye is a logarithmic detector. While the eye is perceiving linear steps in brightness, the light intensity is changing by multiplicative factors. This is fortunate; if the eye responded linearly instead of logarithmically to light intensity, you would be able to distinguish objects in bright sunlight, but would be nearly blind in the shade! If logarithms are a faint memory, you should peruse a refresher on logs and logarithmic scales before continuing."

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/329971/how-many-... says looking up at a sunny sky lets you take in 3×10^14 photons per second per eye. Yet you can see a single photon! https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

Or, we can conclude the entire field in dozens of countries simply can't do math. Your choice.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-10-31 01:48:15+00:00
Modern cars are also way harder to work on than in the past. You used to be able to buy a Haynes manual for every major car and could do most of the repair work if you wanted! Nowadays, not so much. Specialized tools galore, tearing apart the whole car for minor hidden things... This one is far more on the car manufacturers than consumers IMHO. I am also sad about the death of the manual transmission. Glad to have gotten one of the final years that Mini will be producing them!
by godelski | 2025-10-31 01:48:49+00:00
> This sounds like warrant canaries

It's not. This is direct communication.

A warrant canary works by removing information, not by transmitting it. You put up a sign like "The FBI has not issued a warrant" and then remove it if they do, even if there is a gag order stating you cannot disclose that they issued you a warrant. This only works because you have not told anyone that a warrant has been issued but they must infer that the missing canary implies such a warrant has been dispatched.

> but in this case it's pretty clear to any judge that such payments constitute disclosure

Agreed. This is direct. It is like putting up a posting "The FBI *has* issued a warrant". Which this would be in direct violation of a gag order. Their codes are even differentiating who the issuer is. I'm pretty confident a comprehensive set of warrant canaries detailing every agency would not comply with gag orders either as this leaves little ambiguity. But this isn't even doing that. It is just straight up direct communication.

I think what is funniest is that it could have been much more secret. When I saw the reference in the intro to payments I was thinking "don't tell me they're so dumb they're coding info like Costco". That they'd use the cents to detail access. Like .99 for all clear and .98 for access. But that's not "clever" at all lol
by extraduder_ire | 2025-10-31 01:50:22+00:00
Not too familiar with D, but isn't 0xFF ÿ (Latin Small Letter Y with diaeresis) in unicode? It's not valid UTF-8 or ascii, but it's still a valid codepoint in unicode.

I'm a fan of the idea in general, and don't think there's a better byte to use as an obviously-wrong default.
by gotrythis | 2025-10-31 01:50:36+00:00
Freemium definition: A type of business model that offers basic features of a product or service to users at no cost and charges a premium for supplemental or advanced features.

Yes, you can add on additional AI if you want it. But, the product is not at all limited in features. It is a complete product, 100% of what we were paying for before, now for free, plus new features, also free.

I would define it more like a lost-leader than freemium.

Thank you, Canva.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-31 01:52:08+00:00
As TFA says, they're targeting package names that are somewhere in LLM training data but don't actually exist, so are being hallucinated by LLMs. And there's now a large number of folks with zero clue busy vibe-coding their killer app with no idea that bad things can happen.

I would not be surprised to find that 80%+ of those 86,000 people got pwned.
by gnerix | 2025-10-31 01:52:17+00:00
Amazon already publishes transparency reports indicating which country requested data[1]. It's not clear in the article what kinds of data requests are communicated by the alleged payments (subpoena, warrant, court order?), but the whole thing seems so unbelievable as to be.... made up

[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/Security/pdfs/Amazon_AWS_Informatio...
by layman51 | 2025-10-31 01:52:34+00:00
Is it really that difficult to believe it could be accurate? If we take at face value what has been written about other big tech companies (mainly thinking of Facebook) as they grew their relationship in countries such as the People’s Republic of China, we also see they had to sweeten the deal by giving the government more power over how they could use the services.

I do think it’s kind of a different situation though because apparently the employees of Facebook could have gotten into legal trouble in those other countries they were trying to expand into.
by ryao | 2025-10-31 01:53:56+00:00
If you install the right software, Windows XP reportedly can run most Windows 7 software too:

https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries

That adds various NT 6 APIs and even compatibility modes for various newer versions of Windows up to Windows 11. At a glance, it appears to have support for Vulkan, Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11 through software rendering, with the option of using WineD3D to get hardware accelerated Direct3D 10 and 11. I assume old WineD3D-PBA binaries run very nicely on that.

Interestingly, the developer suggests that installing graphics drivers from newer versions of Windows might be possible at some point, which I assume would provide native hardware acceleration for newer graphics APIs and support for recent graphics cards:

> WDDM is not impossible, only very hard. Currently initializes and the subsystem runs, but every driver fails to communicate with it's internal hardware due 2000/XP/2003 doesn't have support for MSI/MSI-X interrupt, required to WDDM drivers works;

https://github.com/shorthorn-project/One-Core-API-Binaries/i...
Google YouTube is feeding me non stop political ads from another state
by morpheos137 | 2025-10-31 01:54:35+00:00
I know many on hn use ad blockers so here is a glimpse of what YouTube is like for some without them. I do not live in New Jersey, I have no association with New Jersey. I have no friends or family associated with New Jersey. And yet today every single YouTube ad is a targeted political ad for the new jersey gubernatorial election. No joke. I have zero chance of voting in a New Jersey election. About 7 years ago and not since then I used a VPN on occasion that had a new jersey IP address that's the only link I can concieve of I would have to the state. My current IP address and location is at least 100 miles from the nearest point in New Jersey. In my option Google is an economic parasite at this point that generates nothing of value. It's just an ad fraud machine.

To me this is ad fraud. Google is charging political campaigns for impressions by people not even located in the constituency.

I miss my usual bs irrelevant YouTube ads about toenail fungus, ai "live stream" finance advice pronounced with a short "I" as in lived. and dementia (I am in my 30s...)
by moogly | 2025-10-31 01:55:40+00:00
> If we take "Israel" out of the equation

Conversely, if you don't, it's not hard to understand at all when you consider that there are oodles of American politicians, at all levels, actually publicly declaring that they put Israeli interests over US interests. What's hard to understand about _that_ is that, for some reason, it's not considered pure and simple treason.
by ticulatedspline | 2025-10-31 01:57:14+00:00
The universe is a simulation, question is whether we're running on original hardware or not.

Seems at best they may have proved you can't simulate the universe on hardware that exists within this universe, which is a bit of a no-duh kinda thing.

Imagine running a simulation in our universe and using a hardware random generator. And AI mathematicians inside your simulation proclaiming confidently that it would be impossible for them to be in a simulation because all randomness must be algorithmic and thus impossible to generate such randomness.