MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: GuardianScan – Website audits for 2025 web standards
by buildwithnumen | 2025-10-22 15:06:40+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been building websites for 15 years. I'm a perfectionist - both visually and technically - and got tired of going back and forth between different tools, manual checks, and documentation for every audit.

Built GuardianScan to run everything in under 45 seconds: - Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) - WCAG 2.2 compliance - Security headers and CSP policies - Modern framework patterns - SEO and schema markup

47 checks total.

These standards exist for a reason. Google prioritises fast sites. Accessible sites reach more people. Secure sites build trust. When you meet modern standards, you see it in your traffic and conversions.

Stack: Next.js 15, React 19, Supabase, Browserless.io for headless Chrome.

Won't catch everything - automated accessibility gets about 70% of issues. But it's what I use before every deploy now.

Landing page is up. Launching Nov 1. £24/month, no enterprise pricing BS.

Happy to answer questions.
by danaris | 2025-10-22 15:07:06+00:00
The big difference there is that unlike, say, Price Chopper, Google, Facebook, and Xitter can track not only what you do with them, but everything you do on thousands and thousands of sites across the internet, through analytics packages that send data back to them and/or the scripts loaded by their "social buttons".

If I buy baby food at Price Chopper, they might send me an email offering me discounts on diapers, but at least I (probably!) won't also get shown such ads literally everywhere I go on the web.
by recitedropper | 2025-10-22 15:07:25+00:00
For the record, I'm agnostic to whether or not consciousnses is possible upon silica. I think it is pretty safe to say though that it likely is an emergent property of specifically-configured complex systems, and humanlike intelligence on silica is certainly something that might qualify.

I don't think appealing to whether or not inanimate objects may be conscious is sufficient to discount that we are toying with a different beast in machine learning. And, if we were to discover that inanimate objects are in-fact conscious, that would be an even greater reason to reconfigure our society and world around compassion.

I agree that LLMs are a great breakthrough, and I think there are many reasons to doubt consciousness there. But I would suggest we rest on our laurels for a bit, and see what we can get out of LLMs, rather than push to create something that is closer to mimicking humans because it might be more useful. From the evil perspective of pure utility, slaves are quite useful as well.
by unshavedyak | 2025-10-22 15:07:27+00:00
That's fair, but i also don't cross check news sources on average either. I should, but there in lies the real problem imo. Information is war these days, and we've not yet developed tools for wading through immense piles of subtly inaccurate or biased data.

We're in a weird time. It's always been like this, it's just much.. more, now. I'm not sure how we'll adapt.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-22 15:08:12+00:00
In theory yeah, but I don't know if I need another $300+ chunk of hardware when you could accomplish the same with emulation on a mainstream computer. Also my backlog of games on Steam, MQ3, XBOX ONE and PS4 is astonishingly long, not to mention my Arknights habit so making a place for more games is asking for something.

If I wanted one thing in a C64++ it would be 80 column text. I like

https://www.commanderx16.com/

a lot but really the 6502 is not that great of a CPU because it's hard to write compilers for compared to the Z-80.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-22 15:08:15+00:00
That wasn't intended to be my implication. The replies to the original comment answered my question. Generally if you have a dead 12V you know it because you need a boost to get started, and you don't drive like that for long. I'm not worried about a cascade failure, I was worried about the 12V dying while somebody was driving and then having no brakes. That concern has been addressed.
by thunky | 2025-10-22 15:08:22+00:00
> You are yet to show how this benefits humanity in a way that outweighs harm to humans who lose their jobs

I think it's pretty obvious if you think beyond trying to protect the status quo. The benefit is simply that machines do work so humans don't have to. It's no more complicated than that. It's what we humans have always strived to do: to make our lives easier. It's why an electric screwdriver exists.

The fact that making our lives easier has become a problem is the actual problem. We should address that problem instead of trying to protect it.
by surajrmal | 2025-10-22 15:08:23+00:00
If you look at who contributes 99+% of aosp patches, nothing has actually changed. The same group of companies are still working on it. There is just less public openness about the process as it happens (eg open source code reviews). A lot of this was already happening but there was a strange duplication of process causing workflow problems depending on which way you were developing. They simplified it to a single process.
by RestlessMind | 2025-10-22 15:08:54+00:00
But most of the people live in countries with death penalties. All the top 6 countries by population have death penalty and only 4 out of biggest 17 countries do not have death penalty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-22 15:09:15+00:00
Tracking now happens with fingerprinting, focusing on cookies won't provide a benefit.

> when the regulators are lawyers who have no idea what cookies and browser are, we get consent forms on every domain visit.

In this case the regulators have considered the problem and implemented the law independent of the used technology. The software developers/companies were the clueless/malicious ones here.
by tcdent | 2025-10-22 15:09:18+00:00
Sure, you can simplify these observations into just codegen. But the real observation is not that these models are more susceptible to fail when generating code, but that they are more susceptible to jailbreak-type attacks that most people have come to expect to be handled by post training.

Having access to open models is great, and even if their capabilities are somewhat lower than the closed-source SoTA models, and we should be aware of the differences in behavior.
by Luker88 | 2025-10-22 15:09:30+00:00
I'm responding to myself, after reading the USA copyright report of January 2025 (!IANAL!):

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

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* lots of opinions of many different parties

* quote: "No court has recognized copyright in material created by non-humans". The problem now becomes how much AI work is influence and what about modifications

* Courts have recognized that using AI as reference and then doing all the work by yourself is copyrightable

* AI can not be considered "Joint work"

* No amount of prompt engineering counts.

* Notable: in case of a hand-drawn picture modified by AI, copyright was assigned exclusively to the originally human hand-drawn parts.

Notable international section:

* Korea allows copyright only on human modifications.

* Japan in case-by-case

* China allows copyright

* EU has no court case yet, only comments. Most of the world is in various levels of "don't really know"

After 40 pages of "People have different opinions, can't really tell", the conclusion section says "existing legal doctrines are adequate", but explicitly excludes using only prompt engineering as copyrightable
by xcf_seetan | 2025-10-22 15:09:31+00:00
The only "secret trick" to play guitar that I know is practice, practice, practice. Nothing beats everyday practice, even it is for 10 minutes. Not even telling what you can achieve with 4 hours daily practice. The continuous interaction with your instrument, will make you learn that when you hear a sequence of musical notes, your fingers would naturally went to the correct position on the neck to reproduce it, even without thinking.
by freedomben | 2025-10-22 15:09:35+00:00
Appreciate the article, but there are a few things in there that I think aren't quite accurate. Not wrong per se, but a bit misleading. For example:

> Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration’s power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a legal battle over Fortnite V-Bucks.

It didn't stem from the lawsuit, it stemmed from Apple's intentional policy of tight control over the app store, which the lawsuit challenged. The lawsuit could have forced a change, but it did not make any changes, so I don't see how the lawsuit is at all relevant.

I also find myself a bit frustrated at expressions like this, because people like me have been shouting this danger from the rooftops since early on in iPhone history!
by sgt | 2025-10-22 15:09:42+00:00
Yup that was a great demonstration of 3d graphics too. That reminds me all those years in the late 90s and early 2000s when I spent countless hours trying to get the graphics driver working properly with X. Kept running the Gears demo to see if it had sped up, but no, it was still extremely slow.

Still have muscle memory of commands like glxinfo, xdpyinfo etc. ;-)
by recitedropper | 2025-10-22 15:09:54+00:00
In this thought experiment, I am considering artificial life genuine. I would agree that there could be productive outlets for our selfish impulses if there was something that mimicked their targets without consciousness to experience the externalities of such impulses.

That said, I think probably the best path would just be to build and foster technologies that help our species mature, so if one day we do get the ability to spin-up conscious beings artificially, it can be done in a manner that adds more beauty rather than despair to our universe.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-22 15:10:15+00:00
What does ensure meaning? Interpretation?

If that's your position, that's where we disagree, state changes in isolation and state changes in sequence are all meaning.

State change is the primitive of meaning, starting at the fermion, there is no such thing as meaninglessness, just uncomplex, non-cohered meaning primitives, the moment they start to be associated through natural processes you have increasing complex meaning sequences and structures through coherence.

We move up the meaning ladder, high entropy meaning (rng) is decohered primitives, low entropy meaning is maximally cohered meaning like human speech or dna.

Meaning interactions (quantum field interactions) creates particles and information. Meaning is upstream, not downstream.

Now people hate when you point out semantic/structural meaning is meaning, but it's the only non fuzzy definition I've ever seen, and with complexity measures we can reproducably examine emissions objectively for semantinc complexity across all emitter types.

The reason everyone has such crappy and contradictory interpretations of meaning is because they are trying to turn a primitive into something that is derive or emergent and it's just simply not, and you can observe the chain of low to high complexity without having to look at human structures.

This meaning predates consciousness, even if you are a dualist you have to recognize that dna and rna bootstrap each "brain reciever" structure.

Meaning exists without an interpreter, the reason so many people get caught up in the definition is because they can't let go of anthropocentric views of meaning, meaning comes before consciousness, logic, rationality, in the same way the atom comes before the arrangement of atoms rockwise.

Even RNG, the rng emissions from stars lets say, which is maximally decohered meaning, has been made meaningful to the point of extreme utility by humans via encryption.

Now, you may be a dualist, and that's fine, the physical reality of state change doesn't preclude dualism, it sets a physical empirical floor, not an interpretive ceiling.

Even some very odd complaints about human interpretation, like still images being interpreted as movement some how being a problem, in the viewing frame you are 100% seeing state changes and all you need for meaning are state changes, each frame is still but the photon stream carried to our eyeballs is varying, and that's all you need.

Anyway, you make meaning, you are a unqiue write head in the generation of meaning, we can't ex ante calculate how important you are for our causal survival because the future stretches out for an indeterminate time, and we haven't yet ruled out that entropy can be reversed in some sense, so you are an important meaning generator that needs to be preserved, our very species, the very universe may depend on the meaning you create in the network (is reversing entropy even locally likely? I doubt it, but we haven't ruled it out yet, it's still early days.)
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-22 15:10:24+00:00
Pasteurization was discovered in 1860s, so she probably didn't have to. It was made mandatory starting in the late 1940s in the US.

Prior to that, a whole bunch of folks got TB from it. Here's a PSA about making milk safe for babies from 1912; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Give_The_Bottle-Fed_...

If you're referring to breast milk, your mother probably wasn't raised in a dairy farm.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 15:10:25+00:00
> It's a pet peeve of mine that we get these kinds of articles without a baseline established of how people do on the same measure

I don’t have a personal human news summarizer?

The comparison is between a human reading the primary source against the same human reading an LLM hallucination mixed with an LLM referring the primary source.

> cynic in me want another question answered too: How often does reporters misrepresent the news?

The fact that you mark as cynical a question answered pretty reliably for most countries sort of tanks the point.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-22 15:10:46+00:00
> One poster above said a large soda in the USA is almost one litre!

There are two sizes of single-serving sodas sold commercially in the US.

A small one, a can, is 12 oz, 355 mL.

A large one is 20 oz, 591 mL.

To buy a 32-ounce soda, you'd have to do something very strange.

(There is another common commercial size, the two liter bottle of exactly 2000 mL. Those aren't intended to be bought and drunk; they're intended to be bought, taken home, and stored in your refrigerator over time.)
by incomingpain | 2025-10-22 15:10:49+00:00
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

I've been thinking about the state of our media, and the crisis of trust in news began long before AI.

We have a huge issue, and the problem is with the producers and the platform.

I'm not talking about professional journalists who make an honest mistake, own up to it with a retraction, and apologize. I’m talking about something far more damaging: the rise of false journalists, who are partisan political activists whose primary goal is to push a deliberately misleading or false narrative.

We often hear the classic remedy for bad speech: more speech, not censorship. The idea is that good arguments will naturally defeat bad ones in the marketplace of ideas.

Here's the trap: these provocateurs create content that is so outrageously or demonstrably false that it generates massive engagement. People are trying to fix their bad speech with more speech. And the algorithm mistakes this chaotic engagement for value.

As a result, the algorithm pushes the train wreck to the forefront. The genuinely good journalists get drowned out. They are ignored by the algorithm because measured, factual reporting simply doesn't generate the same volatile reaction.

The false journalists, meanwhile, see their soaring popularity and assume it's because their "point" is correct and it's those 'evil nazis from the far right who are wrong'. In reality, they're not popular because they're insightful; they're popular because they're a train wreck. We're all rubbernecking at the disaster and the system is rewarding them for crashing the integrity of our information.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-22 15:10:56+00:00
>> I'm surprised more hackers don't seek out quality espresso instead of these weird XTREME energy drinks.

I think you answered it though, lots of (younger) people do not like the taste of coffee, so you get the caffeine and the delivery mechanism is sweet & sugary.

Here's a free idea for anyone out there: Caffeinated Ketchup. It already turns up every flavor component to 11 so why not make it heavily caffeinated too!
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-22 15:11:06+00:00
> what you are basing the opinion "Delivery of those nines is not a priority" off of.

Because I don't see the business pressure to do? If problems happen they can 1) lie on the status page and hope nothing happens and 2) if they can't get away with lying, their downside is limited to a few hours of profit margin.

(which is not really a dig at AWS because no hosting provider will put their business on the line for you... it's more of a dig at people who claim AWS is some uptime unicorn while in reality they're nowhere near better than your usual hosting provider to justify their 1000x markup)

It's great if they're doing their best anyway, but I don't see it as anything more than "best effort", because nothing bad would happen even if they didn't do a good job at it.
by jacobgorm | 2025-10-22 15:11:06+00:00
I read the through first 20+ pages 1.5 weeks ago, and found it quite inspiring. I tried submitting it here, but it did not catch on at the time. I watched the podcast interview with the founder, who seems very smart, but that made me realize that not everything described in the paper has been released as open source, which was a bit disappointing.
by nerdjon | 2025-10-22 15:11:07+00:00
By that logic I don't understand why you don't just drink raw sewage instead of waiting for it to be processed and made safe.

The act of making cheese is processing the raw milk. Fun fact Pasteurized milk was also once raw.

Same with meat but basically no one advocates eating raw chicken.

Why am I explaining that things change from a raw to a processed state and becomes safe to consume...
Show HN: Talk to your Mac offline – sub-second Voice AI (Apple Silicon and MLX)
by mshubham | 2025-10-22 15:11:09+00:00
I wanted a voice assistant that feels realtime but runs completely offline. This prototype uses MLX + FastAPI on Apple Silicon to hit sub-second latency for speech-to-speech conversations.

Repo: https://github.com/shubhdo­tai/offline-voice-ai

It’s fast, minimal, and hackable — would love feedback on latency tricks, model swaps, or use-cases you’d like to see next.
by troyvit | 2025-10-22 15:11:12+00:00
I agree that we have all those things, but what do we do with them? What's the end benefit?

I'm not asking rhetorically, and if the answer is that the knock-off effects of doing this will provide a ton of technology that will help the rest of Earth eat, live and pursue happiness then I think that's a pretty kick-ass answer. But is that where you were going?
by MisterTea | 2025-10-22 15:11:13+00:00
That happened to a friends Benz when he bought it second hand. Water had leaked in the drivers window, maybe it was left open, and shorted the switch cluster on the drivers door. That took out the entire CAN network and the car had no lights save for brake lights, no HVAC and no entertainment system. Fixed it himself for like two hundred bucks for a new switch cluster.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-10-22 15:11:23+00:00
Not really even for people running a restaurant. The fast food machine means that a dozen competitors can spring up to compete with most restaurant's niche overnight unless they are serving up something truly special. (And they're not because if they were, the fast food machine would be wholly inadequate to churn out their menu.) Success comes down to other factors like marketing and blind luck winning customers.
by underlipton | 2025-10-22 15:11:28+00:00
All of this is true, and LLMs' nature as stochastic parrots mean that they'll do pretty much nothing to stem the tide. Journalism needs to be somewhere between the USPS, USAID, and local school boards: a network of local and independent offices, funded mostly by guaranteed government grants, reporting judiciously and independently of how the content squares with any particular group's interests. And if anyone wants to curate that feed, fine, but the feed would be there for all to peruse.
by laumars | 2025-10-22 15:11:29+00:00
> You are comparing Go to Python, JS, and C++, arguably the three most complex languages to build.

No, I'm comparing to more than a dozen different languages that I've used commercially. And there were direct references there to Perl, Java, Pascal, procedural SQL, and many, many others too.

> There are languages out there that are easy to build, have a reasonable std lib

Sure. And the existence of them doesn't mean Go isn't also simple.

> and don't offload the complexity of the world onto the programmer.

I disagree. Every language makes tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs always end up being complexities that the programmer has to negotiate. This is something I've seen, without exception, in my 40 years of language agnosticism and part-time language designer.
by Kevinmetaba | 2025-10-22 15:11:30+00:00
During an upgrade, I discovered that the console had been removed without any prior notice. MinIO really pissed me off. Over a month ago, I started looking for a MinIO alternative and found RustFS. I've been testing RustFS for over a month now, and the product continues to improve, with the community fixing bugs very quickly. I hope YC will invest in this company.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-22 15:11:43+00:00
“I’m not legally required to be nice” has become a classic and very common HN/Reddit argument. While true, it’s kind of beside the point. People often go beyond what they are legally obligated to do, and other people often expect others to go beyond what we are legally obligated to do. This is about nice vs. not-nice instead of legal vs. illegal.
by nopinsight | 2025-10-22 15:11:53+00:00
Hallucination Leaderboard "This evaluates how often an LLM introduces hallucinations when summarizing a document."

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard

If the figures on this leaderboard are to be trusted, many frontier and near-frontier models are already better than the median white-collar worker in this aspect.

Note: The leaderboard doesn't cover tool calling, to be clear.
by mshubham | 2025-10-22 15:12:26+00:00
A few details for anyone curious: • MacBook Pro M3 (16GB) • STT: mlx-community/whisper-small.en-mlx-q4 • LLM: mlx-community/LFM2-1.2B-4bit • TTS: hexgrad/Kokoro-82M • Backend: FastAPI + WebSocket streaming • Interruption: VAD with configurable “quiet probability”

Current avg latency: ~850 ms end-to-end (speech → LLM → speech).

Goal: keep it fast, under ~1K LOC, and clean so anyone can swap models or adapt it to their use case.

Feedback welcome on model choices, latency wins, and better UX for barge-in/turn-taking.