MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lxgr | 2025-10-06 17:25:30+00:00
I'm the last to stand in the way of more precise terminology! Any ideas for "lying to a moral non-entity"? :)

“Lying” traditionally requires only belief capacity on the receiver’s side, not qualia/subjective experiences. In other words, it makes sense to talk about lying even to p-zombies.

I think it does make sense to attribute some belief capacity to (the entity role-played by) an advanced LLM.
by codingdave | 2025-10-06 17:25:32+00:00
These scenarios are premised with "be in a relationship with someone while you have secrets and they snoop". That may be reality for some people, but it is not exactly a universal scenario.

I'd say the bigger privacy concern is that those chat histories are not just stored on your device - they are stored by the AI platforms as well. I think we've learned our lesson from social media that the platforms will store and use your data for their gain, and your pain. Maybe not today, but over the next few years/decade, as they monetize their platforms ever more?

So I agree that privacy concerns are legit... but this article is looking at the small potatoes where there is a much more terrifying big picture.
Show HN: Dodocu – AI that reads and summarizes any contract or document
by valart | 2025-10-06 17:25:32+00:00
Hi Hacker News,

I built DODOCU (https://dodocu.xyz) to solve a universal pain point: nobody has time to read the fine print, but we all know we should.

It’s a document intelligence tool that uses AI to analyze your PDFs. Upload a document—like a software TOS, rental lease, freelance contract, or business proposal—and it will:

- Generate a concise summary of the entire document. - Highlight key clauses, obligations, and potential red flags. - Explain everything in plain English.

The goal: Give you a "first-pass" review to help you understand what you're signing in seconds, not hours.

I’d love for the HN community to try it and give feedback. It’s free to use while in this early stage.

I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on:

- The accuracy and usefulness of the analysis. - Potential security & privacy concerns (we process files securely and don't store them, but I'm open to discussion on this). - What other document types or features would be most valuable for a technical audience.

Thanks and I look forward to your comments and critiques!
by scruple | 2025-10-06 17:25:36+00:00
We travel out of a single roller bag for a family of 5. Plus we each have a backpack with miscellaneous stuff. We generally leave a little space in the luggage fo whatever we might pick up during our stay. Our kids are 6, 6, and 4 and we're currently on day 8 of 11 in Hawaii. It's been fine, we just do laundry every 2-3 nights.
by ummonk | 2025-10-06 17:26:53+00:00
I'd do the same thing others are doing, which is a hybrid of classic RISC and CISC elements:

* From the RISC side, adhere to a load-store architecture with lots of registers

* From the CISC side, have compressed variable length encoding and fused instructions for common complex operations (e.g. multiply-add, compare-and-branch)
by mikepurvis | 2025-10-06 17:27:07+00:00
No one has any idea what the types mean other than introvert/extrovert, and it's increasingly clear that even that split is highly dependent on a bunch of contextual stuff— someone who is gregarious and outgoing in one setting may be overwhelmed and need space to themselves in another. And moreover, none of it hard-coded; being "extroverted" is largely a matter of feeling comfortable wielding a set of social skills that are very much learnable— how to read the room, tell a funny story, ask questions that are curious without being invasive, volunteer information about yourself that invites engagement without oversharing, etc.

This stuff is no different that learning public speaking, or partner dance, or how to play ultimate frisbee. You can watch it done well, you can give yourself opportunities to practice, you can even take classes or get 1:1 coaching. And it's also fine to choose not to do those things if your passions are elsewhere, but it's important that growth-mindset people understand that "introvert" is something you choose, not a genetic inevitability.
by achow | 2025-10-06 17:27:14+00:00
A little more informative source:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-governme...

- G-drive stands for Government Drive

- The incident was caused due to Lithium battery fire

- The drive was of 858TB capacity

- No backup because “The G-Drive couldn’t have a backup system due to its large capacity” (!!)
by alexey-salmin | 2025-10-06 17:27:21+00:00
I'm aware of such calculations and they are in disagreement with fundamental limitations of these technologies. Nuclear has EROI of 20-80, solar has something like 3 if you account for inverters and batteries.

The fact that they forgot how to build reactors (France got them at 1.5B per GW adjusted for 2011 prices) and that China burns more and more coal to maintain the solar bubble doesn't change much long term. I don't think the current situation around solar is sustainable.

I could be wrong of course but hopefully we'll live long enough to see the outcome. In the meanwhile I heavily bet on the nuclear being the future.
by kuon | 2025-10-06 17:27:29+00:00
XMPP has very nice server implementations, and the protocol is OK regarding complexity.

But the clients are lacking. On linux there is gajim that is "okish" but it lacks calling capacity with mobile clients. On mobile there is conversation and derivatives on android which are "nearly there" and monad on iOS.

Globally, the main lacking features are:

- voice and video calls cross platform

- gif integration, tenor/giphy/imgur...

- fast sync (if you open gajim after being offline for a week, it takes ages to catch up)
by kbuchanan | 2025-10-06 17:28:24+00:00
I think this list demonstrates the OP's point—entrenched, resource-heavy, and reputable firms have and will continue to capture most of the markets, not for lack of competition, but by ownership over the distribution channels.

Having said that, I don't think it's all AI (this trend's been going on for a while), nor do I think startups can't thrive—as the pie gets bigger, competitors can carve out yet smaller niches, as the OP points out.
by gansbrest | 2025-10-06 17:28:27+00:00
author of the post:

I kind of enjoy working with partners, especially when everyone "knows their lanes" and agreements are properly defined. It just tends to blow up at some point it seems like... :)

The main goal is to keep a pulse on finances.

In any case, "start my own" is still on my todo, it's just... not that easy to pull of :))
by albert2008 | 2025-10-06 17:28:42+00:00
For the last year and a half, maybe 2 years, i've been working on a 2-man project with my brother. We're trying to make an AI marketing tool that hopefully isn't complete slop: https://www.img-pt.com/

About 2 years ago we were trying to get a marketing agency off the ground. For context, Dall-E 3 was brand new and the AI hype was just starting. We thought, why not try making ads with it? It obviously went terrible. Those old models are junk now, but the idea was there, and we just kept at it.

A big part of the journey has just been getting constantly outrunned by new tech. Just when we'd get close to a decent workflow, a better LLM or image gen model would pop up and we'd be playing catch-up.

We've managed to somewhat keep up and are now focused on image ad gen. what we're working on now is video ads. Not the usual UGC-style stuff other startups are doing, but a more cinematic, polished style of ad. i've seen these made manually on IG, but haven't seen anyone automating it. We'll probably try to ship this in a week or two.

We're also working on a campaign management thing that can take a meta ads campaign, spit it into ad sets for the funnel, and create the right ads for each. it'll also be able to shift budget to the ads that work and swap out the ones that don't, all automatically in your meta account. that'll probably be rolled out in 3 weeks, fingers crossed.

We'd be glad if you could test it out and give us some feedback. i'm mainly interested in whether the ads are actually usable in a real-life campaign. A lot of the ad-gen tools i've seen feel like a nice proof of concept, but they're a bit sloppy and not something you'd actually use. i'd be very glad to know if you find it practical.

You can find it here: https://www.img-pt.com/
by specialist | 2025-10-06 17:29:00+00:00
Some day, some wizened legal types will prepare their cases as these bubbles take shape.

Instead of waiting for a warmed over post-mortem, long after the bubble pops, before even considering their options.

It's a bubble. Of course there's malfeasance, lies, corruption, etc. Assume criminality.

These endless boom-bust cycles will continue unabated until there's credible threats of doing some hard time.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-06 17:29:28+00:00
Blue states and heavily-Democratic urban areas are also likely to have explicit local laws preventing local police authorities from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement, since whether it is good or bad to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement is a central point of disagreement in partisan American politics right now. For the same partisan reasons involving political support for illegal immigrants, there are probably more illegal immigrants physically residing in heavily-Democratic urban areas and in blue states. So if you're federal immigration enforcement and you want to mass-arrest illegal immigrants, blue states and districts are where you're gonna be inclined to conduct raids anyway.

In any case, visibly arresting illegal immigrants is a core political demand of the MAGA base, and they eagerly want to see more raids like this one. The fact that prominent figures from Democratic-party aligned institutions like prestige news media and academia (which certainly describes Paul Krugman) strenuously object to these raids and think they are deplorable is not a critique any member of the MAGA base will take seriously. There's not gonna be blowback from the MAGA base over the government doing precisely the thing that the base wants and that their political enemies hate.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-06 17:30:11+00:00
> Governments have no fear of your tactics when they can shut down cell towers and roll in the tanks. Governments have no fear when they can also easily identify bad actors, highlight them, and win public opinion.

Untrue. Governments are not all powerful. Armed unrest is a very serious thing to deal with, especially when facing outside pressures. The people in government aren’t generally villains sitting around waiting for their excuse to roll tanks. They have friends and families and take things very seriously when they reach that point. Besides, sending in the tanks most often biases people against, not for, the ruling government—it’s bad optics. Hence why China still forbids discussion of Tianenmen, for example. And why Kent State led to a shift in public opinion, despite preceding violence from the protesters.

> They won through lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts - existential challenges to segregation's legitimacy. The tactics was a side show that didn't contribute much.

??? You cite successful tactics (which were carefully planned/coordinated by the way) then you say they were an ineffective sideshow. Not sure how to parse that one.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-06 17:30:26+00:00
> I mean, you come on here and rave about how everybody should unionize and grab their pitchforks and struggle against the machine and what-not, and then you wonder why everybody is rushing to replace you with a robot.

That has nothing to do with it. Really.

Anyone in the powerful position you describe who "earned" it, that is got themselves there somehow, is fully aware of the basis of their power and of the risk represented by it resting on workers. They will try to replace them, regardless of whether or not they are currently at that moment agitating for unionization.
by thedougd | 2025-10-06 17:30:27+00:00
This happened to me at or near a similar size project. I tried the same project again with Vibe coding but used some very different approaches. Far from a home run on the second try, but it was a much more manageable and maintenable project than my first attempt. I'm still skeptical and presently subscribe to the opinion that AI is a multiplier for skilled, competent engineers but a potential detriment to inexperienced.
by brudgers | 2025-10-06 17:30:43+00:00
I appreciate the idea.

But I would advise any and every student against risking their academic work product on a small webservice because the long term economic viability of such services tends to be low.

So the risk of all a student's work disappearing overnight far outweighs the benefits because the tool is not going to cut a five year program into six months. Good luck.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 17:30:43+00:00
There's a pretty big possibility it comes down to acquisition and cost saving from politicians in charge of the purse strings. I can all but guarantee that the systems administrators and even technical managers had suggested, recommended and all but begged for the resources for a redundant/backup system in a separate physical location were denied because it would double the expense.

This isn't to preclude major ignorance in terms of those in the technology departments themselves. Having worked in/around govt projects a number of times, you will see some "interesting" opinions and positions. Especially around (mis)understanding security.
by ninininino | 2025-10-06 17:30:44+00:00
To speak bluntly, I'm not sure you're considering that many people want to hide or to be able to hide activities like adultery, gambling, prostitution, unhealthy food, spending too much time in bars, leaving their wife and kids at home to just go park and sit in a parking lot to get away, etc.

When you're mentally or morally or -whatever term you want- strong, you might miss that some people have things they want to hide that might not be burglary or trespass or murder, but nonetheless they don't want to be broadcast to their social circle.

Maybe we need a term for the Overton window applied to morality (in social terms). If your lifestyle doesn't fit neatly into the thickest part of that window, you might object to always on location sharing but be unable to honestly and openly admit why, leading to people like yourself being puzzled why others might be resistant.
by rietta | 2025-10-06 17:31:00+00:00
My informal use of private missed the mark in a strict legalistic sense. We are on the same page about email left on the server being subject to subpoena.

For everyone else, unless you use POP3 to download your email to your own personal device and remove it from the server, the email left on the server is not as protected under US law as emails that are fully downloaded to your device. The later requires a search warrant to acquire without your consent.
by cogogo | 2025-10-06 17:31:14+00:00
A quick and dirty google shows that global financial institutions wrote down 1-2 trillion in mortgage related securities, a ~6trn drop in the us real estate mkt and another 6trn destroyed in the equities mkt. Not sure I really trust these numbers but they are the right order of magnitude. I have a very hard time believing the AI bubble is as big as the subprime bubble. But it very well could help trigger a massive correction and recession on a similar scale because everything else that has been propped up by low rates will likely correct with it.
by redmattred | 2025-10-06 17:31:28+00:00
I think you may be missing the mark on your conclusions for why your products had difficulty acquiring paid users.

People still pay for software, but for high stakes problems like finding a new job, managing your mental health, or caretaking an aging parent, etc. taking the leap on a not quite fully baked product offering seems unrealistic.

Also with Skritter you used a completely different customer acquisition strategy. Longform blog content + SEO is a way different beast than SEM.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-06 17:31:30+00:00
The weird thing that makes it different to subprime is that AI is real and really could become AGI. But it might also be overvalued.

So it's not like there isn't a product (there is) and there's no growth prospect (there is). But it is scary how much now hangs in the balance of one bet.

It almost feels like it's going to end badly either way. If the Great AI Bet succeeds, a tiny proportion of the world will own all intellectual power. But if it fails, the impact of the write-offs on the broader economy will be terrifying.
by Redster | 2025-10-06 17:32:26+00:00
Thank you for including the tokens needed for each test.

It looks to me that the concisest way of representing each of these tables was a CSV and then a standard markdown table. The amount of tokens appears to be 1/2 or 1/3 of the other options. For experiments not in mice (GPT-4.1-nano), but in larger models or larger context aside from the data table itself, my guess is that preserving context is might be higher value than having the higher-LLM-legibility of the Markdown-KV.
by smsm42 | 2025-10-06 17:32:45+00:00
If a person assumes that there is any information storage on the internet, not securely encrypted with keys only available to himself, that is not easily available to the law enforcement - or anybody else with enough budget - that person is dangerously naive. Of course data sent out to the internet will be available to everybody with powers to compel data disclosure - and also everybody with abilities to circumvent the protections.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-06 17:32:55+00:00
A conventional keyword-based search engine is unlikely to actively and subtly encourage a user to (A) reveal secrets and blackmail material (B) become entrapped in behavior the Current Authority will punish them for.

A better "some of this isn't new" comparison would be to imagine you're communicating with an idiot-savant human employee, someone can be tasked with hidden priorities and will do anything to stay employed at their role. What "old" threats could occur there?

That makes for a rather different threat-model.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-06 17:33:01+00:00
One fundamental difference is that Sega Channel was mostly comprised of games that were years old and often out of print entirely. New games were only available on the service as either time or content limited demos or as pay-per-view games for an extra fee. They didn't do the thing Microsoft does where all their games are available for free on Game Pass at launch. This meant that Sega Channel was mainly a way for publishers to get a little bit of extra money out of their back catalogs, it didn't compete for game sales with new titles like Game Pass does.
by emil-lp | 2025-10-06 17:33:09+00:00
I don't know if this is common, but at the hospital I work, if I type 1+code as my access code to any door, the door will open, but security will receive an alert as suspected hostage situation.

I've always wondered if an adversary asks me which code is mine, what I should tell them, provided they know about the above rule... Perhaps code-1?
by lesuorac | 2025-10-06 17:33:25+00:00
It's not public.

When I go to Facebook.com I'm greeted by a login page. When I go to main street I uh just am on main street. I'm not greeted by a bouncer.

One can certainly argue that private companies can do what they want but to claim data a private company holds is public is just wrong. FaceBook is welcome to have a policy of sharing data with advertisers (or the government). It's just not public.
by the_af | 2025-10-06 17:33:26+00:00
I think it's related but different than simply a search engine, since AI:

- Entices you to "confess" (or overshare) things about yourself, in the form of questions / debate, because the chat bot is built for this. The "conversation" aspect is something you didn't get with search engines.

- Then, the tool itself makes it easier for someone else to draw conclusions and infer things from the "model" the AI built of you, even if you didn't explicitly told it these things.

Maybe Google can build a profile of me based on my searches and use of their products, but I bet ChatGPT is at least an order of magnitude more useful to draw inferences about me, my health status, and my opinions about stuff.
by xg15 | 2025-10-06 17:33:29+00:00
Would be interesting to read that proposal, as "usage level"[1] and "compatibility with existing systems"[2] are both factors that the emoji working group officially considers for new proposals.

So if the proposal includes one or both of those sections, that could shed some light on possible former usage in "proprietary" software.

Unfortunately, I don't see the actual proposal accessible anywhere.

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Selection_Factors_U...

[2] https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Selection_Factors_C...
by Arainach | 2025-10-06 17:33:32+00:00
They're inherently convenient and fast to use. As I'm typing, it's far more ergonomic to take my middle finger and swipe on the screen to scroll than to reposition my hand to have two fingers on the trackpad. For extended reading I can keep one hand at the edge of the screen to scroll with a thumb instead of cramping my wrist. Zooming is quickly and intuitively obvious rather than having to figure out where my mouse cursor is, reposition it, do a pinch gesture or Ctrl plus (where IS the plus key? It seems to vary on every laptop I own), etc.