MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LaurensBER | 2025-10-09 07:41:51+00:00
Moderation on Reddit has been questionable for a long time and its killing the site. To give some examples:

- /r/energy used to ban everyone in favour of nuclear energy

- If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators.

- /r/UnitedKingdom banned me for critizing a government welfare program

- /r/assassinscreed banned me for critizing a character in their latest game

For me it makes sense that the smaller subreddits should have the freedom to moderate as they want but the larger reddits should aim to at allow opposing viewpoints to prevent echo chambers from forming. Moderation should be focused on quality, not on viewpoints. Obviously it goes without saying that threats of violence and celebration of murder have no place on any platform.

The irony is that all this censoring just creates a backlash and further polarisation. If you are only allowed to discuss certain subjects on a "left" space you both create the illusion that the left only cares about a subset of topics and by banning people you create resentment that drives them towards (more welcoming) extreme spaces.

There's many factors that form the political preferences and opinions of the younger generation but it would not suprise me if for a subset (young college educated males?) of them Reddit heavily contributes towards increased polarisation.
by athrowaway3z | 2025-10-09 07:41:54+00:00
It's worth noting Elisson is 2 years older than Trump.

What's he going to do with all that money, and what does he care for the risk it's bad or shady?

Worst case, he got to be #1 for a bit for a few dozen billion, best case he's hoping AGI will extend his life before he croaks.
by miroljub | 2025-10-09 07:42:49+00:00
I suggest you explain your point here instead of dropping random links in a typical passive-aggressive way that suggests the poster has no clue and needs to be educated about the basics. That may work in your SPD Kreisverband, but not in a digital Neuland.

If you have questions about how to respond, this is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet
by MadameBanaan | 2025-10-09 07:43:32+00:00
I came to this comment section to say exactly that.

At my work (university research lab) the Ph.D. students have to publish their thesis as a book to defend their degree. They are free to make the image for the cover, which is a very nice touch ang give you artistic freedom in what was supposed to be one of the most important moments of your career (I went for a picture of the chip I designed during my research).

For the past 3 years or so all we have are generic AI generated sciency-looking figures at the cover and it is depressing.
by xxs | 2025-10-09 07:44:53+00:00
The fact the deletion is at all needed speaks for a pretty terrible design. The data should simply not be permanently stored.

I have quite a lot of experience dealing with personal identity information. Unless the latter has to be reported then it's never stored. Along with the fact it's actually deleted to comply with GDPR and friends (when it has to be recorded). In any case if any personal data is to be stored, it's always encrypted with personal keys.
Show HN: Pixelate Image – Image Pixelator to convert image to pixel art
by SherlockShi | 2025-10-09 07:45:02+00:00
Hi HN,

Recently, while experimenting with pixel art for a game prototype, I encountered a challenge: existing tools either required downloads, added watermarks, or didn't preserve image details effectively. Determined to find a solution, I developed Pixelate Image—a fast, free, and privacy-first pixel art maker that transforms any JPEG, PNG, or WebP file into stylized pixelated artwork directly in your browser.

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I'd love for you to try it out, break it, and share feedback or suggestions. If you have ideas for new features, edge cases, or just want to say hi, please comment below!

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by sc11 | 2025-10-09 07:45:09+00:00
In the context of age limits, that is wrong. The German eID has a zero knowledge method of proving that your age is above a certain number without revealing anything else. That method has been around for like 15 years and these days, thanks to smartphones with NFC readers, is quite user-friendly.

In practice it's basically not used anywhere except for cigarette vending machines because it's much simpler to hire some dubious third party "wave your ID in front of your camera" service

Edit: mandatory age verification is still an atrocious idea for a number of other reasons, just to be clear
by ferranverdes | 2025-10-09 07:45:15+00:00
After five years living part-time as a digital nomad, I've noticed something striking — digital nomads are happier at work.

They have the same roles, work for companies like yours, but with extra freedom that turns effort into motivation, not fatigue.

In my latest post, I explore why letting people work from paradise might actually make them better at what they do.

If motivation matters to you, this is worth a thought.
by belorn | 2025-10-09 07:45:29+00:00
Just like a political speech writer do not invent what they write independently without some input and oversight by the politician, so does the commission.

This is also politics. You don't wait until last second to file a complaint. Politics is a slow moving process, not a single event, and creating support takes work over time. MEP are not subject experts so they will usually seek input long before it comes down to voting, which occur in parallel with the work of the commission.

"thanks, I can do nothing for now, but I'll keep that in mind if and when I have to vote on it"? is basically all that an citizens can expect by talking to a politician which only job is to vote on things. The same goes the other way around. If a politician today speaks about a political subject, I as a citizen can only say "thanks, I can do nothing for now, but I'll keep that in mind when its time to vote".
by hansmayer | 2025-10-09 07:46:24+00:00
Yeah so, the reason people use various tools and machines in the first place is to simplify the work or everydays tasks by : 1) Making the tasks execute faster 2) Getting more reliable outputs then doing this by yourself 3) Making it repeatable . The LLMs obviously dont check any of these boxes so why don´t we stop pretending that we as users are stupid and don´t know how to use them and start taking them for what they are - cute little mirages, perhaps applicable as toys of some sort, but not something we should use for serious engineering work really?
by sensanaty | 2025-10-09 07:47:18+00:00
Magic files are one thing (and just personally having a filenane beginning with + is just damned ugly). You also even have magic folders, which for me was a first.

Even if I could ignore that, for my super tiny hobby project that I tried Kit with, the routing ended up being strewn across a million folders and files that are called +page nested in (page) folders, and a super tiny app turned into a nightmare to navigate and find things in. I didn't even use any of the stupid SSR stuff, just SPA mode, I can't even imagine what it ends up looking like with +layout and all the server-side files
by tankenmate | 2025-10-09 07:47:21+00:00
I suspect you misunderstand the meaning of the word fundamentalism; it's not just about absolutism, but also the authoritarian aspect, i.e. this issue is "back and white" and "i'm going to force you to to adhere to this black and white framework" (for some mechanism of "force"). My point is that it is the combination of "lack and white" and "forced compliance" that is the issue.

So your point "considered a "fundamentalist value" by someone else who doesn't share it" either a) directly contradicts the "No, the issue is wider", or b) you didn't understand what I was saying.
by fragmede | 2025-10-09 07:47:34+00:00
Forced euthanasia for people when they reach the age of 70. Legalized post-birth abortion until the child is 3. Testing people and sorting them into castes (alpha, beta, gamma, etc). Legalizing all drugs. I don't know if any real world political parties actually back these ideas, these are drawn from science fiction novels.
by aryehof | 2025-10-09 07:47:49+00:00
I think the future is that models will not be able to answer that well, because sites will move to protect their data/content.

Instead, the model will provide you with a list of (in chat) “apps” that can fulfill your request. SEO becomes AISO (AI Search Optimization). Sites can partly expose data to entice you to choose them.
by seec | 2025-10-09 07:48:25+00:00
Yes they are responsible for all the bullshit, and they keep voting for the same shit. It's maddening really, but how can it be different when they stand to gain so much via retirement benefits and other ways?

It's really the failure mode of a socialized system; you end up pegging generations against each other and the older participant have a lot of power to starve off the young, especially when their cohort is so numerically dominant.

Democracy is broken because everyone has the same right to vote, so an 80 years old bastard will be able to weigh in on the trajectory for the next 10-20 years in the same way as a young 20-30 something without ever having to suffer the consequences. It's just beyond stupid...
by LaurensBER | 2025-10-09 07:49:02+00:00
While Twitter has many problems it does seem to do a reasonable job of not promoting hate and violence towards a large audience. There's many messages critical of immigrants on my timeline but none calling for violence against them (or any other group that Twitter users dislike).

Meanwhile posts about violence against Trump, Musk or celebrating the dead of Kirk did get massive upvotes and visibility on some of the biggest and most popular subs on Reddit.
by rasz | 2025-10-09 07:49:13+00:00
1992 ram situation was bad, but not that bad. There was no single most expensive component, it was always a contest between CPU, RAM, HDD and monitor :). 1992 30pin Simm prices:

1MB $30-50.

4MB $150 January 1992, lowest in went would be $100 in December 1992, and back to $130 in December 1994.

Sane combinations were 4x1, 8x1, 4x4, and quite insane 8x4. 1992 was also when non IBM vendors started using 72pin SIMMs, for example Dell Precision 386DX/33 4x72pin while 25MHz model shipped with 8x30pin simm sockets. Edit: Looks like DELL started switching to 72pin simms in early 1990 with 325P/333P/433P models, and in 1992 committed unconscionable abomination by releasing 333s/L 386SX with 72pin simms :o
by rramadass | 2025-10-09 07:49:17+00:00
Suggestions for books/articles from a couple of my previous comments;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45088830

The OP's article though simple, still does not really explain things intuitively. The key is to understand the concept of a Vector from multiple perspectives/coordinate systems and map the operations on vectors to movements/calculations in the coordinate space (i.e. 2D/3D/n-space). Only then will Vector Spaces/Matrices/etc. become intelligible and we can begin to look at Physical problems naturally in terms of vectors/vector calculus.

The following are helpful here;

1) About Vectors by Banesh Hoffmann.

2) A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System by Michael Crowe.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-09 07:49:23+00:00
Did you manually change the status of those particular things? Because that’s not what I was getting at.

All I did was look at the most common things I know off the top of my head are mistaken for web standards when they are not. I did not review anything else. So if you just changed the status of those things, there’s more fixes you need to make.

For instance, I just took another look, and I saw that BackgroundSync is not marked as non-standard. But Mozilla are negative on it:

> We're concerned that this feature would allow users to be tracked across networks (leaking private information about location and IP address and how they change over time), and that it would allow script execution and resource consumption when it isn't clear to the user that they're interacting with the site. We might reconsider this position given evidence that these concerns can be safely addressed.

— https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#background-sy...

And Apple have concerns and have not committed to it either:

> Adding concerns: power as generally having activity running in the background is not great for battery life. In my experience as a user of "native" apps this can also be tricky to get right. Sometimes background syncing would have taken place, but the moment you open the app it does another sync and blows away the content you just started to read.

> Adding concerns: privacy as this would allow a website to monitor you switching IP addresses. As the draft notes there also some network attacker leaks due to this, revealing origins that you visit that use this functionality to them.

— https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/14

If you look at the spec. it has “Unofficial draft” displayed very prominently all over it, and also states:

> It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.

— https://wicg.github.io/background-sync/spec/

So again, this seems to be a Blink-only API that only Google have implemented, not standard functionality. How many of these fails are actually just Google doing their own thing with no buy-in from other rendering engines? “PWAscore” is a reasonable thing to build, but “Chromescore” where you measure against all the non-standard things Google have implemented by themselves is not a reasonable thing to build.

Also, you have “Not supported” for push notifications in Safari, but if you check Can I Use, you will see that it works for installed PWAs and is only unavailable to websites you visit. Since the purpose of your site is to score based on PWA support, this should be a success, not a fail.

Personally, I would remove all the non-standard stuff. Not give a big list of standard and non-standard stuff mixed together.
by beeflet | 2025-10-09 07:50:36+00:00
Regardless of the positions held, I think that moderators and admins have a lot of control over the discussion on reddit, and a lot of subreddits and users just get banned for no good reason. There is a selection bias at play.

Just because an opinion seems to be popular there does not nessisarially mean it won the "marketplace of ideas". It's more like the "warzone of powermods". I think a lot of social media sites go through a phase of controlling discussion to suit powerusers, but this comes at the cost of losing long-term social capital.

I mean we are in the second term of a trump presidency. The climate on reddit is very left wing but in the real world, people are voting right wing (or more likely not at all). Reddit itself is now an echo chamber, and r/Conservative is just the echo chamber within the echo chamber.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-09 07:50:41+00:00
I won't use the eID because I don't believe in its promises. I don't need a third party, which would be completely dependent on government, to put a signature on my net access.

I would even prefer the dubious service because of the relationship dynamics I mentioned. Best case is that age limits for the net should be enforced on device by parents. Problem solved, no unnecessary infrastructure needed.
by eesmith | 2025-10-09 07:51:26+00:00
> though I'm sure smoke stacks loft that significantly in many cases

It must be nice believing that your personal views are always correct.

To know that those geoengineers who want to disperse aluminum oxide to reduce the Earth's albedo clearly don't know how insignificant those aircraft deployed aerosols are compared to the byproducts of aluminum smelting.

To understand that conclusions like 'We find that the population of reentering satellites in 2022 caused a 29.5% increase of aluminum in the atmosphere above the natural level, resulting in around 17 metric tons of aluminum oxides injected into the mesosphere' can be ignored because 17 metric tons should be a blip compared to what lofts up from industry. (Quoting https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.102... )

That statements like "The natural entry of aluminum (Al) into Earth's atmosphere, primarily from meteoroids, is estimated at 141.1 metric tons (Mg) per year" is a deliberate obfuscation because it doesn't include antropogenic ground contributions. (Quoting https://www.viasat.com/content/dam/us-site/corporate/documen... )

That people looking into wood-composite alternatives to aluminum, due to concerns about "increased metallic aerosols in the stratosphere" (https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/sdc9/paper/8... ) are wasting their time.
by trilogic | 2025-10-09 07:51:39+00:00
This is has to stop right now as it has gone on long enough. Reddit, Google, ProductHunt, Youtube and friends are continuously using their dirty, unethical even illegal techniques driven by profit. I have experienced all myself and I can confirm that the writer is 100% correct. He forgot to mention though that all this is driven by the same agenda, the same people that want to control the narrative. I Wrote about it too : https://medium.com/@klaudibregu/hugstonone-empowering-users-... Now OpenAI joined the agenda and they are playing dirty very hard also. Yesterday Huggingface Deleted the account of a talented User @BasedBase which was creative in open weights (threatening the big techs). The same boot army discredit and reported his work in Huggingface and Reddit till all his accounts were off. They have done the same to me personally since ever started with Hugston.com and HugstonOne. Just Try to google my Company name "Sverken" (that was associated with Hugston.com) It comes out Porn and prostitution services. Even though this is illegal and screw our reputation Google thinks that this is legit and wont take down the information. Instead they decided to put it in the first page ranking first. I have made some calculations and HugstonOne it is indeed very threatening to big techs. If Our Local AI App takes away only 0.0001% of users from proprietary model websites OpenAI, that is a huge amount of money. And that is just one of them. They have tried everything possible to shut us up, to suppress and undermine our work, to discredit us in abusive ways, but they wont succeed. Thank you for speaking up, hope many other do as well. I really wish you get on your feet soon and the best of luck.
by brap | 2025-10-09 07:51:44+00:00
Whenever I encounter this sort of abstract math (at least “abstract” for me) I start wondering what’s even “real”. Like, what is some foundational truth of reality vs. stuff we just made up and keep exploring.

Are these knots real? Are prime numbers real? Multiplication? Addition? Are natural numbers really “natural”?

For example, one thing that always seemed bizarre to me for as long as I can remember is Pi. If circles are natural and numbers are natural, then why does their relationship seem so unnatural and arbitrary?

You could imagine some advanced alien civilization, maybe in a completely different universe, that isn’t even aware of these concepts. But does it make them any less real?

Sorry for rambling off topic like a meth addict, just hoping someone can enlighten me.
Show HN: Twick Studio and SDK – React Video Editing Toolkit with Visual UI
by seekerquest | 2025-10-09 07:51:46+00:00
Alongside Twick SDK, we have now launched Twick Studio - our new UI for visual video editing. Try it now: https://twick-studio.vercel.app/

Key features:

- Multi-track timeline with drag & drop

- Live video preview & customizable dimensions

- React-based canvas for easy drag, resize, rotate

- Undo/redo, element controls (text, video, audio, image)

- Media utils for metadata, thumbnails, and more

Check out the docs for full details: https://ncounterspecialist.github.io/twick/docs/intro

Explore the full source-available toolkit on GitHub: https://github.com/ncounterspecialist/twick

If you find Twick useful, please give the repo a to support ongoing development.

We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for new features.
by neuronic | 2025-10-09 07:51:54+00:00
That's only really value if the chips are useful and if there are people buying the chips for something they want to do with them.

It's entirely based on the perception that LLM training & inference is here to stay at ever growing scales when the shortcomings of Artificial Dreaming are increasingly scrutinized. Not all businesses want to end up paying refunds to their clients like Deloitte [1] because the LLM hallucinated crap into their reports (and they failed to correct it).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloi...
by dangus | 2025-10-09 07:52:19+00:00
Let’s be real, this “real solution” is a teenager in the basement solution. I’m not going to steal commercial software that I use to produce my own commercial work.

I happily pay Autodesk their stupid $600 a year because I get that much value out of the application and then some.

This idea that they are purposefully hostile because they don’t want you to steal their commercial product, or they don’t support an operating system with 2% marketshare is ridiculous. I totally understand why they don’t support Linux. It’s my choice to use an incompatible system.