MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by komali2 | 2025-10-02 14:10:40+00:00
> Requiring companies to make and maintain a separate app entirely if their product has messaging features is an unreasonable requirement.

I disagree. I think it's more than reasonable. Facebook designs its features with dark UX to cause addiction, it's not about self control, it's about Facebook engaging in anti-human behavior.

It's reasonable to use the State to force a corporation that makes tens of billions of dollars of profit a year to behave in a way that's beneficial to people. The corporation will be fine, it's air conditioned and listening to its favorite music.
by Orygin | 2025-10-02 14:10:47+00:00
I have to agree. UI updates generally go wrong because users are conservative and loathe any changes to their workflow, even if it improves it. I won't judge anybody who disliked the update, but to die on this hill is a bit silly (imo).

It took me some time (like a few days) to get used to the UI but it is a general improvement
by ggm | 2025-10-02 14:10:53+00:00
> Taken together, the study’s findings represent a crucial step forward in addressing many unresolved issues regarding Long COVID. The systemic increase in AMPARs provides a direct biological explanation for the cognitive symptoms, highlighting a target for potential treatments. For example, drugs that suppress AMPAR activity could be a viable approach to mitigate brain fog. Interestingly, the team’s analysis also demonstrated that imaging data can be used to distinguish patients from healthy controls with 100% sensitivity and 91% specificity.

So this is a good (sensitive) test from scans, and there is some hope of directions for possible treatment.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-02 14:11:04+00:00
I think it might be like when Grok was programmed to talk about white genocide and to support Musk's views. It always shoehorned that stuff in but when you asked about it it readily explained that it seemed like disinformation and openly admitted that Musk had a history of using his business to exert political sway.

It's maybe not really "caring" but they are harder to cajole than just "advertise this for us."
Show HN: Knowledge Engine Tailored for Learning
by indreklasn | 2025-10-02 14:11:22+00:00
Hey, I'm Trevor. I'm currently building skillcraft.ai. Skillcraft.ai is a knowledge engine tailored for learning - we're reimagining how people discover and choose programming education.

Instead of searching platform by platform or wading through Google's mixed results, you get one intelligent search across the entire landscape of coding education.
Show HN: TimeLock NPM Registry
by pyoner | 2025-10-02 14:11:37+00:00
Hi, everyone!

I built a TimeLock NPM Registry to prevent supply chain attack. I was inspired by minimumReleaseAge of the pnpm, but I'm using bun for my projects.

TimeLock NPM Registry is an alternative npm package registry focused on supply chain security.

Its core feature is introducing a time lock before new package versions become available for installation. This protects developers from compromised releases: while packages are “on hold,” the community and security tools have time to detect and block malicious code.

Why it matters Reduces the risk of installing malicious packages. Lets you “wait out” 24 hours or more before updating. Increases trust in dependencies and builds.

How it works

A package author publishes a new version. TimeLock NPM Registry places it into a pending state for a set duration (e.g., 24 hours). Only after the timer expires does the package become available for installation.

Tech stack — Cloudflare Workers, Honojs.
by tekken3apk | 2025-10-02 14:12:13+00:00
Seeing the C64 Ultimate hit 10k units sold really shows how strong nostalgia is in gaming. It reminds me of how communities are still keeping classics like Tekken 3 alive by making them playable on modern devices. Whether it’s old consoles like Commodore or 90s arcade fighters, there’s clearly a big appetite for reliving that era with today’s hardware.

I actually put together a short write-up on how Tekken 3 can still run smoothly on Android if anyone’s curious: tekken3apkdownloaded.com
by benterix | 2025-10-02 14:12:37+00:00
> ...$2 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation. The company has not released a product and has refused to tell investors what they’re even trying to build. “It was the most absurd pitch meeting,” one investor who met with Murati said. “She was like, ‘So we’re doing an AI company with the best AI people, but we can’t answer any questions.”

I observed how he played the sama drama and I realized she will outplay them all.
by 131012 | 2025-10-02 14:12:48+00:00
If it is relevant, I tend to take very good care to understand the request. I ask follow-up questions, take notes, etc. Not only it is useful (understanding the problem is key after all!) but it will show you care, and that your "I don't know" is not synonymous of "I don't care" or "Just open a fucking ticket".
by rowanseymour | 2025-10-02 14:13:11+00:00
"Both the definition and charge of ethnic cleansing is often disputed, with some researchers including and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group, or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
by jasode | 2025-10-02 14:13:38+00:00
>, it's people who just can't because of the Windows 11 hardware requirements. I can't update my desktop without replacing the motherboard and CPU

As workarounds for TPM requirement, one can either:

- open a Command Prompt window during the Windows installer and run regedit (various Youtube vids cover it)

- use Rufus to create a boot USB from a Windows ISO that bypasses TPM (which does the same regedit hack behind-the-scenes by conveniently embedding it in an install script "\sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml")

That's how I got Windows 11 installed on a very old 2009 computer. I had to upgrade a friend's computer to Win 11 because the upcoming TurboTax 2025 requires it and there's no need to buy a new computer just to satisfy Microsoft.

>And that may break with any update.

Yes, and that's an acceptable risk calculation to avoid prematurely buying a new computer because:

"Windows 11 TPM hack _might_ be broken in the future but _maybe_never_ " -- better than -- "Windows 10 _absolutely_will_ be broken"
by jmclnx | 2025-10-02 14:13:46+00:00
Very true, but weather has changed quite a bit due to Climate Change. Of course many people in the US still do not think the Climate is changing.

Where I am, snow is a very rare event, usually it was not rare to have a little snow at the start of October. Now, we are lucky to see any snow in time for Sanata Claus :)

Last year was the first time the local lake froze and stayed frozen for decades, we were able to walk safely on it all winter. It was not that cold, but all winter it was below 32F (0C), but we never went much below 20F (-7C). In the past we would regularly go a bit below 0F (-18C). Now, it is usual we get a few days of temps in the 50sF (10C) every couple of weeks.

Even with this, I know many neighbors who say there is no climate change. With our lily livered politicians, we all know nothing will ever be done to avoid Climate Change here in the US.
by vruoss | 2025-10-02 14:14:08+00:00
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by tonychang430 | 2025-10-02 14:14:10+00:00
Supabase MCP is more like a wire — it gives you a way to connect APIs, but it’s still up to you to set up the backend logic, security, and debugging around it.

Our MCP, on the other hand, is more of an ecosystem. It doesn’t just connect APIs — it actually sets up your backend with proper defaults, security, and advanced features out of the box. It also understands how to debug and manage workflows end-to-end, so agents and developers don’t have to manually patch things together.
by taylodl | 2025-10-02 14:14:12+00:00
I don't think that's obvious. There's some thought that it may be best to confront China now before they become a superpower, because afterward it would be obviously "No." Taiwan is more critical than you may think. Both Japan and South Korea have assurances of US defense as part of our non-nuclear proliferation pact. If they see us drop the ball on Taiwan, then they know that assurance means nothing. North Korea also knows it can take more aggressive action once the US has revealed its hand. This is not a position the US wants to be in. In the end, I think the US would be forced to aid Taiwan against China much like it has been doing with the Ukraine against Russia. Which is one of the many reasons why the Ukraine is so important.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-02 14:14:17+00:00
Confidence does not come from finding the right words. Confidence comes from saying it confidently--basically, from knowing that you mean it, and that if questioned about what you mean you will have followups and answers. Basically from asserting that your version of reality is correct, in the face of others questioning it.

If you're actually confident about your version of reality, you can say it in any words you want and it will seem confident and stand up to scrutiny.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-02 14:14:38+00:00
I mean that the republican party, the democrat party, the people in charge of the department of education don’t have an explicit goal of eliminating public schools. I’m sure there are some very extreme people who exist.

Federal funding is less than 10% of public school education funding and if it were reduced or went away, it doesn’t mean that a bunch of kids would just stop having any school.
by muststopmyths | 2025-10-02 14:14:44+00:00
From comments in the blog post

>This is not a goal. Module files are essentially better PCH, they are not meant to be a stable artifact. Consumers compile the module files from the library's interface files as needed.

That's not what I was expecting (since I haven't looked into modules too carefully). Seems counterintuitive. Today I can download an external library's pre-built artifacts and link them as long as they are compiled with the same compiler family for my architecture, etc.

This seems to mean you can't import pre-compiled modules of such a library.

OTOH, for large game projects you also want to compile third-party libs from source at least once to make sure you don't end up in the wrong branch of the debug/release/x64/x86/DLL/static maze.

So maybe it's a non-issue for most projects. You get the code, compile it once and store the artifact for future use.

Still seems a bit restrictive to me. I would have expected modules to be like DLL/.so so you could use them at your own peril if you wanted to do something quick/dirty.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-10-02 14:14:50+00:00
Climate change has an effect of course. But stopping land from turning into desert starts with giving vegetation a chance instead of hungry sheep destroying anything green. Some grazing is OK. But overgrazing destroys the land. Once the vegetation is gone, the soil erodes and it no longer absorbs what little rain comes down.

There are some land restore projects in the middle east where the primary action was simply keeping the sheep from eating anything green that sticks out above the soil with simple fences. That seems to work and can restore barren landscapes in a few short years. Some studies in e.g. Jordany and the UK (places like Scottland should be covered in atlantic rainforest instead of being grazed into a barren landscape) and elsewhere seem to indicate that keeping sheep away for a while gives plants and trees a chance to re-establish themselves.

Trees are really vulnerable in their first few years and a tasty snack for grazing animals that without natural predators can strip the land of anything green in no time.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 14:14:53+00:00
Not taking away from your point, but just a PSA: For some reason "First, do no harm" is synonymous with "Hippocratic Oath" in pop-culture. Just a reminder that this is apocryphal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

Surgeons, in fact, often begin with harm. To replace a hip joint, they necessarily must begin by causing great trauma to the body by cutting it open and removing bone.
by whitehexagon | 2025-10-02 14:15:13+00:00
>dive under the table every three minutes to hit the reset button

Hah, I feel that pain. Currently hacking some bare-metal Zig on PinePhone, and on top of the USB reconnect power cycle, I am transferring an SD card back n forth. I wonder if I'll be making a similar post in 30 years time.

Anyway, well done, and I look forward to browsing the code for some inspiration. Thanks for making it PD.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-02 14:15:13+00:00
It's somewhat unfortunate the label is also applied to CRUD websites and mobile applications,

These websites and applications can still have vast security implications depending on what kind of data is being collected.

The advertising industry has done security a huge disfavor by collecting every bit of data they can about everyones actions all the time. Adding some ad library to your website or app now could turn it into a full time tracking device. And phone manufactures like Google don't want this to change as the more information they get, the more ads they can stuff in your face.
by BigglesB | 2025-10-02 14:15:20+00:00
I suspect it will be politically difficult to outright ban the ad model... might the same effect be achieved however by enforcing strict online advertising requirements & making websites (specifically the owner of the domain name used to access the site?) liable for all ads that they host as well as liable for all data gathering activities that drive those ads? Ideally with a requirement that all ads shown must contain a link to information about all parties involved in producing the ad & any profiling used to determine whether or not to show it to the user viewing it.

So if any ad is shown based on user profiling from data gathered illegally (i.e. without a proper opt-in as per GDPR etc) then the site showing the ad could potentially be sued?

Essentially, make it so onerous to legally advertise without risking a large class action lawsuit that the practice more or less dies out without technically being "banned" per se...
by callc | 2025-10-02 14:15:24+00:00
Let me offer a different opinion.

Facebook is a massive part of social media. Billions of users. It is apart of society in its sheer size. A society decided “we want to make this better” and acted appropriately. I think it’s a noble pursuit for a society to attempt to reduce the clearly negative aspects of social media.

There is no real freedom of choice. The network effect cements big players positions. Try telling an 80 year old grandma with a 20 year old laptop to use mastodon. Likely no one she knows is on it.

Finally, individuals make essentially no difference when choosing to not use FB. But when choosing to not go to a local bar, that may be 0.03% loss of their monthly revenue. The only actor that can reasonably bargain with huge organizations is other huge organizations.
by ajross | 2025-10-02 14:15:40+00:00
But my point upthread is that that "difference" is a post hoc rationalization. She needed to close that deal to save the company, in which she presumably believed. The money would change everything, right? She probably did picture this as "faking until they made it".

PG "got caught" at a moment when Yahoo (the acquirer, I think?) had already decided on a deal it valued and was willing to deal with some accounting mess to close it. Javice got caught by an investment bank with rather different ideas about value who perceived the "accounting mess" as active fraud.

In a culture (this culture!) where everyone cheats, the actors lose sight of how to judge what cheating is acceptable.
by taneq | 2025-10-02 14:15:49+00:00
Windows 7 is still the best version of Windows in terms of responding to keystrokes and being navigable using keyboard shortcuts. I don't know how they fumbled the design of both the logon screen and the start menu search box so hard in Win10/11 but apparently they forgot the concept of "buffering keystrokes".

I die a little inside every time I start to type my PIN on Win11, stop, wait for the lock screen to give way to the PIN screen, then type it again now that the keystrokes are going to the right place.

And I launch programs by hitting the windows key then typing eg. "putty" dozens of times a day. And mostly it's fine, and maybe 10% of the time it's like "what's that, boy? you wanna search the interweb for "putty" using bing on edge? YOU GOT IT!" No, friendo, I want to launch the same goddamn putty.exe that's in c:\bin\ and that I've run a bunch of times already in the past hour.
by zeta0134 | 2025-10-02 14:16:39+00:00
What you're doing is perfectly fine and normal. If necessary, confidently walk through the steps you'll take to research the problem, especially if you have any idea of the soft resources (other people, internal docs) you'll need. Now you're communicating the process of task estimation to both the asker and any juniors in the room. This can really help managers to calibrate their own expectations of the work involved, which helps them to "spend your expertise" more wisely.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-02 14:16:50+00:00
> I can only assume all these ideas have been widely implemented at all significant labs for years, right?

Nope.

I was also surprised, when joining such significant labs at how much relatively-low hanging fruits were still available to work on. But the reality is that there is just too much work to do, each seemingly super-important, and not enough people to do it.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-02 14:16:58+00:00
Your spec isn’t actually a spec because it doesn’t produce the same software between runs.

The prompt is fantasy, all the “computer stuff” is reality. The computer stuff is the process that is actually running. If it’s not possible to look at your prompt and know fairly accurately what the final process is going to look like, you are not operating at a higher level of abstraction, you are asking a Genie to do your work for you and maybe it gets it right.

Your prompt produces a spec—the actual code. Now that code is the spec, but you need to spend the time reading it well enough to understand what the spec actually is since you didn’t write the spec.

Then you need to go through the new spec and make sure you’re happy with all of the decisions the LLM made. Do they make sense? Are there any requirements you need that it missed Do actually need to handle all of the edge cases it did handle?

>many more

The resulting code is almost certainly over engineered if its handling many more. Byte order marks, name collision etc… What you should do is settle on the column names beforehand.

This is a very common issue with junior developers. I call it “what if driven development”. Which again is why you the only people having success with LLM coding are writing highly detailed specs that are very close to programming language, or they are generating something small like a function at a time.
by pippozzoin | 2025-10-02 14:17:08+00:00
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by freedomben | 2025-10-02 14:17:44+00:00
Not surprised, but still disappointed. I would have bought some of the glasses a while ago, but haven't purely because of privacy concerns. At this point the big tech ship is so massive that I don't see anything short of a (metaphorical) nuke stopping it. Given how cozy they all are with the current administration, I also don't expect any hindrances for at least a few more years, by which time this will all be even more heavily entrenched.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-10-02 14:18:45+00:00
Someone above this said the boxes in a grocery store are "shouting" at them with their bright colors. I know autism has varying levels but like, I sincerely worry about their ability to live if looking a box is causing a truly remarkable level of distress.

> hyper focus on a very complex cognitive task or dedicate hours of "boring" repetitive practice in a physical activity

That's awesome, take that win for sure that it's easier for them to do that and if one would rather go farm than take place in society then I think that's a fantastic goal to work toward.
by throw0101d | 2025-10-02 14:19:25+00:00
If your workload can't actually use the whole (NVidia) GPU, it is possible to slice it up so that it can be shared between multiple users:

* https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/mig-user-guide/

* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/technologies/multi-instance-gpu...

Or having multiple processes from one user share it:

* https://docs.nvidia.com/deploy/mps/index.html
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-02 14:19:27+00:00
Ah yes, the study that everyone posts but nobody reads

>Behind the disappointing enterprise deployment numbers lies a surprising reality: AI is already transforming work, just not through official channels. Our research uncovered a thriving "shadow AI economy" where employees use personal ChatGPT accounts, Claude subscriptions, and other consumer tools to automate significant portions of their jobs, often without IT knowledge or approval.

>The scale is remarkable. While only 40% of companies say they purchased an official LLM subscription, workers from over 90% of the companies we surveyed reported regular use of personal AI tools for work tasks. In fact, almost every single person used an LLM in some form for their work.
by ilovetux | 2025-10-02 14:19:30+00:00
YouTube offers an ad-free subscription called YouTube premium. It's reasonably priced and includes access to YouTube Music.

I like the hybrid approach of being able to be ad-supported or paid with no ads. I would like to see more of it.

What I don't like is a paid service like Amazon Prime that also includes ads. They include ads in their search results and they include tons of ads in their video library.

FWIW: Hulu offers paid access to content with ads but offers an upgrade to get rid of most of the ads, so there seems to be a whole lot of testing what works in this area going on right now, which I see as a good thing, I just hope that once everything settles the predominant model will be fair and respect user privacy.
by Arnavion | 2025-10-02 14:19:40+00:00
I don't see anything wrong or confusing in them.

On running the merge-usr script, the contents of /lib will be moved to /usr/lib, and /lib will become a symlink to /usr/lib. The same will happen with /bin (merged with /usr/bin) and /sbin (merged with /usr/sbin).

/usr/bin and /usr/sbin will remain separate directories as they are today (and as /bin and /sbin are today). Some other distros have also merged /usr/sbin into /usr/bin, but Alpine is not doing that for now, as it's still being discussed by the FHS.