MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scythe | 2025-10-13 19:26:54+00:00
A somewhat unfair characterization of the historical norm. Before the Italian Renaissance, history was marked by periods of growth interleaved with periods of decline, in many cases because a societal crisis caused a destructive regime to take hold. For example, the Mongol conquests installed an extractive regime that was soon replaced by the ultraconservative Ming dynasty, which resulted in China's progress stalling for some four centuries.
by iLemming | 2025-10-13 19:26:59+00:00
I'm not trying to snub you nor am I arguing with you - my opinions are just that - I never said they are fundamentally true for everyone. Similarly, your experiences are yours - it would be wrong to generalize based solely on that data. There was no "schooling" here, the phenomenon mentioned fits this case perfectly, I just thought someone might be interested to learn more about it, that's all. Cheers to you, friend.
by eimrine | 2025-10-13 19:26:59+00:00
You still seing it wrong. Youtube is the best radio possible, it never disappoints me while my outdoor activity. There are no reason to "watch" 99% of hours of content, nothing is interesting in seing talking heads.

Negative measures such as clearing history, putting dislikes and using "not recommend" just doesn't work because from my experience the only negative metrics which works is just refusing to watch shite. Youtube actively uses spaced repetition approach so consider any time you are being recommended to shite as active shaping your recommendation engine. Don't even touch that square with the cursor. Try teaching your recommendation blackbox in positive ways - watch some channels when you are not watching and listening, subscribe to small channels, write comments with no less than 8 words and actively use such nouns which you are welcome to be recommended to.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-13 19:27:10+00:00
Google is following the same game plan we saw when they decided that the full version of uBlock Origin (the version that is still effective on YouTube) should no longer be allowed within their browser monopoly.

The fact that there was a temporary workaround didn't change the endgame.

It's just there to boil the frog more slowly and keep you from hopping out of the pot.

It's the same game plan Microsoft used to force users to use an online Microsoft account to log onto their local computer.

Temporary workarounds are not the same thing as publicly abandoning the policy.
by jlokier | 2025-10-13 19:28:01+00:00
I recently did some testing of Bluetooth connecting an Android phone to a reasonably new Mercedes. Being a "luxury" brand, you'd think the Mercedes would have good infotainment software, but I found at least 5 bugs in the GUI in about 1 hour of testing, and I wasn't particularly looking for bugs, just testing what I thought would be the happy paths for Bluetooth connection. The Android phone, on the other hand, did its job flawlessly.

I know software and embedded systems well enough to know all of the issues I found were preventable, if anyone cared.

The car seems well built in many other respects. It doesn't look like the problem is engineering ability.

(See also: Set-top box GUIs that are painfully slow to render menus, scroll, search etc. on hardware that I know can render 10-100x faster when programmed to.)
by robviren | 2025-10-13 19:28:14+00:00
I have been playing with the idea of an LLM native programming language focusing on token efficiency, comprehension, and attention. It is interesting to see what the various large models come up with. A common theme actually reminds me quite of bit of assembly. The verb prefixing, limited statements per line, small concept surface area all appeared in multiple conversations across several larger models. The big difference being assembly lacks semantic meaning leaving some benefit on the table. I still cannot believe what some did with the tech, RCT is such a retro favorite.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-13 19:28:41+00:00
No, I like F-Droid, but I don't want them to need an official Google status to operate, or for anyone who wants to compete with F-Droid to have to obtain that special status.

edit: because the next step would be Google paying F-Droid a half-billion dollars for default search engine placement, or something else stupid. It becomes a captured organization, an excuse subsidiary.
by cycomanic | 2025-10-13 19:28:47+00:00
Leaks of read/write access to documents and GitHub, Dropbox etc credentials is certainly worrying, but location and author/photographer details in photo metadata? That's quite a stretch, and seems like the authors here are just trying to boost the numbers.

The vast majority (I would wager >(100 - 1e-4)) of location of research institutions is public knowledge and can be found out by simply googling the institution address (I am not aware of a single research institution that publishes publically where the location is confidential).
by hnfong | 2025-10-13 19:29:17+00:00
> instead it's some weird anti-Turing Test where humans successfully act like a [bad] computer

This is ex-post-facto denial and cope. The Turing Test isn't a test between computers and the idealized human, it's a test between functional computers and functional humans. If the average human performs like the above, then well, I guess the logical conclusion is that computers are already better "humans (idealized)" than humans.
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-13 19:29:26+00:00
A yes, Dean. I got to know his work through the Yes album covers he made, bought a book with his artwork and proceeded to copy the 'fallen planet shard sticking up through the clouds' on a large wall in my student room back in the 90's. I quite like the result, made with normal house paints, I do have a photo of it somewhere I think - back then making photos was a bit of a luxury, especially for a poor student. I wonder what the next person to occupy that room - above an old horse butcher's shop turned health-food place - did, probably painted or papered it over.
Ask HN: Where do you host managed HA PostgreSQL clusters in the EU?
by ungut | 2025-10-13 19:30:35+00:00
Due to a recent screw-up by the IT operations department at my organization, we are looking to external hosting providers to take over.

I want to avoid the big three due to geopolitical risks and I want a competent PostgreSQL DBA that doesn't take weeks to load backups and I sure as heck don't want to roll my own.

How do you choose your database providers? Are there established names in Europe? So far OVH seems like a good option, any things to watch out for?

Specifics: We and our services are based in Austria. 3 Nodes HA Capacity starting at 1TB with options to upgrade to 6 TB Resources at about 8vCPU 32-64GB RAM per node
by fsflover | 2025-10-13 19:30:35+00:00
> Make better products that have the features and ease of use that people come to expect in 2025.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/docs/community-wiki/-/wikis/F...

> The AGPL is the least “free” license compared to something like the BSD license they gives people the ability to do anything they want with the code.

AGPL is the license forcing the code to be open forever. It's the most free license, unlike BSD, which allows closing it and turning into proprietary software.
Show HN: Turn your Loom videos into interactive, trackable demos with Qudemo
by jazeemchoori | 2025-10-13 19:31:00+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m Jazeem, founder of Qudemo - https://qudemo.com

I along with Sarath, built Qudemo because we realised that sharing pre-recorded demo videos on Loom or YouTube is still just a one-way video. You can see some basic stats like views and watch time, but you still don’t really know who watched, what they cared about, or if they were actually interested.

Qudemo fixes that. It turns your pre-recorded demo videos into interactive, trackable and shareable experiences. So you can finally see what happens after you hit “share.”

Here’s how it works:

* Upload or link your demo video (Loom, YouTube, etc.) * Add your product docs, FAQs or PDFs so Qudemo’s AI can answer questions in real-time * Share your Qudemo link anywhere - website, chat, or email * Viewers can ask questions and get instant answers * And when they’re convinced, they can book a meeting directly inside the qudemo

One of the biggest differences is how sharing works. With Qudemo, you can create unique links for each prospect so you instantly know who watched and how they engaged. There’s no need to ask for emails or collect form data.

Each link automatically tracks:

* Who watched the demo * How long they stayed * What questions they asked * And when they booked a meeting

This helps you clearly see buyer intent. You’ll know which leads are curious, which ones are comparing, and which ones are ready to talk.

You can also create bulk unique links for outbound campaigns. Upload a list once, and Qudemo generates personalised demo links for every prospect automatically.

Most demos today end at “viewed.” Qudemo helps you go one step further — it turns demos into two-way conversations that show real interest and intent.

Instead of wondering “Did they even open it?”, you’ll know who watched, what they asked, and when they decided to talk to you.

The basic plan is free to try. If you sharing demo videos or product explainers, give it a shot - it only takes a few minutes to make your first interactive demo.

View Qudemo’s Qudemo: https://qudemo.com/share/ca6b5a1b-0764-4e1c-bf6c-3e3c5bc93d1...

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Don’t share Loom. Share Qudemo.

I would really appreciate your feedback, especially on how useful this feels for sales, product, or onboarding demos.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-13 19:31:15+00:00
The point is that, according to the law a sit stands, a device manufacturer that knowingly ships a device that can be used to accidentally jam communications is breaking the law. Not only is the device manufacturer allowed to modify the device to prevent this, they are compelled by the law to take reasonable steps to do so. Automatic updates are such a reasonable step (and note, you can refuse to install updates on your Android phone - of course, you'll miss out on security updates as well, and may not be able to run certain apps if you're too far out of date). The exact same thing is true of cars.

If a car manufacturer realized that they accidentally left a button in your car that allows you to leak oil, they would have to issue a recall, and any service shop that worked on your car would be obligated to remove said button to make your car work - at the auto maker's expense, of course. The service checkup is the equivalent of the online update on your phone: you're not forced to do it, but many things will stop working if you do, and illegal features will be removed from your car at the checkup.

Of course, I agree that the patch here is not at the same level as an easy way to accidentally jam nearby radios. However, the general legal principle is the same: the argument "Google can't legally modify my property in ways I don't want when I install an update" isn't true, because they can and should have this power in certain cases. That the particular case of enabling VoLTE despite the carrier settings disallowing it doesn't warrant this power simply means that this case should be fought by different arguments, not by a general principle that simply doesn't exist in law.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-13 19:31:20+00:00
> At least 2 billion people live in dictatorships. AI has the potential to become a tool of mass surveillance and total oppression from which those countries will never recover because just like the models can detect a woman is pregnant before she knows it, it will detect a dissenter long before dissent turns into resistance.

It already works like this in your precious western democracies and they didn't need AI to be authoritarian total surveillance states in spirit, with quite a lot of support from a propagandized populace that begged for or pretended to agree with the infringement of their civil rights because of terrorism, drugs, covid or protecting the poor poor children.

You can combat tech with legislation and culture but the legislation and culture were way beyond the tech in being extremely authoritian in the first place.
by Void_ | 2025-10-13 19:31:38+00:00
I've been running dumbified version of iOS for a few months now, and I'm very happy with it.

I removed every 'fun' app except for a few exceptions:

- ChatGPT, but mostly in voice mode, and with other people - as a party trick.

- Whisper Memos (https://whispermemos.com/), I record voice memos and they end up in my email, so I can continue with that idea when I'm on a computer (whether that is a prompt for AI, or a todo.)

- Bevel (https://www.bevel.health/), to track sleep factors, such as whether I wore a nasal strip

- Overcast (https://overcast.fm/), for playing podcasts.

- Liftosaur (http://liftosaur.com/), for tracking gym

- Basics like Banking, EV charging, Maps, Parking, Messages, Weather, Authenticator, Reminders, etc.

I removed App Store as well as Safari, so these apps is all I can do on my iPhone.

In the beginning, I set up a Screen Time code so I wouldn't be able to cheat. But in a few weeks I got used to it. So App Store and Safari are enabled again, but I never use them. (Maybe Safari is disabled. I have no idea to be honest.)

The biggest downside is I never know where my phone is. However, I'll gladly accept this downside.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 19:32:52+00:00
> jungle is generally stable and doesn't grow in the sense that we say that GDP grows

Jungles today are fantastically more complicated than they were a billion years ago.

Earth’s biosphere’s energy flux is higher today than it was hundreds of billions of years ago [1]. This is due to various metabolic “innovations.” It also occurred because life directly altered Earth’s atmosphere and at least surface geology that made it more conducive to more life [2].

> By contrast, when people talk about sustained growth in economics, they do actually mean growth, an increase in the amount of goods and services consumed

This is not how this fucking paper defines growth. Nor is gross consumption how most models define growth—the word production is right there in GDP.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10288578/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-00116-w
by marxism | 2025-10-13 19:32:55+00:00
I think you're misunderstanding my point. I'm not saying I don't know how to use planning modes or iterate on solutions.

Yes, you still decompose problems. But what's the decomposition for? To create sub-problems small enough that the AI can solve them in one shot. That's literally what planning mode does - help you break things down into AI-solvable chunks.

You might say "that's not real thinking, that's just implementation details." Look who came up the the plan in the first place << It's the AI! Plan mode is partial automation of the thinking there too (improving every month)

Claude Code debugs something, it's automating a chain of reasoning: "This error message means execution reached this file. That implies this variable has this value. I can test this theory by sending this HTTP request. The logs show X, so my theory was wrong. Let me try Y instead."
by Xmd5a | 2025-10-13 19:33:10+00:00
I wrote something similar that can also produce JSON incrementally from other streaming data sources. It combines a streaming JSON parser with streaming strings and a streaming regex engine.

Concretely, it means I can call an LLM, wrap its output stream in a streaming string, and treat it like a regular string. No need for print loops, it’s all handled behind the scenes. I can chain transformations (joining strings, splitting them with regexes, capturing substrings, etc.) and serialize the results into JSON progressively, building lazy sequences or maps on the fly.

The benefit is that I can start processing and emitting structured data immediately, without waiting for the LLM’s full response. Filtered output can be shown to users as it arrives, with near-zero added latency (aside from regex lookaheads).
by benbucksch | 2025-10-13 19:33:32+00:00
> The right choice would be by Fastmail to cooperate directly with Evolution, Thunderbird, K-Mail, Apple Mail and help them were needed.

Funny, I've actually been sitting literally right next to the Apple Mail developers when Fastmail developers (who were sitting on my other side and across from me) helped them make Apple Mail work better with Fastmail and other modern mail servers, in various ways.

Fastmail is very active in the IETF, creating new RFCs that standardize modern email protocols [1] and adapting existing protocols to user needs [2].

Unlike Gmail and Outlook/Exchange cough cough, who I cannot even reach for serious bugs.

> native application (Gtk, Qt, Cocoa)

Do you know a cross-platform app (Windows, Mac, and Linux) that has many millions of users and is implemented natively on each of these platforms (Gtk, Qt, Cocoa, Win32 etc., respectively), not with JavaScript? I can't think of any.

There are limits in the real world. Software teams don't scale well. Corporate agendas are set 5 management levels above the developers. Most of the apps you mention have very serious technical dept that would require a complete rewrite to get out of. I speak from first hand experience of 25 years working on 3+ different mail clients, most of them with millions of users. Seasoned developers usually made their decision after much deliberation. The "right choice" (your words above) is often far more complex than an observer can possibly know.

Please don't throw peanuts at the developers from the peanut gallery [3][4].

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html [2] Many like https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8474.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery [4] https://tenor.com/de/search/muppets-peanut-gallery-gifs
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-13 19:34:28+00:00
Yes because technically literate users shouldn’t have trusted mainstream companies to not install bundle ware back in the Day? They shouldn’t have trusted Zoom not to install a web server on Macs surreptitiously that caused a vulnerability? They shouldn’t have searched Google for printer drivers not knowing that it was a fake printer driver? They shouldn’t have trusted Facebook when they installed VPN software that tracked all of their traffic from any app?

Is that really your answer? To make the phone ecosystem as fraught as Windows PCs for the average user? How is they worked out for PC users since the 80s?
by saltcured | 2025-10-13 19:34:29+00:00
I also remember a course from him decades ago, but I'm not sure this memorial post is the place for my take. Instead, let me attempt to re-tell a joke I heard back then...

John Searle and George Lakoff walk into a bar.

Searle exclaims, "What do you know!"

The bar replies sardonically, "You wouldn't believe it."

Lakoff sighs, "This is 0.8 drinks with Lotfi Zadeh..."
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-13 19:35:08+00:00
It's a reason why you and your organization should depend 0% on open source software because any open source software could be ruined by a bunch of people who don't get along.

In my mind DHH and the people who are still fighting with him years later are all bad people and if I had the power I would cut them off from the net completely, not even let them have a credit card.
by OnACoffeeBreak | 2025-10-13 19:35:11+00:00
"Unbreakable: The Western States 100" [1] came to mind after you reminded me of the Barkley documentary. “The Barkley Marathons, the race that eats it’s young” seems more human and better grounded than "Unbreakable", but "Unbreakable" captured the excitement of running ultra marathons so completely for me.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy1as6CTYXI
by jcgl | 2025-10-13 19:35:14+00:00
Each kind of namespace provides its own kind of boundary. Yes, you need something like bubblewrap to stitch that all together. And it is kinda leaky, especially without taking some degree of care.

What're you saying about privilege escalation? I don't see how a user namespace does not prevent/limit privilege escalation.

More than that, I'm interested if there is some broader consensus I'm missing on the shortcomings of namespaces.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 19:35:40+00:00
The metric you’re looking for is energy intensity of GDP [1]. How much energy does each unit of GDP cost. It’s been going down, and it’s lower in rich countries than less developed ones. (Its material counterpart is material intensity of GDP.)

[1] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/total-energy/world-energy-inte...
by dinkblam | 2025-10-13 19:35:47+00:00
from their promotional material:

>> Why is the sky blue? > The sky is blue due to an optical illusion called the Rayleigh Scattering

Rayleigh Scattering is not an illusion but an effect.

> […] particles are made up of tiny blue and violet particles that cause the light to bend in a particular way.

ugh. no, there are no "tiny blue" particles in the sky.
by eimrine | 2025-10-13 19:36:21+00:00
How youtube can use me if I spend all my time outdoors and yt is just a radio? There are some ways to see it without ads even wihout deepening the profile with the credit card.

My point is that there is no better software to get acknowledged about the different Xs than yt. My point is to go cold turkey about any other recqmmendation services because they can not serve my interests when I work with my hands, or walking, or driving. I have listened some 3.5 hours podcast about Math and I am sure there is no other way to consume such a podcasts other way than I recommend here.
by treesknees | 2025-10-13 19:36:47+00:00
I think you’re conflating a few things. Jeeps, as manufactured during World War II, were produced by Ford and Willys. The Jeeps of today, manufactured by Stellantis, carry on the name (and arguably the general shape) but are completely different vehicles.

They “seem” to sell cars? Well, yes. The Wrangler and the Grand Cherokee are consistently near the top of list of most popular SUVs, year after year.
by platevoltage | 2025-10-13 19:37:09+00:00
I found a 1988 Sega arcade cabinet on the side of the street and decided to resto-mod it. The CRT in the cab has lost its blues, so I recapped and reflowed the board, which brought that back to life. I started off using a Raspberry Pi 5, and used a GPIO to VGA hat to generate the 15khz RGB signal that the monitor expects. I ended up abandoning this method in favor of using a GBS-control scaler in order to get 32bit color output.

The control panel was built from scratch. I used an ESP32 board to detect inputs from the buttons, as well as drive the RGB LEDS in the buttons. Th ESP32 outputs keyboard keypresses, and accepts serial input over USB to change the color of the buttons. My goal here is to have the buttons illuminate based on which game is loaded.

Lastly, I embedded a stream deck module in the control panel for auxiliary functions. For this, I built a node app to operate the stream deck given the lack of Linux support from Elgato. I'm going to put together a big blog post once I get closer to completion, but for now, here are some photos.

https://www.icloud.com/photos/#/icloudlinks/00cTcyTxaASpQ3t1...
by oooyay | 2025-10-13 19:37:10+00:00
I've been working on an atproto side project. These are very much reasonable considerations when dealing in any atproto application. It is truthful to say that most BlueSky users do not use a personal PDS. It is reasonable to say Tangled will likely trend the same way. It is reasonable to say these are things anyone building on atproto must account for.

It's also factual to say that Tangled is substantially different from BlueSky. Their AppView is stateful, they synchronize via NATS, and PDSs are linked beyond that. Again, substantially more complex than your average atproto architecture.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-13 19:37:11+00:00
> I always felt that I'm spending too much time in front of a computer, but it was at least somewhat meaningful because I had opportunities to create: write code, blog, and so on.

Yeah, we can waste a lot of time in front of the PC, but it at least can be used for creativity and productivity.

[Smart]phones are almost pure consumption.