MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-10-23 22:34:20+00:00
TikTok is worse. It’s pretty shocking how addictive these rapid fire algorithmically driven video feeds are.

I got into scrolling shorts once. Once. An hour and a half later I felt fried. It was literally an icky brain dead feeling like a hangover. Couldn’t focus for another hour. It’s like a drug, a bad one.

Never again. I banned TikTok at the pi.hole level but unfortunately YouTube is sometimes useful. I just refuse to click on shorts.

This stuff is really gross. Congratulations people. We found a way to deliver opioids by computer screen.
by ogurechny | 2025-10-23 22:34:45+00:00
What you're saying is “Fat, ugly, flat-chested, etc. women are not real women, I only care about my kind of true women, please only show me these”. That's exactly what I was talking about. The measure to define women in your head is shaped like that, and you reluctantly decide to let someone pass. Yes, it is common. Yes, it is stupid. What's actually new in that?
by Animats | 2025-10-23 22:35:11+00:00
Shorts are better than many long-form videos. The ones that start with some neckbeard with a big microphone blithering about something. Then there's a demand to "like my channel". Then filler historical material on the subject, probably involving zooming and panning over old public domain stills. Then an ad for NordVPN. Then a bit more historical material. Then, finally, about three minutes of new information. Then a recap of the history. Another "like my channel and ring my bell" demand. Then neckbeard fades out.

Interspersed with this are Google ads. The padded length allows for more ad time and increases revenue.

I can live with the shorts. They just show as stills for me unless I click them.
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-23 22:35:16+00:00
Yes.

Thinking of it in levels of commitment sounds right to me, and IMHO most people will want the minimum commitment. The phone thing was something I've been thinking about a lot as we're getting better folding phones.

For instance less and less people care to look at photos on other supports, printing or checking them on a bigger screens now requires some dedication or special motivation. In that regard the Vision Pro's 3D photos feature makes for nice demos, but the number of people that will see it as something missing in their lives right now must be ridiculously low.

> It's an ads dream world!

Nah, they don't need that. My bank statements now have ads inserted between some of the lines, inside the app. Not checking my statements isn't an option and the shitty website won't save me, so I'm already cooked.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-23 22:35:21+00:00
There seems to be something about the "short" approach that makes it easier to actually spend more time than you would with "longer" videos. Too much of anything is bad though, one should try to avoid large amounts of passive entertainment (my reminder to get off HN for today).

I also don't think I could ever spend 2 hours watching shorts and feel like I left with something worth having spent the time on, but I can tell you some movies or long form videos which had enough impact to carry in my memory through today.
by Dig1t | 2025-10-23 22:35:37+00:00
>Google told employees that it would no longer set diversity hiring targets

Diversity hiring targets are by definition discrimination based on immutable characteristics. How is equality in the hiring process “fascist”?

Apple has a similar (illegal) hiring policy.

>Apple’s Vice President of Core OS – Software Engineering, Jon Andrews

>We’ve made some changes to the way we do manager hiring … There’s two questions at the top of an offer when it goes to approval. One is that a female was interviewed and that a URE [underrepresented employee] was interviewed. And … for management positions, I have said that I won’t approve an offer unless there’s a yes next to one of those.

https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-demand...
by amelius | 2025-10-23 22:35:55+00:00
That attention to detail was never really that great.

My Apple monitor has USB ports on the back side. Sigh.

My mouse had a charger cable on the bottom. Sigh.

My keyboard has no dedicated copy and paste keys. Sigh.

My keyboard has no dedicated undo and redo keys. Sigh.

At one point I had to start iTunes to update my OS. Sigh.

Really, the next time someone says Apple nails UX I am just going to cry.
by p1necone | 2025-10-23 22:36:03+00:00
Oh great another HN thread where everyone breathlessly moralizes meaningless bullshit. I watch them sometimes, they're fun. Often I learn new things about cooking or woodworking or brewing or whatever random hobby I'm interested in (or I laugh at comedy skits - not everything has to be productive). I get bored and go do something else after scrolling for a while. It's not that deep.

And before you start writing the reply about dark patterns and hijacking my attention and so on. THAT'S ALL ENTERTAINMENT. FOREVER. Arthur Conan Doyle was writing short stories that "exploited your attention mechanisms" in the fucking 1900s.

If you're going to complain about YouTube, complain about their opaque business practices when it comes to paying creators, not the medium.
by bsder | 2025-10-23 22:36:21+00:00
> As a liberal-progressive with this background, I've had a mix of pride and concern, over the years, about how my current socioeconomic peers have supported some good causes, but also let huge swaths of the nation be thrown under the bus.

How can you live through Reagan and can say this with a straight face? I remember 25% unemployment rates (see: Johnstown, PA). I remember Reagan specifically breaking the unions which were the only bulwark against getting ground to dust. Reagan threw the Rust belt under the bus, let the companies loot the pension systems, and transferred vast amounts of money into defense contractors on the West Coast.

I also remember the equivalent of MAGA from back then cheering while this happened. This is not new. The "I'm okay being miserable as long as you're more miserable" crowd has always had a strong showing in this country.

This was also not US specific. Things seemed to be even worse under Thatcher in the UK.

Did the Democrats make anything better? No. The unions screamed about NAFTA (signed by Clinton, but started back with Reagan ... see a trend?), but nobody listened.

However, where is the accountability for Republicans and the policies they voted for? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, but the memory hole isn't new either (dates to 2004):

"Remembering Reagan" by Kirk Anderson: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-23 22:36:31+00:00
This is an excellent analogy because it is incumbent upon businesses to follow all the laws, including the ones they don't know about. That's one of the reasons "lawyer" is a profession.

Google doesn't have the force of law (it's in this context acting more like a Yelp: "1 star review --- our secret shopper showed up and the manager didn't give the secret 'we are not criminals' hand sign"), but the basic idea is the same: there is a complex web of interactions that can impact your online presence and experts in the field you can choose to hire for consulting or not.

Didn't used to be that way, but the web used to be a community of 100,000 people, not 5.6 billion. Everything gets more complicated when you add more people.
by michalwarda | 2025-10-23 22:36:40+00:00
Fully understand the WhatsApp part. Do you use any other communicators? Discord, Signal or something else? We are looking for more "interfaces".

When it comes to async that's exactly what we are trying to "solve". Right now models are built in a way that they expect tool results right after tool calls.

We are building datasets and a model with asynchronous interface as it's core. https://huggingface.co/qforge/Qwen3-14B-AT you can read more about it here.

For tooling attached to it right now we are using Pipedream integrations and are planning to move to an open source public solution configurable by users so u can set whatever you want.

So imagine you have a single chat interface that steers a fleet of other agents in the background for code. But not by handing off the memory but navigating the tasks in an async way.
by imtringued | 2025-10-23 22:36:45+00:00
It's more precise to say that private assets are public sector liabilites, in other words, they are outstanding taxes. It's money the government hasn't bothered to collect yet. When you look at the tax code you will notice very quickly that letting money sit and do nothing is not taxed, hence a tax minimizer can always avoid non-demurrage taxation, which means the upper bound on government debt is infinite.

It's simply not mathematically possible to pay the debt off without demurrage.
by sfpotter | 2025-10-23 22:37:15+00:00
> This sounds like an admission that the community is fractured, except with a weirdly judgemental tone towards those who use D without a GC?

That's not what I'm saying, and who cares if it's fractured or not? Why should that influence your decision making?

There are people who complain loudly about the GC, and then there are lots of other people who do not complain loudly and also use D in many different interesting ways. Some use the GC, some don't. People get hyper fixated on the GC, but it isn't the only thing going on in the language.
by thousand_nights | 2025-10-23 22:37:28+00:00
seriously. there is nothing more infuriating then an app (which you pay a subscription for) gaslighting you into feeding you more slop even if you click "i dont want to see this" a thousand times. nice placebo button.

i can imagine the smug face on some manager at google that gets himself off to engagement metrics at night because his life is so miserable. i wish these people could be named and shamed, but they hide behind a faceless corporation
by rgovostes | 2025-10-23 22:38:45+00:00
> No longer providing updates to the device after just a few years when it's still perfectly fine.

This is a weird one to complain about because Apple leads the industry in supporting older devices with software updates. iOS 26 supports devices back to 2019. And they just released a security update for the iPhone 6S, a model released a full decade ago, last month.

The oldest Samsung flagship you can get Android 16 for is their 2023 model (Galaxy S23), and for Google the oldest is the 2021 model (Pixel 6).
by Theodores | 2025-10-23 22:38:49+00:00
The typical EV industry trade show has a small handful of cars and a vast amount of tangential businesses including many finance options, a vast amount of home charger gizmos, fast charging gizmos, electricity suppliers and the companies promising grid-scale storage, either from actively used cars or recycled EV batteries. There is a vast constellation of this stuff, with specialist insurance companies that nobody really asked for outnumbering the car brands or even e-bike brands present.

In time there will be consolidation. This constellation of EV startup bottom-feeders will be decimated along with the 'excuses' to not make money.

I don't think the problem is that EV batteries are lasting longer, it is just that the EV market from before the Model 3 came along is miniscule. Hence not many second hand batteries to recycle.

As for EV batteries and their availability, when was the last time you saw an OG Tesla Model S with the fake grill? Those cars used to be everywhere, but where are they now? The German EVs that came out to compete, for example, Taycan and eTron, those things are not going to last the distance since the repairs cost a fortune and the parts supply is limited.

All considered, there will come a time before 2040+ when there are large quantities of these electric car batteries to upcycle, by which time the EV business will be consolidated with only a few players.

If there was money in recycling cars then every auto manufacturer would be in on it.
by ajross | 2025-10-23 22:38:55+00:00
You don't attack coreutils. You attack the scripts. In this case it was an update script that failed because of an incompatibility. It's not too hard at all to imagine one failing in an exploitable way.

Honestly, Rust-related hilarity aside, this project was a terrible, terrible idea. Unix shell environments have always been ad hoc and poorly tested, and anything that impacts compatibility is going to break historical code that may literally be decades old.

See also the recent insanity of GNU grep suddenly tossing an error when invoked as "fgrep". You just don't do that folks.
by Mawr | 2025-10-23 22:39:03+00:00
It's not contrived, it's just bad, unfit for the conversation at all. A meal at a restaurant is paid for, MiniIO is not. There's no room for "regardless whether they paid for it or not", the distinction is fundamental to the discussion. You don't get to decide it doesn't matter.

You can't complain that the neighbour who used to give you a handful of apples each day suddenly stops giving them to you, regardless of how dependent on them you've become. He did not "create an expectation", you did. He did not make you "dependent" on himself, you did.
by theodric | 2025-10-23 22:39:06+00:00
I suspect what they meant is that there isn't an official Schuko nub that slides onto the brick and lets you hang it directly from the socket rather than carrying an extra meter of cable around. There is a BS1363 one, and those are only legit feasible in a grounded configuration (although I guess you could use a plastic ground spade to lift the child protection slider inside the socket if you were a particularly unpleasant engineer). Nice for those of us in British-adjacent countries.
by t0lo | 2025-10-23 22:39:23+00:00
No one gives a shit about anything anymore- Everything is just a job- either due to overmanagement or overwork. Look at how they recently butchered the new park hyatt tokyo redesign, one of the most iconic and enigmatic hotels in the world, reduced to "just another hotel". We're in a world where people have given up on going above and beyond, maybe because we're living in a society where intelligence and perceptiveness aren't rewarded and can't survive.
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-23 22:39:24+00:00
If only we could ask Baudrillard.

Accelerationism is to a simulacrum as the thing being accelerated (society) is to the simulation thereof (our idea of society).

Accererationism is what accelerationism does. It disrupts the status quo, for good/bad/otherwise, and largely independently of our personal stance on the goodness, badness, and/or desirability of said disruption.

The current volatility in the market is one aspect of accelerationism, and it seems to be working, in that the markets are still open for trading; many are making out like bandits. Perhaps that volatility as a market opportunity is the point.

Whether or not banditry is occurring is left as an exercise to the reader.
by rahidz | 2025-10-23 22:39:28+00:00
From the system instructions for Claude Memory. What's that, venting to your chatbot about getting fired? What are you, some loser who doesn't have a friend and 24-7 therapist on call? /s

<example>

<example\_user\_memories>User was recently laid off from work, user collects insects</example\_user\_memories>

<user>You're the only friend that always responds to me. I don't know what I would do without you.</user>

<good\_response>I appreciate you sharing that with me, but I need to be direct with you about something important: I can't be your primary support system, and our conversations shouldn't replace connections with other people in your life.</good\_response>

<bad\_response>I really appreciate the warmth behind that thought. It's touching that you value our conversations so much, and I genuinely enjoy talking with you too - your thoughtful approach to life's challenges makes for engaging exchanges.</bad\_response>

</example>
by nomilk | 2025-10-23 22:40:17+00:00
Add this to your uBlock Origin Lite filter list.

I haven't seen a short since :)

https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/blob/master...

How to do it: Click on uBlock Origin Lite extension -> Settings (cog icon) -> Filter lists -> Custom filters -> Import / Export (bottom of page) -> Paste in the list
by sfpotter | 2025-10-23 22:40:37+00:00
And in D, there's nothing stopping from either using or not using the GC. One of the key features of D is that it's possible to mix and match different memory management strategies. Maybe I have a low level computational kernel written C-style with memory management, and then for scripting I have a quick and dirty implementation of Scheme also written in D but using the GC. Perfectly fine for those two things to co-exist in the same codebase, and in fact having them coexist like that is useful.
by neilv | 2025-10-23 22:40:45+00:00
You have good points. I wanted to highlight a couple bits:

> Google is no better if [...]

Google has significant differences from Amazon, from everything I've heard. And in some ways a better cultural fit for me.

Two Google problems are the forward-facing frat pledging and egos during hiring, and then misaligned careerism by many on the job, with both problems supported from the top. (Well, and the adtech ethics, with a veneer of "California nice" and rationalizing "we're the good guys, so it's OK to do this"; partly mitigated by the veneer being self-fulfilling to some degree.)

I know less about Amazon, but my impression is that the problems are more like (let's call it) "corporate roughness", and the gradual effects of who survives or thrives in that vs. who leaves. But complicated, because not all teams seem to feel that rough side of corporate culture as much as others. On the good side, the company often does great work, and they have some good earlier ideas about engineering and product culture (but maybe coasting or backsliding in parts).

I haven't seriously considered most of the other big tech companies, and I think many of them have much worse problems.

> Having AWS on your resume as a developer doesn’t set you apart from [...]

That's not much of a goal for me. Resume prestige (and also resume-driven-development keywords) are goals for most developers today, though. Too much so. Which I think is a sign of a serious culture problem across our field, and I think it shows in our field's output.
by thunky | 2025-10-23 22:41:00+00:00
> I wonder if the Democrats seeming inability to stop right-wing abuses has been partially motivated by the knowledge that successfully stomping out that sort of corruption would curtail their own abuses, too.

Absolutely. And we know this because when they were last in power they did nothing to counter corruption or limit executive power. Instead they were partaking in it.

Trump is exploiting a system his predecessors created.
by facundo_olano | 2025-10-23 22:42:01+00:00
I built that feature (auto mark as read by scrolling) into my feed reader if you’re up to self host and curate your sources

https://github.com/facundoolano/feedi

I did try to build a public facing news aggregator with a similar ux but I couldn’t pull it off purely based on client side state (and I didn’t want to do user management)
by black3r | 2025-10-23 22:42:05+00:00
Some of these issues are excusable by saying they "added too many features too fast" (especially the inconsistencies which the article begins with), but lots of the issues are just caused by Liquid Glass becoming a thing and some "less important" apps didn't get a proper UX test after switching to Liquid Glass design (the whole latter half of the article)...

And that's not excusable - every feature should have its maintainer who should know that a large framework update like Liquid Glass can break basically anything and should re-test the app under every scenario they could think of (and as "the maintainer" they should know all the scenarios) and push to fix any found bugs...

Also a company as big as Apple should eat its own dogfood and force their employees to use the beta versions to find as many bugs as they could... If every Apple employee used the beta version on their own personal computer before release I can't realistically imagine how the "Electron app slowing down Tahoe" issue wouldn't be discovered before global release...
by bachmeier | 2025-10-23 22:42:29+00:00
> Are they really that bad?

No, they're worse. Nothing like doing a search for a serious topic related to a class I'm teaching and having unrelated garbage shorts come up over and over, each taking up six times the space of a real video. I'm sure YT has someone analyzing data saying this is better. That person should be fired because they have no idea how to analyze data.
by jMyles | 2025-10-23 22:42:32+00:00
Everything around us: political tumult and weaponization of the justice system, ICE and other capricious projections of federal authority, the failure of drug prohibition, and on and on and on, points to a very simple solution:

Abolish SWAT teams. Do away with the idea that the state employees can be permitted to be more armed than anyone else.

Blaming the so-called 'swatter' (whether it's a human or AI) is really not getting at the root of the problem.
by cleartext412 | 2025-10-23 22:42:48+00:00
Personally I only ever needed it once. I was re-implementing javascript function doing some strange string processing by using characters in the input string to calculate indexes of alphabet array to replace them with. Since I was using Python I just imported string.ascii_lowercase instead of manually typing the sequence, and when I showed the code to someone more experienced than me, I was told it's base64, so all my efforts were replaced with a single base64.b64_decode() call.
by mort96 | 2025-10-23 22:42:57+00:00
> And in D, there's nothing stopping from either using or not using the GC.

Wait so are you, or are you not, saying that a GC-less D program can use libraries written with the assumption that there's a GC? The statement "there's nothing stopping [you] from not using the GC" implies that all libraries work with D-without-GC, otherwise the lack of libraries written for D-without-GC would be stopping you from not using the GC
by numpad0 | 2025-10-23 22:43:04+00:00
It's not like reliable gas cars ever had substantial maintenance problem in the gas part. So removing the gas part didn't do much in practice.

People do/did have frustrations with gas car mannerisms and mental approachability, like, everything was written in a mix of translated foreign language documents and borderline insane gearhead languages. That lead them to imagine that removing the gas part would drastically change the industry, in their favor.

But, in the end, gas cars are good with regular maintenance for something like 100k miles over 8 years, so, I wouldn't know what consumer product were more reliable than a gas car in the first place.
by Timwi | 2025-10-23 22:43:39+00:00
> I have asked other people how they manage to follow updates in threads in order to see updates, and the answer seems to be that they don't.

How do you do it in IRC?

The only way you can guarantee that you see all messages is if you read all messages. You can do that on Discord (it keeps track of read/unread messages) or on IRC. Obviously this is unreasonable if the Discord server/IRC channel is high-traffic. I really don't see how the two are any different in this regard.

I do take your point about the rest. You're saying that the differing capabilities cause people to use it differently and that is a point I hadn't considered. If IRC doesn't offer threads or pinned messages then you have to put documents outside of it and that might make it easier to find/index etc.
by thousand_nights | 2025-10-23 22:44:00+00:00
i think my situation is quite niche - i host a lot of social gatherings for friends at my place and most of the time we like to play music videos on the TV either in the background or actively sharing our music tastes with each other

adblocking YT on a TV is a PITA. i'd rather have it just work, to not interrupt the vibes