MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ra1231963 | 2025-10-26 14:33:50+00:00
Based on all the negative comments, and being a non-expert, I had an LLM generate an article for that same title. I suspect it was more approachable and more technically accurate than this. In fact I asked it to compare its article with this one and the negative comments.

The author of any technical blog post should be using an LLM to vet things before posting to find gaps or inconsistencies.
by thinkharderdev | 2025-10-26 14:33:50+00:00
Happened to me. Bought a house with wood floors in the basement. We had some flooding which ruined the wood and when we ripped it out to replace, turns out the wood floors were installed over the original asbestos tiles. From what I can tell, the asbestos tiles themselves were of no particular danger to us, but once they got wet and started cracking they had to be removed which cost an additional couple thousand dollars on top of replacing he floors.
by windexh8er | 2025-10-26 14:34:05+00:00
> Maybe it's the same sort of deal as Google where they sell the traffic to Yelp and agree not to compete?

I mean they already do this with preferred apps in the App Store (e.g. preferred revenue sharing for apps like Uber), so why wouldn't they do this in maps? The Apple "privacy" brand has been a sales pitch of questionable validity since it started. Apple only cares about privacy enough to keep its users from being a front page headline, nothing more.
by jonhohle | 2025-10-26 14:34:11+00:00
People said the same thing about “advanced” operations with cvs and svn (and just called their admin for p4 or source safe). But I really don’t understand the sentiment.

Managing code is one of the cornerstones of software engineering. It would be like refusing to learn how to use a screwdriver because someone really just wants to hammer things together.

The great thing about $your-favorite-scm is that it transcends language or framework choices and is fungible for early any project, even outside of software. I’m surprised it isn’t part of more professional tools.
by righthand | 2025-10-26 14:34:18+00:00
The agricultural farmers did it to themselves, many are very wealthy already. Anything corporate America has taken over is because the farmers didn’t want to do the maintenance work. So they sell out to big corporations who will make it easier.

Same as any other consumer using Meta products. You sell out because it’s easier to network that way.

I am the son of a farmer.

Edit: added disclosure at the bottom and clarified as agricultural farming
by jrm4 | 2025-10-26 14:34:42+00:00
It is "incompetence," or at the very least, it is unwise.

At the very least, a huge part of the intent of Git's very design was decentralization; though as is the case with many good tools, people don't use them as they are designed.

Going further, simply because "deeply centralized Git" is very popular, does not AT ALL determine that "this is the better way to do things." Please don't frame it as if "popular equals ideal."
by owenbrown | 2025-10-26 14:35:02+00:00
This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.

When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.

I would rather you simple charge me more for my product.

The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s revenue, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.

When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, Apple make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.

I will leave the ecosystem.

This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-26 14:36:05+00:00
Both Gollancz (SF Masterworks) and Orbit (most Banks books) are ultimately owned by Lagardère/Hachette. Presumably they could wrangle the rights if they really wanted.

I suppose they just don't see any need to republish Banks books, most of which are quite recent, continue to be popular and are mostly still in print under Orbit as part of an already unified series.
by 0_____0 | 2025-10-26 14:36:11+00:00
Kind of a cool read. They're not really sure why the P. cubensis was nephrotoxic. The sample they put through mass spec didn't contain the compound (Orellanine) that the clinical presentation lined up with, and none of the other youths who ate from that crop of mushrooms had subsequent problems.

I wonder if there was an accidental polyculture issue, either with a different mushroom or a freak mutation that caused that particular shroom to synthesize toxic compounds. When growing directly from spores, you get mixed genetics, so your various mushrooms will grow slightly differently (if you want consistent genetics you grow clones from an isolate via agar plate or tissue sample from fruiting body).
by TekMol | 2025-10-26 14:36:57+00:00
How about adding some image with a public http logger url like

https://ih879.requestcatcher.com/test

to each of the nonsense pages, so we can see an endless flood of funny requests at

https://ih879.requestcatcher.com

?

I'm not sure requestcatcher is a good one, it's just the first one that came up when I googled. But I guess there are many such services, or one could also use some link shortener service with public logs.
by owenbrown | 2025-10-26 14:37:16+00:00
This will destroy a lot of trust and between Apple and me.

When I buy Apple, I pay a premium price for a premium product.

The ways ads work, is that the ad revenue shows up in the company’s quarterly earnings, and very quickly the company has to increase ad load across every surface to meet earnings expectations. The user experience deteriorates, getting worse each year.

When I buy Apple, it’s based on my expectation that Apple will remain a premium, mostly ad-free experience for the life of the device. When, after my purchase, they make the product worse, like with the recent iOS update that rolled back usability, it destroys a lot of trust.

I will leave the ecosystem.

This is not in Apple’s long term best interests.
by derriz | 2025-10-26 14:37:31+00:00
All successful markets in history have been regulated to some degree. A market requires sellers AND buyers and buyers will flock to a market where they're not burdened with the cost and expense of having to do their own research and investigation before even considering a purchase, never mind actually completing a trade.

Completely unregulated markets simply don't scale in terms of successful trading - the regulation replaces the work each buyer would have to do and thus is actually more efficient than having each buyer replicate the work of the regulator. This is why they have been out-competed by regulated markets in the course of history.
by dan-g | 2025-10-26 14:37:33+00:00
This sounds like a gross generalization of cyclists—I hope everyone’s friends aren’t this petty! I’ve gone on plenty of rides on an e-bike/not on an e-bike with folks doing the opposite and have never felt ostracized or made others feel ostracized.

As other commenters posted, it gets even more people out on the paths who wouldn’t normally be able to keep up or might feel self-conscious, and I think that’s a really positive thing.
by sollewitt | 2025-10-26 14:37:53+00:00
AI industry: please _please_ get it together with naming. There shouldn’t be this much overlap between this, a dataset, and a massive image model which was already given a garbage name to begin with.

Don’t get me started in how “agent” is a term of art that means absolutely nothing, encompassing everything from a plain old shell script to a full language model.
by mrbombastic | 2025-10-26 14:38:29+00:00
Yes because proper asbestos removal is very costly and people don't want to deal with it, your house is going to look like the government coming for ET. Very tempting for a singular homeowner to just read up and rent some ventilation equipment and rip it out themselves on the down low even if dangers are very real. There are some old mental asylums in my hometown, beautiful stone buildings on massive property, they have been sitting vacant and decaying for years because they are full of asbestos and no one wants to deal with it.
by kakacik | 2025-10-26 14:39:50+00:00
Even brilliant companies sometimes make stupid moves and shoot off their legs with literal shotgun. Past performance is not an indication of future and all that.

I'd say this is testing waters, seeing how big backlash will be. The sad part may be they may be right and limited loss with power users will be outweighed by ads income. After all, ads are the sole revenue stream for giants like Google or Meta, too juicy to ignore where no other breakthrough is in sight.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-26 14:40:13+00:00
Perhaps but if adding it to the list costs them little then to do a print run I don't get why they wouldn't and just have two printings concurrently, if they did say Consider Phlebas with the first edition cover I'd pick up a second copy just for that cover.

Though I'm carefully not going to look on AbeBooks to see what the first editions currently go for since I don't need to spend that kind of money (want to yes, need to no).
by looperhacks | 2025-10-26 14:41:25+00:00
> The 25 is there in the name.

This largely depends on who you're asking? I don't know anyone who wouldn't consider 24 the course correct number of Advent, simply because that's the common number here (we celebrate Christmas on the 24th). So 12 makes perfectly sense, just do every second day.

There are also many groups who don't start on the 1st of December, but on the first Sunday of Advent. And probably many others.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 14:41:27+00:00
> you use a known (even leaked on the website) password to "bypass the security" in order to "gain access to content you're not authorized to see", I think you'd get in trouble

I agree, but if someone has a website that says "This isn't the real page, go to /real.html and when authentication pops up, enter user:password", then I'd argue that is no longer "gaining access to content you're not authorized to see", the author of the page shared the credentials themselves, and acknowledged they aren't trying to hide anything, just providing a non-typical way of accessing the (for all intents and purposes, public) content.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-26 14:42:19+00:00
It's not unreasonable, you can read the NSPM-7[0][1] which is an overarching strategy for agencies like the FBI to follow.

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.” In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report.

The whole order is pretty dystopian, using loose labels like "anti-Americanism", "anti-capitalism", "anti-Christianity", and "extremism on migration" as indicators of an extremist.

0: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/coun...

1: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-commo...
Built an app to set death timers for failed products Which one's dying first?
by toolover | 2025-10-26 14:42:21+00:00
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by riemannzeta | 2025-10-26 14:42:30+00:00
Patent rights exist to solve a fundamental economic problem: Inventors need incentives to innovate, but after revealing an invention, others can copy freely. The patent system grants limited monopolies to inventors in exchange for public disclosure. This is the patent system as God intended. But the patent system has struggled mightily with a second problem, a problem that Ronald Coase identified decades ago: transaction costs. A "transaction cost" for Coase isn't just a brokerage fee; it's anything that can prevent a transaction from occurring. I submit that today, AI agents stand poised to solve many of the problems with transaction costs that have faced the patent system, creating what has been called a "Coasean Singularity" in patent law — a transformation that will reshape how inventors create, patent owners monetize, and lawyers practice.
by jcynix | 2025-10-26 14:42:39+00:00
The 0px rule would be in a separate .CSS file. I doubt that bots load .CSS files for .html files, at least I don't remember seeing this in my server logs.

And another "classic" solution is to use white link text on white background, or a font with zero width characters, all stuff which is rather unlikely to be analysed by a scraper interested primarily in text.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-26 14:43:13+00:00
Tensorflow was a revelation when it came out and Jeff & Sanjay were heralded as gods

Just goes to show that even when you’ve got everything going for you, perfect team filled with nice people, infinite resources (TPUs anyone?), perfect marketing, your own people will split off and take over the market.

Second place seems to always win the market
by righthand | 2025-10-26 14:44:34+00:00
Ideally it would require rendering the css and doing a check on the Dom if the link is 0 pixels wide. But once bots figure that out I can still left: -100000px those links or z-index: -10000. To hide them in other ways. It’s a moving target how much time will the Llm companies waste decoding all the ways I can hide something before I move the target again. Now the Llm companies are in an expensive arms race.
by SebastianKra | 2025-10-26 14:44:50+00:00
Apple Maps is not that good. The main selling point of like half their services was “we're worse but at least not an ad-company”.

Due to some misguided loyalty, I usually search for places in AM fist, then switch to Google. I still don't see viable alternatives to their operating systems, but it's clearly time to de-apple wherever you can.
by jswny | 2025-10-26 14:46:06+00:00
I think devs have a natural inclination to resist a seismic shift in their industry, which is understandable.

However I agree that a lot of this stuff is FUD and AI dev is like a new skill, it takes time to master. It took me a few months but I’m comfortably more productive and having a more fun time at work with Claude Code
by naravara | 2025-10-26 14:49:12+00:00
Yeah Apple’s evolution over the past decade has been very frustrating and disappointing to see. It seems like whatever scraps remain of the company’s core values now exist solely with a handful of old heads at the company and will likely not survive their retirements.

A lot has changed in the tech industry, but the rapidity of hiring and expansion of headcount just seems to have engendered a broad homogenization of business strategies, design conventions, and product vision. I think they started hiring people based on narrow defined ideas about skills and resumes to fit certain roles and they all end up shuffling the same bunch of people around across the same incestuous company hiring pipelines until they’re all doing stints at every company and driving them in the same broad direction.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-26 14:49:56+00:00
It's not on the quality level of these books, but the Off to Be the Wizard series of books are humorous programming-as-magic tales that skirt the sci-fi/fantasy line. [The fulcrum of the story is that there is a computer file "out there" that reflects reality; those who find it can edit it to do all kinds of "magic". Hilarity ensues.]
by isodev | 2025-10-26 14:50:04+00:00
> There is also, of course, the question of copyright infringements in code produced by LLMs, usually in the form of training data leaking into the model's output

Well yes, LLMs like Claude Code are merely a "copyright violation as a service". Everyone is so focused on the next new "AI" feature but we haven't actually resolved the issue of all model providers using stolen code to train their models and their lack of transparency on sourced training data.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-26 14:50:30+00:00
They last pretty well down south here at 57°N on the west coast of Scotland, but you need to make them out of fairly good wood, or PVC pipe is better. They'll withstand even the 140mph winds we get for four weeks of the year (in the local language we call this "January") but if they get hit by flying debris they're gone.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-26 14:51:20+00:00
It looks like the FSF is going to sit this one out like the SaaS revolution, to which they reacted late with the AGPL but did not push it. They are not working on a new license and Siewicz is already low-key pushing in favor of LLMs:

"Many years ago, he said, photographs were not generally seen as being copyrightable. That changed over time as people figured out what could be done with that technology and the creativity it enabled. Photography may be a good analogy for LLMs, he suggested."

I have zero trust in the FSF since they backstabbed Stallman.

EDIT: Criticizing anything from LWN, be it Debian, Linux or FSF related, results in instant downvotes. LWN is not a critical publication and just lionizes whoever has a title and bloviates on a mailing list or at a conference.
by kmoser | 2025-10-26 14:52:13+00:00
I like to have the error message include the line number that emitted it, e.g. "Unable to log in to your account (error code 123)". This comes in handy especially when you don't want (or are unable) to log messages, and/or several lines emit the same error message. So line 123 might be because no DB connection could be established, while line 456 might be because the connection timed out.
by mig39 | 2025-10-26 14:52:52+00:00
> The background here is that Scots is not really a language.

This is supremely ignorant. Scots is its own language. It's a 'brother' or 'sister' of English, with both English and Scots being descendants of West Germanic languages.

The fact that many (all?) Scots speakers also speak English doesn't mean Scots not a language on its own.

You could make your exact same arguments that Irish isn't a language because you could ask a Cork taxi driver whether he knows any English.

Scots = a language with some of the same ancestors as English.

Scottish English = a dialect (and accent) of English

Scots Gaelic = another language, with the same ancestors as Irish and Manx.
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-26 14:53:09+00:00
>All the newest Mac hardware that came out in 2018 still gets security updates to this day.

Yeah but that's because Apple also made the HW and sold it to you directly so they're responsible for both SW and HW. Microsoft did not make or sell you the HW in most cases, they sold you an OS (unless you bought a prebuilt with an Windows OEM license, in which case Dell/Lenovo/etc is responsible).

I'm not excusing Microsoft's behavior, I'm just saying why they're not comparable to the way Apple does it.

>But there's plenty of brand-new Windows hardware that came out in 2021

Like which?
by fingerlocks | 2025-10-26 14:54:38+00:00
You must work at Microsoft? A pound of paperwork for every new repo really shuts down experimental side projects. I showed my colleagues that we can share code via ssh or (painfully) one-drive anytime instead. They reacted like I was asking them to smoke crack behind the dumpsters. “That’s dangerous, gonna get in trouble, no way bro”
by jcynix | 2025-10-26 14:54:56+00:00
You can easily generate a number of random images with ImageMagick and serve these as part of the babbled text. And you could even add text onto these images so image analyzers with OCR will have "fun" too.

Example code:

for c in aqua blue green yellow ; do for w in hello world huba hop ; do magick -size 1024x768 xc:$c -gravity center -annotate 0 $w /tmp/$w-$c.jpeg done done

Do this in a loop for all colors known to the web and for a number of words from a text corpus, and voila, ... ;-)

Edit: added example
No/Low-Code Tool for Data Pipeline with DLT
by nakassony | 2025-10-26 14:55:53+00:00
Hi everyone, I’ve been working on Client DLT, an open-source UI tool that aims to create/manage DLThub pipelines through no/low-code.

Right now, it’s an early MVP — it works, but still has a few bugs and missing features (like Database catalog, API catalog, pipeline merging, Existing DLT script onboarding, etc). I built it because DLT is quite powerful Data pipeline tools where we develop the scripts for pipeline creation, this client idea is to provide an easy way not only for creating, but also scheduling, monitoring, orchestrating, versioning, and more. Also it adds an AI layer to our pipeline management flow.

You can check it out here: https://github.com/nbernardo/dlt-client demo: 1. Creating a basic pipeline: https://lnkd.in/eZw-isTV 2. Scheduling a job for pipeline: https://lnkd.in/eNjsuWT3 3. Pipeline versioning, Data transformation and File system sourceing: https://lnkd.in/eazgrTrM

I’d love feedback, suggestions, or even contributions (ideas, code, etc) if anyone’s interested.

Thanks!

Nakassony Bernardo
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-10-26 14:56:06+00:00
> freely sharing the password

It doesn't have to be so free. It can be shared with the stipulation that it's not used in a bot.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

(a) Violations Regarding Circumvention of Technological Measures.— (1) (A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

This has been used by car manufacturers to deny diagnostic information even though the encryption key needed to decrypt the information is sitting on disk next to the encrypted data. That's since been exempted for vehicle repairs but only because they're vehicle repairs, not because the key was left in plain view.

If you are only authorized to access it under certain conditions, trying to access it outside those conditions is illegal (in the US, minimally). Gaining knowledge of a password does not grant permission to use it.
by Lerc | 2025-10-26 14:56:15+00:00
I have seen a few normally progressive types act quite conservative puritan over the NSFW ChatGPT thing. It seems there are quite a lot of people consider things to be uniformly good or bad and their opinion of the whole colours their opinion of the parts.

OpenAI are in a difficult position when it comes to global standards. It's probably easier to see from outside of the United States, because the degree to which the historical puritanism has influenced everything is remarkable. I remember the release of the Watchmen film and being amazed at how pervasive the preoccupation with a penis was in the media coverage.
by epistasis | 2025-10-26 14:56:25+00:00
California has been an oil state from the beginning. To this day there is urban oil extraction over various parts of LA:

https://www.pbssocal.org/news-community/l-a-s-long-troubled-...

It is only very recently that California started trying to decarbonize.

When France did their amazing nuclear build, it was for energy independence, not for decarbonization purposes. It was a very forward thinking move, even if it wasn't as cheap initially imagined and ended up being stopped before fully completed. It was a national security project.

However nuclear is cheap when the high upfront capital costs have been paid off, and it's down to just the operating expenses. Building it is oppressively expensive, however, especially as labor costs have risen in the many decades since the 1970s while.

As France's nuclear fleet ages out and needs to be replaced, it seems unlikely that they will be able to pull off a build of a second fleet. Their efforts at prototyping the next design, the EPR, have been fairly disastrous, with builds at Flamanville and in Finland going very poorly.

I suspect that Germany & California's current route to decarbonization through renewables will be followed by France in the coming decades.