MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jwald33 | 2025-10-27 13:56:36+00:00
The more that media becomes a product, the harder it is to feel like you're conning an artist by getting a refund on a purchase.

It's gotten incredibly easy to put media out there, and it's great that people are able to tell the stories they want through the medium they want. At the risk of sounding like I'm just bootlicking, traditional outlets used to be able to filter out some of the more low-effort content and it was easier to expect that you were at least getting mediocre stuff. At this point, a lot of really low effort and low quality junk is in the ecosystem and it's harder to just buy something that looks cool.
by sigwinch | 2025-10-27 13:56:41+00:00
It’s good that no one is arguing that. But your argument isn’t strong. You’re saying that numbers matter. Those kinds of people go in and out of SCIFs. If they belch a secret at lunch, maybe it has lobbying implications, but it wasn’t compartmentalized. It can even be disinfo.

The real ROI is to land a Jonathan Pollard. Not even a million Hegseths can leak enough info to collect into one Pollard.
by tpxl | 2025-10-27 13:58:09+00:00
Check protondb.com. Current protondb status for Lake, Calico, We should talk, Beasts of Maravilla Island: Platinum, Apico: Gold, Kana Quest, Bombfest, Where the Bees Make Honey: Uknown, Onsen Master: Uknown (but has native build), Beans: The Coffee Shop Simulator: Playable.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-27 13:58:15+00:00
> It thinks, ha, so there is a flavor of set theory in which RH is true.

To the extent that LLMs think, they think "people say there's a flavour of set theory in which RH is true". LLMs don't care about facts: they don't even know that an external reality exists. You could design an AI system that operates the way you describe, and it would behave a bit like an LLM in this respect, but the operating principles are completely different, and not comparable. Everything else you've said is reasonable, but – again – doesn't apply to LLMs, which aren't doing what we intuitively believe them to be doing.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-27 13:58:30+00:00
It may be across an ocean, but Europe isn’t exactly the other side of the world geographically or culturally. Many of the ideas being trialed there are working their way into parts of the US. The frog is being boiled slowly, but the heat is rising more quickly in big cities.

> HN happily piled on in favor of this decision

HN is not a monolith with a single opinion. The loudest users at the time (not just here, all over the internet) were pro-censorship political activists, so maybe that caused you to interpret things that way.

> If the government, or tech, starts regulating out things people actually care about, then you’ll have your sway.

The public will not respond until the groundwork has been laid to make effective protest impossible. Only then will important things be regulated out. Until then it will just be “nerd stuff”.
by jebarker | 2025-10-27 13:58:49+00:00
My point is that the phrase “must pretend that we choose” is meaningless if we have no ability to choose, I.e. you have no choice whether to pretend you can choose or not, you either do or you don’t and it doesn’t matter how much you “must” do it.

Maybe what you mean is that we do pretend we can choose because that’s how we’ve evolved?
by xorcist | 2025-10-27 13:59:22+00:00
> I don't really feel this is any worse than downloading a binary from a distro archive

Please don't say that. It denigrates the work of all the packagers that actually keep our supply chains clean. At least in the major distributions such as Red Hat/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu.

The distro model is far from perfect and there are still plenty of ways to insert malware into the process, but it certainly is far better than running binaries directly from a web page. You have no idea who have access to that page and its mirrors and what their motives are. The binary isn't even signed, let alone reviewed by anyone!
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 13:59:26+00:00
> It will just cause conflicts with the other OS internals.

But not with the kernel.

"Other OS internals" are just replaceable components. The idea is to depend on Linux only, not on Linux+glibc.

> Adding another encoding as a gconv module. The DNS issues everyone is talking about.

Those are glibc problems, not Linux problems. Linux does not perform name resolution or character encoding conversion.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-27 13:59:28+00:00
I hate to be the old guy yelling at the clouds, but was an LLM used to write parts of this?

> Apple sold the walled garden as a feature. It wasn’t ashamed or hiding the fact—it was proud of it... The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point.

Please, write as a human, I promise you it's good enough. I'd much rather read something that's a bit clunky but human written than something that's very polished but leaves me wondering what the author actually was trying to say.

Respect your reader, but most importantly, respect yourself as a writter too.
by cubefox | 2025-10-27 13:59:39+00:00
In fact most digital goods that are sold in large numbers via download, are, as far as I'm aware, sold with some form of DRM. Like films and video games. Otherwise piracy would be just too easy. MP3s don't have DRMs, and are still sold (e.g. by Amazon), but those now seem to be largely replaced by music subscription services.

And this might be a reaction to the fact that music piracy is quite easy; if it wasn't, perhaps there would be no Spotify where you get basically All The Music in existence for peanuts. (Note that no equivalent subscription service exists with regards to movies or games: Netflix and Xbox Game Pass have only a limited selection of content included in their subscription.)
UAE vs. Delaware HoldCo (US Citizen Living in Lebanon)
by kbadran7 | 2025-10-27 13:59:46+00:00
Hi, I have a startup that will be doing business in Lebanon. ALl operations in lebanon.

I'm a US citizen, living in lebanon. I plan on having a holding company to register IP, expand into more markets, as well as take in foreign investment potentially.

Looking into UAE and Delaware for the holding company, both seem to have their benefits but I'm leaning more towards Delaware for international apetite, as well as profits not being taxed if they're not distributed.

Company won't be turning a profit for a year at least, and UAE company that has a US owner gets taxed on UN-distributed profits.

I may not be seeing the full picture but i'm leaning towards Delaware, even with the 21% corporate tax. Losses get carried forward, un-distributed profits not taxed, and more attractive to foreign investment.

Thoughts from the group?
by tux1968 | 2025-10-27 14:00:21+00:00
I've done my best to express a logical argument for my assertions. I've defined what I mean by intelligence, and given examples of humans who lack major senses or physical capabilities, and yet are still considered intelligent; attempting to argue that intelligence is not tied to any physical characteristic, but is rather a dexterity and facility with computation. I haven't yet grokked what you're actually arguing, though. You just seem to dislike the idea of intelligence being compared to computation, but I don't know what you're offering as an alternative.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-27 14:00:33+00:00
> I think I don't understand the last sentence. This seems the opposite of what I wrote ?

I guess I misunderstood, and I think I attributed some context from others' previous comments to you. My bad, sorry. :) Looks like we generally agree.

When we leave comments, even without blocking, we're going to sign off when they're addressed (assuming someone else doesn't sign off first). That's our job as reviewers.

If we don't feel comfortable signing off (eg: because the diffs also touch an area outside our knowledge) then we just comment to that effect. ie "this part LGTM, but someone else from <team X> needs to sign off."

The main thing is: if we have comments on a PR that we think should be addressed, but aren't "do not merge this under any circumstances", then we just don't select the "request changes" option, and it doesn't seem to cause problems for us.

That said, if I worked somewhere where there was established guidance to either accept or request changes, then I'd do that without a second thought.
by WolfeReader | 2025-10-27 14:00:53+00:00
For mainstream books, I use Bookshop ( https://bookshop.org ) or Kobo. Bookshop supports indie bookstores. Both of them will let you know if a given eBook has DRM or not.

(Now, when a book does have DRM, I buy it from Kobo! I'll leave it to the reader to speculate why :) )
by Insanity | 2025-10-27 14:00:55+00:00
Yeah, you're right on all those fronts.. but they do own some large IP like Call of Duty which will continue to generate money for them for the foreseeable future.

I did hear the speculation about Xbox as well and I hope it's not true. I quite like the Xbox as a console (Series X was the first one I bought, used to be on PlayStation before that). Competition is good for the console space, and Nintendo and PlayStation aren't really competitors IMO. The audience for Switch and PS/Xbox isn't the same.
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-27 14:01:17+00:00
The issue here is that you are trying to bridge two disparate goals - making money and helping kids.

The fact that this isn’t open source, as it stands, means the latter is not a primary goal - which is not an indictment, just an observation.

The complaints will come, regardless, for that reason alone, given the marketing/narrative.

You’re selling a product to parents/educators who want to gamify the technical education of their children. That market, small as it is, despises micro transactions.
by teddyh | 2025-10-27 14:01:24+00:00
Despite his somewhat annoying style, that article has many good points about the aloofness of security researchers. However, I will disagree on two points which the article contains:

1. Tor is (rightly) used by anyone who has a good reason for remaining anonymous. (See [REALNAMES] for who this can be.) Anyone trying to smear Tor as only used by drug dealers and other unsavory types are themselves suspect of having an agenda of discouraging Tor use for anyone lest they be suspected. This can only lead to an installation of Tor being viewed as a suspicious thing in itself; who would want that?

2. His threat model of Mossad or not-Mossad leaves out one important actor, which we can call the NSA. They, and others like them, unlike Mossad, are not after you personally in that they don't want to do anything to you. Not immediately. Not now. They simply want to get to know you better. They are gathering information. All the information. What you do, what you buy, how you vote, what you think. And they want to do this to everybody, all the time. This might or not bite you in the future. He seems to imply that since nothing immediately bad is happening by using slightly bad security, then it’s OK and we shouldn’t worry about it, since Mossad is not after us. I think that we should have a slightly longer view of what allowing NSA (et al.) to know everything about everybody would mean, and who NSA could some day give this information to, and what those people could do with the information. You have to think a few steps ahead to realize the danger.

[REALNAMES] Who is harmed by a "Real Names" policy? <https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22R...>

(Repost of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23572778>)
by josephcsible | 2025-10-27 14:01:28+00:00
No, but when remote attestation reveals that you're running an OS that's not blessed by Google, the megacorps will make their apps all refuse to run on your phone. A few already do so today, e.g., the McDonald's app. In practice, I expect a situation where we have two phones: one to run Big Tech's apps, and one to run indie apps.
by tonnydourado | 2025-10-27 14:02:02+00:00
This alternative is still storing the screenshots and the OCRed content unencrypted, and the web UI is also unauthenticated.

There's some docs on storing the data in an encrypted volume or external drive, but 99% of people ain't doing that.

The only real improvement over MS's version is keeping the data local, which ain't much, really.
Show HN: A minimalist, no-clout social network with chronological feed
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-10-27 14:02:07+00:00
TLDR: I built a "quick and dirty " private social network for my friends, posted on Reddit and HN, got some interest so now have built it properly along with my brother.

site link: https://intimost.com/login/

demo creds:

test@example.com Demo123!

Full version:

I needed a social network where I can just send updates and nothing else. So I built it, my friends liked and now I have built it "for the world".

Everything is private by default.

- Text-only updates - No likes. Only views to acknowledge a post - [in development] Comments are private between the poster and commenter - Friends not followers - Profiles are not searchable - You need the user's `Friend Code` to find a profile - Feed shows updates from your friends and nothing else

More context:

Original Reddit post (a few months ago): https://old.reddit.com/r/digitalminimalism/comments/1kuuv8h/... Launch post (today): https://old.reddit.com/r/digitalminimalism/comments/1oh935z/...

I am looking for feedback and thoughts!

(You can use a dummy email to signup and delete the account a few clicks afterwards)

A lot of users are asking for photos, we are trying to figure out how to do that in a "clean" way

Thank you - J
by Yizahi | 2025-10-27 14:02:10+00:00
IF said investments are strategically correct (considering their amounts). A few years bck companies were making strategic investments in the VR/AR/XR goggles, on a bet that tech would become cheaper in a few years while quality would improve dramatically. And they were correct in the price and quality aspects. But they were fundamentally wrong strategically, regarding millions of people wanting a display semi-permanently strapped in their visual area. Apparently not many people want it and even less need it, which was drastically different from the mode of work of CEOs, which is to always move and issue commands while walking/driving etc. Same story with multiple failed voice assistants.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-27 14:02:21+00:00
Richard Stallman was paid to give a talk at Microsoft. https://stallman.org/articles/microsoft-talk.html I don't know what point you're all trying to make: it's possible to accept money from the bad guys without that compromising your future actions. Just because the Linux Foundation hasn't managed it, that doesn't mean the Software Freedom Conservancy can't.
by hobofan | 2025-10-27 14:02:44+00:00
Yeah, I think either the method doesn't work well, or there is something off with their tuning.

Their block-by-block generation method seems to be too local in its considerations, where each 3x3 section (= the ones generated based on the immediate neighbors) looks a lot more coherent than the 4x4 sections and above. I think it might need to be extended to be less local and might also in general need to be paired with some sort of guidance systems (e.g. in the office example would generate the overall floor layout).
by alangou | 2025-10-27 14:02:45+00:00
You are changed by the intention behind your decisions. Someone who continually chooses to do things out of greed turns into a greedier person. Someone who continually chooses compassion becomes a more compassionate person.

Even if the external outcome is the same, the direction towards which the person evolves is vastly different. And when lifted out of a narrow thought experiment, in real life, who you are does determine all the great and small ways you behave, and the methods you are willing to employ.

That’s why in the Sermon on the Mount, Christ says “It was said to those of old, you shall not murder, and whoever murders will be liable to judgement. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgement.”

You will find similar principles expressed in Buddhist teachings, or the Bhagavad Gita, or Confucian ethical philosophy. In this instance, anger on its own is merely a seed. But if left to grow, and it grows by you watering it, then eventually it expresses itself in a much more destructive way.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-27 14:02:51+00:00
Trump voters think EVERY one of these events was horrible/bad and should be rejected. If they could read and pay attention to the red scare they'd know that they would want to put Rachel Carson in front of Joseph McCarthy

They want a return to using Lead/Asbestos, a return to incandescent light bulbs, gutting/defunding/removal of most federal consumer protection and health, and environmental agencies. They think that the Ozone hole was a myth invented by globalist ZOG Soros funded marxists.

Right now, the dominant cultural narrative is Schadenfreude. Shitting up the environment to make someone you hate feel bad is absolutly the most popular approach to regulation right now. This is why hardcore southern conservatives love to "Roll Coal" and it's also why Trump just shared an AI generated meme of him literally shitting on America.
by tyleo | 2025-10-27 14:02:53+00:00
You’re getting downvoted which is unfortunate because I think you make a worthwhile point.

Emotionally I disagree with you. It feels like a bully is getting what a bully deserves. Logically, I think you are right though. Crowds just aren’t equipped to handle these situations. There are cases where the wisdom of the crowd is correct, but there are many more where it multiplies harms.

The underlying problem is that it never feels like justice is being served. Another comment mentions that there should be harsher punishment for false DMCAs. I don’t think the “wisdom of the crowd” approach is the best way to write those wrongs but I lament that modern justice has not been up to the task.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-27 14:03:01+00:00
> You’re cherry picking the single dumbest moment and pretending it defines the whole picture. It doesn’t.

Yes, it's just one example that betrays their lack of conceptual understanding but it's not a cherry-picked example like you keep repeating. It's an entire failure mode that I discovered by myself because while the average ChatGPT user enjoys sycophancy and quick, simple answer, I value correctness and "I don't know".

> The Turing test was passed the moment you could no longer draw a clear line between where imitation ends and understanding begins.

Where? By whom? How was the test designed? Citation needed.

> You can sneer about yeast all you want, but the irony is that while you mock, the machines are already doing useful work coding, researching, analyzing, and creating, quietly exceeding every benchmark that once defined general intelligence.

Did you have an AI write this entire sales pitch? I've seen all the "useful" work LLMs are doing, especially with coding. It's not going to be pretty when all this puffery is forced to confront reality in a few months - maybe a few years. It's hard to tell how long they can keep up the act.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-27 14:03:33+00:00
> HN is not a monolith

This is a lazy argument, as I can safely say that 80% or more of HN has the same political bent, and every community ever has said “but not everyone.”

Read the comments on the Parler deplatforming. See what was upvoted. See what the consensus was. Nobody cares about the principles, even here, when rubber hits the road.

Imagine if the undesirables, on either side, started actively using all the decentralized censorship-resist tech for their cause. Would the builders and commentators here be saying “working as designed,” or would there be a sense of fury, a sense of “not like that?” A sense of “that was supposed to enable my cause, not yours?”

Suppose Proud Boys coordinated their Jan 6 activities on Signal and Tor. Suppose Truth Social was built on ActivityPub and MAGA developers were the loudest voices at FOSDEM advocating for censorship-resistant protocols. How do you feel? Are we still citing the same principles? If not, we never believed them.

> The public will not respond until the groundwork has been laid to make effective protest impossible. Only then will important things be regulated out. Until then it will just be “nerd stuff”.

I’m looking at history and noticing that 99.9% of revolutions did not have the internet required to be successful.
by ben_w | 2025-10-27 14:03:34+00:00
That's because it's not trying to do so. The observation is that humans are broadly unable to prepare for the failure modes of other humans, even when those failure modes have been studied and the results of those studies widely published. This means that while the failure modes of humans are indeed different from the failure modes of LLMs (and AI more broadly), these differences are not what I anticipate to be the most important next step in AI research.
by Tade0 | 2025-10-27 14:04:03+00:00
"sensitive" undersells it. Apple in its refund form has an option to select "unauthorised in-app purchase by a minor" as the reason.

I was not aware how predatory this market has become until an annual subscription after a "one week trial" renewed itself automatically despite having been already cancelled on the last day.

I'm assuming the money is lost because third party subscriptions might require earlier cancellation, but that was the last time I allowed for anything with such a short trial period.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-27 14:04:10+00:00
The saving grace here might be that you can hide your porn subscription in your monthly OpenAI subscription. Only question then: Will VISA and Mastercard cut off OpenAI for peddling porn?

A quick search seems to indicate that the porn industry has a $100B in revenue per year, 20% of which is from subscriptions. If OpenAI consumed the entire global market for subscriptions, $20B, would that cover their yearly operational cost?
by alganet | 2025-10-27 14:04:48+00:00
Microwaves didn't replace ovens. The Segway didn't replaced bikes. 3D movies didn't replace IMAX. I can go on and on...

Some things fail, or fail to meet their initial overblown expectations.

The microwave oven was indeed a commercial success. And that's fine, but it sucks at being an oven. Everyone knows it.

Now, this post is more about the scientific part of it, not the commercial one.

What makes an oven better than a microwave oven? Why is pizza from an oven delicious and microwave pizza sucks?

Maybe there's a reason, some Maillard reaction that requires hot air convection and can't be replicated by shaking up water molecules.

We are talking about those kinds of things. What makes it tick, how does it work, etc. Not if it makes money or not.

Damn, the thing doesn't even make money yet. Why talk about a plus that the technology still doesn't have?
by xandrius | 2025-10-27 14:04:50+00:00
Show them X free levels and with free hints.

When they get into the groove, at X+1 level show them "Did you like this? You can get 200+ levels if you convince your parents that this is a worthwhile investment for your learning." (copy TBD) and bam, you have a traditional game with a demo and a way to buy it that doesn't train kids to expect in-app purchases for every breath they take.

And btw, $25 is high even for an indie steam game, a mobile game will be even harder to market at that price. Just FYI. Best of luck!
by bryanlarsen | 2025-10-27 14:06:23+00:00
> realize a Tesla weighs as much as an SUV

Umm, it doesn't? I'm assuming you're comparing Tesla non-SUV's to other SUV's. Tesla's aren't light, but they're lighter than most comparably sized SUV's. For example, a model 3 weighs 3800 pounds but a BMW X3 weighs 4200 pounds.