MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wcww | 2025-10-28 13:12:10+00:00
WebnovelAI.io is an innovative creative platform that acts as an AI-powered writing assistant, specifically designed for crafting novel-length stories and web novels. It helps authors overcome writer's block and accelerate their writing process by generating coherent plot ideas, developing character profiles, and producing lengthy paragraphs of text based on simple user prompts. The platform often includes organizational features for managing chapters, building fictional worlds, and maintaining series continuity. It is an ideal tool for aspiring novelists, hobbyist writers, and anyone interested in exploring creative writing without starting from a daunting blank page. By providing intelligent suggestions and narrative content, WebnovelAI empowers users to bring their fictional worlds and characters to life more efficiently, making the art of long-form storytelling more accessible and less intimidating.
by javier_e06 | 2025-10-28 13:12:32+00:00
Oh, and by the way,

you're fired.

Fired?

W-W-What do you mean,

fired?

Um, how else

can I say it?

You're being let go,

your department's

being downsized,

you're part of

an outplacement,

we're going in a

different direction,

we're not picking

up your option...

Take your pick.

I got more.

"The Emperor's new groove"
by einsteinx2 | 2025-10-28 13:12:36+00:00
I’d argue that Tinder/Bumble/etc are online speed dating. Instead of the old way of setting up a long dating profile and sending a ton of messages that get ignored, you just quickly swiped, find matches, have a quick chat to see if it’s worth meeting up, then meet for drinks. If you’re spending a ton of time texting before meeting “you’re holding it wrong” so to speak. After a few messages it should be pretty clear if there’s any connection, that’s speed dating in my book.
by cassepipe | 2025-10-28 13:12:48+00:00
Surely this philosophy has great value if you still believe your adversary is misguided but still well-intentionned

But if your adversary is lying knowingly to everyone saying you are a criminal and should be locked up or deported then I wonder what's there to improve

The game of cooperation only works if you're not playing with someone who is constantly trying to exploit your cooperation attempts
by filoeleven | 2025-10-28 13:13:29+00:00
Sure! Dunno where I got these uBlock scripts from originally; I've adjusted them as Youtube keeps changing their element tree.

! hide watched videos on youtube pages youtube.com##[page-subtype="home"] .ytd-rich-item-renderer .ytThumbnailOverlayProgressBarHostWatchedProgressBarSegmentModern:upward(.ytd-rich-grid-renderer) youtube.com##[page-subtype="home"] .ytd-thumbnail-overlay-resume-playback-renderer:upward(.ytd-rich-grid-renderer) ! Hide stupid "Includes paid promotions" button www.youtube.com##div[class^='YtInlinePlayerControlsTopLeftControls']
by wongarsu | 2025-10-28 13:13:34+00:00
Windows Defender is an interesting challenge. It would be interesting to know if signing the executable has a positive effect here. At $previouscompany we had a software that looked very keylogger-like, and all our Windows Defender issues vanished once we started using EV codesigning certificates. They are not cheap ($300/year), but Defender seems to take the fact that the code is bound to a verified legal entity as a strong trust signal
by micromacrofoot | 2025-10-28 13:13:43+00:00
Manufacturers want to get maximum fuel efficiency, as another mentioned. Even if they do fit all seasons, the problem is that people run them much longer than they should. This is worse with higher efficiency EV tires which wear out faster... especially given the higher torque of electric engines, people accelerate too quickly.

A full set of tires can easily cost $1k, and we're in a country where most people barely have $500 saved at any moment.
by LocoPadre | 2025-10-28 13:14:06+00:00
Recommendation: Use the terminal control codes 1049h and 1049l [1][2] to keep the terminal 'clean'.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Control_Seque...

[2]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/789031
Show HN: I built a free diary for growth to replace doomscrolling
by banmarkovic | 2025-10-28 13:14:20+00:00
In the past few years, I read many self-improvement books and listened to podcasts that helped me grow. But after a while, I always forgot most of the lessons and slipped back into old habits.

So I started writing short daily notes about what I learned and how I felt. It helped me stay focused, but I didn’t have a simple place to revisit those reflections. That’s why I built Bloomind.

It helps me reflect daily, revisit my notes, and stay connected with my goals. It's just a few mindful minutes instead of doomscrolling. I built it with Kotlin Multiplatform, sharing logic between Jetpack Compose and SwiftUI.

I would be more than happy to hear any feedback or thoughts. Also if anyone wants to support the app, please leave a review on the App Store or Play Store, that would mean the world to me.
by mpweiher | 2025-10-28 13:14:27+00:00
All at once? Unlikely.

However, can a lot more "features", or better, "programming paradigms" or as I would call them "architectural styles" be accommodated together, usefully?

Absolutely yes!

Objective-S does this using a combination of two basic techniques:

1. A language defined by a metaobject protocol

2. This metaobject protocol being organized on software architectural principles

(1) makes it possible to create a variable programming language. (2) widens the scope of that variability to encompass pretty much all of programming.

What was surprising is how little actual language mechanism was required to make this happen, and how far that little bit of mechanism goes. Eye-opening!

Site for the language:

https://objective.st

However, the site doesn't really have the explanation of how 1+2 work and work together. That is explained as best I could manage within the space limitation of an academic paper in Beyond Procedure Calls as Component Glue: Connectors Deserve Metaclass Status.

https://2024.splashcon.org/details/splash-2024-Onward-papers...

ACM Digital Library (open access):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3690052

Alas, the PhD thesis that goes into more detail is still in the works (getting close, though!). That still being in the works also means that the site will not be updated with that information for a bit. Priorities...
by kace91 | 2025-10-28 13:15:35+00:00
I don’t disagree that they are clearly unhealthy for people who aren’t mentally well, I just differ on where the role of limiting access lies.

I think it’s up to the legal tutor or medical professionals to check that, and providers should at most be asked to comply with state restrictions, the same way addicts can figure on a list to ban access to a casino.

The alternative places openAI and others in the role of surveilling the population and deciding what’s acceptable, which IMO has been the big fuckup of social media regulation.

I do think there is an argument for how LLMs expose interaction - the friendliness that mimics human interaction should be changed for something less parasocial-friendly. More interactive Wikipedia and less intimate relationship.

Then again, the human-like behavior reinforces the fact that it’s faulty knowledge, and speaking in an authoritative manner might be more harmful during regular use.
by tsegratis | 2025-10-28 13:16:52+00:00
the 'therapist effect' says that therapy quality is largely independent of training

some research on this: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Ftep0000402 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8174802/

CBT (cognitive behavioural training) has been shown to be effective independent of which therapist does it. if CBT has a downside it is that it's a bit boring, and probably not as effective as a good therapist

--

so personally i would say the advice of passing on people to therapists is largely unsupported: if you're that person's friend and you care about them; then be open, and show that care. that care can also mean taking them to a therapist, that is okay
by weinzierl | 2025-10-28 13:16:56+00:00
I think Spring doesn't consider vulnerabilities in one of their components to be a Spring vulnerability. At least they do not release an updated version until the next scheduled patch version, not even in the paid version.

You can either wait and accept being vulnerable or update the component yourself and therefore run an unsupported and untested configuration. Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-28 13:17:10+00:00
Code format and conventions are not the problem. It's the complexity of the change without testing, thinking, or otherwise having ownership of your PR.

Some people will absolutely just run something, let the AI work like a wizard and push it in hopes of getting an "open source contribution".

They need to understand due diligence and reduce the overhead of maintainers so that maintainers don't review things before it's really needed.

It's a hard balance to strike, because you do want to make it easy on new contributors, but this is a great conversation to have.
by js8 | 2025-10-28 13:17:29+00:00
I don't understand why SAT solvers don't use gaussian elimination more. Every SAT problem can be represented as an intersection of linear (XORSAT) and 2SAT clauses, and the linear system can resolve some common contradictions, propagate literals, etc.

Also Grobner basis algorithm over polynomials in Z_2 can be used to solve SAT. A SAT problem can be encoded as a set of quadratic polynomials, and if the generated ideal is all polynomials, the system is unsatisfiable (that's Nullstellenansatz). I don't understand how we can get high degree polynomials when running Grobner basis algorithm that specifically prefers low degree polynomials. It intuitively doesn't make sense.
by sgarland | 2025-10-28 13:18:01+00:00
I hesitate to want any changes, but I could maybe get behind dynamic font sizing. Maybe.

On mobile it’s fine, on Mac with a Retina display it’s fine; the only one where it isn’t is a 4K display rendering at native resolution - for that, I have my browser set to 110% zoom, which is perfect for me.

So I have a workaround that’s trivial, but I can see the benefit of not needing to do that.
by xnorswap | 2025-10-28 13:18:04+00:00
I'm not denying bad internet exists.

I'm saying that the impact of dropped packets and poor latency falls much worse on sites that have multiple connections and dozens of files to download than a single bundle.

Also in those circumstances, the 13kB would also take "seconds".

The situation described, where the 13kB file takes milliseconds but the 500kB file takes seconds, is what is unrealistic. It's an invention of an LLM.

Chances are two different 13kB files would be far worse in those circumstances than a single 500kB file.

I don't know why I'm still answering this thread, because it's clear I'm not being understood, and this is all arguing over a flagged AI slop article that no-one wrote.
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 13:18:12+00:00
The more important thing it does though is remove culpability from the employee who doesn't have a job anymore. That person will be looking for a job (we assume, perhaps a few will just retire or something else). The companies they apply at will want to know why they no longer work at Amazon - there is a big difference between "I was sexually harassing my coworkers" (pick a crime, sexual harassment seems to be the big one these days), and "Amazon decided they didn't need my job done any more".
by dpeckett | 2025-10-28 13:18:42+00:00
Absolutely, loss of deep sleep is associated with a ton of aging related cognitive decline. There's a number of startups experimenting with techniques to enhance deep sleep in the elderly atm (timed audio clicks, electrical stimulation etc).

There's not a lot of evidence that most common sleep medications are associated with long term improvements in health outcomes. Most have substantial detrimental effects on sleep architecture, can exacerbate underlying issues like apnea etc. Interesting the gabapentanoids (chronic pain) and Xyrem (narcolepsy) are associated with increased slow wave sleep. More research is needed (eg the DORA drugs [1]).

Thankfully circadian issues (in the absence of sleep loss) aren't associated with negative health outcomes. Just a case of finding a way to modify ones life to accommodate them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orexin_antagonist
by janpio | 2025-10-28 13:19:10+00:00
What allows them to switch back is hidden in the accordion at the bottom:

Why are you making FingerprintJS v5.0 available under an MIT license now? [...] We have made substantial improvements to Fingerprint Pro so that competitors relying on FingerprintJS for browser fingerprinting is no longer a concern.

Comparison seems to be at https://fingerprint.com/github/, scroll to bottom for "Feature comparison" table.
by kristov | 2025-10-28 13:19:21+00:00
Oh I agree with you. I don't live in the US, but in a country that has a very high progressive tax rate. I am taxed about 50% of my income currently. But I gladly pay it because I like to live in a safe country with strong government programs and a great healthcare system. It is also very difficult to fire an employee here. Companies generally have to pay people to leave, and this can be a year salary upwards. But I do sympathize with people in the US, even if the "average" lifestyle experience is higher, because a lot of people seem to be struggling there.
by enraged_camel | 2025-10-28 13:20:07+00:00
>> Codex (gpt-5-codex) on the other hand, does exactly what you ask, almost to a fault.

I've seriously tried gpt-5-codex at least two dozen times since it came out, and every single time it was either insufficient or made huge mistakes. Even with the "have another agent write the specs and then give it to codex to implement" approach, it's just not very good. It also stops after trying one thing and then says "I've tried X, tests still failing, next I will try Y" and it's just super annoying. Claude is really good at iterating until it solves the issue.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-28 13:20:09+00:00
Clearview doesn’t have to follow British law, and Britain doesn’t have to allow people associated with Clearview to exist freely on their territory.

This is little different from, say, Russian hackers targeting Americans. Practically speaking there’s nothing to be done unless the perps enter American jurisdiction, but it’s entirely sensible to say that they violated US law and face penalties for it. It might be a little off to say that they’re “dodging” that law, but it’s close enough.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-28 13:20:27+00:00
> AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI AGI

Spare me. Sam has been talking about ChatGPT already being AGI for ages, meanwhile still peddling this duplicitous talk about how AGI is coming despite it apparently already being here. Can we act like grownups and treat this like a normal tool? No, no we cannot, for Sam is a hype merchant.
by nilkn | 2025-10-28 13:21:34+00:00
My company’s been through layoffs/reorgs every 3–6 months for three years. One thing is true: performance management happens faster. Many chronic low performers were laid off, and a few “too many cooks” problems were resolved. Those benefits are real and genuine.

But it’s a mistake to assume the remainder is automatically high‑performer‑only. Three patterns I’ve seen:

1) People with options leave first. If you can find a stable, supportive org at similar pay, you go. That’s often your top performers. We've lost some truly amazing people who left because they were simply not willing to tolerate working here anymore. Being absolutely ruthless in getting rid of low performers is honestly not worth it when you also lose the people who truly move the needle on creating new products, etc. If you make a mistake and get rid of some people who were talented high-performers, trust is instantly gone. The remaining high-performers now know that they may also be a target, and so they won't trust you and they'll leave whenever they can. And when you're axing 10k+ people, you're absolutely going to make mistakes.

2) The survivors change. Trust and empathy plummet. Incentives tilt toward optics and defensiveness, and managers start competing on visible ruthlessness. You can keep the lights on, but actually trying to innovate in this environment is too scary and risky.

3) In an atmosphere of fear, people who are willing to be genuinely dishonest and manipulative -- and who are good enough at it to get away with it -- have a serious competitive advantage. I've seen good, compassionate leaders go from a healthy willingness to make tough decisions on occasion to basically acting like complete psychopaths. Needless to say, that's extremely corrosive to meaningful output. While you could argue that skillful dishonesty is an individual advantage regardless of climate, an environment of repeat layoffs strongly incentivizes this behavior by reducing empathy, rewarding "do whatever it takes to win" behavior, etc.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-10-28 13:21:38+00:00
It’s not bizarre. Hallucination is just another word for invention, the same cognitive move that produces fiction. In one context that’s failure, in another it’s success. Calling that bizarre is like calling imagination itself an error. If that feels strange to you, you’re missing something fundamental about how creativity works. Everyone knows this. Any human being with a pulse understands the difference between making something up for art and making something up by mistake. So when you act like that’s an alien concept, I don’t think you’re confused. I think you’re pretending.

The difference between the fiction in a great novel and what an LLM spits out is that I am seeking it out in the former, not the latter. When an LLM does that, it is failing to do its job correctly.

Sure, but thanks for explaining what everyone already understands. You’re not clarifying anything new, you’re just pretending not to get the point so you can keep arguing. The discussion wasn’t about LLMs fixing cars or following recipes. It was about any kind of work, and a huge portion of human work revolves around invention, storytelling, and creative synthesis. Fiction writing isn’t a corner case, it’s one of the most valued human expressions of intelligence. Everyone knows that too. It’s not an obscure philosophical insight. It’s basic cultural literacy. Which is exactly why I don’t buy your act. You’re too smart not to know what’s obvious to everyone else.

So when I say the “failure mode” of hallucination can be a “success mode” elsewhere, I’m not dodging the topic, I’m expanding it. Creativity is a massive part of human life. Pretending otherwise just to win a narrow argument is dishonest. You know exactly what I meant, you’re just acting like you don’t. No one with normal cognitive function finds that bizarre. It’s theater.

And you used the classic tells, the same ones that get used on HN all the time to dodge the rules while still getting in a jab. You drop words like “bizarre” and “baffled,” act like you’re confused, then follow up with a calm “apology” to sound like the reasonable one. It’s a well known pattern here. You literally used the exact two words everyone does when they’re trying to provoke without crossing the line.

Then came the self deprecation. The polished restraint. “If that was too severe, my apologies. I tend to be a little dramatic. I don’t think you’re an idiot. I’m just trying to communicate my point. I’m sorry for that.” It’s spotless. It hits every note. It reads like empathy but functions like control. It doesn’t defuse the conflict, it reclaims the moral high ground. It’s not humility, it’s stagecraft.

Look, maybe I was too sharp myself. I can be dramatic too, I admit that. It’s not a personal attack, I just have strong feelings about intellectual honesty. I’m sorry for that.

See what I did there?

No point in continuing this.
by eddealmeida | 2025-10-28 13:21:54+00:00
This case of a Brazilian influencer, who built a "leftist hottie" persona online only to be exposed for elitist and racist behavior during a police arrest, struck me as a textbook example of modern digital identity dynamics.

The article analyzes the event through the lens of Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message," arguing that social media, as a medium, inherently shapes us to create performative, niche-driven personas. The real-world confrontation acted as a brutal audit of this digitally-crafted self.

I found it interesting how it demonstrates the fragility of these constructed identities when forced outside their native algorithmic environment. Curious to hear the HN perspective on the economics of attention and the authenticity of online identities.

https://blog.thecodejedi.online/2025/10/esquerdogata-leftist...
by nik736 | 2025-10-28 13:21:59+00:00
The most annoying thing for me currently is that when connecting to local smb shares with Finder and adding favorites (directories on shares), after a reboot they are still there under favorites, but it won't connect to them when clicking on them. So I have to manually reconnect to the server every time. This wasn't happening before.

Other than that, of course some things got slower, but overall it's an OK release. For example he new system settings were bad before, now they got a bit worse, but macOS 26 didn't introduce those changes.
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 13:22:37+00:00
Finally, a programing job that AI won't be able to replace.

We had devices like those in university, left from previous generations where they'd manually program Z80s ROM by hand through switches and see the output on LEDs.

Then programing(not the correct term) CPLDs via obscure programming languages and some MS-DOS tool via the parallel port.
by JeremyNT | 2025-10-28 13:22:54+00:00
Surely b2b "model API provider" would've been a great fit for Amazon, but others are absolutely dominating this space right now.

The silver lining for Amazon is that nobody is making a profit by actually providing that service. It's just massive valuations and VC money flowing freely instead of a sustainable business model, and Amazon plays a much longer game - they can recover even if being so far behind is a "bad look" for their current management.

It's not hard to switch between OpenAI/Anthropic/Azure/Google/whatever and Amazon can surely eventually compete well in this space.
by Levitz | 2025-10-28 13:22:58+00:00
Being someone whose friends very clearly lean to one side, while generally not having a developed interest in politics, I really want to push back on this. Unless you intentionally talk to people whose views oppose yours (which won't happen by default, people sort themselves into tribes) real person communication is very prone towards dunking on people who aren't even there or might very well not even exist. Cue polarization.

In my view, if someone is reading text for stuff they disagree on that's already a win. It's better than the default.
by bazzargh | 2025-10-28 13:23:07+00:00
You can also get reasonable results from using quasirandom sequences https://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of... - which are trivial to generate.

That's the kind of thing I use dithering on BBC Micro because it's such a cheap technique, here in a thread directly comparing to Bayer-like dithering https://hachyderm.io/@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk/11200546490... or here faking the Windows XP desktop https://hachyderm.io/@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk/11288651013...
by cjbarber | 2025-10-28 13:23:08+00:00
> Microsoft holds an investment in OpenAI Group PBC valued at approximately $135 billion, representing roughly 27 percent on an as-converted diluted basis

It seems like Microsoft stock is then the most straightforward way to invest in OpenAI pre-IPO.

This also confirms the $500 billion valuation making OpenAI the most valuable private startup in the world.

Now many of the main AI companies have decent ownership by public companies or are already public.

- OpenAI -> Microsoft (27%)

- Anthropic -> Amazon (15-19% est), Alphabet/Google (14%)

Then the chip layer is largely already public: Nvidia. Plus AMD and Broadcom.

Clouds too: Oracle, Alphabet/GCP, Microsoft/Azure, CoreWeave.