MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xfffafaCrash | 2025-10-01 02:58:48+00:00
> If a nation wants to block certain content, let the nation deal with it by getting their own ISPs to block and make sure the citizen's anger gets correctly placed on their government and not the site operators.

I don’t really understand comments like these. Even if you’re exactly right about how it should work, how would you make this happen in the world we live in? Neither the tech community nor ISPs nor cloud companies decide these things. Just because a matter affects us doesn’t mean we have much of a voice in it especially if it’s legal.

Laws about tech are decided by (idiot) politicians/parties/governments and the consequences are enforced by massive fines, imprisonment, etc. by law enforcement and selective (and often politically motivated) prosecution. In some of the worst places the consequences could include death.

Afghanistan just lost access to the internet almost entirely. China and North Korea are famous for their firewalls. Much of Asia has internet blackouts whenever there are large scale protests. The western world’s government has more legal jurisdiction/economic influence on the companies that run these things and are increasingly leveraging that for their desired censorship.

If the answer to this is democratic influence, the populations of many countries don’t really have that, the majorities in countries that do have it certainly doesn’t know or care about these things and wouldn’t vote for the pro-censorship politicians in the first place if they’d then vote to cut off their nation’s access to uncensored internet while preserving the uncensored variants, and even if the majority ever did care to get the system to work in this way there’s a global trend away from having their opinions on such things matter anyway.
by hopelite | 2025-10-01 02:58:59+00:00
Does anyone know what their actual exposure currently is/was in the UK? They actually had offices and staff there?

To your point about the proposed service, isn’t that what cloud providers basically already do in rudimentary ways or could do with finer grain regions?

Also, it seems the internet/WWW is basically being snuffed out right before our eyes as governments start using all manner of specious arguments to censor and control adults… for the children… of course. You as an adult are not allowed to have your rights because children may be harmed if you have your rights. “ No, no, we can’t keep the children from engaging in things that we deem harms them, your rights have to be relinquished instead.”
Show HN: A playful DNS server with useful utilities and services
by techyKerala | 2025-10-01 02:58:59+00:00
For fun and convenience. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and generating UUIDs, ULIDs, converting Unix to UTC etc.. directly from the command line is super handy no need to open a clunky browser or search page.

Have an idea for a fun DNS service? I'd love to see it! Feel free to contribute any creative utilities you need—just open a PR
by andrewacove | 2025-10-01 02:59:26+00:00
As a reader of Simon's work, I can speculate an answer here.

All "designing agentic loops" is context engineering, but not all context engineering is designing agentic loops. He's specifically talking about instructing the model to run and iterate against an evaluation step. Sure, that instruction will end up in the context, but he's describing creating a context for a specific behavior that allows an agent to be more effective working on its own.

Of course, it'll be interesting to see if future models are taught to create their own agentic loops with evaluation steps/tests, much as models were taught to do their own chain of thought.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-10-01 02:59:31+00:00
Huh? "The user is drunk" as a rule is great, there's no need to redefine it. Especially for POS interfaces! You'd want them as intuitive as it gets, because their users can be under a lot of stress, and could, in fact, be drunk.

I understand GP's "I don't think every website or tool needs to aim for the lowest common denominator" in two ways:

1. This rule isn't an excuse to stop raising the bar when it comes to interaction design ("drunk people won't notice the difference anyway").

2. Some machines should only be operated when absolutely sober and the interface should reflect that requirement ("don't drink and drive!").
by themafia | 2025-10-01 02:59:49+00:00
> It’s hard to take your views on sentencing seriously

I have no idea why he had to surrender a year and a half of his life to a notoriously dangerous "correctional" institution for redistributing television streams. For profit or not. I think his incarceration represents an abuse of the system to protect sports monopolies. I genuinely wonder if it wasn't cruel and unusual.

No offense but he clearly wasn't some elite hax0r with the capability of bringing significant portions of American infrastructure to it's knees for the purposes of harming the public at large.

This should have been a civil case.
Show HN: TransDo – Translate text, speech, and photos with AI support
by jackhyyy | 2025-10-01 02:59:50+00:00
Hi HN! I built TransDo, a simple and intuitive translation app. It supports text input, voice input, and photo translation, and also integrates AI chat. I wanted something faster and more minimal than Google Translate, with history and notes included. The iOS version is live now, and an Android version is coming soon. Would love your feedback on UX and feature set! iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/transdo/id6746675000 (Android coming soon)
by thruway516 | 2025-10-01 03:00:13+00:00
> After all is said and done, Charlie Javice will be hanging out at a prison camp—probably down there with Holmes and Maxwell, because it's cushy—and do no more than 4 years

I don't mind that outcome. She did not knowingly sell a product that could harm the public or abuse and traffic children, so it wouldn't be unfair or a travesty of justice like with those other two (especially that last one)
by jjmarr | 2025-10-01 03:00:34+00:00
> You can't invest all your resources racing up one tech tree; you have to build the whole economic engine to achieve those later levels.

The exact opposite of that has been the meta in most 4X games I've played.

You always rush specific techs because you understand the ROI for the specific empire you're going for. That involves specialization.

Apollo allowed America to demonstrate its ability to land a rocket with pinpoint accuracy on the Moon, implying it would be easier to land an ICBM on the Soviets.

The USSR got a large PR boost through launching Sputnik and then a person. It convinced many people communism was a superior ideology for advancing science and technology. Turning it into a "Space Race" allowed the USA to reframe the discussion for the world in a way that let America catch up.
by vunderba | 2025-10-01 03:00:54+00:00
AI is irrelevant to the reason why there isn't a written version of every single national dialect of sign language. The reason it doesn't exist is because it would serve no purpose (source: many deaf friends). Deaf communities learn the country's writing system just like everyone else.

The closest thing out there is SignWriting [1] which has about as much traction in the real world as esperanto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignWriting
by nikolay | 2025-10-01 03:01:01+00:00
They only care about engagement, as you need to keep paying for the premium service; otherwise, you will waste most of your time with the app watching ridiculous and annoying ads. I suppose they are concerned that if you don't use the app daily, you will not renew, and the premium service won't be worth it otherwise. But then you will have no streak, and will be in the first league, and friends won't like your stupid activities!
by crossroadsguy | 2025-10-01 03:01:58+00:00
I am seeing this app mentioned after years. When did this one move to subscription model - it was a one time paid app? Found it - it's also available as Reeder Classic on mac app store.

Anyway, there's this https://netnewswire.com - https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire (mac native) if someone is looking for an open source alt.
by ThrownOffGame | 2025-10-01 03:02:09+00:00
That is certainly an attack vector of concern! I've had friends where the attacker just exfiltrated a single check from their own checkbook and cashed it as legitimate somewhere else!

It seems that a third-party check printing service could run off checks for the attacker instead. The attacker would need to cover their tracks insofar as payment methods, and then intercept a package which would be mailed to my home address listed on the checks they ordered. That seems elaborate, but doable, if they want a whole stack of legitimate checks.

It is possible that there are even disreputable "security check" printers who aren't Walmart, but just counterfeiters in a 1BR, running off bogus checks for anyone who asks?

But who needs/wants a whole stack of them, anyway? It only takes one or two.

It is so strange, too, that we rarely hear of check fraud in the States. It would seem so easy, so is it widespread or rare?
by nybsjytm | 2025-10-01 03:03:22+00:00
I called it the easiest part of his papers, not easy. Either way, it's actually not relevant to the proof. For example, I believe that Morgan and Tian's 500 page exposition of the proof doesn't mention it even once.

Moreover I'd strongly dispute that there was any particular point where it was clear that the problem was "near a solution." The W functional is an example where experts could very quickly verify that Perelman had made at least one major new discovery about the Ricci flow. But the proof of the Poincaré conjecture was on another order of complexity and required different (more complicated) new results about Ricci flow.
by simonw | 2025-10-01 03:03:41+00:00
Since Codex CLI is open source I got Codex Cloud to attempt to answer your question - here's the shared session: https://chatgpt.com/s/cd_68dc99fe3e948191a8923ddc4a1f4310

And here's the markdown file it produced with an attempt at an answer: https://github.com/simonw/codex-scratchpad/blob/codex/analyz...
by GauntletWizard | 2025-10-01 03:03:59+00:00
I've never had to restore a single file that's older than my local snapshots; The restores where I've needed an old subset have been a substantial enough subset that 4-5xing the data size on restore was not really an issue.

I kinda agree with your point on file-by-file encryption, but ZFS's general integrity features are such that I'm not really worried - Except about this article's specific failure mode, which is pretty easy to deal with/avoid when you know about it, but is a substantial deficiency.
by _boffin_ | 2025-10-01 03:04:03+00:00
“”” Our analysis reports that the regulations that are currently being discussed and likely to have an impact on the following services of yours: {{SERVICES}}.

These regulations touch on the following points: {{POINTS}}.

Here are how each of your listed services would likely be impacted by the different components of the regulations:

- {{SERVICE}}

— {{POINTS}}

“””
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-01 03:05:03+00:00
The idea where you can upgrade modules of a system without rebooting the whole thing is a big factor in mainframe operating systems.

The best idea from Windows Vista was organizing the whole display system around the paradigm that each application blasts out a rectangle of pixels to the compositor which in turn blasts out a rectangle of pixels to a service that writes them to the screen -- the userspace recruits the GPU to draw a rectangle of pixels.

The display system can be restarted without affecting the applications or the rest of the OS so you can upgrade your display drivers and the screen flashes and you go on your way. If the display system crashes... the screen flashes and you go on your way. Brilliant, I just wish it was all like that!

There are reasons why a software system can need to restart but properly modularized you can restart one subsystem at a time with little intrusion on the user experience.
by smashah | 2025-10-01 03:05:37+00:00
The UK government is currently gas lighting the public into ignoring 60k+ in quarterly job losses and is historically unpopular. Despite that it is railroading orwellian attacks against rights and freedoms of the citizenry, all of which without a mandate. This is a kamikaze government of austerity-obsessed foreign agent traitors. The only thing they would be upset about in your scenario is about the inconvenience it would cause those trillion dollar American companies.
by laurencerowe | 2025-10-01 03:06:59+00:00
I've been cooking variations on this lazy Instant Pot spaghetti recipe for a few years now. I expect Italians would be horrified but it's extremely low effort and very tasty! https://thesaltymarshmallow.com/instant-pot-spaghetti/

I substitute the can of sauce for a 28oz can of tomatoes, and cook some onion and garlic in with mince instead of adding onion and garlic powder.
by simonw | 2025-10-01 03:08:55+00:00
To a certain extent it has already - models are already very good at picking tools to use: ask for a video transformation and it uses ffmpeg, ask it to edit an Excel sheet and it uses Python with openpyxl, etc.

My post is more about how sometimes you still need to make environment design decisions yourself. My favorite example is the Fly.io one, where I created a brand new Fly organization with a $5 spending limit and issue an API token that could create resources in that organization purely so the coding agent could try experiments to optimize cold start times without messing with my production Fly environment.

An agent might be able to suggest that pattern itself, but it would need a root Fly credential in order to create itself the organization and restricted credentials and given how unsafe agents with root credentials are I'd rather keep that step to myself!
by hopelite | 2025-10-01 03:09:28+00:00
It’s rather ironic, because the very kind of “social credit score” that we were told the Chinese are subject to is has existed in the West and is being implanted in a far more sly way with things like tone policing; arbitrary accusation of rule breaking of ever increasingly narrow, convoluted, and subjective rules enforced by faceless mods and surely son by AI bots, bans, and even extraordinary lengths to hunt down anyone that “evades a ban”.

I just heard about that TikTok has already implement a censorship regime that excludes topics and concepts for which you get a ding on your social credit score. Not even something that was done when China was racially in control of TikTok.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-10-01 03:11:02+00:00
When I hire juniors I give them problems that focus on fundamentals.

If a junior can code vanilla JS well, they can learn React, Vue, Svelte, etc. if they can't, they will never fully understand any of them. If they can write raw CSS, that can learn Tailwind and understand how and why. If thry can explain what's happening in the browser console, they can find the entry point for most bugs.

This is pretty much how I also test seniors. Focus on the fundamentals; if those are off, nothing else matters.
by minimaxir | 2025-10-01 03:13:17+00:00
It's hard for me to believe that the model coherently memorized both the video and audio of a relatively obscure Let's Play, and that a simple prompt was enough to surface it (the use of the term "Basilisk tank" would also likely not be in video metadata either). That is the reason the person who made that tweet, who has far more prompting experience than myself, was shocked.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-10-01 03:14:38+00:00
My preferred ergonomics for agents are like using a washing machine: choose what clothes you want to have cleaned (whites or colors..) and press “go”.

Claude Code plan mode is the washing machine of agentic loops. It lets you see a detailed plan and if you approve you can let it rip with trust that it’ll do what it says, and go do something else while it’s at work.

Adding tests and other ways to validate its work help it go further & run longer off a single plan.
by StefanKarpinski | 2025-10-01 03:17:24+00:00
Number isn’t an interface—there are no operations common to all numbers. Subtyping Number is a way to opt into numeric promotion and a few other useful generic behaviors. That’s it. The fact that some abstract types are interfaces with expected behaviors, while others are dispatch points to opt into behaviors is a double edged sword: powerful and flexible, but only explicitly expressed/explained in documentation.
by echelon | 2025-10-01 03:18:58+00:00
After seeing the results of Sora 2, Meta and Midjourney are not yet competing at this level.

This is the "Suno" moment for video.

It's easy to make a really compelling composition. Something even Google Veo couldn't do.

It's not the best looking video model, but it has everything else -- rich editing, good voices and lipsync, music and lyrics, animation (cartoon, 3D, anime), SFX. It's wild.

The videos aren't single clips but rather complete beginning-middle-end stories that unfold over several cuts.
by bsenftner | 2025-10-01 03:19:41+00:00
Yes. Adding alpha channels would be step one. Then perhaps incorporate the "element" concept that is basically any identifiable visual anything; which is what VFX uses as a composite-capable element. Then build a whole visual scene description prose that is what we give to a video AI, and that prose is high level language where necessary and element-wise specific where necessary. Base that scene description prose on the language used by film makers directly, just adopt their terminology, and then track the industry's jargon within the models. That way anyone working in media will auto-magically know how to control them.

We are at a point now where it is now how to write software that is the problem but how to describe to the software that is the problem. Video and film making is so generalized, AI needs more information. Typically that information comes from a director's and their team's consistency during production. AI has neither the information for consistency of imagery nor the narrative and the perspective of the narrative a human director and team bring. In time, AI will develop large enough contexts, but will the hardware to run that be affordable? There is a huge amount of context in both an entire script and the world view perspective a film crew brings to any script, and for that reason I think many of the traditional (VFX included) film roles are not going to suddenly disappear. AI video does not replace their consistency at their budget, hands down.

When AI video is able to be just a part of the skill set, for example when it is compatible with compositing, editing, and knows that terminology, AI video will be adopted more. Right now, it is designed as an all or nothing offering.
by sinuhe69 | 2025-10-01 03:20:37+00:00
No, only Groq uses the all SRAM approach, Cerebras only use SRAM for local context while the weights are still loaded from RAM (or HBM). With 48 Kbytes per node, the whole wafer has only 44 GB SDRAM, much lower than the amount needed for loading the whole networks.
by cma | 2025-10-01 03:23:06+00:00
After they added hardware acceleration to Windows Terminal, when updating nvidia drivers there is a chance it crashes and loses you work. I switched it over to software rendered after that.

It should be possible that it saves some battery on mobile at high resolutions, but for a while windows terminal was also doing something like issuing a separate draw call for every character so it didn't really help with that, but I think that was addressed.
by andrewacove | 2025-10-01 03:23:31+00:00
It's amusing to think that the endgame is that the humans in the loop are parents with credit cards.

I suppose you could never be sure that an agent would explicitly follow your instruction "Don't spend more than $5".

But maybe one could build a tool that provides payment credentials, and you get to move further up the chain. E.g., what if an MCP tool could spin up virtual credit cards with spending caps, and then the agent could create accounts and provide payment details that it received from the tool?
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-01 03:24:01+00:00
>> to imply that people can just choose to be happy under any circumstance which is obviously magical thinking

I never said nor implied that. It has only been the person with the account name "cardanome" who has applied absolutist determiners such as "all" and "any" to mischaracterize what I wrote.

> Worse, I'm afraid. It's ideological thinking of the basest sort.

Projection is a poor position to espouse and one easily identified such as the above, further supported by your previous assertion of "[w]hat you're promoting is a deeply narcissistic worldview."

Reread what I originally wrote in this thread objectively, if either you or "cardanome" can:

I say; Happiness is found in neither a dream chased nor a chosen profession. It is instead a choice we make each day in what we do, in how we view same, and if we allow ourselves to possess it. What constitutes each day is immaterial. But that's just me.

This is what is called a personal philosophy[0], specifically:

2 a : pursuit of wisdom b : a search for a general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative rather than observational means

> Woulda had a field day with figuring out what complexes are puppetting AdieuToLogic, if their most coherent argument wasn't "fuck off" - pardon, "full stop".

I was directly replying to this[1] post, which contains phrases such as "I think PP's point was ..", "elites of your heretical society", and "at odds with your own inner values and moral compass".

If you and/or "cardanome" cannot comprehend why I finished with "full stop" in response to this post, then there is nothing I can do to help either or both of you understand.

0 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/philosophy

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45410223
by tw04 | 2025-10-01 03:24:55+00:00
I dunno, Johnny Ive had the MacBook on a trajectory to disaster trying to make it thinner for the sake of being thin. Under Cook’s leadership they actually listened to users and redesigned it to be something people actually wanted.

Beyond that, I’m not sure what you think is going to be the visionary product. AR/VR still feels like 3D tv to me - a solution looking for a problem. The best use case I’ve seen was HoloLens and the military, but even that has had limited scope.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-01 03:24:58+00:00
I want them to come: I'm good at product and have 101 competitors I'd smash on distribution and product with my army of coding agents.

But you're inventing the strawman that anyone who thinks the AI isn't there yet is in denial... some of us just have a higher bar than tailwind slop.

(Ironically I think SWEs most impressed by current agents are really done for... no niche non-tech knowledge to translate into novel software. But also don't have great taste/product sense: otherwise no one would have to point out that the UI/UX is not good enough.)
by jollychang | 2025-10-01 03:26:22+00:00
Hi HN! I built a Python CLI that batch-converts PDF page images into clean Markdown and then into EPUB/AZW3/MOBI. It leans on Alibaba DashScope’s multimodal models for OCR, auto-rotates/downsizes images with Pillow, retries requests with backoff, and resumes where it left off. The tool also merges pages into a single book.md, strips headers/footers, and calls pandoc (plus Calibre if present) for final ebooks.

You can feed it PNG/JPG pages directly or run pdftoppm -png -r 300 input.pdf output-prefix first. Usage, parameters, and setup (Python deps, pandoc, Calibre) are documented in the README. Source: [add your repo URL or archive link]. Feedback on robustness, model compatibility, and additional cleanup heuristics would be awesome!