MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-22 20:27:37+00:00
Wikipedia is bad even for topics that aren't particularly political, not even because the editor was trying to be misleading but rather was being lazy and wrote up their own misconception and either made up a source or pulled a source without bothering to actually read it. These kind of errors can stay in place for years.

I have one example that I check periodically just to see if anybody else has noticed. I've been checking it for several years and it's still there; the SDI page claims that Brilliant Pebbles was designed to use "watermelon sized" tungsten projectiles. This is completely made up; whoever wrote it up was probably confusing "rods from god" proposals that commonly use tungsten and synthesizing that confusion with "pebbles". The sentence is cited but the sources don't back it up. It's been up like this for years. This error has been repeated on many websites now, all post-dating the change on wikipedia.

If you're reading this and are the sort to edit wikipedia.. Don't fix it. That would be cheating.
by specialist | 2025-10-22 20:28:03+00:00
That's terrific. Media literacy should be required civics curriculum.

I was on my highschool's radio station, part of the broadcast media curriculum. It was awesome.

That early experience erased any esteem I had for mass media. (Much as I loved the actual work.)

We got to visit local stations, job shadow, produce content for public access cable, make commercials, etc. Meet and interview adults.

We also talked with former students, who managed to break into the industry.

Since it was a voc tech program, there was no mention of McLuhan, Chomsky, Postman, or any media criticism of any kind.

I learned that stuff much later. Yet somehow I was able to intuit the rotten core of our media hellscape.
by Macha | 2025-10-22 20:28:15+00:00
I think we have PC gaming and mobile gaming as too relatively independent markets with only occasional overlap, and that's probably the way VR's going to go. Someone is going to win the mobile VR market (probably Meta given their significant head start and lead, unless the Occulus lineup gets sacrificed at the altar of AI), and the Steam VR ecosystem is going to continue to be a thing.

I actually think the Steam VR ecosystem is the most durable looking of the ecosystems at the moment with its few medium size players. The other 3 all have the risk that their parent companies could get bored and do something else, and I mean it's made some money, but not the amount of money that is guaranteed to keep any of them interested.
by parliament32 | 2025-10-22 20:28:17+00:00
The "port knocking" has surfaced often since the early 2000s, but it continues to be a rather silly exercise in making security-by-obscurity look more complicated while not really helping all that much.

Briefly looking at the diagram at the top of the repo, it looks like you "knock" with an API key. Why not just run a reverse proxy in front of (whatever service you're trying to protect) and use the API keys there? To harden further, do some sort of real authentication (PKI, client certs). If you want your logs to look cleaner, install and actually configure fail2ban.
by codyb | 2025-10-22 20:28:20+00:00
To every billionaire in America right now who can read this...

I haven't used any of the AI stuff that's been released so far. It doesn't appear to have affected my day to day in any manner but I'm not particularly connected in the first place I suppose.

But this browser, with the AI on the top of it? I haven't used it yet. But it sounds life changing. I'll be surprised if I have a job in three weeks now that this is out. And coming off that Sora drop? DAMN! Haven't used that either but I heard it's a really expensive tic tac that gets boring after 10 minutes.

Anyways, please give all your money to Sam Altman. He needs 7 trillion dollars. And with results like these, the path forward must be paved with gold. So pour, all of your money, right into this one, please.
by koinedad | 2025-10-22 20:28:44+00:00
I think this is normal especially if you’re changing languages, frameworks, codebases. Some people are gifted in memorization of these things and others of us just forget if it’s not needed. I do the same thing with people’s names.

If you’re working on the same type of thing everyday you’ll likely remember how to reverse an array in JavaScript. The other day I was trying to remember how to reverse a string in JavaScript… that was fun.
Show HN: Htmask.js – The input masking library nobody asked for
by davitostes | 2025-10-22 20:29:18+00:00
I built htmask.js because I was bored and all my input fields were embarrassingly unmasked.

It's a dependency-free JavaScript library that does one thing: masks inputs. No npm bloat, no build step, no tests (yet). Just a script tag and some mask attributes:

```html <input mask="(00) 00000-0000"> <input mask="00/00/0000"> <input mask="AAA-0000"> ```

Where `0` = digit, `A` = letter, and everything else = "let's see what happens".

I made this as a weekend boredom project because existing solutions required reading documentation, and I'm fundamentally opposed to that. It works with vanilla JS, plays nicely with htmx (shockingly), and has caused zero production incidents so far (sample size: 1).

The code is probably terrible, the edge cases are definitely unhandled, but unformatted input is ugly and this library is… slightly less ugly.

GitHub: https://github.com/DaviTostes/htmask

Fair warning: Use at your own risk. Or better yet, don't use it at all. But if you do, let me know what breaks.
by iman613 | 2025-10-22 20:29:20+00:00
Fair point — Watson definitely overpromised back then! As a developer, though, I’ve reached the stage where I do think AI could replace me someday… I’m just not sure what to do with it yet . But you’re right — the difference now is scale. More data, more context, and way more computational power. Accuracy will only keep improving, and when that happens, human + AI might finally hit that sweet spot of reliability.
by btilly | 2025-10-22 20:29:37+00:00
In particular the big win with a true capability system is avoiding the confused deputy problem. True capability systems avoid it by always associating the action to be taken, with the reason why you should be able to take it. And so a deputy who acts on behalf of A and B, cannot accidentally take an action for A using a permission from B.

But Linux "capabilities" do not address this. If you have the permission, you have the permission. And can do the action. Even if the reason why you are trying to do the action (needed for A's request) doesn't match the reason that you are able do it (needed to do things for B).
by hunterpayne | 2025-10-22 20:29:44+00:00
So this probably is valid. However, so is Gell-Mann amnesia and both phenomena happen a lot. There are topics where one side is the group of people who have attempted to understand a problem and the other side are people who either do not or won't due to emotions. Acting as if it is all confirmation bias feels good but probably isn't the best way to look at the media.
by ghshephard | 2025-10-22 20:29:44+00:00
About 20 years ago I was working in IT, and I was responsible for the physical build out (from a shell) of 599 North Mathilda, Sunnyvale - The foundations and outer walls/roof were up - but nothing inside.

I had responsibility (working with consultants who did this for a living) to work with the project manager, and architect/GC. All of the datacenters (back when companies put data-centers in their buildings), IDFs, MDFs. The MDF in particular was complex as it combined the floors IDF + the buildings MDF/telco connections, punchdowns, and a massive Nortel Option51c set of cabinets. We carefully laid out the room - measuring the minimal possible distance for cable techs to get in between the racks. Everything was designed down to the 1/4" in the room.

I showed up (mostly randomly) with a tape measure during construction - internal walls were up - and they were off by almost 14" - which would have made the internals almost unusable for their original purpose. They had to tear down their framing, pull everything out - thankfully before any electrics/racks/hvac had been put in place.

Having something like this would have greatly reduced that possibility. Bet they end up on every site (if they aren't already).
by dheera | 2025-10-22 20:29:53+00:00
> - Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible

Meta arguably achieved this with the initial versions of their products, but even AI aside, they're mostly disconnecting humans now. I post much less on Instagram and Facebook now that they almost never show my content to my own friends or followers, and show them ads and influencer crap instead, so it's basically talking to a wall in an app. Add to this that companies like Meta are all forcing PIP quotas and mass layoffs which in turn causes everyone in my social circle to work 996.

So they have not only taken away online connections to real humans, they have ALSO taken away offline connections to real humans because nobody has time to meet in real life anymore. Win-win for them, I guess.
by vharuck | 2025-10-22 20:30:01+00:00
>I've been playing with the hypothesis that if information is controversial/surprising and targeted at laypeople, it is almost guaranteed to be misleading or outright false.

Don't forget the red flag of "Makes me feel better about myself or my situation." Especially if it implies one's superiority over others.

I've often had the experience of reading an article and thinking, "This says people with quality X are, against common sense, actually better at Y. Hey, I have quality X! Aw, rats. This is probably bunk and I'm too flattered to see the errors."
by jjk166 | 2025-10-22 20:31:10+00:00
And before the fact it looked realistic.

Everyone on the first manned Saturn test died. Do you know why people got into the second manned test? It was not that they knew with certainty it would be safe, but because they thought it was realistic that they could accomplish their goal.

People die in car accidents every day, that does not make my plan to drive to work tomorrow unrealistic.
by greygoo222 | 2025-10-22 20:32:46+00:00
The Body Keeps the Score is bullshit, but this Substack is even more bullshit. The author criticizes Bessel van der Kolk for failing to prove causation, and then writes this gibberish:

"In the textbook Evolutionary Psychology, the authors explain that a particular hunter gatherer population isn’t as susceptible to PTSD despite being exposed to similarly tragic events. They argue that part of the physiological changes that come along with PTSD are increased inflammation in the body. Thus, the inflammatory nature of a standard western diet may make some people more susceptible to PTSD."

"A 2020 study on Turkana warriors in Kenya found them to be much less likely to develop PTSD-related symptoms compared to US combat vets despite also experiencing gruesome acts in a war zone."

Where is the proof that diet causes PTSD?
by NickC25 | 2025-10-22 20:32:59+00:00
>So you would enjoy playing Magnus more than playing Stockfish.

Oh, no, I wouldn't enjoy playing him more. I'd enjoy playing Stockfish infinitely more because I could learn new strategies from it. Knowing you're going to lose allows you to learn from all moves and all mistakes.

Against Magnus, I'd have no chance. I'm barely over a 2000 rating. Magnus could play with queen odds and drunk off his ass while blindfolded and would wipe the floor with me.
by lsy | 2025-10-22 20:33:28+00:00
I think this leaves out what is probably the most likely future for this technology, having a similar destiny to most technologies as a tool. Both of these visions assume (I think incorrectly) a trend towards ubiquity, where either every interaction you as a person have is mediated by computers, or where within a certain "room" every interaction anyone has is mediated by computers.

But it seems more likely that like other technologies developed by humanity, we will see that computers are not efficient for, or extensible to, every task, and people will naturally tend to reach for computers where they are helpful and be disinclined to do so when they aren't helpful. Some computers will be in rooms, some will get carried around or worn, some will be integrated into infrastructure.

Similar to the automobile, steam powered motors, and electricity, we may predict a future where the technology totally pervades our lives, but in reality we eventually develop a sort of infrastructure that delimits the tool's use to a certain extent, whether it is narrow or wide. If that's the case then the work for the field is less about shoving the tech into every interaction, and more about developing better abstractions to allow people to use compute in an empowering rather than a disempowering way.
by marcelr | 2025-10-22 20:33:31+00:00
more information is better if it’s also provided with the context of how to heal.

> History shows people are also very resilient at moving on from trauma

i’m extremely skeptical that people move on

they suppress, they survive, but without deep understanding its impossible to say move on

you can be ignorant and survive, or face reality and climb the deeply uphill battle of real growth.

of course you can be paralyzed by it, but no one is advocating for that as treatment
by kakwa_ | 2025-10-22 20:33:45+00:00
Groupe Le Monde (Xavier Niel, founder of Free and 42 schools, wed to Bernard Arnault's daughter (French Bourgeoisie is a small world)).

But Le Monde Diplomatique's redaction has been able to remain independent thanks to it's 49% shares and veto right.

It's also fairly small (~10 permanent journalists + independent contributors, ~150k monthly readers).

It's not really the kind of journal able to sustain a long investigation, it's more "social commentaries with a left-leaning/alter-mundialist point of view".
by cma | 2025-10-22 20:33:52+00:00
For 60hz video content at least I recommend AI interpolating to 180hz, you can usually only do an integer multiple if not doing pure motion vector interpolation, and then dropping or merging every other frame to bring it to 90hz. Now that youtube is doing 3d conversion they should also add this in, playing back 60hz video at 72hz or 90hz is very juddery. Also hopefully the youtube app or browser with fullscreened video will switch to 90hz when playing 30hz content, but to save battery life they may not.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-22 20:34:09+00:00
> Could I have added blockchain for tamper-proofing? Sure. Am I going to give people that idea? Absolutely not.

I appreciate the restraint. :P Besides, embedding a lie into a ledger doesn't make it true, it just makes it slightly harder to escape accountability that might not exist anyway.

> "Slightly more sour than batch #3" beats pH to three decimals.

Yeah, while the "human tongue" sensor and support package might not be standardized, it's still far more powerful than anything we can build in a factory.

We just need to control for cases where its processing-unit automatically incorporates data we want to exclude, like "how expensive was that sample."
by dekhn | 2025-10-22 20:35:10+00:00
Sometimes moving fast in a large org boils down to finding a succinct way to tell the lawyer "I understand what you're saying, but that's not consistent with my understanding of the legality of the issue, so I will proceed with my work. If you want to block my process, the escalation path is through my manager."

(I have more than once had to explain to a lawyer that their understanding was wrong, and they were imposing unnecessary extra practice)
by walkabout | 2025-10-22 20:36:08+00:00
I mean, a bunch of his book is stoic epistemology, physics, and metaphysics, all of which is of dubious value. Anyone reading him is definitely going to be picking-and-choosing what they pay attention to, almost nobody today is going to go all-in on the entire edifice of the stoic system of philosophy, and nearly all readers are likely to disregard half or more of his book—as far as the pop-cultural life of the book, these large portions of it are practically invisible for a reason.

I do think it’s remarkable that there’s much salvageable at all in it, given the age of the work (though a fair amount of ancient philosophy remains relevant, or at least functions as good reading and exercises along the lines of koans for developing philosophical ways of thinking, an awful lot is effectively obsolete and only of historical interest) and that it came from one of the most powerful people on the planet. It’s not often you get something with much enduring value at all from someone who also happens to be at or near the pinnacle of human hierarchies of their day.

Though, in fairness, he’s mostly repackaging stuff he learned from others, it’s not exactly original thinking in the same way as the chain of works from Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, say.

Still, it’d be like, I dunno, Franklin Roosevelt penning a philosophically-inclined self-help book that was still widely read and referenced beyond the year 3,000 and in languages that didn’t exist when it was written. Pretty distinctive, very few works at all in that class, and almost none from the perspective of someone that highly placed politically, despite a strong bias in general toward works from the rich and powerful being created at all, and surviving. I’d say the only way it’s likely to permanently fade is if/when “western culture”, to perhaps include near-east and Maghreb Muslim culture, fades (there’s so much overlap of the parts people like, with forms of thinking from the East, that I expect it’d have trouble co-existing with them in the same body of thought, as an actively-read item of interest)
by tshaddox | 2025-10-22 20:36:52+00:00
I first became aware of this concept many years on Gary Garrett's blog, where he primarily refers to it as "the lattice." His introduction to the concept gives a brief history:

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=342

More introduction to the lattice:

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=995

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1632

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1696

Some comparison audio between equal temperament and just intonation:

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1812

Some songs with lattice animations:

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=103

https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=1253

I also like this book which Gary recommends, although it's very challenging and I never made it all the way through:

https://www.amazon.com/Harmonic-Experience-Harmony-Natural-E...
by jotux | 2025-10-22 20:37:16+00:00
I read some articles when openai was first getting popular about them using cheap labor from English-speaking African countries (like Kenya): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421

I remember other articles specifically talking about English language features of those regions(like "Okay" instead of "OK") getting into LLMs because of this.
by withinboredom | 2025-10-22 20:37:23+00:00
I don't think they mean literally traumatic, but more like a bad breakup, or falling out of a tree. You survive -- maybe barely -- but its no more traumatic than a scrape or a bump. I still remember the first "major" injury I have (from jumping off a the top of a car at 4 years old). Not like it was yesterday -- no PTSD there -- but it was the first time I scraped my knee. I'll probably never jump off a car again.
by kccoder | 2025-10-22 20:37:28+00:00
I'm not sure I'll ever get over the fact that so many people, including a surprisingly large number of people here, voted for and support this clearly inept, mean, clueless, inarticulate, sloppy, disgusting, empathy-lacking, greedy, corrupt, incompetent, evil, childish fool to lead them. How anyone cannot see who this man clearly is after minimal exposure is simply beyond me. I keep telling myself that his supporters are just fools because that is much more comforting than alternative explanations, primarily that they LIKE was he is doing, all of it. We can fix foolishness (education), but I'm not sure how we fix a populace which doesn't value democracy and enjoys watching innocent people suffer.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-22 20:37:29+00:00
I was so excited for the Series X and it's just another crap-tier wannabe gaming PC, with none of the flexibility. It makes me so sad how miserable the XBox has become. I fucking LOVED the 360 back in the day, I used to run home from school to get on Halo 3 and play with friends.

And granted, those same friends and I still play Halo Infinite, but we're all on PCs. Nobody bothers with the goddamn XBox.
by freejazz | 2025-10-22 20:38:02+00:00
Where do courts allow unsubstantiated claims?

>but also any argumentation or evidence that tries to substantiate the claim (including testimony by expert witnesses in my ideal the version of the rule) in legal proceedings.

So you wont also let people substantiate claims? What??

>For example, the rule would not disallow "I was almost killed by the defendant's reckless action" and would not disallow "the defendant's attack put me fear for my life", but it would disallow, "and one of the effects of that experience was psychological trauma".

Have you ever been involved in such a lawsuit, out of curiosity?

The intentional infliction of emotional distress has long been recognized as a tort. You have to substantiate it, of course.
by pryelluw | 2025-10-22 20:38:03+00:00
Love me Django and excited about this release. It’s been quite a journey through the years. I started working with it a little before 1.0 and continue to do so. Nowadays as an independent consultant which gives me the ability to really help keep Django systems up to date.

Yes, there’s some rough edges. Like updating can be tricky sometimes, and performance relating to DB queries is a skill in itself, but in general it’s a great framework to build most web software out there.
by nberkman | 2025-10-22 20:38:35+00:00
Nice! Tangentially related: I built a (MacOS only) tool called clippy to be a much better pbcopy. It was just added to homebrew core. Among other things, it auto-detects when you want files as references so they paste into GUI apps as uploads, not bytes.

clippy image.png # then paste into Slack, etc. as upload clippy -r # copy most recent download pasty # copy file in Finder, then paste actual file here

https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy / brew install clippy
by drnick1 | 2025-10-22 20:38:41+00:00
I use Arch pretty much exclusively these days on my desktop, but this isn't quite true. Most of the time, Proton has a small performance impact (around 5% lower FPS), but some games tend to suffer more. For example Helldivers 2 runs around 10fps lower, which is pretty significant since I only got around 60-70 FPS on Windows at 4K (using a 3090).

Still, Proton is an amazing tool and these days it just works so well. The only games that don't work are those that are intentionally broken by invasive kernel-level anticheats. I won't be buying Battlefield 6, too bad for EA, there are now thousands of other games to play on Linux.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-22 20:39:02+00:00
But there is nothing inherent about that. The companies that want to run local models, or the cloud and hardware providers that want to sell hardware to run them, can get together and publish better local models.

Moreover, even that's presuming that you would only use the best available model, but that's also likely to be the one which is the most resource intensive and the most expensive, and then you can't afford it anyway. Meanwhile to use their smaller models you're still paying their margin, whereas if you use a local model you can spend that money on hardware. The bigger local model can beat the smaller proprietary one for the same price.