MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by astrange | 2025-10-07 22:12:16+00:00
"Posting through it" is a fairly nonsensical concept. It implies you're required to agree with people yelling at you, which you aren't.

Bluesky in particular has this problem because it inherited a kind of leftist crustpunk poster from 2016 Twitter. They had a weird affect where they hated "nerds" for some reason and pretended to be those jock bully characters from 80s high school movies.

The modern Bluesky form has evolved into being terrified of "AI" and screaming at anyone who uses it or has ever heard of it that it doesn't work and will never work but is also using up all the water and steals everyone's art and is going to make everyone unemployed and also you're a STEMlord who needs to take humanities classes to learn to be ethical.

They're currently working on inventing new slurs for AI chatbots which are mostly remarkably offensive.
Show HN: Getting AI Models to Wink – The Wink Test
by niwrad | 2025-10-07 22:13:16+00:00
I’ve been trying to create long form GenAI films and found myself struggling to generate video of a character to wink. I found myself quite amused by the results.

So I built a benchmark around getting video models to wink.

Every model gets the same prompt and the same starting frame.

Prompt: “She winks with her right eye.”

Models tested: Veo3 / Kling 2.1 Master / Runway Gen-3 / SeedDance 1.0 Pro / Moonvalley Marey / Wan 2.2 / Minimax Hailuo-02 / Midjourney

I've ran 9 random seeds for each model.

It looks like Kling 2.1 Master is doing the best of this batch.

Would love to hear other small, quirky things you've struggled video models to do — I’ll try to add them!
by gertlex | 2025-10-07 22:13:47+00:00
The 'Acquired' podcast episode on Ikea speculates that their "buy in person" was historically a cost advantage (especially over pre-assembled furniture that cost $$$ to deliver), as they didn't have to pay shipping/delivery. In the modern era of "expect free shipping as long as some minimum amount is spent", online sold and delivered sales have less profit margin, and one could imagine an intentional business decision to try and keep the in-person experience the "preferred" one for customers.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-07 22:14:10+00:00
Maybe some day, sure. We may eventually live in a utopia where everyone has quick, efficient, accessible mass transit available that allows them to move between any two points on the globe with unfettered grace.

That'd be neat.

But for now: The web exists, and is universal. We have programs that can render websites to an image in memory (solved for ~30 years), and other programs that can parse images of fully-rendered websites (solved for at least a few years), along with bots that can click on links (solved much more recently).

Maybe tomorrow will be different.
by x0x0 | 2025-10-07 22:14:33+00:00
Of course it is -- if you tout investments, that means previously you didn't invest. Whereas any competent business would be looking at demand, the head counts, ages, and doing some quick math.

And eg

> There’s incredible dignity in emergency services, and people can have wonderful careers.

Not really. Ask anyone who does it; you'll hear minimum wage or not much above, and piles of transport of fat people. ie huge risks to the joint health for the people stuck moving them.

And of course, dignity ain't cash. This The whole thing is an extended whinge that rounds to I don't want to pay more.

Plus the implicit idea that society is responsible for preparing employees for Ford, not Ford.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-07 22:14:33+00:00
I was shocked at what I saw. I won't so far as to say that I wouldn't have believed you, but I would've been skeptical. Nope, not anymore. It was really, really bad. And like you, I'm not talking about things like "oh no, people are saying things I disagree with!" It was more like "wow, I cannot believe people are actually saying these things in public without fear of being shunned by society".
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-07 22:14:40+00:00
I've read so much FUD about Windows undoing settings with updates but in 3+ years it hasn't happened to me. The one thing they do revert with updates and have now removed completely is the registry hack to enable the old alt-tab menu. When they got rid of that I found Alt-Tab Terminator as a replacement and I'm happy with it.

But I see no trace of AI/Copilot, no ads, no suggestions, telemetry is still off, I disabled that stuff a long time ago and I didn't see them come back when I updated to 24H2 a few months ago.

More transparency is still good, though.
by LexiMax | 2025-10-07 22:14:52+00:00
The _actual_ trouble with Bluesky is that it's just a retread of Twitter with only a few minor tweaks, right down to the inevitable moderation and governance problems from shoving every user into a single shared social space and having a single centralized point of failure.

It's not 2012 anymore, and the modern mainstream social media ecosystem has turned into an utter disaster area. If you're going to do social media in the 2020's, you need something better, not the same tired ideas and empty promises about "We'll do it _right_ this time around, honest."

Mastodon, for all its faults, at the very least was truly and demonstrably decentralized.
by lkey | 2025-10-07 22:15:01+00:00
Facebook and Twitter no longer bother with moderation, do you think the experience on those platforms is better or worse than 5 years ago?

It used to be common sense to immediately ban creeps of all stripes, especially the obvious ones. Singal certainly qualifies. Putting aside the super annoying 'just asking questions' vitriol that he publishes to national papers, his pdf-file chat log stuff alone would warrant an instant perma from me without a second thought.

Speaking to your broader point about the 'death' of a platform. The people that made bsky what it is now (good and ill) are precisely the people you are blaming for its downfall, which is weird. Normally when you run a business you want your users to remain so that you might profit.

Relatedly, I'm very very tired of the 4chan/crypto/ai gas-leak that has enshittified everything, aren't you?

I've seen bsky users chat casually about their rpe and death-threat ratio before and after leaving twitter, and for that alone, I would choose the 'threat lite' platform for as long as it remained so.

> "The question is not whether those views are right, it's whether those are mainstream."

I don't agree that this is the question, nor do I agree with the your unsupported number. This isn't an election, and popularism is a coward's appeal. Was the Gaza genocide not a genocide until the polls caught up with what we could all see was happening?

I don't even think you believe what your wrote. If the 'views' in question are truly shared by 85%!* of a population that never agrees on anything, then surely there's no problem with sharing them on this forum? A guarantee of 85% positive karma is awaiting you if you just speak your truth. It's the Trump era, and you can say the 'r-word' and the 't-slur' now. What was actually holding you back?
by quesera | 2025-10-07 22:15:15+00:00
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=CHN~USA

I'm no expert, but if these data are correct, emissions in China are growing dramatically, and in the US they are trending downward at (honestly) an unexpectedly impressive rate.

China is currently emitting well over 2x what the US does, and extrapolation from the last 25 years suggests that China will exceed the US, on a per-capita basis, in a handful of years.

This is somewhat counter-narrative. But assuming it's correct, the questions become: How bad would it be if China was not taking the problem seriously, and how much better would the US be if they were taking the problem seriously?
by nemo30s | 2025-10-07 22:15:16+00:00
Alright, so here's my stupid cycle:

Ask ChatGPT/Claude something

Get a perfect answer

Think ohh I'll definitely remember this

Couple days later: where the hell was that explanation or code??

Scroll through tons of messages like I'm on an archaeological dig haha

Give up after 5 minutes

Ask the AI the same question again like a moron

I'm so tired of doing this that I'm considering building something to fix it. A simple Chrome extension that lets you bookmark individual AI messages, tag them, and actually search for them later.

But before I waste two weeks coding this, LIKE ALWAYS, I need to know if maybe I'm just uniquely disorganised or if other people have this problem too.

I made a landing page with a quick survey: https://ai-answer-saver.vercel.app/

It's literally four questions and takes maybe 2 minutes. I'm doing the whole "validate before you build" thing because I've definitely built stuff nobody wanted before and I'd like to not repeat that mistake.

Honest feedback appreciated. Roast the idea if it's dumb.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-07 22:15:38+00:00
Recommendation systems are just bad across the board.

Audible says "You liked this John Scalzi book? Here's every other Scalzi book as a recommendation! Also a few other very popular books which are almost exactly the same as the one you just read!"

Amazon says "You just bought a hammer, here are 37 more hammers in case you want another one!"

Why yes, I do like books with spaceships in them, but maybe I want to see more than the next 20 most popular books with spaceships in them...

Recommendation engines fail by failing to make connections that aren't in the immediate neighborhood.
by niwrad | 2025-10-07 22:15:53+00:00
I've also added a text-to-image versions of the same test here: https://www.cinemodels.ai/benchmark?test=wink&type=text-to-v...

Prompt: "A white female in their 30s winks at the camera with her right eye.

She is standing in a quiet dark green forest, backlit by the sunset during golden hour."
by kace91 | 2025-10-07 22:15:57+00:00
Winner doesn’t necessarily equal better.

Media takes time to consume, which means that many products won’t be consumed at all even if they are good, much less be consumed enough to reach the point where word of mouth can achieve virality.

The reality is that the best winner is usually a product good enough to not be laughed at (though not usually best in class), with some characteristics that make it marketable, and with strong backing behind (money, connections or both).

One funny effect is that you end up with artists talking about viral topics like social justice and discrimination like it’s first hand experience, but a quick check will show they come from immensely privileged backgrounds.
by astrange | 2025-10-07 22:16:07+00:00
It cost $44B to get him unbanned so I think that's actually pretty good evidence it worked.

> One of these people now sits in the White House, in part because of backlash to the deplatforming of him and others with similar politics.

It's not because of anything. Cause and effect doesn't apply to the brain of the median American voter - they live in a world of pure imagination. You could say they thought prices would go back down to 2016 levels, but that makes too much sense. If you look up what they actually think it's like "I voted for Trump because I want to protect abortion".
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 22:16:24+00:00
No it doesn't. You can navigate to long paths, but try doing any file operations (like renaming a file) and you'll see it doesn't work.

Also, the rest of my points are end user impacting. Updates impact everyone and is a very important part of an OS experience. I used to work on a helpdesk for an MSP, and you've no idea the number calls we used to get from users frustrated about updates for various reasons. Hell, we use Windows at work and I still get annoyed as a user.
by hollerith | 2025-10-07 22:16:35+00:00
That may be true, but insurers continue to lobby for capping, and in the US most large employers are "insurers" in the sense that although they might outsource the administration of the health plans of their employees, they basically pay the entire cost of the care.

Although doctor pay is only a small fraction of the total cost of health care, limiting doctor availability is an effective way to limit total cost because most expensive health care goods and services require a doctor to order or prescribe the good or service. I.e, until the patient gets enough time with the doctor for the doctor to realize that the good or service is necessary, the insurer does not need to pay for the good or service.
by carynh | 2025-10-07 22:16:56+00:00
I wanted to give you (and the website you linked) the benefit of the doubt since with all the accusations they make there is a link in there. I thought it was sources of Jesse actually doing any of this stuff (which he didn't but I am willing to be proven wrong) .. but no. Those links are all just internal info dumps and almost nothing of the accusations on the page is sourced .. at all.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-10-07 22:17:52+00:00
Do you ever see this kind of sky https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/kondensstreifen-... ? That's over Frankfurt, Germany's busiest airport. Also from the 2020 article (v. G. tr.):

> Researchers believe that the ice clouds created by contrails have contributed more to the rise in global temperatures in recent years than all the CO2 released into the atmosphere since the beginning of aviation. The annual increase in air traffic and flight routes at ever higher altitudes are particularly contributing to the formation of ice clouds. At high altitudes, contrails can combine with icy cirrus clouds and thus remain in the sky for up to 18 hours.
by dkarl | 2025-10-07 22:18:16+00:00
I played chess for only a few years, at a low level, and I encountered situations where underpromotion to a bishop or rook was necessary to win. It's possible it is more common at the just-above-beginner level than at the elite level, because a player in a losing position will play on longer and try to set up stalemate traps that would be pointless in higher-level games.
by marssaxman | 2025-10-07 22:19:05+00:00
I've been doing this for years, though I don't really think of it as "having a backup" so much as "using an IMAP client". Works fine. It's really useful to be able to make up a new email address for every company who wants one; they each get their own folder. If I get any unexpected mail, it's obvious where it came from and easy to deal with, though in practice this rarely happens.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-07 22:19:54+00:00
I already am in that situation. Like onions and Ogres, my email defense is in layers.

1. Specific known compromised TO addresses are sent to devnull.

2. Specific FROM senders are whitelisted.

3. Three or sometimes four heuristics engines evaluate. If any of them pass the mail, it goes to a separate new-senders inbox. I thus get maybe a dozen spam messages per week in that box - and five figures of messages rejected.

I used to tweak it a lot, now I just occasionally add another FROM address to the whitelist.
by astrange | 2025-10-07 22:20:26+00:00
It already is and has been for a long time. The kinds of content you have to moderate are not things anyone wants to look at. The worst ones are far worse than you can imagine and the average ones are nudes of people you don't want to look at all day.

This is actually today's controversy on Bluesky because the #1 attribute of its power users is they're terrified of "AI" and the idea that "companies will steal their posts to generate AI slop", which means they think the ML moderation is stealing their posts.

Oh, but the ML can't be decentralized because the training datasets are illegal.
by Izkata | 2025-10-07 22:21:47+00:00
I have this vague memory of a blog where someone went through various CSS resets, and came to the conclusion that margins and paddings made up something like 90%+ of the differences between browsers. Apparently only "* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }" gets you most of the way there and the larger CSS reset stylesheets were so big because they included unnecessary stuff, rarely-used elements, or even added the creator's preferences instead of just being a reset.
by hashbig | 2025-10-07 22:22:41+00:00
Industry standards are not platform standards. React (enabled by Inertia) is in many ways is an industry standard for building UIs on the web today, yet it's not part of the platform. Same with Vite, it's the standard way to bundle on the web.

Decidedly, Import Maps are not used as a standard for dependency management in the web dev industry.
by guywithahat | 2025-10-07 22:22:59+00:00
I think you're looking for lexical gaps where there are none. If you're not using LLM's while coding, you're behind the industry. While GenAI may be overhyped, it's not a fad, and if you don't incorporate it into your (what I assume is a) software based job you're going to fall behind your coworkers. I can't list every positive adjective here but it's an incredibly useful tool which everyone should be using.
by dktp | 2025-10-07 22:23:08+00:00
I cycle a lot. Outdoors I listen to podcasts and the fact that I can say "Hey Google, go back 30sec" to relisten to something (or forward to skip ads) is very valuable to me.

Indoors I tend to cast some show or youtube video. Often enough I want to change the Youtube video or show using voice commands - I can do this for Youtube, but results are horrible unless I know exactly which video I want to watch. For other services it's largely not possible at all

In a perfect world Google would provide superb APIs for these integrations and all app providers would integrate it and keep it up to date. But if we can bypass that and get good results across the board - I would find it very valuable

I understand this is a very specific scenario. But one I would be excited about nonetheless
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 22:23:10+00:00
When did you last try Remmina (which uses FreeRDP as the backend btw)? Ever since FreeRDP got updated to V3, the RDP experience improved significantly. I use it every day for work stuff and it's been great - folder sharing works, clipboard works, so does audio forwarding and DPI scaling. Oh and RemoteApps too. Honestly I've got zero complaints with it.
by dlivingston | 2025-10-07 22:23:20+00:00
> This isn't an election, and popularism is a coward's appeal.

These platforms were supposed to be the "digital town square". Implicit in that is the idea that anyone and everyone can discuss and share their ideas. When would you remove someone from an actual town square? Only when they are being extremely disruptive or violent.

Further, it cannot be a "town square" if half the town isn't allowed to be there.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-07 22:23:24+00:00
> If Google decides to abandon Android tomorrow, or go all in on Windows Mobile OS, is that an "abuse of market dominance"?

Yes.

> In reality, private companies are free to make decisions that make sense to them.

And that's why governments should regulate them very strictly. I fully expect corporations to fuck over consumers if it makes them a couple of bucks.

> There's no law that says things should be "free", or everyone should be "happy" with a companies decision.

Most countries have regulations protecting consumers.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-07 22:23:42+00:00
You missed their primary purpose: To provide cover for whatever half-assed idea an exec came up with. If the CEO of my automobile company wakes up one morning with the zany idea to cut costs by only including 3 wheels with the purchase of a car, if he just goes ahead and does it, the investors will call for his head when customers stop buying our cars and instead purchase our four-wheeled compeitors. But if our CEO hires Deloitte, they'll make a bunch of reports and excel sheets that show why 3 wheels are the best idea ever. If he wanted to add an extra wheel, there'd be a bunch of reports on the superiority of 5 tires. If he decides to switch back, hire the consultants, they'll dutifully report on how 4 tires was the right amount all along. It's all just an accountability shell game.
by andy_ppp | 2025-10-07 22:24:15+00:00
I’m saying these purchases are designed to increase the hype cycle and are not based on new investments but mutual round robin investments where Open AI buy graphic cards and AMD stock with pretend future valuations of the company based on a new valuation driven by the announcement of deals like this. It begins to seem completely unreal if you think about it long enough, everyone has gone completely mad in my opinion.
by felixgallo | 2025-10-07 22:25:15+00:00
oh, there's tons of basis in reality. How could you even say that? Just a cursory google:

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-makes...

https://www.azregents.edu/news-releases/abor-chair-statement
by wtf77 | 2025-10-07 22:25:19+00:00
That's fine for your own domain, but I usually download my emails via IMAP and don't leave anything on the remote server. Finally, do you really keep your emails? Emails are ephemeral, often just informative, and if there's anything important, I process it and delete the email. I may archive 'sentimental' emails, but I rarely search the archive as I mainly delete emails.
by sfink | 2025-10-07 22:25:39+00:00
The article claims that the warming effect from bouncing heat back down is overall larger than the cooling effect from bouncing heat back up. If you disagree with this assertion, you'll need to say why, not just call someone a liar.

The article does agree that 9% of contrails have an overall cooling effect, and perhaps that could be magnified by a larger or more persistent contrail.
by brucehoult | 2025-10-07 22:25:55+00:00
Absolutely. Six operands [1], each of which can be in a different memory page AND have an indirection via another memory page AND both the indirection and the final operand could if you're unlucky be misaligned and straddle two memory pages ... ow.

[1] MOVTC (Move Translated Character), MOVTUC (Move Translated Until Character), ADDP6 (Add Packed 6-operand)
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-07 22:25:57+00:00
> Facebook and Twitter no longer bother with moderation, do you think the experience on those platforms is better or worse than 5 years ago?

I haven't used FB in years but Twitter is very (stupidly and incoherently, but very actively) moderated. Unless you are being technical and saying that Twitter doesn't exist and so isn't moderated, and the moderated thing is X, but...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-07 22:25:59+00:00
My understanding of the fact is entire surface. I can provide citations related to only usable solar and wind potential, if so desired.

> or just dry land?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_solar

https://www.rwe.com/en/research-and-development/solar-energy...

https://www.nrel.gov/news/detail/press/2025/floating-solar-p...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/long-popular-in-asia-fl...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221462962...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212...

https://time.com/china-massive-floating-solar-field/

https://theelectricityhub.com/seychelles-launches-floating-s...
by viccis | 2025-10-07 22:26:20+00:00
This reminds me of when some NFTs were stolen and OpenSea delisted them. Like yeah, they still exist out there on the blockchain, but when a central authority can gatekeep peoples' ability to view them, how decentralized are they actually?

Moxie Marlinspike wrote a good essay [1] about "Web3" that highlighted a few of these kinds of issues, and I think it applies to anything like Bluesky claiming to be "decentralized" when it's prohibitively difficult to access it any way other than the biggest central service.

1: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html