MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Marshferm | 2025-10-23 12:49:25+00:00
All thinking is done without words. This is very likely how LLMs have nothing to do with intelligence or thinking.

Thoughts are wordless processes built from Sharp Wave Ripples that flow across the entirety of the brain and probably interact ecologically with the outside. Where they are formed, how they interact and integrate with the senses, emotions, memories, motor, simulations and in what order to make action-syntax is still unknown.

Words have nothing to do with them.

“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-23 12:51:28+00:00
I'm interested to see how this will work with something like Mastodon.

Since Mastodon is, fundamentally, a protocol and reference implementation, people can come up with their own enshittified nodes or clients... And then the rest of the ecosystem can respond by just ignoring that work.

Yes, technically Truth Social is a Mastodon node. My Mastodon node doesn't have to care.
by altacc | 2025-10-23 12:51:38+00:00
The truth is more likely that both the junta and local militias have ties to different scam centres. The Myanmar government never does anything for its people, it's motivated by power and money and they were profiting heavily from scam centres until China's patience broke, due to large numbers of Chinese being trafficked and imprisoned at these scam compounds. The junta needs China's support in order to survive. As the junta lost control of the border regions the local militias stepped in to either profit from scams or close them to please China, depending upon what they thought would benefit them most.
Show HN: Open-Source Accessibility Testing for the Web
by snupix | 2025-10-23 12:52:04+00:00
Our team at Clym built an open-source Accessibility Testing tool to help developers and auditors identify and fix web accessibility issues, combining automated and manual testing in one place.

Our tool integrates the open-source axe-core[1] library for automated testing against WCAG 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 and EN 301 549 standards. For issues that automation can't reliably detect, it includes manual review workflows that guide testers through contextual checks (like keyboard navigation and visual contrast validation).

It can also generate Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in multiple formats and allows teams to define their own rules, mappings and remediation steps through a simple configuration layer.

You can view and contribute to the project on our github[2] or download the app for Mac, Windows and Linux on our website[3].

We'd love feedback from developers or accessibility testers — especially around how you combine automated and manual checks today, and what integrations would make this more useful.

[1] https://github.com/dequelabs/axe-core

[2] https://github.com/clymio/accessibility-tools

[3] https://www.clym.io/products/accessibility-tools
by jacknews | 2025-10-23 12:52:48+00:00
I think you'll find this is not 'at the request' of any government but part of a much wider policy being implemented.

Eg, Cambodia just had $15B in crypto confiscated (ostensibly illegal proceeds of the 'Prince' group, but IMHO they are just a front for the state), and is facing a financial blacklisting.

China were pressuring the area to crack down on this stuff early this year, but it's quite possible the trigger for the west to get more involved was the Cambodia/Thai conflict, which was a simple personal feud over this business, provoked by the Cambodian leader, but which risked spreading into a much wider conflict.
by Jeremy1026 | 2025-10-23 12:52:53+00:00
> A dozen can fly by for a single person or a small family.

A dozen eggs lasts months in my house (family of 4). We just aren't egg people. The kids will ask for scrambled eggs occasionally, but it's pretty rare. The only time we use a lot of eggs is when we make Christmas cookies, and an 18-count pack typically does the job there. My point being, it's all relative.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-23 12:53:03+00:00
I mean we are in the age of digital pricing, even on the shelf. Modern price collusion is more apt to happen with A/B testing if prices at locations to see what the local market will bear.

I've seen Walmart do this in the past. Items that were not on sale could have significant differences in price, where in general the prices in more affluent areas are higher. We're talking 50 to 75 cents on common items, but sporting goods quite often had a different of 3 to 5 dollars.
by nomilk | 2025-10-23 12:53:08+00:00
The researcher says

> this strange strategy will maximize your profit. “To me, it was a complete surprise”

It doesn't seem like such a surprise that algorithms that use information about rivals to optimising profit tend to price high.

Consider a small town with two gas stations, you own one. You can set the price (high or low) in the morning and can't change it until the next day. Your goal is to optimise profit for the next 1000 days. On day one you price high (hoping your rival will). But your rival prices low and wins lots of business. On day two, you price high again (hoping your rival will have seen your prices and cooperate). If your rival prices high, you both stay high for the most of the next 998 days (there's some incentive to 'cheat' and price low, but that is easily countered by the rival pricing low). If your rival priced low on day 2, you have to start pricing low too. But occasionally you'll price high to try to 'nudge' your rival to price high to avoid low-low. If they eventually understand, you can both price high for the rest of the 1000 days. Critically, even if stuck at the low-low equilibrium, you'll keep trying to 'nudge' high periodically. The frequency with which you try to 'nudge' will depend on the ratio of profit for high-high vs low-low. If you both make extreme profits when pricing high-high, you have more incentive to 'nudge', but if the difference isn't great, you won't nudge as often.

Seems obvious pricing high will be attempted in proportion to the reward relative to pricing low.

The researchers' conclusion seems reasonable:

> it’s very hard for a regulator to come in and say, ‘These prices feel wrong’”

and

> what can regulators do? Roth admits he doesn’t have an answer.

(i.e. in practical terms, there's no way regulators can police what algorithms sellers use - I can't think of exceptions to this, but perhaps there are some special cases)
by csomar | 2025-10-23 12:53:11+00:00
Professions that have "associations" are limited by physical geography. The "association" is a political power play although I concede that it offers certain guarantees about the people working in the profession.

Programming can't be constrained in that fashion. Having a "Software Developer" association will 1. not solve the problem; and maybe make it worse and 2. move all of the industry outside of the US.
by sgarland | 2025-10-23 12:53:29+00:00
IANAL, and furthermore have no idea what Hungary’s legal system is like, but mens rea is a thing. If I break a window by using it as a target for practicing my golf swing (I don’t golf; I have no idea if this is something golfers do) I am culpable. If I break a window because I’m trying to land balls next to the window, I might be culpable. Again, IANAL, so if anyone wants to correct my analogy, please do.
by estearum | 2025-10-23 12:54:46+00:00
"A lot of money is spent and the outcome is not as good as expected" does not indicate "an intentionally difficult to parse network of public and private groups" where money "disappears through the network into employee pockets."

Here's another possibility: the problem is much more challenging or more expensive to solve than one would expect from the outset. Or the challenge of the problem just vastly outstrips the talent of the people dedicated to solving it.

I don't know about you, but I encounter unexpectedly hard problems or insufficiently talented problem-solvers probably 1,000 to 10,000 times more frequently than I encounter complex conspiracies to steal money.

I think you need far more evidence than you have to make the claims you're making. Which is why they aren't specific.
by latexr | 2025-10-23 12:55:25+00:00
I don’t like Python in general, but even so I’ll say that argparse is indeed very nice. When I was writing ruby, I always felt that OptionParser¹ wasn’t as good. Swift has Argument Parser², officially from Apple, which is quite featureful. For shell, I have a a couple of bespoke patterns I have been reusing in every script for many years.

¹ https://github.com/ruby/optparse

² https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser
by duped | 2025-10-23 12:56:00+00:00
>Also, CLAP uses 3 or 4 methods to represent MIDI data (MIDI1, MIDI1 + MPE, MIDI2, CLAP events)

Contrast to VST3 which doesn't support MIDI at all, unless you count cresting thousands of dummy parameters hardcoded to MIDI controller numbers "support."
by Bender | 2025-10-23 12:56:11+00:00
Disclaimer: I am not Amish but I researched them just enough to realize I am not cut out for it. I am not an expert.

Most of the Amish are still involved in capitalism, they just don't have a hard dependency on consumerism. Most still produce and sell household items, foods, clothes. Some may even build and sell houses commercially. Some use cell phones and AI. Look up which groups are in your area and find Youtube videos on their particular customs. [1] this document is missing a lot but I am not writing a thesis. Each have different customs and differing levels of strictness to certain rules and customs. Some of the groups use tech but they may avoid dependency on it. Research this heavily before making any life altering changes. Their reality may not match the mental image some have from movies. Some youtube videos may cover some of the undocumented caveats i.e. unique social issues they will not discuss. It is a very hard way of life. Most not born into this are not ready for it.

Something one may wish to consider is trying to find a community that mimics some of their practices without the requirement for a strict adherence to it. i.e. survivalist or emergency preparation communities, hippie communes, naturalists, homesteaders, intentional communities, eco-villages, rural farming communities and so on. Any type of commune may have its own issues such as having "regulators" instead of or in addition to law enforcement. Be aware of cults.

[1] - https://www.dutchcrafters.com/blog/everything-you-want-to-kn...
by qavalier | 2025-10-23 12:56:18+00:00
I've architected several large framework-free frontends for enterprise clients. The key is solid patterns: module boundaries, state management without coupling, and progressive enhancement. Most teams fail because they skip the architecture phase. I can walk you through a proven blueprint for structuring large vanilla JS apps with clear separation of concerns. DM me if you want a quick consultation on your specific use case
by romanows | 2025-10-23 12:56:19+00:00
I use Firefox Mobile Nightly on Android and appreciate it for the dark mode extension and ad blocking. There are some issues but the benefits outweigh them for me.

I don't even have a Home button that I can see, I must have turned it off in settings? I describe my tab count using scientific notation, though, so I'd be a "new tab" guy, anyway. But I'd also be a proponent of it being configurable.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-23 12:56:27+00:00
I don't really see how anti-trust would address something like Google Chrome's safe browsing infrastructure.

The problem is that the divide of alignment of interests there is between new, small companies and users. New companies want to put up a website without tripping over one of the thousand unwritten rules of "How to not look like a phishing site or malware depot" (many of which are unwritten because protecting users and exploiting users is a cat-and-mouse game)... And users don't want to get owned.

Shard Chrome off from Google and it still has incentives to protect users at the cost of new companies' ease of joining the global network as a peer citizen. It may have less signal as a result of a curtailed visibility on the state of millions of pages, but the consequence of that is that it would offer worse safe browsing protection and more users would get owned as a result.

Perhaps the real issue is that (not unlike email) joining the web as a peer citizen has just plain gotten harder in the era of bad actors exploiting the infrastructure to cause harm to people.

Like... You know what never has these problems? My blog. It's a static-site-generated collection of plain HTML that updates once in a blue moon via scp. I'm not worried about Google's safe browsing infrastructure, because I never look like a malware site. And if I did trip over one of the unwritten rules (or if attackers figured out how to weaponize something personal-blog-shaped)? The needs of the many justify Chrome warning people before going to my now-shady site.
by yalogin | 2025-10-23 12:57:29+00:00
I don’t quite follow. The way I see it, I hat the llm “reads” depends on the input modality. If the input is a human it will be in text form, has to be. If the input is through a camera then yes, even text will be camera frames and pixels, and that is how I expect the llms to process. So I would a vision llm would already be doing this.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-23 12:58:13+00:00
Agreed. I think I have an explanation (a partial one, at best). The tech world is so adept at abstraction that we have made it one of our primary tools in the box. Everything gets abstracted away until we have a nice, clean, uniform representation of the underlying item. Whether that item is people, vehicles, road accident data or private communications doesn't really matter any more once it is abstracted. Then it's just another record.

Ethics and other moral angles no longer apply, after all, how could those apply to bits, that's for 'real' engineers. It's also at the core of the HN "'no politics', please." tenet.

I see a similar deficiency in the legal profession, they too tend to just focus on the words and the letters and don't actually care all that much about the people.
by LarryMade2 | 2025-10-23 12:58:20+00:00
In the 90s connectivity was not that great, we were getting into the internet but mainly that was geeks and big businesses. Costs to have reliable connections were still high (fast wasn't in the mindset early on), and remote access was sometimes impossible.

Many standards were up in the air, web development had several privatized niches that lead to dead-end projects. Challenge was to find one that was cheap to license, worked on your platforms of choice, and that your audience would use.

Lot of stuff was thrown to the wall to see it it would stick and didn't.

Worrying about efficiency was not a prime factor, getting something that worked and was stable was more important.

I guess you could draw parallel with AI now a lot of work is on figuring out what to do with it and make its output consistent and reliable long term (cheaply) are probably more in the minds than making it efficient.
by kube-system | 2025-10-23 12:58:23+00:00
GeoIP works by many different means. There are many different GeoIP databases which contain different data based on different opinions. Some are voluntarily reported, some by ping timings, some based on the registered address of the owner of the block of IPs, some based on business records, some based on third party reporting of other direct measurements, etc.

Starlink, in particular, reports their base station locations: https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv
by shoelessone | 2025-10-23 12:58:27+00:00
I don't see how this is an issue. To me, this does seem at least confusing, but possibly dangerous.

If you have internal auth testing domains at the same place as user generated content, what's to stop somebody thinking a user-generated page isn't a legit page when it asked you to login or something?

To me this seems like a reasonable flag.
by xibbie | 2025-10-23 12:59:13+00:00
Mate you're confidently incorrect here.

Even the quote you use is intentionally incomplete. The crucial part of the parent quote is 'is determined by how long you "hold the key"'.

Go play with a synth, or even look at an ADSR envelope tutorial, and you'll see you were wrong. And not just wrong, but condescending and wrong.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-23 13:00:58+00:00
> And the UISP product line is really meant for wireless ISP operators, not consumers, where the risks of passive PoE are smaller.

I'm afraid that's not how it works out in actual practice, it's the other way around:

WISP devices are installed in random people's windows, roofs and chimneys. The injector might end up behind their TV set. If their TV doesn't work, they unplug and replug random things. Which will fry whatever has the unlucky pleasure of ending up on the output side of the injector. I'm unfortunately speaking from experience.

Meanwhile, people buying and putting up a wifi AP beyond their CPE wifi router tend to have a bit of understanding. If you told them to never plug anything other than the given device into the output side of an injector, it'd probably go reasonably well.
by taeric | 2025-10-23 13:01:31+00:00
My experience is that liking something is basically unrelated to it being hard. Being good at it, on the other hand, requires putting in hard work. No matter what it is.

Note that you can build a ramp up process such that you don't immediately punish yourself for not being good at something. Essentially the early levels of any video game. But, that is the point. Later levels are harder. By definition. But early levels are probably hard for beginners, as well. The challenge is part of the point.

The exact same thing goes for the early periods of a sport. Just running across the field is surprisingly hard for beginners. In ways that you flat out don't remember once you are proficient at it.
by love2read | 2025-10-23 13:02:03+00:00
> Are engineers this terrified of originality that celebrating generic imagery would become a battle cry of mediocrity?

I think it's OP who is more terrified of the originality of letting anyone create with AI.

> This is unusual, a drive to embrace uniformity, and perhaps this is what internet pluralization is about. Those lacking visual imagination would come together celebrate mediocrity of imagery as a battle-cry, rally around software that roboticizes creativity.

It's almost comical how opposite my read of this was. Forcing people to "learn how to draw" is embracing uniformity rather than letting them create with whatever tool is available to them.

> The tone of these replies seems to reveal a rage that's about defending the right to eviscerate creativity.

Is creating tools to make it easier to create really the evisceration of creativity or the creation of new venues to create? In my mind it's the latter.
by Simulacra | 2025-10-23 13:02:21+00:00
I think the employment of undocumented workers is very widespread through many industries.

They are essential in so far as they can be grossly underpaid. They are essential in so far as they will work in fields, covered in pesticides without safety equipment or complaint.

The real problem are the corporations and businesses hiring them. They only hire to abuse them, and we should stop that abuse. If limiting the number of people who can be in the country undocumented forces the CEOs of some of these companies to go to jail, then that is good reform.
by Hostingmoz | 2025-10-23 13:02:37+00:00
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by IAmBroom | 2025-10-23 13:03:05+00:00
Why not? Isn't the entire point of the internet to make access to communication of information equal?

We're playing around with the word "should" here, but from a moral standpoint, I disagree with any opinion that a sovereign power should(morally) be able to control communication at all - short of immediate threats to public safety (yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater).
by yabones | 2025-10-23 13:03:12+00:00
This is another case where it's highly important to "plant your flag" [1] and set up all those services like Search Console, even if you don't plan to use them. Not only can this sort of thing happen, but bad-guys can find crafty ways of hijacking your search console account if you're not super vigilant.

Google Postmaster Console [2] is another one everybody should set up on every domain, even if you don't use gmail. And Google Ads, even if you don't run ads.

I also recommend that people set up Bing search console [3] and some service to monitor DMARC reports.

It's unfortunate that so much of the internet has coalesced around a few private companies, but it's undeniably important to "keep them happy" to make sure your domain's reputation isn't randomly ruined.

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/08/why-where-you-should-you...

[2] https://postmaster.google.com/

[3] https://www.bing.com/webmasters/
by close04 | 2025-10-23 13:03:16+00:00
> The “market handling it” would mean liability lawsuits

Amazon and Temu sell so much illegal and dangerous junk and no lawsuit changed this. People still get hurt or killed by battery fires, malfunctioning products, intoxication with all kinds of chemicals.

> followed by mandatory liability insurance

People complain that they have to wear a helmet. They won't be fine with mandatory liability insurance. The level of bike theft shows that bikes are notoriously untraceable, it's very hard or prohibitively expensive to enforce this.

> with insurers installing telemetry devices on an ebike

Raises costs, requires cloud services and connectivity, and the owner can still hack the antenna off or shield it and the bike is now permanently offline but with no way to detect that on the street.
by watwut | 2025-10-23 13:04:15+00:00
> The answer is not to act lawlessly, but instead to not be in that country at all or be there and apply pressure for change.

Oh, that is the novel idea. For people being genocided to not be there and for those who are against genocide to let themselves be killed in the first step.

> But breaking the laws in ad hoc ways is not the way.

Breaking the laws is frequently necessary in the genocide situation, because the laws were designed to create and facilitate the genocide. Genocides do not just happen out of nothing.
by GJim | 2025-10-23 13:04:47+00:00
> any site with a cart or user prefs should have a cookie disclosure

In the name of all that is holy!

Once again....

You are free to use whatever cookies you want to run your site with no need for "cookie banners". HOWEVER, if you are using those cookies to track me (advertisers take a bow) then you need my clear, opt-in informed consent to do so.

I remain utterly astounded at the ignorance some tech people have of the GDPR; a vital privacy law and one that is fundamental to modern data use and respect for the customer.
by freejazz | 2025-10-23 13:05:26+00:00
>Disallowing testimony about psychological trauma is consistent with criminalizing intentional attempts to cause it

No it's not. IIED is civil law, btw.

>and in fact the vast majority of attempts to cause psychological trauma are probably covered by existing laws against assault.

Tired of hearing legal recommendations from individuals who don't know the basics, such as the difference between civil and criminal law. Or how evidence works.