MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shermantanktop | 2025-10-08 18:15:45+00:00
I guess I see it as a continuum. My cats are clearly not as smart as a human, but they remember and they have independent thoughts. Presumably they wouldn’t feel inadequate compared to a human, since they get everything they could possibly want and we do the work. But it’s highly unlikely that they are smart enough to have that self-reflective thought.

Humans have the gift of understanding, but our lives are filled with things we either don’t really understand or that we have an illusion of understanding. Of course, we wonder “why does evil exist?” whereas cats wonder “when is dinnertime?”
by mindslight | 2025-10-08 18:15:48+00:00
I'd say the practical political purpose is to normalize the idea of extreme power disparities and mass disenfranchisement, and of course the everpresent edgelord vice signalling to draw attention by appearing as some fresh alternative.

I'm not saying Yarvin is not fully steeped in white supremacy by now - I mean seriously how hard would it be to find a different word? Has he run out of words from all that prolix writing?

It just feels like a pretty ineffective and nonproductive angle of critique. It's what they expect and have already set up their individual and collective armor to deflect it (eg how "deplorables" played out).

The real problem is that authoritarian societies don't innovate. People felt this suffocation from the creeping bureaucratic authoritarianism, which is why they were tempted to buy into this autocratic garbage in the first place. But the failure modes of autocratic authoritarianism are so much worse. Never mind starting off with a demented moron at the helm, making even the initial trajectory point downwards.
by Sniffnoy | 2025-10-08 18:16:24+00:00
> Vajra and Vajra 2 - A pair of LaserActive-exclusive rail shooters by Data West

Wait, Data West? Apparently there was indeed such a company: https://www.mobygames.com/company/6613/data-west/

They're founded later than Data East, but also Japanese. They don't appear to be any sort of spinoff of Data East or anything, but I have to wonder if with the name they were hoping to confuse people somewhat into thinking they were Data East, or to ride on their reputation...
by thisisit | 2025-10-08 18:16:29+00:00
> a former interim IT manager still had an email client connected via token authentication - with access to all messages. And that person had signed the original contract with the provider years before. Informally questioned, he admitted contacting them "to warn them" but claimed it was harmless.

This kind of behavior rubs me the wrong way. People leaking stuff, breaking compliance and then say - It was just harmless.

I work with a Director who has done something similar multiple times. The chain of events often is - She attends an industry conferences, there she learns about a piece of software, she goes ahead and schedules product demos and solicits a contract. She then contacts the only outsourcing agency she is aware of and promises to give them the implementation contract. Then reaches out as she doesn't have the authority to sign those contracts.

Since the time I have been responsible for product selection this has happened twice. Both times I have been under different managers. Both managers have insisted it was harmless.

Last time this happened the Director was told by promising work and soliciting contracts she was in gross non compliance of the company policies. Her response showed how little she cared. As per her, this was an internal matter and no one could punish her.

Later when we evaluated the product and it promised to "get better with time". All the company's data was being ingested into an AI without regard for enterprise data security rules. Even then her response was - What is the big deal? Everyone reads everyone's data. Legal got involved and shut it down - they asked the product to turn off AI features for our instances.

It is really hard to contend against a malicious or dumb team mate. In a corporate setting if they are higher than you then it is even more difficult. They can chalk it up to a harmless mistake and no one can do a thing.
by avinashvagh | 2025-10-08 18:17:15+00:00
I built a comparison guide to explore how video creators can move beyond Pictory AI in 2025.

The post covers six emerging tools that outperform Pictory in speed, AI quality, and creative control. It breaks down which platforms are best for solo creators, agencies, and teams scaling video content.

Each section includes real examples, feature differences, and use cases, not just feature lists.

Would love feedback from creators and engineers using AI for video generation. Which tools do you think are most promising for 2025?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-10-08 18:18:11+00:00
You're probably not going to find this satisfying, but, online? For sure nothing.

Even in person, I'm not sure that there really is a way to persuade someone to change their politics in the modern media landscape, even if you get a lot of time alone with them one on one in person and you do everything right, because of what we know about media inundation and how people begin from their gut feelings and then work backwards to retcon details that align with those feelings.

You will have conversations where it seems like you've made some kind of progress, where it seems like you've earned some kind of credibility, where it seems like you've gained some kind of ground, and then the next day they will regress because the new thing they just saw will confirm their original vibes and the interpositions you created will be pushed out of mind and forgotten.

And this will happen over and over because the world is psychotically overrun by messaging from media empires that make mindbogglingly large amounts of money from outright conning people.

So, unless you have a few anti-billionaire billionaire friends thinking of starting media empires in your pocket, possibly the one thing you can do is run for local government.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-08 18:18:14+00:00
The issue is the will to fight it, basically. Even if you're wronged, if the other party is belligerant you need to be willing to push for the criminal investigation, push for the transfer, defend yourself against lawsuits even if they're frivilous, etc. Many people in these organisations just want a quiet life and will bend over to such behaviour because the demands are not bad enough to make them want to fight it.
by arandr0x | 2025-10-08 18:18:28+00:00
This is a Canadian bill and the party in power are (relatively) progressive and (definitely) democratic, though they are to the right of the American progressives and to the left of the American Democratic Party. More to the point, they do not remotely own everything.

They are unlikely to pass it directly without changes though. They are a minority government, and the Conservatives have been backed by foreign actors in various capacities in election cycles and are a strong enough opposition that they'll resent the crackdown, and the leftists are generally not fans of the local telecom industry (or the Liberal pandering to industry in general) and will probably want either less protection for telecoms or more protection for individuals.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-08 18:18:50+00:00
It's a passive process, there is no method. The zeitgeist is what it is. There's room for mockery, disgust, memes, cartoons, substantive analysis pieces, dispassionate think pieces. This is a comments section.

Calling attention to emerging actual MAGA policy failure is not the same as calling attention to pussy-grabbing being poor character.

Letting any of this become seen as normal/accepted is a non-starter. Even if things do continue to not change after this window of opportunity of bad results starting to emerge, there's room for things to get worse.

Non-acceptance of his first term did result in his electoral loss.
by azalemeth | 2025-10-08 18:19:00+00:00
I really love posts like this – and moreover it's clear that emulating games has spurred the development of really deep technical skills in more than one author.

I worry that the likes of the extremely difficult to crack, on-chip DRM found within e.g. the Xbox One X, designed at every available opportunity to resist hobbyists understanding and using the hardware, will show up as a big gap in museum exhibits in our cultural memory in the 2200s. DRM has a long tail, and we societally pay quite the underappreciated price for it, for sure.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-08 18:19:00+00:00
That's something that I've heard that many times before. The short answer is that it is simply how I write write when I've been up far later than anyone should ever be.

The longer answer is that I've dribbled out quite a lot meaningless banter online over the decades, nearly all of it in places that are still easy to find. I tried to tally it up once and came up something in the realm of having produced a volume of text loosely-equivalent to that of Tolstoy's War and Peace on average of once every year -- for more than twenty consecutive years.

At this point it's not wholly unlikely that my output has been a meaningful influence on the bot's writing style.

Or... not. But it's fun to think about.

---

We can play around with that concept if we want:

> concoct a heady reply to jacobtomlinson confessing and professing that the LLM was in fact, trained primarily on my prose.

Jacob,

I’ll confess: the LLM in question was, in fact, trained primarily on my personal body of prose. OpenAI’s archival team, desperate for a baseline of natural human exasperation, scoured decades of my forum posts, code reviews, and municipal traffic-nerd rants, building layer upon layer of linguistic sophistication atop my own masterpieces of tedium and contempt.

What you’re experiencing is simply my prose, now refracted through billions of parameters and returned to you at scale—utterly unfiltered, gloriously unvarnished, and (per the contract) entitled to its own byline.

The grace is all mine.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-08 18:19:05+00:00
The theoretical argument seems sound, but it does ignore there are massive constant factors in current implementations beyond just the theoretical limit alone (particularly cost and heat) and skips directly explaining why those end up having similar growth rates.

The actual formula used (at the bottom of the ChatGPT screenshot) includes corrections for some of these factors, without them it'd have the right growth rate but yield nonsense.
by bartread | 2025-10-08 18:19:37+00:00
Yeah, I mean, you might be right. As others have commented, I think it's simply very hard to say what gains we're really going to see from AI-assisted software development at present.

And then of course there's the question of how many businesses have their key value proposition rendered obsolete, and to what extent it's rendered obsolete, by AI: doesn't have to be completely nullified for them to fail (which obviously applies to some software companies, but goes far beyond that sector).
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 18:19:53+00:00
Note that other threads in this post have said "with a warrant" which is different from general lack of privacy. These are things we need to debate as a society and it means understanding details not making two sentences on a discussion board with less than 15 minutes of thought... (I of course have no idea how much thought you may have put into this before this topic came up, I only see the time stamps on our comments... This is why I hate debates - you don't have time to make a well thought response to something new and so you can lose to a bad idea if you don't come up with the right counter)
by jauer | 2025-10-08 18:20:05+00:00
Trivially on their (and qnap's) amd64 systems at least. There are some quirks where they are more similar to an embedded system than a PC, but it's not a big deal. Things like console over UART (unless you add a UART) and fan control not working out of the box, so you set it to full speed in bios or mess with config.

Debian has docs on installing on at least one model of their arm boxes: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Synology

I run Debian on a few different models of qnap because their hardware occupies a niche of compact enclosure, low noise, and many drives.
by quipacorn | 2025-10-08 18:20:10+00:00
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by mort96 | 2025-10-08 18:20:14+00:00
> Plenty of companies support products that work with third-party components.

Exactly. And they typically help you with issues even if you do use third-party components.

> Your phone won't charge? Is that our charger? No? Try one of ours.

That's not really how it works. If I have tried 5 third-party USB-C chargers of different brands, and they all charge all other USB-C devices perfectly but not my phone, my phone vendor will hopefully be more helpful than "sorry, can't help you, you've only tried with third-party chargers".
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-08 18:20:19+00:00
Dear <<HN commentator>>,

I didn't say it was made by an LLM, though, did I? I actually said it is written like a prompt for an LLM by someone trying to ape what they see as human behaviours. It comes across as spectacularly facile and worthless.

<<Reference shared memory. Highlight future possibilities or collaborations>>

Kindly yours,

<<Author>>
by pansa2 | 2025-10-08 18:20:21+00:00
> The decryptor used a table held in a small SRAM that was powered by a battery.

IIRC Sega’s System 16 did something similar. Was that board’s encryption cracked in the same way?

Was this style of anti-piracy measure widely used at the time, or was it only on a few 68000-based systems?
by cko | 2025-10-08 18:20:32+00:00
I once watched a video of a man holding what looked to be a bicycle battery walking into an elevator. After the doors closed, it seemed to have exploded and burst into flame in his hands, and the aftermath was charred remains.

After seeing this I refuse to sleep near my 20,000 mAh power bank. I saw this Jackery power station for sale for an ultra discounted price and noticed it was not lithium iron phosphate and I noped so fast.
by hylaride | 2025-10-08 18:20:50+00:00
Yeah, an empathetic person would understand how and why the person is feeling the way they are and acknowledge it. There can be of course legal repercussions to going off on your employer, but even a "yeah, that's now how I would have done it myself", etc can show that you actually do care.

If somebody you know was dumped recently and is saying negative things about their ex, it's perfectly fine to "agree" or commiserate while they process and go through the stages of grief (ignoring any issues like their ex being family, etc).

The author reads to me like one of those perennial "think positive thoughts only" people that think that'll get them success.
by tcdent | 2025-10-08 18:20:54+00:00
> they're not going to be able to rig up a set of automated tests with continuous integration and continuous deployment to a Kubernetes cluster somewhere.

Honestly, I have a ton of experience in system administration, and I'm super comfortable at a command line and using AWS tooling.

But, my new approach is to delegate almost all of that to Claude, which can access AWS via the command-line interface and generate configuration files for me and validate that they work correctly. It has dramatically reduced the amount of time that I spend fiddling with and understanding the syntax of infra config files.
by JdeBP | 2025-10-08 18:21:23+00:00
You need to look at non-x86 architectures. It was common years ago on MIPS.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/function-perilogues.html#StandardMIPS

I wrote up the x86 equivalent of doing just two read-modify-write operations on the stack pointer over 16 years ago.

* https://jdebp.uk/FGA/function-perilogues.html#Standardx86
by whatshisface | 2025-10-08 18:22:01+00:00
You lose some civil rights when you decide to become a criminal (or join the Army). ;-) One of the things courts are allowed to do to a criminal is force them to wear a GPS tracker on their ankle, as a method of enforcing that they are not within some distance of an elementary school. It would not be so different to force them to install software on their phone, and the analogy to forcing everyone to wear a GPS tracker is clear. Your civil rights include not being told where to go, something you also lose as a criminal (or a soldier, obviously). It is how civil rights work in our society. Authoritarians want to turn everyone into criminals or permanent soldiers.
by steveklabnik | 2025-10-08 18:22:05+00:00
So hilariously, I hadn't actually read those docs yet, I just knew they added the feature. It seems like the docs may not be up to date, as when I read them in response to your reply here, I was like "wait, I thought it was more sophisticated than that!"

The answer seems to be both yes and no: see their announcement on youtube yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yct0MvNtdfU&t=181s

It's still ultimately file-based, but it can create non-Claude.md files in a directory it treats more specially. So it's less sophisticated than I expected, but more sophisticated than the previous "add this to claude.md" feature they've had for a while.

Thanks for the nudge to take the time to actually dig into the details :)
by nonameiguess | 2025-10-08 18:22:12+00:00
Earlier than that, Facebook became ascendent because of quality. It was better than MySpace, the only real competitor at the time. The issue here is Facebook is not primarily a software product. It's a community, and the community was better than MySpace because it was restricted to pre-existing networks rather than taking any comer. I don't think Mark did that on purpose as a calculated decision. He just got lucky. When they eventually opened up and became just as shitty as MySpace had been, they were big enough to simply acquire better products that might have been competitors, and network effects locked them in for probably decades until their users die off and don't get replaced by younger people who never used Facebook.

I don't really see it as an example of what you're saying so much as an example of success as a product having to do with far more than explicit product features. You can see a similar dynamic in other natural monopoly markets. The NBA didn't necessarily do anything particularly right product wise, for instance. They just got the best players because basketball was historically more popular in the US than other countries, and the ABA made some stupid decisions that let the NBA win out in the US.

Hell, the US itself didn't do a whole lot "right" aside from not being in Europe when Europe decided to destroy itself, being better-positioned than other potential competitors like Canada, Mexico, and Australia simply because North America is best positioned to trade with both Europe and Asia and the US is more temperate than Canada or Mexico. But we sure like to tell ourselves stories about everything we did right.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-08 18:22:17+00:00
I modified some of the lines to help!

- “Hi <firstname>, sorry to hear what <company> did to you; that was a real dick move! I appreciated your efforts and wish you the best!” - Offer to help, and follow-up. - Only trash the employer if they deserve it, and have a conversation about why they're trash if the person is interested. If they start that, say “Yea, those guys are cunts. Especially your boss Ed. He's incompetent, and has been blocking you and the team ever since he got promoted. They should have promoted you or Stacie instead.”. - Carry on the conversation if they're interested. A lot of colleagues don't stay in touch when people get fired. Stay in touch! You'll both be better off for it. Making friends is hard, and losing them is easy. - Say things like “wish we could have kept you” or “you were such a great performer. I know why you were laid off, and was a dumb move on the company's part. I'm interviewing at other places now, and will leave as soon as I find a replacement; this is a sinking ship. Let me know once you find something - I'm interested too!”
by umanwizard | 2025-10-08 18:22:32+00:00
> You followed up to my asking for an explanation why with:

>> As stated it's wrong

You misunderstood that comment. He was saying that my claim (that using an upside-down rook is illegal in serious play) is wrong as stated, because it's only true for FIDE rules, not USCF rules. He wasn't saying the act of using a rook that way is wrong (morally or otherwise).

> if you want to claim the rules forbid this act, you should be able to cite a rule

No, this isn't how rules work. The rules of a board game describe all the ways you're allowed to move the pieces, under what circumstances pieces can become other pieces, and so on. If some piece transformation isn't discussed in the rules, then it's not allowed. Otherwise, I could on a random turn say "I declare all my pawns to now be queens". There's no specific rule that says you can't do that, but nevertheless, the rules forbid it implicitly by not mentioning it. Similarly, the fact that they never mention that a rook can become a queen means that in fact, it can't.

So in fact the rule you're looking for is on page 7 of the PDF you linked:

> If a player having the move [...] promotes a pawn, the choice of the piece is finalised, when the piece has touched the square of promotion.

"The piece". Not a different piece having been turned upside down.

Let's take an analogy to real-world laws. Imagine you live in a country that says apples are taxed at 1 cent per apple. Now, imagine a shop turns all the apples upside-down, and declares that they consider upside-down apples to actually be bananas, so they don't have to pay the tax. Is this legal? No! Even though the law doesn't mention anything about whether you can or can't do that, nor does it give a mathematically precise definition of what an apple or banana is. Even though it's not explicitly forbidden, it is still not allowed.

> I'm also, across both of these descendant threads, annoyed with responses not readily engaging with my legitimate inquiry about why forbidding the use of the inverted rook as a promoted queen proxy may be the case. It's a neat quirk or curiosity to me

In another subthread I gave five plausible reasons why it makes sense not to allow it. Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45512086
by surlyville | 2025-10-08 18:22:46+00:00
Same here. Still rocking a DS415+ from 2015. Had to solder a 100ohm resistor to work around the Intel Atom C2000 flaw. Has had a new set of spinning rust in that time too. It's also connected to UPS so will power down if there's an extended outage. Stuck on DSM 7.1 but it does the job.