MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rokgregoric | 2025-10-29 05:16:35+00:00
Hey everyone

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Would love your feedback — especially on:

• The quality and naturalness of the voices

• How well the summaries capture the main ideas

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Happy to chat about the tech (summarization pipeline, TTS voices, ...).
by gregw2 | 2025-10-29 05:16:40+00:00
This is a good thing.

We really really Really should Not define as our success function for AI (our future-overlords?) the ability of computers to deceive humans about what they are.

The Turing Test was a clever twist on (avoiding) defining intelligence 80 years ago.

Going forward, valuing it should be discarded post-haste by any serious researcher or engineer or message-board-philosopher, if not for ethical reasons then for not-promoting spam/slop reasons.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-29 05:16:55+00:00
Yeah, that's the problem. As soon as it became feasible to push upgrades over the wire, software companies started relying on it. And unfortunately that mentality is viral, because as soon as one thing starts doing that, anything that else that interoperates with that other thing winds up having to do it to some extent. It's a tragedy of the commons.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-29 05:16:59+00:00
>What’s happening today also isn’t the result of “pandemic overhiring” or “AI efficiencies” but the cleanup of big messes that developed on the watch of present leadership.

It's the result of economic headwinds and companies switching to maintenance mode. Except whever they can sell "AI" in their initiative. And of course, add in a healthy dose of outsourcing under the hood.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 05:18:11+00:00
NVIDIA growth in data center sales the last 4 years: 2022: from $6.7 billion +58.5% to $10.61 billion; 2023: +41.4% to $15.01 billion; 2024: +216.7% to $47.53 billion; 2025: +142.4% to $115.19 billion

NVIDIA isn’t a startup. It isn’t disrupting a market. It is the ESTABLISHMENT. Low double-digit growth numbers for market leader in established industries would be, by itself tremendously remarkable. Apple was 6% last year, for example. That’s doing great.

NVIDIA grew 142% this year and 217% the year before. That’s… that’s f%#£ing unbelievable is what that is.

The entire consumer market for NVIDIA is less than 10% of their data center market. NVIDIA is a ln AI company with a side hustle in computer graphics. Oh and a nontrivial amount of that is researchers and small companies buying consumer chips for non-LLM AI training and inference, so real numbers are even smaller.

“Zero”, while not mathematically accurate, is indistinguishable here. Elimination of most of the data center sales would immediately move market valuations by trillions of dollars.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-29 05:18:23+00:00
Third party root servers are generally used for looking up TLD nameservers, not for looking up domainnames registered to individuals publishing personal blogs^1

Fortunately, one can publish on the www without using ICANN DNS

For example http://199.233.217.201 or https://199.233.217.201

1. I have run own root server for over 15 years

An individual cannot even mention choosing to publish a personal blog over HTTP without being subjected to a kneejerk barrage of inane blather. This is truly a sad state of affairs

I'm experimenting with non-TLS, per packet encryption with a mechanism for built-in virtual hosting (no SNI) and collision-proof "domainnames" on the home network as a reminder that TLS is not the only way to do HTTPS

It's true we depend on ISPs for internet service but that's not a reason to let an unlimited number of _additional_ third parties intermediate and surveil everything we do over the internet
by Brian_K_White | 2025-10-29 05:19:03+00:00
No, I've tried cigarettes, which is all I needed for that sentence, something I don't like.

I guess it's a natural question given the rest, and expensive cigars might indeed be different than cheap cigarrettes, but it's irrelevant, since the point was not that no matter what you don't like you might still like the good version.

The point was only that discovering the good version of something did not leave me worse than before because I used to enjoy something abundant and now I can only enjoy something scarce.

It's a bit like Feynman on flowers too. You don't have to be ignorant of the biological workings of a flower to appreciate it's mere outward properties exactly the same way as the layperson does. I still love a box mac & cheese even though I thoroughly appreciate far better home or chef made mac & cheese.
by defrost | 2025-10-29 05:20:38+00:00
Apparently not all 'leaders' ...

“He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.”

~ Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/america...
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-29 05:21:41+00:00
You can be a small business owner, employer and (low) multimillionaire, and still have it go down the drain via an accident, illness or disability that affects you and/or your family. Over time, disabilities can cost millions of dollars. Surviving a heart attack can cost hundreds of thousands to a million dollars. Long-term care insurance can still deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions, and long-term care is very expensive.
by AlgernonDmello | 2025-10-29 05:22:11+00:00
Opinions without 'pi' are just onions! Its not wrong to have an opinion, but they should be based off some grounded fact/truth.

Before defining AGI, I guess we need to define Intelligence and align on whose definition of intelligence can be considered the grounded truth. The theory of multiple intelligences (Howard Gardner) seems the most accepted today. Is there anything better?

Going with the assumption that there is no other, this definition of AGI only considers the following intelligences. - Verbal-Linguistic - Logical-Mathematical - Visual-Spatial - Musical - Naturalist

It doesnt/barely mentions - Bodily-Kinesthetic - Interpersonal - Intrapersonal - Existential So this definition fees incomplete
by Nevermark | 2025-10-29 05:22:12+00:00
Why would anyone want an update misaligned with them, ever?

You should be able to set auto update, auto update with confirmation, manual update only, for any or all apps.

What someone does with that, and why, isnt something anyone should have to explain or excuse.

It could be as simple as not wanting any new features beyond but what an original version of an app has. Or not wanting an update that takes user data surveillance to another level.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 05:22:56+00:00
NVIDIA doesn’t separate their networking revenue, but at time of acquisition mellanox had less than a billion dollars on sales. Less a half a percent of NVIDIA’s current data center sales. That has undoubtedly grown, but I would be surprised if the networking share of their data center business was more than a rounding error. Keep in mind they sell GPUs for $50k, 2-8GPUs per box, and even a state of the art Infiniband card to put in that machine is only a few thousand bucks.
by strogonoff | 2025-10-29 05:23:40+00:00
The parallel between PoW and barriers to entry many communities (be it Wikipedia editors or open-source contributors) use to sustain themselves seems apt.

Unfortunately, there is no community equivalent of PoS—the only alternative is introducing different barriers, like ID verification, payment, in-person interviews, private invite system, etc., which often conflict with the nature of anonymous volunteer communities.

Such communities are perhaps one of the greatest things the Web has given us, and it is sad to see them struggle.

(I can imagine LLM operators jumping on the opportunity to sell some of these new barriers, to profit from selling both the problematic product and a product to work around those problems.)
by tomhow | 2025-10-29 05:24:26+00:00
The sentiment behind your comment has merit, but the content and style are inflammatory and count as flamebait, which is why the comment has been flagged and killed.

HN intended purpose is curious conversation, and phrases like this are not consistent with that ideal:

> I'd challenge someone to provide

> It's disturbing how indoctrinated in ... thought

> if you think ... you are truly indoctrinated

Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future especially these ones:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by adas4044 | 2025-10-29 05:24:32+00:00
Wow! Amazing post! You really nailed the complexities of AI browsers in ways that most people don't think about. I think there's also a doom paradox where if more people search with AI, this disincentives people from posting on their own blog and websites where incentives are usually ads could help support them. If AI is crawling and then spitting back information from your blog (you get no revenue), is there a point to post at all?
by vunderba | 2025-10-29 05:24:41+00:00
Nice job! Very slick demo video. As a dev, a couple of things immediately stand out to me.

1. Launching at $500 means it is going to be a "relatively" boutique product. At around the same price as an iPad Air, you're definitely going to want to focus on how the included games simply would not be playable on a more conventional touchscreen interface without the corresponding physical components.

Which leads to my second question:

2. Are the included physical pieces modular / generic enough such that prospective game developers could leverage them in future apps, or would they essentially need to design, 3D print, or contract out to your team to create their own props?
by achow | 2025-10-29 05:25:03+00:00
Thank you for the pointer. I was struggling with Nanobanana for editing an image which it had created earlier, but Reve gave me the edit result exactly the way I wanted in the first pass.

My usecase: An image of a cartoon character, holding an object and looking at it. Wanted to edit so that the character no longer has the object in her hand and now looking towards the camera.

Result Nanobanana: At first pass it only removed the object that the character was holding, however there was no change in her eyeline, she was still looking down at her now empty hand. Second prompt explicitly asked to change the eyeline to look at camera. Unsuccessful. Third attempt asked the character to look towards ceiling. Success but unusable edit as I wanted the character to look at the camera.

Result Reve: At first attempt it gave me 4 options and all 4 are usable. It not only removed the object and changed the eyeline of the character to look at the camera, but it also made posture changes so that the empty hands were appropriately positioned, and now since the character is in a different situation (sans the object that was holding her attention) Reve posed the character in different ways which were very appropriate - which I didn't think of prompting for earlier (maybe because my focus was on immediate need - object removal and change in eyeline).

On a little more digging found this writeup which will make me to signup for their product.

https://blog.reve.com/posts/reve-editing-model/
by PeaceTed | 2025-10-29 05:25:03+00:00
This has been a growing trend for decades now. For many western nations the response has been to import more people primarily from the Asian continent. And while this has worked to keep the numbers high, it hasn't addressed the fundamental issues driving this.

I do wonder that as other countries such India and the African nations start to face the same situation, will they end up limiting the amount of emigration? And if so how will that impact countries that have relied on this to prop up their economies.

For instance here in Australia, we dipped below replacement fertility rate in 1975 but immigration has increasingly filled that gap. It has made the country wonderfully multicultural but it can also be seen as a band-aid solution. If the fire hose of people from overseas slows down, regardless of internal or external reasons, the economy goes with it. This is similar for large parts of the world.

Interesting times ahead.
by rashunain | 2025-10-29 05:26:59+00:00
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by diob | 2025-10-29 05:27:29+00:00
Does such a thing exist these days? If so I can't find it.

More importantly, it doesn't solve the real problem. You're still subject to the same system. Fighting for prior authorizations, staying in-network, and navigating all the other administrative friction.

More than likely they'd find a way to make you go bankrupt rather than pay up. That or deny till you die.
by watree | 2025-10-29 05:28:16+00:00
I’ve been watching how fast people are turning Sora into side income streams. Some sell invite codes and make thousands a week. Others combine Sora2 with UI mockups to generate instant ad videos. A few even automate full social-media workflows with n8n.

But they all hit the same wall: Even ChatGPT Plus users can’t get rid of the watermark. And if you check OpenAI’s pricing page — it’s $200/month for Pro access just to remove it. You can guess how that went over on Reddit, X, and Discord.

So I built RemoveSoraWatermark.online — a tiny tool that strips the watermark in about 5 seconds, without touching the video quality.

What it does

Instant processing — no queue, no wait.

Lossless output — identical to the original Sora file.

Direct parsing, not AI “inpainting.” No blur, no artifacts.

It works by parsing the public Sora share link directly and fetching the clean source file. No uploads, no account, no data collection. Just paste → click → done.

Sora videos look hyper-real already — once the watermark is gone, they’re ready for creative reuse, ad mockups, or social posts without the “AI generated” label. With every major platform now embracing Sora-style content, engagement is practically guaranteed.

Stop watching from the sidelines — Sora2 is already here. Sora3 and Sora4 aren’t far behind.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-10-29 05:29:13+00:00
> I don't want to manually copy my signal cypher-data between devices either!

Yes you. Others do. Whenever I switch laptops the first thing to do is copy over all ssh keys. I am not going to roll a new key and add it to 100 servers.

A couple of years back I switched password managers, I didn't go over 1000 sites and changed all my passwords, my password manager exported a plaintext file and I had it imported in the other after a small transformation step.

> "Please upload the backup of your password manager and enter the root password" is not a thing you should ever do, and reasonable users, even technically incompetent ones understand that.

No they don't and if they did they would also understand not to upload their plaintext credentials.

Security for the lowest denominator cannot be used as an excuse for locked down computing for everyone or at least it shouldn't. At some point we have to put on our big boy/girl pants and know the implications of what we are doing.
by endgame | 2025-10-29 05:29:20+00:00
As I said in the other thread:

Australian users of alternative app stores should make a complaint to the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/contact-us-or-report-an-iss...

In the past, they forced Steam to implement proper refund policies, and they are currently suing Microsoft about the way subscribers were duped into paying more for "AI features" they didn't want.
by conductr | 2025-10-29 05:29:47+00:00
Then the US English is winning out because we never said earphones over here. I’m much older so have a clear memory of when they hit the market. We said earbud for a while but that was a momentary distinction and it seems we’ve mostly reverted to our generic term of headphones (which lacks any distinction on form factor ) so we use it for pretty much any and all cases.

I actually think the AirPods naming helped this as it’s kind of a clunky product name that’s nearly a misnomer if you consider iPod is still a part of our vernacular. I don’t hear people saying “where are my AirPods?” Instead it’s “where are my headphones?” Had it been called AirBuds then maybe it would have stuck since ear buds was a thing.

As I think back, I feel like earbud is distinctly tied to the corded iPod accessory. As that died out, so has the term.
by rsyring | 2025-10-29 05:30:14+00:00
For those who are going to compare to Codex, make sure you understand what model you are working with:

https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt-5-codex_prompting_g...

The "Codex" model requires different promoting for the best results. You may also find, depending on your task, that the standard non-codex model works better.
by breppp | 2025-10-29 05:30:41+00:00
Generally the UX could be an advantage, the hypertext format of wikipedia and length is nicer when you want to go on a random knowledge walk compared to LLMs.

Regarding the Wikipedia trained Ouroboros models, you can argue that the Wikipedia training is mostly there to learn to summarize sources and translate, and once you have the original sources the LLM might do a better job than humans
by tomhow | 2025-10-29 05:30:54+00:00
I think "hateful" was unfair (it's against the guidelines to use words like that, no matter what it's responding to), but it was inflammatory, hence these replies. The very best kind of HN comment is one that presents a position many may be predisposed to disagree with, without activating charged reactions, and hopefully inspiring a few people to rethink things a little.
by spectraldrift | 2025-10-29 05:30:56+00:00
This is the second article I've seen on taste here. It seems to me the author's definition of "tinkering" is primarily describing hyperfocused, repetitive behaviors found in neurodivergent individuals, potentially even a complex form of stimming. I think this is unrelated to taste.

I think good taste in engineering comes down to a mix of skill and knowledge. It isn't just about how you can reach a goal, but rather about having a solid internal map of the world and an understanding of which parts of the map you are unfamiliar with. To those lacking knowledge, the map can deceptively appear much smaller. Skill allows you to effectively find your way to the places you know you can go. With knowledge and skill, taste comes naturally. Those with bad taste, I've found, are those with limited knowledge of the vast universe of tools available and/or the lack of skill needed to utilize those tools effectively.
by maxdo | 2025-10-29 05:31:02+00:00
Every professional involved in saas, web , online content creation thinks the web is a beautiful thing.

In reality the fact of social media means web failed long time ago, and it only serves a void not taken by mobile apps , and now llm agents.

Why do I need to read everything about tailor Swift on you her web site , if I don’t know a single song of her ? ( I actually do ) .

I don’t want a screaming website tells me about her best new album ever , and her tours if LLM knows I don’t like pop music . The other way around if you like her you’d like a different set of information. Website can do that for you
Show HN: UnPlotter – Extract data from vector PDF plots
by ramcdona | 2025-10-29 05:34:00+00:00
I thought you all might be interested in this recent project of mine.

Here is a 78 second video demonstrating its use: https://youtu.be/AkR6-IWVgBU

UnPlotter is a JS app that will extract the data from vector plots in PDF files. Perhaps you want to compare your method with a published result. Or perhaps you want a MOSFET performance curve from a product data sheet.

Over the years, there have been many programs to extract data from raster plots. They typically use image processing / computer vision algorithms to 'follow the red line' -- and then scale the results to recover an approximation of the data.

When I have needed to extract data from figures that were available as vector files, I was unwilling to take a screenshot and then use a raster extraction tool. Instead, I would delete all the extraneous data in a vector drawing program (say InkScape or Illustrator). Then I would convert to a text-based vector format (usually EPS, but more recently SVG). Then I would edit the file and reverse engineer the curves from the data. It was painstaking and slow, but it satisfies a certain level of OCD.

UnPlotter does all this so you don't have to.

The good news -- no image processing / CV algorithms needed to follow lines. Most plotting programs group the curves in a way that they are intrinsic.

The accuracy is shocking -- although plotting programs may round their output, PDF stores real numbers as single precision floating point (in pt (1/72 in) in page coordinates) -- so some scaling occurs can introduce some truncation error, but you're effectively recovering the data to single precision (say less than 1e-5 error). Which is a ton better than picking pixels from a 300dpi image.

Everything happens in your browser, the loaded PDF file never leaves your computer. No logging, tracking, etc.

I'd always wondered why nobody ever made a tool to do this -- so I did. I hope some of you find it interesting and perhaps even useful.
by lchoquel | 2025-10-29 05:35:13+00:00
Yes! Clearly the introduction of LLMs into the mix raises the problem of throwing dice. The point of view we chose is: how to orchestrate the collaboration between AI, Software and people? With our aim to have repeatable workflows, this drove us away from building autonomous agents and towards a place where the software is in command of the orchestration. Then the Humans and AI can discuss "what you want to do" and have software run it and use AI where it's needed.