MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sebastianrw | 2025-10-14 23:08:44+00:00
I built El Luchador to get page-aware AI without black-box backends. It’s a lightweight Chrome sidebar that reads only the page you’re on (no copy/paste) and applies your own prompts or presets.

What it does • Summarize/explain/analyze/translate the current page. • BYO OpenAI API key (you control spend and data). • Import a preset from any OpenAI GPT page (capture title + prompt) or create your own one-click button, then run it against the visible DOM. • Free, no account.

What’s different • Page context via activeTab → faster workflow, less overfetch. • User control over models/prompts; no vendor lock-in. • Minimal footprint (Chrome MV3, JS; content script + service worker).

Privacy & permissions No server. Everything runs in the browser except the API call you initiate with your key. Permissions: activeTab, storage.

Limitations / roadmap Chromium desktop only for now. Working on Anthropic/Gemini adapters, local embeddings for “read later,” and preset sharing. Open to security/perm audits and heavy-page edge cases.

I’d love feedback on UX, security, and performance trade-offs. Happy to answer questions and share code snippets of the prompt builder / DOM selection pipeline.
by grafmax | 2025-10-14 23:08:49+00:00
Roughly one third of eligible voters voted for Trump, one third for Harris, and one third abstained, presumably because they felt neither candidate represented them. In a government where money buys power that’s not a totally unreasonable take. Democrats for their part have blamed voters for their supposed stupidity - not themselves for failing to field an appealing candidate. They could have won on a left populist platform to counter Trump’s right populism (left wing populism has proven itself popular), but leftwing populism doesn’t sit well with Democrat financiers. Oligarchs like rightwing populism though. Populism (left and right) is itself an expression of the growing distrust people have toward their institutions and the sense people have of being squeezed economically. The ultra-wealthy are successfully capitalizing on this by using rightwing populism to dismantle democracy and consolidate power.
by alganet | 2025-10-14 23:08:52+00:00
I think the world is not ready for the level of surveillance that exists in the wild.

For example, this post could have been a product of just probing a particular group of people to understand if they are interested in the subject and what they have to say about it.

That can be done indirectly, by suggesting someone (offering a link or planting an idea) that is already known to be interested in surveillance and prone to share interesting discoveries (in other words, the poster might not even be aware he could be an asset).

Think about the many ways someone could know your interests and how prone you are to react to something and how that could be used. If you are in tech, think about all the silly ways that kind of information can leak publicly.

People often disregard the possibility that they could be an active part of a surveillance network (as an unkowingly asset), instead focusing on more fantastical ideas such as technological hacks or coding wizardry.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-14 23:09:01+00:00
The cognitive dissonance of thinking that apps are needed to track someone with a phone vs just being able to track your phone directly is very telling. Even before smart phones with apps, the tracking was there as a required feature to make mobile work. Granted, the number of people that spend any cycles thinking about how mobile signals work probably rounds to 0. It takes someone really dialed in to the details to come up interesting bolt on things to an existing system like tracking people with a mobile device just by looking at the logs. Same thing with looking at "just the metadata". While it may be obvious to those dialed in, to those oblivious it sounds crazy.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-14 23:09:27+00:00
It's not even a hundred dollars for the 2020 SE model which still has 2 years of updates in it. For the newer 2022 model it's under 200 from refurb sellers. You can get 13s for under 250. You can even get apple care with the new subscription model and sneak a new battery for 12 bucks. Arguing with bogus facts is bad manner.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-14 23:09:28+00:00
Business models make money. If your business model is theoretical, we call that "research" instead.

Real research is done on prior art. We research things because prior studies tell us that they are feasible, otherwise you are wasting valuable time on a snipe chase. There is no reproducible or substantial evidence that AGI or singularities exist. It is another Big Tech marketing lie, no different from the reneged "don't be evil" or "privacy is a human right" mottos.
by kwindla | 2025-10-14 23:09:31+00:00
I've done a fair amount of fine-tuning for conversational voice use cases. Smaller models can do a really good job on a few things: routing to bigger models, constrained scenarios (think ordering food items from a specific and known menu), and focused tool use.

But medium-sized and small models never hit that sweet spot between open-ended conversation and reasonably on-the-rails responsiveness to what the user has just said. We don't know yet know how to build models <100B parameters that do that, yet. Seems pretty clear that we'll get there, given the pace of improvement. But we're not there yet.

Now maybe you could argue that a kid is going to be happy with a model that you train to be relatively limited and predictable. And given that kids will talk for hours to a stuffie that doesn't talk back at all, on some level this is a fair point! But you can also argue the other side: kids are the very best open-ended conversationalists in the world. They'll take a conversation anywhere! So giving them an 8B parameter, 4-bit quantized Santa would be a shame.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-14 23:09:53+00:00
The bigger issue for business users is the lack of support from Microsoft (and by extension, other thirdparty vendors), so if something breaks you're on your own.

One of our clients purchased ESU licenses from MS so they can continue using Win10 on some machines, but we're also facing a scenario where some of our software vendors have already dropped support, so even though they've got ESU, we really want to get them off Win10 ASAP.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-14 23:10:29+00:00
$599 for a phone is frankly exorbitant for what is required here.

The phone they have have that was being asked about is probably either free or close to it with carrier incentives.

Here on HN we are in a bit of a bubble. Most users of this site can just make a $500 purchase if they want to and not think about it. The median American's liquid savings are well under $10k, and buying the least expensive iPhone is a burden. "Buy an iPhone" is not a suggestion that should be made to a person who would have to put it on a credit card and would be unable to 0at.it off that month.
by phatfish | 2025-10-14 23:10:43+00:00
Tutoring works well as a video where after (or during) the video you put the examples the tutor gives into practice.

Everything else would be better read if you care about learning (being able to recall information and put it to use at a later stage).

Video essays and podcasts just provide a "trust me bro" level of understanding for the viewer, that is useless apart from arguing on the internet.
by kybernetyk | 2025-10-14 23:11:16+00:00
Tbh. after the initial shock I got used to the macOS 26 UI. Seeing Finder in the new UI for the first time is a really interesting experience. But you get used to it. (And the sidebar-over-content style is kinda neat).

I'm currently in the process of adding support for the new UI to my macOS app. The biggest problem is to make it look good on the previous macOS version and on the new one. I still have more than 50% users on pre-glass.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-14 23:11:26+00:00
It might be like prison reform and prisoners' rights - Nobody gets elected on a "soft on crime" platform, and civic engagement at the state and local level is so bad that people typically put up with cameras instead of agitating to get them banned. I say agitate. Show up, keep showing up, keep talking, keep telling friends. We can fight this. Democracy will work if we get people onboard, one way or another
by like_any_other | 2025-10-14 23:12:59+00:00
I applaud them - finding an OEM to build a phone for an Android fork is extremely difficult, because Google conditions access to the Play store on a manufacturer not building any phones with Android forks [1]. A move so ridiculously anti-competitive and hostile that it's outrageous they haven't been sued for it yet by at least the EU. It's not only that their products spy on you - they are actively doing all they can to kill any other products. If you care about privacy, they are your enemy, it's as simple as that.

[1] While it might not be an official requirement, being granted a Google apps license will go a whole lot easier if you join the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to sign its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing Android fork. Acer was bit by this requirement when it tried to build devices that ran Alibaba's Aliyun OS in China. Aliyun is an Android fork, and when Google got wind of it, Acer was told to shut the project down or lose its access to Google apps. - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
by eth0up | 2025-10-14 23:13:03+00:00
Don't take the following as an obnoxious distraction. I've not fully imbibed the featured article yet, but the entire area (region) is verily a bedlam of magnificence and wonder.

Those unfamiliar with Derinkuyu must change this hastily. Do your own research, but please see this image (pardon the url - I've been flagged for... browsing the Internet and can't access it directly):

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

And an underground map here: https://www.lolaapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/derinkuyu...

There is/are video/s available and they are more than worth watching.

I can't remember how to spell the many other regional wonders, so won't try.

Edit: ignore anyone who comes along and tries to dismiss this particular example or the surrounding region as trivial, insignificant etc. Explore for yourself and be rewarded accordingly.
by jaredklewis | 2025-10-14 23:13:24+00:00
> If you're upset about this today - you should be, but you should have been upset about it last week, last year, and for the past decade or so.

No? I wasn't upset about it for the past decade, not only because I didn't know about it, but because I wasn't even concerned about it. Ten years ago US democratic institutions and norms were not being challenged and neither party seemed particularly intent on transitioning the country to one-man rule. During the second term of Obama, Biden, and even the first term of Trump (until he lost) democracy was not under attack.

Well those things that were true 10 years ago are no longer true now, so I can change what I get upset about. Jan 6 changed this country, unfortunately.
by pella | 2025-10-14 23:13:25+00:00
Turso:

https://algora.io/challenges/turso "Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust ; Find a bug to win $1,000"

------

- Dec 10, 2024 : "Introducing Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust"

https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite...

- Jan 21, 2025 - "We will rewrite SQLite. And we are going all-in"

https://turso.tech/blog/we-will-rewrite-sqlite-and-we-are-go...

- Project: https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso

Status: "Turso Database is currently under heavy development and is not ready for production use."
Ask HN: Thoughts on the New Unplugged Up Phone?
by ibejoeb | 2025-10-14 23:13:38+00:00
There's some shady history with this company, with leader, open source misappropriations, etc. But this, they've hired a new CEO and (at least nominally) rejiggered their open source stance. Wondering if anyone has evaluated it. The hardware seems reasonable. I'm most interested in the hardware switches.
by leptons | 2025-10-14 23:13:41+00:00
And none of those companies lost anywhere near as much money as "AI" is currently, and will continue to do. Just because they become profitable 5 or 10 or 15 years from now does not mean that they will be able to pay off the hundreds of billions to trillions spent getting them there anytime soon. And for what? AI slop ruining every fucking thing while heating the planet ever faster? Sounds like a great future we have ahead with "AI".
by closeparen | 2025-10-14 23:13:52+00:00
Exactly. There should be no problem having tens of thousands of stateless, I/O bound database-transaction-wrapper endpoints in the same service. You're not going to run out of memory to hold the binary or something. If you want to partition physical capacity between groups of endpoints, you can probably accomplish that at the load balancer.

Having the latent capability to serve endpoint A in the binary is not interfering with endpoint B's QPS unless it implies some kind of crazy background job or huge in-memory dataset. Even in this case, monoliths normally have a few different components according to function: API, DB, cache, queue, background worker, etc. You can group workloads by their structure even if their business purposes are diverse.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-14 23:14:15+00:00
> Car prices are dropping relative to other goods

That's the salesman's way of saying that other goods (like gas and now electricity) have been getting more expensive faster than cars.

If you put 2 and 2 together, driving is getting considerably more expensive driven by more expensive cars and fuel, which one is rising faster is immaterial, inflation is the original problem but a used car salesman will find a way to use it to prove it doesn't exist.
by sgarland | 2025-10-14 23:14:20+00:00
Nah, just run Puppet or similar. You’re welcome to run your command to validate what you already tested in stage, but if you don’t also push a PR that changes the IaC, it’s getting wiped out in a few minutes.

I hate not having root access. I don’t want to have to request permission from someone who has no idea how to do what I want to do. Log everything, make everything auditable, and hold everyone accountable - if I fuck up prod, my name will be in logs, and there will be a retro, which I will lead - but don’t make me jump through hoops to do what I want, because odds are I’ll instead find a way around them, because you didn’t know what you were doing when you set up your security system.
by ribosometronome | 2025-10-14 23:14:24+00:00
I'm still not sure that article supports that rich people are struggling. My take away is that the core point of the article is the achievement gap between rich and poor students, especially in affluent schools. It kind of drives home that the rich kids aren't struggling, really.

>Although the kids who are lagging come from all backgrounds, they are disproportionately Black or Latino, live in a low-income household, are not native English speakers, or have a disability.

The "Income and Disability Achievement Gaps" graphs seems to show a higher percentage of non-income disadvantage / disabled students are meeting or exceeding expectations in the wealthy districts than statewide.
by idle_zealot | 2025-10-14 23:14:38+00:00
I really appreciate having a non-Google Android OS, free of Play services and other lock-in, and use Graphene on my own Pixel. The focus on security and hardening is also appreciated, but I wish the project were more ambitious in terms of actually improving on Android in terms of usability, features, and overall experience. As-is it feels like a barebones AOSP with all the security improvements existing as a sort of hypothetical improvement in the background.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-14 23:14:51+00:00
You're awfully cavalier with other people's money. Some would call that "bad manners" too since you brought it up.

Buying a $100 phone every other year when offered an android phone for free from the carrier is a meaningfully bad financial decision for people less well off than yourself. You are fortunate to be in a position to not have to worry about money like that, but try to have compassion for people less rich than yourself.
by atmavatar | 2025-10-14 23:15:16+00:00
Hillary Clinton refused to concede on election night.

The Associated Press didn't call the election until 2:29 AM EST, publishing their primary story at 2:43 AM EST.

See: https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/behind-the-news/cal...

See: https://apnews.com/article/fb2e92a47f054019a2589ace78d20836

Based on the former link, Hillary gave her concession call to Trump at 2:50 AM EST.

She gave her public concession speech several hours later.

See: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-concedes-to-t...

I'm rather curious what more you expected.

In Gore's case, we had a razor thin electoral result that hinged on a single state with less than a 550 vote margin against 5.96 million votes cast, or 0.009%. We can argue about how many recounts there should have been, but it makes perfect sense there'd be some contention when the entire election came down to so few votes.

To his credit, he conceded the day after the Supreme Court made their ruling, exhausting his final legal recourse.

See: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/uselections200...

You may notice a distinct absence of attacks on the US capitol during the certification of either the 2000 or 2016 elections. You'll also do well to note that Bill Clinton in 2000 and Obama in 2016 dutifully aided their Republican successors getting up to speed with their office on the way in, sharply contrasting Trump's treatment of Biden's incoming administration.

And, to this day, Trump still hasn't publicly conceded his 2020 loss. Quite the opposite - on multiple occasions, he's voiced the opinion that he should be allowed to run again in 2028 to make up for his "stolen" second term.

There are still plenty of Republican members of Congress as well as many state-level Republicans who maintain the 2020 election was stolen.

You would have a hard time finding a single elected Democrat at either the federal or state level who would claim any presidential elections were stolen from their party's candidates.

There is no good faith argument to be made that both parties are the same in this regard.
by kwindla | 2025-10-14 23:16:07+00:00
I honestly can't tell if this is trolling. LEGO bricks are pretty new technology, in the scheme of things. The original LEGO company "binding brick" was created in the late 1940s.

Of course you don't "need" an LLM to have a great toy. You also don't "need" injection-molded plastic. But if you have access to one or both, that can be pretty great!

Source: I wrote the spec for the first version of the LEGO Mindstorms programming language. These days I build a lot of voice+LLM stuff, some of it for big companies, some of it for myself and my kid.
by bedelman | 2025-10-14 23:16:22+00:00
Are you sure BlueStacks installs apps without user consent? I know BlueStacks as an emulator to play Android games on PC and Mac. That's a legitimate business, 100% consistent with what users want. Versus what I (author of the piece linked above) reported is that AppLovin is installing apps that users don't want -- installing silently, installing when users tap X, installing after a quick (5 second) countdown.
by fmobus | 2025-10-14 23:16:22+00:00
For that to be in anyway useful for those companies (as a means to spy on their competitors), they'd have to be actively looking into the information to derive intelligence. Not really practical without some serious engineering, which would leave tons of evidence. It's not worth it. That's just not how these companies operate.

> there's some people at Google using Edge

I'd be surprised if it's more than a handful of people with explicit exceptions for work-related tasks. Chrome is the norm.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-14 23:16:45+00:00
But if you don't have the bounds checks in machine code, then you don't have bounds checks.

I suppose SQLite might use a C linter tool that can prove the bounds checks happen at a higher layer, and then elide redundant ones in lower layers, but... C compilers won't do that by default, they'll just write memory-unsafe machine code. Right?
by monero-xmr | 2025-10-14 23:18:02+00:00
Gang violence among gang members is a life style choice. For children involved in gang violence it’s much more problematic. An adult who freely chooses to make their living on the street is a bit less unnerving as the lifestyle can lead there. When an innocent person is shot during gang violence, it is much more newsworthy.

I would also like to stop gang violence but this often means “throwing the book” at gang members, which is often disliked by many activists.

I myself live in a safe area of a major city, and there are gang murders in my neighborhood occasionally. It makes my relatives and friends ask how I can live here. But a grown man shot in his car at 3am over a drug deal doesn’t make me feel that less unsafe, and I have kids here
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-14 23:18:06+00:00
And the reverse!

For what's worth, I've actually changed my mind about this. I was originally fine with the government encouraging Twitter to take down pandemic related stuff, but after seeing what Trump has done... well, in hindsight, I think the Biden administration should have stayed out of Twitter moderation, just as the Trump administration should stay out of Facebook moderation.

I still think there is a difference in severity between what Biden did and what Trump is doing, but that's beside the point. The current administration has really demonstrated for me why free speech is so important. We should not compromise on that principle, even when it seems logical in the short term.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-10-14 23:18:18+00:00
It is. You can also write it in C++ or Rust and expose a C API+ABI, and then you're distributing a binary library that the OS sees as very similar to a C library.

Occasionally when working in Lua I'd write something low-level in C++, wrap it in C, and then call the C wrapper from Lua. It's extra boilerplate but damn is it nice to have a REPL for your C++ code.

Edit: Because someone else will say it - Rust binary artifacts _are_ kinda big by default. You can compile libstd from scratch on nightly (it's a couple flags) or you can amortize the cost by packing more functions into the same binary, but it is gonna have more fixed overhead than C or C++.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-14 23:18:26+00:00
> AppLovin makes a gargantuan profit margin of 45%

65% (68^%) net (gross) income margin for Q2 '25 [1]. 44% (54%) net (gross) for Q2 '24.

(Nitpick: I don't love financial dashboards that don't define and date their metrics. For example, what does leverage on that page mean?)

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1751008/0001...