MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lxgr | 2025-10-15 20:43:52+00:00
There's definitely a "glazing" axis/dimension in some of them (cough, GPT-4o), presumably trained into them via many users giving a "thumbs up" to the things that make them feel better about themselves. That dimension doesn't always correlate well with truthfulness.

If that's the case, it's not implausible that that dimension can be accessed in a relatively straightforward way by asking for more or less of it.
by ragazzina | 2025-10-15 20:44:16+00:00
Why shouldn't you? You learn 3 new characters a day with no effort whatsoever via SRS and pass the HSK1 in 2 months. If you like it, you keep on studying and improving, if you don't like it, at least you will be able to greet the taxi driver when you go there (but won't understand their reply).
by whstl | 2025-10-15 20:44:21+00:00
It doesn't even have to be in companies that big. The AWS salespeople took the CTO and a couple of directors of engineering for diner in a fancy restaurant. That was in a fintech that had around 200 employees. AWS also paid for the mandatory marketing... sorry, mandatory training sessions we tech managers had to do.

This is how much it takes for a CTO to demand the next week that "everything should be done with AWS cloud-native stuff if possible".
by perdomon | 2025-10-15 20:44:57+00:00
It's kind of crazy that they insist on doing basically one of these every year. A lot of people complain that the iPhone stopped changing (meaningfully) between updates several years back. I think Apple Silicon is bound to be the same. I will say that the M4 Mac Mini was groundbreaking in terms of a budget-friendly Apple product -- I hope they recognized why it was loved and continue to iterate in that direction.
by strcat | 2025-10-15 20:45:27+00:00
Global Mock Location is a standard Android feature not specific to /e/. GrapheneOS also supports it, and is building a better replacement for it similar to our Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes features providing otherwise missing functionality in Android that's partly available in iOS. /e/ doesn't have either of those things or other privacy features such as the Sensors toggle.

/e/ can't prevent tracking by apps and doesn't do it. It has built-in DNS filtering, which doesn't stop the most privacy invasive behavior by apps but rather only single purpose domains for the least invasive tracking making no attempt to evade filtering as explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598100. Any app or SDK wanting to evade DNS filtering only has to use a dual purpose domain, perform their own DNS requests via DoH or fall back to an IP address so many apps and SDKs do those things. However, the most privacy invasive behavior almost always happens through the servers used for app functionality with server side data sharing with third parties. It's not considered good practice to put API keys into the client and do things client side in the first place. There are some exceptions such as crash reporting, analytics and telemetry where that's common which are far from the most privacy invasive behaviors. If they want to evade DNS filtering for those, that's easy.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-10-15 20:45:50+00:00
I spoke to a priest doing this when a family member passed. He'd perform the early Sunday service in town, then drive 1.5h to the next valley over and do a service there, then drive 45m to a third church before returning to the first for meetings and elderly care visits. Worse, each of these churches had different sermon schedules so he was preparing sermons customized to each on top of his other duties.
by aftergibson | 2025-10-15 20:46:14+00:00
As time goes on, I find myself increasingly worried about supply chain attacks—not from a “this could cost me my job” or “NixOS, CI/CD, Node, etc. are introducing new attack vectors” perspective, but from a more philosophical one.

The more I rely on, the more problems I’ll inevitably have to deal with.

I’m not thinking about anything particularly complex—just using things like VSCode, Emacs, Nix, Vim, Firefox, JavaScript, Node, and their endless plugins and dependencies already feels like a tangled mess.

Embarrassingly, this has been pushing me toward using paper and the simplest, dumbest tech possible—no extensions, no plugins—just to feel some sense of control or security. I know it’s not entirely rational, but I can’t shake this growing disillusionment with modern technology. There’s only so much complexity I can tolerate anymore.
by perduin | 2025-10-15 20:46:46+00:00
Hi HN —

I built YTDb, an “IMDb for YouTube” to help you discover channels by vibe instead of whatever the feed decides. It’s in open beta: https://ytdb.me

Why:

Search and recommendations often feel like the same loop. I wanted a manual, people-first way to find creators that match the style you like (e.g., chill vs. high-energy, casual vs. scholarly) and to surface hidden gems outside the algorithm.

How it works:

Viewers can leave an overall rating (1–10) and adjust style sliders (pace/energy, polish, humor, depth, etc.).

Optional written reviews (75+ words) encourage thoughtful, non-spammy input.

Search by topic + vibe and optionally weight/ignore sliders; add filters like min subs, average video length, upload cadence.

Results return a match % to your configuration and “similar creators” based on style.

What I’m looking for from HN:

Does the onboarding make sense?

Are the slider dimensions useful/complete? What would you add/remove?

How do the matches feel vs. your expectations? Any obvious ranking misses?

What would make you willing to contribute reviews so the index improves?

Known limitations (beta):

Early dataset → some niches are thin; quality improves as real people add reviews.

Google sign-in required today (to reduce spam); exploring guest/alt logins.

Desktop-first; mobile polish in progress.

Near-term roadmap:

Guest read-only mode and non-Google login.

Creator pages (claim/verify), public lists (“If you like X, try Y/Z”), and “similar-to” pages.

Better niche taxonomies, smarter weighting, and exportable watchlists.

Community hub (Discord) for weekly “Channel of the Week.”

If this scratches an itch, I’d love your feedback (and a couple of reviews to seed the DB). Thanks for reading!

Site: https://ytdb.me

Discord: https://discord.gg/86bVx8s2

Email: ytdbcontact@gmail.com
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-10-15 20:46:46+00:00
This article aligns very well to my frustration to the current view of AI in media and discussion.

> AI tools like KNNs are very limited but still valuable today.

I've seen discussions calling even feed-forward CNNs, monte-carlo chains, or GANs "antiquated" because transformers and diffusion have surpassed their performance on many domains. There is a hyper-fixation on large transformers and a sentiment that it somehow replaces everything that came before in every domain.

It's a tool that unlocks things we could not do before. But it doesn't do everything better. It does plenty of things worse (at-least taking power and compute into account). Even if it can do algebraic now (as is so proudly proclaimed in the benchmarks), wolfram alpha remains and will continue to remain far more suited to the task. Even if it can write code; it does NOT replace programming languages as I've seen people claim in very recent posts on here on HN.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-15 20:47:10+00:00
What irks me most about Framework is their refusal to ship worldwide, or at least allow retailers to resell them.

They even go to the extent of cancelling orders which use addresses of known parcel forwarders[1], or if they detect a payment method that's not from a supported region. No other niche laptop maker does this (System76, StarLabs, Slimbook etc). Heck I haven't heard of any tech manufacturer going to such an extent to limit regional availability.

Their draconian shipping policies is the reason why I don't support Framework. 88.5% of the world's population does not have access access to a Framework as a result of their policies, so I hope people keep this in mind when recommending or raving about Framework.

[1] https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/framework/comments/1bgfq8f/f...
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-15 20:48:48+00:00
Some words copied from a paywalled article ( a small percentage ) https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/peace-out-hamas-has-a...

"....It didn’t take Hamas long to prove that their new found commitment to peace, much less to disarming themselves, was, like almost everything else they say, a lie.

As the Israel Defence Forces withdrew from some parts of Gaza, in accordance with Donald Trump’s peace plan, Hamas sent gunmen back on to the streets.

Their very first priority was not to confront any Israelis, nor to feed or assist their civilian population. It was instead to hunt down and kill Palestinians opposed to Hamas.

There was a good deal of killing in gunbattles, but Hamas also rounded up Palestinian men it didn’t like, tied them up, forced them to kneel, and shot them to death......"
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-15 20:48:55+00:00
> Color processing is for me subconcious, I don't get the "color overload"

Same. I noticed this on a Whatsapp group I have with old friends. About 8 people, so each gets a specific color in their name, and that's how I identify who is talking on a glance.

Once one of them switched thier phone number, and had to leave and reenter the group. This caused the colors of everyone to change.

For a couple of weeks it was hell. I was used to Person A to be pink, Person B to be yellow and so forth. I would reply to A thinking I was replying to B because their color changed, which caused a lot of confusion.
by Maxatar | 2025-10-15 20:48:59+00:00
Ease of implementation was not the issue here, on the contrary the easier implementation would have guaranteed that std::variant<Dog, Cat> always contains a Dog or a Cat. The issue was performance in that guaranteeing a Dog or a Cat requires dynamic storage duration if either of Dog or Cat has a throwing constructor.

If neither Dog or Cat have throwing constructors, then std::variant<Dog, Cat> is guaranteed to always be a Dog or a Cat.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-15 20:48:59+00:00
> > Window management sucks

> I'm always mystified reading these kinds of posts on HN because it literally always starts out as "macOS is an OS for babies" and turns out to mean "macOS doesn't have a tiling window manager". Like, cmon man, who cares.

For me, not so much the window management, but task management. I very strongly believe that the task bar (I guess the Dock bar in MacOS) should have a separate item for each open window of an app. If I have 3 Firefox windows open, that should be 3 entries in the task/dock bar so I can switch between them in a single click. I can do this in Windows, can't do it in MacOS.

One of the problems I have with MacOS is that it's not obvious how to start a second instance of an app. Sure, some apps will have a "New Window" option. But what about apps that don't, like Burp Suite? If I bring up the launcher, then click Burp Suite when one is already loaded, it just shows me the existing one.
by caymanjim | 2025-10-15 20:49:07+00:00
Ain't nobody got time to pick models and compare features. It's annoying enough having to switch from one LLM ecosystem to another all the time due to vague usage restrictions. I'm paying $20/mo to Anthropic for Claude Code, to OpenAI for Codex, and previously to Cursor for...I don't even know what. I know Cursor lets you select a few different models under the covers, but I have no idea how they differ, nor do I care.

I just want consistent tooling and I don't want to have to think about what's going on behind the scenes. Make it better. Make it better without me having to do research and pick and figure out what today's latest fashion is. Make it integrate in a generic way, like TLS servers, so that it doesn't matter whether I'm using a CLI or neovim or an IDE, and so that I don't have to constantly switch tooling.
by dataeqconsult | 2025-10-15 20:49:31+00:00
We recently partnered with Perpetuuiti, a global leader in operational resilience automation, to create a joint suite that combines data governance, AI bias detection, and disaster recovery automation. The integrated framework uses DataEQ’s BiasSense and MetriX platforms to measure bias, compliance, and data health while leveraging Perpetuuiti’s automation to deliver end-to-end operational resilience. More here: https://dataeqconsulting.com/news-perpetuuiti-premier-us-par... Feedback welcome — especially around enterprise data trust frameworks and responsible AI practices.
by jraph | 2025-10-15 20:49:40+00:00
It's nothing like donations: people pay these extensions / apps like any other paid software. That's my point, actually.

In XWiki's case, we know it's not perceived like "I could be having it for free but I'll pay anyway because it's a nice thing to do".

We do explain that our stuff is open source to our customers though. It's a selling point.

In our case, admittedly, it helps that our target customers want our support anyway.

> before someone just undercuts you with a fork.

Absolutely, it is a risk to take into consideration. Now, maintaining a fork has costs too, and someone doing this would rely on continued maintenance and goodwill from the upstream vendor as well.

Downstream vendors actually have an incentive to keep good relationships with upstream, so they can share fixes and have some guarantee that whatever they base their business on keeps being maintained.
by weeha | 2025-10-15 20:49:48+00:00
Looks like they rotated all signings keys a day earlier:

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000157005

In October 2025, F5 rotated its signing certificates and keys used to cryptographically sign F5-produced digital objects.

As a result:

BIG-IP and BIG-IQ TMOS product versions released in October 2025 and later are signed with new certificates and keys BIG-IP and BIG-IQ TMOS product versions released in October 2025 and later contain new public keys used to verify certain F5-produced objects released in October 2025 and later BIG-IP and BIG-IQ TMOS product versions released in October 2025 and later may not be able to verify certain F5-produced objects released prior to October 2025 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ TMOS product versions released prior to October 2025 may not be able to verify certain F5-produced objects released in October 2025 and later
by orphea | 2025-10-15 20:50:16+00:00
I, for one, think dropping the "Core" suffix (absolutely dumb naming) was the right thing. Yes, it might have created some confusion with the old .NET aka .NET Framework but I hope it's temporary. It's been five years of .NET-no-suffix and nine of it being cross-platform. At some point people should just educate themselves and stop thinking that .NET is somehow Windows only.
by strcat | 2025-10-15 20:50:39+00:00
The approach used by /e/ doesn't actually work and enables fingerprinting VPN users. It only stops the least invasive tracking for client side analytics, etc. where there are single purpose domains which can be blocked. Multi-purpose domains used for both privacy invasive things and functionality don't get blocked. The app's own servers used for the most privacy invasive behaviors in practice of course don't get blocked. They can share whatever they want with arbitrary third parties through those. However, it won't get blocked client side by /e/ if it's needed for any functionality so third party services which are privacy invasive won't be blocked unless the app doesn't need them, doesn't do it server side and doesn't do basic evasion of filtering deployed in many apps by resolving DNS queries themselves or having IP fallbacks like Facebook.

Location Scopes is a planned replacement for the standard Android Mock Location feature which is rebranded in /e/ as their own feature. /e/ does not have features similar to Contact Scopes or Storage Scopes. It doesn't provide the current generation standard Android privacy protections or patches since it's always very far behind on updates. Most privacy patches aren't backported to older releases, but they lag far behind on backports and don't fully apply them despite claiming to provide a much newer patch level than they do.
by tempestn | 2025-10-15 20:52:20+00:00
FYI in case you decide to write without the AI more, "setup" and "checkout" are nouns. If you're using them as verbs, they are two words, "set up" and "check out". You can remember which is which based on whether it would make sense to put another word between them, ie. "set it up" or "check something out", vs "the setup of the document" or "a fresh checkout of this branch".
by strcat | 2025-10-15 20:52:49+00:00
/e/ has extraordinarily poor privacy and security. Extremely delayed privacy and security patches including years of delays for kernel, driver and firmware updates or complete AOSP patches is not compatible with privacy.

/e/ rolls back privacy and security far more than LineageOS and /e/ includes their own invasive services. Murena services even send data to OpenAI without user consent.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-stand... is a detailed post covering the lack of privacy and security of /e/ with a bunch of linked sources including other detailed posts by third party privacy and security researchers. It also touches on the lack of security of Fairphone hardware including end-of-life Linux kernel branches not getting LTS updates and delays for driver/firmware patches, but it's much worse with /e/.
by Topfi | 2025-10-15 20:52:58+00:00
> [...] can you find a single criminal case in the literature where police caused Google to disgorge a complete browsing history on someone who took even modest steps not to record it (ie browsed logged out.).

Can you first point to me making a claim that would require such a case? Or can you, alternatively, point to why there is a need for change rather than just continue to apply the same level of legal protections to LLM service providers?

The fact that this started with a report about a users ChatGPT account and you felt the need to move us towards people using commercially hosted LLMs without an account (cause getting five queries in before OpenAI forces you to sign in is a realistic use case) I let slide up to this point, because whether we are talking about incognito mode access or a user with an account, doesn't change that no one here says why using Chat.com is different to Google.com. I just wanted to call it into memory, cause it is not very expert like, same with the (mis)quoting.

To make it simple, this is my question, the only thing I'd like to have answered:

When self hosted websites first became a thing, governments across the globe did not write new editorial legislation specific for these. They did just apply what was already established for print media/speech.

In this context, why should LLM input be handled differently to data hosted online?

Use file sharing services with no login requirement and the legal requirements there if this completely irrelevant red herring is absolutely necessary for you. Doesn't change anything about the question.
by jchw | 2025-10-15 20:53:18+00:00
No, you're right. Writing is very expressive; you can certainly get that feeling from observing how different people write, and stylometry gives objective evidence of this. If you mostly let AI write for you, you get a very specific style of writing that clearly is something the reinforcement learning is optimizing for. It's not that language models are incapable of writing anything else, but they're just tuned for writing milquetoast, neutral text full of annoying hooks and clichés. For something like fixing grammar errors or improving writing I see no reason to not consider AI aside from whatever ethical concerns one has, but it still needs to feel like your own writing. IMO you don't even really need to have great English or ridiculous linguistic skills to write good blog posts, so it's a bit sad to see people leaning so hard on AI. Writing takes time, I understand; I mean, my blog hardly has anything on it, but... It's worth the damn time.

P.S.: I'm sure many people are falsely accused of using AI writing because they really do write similarly to AI, either coincidentally or not. While I'm sure it's incredibly disheartening, I think in case of writing it's not even necessarily about the use of AI. The style of writing just doesn't feel very tasteful, the fact that it might've been mostly spat out by a computer without disclosure is just the icing on the cake. I hate to be too brutal, but these observations are really not meant to be a personal attack. Sometimes you just gotta be brutally honest. (And I'm speaking rather generally, as I don't actually feel like this article is that bad, though I can't lie and say it doesn't feel like it has some of those clichés.)
by steveBK123 | 2025-10-15 20:53:23+00:00
Negative income tax is probably a more straightforward to implement this.

Explaining to middle class people that they are going to get $20K UBI but their taxes are going up $18K isn't going to go well.

Remember whenever you setup a "good" government program thats dependent on 1-2 other "bad" government programs in unison (UBI + progressive tax increases) then the risk is future admins remove the medicine but keep the candy. Then the whole thing becomes unaffordable and the good program gets wound down.

Or you end up with crazy stuff like the UK triple lock pensions.
by c0nsumer | 2025-10-15 20:53:30+00:00
I'm regularly asked by coworkers why I don't run my writing through AI tools to clean it up and instead spend a time iterating over it, re-reading, perhaps with a basic spell checker and maybe grammar check.

That's because, from what I've seen to date, it'd take away my voice. And my voice -- the style in which I write -- is my value. It's the same as with art... Yes, AI tools can produce passable art, but it feels soulless and generic and bland. It lacks a voice.
by mcv | 2025-10-15 20:53:42+00:00
No country has a pure implementation of any ideology. Ideologies are directions you want to take society, and economic systems are always a balance. But the US is quite a bit more blatantly capitalist, with its lack of holidays, lack of worker rights, and everything geared towards an even more extreme division of wealth.

Netherland, and northern Europe in general (I never meant to single out Netherland specifically; Scandinavia is probably ahead of us), is absolutely capitalist, but not nearly to the extreme that the US is, and has more labour protection, better social welfare, better regulations. Not to the extent that it should have; it's still falling way short, and Netherland in particular has been falling further short since the neoliberalist wave of the 1990s and the string of right-wing governments of the past 25 years. But it's not the worst of the world in this regard, and it still has a fairly effective balance that consistently puts it near the top of most freedom and happiness indexes with the rest of northern Europe.

It's by no means perfect, and there's a lot that needs to be improved, but compared to most other countries, this is clearly a pretty effective system.
Ask HN: Messed up and can't catch up. What to do?
by findingMeaning | 2025-10-15 20:53:56+00:00
I messed up with life. I work in a niche and I feel like I can't catch up with progress. I earn fairly decent salary for where I live. If I lose this job, I won't have another one. I will be basically un-hireable. Currently, I am working for US client.

I understand research papers, I understand the code, but I can't replicate it in a week. It's very hard to replicate a paper even with source available. Then I read people praising blogs from someone who is barely getting started. It puts me in a situation where I question my whole existence. I do not know when and where I messed up. Am I just lazy? I am in front of a screen 12 hours a day. I am distracted. I have to work to meet my weekly quota. Focused work is 6-8 hours and remaining is unfocused work. It's very hard to get anything in life. Life feels so numb. AI is eating what I was skilled at. I started questioning if I ever learnt anything or just knew stuff.