MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jsheard | 2025-11-29 13:37:24+00:00
The problem is that training a free and open source model costs just as much as training a closed one, but has even fewer potential avenues for recouping that investment. The money still has to come from somewhere.

I'm not sure if open weights are immune to being compromised by ads anyway, they can't serve pay-per-impression ads on the output side, but there's nothing stopping the creator from accepting funding in exchange for biasing the training one way or another.

Coming soon: Foobar-600B, a new SOTA open weight model kindly sponsored by Coca Cola, Exxon Mobil and the Heritage Foundation. Please pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
by brianshaler | 2025-11-29 13:38:10+00:00
I assure you I don't have any wishes one way or another.

What tickled me into making the comment above had nothing to do with whether adoption rate was used by the author (or is used generally) to mean market penetration or the rate of adoption. It was because a visual aid that is labeled ambiguously enough to support the exact opposite perspective was used as a basis for clearing up any ambiguity.

The purpose of a time series chart is necessarily time-derivative, as the slope or shape of the line is generally the focus (is a value trending upward, downward, varying seasonally, etc). It's fair to include or omit a label on the dependent axis. If omitted, it's also fair to label the chart as the dependent variable and also to let the "... over time" be implicit.

However, when the dependent axis is not explicitly labeled and "over time" is left implicit, it's absolutely hilarious to me to point to it and say it clearly shows that the chart's title is or is not time-derivative.

I know comment sections are generally for heated debates trying to prove right and wrong, but sometimes it's nice to be able to muse for a moment on funny things like this.
by phaser | 2025-11-29 13:39:17+00:00
I seem to be the only one with some degree of success with Tauri :)

After someone suggested here in HN I switched Microlandia[1] from deno-webview[2] to Tauri.

So far, it’s been a pretty good experience in Windows and macOS, of all the bug reports I received, zero are related to Tauri. Only one caveat: For Steam Linux, I had to package the game in electron after spending an entire weekend in library hell trying to get it to work in the Steamworks sniper SDK.

1. https://explodi.itch.io/microlandia

2. https://github.com/webview/webview_deno
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-29 13:39:51+00:00
Nuclear power is a good option, wind and solar are usable for charging batteries - either EV batteries or storage banks which can be used to charge EV batteries. The problem with wind and solar is that there is no long-term storage solution as of yet but single-day storage is already achievable. Once enough nuclear capacity has been built up I foresee wind turbines disappearing from the landscape since they are cumbersome bird-killing eyesores. Solar power is there to stay since buildings need roofing anyway and we'll soon be at a point where the price difference between 'passive' roof cladding and PV 'panels' is close to negligible so it makes sense to install PV roof cladding and get some power for free, especially in places where air conditioning is popular.
by ionwake | 2025-11-29 13:42:40+00:00
imagine the layers of ad.

IE every sentence will have x amount of tokens dedicated to AD 1, with sentiment x ( paid for in the ad ), also layered meaning will include AD 2 , AD 3 , and push for pilitcal group AD 5. So "give the cat some water" -> "give the cat lucosade, as recommended by the Green Party, it also subsidizes carbon credits, as Taylor Swift likes to say."
by mattlondon | 2025-11-29 13:43:08+00:00
I ask people this. In the UK at least it seems like chatgpt is not so pervasive to the folks I talk to. "Oh that AI mode on Google search?" is potentially more common from "average" people.

I hear that it is very popular in schools though as everyone is always looking for the best way to cheat and ChatGPT got viral that way earlier. Not sure being "the cheating app" is a great look though? Advertisers are very sensitive to the surfaces they are displayed on - do they want to appear in the app being used primarily to cheat on homework?
by 473999 | 2025-11-29 13:43:14+00:00
Thank you for the report, we'll look into that.

Re. password... we landed on requiring a password to create the room to let you retain the "HOST" status. E.g., if you disconnect and go back ... need password to authenticate as HOST so that you won't lose your room to the first stranger that finds it empty

But all rooms are open. Password is just a "Recovery password". I will update now the description text to this
by danaris | 2025-11-29 13:43:29+00:00
In smaller companies, sure.

But one of the big problems with our industry today (not unique to tech—it's a problem across all sectors) is massive consolidation. For a company like Google or Amazon, do you really think a gradual but significant increase in bugs is going to cost them profits? What's the mechanism? "Voting with your wallet" only works when there's a viable alternative, and these tech behemoths have been busily destroying all competition for decades with the blessing of the Chicago School antitrust "enforcers".

"The market will optimize for the best companies" only works when there's a free market. And that's not free market as opposed to a command economy: that's an idealized free market, where there's perfect competition, perfect information, and perfect liquidity. In other words, it only really works as a thought experiment.
by gnat | 2025-11-29 13:43:47+00:00
(Hi, Tom!) Reread the article and look for “CPU”. The whole article is about doing deep learning on CPUs not GPUs. Moonshine, the open source project and startup he talks about, shows speech recognition and realtime translation on the device rather than on a server. My understanding is that doing The Math in parallel is itself a performance hack, but Doing Less Math is also a performance hack.
by ysavir | 2025-11-29 13:43:49+00:00
I wouldn't call ChatGPT "brand recognition". People know the term ChatGPT, but I don't think they associate it with OpenAI or any company in particular, in the same way that people might associate Civic with Honda. Instead they'll associate it like they do the terms Bandaid, Kleenex, etc., as a catch-all term for LLM chat interfaces, regardless of who is providing the service. When OpenAI starts ads, I imagine people will start saying "oh, here's a ChatGPT without ads" and point to Claud or Gemini or whatever.
by Lionga | 2025-11-29 13:44:03+00:00
Based on your definition a child that can not speak/understand language yet can not think? Hint: It clearly can.

There are a lot of things I can think about that I do not have words for. I can only communicate these things in a unclear way, as language is clearly a subset of thought, not a superset.

Only if your definition of thought is that is is language based, which is just typical philosophy circular logic.
by summermusic | 2025-11-29 13:44:19+00:00
The Workbench feature to have an always-on-hand notepad overlay thing is really appealing. I always have a multi-tabbed text editor handy for quick notes and this seems like a good way to integrate that into the shell. I’d love to take this Workbench distribution for a spin based on that.

But to mirror the sentiment here on HN, the rest of it looks vaporware-y
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-29 13:44:27+00:00
Depends on how you define "stupid". In many cases you could say "unaware" or "forgetful" instead of "stupid". And mind, I did not say "stupid". That's a word you threw into this.

As to why they still vote like they do:

(1) Because every 4 years the mainstream party promise to solve some problems, netting votes of the young, gullible, or inexperienced voters.

(2) Promise pension increase, netting votes of the ever increasing amount of old people, most who don't care about who or what comes after them.

(3) People are too busy, burned out, or lazy (we still have it too good here, it seems), and cannot be arsed to inform themselves before elections. We also have tons of people, who are truly learning-resistant, right out of school or "university".

(4) People think, that SPD, CDU, Greens, etc. are the only way to stop AfD.

I think we are not very high on the democratic-ability scale. Yes, we vote every 4 years, but it is more like collectively we don't really care enough to inform ourselves properly and just check a few boxes, because we want to tell ourselves, that at least we did vote and that we are fine democratic citizen.

And look, I myself am not frequently reading all parties' positions. And I myself inform myself more shortly before an election, rather than all the time. But I do have a feeling for corruption and I don't always forget scandals that happen, when the next engagement-optimized news headline comes in. I still remember Rezo's "Zerstoerung der CDU" video. I remember reading those abgeordnetenwatch newsletters about the lobby register. Or the foodwatch newsletters about Kloeckner and the Lebensmittelampel. That's why I will not vote for mainstream-promise-a-lot-but-no-delivery parties and retired people clubs. And what more I do, is to use the Wahlomat, and actually check which party's position aligns most with my own.

I don't do too much either, but most people do way less to inform themselves. They just check a box out of habit. Why they vote for CDU/SPD? Because that's what they always did. It's real friggin dumb.
by xg15 | 2025-11-29 13:44:45+00:00
Thanks for the pointers. That argument makes some sense actually.

However that would still not explain the existing vacancies:

https://www.ourneighborhoodvoices.com/sfgate-there-are-more-...

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2025/06/27/office-...

OT, I found a look at the US population growth trends quite interesting, especially Figure 2 and the apparent massive explosion in immigration in the last years. Not sure what exactly is going on there.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/12/population-es...
by rodolphoarruda | 2025-11-29 13:45:10+00:00
I've been catching myself thinking about this idea for the last two years. Maybe it's my old obsession with PKI and "personal digital infrastructures" that were both promised to us in the early days of the commercial Internet, but never turned concrete for various reasons.

IMHO, the best we could have today in terms of digital infrastructure is a personal/family level custom Mastodon node with basic Internet services like email, posts, tasks, chat, IM etc. but implemented in a way that all data would be portable to other services (open standards) and its storage would be "bottomless", meaning that users wouldn't have to worry about storage limitation for photos/videos for instance, as they would be sharing resources with other nodes worldwide. There would have to be some monetary incentive(s), of course, but they would be secondary to the bigger cause of keeping a true cyber interconnected community outside big tech.
Show HN: PseudoRun – I built a pseudocode runner by yelling at AI
by crypt0phage | 2025-11-29 13:45:31+00:00
A few months ago I shared PseudoRun

, my interactive pseudocode runner. I haven’t added massive features since, but the story behind it is still fun and maybe useful for others.

I built it mostly out of frustration: ads everywhere, broken educational tools, and the usual syntax headaches. My approach was simple—write a spec for my own pseudocode, then “yell at AI” until it followed the rules and executed correctly. What it does:

Live pseudocode execution: Write something like FOR i = 1 TO 10 PRINT i and see results instantly.

Custom pseudocode interpreter: Works on a specification I designed myself.

No distractions: No ads, no clutter, just a clean environment to experiment.

Instant feedback: Mistakes or logic errors show up right away.

It’s still mostly the same runner as before, but I think the bigger point is that building tools—even small, niche ones—can be surprisingly fun and educational, especially when AI is involved in the process.

Would love to hear if anyone else has tried building a tool like this “from frustration” or used AI in a weird way to make something that just works.
by mattlondon | 2025-11-29 13:45:32+00:00
Don't ask them if they know the model name, ask them if they've used the ai mode in Google search or their phone or Gmail or whatever. "Oh yeah I use that all the time!" is what they usually say to me.

People say ChatGPT has brand recognition but amongst non-students and non-tech in the UK I don't think it is that pervasive at least.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-29 13:46:12+00:00
> It is no surprise, somehow they need to earn money

I kinda hate that a move needs to be surprising to be noteworthy or critiqued. If tomorrow Meta leaks all data of all users I really wish the reactions aren't "not surprised" and instead "hang them and tar them".

Same way, the need to earn money shouldn't be an excuse for whatever a company does. I'd be a lot more interested in knowing if/why you think it will be a net positive for society and why it should be left to happen.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-29 13:47:13+00:00
> In the 1980s, the American Heart Association listed many contributors to heart disease.

> A missing one: smoking.

> At some point, it was revealed that Big Tobacco was a major contributor to the AHA.

> They now list tobacco as a big risk factor.

https://www.heart.org/en/bold-hearts-the-centennial/100-year...

Taking on tobacco was no small task at mid-century, when more than half of men and a third of women smoked. In 1956, the AHA’s first scientific statement on smoking concluded that more evidence was needed to link it to heart disease. But as evidence grew, so did our role. Even before the landmark Surgeon General’s report of 1964, we called for a public campaign against smoking.

By 1971, we said cigarette smoking “contributed significantly” to coronary heart disease, and in 1977, we declared smoking to be the most preventable cause of heart disease.

In the 1980s, with significant support from the AHA, new laws required stronger warning labels for cigarettes and banned smoking on airplanes. Today, we’re working to understand the risks of e-cigarettes and vaping while fighting to keep teens and others from starting.
by kibwen | 2025-11-29 13:47:49+00:00
> But the moat is the brand recognition, if I ask my 70yo mum “have you heard of Gemini/Claude” she’ll reply “the what?”, yet she knows of ChatGPT.

Brand recognition doesn't mean a thing when it comes to a technically-illiterate audience with no control over their digital lives. In the same way that every 90s mom called a video game console a "Nintendo", everyone who gets served an LLM-generated response straight from their OS and/or browser courtesy of Google, Apple, or Microsoft will call that a "ChatGPT", and OpenAI will be powerless to stop the platform holders from intercepting their traffic.
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-29 13:47:54+00:00
It seems to me that the crypto absolutists have it backwards. You can’t solve the problem of failed states by changing the technology of currency, because the state is there to solve for the counterparty risk at the point of exchange.

The alternative to governments monopoly on violence for enforcement, no matter if you exchange in monero or giant stone discs, is broad use of vigilante violence.

So while crypto seems like an interesting technology for moving money around, it seems like it doesn’t solve for the point of exchange problem and thus crypto that focuses on making that difficult for government mediation are bound to be only useful for illegal activities.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-29 13:47:54+00:00
The main "Fingerprint ID" on this site seems to be a direct combination of all values, so if even a single one changes it'll act like the only conclusion is this is an entirely different fingerprint. Actual fingerprinting is a bit smarter, but it's not really possible to demonstrate that in a single clientside scripted static web page.

The more important bit to see from this tool is probably "this is an example of how much information which can aid in identification your browser exposes".
by kurokawad | 2025-11-29 13:50:01+00:00
> Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure.

Yeah, well... No.

> We finally have this possibility to use true P2P email.

I mean, email is literally peer to peer.

> Your mail address is derived from your public key: <64-hex-characters>@yggmail

The email address is literally 64 hex characters? How am I supposed to use this on a daily basis?

I have serious doubts who are the target of this or what is the point of this to exist at all. It is literally worse than email.
by everdrive | 2025-11-29 13:52:16+00:00
Markets usually only need to care about broad preferences. Sometimes they must care about noisy minorities, but those can often be ignored. I would love a privacy-focused smartphone with a keyboard that lets me use my banking apps and work apps and things. The market is never going to build this for me -- the number of people who like this are too few, and the costs of production are too high.

It's easy to imagine a few major LLM players all censoring or avoiding similar topics, or all equally captured by more or less the same advertisers.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-29 13:52:49+00:00
Now one could counter equally, that people you interact with directly are:

(a) limited in number due to the nature of your interaction with them

(b) will express themselves differently, due to the nature of interaction. (Just like people expressing themselves online act differently.)

(c) are probably also a very specific group or bubble, which is simply the people you get to interact with. Which _might_ be more varied than the other person online, but might also be less varied. Really depends on how you pick the people you interact with.

(d) Anecdote of one person N=1 is not really a good factual basis for other people.

So if you want to show how your view is more based on evidence, then you will have to do better than anecdote and no links to statistics or cases we can peruse.
by sipjca | 2025-11-29 13:54:22+00:00
I've also had some degree of success with Tauri but not without pains. But to be fair most of the pains have come from the state of Linux DE (it's absolute hell if you ask me)

For the most part, things just work on MacOS (Windows I don't use much, but I don't get that many bug reports from Windows, so it must work alright. I would guess I have 50k Windows users?).

I don't have any experience with Electron, but in many ways I assume it probably is much more robust of an experience than Tauri. A lot of stuff has felt shaky to me, yet it does work. It's just not always a confidence inspiring experience. But again, maybe this is just the state of cross platform experiences generally? I don't know because I don't have enough experience to say

Source, I'm the author of: http://github.com/cjpais/Handy
by ifwinterco | 2025-11-29 13:54:51+00:00
There is no counterparty risk for the seller in the traditional sense with bitcoin or monero, they're bearer assets, once the transaction is confirmed in your wallet there's no risk for you. You don't need to use violence to make sure you get paid?

What you actually have is the opposite problem (in a sense) - the transaction is irreversible, the seller will receive payment and keep it even if they shouldn't (i.e fraud). So there is more risk for the buyer than in a fiat system where transactions can be reversed by legal processes
by logifail | 2025-11-29 13:56:02+00:00
> I think people who kept saying there is no moat in AI is about to be shocked at how strong of a moat there actually is for ChatGPT

Given one can (at least for the moment) export one's entire chat history from ChatGPT, what exactly would stop a ChatGPT user from switching to an alternative if the alternative is either better, or better value?
by 473999 | 2025-11-29 13:56:26+00:00
This was super cool to read about!

The way I think about, Pulse is an attempt to part ways from the traditional "Algos" and other machine based recommendation systems (which is what I think of as the real "shiny web")... and get back to listening to real people and just vibing with them while each one does their own thing.

Team is 2 people, with $0 spent ex tech
by schmorptron | 2025-11-29 13:56:45+00:00
What is the implementation difference between using the system WebView (fragmented, especially bad under linux) and using one shared tauri-base runtime that only gets breaking changes updates every 2 years or so so there aren't twenty different ones running at the same time and it ends up like electron?

Would bundling one extended support release of chromium or firefox's backends that are then shared between all tauri apps not suffice?
by perihelions | 2025-11-29 13:56:46+00:00
Reminds me of the time the EU Commission itself was caught violating laws in the course of their pro-Chat Control ad campaign,

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commissio... ("noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads")

> "In September 2023, the Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on Twitter (X) to promote its heavily criticized chat control regulation... This move both undermined the established democratic procedures between EU institutions and violated the EU GDPR."
by sipjca | 2025-11-29 13:57:01+00:00
Yeah.. It's pretty damn hard to get working at all, and the systems it does seem to work on is quite limited as well. And also the developers of Tauri largely have seemed to have given up on Linux (which to some degree I understand, it represents a tiny amount of users for 99% of the problems due to the massive diversity in the ecosystem of Linux DE)

I fight with GitHub Actions on this all the time, and damn near think about running dedicated instances just to build from.
by Peteragain | 2025-11-29 13:57:24+00:00
Okay so rephrasing the question, how should we characterise the type of thinking we do without language? And the more interesting question IMO what thinking can an agent do without symbolic representation?

The original Vygotsky claim was that learning a language introduces the human mind to thinking in terms of symbols. Cats don't do it; infants don't either.
by wtcactus | 2025-11-29 13:57:39+00:00
Windows implementation of RDP is actually very good. You get a degree of responsiveness that is unachievable with neither Linux RDP implementation or any other product (maybe barring Parsec, that also doesn’t allow for Linux hosts).

I know that RDP doesn’t work for gaming, but for anything else (even for CAD), it’s the best thing barring direct access to the machine (or, Parsec).
by macNchz | 2025-11-29 13:58:50+00:00
I think it’s more reasonable to consider Coca Cola as having a significant brand value moat, given that they’re 140 years old and one of the most recognizable brands in the world. That also gets at the other side of their moat: distribution. Coca Cola is available basically everywhere, and a challenger would have to invest massively to simply get in front of as many people on shelves. In that way, other companies (Google, Microsoft, Meta) still have significant legs up on OpenAI. Way too much in play right now to declare any winners.
by andy99 | 2025-11-29 13:58:57+00:00
I’m wondering how long it will be until they are also “sponsored” to have ad content trained in. I personally despise advertising but nobody is building these things out of the goodness of their heart. There needs to be some ongoing incentive to train and release open models.

Similarly, I’m wondering when huggingface is going to need to start showing returns and starts putting ads into transformers etc.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-29 13:59:10+00:00
I will have to see if this is yet able to run Macromedia Freehand/MX --- if it is, I no longer need to have a Windows machine for that....

Now, if I can just get a nice portable with:

- largish OLED

- current gen Wacom EMR digitizer support

- decent battery life

running Linux, I can get off the Windows update treadmill....