MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steveharman | 2025-11-14 14:26:07+00:00
I'm pretty sold. downloaded it earlier, had an issue with Lucid not automatically appearing in the list of apps to permit accessibility permission, but after a coffee I remembered that apps can be manually added (so you can ignore my support email! :-) ). My minor niggle would be no trial option, that always puts me off slightly - although I appreciate your refund offer. Oh hell, I'll just buy it. It's worth it to reward the slick onboarding process! :-)
by NoGravitas | 2025-11-14 14:26:17+00:00
The crazy thing is that the ACA actually is bad -- it's Romneycare, a giveaway to the private health insurance industry thought up by a conservative think tank -- but the Democrats get to take the blame for it being actually bad, and Republicans get to point at it being actually bad even though any changes they would make are actually worse. It was an act of long-term political suicide by the Democrats under the Obama administration, which they doubled down on by ratfucking Bernie twice.
AI QA?
by marstall | 2025-11-14 14:26:24+00:00
Checking out companies that use AI to create automated tests in various ways:

- write test cases in plain english - self-healing tests when features change - going through your site and auto-generating tests based on features the AI finds.

Seems very promising and I'm trying to find the best companies out there doing this to see if we can augment our automated tests this way ... any suggestions?
Ask HN: Does VC math still work in the AI era?
by conartist6 | 2025-11-14 14:26:35+00:00
The classical VC playbook is "found 100 companies and hope that one goes 100x". You might think of that strategy as "hedge your bets". It works if the odds are in your favor: say you get to make 100 bets and 1 in 80 go 100x, you profit.

I see a threefold risk hidden in the state of the VC market in the AI era:

1. Many investors like YC are now only interested in making AI bets. They are reducing the diversity of their investments on purpose.

2. It's like some guy "Claude" is a technical co-founder with every startup, steering them all towards the same ideas, the same library and framework choices, the same kinds of blog posts, the same visual styles which Claude knows well. There's a limited pool of value that Claude has to contribute to society, and everyone is competing for their slice of that pool of value. Instead of the competition increasing the size of the pool, competition for Claude's resources reduces the value of it to each competitor!

3. AI changes the incentives from "contribute to open source infra" to "just write exactly the code you need right now". This means that in practical terms 100 teams go out and every team might spend 10% of their time and money writing the exact same code to solve the exact same problems that the other teams are solving. The AI will spit the same code out again and again gleefully, multiplying the maintenance burden and reducing how far the same money goes toward exploring unique ideas.

My impression is that this spells disaster for a place like YC, which depends for it economic on this math along the lines of "if you make enough bets, some of them will succeed big." That law-of-large-numbers logic only holds if the bets your make are independent, does it not?
by Rohansi | 2025-11-14 14:26:58+00:00
> You must combine client-side with server-side AC either way.

I should have clarified - this is exactly what I meant. Client-side anti-cheat cannot be replaced by server-side anti-cheat. You need both.

I work on an FPS game that is heavily targeted by cheaters (Rust). We do both but we are probably limited with what we can do server-sided because it's a PvP sandbox game. There is no matchmaking and no defined winner or loser to simplify ranking players against each other. It's also high stakes because a cheater can ruin a legit player's hours of preparation in moments. Drawing a line in the data to detect cheaters will catch outliers but there's a world of "legit cheaters" out there who use cheats but limit it to not stand out and avoid being banned.
by vidarh | 2025-11-14 14:27:16+00:00
If you want that feature, then the display server doesn't need to be the one to support it when the display server lets applications obtain and control window positions.

Wayland doesn't let you do that, and it's a deliberate choice.

See e.g.:

https://wayland-book.com/xdg-shell-in-depth/interactive.html

"However, a deliberate design trait of Wayland makes application windows ignorant of their exact placement on screen or relative to other windows."

And: https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/waylands-never-ending-opposi...
by slightknack | 2025-11-14 14:27:24+00:00
The minimaxir/gemimg repo is pretty cool, fwiw.

Going further, one thing you can do is give Gemini 2.5 a system prompt like the following:

https://goto.isaac.sh/image-prompt

And then pass Gemini 2.5's output directly to Nano-Banana. Doing this yields very high-quality images. This is also good for style transfer and image combination. For example, if you then give Gemini 2.5 a user prompt that looks something like this:

I would like to perform style transfer. I will provide the image generation model a photograph alongside your generated prompt. Please write a prompt to transfer the following style: {{ brief style description here }}.

You can get aesthetic consistently-styled images, like these:

https://goto.isaac.sh/image-style-transfer
by wongarsu | 2025-11-14 14:27:39+00:00
The article is well worth reading. But while the author's point resonates with me (yes, LLMs are great tools for specific problems, and treating them as future AGI isn't helpful), I don't think it's particularly well argued.

Yes, the huge expected value argument is basically just Pascal's wager, there is a cost on the environment, and OpenAI doesn't take good care of their human moderators. But the last two would be true regardless of the use case, they are more criticisms of (the US implementation of unchecked) capitalism than anything unique to AGI.

And as the author also argues very well, solving today's problems isn't why OpenAI was founded. As a private company they are free to pursue any (legal) goal. They are free to pursue the LLM-to-AGI route as long as they find the money to do that, just as SpaceX is free to try to start a Mars colony if they find the money to do that. There are enough other players in the space focused in the here and now. Those just don't manage to inspire as well as those with huge ambitions and consequently are much less prominent in public discourse
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-14 14:28:29+00:00
The plugin just opens a terminal whereas in Zed you get a more natively feeling experience. In JetBrains they do support it as one of their agents but now you have to buy into JetBrains AI credit system instead of just using your Claude subscription.

Theres two ways to use Claude Code in JetBrains and instead of helping them make their plugin better they opted to try and make money off of it. Which Zed could have done the same but instead lowered their monthly to let you use your own Claude Code subscription.
by mofeien | 2025-11-14 14:28:32+00:00
> As a technologist I want to solve problems effectively (by bringing about the desired, correct result), efficiently (with minimal waste) and without harm (to people or the environment).

> LLMs-as-AGI fail on all three fronts. The computational profligacy of LLMs-as-AGI is dissatisfying, and the exploitation of data workers and the environment unacceptable.

It's a bit unsatisfying how the last paragraph only argues against the second and third points, but is missing an explanation on how LLMs fail at the first goal as was claimed. As far as I can tell, they are already quite effective and correct at what they do and will only get better with no skill ceiling in sight.
by dlord | 2025-11-14 14:28:32+00:00
I think the water usage argument can be pertinent depending on the context.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ngz7ep1eo

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/10/data-cent...

https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/feature-in-latin-...
by simonw | 2025-11-14 14:28:34+00:00
From https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/inside-the-dat...

> I asked the farmer if he had noticed any environmental effects from living next to the data centers. The impact on the water supply, he told me, was negligible. "Honestly, we probably use more water than they do," he said. (Training a state-of-the-art A.I. requires less water than is used on a square mile of farmland in a year.) Power is a different story: the farmer said that the local utility was set to hike rates for the third time in three years, with the most recent proposed hike being in the double digits.

The water issue really is a distraction which harms the credibility of people who lean on it. There are plenty of credible reasons to criticize data enters, use those instead!
by jordanb | 2025-11-14 14:28:37+00:00
Water can range from serious concern to NBD depending on where the data center is located, where the water is coming from, and the specific details of how the data center's cooling systems are built.

To say that it's never an issue is disingenuous.

Additionally one could image a data center built in a place with a surplus of generating capacity. But in most cases, it has a big impact on the local grid or a big impact on air quality if they bring in a bunch of gas turbines.
by mopsi | 2025-11-14 14:28:59+00:00
I don't want to see Romanian men (which would include me) leaving their (our, in fact) bones on the Ukrainian steppe up to the Volga, once was enough.

How have the men from the parts of Ukraine that surrendered with minimal resistance to Russia in 2014 fared so far? Do you prefer to leave your bones somewhere in Poland?
Show HN: I'm building an open source platform for studying Arabic
by selmetwa | 2025-11-14 14:29:06+00:00
One thing that always frustrated me as an Arabic learning was how difficult textbooks are to use. You’re constantly flipping to the end to check translations or transliterations, which completely kills your focus.

So I started building an open-source platform that fixes this with interactive parallel texts, you can click or drag over any Arabic word to instantly see its meaning, transliteration, and grammar notes in context.

The platform also includes AI-generated stories and sentences, letting learners practice Arabic in natural, evolving contexts instead of static textbook examples. All content comes with accompanied dialect-specific audio.

Most resources focus only on Modern Standard Arabic, but that’s not what most people actually speak. There’s very little for dialects like Egyptian and Moroccan Arabic. To fill that gap, I leverages custom LLMs trained specifically on Egyptian and Moroccan dialects, since general-purpose models (like ChatGPT) often struggle with dialect-specific content.

If you’re interested in Arabic, dialects, or open-source edtech, I’d love your feedback
by baylessj | 2025-11-14 14:29:10+00:00
Neat to see a Rob Robinette article pop up here, his website is a fantastic resource for guitar amp work. His articles on Amp Startup and Troubleshooting were particularly helpful when I built a tube amp for the first time. I hadn't heard of using an incandescent bulb as a current limiter in startup before, I was glad to have additional options for trying to make the troubleshooting process a bit safer given the high voltage involved.
by killerstorm | 2025-11-14 14:29:25+00:00
On the other hand we have DeepMind / Demis Hassabis, delivering:

* AlphaFold - SotA protein folding

* AlphaEvolve + other stuff accelerating research mathematics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864

* "An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software" - demonstrating SotA results for many kinds of scientific software

So what's the "fantasy" here, the actual lab delivering results or a sob story about "data workers" and water?
by JohnFen | 2025-11-14 14:30:35+00:00
> I wonder if the term "moneyed" means something different to you than the author.

I think the author was using the term to mean people who have enough resources available to them (through family or other support networks) that they don't have to worry too much about survival and have relatively easy access to capital.

I think that you and I define it similarly.

But most entrepreneurs I've known over the decades have had neither of those advantages. Although, I'm thinking of "entrepreneur" in its basic sense, not in terms of just starting tech businesses, and not in terms of people starting business with the goal of becoming anything like unicorns.

> My personal bias would lead me to believe that most people have less of a support system then the wonderful people on HN.

I agree completely. The HN crowd is, generally speaking (there are exceptions), a fairly privileged bunch.
by imtringued | 2025-11-14 14:31:25+00:00
To this day I have no clue what the point of this idea is. Forcing you to use an ID on the internet is the real world equivalent of making everyone you interact with take a photo of your ID. It's completely nonsensical.

Considering that most crimes require people to be physically present at the crime scene, it also doesn't seem to be a functioning deterrent at all in the real world.

Most of the bad behaviour is concentrated in "seedy" places, where you usually have to go out of your way to interact with that place. A real name policy doesn't change the nature of the place at all.

If anything, the places that would be most affected are the ones where people are roleplaying or pretending to be something other than "themselves". E.g. gay or transgender people, furries, MMO/MUD/MUSH players, streamers, etc which overall seem to be exceedingly harmless.

There is also the blatantly obvious problem that this only works on people who are risk averse to begin with. So it will basically have no effect on actual perpetrators, who see some risk vs reward tradeoff for their bad behaviour.
by riskable | 2025-11-14 14:31:30+00:00
If I could get Firefox to perform searches on my behalf via the AI sidebar that would be amazing! Are you kidding me? YES I WANT THIS!

Do I want it to go to some 3rd party AI service? No. Absolutely not. However, if it's configurable like the Copilot extension—where I can pick which AI I'm using—then I'm all for it. I'll just pick a model I've got in ollama and live the dream.

NOTE: I as I wrote this, Firefox underlined "ollama" in red because it failed the spellcheck. Imagine if Firefox had a proper grammar-checking AI too. That would be super useful. I'd love that!

Those who think they don't want AI in their browsers are completely lacking in imagination, IMHO.
by aquova | 2025-11-14 14:31:40+00:00
I see this sentiment a lot, but I never agree with it. Sure, some of their projects seem very odd for them to lead, but given that they are completely reliant on their competitor for cash -- a revenue source that has been threatened several times by anti-trust cases against Google -- they should be looking to branch out. Firefox alone won't pay the bills, so they need to try and find some other revenue source. Plus, Chrome has essentially won. Not necessarily for any engineering reason, at least not these days, but from continued momentum of being the market leader. Sitting around quietly isn't going to get people to switch, they do need to find some way to distinguish themselves apart from Chrome, which again leads to these misc features being thrown out there.

The AI inclusion seems like the same reason everyone else is adding AI, they don't want to be left behind if or when it's viewed as an essential feature.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-11-14 14:31:47+00:00
I do want AI for some things but I actively go out of my way to find it, I dont want AI forced everywhere its like cryptominers you are forced into wasting compute energy resources you never asked to waste but much worse at least cryptominers are limited by your hardware, in this case you have an entire datacenter churning just until you can click “Disable” on the model.
by jtr1 | 2025-11-14 14:31:53+00:00
I think the point here is that objecting to AI data center water use and not to say, alfalfa farming in Arizona, reads as reactive rather than principled. But more importantly, there are vast, imminent social harms from AI that get crowded out by water use discourse. IMO, the environmental attack on AI is more a hangover from crypto than a thoughtful attempt to evaluate the costs and benefits of this new technology.
by RansomStark | 2025-11-14 14:32:09+00:00
In firefox yeah! I use it often.

I have it connected to a local Gemma model running in ollama and use it to quickly summarize webpages, nobody really wants to read 15 minutes worth of personal anecdotes before getting to that one paragraph that actually has relevant information, and for finding information within a page, kinda like ctrl-f on steroids.

The machine is sitting there anyway and the extra cost in electricity is buried in the hours of gaming that gpu is also used for, so i haven't noticed yet, and if you game, the graphics card is going to be obsolete long before the small amount of extra wear is obvious. YMMV if you dont already have a gaming rig laying around
by impossiblefork | 2025-11-14 14:32:30+00:00
I think it could be nice in the longer term, as AI gets better. Especially if it's local.

No one wants to browse Facebook or Reddit or whatever. The interfaces are user hostile or horrible. If we could interact with our own, private interface and the outcome was submitted to some text/web LLM that then did the interaction with the actual websites, then we would actually be able to use the public internet.

It's possible that this software shouldn't be a browser though, but something else, possibly something which is built on top of a browser engine.
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-14 14:32:37+00:00
> Each appendix isolates and resolves one of the classical obstacles to a self-contained Hilbert–Pólya formulation—self-adjointness, trace-class bounds, Paley–Wiener confinement, Weyl normalization, and uniqueness of the arithmetic weights.

Given the nature of the problem and the unsolicited mention of a "confinement manifold" earlier in the abstract, this summary gives very strong vibes of "My corral has six well closed gates, why do you keep asking about the fence?". This is in addition to not trusting complex and unclear proofs.
by sofixa | 2025-11-14 14:32:55+00:00
> That actually says more about what the Western "First World" media feeds their people, that the rest of the world is 20 years behind and stuff :')

More like, "western" media rarely talks about most countries not undergoing a crisis, somehow relevant or close culturally. A British paper will talk about the US and Western EU countries because they're relevant to Britons and close partners; it will also cover Ukraine and Gaza because they're undergoing crisis and relevant. It won't talk all that much about the war in Mali or the local politics of Tashkent. French media will cover former colonies like Mali more due to the shared language and the presence of large amounts of people of that descent in France, but won't cover e.g. what's happening in Sri Lanka day to day.

So the little that the average "westerner" hears about North Korea is the occasional weird case, or when they make missile tests / international threats. The state of urbanism in Pyongyang is irrelevant to most people, so there is little reporting on it.

> But tech-wise, I was surprised when I visited some parts of the Middle East and Asia; almost everything was available online, paid for electronically, clean and effective mass transport, walkable and safe cities..

Wildly location dependent.

> clean and effective mass transport

Big Chinese cities, big former Soviet cities, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan. Everywhere else in Middle East and Asia doesn't have effective mass transport there might be a few metro lines like in Dubai, or be rapidly expanding like Hanoi, Riyadh, but nothing else comparable to the gold standards of e.g. Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, London, Paris.

> walkable and safe cities..

Which cities were walkable? I have yet to visit a developing country where walking wasn't barely an afterthought with little to no sidewalks, no priority for pedestrians, etc. While it's definitely better in some countries compared to others, it's really not the norm in "the Middle East and Asia". It is in most developed countries in those regions, like Japan, China, South Korea, UAE, Saudi (and the last two have temperatures that make it challenging).

> almost everything was available online

My favourite is the countries in the middle. E.g. Sri Lanka, where the railways are stuck in the 1950s from when the British left, everything is on paper (schedules, tickets, etc.) and you have to go to a train station to buy a ticket... but a lot of other things are quite digital. Everywhere has 4G coverage, everyone has a phone with data. But some things are literally decades behind.
by smlavine | 2025-11-14 14:33:11+00:00
> They're all using it.

Not really. Go talk to anyone who uses the internet for Facebook, Whatsapp, and not much else. Lots of people have typed in chatgpt.com or had Google's AI shoved in their face, but the vast majority of "laypeople" I've talked to about AI (actually, they've talked to me about AI after learning I'm a tech guy -- "so what do you think about AI?") seem to be resigned to the fact that after the personal computer and the internet, whatever the rich guys in SF do is what is going to happen anyway. But I sense a feeling of powerlessness and a fear of being left behind, not anything approaching genuine interest in or excitement by the technology.
by leetrout | 2025-11-14 14:33:23+00:00
I really enjoy games like this where there's a balance between the real life context and simplifying them enough to have something to pick up and put down without having to have a ton of knowledge about the details.

I'll be using this to teach my kid about arrivals.

More stuff for plane fans:

ATC Sim in the browser https://atc-sim.com/

Various instrument simulators https://www.luizmonteiro.com/Learning.aspx

VOR Simulator Pro from Pilot Institute https://hub.pilotinstitute.com/vor-download
by chironjit | 2025-11-14 14:33:27+00:00
I would say you're being harsh but their file tree refresh is bad(so is vs code but they have a manual button), their ai panel can't beat Claude code and their panes / window layouts are not any better or flexible than other editors. I still use it but I'm close to going back to vanilla vs code. I'm just hanging on to determine if my frustrations are from me just being used to vs code or otherwise
by toyg | 2025-11-14 14:33:38+00:00
> Claiming that everything is a conspiracy, without evidence, except the things that have documentary evidence

Because where is the fun in that? If something is documented, your brain is not doing any work; it's where the canvas is clean, that you get a sense of satisfaction by firing synapses in original ways.

Conspiracy-theorism, at its core, is fundamentally a creative endeavour. It's not a coincidence that, in the '90s, that world overlapped pretty hard with fandoms of open-world franchises like Star Trek, where it's easy to expand and enrich the original content with your own productions.