MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonymet | 2025-11-19 22:46:28+00:00
thanks for explaining that. I could see some value and also tremendous risk.

My concern is that the Windows Credential itself doesn’t have a ton of value (opening windows apps) but the browser cookie jar (e..g Edge or Chrome) , which the Credential unlocks, has tremendous value — and threats.

The core problem is lack of granularity in permissions. If you allow the agent to do browser activities as your user, you can’t control which cookie / scope it will take action on.

You might say “buy me chips” and it instead logs into your Fidelity account and buys $100k worth of stock.

Let’s see how they figure out the authorization model.
by Zigurd | 2025-11-19 22:47:04+00:00
Epstein put a lot of rich and powerful people with influence in government and industry into compromising positions. Those thousand victims weren't a hobby. He was creating blackmail material and using it for his own gain, and to sell to others. The amount of money flowing through the scheme is so large that it has to be from government entities, like intelligence agencies. Sergey Lavrov's name has come up in the documents. It's very plausible that a lot of the money Epstein got originated in Russia. That's a national security problem.
by visioninmyblood | 2025-11-19 22:47:15+00:00
you can download it at https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam3. for 3d https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-3d-objects

I actually found the easiest way was to run it for free to see if it works for my use case of person deidentification https://chat.vlm.run/chat/63953adb-a89a-4c85-ae8f-2d501d30a4...
by quasigod | 2025-11-19 22:47:15+00:00
Both are great options, but if you're happy with Fedora, there's probably not a big reason to switch. Arch is a full rolling release, which requires you to be aware and ready to deal with any breaking changes each time you update your packages. On Fedora, you'll mostly only have to be ready for this on a new version release. If you want to always have the newest packages for everything and don't want to wait, then CachyOS is great. If you want to turn on auto updates and only think about changes when a major release drops, Fedora is a better pick.

Bazzite, being an atomic distro, is kind of hard to compare to. For basic use-cases like running just software available in Flathub, it is incredibly solid and easy to use. If I were choosing a Linux distro for a non-technical family member, I would go with an atomic Fedora distro and be completely confident they could get things done without breaking anything. However, if your needs are more advanced, you're going to need to be ready to relearn a lot (e.g. using containers for development), since atomic distros are a big paradigm shift from standard ones. This isn't a bad thing, just something to be ready for.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-19 22:47:23+00:00
> People do use them and they trust them, unfortunately.

Yep, and it’s hard to communicate that to them. It’s hard to accurately describe even to someone familiar with the context.

I don’t think “trust” is the right word. Sitting here on 19 Nov 2025, I do in fact trust LLMs to reason. I don’t trust LLMs to be truthful.

If I ask for a fact, I always consider what I’d lose if that fact were wrong.

If I ask for reasoning, I provide the facts that I believe are required to make the decision. I then double-check that reasoning by inverting the prompt and comparing the output in the other direction. For more critical decisions, I make sure I use different models, from different providers, with completely separate context. If I’ve done all that, I think I can honestly say that I trust it.

These days, I would describe it as “I don’t trust AI to distinguish truth”
by creer | 2025-11-19 22:47:38+00:00
You did not need to google anything. The complete documentation was right there, next to the interpreter, on your machine. Ready for scanning and reading from top to bottom; and broken in sections that were actually relevant; and ready to search in bulk if you prefered with whichever local search tool you cared for.

No need for google. (And google was run by python fans; probably saw no need to support searching for '$|++'.)

And I notice "post the predominance of offline doc". Well that's one problem right there: As of 2025, there is still nothing that beats perl 5 docs as ~260 man pages. Probably LLM-based AI is getting there, at least for people who have difficulty with text. But for the rest of us, it's VERY useful to know that there is solid (offline) doc.
by pnt12 | 2025-11-19 22:47:39+00:00
Any website can have a button to reject all cookies. Or if you use only functional cookies, you don't even need it! Websites could come together to make it a standard and enable a browser option to avoid bugging you.

Guess what: they didn't want that, and some prefer to make cookie banners which are really obnoxious.

I'm all up for incentives for better websites, and penalties for shit ones.
by Jigsy | 2025-11-19 22:48:25+00:00
> When I see the adware monstrosity that Windows appears to have turned into, I'm actually quite shocked to see sharp folks using it. I must be missing something, like do they have cheat codes to make it usable?

I think the sad reality is a lot of people simply don't care.

I specifically avoided Windows 10 because of the telemetry and the whole forced reboots for updates seem pretty annoying, and I didn't see it getting any better which is why I decided to try and move to Linux.

The only thing that held be back at the time was I was too ensconsed in my eight-year-old setup, so I needed to be able to do the same things on Linux; and I needed gaming to be viable. Which it thankfully is now to Proton.

And it's even more disgusting how Windows 11 has become considering it has the "we'll take screenshots of what you're doing every five seconds" stuff now. Sure, Microsoft claim they'll never see what people are doing, but what's stopping them from doing that in a future update?

At least people are slowly wising up to this; though a believe a good majority of new Linux users are because they don't want to create e-wase and replace a perfectly good computer just because Microsoft says "No."

Personally, I wish I'd swapped sooner.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-11-19 22:49:00+00:00
Doubly so when you consider their enormous reserves of bauxite, iron ore, and met coal.

They could have set up green steel and aluminum industries supplying the world. Instead they ship millions of tons of unprocessed ore and thermal coal to east asia where it's processed with CO2 intensive energy, and then the metals are shipped back in the form of automobiles and construction materials.
by infecto | 2025-11-19 22:49:00+00:00
This might be the dumbest thing I have ever seen but I am happy to be corrected and told why it’s not.

I use LLMs a lot and I work in finance and I don’t see how a LLM benefits in this space.

Also it looks like none of their data uses any kind of benchmarking. It’s purely a which model did better which I don’t think tells you much.
by foltik | 2025-11-19 22:49:31+00:00
In my experience it’s common for large intro level classes. While I personally never liked these policies, I do think it’s beneficial to the average student to incentivize attendance. Think 18 year olds who aren’t able to self regulate or fully understand the consequences until it’s too late. A “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality just hurts the average quality of education.
Show HN: I made a macOS app to index media and transcribe audio locally
by correa_brian | 2025-11-19 22:49:35+00:00
This is a mac app that supports local media indexing, text-to-audio transcription, and video-to-text generation with VEO 3.1

The app runs offline and lets you index local and external drives without needing to upload your content to the cloud. To use VEO you'll need an internet connection and your own API key.

We're only supporting Silicon Macs right now, but would consider Intel and Windows releases if there's interest. Price is $19.99 for a lifetime license that includes future updates.

If you have any feedback or want to join our discord, drop me a comment.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUUOd3TVBdY
by ld4nt3 | 2025-11-19 22:50:04+00:00
Yes everyone is doing that on benchmarks but they are still somewhat useful and the likes arc agi even more, though we are not be able to quantize exactly how much better they are getting they are still necessary. For arc agi these are some big gains by which ever way the went about it, since everyone also has been trying to max it for the last 3 years but we do need to come up with better benchmarks/evals like arc tried.
by autoexec | 2025-11-19 22:50:09+00:00
There are millions of vacant homes in the US. There's even a fun little infographic that breaks it down by state https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/vacant-hous...

Not all of those empty houses will be places people want to live in, but I'd bet a fair amount of them are perfectly fine places people would love to call home if they could only afford them.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-11-19 22:50:43+00:00
The trouble is that everyone else is pursuing tech unhindered by such regulations at breakneck speed, and Europeans realize that Europe - once the center of science and technology - is increasingly sliding into a backwater in this space and an open air museum.

Now, some will agree with you and say that privacy should never be violated, but nonetheless accept a certain measure of tolerance toward that kind of violation, because they see rigid intolerance as causing more harm than the violation of privacy itself is causing [0]. This harm is chiefly the economic harm caused by the burden of regulation and the roadblocks it introduces.

Perhaps this isn't true, but if it is, then moral offense is likely to have little effect. A more effective means might be the make following regulations cheaper. Of course, as we know, when you make something cheaper, you increase demand. This means that EU institutions would likely see this as an opportunity to increase regulation, nullifying the gains of introducing less costly ways to adhere to regulation.

[0] This reminds me of Aquinas's view of prostitution. Naturally, Aquinas saw prostitution as a grave, intrinsic evil. No one is ever justified in soliciting the services of a prostitute, much less of being a prostitute. That's the moral stance; it concerns our personal moral obligations. However, from the position of the state and how the state should police such activity through law, Aquinas saw the criminalization of prostitution, however good in principle it might be, as a policy that would be practically worse - even disastrously so - than law and policy that is permissive toward prostitution. Whether you agree or disagree with him, the principle holds, namely, that the state not only does not need to police every bit of immorality, but by doing so, may actually contribute to the destabilization of society and to an even worse condition than the one it is saddled with.
by incompatible | 2025-11-19 22:50:43+00:00
My PC doesn't have any wireless connections and the Geolocation API always fails. I guess I'd fail this course (which is apparently correct, as I was supposed to be attending in person with a laptop.)

Edit: Presumably it would be possible to hack the browser to return a false position.

Edit: Make it a convenient browser add-on, perhaps. There must be other applications.

Edit: pkulak points out that you just have to set a Firefox option. Why do I even comment on things I know nothing about.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-19 22:50:46+00:00
> If you go that route, at least change the password to some random string to lock yourself out.

I do that once in a while when I find myself wasting too much time participating here. It increases the friction quite a bit, but eventually I cave and recover the password.

If you really want to be serious about it, have to change the email address first, then toss the keys to that.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-19 22:51:03+00:00
Because they're right. They'll all collude to make sure that you can't install a non-"smart" OS, just like you can't buy an non-"smart" tv, and the public will be well-trained to mumble something about the "market" and call you names ("luddite," "techie," "boomer," whatever...) when you complain about it.

Once a generation has been raised who never saw a computer that couldn't refuse to let you type what you wanted into it, young people will stop believing that you could ever type what you wanted. Old people will forget that you could ever type what you wanted. It worked with literally everything else.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-19 22:51:12+00:00
Most criticism of GDPR on HN is a criticism of bad-faith attempts to pretend to comply, many of which are expressly forbidden by the GDPR. It's a well-written, plain English regulation, and I encourage everyone to read it before criticising it. (At the very least, point to the bits of the regulation you disagree with: it should only take around 5 minutes to look up.)
by crote | 2025-11-19 22:51:46+00:00
> It's not that people are unimpressed with AI

Oh no, I am definitely unimpressed. That AI you can have a sorta-kinda fluent conversation with is often a complete moron and a habitual liar, and the images it generates are awful - did he not see how horrible that Coke ad looked?

It'll probably end up useful in a bunch of applications soon-ish and I'll probably want to use it eventually, but in the meantime their AI is flooding the internet with absolute garbage, and they are literally shoving AI in my face at every opportunity they get.

It is painfully clear that people just aren't that interested, and they are getting increasingly desperate about finding ways to recoup their massive investments. But people aren't going to magically become enthusiastic about eating rotten garbage if you just keep stuffing it in their mouth!

If anything, their current approach is only going to make people hate AI even more. But they are in too deep, and admitting defeat and scaling it down until they have an actually good product that people genuinely want means seeing their stock price crater because they will have "lost" the "AI race". Their only option to avoid an immediate collapse is to keep lying through their teeth and keep trying to pretend that it is absolutely amazing and that you just must use it.

Or maybe the CEOs are completely delusional and genuinely believe what they are selling - I'm not sure which one is worse.
by creer | 2025-11-19 22:51:50+00:00
The man pages were broken into competent sections over multiple man pages. About 260 of them on this machine (not really: there is a change-tracking man page per release recently.) The 1st man page is a very compact index to them.

After that, each section is long but very searchable.

But I can see how many people never even noticed."Man page? what's that? what for?"
by wat10000 | 2025-11-19 22:51:57+00:00
On one hand, we don't have any idea what consciousness is or how it happens. For all we know, putting a ton of numbers onto a graphics card and doing matrix math on them is enough to make it.

On the other hand, this really feels like getting freaked out about seeing a realistic photo of a person for the first time, because it looks so much like a person, or hearing a recording of someone speaking for the first time because it sounds like they're really there. They're reproductions of a person, but they are not the person. Likewise, LLMs seem to me to be reproductions of thought, but they are not actually thought.
by ajross | 2025-11-19 22:52:35+00:00
> Grade inflation seems to be the main long-term culprit

Is it though, or is that just what your ideological sense tells you? Like I'm trying to point out, if you take the pandemic shock out of the data set, there really isn't much to argue about here. US aggregate education results have never been great internationally, but haven't ever been moving particularly fast either and seem not to have been before the pandemic either.

There really is a woke-derangement-syndrome at work among the reactionary geek set these days. Teachers have always had funny ideas, and haven't broken kids yet. People need to relax.
by ternaryoperator | 2025-11-19 22:52:36+00:00
> It's also telling that the NYT is the only major outlet to consistently be reticent to state unequivocally that Epstein killed himself. Always said "found to have committed suicide."

Nonsense. "...Mr. Epstein, who died by suicide... [0] "...disgraced financier who died by suicide...[1] etc.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-epstein... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein...
by Steltek | 2025-11-19 22:53:06+00:00
BangleJS is fun but it's not all sunshine and rainbows:

* Hackable - Only using Chrome. I haven't discovered any other method but I'd love to be corrected on this.

* Totally touchscreen based and the touchscreen ain't that good.

* Screen might be visible but any Pebble, past or present, is way better

But it's still super fun.

You need to use the forked custom Gadgetbridge to make the most of it too.
Endstorm – A Solo-Dev Automation Engine That Mass-Produces Digital Products
by EndstormAi | 2025-11-19 22:54:14+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m a solo developer who accidentally built something big.

Endstorm is a fully-automated digital-product factory: it can design, generate, package, and prepare customer-ready digital products with almost zero human input.

It’s powered by: • A multi-stage orchestrator • Self-checking pipelines • Logging + fail recovery • Visual automation (Pexels → ImageMagick → PDFs) • Auto-packaging (ZIP bundles) • Auto-publishing • A memory-aware workflow • Fully modular rituals (Design → Build → Visual → Publish)

Right now, it can produce 85+ unique customer-ready products in a single run. Everything includes content, assets, formatted files, and the final sellable package.

Why I’m posting:

I want feedback from people who build tools like Devin, Cursor, and other AI dev workflows. I want to know what’s missing, what’s valuable, and how far this type of engine can realistically go.

What I haven’t done yet: • No team • No funding • No front-end • The system lives only on my home PC in Florida • I’m traveling with only a tablet • Not public yet — beta access is limited

What I’m trying to validate:

Is there a real market for a product-generation engine that can mass-produce digital kits, templates, and content bundles automatically?

Would love feedback, criticism, technical questions, or ideas.

Thanks!

Gumroad Early Access (very limited): https://rogersiill.gumroad.com/l/epmgns
by ecshafer | 2025-11-19 22:54:56+00:00
> If the project goes well, the idea person gets the credit. If the project goes poorly, the people who actually built it get the blame.

Oof this hits hard. So true. My first job as a developer at a corporation was moving from paper forms to digitally signed forms. We worked really hard for a year integrating with vendor products, saved millions of dollars in work time and error reduction a month, recurring, forever. We even got a nice call out at a town hall from the CEO.... we thought until the name that was called who "brought it all together" was some person none of us on the team had ever met, was never in any meetings, never did any work. But they probably pitched the idea two years ago.
by westbywest | 2025-11-19 22:55:01+00:00
The "Vintage Space" channel host Amy Shira Teitel recently posted this long form video expressing her frustration with YT so heavily incentivizing SFVs with its creators. She goes into considerable detail about the intentionally addictive nature of the format, and how it clashes with her own publishing process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRHHD3F2gM
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-19 22:55:09+00:00
> Reads like: "I made poor decisions, over leveraged myself, and then I lost everything... Now I expect others to take the fall."

Interest-only mortgages shouldn't exist. They are predatory and the people that take them just don't have the discernment to make that decision.

(I'm honestly surprised that they exist at the UK.)
by sorenjan | 2025-11-19 22:55:16+00:00
SAM3 is probably a great model to distill from when training smaller segmentation models, but isn't their DINOv2 a better example of a large foundation model to distill from for various computer vision tasks? I've seen it used for as starting point for models doing segmentation and depth estimation. Maybe there's a v3 coming soon?

https://dinov2.metademolab.com/
by nerdponx | 2025-11-19 22:55:26+00:00
I am responding to the assertion that the reason we don't all use Lisp is because we all have brain damage. My claim is that there are broader ergonomic issues with the language family. You could argue that maybe the system architecture and execution model of the Lisp machines should be debated separately from its syntax, but I am responding to an argument about its syntax.
by themafia | 2025-11-19 22:56:41+00:00
The documentation is thick but it has a common theme and format to it. So once you get the hang of finding the "juicy bits" you can usually locate them anywhere. The docs do generally warn you of these cases, or have a whole "best practices" section which highlights them directly.

The key is, do not make decisions lightly in the cloud, just because something is easy to enable in the UI does not mean it's recommended. Sit down with the pricing page or calculator and /really/ think over your use case. Get used to thinking about your infrastructure in terms of batch jobs instead of real time and understand the implementation and import of techniques like "circuit breakers."

Once you get the hang of it it's actually very easy and somewhat liberating. It's really easy to test solutions out in a limited form and then completely tear them down. Personally I'm very happy that I put the effort in.
by xzjis | 2025-11-19 22:57:22+00:00
I have a theory: just like with excessive porn consumption, could it be that depressed people tend to watch more short-form videos? I have a chronically depressed friend who confirms this theory: she can't be bothered to do anything and can only muster the energy to watch Shorts when she's feeling down. Shorts are not the cause, but a symptom of the consequences of her depression.
by salawat | 2025-11-19 22:57:33+00:00
Yes and no. You can't escape at least one "pet" environment, and unless your profit margins are so disgusting that you can rent out dedicated environments for every team, "cattle" tends to be aspirational. If realized, the cattle setup is inevitably abused (spinning up too much, leaving it running and chugging the meter etc...) You're going to have a bad time.
by cal_dent | 2025-11-19 22:57:35+00:00
I see it as the continued corporatisation of everything. I suspect that you'd be hard press to find anyone who has ever been anywhere above middle-management in a corporate organisation who doesnt see, and chuckles at, the similarities in the worst places they've worked and this:

"Where admitting uncertainty is social suicide. Where every conversation is a performance for your tribe rather than an actual exchange of ideas. You lose the ability to solve problems that don't fit neatly into your ideological framework, which turns out to be most important problems"

Politics is the obvious one to see this effect in action but it's bled into so many facet of society now because society is one giant grey areas but our mediums don't like greys. The medium continues to be the message.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-19 22:57:48+00:00
I have found that 99% of all network problems are bad wires.

I remember that the IT guys at my old company, used to immediately throw out every ethernet cable, and replace them with ones right out of the bag; first thing.

But these ships tend to be houses of cards. They are not taken care of properly, and run on a shoestring budget. Many of them look like floating wrecks.