MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noir_lord | 2025-11-14 15:24:24+00:00
browser.ml.chat.enabled set to false browser.ml.chat.menu set to false browser.ml.chat.page set to false browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge set to false browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge set to false browser.ml.chat.shortcuts set to false browser.ml.chat.sidebar set to false browser.ml.enable set to false browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled set to false browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled set to false browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled set to false browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnable set to false extensions.ml.enabled set to false

That should do it.

Can also use the user config override if you want to do it without having to do that every time you install FF somewhere new (put user.js in the root folder of your firefox profile).

user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.shortcuts", false); user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false); user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false); user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false); user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnable", false); user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false);

It's a garbage feature that no one appears to have asked for.
by cwillu | 2025-11-14 15:24:32+00:00
“But let's allow ourselves to imagine that Firefox has a help menu that can respond to AI. Now let's imagine a help agent (helper?) that can agentically make changes to Firefox Settings using AI.”

Dear god, no. The last thing I want to be doing is telling grandma over the phone how to sweet-talk the settings screen into turning her adblocker back on.
by kburman | 2025-11-14 15:24:45+00:00
Mozilla has lost the plot. People support Mozilla because they want a strong, independent browser, not so staff can siphon money into side projects that exist mainly to look good on someone’s resume. Things like Transformer Lab have nothing to do with Firefox and nothing to do with the mission Mozilla claims to care about.

This isn’t innovation. Leadership keeps green-lighting trendy distractions while the browser that actually matters keeps slipping behind. And it’s happening because there’s no real oversight, no accountability, and no one willing to say “no” when someone pitches another off-brand hobby project.

Mozilla needs a reality check. Stop burning resources on experiments nobody asked for, remove the people who think this is acceptable, and refocus on the one thing that still gives the organization a reason to exist: building a great browser. Until that happens, they’re just wasting donor money and goodwill while Firefox slowly fades away.
by manquer | 2025-11-14 15:25:04+00:00
It was an obvious market, that was visible years before the project was announced. I don't think any one was surprised, it was not like Apple launching iPod or the iPhone.

What was impressive is at that they solved a lot of hard problems like satellite manufacturing at scale, phased array dishes, or fleet management of thousands of satellites or laser interconnects between satellites, and so on, for basically a side project to increase their primary product demand enough to justify the reuse being a useful feature.
by danaris | 2025-11-14 15:25:28+00:00
Yes, it is worthwhile to ask how much value we get.

And a whole bunch of us are saying we don't see the value in all these datacenters being built and run at full power to do training and inference 24/7, but you just keep ignoring or dismissing that.

It is absolutely possible that generative AI provides some value. That is not the same thing as saying that it provides enough value to justify all of the resources being expended on it.

The fact that the amount of water it uses is a fraction of what is used by agriculture—which is both one of the most important uses humans can put water to, as well as, AIUI, by far the single largest use of water in the world—is not a strong argument that its water usage should be ignored.
by dwroberts | 2025-11-14 15:25:59+00:00
I think there’s a jealousy angle to Musk’s need to characterise Hassabis as evil. The guy is actually legitimately smart, and clearly has an endgame (esp medicine and pharmaceuticals) and Musk is just role playing.

I would love to have witnessed them meeting in person, as I assume must have happened at some point when DM was opened to being purchased. I bet Musk made an absolute fool of himself
by Demiurge | 2025-11-14 15:26:06+00:00
I completely agree, real world queries are complicated joins, aggregations, staged intermediary datasets, and further manipulations. Even if you start with a single coherent 650gb dataset, if you have a downstream product based on that, you will have multiple copies and iterations, which also have the reproducible, tracked in source control, and visualized in other tools in real time. Honestly, yes, parquet and duckdb make all this easier than awk. But, they still need to be integrated into a larger system.
by 52-6F-62 | 2025-11-14 15:26:39+00:00
Way off. I've polled about this (informally) as well. Non-technical people think it's another thing they have to learn and do not want to (except for those who have been conditioned into constant pursuit of novelty, but that is not a picture of mental health or stability for anyone). They want technology to work for them, not to constantly be urged into full-time engagement with their [de]vices.

They are already preached at that they need a new phone or laptop every other year. Then there's a new social platform that changes its UI every 6 months or quarterly, and now similarly for their word processors and everything.
by duped | 2025-11-14 15:27:02+00:00
I think tooling is big and people underestimate the lingering cognitive overhead of simply building C++ with arcane CMake files, but honestly it's more that much of Rust is informed by problems in C++ that they didn't have to inherit and don't have to maintain forever.

Like for example, how many ways are there to initialize a variable in C++? Which are you supposed to use?
by delecti | 2025-11-14 15:27:10+00:00
I'm not going to defend the youtube captions as good, but even still, I find them incredibly helpful. My hearing is fine, but my processing is rubbish, and having a visual aid to help contextualize the sound is a big help, even when they're a bit wrong.

Your point about the caption language is probably right though. It's worse with jargon or proper names, and worse with non-American English speakers. If we they don't even get right all the common accents of English, I have little hope for other languages.
by KraftyOne | 2025-11-14 15:27:37+00:00
The Restate model depends on a long-running external orchestrator to do the "pushing". However, that comes with downsides--you have to operate that orchestrator and its data store in production (and it's a single point of failure) and you have to rearchitect your application around it.

DBOS implements a simpler library-based architecture where each of your processes independently "pulls" from a database queue. To make this work in a serverless setting, we recommend using a cron to periodically launch serverless workers that run for as long as there are workflows in the queue. If a worker times out, the next will automatically resume its workflows from their last completed step. This Github discussion has more details: https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts/issues/1115
by Synaesthesia | 2025-11-14 15:27:41+00:00
On Linux and Windows it is IMO the best browser and it's pretty good on MacOS too, although Safari is still my fave on that platform.

It's stable, got good UI and light on resources. The excellent adblocking is a huge feature.

For the average Joe user, they might want some AI features but most techy users have already got that figured out.
by Theodores | 2025-11-14 15:28:37+00:00
AI is fine for phones and consumer operating systems, you don't have to use the features but they are there for you.

However, I think there is a demand of at least one (me) for a Linux system with no AI whatsoever. Firefox could make itself the browser of choice for the minority that don't want any AI. Sure, you can configure it to be AI free, but that is a bit like being able to be vegan at a meaty restaurant where you can always spit out the meat.

Firefox has been struggling of late and they don't do scoped CSS, which makes it as good as IE6 to me, but I think they could get their mojo back by being cheerleaders for the minority that have decided to go AI free. This doesn't mean AI is bad, but there is a healthy niche there.

Apart from anything else, there are new browsers like Atlas that are totally AI. I would say that an AI enabled Firefox is not going to compete with Atlas, but AI free is a market that could be dominated by them.

There is going to be a growing market for no AI. In my own case, my dad was 'pig butchered by an AI chatbot' to die penniless, so I have opinions on AI. Sam Altman would not want to meet me on a bad day, unless he has some AI that specialises in extreme ultraviolence.

Then there is an ever growing army of people that have lost their job to AI to get nothing but rejections from AI powered job boards.

Then there are those that have lost friends to AI psychosis, then there are those that have no water and massive utility bills due to AI data centers. The list goes on!

Sounds like I need to put together an AI free operating system with AI free browser for those that have their own reasons for resenting AI!
by thih9 | 2025-11-14 15:29:00+00:00
Depends; in the EU and selected countries that setting was always opt-in (i.e. it was never enabled for you). Elsewhere I guess the user has to periodically check their settings, or privacy policies, etc, which in practice sounds impossible.

> Important: By default, smart feature settings are off if you live in: The European Economic Area, Japan, Switzerland, United Kingdom

(same source as in grandparent comment).
by ecshafer | 2025-11-14 15:29:04+00:00
Nvidia already sells servers?

What I don't really get, is that Nvidia is worth like $4.5T on $130B revenue. If they want to sell servers, why don't they just buy Dell or HP? If they want CPUs want not buy AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom or TI? (I know they got blocked on their ARM attempt before the AI boom) Their revenue is too low to support their value, shouldn't they use this massive value to just buy up companies to up their revenue?
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-14 15:29:11+00:00
AlphaEvolve is a system for evolving symbolic computer programs.

Not everything that DeepMind works on (such as AlphaGo, AlphaFold) are directly, or even indirectly, part of a push towards AGI. They seem to genuinely want to accelerate scientific research, and for Hassabis personally this seems to be his primary goal, and might have remained his only goal if Google hadn't merged Google Brain with DeepMind and forced more of a product/profit focus.

DeepMind do appear to be defining, and approaching, "AGI" differently that the rest of the pack who are LLM-scaling true believers, but exactly what their vision is for an AGI architecture, at varying timescales, remains to be seen.
by Arisaka1 | 2025-11-14 15:29:34+00:00
Clippy only helped with very specific products, and was compensating for really odd UI/UX design decisions.

LLM's are a product that want to data collect and get trained by a huge amount of inputs, with upvotes and downvotes to calibrate their quality of output, with the hope that they will eventually become good enough to replace the very people they trained them.

The best part is, we're conditioned to treat those products as if they are forces of nature. An inevitability that, like a tornado, is approaching us. As if they're not the byproduct of humans.

If we consider that, then we the users get the shorter end of the stick, and we only keep moving forward with it because we've been sold to the idea that whatever lies at the peak is a net positive for everyone.

That, or we just don't care about the end result. Both are bad in their own way.
by dgacmu | 2025-11-14 15:30:08+00:00
This is correct but also a little misleading: Google gives you a choice to disable smart features globally, but you end up tossing out things you might want as well, such as the automatic classification into smart folders in Gmail. It feels very much like someone said " let's design a way to do this. That will make most people not want to turn any of the features that will make most people not want to turn it off because of the collateral damage"

(I desperately want to disable the AI summaries of email threads, but I don't want to give up the extra spam filtering benefit of having the smart features enabled)
by Sophira | 2025-11-14 15:30:12+00:00
To be clear, it's not LLMs creating the captions. Whisper[0], one of the best of its kind currently, is a speech recognition model, not a large language model. It's trained on audio, not text, and it can run on your mobile phone.

It's still AI, of course. But there is distinction between it and an LLM.

[0] https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/model-card.md
by wat10000 | 2025-11-14 15:30:15+00:00
People who are capable of saying "I have enough now" will self-select out of the activist investor class. Automatically, the people with the most power to influence publicly traded companies will be people who demand endless growth.

This sort of thing is why I think we need heavy taxes to limit wealth accumulation. Money is power, and the amount of power a person with ten+ figure wealth wields is too much for any one person to have, let alone one who was never elected.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-11-14 15:30:54+00:00
That's where I'm at with these.

I don't personally care if a product includes AI, it's the pushiness of it that's annoying.

That, and the inordinate amount of effort being devoted to it. It's just hilarious at this point that Microsoft, for example, is moving heaven and earth to put AI into everything office, and yet Excel still automatically converts random things into dates (the "ability" to turn it off they added a few years ago only works half the time, and only affects csv imports) with no ability to disable it.
by simonw | 2025-11-14 15:31:08+00:00
And an average US soybean farm has 312 acres (13x larger than 24 acres): http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/soybeans-and-oil-crops/...

Which means that in 2025 Microsoft's Querétaro sites used 1/13th of a typical US soybean farm's annual amount of water.
by nunez | 2025-11-14 15:31:21+00:00
I meant what were they expecting? A bunch of their privacy-wonk userbase to go "Oh shit; I'm finally gonna go all-in on the slop now that Mozilla's doing AI?"

Like, what were they thinking?

I'm glad that they have a single about:config option to turn it all off. First thing I did the minute I saw an "Ask AI" item appear in my right-click context menu.
by red75prime | 2025-11-14 15:32:28+00:00
> Many big names in the industry have long advocated for the idea that LLM-s are a fundamental dead end.

There should be papers on fundamental limitations of LLMs then. Any pointers? "A single forward LLM pass has TC0 circuit complexity" isn't exactly it. Modern LLMs use CoT. Anything that uses Gödel's incompleteness theorems proves too much (We don't know whether the brain is capable of hypercomputations. And, most likely, it isn't capable of that).
by netule | 2025-11-14 15:32:40+00:00
I used to try and optimize my distraction-free writing setup, until I realized that by doing so I was distracting myself from writing. I’ve come to realize that if you want to write, then just write. It sounds oversimplified, but that’s the crux of it. Once you get over the initial hill and form the habit of writing, tools no longer matter.
by strictnein | 2025-11-14 15:33:02+00:00
Yep, that's clearly what I was saying. I want to just keep moving the goalposts (which I didn't even know I had set or moved in the first place) again and again.

Or I just want the $3.5 trillion company to also provide the patches to OSS libraries/programs/etc that their projects with hundreds of millions or billions in funding happen to find.

Crazy, I know.
by mikemarsh | 2025-11-14 15:33:04+00:00
The idea of replicating a consciousness/intelligence in a computer seems to fall apart even under materialist/atheist assumptions: what we experience as consciousness is a product of a vast number of biological systems, not just neurons firing or words spoken/thought. Even considering something as basic as how fundamental bodily movement is to mental development, or how hormones influence mood ultimately influencing thought, how could anyone ever hope to to replicate such things via software in a way that "clicks" to add up to consciousness?
by nijave | 2025-11-14 15:33:11+00:00
For Grafana graphs, I think there's a graph library feature that solves that problem but it's been a couple years since I seriously used Grafana so don't remember the specifics

As for forecasting/trends, usually that's offloaded to the underlying data storage system so really depends on where the data is being stored (Prometheus, Influx, Mimir, Elastic, etc)
by mindslight | 2025-11-14 15:33:32+00:00
> Dems didn't support Mamdani because he's a liability outside large, progressive cities.

I'm not arguing with your summation of the realpolitik the way the Dem establishment sees it, but this worry of theirs needs to die in a fire. Turmp has shown that people are willing to vote for abjectly terrible, extremist, even outright anti-American candidates as long as they stand and fight for something. The Democrats' strategy of continually compromising to middle of the road milquetoast candidates that vaguely gesture at mild bargaining reforms is a losing one with voters. (of course part of the incentive to do this is their corporate sponsors, but they need to get over this addiction to easy money if they want to win elections)
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-14 15:33:37+00:00
If this keeps going, they will ban self-hosting next: only government-approved hosts allowed.

We can't just rely on technological solutions because you can't out-tech the law at scale. People need to actually understand that the government is very close to having the tools needed for a stable technocratic authoritarian regime here in the US and all around the world. It might not happen immediately even if they have the tools, but once the tools are built, that future becomes almost unavoidable.
by taylodl | 2025-11-14 15:33:48+00:00
You dismiss the WhatsApp Policy as being a lot of pages. And? That's their policy. You need to understand how they believe you're violating that policy before you can proceed. You dismiss the errors as being dumb, well, since your account has been suspended it sounds like maybe they were important.

Going forward, you'll find that the so-called T's & C's (terms and conditions) are dramatically different between commercial and private use. If you get a lawyer involved to sue Meta then the first thing they're going to want to review is Meta's policies and T's & C's and they'll make the assessment if you're violating them. Since they're going to do that anyway, you should have done that at the beginning so you could have avoided this whole mess.
by skeledrew | 2025-11-14 15:34:35+00:00
The only way to block a VPN is to have the knowledge that certain IPs are used by VPN providers. It's pretty trivial for someone to run a script/app that spins up a server somewhere, installs VPN software on it, and uses that for the connection. Now there's no way to separate whether a user is connecting via a VPN or not.
by _verandaguy | 2025-11-14 15:35:02+00:00
You can remove it directly from the right-click menu, but that's really not my point.

Mozilla has now shoved AI down my throat as a user of Firefox. It's one thing if they want to pursue questionable business directions on a purely opt-in basis -- that's their prerogative -- and while I'll take issue with what was in my opinion one of the last bastions of the open web burning money like that, ultimately, at least they didn't force it on the user.

It's another thing when they impose it on the user base, and a user base, at that, that's probably more sensitive to having the latest trend shoved in our faces than the average browser user (I'm not saying this to sound elitist; on the contrary, I think FF attracts obstinate, almost luddite types when it comes to new technology; I think many of us just want a basic, relatively no-frills browser).
by alecco | 2025-11-14 15:35:30+00:00
Guys, please read the article. Yes NVIDIA sells servers already. What they mean is they are going to also do other system parts that currenlty the partners are doing.

> Starting with the VR200 platform, Nvidia is reportedly preparing to take over production of fully built L10 compute trays with a pre-installed Vera CPU, Rubin GPUs, and a cooling system instead of allowing hyperscalers and ODM partners to build their own motherboards and cooling solutions. This would not be the first time the company has supplied its partners with a partially integrated server sub-assembly: it did so with its GB200 platform when it supplied the whole Bianca board with key components pre-installed. However, at the time, this could be considered as L7 – L8 integration, whereas now the company is reportedly considering going all the way to L10, selling the whole tray assembly — including accelerators, CPU, memory, NICs, power-delivery hardware, midplane interfaces, and liquid-cooling cold plates — as a pre-built, tested module.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-14 15:35:42+00:00
I use and am a big fan of the pomera.

That said, I'd issue a warning to aspiring writers here on HN: the writer deck culture is really just a big distraction from writing to which technically inclined people are especially prone, and I say this as a huge fan of the concept.

Ultimately, you need discipline to write, period. A writer deck is not going to solve that problem for you. If you already have a functioning laptop you can likely save yourself some money and work on being disciplined and conducting dedicated writing sessions first. After you've done that, writer decks are a good investment if portability is important for your practice and a laptop is too much to lug around.

Otherwise, resist the tantalizing urge to dive down the writer deck rabbit hole. You are really just distracting yourself from writing and spending more time on romanticizing the idea of writing than actually doing it—at least this was the case for me.
by lapcat | 2025-11-14 15:36:09+00:00
Ok, but... your claim that the article its "extremely misleading" seems unjustified. There are two different issues: (1) the motive for the article and (2) the information discussed in the article.

You said, "I read the supporting links but remain unconvinced." Ok, but you obviously can't deny that the supporting links exist. The article does indeed talk about the things you claimed it didn't talk about. You can remain unconvinced, but the claim that "It's looking just at the moneyed class" seems plain false. The issue (1) may be geared towards the moneyed class, but nonetheless (2) is broader.

The fact that you remain unconvinced doesn't mean the article is extremely misleading.
by cratermoon | 2025-11-14 15:36:30+00:00
For a while I made an effort to specify LLM or generative AI vs AI as a whole, but I eventually became convinced that it was no longer valuable. Currently AI is whatever OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, NVidia, etc say it is, and that is mostly hype and marketing. Thus I have turned my language on its head, specifying "ML" or "recommendation system" or whatever specific pre-GPT technology I mean, and leave "AI" to the whims of the Sams and Darios of SV. I expect the bubble to pop in the next 3-6 months, if not before the end of 2025, taking with it any mention of "AI" in a serious or positive way.