MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jerlam | 2025-11-14 04:53:02+00:00
> Even if I did try to contact a hotel in the event of travel disruption, I’d expect to be funneled into a labyrinth of computerized customer-service menus or AI doomchats before anyone could even try to help me out of my predicament.

This has not been my experience. Hotels, unlike airlines, are still quite hospitality-oriented. You can pick up a phone and talk to the person sitting at the front desk, and they will work with you (just don't call during check-in time). Hotels don't routinely overbook like airlines because then they have to pay for another hotel to house you.

Also when I book a hotel, I get multiple options for booking, some with no cancellation policy, some that can be cancelled before a week, and some that only have a day, being priced accordingly.
by jamesgeck0 | 2025-11-14 04:54:54+00:00
Mini apps are way more than web games. For a lot of people in China, WeChat is effectively their operating system. The platform hosts _millions_ of mini apps covering a significant percentage of the use cases that a mobile developer elsewhere in the world might build a native app for.

As such, it seems like WeChat has historically gotten away with a lot of stuff kinda sorta on the edge of the policies that Apple enforces on everyone else.
by saithound | 2025-11-14 04:55:17+00:00
I think you misunderstand jiggawatt, who wasn't talking about unknowingly hosting illegal material.

We're talking about knowingly hosting encrypted illegal material without knowing the key. This is unambiguously illegal whether or not you ever knew the key.

If the police show up and tell you that your site has an encrypted zip file containing illegal porn, of course they can instruct you to stop hosting it, and hold you liable if you refuse to follow those instructions.

They're not going to give you the decryption key to check for yourself, and it'd not even be legal for them to do so.

Jiggawatt is saying that if you have a truly uncensorable system, it's impossible to comply with the police instructions to selectively remove the illegal material, and so the whole thing becomes illegal.

> And exactly what algorithm can you provide to me that takes an encrypted blob as an input and returns whether it is not illegal material. Clearly that doesn't exist, so your point makes zero sense.

This on the other hand, tells me you don't know much about how legal systems work. I recommend you start with the essay "What color are your bits?" [1]

[1] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
by surajrmal | 2025-11-14 04:55:17+00:00
I played plenty of PC games such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and random stuff on steam. I was just not much into FPS (although TF2 was an exception). I also had all 3 consoles (all of my teenage paychecks went into games), but I think it was really Nintendo games which were commonly played by everyone I knew. Even if you didn't have one you'd play them via local multiplayer at someone's house.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-14 04:55:52+00:00
One problem with VR and VFX is how expensive it is in terms of man hours to create immersive worlds. This significantly reduces the cost and has applications in all sorts of ways and could realistically improve the availability of content in VR and reduce movie production costs. And that’s just the obvious applications (ignoring that these world models can be used to train AI itself)
by binary132 | 2025-11-14 04:55:57+00:00
I was talking about catching different classes, not about logging. Even if you’re just implementing a string description, there’s nothing stopping you from designing that string for use in a UI element, or implementing a structured message that can specify more details usable for defining UI elements, similarly to how many REST HTTP-driven web UIs work. I don’t think I’m quite following your criticism.
by spaceprison | 2025-11-14 04:56:57+00:00
Your homepage looks cool but doesn’t explain what the product does.

This is just one man’s take:

“The Human-AI Operating System” is marketing vapor. “Harmonize your workflow” tells me nothing. The three feature boxes—“Intelligent Automation,” “Seamless Integration,” “Adaptive Learning”—could describe any SaaS product from the last five years.

I had to scroll to the demo video to understand you’re building event-driven workflow automation. That should be the first sentence.

Compare to your explanation: “Shopify order comes in, system checks integrations, shows you the route, one button completes all actions.” That’s clear. That’s what someone needs to know in five seconds.

Your homepage buries the actual value under abstraction. No one knows what “harmonize” means operationally. They don’t know what problem you’re solving or what actions the system takes.

Strip out the philosophy. Lead with the mechanism: “When business events happen, we route them across your tools automatically. One click fulfills orders, notifies teams, updates calendars. The system learns your patterns and gets smarter over time.”

Then show the integrations—Gmail, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Asana. People need to see “oh, this connects the tools I already use.”

The cosmic language (“reshape how humans and AI collaborate”) actively obscures what you built. You’re competing for attention against a thousand AI startups using identical words. Specificity is your only advantage.

What does the product actually do in the first 60 seconds after someone signs up?
by amlib | 2025-11-14 04:58:52+00:00
It ran fine as in not crashing, but you were limited to dx8 or maybe dx9a feature set which limited many visual effects and there were significant performance issues originating from wine's reliance on translating dx to opengl, lack of offloading cpu grpahics "command lists" (or whatever it's called) to a deditacted thread and the disjointed state of linux graphics at the time... It took until about 2013 for wine staging to run hl2 properly with multi core rendering and with all bells and wistle, but performance was still inferior.

I think linux graphics were only good when paired with the right version of red hat and nvidia drivers on a supported workstation dedicated for running proprietary 3d/vfx software packages as an alternative to the aging SGI workstations. Every other use case was pretty rough... until about 2017 when things began to change massively, and finally now, where you can actually get better experiences than freaking windows on most use cases.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-14 04:59:02+00:00
Yeah: It's a machine that takes a document that guesses at what could appear next, and we're running it against a movie script.

The dialogue for some of the characters is being performed at you. The characters in the movie script aren't real minds with real goals, they are descriptions. We humans are naturally drawn into imagining and inferring a level of depth that never existed.
by jmpavlec | 2025-11-14 05:00:25+00:00
Cool idea! I want to say there is a similar mechanic in the game Tetris Effect when playing the connected mode against the bossea where pieces become invisible as soon as they are placed. This is slightly more forgiving than that.

Great execution on mobile as well. Almost didn't try it as I didn't expect it to work, but it was intuitive and performant.

What did you use you make it?
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by trou3 | 2025-11-14 05:01:17+00:00
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by thisislife2 | 2025-11-14 05:02:24+00:00
Apparently, this was done to promote "intellectual diversity"! I wonder if she would have been in compliance with the "intellectual diversity" law if she had also presented the perspective of the MAGA crowd on why they believe MAGA isn't about racism or white supremacy? I do feel one needs to be quite careful when using current political labels, and taking sides on it in an academic discourse, because the long-term consequences of the politics behind it (positive or negative) on society remains to be seen - as it is current, one doesn't know how it will impact society, and in some ways, you may end making a biased judgement call of it that may never pan out.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-14 05:02:40+00:00
I've managed big .Net teams. 99% of .Net devs are very, very average. Just crunching out lines of code with little care for quality, performance, readability etc. The best .Net dev I ever hired didn't know a single thing about it; brought him in as the most junior role to tinker with some HTML and within two years he had massively outclassed me.
by deathanatos | 2025-11-14 05:03:31+00:00
… sure … but also no. For example, say I have an image. 3 people in it; there is a speech bubble above the person on the right that reads "I'A'T AY RO HERT YOU THE SAP!"¹

I give it,

Reposition the text bubble to be coming from the middle character. DO NOT modify the poses or features of the actual characters.

Now sure, specs are hard. Gemini removed the text bubble entirely. Whatever, let's just try again:

Place a speech bubble on the image. The "tail" of the bubble should make it appear that the middle (red-headed) girl is talking. The speech bubble should read "Hide the vodka." Use a Comic Sans like font. DO NOT place the bubble on the right. DO NOT modify the characters in the image.

There's only one red-head in the image; she's the middle character. We get a speech bubble, correctly positioned, but with a sans-serif, Arial-ish font, not Comic Sans. It reads "Hide the vokda" (sic). The facial expression of the middle character has changed.

Yes, specs are hard. Defining a spec is hard. But Gemini struggles to follow the specification given. Whole sessions are like this, and absolute struggle to get basic directions followed.

You can even see here that I & the author have started to learn the SHOUT AT IT rule. I suppose I should try more bulleted lists. Someone might learn, through experimentation "okay, the AI has these hidden idiosyncrasies that I can abuse to get what I want" but … that's not a good thing, that's just an undocumented API with a terrible UX.

(¹because that is what the AI on a previous step generated. No, that's not what was asked for. I am astounded TFA generated an NYT logo for this reason.)
by CrackerNews | 2025-11-14 05:04:07+00:00
The first link is about how philosophy and psychology is used to describe brain-cognitive behavior research, which has a limited explanatory capability compared to a hypothetical interpretation using its own vocabulary instead of those borrowed from other fields.

The second link is about an AI that detects consciousness in coma patients.

The third link is about how coma is associated with a low-complexity and high-predictability passive cortical state. Kickstarting the brain to a high-complexity and low-predictability state of cortical dynamics is a sign of recovery back to consciousness.

How does any of this support what you have said?
by almosthere | 2025-11-14 05:04:17+00:00
> Big companies profit immensely from free labor and give little or nothing back.

I don't know if it's still going on today, but for many years I knew many people that were FTEs working exclusively on open source - with only the priorities being set by the company employing them.

But - the largest evidence that this is fake is that people continue to contribute to open source freely. A lot of it is profit inspired free work, but yes, almost everyone writing code either has a well paying job or will.
by fy20 | 2025-11-14 05:04:24+00:00
Not directly from privatisation, but in 2006 BT was forced to split the infrastructure part of their business into a separate company (OpenReach). They were forced to allow other providers to use their infrastructure, which during the broadband-era led to pretty healthy competition.

I'd say the issues today (fragmented services offerings, high prices, low speeds) are more due to under investment in the infrastructure (keeping copper for too long) - which could have just as easily happened if it was government run.
by visarga | 2025-11-14 05:05:41+00:00
> Expanding copyright even more so that text / art that looks stylistically similar to another work is counted as infringing will, in the long run, give Disney's lawyers the power to punish folks for making content that even looks anything like Disney's many, many, many IP assets.

Legal doctrines like the "Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test", "total concept and feel," "comprehensive non-literal similarity," and "sequence, structure and organization" have systematically ascended the abstraction ladder. Copyright no longer protects expression but abstractions and styles.

The ugly part is the asymmetry at play - a copyright holder can pick and choose the level of abstraction on which to claim infringement, while a new author cannot possibly avoid all similarities on all levels of abstraction for all past works. The accuser can pick and choose how to frame infringement, the accused has to defend from all possible directions.
by lavezzi | 2025-11-14 05:06:26+00:00
> If Anthropic should have prevented this, then logically they should’ve had guardrails. Right now you can write whatever code you want. But to those who advocate guardrails, keep in mind that you’re advocating a company to decide what code you are and aren’t allowed to write.

They do. Read the RSP or one of the model cards.

Not sure why you would write all of this without researching yourself what they already declare publicly that they do.
by Jun8 | 2025-11-14 05:07:07+00:00
“Years ago, I stumbled across an image online: a Sumerian clay tablet covered in tiny wedge-shaped marks.”

Seeing weird ancient symbols and feeling a great urge to embark on a journey to learn/decipher them is common; actually doing it is much rarer. Think of Champollion who, when shown Egyptian hieroglyphs by Fourier (as it is often mythologized) when he was just 11, devoting his life to them.

However, if you are tempted to take on Sumerian after reading this, I suggest that you start with Akkadian first. Chances are you’ll try to learn ancient languages by self study and you’ll need a lot of reading material: this is the advantage of Akkadian over Sumerian. Also the grammar will be easier to grasp. And it has borrowed a lot from Sumerian, so you can take it as a later step, if you so choose.

If you want to read inscriptions from local museums while keeping the cool ancient script angle, then, of course, go with Middle Egyptian. If, on the other hand you are determined to be one of the handful experts in the world on an ancient language, I’d suggest Hurrian or Luwian.
by SigmaEpsilonChi | 2025-11-14 05:07:28+00:00
> You've work to do on your communication. This style of communication probably works just fine with teenagers, but it's not going to hold up to scrutiny with adults. > … > It's not a great look for the leader of a children's organization to so blatantly flout that they lack a moral compass.

I'm not the leader of anything, that would be Zach Latta. He's a much better diplomat than I am, but I am doing my honest best to speak plainly and matter-of-factly to you about a complex situation that frankly requires a lot more context to properly understand than I think is possible to acquire from the information you have.

I'm also not trying to absolve our organization of all sins. We mess up all the time. We are working on many fronts to learn from these experiences and make imperfect systems a little better every day. We make mistakes, we apologize, we do our best to make amends, then we move on to the next mistake. It is the nature of doing new, hard things with real stakes.

> You're currently interacting with the public, not the legal system. Sure, whether or not you're legally required to inform your kids is relevant. However, the law is quite literally the bare minimum of what you're obligated to do. > > No-ones reading this thinking. "Oh great, they've done the bare minimum legally required of them." They're thinking, "Wait. Companies notify people of breaches all the time.

This is addressed in the top comment I left. Notifying 5k people about a patched vuln is not "more than the minimum", it's legitimately bad practice. That is not my opinion, it is industry standard practice! Absent any reason to believe there has been a data breach, absent any sort of actionable information, we are not going to send an email to thousands of people.

I call the GDPR thing the crux of the question because probably 80% of the thousands of Slack messages sent on this topic, a solid majority of them were about that question. That was the impasse. Staff considered the issue and concluded that from a moral, legal, and industry standard practice perspective, notifying every user was not the correct decision. Nothing was being hidden, that team logged and discussed the vulnerability publicly within the community from the start. They fixed, disclosed, discussed, learned, and moved on.

> This detracts so much credibility from your communication. There is no lawyer on Earth that will describe this as "not a complicated legal question". No adult that's ever had any communication with a lawyer is going to believe this for a second. Lawyers are notorious for their non-committal attitude toward providing legal advice. Nothing is black and white — it's all grey. So this comes across as: > > a. You've never interacted with a lawyer in your life. Or, b. You're telling porkies, or at the very least, are way too flippant with hyperbole.

I am married to a law professor for whom I lived through 3 years at Yale Law and 3 years of PhD/fellowship, I have about as much exposure to law as you can get without it actually being your job. I assure you, uncomplicated legal questions exist.
by gryfft | 2025-11-14 05:08:30+00:00
> It seems to me that the current tech scene doesn't reward simple.

A deal with the devil was made. The C suite gets to tell a story that k8s practices let you suck every penny out of the compute you already paid for. Modern devs get to do constant busy work adding complexity everywhere, creating job security and opportunities to use fun new toys. "Here's how we're using AI to right size our pods! Never mind the actual costs and reliability compared to traditional infrastructure, we only ever need to talk about the happy path/best case scenarios."
by musicale | 2025-11-14 05:08:45+00:00
> The first TRS-80 ad was similarly scattershot, promising to be everything to everyone: “[p]rogram it to handle your personal finances, small business accounting, teaching functions, kitchen computations, innumerable games

Innumerable games sounds very compelling (though the Apple II was more solidly in the video game system business with support for color graphics and game controllers; but Apple's Mac later yielded many nice black-and-white games, aided by the Mac's sharp, though tiny, display.)

Nice article though showing a spreadsheet (two versions of VisiCalc), two word processors (Electric Pencil and WordStar - of George R.R. Martin fame), and not just games (MicroChess) but a rather interesting, if primitive, abstract animation program (Electric Paintbrush).

Digital art/creativity is I think an underappreciated application area for computers, though programs like {Mac,MS,Deluxe}Paint etc. and Photoshop were milestones, and demoscene software formed its own art practice and culture. Processing is perhaps a modern heir to Electric Paintbrush.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-14 05:09:25+00:00
That's how I learned C in the 80s. Just compile the C file into an EXE. It's a good way to get started.

That said, I'm certain you've always been able to simple compile a .cs to an .exe? When I ran guerilla C# programming classes in jail, I couldn't get anything from the outside, so I was stuck with the .Net v2 csc.exe which is squirreled away in a subfolder of Windows on a default install of Visa.

What .Net 10 adds though is the ability to even scrap main() and just write code like it was Basic.
by dSebastien | 2025-11-14 05:10:01+00:00
That's why I'm building Knowii Voice AI. It's a fork of Handy (handy.computer) in which I'm going to add fun features, exploring different areas of what we can do with voice on a computer.

It's local first, privacy first, one-time payment. You buy it and get lifetime updates.

Currently available for Windows and very soon for MacOS and Linux. I'm working on Wayland/Hyprland support because I'm using Omarchy;-)

https://voice-ai.knowii.net
by somenameforme | 2025-11-14 05:10:39+00:00
The $400 system linked above can run modern games in 4k/120FPS. And that was far from some search for the most efficient price:performance build, it was just the first thing that came up on a quick search. If one is willing to do things like buy a refurbished hardware and assume you already have an OS, you could easily bring that down to $300 and maybe even start pushing towards $200.

Gaming has just gotten so absurdly cheap, but most people's mindsets are stuck in 15 years ago, when it was absurdly expensive and consoles were really the only way to help keep it to a relatively reasonable, and stable, cost. In modern times consoles will generally be price competitive for about a year, but then fall off as hardware prices decline, yet their retail sticker price generally stays the same.

On top of this now a days just about everything also comes to PC as well, so one of the biggest arguments of the past (console exclusives) is no longer valid. Even Japan is finally bringing their stuff to PC. And there also tends to be much more competition on PC, so rare will be the time that you need to pay $60++ for a new game. Though that is one area where many Japanese studios are still lagging behind the rest.
by hashbig | 2025-11-14 05:10:48+00:00
"That's when I learned the difference between burnout and disillusionment. Burnout drains your body; disillusionment erases your purpose. You can recover from exhaustion with rest, but you need something else entirely to recover from meaninglessness."

This is an accurate pathology to burnout at least in my experience. I worked on many hard things in my life, from school to obsessing over hard problems on weekends but I never felt burned-out. I felt tired, but content.

It took 6 months of being stuck after reaching a local maxima in my career. I was working on menial, meaningless, tasks that I knew amounted to nothing while I was doing them. That caused my burnout.
by tw1984 | 2025-11-14 05:10:59+00:00
Chinese have their own coding agents on par with Claude Code, why would they use Claude Code? Also if such agents are useful, they could just FT/RL their own for such specific use case (cyber espionage campaign) and get far better performance.

This is basically an IQ test. It gives me the feeling that anthropic is literally implying that Chinese state backed hackers don't have access to be the best Chinese AI and had to use American ones.