MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breve | 2025-11-07 19:56:13+00:00
You aren't making any points. You're emotionally trying to rationalize Musk's behaviour. It's not worth your time or effort.

In the end, Tesla is just a car company. You can buy an EV from a company that isn't run by a "drunk uncle". And if you're invested in Tesla, diversify your investments (that's just good financial sense).

Teslas aren't exactly cutting edge anymore. For example, Tesla's charge curve is quite weak compared to other EVs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy46Ag0djjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAky0r8n5sk
by vkou | 2025-11-07 19:56:30+00:00
There's a simple way to do that. Legislate a requirement for ID, the users will provide it to the platform, the platform will provide it to law enforcement when requested.

Kind of like how South Korea (where you need a national ID to access digital services) is doing, or the UK is trying to do with their ID push.

(And then who wants this could go have a fight with the people who don't want this.)
Ask HN: Can we talk about bot texts in 2025?
by grimgrin | 2025-11-07 19:56:33+00:00
Lately I've been getting fairly "sophisticated" texts that don't break script but are clearly bots. It starts very innocent, they've texted the wrong person. You correct, they thank you, and it might be an hour or more later but it'll reply again, complimenting your kindness or whatever. I find this delay to be a nice deceiving technique

Today I'm dealing with one that is using iOS with read receipts, I ain't seen that before. Asked if I could send them money: "Haha, I don't need your money."

what is going on, long-game botting? I haven't seen the iOS angle before today, either

People are absolutely _COOKED_ unless equipped with healthy suspicion
by mikaeluman | 2025-11-07 19:57:34+00:00
I like the ML languages, and as many others I spent a lot of time with F#.

I would love to spend more time but even though Microsoft gives it plenty of support (nowhere near as much as C#), the community is just too small (and seems to have gotten smaller).

Looking at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ numbers fall off pretty quickly from the top 5-7.

Guessing this is the same for OCaml, even if the language as such is nice.
by gruez | 2025-11-07 19:57:37+00:00
All of the examples you gave, the challengers had some revolutionary idea/improvement on top. Tiktok had its recommendation algorithm and short videos. Google had pagerank. That's also the reason why whatsapp hasn't been supplanted. There's no room for innovation (or nobody bothered trying). The same is true for digital distribution. Every steam competitor is basically "steam but [publisher]" or in epic's case, "steam but with steam games".
by allenu | 2025-11-07 19:57:43+00:00
> Would this have worked just as well if a person was the one doing this?

I'm not sure how you want to quantify "just as well" considering the AI has boundless energy and is generally designed to be agreeable to whatever the user says. But it's definitely happened that someone was chatted into suicide. Just look up the story of Michelle Carter who texted her boyfriend and urged him to commit suicide, which he eventually did.

This is interesting because the LLM provides enough of an illusion of human interaction that people are lowering their guards when interacting with it. I think it's a legitimate blind spot. As humans, our default when interacting with other humans, especially those that are agreeable and friendly to us, is to trust them, and it works relatively well, unless you're interacting with a sociopath or, in this case, a machine.
by doodpants | 2025-11-07 19:58:29+00:00
But Word Mastermind (like regular Mastermind) only tells you how many letters are in the correct spot, and how many are present but not in the correct spot. Whereas Wordle tells you specifically which letters fall into those categories. So it's not quite the same. (That's why Wordle only gives you 6 guesses, while Word Mastermind has 10 rows.)
by BobaFloutist | 2025-11-07 19:58:46+00:00
To be fair, there are absolutely situations where the court should be able to say "This particular trial was a shitshow and we're throwing it out, but there should still be a trial." Say, if the defendant has a malicious or incompetent defense attorney, it's fair that both they don't have to suffer the harm of that being their final chance to defend themselves but also the government doesn't have to just fully acquit them forever because their counsel sucked. Either alternative would lead to some pretty absurd incentives.
by afavour | 2025-11-07 19:59:20+00:00
What a ridiculous response.

My objection is to explaining away observed data with unsupported assertion.

There is a pay gap = fact

The pay gap is largely attributable to women working in fields that pay less = fact

Women work in these fields because they choose to = unsupported assertion

Dress it up in some internal dialogue you have with yourself about “left” “right” and “woke” if you wish but it doesn’t speak to my point at all. You’re just settling on an answer that feels right to you and shutting down any further thought. “Everybody knows it’s true” is pure laziness.
by cycomanic | 2025-11-07 19:59:24+00:00
As someone who sold their first joint at 11, which really spurred a lot of my later interests which are now part of my career or let to it indirectly, I am opposed to paternalistic authoritarian governments making choices for everyone.

/s

Absolute statements like yours rarely work, because the discussion is hardly ever about absolutes and more about where to draw the line.
by worldfoodgood | 2025-11-07 19:59:44+00:00
Ok!

Happier is a fine place to be. They are both still too high. Not everything has to be binary -- I can think Valve is offering some utility and also think that Valve is charging too much for that utility.

The fact that Gabe has a billion dollars worth of yachts probably suggests that maybe, just maaaaaybe, that 30% could be lower and Steam could still provide you the same level of marketing support and player base.
by mmooss | 2025-11-07 19:59:52+00:00
I guess if you ridicule them, it's like an argument but without any basis for truth (I think that's why poeple use ridicule). What about their claims? What about the GP's claim about serving Altman and Altman's response? What about the value of public demonstrations to bring awareness to issues - hardly a new or illegitimate tactic.
by gethly | 2025-11-07 20:00:27+00:00
Problem with CTR is that it is not a block-based cypher, which means you cannot append to existing file. For example if you have multipart file uploads, this would just not work. Also CTR lacks checksum integrity, it only XORs the bytes.

And yeah, like I said, random access is possible but you have to write your own "driver" for it.
by caconym_ | 2025-11-07 20:00:38+00:00
There are well established legal standards for what is copyrightable and I believe written literary criticism trivially qualifies (as it should). Stuff you yell at the supermarket doesn't, IIUC, as it isn't fixed in a tangible form. Social media comments are, IIUC, generally protected. The exception would be comments that don't meet the bar to be considered "original", "creative", etc.

(not a lawyer)
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-07 20:01:26+00:00
I don't know much about the Amish, so I can't comment.

Teaching kids how to code isn't all that meaningful on its own. knowing what to do once you learn how to code is. If your plan is to teach your kid how to code, teach them to solve problems without code at that age. Unless you're serious about thinking learning at age 5 vs age 13 would make a big difference.

I think every kid 13 and above should have an rpi too.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-07 20:01:51+00:00
Right the fact you may not be able to understand some Scottish people because of their accent doesn't mean they're not competent English speakers, it just means the accent is difficult for you to understand, which isn't relevant when writing.

There are a few famous movie scenes where somebody deliberately uses perfectly reasonable English sentences but with such a thick accent that most English users cannot understand it, but once you know what they said you can play that sound back and yeah, that's what they said, you just couldn't understand the accent e.g..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-rgvkRfwc

Indeed the joke is that people keep repeating what the hard-to-understand bloke said even when it's perfectly obvious what he said, because if you can understand it then you can't tell whether it was hard to understand.

That's not even Scottish, the bloke in that scene is from Somerset, which is the far side of the country but exactly like Scotland most people in Somerset don't talk like that most of the time, but some of them do, some of the time and to them it's normal, that's just how you say words.
by skrebbel | 2025-11-07 20:01:59+00:00
Unrelated side note, but I haven't written any Ruby in maybe 15 years or so and dammn I forgot how elegant the language is at its core. The author's AppVersion class is so nicely done, it's nuts how succinct eg the compare implementation is.

Having done mostly TypeScript and Elixir lately, I had forgotten things could be so succinct yet so clear. The combo of modern (to me) Ruby's lambda syntax (in the .map call), parentheses-less function calls, the fact that arrays implement <=> by comparing each item in order, that there's an overloadable compare operator at all, having multiple value assignments in one go... It all really adds up!

In any other language I can think of real quick (TS, Elixir, C#, Python, PHP, Go) a fair number of these parts would be substantially more wordy or syntaxy at little immediately obvious benefit. Like, this class is super concise but it doesn't trade away any readability at all.

Having learned Ruby before Rails became commonplace, with its love for things that automagically work (until they don't), I had kinda grown to dislike it. But had forgotten how core Ruby is just an excellent programming language, regardless of what I think of the Rails ecosystem.
by kazinator | 2025-11-07 20:02:10+00:00
Article forgets: tiger symbolism is prominent in Chinese culture, which deeply influences all the others that developed alongside it.

The Tiger is one of the symbols in the Chinese Zodiac. 1/12 of the people are born in a year of the Tiger.

"In Buddhism, the tiger is one of the Three Senseless Creatures, symbolising anger, with the monkey representing greed and the deer lovesickness." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_tigers#...]
by worik | 2025-11-07 20:02:27+00:00
I am in New Zealand and we are debating this now

I am a dissenter. A ban for children is onerous and how can it be enforced? Who will be punished for infractions?

Better a legal code of conduct for platforms that want to raise revenue in your jurisdiction (the important ones, that the state has leverage over). The code should do two things:

1. Prohibit the targeting of individuals below 21

2. Mandate moderation of spaces where young people gather, with resources to enforce it

A ban is much more satisfying to the do goobers and much worse for those it is supposed to protect
by moduspol | 2025-11-07 20:04:03+00:00
My cynical take is that crafting systems are probably the most attractive on the ratio of "amount of dev effort required to implement" relative to "amount of play time added." They're also trivially tunable. You can add (or subtract) hours of play time just by changing the numbers required to craft things.

Unless they're an integral feature of the game (like in Minecraft), they always feel slapped on to me.
by Measter | 2025-11-07 20:04:07+00:00
There are also limits to what the borrow checker is capable of verifying. There will always be programs which are valid under the rules the borrow checker is enforcing, but the borrow checker rejects.

It's kinda annoying when you run into those. I think I've also ran into a situation where the borrow checker itself wasn't the issue, but rather the way references were created in a pattern match causing the borrow checker to reject the program. That was also annoying.
by neilv | 2025-11-07 20:04:16+00:00
* I want to keep liking GTA, and to keep giving Rockstar more money, for each new chapter and new console/device. If it turns out that Rockstar was union-busting and defaming, then I really hope that they soon have a we-messed-up moment, and genuine corrective action for whatever went wrong.

* Has anyone heard of game-buying consumers voting en masse with their pocketbooks over ethical/social concerns about a game/publisher/studio?

(I absolutely don't mean something like the Gamergate psychosis, though that was the first very loosely related event that came to mind. I mean respectable commercial boycotts, for admirable reasons.)
by pjmf | 2025-11-07 20:05:02+00:00
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by thfuran | 2025-11-07 20:06:56+00:00
Yes, it's not that it's impossible, it's that it's impossible while operating how they want to operate, scaling as much as they want to scale, and profiting as much as they want to profit. But no business model that can't be pursued ethically and profitably should be execused as simply inevitably unethical. It should be regulated and/or banned.
by MattGrommes | 2025-11-07 20:07:35+00:00
> I looked around me and all the other kids were talking and joking around. I thought that was strange. How could you ever win if you're not in the mindset of winning. If you're not locked in?

I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.
by dundercoder | 2025-11-07 20:07:41+00:00
I ordered citric acid off of Amazon (it’s great at getting out hard water stains in bathrooms and toilets and helps keep my water softener going well (I add some to the salt tank), also can add some good kick to lemonade)

For every cup of vodka (40 or 60% can’t remember, but prolly 40. Though scientifically 60% would be better) I add 1 to 2 tsp of powdered citric acid. Takes a surprisingly long time to dissolve so you’ll get a quick workout shaking it. I’ve added blue food coloring before to make it more visible in the dispenser to see the level but it’s not necessary at all so I usually skip it.

I make it in a 1 liter bottle which will last a couple months. We have a Bosch dishwasher, refill it… every couple of weeks maybe? I’m not the only one filling it. We do 1-2 loads of dishes a day (4 kids who can’t ever seem to find the cup they JUST used. Probably a parenting problem)

I have no idea if that’s helpful. But I did just lookup a cost by fluid volume- I live in a state with high alcohol tax rates and my cost per fluid oz of my DIY rinse aid is around $0.19 (mostly from alcohol, per fluid oz of citric acid is less than one cent. ) for reference, the small bottle of Jet-dry is $0.58/flOz.
by PaulHoule | 2025-11-07 20:07:42+00:00
If it was not ‘medical device’ I would say (4) just graduate and file a patent and take your chances that the university never finds out. [1]

As it is a ‘medical device’ I would say the whole thing is a corrupt system of patronage that will make you device cost 5x more than it should and since your royalties will be inflated by said corruption you can afford to pay the trolls.

My main fear for you is that if you get the technology transfer office involved they might try to stop you from getting a patent because they might make a calculation that it is not worth their while even if it is worth your while. Don’t let them torpedo your getting a patent or let your resentment get in the way of getting the patent.

[1] Funny I worked on a search engine for patents and one of our customer persona was a TTO that wanted to catch any affiliates who filed a patent without telling them. I’m willing to bet many of them were too cheap to buy it, just as they are often too cheap to do the work to get a patent or that they make patents that would be cheap expensive and decide not to file them because of bloated process and gold plated IP lawyers.
by liquid_thyme | 2025-11-07 20:07:59+00:00
A rational person would agree that unions, like anything else, have pros and cons. They can do good, but also can do harm. It's the commenters here seem to fly off on emotional rants that derail the conversations. The thinking is capital takes less risk than labor; and that model of thinking makes it easy to ascribe faults to capital, but not to labor. You can't argue your way out of that. When you have to manage a bunch of employees and run payroll, bonuses, benefits, increments, that is when you'll know who takes more risk.
by shadowgovt | 2025-11-07 20:08:16+00:00
Valve never sold out because they became the "out" other companies sell out to. They successfully built a revenue-capturing money-printer in the form of the Steam store and service and now they don't have to make games at all to keep their bottom line strong. Not to imply they shouldn't have; get that gold ring and all.

(But I may also argue the point they never sold out in terms of being a game studio as opposed to a publisher.... "So when's Half Life 3 releasing?")
by gregsadetsky | 2025-11-07 20:08:31+00:00
Similar article on this exact topic, with a bit more detail on the QR encoding side, from Terence Eden:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capit...

Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149077

(self promo-ish) The above blog article was one of the pieces shown at the QR Show that I helped co-organize earlier this year at the Recurse Center. I'm definitely tempted to have another one in 2026!

The whole lists of pieces is here: https://qrshow.nyc/retrospective.html
Show HN: I built a Free "Masterclass" from YouTube clips
by longerpath | 2025-11-07 20:08:53+00:00
The idea: what if you could get a “Masterclass”-style experience, but free, using existing YouTube content?

So I made OpenCademy — right now it only has two quick startup "courses" (101 & 102), built from curated YouTube clips, all embedded and organized into modules.

It’s still early (no accounts, no backend), but it’s bingeable.

Would love thoughts on whether this concept feels useful or just... redundant.
by oersted | 2025-11-07 20:09:13+00:00
There's voting with your wallet and voting with your, well, vote.

In some sense a democracy is also a market and can lead to efficient allocation of resources, particularly common resources for common good.

This is why public utilities tend to work so well in practice. People, especially in the US, don't seem to realise that such services are also subject to strong market forces, just a different kind of market.

Voters care a lot about good public services, and they also care a lot about not getting taxed much. This can lead to very efficient outcomes in well functioning democracies, often more efficient than those that come out of private enterprise, when it comes to services that most of the population needs.
by RajT88 | 2025-11-07 20:09:14+00:00
> The worst UX decision I have seen recently is AI auto-dubbing all youtube videos by default with no way to disable this behavior globally.

Recently anyways. The most egregious thing about Youtube, which is not terribly new, is the Shorts. If your video is short enough, it is auto-converted to a "Short", and the original aspect ratio gets cropped to be vertical orientation (for viewing on a phone, presumably).
by PhilKunz | 2025-11-07 20:10:03+00:00
HeyHey. The website uses Ghost right now, and a lit based web components catalogue. Some features are not yet entirely carved out. The commenting system being one of them. Components are ready, but some integration work has to be done. We also want to enable highlighting stuff directly, so people can comment on specific referenced stuff...

The commenting APIs in ghost are a little obscure.
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-07 20:10:35+00:00
Ah, shucks! Thank you. Means a lot to me to have folks giving it a go. I recognize how much our attention is strained these days.

I'm trying to figure out whether folks really want this as more of a documentation tool for onboarding, or for "on-the-fly" transient digging: bugs/root cause, PR Review support, co-designing, or code style review across a section. The inline feedback is what's been clutch and sticky for me both within tours, and outside.

If you have feedback and install it or have issues you can email me at support at v1 d0t co --

If it's more of an idea, feature request, or potential bug you can ask your agent (once MCP is connected) to "Send feedback to intraview team" or something similar to be clear you don't want to add feedback for the Agent (which it can also do) and it'll send us a Slack message.
by bartread | 2025-11-07 20:10:43+00:00
Even discounting this, and despite everyone bleating on about its (very real) flaws, ChatGPT and other LLMs do quite a good job of proofreading and suggesting improvements to written English text[0]. I find it works best if you keep them on quite a tight leash but it's certainly within the compass of their capabilities to take badly written English and turn it into well written English, and even adopting a particular style to do so.

[0] Performance in other languages... well, I suspect it's still going to be quite variable, which is another valid criticism that has been levelled at the more popular mainstream models over the past year or two.
by duxup | 2025-11-07 20:10:48+00:00
Ads in Maps and how that contrasts with the customer experience is the message here.

I'll be honest, I'm tired of the "steve jobs wouldn't" and "apple dying" articles, they're oh so shrill and tiresome and I think Steve would have changed with the times too ...

Steve aside, I find this particular article's observation that ads in maps is a bad customer experience something I can agree with.
by triMichael | 2025-11-07 20:10:53+00:00
There are two types of "brainrot" that are related but not the same. Essentially brainrot is anything that is anti-thinking.

The first type of brainrot is what happens when you let other things think for you and your thoughts and opinions become not your own. AI is anti-thinking because you can let the machine think for you. Social media is anti-thinking because you can let other peoples' opinions think for you.

On the other hand, memes actually communicate ideas. For example, The Simpsons Ralph meme "I'm in danger" and the dog on fire "This is fine" memes both represent understanding being in a dangerous situation while doing nothing about it. Star Trek was actually way ahead of its time with the episode "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" which was about a culture that used memes as communication.

So what do you get when you combine brainrot ("anti-thinking") with memes? You get brainrot memes, which is the second type of brainrot. For example, 6-7. 6-7 doesn't communicate ideas. It doesn't mean anything. Instead, it communicates the opposite of an idea. So when someone says "6-7", they are embracing using language in an anti-thinking way. In this way, brainrot memes can be thought of more as an anti-meme. It's as contagious as an idea, but since it doesn't contain any information, it acts more like a virus. So brainrot memes are essentially mind-viruses that embrace the lack of thinking that comes with brainrot.