MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krustyburger | 2025-11-07 17:58:49+00:00
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S11E08/1028360

The actual Simpsons joke had nothing to with either health care or CEOs. That subreddit is for making memes around classic Simpsons references, not a repository for them.

If you can’t even get the Simpsons right, I’m more than skeptical of the various statistics you cited but didn’t bother providing sources for.
by munificent | 2025-11-07 17:58:55+00:00
> Why are we so averse to identifying and celebrating what’s good about men and masculinity, and why does it matter? Because we won’t prosper if we convince boys and young men that they’re victims, or that they don’t have to be persistent and resilient, or that their perspective isn’t valuable. If we do, we’ll end up with a society of old people and zero economic growth.

It's much worse than that. History shows that young men are the free radicals of society. If a society doesn't have systems in place that enable them to form stable relationships with partners, peers, and esteemed communities, they will burn the thing to the ground out of rage at being thrown into a system that doesn't want them.
by igouy | 2025-11-07 17:59:13+00:00
It's a practical workflow that was actually adopted.

Next you'll be wondering whether changes were integrated continuously throughout the day — "This fine granularity of components enables highly concurrent development because changes can be tracked down to the individual method level …"

2001 "Mastering ENVY/Developer".

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...
by ryandrake | 2025-11-07 17:59:24+00:00
I'm pretty surprised by how fooled normal people are by all this AI-sludge, and/or how accepting they are of all this low-effort content. My reaction to this stuff is the same as yours: please don't clog the internet up with all this fake content! But everyone else in my life thinks it's great, and sometimes don't believe me when I point out it's obviously AI generated. I think people are already totally fooled and think it's real.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-07 17:59:46+00:00
Yes and it's largely made the site lose the rigor it used to have. You compare it to Slashdot downthread which I don't think is a good thing. The reason I joined this site so long ago is because Slashdot was more interested in tech culture shibboleths than actual tech or business. Natalie Portman!! Hot grits! Embrace, extend, extinguish!!

Unfortunate to see the same happen here but that's life I guess. The fact that the news for nerds group is so desperate to find community that they glom onto every IRC and website they can is a bit sad but I guess it's the nature of online cultures. But oh yeah enshittificiation and the year of the Linux desktop is tomorrow and Meta is going down down down or something right?

On the other hand it's funny how folks who like that culture keep putting it on a pedestal. Why? It contains little predictive power. It teaches little. It's just about opining. Is it that fulfilling to find online bytes that share your opinions? I guess I use my real life friends and family for that.

It's social media in a nutshell. We're more interested in finding people like us than confronting reality. When that happens at scale, you lose mass consensus. HN is but one piece of that.
by crdrost | 2025-11-07 17:59:53+00:00
I mean pohl's joke above whooshed kjmh so it's all fine. The important thing for threads like this one is for us to name drop all of the weird programming languages that we have used, publicly avow the greatness of ones that we have not, and make a New Year's resolution that we will never follow, to actually pick up those great languages and write something in them...
by thevunderkind | 2025-11-07 17:59:55+00:00
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by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-07 18:00:01+00:00
I've had that experience re: my personalized addresses being used to more closely identify the source and time of a breach. When I start getting spam to one of my personalized addresses I'll usually reach out to the party for whom the address was created to let them know. Usually I get treated like a crank but occasionally I get somebody who understands and appreciates the help.
by robrtsql | 2025-11-07 18:00:13+00:00
That's me! I use parental controls to try and protect my elderly father on other platforms (he's always quick to fall for ads and download Android apps he doesn't need). Unfortunately Facebook doesn't allow you to enable parental controls on an adult, and they also pretty severely limit your ability to update your birthday! Which is unfortunate because Facebook is such a hostile platform.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-07 18:00:22+00:00
I don't understand how more countries don't hold the publisher responsible, especially after they are notified. I'm sure that in a classic newspaper, the publisher would be held responsible for obvious scam ads. But by intentionally automating and outsourcing everything, suddenly that responsibility goes away?

Hold the publisher responsible, let them deal with the ad platform. Suddenly, it becomes very attractive to have an ad platform that doesn't allow scams.

If the publisher and the ad platform are the same, even better.
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 18:00:25+00:00
Patrick Breyer has some good thoughts on this.[1]

The relevant points I believe to be:

> All citizens are placed under suspicion, without cause, of possibly having committed a crime. Text and photo filters monitor all messages, without exception. No judge is required to order to such monitoring – contrary to the analog world which guarantees the privacy of correspondence and the confidentiality of written communications.

And:

> The confidentiality of private electronic correspondence is being sacrificed. Users of messenger, chat and e-mail services risk having their private messages read and analyzed. Sensitive photos and text content could be forwarded to unknown entities worldwide and can fall into the wrong hands.

[1] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
by yabones | 2025-11-07 18:00:39+00:00
No wonder the lake is drying up with so much irrigation for agriculture, and an absurd number of golf courses in a very small area.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@33.6867973,-116.2608676,25994m

It's clear to me as an outsider that California has serious water sustainability problems. I mean, how long can this last?
by NemoNobody | 2025-11-07 18:01:56+00:00
How?? I watch Hulu ad supported without ads, YouTube no ads ever, screen never goes black, Viki ad supported free package - never seen an ad, Paramount ad package - never seen an ad.

I never have to turn off shields - on one hand the number of times I've had to do that.

Maybe I have something additional installed I don't know.
by godelski | 2025-11-07 18:02:24+00:00
I think you have a misunderstanding of the full system. Like you are thinking the GUI is much simpler than it actually is. Conversely I think you're thinking that CLIs are much more complicated. There's a lot more going on than just painting pixels on the screen. Maybe start by asking why vim is several magnitudes less resource intensive then Microsoft word. Then ask the same about neomutt vs Thunderbird vs outlook/Apple Mail

I'm also not sure why you think it's an extra layer between the gpu. Both the browser and terminal emulator are sitting in top of the OS. But also remember if you run headless then your OS doesn't need to load the desktop environment, though you can still use the CLI. At this point clearly the GPU is seeing less, right?
by Groxx | 2025-11-07 18:02:51+00:00
I 100% agree with what you've written, but if you haven't checked it out, I'll highly suggest trying mockery v3 for mocks: https://vektra.github.io/mockery

It's generally faster than a build (no linking steps), regardless of the number of things to generate, because it loads types just once and generates everything needed from that. Wildly better than the go:generate based ones.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-07 18:02:55+00:00
> UCMJ doesn't apply to any civilian.

False. It applies “In time of declared war or a contingency operation” to civilians “serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field”, 10 USC § 802(a)(10). This was one of several “gap-filling” changes to US federal law adopted to address problems with effectively holding contractors and others associated with the military accountable for crimes overseas in the '00s (among the others was the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000, which extended federal civilian criminal jurisdiction over certain offenses committed outside the United States that did not previously have extraterritorial application, when the offender was either a civilian accompanying the US military in certain capacities or a former military member subject to the UCMJ at the time of the act but not at the time of prosecution.)

See, related, this DoD memo (hosted at DoJ) on the subject: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/le...
by nine_zeros | 2025-11-07 18:02:55+00:00
> By 2026, Nvidia was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about AI. One reason they were excited was Nvidia's revenue growth. So they invested in new AI startups and cloud hyperscalers. The startups and hyperscalers then used the money to buy Nvidia chips. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Nvidia, and further convinced investors AI was worth investing in.

Fixed this for anyone still not processing the bubble.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-07 18:03:47+00:00
Car door locks are wafer locks and can be defeated sometimes with a flathead screwdriver.

Security is about "good enough" though so that's usually sufficient.

Most of the worms of the early 2000s worked by exploiting vulnerabilities that Microsoft had already found, patched, and deployed, but users, including giant businesses just didn't install the patches.

Bonzai Buddy and the days of the toolbar didn't happen because Windows is insecure, it happened because at a fundamental level the only difference between spyware and a perfectly valid and runnable program is intent, and an OS has no insight into the user's mind. When you doubleclick on a desktop icon, Windows cannot know whether you totally intend to send most of your precious data to a sketchy server, or whether you have no idea what you are running.

Microsoft is moving more towards preventing users from running whatever they want.

"The user is god and the OS serves them" and "Never let the user run spyware or malicious code" are mutually exclusive, so be careful what you wish for.
by wjhypo | 2025-11-07 18:04:02+00:00
Thanks so much! Yes, the embedded NFC chip in library books really removes the biggest friction point: you don’t need to buy your own tags (they’re only about $0.30 each, but most people simply don’t have one at hand).

In BookPace, every NFC tag, whether it’s your own or one from a library book, is treated as a black box. The app associates the book with the unique ID of the tag. Setup takes less than a minute and only needs to be done once — after that, every tap automatically recognizes the book.

I do wish we could read more structured info directly from library tags (like title, author, or ISBN) so users don't need to add the book info in the first place, but that data is usually encoded in a vendor-specific format that varies across library systems. Even so, just leveraging the existing tag IDs already creates a surprisingly smooth bridge between the physical and digital worlds.
by demetris | 2025-11-07 18:04:05+00:00
:-)

My interest in doing the benchmarks was the other thing:

Seeing what the options are these days for the types of image PNG was designed for.

As the results started accumulating, I wasn’t sure I should include all formats in the post and in the TXT file and the spreadsheet, because testing them at what they were not designed for did not seem fair.

Do you think I should add something stronger or more prominent to my intro to explain this?
Show HN: I made a browser extension to practice phonetic scripts (like katakana)
by vunderba | 2025-11-07 18:04:18+00:00
I built an open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that converts random words on a webpage as you browse into braille, ASL, Kana, etc.

How does it work?

Encounters sentences on the site:

- "I always imagined that Roy G. Biv would be best friends with Billy Rubin"

Resulting sentence might look like this:

- "I always imagined that ⠗⠕⠽ G. Biv would be best friends with ビリー Rubin"

And you can hover over them to see the original words. So if you're ever interested in practicing Grade I Braille or Morse Code (among others) in the most impractical fashion or you just want your webpages to look like set pieces from Blade Runner give it a try.

How is it different from many other foreign language substitution apps?

It doesn't focus on vocabulary - instead its just a fun way to refresh your knowledge of phonetic / symbolic scripts.

Demo

https://mordenstar.com/projects/glyphshift
by LurkandComment | 2025-11-07 18:04:26+00:00
I loved the idea of this vehicle, but I'm never going to buy a pick-up. The idea of charging a construction site or a house during black out sounds amazing to me. However, I'm not sure of the pick-truck audience likes the idea of electric. It could also be a cost thing. I'd love to hear more about the demographic that normally buys trucks.
by close04 | 2025-11-07 18:04:37+00:00
There are some problems brewing in society for quite some time now. A demographic for which things changed too much, too fast, and not at all for the better will sooner or later react in a way nobody will like.

I remember reading an article [0] a few years ago that was surprising at first and then when I looked around it wasn’t so surprising anymore.

[0] https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/why-boys-and-men
by RajT88 | 2025-11-07 18:04:57+00:00
It's still like that! Late Night Broadcast TV still exists and is as weird as it ever was!

Arguably weirder, since stuff like this is on sometimes:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15737708/

It's a low-budget horror host show which was made for streaming, and coincidentally ended up on the air late on Friday nights.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-07 18:05:33+00:00
"Algorithms". Even if your region has plenty of ad inventory, Google's micro-targeting can mean even people in the same household see wildly different subsets of the ad inventory. You could just be lucky and aren't in any of the micro-target "demographics" scams want (or at least, can afford) right now.

Micro-Targeting is one of the worst mistakes of the entire advertising industry and we'll be probably dealing with its consequences for a while to come.
by ribosometronome | 2025-11-07 18:06:17+00:00
I'm not sure the Salton is the best example of that. It's not a permanent fixture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sea

It seems it's presently only still here because of previous inefficient irrigation (from the Colorado River) and that farmers restricting their water usage is actually leading to the Salton's decline.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 18:06:18+00:00
Yeah, that's one of the most frustrating things about these published numbers. Nobody ever wants to share how much money they spent on runs that didn't produce a useful model.

As with staffing costs though it's hard to account for these against individual models. If Anthropic run a bunch of training experiments that help them discover a new training optimization, then use that optimization as part of the runs for the next Opus and Sonnet and Haiku (and every subsequent model for the lifetime of the company) how should the cost of that experimental run be divvied up?
by lesuorac | 2025-11-07 18:06:31+00:00
Eh, society gave women a pretty shitty end of the stick and they took away everybody's alcohol for a bit in the US.

Any segment can be a free radical if given the motivation but right now the motivation is very heavily male dominated. Male employement is down like 15% while female employement is up nearly 30% [1].

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics/women-labor-force.htm
by kstrauser | 2025-11-07 18:06:49+00:00
That was a synthesized example of how they insert years seemingly for the sake of formatting it weirdly. Now that I’ve pointed it out to you, next time you see this come up, ask yourself if anyone else would have mentioned a date in that context.

If I were them, I might end this comment with “I haven’t seen it done like that since I first got online, in around 01993.”
by sunscream89 | 2025-11-07 18:06:57+00:00
In complex teams or projects there is specialized knowledge in many heads, without a clear roadmap or explicit order. The architect is capable of projecting the needs and available possibilities into a coherent strategy. At times as a magician conjuring a viable product out of the mixed and distributed thoughts feeling and beliefs.

They are undeceivers. These see past the self renderings and popular views into the stark necessities and purposes at hand.

They do not need to be told. Once directed to accomplish their tasks these take personal responsibility for everything through delivery, even stakeholder perception.

It may seem trite, like “consultants” what are they good for? Those with a tightly integrated game are a measure above normal team players. The vantage those so skilled offer is an asset beyond the mere sum of competent parts.

The difference may be that between a complex project which feels integrated and whole, or a bunch of similar working pieces that at times misalign.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-07 18:07:21+00:00
Normalized or not, the risk is you get something akin US drug enforcement: ignored for certain demographics, enforced for others. The ability to see someone's porn history is irrelevant until a government (or employer perhaps) wants to weaponize it.

The problem isn't my peers, it's the people in power and how many of them lack any scruples.
by FredPret | 2025-11-07 18:07:29+00:00
After the great success of centrally-planned economies over the last century, now comes the next thing they'll try:

Centrally planned information environments!

It's sure to work great.

- "I'm from the government and I'm here to tell you what's Good and True."

- "Do you have a loicense for that opinion?"

Red tape spilling into society kan be more damaging than oil spilling into the ocean.
by Ntrails | 2025-11-07 18:08:43+00:00
Agree entirely - more excluding series than authors but both should be options.

I also i need a way to describe its recommendations as "meh". For example, if I put Gone Girl in, I get Girl on a Train. Which, personally, I thought was bad. I want to exclude that from all future rec sets, and ideally align my preferences to the intersection of liked A and disliked B. vOv
by crdrost | 2025-11-07 18:08:52+00:00
We lost this fight at least by 1994 when Sun acquired “Thinking Machines,” which to its credit was bankrupting itself by making highly parallel supercomputers, at least. Now of course there is a new AI company of the same name. If the wrestling world echoes the computing world, one can only wonder what in 5-10 years will be the equivalent of Undertaker throwing Mankind off of Hell In A Cell to plummet 16 feet down through an announcer’s table...
by danielmarkbruce | 2025-11-07 18:08:54+00:00
There is an enormous amount of information in the public domain about building models. In fact, once you get into the weeds you'll realize there is too much and in many cases (not all, but many) the very specific way something was done or what framework they used or what hardware configuration they had was just a function of what they have or have experience with etc. One could spend a lifetime just trying to repro olmo's work or a lot of the huggingface stuff....
by D-Machine | 2025-11-07 18:09:15+00:00
Bribes are one thing, but individuals operate independently and may post unpredictably on certain topics. Their posts don't have to be "cleared" by higher ups. They can be harder to suppress precisely because of this. I don't rely on people whistle-blowing, because that means risking a job or even career. How many stories are quietly squashed that no whistle-blower ever revealed? We'll never know. This is IMO far more hidden than the "private" affair of a blogger going crazy.

My bet is that news media organizations are easier to control than it is to control a bunch of unpredictable, independently operating individuals (though it is far easier to control a single individual, no doubt).

I am worried about things like deciding on a narrative at the corporate level. E.g. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/1643786/new-york-..., or, say, CDC and news outlets flip-flopping on things like mask mandates / COVID lab leak and the like. Whenever large-scale incentives are involved, I do not trust news media, and especially think that what individual bloggers and other people are saying will give you a better perspective on things. Whereas when there aren't clear incentives in any direction, or when one requires a reporter "on the ground", there can be good reason to trust news media over individuals.

News media are also broadly incompetent when it comes to reporting on areas where expertise is required (e.g. tech, science), and there, specific individuals again are far, far more trustworthy. Heck, most news media is too lazy to even cite much of anything they say. As I said, this isn't an either/or thing, but for sure trust in news media should decline as people recognize the areas where other sources are more trustworthy.
by bsoles | 2025-11-07 18:09:30+00:00
The audience of software research is other software researchers.

The expectation that a practicing CS graduate, even with a master's degree, should be able to read, understand, and apply in their work research articles published in academic journals is not very meaningful.

Not because they are not capable people, but because research articles these days are highly specialized, building upon specialized fields, language, etc.

We don't expect mechanical engineers read latest research on fluid mechanics, say, making use of Navier-Stokes equations. I am a mechanical engineer with a graduate degree in another field and I would be immediately lost if I tried to read such an article. So why do we expect this from software engineers?
by iamleppert | 2025-11-07 18:09:59+00:00
It's also full of people selling counterfeit money as well. I am shocked how they allow it, there's a guy with a profile that shows him printing and testing his "bills" along with a link to buy them. Not trying to hide it, no code words, nothing.

The same on Tiktok. I have reported it multiple times but every time they say "no violation".

(facebook wouldn't copy a URL, but here he is on Tiktok): https://www.tiktok.com/@blastedbills
by delusional | 2025-11-07 18:11:40+00:00
> All citizens are placed under suspicion

> No judge is required to order to such monitoring

That sounds quite extreme, I just can't square that with what I can actually read in the proposal.

> the power to request the competent judicial authority of the Member State that designated it or another independent administrative authority of that Member State

It explicitly states otherwise. A judge (or other independent authority) has to be involved. It just sounds like baseless fear mongering (or worse, libertarianism) to me.
by verdverm | 2025-11-07 18:11:57+00:00
100% Google has been making their AI more intrusive and in your face across all their portfolio. It's not just Google, Atlassian is doing the same

With search in gcloud, the drop-down top 2/3 is ai calls to action. Completely useless because their suggestions are so bad and for such basic tasks that I never do.

It feels like in platform advertising.

I've left them feedback, and since they've only doubled down, am now reducing my spend

Moving to Cloudflare, if you're curious