MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pdonis | 2025-11-30 18:36:57+00:00
My first PC, bought in late 1986, was a Leading Edge Model D, with two 360K floppy drives and no hard drive. I wrote a script to put COMMAND.COM and some other key files on a RAM disk on boot so I didn't have to keep the DOS floppy in the A: drive all the time. IIRC they had come out with a model that had a 20 MB hard drive but it was more than I could afford.

MIT, where I was at school then, had some IBM PC XTs with 10 MB hard drives, but most of their computer resources were time-sharing DEC VAX machines. You could go to one of several computer labs to get on a terminal, or even dial into them--I did the latter from my PC (the one above) using a 2400 baud modem, which was fast for the time.
Show HN: Unmarker.it – Client-Side Tool to Disrupt Invisible AI Watermarks
by ing-norante | 2025-11-30 18:37:19+00:00
I built a browser-only tool that disrupts invisible AI watermarks using Canvas, geometry, noise, and JPEG recompression. No backend, no uploads, no tracking.

Pipeline: Shake – Random rotation (±0.5°) + slight zoom Stir – Low-amplitude RGB noise via getImageData Crush – JPEG recompression at ~0.85 quality

Tested with SynthID (Google Gemini AI watermarking), and it remained undetected in all tests.

Pipeline improvements? What would you add/change?

Github: https://github.com/ing-norante/unmarker.it
by mercutio2 | 2025-11-30 18:37:32+00:00
You mean, not very much? Everything about space-based anything is dependent in the short to medium term on Starship making mass to LEO cost about as much as air freight.

Starship, at least as a rapidly reusable second stage, may fail, rockets are hard. But you aren’t really engaging with people’s dreams if you start from “we don’t have access to the technologies that appear to represent a one to two order of magnitude cost shift”.
by luqtas | 2025-11-30 18:37:40+00:00
in a city that doesn't produce even 1/25 of microplastic thousand kilos vehicles produce? because that also has an impact on marine ecosystems, by the way, cars are linked as one of the highest if not the, pollutants of microplastic. in a city that doesn't have air pollution linked towards a bunch of disease? in a city that doesn't have noise pollution that also has a bazinga of negative impact?

are you really naive to believe cyclists wouldn't respect traffic lights on a city designed after walk and public transportation? or are you thinking on the minimal cyclists that get killed by tresspasing this rule by vehicles that get a mild scratch? or the light or mild injuries bicycles at 15-25 km/h are gonna cause between each other?

edit: i would even go further and hope personal vehicles production is ceased and their circulation becomes a crime for citizens on non-legal or non essential services duties. i would live perfectly fine in a city without those but who controls the speed of my bicycle on cycle paths or that lock my brakes if i try to cycle high
by wasmainiac | 2025-11-30 18:37:41+00:00
> My summary is that Aristotle solved "a" version of this problem (indeed, with an olympiad-style proof), but not "the" version.

> I agree that the [BEGL96] problem is still open (for now!), and your plan to keep this problem open by changing the statement is reasonable. Alternatively, one could add another problem and link them. I have no preference. — BorisAlexeev

There we go, so there is hype to some degree.
by nja | 2025-11-30 18:37:51+00:00
Have you posted any writeups or other information about how you built this? I'm eyeing a Mazda as a next car (I've never owned a car newer than a 2014, and outside of that one, any newer than 2006, but family safety needs may lead to getting a newer car soon), and telemetry seems like one of the few downsides to an otherwise good carmaker. Would be very interested to learn more!
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-30 18:37:51+00:00
It is for societal reasons, in that some societies devote significant resources to ensure that people can "get around" without private vehicles, and others do not. It is also for societal reasons in that the distribution of, for example, grocery stores, dictates that people doing desired/necessary work in rural areas generally need to travel significant distances in order to obtain food.
by CMay | 2025-11-30 18:38:13+00:00
We're not getting rid of our allies, but it's long past time that they invested more in the common defense and it's important that they do, because it could be a valuable contribution to deterring war. Focus less on the soundbites. Yes there's messy dealmaking happening, but there's what's said and then there's what actually ends up happening.

Solar and wind are only okay, but they aren't reliable and subsidizing them mostly benefits China since they are by far the major supplies. Yes, it creates American jobs, but those people could be doing more important jobs without creating a foreign energy infrastructure dependency. I don't think we actually care that Africa has solar panels from China, except that it makes them energy dependent on them and increases foreign trade in Yuan. It's more of a way to create Chinese jobs, which is a huge priority so they end up with an oversupply.

Traditional nuclear has potential, but the costs, extreme complexity and lengthy lead times hurt the scalability. The newer fusion projects are interesting and I'm hopeful, but even if they work they take forever and are hard to replace quickly once they're up. It's more likely that we'll have a variety of all of these things.

There have been advancements in geothermal that are amazing, cheap, quick, less encumbered by supply chain risks and require way less land so we should see that scale out over the coming decades.

We do also have abundant oil which helps to reduce inflation and exporting it can offset some oil instability in the market. Yes, oil is eventually going away and that is why a renewable energy push was important, but a lot of oil remains untouched. The US military could also operate for years on just oil reserves and can get priority access to it. It would make plenty of sense for major countries to set aside oil for strategic and military purposes long after it stops being used for general transportation.

As for Taiwan, it is fair that dependency on exports from China can cause countries to tow the line, but it would mostly be optics with nothing preventing other forms of support. Also, the pain of losing Chinese exports in many ways would be less than the pain of an expanding China that goes unchecked, so I think those influences are only strong up to a threshold.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-30 18:38:35+00:00
there are magical holding areas in Linux as well, but that detail is up to TLS libraries like openssl at run-time, and hidden away from their clients. There are a myriad of ways to manage just ca certs, gnutls may not use openssl's paths, and each distro has its own idea of where the certs go. The ideal unix-y way (that windows/powershell gets) would be to mount a virtual volume for certificates where users and client apps alike can view/manipulate certificate information. If you've tried to get a internal certs working with different Linux distros/deployments you might be familiar with the headache (but a minor one I'll admit).

Not for certs specifically (that I know of) but Plan9 and it's derivaties are very hard on making everything VFS abstracted. Of course /proc , /sys and others are awesome, but there are still things that need their own FS view but are relegated to just 'files'. Like ~/.cache ~/.config and all the xdg standards. I get it, it's a standardized path and all, but what's being abstracted is here is not "data in a file" but "cache" and "configuration" (more specific), it should still be in a VFS path, but it shouldn't be a file that is exposed but an abstraction of "configuration settings" or "cache entries" backed by whatever thing you want (e.g.: redis, sqlite, s3,etc..). The windows registry (configuration manager is the real name btw) does a good job of abstracting configurations, but obviously you can't pick and choose the back-end implementation like you potentially could in Linux.
Show HN: Solarm – a simple iOS sunrise alarm I made to improve waking up
by nktskr | 2025-11-30 18:38:54+00:00
I’ve always struggled with waking up feeling groggy, even with enough sleep. A few months ago I started experimenting with waking up around local sunrise instead of using a fixed alarm time. It ended up helping me more than I expected — mornings felt calmer, and the wake-up was less abrupt.

I couldn’t find an app that did this cleanly without a bunch of extra features, so I built Solarm: a small iOS app that adjusts your alarm based on the sunrise in your location.

What it does - calculates the sunrise for your city each day - adjusts your wake-up time automatically - optional “sunrise + X minutes” offset - works even with Do Not Disturb - no accounts, no backend, everything on-device

Why I’m posting

I’d like to hear impressions from people who care about sleep, circadian rhythm, or just smoother mornings. I’m especially interested in how well the sunrise-based approach works (or doesn’t) for others.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/sunrise-alarm-natural-clock/id...

I also have free offer codes for anyone who wants to try the full version — just mention it in the comments, I will provide you a link.

Thanks for taking a look. Happy to answer questions.
by limagnolia | 2025-11-30 18:39:30+00:00
One of the open source benefits is the ability to distribute the software to others under the open source license. So if you gave your friends an open source license (which you can do) they could then license the software to anyone else they want to under the same license (As that is part of the definition of open source). If you want to restrict them from doing this, you could make your own custom license that restricts this (but it would not be open source).
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-30 18:39:41+00:00
Not sure I 100% agree. First: you can temper you ambition and thus the risk. You do not need to go ALL IN for almost anything. It may take longer or be fractional vs. the initial ambitions but probably also far more realistic. Second: the counter example of succeeding because you NEED to; the "burn the ships!" approach. If you know you can fail it inevitably tempers your efforts too. You might not want to do this if you're the sole bread winner for an entire family, but when you're young and independent? Maybe. Combine this with the first and I think there's lots of paths to success.
by vunderba | 2025-11-30 18:39:55+00:00
Yep. Your best bet is to ask for "solid white/black background" and then feed it into something like rembg [1]. It's an extra step but it'll get you partly there.

On the OpenAI side, the gpt-image-1 model has actually had the ability to produce true alpha transparent images for a while now. Too bad quality-wise they're lagging pretty badly behind other models.

[1] - https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg
by appreciatorBus | 2025-11-30 18:39:59+00:00
If this was true, it would be true of other durable goods like appliances and cars. But people with lots of money know that investing in appliances and cars is pointless because millions of new ones are created constantly. There is no scarcity to benefit from as an asset owner.

Unfortunately, in North America and other Anglosphere countries, we have decided that a scarcity in residential floor space is a public good and our planning rules tend to create such scarcity and enforce it. This allows incumbent homeowners to profit, and they fight for vociferously to protect that profit. Of course, if a company also invests in residential floor space they can also profit, but it’s not clear why we are so concerned with who profits, rather than the fact that we are enforcing the scarcity that produces the profits.
by quesera | 2025-11-30 18:40:26+00:00
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?

I'm not antagonizing anyone, except possibly you (and in ways I have not been able to figure out -- What's your damage, Heather?).

If "white people have done bad things" is enough to start a race war (or whatever you are obliquely suggesting), than it's not I who will be the trigger.

I get the sense that you are hyper hyper sensitive to the word WASP. It never meant much, and isn't worth your time.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-11-30 18:40:39+00:00
Huh? Little evidence? Prosperity in America was built by millionaires that drove 20 year old white pickup trucks (because base color was $100 cheaper). They were very "common wisdom". Almost all had to understand and operate within the commodities markets(where reason and empiricism meet head first with humanism and human behavior), head multi million dollar organizations, negotiate multi million dollar deals, and tried to build multi-generational (not next quarter) businesses.

And every one I knew made sure their children went to University and were educated, because they understood it's value. So did every farmer, factory worker, bus driver. Their kids didn't understand the value, they just new they had to go. Just like todays kids don't understand the value. I don't think that's changed, other than parents aren't forcing life choices on their kids.

You are either very young and only exposed to the modern Audi driving millionaires, or had zero interaction with the actual industrial/ag/creative space/inventor America pre 2008/pre MAGA brainworms. But these people used to exist and were building blocks of this country AND local communities (unlike their zero community loyalty replacement leased Audi millionaires).
by layer8 | 2025-11-30 18:40:49+00:00
> drive letters are essentially just a convention borne out of the conversion of a Win32 path into a NT path

CMD also has the concept of a current drive, and of a per-drive current directory. (While “X:\” references the root directory of drive X, “X:” references whatever the current directory of drive X is. And the current directory, i.e. “.”, is the current directory of the current drive.) I wonder how those mesh with non-standard drive letters.
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-30 18:41:25+00:00
>Where is "here"?

Austria, central Europe.

>the ones I see while living in one big European city

Except that statistics don't give a damn about what you see in your city. In 2024 54% of vehicles sold in EU are SUVs.[1] And indications point to 2025 being 57% in some months.

Which matches what I see where I live with a lot of Tesla Model Ys and BYD SUVs. Plus, Volvo only makes SUVs, which should tell you why SUVs are becoming majority.

Also matches the purchases I see amongst my acquaintances where their wives push for bigger cars for perceived safety of their family so they all got SUVs.

>it's on the smaller side (e.g. a Renault Captur, not a Escalade 8 wheeled 65ton)

Now you're moving the goalposts to what a SUV is. A Renault Captur is still classified as a SUV, which is what I was talking about. Don't try to spin this around just because European SUVs are smaller than US ones.

[1] https://www.jato.com/resources/media-and-press-releases/euro...
by robotresearcher | 2025-11-30 18:41:33+00:00
Your hard mode is exactly the situation that RL is used, because it requires neither a corpus of correct examples, nor insight into the structure of a good policy.

> How can we confidently extract any signal from a failure to solve a problem if we don't even know if the problem is solvable?)

You rule out all the stuff that doesn’t work.

Yes this is difficult and usually very costly. Credit assignment is a deep problem. But if you didn’t find yourself in a hard mode situation, you wouldn’t be using RL.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-30 18:41:52+00:00
If you want to make money, go and train to be a plumber.

If you're a kid and you want to be making money (or at least a comfortable living) in 20 year's time, become a farrier.

Because we are going to be ploughing with horses again soon, the way things are going. And even if we're not, a horse needs shod every couple of months and costs a couple of hundred every time.

I've never seen a hungry-looking farrier or scrap metal dealer.
by damnitbuilds | 2025-11-30 18:42:18+00:00
The point of early internet discussions was that "On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog".

One could discuss things without the usual silly accusations of sexism or racism or ageism or whatever because no-one knew the characteristics of the other interlocutors.

X now broadcasting everyone's location and people self-announcing their pronouns/race/age whatever are backward steps and make it way to easy for the silly people who want to be victims rather than argue the facts of an issue.
by Isamu | 2025-11-30 18:42:22+00:00
The AI push is not just hype, it’s a scramble for cash. For now the only game plan is to scale up massively with a giant investment gamble, to try to get beyond the obvious limitations that threaten to burst the bubble.

Plus the general economy outlook is negative, AI is the bright spot. They are striving to keep growth up amid downward pressure.
by hoherd | 2025-11-30 18:42:39+00:00
Yeah. I was happy to see this called out in their /about

> Should I use AI to solve Advent of Code puzzles? No. If you send a friend to the gym on your behalf, would you expect to get stronger? Advent of Code puzzles are designed to be interesting for humans to solve - no consideration is made for whether AI can or cannot solve a puzzle. If you want practice prompting an AI, there are almost certainly better exercises elsewhere designed with that in mind.
by kderbyma | 2025-11-30 18:42:43+00:00
I have been doing something minor - not full language - but I am working on a couple DSLs for my game engine. The games themselves are interpreted by my engine console - then transpiled to webgl and JavaScript.

The DSL is for cutscenes and scripting dialogues and movements and transitions.

The idea was to have a screenplay like language that would run in my game engine so I can write the scenes like a script instead of like code.

—

Then I am using a LUA like subset for the core game logic.

I don’t think I would want to have the entire thing written in a custom language though, as that seems unnecessary
by array_key_first | 2025-11-30 18:43:14+00:00
Right, sure, until one of your employee's eventually says "hey I want to work from home because X, Y, Z" and you have to force them to be in the office or fire them. Because everyone else's comfort, supposedly, relies on this person's discomfort.

With such a preference I can't help but wonder:

1. How genuine is it? Where is the "cutoff" point where in-office work no longer works? Do we need 100% compliance? What about 80%, is that good enough?

2. What, materially, do you gain from the preference and does that material gain actually rely on the preference? From what I've heard, 99% of the time it does not.
by troyvit | 2025-11-30 18:43:25+00:00
The great filter isn't about extinction necessarily, but about not being able to transcend to a space-faring species. I don't think our ignorance of climate change will extinct us, but I do think the way we handle climate change is a symptom of the short-sightedness and willful ignorance that ensures we won't make it past Type I on the Kardashev scale.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-30 18:44:04+00:00
I also disagree with the GP (with the definitive explanation; it's probably at least partially true), but this:

>> basically all of the successful entrepreneurs and business owners I know didn’t come from families with a lot of resources and didn’t have much of a safety net.

is not statisically accurate; you're only looking at survivors. The successful Gates/Zucks/Musks might outnumber the poor Indian kids; we need both the failure counts and some sort of qualitive definition of success/failure (i.e. a rich-kid failure is probably not life destroying)
by someguy101010 | 2025-11-30 18:44:04+00:00
reposting this from youtube comment

From 1:14:55-1:15:20, within the span of 25 seconds, the way Demis spoke about releasing all known sequences without a shred of doubt was so amazing to see. There wasn't a single second where he worried about the business side of it (profits, earnings, shareholders, investors) —he just knew it had to be open source for the betterment of the world. Gave me goosebumps. I watched that on repeat for more than 10 times.
by daft_pink | 2025-11-30 18:44:31+00:00
The real creepy thing is the way they force you to give up your data with these products. If it were just useful add ons, it wouldn’t bother me, but the fact that Gemini requires you to turn activity history off for paid plans for the promise they won’t train on your data or allow a person to view your prompts is insanity. If you’re paying $20 for Pro or 249.99 for Ultra, you should be able to get activity history without training or review or storing your data for several years.
by orochimaaru | 2025-11-30 18:45:11+00:00
Palantir is a data and ml platform. They don’t create point solutions for people. The solutions created are owned by the people contracting Palantir. If you hate on Palantir - you can hate on pretty much all industry in the west - oil and gas for supplying fuel, farmers for supplying food, consulting companies for consulting for the government, general population for paying taxes, etc.

This entire thing is just political showboating. I mean feel free to not buy food and fuel.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-30 18:45:13+00:00
There is no smoke filled room. The government lost public trust by sucking. It turned itself into a bureaucratic hellscape for rent seeking lawyers (of which the number has gone up 3x since 1970). to feed on. Its model of restricting supply of necessary commodities like housing and then subsidizing them has reached its limit. They lost public trust because they don't deserve it.
by ericmcer | 2025-11-30 18:45:51+00:00
Necessity is too fallible though, if Bezos was driven by necessity he would have sold Amazon in 1996 and retired.

That level of success requires either just pure psychopathic drive or some kind of deep anger that forces you to keep proving yourself again and again.

Beyond the lack of safety nets, etc., we just have a culture in the USA where you continually have to compete to prove your value as an individual.

There was some story I read where Farmers wanted to get immigrant laborers to work longer hours, so they offered a temporarily increased hourly rate. Like for the next month we pay $5/hr instead of just $3. The thought was workers would work like mad to hoard as much of the increased rate as they could. The opposite happened, they started working less because they just wanted $X/month and then to relax the rest of the time. That always stood out to me as a stark example that our American psychology is not at all universal, and is kind of perverted in certain lights.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-11-30 18:46:06+00:00
As a person who a lot of folks would consider, to use the kids' term, "noided up", I don't know if I agree.

My experience has been that in general the fact that there are so many folks able to get traction with their poorly-informed ideas and who face little or no consequences (rhetorically) for being show wrong time-and-again has led to a situation where we can go from "limited hangouts" to "we just publish facts and folks ignore it thinking they are just like all the other dumb things people say".

Like, it's incredibly hard to talk about how many horrible things the US has done and published abut over the years (I am thinking of Pheonix, Bluebird, Artichoke, etc) without sounding like a crank even when the government itself is the primary source.

Authoritarian governments crushing truth directly, but that doesn't mean that liberal governments don't have heavy layers of propaganda to maintain their control.

As a principle, "YOLO anyone should say whatever and never face rhetorical consequences" probably just results in the same destruction of the truth, as you might see in this thread.