MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-26 21:59:40+00:00
> It really reads as exactly the evil victim mentality of the people wildly overrepresented at the top

The people at the top don't have a victim mentality because they're successful. However, there are a lot of people who aren't at the top, who aren't doing great, but on the basis of their gender are told that they deserve dispreferential treatment because there's more of their gender at the top of society. I don't see how that makes them evil. Perhaps I'm just totally misunderstanding your point though.

> Military service is also a benefit that women don't get, too. They don't get to make the connections in the military that would help them along in their careers.

They can volunteer if they wanted those supposed benefits. Seems weird to try to make conscription sound like it has positives when it's just purely negative.

> Shouldn't you wait until your country is half run by women before claiming oppression? Until your boss and CEO are as likely to be women as men?

This is an overly simplistic view of "oppression". Do you think that men as a whole somehow benefit from there being an over representation of their gender at the top of society? That despite struggling to survive, because we share the same gender that we aren't suffering or that we can't be oppressed?

It's like people blame all men for the actions of our ancestors and want to take revenge or something. It's really weird.
by parasubvert | 2025-11-26 22:00:53+00:00
LLMs themselves don’t learn but AI systems based around LLMs can absolutely learn! Not on their own but as part of a broader system: RLHF leveraging LoRAs that get re-incorporated as model fine tunings regularly, natural language processing for context aggregation, creative use of context retrieval with embeddings databases updated in real time, etc.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-26 22:02:28+00:00
Almalinux 10 will receive security updates until 2035, Ubuntu 24.04 until april 2039, 25.04 would go until april 2041 by that logic, many of us will be considering retirement at that point. Enterprise malware will have plenty of time to adapt and many will have disappeared before reaching the 2040's.
by SamuelAdams | 2025-11-26 22:02:32+00:00
This is an excellent point. For example, here [1] is a list of all films released in 2025. However I bet most people 10 years from now will only remember the top 10-20 [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2025

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2025_box_office_number...
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-26 22:03:05+00:00
Have you seen the latest AI slop in game design lately, destroying human creativity?

This just in: 90% of everything is crap. AI does not, cannot, and will not change that.

Have you seen how this tech is being used to control narratives to subjugate populations to the will of authoritarian governments?

Can't say as I have.

The only authoritarians in this thread are the ones telling us what we should and should not be allowed to do with AI.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-26 22:03:43+00:00
> Should we introduce stack overflow as a website you've never heard of?

Yes? Obviously who you're writing for matters. I wouldn't write an article specifically targeted at and submitted to software developers and use that for a title, but I would absolutely have no problem at all introducing Stack Overflow as a site you haven't heard of (or maybe I'd qualify it as "probably haven't heard of) if writing something for a general audience. It's a safe bet that most people you talk to wouldn't have heard of Stack Overflow, so there's nothing wrong with a headline for a broad audience that assumes that.

Would you object to a headline for an article written for a general audience that calls "lwn.net" a site you haven't heard of? Or maybe an article that calls Admiral Grace Hopper a computer pioneer you haven't heard of? Sure everyone on this site almost certainly has heard of them. But in the general public?
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-26 22:03:56+00:00
Yeah I noticed that. The characters are also super one-dimensional, constantly repeating the same expressions. I think it's because people don't have the same attention span anymore.

But it's just really terrible. Stuff like reacher who solves every problem with violence (I think South park even did a piece on that). Or Amazon with their big list of spinoffs of one really mediocre spy series.

There's still some gems like Westworld, The Expanse or DARK but they're few and far between.
by mbirth | 2025-11-26 22:03:57+00:00
They have removed it. UK users see a message:

Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the United Kingdom to new users.

People that have it already enabled can still use it as Apple is not allowed to talk about the "secret" order to disable it. However, there are rumours that they will block iCloud sync at some point until people disable the encryption again.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-26 22:05:07+00:00
>At the beginning of the month, the Danish Presidency decided to change its approach with a new compromise text that makes the chat scanning voluntary, instead.

Hmm, so this will probably make the life for those who don't scan quite hard and if they experience a high profile scandal getting out of it will not be easy I assume.

I'm not sure what to think of it, not being mandatory and requiring risk assessment sounds like "Fine, whatever don't do it if you don't want to do it but if something bad happens it's on you". May be fair to some extent, i.e. Reddit and Telegram can decide how much they trust their users not to run pedo business and be on the hook for it.

On the other hand, it is a backdoor and if the governments go crazy like they did in some other countries where high level politicians are implicated with actual pedophiles and have a tendency for authoritarianism Europe may end up having checking user chats for "enemies of the state" instead of CSAM materials. Being not mandatory here may mean that you get constant bullying because you must be hiding something.
by jabberwhookie | 2025-11-26 22:05:42+00:00
Big pharma might choose to pay full cost to get reasonable speed. To get to a partnership that looks a lot like tenant farming you would need a model that is actually 100X better at drug discovery than any other model, Why would that be OpenAI instead of deepmind? Not that either is likely worth much premium.

Generally, I think only penny stock pharma cares at all to deal with IP with any kind of baggage instead of having already forgotten it in the backlog.
by pshirshov | 2025-11-26 22:06:41+00:00
I've been looking for a way to decouple legacy parser from the rest of the compiler, plus create a way to dump parser output in a readable form. Unfortunately, the coupling is too tight there. In my own compilers all the outputs of all the phases are serializable.

In the end I've just reanimated the original parser generator and progressed to full Java 7 syntactically (-att5 branch), but there are some major obstacles with bytecode.
by unleashit | 2025-11-26 22:08:17+00:00
Side question: It looks interesting but what's with the trend of open source projects providing such bloated installs? The recommended getting started with docker (which first recommends cloning a 350mb repo) seems to assume you need to scale to 100s+ users. At a glance, in their default docker compose I counted no less than 12 containers including nginx, redis and minio. I can't imagine any of these are necessary to run an app on a single localhost machine.

I understand they're trying to attract enterprisy customers, but even some of those are probably going to want to try it out first. Would be nice to have an easy minimal install option that doesn't require a deep dive into the project to figure out.
by atombender | 2025-11-26 22:08:30+00:00
While cinematography isn't the whole answer, I think it's a big contributor to why so much feels aggressively middling these days.

Modern shows are aggressively aesthetic. There's huge overuse shallow depth of field, resulting in blurry backgrounds. Watch modern movies with this mind, and you start noticing the reliance on a sharp foreground and blurry background is extreme to the point of bizarre. Cinematography should be a tool to achieve an effect; blurring the background to intentionally make the subject stand out is a purposeful use of that tool, but is being applied everywhere now, with no intent behind it, even if it's "aesthetic".

I would also argue that it's easier with digital photography to create blandly attractive, "painterly" images, thanks to colour grading and increased dynamic range and so on. A lot of shows these days have technically competent photography, but it all converges on the same aesthetic — tons of diffuse, lush lighting (often achieved with filling the space with lightly cinematic fog) and impeccable set design, and that creamy depth of field. But there's no contrast anywhere, it's just creamy "aesthetic" blandness in forgettable environs.

Another non-visual aspect rarely mentioned is audio: Almost all TV/movie audio these days is foley, and it's sometimes jarringly bad when you start to actually pay attention to, say, the sound of footsteps or keys jangling. High quality productions can be very good here, but most productions don't spend enough time on it. Bad foley has a very strange, subliminal effect on a scene, further undermining the sense of reality.

In such environments (visual and aural), nothing seems real and nothing seems like it matters. Everything, even nominally "adult" shows set in the real world, feels like Midde Earth and not Planet Earth.

It's not all bad, of course. There are also definitely cases where the quality of the show transcends the mediocrity of the cinematography. We are still getting good shows and bad shows, like always. But it does seem like things have shifted into a sort of middle where everything is average in the same average way.
by sliken | 2025-11-26 22:08:51+00:00
Signal seems pretty good, not sure it could be better and have evolved so quickly and gained so many users. Sure it could be more resistant to traffic analysis. What do you use?

I've pondered writing a p2p client that uses the signal encryption (double ratchet) and bounces fixed size packets off 2-3 other clients before delivery. All packets would be the same size, including those for the upkeep of the DHT.

To help make traffic analysis more difficult forwarding would include a random delay, DHT traffic would be indistinguishable from message traffic, and chaff would be added to allow for plausible deniability. Your client would talk to at least 3x as many other peers with similar timings and frequencies.

However the inherent compromises of P2P like increased CPU, network, and battery usage combined with higher latency and startup time seems like the adoption would be lucky to hit 0.1% of signal and then it's less useful since using it would raise flags.

Signal is so valuable because it has good e2e, it's popular, and whoever you want to talk to is likely to have at least heard of signal if not already running it.
by woodpanel | 2025-11-26 22:09:34+00:00
These movies also had less intention to be political correct. No one would have spent those blockbuster budgets on stories that were constructed around an ideological narrative instead of good storytelling.

> I was rewatching silence of the lambs and something hit me hard

That the villain‘s sexual orientation is now unthinkable to be portrayed like this? I give this movie a decade until the studio’s employees, its owners and the whole movie-ecosystem will alter the movie via AI to be more compliant with the „current thing“.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-26 22:10:02+00:00
An additional benefit is that the Wi-Fi standard also means that the weird account requirements on Google's Nearby Share can be avoided by independent implementations (i.e. on Windows or Linux or maybe rooted Android, iOS and macOS already have it of course).

"Contacts only mode" will always be a challenge, but at least the "I just want to share a file without Google watching me" use case is now resolved by Google implementing a standard that doesn't involve them.

Unfortunately, this is Pixel 10 exclusive for now, for some reason. I expect Samsung to pick this up eventually as well, but I'm not sure if Google will be able to backport this tech through Google Play Services the way they did with Nearby Share on older phones.
by oskarkk | 2025-11-26 22:10:13+00:00
Only 3 out of 18 reasons on that list are work-related, 2 maybe can be work related (lawnmowing and powered tools/household machinery?). I think cycling accidents (5 positions on the list) are in part normal cycling (like when riding to work) without rider's fault, and in a larger part taking unnecessary risks while riding, or riding for sport. And I'd guess motorcycle accidents (4 on the list) are mostly taking risks and riding too fast. 3 reasons are "assault". And that leaves only 1 reason from the list, sports equipment.

So out of 18 reasons on the list, only a small part is "activities men have to take to survive", but many of the others aren't "inherently voluntary and risky" or cannot be blamed on the hospitalized person. The list is too short to be really interesting, when half of that list is the same thing with small variations (cycling/motorcycling), and the same for women (mostly pregnancy).
by liamconnell | 2025-11-26 22:10:45+00:00
The CFO isn't talking about selling tokens to pharma companies. There's no money in that. She proposed revenue sharing. In this scenario, OpenAI's AI service helps discover drug candidates, and shares the IP ownership of the candidate (which is basically a risky bet that it will get through clinical trials and be profitable). Biotech is a complicated market filled with smart people and great negotiators - they dont give away IP ownership without a lot of thought.

If OpenAI wants anything more valuable than selling tokens, they will need to offer something valuable and differentiated. Right now they are not differentiated in the space at all. Look up "OpenAI Biotech" - anything that they've built themselves?

If any company will have a new product that biotech companies will pay top dollar for, its Google. Deepmind has been in biology (proteins) for almost a decade and they it has subsidiaries like Isomorphic Labs that are bringing products to market.
by KaiserPro | 2025-11-26 22:10:58+00:00
> TikTok is already full of AI voiceovers

And it makes it look/sound cheap.

I think thats the biggest issue they will face. For example, a company that uses avatars and emojis just looks cheap, because it is cheap to do.

Are you going to pay for cheap looking TV, especially when you know its shit?

But then the more important thing to remember is that news isn't expensive because of the news readers, its expensive because it costs lots to operate a news network. If you news anchors are costing millions, you have a chat show, not a news programme.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-11-26 22:11:36+00:00
S&box was based on UnrealEngine 4 until late 2020. I think Garry wanted to use the latest and greatest engine, then Valve continued to be friendly with him, and even though Valve wanted Source2 to be a VR platform, it was clear desktop was going to remain relevant, but the content creation tools on SteamVR Environments were a cut-down version of what was actually used to make Half-Life Alyx, but they gave Garry all the tools, and he moved to Source2, and built a .net "framework" to make it faster to develop and iterate in Source2. So Garry's tools are now an open version of the closed tools that Valve didn't want to release that they used to make Alyx.

Finally there's another serious competitor to UE and Unity.
by rlonstein | 2025-11-26 22:13:09+00:00
> I know there are industrial processes where heat is efficiently recycled, but I agree there are serious practical problems, particularly if the molten glass must be cooled quickly.

My experience working with glass is that you _don't_ want it cooled quickly. It will shatter or get internal stresses that cause it to shatter later. You anneal it in a slowly cooling oven over time. Some steels and brass can be annealed slowly and that heat could, I suppose, be captured. Tempering probably not.

> Still, even somewhat lower grade heat can be upgraded back to high grade heat with high temperature heat pumps.

Which requires energy and incurs losses. If you have energy, assuming electricity, that's cheap enough to scavenge low-level waste heat you probably don't need to recapture the heat.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-26 22:13:39+00:00
Incredible work here, super excellent job. Incredible job keeping performance high.

Valve/Steam have been funding Igalia to do some further work here on FEX, supporting Valve's Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 3 powered Steam Frame headset. (Sharp move contracting brilliant talented open-source veterans, imo!) https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

Amazing seeing a company care about software, take matters into their own hands in a real way. Such such such great wins for Steam.
by m463 | 2025-11-26 22:13:40+00:00
all new technology is overestimated in the short term, and underestimated in the long term.

(soar - overestimated)

for example, years ago in the era of dragon naturallyspeaking, ALL computers would momentarily be using speech recognition.

and it didn't happen

but quietly speech recognition started working in the background - call trees on the phone, and other places where a strict vocabulary could help. it quietly grew and nowadays it is everywhere.
by atgreen | 2025-11-26 22:14:16+00:00
openldk itself builds from source. It reads jar/class files and JIT-transpiles them to common lisp code, which is in turn compiled to native instructions. It does not read java source code at all. But you can run OpenJDK's javac with OpenLDK. You can write "native" methods in Common Lisp, extend Java classes with CLOS classes, use conditions/restarts, :before/:after/:around methods, dump images, etc. There's some ways to go still, but -- like I said -- javac just started working as a native lisp image executable, which was an important milestone.
by madeofpalk | 2025-11-26 22:14:18+00:00
People keep mentioning Wi-Fi Aware with this, but so far haven't seen anyone actually prove that this is the case.

Apple undoubtedly added Wi-Fi Aware support to iOS https://developer.apple.com/documentation/WiFiAware, but its not clear whether iOS actually supports AirDrop over Wi-Fi Aware. Apple clearly hasn't completely dropped AWDL for AirDrop, because you can still AirDrop from iOS 26 to earlier devices.

Note that the Ars Technica article never directly makes the claim that Apple supports Airdrop over Wi-Fi Aware. The title is two independent statements - "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop" - that's true.

> Google doesn’t mention it in either Quick Share post, but if you’re wondering why it’s suddenly possible for Quick Share to work with AirDrop, it can almost certainly be credited to European Union regulations imposed under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Again, they're just theorising. They never directly make the claim. Would love on Hacker News for someone to do some Hacking and actually figure it out for real!
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-26 22:14:33+00:00
Begging? Apple filed a couple of light objections -- basically a "don't regulate us, bro" -- and then moved on. Their resistance was laughably superficial

Look, Apple is a predatory, extraordinarily greedy company, but these sorts of "thanks EU!" discussions are a riot. Thanks EU, for making Apple support a clone of an Apple feature that didn't exist until Apple made it, and for "forcing" Apple to transition their line to USB-C, which they were already almost completely done doing.
by tifik | 2025-11-26 22:15:19+00:00
I was wondering if it's just me. I am using Brave on iOS with all the possible blockers enabled, so I'm not surprised when some website doesn't work well. Instagram literally freezes solid after 5-15s of being on the website, so I usually only quickly scan the top 2-3 posts in the feed. I only follow people I know personally, so this is usually enough to do once or twice a day and stay up to date. If I see a close friend posted a story I kinda want to see then it usually takes two or three hard closes of the browser to actually see it. Sucks, but sucks less than being mental gamed into doomscrolling every time I get an app notification.
by oblio | 2025-11-26 22:16:00+00:00
> To use OpenCode, you’ll need:

> A modern terminal emulator like:

> WezTerm, cross-platform

> Alacritty, cross-platform

> Ghostty, Linux and macOS

> Kitty, Linux and macOS

What's wrong with any terminal? Are those performance gains that important when handling a TUI? :-(

Edit:

Also, I don't see Gemini listed here:

https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/

Only Google Vertex AI (?): https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#google-vertex-ai

Edit 2:

Ah, Gemini is the model and Google Vertex AI is like AWS Bedrock, it's the Google service actually serving Gemini. I wonder if Gemini can be used from OpenCode when made available through a Google Workspace subscription...
by 1a527dd5 | 2025-11-26 22:16:01+00:00
Unless you work at Cloudflare or have worked at Cloudflare I'm not sure opinions like this help.

You don't know the context, you don't know _anything_ except for what Cloudflare chooses to share.

There are very few companies who deal with the kind of load that Clouldflare does, I dread to think what weird edges cases they've run into because of their sheer scale.
by JohnCClarke | 2025-11-26 22:16:18+00:00
If the cost of returning and refurbishing a rocket stage is less than the cost of building a new one then that gives a competitive advantage on price.

But space flight is a strategic competency for states so China, the EU, and even eventually Russia, will all develop reusable rockets. I suspect that launch capacity will far exceed demand and that none will make profits for a long time.
by zvr | 2025-11-26 22:16:24+00:00
Oh, what memories!

I spent a serious amount of time on this when I discovered it, a couple of years after it was published.

Firmly believing that "variations on a theme is the crux of creativity", I studied what happens to the same construct in other numbering bases. Well, not many: based on the first theorem, only unary, binary and ternary were interesting.

I should unearth the report I wrote back then -- although I have no idea where a digital copy might be stored.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-26 22:16:52+00:00
The take was supposed to be read as slightly hyperbolic. Because while the fastest user of an IDE, has never come close to the fastest I've seen in vim, as you pointed out, thats not really a reasonable comparison either. Here I'm intentionally only considering raw text editing speed, jumping across lines, switching files. If you're including IDE features, when you expect someone in vim to leave vim, you're comparing something that doesn't equate to my strawman.

My larger point was it's absurd to say someone who's faster using [interface] is a luddite because they don't use [other interface] with nearly identical features.

> Oh wait. No true vim user would come to this conclusion, right?

I guess that's fitting insult, given I started with a strawman example too.

edit: I can offer another equally absurd example, (and why I say it's only slightly hyperbolic because the following is true), I can write code much faster using vim, than I can with [IDE], I don't even use tab complete, or anything similar either. I, personally, am able to write better code, faster, when there's nothing but colored text to distract me. Does that make me a luddite? I've tried both, and this fits better for me. Or is it just how comfortable you are with a given interface? Because I know most people can find tab complete useful.