MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 8bitsrule | 2025-11-22 21:25:18+00:00
Same here. By the time I was old enough to have an income, reading comics had already made it possible for me to -not even see any- advertising. That carried over to newspapers, magazines... all those advertisers were wasting their money.

Later on in life I got pissed at cable-TV advertisers shoved into my favorite movies every 5-10 minutes ... ruining any ambience or artistic merit in them ... so I got rid of cable TV. By the time analog TV went away, I'd got rid of my television set. No return address on an envelope? junk mail, into the garbage unopened.

Now the pollution's ruined the 'net ... it's YouTube (re-routed) and some websites (blocked). So long, boing-boing and wired and your 'native ads'. Sites demand subscription? blocked. How much longer before advertisers realize how much they're getting ripped off?
by exceptione | 2025-11-22 21:25:52+00:00
Thanks! That sounds like the intake process is quite critical.

> The problem that I see with people who are older is that once we enter puberty, we become more resistant to receiving constant demands from adults.

I see, I can imagine that the success rate for teenagers would be less that way. Still gives me food for thought. If it depends on the overwhelming desire to succeed, than I can see how an innate "want" arises when people grow older.
Show HN: Another JSON Alternative
by mircerlancerous | 2025-11-22 21:26:13+00:00
I realize that there are 1001 alternatives to JSON encoding, that are leaner, faster, or just completely different, but I still have my own that I'd like to share.

LOEN stands for Lean Object Encoding Notation and aims to reduce the character count compared to JSON, especially in the case of arrays of objects; JSON is crazy verbose in this regard, and so using an alternative when transmitting lists or database results, is pretty much a must-do.

Other than being lean, the MVP of LOEN is that it is backwards compatible with JSON. JSON is valid LOEN but not the other way around. This is useful in that it allows for a LOEN interpreter to be used for both LOEN and JSON requests. If by magic LOEN were to become commonplace, it would allow for legacy apps using JSON to continue to function.

Anyway not expecting anything but happy to here what you think.

Here's an article I wrote about it: https://www.offthebricks.com/articles/lean-object-encoding-a...

Here's a link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/offthebricks/LOEN/tree/master
by GreyZephyr | 2025-11-22 21:26:23+00:00
I really want people to crowdsource the DMT prime factorisation project. I know at least one person tried but lost interest before they met an elf. It just seems like such a fun experiment to run. Is it possible to recall numbers at all while taking DMT? Can you memorise new ones? If not why not etc, and maybe the machine God factorises numbers for you!
by linguae | 2025-11-22 21:26:29+00:00
I’m an American living in the San Francisco Bay Area who travels to Japan twice per year. McDonald’s in Japan is better than McDonald’s in America. McDonald’s in Japan not only is cleaner and has better customer service, but is cheaper.

McDonald’s in America wasn’t always expensive; I was in high school and college in the 2000s when the dollar menu had double cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, and small orders of fries. The regular menu didn’t break the bank, either. Prices started shooting upward in the 2010s; first the Double Cheeseburger on the dollar menu got replaced with the McDouble (one slice of cheese instead of two), then it exited the dollar menu and became 2 for $3, then 2 for $4. But after COVID, prices exploded. I remember the first time seeing a fast food combo meal selling for more than $10 sometime about five years ago, but it was the most expensive meal on the menu. Nowadays in my area $10-$12 combo meals are the norm. It’s sad and maddening; my salary hasn’t risen at this level!

Meanwhile in Japan, I could get a Big Mac meal for around ¥800. Even when the yen was strong, $8 beats $11. At today’s yen valuation ($5.09), it’s more than half the cost, and with better customer service at that!

I make six figures but I feel like fast food prices in California are a ripoff ($10+ for a crappy meal? No thanks!), and so I quit eating out except when traveling or for entertainment, such as hanging out with friends.
by TrainedMonkey | 2025-11-22 21:26:56+00:00
For many large companies or even teams, there exists a class of bugs / issues / features where dropping 5-10k on a bounty is extremely cost efficient compared to working around the issue or internal development. That might not fund development outright, but at worst it would point out the features people want and serve to inform what to work on next. I think there are a couple reasons why that is not prevalent. Most important one is that highly compensated enterprise teams that would benefit the most from placing bounties tend to avoid software that is lacking features or has bugs. Secondary is not implemented here ego and general disconnect between people in the trenches that know what needs to be done and people controlling ability to place bounties.

Imagine FAANG assigning $500 per engineer per year to allocate to feature / bug bounties.
by culi | 2025-11-22 21:27:34+00:00
It's not the litigiousness that makes it expensive. France was producing nuclear power plants at a cost per watt that nearly matches modern China. In fact, the mind-numbing cost overruns seem unique to the US.

Here's a Nature article about it:

https://archive.ph/Tpe0j

Seems to me like it's more of a story of corruption than of over-regulation
by overfeed | 2025-11-22 21:28:30+00:00
A mutually exclusive group 1 & group 2 are a false dichotomy. One can have a grasp on the field and keep up to date with recent papers, have an active Claude subscription, use agents and still have a net-negative view of "AI" as a whole, considering the false promises, hucksters, charlatans and an impending economic reckoning.

tl;dr version: having negative view of the industry is decoupled from one's familiarity with, and usage of the tools, or the willingness to learn.
by siffin | 2025-11-22 21:29:23+00:00
Extremely talented, studied, hard working humans perform complex tasks all the time, and never with 100% win rate over all time.

In other examples, almost every single person has had the experience of saying, "turn right", "oh I meant left sorry, I knew it was right too, I don't know why I said left". Even the most sophisticated humans have made this error. A computer would never.

Humans are deeply flawed and after pre-selection require expensive training to perform complex tasks at a never perfect success rate.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-22 21:29:34+00:00
Not really. The problem is that transformer LLMs are autoregressive and are O(n^2) for self attention and also require insane amounts of bandwidth to “page in” the weights into the relevant compute parts. TPUs do this faster than a CPU like any accelerator but fundamentally this is a challenge. There are attempts to build hardware where the weights are burned into the silicon but that carries other meaningful downsides.

But op is referring to the fact that diffusion is friendlier on both bandwidth and not needing large n^2 compute blocks in the critical path.
by hublio | 2025-11-22 21:29:39+00:00
The lesson of this documentary, and of the age, should be, "It doesn't matter who says it, without evidence it is meaningless."

Many people cling to the absurd fantasy that those in power are better, smarter, and more knowledgeable than ourselves. This is absolutely false.

Hilary Clinton, for example, co-wrote a fictional thriller whose most interesting revelation was that she, as a former Secretary of State, had absolutely no idea, at a detail level, what composes a "dirty bomb", nor what the purpose of such a device would be (in addition to creating terror, it is "area denial").

The trope of "This guy worked for the military industrial complex and has secret knowledge of UFOs" is so overused in this genre that it has become ridiculous. If the dude has a piece of alien technology <i>in his hand</i> that we can examine in detail, then maybe he has something worth listening to. Otherwise it's just the same monstrous abuse of the gullible as the Jesus lie.

And video is no longer photography. It's data. That "tic tac" is not an image of an alien craft. It's data. With a glitch. It's not visual, and it's not analog. You just don't know how to properly interpret digital data in visual form.

I know you want to believe in something bigger, but until you realize the universe is fundamentally chaotic and there is a reason for absolutely nothing, you're never going to escape the prison of ignorance you have created for yourselves.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-22 21:29:40+00:00
The first problem is that nobody will ever do anything about sex and sexual abuse in youth institutions. The foster care system effectively has the same approach to protecting children against abuse, physical and sexual, as the sea has when it protects fish from water.

And the same appears to be true in Denmark/Greenland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godhavn_inquiry

Which brings the question: are you protecting children from child sexual abuse if you take them into the system? No, you're not.

It gets much worse: in fact you are causing child sexual abuse. When the UN researched it worldwide you see: child abuse (violent or sexual) happens most at schools, over half of the total. That is the big source of child sexual abuse (~half by other children, ~half by staff). Obviously youth institutions do nothing to protect children against this. In second place ... are youth institutions themselves. Additionally: it is exceedingly rare for children to be abused by their birth parents. If abuse happens at home, the biggest share is at home, but not by family members, then "reconstituted" families (2nd or 3rd marriage with kids from multiple marriages, and usually between non-siblings, not the parents), then reconstituted families the parents with not-their own children, and then the last 0.3% or so of child sexual abuse is by the parents.

(and so, yes, "most" sexual abuse does not start with a predator going after kids, it happens because someone who works a lot with children gets the opportunity and cannot say "no" when it is really easy, and this is the vast majority. In other words, while obviously keeping predators away from kids is important, don't expect it to lower the numbers much. And ... where do people work a lot with children? Schools, school-related sports, and youth services)

You want to prevent child sexual abuse? NEVER place kids in a position where they are continuously dependent on a stranger. Just never do that. Of course, I realize, no form of youth services can work without doing that.

The problem with this is "medical statistics". You take a lot of kids, almost never for sexual abuse, out of the home situation, where the odds of sexual abuse by parents are something like 3/100000 or so, and "protect them", by placing them into an institution where something like 10% of girls get abused, and 5% or so of boys. Obviously this massively increases the number of child sexual abuse victims, it does not decrease them.
by oezi | 2025-11-22 21:30:06+00:00
Weird to read something from an unknown (to me) organization which claims censorship in Germany when I as a German can't recall any instances in the last thirty years which I would consider censored in Germany.

Like I mean yes Doom was censored as a game due to gore/violence. But what else?

Have to check the report.

But the thing is: Censorship is not the issue in Germany. Disinformation is. We get too much bullshit information unhindered which causes chaos.

--

After a short skim of the report. It takes the angle that Germany's attempt to fight online hatespeech and disinformation would stifle speech and takes concern with paltry sums such as 30-50m spend annually to fight hate speech online. It all sounds pretty ridiculous to me when you consider that Cambridge Analytica doesn't even appear in the report as one of the wake-up calls to European countries that social media has become weaponized to attack democracies and influence elections. This isn't about free speech for Germans in Germany but how can we can keep Chinese interest through TikTok, Russian propaganda through X and comment sections and other foreign influences at bay?
by Avshalom | 2025-11-22 21:30:46+00:00
So either we just use drones to track people while they escape at normal speeds or we use the pre existing panopticon to do so, or we use normal police detective work. Frankly even helicopters but with out police chasing is noticeably better from an over all lives lost perspective.

Did you know that (pre covid) about half of all police deaths were due to car crashes? Even from a view point which completely ignores non-cops: chases are a terrible plan.
by artimaeis | 2025-11-22 21:31:07+00:00
The Phoebus cartel didn't collude just to make the light bulbs have a shorter lifespan. They upped the standard illumination a bulb emitted so that consumers needed fewer of them to see well. With an incandescent you have a kind of sliding scale of brightness:longevity (with curves on each end that quickly go exponential, hence the longest lasting light bulb that's so dim you can barely read by its light). The brighter the bulb, the shorter the lifespan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
by kakacik | 2025-11-22 21:31:15+00:00
There is a reason most of stable companies use Java - stability. Outside of startups and SV, there are few reasons to avoid such a robust system.

Plus you can find endless stream of experienced devs for it. Which are more stable job wise than those who come & go every 6-12 months. Stability. Top management barely cares for anything else from IT.
by fragmede | 2025-11-22 21:31:15+00:00
Simple conomy of scale. McDonald's buy chicken in bulk from vendors, and get a better deal than Safeway/wherever you shop does, they get industrial bulk handing deals and yeah they have to pay for employees to cook the food, but that's amortized over all the other customers. So it can be cheaper, the same way that it's cheaper to get oil out of the ground, refine it, do a bunch of chemistry to it, form it into plastic knives and forks, make a box for it, decorate that box, put the cutlery into the box, ship that box halfway around the world, put it in a store, and all of that's still cheaper than getting someone to wash a metal fork for you to eat dinner with.

What blew my mind is when someone explained to me the cultural difference with some places in south east Asia. In the US, eating out at restaurants is what rich people do. But in certain places in south east Asia, having a kitchen, having appliances like a fridge, having electricity for them, having dining space, having the time to go to the market to haggle with vendors, all of that adds up so it's the rich that can afford to eat at home, and everyon else eats out. So it's location dependent.
by AngryData | 2025-11-22 21:31:58+00:00
You don't think that is a response to their knowledge that cops will often shoot and kill them on sight along with the incredibly harsh criminal punishment?

In the EU if you get caught doing a crime, yeah you will get charged and punished, maybe take a billy club to the leg during an arrest, but nothing too extreme and you go to jail for a bit, maybe pay some fines, but you live and learn. In the US there is a good chance you get shot right away, if you aren't shot the cops will likely beat you and abuse you doing the arrest, the prosecutor and court will try and dump a decade+ long sentence on you even if there was no violence involved and the material value is only a few days worth of work, and the prison is a horrible environment by designed that often fucks people up mentally.

Harsh punishment for crimes is rarely a very good deterrent against crime, it just makes people who were desperate enough to resort to crime more desperate and determined to escape capture. If I had a decent bank account I could probably get most charges lowered to something acceptable in the US, but most people committing low level crimes usually don't have lawyer money and will have their life ruined with a ridiculous sentence.
by SatvikBeri | 2025-11-22 21:32:17+00:00
So, I tried to sign up for Amp. I saw a livestream that mentioned you can sign up for their community Buildcrew on Discord and get $100 of credits. I tried signing up, and got an email that I was accepted and would soon get the credits. The Discord link did not work (it was expired) and the email was a noreply, so I tried emailing Amp support. This was last Friday (8 days ago.) As of today, no updated Discord link, no human response, no credits. If this is their norm, people probably aren't talking about it because they just haven't been able to try it.
by intrasight | 2025-11-22 21:33:27+00:00
Just deep dive into the technology of your choice. Write clearly and comprehensively about your projects, the roadblocks you faced, and how you overcame them.

Another recommendation is to blog on a collaborative project. Could be with just one other person. That way you're reaching a wider social network.

What's very satisfying is googling on some technical problem and finding in the top search results my own blog article from several years back.

Blog early; blog often.
by nobody42 | 2025-11-22 21:34:34+00:00
Best among existing. Anti-fingerprinting field is still in it's early stages.

I wouldn't say Tor Browser is the best because it requires custom configuration to be usable conveniently, which will make the connection non-uniform (and the user will stand out).

>Tor is pretty good for protection. Then there's always i2P as well…

Tor and i2P does nothing for (anti)fingerprinting - the program which render the web pages does.

>Saying one browser can protect the best is pretty hard to prove.

Not a proof but things to consider: https://privacytests.org/
by abliterationai | 2025-11-22 21:35:07+00:00
Abliteration.ai A less‑filtered LLM chat and API aimed at developers who are tired of “I’m sorry, I can’t help with that” for legitimate use cases.

What’s there today: – Web chat interface – /v1/chat endpoint with simple JSON payload – Instant API keys + small free tier – Quickstart examples in curl

I’d really appreciate feedback on: – The offering - API design / DX (what feels rough?)
by WorldPeas | 2025-11-22 21:36:09+00:00
Could one not use a bi-walled inflatable, then pump some media into the walls for rigidity and resistance to debris? I imagine some sort of aerated semi-flexible cement like material could fill the walls and prevent catastrophe if the outer shell were to be ruptured. My bikes tire inner-tube is filled with a hole-patching fluid, so the marketing material says so it doesn't seem unrealistic to have some sort of liquid in there too that clots and scabs when the gas in the tube starts to exit as well
by epolanski | 2025-11-22 21:36:30+00:00
> TypeScript is a wonderfully advanced language though it has an unfortunately steep learning curve

An extremely steep one.

The average multi-year TypeScript developer I meet can barely write a basic utility type, let alone has any general (non TypeScript related) notion of cardinality or sub typing. Hell, ask someone to write a signature for array flat, you'd be surprised how many would fail.

Too many really stop at the very basics.

And even though I consider myself okay at TypeScript, the gap with the more skilled of my colleagues is still impressively huge.

I think there's a dual problem, on one side type-level programming isn't taken seriously by the average dev, and is generally not nurtured.

On the other hand, the amount of ideas, theory, and even worse implementation details of the TypeScript compiler are far from negligible.

Oh, and it really doesn't help that TypeScript is insanely verbose, this can easily balloon when your signatures have multiple type dependencies (think composing functions that can have different outputs and different failures).
by IlikeKitties | 2025-11-22 21:36:58+00:00
> Trusted Flaggers

> 1 Pimmel Affäre

> Schwachkopf Affäre

Oder zuletzt

> https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/suedbaden/a... and last but not least:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc

Germany is very much implementing censorship by chilling effect.
by dang | 2025-11-22 21:38:04+00:00
Added! Thanks for requesting this.

All: if you seen a particularly good submission that has fallen through the cracks, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look and maybe put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random re-upment on HN's front page.

(Yes, it's permissible to request this for your own stuff, but we like it better when it's something you just ran across randomly and realized was interesting—as mmulet did in this case!)
by oblio | 2025-11-22 21:38:07+00:00
Are you honestly comparing their proposal to the USSR and the "proletarian dictatorship imposed at gun point" to democratically changing laws to force all companies to become worker owned cooperatives?

At the end of the day, if we had a million worker owned cooperatives, they would still need to compete. Since workers from Coop1 need to sell better products than workers from Coop2, otherwise they will still lose their jobs.

Also, the current setup is a race to the bottom: lowest quality that doesn't self destruct immediately (aka planned obsolescence), dumping ALL externalities onto the general public: ideally with the same timed fuse approach so that it's not noticed immediately (dumping toxic waste in rivers, polluting the earth and the air, oil spills, etc - the list is endless), all in the name of a slightly lower initial price to attract customers. It's not sustainable.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 21:38:44+00:00
> Does "simple" mean worse?

Not OP, but I think no.

> Using your logic, then eminem or taylor swift are greater musicians than bach. After all, pre-digital era, music was, crudely put, simple music. But then again, there are dunces who think lord of the rings or harry potter are greater works than the bible, iliad, aeneid, hamlet, etc.

Before Renaissance with the exception of Hungary, where it died out due to the Turks, there was a lack of polyphony. There was also a serious lack in the ability for dynamic. Previously the concept of measure didn't exist. The very composer we are discussing here, also took part in research about the nature of keys and famously invented an intonation equally useful for all keys. There was quite a lot of research and innovation at that time.

> eminem or taylor swift

Modern music is often lacking in complexity compared to older music. It is popular, because to be able to process that complexity in real-time, which is a precursor to understanding and enjoying the music, early child-hood training of the ear is needed by exposure, which a majority of the population wasn't subject to.

Early digital music was innovative, since it was created by geeks educated in both computers and music, but these days are long gone. Modern music is quite simple and more some return to earlier monophonic music with modern instruments.
by tormeh | 2025-11-22 21:38:44+00:00
Honestly? Good. We can't just let propagandists from Russia or anywhere else ruin our democracies. When I look in comment sections online on mass platforms (think Facebook, Instagram, etc.) the amount of hate is unreal. The sheer quantity doesn't look organic at all. Even though these opinions are certainly shared by many real people, I suspect a lot of it is bots and propaganda. A bit of modern McCarthyism might be necessary.