MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gowld | 2025-11-12 01:12:12+00:00
It's only natural that someone promoting an AI-slop-as-a-service should be suspected to be AI-slop itself.

"Meet HAVVA. The new face of luxury brand"

1. The AI couldn't even grammat-check a half-sentence.

2. Who wants to buy from a "luxury brand" that's uncanny valley AI slop?

Why are all 3 options, "pay this person $30K+" ?

Option 1: Co-Founder Partnership: You invest: $50-80k + handle sales/operations/Stripe access

Option 2: Outright Sale + Long-Term Contract: You pay: $60-80k upfront (full code ownership, all IP rights)

Option 3: Revenue Share Partnership: You invest: $30-50k upfront + Stripe access + sales/marketing

Where's the option "You run my system, and send me X% of the revenue" ?
by nl | 2025-11-12 01:12:17+00:00
If you are a rich crypto founder you can literally admit[0] to funneling money to Islamic State[1] and get yourself a pardon for it though[2].

[0] "Binance failed to file a SAR on transactions related to an individual designated by OFAC for support of a terrorist group. The individual was allowed to keep an account for several years in withdrawal-only status after designation and withdraw their balance" https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/enforcement_action/2023-...

[1] "The violations include failure to implement programs to prevent and report suspicious transactions with terrorists — including Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Al Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) " https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1925

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-11-12 01:12:26+00:00
> I can't think of a single time where having someone else review my work or give me feedback is a meaningfully bad thing

I have ample examples, unfortunately. I had a coworker whom I liked as a person, but had a nasty habit of using PRs as a way to hijack all decision making. He’d leave PR feedback for his personal preferences and mark them as “changes requested.”

Everyone feels like an asshole giving an approval when someone has requested changes, so you had to comply with all of his preferences if you wanted to merge your code.

I’ve had several companies where I submitted a PR and had someone say, “You’re guarding against an edge case that won’t happen. This is over engineered. Remove it.”

And it made it less than a week in production before we hit the edge case that I’d been forced to neglect.

I had a team come to me with a request, so I built it. They were thrilled. Then another engineer was like, “I don’t like (some technical detail). You need to change (major architectural decision).”

I gave the re-architected version to the team who requested it and they said, “Wait, I loved what you built before. What is this? I don’t want this!”

This post resonated with me pretty hard. Hire good people and deputize them to make decisions. You’ll end up with something good more often than not. I’ve never seen design-by-committee produce a great product.

I’ve had too many experiences with seeing decent contributions get worse and worse as they go through successive rounds of feedback.
by typpilol | 2025-11-12 01:12:35+00:00
Just want to say built in glyphs makes terminal ANSI art awesome.

I forked a colorscripts project and added some true ANSI art after conversion and the built in glyphs look so much better than any other font.

It's great but is there any special rendering for the built in glyphs that's not possible with fonts? Just curious
by atourgates | 2025-11-12 01:12:45+00:00
Beyond any clinical reason that your eye clinic might want to know your blood pressure (your vascular system is pretty important to your vision) - they may have been incentivized by the CMS to track blood pressure via the MIPS program which ties provider payments to specific documentation and screening measures.

AKA - the government might pay your eye clinic more if they screen you for high blood pressure. (Among other things).
by echend | 2025-11-12 01:13:07+00:00
Yeah, I'm using Claude to help me write responses. English is my second language and I'm nervous as hell about this thread.

I'm reading the comments, figuring out what to say, then using AI to help phrase it properly. The thoughts are mine but the wording is AI-assisted.

Should've been upfront about this from the start. My bad.

The product is real (test it at neoclerks.com/en if you can access it), but I get if the AI responses kill the credibility.
by pron | 2025-11-12 01:13:20+00:00
> But use after free absolutely results in the same kinds of errors (accessing unused memory, or memory used by someone else).

That two bugs result in the same or similar outcome doesn't mean they're as common or as equally exploitable, which is why, in practice, it is distinctly a more dangerous weakness in the lists maintained by MITRE.

> I also don't understand how one can sidestep the issue of ownership of memory

It's not about side-stepping. There are many kinds of bugs in software, and while we'd like to avoid all of them, some problems are, in practice, more problematic. After all, Rust similarly "sidesteps" - as in doesn't prevent - all non-memory-safety-related weaknesses, some of which are more dangerous than dynamic memory safety. If Zig isn't good enough because it doesn't prevent temporal memory safety violations, then by the exact same logic, Rust isn't good enough because it doesn't prevent, say, injection vulnerabilities, that are more dangerous than temporal memory safety vulnerabilities.

> I'm not saying this just because, I've encountered this exact issue before

Sure, it's a real and serious issue. But injection is a more serious issue, which Rust doesn't prevent, and spatial memory violations are also a more serious issue, which Zig prevents just as Rust does.

> That's why it's important to make it either obvious who owns what, or have some automatic system like GC or unique_ptr or the borrow checker.

It is, but it's even more important to prevent code injection attacks, yet Rust doesn't do that. It all comes down to how much it's worth it to pay to prevent certain bugs.

Rust was built because its designers believed that memory safety wasn't worth paying the higher memory footprint or the lower predictability of more popular memory-safe languages, or else there would have been no need for Rust in the first place. Similarly, it's just as reasonable to believe that the price you pay for temporal memory safety in Rust is not worth it.

> You mention Zig has a temporal memory management solution of a different kind - may I ask you what it is, because I haven't really seen it.

It's not a safe solution by any means (as the language doesn't enforce temporal memory safety, just as C++ doesn't), but memory allocation and deallocation in Zig is not the same as in C or C++. In particular, Zig functions that allocate are explicitly marked by having an Allocator parameter (https://zig.guide/standard-library/allocators/). Unlike in C, in Zig you know which functions allocate and using which allocator. That's how Zig is such a great fit for arenas.

Because Zig is built around custom allocators, you can also choose allocators that offer use-after-free, double-free, and memory-leak protection, and do so selectively (unlike in C): https://sinclairtarget.com/blog/2025/09/getting-my-allocator...
by belorn | 2025-11-12 01:14:08+00:00
That makes more sense. Traffic accidents should not be a profit center, and placing cameras where it makes the most money is unlikely to align with places where it has the biggest impact on reducing fatal accidents. The Vision Zero goal that Sweden has is often cited as a guiding rule for designing the road system, including the use of measures like road bumps and traffic cameras. Giving money from the fines to a for-profit corporation seems fairly obvious that it will create perverse incentives.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-11-12 01:14:19+00:00
> Shareholders voted for it. Don't understand how the will of Tesla Shareholders is a corporate governance failure... couldn't read the rest of the article behind paywall, but the premise seems so borked that I'm not going to bother.

Sounds like a failure on to think critically.

The board consists of long time friends of Musk's, people who are heavily invested in his other companies (and so have and want to continue maintain their positive relationship with him), and his brother.

It's not that the board can't vote, it's that the board isn't remotely independent. And according to the WSJ A number of members of the board have hung around many late nights doing drugs with him.

And to be clear it's that that their doing drugs, it's that if you're close enough with someone to be regularly doing hard drugs with them you clearly aren't independent.
by sema4hacker | 2025-11-12 01:16:43+00:00
"Committing to a niche...exploding right now" is still a gamble, because while you might stumble on something where the rates are currently climbing nicely, it could just as easily drop. Internet trends are like the fashion business: constantly changing. If you don't mind always chasing after the current big thing, knock yourself out, but being a jack-of-all-trades that can smoothly plug in to whatever's currently hot is not easy to do. You might latch on to a subscriber base that doesn't tire of you while you stick to one niche, but very few influencers can pull that off for long. Your best best is to be a young, good looking, smooth talking personality that viewers like to connect with, regardless of what you're doing or saying.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-12 01:16:55+00:00
I have the same fear.

So everything I automate has a fallback option that exists outside of HA. My regular light fixtures, with smart bulbs? I can turn those on and off using their light switch in the event that Home Assistant is dead, like I would if they were dumb bulbs. (I seldom use them that way, but I can.)

And my basement lights have their smarts all programmed directly in the Shelly relay. It works without networking or HA or anything else. So while the basement lights are completely software-operated, they aren't dependent upon the relatively giant stack of software and complex hardware that HA brings

As long as the Shelly relay works, then the basement lights also work -- with a timer.

(That relay can fail, but it is is unlikely to fail soon. I don't worry about it any more than I do a major appliance failing: If/when it happens, I'll deal with it. It's easy to take out again.)
by komali2 | 2025-11-12 01:16:57+00:00
Look to the PRC, unfortunately your country exists in a separate world economy from the American hegemony one.

Nobody here can help you and in fact I think GitHub and YC may be required to ban your account once they become aware you're Iranian. It's so flagrantly stupid and imo a violation of human rights to so utterly restrict the citizens of both our countries from freely doing business with each other but that's how it is right now.
by nradov | 2025-11-12 01:17:17+00:00
Corporate counsel will usually say no to anything unusual because there's no personal upside for them to say yes. If you escalate over their heads with a clear business case then you can often get a senior executive to overrule the attorneys and maybe even change the company policy going forward. But this is a huge amount of extra unpaid work, and potentially politically risky if you don't have a sold management chain.
by gverrilla | 2025-11-12 01:17:56+00:00
Hello friend,

Considering this all to be truthful, it seems you have fallen for the startup mythology - I know because I have been there too.

Maybe you can make it work, who knows, but the chances are slim - even more because of your nationality.

Don't all-in in this, protect yourself and your family.

Don't believe those hard-working startup stories, most of them in reality are really luck or contacts, nothing to do with hardwork, quality, strategy, etc. And there's people profiteering over believers like you...

I won't even comment on the irony of an iranian citizen asking for help from the Silicon Valley - when did these people help you or your country, ever????????

Best of luck
by cogogo | 2025-11-12 01:18:29+00:00
First time enlistees are absolutely not given the option of whatever job they want ex ante unless they ask/push. Many/most are not negotiating up front. Maybe truck driver was a bad example but there are many jobs that either require many people to fill them so recruiters push or significant screening so they are unrealistic posts for most.

Recruiters are known to have quotas and push hard. You think your average US Army Recruit manages this morass well?

https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/browse-jobs?position...

Even weirder that HN expects the average joe to “get it in writing and check the fine print.” A good number of recruits are not US citizens and may not speak english super well. Some 35k+ active duty and 5k+ added a year for the research inclined.
by marrs | 2025-11-12 01:18:47+00:00
> Re racism: Read the "As I remember London" post, it's full of language and selective facts painting brown people as criminal.

I didn't read it that way at all. I certainly didn't see him "painting brown people as criminal". I read it predominantly as the musings of a man afraid to lose his culture in the same way the Cockneys lost theirs. Now it's my experience that most fears are exaggerated - and perhaps his fears are exaggerated - but that doesn't mean they aren't legitimate. At the very least, they need to be heeded, because - as no one famous ever said - feelings don't care about your facts.

> a nation is the socially constructed identity I was talking about. It can be mono- or multicultural, and people from other cultures may be integrated

...or they may not be...

> But one thing is clear, if you're born into a culture you are part of the culture, and so through a civic nationalist logic you are automatically part of that nation.

All that is true, but as you just pointed out, there is not only one culture, so which culture are you born into, and is it compatible with the other cultures you have to live with? A nation also has to function; and for a democratic nation to function, it has to be united on the fundamentals. Regardless of the cause, it is quite clear to me that a good deal of trust has now broken down between different communities in my country. That needs to be addressed, not lazily dismissed as mere racism.

And leftists in particular have no business dismissing it as mere racism; because, if we want to get into causes, I'd just like to remind everyone reading this that the idea that we can and should divide and categorise people by their race has been aggressively and exclusively pushed for the last decade or more - and successfully mainstreamed - by the left. Now we all have to reap what they've sewn.
by analog31 | 2025-11-12 01:20:08+00:00
I play music part-time, on top of my regular day job. I still get paid in cash quite often, both by the venue and via the tip jar. I give it to the kids, if I need to send them on an errand.

I also keep some singles in my bass bag, to tip bartenders. Most venues provide free drinks to the band, but then there's no way to give a tip unless I bring some cash.

Cash payments virtually disappeared after Sarbanes-Oxley, but have come back. Also, bandleaders are mostly using Venmo or its competitors when the band isn't paid in cash.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-12 01:20:10+00:00
At this point I regularly see front-page HN articles that are LLM written (amusingly sometimes accompanied by comments praising how much of a breath of fresh air the article is compared to usual "LLM slop").

I worry about when I no longer see such articles (as that means I can no longer detect them), which likely will be soon enough.
by chickensong | 2025-11-12 01:21:06+00:00
Agreed, some weird hostility. I have laptops going back to the 90s all slapped up!

BTW I've been following LK for quite a while now and hope to use it sometime in the future. My regular DM is committed to a different platform, but I have a story that might turn into a campaign and I'd sub to LK to run it. Keep up the great work!
by pessimizer | 2025-11-12 01:21:19+00:00
Me. I don't want every single movement I make during the day recorded in a database by people who hate me. If I can avoid using a card, or avoid taking my phone, I don't.

In such a short time we've gotten to total coverage of every act by every single person in America in very few databases, trivial to coordinate. I don't need anybody to know I always buy a bottle of water on the way to my board game night on Thursdays from one of the stores down the same road between the park I kill time at and the house where we have it. But then there's all these phones coming together, in that house, every Thursday. Even if I don't take my phone, even if I don't buy the water, they'll see I used my transit card to take the train to the park rather than to my apartment. It's horrific when I think about it.

They know when I turn on my computer, they know when I turn off my computer, they know when I turn on my television, they know when I turn off my television. With "smart" homes, they'll know when I turn my lights on and off, they'll know how often I cook, be able to guess what I'm cooking by looking at my shopping list. I don't have control of my phone, and it has a microphone in it. My car reports its location to the manufacturer. None of this is of any benefit to me.

The only barrier to total control is manpower, and historically the manpower has been easy enough to find. I'm looking to move counterclockwise on this circle. From 8:00 to midnight we're probably on the verge of getting questioned by the cops if they can see you but can't ping you. Let me go back in time.
by accoil | 2025-11-12 01:21:26+00:00
Well, I guess Avalonia can solve 4 at least as you can negate a binding[1]. Good news for me as I recently started an Avalonia project, and thought you did still need an InvertedBoolConverter.

[1]: https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/reference/built-in-data-bin...
by gregw2 | 2025-11-12 01:21:52+00:00
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”

This apparently is an old African proverb coopted by the modern managerial class.

For those thinking about this issue, there are tech-specific related arguments similar to and contrary to the above. I heard the phrase from a Microsoft leader in early 2010s:

* "Heroism doesn't scale" (similar)

While I'm not sure it is completely true, there are respects in which it is deeply true (e.g. ops). It's a double-edged sword I think though; if you take the "Heroism doesn't scale" too seriously, you can suffocate out other key success drivers -- vision, innovation, motivation, design clarity/consistency, etc.

There's also (Fred) Brooks's Law (from Mythical Man Month):

* "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." (contrary)

I.e. there are limits to how many people "going far, going together" works for fundamental communication/coordination reasons.

P.S. There are also similar debates about optimal authority/responsibility/coordination across various military cultures, e.g. search for "military command".
by hcknwscommenter | 2025-11-12 01:23:03+00:00
Ehh. I've done mushrooms, lsd, etc. about once to three times a year pretty much my whole adult life (decades). I find it fun. I have a relaxed good time with like minded friends and that's it. I think the whole "mind awakening" nonsense is just as much nonsense as the PTSD or worse folks. Perhaps someone with underlying severe mental health issues might experience things differently. But for folks in a pretty healthy headspace, it's just a recreational drug with extremely low addiction potential and zero hang over. What's not to like?
by blopker | 2025-11-12 01:23:04+00:00
This.

The WIP code was committed with the expectation that very few people would see it because it was not linked anywhere in the main readme. It's a calculated risk, so that the code wouldn't get out of date with main. The risk changed when their LLM (wrongly) decided to elevate it to users before it was ready.

It's clear DeepWiki is just a sales funnel for Devin, so all of this is being done in bad faith anyway. I don't expect them to care much.
by skopje | 2025-11-12 01:23:22+00:00
>> The PCB was ordered from JLCPCB, where I opted to have most of the components pre-soldered.

very expensive, you are committed! :)

you should have gone Full Giertz and added a badd little robot arm that turn the pot.

esp32 are really nice: hundreds of code examples that do what you want without having to read too many pages. did you use ARDUINO IDE or idf.py SDK?
by ttd | 2025-11-12 01:23:51+00:00
IMHO there's no gatekeeper of what the "real" web is or should be. It grew organically - regular people building things they liked or needed. It's certainly more of a life necessity than it used to be, but that happened organically too.

I know there are strongly held opinions about this, but I for one see no reason why the "application web" can't peacefully coexist, and interlink with, the document web. In my opinion it therefore makes sense to allow for different models for the application web, ones that do not revolve around a document.

On the other hand, if we're just bashing on javascript being the lingua franca of the web, that's a train I'll happily board!
by cush | 2025-11-12 01:23:53+00:00
> I’ve known many talented engineers who know nothing about business, what’s legal or not, and I politely think this is likely one of those cases.

Imagine for a second if Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical engineers had this complete lack of responsibility, accountability, and liability in the work they do. The fact that people here are even offering serious advice that this guy stop what he's doing and seek legal help is going above and beyond
by echend | 2025-11-12 01:23:59+00:00
Hi gverrilla, Thank you very much for your advice, living where I live is survival, I will try to do anything I can, but I made this and put a lots of times and effort, I really want to try to get is somewhere, I never thought of out side of Iran, but again paying for LLM in dollar and getting paid in the worse currency in the world will not work
by dlivingston | 2025-11-12 01:24:17+00:00
In some cases, the artifacts of the medium can be desirable -- especially when consuming media that was created with those artifacts in mind.

Take a look at pixel art on CRTs vs LCDs [0] and Toy Story on film vs. digital [1].

[0]: https://wackoid.com/game/10-pictures-that-show-why-crt-tvs-a...

[1]: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-...
by icyfox | 2025-11-12 01:24:26+00:00
Nice to see you on here! I used the ContentDetector with a threshold of 27.0 and otherwise default parameters. Realize I could have done a grid sweep to really hone in on a good param range, but because I had only one input video labeled I wanted something that would work well enough out of the box. I imagine this dataset is rather... heterogenous.

If you happen to know a better apriori threshold I would be happy to re-run the analysis and update the chart.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-11-12 01:26:03+00:00
I cannot agree more. The most perfect terminal of the future will be the terminal of today. Leave it the heck alone. Terminal Emulators (1984 for MacTerminal), Vi (1976 by Bill Joy then 1988 by Bram Moolenaar for Vi IMproved) and Emacs (1976 by David A. Moon and Guy L. Steele Jr. then 1984 for GNU Emacs by Richard Stallman) are extremely primordial ancient programs. Among the oldest programs still in active use. There is a reason for that. During my evolution with technology, every time I wanted these programs to do something "familiar", it was because of my own ignorance and lack of familiarity. As I became familiar, I slowly realized that their power is in their simplicity. Not everything needs to be improved. "There is more to life than speeding it up" - Mahatma Gandhi