MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by waffletower | 2025-11-20 16:35:31+00:00
There are problems with so called "even-handedness", particularly when sharing empirical data which can be interpreted as politically aligned. If I query a large language model (LLM) requesting data regarding global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and its impact on climate, I don't believe it appropriate for 50% of the response be dedicated to the point of view proffered by 5% of climate scientists. I would instead prefer to receive details on the political alignment of the foundations and corporations funding those 5%. So called "even-handedness" often becomes "false equivalence", where an ordinarily untenable belief unbacked by reality is reified for political ends.
by xpe | 2025-11-20 16:35:39+00:00
I am not a layer (IANAL), but here is what Gemini 3 Pro says: "You generally do not need to use the trademark symbol for CUDA in a blog post, unless you have a specific commercial relationship with NVIDIA."

Now direct from actual sources... From [1]

> Intended users of this Brand Guideline are members of the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), solution advisors, cloud partners, solution providers, distributors, solutions integrators, and service delivery partners.

From [2]:

> Always include the correct trademark (™ vs ®) by referring to the content documents provided or using the list of common NVIDIA products and technologies. After the first mention of the NVIDIA product or technology, which includes the appropriate trademarks, the trademark does not need to be included in future mentions within the same document, article, etc.

> CUDA®

[1]: https://brand.nvidia.com/d/wGtgoY2mtYYM/nvidia-partner-netwo...

[2]: https://brand.nvidia.com/d/wGtgoY2mtYYM/nvidia-partner-netwo...
by podrocketpod | 2025-11-20 16:36:03+00:00
Jack Herrington talks with Will Madden about how Prisma ORM is evolving in v7, including the transition away from Rust toward TypeScript, less magic, and a new Prisma config file for more predictable good DX. They dig into Prisma Postgres, improvements to Prisma Studio, better support for serverless environments, and how JavaScript ORM tools like Prisma as an object relational mapper will fit into future agentic coding workflows powered by LLMs.
by Jach | 2025-11-20 16:36:04+00:00
I think you're stretching your point too far if you think Grey Goo was just a SC clone... Grey Goo is clearly in the the C&C branch of RTS more than the StarCraft branch, and of course made by Petroglyph. It's macro-heavy base-building, not micro-heavy, even as the Goo, it doesn't play the same as SC at all. It's also more than a few years old now (10)... On release the focus was the campaign, it didn't even release with replay or observer mode for multiplayer.

Tempest Rising is a newer RTS (this year) that's also in the C&C style, its highlight is the campaign. (Multiplayer I think is basically in the go-to-discord phase already.) The real problem is that RTS is just an unpopular genre, whether it's taking design inspiration from the C&C branch or the SC branch.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-20 16:36:07+00:00
I didn't say it was a failure, I just said it wasn't a success.

It fits a particular ecological niche, but these days there's almost no reason to do things that way. In the olden days of the early 90s when I needed to write embedded code to run on what was basically a Z80 SBC, it was easier to write a Forth for it and assemble it natively on a clunky old CP/M machine (I used a Kaypro of some sort at work, but an Osborne 1 at home) than it was to struggle on with the crappy (like, really crappy) MS-DOS cross-assembler on the PCs we had.

Now of course I could emulate every single computer in the entire company on a ten quid embedded board, all at the same time.
by vunderba | 2025-11-20 16:36:25+00:00
Regardless of how you feel about this kind of steganography, it seems clear that outside of a courtroom, deepfakes still have the potential to do massive damage.

Unless the watermark randomly replaces objects in the scene with bananas, these images/videos will still spread like wildfire on platforms like TikTok, where the average netizen's idea of due diligence is checking for a six‑fingered hand... at best.
by Balgair | 2025-11-20 16:36:30+00:00
So one question is who owns the IP then?

I know at the UCs, anything you do on campus is the UCs copyright. There's even little brass plaques they put in the ground when you walk on campus delineating that line.

But when these PIs are sending all the student's data up to OpenAI (presumably via the free version), then OpenAI has that data and it's copyrights.

Likely, yet another essay on the causes of the French Revolution is not ever going to be cared about. But there is a chance that something a student does in an upper division class may be worth something.
by mortenjorck | 2025-11-20 16:37:09+00:00
This is the first image model I’ve used that passed my piano test. It actually generated an image of a keyboard with the proper pattern of black keys repeated per octave – every other model I’ve tried this with since the first Dall-E has struggled to render more than a single octave, usually clumping groups of two black keys or grouping them four at a time. Very impressive grasp of recursive patterns.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-20 16:37:16+00:00
Yes, agents. But for that, I think that the usual approaches to censor LLMs are not going to cut it. It is like making a text box smaller on a web page as a way to protect against buffer overflows, it will be enough for honest users, but no one who knows anything about cybersecurity will consider it appropriate, it has to be validated on the back end.

In the same way a LLM shouldn't have access to resources that shouldn't be directly accessible to the user. If the agent works on the user's data on the user's behalf (ex: vibe coding), then I don't consider jailbreaking to be a big problem. It could help write malware or things like that, but then again, it is not as if script kiddies couldn't work without AI.
by soiltype | 2025-11-20 16:37:29+00:00
> What makes something funny? Usually, it's by subverting someone's predictions.

And in those other cases? You have a rigorous definition of comedy?

> You have to explain a phenomenon better than the truth to convince someone of your lie.

This is so often not true I would argue it's generally false. A story is believed because a listener "wants" to believe it. Some listeners have more or less complex criteria for acceptance.

> As in, world-building? That is more of a memory problem than an intelligence problem, though you do need to be good at compressing the whole world into what is relevant to the story. People who are worse at that will have to take more notes and refer back to them more often.

People like Tolkien and Martin? Note taking as a sign of poor skill/intelligence is a wildly novel take from my point of view.

> Also, using the adjectives 'complex, multi-faceted' is lazy here. Be more introspective and write what you really want to say.

Couldn't I say the same about your use of Introspective? Surely a more detailed phrase exists to describe what you mean.

> interpersonal conflicts... Quite often not an intelligence problem.

Oh, I think this will get at the root of our misunderstandings. I believe I've seen this attitude before. Before I jump to conclusions: Why exactly do you say this skill is not intelligence-based?
by sram1337 | 2025-11-20 16:37:56+00:00
I've heard it defined as the ability to learn quickly. Not just in the narrow, academic sense, but also by observing the world and people and drawing conclusions about them. It has to do with pattern recognition and abstraction.

Usually these people are knowledgeable because they are constantly learning. Eventually they become wise.

What do you think of that definition?
by roughly | 2025-11-20 16:38:02+00:00
Additionally, ritual serves a purpose both for individuals and within a broader society - for instance, a bloodletting during a solar eclipse emphasizes both the vulnerability of society to outside affairs (a solar eclipse is a hauntingly humbling experience even to the modern viewer) and the noble’s obligation to society (literally shedding blood to help protect their society). Similar can be seen with some rituals around hunting and gathering - “never kill the first deer/take the first herb you see” serves as a conservation act.

There’s an old line - “religion is the finger that points to the moon” - to your point about religion as a memory palace, most of these practices survived not because the sun god blessed them, but because they had tangible and durable benefits to the societies that practiced them.
by moooo99 | 2025-11-20 16:38:07+00:00
> They are of course, like everything else context-dependent legitimate interest,

Yeah and that is the challenge specifically. They are PII until they're not (or rather, they are not treated as PII until they are)

I obviously need them to provide my service. And I am fine if I store them for logging purposes and other legitimate interests for a reasonable amount of time. But what if I use a third party service for log aggregation? What if I am providing the service, but on the basis of an IaaS or PaaS service by one of the hyperscalers? What about the data I can derive from an IP address, such as an approximate location?

In Germany, we had lawyers sending out cease and desists just for Google Fonts being embedded on a website, nothing else.

Is there a difference between IP4 and IP6 addresses? Cause behind a cg NAT, I can barely identify anyone on the basis of an IPv4 address alone. With an IPv6 address on the other hand.

There are many ways you can spin that question. Some are more, others are less reasonable questions to ask. But the point is, that even for something as fundamental as an IP address, there is a lot of compliance uncertainty around it.
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-11-20 16:38:10+00:00
/bin/sh is NOT required by POSIX, they explicitly warn that it may not exist[1].

> Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh, and should be determined by interrogation of the PATH returned by getconf PATH , ensuring that the returned pathname is an absolute pathname and not a shell built-in.

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/
by Deathmax | 2025-11-20 16:38:28+00:00
You sort of can on Android, but it's a few steps:

1. Trigger Circle to Search with long holding the home button/bar

2. Select the image

3. Navigate to About this image on the Google search top bar all the way to the right - check if it says "Made by Google AI" - which means it detected the SynthID watermark.
by itake | 2025-11-20 16:38:30+00:00
I think your data agrees with OP, you're just misunderstanding it. Yes, richer countries work few hours and richer countries also see modest GDP growth.

Cambodia's GDP growth is over +5% YoY, whereas Switzerland (and the rest of Europe) has more modest GDP growth.

There is some "Work smart, not hard." facet to this, which requires an educated population.

The other fascet is developing countries exist in climates heavily impacted by global warming (look at flooding in VN or TH this year). They make 2 steps forward, and then 3 steps back when a monsoon takes out an entire town.

> Also, even if your claim were true, I wonder if joining the rate race of working harder is worth it.

Personally, employment makes my life interesting and rewarding. I love the puzzles (and compensation) that my employer provides. The rewards compound, but in career development and via investing the profits.

Unfortunately, I think the one area that isn't accounted for is child care. Societies (rich and poor) continue to extract time away from parenting, via cost of housing near job centers and dual-income families. Offering an extra month of vacation or 4-day work week isn't the same as 1 income household or the parents living 15 minutes from their job.
by SMAAART | 2025-11-20 16:38:38+00:00
> A lot of startup advice is vague.

Sure, but in an ocean of quantity you need to know where to look for quality:

1. https://www.startupschool.org/

2. Book: The Lean Startup.

Those 2 resources address everything you need to know and then some, with concrete advice.

> What channels worked?

You have it all wrong.
by rramadass | 2025-11-20 16:38:42+00:00
You should submit Hernando Barragan's story as a top-level post on HN. Many people do not know of this and he certainly deserves all the recognition he can get.

I have a special kind of hatred for people who steal other folks work (even if it is freely given) without any acknowledgement.

It would be just desserts if Barragan teamed up with some high profile lawyers and went after Qualcomm/Arduino like the Winklewoss twins went after Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
by wheybags | 2025-11-20 16:38:47+00:00
IMO the biggest barrier is internal mobility. The European silicon valley never happened, because people don't want to move around. The biggest single barrier is language. I'm Irish, and young Irish people often emigrate (way more than in other countries). When I look at where my college classmates ended up, it's mostly America or the UK. We also emigrate a lot to Australia and New Zealand. In other words, we only really emigrate to English speaking countries.

Almost nobody goes to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, etc. The mainstays of the European economy. Let alone central or eastern Europe. But if you're a young talented engineer in the middle of nowhere usa, you can just easily move to the bay area without any issue. That cultural unity IMO is America's biggest strength, and the lack of it is Europe's biggest weakness.

Note: I've lived in Ireland, the Czech Republic, and France, so I know first hand how hard it is to move inside Europe, and I understand why people don't do it.
by shmerl | 2025-11-20 16:38:56+00:00
Not cache files if I understand correctly, they are using $HOME/.cache/mozilla for a long time already.

You can exclude $HOME/.config/mozilla from your back up all the same anyway if that causes you some issues.

I personally appreciate them not cluttering $HOME with this move. It is better than waiting another 21 years for them to support XDG spec fully by splitting share and config.
by csallen | 2025-11-20 16:39:03+00:00
I think we're overreacting. Digital fakes will proliferate, and we'll freak out bc it's new. But after a certain amount of time, we'll just get used to it and realize that the world goes on, and whatever major adverse effects actually aren't that difficult to deal with. Which is not the case with nuclear proliferation or things like that.

The story of human history is newer generations freaking about progress and novel changes that have never been seen before. And later generations being perfectly okay with it and adapting to a new style of life.
Show HN: Code Mode for MCP in MCP-use's client
by pzullo | 2025-11-20 16:39:06+00:00
Recently, Anthropic [https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc...] and Cloudflare [https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/] released two blog posts that discuss a more efficient way for agents to interact with MCP servers, called Code Mode.

There are three key issues when agents interact with MCP servers traditionally: - Context flooding - All tool definitions are loaded upfront, including ones that might not be necessary for a certain task. - Sequential execution overhead - Some operations require multiple tool calls in a chain. Normally, the agent must execute them sequentially and load intermediate return values into the context, wasting time and tokens (costing both time and money). - Code vs. tool calling - Models are better at writing code than calling tools directly.

To solve these issues, they proposed a new method: instead of letting models perform direct tool calls to the MCP server, the client should allow the model to write code that calls the tools.

This way, the model can write for loops and sequential operations using the tools, allowing for more efficient and faster execution. For example, if you ask an agent to rename all files in a folder to match a certain pattern, the traditional approach would require one tool call per file, wasting time and tokens. With Code Mode, the agent can write a simple for loop that calls the move_file tool from the filesystem MCP server, completing the entire task in one execution instead of dozens of sequential tool calls.

We implemented Code Mode in mcp-use's (repo https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use ) MCPClient . All you need to do is define which servers you want your agent to use, enable code mode, and you're done!

The client will expose two tools: - One that allows the agent to progressively discover which servers and tools are available - One that allows the agent to execute code in an environment where the MCP servers are available as Python modules (SDKs)

Is this going against MCP? Not at all. MCP is the enabler of this approach. Code Mode can now be done over the network, with authentication, and with proper SDK documentation, all made possible by Model Context Protocol (MCP)'s standardized protocol.

Hope you like it and have some improvements to propose :)
by BizarroLand | 2025-11-20 16:39:15+00:00
I've found a great combo.

Install Linux, (I prefer Kubuntu but you do you) and then install LM Studio and an abliterated AI from mradermacher.

The specific issue I had was that my Linux system installed the wrong driver for my motherboard's Ethernet and downloads were slow. Steam wouldn't even download.

I gave the local AI the specific issues and hardware that I had, it identified the specific cause, (Linux installing r8169 instead of the r8126 driver), and gave me the specific console commands needed to modprobe in the new driver.

I could have figured that much out myself, sure, but modprobe failed. It then told me to go to Realteks site, manually download the correct driver, and then how to install it and test that it was working.

10 minutes later I'm good to go, whereas if I had been doing it myself it would have taken me over an hour, and I'm not a total Linux noob.

When you encounter a problem, ask your local AI how to fix it. Give your PC the responses the terminal gives you in response, and minutes later you're ready to go.

Want AI? Check.

Want Games? Check.

Want to browse the internet? Check.

Want to learn Linux by doing? Check.

Want to do it all and have the least amount of headache transitioning to Linux? Check.

It's a win all the way around, and the best part is that your data isn't going to some greedy corpo to build ads targeted to you.

You get all the pluses and none of the minuses other than a few extra minutes of learning when you encounter an error.
by weaksauce | 2025-11-20 16:39:26+00:00
> At last! Mozilla fixing longstanding bugs! (I jest)

you joke but they did just close out the initial implementation of a something like 27 year old bug. about:keyboard was recently added to nightly to allow you to change or clear the built in keyboard shortcuts of a bunch of menu items like save, back, refresh, or open dev tools or whatever.
by tclancy | 2025-11-20 16:39:41+00:00
Maybe where we disagree is the idea of it being a binary thing. I see it as a . . . oh, let's call it a "spectrum" just because, where the top end is Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, people have made their wealth (well maybe not Elon) on the Internet and have used those gains to make the world actively worse and to try to pervert politics in a way one person should not have leverage to do. On the other end of the continuum would be every person who posts here in threads on unions saying they would never join a programmer's union because it would cost them money. The average people who see themselves as 10x, not realizing if they were all 10x, nobody would be. In between are the LinkedInLunatic grindset CEOs of a 2 person company constantly posting about how they work 167 hours a day and then the guy who has an enormous amount of k8 orchestration and multi-region failover for his company's static website that gets 100 hits in a good month.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-11-20 16:39:42+00:00
The legal fees are not included.

They are probably very high. I'm not a lawyer but other similar cases have fees in the range of 150K to 300K.

It's a life changing amount of money. The stakes are very high for both sides. Honestly it's really sad that this happened and I am not sure anyone has come out happy.
by kragen | 2025-11-20 16:39:54+00:00
As I understand it, no, they do not source their energy from the sun. You have to bury the pipes below the frost line. In temperate climates, the frost line is the place where the earth is so well insulated from the surface by the thickness of earth above it that heat conduction is insufficient to freeze it throughout the entire winter. The sun only heats that surface by radiation.

See for example https://igshpa.org/igshpa-blog/cold-climate-ground-source-he...:

> Unlike air-source heat pumps that struggle to extract heat from frigid air, ground source heat pumps tap into a remarkably stable heat source: the earth itself. Below the frost line, ground temperatures remain relatively constant year-round, typically between 50-60°F (10-15°C). This consistency makes ground source heat pumps highly efficient even during the coldest months.

If you were building a ground-source heat pump to heat your house in the summer, you could get away with burying the pipes at a much shallower depth and in effect converting the earth into a low-temperature passive solar collector. But generally people want to heat their houses in the winter instead.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-20 16:40:11+00:00
I don't believe that you can do this for photography. For AI-images, if the embedded data has enough information (model identification and random seed), one can prove that it was AI by recreating it on the fly and comparing. How do you prove that a photographic image was created by a CCD? If your AI-generated image were good enough to pass, then hacking hardware (or stealing some crypto key to sign it) would "prove" that it was a real photograph.

Hell, it might even be possible for some arbitrary photographs to come up with an AI prompt that produces them or something similar enough to be indistinguishable to the human eye, opening up the possibility of "proving" something is fake even when it was actually real.

What you want just can't work, not even from a theoretical or practical standpoint, let alone the other concerns mentioned in this thread.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-20 16:40:24+00:00
Yeah, people in my circles and also people on the internet would refer to it as "sideloading" even though none of us were using iPods (I think this was all before the iPod actually, but my memory is a bit hazy), just copy-paste the files with explorer.exe over to the built-in MP3 player storage, people calling it "sideloading".
by schmidtleonard | 2025-11-20 16:40:31+00:00
1000%. The good solution is Georgism (perhaps with rolling leases, which are hard to manipulate, rather than LVT, which is easy to manipulate) but obviously everyone who bought into the ponzi will fight you tooth and nail so probably the best we can hope for is to slap the Nth bandaid on the problem with some NIMBY busting.
by ghaff | 2025-11-20 16:40:38+00:00
I have an HP-41 app on my phone that the author gave to me when I was doing some product reviews early-on in the smartphone days. But definitely not the same as the physical HP calculator.

Yeah, the 12C was the standard in business school. But I needed a new calculator and the 41 with its various modules worked fine and was more general purpose.
by simonw | 2025-11-20 16:41:19+00:00
This thing's ability to produce entire infographics from a short prompt is really impressive, especially since it can run extra Google searches first.

I tried this prompt:

Infographic explaining how the Datasette open source project works

Here's the result: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/20/nano-banana-pro/#creat...