MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-11-06 17:52:43+00:00
> We can not allow the FBI to work for Evil here.

It's not up to us to tell the FBI what to do, that's a fatal misunderstanding about how power works. You can demand to see the FBI's manager, but I doubt it will get you anywhere. You can choose between two candidates offered by the privately owned and run political parties for whom the FBI works, but I don't think that will help either.

> Knowledge itself should become a human right.

Human rights are created by legislation. Unless you own a legislator (or rather, many legislators), you will not be involved in this. The people who own (and parcel out) knowledge itself, however, will be involved.

It would be better if we stopped making pronouncements about what people more powerful than us should be doing. It's like prisoners talking about what the jail should be doing. You should talk about what you should be doing. And don't mistake demanding for doing, or walking in the street with your friends for activism (unless you're violating curfew and are prepared to defend yourselves.)

Be brave. Put forward a program that might fail. Ask people to help you with it, ask them to follow you, tell them where to show up. Join someone else and help with their program. Don't demand, then whine when they say "of course not." The FBI is not your daddy, and the people running it are not running it on your behalf.

I don't mean to be personal, but this type of talk is empty. The way how to do things is decided is through power; and the way weak people exercise power is collectively, through discussion and coordinated action. Anybody can talk about what they would do if they were dictator of the world.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-11-06 17:52:44+00:00
> Every startup begins with lots of debt and little revenue and a all in bet that it’ll change. Sam’s company unsurprisingly follow same playbook

This reads like an intentional misunderstanding of the general concerns around this current boom. The arguments aren't about the odds of the bet, they're pointing out that in fundamental ways the bet itself doesn't make sense.

I also wouldn't describe this post as "doomerism", it's basically pointing out that this "bet" only makes sense if the plan is for the US public to ultimately be the ones paying for the risks being taken.
by igouy | 2025-11-06 17:52:57+00:00
> compare the state of two images side-by-side

Compare archived, versioned, source code.

"Within each project, a set of changes you make to class descriptions is maintained. … Using a browser view of this set of changes, you can find out what you have been doing. Also, you can use the set of changes to create an external file containing descriptions of the modifications you have made to the system so that you can share your work with other users."

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 46

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The image is throw-away. It's a cache, not an archive.

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager."

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 500
by danso | 2025-11-06 17:52:58+00:00
The subpoena cites the following statute as authorization: "(1)(A) In any investigation of (i)(I) a Federal health care offense; or (II) a Federal offense involving the sexual exploitation or abuse of children, the Attorney General; or (ii) an offense under section 871 or 879, or a threat against a person protected by the United States Secret Service under paragraph Secret Service determines that the threat constituting the offense or the threat against the person protected is imminent"

One of the agents named in the subpoena appears to have previously worked on child exploitation cases years ago:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-6039/245948/202...
Help with AI Fatigue
by hmokiguess | 2025-11-06 17:53:04+00:00
Hey folks. Lots of exciting and cool stuff out there these days, incredible time to be alive!

That said, I can't help but feel the dread of infinite untapped potential and decision fatigue when it comes to navigating the space.

How do you cope? What works for you? What do you recommend?

I feel like what I want right now is some agent that can replace my decision making when it comes to this decision fatigue, I keep jumping around from one agent to another, one model to another, they all sort of work and produce similar results if I am being honest, am I doing something wrong?

If I try to reason about my frustration, I would say it is a UX problem. For example, I believe Cursor managed to cross the chasm when they reinvented autocomplete using a novel UX, same goes for Claude Code with its cli. That said, I feel like they are not "ageing" well, maybe it's just me.

Here's the thing that is upsetting me, it feels like we are in a suboptimal in-between state where we are trying to enter a sort of autonomous computing with low to moderate supervision but the UX is still not quite fully aligned with that direction the way I see it. -- I'm struggling with words, hopefully someone smarter than me on HN can understand what I mean here, heh.

I like we're now entering an era where cloud sandboxes and asynchronous environments are emerging, but it still feels awkward for some reason. Half-baked, feature factories, a lot of try everything and see what sticks. -- Maybe it's just knowledge gaps, information density/overload, or perhaps I just need to focus better.

Anyone else feels like there is a race where time to market is the priority rather than quality and innovation? Are we ever going to slow down again?

Oh well . . . time to go back to doomscrolling on Sora ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by lysace | 2025-11-06 17:53:05+00:00
USA has been very hostile to the ICC since way before Trump.

The ICC was created in 1998 when Bill Clinton was president of the USA. He never ratified the Rome treaty. And then GW, Obama, Trump and Biden didn't either.

Very few americans batted an eye as far as I could tell. Your are after all by definition exceptional. (/s)
by Rayhem | 2025-11-06 17:53:22+00:00
> I came across narcissism. The idea that you’re smarter than everyone else. Comes from a grandiose sense of self importance.

This may be the colloquial description of how narcissism manifests, but it isn't even close to (and possibly completely opposite) clinical narcissism. The grandiosity isn't so much a belief as it is a "false self" put on to garner caretaking from others. It's not "I got all the toys as a kid, so I deserve more stuff!" but a failure to individuate from caregivers. "Mom (as a tool, not a wholly independent person) came when I cried as a kid, so I need you to lavish attention on me and make me feel better now as an adult. I can't see myself without external input; I only see myself as a reflection through you."
by moffkalast | 2025-11-06 17:53:28+00:00
I'd agree but we're beyond hopelessly idealistic. That sort of approach only helps your competition who will use it to build a closed product and doesn't give anything of worth to people who want to actually use the model because they have no means to train it. Hell most people can barely scrape up enough hardware to even run inference.

Reproducing models is also not very ecological in when it comes down to it, do we really all need to redo the training that takes absurd amounts of power just to prove that it works? At least change the dataset to try and get a better result and provide another datapoint, but most people don't have the knowhow for it anyway.

Nvidia does try this approach sometimes funnily enough, they provide cool results with no model in hopes of getting people to buy their rented compute and their latest training platform as a service...
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-11-06 17:53:31+00:00
There is a difference between a model, a product, and a network.

OAI has a solid handle on the latter two.

800,000,000 users a month last I saw them report. 10% of the world population a month is no joke.

That isn’t to say they are worth it, I am commenting that “the model” isn’t the important part.

There is more to a car than its engine. Even among our people, no one really cares about engines anymore.
Ask HN: Trying to find an article with unique OS concepts
by skeledrew | 2025-11-06 17:53:31+00:00
Several years ago (perhaps at least 5, possibly over 10) I came across an article in which the author described a concept OS. It included a database for the filesystem with the hierarchy determined not only by specific file paths, but also optional keywords associated with the files. Accessing the web may also have been abstracted via that DB. Apps were described as UI views on that DB, and all data (including views' states) was natively automatically synchronized across a user's devices. The author was at the time also working on a prototype, perhaps in JavaScript.

I'd love to find and give it another read, and see what progress there might have been on the implementation, but it's a challenge to search. It's very likely that I discovered that article via HN. It's also possible that I "hallucinated" parts of the concept. But if it's out there there's a good chance someone else here has come across it and perhaps remembers the source. Or something similar. Anyone encountered or any thoughts on how to search further?
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 17:53:46+00:00
> I suspect that you didn't understand the subtext of the conversation.

I suspect you're inventing a subtext that simply isn't there.

> I actually prefer these environments, I can assume everyone around me is a snake.

Again, I'm really sorry. That's a very, very sad thing.

> I am sure other people have explained this to you. However it is extremely simple.

This process you're describing doesn't make any sense. People who are quitting a volunteer position don't get fooled. They're not going to feel like things are being addressed if they aren't. They tend not to forget, but rather tell others, write long blog posts, share them on social media, etc. If the phone call doesn't try to address things but just ignores them in a call, it only adds fuel to the fire. It wouldn't be a good strategy.

> I see communications of this type as cynically because they have almost always been disingenuous.

And I'm sorry. If you think an offer to delve into a complaint over the phone to get more information is a cynical ploy, I really am sorry. It seems like there's nothing that could convince you someone is really trying to help, because of the lens you're choosing to interpret everything through. And because of the lens you've chosen, it seems self-reinforcing, which makes it extra-sad.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-06 17:54:10+00:00
Mine bitcoin ffs, sell bitcoin and build more solar. That's the only way we ever get ahead of the climate change, through the power of greed and waste. Clean electricity must cost nothing. At no point ever human civilization developed reasonably and in conscious moderation.

Don't bet on us avoiding apocalypse by the only way that never happened in the history of development of our species. We won't suddenly get any smarter, we never did. And now it's important.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-06 17:54:13+00:00
sama showed a really bad side of himself in that answer to Brad Gerstner. You can tell Gerstner thought Altman was kidding at first, but when it became apparent he was lashing out, the answer became less about the answer and more about why Sam Altman was so injured by the (very fair) question. Which, if you haven't read TFA or seen it, the question was "How are you going to make money given how much you borrowed" but Sam's answer was essentially "How dare you ask me that question, we're happy to take back your shares if you have a problem with the way things are going". That was my read on it anyway.

Corporate leadership in America has a megalomania problem. Billionaires in general have a megalomania problem. OpenAI specifically, apparently, has a megalomania problem.
by hedayet | 2025-11-06 17:54:27+00:00
> "If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents"

In other words: More "uncatchable" scammers == higher scam rate == more $$$$ for Meta

I'd assume whoever came up with this scheme was rewarded handsomely by Facebook
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-06 17:54:31+00:00
> I’ve had a therapist recommend me take a motorbike trek across Europe (because that’s what he did) to cure my depression.

When I try to help people in support group/ therapy group although I am not a therapist, I also try to explain how I fixed my issues or how I do so.

I feel like, that isn't bad take to be really honest in the sense that I personally feel like there are times when we lose the fact that our lives have purpose and your therapist grappled with it by having a unitary goal for himself

If you felt like that was a bad idea, just tell him that what is the thing that they got out of the motorbike trek race that cured their depression, I'd be more curious about that. Considering, maybe then I can try to see if my life has/had the same problems and what is the common theme and discussing about it later.

Personally I feel like Chatgpt is extremely sycophantic and I feel really weird interacting with it. For one, I really like interacting with humans atleast in the therapy mindset I suppose.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-11-06 17:54:53+00:00
Divulging your means and methods is a surefire way of getting the cartels to adjust their operating procedure to avoid detection. If they're being watched via satellites, they'll move their ports. If their cell phones have been hacked and are leaking info, they'll start using different devices. If there's a human source giving the info, he'll be hunted down.

It's not like this is the first time when the US has withheld evidence for certain actions it took. That doesn't mean the evidence isn't there. This is generally a problem with judging government behavior due to the information asymmetry
by freedomben | 2025-11-06 17:54:59+00:00
> Silk Road drug lord

Oh please. Ross was no saint by any stretch and it does look like he may have made a very dark decision at one point, but it didn't happen in a vacuum. There's a mountain of details and nuance around that case, including a whole host of law enforcement abuses that many people would find distasteful if not sickening if they actually got the whole story.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-06 17:55:06+00:00
Google’s datacenters are excellent, from what I’ve seen in my career. They genuinely had so many amazingly talented SMEs pushing boundaries for decades without executive intervention or deterrence, and that’s paid dividends in the subsequent tenure under Pichai and external shareholders (in that they have “infinite” runway and cash reserves to squander on moonshots before risking the company’s core businesses). That said, nothing lasts forever, and if their foray into LLMs don’t pay off, their shareholders are going to be pissed.
by BizarroLand | 2025-11-06 17:55:16+00:00
If you had read all the way to the end, you would have seen this:

(There is genius at work in this thesis. It came round about by way of reader Sam Keen, who sent us a thin gray monograph printed in Bologna, Italy. The trail eventually led to Carlo M. Cipolla, the author, who is currently Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley - Kevin Kell)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
Show HN: The Chaos Machine – A public computer anyone can use simultaneously
by LemayianBrian | 2025-11-06 17:55:21+00:00
I made a publicly accessible Windows computer that multiple users can control simultaneously(everyone sees the same screen and control the same mouse and keyboard). It runs in the browser and is built with Apache Guacamole :)

This is meant to be a short term stress test for the infra.
by latexr | 2025-11-06 17:55:25+00:00
I have considered making an extension to do something like that. One initial idea was to have two markers (e.g. colour the username differently), for people you don’t want to read from and people you do (e.g. some user who often makes insightful comments).

Though I do think that might have positive effects individually, I worry it may have negative effects globally in discussions.
by bonyt | 2025-11-06 17:56:34+00:00
Looks like openDesk uses Collabora Online, which is itself based on libreoffice online - web based libreoffice.

https://www.opendesk.eu/en/product#document-management ("Collabora Online powers openDesk with a robust office suite designed for efficient teamwork and secure document editing.")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online ("Collabora Online (often abbreviated as COOL) is an open-source online office suite developed by Collabora, based on LibreOffice Online, the web-based edition of the LibreOffice office suite.")
by gregmac | 2025-11-06 17:56:46+00:00
It's good to move to Zigbee/thread/z-wave anyway because they're all better protocols for smarthome stuff. Plus wifi means you might be buying stuff that relies on cloud, which is a non-starter for anyone that doesn't like buying future paperweights.

But your criticisms are strange. You have more than 254 devices connecting (which implies a complex setup) but can't increase the subnet size? Or does your router just have an absurdly small default DHCP range?

I also don't understand the swap your router problem, unless you're also using default SSIDs and not changing it. Configure the SSID and PSK to be the same as before and everything will just work.
by c-hendricks | 2025-11-06 17:56:53+00:00
Yeah they all use the same palette, but they don't all use the palette the same way.

And copy / paste, "hm does this TUI intercept mouse clicks, ah it does, oh what was the key combo for my terminal emulator that allows to skip that? Crap I pressed ctrl-c instead of ctrl-shift-c". Or worse when you want to select text in a column-based TUI and your terminal emulator doesn't have any sort of column-selection handling.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend reading books?
by roundstars | 2025-11-06 17:56:57+00:00
I have bought multiple books, but most of the time I don't find myself motivated to read them. Instead, I prefer to watch hour long documentaries/TED talks/programming tutorials on Youtube.

I feel that it's important to build the habit of reading books to improve my cognitive skills. Are there any tips for me please?
by babypuncher | 2025-11-06 17:56:57+00:00
Less money and competition in the entertainment industry means less total content production and less impetus for funding riskier productions.

If you look back at American TV in the 20th century, so much of it was samey and bland because there were only 3-4 programs to choose from at any given time. It was hard to get networks to greenlight anything that didn't fit an already proven formula.

This started to change with cable and streaming. Consumers suddenly had a lot more options, and were also spending a lot more money. You had a lot more networks trying to stand out, and they put out riskier shows that rejected decades of TV norms.

Now that the industry is consolidating again, networks and studios are back to being much more risk averse, and that is hurting the quality of their output.

Personally, I don't think the answer is more all-you-can-eat subscriptions, it's frustrating for consumers and even moreso for creators. I wonder if some kind of usage-based compensation would work, where users can choose between watching a show with ads, or paying 25 or 50 cents per episode to watch ad-free.
by iamnothere | 2025-11-06 17:56:59+00:00
> I think people have forgotten how extreme a position this is: the idea that once something is on the internet, national law simply ceases to apply and governments should have absolutely zero control over obscene material, IP infringment, harassment, libel, foreign propaganda, money laundering, fraudulent financial services, gambling, and so on - simply because it's hosted in a different country.

This has more or less been the default position of most internet users and developers since the beginning, until fairly recently. I’d even contend that it’s what drew many of us to the internet in the first place. If the internet ever becomes cable TV, fully regulated, controlled, and managed, it will have lost its purpose as a place for free and open exchange of information.

(Zero control is an exaggeration—the worst lawbreakers still face justice under the current system, and that seems ok. I just don’t think we should be tightening the screws any further.)
by ungovernableCat | 2025-11-06 17:57:18+00:00
What an amazing financial innovation. If the government involves itself now it'll actually be much cheaper then if the government involves themselves after they've entangled the entire stock market and financial sector into their bet. Maybe we can call it the pre-bailout.

They also propose that their services will be so key to some sectors (like pharma) that they'll also seek revenue sharing as part of the companies getting the privilege to use the most cutting edge intelligence. Insane stuff honestly.

All I'm going to say is I'm actually really hoping that China stays competitive in this field. Just like they are delivering EVs for $25k to the world it'd be great for all consumers and companies if they can also deliver 90% of the AI performance for 1/10 of the cost.
by guiriduro | 2025-11-06 17:57:21+00:00
MS could always refocus themselves as a global company (in the legal rather than marketing-only sense), and move their HQ out of the US, then there could be no Trump tantrums affecting other countries, the worse that could happen would be some sanctions on what would then be their in-country US affiliate, with no ability to affect their other global operations whatsoever. Why haven't they followed this approach? Haven't lost enough customers yet?
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-06 17:57:46+00:00
The first movement. Which is 4 pages long. You could display 2 pages on a 16" screen, so you improved density by 2x but you have no articulation, no dynamics or tempo markings, no legato/phrasing notation, no LH/RH indication.

If you really wanted to show the harmony as densely as possible you could fit the whole movement on 1 page with figured bass and a comment or two about how to play the arpeggios.

I'm not a hater, I encourage the exploration. Just get personally frustrated when we aren't ever building on 1000 years of music notation and instead starting with MIDI and DAW style slop - it's not value-add for serious classically trained artists, and (imo) pushes music dilettantes in the wrong directions
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-06 17:57:47+00:00
> I'd be much more excited to see what level of coding and reasoning performance can be wrung out of a much smaller LLM + agent

Well, I think you are seeing that already? It's not like these models don't exist and they did not try to make them good, it's just that the results are not super great.

And why would they be? Why would the good models (that are barely okay at coding) be big, if it was currently possible to build good models, that are small?

Of course, new ideas will be found and this dynamic may drastically change in the future, but there is no reason to assume that people who work on small models find great optimizations that frontier models makers, who are very interested in efficient models, have not considered already.