MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eric-burel | 2025-11-21 08:18:43+00:00
If you are an European, regulation also has the benefit to induce soft protectionism from countries that are less keen on consumer and environment protection. This is the heart of the debate about Mercorsur, as it creates an unfair competition by lowering regulation (in theory european regulation applies but in practice it's harder to verify), and also an internal debate in France related to some pesticide that other European countries can use. Some argue that we should allow the pesticide, some that we should stop importing products that are exposed to it.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-11-21 08:19:00+00:00
> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

The image and video generation capabilities of AI is the most unimpressive part of AI's! It's the LLM's that are the most inpressive. Those might, just might, even make some sense in an OS, since plenty of people are happy to outsource a quick email or script to AI. Hell, what if your OS had a built-in AI to troubleshoot bugs for you? That might even conceivably be an improvement.

> Over in the comments, some users pushed back on the CEO's use of the word "unimpressed," arguing that it's not the technology itself that fails to impress them, but rather Microsoft's tendency to put AI into everything just to appease shareholders instead of focusing on the issues that most users actually care about, like making Windows' UI more user-friendly similar to how it was in Windows 7, fixing security problems, and taking user privacy more seriously.

I'm sure adding AI to Windows would make privacy problems even worse. Not to mention agentic AI could create a whole new class of security problems if not implemented carefully.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-11-21 08:19:05+00:00
I don’t want to get too deep into goo goo gjoob orthodoxy on a polite forum like HN, but I think you’re wrong.

Slithey, mimsy, borogrove etc are indeed nonsense words, because they are nonsense and used as words. Notably, because of the way they are used we have a sense of whether they are objects, adjectives, verbs, etc, and also some characteristics of the thing/adjective/verb in question. Goo goo gjoob on the other hand, happens in isolation, with no implied meaning at all. Is it a verb? Adjective? Noun? Is it hairy? Nerve-wracking? Is it conveying a partial concept? Or a whole sentence? We can’t give a compelling answer to any of these based on the usage. So it’s more like scat-singing — just vocalization without meaning. Nonsense words have meaning, even if the meaning isn’t clear. Slithey and mimsy are adjectives. Borogroves are nouns. The jabberwock is a creature.
by purple_turtle | 2025-11-21 08:19:19+00:00
The problem in USA is that producing insuline is so regulated that setting up and maintaining production is obnoxiously expensive.

Note that if you cause by regulation or stupid laws something to be expensive to produce/import and then make it illegal to sell above that price - then you will get shortages.

As noone will want to produce insuline if required paperwork costs more than it's selling price.

Note that even if currently adding more regulation to solve problems caused by more regulation will not cause it, it may happen in future.

US healthcare regulations are on Nth round of that.
by u_sama | 2025-11-21 08:19:47+00:00
Yeah but EU regulation makes other things expensive and inefficient (like the labour market, housing, building new companies because incumbents protect their interests trhough regulation).

The fact is that with insulin the regulation issues comes from the patchwork system of healthcare the US developped through political concesssionns and lobbying from private firms, which makes the developpment and the subsequent commercialization expensive relative to Europe where centralized national bodies negotiate with the pharma companies.

Regulation can be good or bad, in our era it is ineffective because politicians are boomers disconnected from the issues or in the EU a pseudo-technocratic (not really listening to technocrats recommendations) body far from reality

This series of posts is a nice forray into managerialism (the source of many regulation issues) https://baazaa.github.io/2024/10/16/managers_p1.html
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 08:19:50+00:00
> Thing that doesn’t exist yet will, ideally, have 6% better specs than thing that’s been in use for over 7 years!

FYP as it's rather worse than you framed. I'm happy to see more competition in space, because I think it's the single most important domain for humanity. And Blue Origin is making some rapid improvements, but people are dramatically overstating both this and their history/role in space quite significantly.

Blue Origin was founded before SpaceX, back in 2000, and only managed to send a rocket into orbit this year, 25 years later. They remain a complete nonplayer that exists only through the good fortune of endless and clearly unconditional Bezos bucks.

Now if they can keep putting out some good results, ideally start producing some hardware that can compete in terms of price and capability, and generally scaling things up - then I'll be the first to sing their praises. But we're still quite a ways away from that point for now.
by ahwelatif | 2025-11-21 08:21:12+00:00
The US's master plan for aiding Taiwan revolves around assuming China will magically forget that transport helicopters exist and then dumbly force their entire armed forces into 1940's Higgins boats for conga line suicide charges into Taiwans most defended + mined beaches.

...It should go without saying that these are brain dead assumptions. China definitely has a much better plan than this.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 08:21:19+00:00
I share the sentiment, which is why someone I ended up gravitating around technologies somehow related to it like Java, .NET, and the related languages on their ecosystems.

Also why despite not agreeing how Google went down with Java in Android, I appreciate their approach, because this kind of platforms apparently only get adoption with such kind of hard pushes, otherwise it would be yet another tiny UNIX clone.

Ironically is probably the closest we have on the market from Inferno/Limbo ideas on a mainstream OS.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-21 08:21:51+00:00
> The law you cite literally applies only to general public sales, i.e. where the the intention is to use on public roads.

If you sell key chains to the general public, that implies the key chains are intended only to be used on public roads? I don't think that's right.

> I cannot see where this regulation would apply to solely used tires in the first place and if we slip down the slope you have put in this thread, this regulation would forbid sales of track-only tires altogether.

It forbids the sale if it "has a tread depth of less than 1/16 inch measurable in any groove" which ostensibly wouldn't apply to new tires with more tread than that nor new slicks that come from the factory with no grooves to measure.

But then you're buying a new tire, when what they want is the used one with negligible tread left and therefore a much more attractive price.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-21 08:22:21+00:00
CNN is already heavily on the side of pumping out pro-Israel hasbara, so I thought Larry would love that. I guess the weak controlled opposition, pseudo-left corporate progressives aren't sufficiently servile to Trump, corporations, and Likud. Billionaires want all of the media, all of the power, complete compliance, and all of our money.

The only answers are independent journalism and independent content publication platforms.
by krige | 2025-11-21 08:22:39+00:00
I caution against using whatever the Russian army and, especially, navy is going through as a guideline on what can or cannot happen to a competent, well equipped force. Putting it bluntly, their equipment is not only subpar, it is also poorly mantained and crewed by people who were not properly trained for its operation, and commanded by leaders who were almost never promoted for their competence.
by komali2 | 2025-11-21 08:22:55+00:00
These statements about numbers are meaningless to make the case that democracy exists in the PRC. There's 1 billion people there, comparison of vote counts to smaller countries doesn't make sense.

Party membership comes with 關係. It's not really about having the right to vote. Some people just join during school.

The PRC gets many things right but we should be honest about its flaws. The truth is the CPC, and especially now Xi (you HAVE seen the updated textbooks about father/brother xi, right?), are single points of failure and unchallengeable authority. What happened to the left communists in the PRC? What happened to the smaller unions that didn't toe the party line, and not in the direction of capitalism but deeper into leftism? Where are the Chinese anarchists? Hell, where are the Chinese communists?

The only path forward to a communist PRC is a split into province level states or better yet smaller entities. It's only a matter of time before Xi goes senile or has a big birthday he wants to celebrate by escalating imperialism into military intervention and tanks the entire PRC economy in doing so, or simply dies and kicks off a shitstorm power struggle that cripples the CPC and the country along with it.
by gldrk | 2025-11-21 08:23:01+00:00
>This is a lot different than say OSS vs ALSA.

ALSA is an absolute nightmare to work with infinitely worse than Wayland. At best 10% of it is ‘documented’ through Doxygen. For the rest the only reference is the source code. This is one reason applications don’t tend to support ALSA anymore.
by sublinear | 2025-11-21 08:23:03+00:00
This is very well said. The next phase is these "leaders" realizing all that still isn't enough to do meaningful work. Work comes from a deliberate familiarity with tools woven in with the full understanding of the problem. Likewise, a full understanding of the problem comes from familiarity with what's possible.

Anyone who has successfully completed a self-motivated project all on their own knows that the problem definition changes when the knowledge gaps go away. Sometimes even entire classes of solutions become pointless and their value goes from seemingly huge to nothing at all.

If we look into the past it's the difference between wanting to selfishly reconfigure the earth with physics-defying and godlike brute force creating massively worse and life-threatening problems... versus just building the shelter and infrastructure we now consider obvious and far less silly with smarter technology than just brute force and magic.

That's what I think is going to happen to all this pointless scaffolding currently being called "AI". It's a category of software that is completely unnecessary in a world where people are more experienced and better educated.
by wltr | 2025-11-21 08:23:32+00:00
Perhaps I need to understand something first, but at this point in time I see no value in projects like this. Beyond the obvious fact of hacking. Ideally, I don’t even want, say, Linux to have any binary compatibility with Windows. I want native apps, games included. I don’t want to see Photoshop working on Linux, I want Gimp to become successful (maybe, start with the name change), or, well, Krita then. Same with macOS. I don’t miss any app from macOS, I want to run so badly. I want Linux to catch up where it isn’t.
by atoav | 2025-11-21 08:23:52+00:00
Coincidentally I thought a class of art students just yesterday how to build oscillators. And it is not hard at all. Take a logic inverter IC (CD40106 Schmitt-Trigger Hexinverter) pick a single gate, connect the output to the input, add a capacitor from the input to ground. That is it. Three parts and you got a Relaxation Oscillator. And then you have 5 inverter gates left.. But of course one could argue ICs are cheating, since any PLL-IC would have an oscillator onboard.

Why the first two circuits fail is also pretty obvious without derper circuit analysis: to get reliable oscillation you don't only need amplification, you also need some time setting element, usually in the form of a capacitor (or involuntary capacitance).
by mcv | 2025-11-21 08:27:32+00:00
It's not just American politics. This stuff is infecting other countries too. Dutch right-wing parties are also becoming increasingly detached from reality. A small one that just doubled in size has a history of embracing every hoax and conspiracy theory they can find, whereas the most realistic and effective housing plans came from a left-wing party. A formerly-respectable conservative-liberal party has made it clear they do not want to work with that particular, and prefer an openly racist party.
by silisili | 2025-11-21 08:27:42+00:00
Apologies, I didn't know you'd written it or I wouldn't have been so harsh.

Just, AI content is cheap. It can write faster than any of us can read, and I think the sentiment is that we're all kinda tired of it. Attention is a two way street, so it feels a bit like being cheated when an author wants us to spend time to read something they spent no time writing.

If I could give any advice at all... personally, I'd rather read a poorly written or broken English article than one polished with AI. It drips of AI and takes away any semblance a human may be behind it at all.
by unwind | 2025-11-21 08:27:53+00:00
Me too, but that particular picture was confusing. Shouldn't the board be with the human, 120 ft from the wifi access point being connected to? Now it looks as if the human screams at the board from 120 ft away, or something.

Other than that, hugely impressive project of course, it makes any board I've tried to design/assemble look impossibly huge. :)
by rucknar | 2025-11-21 08:29:06+00:00
Perhaps just me, but isn't this a case of the AI you ship to hundreds of millions of users isn't that impressive? The CoPilot (or Gemini in google workspace) experience is almost a different product it's so far off the raw performance of paid models.

I can't stand interacting with these AI buddies that feel like simpletons. Stuff like Claude Sonnet 4.5 however i use for work daily.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-11-21 08:29:31+00:00
>deplete the soil

Doesn't carbon get pulled out of the air through photosynthesis? That's why people plant trees to address global warming, no?

Your arguments seem very handwavey and not very well thought through. Do you really believe that EV business owners are the only ones who benefit from more widespread EV usage?

In any case, even if you're flagging real issues, there is no evidence that existing regulators identified those issues in the case of the OP? So it could still be the case that the existing regulatory scheme is useless overburden.
by anovikov | 2025-11-21 08:30:53+00:00
This is same that i meant myself. Local gang so established, it is seen as a government itself, runs the place and national laws do not apply, resulting properties being from perspective of law, illegal - can't be officially sold or mortgaged, have no title deeds, and would have been razed if government had access there, except if a city official with a bulldozer appears, the local gang will meet them with machetes and pitchforks, and sending in tanks and helicopters is not worth it. It's not "deregulation", it's "lawlessness".
by pjmlp | 2025-11-21 08:31:05+00:00
First, we could start by what UNIX authors did after they considered UNIX done, looking at Plan 9 and Inferno.

Then there are the OSes already done during the 1960 and 1970 outside Bell Labs, as possible ideas.

As from where the software would come from, if we keep recicling UNIX, we will keep getting UNIX regardless of whatever cool features the OS might offer, as most developers are lazy.

Hence why it is great that while Apple and Google OSes have some UNIX there, bare bones POSIX apps will hardly make it into the store.
by 10000truths | 2025-11-21 08:31:15+00:00
Indeed, at some point, you can't lower tail latencies any further without moving closer to your users. But of the 7 round trips that I mentioned above, you have control over 3 of them: 2 round trips can be eliminated by supporting HTTP/3 over QUIC (and adding HTTPS DNS records to your zone file), and 1 round trip can be eliminated by server-side rendering. That's a 40-50% reduction before you even need to consider a CDN setup, and depending on your business requirements, it may very well be enough.
by kelly99 | 2025-11-21 08:31:29+00:00
I’ve been running a small side project that needs fast and reliable image generation. After trying SDXL/SD3, Flux, and a few closed APIs, I tested the new NanoBanana Pro models—and it kind of changed my whole setup.

A few things stood out:

1. It follows prompts unusually well. Not “creative drift”, not hallucinating weird hands, just… does what you ask. This alone cut my retries by almost half.

2. It’s really fast. On 1024×1024 I consistently see ~2 seconds, sometimes less. I didn’t expect that. It actually changes how you design the UI.

3. The default style is clean and usable. Not too glossy, not too anime, not too uncanny. Just realistic enough for product photos and people shots.

4. Cheaper in practice. Because it needs fewer retries, the cost per accepted image was lower than SDXL in my tests (1.3 vs 2.2 gens per final result).

I ended up building a small wrapper around it to normalize prompts, clean params and handle retries. If anyone’s curious, you can search “nan0banana” — I’m not posting a link so it doesn’t look spammy.

Curious if anyone else here has played with NanoBanana Pro. How does it compare to what you’re using?
by testdelacc1 | 2025-11-21 08:31:31+00:00
Feel like this is way too optimistic. The Chinese strategy isn’t to actually put boots on the ground - it’s to make invasion inevitable by having a massive mismatch in power. Then they present a fait accompli to the American President, making grandiose promises in exchange for taking Taiwan with minimal loss of life. If the American President is a transactional person who can be bought cheap, it’ll work.

They’ve managed to address a lot of their disadvantages as well

- Energy is a lot less oil dependent as they’ve transitioned to solar, wind and nuclear, while also electrifying cars and buses.

- Of course oil is important, which is why they have a 2 billion barrel reserve. That could last them 6 months with zero imports.

- But in practice they have reduced their reliance on oil imports through the straits of Malacca because they can get oil through Pakistan (Gwadar).

- Exposing corruption is something Xi is very comfortable with. He’s purged the PLA leadership multiple times, even men he’s appointed personally. Certainly a chunk of the military budget is siphoned away, but the spending is so high and their manufacturing so solid that they have enough of everything they need (missiles, transport ships, destroyers, submarines, fighter planes).

- Drones have changed the game, but it is unclear that Taiwan is prioritising them in the quantities they need. Ukraine needs thousands of drones per day of different kinds. They’re going all in on drone innovation and manufacturing and the Taiwanese aren’t (although they could be keeping it secret). They waste money on prestige kit like fighter jets that will never be allowed to leave their airfields.

If Taiwan has 50k unjammable, unhackable drones covering every approach to the island, both air and underwater, with enough personnel to manage them all, distributed across the island, then maybe they have a hope. But my sense is that when America abandons them in exchange for a few soybean sales, they’ll struggle to survive on their own.
by 0dayz | 2025-11-21 08:32:15+00:00
This is imo a much needed move due to how absurdly socially manipulative twitch and other social oriented platforms have become.

A lot of the top dog streamers especially employ cult like social manipulation to ensure that they stay relevant and continue to earn a boat load from exploiting their fans, obviously it didn't used to be this bad and there are still streamers not doing this but it's a general trend downwards towards enabling and normalizing antisocial behavior.
Show HN: SolidJS node-based editor library
by ryusufe | 2025-11-21 08:32:35+00:00
Hello everyone!

I’m happy to share this library with SolidJS devs. It’s similar to React Flow, but without the extra bloat that comes with it.

It’s fully customizable, from the way it looks to the way it behaves. The core is very minimal, but you can feed it your own components to make it work exactly the way you need.

it's fully documented in Github's wiki. the demo is live on Github as well
by glemmaPaul | 2025-11-21 08:33:26+00:00
Anyone that uses Okta should be accepting the fact that they have outsourced a huge chunk of responsibility of their job onto an enterprise company.

These github links are not open source projects, these are public readable software projects. You do not control any of it, you have to deal with internal company politics like "# PRs opened", "# Bugs solved" for the developers' next performance review.
by matu3ba | 2025-11-21 08:34:17+00:00
Money is created and distributed via 1 banking system and 2 government. Are 1 rules, 2 checks and 3 punishment enforced against the banking system and government or only to stabilize and extend those systems? I'd argue the introduction of (arbitrary) rules are often just the excuses to amass power, but enforcement of checks and punishments decides who holds (political) power.
by maccard | 2025-11-21 08:34:31+00:00
It’s not over regulation, it’s bad regulation.

Not all regulation is bad, and some of it is wildly effective at not just achieving the letter of the law but actually solving the problem it was defined for. Good regulation IMO looks bad because you never hear of anyone being punished for breaking it because it is complied with.

The EU banned roaming charges in 2017. Most networks by then had already abolished them, but only because this change was coming. The UK then decided it was going to leave the EU, and pretty much overnight the major mobile providers reintroduced the roaming charges.

EU flight compensation rules are another great example - they don’t pay out often because what’s happened is the airlines don’t get delayed to that point as often as they used to.

Scotland has a “right to roam”, which can be summarised as “don’t be a dick and you can go anywhere you want outdoors”. So you can walk, camp etc pretty much anywhere (it’s a bit more complex). In theory this means I can just open a gate to a farm, and walk across their fields. In practice, this means that most popular walking paths have access routes maintained by landowners that people use.

On the flip side, the cookie banners are a perfect example of bad regulation. They’re super easy to (allegedly) comply with and the result is just an annoyance for some 300 million people and absolutely no change to company behaviour whatsoever.
by Homos | 2025-11-21 08:34:51+00:00
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