MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-08 13:37:49+00:00
> What exactly do you think plagiarism is? Here’s one common definition:

Both are about passing of something of your own. Plagiarism is about passing ideas of insights of as your own. It doesn't really matter, whether you copy it verbatim, present it in your own words or just use the concept. It does however matter how important that idea/concept/topic is in your work and the work you took it from without attribution, and whether that is novel or some generally available/common knowledge.

For violation of intellectual property it is basically the opposite. It doesn't matter, whether the idea or concept is fundamental for your work or the other work you took it from, but it does matter, whether it is a verbatim quote or only the same basic idea.

Intellectual property rights is something that is enforced by the legal system, while plagiarism is an issue of honor, that affects reputation and universities revoke titles for.

> There’s a different from rehashing existing ideas and copying multiple passages off as your own.

Yes and that's the difference between plagiarism and violating intellectual property/copyright.

But all this is arguing about semantics. I don't have the time to research whether the claims are true or not, and I honestly don't care. I have taken from the comments that it was only the case, that she rehashed ideas from other books, and I wanted to point out, that while this is a big deal for academic papers, it is not for books and basically expected. (Publishers might have different ideas, but that is not an issue of plagiarism.) If it is indeed the case that she copied other authors verbatim, then that is something illegal she can be sued for, but whether this is the case is for the legal system to be determined, not something I should do.
by yndoendo | 2025-11-08 13:38:17+00:00
UK did colonize Palestine and rejected the indigenous populous. They didn't take over by direct conquer like others. [0]

1939 was during the War period not before. Immigrating out of German started in the early 1930s. Nazis were in power in the 1920s, not fully. It was around 1928 they started the Culture Wars against ideas and works they deemed Modern, like Jazz. As the book states, the UK was pushing for them to immigrate there instead of their main Island because of antisemitic views. [1] [2]

The author actually traveled and talked to number of celebrities that lived during that time period. Even asking the Nazi era actors if they thought their careers would of took off if fascism never took hold and removed their competition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_ga...

[1] https://www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk/oms/jewish-refuge-and-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Ask HN: Would you use an AI assistant to create pull requests while you sleep?
by narayanahari | 2025-11-08 13:38:52+00:00
I am an engineer and I have a two member engineering team (1 front-end dev and 1 part-time freelancer). We use Cursor and Claude Code heavily to build. Over the past 6 months, we have built 6+ apps and noticed a pattern that AI is great at small, specific coding tasks but struggles with larger ones.

Our workflow always looks like this:

1. Split our tasks into small sub tasks 2. Write a prompt for each sub task 3. Wait for AI to complete 4. Verify 5. Re-prompt if the verification is not meeting our expectations, if it meets our expectations, give the next task

Most of the time is spent waiting and checking progress manually. If I step away from the computer, I lose visibility.

So I am exploring to create, an AI developer assistant that lives in Slack, Discord, and mobile. Developers can assign these small tasks with expected result to the assistant and while they sleep, the assistant picks them up, runs them through tools like Claude Code and creates pull requests. When the team wakes up, they can review PRs or ask for rework even from mobile.

Questions - 1. Would this be useful to your team? 2. What concerns or blockers would you have before trusting an AI assistant like this?

Any feedback on this would help a lot.
by bmacho | 2025-11-08 13:39:06+00:00
I don't think Poe's law is applicable here on HN/anymore in general. Writing something stupid is not as valuable/funny as it was in 2005. The lack of /s or /j is only one half of the problem, the other half is that that comment is garbage. (I estimate these two are ~50-50% problematic in this case.)

I think a better rule of thumb is that one shouldn't use tone indicators at all. If you are needing them, then chances are that what you are going to post is not valuable/funny.
by tedggh | 2025-11-08 13:39:14+00:00
I don’t think Apple fundamental issues are that hard to fix. First, you need to fire whoever is leading the UX on the OS side. Hardware design is still pretty good. Then we can argue about their lack of innovation and missing the AI train, which btw is still not proven to be a bad (lack of) strategy. But until they don’t get the fundamentals right at the OS UX experience nothing else matters. I hate iOS with passion, both on my phone and Apple Watch, it feels like a Beta version most of the time.
by jasode | 2025-11-08 13:40:19+00:00
>, what's the thought process behind this meaning of "render"?

It's another use of "render" relative to the server such as converting non-HTML data inside database tables, json, etc --> rendered into HTML:

https://www.google.com/search?q=SSR+server+side+rendering

Many different perspectives of "rendering":

- SSR server-side rendering : server converting data to HTML

- CSR client-side rendering : e.g. client browser fetching and converting JSON/XML into dynamic HTML

- browser-engine rendering : converting HTML to operating system windowing GUI (i.e. "painting")
by Someone | 2025-11-08 13:40:34+00:00
FTA: “Apple’s complete review of apps – known as “notarisation” process - a mandatory step for distributing any software on its platforms, represents the very gatekeeping behaviour the DMA was written to prevent.”

Notarization doesn’t involve a complete review (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...: “Notarization of macOS software is not App Review. The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues, and returns the results to you quickly.”

I also expect Apple will argue that requiring code to be notarized is explicitly allowed under the DMA, based on section 6.7:

“The gatekeeper shall not be prevented from taking strictly necessary and proportionate measures to ensure that interoperability does not compromise the integrity of the operating system, virtual assistant, hardware or software features provided by the gatekeeper, provided that such measures are duly justified by the gatekeeper.”

So, the discussion would have to be on whether this is strictly necessary and proportionate, and whether Apple duly justified that.

I think “strictly necessary” is a bit at odds with defense in depth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)), where you explicitly add redundancy to improve security, so we’ll see how a judge rules that, but I can see them accepting it if Apple argues they’ll implement a similar feature on-device instead if they have to.
by progbits | 2025-11-08 13:40:57+00:00
Not just parser but the evaluator API (so imports, macros etc all work). You get back the AST as typed structs including own custom element types.

This is actually very little work to set up, have a look at: https://github.com/Relacibo/typst-as-lib (not my code, just something I found helpful)

It's a different set, not subset. I don't support some math and layout things that don't make sense on a webblog (or which I don't need). But I have custom elements for margin notes and such which typst doesn't have out of the box.

I don't like markdown - it's underspecified, typos turn into broken docs instead of compilation error and extending it is hard. I looked at rST which is close to what I want and what I would have used if I didn't find Typst, I just prefer the latter's syntax and also it's a rust library I can more easily work with.

Edit: also I'm not saying this is better or anything, it's just fun for me to build.
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-11-08 13:41:08+00:00
A shame, really. 68k was (and is) much more approachable for those learning assembly. No need to deal with 64k segmented memory, for instance.

As an aside… National Semiconductor also had an ill-fated architecture in the NS32000, which I also wish took off. On paper, it really did a lot right (VAX-like design, flat memory model, 32-bit almost immediately out of the gate) yet NS was woefully incapable of producing masks without bugs. It took them many tries to get it right, and before then, they already were being beat to market by their competition.

Then to add insult to injury, NS’ own compiler for NS32000 chips was producing rather unoptimized code. It took GNU porting GCC to the platform in 1987 for them to fully realize their potential, years after they missed their chance.

If NS did have their act together… dare I say an IBM PC built around their CPU would have been possible and more interesting than the 8088 they ultimately went with.
by SonnyTark | 2025-11-08 13:41:18+00:00
This is a very confusing blog post. I found myself looking for ChatGPT markers because it doesn't make sense to say: omg zig is so much cooler than C here's why, then start listing the absolute basics of the language that are identical in most modern languages without any actual reflection why writing the same thing in a different syntax somehow makes zig superior?
by kcplate | 2025-11-08 13:41:19+00:00
You mean like the BBC? I mean that brevity edit removed 35 minutes between two sentences? This is the latest but not the only example media creating quotes that were never said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzkyk7knzo

Frankly, I’d greatly refer media to leave the speeches unedited. Media does not need to be crafting narratives. Whatever Trump is, if you are selectively editing his words or pulling quotes out context intentionally to create the appearance that he said something that he didn’t…you are worse than he is.
by riki137 | 2025-11-08 13:42:04+00:00
hey, i finally pushed my task orchestrator out into the wild. it is called Multitron. what it does: you define a small tree of tasks, Multitron runs them with real parallelism, respects dependencies, and shows live progress. you can split heavy work into partitions, share data through a simple cache, and tweak concurrency with flags. we use it in production for large periodic synchronizations. i focused on speed and a clean DX. it is MIT licensed. repo: https://github.com/riki137/multitron packagist: https://packagist.org/packages/riki137/multitron feedback welcome, especially on edge cases, api rough spots, and docs.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-08 13:42:25+00:00
I do think that people will buy more expensive laptops if they are higher quality. People spend multiple thousands of dollars on laptops, especially if they are powerful.

I own a Windows Surface. I personally find it very convenient, although I'll concede this point if you say the economics aren't working out.

I don't see the problem with creating a token router. Openrouter exists and seems to be doing fine. I'd love if you could actually elaborate on your concerns.

I agree that the CDN idea is pretty weak, but you could make it a bit better by rewarding users based on uptime. Rather than basing the rewards on total time opted in, base it off of total successful requests.
by lapcat | 2025-11-08 13:45:30+00:00
> The same thing exists on Windows, developers have to code sign their binaries.

> Another solution that is not mentioned in the article is that users of both macos and windows

The article is actually about notarization on iOS, which is vastly different from notarization on macOS. On iOS, every app, whether in the App Store or outside the App Store, goes through manual Apple review. But apps distributed outside the App Store have fewer rules.
by andai | 2025-11-08 13:46:45+00:00
I have been using Z.ai's (creators of GLM) "Coding Plan" with GLM-4.6. $3/month and 3x higher limits than Claude Pro, they say.

(I have both and haven't run into any limits yet, so I'm probably not a very heavy user.)

I'm quite impressed with the model. I have been using GLM-4.6 in Claude Code instead of Sonnet, and finding it fine for my use cases. (Simple scripting and web stuff.)

(Note: Z.ai's GLM doesn't seem to support web search (fails) or image recognition (hallucinates). To fix that I use Claude Code Router and hooked up those two features to Gemini (free) instead.)

I find that Sonnet produces much nicer code. I often find myself asking Sonnet to clean up GLM's code. More recently, I just got the Pro plan for Claude so I'm mostly just using Sonnet directly now. (Haven't had the rate limits yet but we'll see!)

So in my experience if you're not too fussy you can currently get "80% of Claude Code" for like $3/month, which is pretty nuts.

GLM also works well in Charm Crush, though it seems to be better optimized for Claude Code (I think they might have fine tuned it.)

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I have tested Kimi K2 at 1000 tok/s via OpenRouter, and it's bloody amazing, so I imagine this supercharged GLM will be great too. Alas, $50!
by cullumsmith | 2025-11-08 13:47:09+00:00
I highly recommend this approach. I run ~all of my digital footprint on FreeBSD jails. After surveying how many jail managers have come and go in the last decade, I decided to just roll my own using a single shell script called jailctl [0].

Nothing fancy, just VNET jails based on ZFS templates (vanilla FreeBSD rootfs) and epair interfaces (which I truck to various VLANs on the host's egress interface).

One pattern that I've found useful is to give each jail a persistently delegated ZFS dataset called "data." This lets me reprovision the OS image for the jail without having to backup and restore its application data (such as a Postgres DB). It also allows each jail to manage its own ZFS snapshots.

The only thing that was a bit hairy was generating unique interface names and MAC addresses for each jail's VNET interface. My first instinct was to derive the interface name from the jail name, but interface names on FreeBSD are limited to 15 characters, and occasionally I'd hit this limit.

In the end I did some dark magic using md5 sums of the jail name / host interface MAC address. Kind of ugly but I really didn't want to introduce any dependencies besides /bin/sh.

[0] https://github.com/cullumsmith/infrastructure/blob/master/fi...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-11-08 13:48:13+00:00
> I'm afraid this article kinda fails at at its job

Yeah, I know nothing about Zig, and was excited by the author's opening statement that Zig is the most surprising language he has encountered in a 45 yr software career...

But this is then immediately followed by saying that ability to compile C code, and to cross-compile, are the most incredible parts of it, which is when I immediately lost interest. Having a built-in C compiler is certainly novel, and perhaps convenient for inter-op, but if the value goes significantly beyond that then the author is failing to communicate that.
by jadamson | 2025-11-08 13:48:46+00:00
Let's see...

Marion Donovan appears to have invented a "diaper cover" among other things, her patent then being ignored by several companies. Unfortunate, but I've never heard of whoever supposedly stole credit for that ground-breaking invention either, so it hardly seems relevant. I'd hope in the age of Ali Express and Temu that I don't need to point out how often men's patents get ignored.

I had heard of Nettie Stevens. Her work was not stolen, she published after Edmund Beecher Wilson.

Vera Rubin presented the very controversial theory of dark matter. Given that she worked closely with a male collaborator, Kent Ford, who co-authored many of her papers, it seems more likely that their work was overlooked due to initial resistance to the theory itself.

Lise Meitner was a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Alice Ball's work seems to have been stolen after she died in isolation in a leprosy colony. I'd never heard of Arthur Dean either.

I'll stop there as this will take forever otherwise. What you have listed seem to be extremely tenuous as evidence of gender bias - one can quite easily hop on Google and find plenty of examples of stolen inventions, from automatic windscreen wipers to Facebook.
by Y-bar | 2025-11-08 13:48:50+00:00
Yeah. The phone was faulty from a hardware design standpoint, and the manner Steve Jobs handled it was bad. But he was correct on one point:

Every other manufacturer at the time had a paragraph and illustration in their manual telling people not to hold their phone in a certain manner.

I think much of his bad attitude came from this fact that he felt Apple was unfailingly singled out.
by b112 | 2025-11-08 13:49:37+00:00
I pirated a lot when I was younger.

Downloaded movies, books especially. Back then, ebooks were barely a thing(early 2000s), and scanned/OCR copies were the only way to get most books to read on a device.

I even contacted a few authors and sent them money directly via paypal.

But then the market matured. I bought what I could on Amazon. Exported to epub to read as I pleased.

Then the Kindle app became horrendous. Now exporting is not a thing. So I just pirate books again.

It's too much effort otherwise.

And on top of that, if people will only lease me a book, and not sell it (Amazon), I'm not paying either.
by hasbot | 2025-11-08 13:49:56+00:00
In the 80's I wanted to be a compiler engineer. Got a masters degree in it and published a paper on LR parsing with original research in the Journal of ACM. The opportunities back then were scarce. Over nearly 15 years I found a couple of gigs that consumed a few years. But it was hard and time consuming to develop the knowledge and skills. I used to study the PCC and GCC source code! I worked on GUIs between these gigs and when Java/Swing dropped, I switched full-time to GUIs. There were far more opportunities and I enjoyed developing GUIs for a time so it was a good switch.
by tumult | 2025-11-08 13:50:23+00:00
Disabling malware via hash or signature doesn't require the Notarization step at all. Server can tell clients to not run anything with hash xxyyzz and delete it. I mean, just think about it. If disabling stuff required the Notarization step beforehand, no anti-malware would have existed before Notarization. Nonsense.
by fph | 2025-11-08 13:50:30+00:00
Thanks! For something more complex, I suggest a moderately complex formula with parentheses and superscripts like $f \in \mathcal{C}^0([a,b])$, an equation delimited by \[...\], and maybe a macro declaration with parameters like \newcommand\halves[1]{\frac{#1}{2}}.
by robenkleene | 2025-11-08 13:51:01+00:00
> Notarization is the same for macOS and iOS AFAIK.

Assuming the basic facts are straight, the the linked story explicitly proves this is false:

> UTM says Apple refused to notarize the app because of the violation of rule 4.7, as that is included in Notarization Review Guidelines. However, the App Review Guidelines page disagrees. It does not annotate rule 4.7 as being part of the Notarization Review Guidelines. Indeed, if you select the “Show Notarization Review Guidelines Only” toggle, rule 4.7 is greyed out as not being applicable.

Rule 4.7 is App Review Guidelines for iOS, so this would be a case of failing notarization for iOS App Review Guidelines, which means the policies (and implementation) are different between platforms.

(Of course there's no such thing as "Notarization Review Guidelines" so maybe this whole story is suspect, but rule 4.7 is the App Review Guidelines rule that prohibits emulators.)
by andai | 2025-11-08 13:51:48+00:00
I have created a "semi-interactive" AI coding workflow.

I write what I want, the LLM responds with edits, my 100 lines of Python implement them in the project. It can edit any number of files in one LLM call, which is very nice (and very cheap and fast).

I tested this with Kimi K2 on Groq (also 1000 tok/s) and very impressed.

I want to say this is the best use case for fast models -- that frictionlessness in your workflow -- though it burns tokens pretty fast working like that! (Agentic is even more nuts with how fast it burns tokens on fast models, so the $50 is actually pretty great value.)
by 18272837023 | 2025-11-08 13:52:39+00:00
I built a small web tool that blends Tarot’s 22 Major Arcana with Persona-style character archetypes using semantic AI. Enter your birth date and three traits to instantly generate a Persona-style Arcana and export shareable role cards (Markdown/LaTeX/PNG) — free and no login required. Useful for streamers, fan creators, narrative designers, therapists doing narrative exercises, or anyone who wants a quick character seed for fiction or games.
by SurceBeats | 2025-11-08 13:54:57+00:00
Nice! We considered this exact approach but never shipped it in the end. The geolocation permission is probably unnecessary friction and probably an overkill imho... Timezone + rough location (country-level from IP) would get 95% accuracy without the prompt. Most users will bounce on that permission dialog.

Solid work though, especially the twilight transitions. Loving it!!!
by ethmarks | 2025-11-08 13:54:57+00:00
How to you expect those laws to be enforced?

It's impossible to determine with 100% confidence whether or not an image/video was AI generated. If the AI-generated image of Steve Jobs had been copied a bunch on the web, a reverse image search would have turned up lots of sources. Watermarks are imperfect and can be removed. There will always be ambiguity.

So either you're underzealous and if there's ambiguity, you err on the side of treating potentially AI-generated images as real. So now you only catch some deepfakes. This is extra bad because by cracking down on AI-generated content, you condition people to believe any image they see. "If it was AI generated, they would have taken it down by now. It must be real".

The alternative is being overzealous and erring on the side of treating potentially genuine images as AI-generated. Now if a journalist takes a photo of a politician doing something scandalous, the politician can just claim it was AI-generated and have it taken down.

It's a no-win situation. I don't believe that the answer is regulation. It'd be great if we could put the genie back in the bottle, but lots of gen-AI tools are local and open-source, so they will always exist and there's nothing to do be done about it. The best thing is to just treat images and videos with a healthy amount of skepticism.
by xnzakg | 2025-11-08 13:55:19+00:00
Also interested in this, but haven't tried it myself. Apparently NSF (Nano Silver Fluoride) is more commonly in non-western countries.

They have a video with some more info here: https://pt.fourthievesvinegar.org/w/9aa66b49-2ec5-497f-9f49-...

And apparently the use of NSF does have a bunch of research papers written about it: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amol-Patil-43/publicati...
by prinny_ | 2025-11-08 13:55:41+00:00
The ending of the article is such a low quality..

> Whatever his reason, Tim Cook is not as protective of the user experience as his predecessor was. If we were to ask Tim why it’s okay to bring ads into Apple products now, but wasn’t okay during Steve’s reign, the best (only?) answer would probably be, “Today’s Apple is very different from Steve’s Apple.”

> Quite true. And that is exactly the problem.

So Ken Segall first admits he doesn't know the reason, then speculates the answer Tim Cook would give if they were asked the question, then ends the article by contemplating on that speculative answer.

And the thumbnail is quite obviously AI generated. Just low quality all around. The point could be driven home without resorting to either of these two things.