MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyringlight | 2025-11-12 18:45:46+00:00
An ongoing 'background noise' concern I've had for a while is how PC gaming seems to be centralizing around steam. There's reasons why that happened, but it'd be real nice if 'infrastructure' was able to decouple from their store. It feels like practically requiring steam for PC gaming on windows and certainly on linux isn't a mile away from requiring MS windows, is it much freedom to pick which Seattle based company you run software from?
by freejazz | 2025-11-12 18:45:53+00:00
>Discovery isn't binary yes/no, it involves competing proposals regarding methods and scope for satisfying information requests. Sometimes requests are egregious or excessive, sometimes they are reasonable and subject to excessively zealous pushback.

There is a court order that OpenAI must produce these documents. OpenAI litigated this issue and lost. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. The court decided the documents were relevant and they must produce a subset of them. Rather than immediately complying, they went and posted this BS "article".

>Maybe you didn't read TFA but part of the case history was NYT requesting 1.4 billion records as part of discovery and being successfully challenged by OpenAI as unnecessary, and the essence of TFA is advocating for an alternative to the scope of discovery NYT is insisting on, hence the "not rolling over".

I don't think you read TFA.

>Try reading, it's fun!

Lol, rudeness aside, you are apparently poorly informed. No doubt it is because you are relying on OpenAI's telling of the events and not actual reporting on the events. Btw, yesterday they were ordered to produce 20m redacted logs. You keep going on about the original discovery request, but that's not what the issue is and it's not the issue OpenAI lost on that they are now crying to the public about.

Also btw, I saw you posting in other comments that OpenAI needs to figure out how to anonymize the data. You probably don't realize this, but OpenAI already represented to the court that the data was anonymized and now are just using this as another delay tactic. Something about "reading being fun". I'd agree. Still, it does depend what you read. Try reading some more!
by sfink | 2025-11-12 18:46:07+00:00
> What they want is to kill training, and more over, prevent the loss of being the middle-man between events and users.

So... they want to continue reporting news, and they don't want their news reports to be presented to users in a place where those users are paying someone else and not them. How horrible of them?

If NYT is not reporting news, then NYT news reports will not be available for AIs to ingest. They can perhaps still get some of that data from elsewhere, perhaps from places that don't worry about the accuracy of the news (or intentionally produces inaccurate news). You have to get signal from somewhere, just the noise isn't enough, and killing off the existing sources of signal (the few remaining ones) is going to make that a lot harder.

The question is, does journalism have a place in a world with AIs, and should OpenAI be the one deciding the answer to that question?
by 12_throw_away | 2025-11-12 18:46:21+00:00
In my dream world, hardware enthusiasts would be constantly creating absolutely crazy game controllers with bizarre combinations of inputs that look nothing like an xbox 360 controller. There'd be a universal input protocol that would allow for self-describing gamepads with arbitrary numbers of digital buttons, analog sticks and triggers, touchpads, mouse inputs, haptics, gyro sensors, levers, sliders, wheels, etc. etc.

I realize this may not be practical, but it's kind of weird that PCs have been more or less stuck with a protocol designed for XBox 360 controllers for 2 decades now, while the locked-down console space is seeing much more experimentation and innovation around input. The original steam controller at least hinted at being sort of an open platform for this sort of thing, although it didn't really take off. Fingers crossed for the new version.
by FredPret | 2025-11-12 18:46:40+00:00
That would centralize power to the larger taxing authority.

Right now, there's a huge number of elected people in the US who wield real local power through these taxes and other rules that they can make.

It's a headache but we live in the computer age and we can automate administrative things like tax calculation at checkout; we should be using systems to aid decentralization and democratization instead of the opposite.
by ugurcant | 2025-11-12 18:46:45+00:00
I was in the same shoes, then one day I decided to give a shot to Bazzite. To my surprise the installation was extremely smooth, and everything worked right away. Now I’m playing almost everything on it (Arc Raiders, EU V, HLL and Horizon FW recently). If you want to _try_ all you need is 15 minutes, some HDD space and an empty USB. You don’t have to give up Windows at all, dual booting is also pretty smooth.
by mindcrime | 2025-11-12 18:46:51+00:00
I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents.

There are definitely people researching ideas here. For my own part, I've been doing a lot of work with Jason[1], a very Prolog like logic language / agent environment with an eye towards how to integrate that with LLMs (and "other").

Nothing specific / exciting to share yet, but just thought I'd point out that there are people out there who see potential value in this sort of thing and are investigating it.

[1]: https://github.com/jason-lang/jason
by LeicaLatte | 2025-11-12 18:47:01+00:00
Completion API is only half the product. Teams integrate these tools into production with nothing but policy documents between them & incidents. The guardrail system does not exist for a reason. No business model. No investors. No revenue stream.

Tesla didn't just build FSD. They had to build a verification layer: driver cameras, steering sensors, attention alerts. That parallel software makes autopilot road ready.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-12 18:47:09+00:00
Most of those people and organizations they represent switch themes every couple of years when the previous problem they worked on gets fully solved. It's incredibly obvious for those of us looking from the outside. They solved (and therefore abandoned) COVID by the middle of 2020, which is when they were forced to work on anti-black racism in the US. That one was resolved by the end of 2021, after which they focused on Ukraine. That one didn't stay long thanks to their incredible efficiency at solving complex problems, therefore they switched to Gaza. Having mostly solved that problem by now, they decided to focus on internal politics again. I wonder how long this will stick.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-12 18:47:29+00:00
I enjoyed the writing style (maybe it's the mistrust of Windows).

I'm currently wearing a cheap smart-watch (<£20) that I spotted on AliExpress (i.e. Chinese product) that unbelievably records biometrics such as blood pressure and blood lipid profiles. I was mainly curious about the uric acid measurements as I get the occasional attack of gout, but am curious as to whether it actually does measure anything like blood pressure. I've previously compared the blood glucose measurements by getting my diabetic brother (type 1) to wear it and compare it to a pinprick measurement - within 10% which is pretty much useless for medical usage.
by viftodi | 2025-11-12 18:48:50+00:00
Even if we assume this to be true, waymos have the advantage of more sensors and less blind spots.

Unlike humans they can also sense what's behind the car or other spots not directly visible to a human. They can also measure distance very precisely due to lidars (and perhaps radars too?)

A human reacts to the red light when a car breaks, without that it will take you way more time due to stereo vision to realize that a car ahead was getting closer to you.

And I am pretty sure when the car detects certain obstacles fast approaching at certain distances, or if a car ahesd of you stopped suddenly or deer jumped or w/e it breaks directly it doesn't need neural networks processing those are probably low level failsafes that are very fast to compute and definitely faster than what a human could react to
by thornewolf | 2025-11-12 18:48:54+00:00
I have done Project Euler very sporadically since high school. To date I've only done problems 1-54. Despite this, I think the website was a big contributor to my love of programming. I found it before knowing about leetcode and I think it prepared me well. I think I owe Project Euler a decent %-age of my eventual entry into Software Engineering as a field.
by haunter | 2025-11-12 18:48:55+00:00
"Steam Machine’s pricing is comparable to a PC with similar specs" [0]

It has to be no more than 800€ then if it also wants to compete against the console market.

Even 800€ is too much imo because looking at the specs it's already not a "future proof" build, more like a previous gen gaming laptop

0, https://www.theverge.com/tech/818111/valve-steam-machine-han...
by sublimefire | 2025-11-12 18:49:21+00:00
There was a post from trailofbits blog recently about how passport crypto works. Kind of related here.

I wonder if this is some zero knowledge proofs here or what? Reading the passport and its chip implies some terminal authentication capabilities coming from Apple devices. Passport would not allow reading sensitive data from the chip unless the terminal is valid.

Another question is if Apple is allowed to read your biometric data?
Show HN: Vibemail – AI-powered MJML email editor that runs in the browser
by elliotbnvl | 2025-11-12 18:49:25+00:00
Hi HN! I built VibeMail, an email template editor that combines MJML with Claude AI to make creating (vibing) responsive HTML emails actually enjoyable.

The interesting bits:

- Three-panel layout: Monaco code editor, live preview, and Claude chat side-by-side

- AST-based code navigation: double-click text in the preview to jump to the exact line in the editor

- Multiple AI "agents" with full conversation rollback (inspired by Cursor's chat history)

- Project/email organization with a file-system-like structure

- Everything runs locally – your API key and templates never leave your browser

- I built the whole thing in a day: maybe 5hrs. Simon Willison is onto something with the personal software thing.

Tech stack: React, Vite, TypeScript, Zustand, MJML, Monaco Editor, and Claude Sonnet.

Fun fact: I prototyped the entire thing in ~10 minutes using Cursor and Claude Sonnet 4.5, which was a fun experiment in AI-assisted development. The hardest part was getting the AST parsing right for the code navigation feature.

Open to feedback!
by ThatPlayer | 2025-11-12 18:49:28+00:00
SInput recently released and got supported by SDL, which plenty of games, but also Steam Input uses. So you can already use SInput in Steam Input. Better than XInput for sure.

https://docs.handheldlegend.com/s/sinput/doc/sinput-hid-prot...

I don't think Steam has ever published specs for their protocol. And without Steam, their old controller would fallback to a mouse/keyboard mode. The Linux kernel drivers (that didn't require Steam) were reverse engineered. Hori released a Steam Controller recently. Even that still had an XInput fallback switch.
by bitpush | 2025-11-12 18:49:33+00:00
I get what you're saying, but if you think of it what we're doing today - handing over the one and only official piece of document to a) cop b) club bouncer etc.

They can hold onto it, and never return it. They can deface it. All of that is a possibilty.

You could argue, a sufficiently locked down phone is a better alternative. If they do something, you'll only lose $$
by throwup238 | 2025-11-12 18:49:35+00:00
I don’t know what you mean by “documented” but here is Georgia:

> No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation. [1]

Versus California:

> No person shall drive upon a highway at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic unless the reduced speed is necessary for safe operation, because of a grade, _or in compliance with law_. [2] (underscore emphasis mine)

It’s part of the Uniform Vehicle Code but each state has its quirks in how they adopt it since theres no federal mandate.

My apologies though, this seems way less common than I thought. As far as I can tell Georgia and Oregon are the only two states left that don’t have that compliance exception.

On the other hand “in compliance with law” is it’s own barrel of monkeys because it doesn’t specify priority.

[1] https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/title-40/chapter-6/arti...

[2] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-12 18:49:47+00:00
It seems like having equivalent sized notes is just your personal preference, and that you are projecting that as an inconvenience onto "the majority". Based on the comments it seems like even people without disabilities mostly don't care, or actually think that it is a good feature.

For my side, even if I did agree with your preference, I am perfectly willing to deal with the incredible hardship of slightly different sized notes in my wallet in exchange for a society where disabled people need not fear being ripped off.
by observationist | 2025-11-12 18:49:49+00:00
You don't hate the media nearly enough.

"Credible" my ass. They hired "experts" who used prompt engineering and thousands of repetitions to find highly unusual and specific methods of eliciting text from training data that matched their articles. OpenAI has taken measures to limit such methods and prevent arbitrary wholesale reproduction of copyrighted content since that time. That would have been the end of the situation if NYT was engaging in good faith.

The NYT is after what they consider "their" piece of the pie. They want to insert themselves as middlemen - pure rent seeking, second hander, sleazy lawyer behavior. They haven't been injured, they were already dying, and this lawsuit is a hail mary attempt at grifting some life support.

Behavior like that of the NYT is why we can't have nice things. They're not entitled to exist, and by engaging in behavior like this, it makes me want them to stop existing, the faster, the better.

Copyright law is what you get when a bunch of layers figure out how to encode monetization of IP rights into the legal system, having paid legislators off over decades, such that the people that make the most money off of copyrights are effectively hoarding those copyrights and never actually produce anything or add value to the system. They rentseek, gatekeep, and viciously drive off any attempts at reform or competition. Institutions that once produced valuable content instead coast on the efforts of their predecessors, and invest proceeds into lawsuits, lobbying, and purchase of more IP.

They - the NYT - are exploiting a finely tuned and deliberately crafted set of laws meant to screw actual producers out of percentages. I'm not a huge OpenAI fan, but IP laws are a whole different level of corrupt stupidity at the societal scale. It's gotcha games all the way down, and we should absolutely and ruthlessly burn down that system of rules and salt the ground over it. There are trivially better systems that can be explained in a single paragraph, instead of requiring books worth of legal code and complexities.
by pron | 2025-11-12 18:49:52+00:00
> it's not within the scope of a language to prevent such issues

As someone working on adding such a feature to Java, I beg to differ. Python has also recently added a language feature to address injection attacks (https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/).

> Memory issues are 100% solved by languages like Java with GC and I wouldn't say they have made software that much less buggy.

Well, again, the question isn't how many bugs you have, but what the impact of these bugs is. Violations of spatial memory safety are both common and relatively easy to exploit into very dangerous attacks, which is why it's important that Rust and Zig prevent them. But everything is a question of cost and benefit, as in, how much extra effort, or RAM, or CPU it's worth it to avoid certain bugs. The answer depends on the nature of the bug, the nature of the project, and the preferences of developers. Zig and Rust compromise on both correctness and effort, but their compromises are somewhat different. We just don't know if one of these approaches is more likely to be a better sweet spot in more situations (where these languages are used), and if so which.
by seabrookmx | 2025-11-12 18:50:00+00:00
Any devs that find the visuals, keyboard driven workflow, or cult of DHH appealing enough to try Omarchy are likely already Linux users.

Linux has been a great platform for devs for a long time. This is exactly why WSL exists, and why MacOS has a native Linux container[1] tool.. because Linux was eating their lunch in this user segment.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/container
by oktoberpaard | 2025-11-12 18:50:06+00:00
In the Netherlands cash payments get rounded to the nearest 5 cents, in both directions. Card payments are not rounded. If I’m not mistaken, you can still demand exact change according to the law and you’re allowed to pay the exact amount (cents are still legal tender). Most merchants wouldn’t be able to give you exact change, so it depends on the situation what would happen. I’ve never heard of such a situation happening, though.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-12 18:50:20+00:00
You'll laugh, but:

I'm using a Zigbee button from Samjin/Samsung/whoever-that-was which reads temperature, my Nest thermostat (via a convoluted-but-supported path to a remote API), and a couple of Amazon Echo Dot speakers (the integration of which is cursed, but it's easy to set up and usually works).

I was going to try to score some cheap BLE temperature sensors and use the Shelly relay as a gateway to bring those into HA (yeah, it does that too), but then the big mystery ball of tariffs happened and I lost track of that idea.
by cyberax | 2025-11-12 18:50:21+00:00
The V2G in all EVs works by initiating a "fast charge" session that allows the V2G adapter to connect directly to the high-voltage bus. And then it just discharges the battery instead of charging it.

This also works with Teslas, but the car monitors the current draw and stops the session if it detects more than ~6kW negative power draw. That's why the fix for Tesla is simply to _stop_ doing that.
by pityJuke | 2025-11-12 18:50:23+00:00
Worth noting: Valve’s own first party tournaments for their own game require kernel level anti-cheat (from a third party vendor). Valve themselves have given up on allowing players in their own title play competitively in a Valve sponsored event with a kernel level anti-cheat. I can’t imagine they’d ever be this brash.

There is no adapting without a proper solution for securing game integrity.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-12 18:50:35+00:00
Certainly it sounds like that. However whatever cultural transformation turns Man into Rat King has already occurred so you'll notice that it costs over a billion dollars per mile of subway in NYC. Everyone who hasn't figured out how to leech off the government is a fattened milk cow whose production is harvested industrially.

New Yorkers are already incapable of non-extractive development. Like the GP they have been transformed into zero-sum zombies by their city. A cautionary tale of culture.
by runjake | 2025-11-12 18:50:49+00:00
Consider a higher price. From a personal standpoint, I don't think an app costing $0.99 vs costing $1.99 plays a part in purchase decisions, but that's double.

Consider pricing up to $4.99 or even more, depending on your niche audience.

1/3rd the sales at $4.99 is still a win.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-12 18:51:34+00:00
Several reasons, it really is a mess.

The local tax is set by multiple independent tax authorities that change their taxes independently, the tax you see is the aggregate of those independent authorities computed separately, which do not coordinate with each other.

Some of these taxes are conditional at point-of-sale, late-binding the taxes, such that different customers are subject to different rates across these tax authorities such that it is unlikely to round to exactly 5c.

It is widely illegal to not display the true price and taxes paid separately. Trying to retcon a price and taxes for rounding purposes that is also strictly consistent across customers so as to not violate the law is not trivial.

And on top of all of this, the Federal government does not have the authority to regulate the way States and various locales structure their sales taxes. It is a herding cats problem.
by b112 | 2025-11-12 18:51:49+00:00
I know you're referencing more than pennies, but to speak to pennies, I find the current rounding noise in the US to be weird. Likely, it's just more of the media, talking heads, and youtube personalities trying to turn a nothing into something, story.

Back when we did it in Canada, I don't recall a single person I knew concerned about penny rounding. Everyone was sick of pennies. No one cared. Everyone was happy. And the math seems fair enough:

https://www.budget.canada.ca/2012/themes/theme2-info-eng.htm...

Basically, if something is $1.01 or $1.02, you round down. If it's $1.03 or $1.04, you round up. Rounding is to be applied after all taxes are paid, etc.

Of course, there was also central guidance and, well, everyone just followed it. It's called "having a society".

People blathering on about stores fixing the rounding are morons, there's no way to do so if you buy more than one item. No one gets ripped off with the above method. In the end, it just works out.

And really, who cares?! It's a penny.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-12 18:51:54+00:00
Is there a technical limitation that prevents chat histories from being stored locally on the user's computer instead of being stored on someone else's computer(s)

Why do chat histories need to be accessible by OpenAI, its service partners and anyone with the authority to request them from OpenAI

If users want this design, as suggested by HN commenters, if users want their chat histories to be accessible to OpenAI, its service providers and anyone with authority to request them from OpenAI, then wouldn't it also be true that these users are not much concerned with "privacy"

If so, then why would OpenAI proclaim they are "fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy", knowing that NYT is prohibited from making the logs public and users generally do not care much about "privacy" anyway

The restrictions on plaintiff NYT's use of the logs are greater than the restrictions, if any,^1 on OpenAI's use of them

1. If any such restrictions existed, for example if OpenAI stated "We don't do X" in a "privacy policy" and people interpreted this as a legally enforceable restriction,^2 how would a user verify that the statement was true, i.e., that OpenAI has not violated the "restriction". Silicon Valley companies like OpenAI are highly secretive

2. As opposed to a statement by OpenAi of what OpenAI allegedly does not do. Compare with a potentially legally-enforceable promise such as "OpenAI will not do X". Also consider that OpenAI may do Y, Z, etc. and make no mention of it to anyone. As it happens Silicon Valley companies generally have a reputation for dishonesty
by monocasa | 2025-11-12 18:52:02+00:00
I mean, if you're a storage business, hopefully you've designed your architecture such that you assume drives will go bad, so you characterize the models of drive to make sure that not all the copies are on one manufacturer, and then you can take liberties finding the cheapest storage on the market. This only comes back to bite you when you didn't account for (because you didn't know) that there was decreased longevity, so your TCO calculation was off and you might not make as much money.