MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by isodev | 2025-11-29 16:00:55+00:00
> Absolutely no business with any real money is going to be swayed

And what about everyone starting something? Or prototyping? And what if you don't have a choice: pay more or follow our sponsored guidelines?

This is a dangerous road without proper defences both in terms of legislation and policy (and I mean world-wide, world corps = world laws, not having to go to court in every country lol).

Also, end users need to be educated about all this because what is to stop John or Jane from uploading their receipts to GPT to make their taxes and ... oops "did you know you can switch insurance to XYZ" or ... AI browser proactively hiding content competing with their partners ... you looking for a healthcare package? The only one available is from our sponsor. Take it or leave it.
by wavemode | 2025-11-29 16:01:15+00:00
"Talk to the vendor and see what they say" is an unstructured process relying on unstructured data.

"Ask the vendor this set of 10 compliance questions. We can only buy if they check every box." is a structured process based on structured data.

Both kinds of processes have always existed, long before modern technology. Though only the second kind can be reliably automated.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-29 16:02:20+00:00
> their significant capex demands that they be kept running 24/7.

US companies are sitting on a pile of not yet connected GPUs because they have no place to put them. They would take 10 out of 24h if they could get 10. It's better than zero that they currently have for those GPUs.

Same with crypto. No point of running a rig if it's losing you money becaus electricity is too expensive at this moment. Regardless of capex sometimes it's better not to run it.
by volemo | 2025-11-29 16:03:16+00:00
> So it has a rather small target audience of people who know what hyperbolic space is but didn't know that fact about triangles.

Accidentally, I’m in that small set: I have a hand-wavy understanding of hyperbolic spaces (the high school I went to was named after Lobachevsky!), but I haven’t studied the geometry and didn’t know the formulae for area.
by cpgxiii | 2025-11-29 16:03:31+00:00
> Airbus is much more transparent about its automation.

Airbus is OK, but could be better. There is a long history of Airbus crews facing unexpected corner cases in their flight control laws, and fortunately only a few of them have had fatal outcomes. While there are only a few "major" modes, there are a surprisingly large number of edge cases that can be encountered.
by vecdot | 2025-11-29 16:04:05+00:00
Just some anecdata, I had a poor experience with this project.

My setup used a qemu vm with gpu passthrough. I set the correct group policy settings to force the RDP host to use the vfio gpu.

Compared to looking glass (looking-glass.io), winapps was unusably slow. Beyond that, I experienced app-breaking UI glitches in the Adobe CC tools.

Love the concept, but in my experience this needs some more time to bake.
by tonyarkles | 2025-11-29 16:04:18+00:00
In our case I don’t believe it was solar bitflips but rather wildly changing ionospheric conditions. I was primarily pointing out how you can have a software-only fix for problems like this.

Without going too far into the weeds, the fact that the receivers in question were reporting high accuracy under uncertainty is definitely a software bug in the receivers from my perspective. There was a different receiver with a completely different chipset in it on-site too that was experiencing similar issues but was reporting low accuracy. Without going into too much detail, I’ve got pretty good reasons to believe it wasn’t spoofing.
by spockz | 2025-11-29 16:04:21+00:00
There are plenty of ways to multi threaded code these days. From actors to coroutines on the programmatic interface level to using green threads directly in go or Java. There is very little reason to resort using locks, mutexes, or semaphores outside of frameworks designed to make multi threading easier or very specific high performance code. (Where in the latter case it could be argued that multi threaded probably adds unreasonable latency and context switching.)
by benoau | 2025-11-29 16:04:28+00:00
Possibly achieve that with some views or w/e the equivalent is in your database, and database accounts that can only access those views.

Another option might be to let them ingest their data directly into the existing BI tools they use where they can do whatever they want, cool thing about that is it can entrench you into their infrastructure and it offloads a lot of this complexity you're dealing with.
by glenstein | 2025-11-29 16:04:48+00:00
> They introduced a new lower tier price with ads that if you were an existing customer, you were none the wiser.

You're right that I didn't experience them myself, but my data here are (1) Netflix evidently getting a lot of takers and making a lot of money from people using this new with ads tier, and (2) the lack of any sustained negative outcry against Netflix after the first news cycle or two.

So I'm intending to rely on that rather than my own experience. OpenAI has any number of permutations of ways to include ads, including a Netflix style cheaper paid tier, so I don't necessarily think a distinction holds on that basis, though you may be right in the end: it's more intuitive to think OpenAI would put them in the free version. Though it's possible the Netflix example is teachable in this case regardless.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-29 16:04:48+00:00
Crypto lets you decouple trust from ownership, that's one of its main selling points.

You can have a Visa-like network that supports chargebacks, but design it in a way that the dispute arbitrators cannot seize your money. If you report a transaction, they can either decide to release the money to the merchant or return it back to you, but the contract logic prevents them from doing anything else with that money. If both sides agree that the transaction has successfully taken place, it can be released automatically, despite the arbitrators' wishes.

This is something you can't do in trad fi, so we use laws and legal contracts as "hacks" to make it somewhat possible.
by kragen | 2025-11-29 16:05:40+00:00
I remember one time at summer camp in the teen dorm I claimed that pain was an illusion, because it was subjective. A girl named Lisa picked up a wooden block and threw it at me. It hit my lip, which started bleeding, and she was immediately horrified at what she had done; but I had to acknowledge that subjective "reality" has an importance to me that objective reality does not.
by powerclue | 2025-11-29 16:06:17+00:00
Aster Tesla's service center tried to extort us to receive a safety recall appointment time, we decided we were done with them.

We had a recall we called to try and schedule several times, and they always said, "we have no appointments available right now, but if you want to pay $400 for a new center console computer part too, we can get you in this week."

Shady.

(FWIW the car itself had so many issues. It didn't seal, so at highway speeds it would cause pressure waves inside, the door handles broke a bunch, the dashboard would regularly crash and need to be rebooted and we'd lose the speedometer, a bunch of fit and finish issues like threads that dangled from panels... and more)

Biggest waste of an opportunity I've encountered.
by theodric | 2025-11-29 16:07:22+00:00
It's always been that way. Even when I had a maxed out current-gen Mac Pro in 2008, it still launched and ran faster in Windows than MacOS.

I have seen people suggesting that it's because of app signature checks choking on Internet slowness, but 1. those are cached, so the second run should be faster, and in non-networked instances the speed is unchanged, and 2. I don't believe those were even implemented back in 2002 when I got my iMac G4, and it was likewise far quicker in Linux than in OS X.

At the time (2002), I joked that it was because the computer was running two operating systems at once: NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-29 16:07:23+00:00
I do various things where for example I need to convert a linear movement of a control knob to a non-linear value.

Quite often I'll look at it and go "aha, it's exponential subtracted from a constant", and then go "aha, that doesn't quite work, it's a polynomial", and then fiddle with that for twice as long.

Eventually, "meh, sod it, I'll just sketch out a graph of what I want on paper, turn it into a lookup table, and LERP for the correct value".

It's amazing how quickly you get a sense of "I just need to bend that in a little so that if these are both up full it doesn't go absolutely mental", and plan your tables accordingly. Also ROM is cheap these days.
by jampa | 2025-11-29 16:07:29+00:00
While I think there's significant AI "offloading" in writing, the article's methodology relies on "AI-detectors," which reads like PR for Pangram. I don't need to explain why AI detectors are mostly bullshit and harmful for people who have never used LLMs. [1]

1: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by awongh | 2025-11-29 16:07:34+00:00
It's too bad, because AI could be a new way of buying things.

It will probably still be a new way of buying things- I hope an AI assisted shopping experience continues to exist on some platform, because I want to use it.

I already use AI to make all kinds of buying decisions. If OpenAI were smart they would just monetize this instead of trying to corrupt the chat interface with ads.

I actually am fairly bullish on this, because in the competitive landscape of AI it seems like there will be a company out there willing to make an ad-free model that's good enough for reasons other than serving me an ad.

Just like Apple makes hardware that's ad-free and pro-privacy enough, just because it's a product differentiator. (I'm not under any illusion that Apple wouldn't sell my data if it was in their own interests).
by CWuestefeld | 2025-11-29 16:07:36+00:00
The vignette the piece opens with is horrifying, but it's not even relevant to the topic of the piece! It's about a bad dog, not about a botched surgery.

This piece is engineered to evoke an emotion, not to inform. The author has a clear agenda (see also the top comment in this thread!), and is setting up the article to make readers agree with that - not to give us the information we need to better understand why it's unfolded this way. We have a more precise word for that: propaganda.

There's been enough ink spilled about media bias and "fake news" that I'd like to believe that writers would be at least a little bit sensitive to it. But not here, the author is jumping into the bias with both feet.
by DennisP | 2025-11-29 16:08:31+00:00
Not mentioned in the article is that the truck isn't built as originally promised. The exoskeleton was supposed to do away with the need for an internal frame, giving it weight and cost advantages. Turned out they couldn't make it work for production, so it's built like a normal vehicle.

A normal carmaker would have shown the cybertruck as a concept, and the final product would have whatever compromises necessary to make it a successful production car. Tesla promised it would look exactly like that and took deposits, so they stuck with the weird design even after the engineering reason for it was gone.
by ben_w | 2025-11-29 16:08:41+00:00
> Every government have structures and laws to prevent such activities, in absolutely no shape or form it does not need to read every single message of it citizens.

Indeed, the state doesn't need all of them.

That it's all-or-nothing is due to how the tech works, in that you can't break it *only* for the targets — a point I make when I'm trying to explain the dichotomy to the politicians who want to spy, that this absolutely will be abused to reveal *their own* secrets, too.

The way politicians talk about this stuff, suggests they think computer code is like law, that words may have precise meanings but there's still an element of human judgement and common sense, and at human speed, not cold logic operating on bits faster than us by the degree we are faster than geology, where the potential harm from errors can be irreversable total loss of an entire business due to one single error made one time by one person, nor where mistakes from 20 years ago might be discovered and exploited at any time.

That's why I said "I can't even square the circle". If I thought the government position here was just absolutely fine, it wouldn't be difficult to square the metaphorical circle.

The difficulty is that despite their wrongheadedness about the consequences of what they're trying to do, what they're trying to do is actually necessary.

And that's just the crypto parts of this.

I left the UK for two reasons: The Investigatory Powers Act, and Brexit. Kinda related cause I thought Brexit would make it harder to fight the IP Act. Went to Westminster to talk to my MP to try and convince them to vote against the IP Act. I remain convinced that the British government was straight up lying about its reasons for having that Act.
by phkahler | 2025-11-29 16:09:26+00:00
There is a huge distinction between socialism/communism and Free Software.

1) the marginal cost of software is zero.

2) some software is becoming more like infrastructure that everyone uses.

In the physical world, some infrastructure is privatized, some is regulated, and some is provided by the government. But going back to point 1 we see that privatization makes even less sense (to society) with software.
by mvkel | 2025-11-29 16:09:36+00:00
Work backwards from the customer.

If you want to generate revenue, you'll need to work with b2b saas companies that can afford your product.

That means they're doing (minimum) $500K ARR; a proxy for having some semblance of a team established, and a level of complexity in the business that can no longer be sustained in docs on Google Drive. In other words, when you cross $500K ARR, you need software to keep growing.

In my own experience, the most annoying thing was low qualified lead volume, because b2b isn't trying to sell to the entire world. But the answer isn't yet another marketing automation platform. Our biggest solve for this was analog: attending lots of industry conferences and making a network.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-11-29 16:09:36+00:00
Feel free to consult LLMs, with all their downsides (like you needing to verify what they say, because it could be totally wrong).

What you're doing here is half the job: consulting an LLM and sharing the output without verifying whether it is true. You're then saying 'okay everyone else, finish my job for me, specifically the hard part of it (the verification), while I did the easy part (asking a magic 8 ball)'.

From this perspective, your comment could be viewed as disrespectful of others by asking them to finish your job, and of negative value because it could be totally hallucinated and false, and you didn't care enough about others to find out before posting it.

tl;dr: 'I asked an LLM and it said X' will likely, for the near future, be downvoted just like 'I flipped a coin and it said X'. You should be pretty confident that what you post is not false before posting it, regardless of how you came up with it.
by Toutouxc | 2025-11-29 16:09:58+00:00
For me personally charging and keeping e-bike batteries in the apartment is a source of stress. I do keep and charge my drone and FPV plane batteries at home, even DIY ones, but e-bike batteries are much bigger and harder to chuck out of the window in case something goes wrong. I actually got rid of my e-scooter because of that, I just didn’t trust it.
by vorpalhex | 2025-11-29 16:10:08+00:00
Since this contravenes the UHDR which Canada does subscribe to, it likely won't survive court scrutiny.

> Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
by habbekrats | 2025-11-29 16:11:25+00:00
i think you are right, but its hard to explain as ppl can interpret your words in many ways depending on their context.

i think this: you dont need language for an idea, to have it, or be creative.

to think about it outside of that, like asking critical questions, inner dialogue _about_ the ideas and creativity, that is i think what is 'thought' and that requires language as its sort of inner communication....
by hakfoo | 2025-11-29 16:11:26+00:00
Wayland had the same odor a failed state has.

It's a huge hairball with no easy fixes, but at the same time, that's of significant benefit to some specific players. You can have a very usable X11 desktop with positively pre-Cambrian software. But to keep up with Wayland's ever evolving omnishambles, you basically have to run KDE or GNOME, or maybe Sway.
by simonsarris | 2025-11-29 16:11:32+00:00
Possibly as an American you haven't seen the prayer protests blocking streets in Montreal and elsewhere yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1n3608j/leslie_robe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/1jfbsvl/warmington_...

Note the comments.

It is disingenuous of The Guardian to run an article without posting photos of what everyone is annoyed enough about to make new laws regarding.
by aleda145 | 2025-11-29 16:11:44+00:00
I went to Copenhagen this summer. I was quite disappointed in the bicycle infrastructure, I felt like it was on par with what we have in Stockholm. Rented bikes and biked around for two days. It was nice!

Not sure how this index is being calculated (site breaks a lot), but my general feeling was that Denmark is just better at marketing than actual infrastructure when comparing to Stockholm at least
by aunty_helen | 2025-11-29 16:11:50+00:00
I agree with most of this post and think the problems are harder than the proponents are making them seem.

But, 1) literally the smartest people and AI in the world will be working on this and 2) man I want to see us get to a type 2 civilisation bad.

The layout of this blog post is also very interesting, it presents a bunch of very hard items to solve and funny enough the last has been solved recently with starlink. So we can approach this problem, it requires great engineering but it’s possible. Maybe it’s as complicated as CERNs LHC but we have one of those.

Next up then is the strong why? When you’re in space, if you set the cost of electricity to zero, the equation gets massively skewed.

Thermal is the biggest challenge but if you have unlimited electricity, lots of stuff becomes possible. Fluorinert cooling, piezoelectric pumps and dual/multi stage cooling loops with step ups. We can put liquid cooling with piezos on phones now, so that technology is moving in the right direction.

For a thought experiment, if launch costs were $0/kg, would this be possible? If the answers yes, then at some point above $0/kg it becomes uneconomical, the challenge is then to beat that number.
Show HN: AI System Generating Minecraft Mods (97% Working)
by madebywelch | 2025-11-29 16:12:07+00:00
Hey folks,

I've spent the last several months building an AI-driven system that generates Minecraft mods and plugins e2e. It's an agentic workflow that writes code, runs it through the standard toolchain, and handles the usual compile-time and simple runtime issues as part of the loop. The interesting part has been making the whole process reliable across multiple modding ecosystems and version targets.

The system currently supports generating server plugins (Spigot), server and client mods (Fabric, NeoForge), and Cobblemon mods for Fabric. At this point the system has produced several hundred mods, many of which are running in real production environments. What's been interesting is how people actually use it: about 52% of users who generate a mod come back to create more, and 42% iterate on their mods through conversational refinement with the AI. Roughly 97% of generated mods compile and run successfully on the first pass. That said, 'successful' doesn't always mean pixel-perfect alignment with the user's initial request. The model sometimes drifts near the edges of the spec, especially when the request sits outside a clear operational boundary.

The broader goal is to democratize access to building Minecraft experiences, client-side, server-side, or hybrid. Today, creating custom mechanics often requires either deep familiarity with modding toolchains or paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for bespoke plugins and long-term developer contracts. I want people to be able to rapidly prototype ideas, experiment, and ship things that would've been too expensive, too slow, or simply inaccessible before.

I'm interested in feedback on the approach, the architecture, and the failure modes people expect as requests grow more complex or cross modloader boundaries.
by joahnn_s | 2025-11-29 16:12:14+00:00
Here's another one: https://scrapfly.io/web-scraping-tools/browser-fingerprint They actually delve much deeper, with a wealth of additional data and interesting details.

For example, in the DRM section, they extract the Security Level, like L3 – Software Decode (SW_SECURE_DECODE).

Their WebRTC test is also unique: they utilize a TURN server as a feedback mechanism. That means even if you tamper with WebRTC JS in the browser (like some extensions do), it can still expose your real IP by leveraging UDP and bypassing the proxy altogether. https://scrapfly.io/web-scraping-tools/webrtc-leak
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-29 16:12:39+00:00
I love Wayland. I just absolutely love hard-rebooting my computer twice a day. Oh, need to walk away from the desk? Better switch into a TTY before unplugging the dock so I can force restart SDDM when it crashes. Oh no! Walked out of WiFi range? Your DE is hard frozen and the only operable button is the power button.

Wayland truly saves me so much time at work. It's forced me to re-up my ctrl+s reflex. Now I never lose work when it randomly crashes!

We've also been playing a fun new game. Every morning when I walk into the office my giant 5Kx1K monitor might be reset to literally any imaginable resolution and I have to figure out how to navigate to the display configuration menu to manually reset it because of course replugging the screen doesn't work.

I love Wayland. It's so easy to use and reliable. But MOST IMPORTANT it's newer than X11. Thank god I don't have to use gross old software written in uncool languages. God for-fucking-bid we have to run old software that works instead of new software that-- while not as good as the old software-- is still new

What's that? Wayland is almost 20 years old and still not to feature parity with any other OS? Well, it's newer than X11!
by russfink | 2025-11-29 16:13:30+00:00
May be a repeat here, but best proof I saw was inscribe a square with sides of length c inside another square, but rotated such that the interior square’s corners intersect the outer square’s edges. The intersecting points divide the outer square’s edge making lengths a and b.

This produces an inner square’s edge with sides length c and four equal right triangles of sides a, b, and c.

Note that the area of the outer square equals the sum of the inner square plus the area of the four triangles. Solve this equality.
by aftbit | 2025-11-29 16:13:42+00:00
If you think about it, all the existing data centers are in space already. They're just attached to a big ball of rock, water, and air that acts as a support system for them, simplifying cooling and radiation protection.

If humans are going to expand beyond the Earth, we'll certainly need to get much better at building and maintaining things in space, but we don't need to put data centers in space just to support people stuck on the ground.