MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lynndotpy | 2025-11-06 18:07:23+00:00
They started requiring an account to use the lights, and support started stating stating that the bulbs will not be usable without an account or the app, with the CTO stating intention to deprecate the local APIs entirely. This flies in the face of why I bought Hue. These are woes I thought I'd be "safe" from when I bought from Philips. I never wanted to create an account or use an app.

After spending time setting up Home Assistant, figuring out what I'd need to do to prevent a firmware update from hitting the bulbs, etc. I decided just to chalk the bulbs up to trash and sell them.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-06 18:07:40+00:00
I don't think a bunch of physicists is the best example if you're trying to make the point that most people are smart but just in different ways. Physics requires and attracts intelligence, of course a bunch of physicists were smarter than you in some ways.

Try it with, say, a parole officer's case list, a group of high school dropouts, or people who have not touched a book in the past ten years. You'll certainly find things they know that you don't, but that's mostly going to be a matter of experience, not them being smarter in that area. No doubt the average petty thief knows more about shoplifting than I do, but I'm pretty sure I could learn quickly and become a much better shoplifter than them if I put my mind to it. And those groups will certainly contain some really smart people who just happen to have ended up in those groups, but that's going to be a small number of them.
by rurp | 2025-11-06 18:08:54+00:00
Yes, this exactly. Firefox became the one good avenue for preventing a Google monopoly over the web and Mozilla just completely fumbled the opportunity again and again. This isn't about one or two screwups, it's been a decade or more of the same problems.

It sucks. I absolutely don't want Google to have total control over the web and still want Firefox to succeed, but at this point it's clear they have failed. I still use Firefox, but much less than I used to and I stopped recommending it to non-techies a while back when they broke a bunch of functionality on mobile.
by claudiulodro | 2025-11-06 18:08:54+00:00
Super late to the party, but Dale Harris Cash Register is a free Point of Sales TUI program that has been maintained by Dale since the 90s[1]. The website is pretty great too. He originally made it for his locksmith/key business. He has a gallery of people using it in the wild [2]. I've always wanted to have some sort of business where it makes sense to use it!

[1] https://keyhut.com/pos.htm [2] https://keyhut.com/posphoto.htm
by bioneuralnet | 2025-11-06 18:08:58+00:00
I remember the "History of English Podcast" covering a lot of this. I'm more a programming language nerd than spoken language, but I still found it fascinating.

Old English was a Germanic language, later heavily influenced by Norman/French vocabulary. French of course descended from Latin, and Latin and Germanic languages both belong to the Indo-European family of languages. (The "C" language of humanity, if you will.)
by topaz0 | 2025-11-06 18:10:24+00:00
If you're interested in the specific thing that other people mean by that word, the original Cory Doctorow essay that coined it is well worth a read: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

Of course he followed it up with a book, so there's that as well if you want a deeper dive, but the essay is fairly comprehensive at least in laying out what he intends by the term.
by gibbitz | 2025-11-06 18:10:27+00:00
I think this is like 90's VR. We saw all these options for it but in the end it was not as good as we imagined it was. There's a lot to explore in the space, but there's a ceiling. The technology will never live up to what we dream it is. We're imagining "Lawnmower Man" but the best we will get is Google goggles.
by Isamu | 2025-11-06 18:10:39+00:00
Larry Wall: 3 great virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Which is both a joke (turning virtue on its head) and kinda true, in that laziness makes you automate things, impatience spurs you to make things faster, and hubris spurs you to make sure that they work.
by foldr | 2025-11-06 18:10:43+00:00
Every startup says that it’s not like other startups. If the founder of the company’s response to being asked how they’re going to obtain one trillion dollars in revenue is (fluff aside) essentially equivalent to “trust me bro”, then I am very comfortable putting long odds on this happening (unlesss via some kind of government bailout).

And yes, obviously there is a wide range of possible outcomes. However, there is not a uniform probability distribution over them.
by d-lisp | 2025-11-06 18:11:07+00:00
I do know for sure that I am able to share my intelligence with anyone. Moreover I do enjoy it. I cannot conceive a lot of things more pleasant than making people smart. And to me that should be your responsibility to do so, as a gifted person.

You should cease to complain about other people being dumb, and just work on being understandable by anyone. That's a very complex job, as it may lead to what I'd call "extravagant analysis" (i.e. unfolding abstractions to the point you reach atoms or "implementations", [note, I do remember of a (joke) book titled "How to ride a bike" where the author explained literally everything you needed to know to be able to ride a bike, to the point it became absurd]).

Anyway, you should at least try it. Smart people often are terrible at explaining stuff because they don't need to do the work of diving into the atoms of abstractions, and because sometimes also language is not their primary tool to think about things.

Tldr; are you sure you are understandable ?
by vinceguidry | 2025-11-06 18:11:26+00:00
When I went to go look for a platform to implement a personal text editor on, I somewhat quickly settled on the vt100 terminal api with kitty extensions, particularly its keyboard protocol. Everything else locks you into, not only a language, everybody codes frameworks these days, nobody writes apis, but also what's essentially already a legacy solution, a framework is going to get updates at the speed of the developer's passion.

Whereas when kovid made the kitty terminal protocol, it got implemented by the next 3 or so new terminal emulators. You don't get this kind of modernization from any other UI solution save browsers. And no way do I want to do web development for my own stuff. I suppose I could target Dillo or something like Servo, but I'd be more inclined to consume the base X11 protocol, as Vidar H did.

My Ruby terminal protocol implementation has smooth abstractions from methods performing the bare VT control calls up to semantic methods with better naming, to flexible and extensible text field abstractions. All the concerns are separated nicely and Ruby lets me scope everything just right, so I can call a debugger anywhere as the necessary logic is scoped module-wide.

I simply cannot imagine having any kind of fun doing this in a static compiled language. And I'll be able to build on top of this to make things that aren't editors.
by iagooar | 2025-11-06 18:11:35+00:00
Thanks. I guess it all depends on the perspective. I do not see how editing the command is a good tradeoff here in terms of complexity+UI. Once you get the command suggested by the LLM, you can quickly copy and modify it, before running it.

qqqa uses history - although in a very limited fashion for privacy reasons.

I am taking note of these ideas though, never say never!
by macrael | 2025-11-06 18:11:38+00:00
Howdy, head of Eng at confident.security here, so excited to see this out there.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by inference provider here? The inference workload is not shipped off the compute node once it's been decrypted to e.g. OpenAI, it's running directly on the compute machine on open source models loaded there. Those machines are cryptographically attesting to the software they are running. Proving, ultimately, that there is no software that is logging sensitive info off the machine, and the machine is locked down, no SSH access.

This is how Apple's PCC does it as well, clients of the system will not even send requests to compute nodes that aren't making these promises, and you can audit the code running on those compute machines to check that they aren't doing anything nefarious.

The privacy guarantee we are making here is that no one, not even people operating the inference hardware, can see your prompts.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-06 18:12:05+00:00
This seems trivially false or disconnected from the important part of what I'm referring to here.

TUIs have to be navigable by keyboard. They could be garbage in every other way, but at least they have that.

GUIs might have keybindings as polish if the developers put in the effort. Otherwise they either don't have keybindings, or they rely on generalized keybindings that come with the OS/UI toolkit that can be bad/impossible in arbitrary ways, like if tab is swallowed by an input so you can't even tab past a component or dismiss a modal. Or the only GUI is inside a web browser.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-11-06 18:12:11+00:00
> I have not seen evidence that there will be food system collapse driven by climate change that would be worse than those events

Doing my best to not come off condescending here in case you are being sincere, but the comparison of totalitarian gov crackdowns and local drought are not exactly comparable to an almost worldwide heat increase and less water availability for key high density areas... Once countries have to start hoarding their resources and other countries run out of resources, things will not be good and there's plenty of data, studies and articles out there discussing this that are not hard to find.

If you are being sincere, apologies, but living in the US lately has shown a level of bad actors trying to grift that's made it really difficult to be patient with climate change denial/dismissiveness.
by drannex | 2025-11-06 18:12:16+00:00
You may be shocked by this, but comrade has been in use since the French Revolution, in fact it doesn't mean "friend" like most think - it quite literally means "fellow party-member", someone who is a member of the same party. You, yourself, are comrades with your fellow party members, even if they are not communist. Even if you go to the root of the word, it's Spanish in origin. It's an egalitarian/gender neutral word similar to 'colleague' or "coworker" but effectively it _just_ means "ally" in modern parlence.

Even if you require the link to communism, 'comrade' in the popular sense _is_ used by _socialists_ to describe one another, not just for communists, communists are just a subset ideology of socialism. Similar to anarchists, progressives, and more on the umbrella of "the left", communists are just another branch on the tree of ideologies, and as a branch, they used their mother's language of comradery to describe their fellow party-members and allies.

You can always admit when you are prejudiced by assumptions, you know, so I hope you take an interest in reading this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comrade

Edit:

> The distinctions between socialism and communism are rather academic and irrelevant in the long run

That's quite literally the biggest difference between socialism and communism, the long run. Communists want a communist society as the end-goal of socialism; Socialists do not have that hope, in fact most are not focused on the end goal as we can't ever ascertain what that would look like - so they focus on the values of socialist ideas right now, what we can do now to ensure equality, freedom, and personal rights by protecting all living beings in health and sickness, success and failure. A society of equals first.
by bragr | 2025-11-06 18:12:18+00:00
This was last month:

>The Philippine coastguard, in a statement, said a Chinese coastguard ship “fired its water cannon” at the BRP Datu Pagbuaya, a vessel belonging to Manila’s fisheries bureau, at 9:15am (01:15 GMT) on Sunday.

>Minutes later, the same vessel “deliberately rammed” the stern of the Philippine fisheries bureau vessel, causing “minor” damage to the boat.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/12/philippines-accuse...
by rodarima | 2025-11-06 18:12:40+00:00
> I wrote about 3.1, 18 months ago

Thanks for the article and for including all the references.

We now adhere to https://semver.org/ as much as we can, where each of the three version numbers has a meaning, so it would be nice to include them all. I'll mention it in the next release (and probably add it to the changelog as well).

> I wondered if you were in communication with any of those developers, and if you have managed to bring in any of their code or improvements?

I'm in contact with the Mobilized Dillo developer and we exchange some patches from time to time.

> Are you using the latest FLTK?

The change from FLTK 1.3.X to 1.4.X breaks many things in Dillo. One of my priorities is to get it fixed ASAP but it will take a while. I'll probably ship experimental support for FLTK 1.4.X under a configure flag in the next 3.3.0 release so I don't delay it for too long.
by laterium | 2025-11-06 18:12:45+00:00
It's really tiring that LLM skeptics will always talk about LLM fans every time AI comes up to strawman AI and satisfy their fragile fantasy world where everything is the sign of an AI bubble.

But, yes this is a good way to use LLMs. Just like many other mundane and not news-worthy ways that LLMs are used today. The existence of fans doesn't require a denouncement of said fans at every turn.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-06 18:13:44+00:00
Beyond its UI having basically been frozen since Netscape Navigator 4-ish modulo XUL shenanigans?

The new Profile Manager (that doesn't yet entirely replace the old one, both exist side-by-side for the moment) uses icons and colors to better differentiate profiles at a glance.

Additionally links to the new Profile Manager are now in the Account menu and feel a bit more like an "account chooser" (comparable to Chrome's experience, especially) and lot less like a power user feature hidden behind a page address that people might not know ("about:profiles").
by dfawcus | 2025-11-06 18:13:48+00:00
Nah - there are two vocabularies, the 'posh' Norman French one, and the common western Germanic one. (There is also an admixture of Norse influence, so the combination of Old English (Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians) with Old Norse then knocking the edges off. That probably did for grammatical gender.)

The Germanic core still generally gets used by all in high stress environments.
by astrobe_ | 2025-11-06 18:13:58+00:00
Yes, and Norman was a "creole" of a Germanic language brought in by the viking conquest and French, which itself is a creole of a Celtic-based language and Latin (due to the conquest of France by romans). Celts and Vikings were already presents in the British islands. See [1] for the "genealogy" of European languages. So William the Conqueror brought to England more of the same things plus a few more (and the endemic mismatch of spelling and pronunciation I guess).

France is sort-of at the crossroads of Europe, so it's no surprise that there's a little bit of everything in the French language. This is particularly visible in place-names of Normandy [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indo-European_language...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_toponymy
by Onavo | 2025-11-06 18:14:24+00:00
If you ignore the pollution and environmental aspects, the main geopolitical reason is because the Straits of Malacca are very vulnerable in the event of a hot war and the overland pipelines from Russia and the middle east are insufficient to supply China. Getting rid of the oil dependency is the quickest way to autarchy. There are few other resources they can't produce themselves.
by _dcez | 2025-11-06 18:14:24+00:00
For non-IT books, physical copies work best for me. In my case, it not only helps but is absolutely essential - completely shutting down the computer at the end of the day, with a firm decision that it stays off until tomorrow. The exception is IT books that require interaction, like typing code - then it's completely the opposite: only PDFs work, and reading them on the computer is the way to go.
by jaswise | 2025-11-06 18:14:26+00:00
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by pyeri | 2025-11-06 18:14:30+00:00
Yes, most people in this age are trapped in the widespread phenomenon of "digital media induced dopamine traps". Your mind may never let you use old school slow information gathering tools (like books, manuals and software documentation) when easy and instant servings like LLM lookups and youtube vids are so accessible. Your mind might ask "why go through all that pain and trouble, what's the use of it?" and you'll have no easy answer to that.
by fragmede | 2025-11-06 18:14:32+00:00
> would I actually run on it if I'm not a spammer?

> Gimme an actual example instead of downvoting, help me learn.

Basically you asked a bunch of people on a privacy minded forum, why should they be allowed to encrypt their data? What are you (they) hiding!? Are you a spammer???

Apple is beloved for their stance on privacy, and you basically called everyone who thinks that's more than marketing, a spammer. And before you start arguing no you didn't, it doesn't matter that you didn't, what matters is that that's how your comment made people feel. You can say they're the stupid ones because that's not what you wrote, but if you're genuinely asking for feedback about the downvotes, there you are.

You seriously can't imagine any reason to want to use an LLM privately other than to use it to write spam bots and to spam people? At the very least expand your scope past spamming to, like, also using it to write ransomware.

The proprietary models that can't be run locally are SOTA and local models, even if they can come close, simply aren't what people want.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-06 18:15:13+00:00
> I presented arguments to attempt to show

You were presenting talking points from the racist "great replacement" conspiracy theory and hoping that no-one notices. They did and it was flagged out. This is not coherent argument, it is inflammatory rhetoric.

> the rise of Islam ... riots caused by this instability.

Oh, the Muslims were rioting were they? Is that what you're saying?

Funny that you don't blame the riots on the people who were actually rioting. You make it sounds like it's inevitable and they had no choice. I reject that. You are using convoluted phrasing to obscure what is what.

> Musk made his comment during

Musk was not "making comment during", he was inciting further violence.

> You keep being dangerously close to simply trolling...

This is all very disingenuous, and so you do not deserve serious response. I am not obligated to debate civilly with extremists.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-06 18:15:30+00:00
I wonder if the Nordic languages would be in a healthier state in this respect, in terms of usage and not resorting to English in mixed groups, if their television broadcasting had been shared among each other more, instead of each country looking so much to the USA for programming. The Nordic countries used to be a single linguistic space for educated people and you can still witness this practice among the elderly. Why exactly couldn't young people growing up in, for example, Sweden and Denmark watch and learn from Norway's Uti vår hage just like Americans could watch Monty Python or Fawlty Towers?
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-06 18:15:33+00:00
What do you feel is fundamentally different about the feedback loop in AlphaEvolve compared to, say, Einstein and Grossman repeatedly running calculations until they found the right tensor setup for General Relativity? Or Euler filling his notebooks with computations? Or Ramanujan? Or Newton working out infinite series? Or Kepler, etc etc.

They are all doing iterative search with feedback from a function that tells them whether they're getting closer or farther from their goal. They try different things, see what works, and keep the stuff that works.
by udev4096 | 2025-11-06 18:16:02+00:00
Instead of securing the "chain", we should instead isolate every library we import and run it under a sandbox. We should adopt the model of QubesOS. It follows security by isolation. There are lots of native sandboxing in linux kernel. Bubblewrap, landlock, gvisor and kata (containers, not native), microVMs, namespaces (user, network), etc
by rurp | 2025-11-06 18:17:20+00:00
This simply isn't true. Getting the populace on board is a standard and important part of democracies initiating military action. Bush and his team spent endless amounts of time briefing Congress and the public on their justifications for the Iraq war for example.

Ukraine has gone to extensive lengths to only target military and, more recently, energy infrastructure in Russia. They aren't blowing up random civilian vehicles or ships, and have a clear incentive to show that they aren't doing that.

Fighting drug smuggling is a flimsy pretext for why the US is blowing up random ships, although it's apparently one some people are willing to believe. Take the same actions but change up the countries and the reactions would be very different. This is about Trump doing yet another tough guy show of force against a much weaker country he feels safe enough bullying.
by umanwizard | 2025-11-06 18:17:23+00:00
English does not descend from Latin. It descends from Old English, a language that is entirely unrelated to Latin besides both being Indo-European, and has been influenced to a substantial degree by Norman French (which does descend from Latin) since the 11th century.

At least that is the conventional view. Apparently, according to this author, it actually descends from French. But that is a very fringe take.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-06 18:17:29+00:00
And you can train those teenagers to do things which are much more profitable. If they have the dexterity and other skills needed to work on cell phone electronics, then they can work on other electronics.

If it was a good business, then there would be cell phone repair shops on every corner in Europe, like you have in other parts of the world where that makes sense.
by RIMR | 2025-11-06 18:17:42+00:00
Love their nonsense excuse they they are trying to protect us from misuse of "superintelligence".

>“We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.” -Mark Zuckerberg

Meta has shown us daily that they have no interest in protecting anything but their profits. They certainly don't intend to protect people from the harm their technology may do.

They just know that saying "this is profitable enough for us to keep it proprietary and restrict it to our own paid ecosystem" will make the enthusiasts running local Llama models mad at them.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-06 18:17:44+00:00
A well-designed TUI and GUI have great keyboard nav, discoverability, UX, and all. The question is more about what you want for the 99% of UIs that aren't well-designed nor polished, and what kind of worst-case you want to deal with.

By default, TUIs have bad discoverability unless the developer puts in the effort. But at least you have keyboard navigation and run in a terminal.

By default, GUIs have bad keybindings unless the developer puts in the effort. In the worst case they aren't even kb navigable. But at least they tend to be discoverable.