MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-14 01:58:11+00:00
The term monopoly means nothing if Marriott is one.

Not only does Marriott not own 95% of hotels with their brands, but in any given area, you can almost certainly find a competing Hilton/IHG/Choice/Hyatt brand.

It’s about as competitive as a market can get. What you probably are not aware of is a location where half or more hotels of the above brands are owned by the same people, and they franchise all the brands and choose all the prices. But even that is relatively rare.
by iopjgalejandro | 2025-11-14 01:58:21+00:00
The article's "reverse terraforming the Earth" quote is the real story here. This is what makes the dot-com analogy imperfect.

The dot-com bubble required relatively little CapEx. This AI bubble is a physical infrastructure bubble (data centers, power, $5T in chips).

It feels far more analogous to the fiber-optic bubble of the late 90s. Trillions were spent laying "dark fiber" across the globe. The companies that laid it all went bust, but that exact infrastructure was what enabled the next generation (Google, Facebook, etc.) to be built for almost free a few years later.

We are in the "building the dark fiber for AI" stage. The immediate ROI isn't there, but the infrastructure is the prerequisite.
by consumer451 | 2025-11-14 01:58:45+00:00
This is a lovely idea, it truly is. However, if you don't somehow bootstrap AGI, won't "the money" just use it to make more money, in the normal dark ways?

I always figured that we will begin to see signs of AGI when a quant firm starts making really outsized returns.

"Hey AGI, how do we avoid being exposed as having implemented AGI?" - Now there is the next trillion dollar and very boring question.
by gregfjohnson | 2025-11-14 01:59:03+00:00
There are bitter and heartstrong arguments on this topic. Brachycephalic breeds with flat faces or short snouts (for example pugs, bulldogs, boxers, Boston terriers) cause anger among some and devotion among others. (We are a three-pug family.) Pugs have an average lifespan of 12 to 15 years, as compared with the overall average dog lifespan of 10 to 13 years. We have also had (and loved) boxers, which have an average lifespan of 10 to 12 years. Boxers seem to be genetically prone to cancer, which is how we lost our most recent boxer.

There's a classic cartoon showing two wolves in the bushes at the edge of a campfire, looking at the leftovers being thrown around by the humans. One says, "Look, what the heck, let's cozy up to these two-legged creatures that seem to have lots of food. What could go wrong?"

Next frame is a picture of an unhappy-looking pug wearing a birthday hat..
by chemotaxis | 2025-11-14 02:00:00+00:00
That's definitely true, but keep in mind the economics of cranking out AI slop. The whole point is that you tell it "yo ChatGPT, write 1,000 articles about knitting / gardening / electronics and organize them into a website". You then upload it to a server and spend the rest of the day rolling in $100 bills.

If you spend days or weeks fine-tuning prompts to strike the right tone, reviewing the output for accuracy, etc, then pretty much by definition, you're undermining the economic benefits of slopification. And you might accidentally end up producing content that's actually insightful and useful, in which case, you know... maybe that's fine.
by FridgeSeal | 2025-11-14 02:00:07+00:00
> He who didn't binge-watch garbage reality TV can cast the first stone

Stand by then, because I have rocks and according to you, licence to throw them.

You are free to watch all the slop you want. All I want is for your slop, to not be at the cost of all other media and content. Have a SlopTube, have SlopFlix, go for it! But do it in a way that is _separate_ and doesn’t inflict it on the rest of us, who would _like_ human produced content, even if the AI stuff is “just as good”.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-14 02:01:08+00:00
There's a lot of legacy software that is bound to Windows, yes, but as time goes on, the amount of greenfield systems targeting Windows dwindles. From what I've seen, a lot of that software is also being actively containerized so that it can run on Linux systems, because administering legacy Windows systems is a huge pain in the ass. A lot of legacy Windows software is very difficult to containerize, because it gets it's grubby little hands in everything, but it can be done and usually that's the preferred approach.
by danudey | 2025-11-14 02:02:29+00:00
If creators are required to disclose that they used AI to create, modify, or manipulate content then I should be able to filter out content created with AI. Even if I'm thinking of a specific video it's getting harder to find things because of the ridiculous amount of mass-produced slop out there.

I don't really care if people produce this sort of crap; let the market sort it out, maybe something of value will come of it. It's the fact that, as Kagi points out, it's getting more and more difficult to produce anything of value because content creators operating in good faith with good intentions get drowned out by slop peddlers who have no such limitations or morals.
by krapp | 2025-11-14 02:03:17+00:00
>Why are we holding LLMs to a higher standard than humans? If you don't like an LLM, then don't interact with it, just as you wouldn't interact with a human you dislike.

We're not holding LLMs to a higher standard than humans, we're holding them to a different standard than humans because - and it's getting exhausting having to keep pointing this out - LLMs are not humans. They're software.

And we don't have a choice not to interact with LLMs because apparently we decided that these things are going to be integrated into every aspect of our lives whether we like it or not.

And yes, in that inevitable future the fact that every piece of technology is a sociopathic P-zombie designed to hack people's brain stems and manipulate their emotions and reasoning in the most primal way possible is a problem. We tend not to accept that kind of behavior in other people, because we understand the very real negative consequences of mass delusion and sociopathy. Why should we accept it from software?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-14 02:03:18+00:00
I wish a smarter person would research or comment on this theory I have: Training a model to measure the entropy of human generated content vs LLM generated content might be the best approach to detecting LLM generated content.

Consider the "will smith eating spaghetti test", if you compare the entropy (not similarity) between that and will smith actually eating spaghetti, I naively expect the main difference would be entropy. when we say something looks "real" I think we're just talking about our expectation of entropy for that scene. An LLM can detect that it is a person eating a spaghetti see what the entropy is compared to the entropy it expects for the scene based on its training. In other words, train a model with specific entropy measurements along side actual training data.
by chepy | 2025-11-14 02:03:30+00:00
I built this because most existing agent frameworks felt either too academic (great papers, few real-world tools) or too demo-ish (cool examples, but brittle in production).

We needed something that could actually run GAIA-style tasks end-to-end: reasoning → tool use → verification → retry loops → success.

So GAIA Agent is basically the stack I wished existed:

- Zero-config agent (createGaiaAgent()) - 18+ built-in tools: browser, search, sandbox, memory, filesystem - Fully TypeScript, modular, and swappable - Built to run GAIA Benchmark without custom wiring - Simple enough for side projects, but reliable enough for production

This is very early, but feedback from other agent-devs would help a ton.

If you try it and something feels off, missing, or over-engineered — please tell me.

Would love to hear what kinds of agents you’re building too.

Thanks for checking it out!
by iopjgalejandro | 2025-11-14 02:03:35+00:00
thank you for this incredibly transparent and honest post.

The section on "Setting Expectations" (5 employees vs 180) is the most valuable insight. As an indie developer myself, I'm deeply curious: how does this new "sustainable" mindset (vs. the old VC-funded model) change your prioritization for the software roadmap?

Does it mean focusing 100% on the core functions and being more ruthless about saying 'no' to feature creep, which is something that plagues so many other wearable companies?

Rooting for you all.
by sureglymop | 2025-11-14 02:03:47+00:00
> The thing is, kubernetes resources are already an abstraction.

What I meant by that is that kubernetes resources are generic. "Objects" in the cluster representing arbitrary things. And this makes sense because, it's okay if one doesn't know what cgroups and namespaces are to deploy a container/pod resource. What I'm trying to say is that this kind of arbitrary abstraction is what k8s brought to the table but people keep trying to abstract again on top of that which makes no sense. "Resource" is already generic.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-14 02:04:29+00:00
The downvoting patterns of anything that is mildly critical of Rust (see above) very much indicates a feud war. Rust has a dogmatic, aggressive and self-righteous community that uses any available tactic to push their language through.

The Rust literature is poorly written compared to C and Ada and the argumentation style on forums is sloppy, aggressive, and often unintelligible.

Which is a pity, because the language itself does not seem to be so bad.
by jleyank | 2025-11-14 02:04:59+00:00
The common internet meme is “Canadians have two modes. ‘Sorry’ and ‘You’ll be sorry.’” And the latter has been triggered. It’s a big world, tourism and travel is discretionary and people are pissed. There’s a goods boycott going on as well, with BABA as its acronym. This looks and feels like a significant shift in attitude, and it’s possible people here will realize there are reasonable and interesting alternatives.

And the US continues to pick at the scab, preventing it from healing.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-14 02:05:49+00:00
The business model is you hire a live in “manager”, often times a recent immigrant, in quotes because they don’t manage anything, but they are called that so they don’t qualify for overtime.

Then you pay them $50k or so per year, might even be for a married couple, and the kiosk helps them get sleep by avoiding interruptions overnight. But they’re still there in case of fire or police emergency to provide access and keys and whatnot.

The person on the kiosk is obviously in India/Colombia/Philippines/etc where labor is cheaper and they can handle multiple hotels at once.

Personally, I avoid those types of hotels, but don’t know if it will be as much of a choice in the future. I so like online checkin with Hilton’s app and using my phone as a key, so I rarely see the front desk anyway.
by cogman10 | 2025-11-14 02:06:28+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Looking at a sample app [1] for the NDK, the tooling appears to be gradle and Cmake. Cmake isn't the newest of tools, but it's also not that dated.

[1] https://github.com/android/ndk-samples/tree/main/endless-tun...
by jacquesm | 2025-11-14 02:07:03+00:00
I think for actual Nix adoption focusing on the cycle time first would bring the biggest benefit by far because then everything will speed up. It's a bit like the philosophy behind 'Go', if the cycle is a quick one you will iterate faster, keep focus and you'll be more productive. This is not quite like that but it is analogous.

That said, I fully agree with your basic tenet about how systems should be composed. First make it work, but make deployment conditional on verified security and only then start focusing on performance. That's the right order and right now we do things backward, we focus on the happy and performant path and security is - at best - an afterthought.
by Benjamin_Dobell | 2025-11-14 02:07:25+00:00
Look. This isn't on the front page of HN anymore. So I'm mostly writing this to you. You've work to do on your communication. This style of communication probably works just fine with teenagers, but it's not going to hold up to scrutiny with adults.

> The crux of the question here was about whether GDPR obligates us to email all 5,000 people signed up for this program about this vulnerability.

You are just not going to be able to control the narrative like this. Trying to tell someone else what the "crux of the issue is" will not allow you to shift the goal posts. The article described a pattern of issues, and in my previous comment I specifically raised one. No determined individual is going to just leave that thread dangling for you.

> Is there something else we should be doing?

Yes. Obviously. That's the point.

> The crux of the question here was about whether GDPR obligates us to email all 5,000 people signed up for this program about this vulnerability. The two lawyers we have consulted on this have both said no. One of them specifically specializes in privacy compliance.

It's not a great look for the leader of a children's organization to so blatantly flout that they lack a moral compass. You're currently interacting with the public, not the legal system. Sure, whether or not you're legally required to inform your kids is relevant. However, the law is quite literally the bare minimum of what you're obligated to do.

No-ones reading this thinking. "Oh great, they've done the bare minimum legally required of them." They're thinking, "Wait. Companies notify people of breaches all the time. You apologise, and explain what you're doing to rectify the situation. What have they got to hide? Are they worried they'll get an influx of outrage because this lack of care was something people in the community were already concerned about?" With the context given from the odd parent in this thread, it certainly comes across as the latter.

> It's not a complicated legal question, the answer is just no.

This detracts so much credibility from your communication. There is no lawyer on Earth that will describe this as "not a complicated legal question". No adult that's ever had any communication with a lawyer is going to believe this for a second. Lawyers are notorious for their non-committal attitude toward providing legal advice. Nothing is black and white — it's all grey. So this comes across as:

a. You've never interacted with a lawyer in your life. Or, b. You're telling porkies, or at the very least, are way too flippant with hyperbole.
by iopjgalejandro | 2025-11-14 02:07:51+00:00
This is a fascinating "dataset" of the unedited human psyche.

For the first time, we have a public, raw, unfiltered log of what people actually think about and worry about—not the curated, performative versions they post on social media.

The article's list (from "hair removal" to "paracetamol overdose" to "analyze my boyfriend") says it all. It's a mirror of our mundane anxieties, our deep fears, and our loneliness, all in one place.

This is less a story about AI and more a story about us.
by abe94 | 2025-11-14 02:08:06+00:00
Very cool - I've wanted something like this for a while. I currently use a patchwork of site specific extensions, so will definitely give this a go

Something in a similar vein that I would love would be a single feed you have control over, powered by an extension. You can specify in plain english what the algorithm should exclude / include - that pulls from your fb/ig/gmail/tiktok feeds.
by quotemstr | 2025-11-14 02:08:09+00:00
Huh? "Barely"? What are you talking about? The NDK supports compiling C++ just fine. There are CMake files, among other things, ready to use --- as well as Soong native configurations. CMake is under active development. Other toolkits are within easy reach: for example, Meson works fine. Also Bazel. Hell, even autotools can be made to work.
by anonymousiam | 2025-11-14 02:08:29+00:00
Remember that Saddam was not cooperating with UNMOVIC, and not denying that he was building nukes. It seems crazy that he would do this until you recognize that his power depended upon being seen as strong and defiant of "The Great Satan."

Yeah, it turned out that he wasn't building nukes, but he provably did have WMD (chemical weapons), and had used them.

I don't doubt that GWB wanted "to finish the job" that his father started, and may have influenced the IC into producing "evidence" to support his goals. Obama did the same thing with the "Russia Collusion" hoax.

Most civil servants are stand up people who would never go along with anything illegal or unethical. The politicians are a different breed.
by GMoromisato | 2025-11-14 02:09:13+00:00
This is truly sad. Despite having, collectively, a larger GDP than the US, Europe has not been at the forefront of too many technologies, compared to the US and China. [Pharmaceuticals might be the main exception.]

Sadly, I think the disadvantages will compound. Europe doesn't have a Google-type company with expertise building data centers, and are now behind on AI scaling. Without cheap access to orbit, they have missed out on building Starlink-like LEO constellations.

I wish I knew why this is and how to fix it.
by achatham | 2025-11-14 02:09:33+00:00
My personal project is illustrating arbitrary stories with consistent characters and settings. I've rewritten it at least 5 times, and Nano Banana has been a game-changer. My kids are willing to listen to much more sophisticated stories as long as it has pictures, so I've used it to illustrate text like Ender's Game. Unfortunately, it's getting harder to legally acquire books in a format you can feed to an LLM.

I first extract all the entities from the text, generate characters from an art style, and then start stitching them together into individual illustrations. It works much better with NB than anything else I tried before.
by mjevans | 2025-11-14 02:10:40+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Kuiper

ULA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atlas_launches_(2020%E...

SpaceX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

Found searching for Amazon ULA Launch, turns out SpaceX also launched one this year.
by baruz | 2025-11-14 02:11:46+00:00
I do not know about TFA and the egg cooker, but I usually boil the water first so I can pull the eggs out at a specific time (6:30 to 7:00) so the yolk is gooey. When I put an egg into boiling water without putting a hole through to the air sac, I think there's a higher chance that the egg will crack and spew albumen throughout the boiling water.
by ramses0 | 2025-11-14 02:12:05+00:00
The best intro/wtf link is the slides: https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/download/remind-oclu...

tldr: REM Dec 25 MSG It's Christmas! (...and then a bunch of other fanciness inclusive of being able to put "MSG Your [$MATH] Birthday is this [$MATHDAY]!")
by gpjanik | 2025-11-14 02:13:02+00:00
If you're adding some computational/problem breakdown/heuristic steps on top/instead of mathematical concepts, then you're doing the opposite of what the author proposes.

Scientific conensus in math is Occam's Razor, or the principle of parsimony. In algebra, topology, logic and many other domains, this means that rather than having many computational steps (or a "simple mental model") to arrive to an answer, you introduce a concept that captures a class of problems and use that. Very beneficial for dealing with purely mathematical problems, absolute distaster for quick problem solving IMO.
by pdpi | 2025-11-14 02:13:04+00:00
> Just making not literally every piece of data universally mutable? Not possible in C. Trivial in C++ and Rust, and it makes your programs SO much easier to reason about.

And Rust is significantly better at this than C++ for the simple reason that mut is a modifier. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve listened to Kate Gregory extol the virtues of const-ing all the things, but people still don’t systematically add it, and, as readers, we’re left wondering whether things actually need to be mutable, or the author forgot/didn’t know to add const-ness to their code. With Rust having opt-in mutability, you know for a fact that mutability was a deliberate choice (even if sometimes the only motivation was “make the compiler happy”).
by happy-dude | 2025-11-14 02:13:18+00:00
Absolutely. This is a long term strategy stemming from the moment Microsoft spawned their app store.

A lot of people are missing the fact that the Steam Frame is Valve's attempt at staking a position in the wide-open and malleable VR space.

With Google, they identified that Microsoft developing their own search engine as an existential threat. Additionally, Internet Explorer being the only bottleneck for the web as a platform was a problem. And thus they broke it wide open, developing web technologies, investing in Firefox initially, releasing Chrome, and ultimately delivering Android.

In mobile, Microsoft came too late to respond to Apple and Google.

Meta and Apple have identified that VR is one of the next gold-mines in terms of a similar app-store and experience rich ecosystem potential comparable to PCs, web, and mobile, and have poured billions into development of hardware and software. It's documented that Meta attempted to create a proprietary OS for their VR headsets (and has debatable success).

Valve, while having fewer resources than any of the behemoths above, decided to hedge their bets with Linux and entering the market first through their well established brand built with video games. It would not surprise me if the Steam Frame begins their entry into other entertainment experiences and app opportunities. Microsoft has reasonable success weaving their ecosystem together (PC + Xbox), but they're foolish to think that their dominance would continue into VR because they have the PC space... They made that mistake with Windows Phone.
by weq | 2025-11-14 02:13:55+00:00
I dont get how these tools are considered good when they cant even do a simple thing decribing this scene.

> i was to bring awareness to the dangers of dressing up like a seal while surfboarding (ie. wearing black wetsuites, arms hanging over the board). Create a scene from the perspective of a shark looking up from the bottom of the ocean into a clear blue sky with silhouettes of a seal and a surfer and fishing boat with line dangling in the water and show how the shark contemplates attacking all these objects because they look so similiar.

I havnt found a model yet that can process that description, or any varition, into a scene that usable and makes sense visually to anyone older the a 1st grader. They will never place the seal, surfer, shark or boat in the correct location to make sense visually. Typically everyone is under water, sizing of everything is wrong. You tell them to the image is wrong, to place the person ontop of the water, and they cant. Please can someone link to a model that is capable or tell me what i am doing wrong? How can you claim to process words into images in a repeatable way when these systems cant deal with multiple contraints at once?
by halfcat | 2025-11-14 02:16:12+00:00
> a little forethought and consideration about the best or safest way to do a thing is a great way to shrink the blast area of any surprise bombs that go off

I don’t think I agree with this at all. Screwing up is, by far, the most impactful thing that can minimize the future blast radius.

Common sense, wisdom, and pain cannot be communicated very well. Much more effective if experienced. Like trying to explain “white as snow” to someone who’s never seen snow. You might say “white as coconut” but that doesn’t help them know about snow. Understanding this opens up a lot more grace and patience with kids.

Most often when we tell our kids, ”you know better”, it’s not true. We know better, only because we screwed it up 100 times before and felt the pain.

No amount of “think about the consequences of your actions” is going to prevent them from slipping on the ice, when they’ve never walked on the ice before.