MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phantasmish | 2025-11-06 16:30:26+00:00
> That assumes people have the ability to choose not to do these things, and that they can't be manipulated or coerced into doing them against their will.

Within the last year I opened an Instagram account just so I could get updates from a few small businesses I like. I have almost no experience with social media. This drove home for me just how much the "this is where their attention goes, so that's revealed preference" thing is bullshit.

You know what I want? The ability to get these updates from the handful of accounts I care about without ever seeing Instagram's algo "feed". Actually, even better would be if I could just have an RSS feed. None of that is an option. Do I sometimes pause and read one of the items in the algo feed that I have to see before I can switch over to the "following" tab? I do, of course, they're tuned to make that happen. Does that mean I want them? NO. I would turn them off if I could. My actual fucking preference is to turn them off and never see them again, no matter that they do sometimes succeed in distracting me.

Like, if you fill my house with junk food I'll get fatter from eating more junk food, but that doesn't mean I want junk food. If I did, I'd fill my house with it myself. But that's often the claim with social media, "oh, it's just showing people more of what they actually want, and it turns out that's outrage-bait crap". But that's a fucking lie bolstered by a system that removes people's ability to avoid even being presented with shit while still getting what they want.
Share Your Experience: How You Found Accepting Friends Beyond Achievement
by Haeuserschlucht | 2025-11-06 16:30:54+00:00
I'm curious, how did you find people that you can spend time with and do something that is not productive, that is just there to be fun, that is just there, that doesn't demand anything from you?

You're in a group where you are not accepted because you accomplished something big, but just because they like you, for being you, for being authentic, and where you just have your peers where you can go to and you just feel great.

And I'm wondering how to find that because the general advice is like, well, just go to some gym, or just go to a public place. But what they don't take into account is that in a public place, you do not communicate with people. You don't. First of all, you don't in general. So if you initiate contact, it's rather weird for them that you do because they don't know you and they are tremendously suspicious just because they don't know you, not because they have a real reason, just because they are conditioned that way.

And they are quickly asking basically, where's this leading to? What is the purpose of this conversation? When you say, well, I just want to talk a little, they say, okay, I'm not interested.

And they give you a weird look and they run away and they tell their friends, well, there was this weird guy that just wanted to communicate. What a weirdo.

So like all these suggestions, they are all about accomplishing something. So let's say for instance, you just wanted some person, not on the internet, but in real life, where you could just gossip. This basically describes it perfectly. Even though I'm not interested in gossiping itself, but I'm interested in being respected without having to do something for it as in have a certain degree or have written a book or any of that, but just being respected, being appreciated.

When I say something, they enjoy seeing me, they enjoy spending time with me. They just think that I'm a great person and they are respectful.

And this is just not happening. And that's the thing. It's just not happening in those places like in a gym, in my experience. And I don't think anyone has a different experience really. They are just bad places because especially a gym, especially even a FabLab or something like this, they are all places where you accomplish something.

Allegedly, they are there for communicating, for finding new friends, but go fuck yourself. You don't find new friends there. What you find is perfectionists who value you less if you are not a perfectionist yourself and you are only measured by what you accomplished.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-11-06 16:30:56+00:00
For years I've been hearing one excuse for the US not doing more about climate change is that China is polluting more and if they aren't doing something about it then why should we?

The argument always seemed disingenuous. For sure, China produces a lot of pollution as they are modernizing, but they are also investing a lot in the direction of sustainability. If we take the balance of (pollution produced - pollution prevented) for the two countries, the day will come, if it isn't now, that the US is on the losing side of that comparison, and I wonder what the new argument will be for the US not doing more.
by vablings | 2025-11-06 16:31:02+00:00
I think IKEA does care about this kind of stuff. In the past couple of years there has been an ongoing enshittification of smart home devices to move into the IoT space requiring a Wi-Fi connection that always pings a "home server" and when aws-east-1 is down your lights don't work or whatever.

Despite this IKEAs devices have been mostly Zigbee and have worked very well with ZB2MQTT and Home Assistant out of the box. You are not required to buy a hub either that talks to some random server. Not to mention that IKEA had the to make sure the new smart hub the released was compatible with Matter/Thread meaning that customers are not forced to send more E-waste to landfill. The bar is pretty low these days and I feel IKEA exceeds that by a large margin
by escobar_west | 2025-11-06 16:31:05+00:00
I think it's the perfect amount of hostility. People shouldn't complain about things given to them for free built by amateurs in their spare time. Including fewer dependencies adds more time to developer's effort. Including packages into std requires more work from the Rust team (mostly volunteers). If top comment isn't satisfied with the stuff given to them for free, they can make their own software.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-06 16:31:07+00:00
Use what works for you.

My few cents:

Pretty much every ergonomist will tell you that mouse use causes more ergonomic pains than keyboard use. They literally tell you to memorize as many keyboard shortcuts as possible.

> but clicking to jump to a position on screen can often be a lot faster than I search

It can be, but is it the norm? I have a distinct memory - over 15 years ago - of reading a blog post that recommended isearch to move the cursor and realizing how right it was. I suppose not everyone agrees.

> say nothing about how much gentler on the wrist it is

A bad mouse is as bad as bad posture on the keyboard. You only realize this once you're in pain. Not everyone reaches the point of pain.

> say nothing about how much gentler on the wrist it is

You should not be moving your wrist! Move your whole arm. Once again, one realizes this only when you're in pain. Not everyone reaches the point of pain.

> Then you can customize the menus and toolbar icons so you can be 1-2 clicks away from something that would otherwise require a chorded keypress or worse, an M-x command.

The same argument works for keyboard. If you're going the route of customizing the menu for particular commands, you can also customize the keyboard to minimize the keystrokes for those commands (e.g. via hydra).
by crazygringo | 2025-11-06 16:31:30+00:00
If you're never seen it used to be helpful, I don't know that to tell you. I have, all the time, and it seems entirely normal and unremarkable.

> My cynicism stems from roughly 20 years working as a developer

That saddens me. It seems like you've worked at some rough places, I'm sorry. But they're not all like that, and I wish you could see that.

> Not if it gets noticed and talked about on forums. It is then used as damage control.

I don't see how it's going to work as damage control. Can you explain how? Either it helps resolve things (good), or it doesn't and people keep complaining in the thread. I don't see any scenario where it controls damage. Damage control is things like locking a thread or shadowbanning. Not offering to call.

I'm really sorry you see everything through such a cynical lens.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-11-06 16:32:36+00:00
Publishing for money works by spreading the development costs over N customers. When N is large, you can spread the costs very thinly. That means better development and/or lower costs for each customer.

Your vision that each recipient has the right to break this compact just undermines the model. I really like that I can spend $20 at the theater to watch a movie that cost $100m to develop. And while I understand your point about HTTP, I would rather live in a world where costs can be easily shared fairly and efficiently. Yeah, some publishers will gouge me, but the market sorts that out.
by RobotToaster | 2025-11-06 16:32:50+00:00
Previously the WTO ruled that USA had imposed illegal trade barriers against Antigua that violate the GATS treaty by attempting to criminalise any website in any country that takes wagers from Americans[0]. I'm pretty sure any site blocking effort would violate the same treaty, but those cases can't be taken to the WTO due to the USA blocking appointments to the WTO appellate body since 2019 [1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua#Online_gambling

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appellate_Body
by sabatonfan | 2025-11-06 16:32:53+00:00
Having chatgpt as your therapist is actually wild.

Its yes-man abilities etc. will not help you and its always helpful to talk to another human being in the loop during therapy so that you know you are actually being sane.

Don't ever compromise money on your mental health.

If you need to, either join offline anonymous support groups or join some good forums/discord servers/reddit about therapy if you can not even afford that. They are good enough and I think personally for me, whats therapatic is to try to understand and help the other person who was struggling just as I once was y'know

But saying to use chatgpt as a therapist is just something that I hate a lot simply because in my opinion, it might actually even be harmful but I am not sure.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-06 16:33:16+00:00
This is the internet, so you still won't believe it but here are the actual settings. I reproduced almost exactly the same response a few minutes ago. You can see that there is NO system prompt and everything else is at the defaults.

Seriously, just try it yourself. Play around with some other unaligned models if you think it's just this one. LMStudio is free.

https://ibb.co/ksR6006Q https://ibb.co/8LgCh7q7

EDIT I feel gross for having turned it back on again.
by saberience | 2025-11-06 16:33:19+00:00
Sure but nobody is doing that, are they?

I'm talking about the standard settings, and infact GPT-5 doesn't let you change the temperature anymore.

Also, that's not really the point. Humans can also produce nonsense if you torture them until they're talking nonsense, but that doesn't mean humans are "random."

LLMs are not random, they are non-deterministic, but the two words have different meanings.

Random means you cannot tell what is going to be produced at all, i.e. a random number generator.

But if you ask an LLM, is an Apple a fruit, answer yes or no only, the LLM is going to answer yes, 100% of the time. That isn't random.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-06 16:33:19+00:00
The thing is, building such institutions and maintaining trust is expensive. Exploiting trust is lucrative (fraud, etc.) It's also expensive to not trust - all sorts of opportunities don't happen in that scenario if, say, you can't get a friend or relative in the right place.

There are many equilibrium points possible as a result. Some have more trust than others. The "west" has benefited hugely from being a high trust society. The sort of place where, in the Prisoner's Dilemma matrix, both parties can get the "cooperate" payoff. It's just that right now that is changing as people exploit that trust to win by playing "defect", over and over again without consequence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-06 16:33:30+00:00
The core of this issue is a power imbalance. Advertisers have the full power of American capital at their disposal, and as many PhDs who know exactly how to exploit human psychology as need. Asking people to "vote with their wallet", or talking about "revealed preferences", or expecting people to be able to cope with this system is nonsense in the face of the amount of power available to the marketers.

It's fundamentally exploitation on a population scale, and I believe it's immoral. But because it's also massively lucrative, capitalism allows us to ignore all moral questions and place the blame on the victims, who again, are on the wrong side of a massive power imbalance.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-06 16:34:44+00:00
Some will guesses, because guessing is free:

* I like the idea of using a lot of Bishops to snap a Queen or Rook in the first move. That's all my plan! And then try to lose material slowly, and win before the computer can compensate the difference.

* Looking at one of the fists game of Starcraft of AlphaStar, I guess that a lot of Bishops are overpowered for the computer, but difficult to use by a human. They are nice for the first few moves, but later they are too difficult to use for humans.

* A set of 13 Knight is probably better for the computer. It may make Magnus cry like a baby.

* I'm still surprised that Stockfish is so good in ridiculous scenarios.
by bri3d | 2025-11-06 16:34:59+00:00
That's the power of the Pico - the bit-banging happens in the PIOs, not the main cores. So idling takes no CPU (the idle symbols are pre-calculated and DMAed into the PIOs, which do the bit banging), and transmission only needs the CPU for framing and encoding, not the timing sensitive / interrupt driven bit-banging stuff.

The ADC example in the README is pretty fun; being able to stream data out to a PC at a high rate over a standard interface is always useful in some niche use case, and I don't think anyone has managed High Speed USB over PIO (yet?) so this is likely to be the fastest way.
by nagisa | 2025-11-06 16:35:00+00:00
A border router is not necessary in a typical installation! Its something you only need if you want to do fancy things. Otherwise a commissioner is sufficient (to bring the device onto the network.)

That said, it is entirely up to you how you would configure the system that the thread border router connects to. Thread specification uses local addresses for the thread devices, so in order for these devices to get access out into the public internet you would need to NAT the IPv6 pretty much (or the devices would have to be smart enough to figure out a globally routable IP address, via e.g. DHCP.) At the same time since it is all bog-standard IPv6, you also get full control with firewall rules, NAT/forwarding and such.

Overall you'd need either a very unusual device or a major misconfiguration off the beaten path to get thread devices talking on the public internet.
by Projectiboga | 2025-11-06 16:35:08+00:00
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Stopping this conversion can help reduce prostate size.

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by hkpatel3 | 2025-11-06 16:35:35+00:00
Perplexity Comet and ChatGPT Atlas authenticate using human credentials, making them vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. Auth-Agent solves this by giving AI agents their own credentials, enabling secure authentication for web and computer-using agents.

The current solution has browser use as the example web agent and it can easily sign in with auth agent.

This is fully open source. Please take a look at the repo and feel free to raise any issue or let me know your thoughts.
by Daishiman | 2025-11-06 16:35:51+00:00
His idea of it being "not insurmountable" is essentially us not starving to death in a mass scale.

I care, in my comfortable life as an office worker, about the fact that chocolate, coffee, and wine will become luxuries as yields and quality drastically drop off.

I care about the fact that many places I visit frequently will need A/C to be _survivable_.

Those are not civilization-ending events but the hubris you need to have to just hand-wave this away are beyond my understanding.
Show HN: Dynamic code and feedback walkthroughs with your coding Agent in VSCode
by cyrusradfar | 2025-11-06 16:35:53+00:00
I've been programming since I'm 6 and I don't want to quit. Since Agents came into existence I've been increasingly building more of the random ideas.

BUT, like many I kept getting stuck and frustrated where I wanted to make changes with the Agent that I knew I could've made without it but I had *no clue* how things worked.

I created Intraview to help me build and maintain a mental model of what I was building (or had vibed) so I could use my knowledge to either fix it myself, or provide more directed instruction. It grew into something that's transformed my workflow in a pleasant way.

Intraview is a VS Code extension that allows you to create: - Dynamic code tours built by your existing Agent - Storage and sharing of tours (it's a file) - Batch Feedback/commenting inline in IDE in-tour and without (it's also a file)

Here's a video walkthrough for the show vs tell crowd where I jump in a random (Plotly JS) open source repo and build a tour to get started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROBvFlG6vtY

Talking tech design, this is very different than most because the whole App is cloudless. Not server less, there's no external APIs (outside basic usage telemetry).

- basic TypeScript app, JS/CSS/HTML - Localhost MCP server inside VS Code (one per workspace open)

Three of the biggest challenges I faced was:

- re-considering the user experience given there's no database - trying to build a reasonable experience to manage MCP connection across so many different setups. - testing the many forks, Agents and themes because I wanted to make it look native (I'll probably reverse course here in future iterations)

What I'm curious about is, where do you see the value:

- New project/developer onboarding - PR reviews - Keeping up with Agentic code - Perf reviews (for EM), you could build a tour biggest contributions by a GitHub handle - Planning alignment and review with your Agent

You can see the extension page in VS Code with these custom links (Note: this redirects and requires permission to open VS Code, won't actually install, takes another click)

- for VS Code: https://intraview.ai/install?app=vscode - for Cursor: https://intraview.ai/install?app=cursor

Once it's installed and you confirm MCP is connected to your local server, just ask your Agent:

- Create an Intraview the onboarding for this app.. - Let's use Intraview to gather my feedback on [whatever you created]. Break down steps such that I can provide good granular feedback.

Looking forward to your feedback and discussion.

And because this is HN. A relevant quotable from PG.

“Your code is your understanding of the problem you’re exploring. So it’s only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem.” — Paul Graham
by SpikedCola | 2025-11-06 16:36:06+00:00
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> https://www.boringcactus.com/assets/site.js
by microtonal | 2025-11-06 16:36:10+00:00
I tried Home Assistant, but found it fiddly and to have weird limitations, e.g. the recommendation to limit statistics collection to 90 days for performance reasons (so you have to set up something like InfluxDB otherwise). The UI is also weird and not very logical.

weirdness going on in a regular home you need to accomodate that with any of these 'turnkey' solutions

Homey Pro supports user apps written in HomeyScript (which is JavaScript-based). Similar to Home Assistant, there are many community extensions, including more obscure things. For instance, our not-very-common heat pump is also supported in Homey. A lot of vendors make Homey apps as well.

In a household with more than one person, everyone eventually has to use the home automation system and with Homey (but also SmartThings), I am sure my wife can also manage it when necessary if I'm on the go. Managing Home Assistant + the hardware is going to take a lot more effort to learn.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-11-06 16:36:10+00:00
I'm honestly all for it. As AI keeps poisoning all aspects of online content and online interactions, people who care about that sort of thing will have to move back to in person interaction more.

The person you're physically interacting with might be using AI in their workflow, that's fine. I use AI too. I just don't want to "build a relationship" with AI. I don't care for AI "content". Art, blogs, articles, advertisements, even detestable things like sales and marketing are all forms of human relationships to me. It's fine if you wanna autogenerate it. I'm even "in the market" for autogenerates stuff as I use AI bots too, but you can't try to sell me a 100% automated-burger when I have the Fabricator 3000 too.

If I'm hungry and just want a burger, I'll get my Fabricator 3000 to generate one for me. If I'm in the mood for a human touch on food and a dining experience, I'll cook, go to a (reputable) restaurant or a friend's place who likes to cook. Maybe there is a market for you to run your Fabricator 3000 to generate a burger for me. maybe. I don't know why I'd buy it though when I can just get your prompt and feed it into my own Fabricator 3000...
by mlsu | 2025-11-06 16:36:51+00:00
I want my whole life to be optimized, so that I can consume far more but get nothing out of any of my consumption. Anything that requires art, ingenuity, and human effort can be compressed to a simple bullet point summary.

I don't care that Technology Connections is the perfect blend of campy midwestern technical pedantry, substantive detail, great editing, understated humor. It must undergo machine digestion, its humanity stripped, before being fed to me as a flat slurry. This way, I can optimize my consumption of slurry without ever encountering any of that pesky 'human spirit.'

Because that is optimal.
by reisse | 2025-11-06 16:36:57+00:00
For God's sake, Cloudflare is the last effin company to speak about site blocking. I can only quote myself from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45059003 :

> In my opinion, Cloudflare does a lot more censoring than all state actors combined, because they singlehandedly decide if the IP you use is "trustworthy" or "not", and if they decided it is not, you're cut off from like half of the Internet, and the only thing you can do is to look for another one. I'd really like if their engineers understood what Orwellian mammoth have they created and resign, but for now they're only bragging without the realization. Or at least if any sane antitrust or comms agency shred their business in pieces.