MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-26 21:47:38+00:00
Specifically, the COVID policies massively impacted people trying to spread official info about covid even.

Which is the primary problem of any youtube policy: It's not real, because they treat the output of some underspecced ML model as gods truth.

There was a period where you could not say the word covid without getting downranked, even in passing

Even if you believe it was important to limit the spread of misinformation about covid, youtube did not do that, and made things worse

I don't like Rumble, but Brandon Herrera I think has created a new platform specifically for Guntubers, and I don't very much like the man's content but I hope it succeeds because the policies around guns are just absurd and broken, and generally do not even remotely match the claimed policy.

Similarly, the guy from Armchair Historian tried to go his own way, but I think that failed.

The problem is not "any moderation", or "the left", like rumble seems to think. The problem is that Google's claimed policies are not their actual policies, and their claimed policies are fairly stupid and restricted for all audiences, especially if you aren't American, and are driven entirely by advertiser preferences and dice rolls.
by Analemma_ | 2025-11-26 21:47:42+00:00
Because they make a shitload of money by arranging Amazon search results in a certain way, selling favorable placement on those results, and inserting upsells ("Try Amazon Prime!") into the checkout process, all of which are at risk if Chat-GPT becomes a frontend to buying on Amazon. (Note that they are already vigorously going after Perplexity for trying to be an Amazon frontend)

In general, Big Tech will never allow itself to be just the backend to a service where another company controls the frontend and the relationship to the customer. That's how you get commoditized and ultimately replaced.

Examples: you cannot get a streaming box with universal search ("which streaming service has show X? Just hit play and go"): the streaming services staunchly refuse to provide the APIs to do so. Nor is there interoperability across messaging apps to let users supply their own frontend clients. AI and MCP will go much the same way, it will be locked down as soon as it presents a business model threat.
by xiaomai | 2025-11-26 21:48:08+00:00
Native phone apps give me the creeps. I assume the developer's are able to track me in various ways even without my giving permissions. Is that an unfounded fear on my part?

Can an app uniquely identify me if I don't give it control over my phone number / nearby devices?

Can apps geo-locate me if the location permission has not been granted? (seems like they could just make a network request to their servers and use the IP address of the request for a rough idea).

I _really_ wish using the network was a permission (even if it was an "advanced mode" thing).
by smt88 | 2025-11-26 21:48:37+00:00
A) It used to suck

B) It's not that popular for frontend, which is a very important concern for most early startups

C) Microsoft was historically only used because it was Microsoft, not because it was the best choice

It's mostly a Microsoft brand problem that they rightfully earned by being bullies producing over-complex, stagnant corporate IT trash.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-26 21:48:46+00:00
In my world, I define myself what I consider to be a sin.

My Youtube feed has an amazing abundance of great content. I'm learning stuff with it all the time from creators that aren't prima facie lying scumbags.

Others are free to keep the likes of Scotty Killmer and Linus employed. That's fine.

They're dead to me, and I do not miss them in my life.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-26 21:49:01+00:00
That Far Side base is irrelevant unless is can be supplied, at scale. Talk to a few folks who served in Afghanistan about the costs and miseries of long logistical pipelines to great-in-theory locations.

Then, the base has to easily project serious military power to places that matter to us. Lunar escape velocity is ~2.4km/s, which is not trivial. After that, transit time to Earth is multiple days. Vs. current ICBM's can put nuclear warheads anywhere, in under an hour, without actually achieving LEO.

BTW - if nation C can haul enough stuff to the Far Side to build a substantial base, then obviously it's neither untargetable nor unreachable for nation U.
by kvemkon | 2025-11-26 21:49:17+00:00
Now that PCIe 5.0 SSDs are available since 6+ months and you could backup your SSD with 15 GB/s but:

> you’re still writing at 1.5GB/sec.

Except of few seconds at the start, the whole process lasts as if you had PCIe 2.0 (15+ years ago). Having so fast SSDs there is no chance to make a quick backup/restore. And during restore you're second time in a row too slow.

It's crazy that instead of using slow PLC at the time of slow PCIe 1.0, back then fast SLC was in use. Now with PCIe 5.0 when you really need fast SLC, you get slow TLC or very slow QLC or even worse PLC coming.
by encom | 2025-11-26 21:50:17+00:00
An annoying trend I've noticed is being asked for phone number or email at checkout (IRL). I bought a blood pressure meter a few days ago, and the salesman asked "what phone number should I put on the order?" Zero. Fuck off. I guess most people just answer out of reflex, or believe it's required to complete the purchase. It's creepy and irritating.
by kbaker | 2025-11-26 21:50:21+00:00
> The Far Side is the only place in the Earth Moon system where you can hide military hardware and basically disappear. No optical tracking, no radar, no interception.

What prevents someone from sending a Lunar-orbiting imaging satellite to image everything on the Far Side? The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has already been imaging the Far Side for over a decade.

I agree with your general points about it being a difficult location to get to, but if it's possible to put regular satellites in Lunar orbit, surely its possible to park some warheads too just in case...
by darth_avocado | 2025-11-26 21:50:30+00:00
The second screen effect is largely overstated when it comes to why movies suck. While it’s true for some movies and TV shows that end up being streaming exclusives, the same problem doesn’t exist in theatrical releases or even shows for TV for streaming services like HBO.

Modern movies suck mostly because of Hollywood mostly being risk averse and prioritizing profit over everything else. This leads to IPs being sequels, prequels, remakes, “parts of the universe” or adaptations of existing successful IPs. This also leads to creative directions that are “designed to pull maximum audiences” or in other words average. Almost every single Marvel movie has the same plot with a few changes in characters. It also translates to situations where ideas that would otherwise be successful being tabled. K-POP demon hunters is a great example, an original IP, that audiences want, being sold to Netflix because the executives somewhere did a couple of focus groups and came to the conclusion that this won’t work. Another side effect is lack of innovation. Pixar animation has largely been stale for years now, meanwhile Ne Zha 2 is taking in billions worldwide, Demon Slayer is was one of the most popular movies in the US despite its limited release and Arcane is one of the best rated TV shows ever. There’s a lot more like fewer stand ins to save money that make scenes look “empty and soulless”, overuse of CGI, overuse of Pedro Pascal, etc.

All in all, it’s enshittification if movies because less profit is unacceptable.
by liamconnell | 2025-11-26 21:50:56+00:00
Good point!

On the other hand, Historically Amazon didnt compete with Google (until GCP). They do compete with Microsoft, which is pretty closely aligned with OAI. They also have large investments in Anthropic.

Even if OpenAI did win here, would it be a profit monster like Google Adwords? Adwords had the auction model which meant that certain categories were hugely lucrative for Google. Can a chatbot do the same? If I know that the product I buy is simply auctioned off to the highest bidder, what's the point of using an agent to help me shop? There has to be a pretext of the agent actually looking out for my best interest, otherwise I would just use search. Nobody expects adwords to look out for their best interest. They are always free to skip the ads section if they choose.

It will be hard for ChatGPT to implement an auction model since it will be different for each product category. Hiring a lawyer will probably have a different interaction from buying groceries. On Google+AdWords, its all just search results and ads.

If there is no auction, then all of this is WAY less profitable than the Google model. So once again - not going to save OAI from negative margins.
by eastbound | 2025-11-26 21:51:03+00:00
So what is it? Comanagement between EU representatives and Apple employees? It looks like the German model where unions co-manage the companies.

On the paper it looks great, but the problem is the EU is not necessarily representing its citizens. It’s great for my Apple products, but I’m also paying for an entire lavish class of superior citizen in Brussels who implement laws written by lobbies.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-26 21:51:40+00:00
I have no clue what point you're trying to make. Super Mario and Predator are both classics of their genre, they're massively different. A Big Mac and Whopper are both hilariously inferior to any decent local burger place, or hell, even a chain that vaguely gives a shit like Five Guys or Freddy's. Home Alone 1 and 2 are both classics.

If you genuinely have never felt different after consuming any art for your entire life, that sounds like my personalized version of hell.
by tptacek | 2025-11-26 21:52:05+00:00
Whoah, this degree of incivility also not helping the case I want to make here!

I agree with pretty much everything you've said on this thread, which makes it all the more important to me it be expressed persuasively and not angrily. Remember: you're not just writing to the person you're responding to, but also to everybody else who reads the thread. Trust readers to spot inane arguments, if you perceive them to be coming up!
by mandevil | 2025-11-26 21:53:03+00:00
A couple of months ago I started listening to the Scriptnotes podcast, by Craig Mazin (showrunner for Chernobyl and Last of Us, also wrote for Scary Movie and Hangover sequels) and John August (Go, Charlie's Angels, Big Fish, etc.). They discussed receiving notes like that from executives on their scripts- that there needed to be a line of dialog here to explain, rather than just using the visual to explain, so that someone on their phone could follow along.

There are, of course, ways that writers and directors get to ignore executive feedback, have a bunch of recent hits already is one, do your movie outside the studio system is another, have it in your contract because you gave up some money or whatever is a third. This is why some movies are still made in older ways, but from what they said that feedback is pretty universal now.
by mncharity | 2025-11-26 21:53:15+00:00
Years back I attended someone doing an NSF outreach tour in support of Next Generation Science Standards. She was breathtaking (literally - bated breath on "how is that question going to be handled?!?"). Heartfelt hostile misguided questions, too confused to even attain wrong, somehow got responses which were, not merely positive and compassionate, but which managed to gracefully pull out constructive insights for the audience and questioner. One of those "How do I learn this? Can I be your apprentice?" moments.

The Wikipedia community (at least 2 decades back) was also notable. You have a world of nuttery making edits. The person off their meds going article by article adding a single letter "a". And yet a community ethos that emphasized dealing with them with gentle compassion, and as potential future positive contributors.

Skimming a recent "why did perl die" thread, one thing I didn't see mentioned... The perl community lacked the cultural infrastructure to cope with the eternal-September of years of continuous newcomer questions, becoming burned out and snarky. The python community emphasized it's contrast with this, "If you can't answer with friendly professionalism, we don't need your reply today" (or something like that).

Moving from tar files with mailing lists, to now community repos and git and blogs/slack/etc, there's been a lot of tech learned. For example, Ruby's Gems repo was explicitly motivated by "don't be python" (then struggling without a central community repo). But there's also been the social/cultural tech learned, for how to do OSS at scale.

> My only doubt is whether this has a good or bad effect overall

I wonder if a literature has developed around this?
by mmcclure | 2025-11-26 21:53:45+00:00
I switched to using PWAs for social media apps for similar reasons the author outlines. A pleasant, but somewhat unintended consequence is that I just use them a lot less because the experience is pretty bad. It makes me a little sad because I’ve always believed in the PWA dream, but the reality is that they’re bad because companies certainly don’t want to make an experience that rivals the app they really want you to download.

Expected, but just leads to reinforcing the idea that PWAs won’t ever be as good when every one people try from someone with a popular app is so awful.
by Fricken | 2025-11-26 21:54:21+00:00
The 90s was the best decade for film, it was peak. One thing about the blockbusters of the 90s is that they were made to appeal to Western tastes.

Throughout the 2000s Hollywood drew progressively more and more revenue from global audiences, and by the 2010s most big budget films were pandering to the global lowest common denominator, and the majority of them are an insult to my intelligence.
by kebokyo | 2025-11-26 21:54:51+00:00
I subscribe to a Telegram channel that posts the most recent posts on HN that meet a certain minimum karma threshold. Because it's a public channel, anyone can add emoji-based "reactions" to posts and have those reactions displayed for everyone else viewing to the channel.

The reactions as of 2025-26-25T21:51:30Z are as follows:

kiss 10; crying face 2; moai statue 2; trophy 1

The only things I can think of as to why so many people are reacting with a kiss emoji are a. people think the distorted "new girl" is hot, or b. people think the author's fursona is hot

I'm personally rooting for the latter, but I'm biased (see website for proof)
by ggm | 2025-11-26 21:54:53+00:00
"If a thing which is remote and in the future takes the characteristic of being done first by my adversary then the mostly likely outcome is a marvel universe dystopia endgame where everything we do is fruitless and they win and we lose"

Look, I get you don't think you wrote hyperbole, but you did. Getting to a strategic capability based on far side occupancy and assuming that automatically is non competitive and incurs first to file wins outcome.. please. The most likely outcome is an antarctica treaty. The next most likely outcome is broadly speaking comparable capabilities and MAD.

By all means wargame your own vision where China does it solo and nobody else can compete.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-26 21:55:01+00:00
For similar reasons, a while ago I created a forum and registered https://rangerovers.pub - it's about Range Rovers, and we thought about doing it while we were in a pub. The Bon Accord in Glasgow, to be specific, after a lot of very fine curry in the Koh-I-Noor (gone now, sadly).

Gosh, now I look, it's ten years old in December. It's a pub. Where you talk about crappy old Landrovers and their ailments.

It's also an oldschool forum, and although I'm not really a fan of forums I'd far rather see those back over endless Discourse/Discord/reddit/facebook etc. Host it yourself on a VPS that costs a tenner. Own all your own data. If a couple hundred a year to run it is too much, ask your friends to chip in.

Take the Internet back.
by philipkglass | 2025-11-26 21:55:51+00:00
This is not a cravings loss drug but largely a cravings management drug. Which is still pretty great but it saddles healthcare funding systems with an enormous burden for the next 20 years.

Semaglutide goes off-patent in 2032 in the US, and in 2026 in Canada and China:

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/blog/vi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK602920/table/t03/
by UncleOxidant | 2025-11-26 21:56:03+00:00
But the thing is, the Voyager project came about in a much more stable period for the US - and in a more optimistic cultural climate (we could say similar for the Apollo project which wasn't that much earlier). When we used to prioritize spending on basic science and projects like this that basically had no ROI (NASA didn't even much think in those terms back in the 70s). Now we're in a very different place where, in the US anyway, we're very pessimistic about the future. To create a Voyager project you have to have some hope, like you said "with the assumption that that future would exist and might care" - now we're in a very different place where people don't have a lot of hope about the future. And it's also different in that we now ask "what's the payback going to be?" - everything now seems to need to pay it's way.

Not saying that other countries won't be able to do stuff like this - probably China is going to take the position that the US used to hold for this kind of exploration. It seems to be a more optimistic culture at this point, but hard to say how long that lasts.
by healsdata | 2025-11-26 21:56:29+00:00
Babies. 8% of the patients under that category are Age 0

Edit: the full billing code is "Obstetric and gynaecological devices associated with adverse incidents" Billing code Y76 "describes the circumstance causing an injury, not the nature of the injury."

So injuring a baby during delivery with forceps would result in this code.
by hyperhello | 2025-11-26 21:57:37+00:00
> A Big Mac and Whopper are both hilariously inferior to any decent local burger place

You have agreed with me. They are essentially the same. There is no real situation where one cannot be substituted for the other. Now that you have stopped pretending, you may reach a point where you realize that my other statements are true as well.

Or, you may not. That sounds like my impersonalized version of hell.
by fingerlocks | 2025-11-26 21:57:37+00:00
Apple made major contributions to USB-C and adopted it a decade ago in their MacBooks. They were committed to lightning for 10 years starting in 2012-ish, so usb-c was likely inevitable in iOS devices.

However I would preferred a backwards compatibility lightning 2.0 upgrade. Cleaning a usb-c port is a huge pain and they are more prone to pocket lint clogging than lightning.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-11-26 21:57:39+00:00
As someotherguyy already mentioned, this is a default feature in pnpm.

And as far as cat-and-mouse-games go in other package managers, I'd say that pinning dependencies and disabling postinstall scripts is a much better option. Sure, not a foolproof one either, but as good as it gets.

edit: misspelled someotherguyy's user name
by perihelions | 2025-11-26 21:57:45+00:00
Disagree on the technical aspects. It'd be inexpensive to monitor adversary military activities on the lunar far side: one lunar satellite would do it. The gravity well is not trivial, and any launches from the surface (should this become a thing) would be immediately visible from high orbit, by the intense infrared glow of rocket combustion exhaust. (Exact same way nuclear early warning systems work on Earth, for that matter[0]).

Agree that the general concept is a serious one, but I don't think the numbers work out on your specific implementation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Support_Program#Histor...
by poszlem | 2025-11-26 21:58:10+00:00
I'm not talking about planting a flag and saying "dibs." I'm talking about the first country that reaches actual sustained capability, moving mass, building infrastructure, supplying it, and controlling the surrounding space. Whoever gets there first shapes the rules, because that's how every strategic domain has worked so far!

That's why "just let China have the Moon" doesn't really hold up. These places are only neutral when no one has the power to enforce anything. Once a country can build, maintain, and defend a Far Side installation, the incentives shift. If multiple nations reach that level around the same time, fine, you get something like MAD. But if one gets there years ahead of everyone else, it's not going to look like Antarctica, it's going to look like someone taking the high ground before anyone else can contest it.
by zizee | 2025-11-26 21:58:14+00:00
The SLS is widely understood to be less about research and development, and more about pork barreling, and jobs program. I don't buy that humanity should avoid investing in space travel because US Congress and surrounding governmental beaurcracy is not running projects effectively. That argument would stop just about any human activity.

It's pretty difficult to predict what spinoffs would come from attempting to put a colony on Mars. I would imagine to succeed we would need to solve a lot of challenges with human biology, genetic engineering, automation, and many novel engineering solutions.

But economics is not the only reason to do things, and I bet you don't expect everything humans do to have a purely economic rational.
by jbombadil | 2025-11-26 21:58:20+00:00
100% agree. The level of tracking has gotten to absurd levels.

I needed a couple of grocery items and happened to be next to an Amazon Fresh. Cool, let’s try it! Went in, found everything I needed and went to self checkout. When it was time to pay, the machine wouldn’t accept Apple Pay. I ask an employee who helpfully informs me that I can pay with physical cards or my Amazon account.

I didn’t have my physical cards, nor wanted to do my Amazon account so I had to leave empty handed. Why don’t they accept Apple Pay? Because they can’t track you. If you use a physical card, they can likely link that card number to an Amazon account and thus attribute the purchase to a person. If you pay with contactless payment they get a one time token that they can’t tie to anyone.
by belter | 2025-11-26 21:58:28+00:00
You really dont get it...when your returns are so unusual that whole professional options platforms exist to track your performance, something stinks.

https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy...

Your probably also believe Hillary Clinton is a pro futures trader... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_cattle_futures...

"...One analysis performed by Auburn University and published in the Journal of Economics and Finance claimed to find that the odds of a return as large as Clinton obtained during the period in question were about one in 31 trillion..."
by llm_nerd | 2025-11-26 21:58:58+00:00
Users all got to complain that the EU are the meanies responsible for their old wires and chargers and accessory no longer being compatible, but it seems infinitely more likely that Apple was going to adopt USB-C on largely the same schedule even if the EU didn't intercede.

To be clear, Apple had already moved their laptops and computers to USB-C -- long in advance of almost any one else -- and had moved their iPad Pros and Air to USB-C, building out the accessory set supporting the same, years before the EU decree. Pretty convenient when they get to blame the EU for their smartphones making the utterly inevitable move.
Show HN: A visual AI interface to understand topics/books/papers with LLMs
by kanodiaayush | 2025-11-26 21:59:40+00:00
LLMs make us feel like we can learn anything, but chat is just one primitive. I'm trying to build interfaces which let us cover a topic our sources at length with AI. These interfaces let us consolidate our understanding at glance so we don't get lost in long chat message histories, zoom in and zoom out of information fast and minimize tedious work such as context engineering. Curious if you find this interesting, and have feedback! Please try it (it's free).