MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pfix | 2025-11-07 15:16:54+00:00
Ohh, these are excellent questions!

I understand OPs sentiment fully - and the response is probably "it depends" :D

Culture and Art is a volatile thing and let's assume a game and it's mods are a piece of culture and art. Then an update of the original that interrupts the original aspects is basically the destruction of art.

In olden times, in those 90s, when games were offline, you could mod to your hearts desire and nobody could take it away. And by now it's recognized as cultural heritage - even though those old games become less and less appealing to the audience that is used to better game ux (This is a bold statement by me. My generation grew up with those graphics and love them - our grandchildren will ask us why we did that like they will never understand why people used those loud noisy typewriters when you can tell your phone to write the text up)

Still - typewriters are still usable. But copyright law and online only games and forced updates really destroy that game you played 10 years ago as you cannot (legally) access it anymore. Mods can be updated but that requires recreating that art - if still possible with changed APIs.

But then game developers need to life off something and updating and improving games should always be in their right, see no mans sky and how it changed over the years to be a completely different game in a way that would not have been possible otherwise.

IMHO it would be simple to keep significant old versions available for the general public like WoW did with their Classic rollback (not sure if this is the best example) - or like system shock, there's the rewrite and there's the original and everyone can use that version they prefer without preventing the original developer from publishing and improving.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-11-07 15:17:39+00:00
Wow I wonder how fun conversations in the afterlife with Aaron are going to be for the OP. There are ways to improve broken systems. Pimping them out with glee is not one of them in my book.

Everything about this concept I hate and it’s difficult not to conflate that with the creator. I make comparisons and equivocations. This is an ethical discussion akin to “Can you enjoy Bill Cosby comedy knowing he was a Rapist” and I’m not being glib.
by 123AGI123 | 2025-11-07 15:17:52+00:00
We present a comprehensive system-level specification for a self-evolving artificial general intelligence (AGI) architecture, integrating symbolic energy metabolism, trace-based memory, modular structural reconfiguration, and vector-phase empathy. The system introduces a token-level energy accounting mechanism (SME) that transforms computational operations into energetic transactions, enabling endogenous resource allocation and structural growth. All interactions are recorded as Trace Units (TU), embedding full system state, loss decomposition, and oscillatory phase vectors, allowing for memory replay and conscious state reconstruction.

Loss signals are routed via a multi-stream Loss Divergence Router (LDR), enabling distinct optimization paths for fitting, semantic resilience, search entropy, and novelty stimulation. Structural changes occur in a dynamic four-layer graph memory (SMM), with controlled evolution (SEK) triggered by semantic inflection spikes (SIS), energy thresholds, and modularity growth. Awareness is modeled as a measurable, multi-level progression (A-1 to A3), with quantifiable conditions for phase synchronization, generalization gain, and structural energy ratios.

Human–machine communication is redefined through the Vector Empathy Session (VES), where user intent is inferred via multichannel behavior vectors, enabling non-linguistic alignment and artifact-first response generation. The system supports autonomous evolution, meta-learning, and decentralized phase coupling, enabling collective cognition and energy self-governance. All processes are fully auditable and revertible via the vector ledger.
by hajile | 2025-11-07 15:18:14+00:00
We need to have an easy way to pay small amounts for a one-time service. A lot of websites offer content that you need only a couple of times in your life. It's worth paying for, but not worth all the hassle of setting up a normal payment.

This leaves ads as the only form of revenue and because ads don't care about the content, this creates a race to the bottom on generating slop.
by taf2 | 2025-11-07 15:18:46+00:00
Looks really amazing but I'm wondering is this one available to download? I see this: "K2 Thinking is now live on kimi.com under the chat mode [1], with its full agentic mode available soon. It is also accessible through the Kimi K2 Thinking API." but will this be on huggingfaces? Would like to give it a test run locally.
by Svoka | 2025-11-07 15:18:55+00:00
Honestly, with this I see same results as with any other recommendation system - I type some nice Sci-fi/Fantasy I read, it give me generic Sci-Fi fantasy I already read. Even those I really didn't like.

I add those I like to the list, ignoring those I didn't, and in the end I just end up with recommendations I already read and didn't like.

I feel like wasted my time yet with another smart recommendation system.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-07 15:18:58+00:00
Why are you worried about performance for a 2D game that's basically moving a few sprites around the screen? A game like this shouldn't be taxing for modern hardware; and should even run cleanly on pretty much any computer made in the last 15-20 years. (Or even older, if you weren't using Javascript.)

As some of the other comments imply that there are some performance issues; more than using a profiler, I would make sure that your mental model of the event loop from your framework is correct. If all you're doing is moving some sprites around the screen, you need points where your code pauses because it has nothing to do. This could either be awaiting something from the framework, or putting most of your logic in callbacks that are triggered by the framework.

A different way to say it: Between frames, there's not that much calculation that your game needs to do when you're just moving a few sprites around in 2D. The event model that you hook into should be something where your game does its calculations, and then waits between frames.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 15:18:59+00:00
> the price for the product at that time

Exactly. The necessary hardware to enable the tracking was installed at the time of purchase. It is not like 10 years later someone dreamed up the idea and decided to stealthy in the night start bolting on new components to every vehicle they could find. It was a feature that was there at the time of purchase and the sale was priced accordingly.
by assemblyman | 2025-11-07 15:19:47+00:00
On the other hand, while I know nothing about Soumith, he clearly has enough financial runway (see my calc below) to not have to work again.

As far as I know, we all get one life. If one can help it (modulo other constraints), one should not get trapped by prestige, achievement, short-term admiration by others, impact and external facing factors. To see an alternate reality, it helps to escape the bubble, for example, by spending time in a completely different culture or environment where no one knows or cares about what one did.

I admire people taking such decisions. It's easy to be on autopilot in life. But, people who wear their success lightly are rare but more philosophically aware, in my opinion at least. I wish him good luck!
by modo_mario | 2025-11-07 15:19:49+00:00
The bbc was recently caught splicing trump clips together to make it sound like he said something else. Mind you I don't like Trump but the BBC is often touted as the best example in the anglosphere and repeatedly shows it isn't immune to these issues.

I do think it's good that there's a well funded option tho. I'd love it if they also focused on non opinionated documentaries since private media gutted ones like NatGeo and such.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-07 15:19:50+00:00
I hadn't thought of it like that, but it makes sense. The LLMs are essentially bred for the ones which give the 'best' answers (best fit to the test-takers expectation), which isn't always the 'right' answer. A parallel might be media feed algorithms which are bred to give recommendations with the most 'engagement' rather than the most 'entertainment'.
by strogonoff | 2025-11-07 15:20:54+00:00
First, in any case, the right solution is to make this business model (treating your users as a product, whether by offering free service or heavily discounted/subsidised product) simply illegal. It violates the way market is supposed to work and exploits information asymmetry—regulation against which there is plenty of precedent of.

This makes the rest moot, but I will still list why I don’t think it’s like you say at least in case of social media.

If social media was paid only (like any actual product or service intended to benefit the customer) and users were choosing between paying different amounts rather than paying vs. not paying, it would kill the network effect outright; platforms would have to struggle to keep users, and to that end would start implementing features users want and need (rather than exploiting their emotional state and employing dark patterns[0] to boost ad impressions).

The interest of a service provider is aligned with the interest of the customer. The incentive to do bad unethical things to the user may exist either way, but it is when the user is not the customer that it becomes a natural course of things. It is still possible to “double-dip”[1], but the difference between users being customers and users not being customers is that in the former you can be an honest service provider and sustain yourself by doing things in the benefit of the user.

[0] For example, have you noticed how Instagram’s GUI is carefully designed to require you to tap two times, with a teeny tiny chevron as the only indicator, every time you open the app to switch to the timeline of people you actually follow, rather than whatever the algorithm suggests (and how carelessly swiping photo carousel left makes you exist that carousel, and lose the scroll position)?

[1] Additionally, note that the examples you named (cars, IoT, OS[2]) make a lot of money from a single purchase and/or are fairly inflexible to switch away from, compared to social media where interoperability is pretty much solved with open standards.

[2] What is a paid-only streaming service that “dips” into advertisement in some unethical way?
by RankingMember | 2025-11-07 15:20:57+00:00
They didn't, you're right, but book stores themselves are on the decline [1]. Borders brick and mortar footprint is gone in the U.S. and they used to be the #2 bookseller. Barnes and Noble is holding on, thankfully. I love physical books and just the quiet ambience of a good bookstore.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/12/do-not-turn-t...
by D-Machine | 2025-11-07 15:21:31+00:00
No one follows a single individual, that is the point though. A collection of individuals not united by a corporation (e.g. social media) a priori is less controllable than a collection of individuals controlled by a corporation (e.g. news media). I think there is far more diverse information available today than there was in the days where all news was from corporations, and it remains to be seen whether this results in more bias or not. My money is on less bias though.
by patentatt | 2025-11-07 15:21:59+00:00
Same with streaming services, ad-free services seem to be unusually higher priced than the ad-supported tiers. Netflix for example charges $10 for ad-free over the ad support tier ($18 vs. $8). I’ve seen estimates that ad revenue per subscriber is less than that, maybe $4-$8. And there’s a cost to that revenue as well, so their profit is even lower. Why go through all that trouble? Maybe the economics works out somehow, in that users willing to pay to get rid of ads are so price insensitive they may as well squeeze them for more money? Or the lower subscription cost opens up enough new subscribers to make it worthwhile to tolerate a much lower margin. I am very suspicious though and wonder if there is a more insidious or otherwise opaque motivation behind it. Is there some kind of ‘soft power’ benefit to being in the ad business?
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-07 15:22:41+00:00
> There's no such thing as government funded independent media.

That is just ridiculously false. Take for example the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which was recently forced to shut down due to losing its federal funding.

And I'm not talking about accreditation for individual journalists. I'm talking about funding reputable and honest publication groups.

With more funding to improve local coverage and access, we not only get better diversity of reporting, we also help cover local events and topics better for people.
by la6776 | 2025-11-07 15:22:54+00:00
How reductive! I don't know what your qualms are with TikTok, but I can't imagine that decades of news media driven primarily by soundbites just as short as your average TikTok video can be seen as a superior "narrative delivery vehicle" ...unless you really place a premium on a corporate media bias influenced by pharmaceutical companies and the military industrial complex.
by mamcx | 2025-11-07 15:23:30+00:00
The problem is the deps: You can have Rust with no nulls, but the OS was made by it. You can have a RDBMS with ACID, but the file system is liar.

Then, you can make a product that was applied engineering, but you can't replace all the others that not.

Civil engineering and friends have the advantage that is built on top of the universe, that despite claims to the contrary, was not hacked with perl!
by shagie | 2025-11-07 15:23:30+00:00
The key is to not give it any agency over the work product but rather have it act as an editor or advisor that can offer suggestions but every thing that goes into the document is typed by human hands.

Giving it a document and asking it about edge cases or things that may be not covered in the document. Asking it for various ways that one could argue against a given pleading and then considering ways that those could be headed off before they could even be raised.

In my on cases (writing short fiction), having it act as an editor and identifying grammatical mistakes, contradictory statements, ambiguous sentences, and tone mismatch for a given character has been very helpful... but I don't have it write the short fiction for me.

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For software where it may be used to generate some material (write a short function that does...) the key is short. Something that I can verify and reason about without too much effort.

However, changes that are of the scope of hundreds of lines are exhausting to review no matter if an LLM or a junior dev wrote them. I would expect that similar things would be the case of several paragraphs or pages of legalese that would need additional levels of reading and reasoning and verifying.

If its too much to reason about and verify - its asking too much.

I'd no more trust an LLM to find citations to cases than I'd trust it to program a lesser known framework (where they've been notorious for hallucinating up functions that don't exist).
by noir_lord | 2025-11-07 15:23:34+00:00
So by your standards, it's totally fine for Lenovo to use the laptop you bought from them to mine crypto a year after you bought it from them because the necessary hardware to enable that (it having a GPU) was installed at the time.

I mean it's a viewpoint, it's a certifiably bonkers one but of all the viewpoints it definitely is one.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-07 15:23:43+00:00
If copying isn’t theft then I guess we can stop worrying about open source licensing. Anyone, including corporations, would be able to take open source code and copy it into their own products, reselling it without consent or releasing their changes because they haven’t stolen anything, just copied it, right?

If you spend years of your life writing some software and then it accidentally gets revealed to the world by mistake, anyone can copy it and use it as their own? Because copying isn’t theft, theft they haven’t stolen anything from you, so you have nothing to complain about?
by jesse__ | 2025-11-07 15:24:01+00:00
First off, yay for making games! I love working on games, and have spent many, many hours doing it, so welcome to the club :)

Second, let me introduce you to my good friend, the profiler. A profiler is an absolutely indispensable tool for making games. Find one that you like, and learn to wield it with laser-guided precision.

Generally, there are two things you want a good profiler to tell you about; execution speed, and memory. Finding a profiler that tells you about execution speed is pretty easy (basically all of them at least nominally do that), and finding one that also profiles memory (in a useful way) is somewhat harder. I'm not sure of the state of profilers for Javascript, but maybe the tool you're using (KAPLAY) has one built-in?

From my long-forgotten days of programming javascript, one thing you want to look out for (which is difficult to spot without a profiler), is creating memory leaks. Memory leaks in Javascript can be a double-edged sword; you're both using more memory than you should, and the garbage collector has more pressure on it. Over time, this can bring an application to a crawl as the GC spends more and more time traversing leaked objects.

Good luck friend. It's dangerous to go alone, take this :sword:
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-07 15:24:04+00:00
> We are talking about ads and promoted videos.

Ad and "promoted" videos are different in this context. And the OP was mentioning promoted videos, not ads.

> At least 50% of the YouTube promoted videos

I've never seen a "promoted video" (whatever that is specfically) that deals with crypto. Note: Premium users can still see promoted videos. I imagine these are more targetted to people who would want to watch these sorts of videos.

> Nothing to do with what it is recommending unless I am entirely conflating the root of this subject.

I was referring to recommended not in a strictly technical sense, but in a way any normal person would use the term. e.g. Recommended videos meaning: All the videos youtube shows me that it thinks I might want to watch. Whether these are officially "Recommended" or "Subscribed" or "Promoted" or whatever, I don't know.

What I do know is that I don't see any crypto scam videos or ads.

> If that is true, then of course you would never have seen these as a premium user.

Apparently, that's not the case.

tl;dr: We are talking about videos like normal people. You are wrong.
by greenie_beans | 2025-11-07 15:25:26+00:00
so sick!! always wanted to do something like this but would use it for my saas (https://bookhead.net), so i'm hesitant to scrape goodreads due to their terms of service.

in addition to the goodreads data, i think it would be interesting to add an author's favorite books by scraping their paris review interviews (and other interviews) and using that as a "review" because i've learned about so much good stuff through an artist mention.

and in a retail context, i've always wondered if a recommendation engine like this could have its own "flavor" based on a specific store's customer buying history. like if a bookstore's customers were weighted in the algorithm so that their similarities scores were given preference. much of what a bookstore carries is based on their customers' taste. you could use the goodreads etc as the base recommendations and then train it on a bookstore's sales history.

a project like this is a bit outside of my expertise but i have a tiny bit of knowledge about it, and now i have a lot more to learn after seeing this. if anybody has any good book recommendations (hehe) or papers i should read to learn about these sort of systems, please let me know!

thank you for sharing!!
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-11-07 15:25:27+00:00
Just to play devil's advocate with some pointed questions:

What is so important about the Vietnam war for the day-to-day of the Vietnamese young?

It's the generation that have fallen prey to today's social media and garbage news outlets telling us that history is important -- why should the young be credulous to the gullible?

If the old adage "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is to be acted upon, it is without a doubt not to study history and try to remember the past because clearly we're always repeating it.

So what is important and constant across time? Those that have empathy (or fake empathy) for the masses and can galvanize them have the power to drive society. Perception is reality more than facts are reality in all but the sciences. If the world were to reset and humans were stripped of all tools, they would re-invent math, science, biology, physics. I doubt that our laws, traditions and zeitgeist would be replicated.
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-07 15:25:32+00:00
> Why is everyone comparing it to the "hidden debug site" instead of the old profiles UI? Yeah no shit, about:profiles is not discoverable to the average user, much like all the other about: pages, but why would anyone not debugging the browser use it over the normal profiles UI?

"about:profiles" wasn't a debug view, it was the "normal" profiles UI; it was the only way to get to the ProfileManager without closing Firefox and reopening it with a CLI flag. For most of its life in Firefox it never had a menu item or toolbar button.

> I vastly prefer native(?-like) UI, way more over yet another Metro-UI clone with sluggish behaviour and no keyboard bindings.

Firefox has never used native controls. They were "XUL" controls for a long while, but that had several major revisions. (Netscape had some XUL predecessors, probably some port or fork of a Unix toolkit like Qt or Tk?) But the trick to XUL was it was always the same renderer as HTML for the most part. Then in the somewhat controversial at the time decision to kill off XUL Firefox moved to just HTML everywhere.

The new Profile Manager seemed to have keyboard bindings and didn't feel sluggish to me. The one loan complaint with it is that it doesn't have a way yet to surface profiles made before using the new Manager, but I assume that will come with time and expect that's one of the things to fix before the new one replaces the old one.
by accrual | 2025-11-07 15:25:36+00:00
Wow, congrats on the significant release, OpenMW team!

> In out-of-combat situations, Morrowind updates awareness only every so often, and characters don't have superhuman (or superelvish) reaction time while observing your… exploits

I laughed. This reminded me of playing Oblivion, carefully stealthing my way through an NPC's belongings, only to pick up 1 gold and hear "STOP! You've violated the law!".

> As the 0.49.0 release announcement boasted, running Oblivion and later Bethesda open-world engine games is in the engine’s eventual scope.

So cool! I see the demo Oblivion screenshot. I would adore playing Oblivion on a Morrowind-like engine. Both games have their merits but I always liked the more retro/polygonal charm of Morrowind.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-11-07 15:25:51+00:00
Does anyone under 65 consume traditional news anymore? They don't even try to hide their own biases these days, it's kinda gross. Sure, the same interests have found their way onto social media by influencing influencers, but the expectations are lower.

Though I think the real problem is if you are somewhat knowledgeable about any topic, the news will always get important details incorrect when they cover it. I believe there is a famous quote about that, but I definitely noticed it when I was a teenager in the 90s. I think this is the real reason Jon Stewart is the most trusted news figure for people of a certain age, and why social media/streamers/whatever are more trusted for younger people. That is, if you present things in a less authoritative manner, we're more likely to forgive factual errors.