MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ux266478 | 2025-11-12 14:52:43+00:00
I think it would give me a life crisis and I'd feel like a failure of a boss if I learned my otherwise productive employees felt they couldn't watch sloptube the clock. A sysadmin that isn't constantly jacked into nethack is hardly a sysadmin at all. You should really demand more humane working conditions if you feel like you have to micro-optimize your work day.
by giuliomagnifico | 2025-11-12 14:53:37+00:00
I already wrote “over 18”. AI is already regulated, you can’t use it if you’re under 14/18. But if you want to ask ChatGPT “what’s the meaning of everything” or “can we have digital children”, that’s a personal choice.

People are weird… for someone who is totally alone, having a virtual wife/child could be better than being completely alone.

They’re not using ChatGPT to do anything illegal, and already regulated, like planning to kill someone or commit theft.
by rob | 2025-11-12 14:53:40+00:00
We use this for AI transcriptions internally on our Linode VPS server.

It's been working great by itself for the most part since the beginning of the year, with only a couple of hiccups along the way.

We do use a custom cookies.txt file generated on the server as well as generate a `po_token` every time, which seems to help.

(I originally thought everything would just get blocked from a popular VPS provider, but surprisingly not?)

Most recently though, we were getting tons of errors like 429 until we switched to the `tv_embedded` client, which seems to have resolved things for the most part.
by nerdjon | 2025-11-12 14:53:47+00:00
This screams just as genuine as Google saying anything about Privacy.

Both companies are clearly wrong here. There is a small part of me that kinda wants openai to loose this, just so maybe it will be a wake up call to people putting in way too personal of information into these services? Am I too hopeful here that people will learn anything...

Fundamentally I agree with what they are saying though, just don't find it genuine in the slightest coming from them.
by brightball | 2025-11-12 14:54:19+00:00
> Okay, but why does it matter what morons say? A doctor or immunologist would usually say "Eh, whatever" to this request. Did a doctor call you an anti-vaxxer?

The doctor did act like it was a hassle and their office now has a sign refusing service to any parents who wish to deviate from the official schedule.

> There is tons of public information to the contrary. Jenny McCarthy for example was anti-vax two decades ago and shouting it from the rooftops.

Did she ever challenge whether or not vaccines worked to prevent what they were supposed to prevent? Pretty sure she was just talking about total volume.
Show HN: Domain Is Yours – For a Day
by matthiasstiller | 2025-11-12 14:54:25+00:00
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It’s a rotating showcase of what’s being built right now — simple, fast, and constantly changing. We believe the web should feel alive — not static pages, but moments.

This is our way to bring that energy back.

Thanks!

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by pshirshov | 2025-11-12 14:55:44+00:00
Finally, finally, I can use something apart from Kotlin Multiplatform and Electron to build slow alien-looking applications with annoying animations and phone-styled UX for Linux (and, let me guess, there is no native Wayland backend). Of course the set of widgets is comprehensive - there are button and checkboxes, what else might we need.

I'm wondering why all the demos of modern UI toolkits look and feel worse than Delphi 1 demos from prehistoric age.
by aryonoco | 2025-11-12 14:55:46+00:00
What are you talking about C# being tied to Visual Studio? This is 2025 not 1995.

I do my hobby .NET development in Zed and my serious work in Rider. .NET is open source and MIT licences. I do most of my development on a ARM MacBook Pro, or using my workstation which runs Fedora.

We deploy our code on kubernetes clusters usually on AWS.

All of the tooling, compiler, libraries etc are open source and cross platform and free. Not a single one of the developers in my team uses Windows or Visual Studio.
by musebox35 | 2025-11-12 14:55:48+00:00
Google Deepmind is the closest lab to that idea because Google is the only entity that is big enough to get close to the scale of AT&T. I was skeptical that the Deepmind and Google Brain merge would be successful but it seems to have worked surprisingly well. They are killing it with LLMs and image editing models. They are also backing the fastest growing cloud business in the world and collecting Nobel prizes along the way.
by karel-3d | 2025-11-12 14:56:03+00:00
From https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404

> What about Selenium or a headless browser solution?

>

> The yt-dlp maintainers have no interest in doing this except as a measure of last resort. A headless browser solution would be an admission of defeat and would go against the spirit of this project.
by dahart | 2025-11-12 14:56:04+00:00
Here’s a datapoint: this project simulates ~100K rigid body blocks per second will full collision in 10 milliseconds (or roughly ~10M blocks per second). https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/projects/avbd/

They mention it’s 3x faster when turning collision off. I don’t know what the memory footprint of a block is, but I’d speculate that small round particles (sphere plus radius) are an order of magnitude faster.

Modern GPUs are insanely fast. A higher end consumer GPU like a 5090 can do over 100 teraflops of fp32 computation if your cache is perfectly utilized and memory access isn’t the bottleneck. Normally, memory is the bottleneck, and at a minimum you need to read and write your particles every frame of a sim, which is why the sibling comments are using memory bandwidth to estimate the number of particles per second. I’d guess that if you were only adverting particles without collision, or colliding against only a small number of big objects (like the particles collide against the planet and not each other) then you could move multiple billions of particles per second, which you would might divide by your desired frame rate to see how many particles per frame you can do.
by Bender | 2025-11-12 14:56:09+00:00
daft draft version 0.0000001. feel free to make fun of the html

If using OpenSSH v10 one can add a long VersionAddendum to get poorly coded SSH bots that's most of them stuck and force the botter to exclude us rather than us having to whack-a-mole their 250,000+ IP addresses.

The big banner is just in case they log ssh bot client output.

Test locally first and/or be logged into a out-of-band console to test. Do not use in production. May block some unmaintained SSH API clients with old ssh libraries.

some AI and RSS bots appear to also be stuck on this URL
by indigo945 | 2025-11-12 14:56:50+00:00
In addition to this, another telltale sign of LLM authorship are the repeated forced attempts to draw connections or parallels where they're nonsensical, trying to fulfill an essay prompt that doesn't - in those instances - have much meat to it.

> As AI systems increasingly mediate decisions [...], decisions once > grounded in social norms and public deliberation now unfold within > technical infrastructure, beyond the reach of democratic oversight. > This condition parallels the cultural dislocation Nietzsche observed in > modern Europe, where the decline of metaphysical and religious authorities > undermined society’s ability to sustain shared ethical meaning. In both > cases, individuals are left navigating fragmented norms without clear > foundations or frameworks for trust and responsibility. Algorithmic > systems now make value-laden choices, about risk, fairness, and worth, > without mechanisms for public deliberation, reinforcing privatized, > reactive ethics.

Note how "algorithmic systems" making "value-laden choices" reinforcing "privatized, reactive ethics" has absolutely nothing to do with the spiritual value collapse that Nietzsche, who was uninterested in or even opposed to critiques of power structures, and who wasn't much impressed by the whole idea of democracy, saw in 19th century Europe. While the criticism of AI systems being beyond the reach of democratic oversight is a common and perfectly valid one, it just simply doesn't touch on Nietzsche's philosophy; yet the LLM piece uses language and turns of phrase ("parallels", "in both cases") to make it sound as if there were a connection.

If I am strongly opposed to anti-democratic opaque AI surveillance machines, then I am not an individual "left navigating fragmented norms without clear foundations", on the contrary, my foundations are quite clear indeed; and on the other hand, increased automation causing the erosion of "frameworks for trust and responsibility" seems more likely to be welcomed by Nietzsche, who had little patience for moral affectations like responsibility, than opposed.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-12 14:56:55+00:00
Not gonna lie, you had me going in the first sentence and then betrayed your position with:

> Is it really necessary for a DEI policy being required to appear…?

So ignoring the, well, ignorance of the remainder of your statement, it’s worth pointing out that these entities already publish mission statements, community/contributor guidelines, and a raft of other documentation that governs how they intend to operate as a way of greasing the wheels of operations. Policies are the norm, not the exception, because they dictate the rules of engagement.

So yeah, I’m all for groups making clear what they do and do not find acceptable. Transparency is a good thing, be it in code (open source), accounting, policy, or governance. And if more groups opened up their books and laid bare their operations, it’d be easier to tie their outcomes to industrial and governmental bad actors (like AWS, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc) that fail to substantially support these technologies, or demand favors or policy changes in exchange for basic funding.

Ideally? Orgs that use open source tech in their products ought to chip in a fixed percentage to ongoing support of that project. If an entity like AWS chipped in, say, 0.01% of revenue from every service that used NTP, then the NTP organization almost certainly wouldn’t require additional funding.
by ben_w | 2025-11-12 14:57:23+00:00
> look at social media being used to cancel

These days, whenever someone mentions "cancel culture" like it's new, I just think of all the old culture that got cancelled owing to a lack of popularity, like the original series of Star Trek… or even further back, Catholicism.

The difference social media brings is not with the cancellation, it's that it caused us to live in Andy Warhol's future where everyone has their own 15 minutes of fame.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-12 14:57:39+00:00
> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

The constitution is clear that the purpose of intellectual property is to promote progress. I feel that OpenAI is on the right side of that and this is not IP theft as long as they aren't reproducing others work in a non-transformative way.

Training the AI is clearly transformative (and lossy to boot). Giving the AI the ability to scrape and paraphrase others work is less clear and both sides each have valid arguments. I don't envy the judges that must make that call.
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-11-12 14:57:51+00:00
> Many HN readers grok software development, would likely get a kick out of learning Emacs Lisp, and have time to invest in coding and debugging.

but why would they? what problems are they solving by being able to paste text into your web browsers address bar? or load a pdf into an LLM? or some other incredibly specific-to-you ability youve added?

if simply adding a lisp interpreter to a program is enough to impress people, why not add it to something other than 1970s terminal text editor? surely an LLM plus lisp can do more of these inane tricks than a 70s text editor plus lisp?
Show HN: Built an AI assistant in MonkeyC for Garmin watches
by msyea | 2025-11-12 14:57:53+00:00
Built an AI assistant for Garmin watches in MonkeyC using Connect IQ SDK. BYOK (Gemini API key).

MonkeyC is terrible; kind of like ancient Java without the ecosystem. Building for hundreds of different devices with different screen sizes, buttons and capabilities is tough. But it's the only way to build native Garmin apps. Making it work on the Fenix 5 (2017) was emotional. I was trying to get the WiFi sync to work but it appears that Garmin removed the WiFi capability at some point in the last year (missing symbols) and memory constraits (OOM issues) are real.

I then released it using Garmin's Connect IQ native Trial/Unlock capability - which unbeknown to me has been broken for 2 years - so I had to roll out a custom trial, unlock and payment platform within 14 days before my first potential users tried to buy. I've had 2 successful customers on ~200 downloads already with no marketing - just the app store listing.

But why? The watch is full of rich sensor data (HR, steps, age, VO2 max, GPS, elevation, magnetometer etc.). Sharing it as context with a simple prompt like "Am I fit" or "When is the next bus to X" works surprisingly well.

Works over WiFi (phone optional) or Bluetooth. Compatible with Fenix 5+ (8 years of devices).

Privacy: All API calls are done from the watch - no server-side component.

$4.99 one-time. Happy to discuss MonkeyC/Garmin pain or the BYOK model.
by Matthew25 | 2025-11-12 14:57:54+00:00
Hey HN, I'm the builder.

I burned $10K on Facebook ads watching my last startup die (60-80% of clicks were bots). I built GoViralPromo to apply crowdfunding psychology to marketing: instead of a random draw, contest participants compete on a leaderboard by running mini-campaigns for you.

The idea is to create a much lower, more predictable CAC.

The reality: It's a v1 and I have zero customers. I'm offering free campaigns to the first few people from HN to help validate (or invalidate) the model.

Tech stack: Next.js, Prisma, and PostgreSQL.

I'm here all day to answer questions. Open to all feedback, especially technical critique!
by mothballed | 2025-11-12 14:58:17+00:00
I support my kids, but because I am married, I only have to spend a small fraction of what court ordered child support would be.

And that is because court ordered child support is actually a misnomer. It is merely a transfer payment to the custodial parent. There is actually no enforceable statutory requirement that it be spent on the child, nor any tracking or accountability that it is done. That would somehow be too impractical, even though somehow it's magically practical to count the pennies of the earner in the opposite direction, to make sure the full income flow is accounted for.
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-11-12 14:58:22+00:00
If Donald Trump used this OpenAI product to-- who knows-- brainstorm Truth Social content, and his chats were produced to the NYT as well as its consultants and lawyers, who would believe Mr. Trump's content remained secure, confidential and protected from misuse against his wishes?

That's simply a function of the fact it's a controversial news organization running a dragnet on private communications to a technology platform.

"Great cases, like hard cases, make bad law."
by moralestapia | 2025-11-12 14:58:30+00:00
* Several hundred million tracks that are not labeled as "music" by uploaders, to start.

* Native integration with my phone music player, allowing for things like seamless playback, etc.

* Things I like on YouTube automatically go to my device.

* If a track is removed from YouTube, it stays on my device.

(Did you take 10 seconds to read my comment above?)
by johnisgood | 2025-11-12 14:59:02+00:00
Might sound stupid, but: differences between Google memories vs. Snapchat memories?

Also my issue is that I would NEVER upload the photos I have on my hard drive due to privacy issues, but if I had a local model that could categorize photos and whatnot, that would be cool. I have over 10k screenshots / images. Many of them have text on it, so probably need OCR.

> You are a digital hoarder.

Is this meant to be negative? Many videos I have watched on YouTube are now unavailable. I wish I had saved them, too, i.e. I wish I was a digital hoarder, too, but eh, no space for me.
by nrhrjrjrjtntbt | 2025-11-12 14:59:08+00:00
Open AI deservedly getting a beating in this HN comments section but any comments about NYT overreach and what it means in general?

And what if they for example find evidence of X other thing such as:

1. Something useful for a story, maybe they follow up in parallel. Know who to interview and what to ask?

2. A crime.

3. An ongoing crime.

4. Something else they can sue someone else for.

5. Top secret information
by Zambyte | 2025-11-12 14:59:33+00:00
IronScheme[0]! I was pretty happy to be able to expose async-await in a neat little library[1]. I wonder if it's in use anywhere. I didn't get to use it in the project I was working on at the time.

[0] https://github.com/IronScheme/IronScheme

[1] https://github.com/IronScheme/IronScheme/pull/141
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 14:59:53+00:00
> It's absolutely insane to me how bad the user experience is with video nowadays, even video that's not encumbered by DRM or complex JavaScript clients.

The video experience for typical video files is great these days compared to the past. I think you may be viewing the past through rose colored glasses. For years it was a pain to deal with video because you had to navigate third party players (remember Real Player?), Flash plugins, and sketchy codec pack installs from adware infested download sites. If you were tech support for friends and family during that era, it was common to have to remove adware, spyware, and other unwanted programs after someone went down the rabbit home of trying to install software to watch some video they found.

The modern situation where your OS comes with software to play common files or you can install VLC and play anything is infinitely better than the past experience with local video.
by vintagedave | 2025-11-12 14:59:59+00:00
Almost every comment (five) so far is against this: 'An incredibly cynical attempt at spin', 'How dare the New York Times demand access to our vault of everything-we-keep to figure out if we're a bunch of lying asses', etc.

In direct contrast: I fully agree with OpenAI here. We can have a more nuanced opinion than 'piracy to train AI is bad therefore refusing to share chats is bad', which sounds absurd but is genuinely how one of the other comments follows logic.

Privacy is paramount. People _trust_ that their chats are private: they ask sensitive questions, ones to do with intensely personal or private or confidential things. For that to be broken -- for a company to force users to have their private data accessed -- is vile.

The tech community has largely stood against this kind of thing when it's been invasive scanning of private messages, tracking user data, etc. I hope we can collectively be better (I'm using ethical terms for a reason) than the other replies show. We don't have to support OpenAI's actions in order to oppose the NYT's actions.
by jjice | 2025-11-12 15:00:01+00:00
Echoing others, without knowing your product, I'd lean towards a minimum of $5 and maybe upwards to $20. Targeting professionals makes it easier to sell at the price, and $1 does come off as a "too good to be true" price.

I personally think selling on the App Store makes plenty of sense because it has reduced friction for sales. People already have their credit cards in and can purchase in a single click. Some comments say that you shouldn't have to pay to distribute your software, which is completely fair! But there is real value in the reduced friction. I believe (don't quote me) Apple charges $100 per year and 15% on sales under $1 million in revenue.

Since you don't have to convince strangers to enter their credit card on your site (it's hard to show to a random person that "no, it's all handled by our trust worthy payment processor"), I think that 15% ends up being worth while.

Or, offer it on both and app store and outside of the app store and run some metrics on how sales are on each. Maybe include a discount on your personally hosted on if you'd like. Gumroad is an option here.
by reaperducer | 2025-11-12 15:00:02+00:00
I remember when QuickTime came out in 1991 and it was obvious to everyone that video should be copied, pasted and saved like any arbitrary data.

I remember when VCR's came out and everyone would take TV shows and share them with their friends.

By now we should be able to share video on SD Cards that just pop into a slot on the top of the TV, but the electronics companies are now also the content companies, so they don't want to.
by marler8997 | 2025-11-12 15:00:15+00:00
I avoid using exceptions myself so I wouldn't be surprised if I misunderstand them :) I love to learn and welcome new knowledge and/or correction of misunderstandings if you have them.

I'll add that inspiration for the article came about because It was striking to me how Bjarne's example which was suppose to show a better way to manage resources introduced so many issues. The blog post goes over those issues and talks about possible solutions, all of which aren't great. I think however these problems with exceptions don't manifest into bigger issues because programmers just kinda learn to avoid exceptions. So, the post was trying to go into why we avoid them.
by phkahler | 2025-11-12 15:00:20+00:00
>> Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing

This is so interesting. I wonder if no human prompted for the article to be written either. I could see some kind of algorithm figuring out what to "write" about and prompting AI to create the articles automatically. Those are the jobs that are actually being replaced by AI - writing fluff crap to build an attention trap for ad revenue.
by ndriscoll | 2025-11-12 15:00:27+00:00
They're not deliberately infecting users with anything. There effectively saying "here's example code showing how to deal with these video formats. NOTE THAT THESE ARE EXAMPLES THAT I WROTE FOR FUN. THEY ARE NOT MEANT FOR SERIOUS USE AND MAY NOT HANDLE ALL CORNER CASES SAFELY. THIS SHOULD BE OBVIOUS SINCE WE HAVE NO COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP AND YOU'RE DOWNLOADING RANDOM CODE FROM SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW ON THE INTERNET".

If someone goes on to use that code for serious purposes, that's on them. They were explicitly warned that this is not production commercial code. It's weekend hobby work. There's no ethical obligation to make your hobby code suitable for production use before you share it. People are allowed to write and share programs for fun.

Deliberate malware would be something like an inbuilt trojan that exfiltrates data (e.g. many commercial applications). Completely different.
by trollbridge | 2025-11-12 15:00:32+00:00
The contract modification that the American taxpayer paid over $7 billion for that wasn't released until 2023?

For that you got an update to...

>2900 DMIPS, 1MB L2 Cache 512MB DRAM, 256MB Flash 128KB NOVRAM

So you got to upgrade from an 80486 level to something the equivalent of an early-2000s Pentium II.