MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piokoch | 2025-11-21 12:00:04+00:00
The funny part is that Google puts watermark on the generated graphics, because they are oh so not evil and socially responsible.

Unless you pay Google more, what is mentioned at the very bottom of this infomercial.

"Recognizing the need for a clean visual canvas for professional work, we will remove the visible watermark from images generated by Google AI Ultra subscribers and within the Google AI Studio developer tool."

BTW: anyone with the skills found in 1 min on the Internet can remove all of those ids, etc. (yes, as you might guess, the website is called remove synth id dot com...)
by snvzz | 2025-11-21 12:00:29+00:00
>I wonder how these decisions are made? Skimp on these things to save a few cents but

>ruin your user experience?

How? Just what software or service does even use HEVC or VVC over H264, VP8/9 and AV1?

If they were approached by mpreg, I cannot blame them for choosing to disable the codecs over paying the racket.

I just wish they made a public statement about it at the time, and were loud about it in their product pages, rather than customers having to find out in this manner.

Name and shame, and recommend customers to use AOM codecs, rather than silently handle it.
by quitit | 2025-11-21 12:01:40+00:00
We can also pick up hints on discordant production value. This is quite noticeable on websites such as Amazon/Alibaba/Etsy/Ebay/etc where there's a lot of scam listings that use AI images for cheap or basic items.

So even though the image shown doesn't present obvious flaws, the fact that the image is high quality is the tell-tale sign of being AI generated.

This also isn't something that can be easily fixed - even if we produce convincing low production value imagery using AI, then the scam listing doesn't achieve its goal because it looks like junky crap.
by cwillu | 2025-11-21 12:02:54+00:00
“Their "first-ever female four-star admiral" appointed to lead the public health corps, which they falsely touted as a historic win for women, was actually a male transvestite.”

What the fuck are you on about? The first female four-star admiral was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Howard, years before Levine.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-21 12:03:30+00:00
That is an absolutely delusional position to have and speaks volumes to lack of critical thinking or the effectiveness of propaganda.

You are a wealthy plantation owner in 1770. Do you a) grumble about taxes and the British and pay anyway because you like free-ish trade that makes you money hand over fist b) instigate a war that will drag armies all across the countryside of your nation with all the disruption to commerce that entails. If you have a brain, it's not even a choice.

They didn't to it because they lacked principals and would do anything for a buck. They did it because they were such ideological zealots who would rather forgo years of commerce, and risk the total destruction of their nation and subjugation of their countryman than bend over and take what they saw as violations of their rights as British subjects.

The founders didn't even get substantially richer out of it, many of them got poorer. You can go read about what they did after the war and it wasn't "make money hand over fist". It was mostly figure out how to run a nation, be stressed out and die young.

Trading the protection of the dominant and very benevolent for the time world power for freedom you mostly already had in practice is not a trade that pays off in anyone's lifetime. It's a miracle that it worked out at all. Plenty of other countries kicked out the British with not much to show for it.
by fschuett | 2025-11-21 12:04:23+00:00
I mean, porn completely ruined my teenage years and it took me 8 years to get rid of my addiction. It warps your expectations of real-life relationships, it ruins marriages, it ruins both women and men, it's garbage poison and should be outlawed. So I would be in favor of such laws, but then again, I also know, it's not really about porn and more about the whole "we can't let the youth become radicalized by this Internet thing" stuff and just more censorship.
by lukan | 2025-11-21 12:04:44+00:00
Yes, but I want those sensor input and fail modes handled with deterministic classical algorithms without (LLM) creativity, otherwise I envision doors that refuse to open on certain dates, because somewhere in its training corpus was a satirical sci fi story about depressed smart doors.

(And no, I was not talking about a robot butler, but a automatic door. Infrared triggered, but enhanced with a text mode for control)
by ksec | 2025-11-21 12:05:10+00:00
Fast Rendering and minimal resources usage post e10s, Quantum and Servo components like WebRender. While a lot of these landed a long time ago they then took years to further optimise and iron out edge cases. Chrome used to be the fastest while Firefox used to be slower but memory efficient, both are no longer true as both Chrome and Firefox has improved in those respective areas. Compatibilities are perhaps at all time low? Even during Firefox winning IE era it wasn't anywhere as good as today in terms of compatibility.
by graemep | 2025-11-21 12:05:11+00:00
Porn can be harmful, and it is an industry that dos a lot of damage to those working in it too.

There are better ways of doing this. For example require ISP provided routers to have built in parental controls or that people have the option of filtered connections, and ensure parents are offered child safe filtered SIMs at the same price as normal ones. It would not even require changing the devices.
by panick21_ | 2025-11-21 12:05:24+00:00
Ariane 5 wasn't excellent. It was a bad rocket strategically. Ariane 5 grew far bigger then the original designers wanted, because they had dreams of launching the Hermes space plan. But once Hermes was dead they didn't reevaluate the project.

so Ariane 5 was far to big, and while for very large GEO multi sat launches that was ok, they had a very low launch rate and couldn't compete for many missions.

Arianespace always launch more Soyuz then Ariane 5s. To me, if your European launch provider launches more Russian then European craft, its not good.

Ariane 5 was lucky that Progress and other Russian rockets were so mismanaged. They basically didn't have competition.

And Ariane 6 is just a slightly punched up Ariane 5 and in relative to market terms, its even worse. Basically everything that has been learned in the market for the last 15 years is ignored on Ariane 6.

> but good enough for sovereignty and science missions.

Ariane 6 was designed EXPLICITLY WITH STRONG FOCUS ON competing with SpaceX.

Its only now after the 5 billion EUR were spend that people way 'it was all about sovereignty'.

If sovereignty was the only goal, other ways to go about it would have been better. No need to give European Tax $ to Amazon just so they launch on European rocket. They didn't want to give money to SpaceX, so instead they are giving it to Amazon.

I agree with you, Europe should have just embraced SpaceX (or whoever does the launch cheapest) and invested into sats and innovation like space nuclear. That would have actually made sense.

For the cost of Ariane 6 they could have built a reusable nuclear tug and a nuclear reactor for moon/mars.
by nis0s | 2025-11-21 12:05:54+00:00
I can’t put much stock in something that’s not peer-reviewed, nor something that’s not confirmed as reproducible. Herasight, the company, has a deep conflict of interest when publishing a paper like this, don’t you think? It’s like the tobacco industry publishing about the effects of smoking.

Two other issues: do the cognitive tests control for socioeconomic status? Otherwise you’re just measuring the effect of nurture, not nature.

Second, the UKB fluid intelligence test isn’t a rigorous or reliable measure to fully capture latent GCA.
by bonzini | 2025-11-21 12:06:30+00:00
SETP is used rarely to compute parity, though it doesn't really save anything if you can use POPCNT. PF is also used by floating point comparisons with a different meaning though that is not useful for the Arm extension from Apple.

AF indeed is basically unused. The problem for both is that you need them for accurate emulation "just in case".
by mlrtime | 2025-11-21 12:07:28+00:00
This is such a cynical unoriginal take.

No, I don't care about being in a unicorn and I'm not a embarrassed billionaire. But I don't idolize unions either.

I don't want to be paid the same as all other workers with the same title, I like getting personal bonuses based on performance. I don't want to be in a union.
What does your hiring process look like in a post-ChatGPT world?
by akshaykokane | 2025-11-21 12:08:25+00:00
Last month, I met with startup founder who shared they fired someone three weeks after hiring them.

Perfect interview performance. Solved every LeetCode problem. Impressive resume. But when they started? They couldn't explain why their AI-generated code worked. Couldn't debug when it broke. Couldn't adapt when requirements changed.

Cost: $15K in recruiting fees, 40+ hours in interviews, 3 weeks of lost velocity, and team morale.

Here's what I learned after 10 years and hundreds of technical interviews:

We're hiring for the wrong skills.

Traditional coding interviews test whether someone can solve algorithmic puzzles under pressure. That made sense in 2015. In 2025, every developer has access to AI that writes better code than most humans.

The skill gap isn't coding anymore. It's:

Understanding what AI-generated code actually does

Debugging when AI makes subtle mistakes

Knowing when to trust the AI vs when to question it

Reasoning through problems AI can't solve yet

I've watched teams hire "perfect" candidates who couldn't do any of this. And I've seen us pass on people who would've been amazing because they fumbled a binary tree question.

The real question isn't "can you code?" It's "can you think?"

Can you read AI-generated code and spot the bug? Can you explain why a solution works? Can you break down a complex problem when ChatGPT gives you garbage? Can you adapt when the spec changes?

These are the skills that separate developers who ship from developers who struggle.
by My_Name | 2025-11-21 12:08:48+00:00
Because he did it in a day, not a few weeks.

If I want to go from Bristol to Swindon, I could walk there in about 12 hours. It's totally possible to do it by foot. Or I could use a car and be there in an hour. There and back, with a full work day in-between done, in a day. Using the tool doesn't change what you can do, it speeds up getting the end result.
by gsgermanok | 2025-11-21 12:09:29+00:00
I’ve used them in payments, approvals, integrations, and complex backend processes — and every time, they help keep the logic clean, predictable, and easy to maintain.

I just wrote a new article explaining: The idea behind state machines A simple Ruby example A comparison of the major gems (AASM, Statesman, state_machine, Workflow)

If you’re working with Ruby or Rails and want to structure your workflows better, this article will give you a solid start.

Let me know your thoughts or your favorite gem!
by Dumblydorr | 2025-11-21 12:10:13+00:00
Regulation is a nebulous term, dozens of posts about it in here and no one defined regulation, nevermind agreed on a definition of regulation.

On one side, It’s a useful buzz word for libertarians to attack, saying these prevent companies doing anything they want constantly, which Libs believe would help the world.

Meanwhile it seems less ideological comments see shades of effectiveness in good vs bad regulations. There’s also shades of law vs regulation, enforcement laxity, hidden purposes behind regs supposed reasons, etc.

It’s a tangled web and HN loves debating regulations more than almost anything!
by ethin | 2025-11-21 12:12:33+00:00
Wasm is such a cool technology. The spec though for me leaves a lot to be desired. Oh, the first few chapters are fine, but when you get to the binary and text formats that's when it all breaks down for me.

For whatever reason, Wasm loves OCaml. This wouldn't really be a bad thing if they didn't come up with their own custom language to denote syntactic elements of both formats instead of using EBNF or similar. I discussed this with them (because before this change they were using raw MathML for all the productions, and screen readers and MathML are... Erm... Hit and miss) and they noted that they needed an attribute grammar instead of just either BNF or an extension of it. So what they have now (SpecTec) is better than what they did have, and I like that I can now just open the raw grammar files and dive in. The problem is the way they chose to express it. And it could just be me, because ML languages (and functional languages in general) don't really come all that easy to me. (they're just... Really difficult for me to mentally follow, which is odd since I can follow most others just fine.)
by hydroreadsstuff | 2025-11-21 12:12:47+00:00
Some companies like to stress the efficiency or performance of Arm SoCs, but really this is a hedge against more expensive x86 hardware. AMD has increased prices of mobile SoCs radically recently. I'm looking forward to having more affordable SoC options for laptops, handhelds and desktops, perhaps from Mediatek or other lower-cost vendors.

The history of the PC is one of commoditization. A fractured multi-polar landscape is detrimental to the ecosystem/productivity and should ultimately fail.

x86 emulation is an important puzzle piece, and I'm happy Valve recognizes this and sponsors it.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-21 12:13:27+00:00
This is why US Army is forcing work related communications onto an employer owned instant message application.

It may or may not be more secure, but it is privately owned and always official business. The employer can take legal action for improper disclosure of messages from that system. It also means other segments of government can never use these messages in any kind of legal proceeding without a prior valid search warrant.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-21 12:15:09+00:00
Um, yes? This kinda stuff has been FBI SOP for the past century-ish.

If you are a "politically sensitive" activist group trying to make an actual difference (vs. performative and feel-good stuff) - then you should assume that the spooks are watching, if not actively infiltrating, and plan accordingly.

(If your goals are mostly performative and feel-good - then having the FBI spying on your group is A List bragging rights and cred, no? Congratulations!)
by bgwalter | 2025-11-21 12:15:39+00:00
There is no end result. It's a toy language based on a couple of examples without a grammar where apparently the LLM used its standard (plagiarized) parser/lexer code and reiterated until the examples passed.

Automating one of the fun parts of CS is just weird.

So with this awesome "productivity" we now can have 10,000 new toy languages per day on GitHub instead of just 100?
by somenameforme | 2025-11-21 12:15:40+00:00
LLMs are not capable of simulating turing machines - their output is inherently and inescapably probabilistic. You would need to fundamentally rewrite one to make this possible, at which point it is no longer an LLM.

And as I stated, you are assuming your own conclusion to debate the issue. You believe that nothing is incomputable, and are tying that assumption into your argument as an assumption. It's not on me to prove your assumption is wrong, it's on you to prove that it's correct - proving a negative is impossible. E.g. - I'm going to assume that there is an invisible green massless goblin on your shoulder named Kyzirgurankl. Prove me wrong. Can you give me even the slightest bit of evidence against it? Of course you cannot, yet absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so the burden of my claim rests on me.

And so now feel free to prove that consciousness is computable, or even replicating humanity's successes from a comparable baseline. Without that proof you must understand that you're not making some falsifiable claim of fact, but simply appealing to your own personal ideology or philosophy, which is of course completely fine (and even a good thing), but also a completely subjective opinion on matters.
by cwillu | 2025-11-21 12:16:01+00:00
“Still, the president conceded that "all indications are this bill won't even move forward to the Senate floor", despite the support of the Border Patrol Union.

"Why?" he asked. "A simple reason: Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it's bad for him politically."

Mr Biden said the former president had spent the past 24 hours lobbying Republicans in the House and Senate in an effort to torpedo the proposal.

He said Mr Trump had tried to intimidate Republican lawmakers, "and it looks like they're caving".

Mr Biden urged the lawmakers to "show some spine".

The Trump campaign blasted the Biden speech, calling it "an embarrassment to our Nation and a slap in the face to the American people".

Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt called Mr Biden's criticism of Mr Trump "a brazen, pathetic lie and the American people know the truth".

Her statement also said Mr Trump's policies had "created the most secure border in American history, and it was Joe Biden who reversed them".

On Monday, Mr Trump posted on social media that "only a fool, or a radical left Democrat" would vote for the bill. ”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68136461
by latexr | 2025-11-21 12:16:25+00:00
Edit: I was wrong, I misread “purchase” as “purchased” which aligned with my (flawed) memory of what happened and it made sense with the full sentence. Original comment remains below.

It’s not without precedent.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225432506/apple-watch-blood-...
by MaxL93 | 2025-11-21 12:16:37+00:00
I can't say I understand why HEVC support being disabled would "prevent background blurring", especially because 1) the blur has nothing to do with HW decode (not even in weird unknown parts of the MPEG-4 specs like video object planes in part 2, or better yet: part 6 and part 16) — and 2), AVC HW encode is still there and is a completely acceptable fallback, so...?
Show HN: Understand Mortgage Cash Flows
by rogue7 | 2025-11-21 12:17:08+00:00
A while ago, I was wondering if I should buy a home. Then I tried to understand how mortgage loan work, and what the interest rate represents.

A few hours later, this (static) web app was born. It's a glorified calculator that allows you to answer two questions:

- how much interest will I pay in addition to the principal (the amount being borrowed).

- Whether I should buy my home or keep renting.
by rft | 2025-11-21 12:18:08+00:00
As much as I hate where this might lead, I can't help but amuse myself over a scene like this: You walk up to a bearded fellow in a dark alley and quietly whisper "Stallman..." only for him to quietly respond "... was right.". He then opens his coat for you to choose the install USB of your favorite distro (Arch of course!). He dutifully hands you the stick and a printed copy of the GPLv5 for you to hide in your coat as you walk past the telescreens back to your home.
Show HN: Get Fat Slowly
by itake | 2025-11-21 12:18:42+00:00
I've been enjoying building calculators with ChatGPT to help me model various life decisions.

When my friend shared he drinks 1-2 Starbucks Mochas per day, it made me wonder how that impacts his health over the course of the year (or several years).

Drinking 2 mocha's per day adds 45.9 lb (20.8kg) body fat that your body either needs to burn or store per year.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-21 12:18:54+00:00
> It's one of many problems which is taking care of

I hear about digital freedoms (for porn restrictions, chat message monitoring, etc) being attacked on a weekly basis, often with "think of the children" as a justification.

I don't hear about the fact that Western economies being property-based Ponzi schemes on their last legs being discussed very often, if at all. Instead everyone is trying to extract even more out of it by screwing over the next generations, the very children they are supposed to be thinking of.
by xpe | 2025-11-21 12:19:16+00:00
> [PHP] is general purpose programming language.

To be charitable, yes — PHP has access to low-level system details like the file system, sockets, and processes.

> I know a person who wrote Linux X Desktop Environment using PHP. Worked for them.

However: (a) "Worked for them" is an anecdote, not evidence of comparative suitability; (b) Don't confuse possibility with empirical fitness for purpose. Virtually all decisions are relative to alternatives [1]; (c) Even PHP describes itself as only a "general purpose scripting programming language" [2].

Note that "scripting language" itself can hide important differences. PHP 8 introduced JIT compilation [3] which helps.

[1] In negotiation terms, your BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement). When evaluating technologies, don't forget the human cost, so consider your BATSHIT: Best Alternative To Shackling Humans In Tedium (or whatever expansion you prefer).

[2] https://www.php.net/

[3] https://upsun.com/blog/php-just-in-time-compiler/
by matheusmoreira | 2025-11-21 12:20:28+00:00
The first step is to overcome the syntax. It's useful to think in terms of Python syntax at first.

f(x) (f x) ["f", "x"] (print (< 10 20)) ["print", ["<", 10, 20]]

Lisp code is just list data which gets evaluated by an interpreter function. Like this:

code = ["print", ["<", 10, 20]] def eval(code): # magic eval(code) # True

Filling out that eval function is a great way to learn. I only truly understood lisp when I implemented my own.

These articles are very good and accessible:

https://www.norvig.com/lispy.html

https://norvig.com/lispy2.html
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-21 12:20:43+00:00
I think you are missing the forest for the trees.

You can have a 93% capacity factor and still have short time periods with 45% of the fleet offline simultaneously.

Another example is when half the French nuclear fleet was offline at the height of the energy crisis.

Are you saying that a grid collapse is acceptable if outages correlate for nuclear plants?
by tome | 2025-11-21 12:20:44+00:00
> Effect systems are a trend that will go away

I'm willing to bet the contrary: that IO-wrapper effect systems are the future of Haskell (particularly Bluefin, but then that's my library, so I would say that).

> You can't statically guarantee that only, for example, the DB has side effects in a function

Yes, you absolutely can.
by cassepipe | 2025-11-21 12:21:13+00:00
I am sympathetic to your claim but after reading the article it does seem to be a case of overregulation, or lack of flexibility at least. Could you use the examples of the article in order to illustrate how this is bad regulatation rather than overregulation ?

To go in the direction of your claim, hasn't the FDA model often been criticized for how easy it is to comply with for medical devices/complements ?
by Zardoz84 | 2025-11-21 12:21:18+00:00
> There’s an old electronics joke that if you want to build an oscillator, you should try building an amplifier

The most easy way to annoy a neighbor using AM radios, it's using a regenerative AM receptor with too high gain. Could oscillate and begin to emit noise at the same freq that are you tuning. Adding a simple carbon microphone to it, and setting the gain to the max, was a very easy way of building a AM radio emitter.