MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ekaros | 2025-11-23 16:27:25+00:00
Code is under the hood. You do not see it unless you get to look. So it makes whole thing much simpler to sell. When people see it they complain. Remember the huge PRs and the generated reports. People do complain about it.

With other content people get to see it and feel something ever so slightly discording. Sometimes it looks good on first look but then some details are off when you properly look. Errors that would not be done by humans.

In either case there are plenty of those who generate content and do not care they simply want the output. But for those who do want certain certainty of quality it is much the same.
by labcomputer | 2025-11-23 16:27:38+00:00
> Why should they get ownership of the business? When you get a mortgage for your house, the bank doesn’t permanently own part of your house after you pay it off.

Because the VCs are funding the startup on extremely favorable terms?

If the startup fails, the founders can just walk away. They are not personally liable for anything. They can (and often do) subsequently form another startup, often funded by the very same VCs who funded the one that just failed!

If, OTOH, you fail to pay your mortgage, the bank takes your house. And they make hard for you to get another mortgage from any bank by reporting the foreclosure to credit ratings agencies.

You absolutely can keep the equity (and surplus) for yourself… but you will need to personally guarantee the loan. You may need to declare bankruptcy if the startup fails, and all that entails.

VCs are happy to throw away money on 99 failed startups precisely because they are entitled to the continued surplus from 1 successful startup. Banks are happy to make failure to pay extremely unpleasant for you because they are not entitled to any surplus from business loans which lead to successful outcomes.
by candybar | 2025-11-23 16:27:50+00:00
I think you're misreading that last line. I'm pretty sure what the author is saying is:

> the evening we found the love letters my mom said to me, "he wasted his entire life, his entire life, and mine as well."

Also, I don't think she's seeking one vs the other, nor is she judging him less now that she knows he's had a bunch of affairs. She's presenting a story and it's obvious that she has mixed feelings, full of both positive and negative judgement.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-11-23 16:28:02+00:00
Weird to see two wildly different news related to India.

One about a famous Indian charlatan (a.k.a "guru"; the guru industry is most flourishing these days):

> Rajneesh Pleads Guilty to Sham Marriages, to Leave U.S. Immediately

> Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pleaded guilty Thursday to arranging sham marriages, agreeing to leave the United States immediately. In a plea bargain, Rajneesh received a suspended 10-year prison sentence and was fined $300,000, which includes $140,000 in prosecution costs.

and another about a well known (I guess across the world?) plane crash:

> Explosion Implicated in Air-India Jumbo Jet Crash

> India's director of air safety announced that an explosion in the cargo hold apparently caused the crash of an Air-India Jumbo jet last June, killing all 329 people aboard the flight from Canada to Bombay.

Note: this ^ was unseated as the deadliest act of aviation terrorism until 9/11 decades later.
by alcidesfonseca | 2025-11-23 16:28:25+00:00
Liquid Types are more limited than "full dependent types" like Lean, Rocq, Agda or Idris. In Liquid Types you can refine your base types (Int, Bool), but you cannot refine all types. For instance, you cannot refine the function (a:Int | a > 0) -> {x:Int | x > a}. Functions are types, but are not refinable.

These restrictions make it possible to send the sub typing check to an SMT solver, and get the result in a reasonable amount of time.
Show HN: StoryStory – AI-generated illustrated and narrated children's stories
by samuelaidoo45 | 2025-11-23 16:28:52+00:00
I’ve been working on a small project called StoryStory, an AI-powered storytelling studio that lets anyone create fully illustrated and narrated children’s stories in a few minutes.

You type a prompt, choose tone and age group, and StoryStory generates a complete story with:

AI-generated storyline

Page-by-page illustrations using Gemini 3 Pro

30+ narrator voices (Gemini TTS)

Auto-play reading mode

Public library with community stories

It’s built for parents, teachers, and anyone who wants to create personalized stories without needing design or narration skills.

Would love feedback from the HN community — especially around UX, pricing, and generation speed.

You can try it here: https://storystory.online/

Happy to answer technical questions!
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-23 16:29:04+00:00
You're talking about the law today, and I concede. Why don't we change it so it becomes lawful. No one wants to be stalked, and notwithstanding the exceptions I mentioned, no one should have to endure the harassment. There is no scenario where one person would legitimately have a right or a need to stalk another person (unless financial gain is a legitimate reason).
by jb_briant | 2025-11-23 16:29:47+00:00
1. Didn't know, will look.

2. Trained on opensource vs trained on copyright is a solid rationale. But yes, LLM have been trained on copyrighted code, as an UnrealEngine user, it's pretty obvious that any LLM has knowledge of the engine source code and patterns, not only the doc. But it might be marginal since the quantity of open source code is gigantic.

Retribution to copyright holders for artistic work would make a lot of sense. It reminds me the shift from emule/kazaa everything towards spotify. Legal streaming has almost totally replaced music pirating. And it looks beneficial for artists since we never had that much production in human history.

I don't believe in LLM replacing devs either, it increases my scope but not in any point allow me to prompt in the morning and collect the money on the evening. It's still a job of full focus, even if I'm braining less. I feel I moved to a managing position instead of a crafter. Pretty happy to leave the webdev world for gamedev since LLM are years away to handle complex abstracts and produce clean code.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-23 16:29:50+00:00
> if you can get a message in that way, it's possible to circumvent the useless consumer-level support

Another option is to simply withhold payment for services non-rendered until the issue is fixed. This is totally fine as long as you've got documentation of the issue and a good-faith effort to resolve it with them beforehand.

What they want is to get paid; as long as they get paid they have no reason to bother actually even providing the service. Stopping payment turns it from it being your problem (you need to argue with them and convince them to spend extra money providing you with a service) to it being their problem (they now need to convince you to give them money).

Magically, they become much more cooperative all of a sudden, and if not, good riddance and you can sign up for something else (and avoid any kind of contract/commitment, since with consumer-grade telcos it's a matter of when you will need to do this again, not if).
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-11-23 16:30:18+00:00
The problem is that the UK government has a terrible track record with IT projects. How long until yet another laptop is stolen whilst on a train, only this time having all our IDs on it?

Also, this is just a Tony Blair thing and by all rights he should be tried and imprisoned as a war criminal for lying and dragging us into the Iraq war on completely false pretences.
by raahul_rahl | 2025-11-23 16:30:35+00:00
This scratches an itch I’ve had for months. Right now our agents communicate through a mix of webhooks, Redis queues, and custom JSON schemas… and it’s very brittle.

How do you handle:Schema evolution over time?Versioning between agent endpoints?Observability (tracing, logs, per-message introspection)?

If you have solid answers here, you might have something important.
by bunnie | 2025-11-23 16:30:45+00:00
I can't upvote this hard enough. It's nice to know there's at least one other person who feels this way out there.

Also, this is the most compelling reason I've seen so far to pay a subscription. For any business that merely relies upon software as an operations tool, it's far more valuable business-wise to have stuff that works adequately and is secure, than stuff that is new and fancy.

Getting security patches without having feature creep trojan-horsed into releases is exactly what I need!
by anon191928 | 2025-11-23 16:30:56+00:00
I dont support right, just search for countries by gdp/debt %. It's been just incresing for decades, that is not sustanaible + welfare + any govern. service that relies on that debt.

More simple , it's not sustainable because new workers dont earn much, people live longer and % from the state budget just keeps growing.

Think of it as income growth getting slower and liabilities growing just bigger with more old people in terms of %. how can you or we fix that?
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-23 16:31:05+00:00
Define runtime then.

> If your system receives 1000 requests per second, does it keep writing code while processing every request, on per request basis? I hope you understand what run time means.

With enough scale it could, however it really depends on the use case, right? If we are considering Claude Code for instance, it probably receives more than 1000+ requests per second and in many of those cases it is probably writing code or writing tool calls etc.

Or take Perplexity for example. If you ask it to calculate a large number, it will use Python to do that.

If I ask Perplexity to simulate investment for 100 years, 4% return, putting aside $50 each month, it will use Python to write code, calculate that and then when I ask it to give me a chart it will also use python to create the image.
by ethin | 2025-11-23 16:31:38+00:00
The fact they're resorting to hacks like this to resolve problems is just pathetic. I say pathetic because MS is a trillion-dollar company -- they have absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not knuckling down and fixing these problems permanently. All preloading it does is kick the can down the road. Then again, this is Ms we're talking about, so I'm not at all surprised they would do something like this. I wonder if anyone there even knows how explorer even works anymore.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-23 16:32:56+00:00
There is always a complexity to this (and don't think I'm defending Meta, who are absolutely toxic).

Like Apple's "scanning for CSAM", and people said "Oh, there's a threshold so it won't false report, you have to have 25+ images (or whatever) before it will"... Like okay, avoid false reporting, but that policy is one messy story away from "Apple says it doesn't care about the first 24 CSAM images on your phone".
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-23 16:33:36+00:00
This. If you want someone with honest insight into high energy theory, you probably shouldn't listen to a person who still pushes out papers that favour MOND over DM by curve-fitting special galaxies. This topic has been studied to death and it simply doesn't work well enough to warrant such strong opinions against DM. That's why her papers mostly go ignored in the community (many of them aren't even physics anymore and edge more into philosophy-babble or even sociology). All they do is make captivating conspiracy youtube videos for the average layperson.
by squigz | 2025-11-23 16:34:20+00:00
Banning smartphones in general would be more akin to banning kids from riding in cars (not driving them) or being around alcohol (even in their own home)

To say nothing of the inconsistency of those bans. You can vote, enlist in the army, and take on life-altering student loans... but smoke a cigarette? No way!

Also, isn't it the sale and purchase of alcohol that is banned for underage persons, not the consumption? That is, if parents want to give their kids alcohol, that's not illegal.
by paulbgd | 2025-11-23 16:34:22+00:00
Totally agree. Lots of friends who game have been asking for advice on linux now that they don’t want to update to windows 10. I’ll show them both gnome and plasma, and they’ll usually try kde then switch to gnome because it’s so darn easy to use.

It’s opinionated, the settings app is easy to navigate (with the downside being, tweaks/gsettings is needed), and simple stuff like shutting down/switching audio input/wifi/printers is all stuff they were able to figure out without my help. I do wish gnome would figure out some of the compatibility stuff with Wayland (quick windows on ghostty seem not to work because they won’t implement a specific protocol?) but out of every desktop rn, gnome really is one of the easiest to pick up
by labcomputer | 2025-11-23 16:34:26+00:00
You aren’t thinking this through. If a startup defaults, it is because they have no money left (which is because they do not have a viable business yet). So there is nothing of value to repossess.

This is the same reason the bank asks for an independent valuation of a house (and requires the buyer to maintain insurance) before releasing the money to pay for it: The value of the collateral needs to plausibly match the value of the loan, so that the value of the loan can be recovered in case of default.

The only way this works is for the founder to personally guarantee the loan. Which means the founder needs to have sufficient personal assets to keep the bank happy. It also means the founder risks personal bankruptcy if those assets are not enough to cover the loan if the startup defaults.
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-23 16:34:28+00:00
Registered mail with proof of delivery works and is scary for them because it's a legally-admissible paper trail and proof of you trying to resolve the problem in good faith, which will complicate any of their attempts to collect money out of you down the line should you choose to stop paying (which you should also do if they don't address the issue in a reasonable timeframe).
by squigz | 2025-11-23 16:34:36+00:00
> However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites travelling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO). The catastrophic scenarios predict an increase in the number of collisions per year, as opposed to a physically impassable barrier to space exploration that occurs in higher orbits.

Kessler Syndrome has always struck me as a problem that, should it become an actual issue, we should be able to solve. There is even mention of a couple potential solutions on the Wikipedia page.
by JauntTrooper | 2025-11-23 16:34:50+00:00
I had trouble getting one. I thought I was prepared. I brought in my passport, my social security card, my paystubs, and stacks of utility bills to prove my residence.

They told me bills needed to be physically postmarked, not printed, so what I brought didn't count. The problem was I had gone digital/paperless, so I hardly ever received physical bills in the mail.

I eventually had to switch two of them to paper billing, wait a month or two, get the bill, and then use that before switching back, then go back to the DMV. It was really annoying.
by Beijinger | 2025-11-23 16:35:10+00:00
Out of my head: 50% or Rapes are committed by non-German citizens. But they make only 10% of the population.

And these are not Australians, Americans, Japanese or Chinese, they are mainly from countries with tribal structures, different attitudes towards violence and women. Many of them living on social welfare.

This is not a judgment of them, as humans, just an observation based on numbers. The question is: Is this kind of immigration a good idea, or will it lead to instability?
by mtrovo | 2025-11-23 16:35:40+00:00
Pollan touches on this in The Omnivore's Dilemma. The low price of a burger is an illusion because the real costs to the environment and public health are externalized, making fast food artificially cheap due to indirect subsidies on corn byproducts and other animal feed. Healthy food competes on a totally different cost base.

There's also the split between eating with agency and just consuming which requires a top down solution. Unless the government stops subsidizing meat and corn subproducts linked to health issues the majority of people will always gravitate towards the cheapest calories available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma
by lordnacho | 2025-11-23 16:35:45+00:00
It's a "partner" who uses him for his wealth. No kids, and there won't be any, because I know how those are made and you have to do certain things that are not being done.

When you talk to the guy, everything is great. Not even a sign that he has gotten hitched to this lady, or is dating, or that anything has happened at all.

Yeah it's weird. I was incredulous when I was told.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-23 16:35:47+00:00
> The gay person would rather not be gay (it would be easier for them), and is told by society that it's a choice.

What's striking about those stories is that there were clearly quite a lot of cases where people objectively chose not to be gay, but they did it by repressing and masking it away by working hard on exemplary marriages that delivered many offspring to their name. Ultimately this means that yes indeed they could chose to not be gay, but they would have to sacrifice their whole sense of self just to comply with a societal norm.
by schneems | 2025-11-23 16:36:22+00:00
> I don't think she's seeking one vs the other, nor is she judging him less now that she knows he's had a bunch of affairs. She's presenting a story and it's obvious that she has mixed feelings, full of both positive and negative judgement.

It sounds like violently agree with everything other than my framing and wording choices.

> I think you're misreading that last line.

Maybe. I didn't notice it was a period and not a comma until posting it. I still read it as "we found...his life" sure maybe they interpret it was him wasting that life, but your prior sentiment I quoted is the thing I'm emphasizing. I'm not saying there's *no* judgement. I'm saying there's a clear (to me) attempt at understanding that goes beyond blame.
by jsheard | 2025-11-23 16:36:47+00:00
> Vulkan is an open _standard_

That too kinda depends on where you draw the line, the spec text is freely available but all development happens behind closed doors under strict NDA. From an outsiders perspective it doesn't feel very open to get completely stonewalled by Khronos on the status of a feature that debuted in DirectX or CUDA well over a year ago, they won't even confirm whether it's on their roadmap.
by andai | 2025-11-23 16:37:06+00:00
I have a Frankenstein of a setup with this one. I use ZAI (GLM-4.6) for the base models, then Gemini's free tier for the search and image recognition. CCR intercepts the requests from Claude Code and sends them to each model/provider automatically.

I got annoyed at CCRs bloat and flakiness tho and replicated it in like 50 lines of Python. (Well, I asked Frankenstein to build it for me, obviously... what a time to be alive.)
by Aurornis | 2025-11-23 16:38:27+00:00
> But also, are you accounting for all the means-tested welfare that such a program would replace?

Multiply the US population by the poverty level annual income ($15.6K) and the resulting number is higher than all US federal tax revenue combined. In other words, tax rates would have to more than double across the board.

Subtracting out existing social programs barely moves the needle. Are you sure you did the math, or were you just assuming?
by api | 2025-11-23 16:38:50+00:00
Marxism is back in vogue again. I guess people have tried reviving Naziism/fascism so now they’ve got to try reviving the other failed early 20th century totalistic political ideology.

I get that the status quo has huge issues, but can we have some new ideas maybe instead of continuing to try to revive late 19th century ones that have repeatedly and disastrously failed?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-23 16:39:28+00:00
I hate this meme that “government banning monopolies will solve everything”. It’s especially non sensical in this case or in the AT&T analogy. The baby bells still had a local monopoly in their region and cities only had one phone provider - the baby bell.

The case is the same here. Even if you broke up the cable monopoly so they all became regional companies, you still won’t have a choice but for one cable/internet provider in that same location unless the local phone company decides to compete and lay fiber.
by Juliate | 2025-11-23 16:39:40+00:00
> Retribution to copyright holders for artistic work would make a lot of sense.

Yes, but it does not solve everything. Because an artist does have (at least in music) a say in how their work is used. That's usually something contractual, sometimes it's supported at the law level (in France, there's the "droit moral" of the author).

Legal streaming could have replaced music pirating. But what Spotify became is a threat to musicians too: all the pro and non-pro musicians I know crave to remove their tracks from Spotify, because Spotify pays nothing. But UX-wise Spotify is the best thing on the market at moment for exposure (broadly, if people don't find you on Spotify, they assume you don't exist). This becomes even a bigger issue since Spotify trains its own GenAI on music and streams generated music (which get paid back to... Spotify, instead of the original artists). Legal streaming still "could" be a win for artists, it just isn't today. You either tour and sell ridiculously well your merch, or you go broke (or you have the funds to sustain a negative balance for the rest of your life).

The thing, back to software, is that things get abstracted, automated, but on top of these, you will still need: people to understand and manage the abstraction (developers), people to understand/manage the translation machine (more developers), and people to understand/manage the basics/foundations (more developers).

The lie that lies into GenAI is this one: we can replace human work (because it makes us reliant and vulnerable on humans) for a cheaper alternative (it's not cheaper, given the externalities, both in the environment and in society).
by MichaelNolan | 2025-11-23 16:39:41+00:00
> That's capacity, not generation.

No that’s generation. It’s on page 49 of the report. Table 7d Part 1 “US Regional Electricity Generation” it’s measured in billions of kilowatt hours.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf

And if anyone is interested I have some of my own graphs on top of the EIA data to make it easier to read - https://eia.languagelatte.com/
by mettamage | 2025-11-23 16:39:42+00:00
> IMO "seduce" has the negative connotation that you are somehow manipulating a "target"

Hmm in pickup artist lingo, sure. Though that perspective has been eclipsed by all the <insert color> pill people anyway.

But the concept of seduction has a long history before that, so I think that that particular view is way too narrow. To seduce someone is to entice, make them fill with anticipation, and so on. I feel certain female seducers, that have a social media presence about it, explain that part relatively well.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-11-23 16:40:02+00:00
I think this is pretty in-the-weeds compared to the original thread:

> Economics is like a constrained optimization problem: how to allocate scarce resources given unlimited desires.

Understanding the general tendencies of economic systems over time (e.g. “the rate of profit tends to fall”) is much more abstract than attempting to win at economics using time-based analysis.