MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 21:43:24+00:00
> the "figure it out for yourselves" lead to our child making decisions and taking actions that could have very easily turned into life threatening

I haven't heard about Hack Club until this very story, so forgive my ignorance, but what exactly happened here? According to their website, it seems to be about a community for teenage programmers, who build open source projects together, sometimes during events. Looking around at the types of events they host, nothing really looks life threatening at all? I'm not doubting your experience, just curious how a bunch of programmers could end up in a life threatening situation during those sort of events.
by kikokikokiko | 2025-11-13 21:43:40+00:00
I used to assume that the average Joe would be amazed at the way my Youtube/Facebook/whatever looks and works, with no ads and with a lot of annoyances removed. Then I saw, more than once, people complaining that THE ADS were gone, and then I gave up. The average of the whole population of humans is a very dumbed down version of what I always imagined the average would be.
by Genego | 2025-11-13 21:43:42+00:00
How much have you experimented with it? For some stories I may generate 5 image variations of 10-20 different scenes and then spend time writing down what worked and what did not; and running the generation again (this part is mostly for research). It’s certainly advancing my understanding over time and being able to control the output better. But I’m learning that it takes a huge amount of trial and error. So versioning prompts is definitely recommended, especially if you find some nuances that work for you.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-13 21:44:12+00:00
The article mentions "university gym" - a quick web search with the name of the largest university in Seattle, University of Washington, reveals:

https://www.washington.edu/ima/locker-rooms-and-pool-nominat...

"The University of Washington’s Intramural Activities Building (IMA) underwent a comprehensive renovation to modernize its locker rooms and swimming pool, untouched since its 1966 construction. Utilizing a progressive design-build process, the project doubled the swimmable area and created one of the nation’s largest gender-inclusive locker facilities. The collaborative effort prioritized equity, accessibility, and universal design principles, resulting in three fully accessible, gender-inclusive locker rooms."
by zapzupnz | 2025-11-13 21:44:41+00:00
> Nobody wants to change in a locker where they might be stared at as objects of sexual interest. I would not want to be nude in a changing room with homosexual men or women.

That sounds like a you problem.

Plenty of people around the world getting in the nuddy just fine, not thinking about such thing, not nearly as repressed as your post or tone.
by polishdude20 | 2025-11-13 21:44:59+00:00
This is exactly what I was looking for the other day! I'm very happy you guys are working on this because I can see a lot of potential. My main use case is just finding which element in my code controls which element in the browser when I hover over it.

My current workflow is to be in the dev tools, find the element I want to edit, edit the CSS to see if it looks how I want, copy the classname and html to then search in my codebase and make the exact same change there.
by westurner | 2025-11-13 21:45:39+00:00
"A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09735-z :

> Abstract: Discoveries of fundamental limits for the rates of physical processes, from the speed of light to the Lieb–Robinson bound for information propagation [1,2], often lead to breakthroughs in the understanding of the underlying physics. Here we observe such a limit for a paradigmatic many-body phenomenon, the spreading of coherence during the formation of a weakly interacting Bose–Einstein condensate [...]. We study condensate formation in an isolated homogeneous atomic gas [...] that is initially far from equilibrium, in an incoherent low-energy state, and condenses as it relaxes towards equilibrium. Tuning the interatomic interactions that drive condensation, we show that the spreading of coherence through the system is initially slower for weaker interactions and faster for stronger ones, but always eventually reaches the same limit, at which the square of the coherence length grows at a universal rate given by the ratio of Planck’s constant and the particle mass, or, equivalently, by the quantum of velocity circulation associated with a quantum vortex. These observations are robust to changes in the initial state, the gas density, and the system size. Our results provide benchmarks for theories of universality far from equilibrium [...], are relevant for quantum technologies that rely on large-scale coherence, and invite similar measurements in other systems.
by daemonologist | 2025-11-13 21:45:56+00:00
Yep, my duo arrived about two weeks ago at 76% charge and is currently at 18%; I've only ever plugged it in for a few seconds to verify that the charger works. Amazing battery life.

(The buttons, however, are atrocious - mushy, hard to press, and literally falling apart. I'll probably do the 3D-printed button mod but to advertise this watch as IPX8 water resistant is ludicrous. The first button press out of the box put a crack in the silicone.)
by neuralRiot | 2025-11-13 21:46:11+00:00
I think sexuality is a too complex issue to get a consensus in a handful of posts, but to me no amount of regulation, if you want, can modify personal perception, you can take places where burkas are law as an example. If you feel sexualized (we all are at some point) in a locker room you will do so in any space with extrangers. This I believe is a result of the loss of social interaction of our times.
by mring33621 | 2025-11-13 21:46:24+00:00
Many modern cars are not designed to be easily worked on. I think the priority is ease/cost of initial assembly, only.

My 2010 Mercedes had headlight bulbs that died frequently. But there was no way for a human to reach in and replace them, without either some special tool or disassembling a bunch of stuff at the front of the car. Just one example. You can find many similar complaints elsewhere.
by bigfatkitten | 2025-11-13 21:46:38+00:00
Security came onto Nadella’s radar in 2024 because Microsoft was compromised quite thoroughly (and avoidably) by the Russian intelligence services that year.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/25/mid...

Midnight Blizzard was the turning point after a decade of neglect, that saw a lot of amazing work done by some very talented people during the Trustworthy Computing era (following the Gates memo) being unwound.
by mystraline | 2025-11-13 21:46:45+00:00
Naturally, they were all straight! /sarcasm

Remember, it was illegal to be gay in a lot of western countries. So, 'dont ask, dont tell' was the safe and legal norm. So it wasn't ever a concern to even be discussed.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=A+map+of+the+years+when+hom...

Is a reddit-cached map of years when homosexuality was legalized for Europe. Had to use this link cause the reddit /r/europe mods censored it.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-13 21:47:07+00:00
> Shopping is the primary reason people work, people love shopping.

A whole lot of people really hate shopping.

> Also, the point of buying presents isn't charity or wealth transfer but thinking about the person.

True, which is why I think this sort of tool is antihuman BS. Especially for people who don't like shopping. Someone who I know hates shopping spending time doing it because they want to express how they feel about me makes it an even more meaningful gift. I appreciate a gift someone put effort into more than a gift they didn't, regardless of how much I actually want the thing being given.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 21:47:32+00:00
Yes, I'm aware of that, but I'm telling you "Security is Microsoft's #1 priority" isn't a novel thing Nadella came up with, Bill Gates been saying that many times too.

Gates in 2002: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Gates-makes-security... (which mentioned Gates also said to focus on security in 1995 as internet became a new vector)

Gates in 2016: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/gates-security-is-to...

Just two examples. I think saying "Security is the most important!" is part of the job description of a Microsoft CEO, since they keep repeating it, yet security keeps being a low priority.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-13 21:47:33+00:00
> We are a democratic republic of states.

I made no comment about what "we" are ...

The idea that the USA is actually a democracy whose members are states is, IMO, just a post-facto rationalization by people who believe in the compromise that the Senate represents. I find it totally absurd.

Now, more commonly "we're not a democracy, we're a republic" is used to explain this, but this I find absurd. Democracies and republics are somewhat orthogonal: there are democracies that are not republics (e.g. the UK), republics that are not democracies (several African countries, for example), and systems that are both democracies and republics (the USA for example). "Republic" describes a system in which political power rests with the people who live in it; "Democracy" describes the process by which those people make political decisions.

> The federal level is not supposed to hold excessive power over any state

I think you missed significant changes to the US system in the aftermath of both the civil war and the great depression. Granted these were not encoded as constitutional amendments (which would have been better). However, you seem attached to the conception of the union as it was in 1850, not as it is in 2025.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-13 21:47:36+00:00
Yeah, give it a whirl.

There's only two kinds of memory in an Athom bulb: The RAM that is built into the ESP MCU (temporary, fast -- like RAM in a PC), and the flash ROM (permanent, much slower -- like an SSD in a PC).

Data in RAM doesn't survive for even a moment without power. Data in flash should be good for years and years with or without power.
by not_a9 | 2025-11-13 21:47:56+00:00
(I had to make a HN account to reply to this, but…) If only Riot, Epic, BE, whoever else knew about this wondrous approach! That way they wouldn’t have to reverse half the Windows kernel to figure out ways to stop & detect hacks.

Valve (mostly) does serverside analytics for CS2 and the success of their approach can be measured by one of FaceIT’s benefits being “we have a working anticheat”.

On a sidenote, I highly recommend this presentation on anticheat stuff: https://game-research.github.io/presentations/2025-08-06-bhu...
by Spivak | 2025-11-13 21:48:12+00:00
But the ruling is correct. You can't have it both ways, if you invite competition you're not allowed to be anti-competitive. You can be Nintendo, offer a single store, only allow first party hardware, and exercise total control over your product. Then your anticompetitive behavior can only be evaluated externally. But if you open yourself up to internal competition with other phone vendors, other stores, and then you flex your other business units (gapps) to force those other vendors to favor you then you're in big trouble.
Show HN: Agentic Adversarial testing for your voice AI
by ozgurozkan | 2025-11-13 21:48:27+00:00
Automate red teaming of your voice AI agent.

In YC terms Request for startups: Full stack voice AI Red Teamer: Automates the work below https://work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AAABmX4FiBxRn-I1VM5KeZ2h
by Fairburn | 2025-11-13 21:48:28+00:00
Went to order a pizza for lunch as I was hungry and lazy to make anything upstairs.. apparently Dominoes (and I assume others) are playing with user experience regarding the browser and plugins such as adblock (FF + uBlock lite & reg).

I couldnt order anything on that menu page as no images. Hmm, maybe their site is having issues. Tried Chrome, worked fine. So I went and turned my adblock off & on and rechecked. Yup. Thats the deal.

But wait, there is more. I installed ublock in Chrome and reran the web page. The page rendered fine.. Back to FF with ublock.. no images of the food.

Try for yourself. Try and order a pizza on Dominoes with FF and an ad blocker.

I understand the reasons but they don't sit right with me.

Add'l Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/dam9v2/ublock...

https://www.eater.com/2019/7/25/8930669/dominos-supreme-cour...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/dominos-asks-supreme-court-t...

https://ialabs.ie/the-robles-versus-dominos-pizza-case/

..and yes, hardly Hacker news but it annoyed me enough to throw caution to the wind.
by noobly | 2025-11-13 21:48:45+00:00
I listened to the founders explain that the current process of syncing up to review or question code is very multi-step and sort of inefficient almost adversarial at a high level. A slack mention, Github discussion, screen share, etc it all ends up being kind of disorganized and painful versus just being able to edit the document collaboratively and directly, perhaps leaving some metadata tagged at certain locations (e.g, notes from a conversation about the code).

It's not like the editor prevents one from still using slack and other external tools, either. I guess I just see the value in in-editor integration to handle that stuff more smoothly, at least for those using the same editor.. I can see myself really appreciating the feature if there's a part of the codebase that consistently trips people up or is under active discussion.
by VHRanger | 2025-11-13 21:49:18+00:00
Hey, Kagi ML lead here.

> Kagi pays for hordes of reviewers? Is this another case of outsourcing moderation to sweat shops in poor countries?

No, we're simply not paying for review of content at the moment, nor is it planned.

We'll scale human review as needed with long time kagi users in our discord we already trust

> Do the reviewers use state of the art tools to assist in confirming slop

Mostly this, yes.

For images/videos/sound, diffusion and GANs leave visible artifacts. There's a bit of issues with edge cases like high resolution images that have been JPEG compressed to hell, but even with those the framing of AI images tends to be pretty consistent.

> How does this scale?

By doing rollups to the source. Going after domains / youtube channels / etc.

Mixed with automation. We're aiming to have a bias towards false negatives -- eg. it's less harmful to let slop through than to mistakenly label real content.
by onion2k | 2025-11-13 21:49:53+00:00
I don't care one bit if the content is interesting, useful, and accurate.

The issue with AI slop isn't with how it's written. It's the fact that it's wrong, and that the author hasn't bothered to check it. If I read a post and find that it's nonsense I can guarantee that I won't be trusting that blog again. At some point there'll become a point where my belief in the accuracy of blogs in general is undermined to the point where I shift to only bothering with bloggers I already trust. That is when blogging dies, because new bloggers will find it impossible to find an audience (assuming people think as I do, which is a big assumption to be fair.)

AI has the power to completely undo all trust people have in content that's published online, and do even more damage than advertising, reviews, and spam have already done. Guarding against that is probably worthwhile.
by tptacek | 2025-11-13 21:50:02+00:00
Wait, how does minisign "pretend the problems PGP solves do not exist"? Minisign is an example of a purpose-built tool designed specifically to address a problem PGP attempts to solve. We're now talking about two different tools each of which addresses something in PGP's scope. If we keep fleshing out PGP's scope, we'll keep finding more tools like this, because very few people operationalize PGP and lots of people have the problems PGP attempts to solve.

Your argument doesn't cohere.

I feel like the rhetorical sleight of hand PGP advocates too often fall back on is the idea that while there may be tools that do some of what PGP does, and those tools put together may comprise a superset of PGP's functionality, there is no one tool that does everything PGP does by itself. But that's the whole point. Part of what makes PGP so bad is that it's a Swiss Army Knife.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-13 21:50:04+00:00
I see both sides of it.

Many of the state legalized programs do have significantly higher standards because they are explicitly regulating for things intended to be consumed by humans, while the federal regulations for hemp are focused in an entirely different area.

As a consumer, I would prefer to be purchasing the more stringently regulated state-legalized product. But that would require I live in a state that has legalized it.

Instead, my options are (at least for another year), purchase the less stringently regulated "hemp" products or the entirely unregulated stuff grown god knows where by god knows who with no recourse if it turns out they've been spraying their crop with leftover lead arsenate.
by Rendello | 2025-11-13 21:50:33+00:00
Interestingly, onsen were traditionally mixed sex until relatively recently (Meiji Restoration). As of now, mixed bathing is banned [1], though hidden in the Wikipedia notes is this:

> due to varying interpretations of terminology and local ordinances, rare instances of mixed bathing still exist at places like Tsurunoyu Onsen where the water is opaque.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onsen#Mixed_bathing
by VHRanger | 2025-11-13 21:50:46+00:00
Yes, a fun fact about slop text is that it's very low perplexity text (basically: it's statistically likely text from an LLM's point of view) so most algorithms that rank will tend to have a bias towards preferring this text.

Since even classical machine learning uses BERT based embeddings on the backend this problem is likely wider scale than it seems if a search engine isn't proactively filtering it out
by wat10000 | 2025-11-13 21:51:04+00:00
The fact that the Senate can't pass things without a 60% majority, despite that not being a thing in the constitution, is just another facet of its undemocratic nature. The body has decided for itself, no matter what the people want or what the constitution says.

And this is definitely not a necessary aspect of the system. Even if you want to argue that the Senate itself is essential, the ridiculous modern filibuster demonstrably is not, since it only became this way in recent decades.

I'd be fine with a bicameral legislature as long as both houses were actually representative. Maybe you'd have one with short terms and one with long terms. But having a body where California and Wyoming both get two representatives is just ridiculous.

I'm curious what you think Johnson and Trump would have done over the last 6 months without the Senate. It looks to me like they're doing pretty much whatever they want aside from passing the recent spending bill, and to the extent that they aren't, it's because of a handful of Republican holdouts in the House, not because the Senate stands in their way. And if we had the Senate rules from thirty years ago the Senate wouldn't stand in their way either.
by uf00lme | 2025-11-13 21:51:07+00:00
This has been my argument for years now.

I think it is because most engineers learn to use Kubernetes by spinning up a cluster and then deploying a couple of helm charts. It makes it feel like that’s the natural way without understanding the pain and complexity of having to create and maintain those charts.

Then there are centralised ‘platform’ teams which use helm to try and enforce their own templating onto everything even small simple micro services. Functionally it works and can scale, so the centralised team can justify their existence but as a pattern it costs everyone a little bit of sanity.
by jleyank | 2025-11-13 21:51:27+00:00
I would think it depends on what you're referring to. If it's something like a car, then Chinese model seems appropriate and equivalent to Japanese model, Korean model, ... If it's a person, then you might be on less-firm ground, but if they're a model, and they're from China, I'm not sure what else you can say short of "they're a model who's from China"?

EDIT: what was Richard Feynman? An American Physicist? Is it tangled up with gender, or is our concern merely tangled up.
by tkfoss | 2025-11-13 21:52:28+00:00
> what compels software people to write opinion pieces. like you don't see bakers, mechanics, dentists, accountants writing blog posts like this... >> Computer Science > do we really have to retread this? unless you are employed by a university to perform research (or another research organization), you are not a computer scientist or a mathematician or anything else of that sort. no more so than an accountant is an economist or a carpenter is an architect. >> The article you are complaining about starts from the presumption that software > reread my comment - at no point did i complain about the article. i'm complaining that SWEs have overinflated senses of self which compel them to write such articles.

You're incredibly tiring commenter, to a point I already recognize your nickname. What compels YOU to be this way?

I wish there was a block button for the "overinflated senses of self".
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-13 21:52:36+00:00
Only for US made Tesla's. I live in Australia. We get Chinese made Tesla's here, and they have better fit and finish than the BYD's (as good as most other cars you care to name).

It's odd. The USA can make quality cars. Not Lexus quality, but cars you would be happy to own if they weren't so expensive. USA Tesla is the counter example. It makes you wonder about those self promoting stories from Elon about he saved the USA Tesla manufacturing operation by roving the manufacturing plants, making tweaks here and there. Maybe his tweaks wasn't the great boon he made them out to be.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-11-13 21:52:39+00:00
> The problem with government that is for and by the people, is that wealthy people are people too.

No, this is not a problem with government for and by the people. It is, however, a problem in a system in which economic power (read: wealth) translates (often almost literally) into political power for individuals. Rich people deserve a vote just like everyone else - but nothing more.

> you would prefer to make change in government more difficult and representation farther removed for everyone.

You say "farther removed" - I say "larger, less dependent on local influence, and with more power". As I said, there is an entire political philosophy and party that insists that responsive federal level government is not possible; as I implied, I simply don't agree with this. Of course, if that philosophy/party has significant political power, then federal government will be less responsive, but that's not inherent.

Yes, mega-corp capture of the largest governmental structures is absolutely a major problem, and one we don't have a good solution to at present. But the existence of that problem doesn't justify a reversion to a system in which local capture becomes easier and more consequential.

Do we need to be careful to not have the federal level squash deserved local variation? Yes, absolutely. But we also do not have to give in to the self-interested claim that federal government cannot serve the interests of the people well, either.