MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-14 04:34:06+00:00
I wouldn't. Many if not most patents are awarded to the first person to encounter a problem and apply a (likely obvious) solution, not the first person to solve a longstanding problem at great expense after many others have tried and failed.

And even if that weren't the case, nobody needs to be given exclusive rights to math. In principle the law says as much, but in fact that's never been an obstacle.
by llbbdd | 2025-11-14 04:35:39+00:00
Companies care about material damages in practice. I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that in that case, the artist drawing and selling the work is infringing (to a degree, because this seems to be a case Disney et al doesn't care about) but that if you take their work and publish and promote it and sell it, YOU become Disney's problem. If the wind and rain and erosion and time and God managed to produce a perfect post-Steamboat-Willie Mickey Mouse in the desert sand, visible from space, that wouldn't be infringement until you monetized it, called it Mickey Mouse and charged people to see it. A lot of the entities trying to get their piece of Infringement Pie seem to think their authority and their works are in the first position here instead; that my newfound capability to generate a Mickey Mouse from scratch on a whim affects their pockets, when in fact we're back to a variant of the classic piracy argument - I was not ever going to pay for it under any condition. If I decide this weekend to have one of the robots help me publish To Kill a Mockingbird Part 2, then sue me into the ground.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-14 04:36:33+00:00
PDF is an enormous festering wound in .Net. I've also been doing .Net since day one and never bought a single commercial component. Used it to build some massive commercial products all on OSS.

BUT. PDF has always been a nightmare. It's made a lot better in the last year since LLMs have vast knowledge of all the functions available in each of the .Net PDF OSS libraries and can usually find a way to do the thing I need now. (I've even had them just hack the PDF streams to do something when there is no library to do it as they know the whole spec)
Show HN: TranscribeAndSplit – AI that transcribes audio and splits it by meaning
by hunglv | 2025-11-14 04:37:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small tool to solve a recurring pain when editing podcasts: scrubbing back and forth just to find where a sentence or idea actually ends.

How it works:

- Upload an audio file (MP3/WAV/M4A)

- AI transcribes the audio and suggests cut points at sentence or paragraph boundaries

- Automatically split and export segments, or adjust them manually if needed

Website: https://transcribeandsplit.com/

This came out of my own frustration with editing long recordings and manually hunting for the right cut points. I wanted something that actually understands the content before splitting it.

I’d love feedback — especially on edge cases like interviews, lectures, or multi-speaker audio. What features would make this more useful?
by HacklesRaised | 2025-11-14 04:37:38+00:00
I'm not saying Steve Jobs is turning in his grave, i'm saying it's like Cirque de Soleil in there.

There are far too few people who truly advocate for the user, and it is this dereliction that has fuelled the race to the bottom.

It's not a matter of native libraries versus x-platform solutions versus W3, it's about valuing UX over DX at EVERY TURN. It's about educating yourself as to the resource and performance consequence of the technologies you are advocating for.
by jakogut | 2025-11-14 04:38:32+00:00
As far as I understand, there's actually an intermediate driver on macOS that implements Vulkan on top of Metal, similar to how Proton implements Direct3D on top of Vulkan.

The available low-level API is Metal, and the existing software stack is written for Vulkan, so it makes more sense to implement Vulkan than to write a new Metal backend.
by llbbdd | 2025-11-14 04:39:21+00:00
It's not even that crypto is bad, it's that it's not good. The user experience is bad universally. I say this as a tech person that didn't care about it as a technology and had to deal with it anyway and I can't stand it. The first crypto service to actually, God forbid, go study Stripe, Shopify, Google Pay, Apple Pay, please understand, actually understand how people pay for things and compete with their actual competitors in a real way, is going to steal the show I'm sure. Until then it's crypto scammers competing for crypto users and crypto dollars and again no normal people want to put up with this shit at all because it's a stupid game and we're just trying to buy things.

EDIT: I clicked on the PDF out of a sense of good faith interest and curiosity and I regret it. I hope you find something else to do.
by visarga | 2025-11-14 04:40:00+00:00
Consider this - if I wanted to read A Game of Thrones, then I would read A Game of Thrones, not some bootleg LLM approximation. It is faster, more exact an cheaper to infringe by copying, a LLM is a terrible tool for infringement, it is slow, expensive and doesn't actually reproduce perfectly. The fact that some are using AI means they want something different, not the original.
by qingcharles | 2025-11-14 04:40:14+00:00
I've worked at multiple startups that were built on .Net from day one. One very large music streaming site built entirely on VB.NET [0].

[0] I actually think VB.NET is the superior .Net language, but it lost support at MS and died. I think the code is vastly more readable (to me) than C-style code, and I've coded in every C, Java, C#, whatever variant.
by orbital-decay | 2025-11-14 04:40:56+00:00
One thing to keep in mind is that Gladiator/Q3A bots followed very simple patterns and never played like a human would. Over the time, modders made their own bots that were much more human-like.

Spiterbot was a notorious one. It was capable of strafejumping, rocketjumping, zone denial, pickup timing, risk/reward behavior, enemy power estimates, and all things you would expect from a competent human player. Things like pro-q3dm6 bridge-to-railgun jump weren't a problem for it. It was still too easy to read for a good player, and susceptible to mistakes leading to HP/armor starvation, like avoiding the railgun control line like plague where a human would have tried to outsmart an enemy, risked it, or waited for an enemy mistake. Too bad there never was a technical write-up for the Spiterbot like this one.

(also, the article is from 2001, this should probably be in the title)
by samtheDamned | 2025-11-14 04:41:53+00:00
Unfortunately the rumors were misinformed. Microsoft's official response states that while they will be moving towards allowing more security functions to be run outside of the kernel, "It remains imperative that kernel access remains an option for use by cybersecurity products to allow continued innovation and the ability to detect and block future cyberthreats" [1].

1: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/09/12/takin...
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-14 04:42:08+00:00
> but you have to pull in the library anyway

That library is also out-of-the-box in the BCL in .NET > 5, though. It's not an extra install (except for projects stuck in .NET 4.x).

I get the desire to avoid that sort of redundancy in the BCL itself, but also explicit is better than implicit, which was the baseline theory for why System.Runtime.Serialization was the way it was even as it added more and more implicit "conventions", and if System.Text.Json supported the SRS attributes out-of-the-box there would be just as many complaints about "implicit magic" or it not following WCF conventions hard enough and that making it harder to migrate things using SRS attributes when you wanted different behavior in JSON serialization than you would want in WCF SOAP serialization. SRS has too much WCF baggage, unfortunately for all of us.

Perhaps what's left of the disagreement here between us is if System.Text.Json counts as "first-class framework attributes" and it certainly seems that way to me in .NET 5+, and especially as we celebrate the release of .NET 10. It's a small redundancy in the BCL, but it's still just "as BCL" and "first-class".
by brainless | 2025-11-14 04:42:45+00:00
This is interesting to read and very important to me since I am building a coding agent with team collaboration in mind. I used to use Zed daily till the point that I moved away from writing code directly and instead generate all my projects only from prompts.

I think collaboration for people who eventually use the software will be more critical in the era of agentic coding. Project Management will change. We are not waiting for 2 weeks to build prototypes, it gets done in a hour. What does that mean for end users - do they prompt their changes and get access to new software? Who would double-check, would AI reviews be good enough, would AI agents collaborate along with humans in the loop?

There are so many questions not answered. If anyone is keen on having these talks, I would happy to share what I think. Here is what I am building: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo

I want to see a future where end users can prompt their needs, have collaborators in the company to help clear things up and in an hour the feature/issue is tackled and deployed.
by satvikpendem | 2025-11-14 04:43:15+00:00
> The push to expand repressive copyright laws because machines can learn from human produced text, code and art is going to hurt us all in the long run.

Exactly. I always thought it was hilarious that, ever since LLMs and image generators like Stable Diffusion came online a few years ago, HN suddenly seemed to shift from the hacker ethos, of moving fast and breaking things, and using whatever you could for your goals, to one of being an intense copyright hawk, all because computers could now "learn."
by didnwn184 | 2025-11-14 04:43:24+00:00
I think the key reason is that Americans (and Brits) have been lead down the path that all politicans and government in general is corrupt and inefficient, and so it becomes which corrupt person you want in charge. Your guy or the other guy. This is, of course, due to decades of oligarch propaganda. Even otherwise intelligent people think government is the problem and libertarian market forces are the solution. Burn it (government) all down is their end game
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-14 04:44:02+00:00
Corporates can't have it both ways - the Hollywood corporates lobbied intensively to extend copyright for as long as 75+ years (if I recall right) because that's what would benefit them. Many have protested about this. Some tech corporates (namely search and AI companies) now feel encumbered by this, and even indulge in piracy to circumvent copyright (without any meaningful consequences), and we are now supposed to feel sorry for them? Are any of these Tech corporates also lobbying for changes to copyright laws? (I don't believe so, as many of them are now also trying to become media moghuls themselves!)
by tavavex | 2025-11-14 04:44:21+00:00
> Expanding copyright even more so that text / art that looks stylistically similar to another work is counted as infringing will, in the long run, give Disney's lawyers the power to punish folks for making content that even looks anything like Disney's many, many, many IP assets.

This made me wonder about an alternate future timeline where IP law is eventually so broad and media megacorporations are so large that almost any permutation of ideas, concepts or characters could be claimed by one of these companies as theirs, based on some combination of stylistic similarities and using a concept similar to what they have in their endless stash of IP. I wonder what a world like that would look like. Would all expression be suppressed and reduced to the non-law-abiding fringes and the few remaining exceptions? Would the media companies mercifully carve out a thin slice of non-offensive, corporate-friendly, narrow ideas that could be used by anyone, putting them in control of how we express ourselves? Or would IP violation become so common that paying an "IP tax" be completely streamlined and normalized?

The worst thing is that none of this seems like the insane ramblings that it would've probably been several decades ago. Considering the incentives of companies like Disney, IP lawyers and pro-copyright lawmakers, this could be a future we get to after a long while.
by riffraff | 2025-11-14 04:45:32+00:00
That is very understandable, and the chant of "they're all the same" is common in other countries too.

But, noone was as bad a president as Trump in recent decades, as shown by his approval during the first term, so the re-election is still baffling.

The information bubble, coupled with terrible democrats' strategy, seems a better explanation of the election results, IMHO.
by rc5150 | 2025-11-14 04:46:38+00:00
Tell that to old Joe Dangly-sac using the hand air dryer to blow the water off his old sagging balls.

I walked in on that the first time I ever used a public gym and that shit is seared into my memory--that was enough to turn me off of the locker room for some time and you know what, I don't miss it.

More often than not, pub[l]ic nudity is innocuous, nothing remarkable, but there will always be the outlier that spoils the rest of the bunch by doing weird shit with their genitals, be it drying them where theyre not supposed to be dried (see above), touching themselves in a sexual manner (seen it in a few different locker rooms, and of course the old naked men who are more than friendly to younger, naked men.

I for one say good riddance to the nude locker room. Fuck that shit.
by philipkiely | 2025-11-14 04:46:52+00:00
You give it a text prompt and optional image.

What you get is a 3D room based on the prompt/image. It rewrites your prompt to a specific format. Overall the rooms tend to be detailed and imaginative.

Then you can fly around the room like in Minecraft creative mode. Really looking forward to more editing features/infill to augment this.
by llbbdd | 2025-11-14 04:47:25+00:00
Because one of the functions of government currency is keeping things like prices stable for the sanity of normal people buying food and gas, against the type of upheaval and reactionary change that a global currency is susceptible to. Bitcoin/crypto enthusiasts have historically pretended that stable prices are not important, keeping alive the traditional HN-lauded attitude that any insufficiently solved social problem is merely awaiting heroic overhaul via a Messianic technical spec.
by srilman | 2025-11-14 04:47:58+00:00
Hey everyone, I'm a software engineer at Eventual, the team behind Daft! Huge thanks to the op for the benchmark, we're a huge fan of your blog posts and this gave us some really useful insights. For context, Daft is a high-performance data processing engine for AI workloads that works both on single-node and distributed setups.

We're actively looking into the results of the benchmark and hope to share some of our findings soon. From initial results, we found a lot of potential optimizations we could make to our deltalake reader to improve parallelism and our groupby operator to improve pipelining for count aggregations. We're hoping to roll our these improvements over the next couple of releases.

If you're interested to learn more about our findings, check out our GitHub (https://github.com/Eventual-Inc/Daft) or follow us on Twitter (https://x.com/daftengine) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/daftengine) for updates. Also if Daft sounds interesting to you, give us a try via pip install daft!
by modeless | 2025-11-14 04:48:05+00:00
Danijar Hafner just left DeepMind. He's behind the Dreamer series of models which are IMO the most promising direction for world models anyone has come up with yet. I'm wondering where he's headed. Maybe he could end up at LeCun's startup?

In Dreamer 4 they are able to train an agent to play Minecraft with enough skill to obtain diamonds, without ever playing the game at all. Only by watching humans play. They first build a world model, then train the agent purely in scenarios imagined by the world model, requiring zero extra data or experience. Hopefully it's obvious how generating data from a world model might be useful for training agents in domains where we don't have datasets like the entire internet just sitting around ready-made for us to use.

https://danijar.com/project/dreamer4/
by mjevans | 2025-11-14 04:48:12+00:00
In 2015 the democrats chose to go for the 'establishment obvious candidate' despite strong grassroots support for a more populist candidate with a clear track record of working for the best interest of the American People.

They did Bernie dirty, and were lucky to get even as many votes as they did. The email scandal immediately before the election didn't help, but that's more of an excuse for what someone was going to do anyway.

After ~10 years of the current president campaigning both in and out of office. Particularly after Jan 6th. Even more so after congress was too spineless to do their jobs for the people who elected them. NONE of what's happened since really, really, surprises me. Sadden? Disappoint? Dismay? Oh yes, all of those and more. I've been amazed at how fast all that stuff started to happen in the second term. I do totally believe that waste of carbon never read Project 2025 ; just rubber stamping what the rich supporters have asked for.

Looking back further. I'm seriously saddened the Democrats didn't do the right thing for the American People way back in 2008 / 2009. National Single Payer Healthcare. Make healthcare efficient, have competition among providers, but give every person the right to healthcare as part of the social contract and the taxes they pay.

I'm still hopeful that when the pendulum swings back the other way we can end the nightmare of all the damned paperwork and billing and having to do annoying renewals every bloody year.
by themafia | 2025-11-14 04:48:31+00:00
> 70% of bugs in a large mature c++ code base come from memory safety bugs.

Are 100% of those exploitable? This single ended statistic is simply not useful.

> Other types of logic bugs are also easier to avoid in rust because it's type system is quite powerful.

You have proof of this?

> Anyone who's actually migrated a code base from c++ to rust should be able to attest to the benefits.

That's not how these measurements work. In particular, modern C++ has many of the same advantages you just cited, so this claim is dubious in two ways.

And you've entirely failed to address the largess of Rust, which, again, for a "systems language" is entirely mismatched.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-14 04:49:32+00:00
> Perhaps "nefarious" is too strong a term, but the intent (at least in states that have legal cannabis) AFAICT, is to avoid the regulations around testing for adulterants, potency, etc.

My (perhaps incorrect) understanding is that the majority of the sales are happening in the 26 states without recreational marijuana, however, and that many consumers in the recreational states are still choosing to go with the dispensary product vs. head shop/liquor store/etc.

As someone in a non-rec state, as much as I would prefer the dispensary option with stricter regulations, it's still much more regulated than "the dude whose house i show up with and venmo him some money and get a bag that came from god knows where"
by jakogut | 2025-11-14 04:49:38+00:00
It would make sense, but Apple has large amounts of disdain for people having fun with their products. This evidenced by the large amounts of engineering they've put into very large, capable, and efficient GPUs, only to squander them on rendering web pages and liquid glass.

They released Apple Vision Pro with no ability to play popular PC games on it.

A VR headset. That doesn't play games.
by varenc | 2025-11-14 04:49:41+00:00
It's why everything is a subscription these days: you make more money.

Consumers undercount the true total cost. And because X% of people will forget they're subscribed and keep paying forever.

If every month you had to either consent to recurring charge on your card or unsubscribe, I'm sure billions of revenue would evaporate overnight from people mass unsubscribing.

(I wish there was regulation that required companies to automatically pause monthly subscriptions if you haven't logged in to or used the service in any way for 3+ months. Though that would create some weird incentives)
by jmpavlec | 2025-11-14 04:52:05+00:00
Interesting idea. Here's my shared link:

https://www.storygaps.org/story/camping-trip/read?adjective-...

I'd work on shortening that url as it's just the inputs... Is there a backend or does it just fill in the blanks of a template story?

Would be nice to lowercase the inputs where appropriate in the sentence as well. My phone defaulted to using a capital letter for all inputs, that looked a bit strange and made reading the sentences harder. Not sure if you are using AI, but you probably could use it to clean up typos etc so the input words flow better.
by mark-mdev | 2025-11-14 04:52:12+00:00
I built a setup called Meridian to address some structural issues I was running into when using Claude Code for real development work.

Claude is good at writing code, but it doesn’t maintain long-lived project state. In practice, this led to problems: context loss after compaction, forgotten decisions, repeated mistakes, and drift from coding standards. Code it generated often wasn’t connected to any task history, and behavior varied depending on session state.

Meridian gives Claude a persistent working environment inside the repository, without requiring the developer to change how they interact with it. The goal was zero workflow friction.

Some details:

• Structured tasks Every approved plan becomes a `TASK-###` folder with a brief, the approved plan, and running context notes. Claude is required to keep these up to date.

• Durable project memory Important architectural decisions and recurring problems are stored in a `memory.jsonl` file. Claude reads it automatically and never edits it directly; updates go through a script.

• Session-stable coding standards A baseline `CODE_GUIDE.md` and optional add-ons (for hackathon/standard/production/TDD modes) load automatically on each session.

• Compaction recovery When a session is compacted, hooks re-inject the system prompt, coding guides, task backlog, memory, and any relevant project docs. Claude must review them before tools are allowed.

• Enforced correctness Before stopping, Claude must ensure tests/lint/build pass and task/memory/doc updates are complete.

The setup tries to make Claude’s behavior deterministic across sessions while keeping the developer workflow unchanged. You just talk to Claude normally; the structure happens around it.

Repo: https://github.com/markmdev/meridian

Feedback is welcome.
by neutronicus | 2025-11-14 04:52:23+00:00
You ever hear anybody say "toxic femininity"? Yeah, me neither.

But, anyway, it's a confused conversation. It's helpful to zoom out a bit. The top-level comment is (partially) blaming feminist discourse for a social ill (increasing gambling addiction among young men). While politely stated, the claim is pretty inflammatory.

So part of what's going on here is that people are reacting to what they perceive as you defending that initial claim (which, again, is pretty inflammatory IMO) instead of just denouncing a bunch of people as incels and moving on.

Anyway, I will validate you. You are not taking crazy pills. You're just ... saying some things that are taboo to say. I would, uh, avoid ever using the word "misandry" in a setting where it can be associated with your real name.
by rapind | 2025-11-14 04:52:23+00:00
I recently discovered that Microsofts SSO doesn't guarantee email veracity. Basically you can spoof emails via ActiveDirectory, so if a site supports Microsoft's SSO and doesn't do a second verification, then someone could login to your site with someone else's email.

I mean, what's the point of their SSO if you're just going to need to verify it with an email code anyways?