MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gausswho | 2025-11-28 18:58:11+00:00
OpenAI doesn't have the moat. I'm sure they're plotting one, and it's tantalizing how quiet they are about it.

In my favorite timeline, they fork GrapheneOS and throw boatloads of money at it. Embarass the Copilot clowns at Microsoft with actually useful integrations across the experience. Built-in social networking based on decentralized tools. Poach all the folks that matter from Google and Apple. Then finally sell something that is "open" to reclaim their credibility.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-28 18:58:22+00:00
Surely you can still sue separately through the civil process even if you choose to not pursue criminal charges?

If someone causes you damage through non-criminal negligence, surely you can sue them?

The idea that you couldn’t bring a civil suit over possibly criminal conduct seems unworkable. It’s possible that my neighbour was drunk when he crashed into my parked car late at night, but surely that can’t preclude me from seeking compensation through civilian courts.

It’s possible, but tremendously unlikely that Facebook is committing fraud here. In Sweden you have to prove intent to defraud, which is a tremendously high bar.

Which, again, makes the idea that you couldn’t bring a civil suit seem ever more bizarre. How could you possibly know if Facebook has committed fraud here? You presumably can’t read Zuckerbergs toughts.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-11-28 18:58:33+00:00
I'm in the UK and we use 'mobile broadband' for our domestic Internet connection. So a mains powered router box that connects to the local G4 (or G5) mobile data network and provides wifi and a few cat 5 sockets. We don't need to subscribe to a phone line (e.g. last mile supplied by Openreach/BT or fibre from Virgin or whoever). I pay a single flat fee monthly by credit card. It is reasonably fast and meets our modest needs. There is no hard data cap. We average 150 Gb per quarter or so.

archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package.

I've chosen not to unblock for no particular reason. The block sort of makes sense to me because archive.org records a lot of Web sites, some of which may have what is regarded as adult content, and it is unreasonable to expect archive.org to label individual records of sites according to the criteria the UK uses (each country probably has its own set of criteria e.g. gambling Web sites of certain kinds in the US).

archive.org is easily accessible in the UK from most wifi connections in cafes, libraries and, hilariously, colleges (where people under 18 gather in large numbers), and also from domestic adsl or fibre Internet connections.
by treetalker | 2025-11-28 18:59:46+00:00
I presume you're already aware, but for those who aren't: MacOS already has Sidecar, which lets you use an iPad as an additional screen.

If I understand you correctly, you're talking about a really big iPad that could be used as a normal-sized monitor, but folds up to the size of a regular iPad. I too think that would be amazing — but more so because it would be a step in the direction of a tabletop- or whiteboard-sized iPad. I would love a device that large for manipulating mindmaps, outlines, etc. I suppose, though, that Apple Vision Pro might obviate such a thing by projecting a huge virtual monitor on the wall, say. Still, I like the physicality of manipulating objects on the iPad (like nodes on mindmaps and outlines).
by Animats | 2025-11-28 18:59:50+00:00
> The state we're in is the logical consequence of the Hollywood narrative where sexy is tabu but violence is ok. It has been pushing this narrative upon the rest of the Western world for decades.

R-rated movies have declined sharply as a percentage of box-office revenue. That trend was recognized by 2005. [1] Variety: “You’re leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table with an R rating,” says one studio marketing exec. “Why? For artistic integrity? Let’s be real.” The trend has continued, rather than turning around.

There's been a huge decline in good sex scenes in movies. Porn scenes are awful, and mainstream Hollywood now avoids sex scenes. The good ones were back in the 1990s.

[1] https://variety.com/2005/film/news/don-t-give-me-an-r-111791...
by chao- | 2025-11-28 19:00:32+00:00
The differences are well summarized on their /about page. I find both HN and Lobsters valuable for different reasons, but and the differences that stand out to me are:

- Tries to be more purely technical. Generic political or business links are flagged or removed.

- Aggressive marketing/self-promotion is moderated: If you join, post three links to your own blog, and nothing else, expect someone to call out if you post a fourth. I know HN does this to some extent, but it is very explicit on Lobsters.

- Not "news", not necessarily about recent things. Project/language releases even have a "release" tag so you can hide them systematically. A ten-year-old article explaining some library internals is just as likely to come up.

- Instead of "downvotes" there are "flags", which requires choosing a reason. Ideally encourages people to pause and think, instead of scrolling and clicking a down arrow 20 times in a thread.

- Weekly community threads of "What are you working on this week?" and "What are you doing this weekend?" which is nice for a smaller community.
by phil21 | 2025-11-28 19:00:53+00:00
That works fine. Self driving doesn’t need to be everything for all conditions everywhere.

Give me reliable and safe self driving for Interstate highways in moderate to good weather conditions and I would be very happy. Get better incrementally from there.

I live solidly in the snow belt.

Autopilot for planes works in this manner too. Theoretically a modern airliner could autofly takeoff to landing entirely autonomously at this point, but they do not. They decrease pilot workload.

If you want the full robotaxi panacea everywhere at all times in all conditions? Sure. None of us are likely to see that in our lifetime.
by js8 | 2025-11-28 19:01:05+00:00
But when Draghi wrote his report, he was leaving the power structures. It will probably slowly change, but the neoliberal hegemony is still there.

I think the big issue is that all European elites have investments in the USA, and they don't have reason to pick EU over USA for investing. So there is nothing compelling them to voluntary worsen the relations.
by sudonanohome | 2025-11-28 19:01:41+00:00
You won't have any options for non garbage vehicles pretty soon. It's more profitable to sell you garbage and than sell you the maintenance on the above mentioned garbage while getting a steady trickle of revenue for ad impressions.

Ford pulled focus/fiesta lineup from US ignoring great sales (despite widely known DCT issues) just so they can focus on selling the garbage SUVs and pickups, highest margin cars. But hey, no CAFE regulations to follow, can pollute as much as you want.

Jeep quality is a joke - they would've been sued out of existence with trucks like that in Europe. When I first saw the Jeep Gladiator photo I through it was a joke/meme.

Corporations do truly control everything in US. They'll sell you garbage overpriced trucks, convince you to feel happy about them and laught all the way to the bank while raking cash for all "dealer maintenance" required to keep such garbage on the roads. And then they lock down all the maintenance behind encryption so you can't replace a battery without going to the dealer for the unlock code.

Please speedrun your late stage capitalism asap, it's getting harder and harder to watch
Show HN: Design a commercial bakery in an afternoon, not for $10k
by Rafael_Mauricio | 2025-11-28 19:01:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Rafael Mauricio, the founder of RF Modern Bakery Design. For the last decade, I've worked with hundreds of talented bakers. The same frustrating pattern kept emerging: they had the culinary skills to build a successful business, but were completely blocked by the monumental task of designing their commercial kitchen.

A brilliant baker shouldn't have to also become a construction manager, HVAC expert, and workflow engineer. The traditional process is a black hole of time and money—taking 3-6 months and $10,000+ in consulting fees just to get a viable floor plan. Most independent operators can't afford this.

We built RF Modern Bakery Design to bridge that gap.

The Product:

It's a dual-sided service.

Custom Bakery Design: The time-tested, professional service for creating full, build-ready bakery concepts.

Online Bakery Design Courses: This is the core of our "Show HN." We've productized our decade of expertise into video courses that teach the principles of efficient layout, equipment selection, and workflow optimization. It's like having a senior designer guide you through the entire process, empowering you to design your own space or intelligently manage a contractor.

The Tech Stack:

We keep it simple and focused on delivery: a static site that lets us pour 100% of our energy into creating high-quality, actionable lessons and resources.

We're launching this to solve the "barrier to entry" problem in the food service industry. It's for aspiring bakery owners, culinary graduates, and even existing owners planning a renovation who need a clear, professional path to a functional and profitable layout without the prohibitive upfront cost.

We'd love for you to check it out and are eager for any feedback:

Landing Page: https://rfmodernbakerydesign.com

Happy to answer any questions about the business model, the design principles we teach, the build process, or the bakery industry in general
by QuiEgo | 2025-11-28 19:03:07+00:00
I think laptop of your choice as a thin client to Linux box in a data center is super common.

Most people seem to pick a Mac as their thin client, since ssh works well natively on it, it runs MS office, and the Windows laptop options are never the “nice” Windows options for some reason, but various flavors of plastic hate boxes that get 1/2 the battery life of the Macs IT offers.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-28 19:04:53+00:00
Are you aware that people who are part of Ycombinator, as in "founders", have special HN accounts, and are able to see who else has a financial incentive to hype up startups and YC and insist there is nothing wrong with them funding multiple companies that literally plagiarize each other or just slap a logo on top of VSCode hooked up to ChatGPT, or other people that are literally personal friends and collaborators with Elon?

What else do you call such a secret in group who all have aligned financial interests and are externally anonymous?

YC sells this feature as an advantage of being funded by YC.
by apsurd | 2025-11-28 19:04:56+00:00
C. it's the only one that has you in the arena. There's no guaranteed outcome, but money itself is a team-sport.

I'm a simple man myself, so I'm answering in order to verify my own reasoning.

A. will have negative returns from inflation. D. defends against inflation but is too conservative. B. There's arguably negative value in holding more equity in terms of opportunity cost since you already have > 200% position in equity. source: I believe this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4H9LL7A-nQ
by cyberax | 2025-11-28 19:05:17+00:00
> On this basis, global material prosperity has grown by 25% since 2004, which is nowhere near claimed “growth” of 96% in real GDP over that period. Moreover, the 25% rise in aggregate prosperity has been matched by the rise in population numbers over those twenty years.

This assumes that the GDP growth and the material prosperity are in a simple linear relation. I don't think this makes sense.

A small solar panel that can charge battery-powered night lights and a couple of cell phones produces negligible energy. Just a few minutes of air-conditioning consumption for a house in the US. Yet it can completely transform the life of households in an African town.
by pixelpoet | 2025-11-28 19:05:57+00:00
Somewhat reluctantly, VS Code; but I'm checking out CLion as well and not hating it as much as I did last time.

I find CMake intensely offensive, just the whole worldview of every tool demanding you learn some DSL to do basic things when I have a 4K monitor and just want to select a bunch of cpp and h files to build, but I've since been forced to swallow this bitter pill for work reasons, and I guess it's time to give tools based on it another go.
by anonym29 | 2025-11-28 19:06:17+00:00
>What database?

The local database used by Signal to organize every message, every contact, every profile photo, every attachment, every group, basically every dynamic piece of data you interact with in the app.

Signal is basically a UI layer for a database. The in-transit encryption is genuinely good enough to be textbook study material for cryptographers, but the at-rest encryption became a joke the moment they stopped using your pin to encrypt the local DB and requiring it to open the app.

As someone who's been enthusiastic about Signal since it was TextSecure and RedPhone, the changes made over the years to broaden the userbase have been really exciting from an adoption perspective, and really depressing from a security perspective.

TL;DR of Molly is that it fixes/improves several of those security regressions (and adds new security features, like wiping RAM on db lock) while maintaining transparent compatibility with the official servers, and accordingly, other people using the regular Signal client.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-28 19:06:18+00:00
> archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package

That's something to do with your provider. Maybe you need a non-crappy provider.

You do not need to provide any kind of declaration that you're over 18 to access archive.org in the UK.
by rout39574 | 2025-11-28 19:07:19+00:00
Ahh, we can all buy the farm together. ;)

I've been watching my investment accounts, particularly the TSLA fraction, and see-sawing between "This has got to collapse soon, I should..." and "You cannot time the market, idiot".

I'm dissatisfied with the inaction, but I can't come up with a coherent theory about how I should act... Bleah.
by adverbly | 2025-11-28 19:07:55+00:00
It would actually be so interesting to have comment, replies and thread associations according to semantic meaning rather than direct links.

I wonder how many times the same discussion thread has been repeated across different posts. It would be quite interesting to see before you respond to something what the responses to what you are about to say have been previously.

Semantic threads or something would be the general idea... Pretty cool concept actually...
by drcode | 2025-11-28 19:08:23+00:00
Yeah, my rule when I got started was "If I ever lose a lifetime aggregated $3000 in the markets, then the markets are not for me". Then once you're ahead in the markets, it's fine to continue trading.

(Note: I ended up breaking my rule by continuing to trade after losing $5000, but then did great in the markets anyway in the long run LOL)
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-11-28 19:09:11+00:00
>"3. Assembling x86

A particular emphasis of our work on machine code verification is on using Coq as a place to do everything: modelling the machine, writing programs, assembling or compiling programs, and proving properties of programs.

Coq’s powerful notation feature makes it possible to write assembly programs, and higher-level language programs, inside Coq itself with no need for external tools."

Looks very promising! There is definitely something here!
by jmward01 | 2025-11-28 19:09:21+00:00
I have no idea who/when/where the 'original' idea came from. I stumbled on it when I was thinking about history and trying to tell how languages or artifacts influenced one another. I remember reading (don't know where) about linguists creating timelines based on when features appeared and capturing the version of that feature at the time it was introduced compared to how it later evolved. Again, a long time ago so no real definitive answers there. A quick search brought this paper up.[1] I just skimmed it and it looks like it has the core idea in it but no promises.

[1] Causal Inference from Noise https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/nous.12300
by tripletao | 2025-11-28 19:10:48+00:00
The Census Bureau asks if firms are using AI "to help produce goods or services". I guess that's intended to exclude not-yet-productive investigations, and maybe also indirect uses--does LLM-powered OCR for the expense reports for the travelling sales representatives for a widget factory count? That's all vague enough that I guess it works mostly as a sentiment check, where the absolute value isn't meaningful but the time trend might be.

The Ramp chart seems to use actual payment information from companies using their accounting platform. That should be more objective, though they don't disclose much about their methodology (and their customers aren't necessarily representative, the purpose and intensity of use aren't captured at all, etc.).

https://ramp.com/data/ai-index
by omnicognate | 2025-11-28 19:11:02+00:00
> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy.

This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it, including having a separate SSID/VLAN from which everything is routed through the VPN. It's wireguard based so there's no "installing a VPN", just an interface/network configured in systemd-networkd (once, on the router).

Edit: Routing by domain name could be tricky, though. I haven't had a need for that, and a proxy with local DNS override (as in the article) might needed if it came to that. I'd still do it on the router, though.
by swatcoder | 2025-11-28 19:11:02+00:00
Where's the performance data?

Anybody can send a PCB description/schematic into an LLM, with a prompt suggesting it generate an analysis and it will diligently produce a document that perceptually resembles an analysis of that PCB. It will do that approximately 100% of the time.

But making an LLM actually deliver a sound, useful, accurate analysis would be quite an accomplishment! Is that really what you've done? How did you know you got it right? How right did you get it?

To sell an analysis tool, I'd expect to see some kind of comparison against other tooling and techniques. General success rate? False negative rate? False positive rate? How does it do against simple schematics vs large ones? What IC's and components will it recognize and which will it fail to recognize? Does it throw an error if it encounters something it doesn't recognize? When? Do you have testimonials? Examples?
by e12e | 2025-11-28 19:11:11+00:00
One not-so-obscure problem is how hard it is to only elevate yourself to admin when you need it (and run as a regular user the other time).

Essentially you need to pay double license for admin users so they can have two logins; and it's a pain to quickly elevate privilege to do day to day admin tasks.

So if your friendly domain admin clicks the wrong link, your entire network is owned.
by landr0id | 2025-11-28 19:11:24+00:00
> Contains no proprietary blobs, unlike Signal

What "proprietary blobs" does Signal have?

I'll also just add: it's probably not a good idea to use any modifications to an E2EE messenger unless you are comfortable with those privacy/security guarantees possibly being violated by the 3rd party code.

The only exception to this would be if I really trusted the goals of the 3rd party, like Graphene.
by wafflesfreak | 2025-11-28 19:11:37+00:00
Hi! Great question. Right now the tool focuses on issues that show up in the schematic. So it’s very well-equipped to handle a lot of the classic “how did no human ever catch this” mistakes — things like reversed polarity, TX/RX getting swapped, missing pull-ups, etc.

But it sounds like in this case the root cause was more of a footprint/layout issue rather than a schematic one. I’m hoping to add footprint-level checks later on, once I can ingest full board files and mechanical data.
by kakacik | 2025-11-28 19:11:46+00:00
As Swiss resident coming originally from EU country, how to put it politely... fuck that. EU does some good but its top politicians are absurd obscure career bullshitters (Leyen, who the heck likes her and whom she represents? Certainly not eastern EU, she represents everything wrong with EU though. She is so lost and yet untouchable, ie still pushes for destruction of whole European automotive industry while playing her political games. EU parliament is a behemoth of corrupt ultra bureaucracy and so on. Certainly not a leader for whole continent).

For poor countries in the east, EU is salvation, it dumps billions every year on them that are promptly stolen by cleptocratic governments (I know this darn too well as coming from one such place and literally everybody there knows this, you guys are fools for allowing this for decades). Yeah, all you westerners, you don't even bother to check whats happening with your truckloads of money as long as politicians don't stick out like Orban or Fico. And even if they do, all that happens is some PR statements and things go on as usually.

For Swiss for example, it would be a massive downgrade in many aspects - sovereignty, general freedom, performance, agility in ever-changing world, freedom of self-determination, and obviously economical power and wealth. They themselves voted in public vote to not join, same for NATO.

EU should be more like Switzerland, that I honestly believe is the only general recipe how long term old continent can compete and be peer to behemoths like US or China. Its not about this topic or that program, but general working and mindset of society. But good luck that western EU egos would ever accept that somebody found a more effective and way more sustainable way of functioning within European dominion. So its a path to stagnation, I see it as inevitable.

Harder working, more clever countries not laying comfortably deep in their unsustainable social systems, bureaucracy and corruption will catch up and move far beyond EU in upcoming decades, and those further like US will keep pushing beyond whats possible for EU. Maybe bigger war with russia would actually change that mindset not sustainable in 2025, but it could also mean collapse and utter catastrophe. EU is weak and slow and lost, in times when its really bad idea.
by Jensson | 2025-11-28 19:11:48+00:00
This is an example from UK about a dead military officer: “The only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn,”

Now the rest of Europe has much more freedom of speech than UK, but that is an example of a mean tweet about a government official that got sentenced. We don't want that in the EU.

Note that the guy was convicted even though he almost immediately deleted the tweet and apologized, the law is that bad, you aren't allowed to slip up even a little bit.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/twitter-user-sentenced-to-comm...