MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by subscribed | 2025-12-28 19:40:11+00:00
I appreciate the response and I agree there's some misunderstanding related to the scope.

My question, admittedly probably not as clearly as I'd like it to be, was only related to safety of operating physical controls vs having to use touchscreen.

Any external circumstances notwithstanding.

The article and, I believe, our threat was about the safety factor physical/tactile vs primarily visual.

If I were forced to use touch screen then sure, better font is increasing safety, but at the same time replacing physical controls with touchscreen is drastically lowering the safety, which has been confirmed by a study and recently by NCAP removing stars for that.

For the purpose of this thread I don't care about external sources of information, they have NO impact on "are physical controls inside the car more conductive to safety than touchscreen?".

It was never a debate about improving necessary / mandatory interface, it was a debate whether they're a regression (from the safety perspective) or not.

Have a happy new year and don't worry, I'm attentive, I would never buy a car that forces me to take my eyes off the road to turn up the volume or temperature :)
by jandeboevrie | 2025-12-28 19:40:25+00:00
I would have put Coder Radio on this list but ever since Mike took over without Chris the show has lost its appeal for me.

And sadly, there are no more Jupiter Broadcasting shows left without crypto or mostly inside baseball.

Anyone know of shows in the category of two or three lads discussing computing, coding, devops, but in the style of two older guys crumudging that everything used to be better in the old days?
by theodric | 2025-12-28 19:40:31+00:00
I noticed that Reddit behavior recently, but not the other things. I searched for "<productname> Nederland" hoping to find a Dutch source for something I can't get in Ireland, and got a Reddit hit in Dutch that talked about paying €30 for it online with a response talking (also in Dutch) about the thing being $14 at Wal-Mart and Kroger-- neither of which exists in NL. I then noticed the text at the top of the page saying that the post had been auto-translated from English, at which point I got rather annoyed. That €30 in the translated post was $30 in the original: that's not localization at all, rather fabrication. Fucking infuriating.

My theory was that Reddit was shotgunning LLM-translated versions of posts at Google in a bunch of languages to increase hit rate. Maybe Google's really at fault.

Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to find anything on Google thanks to all the transparent autoensloppification of everything, everywhere.
by jbs789 | 2025-12-28 19:40:44+00:00
This is a tough one.

An advanced cancer diagnosis changes the mind and brings a level of clarity that I had never before experienced, about what is important.

Being forced to face one's mortality is not pleasant but it can be enlightening. And then truly enjoy the experience of being.

I think the question is, if everyone has similar "deathbed" advice, then what can you learn from that?
by robdefeo | 2025-12-28 19:41:12+00:00
I enjoyed Shell Game, which explores using voice agents in ever more personal situations.

The specifics of the journey are going to date quickly given the speed of AI development. But the shape of the journey and the dilemmas posed are going to be relevant for a lot longer.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/shell-game/id175311776...
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-12-28 19:42:04+00:00
My favourite podcast right now is Let's Learn Everything, three science geeks taking turns to explain things to each other. In a standard episode, there's a deep dive into a science topic, followed by a lighter miscellaneous segment. Special episodes, such as the yearly HaLearnDays or the occasional guest episode, take a different format.

The three all have science degrees, and do proper research for their deep dives. This is a podcast which comes with supporting citations.

https://letslearneverything.com
by tambourine_man | 2025-12-28 19:42:44+00:00
Google is institutionally incapable of understanding that some people can speak multiple languages. Only reliable solution I found is to create one account for each language and restrict the number of available languages to just that one in:

https://www.google.com/preferences?lang=1

YouTube is the worst offender these days. I get Portuguese videos auto-dubbed to English and vice-versa even though I can understand both and with no way to disable other than account switching.

It also can't tell Portuguese from Spanish in search queries.
by vorpalhex | 2025-12-28 19:43:39+00:00
I think this is an infinitely more useful way of saying what the blogger was attempting to.

There is a flawed prioritization happening that we are seeing have it's natural conclusion on the deathbed - delaying things that feel forever available (spending time with the kids) for things that feel urgent (that critical meeting).

As you said, it takes discipline to avoid this trap. There will always be another urgent meeting, but your children will grow up and go have their own lives.

"Fake urgency" is a terrible poisonous thing that often seeps into the work world. It is the cause of many ills and most deathbed regrets.
by estebarb | 2025-12-28 19:43:58+00:00
Not only search: titles and description of Youtube videos are being translated. Colab UI is now in Spanish (using technical terms that make no sense).

Some people may want translation, mostly people that only speak a single language. But for most bilingual people, being forced a translation (a lower quality one), is a worse experience. I'm surprised that no one at Google has pushed back this anti-user behavior. It is like no one at Google knows more than one language.

The worst part is when traveling. Google ignores the browser settings, so it throws me Japanese or German website, even if my browser settings clearly says English then Spanish.
by coffeefirst | 2025-12-28 19:45:12+00:00
I have the opposite problem with YouTube, where they insist on dubbing everything when in just want subtitles.

The result is an Italian cooking demo where the chef exclaims “MULTA BENE!” and the AI voice deadpans “it is very good.”

I’m sure it’s even more annoying when you’re bilingual and can’t turn it off.
by OfflineSergio | 2025-12-28 19:45:26+00:00
- "Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11)"

- My First Million (www.mfmpod.com). I just don't know why, but for some reason I stopped listening to them in the past 2 months, but rest of the year I was really enjoying their content. Even older ones.

- Pivot and Prof G, mostly because of Scott Galloway. I really like him.

- Under The Influence with Terry O'Reilly. Amazingly good. Very fun to listen to and almost always brings joy and help me learn something new.

- All In, can't say I'm still enjoying this. It's way too political these days. But it's still something I listen to occasionally. When I listen I usually end up skipping half of the content to find something I like.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-28 19:45:29+00:00
It’s revisionist at best and totally epistemically broken to try and somehow “fix” the bias because all you’re doing is introducing a new bias

The only possible solution is to create new human data because we’re behaving in ways that are good for society this is literally the only possible future that still includes humanity.

I personally do not believe humans can do this and so I’m building something that tests that empirically.
by bitwize | 2025-12-28 19:46:11+00:00
Indeed. At the time, Tandy was trying to break into the business market with its computer offerings, and the 2000's software library reflects that, including MultiMate, Basic Four, Lotus 1-2-3 and Symphony with hi-res graphic/charting add-ons, a version of Ashton-Tate's Framework, and the best desktop version of AutoCAD available at the time. The Mindset and Amiga lapped it in terms of video, audio, and in particular NTSC- and composite-compatible output capabilities, but machines that were targeting those workflows were doing something very different from the generic business market (which Windows, at the time, was aimed squarely at).

A composite compatible output addon, called the TV/Game Adapter, was planned but never released for the Tandy 2000; if released it might not have supported genlocking or really much beyond getting 16-color 320x200 or so video onto a TV. Until recently the only graphical game I recall actually being released for the machine was a special version of Flight Simulator; but recently on Facebook I saw a photo of a 2000 running some sort of video poker or other card game. It was unlikely to have been very fast paced and may even have been written in GW-BASIC; I don't know much about it.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-28 19:46:16+00:00
You are preaching to the choir, for the most part. People just got brainwashed into expecting prices to be "stable" but what is really happening is the price of money is being manipulated for various reasons.

Credit is a very thorny issue. Politicians and banks have promised people impossibly good and contradictory outcomes.

>And the money supply that is created by government(-ish) institutions is by central banks, which—in modern times—are generally operated independently from the government

In all cases the independence is an illusion. Conflicts over policy are manufactured to make the government appear more frugal than it is. Every fiat currency ever has gone to zero.
by cromka | 2025-12-28 19:46:39+00:00
Forcing AI down our throats. Not only Google search, same thing with YT. Make no mistake, there's enough bilingual people employed by Google across US for them to know perfectly well how annoying this is.

This isn't a coincidence. I'd bet this is so they can inflate their adoption numbers to justify further involvement in the AI race to their shareholders.

Which, to me, is a very string sign that we're in a massive "solution looking for a problem" bubble. We've been there before. We know how it ends.
by socalgal2 | 2025-12-28 19:46:41+00:00
Try WebGL or better, WebGPU. It's so much easier and all the concepts you learn are applicable to other APIs.

https://webgpufundamentals.org

or

https://webgl2fundamentals.org

I'd choose webgpu over webgl2 as it more closely resembles current mondern graphics APIs like Metal, DirectX12, Vulkan.
by gmueckl | 2025-12-28 19:46:47+00:00
Well, you're very much wrong about that. The cat can be put back into the bag if we want to. It certainly happened before.

Right now, companies are working extremely hard to give the impression that AI technology is essential. But that is a purposefully manufactured illusion. It's a set of ideas planted in people's heads. Marketing in those megacompanies that introduce new technologies like LLMs and AR glasses to end users is very much focused on reshaping society around their product. They think BIG. We need more awareness that this is happening so that we can push back in a coordinated and meaningful way. And then we can support politicians that implement that agenda.
by dcre | 2025-12-28 19:46:51+00:00
I think that’s roughly right — both then and now he has stressed that people think it does something but it fails to do so. However I do think I’ve seen a subtle shift in phrasing in both him and other critics as it has become more obvious and undeniable that experienced and highly skilled experts in various domains are in fact using LLMs productively to do all those things (most notably producing software)

I dug around a bit but wasn’t able to find a slam dunk quote from a year ago. Might look around more later.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-28 19:47:52+00:00
Please look into duckduckgo or other search providers if possible / if you can and your workflow allows it

Other people might have given more credible information about how to fix it but I am on duckduckgo for 2 years now and I seriously love it and It doesn't have any of these issues.

If your workflow allows so, definitely give duckduckgo (Or other private search engines like brave,startpage,ecosia etc.) a try as well.
by sippeangelo | 2025-12-28 19:47:54+00:00
To be clear, this is Reddit auto-translating and poisoning their own search results, and it's the most frustrating thing. Post AI and post Google enshittification, we all ended up appending "reddit" to the end of our searches to filter out all the blogspam and get some real human opinions on queries, so Reddit decides to cash in and make sure they receive the maximum amount of that traffic by making it available in every language under the sun, poisoning their own well deliberately. It's shit turtles all the way down!
by vel0city | 2025-12-28 19:48:04+00:00
> Alternatively, the OTHER reasoning of "the rich should pay more" still applies, so I assume that's a factor here.

Once again, your assumption is incorrect. That base model F-150 that pays half the taxes costs more than my EV. The registration fee doesn't factor in income or valuation at all. A $100k Hummer EV pays the same as a $15k used Bolt.

It probably has more to do with the government being in the pocket of oil interests and acts accordingly.
by kirumachi | 2025-12-28 19:49:17+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m one of the creators of Hokage. We built this because we were tired of the usuall spreadsheet hell that comes with running open-source security tools at any reasonable scale.

If you are a small-to-mid-sized team, you likely use tools like Semgrep, Trivy, or Gitleaks. They are great scanners, but they all output different formats, don’t talk to each other, and result in hundreds of duplicate findings that make triage impossible.

Hokage is a self-hosted orchestration layer that attempts to fix this. It runs your scanners and normalizes the output into a Canonical Finding Schema (CFS). This allows us to:

1. Deduplicate findings (e.g., if a linter and a SAST tool find the same bug, we merge them).
2. Provide a single dashboard for triage across multiple repos.
3. Standardize fields (severity, confidence, location) regardless of the underlying engine.

Tech Stack:

- Backend: Python (FastAPI)
- Orchestration: Docker / Subprocess wrappers
- Database: PostgreSQL

Repo: https://github.com/hokage-sec/hokage-platform

This is an Alpha (Public Preview). It is not feature-complete, and the UX is still rough around the edges. We are releasing now because we need feedback on the data model:

1. Does our canonical schema cover your use cases?
2. Is the deduplication logic too aggressive?
3. Which scanners should we write adapters for next?

You can spin it up locally with Docker Compose to test it out. We’d love to hear your thoughts (and criticism) on the approach.

Thanks!
Show HN: I built Ctrl+F for YouTube videos using Gemini's multimodal AI
by jmcdev | 2025-12-28 19:49:59+00:00
Hey HN,

I wanted a way to search across multiple YouTube videos at once, find every time someone discusses a topic, compare how different creators explain the same concept, or pull all mentions of a keyword across a channel's archive.

The interesting part: it uses Gemini's multimodal capabilities to search visually, not just transcripts. So you can find "the whiteboard diagram" or "when he shows the demo", things transcript-based tools completely miss.

Stack: Next.js, Convex, Clerk, Gemini 3 Flash

Would love feedback from anyone who works with video content.

https://momentclip.com
by derriz | 2025-12-28 19:50:08+00:00
Drives me crazy as I travel a lot. Even if I‘m logged into Google and it’s been tracking me for years and it‘s still targeting me with obviously personalized ads but it will assume I’ve suddenly acquired temporary proficiency in French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc stubbornly ignoring the language I’ve used for my query or the only language I’ve ever - in all my interactions with Google over years - ever used. What the fuck would be so hard to just NOT use braindead geolocation (which doesn’t even work in countries like Switzerland) when you know for certain who I am. You track all this information about me and use it to generate ad revenue but refuse to use my language preference?
by vorpalhex | 2025-12-28 19:50:32+00:00
In software architecture, we often see people rebuild systems from scratch, reproduce the exact same flaws, and end up with the same broken system they sought to replace.

The problem is always that they do not understand the problem. The problem was not the framework, the language, the compute model. It was the problem model.

Having spent a lot of time around that "high driven successful ceo" type, there's a lot of ego involved. There is ego in being needed in meetings. There is ego in working late. There is ego in being the only one who can deliver the thing.

Spoiler, most managers are aware of the ego trap and know how to press that button to get more work from you.

You can't solve the deathbed regret problem by just reading deathbed regrets and swearing to travel or spend time with family. You have to address the root cause of the problematic behavior - ego, dislike of your kids, not actually valuing travel, etc.

Then the ongoing work of prioritizing can happen.
by orbital-decay | 2025-12-28 19:50:39+00:00
These are just numbered designations for many military organizations, just like in the Soviet Union. For example, pre-WWII Plant No.8 -> Artillery Plant 88 -> post-WWII Research Institute 88, nowadays known as TsNIIMash, with Special Design Bureau 88 led by Korolyov (known as RSC Energia today) as a spin-off.
by livespx | 2025-12-28 19:50:48+00:00
Hey HN, I'm building Netshell, a single-player hacking simulation set in the late 90s (1997-2001). You play as a hacker navigating the early internet era - dot-com bubble, Y2K paranoia, corporate espionage.

What makes it different:

- Authentic CDE/Motif desktop environment
- Real terminal with actual UNIX commands (ls, cat, ssh, nmap, etc.)
- AI NPCs powered by local LLMs running on your machine
- NPCs remember conversations and have persistent state
- Multi-pass pipeline that prevents hallucinations through citation-grounded generation

The AI system was the hardest part. We wrote a paper on how we prevent NPCs from making things up: https://beyondlogiclabs.com/devlog/papers/npc-pipeline/
by dham | 2025-12-28 19:51:08+00:00
> But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me.

So I'm guessing you use some default Mac editor (Xcode?)? You don't change your color scheme, you don't change your font, etc?

Aside: Software devs are very weird, they spend all this time crafting their dev setup and but when it comes to their OS they just give up and whatever Tim Cook feeds them their in. Makes no sense. Anyway, off to Linux land. See ya'll!
by goldsteinq | 2025-12-28 19:51:37+00:00
> You don't have to use it like "encrypted SMS"! You're free.

Using it as something more than encrypted SMS requires persistent message history between devices.

> metric fuckton of messages

“More than 45 days” is a metric fuckton? Seriously?

> If you want Signal to host the encrypted storage, that costs money. If you don't want to pay Signal money, they provide 45 days of backup for free.

I don’t want Signal to store my messages. I want Signal to not lock in my messages on their servers, so I can sync them between my devices and back them up into my own backups.

> If you want to self-host your own backups (at your own cost), that's easy to do.

Except there’s no way to move it between platforms. I have more than one device.

> Are you referring to MobileCoin? That feature isn't in the pipeline for sending messages.

I don’t want shady crypto company to hold my data hostage, and there’s no way to store it on my hardware and then move it between platforms. That’s my problem with signal.

> A Synchronized Start for Linked Devices

It only properly transfers 45 days. You can’t have more than one phone. Phones are special “primary devices” and AFAIK you can’t restore your messages if you lose your phone even if you have logged-in Signal Desktop.
by tempest_ | 2025-12-28 19:51:41+00:00
> What % is the AWS console

0%

Prior to the recent RAM insanity(a big caveat I know) a 1u supermicro machine with 768GB some NVME storage and twin 32 core Epyc 9004s was ~12K USD. You can get 3 of those and and some redundant 10G network infra(people are literally throwing this out) for < 40k. Then you just have to find a rack/internet connection to put them in which would be a few hundred a month.

The reality is most sites don't need multi region setups, they have very predicable load and 3 of those machines would be massive overkill for many. A lot of people like to think they will lose millions per second of down time, and some sites certainly do but most wont.

All of this of course would be using new stuff. If you wanted to use used stuff the most cost effective are the 5 year old second gen xeon scalables that are being dumped by cloud providers. Those are more than enough compute for most they are just really thirsty so you will pay with the power bill.

This of course is predicated on assumption you have the skill set to support these machines and that is increasingly becoming less common though as successful companies that started in the last 10 years are starting to do more "hybrid cloud" it is starting to come back around.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-28 19:51:50+00:00
What an obnoxious piece. Sorry people’s deathbed regrets don’t entertain you, bro.

Most of us live our lives under the illusion of being in control. As death approaches, many people realize they cannot control their fate and often observe or think of choices they did not make, when they had that agency.

As my mom reached the end, she was very worried about things being taken care of. The house insurance, the taxes, a few other items. Then she talked about things we wouldn’t experience (She was annoyed that she didn’t get to read Robert Caro’s still unpublished last book together), and then a few regrets about things that were done or not done.

This translation of Aeschylus always captures this subject for me:

“He who learns must suffer, and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God”

Wisdom comes from suffering sometimes, and sometimes the most important wisdom you learn seems simple and trite, or is it?
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-28 19:51:53+00:00
> Thats a cynical take.

Primarily driven by my utter disgust for modern monetization mechanics, corporate greed and gambling. Cheaters, IMHO, are an inevitable side effect of combining gamification with gambling, with no barriers to entry, and with removing social barriers of entry.

> The requirements change drastically when you have a larger audience.

The market has exploded in the 12 years between UT2004 and The Division.
by kj4211cash | 2025-12-28 19:52:48+00:00
I had a 3 year appointment overseas and could only get similar offers for my next job and only in places I didn't really want to live. Also my father was a professor and, to be honest, it was hard not to notice how much worse the job had gotten. Started to seem like twice the work for 10 or 20 percent of the salary and impact, as compared to tech. Also I was starting to have misgivings about transportation engineering as a field. So I guess just a lot. But I do miss the freedom to research what I thought was important. And teaching too. Honestly, academic jobs are more appealing to me now, in terms of lifestyle fit, than they were previously. I still apply for academic jobs occasionally but lately haven't gotten close to getting one. Don't get me started on the academic job market or application process. Ha!
by avidiax | 2025-12-28 19:52:54+00:00
According to [1], this problem has been known about since at least 2000. More than half of people will retrieve their luggage when evacuating. They were discussing a verbal announcement during the safety briefing.

I get the feeling that we are just waiting for some new regulations written in blood.

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SS0001....