MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fowenski | 2025-12-01 10:43:27+00:00
I got tired of trying to explain my views in Twitter threads, so I built ViewTree – it's like Linktree, but instead of links to your stuff, it's a clean page of what you actually believe, support, or oppose. No more explaining nuanced topics over and over.

Check it out: https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/

How it works:

Sign up, pick your username (viewtr.ee/@yourname)

Add "view cards" – I believe X, I support Y, I'm uncertain about Z

Drag to reorder them however you want

Customize your theme, add your bio and socials

Drop the link in your bio, or share with friends and fans

Main features:

Copy views from others – see a view you agree with on someone else's page? Click to add it to yours

Drag-and-drop ordering – arrange your views however you want

Live preview – see exactly how your public page looks as you edit

Custom themes – make it match your vibe (background, colors, font)

Different view types – "I believe," "I support," "I oppose," "I'm uncertain about," or write your own

Why I built this: People kept asking "what do you think about X?" and I had nowhere to point them. No good way to say "here's what I stand for" without writing an essay every time or maintaining a pinned thread.

Current state:

Fully functional MVP

Free to use

Launch coming in a few days, on Vercel for now

Takes ~2 minutes to set up

The official link layout will be viewtr.ee/example

Try it:

Browse examples:

https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/techdad42

Make your own: https://viewtree-test.vercel.app/

Would love feedback.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-12-01 10:43:28+00:00
> The server also doesen't need to tell you they are behind it if they're sneaking

This requires the server to calculate line of sight checks for every player, which is costly, requires loading the entire geometry into the server and would be horribly prone to latency. Then you're looking at potential performance problems on the client due to only knowing about a player the second its in view and having to stream the assets to the GPU, which if don't happen in time for the frame you'll experience as hitching.

> You already know where an enemy is if you hear them behind the wall

Yes but this requires using your brain rather than just seeing them straight up through a wall.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-12-01 10:43:34+00:00
> 20 years as a dev and tech lead and full stack, including stints as a EM and CTO

> Since then I pivoted to AI and Gen AI startups- money is tight and I dont have health insurance but at least I have a job…

I hope this doesn't come across as rude, but why? My understanding is American tech pays very well, especially on the executive level. I understand for some odd reason your country is against public healthcare, but surely a year of big tech money is enough to pay for decades of private health insurance?
by em-bee | 2025-12-01 10:43:40+00:00
i highly doubt that. i have never seen a counterfeit lego set with an actual lego logo. even in china that would not be legal. someone would have to specifically target bricklink shops to sell such bricks.

if you get fake bricks you might not open a support case to get the bricks replaced, but you would complain and report that shop. with enough reports coming in someone would look into that. so i feel that this is unlikely to happen. at the worst case it's someone clueless, mixing in alternative brands by accident. but i expect someone doing that intentionally would be shut down quickly by reputation only. i mean, shops get closed simply because they get to many complaints about taking to long to ship.
by donatj | 2025-12-01 10:43:43+00:00
On Xbox at least Keyboard / Mouse support is decent. I played Fortnite and Minecraft this way for a while.

Personal preference, but I'd far rather have a separate device dedicated to gaming than my kernel hacked by anti cheat.

https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-an...
by gunalx | 2025-12-01 10:44:21+00:00
How did you get this to work? (See the config and did this before but never got ly to work on nixos, i migth have just been to early i guess)

Ive been using LY on arch for a while, and it is great looking, when it works, but it has lots of issues. Mostly related to multi monitor, kernel warnings filling up the screen, and for all being just sligthly broken. But then again probably user error.
by lm28469 | 2025-12-01 10:45:14+00:00
It might be shocking to you but some people believe there is more to life than producing and consuming "content" faster and faster.

Most of it is used to fool people for engagement, scam, politics or propaganda, it definitely is a huge waste of resource, time, brain and compute power. You have to be completely brainwashed by consumerism and techsolutionism to not see it
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-01 10:45:44+00:00
> Arguing against progress as it is happening is as old as the tech industry. It never works.

I still wondering why I'm not doing my banking in Bitcoins. My blockchain database was replaced by postgres.

So some tech can just be hypeware. The OP has a legitimate standpoint given some technologies track record.

And the doctors are still out on the affects of social media on children or why are some countries banning social media for children?

Not everything that comes out of Silicon Valley is automatically good.
by vintermann | 2025-12-01 10:46:19+00:00
There was no SQL injection. The attack was basically the same as if someone stole the password to a friend's Facebook account, and proceeded to scrape the posts everyone else had made visible to that friend.

Some would say SNP data is more valuable than your posting history. I'm not so sure, since after all 23andMe went bankrupt trying to monetize their data and reddit didn't. It seems possible to me that a post where you say you do X is more useful to advertisers and political propagandists/spies, than a SNP which suggests you're 20% more likely to do X.
by meinersbur | 2025-12-01 10:47:03+00:00
The patent expired, but the minifigs is also a EU 3D trademark. This is not possible for the brick which (only) serves a technical function, namely to hold on each other. Trademarks do not expire while in use. Another example for a 3D trademark, also in this US, is the Coca Cola bottle.

[1] https://www.chaillot.com/ip-news/validity-of-3d-trademarks-f...
by codingdave | 2025-12-01 10:47:04+00:00
Most people struggle with this because they haven't refined their audience. No matter what your product is, there will be people who simply are not interested. So blasting promotional marketing to the world is going to expose your product to people who never would buy it, resulting in wasted time, effort, and money.

Instead, you need to build enough understanding of who your product appeals to that you can articulate who they are and understand the unique spaces that your specific audience pays attention to. Then you present your product within those spaces.
by komali2 | 2025-12-01 10:48:01+00:00
On my PC I can play basically every game ever made in all of human history, minus maybe 7 that use kernel level anti cheat, and a couple PS5 and PS4 exclusives.

Other than that I have emulation plus a steam library. I'll take that over a locked in console that can only play 2 generations of games any day!

Edit: I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked, emulators are still legal everywhere as far as I know. Anyway tldr go check out emudeck's GitHub repo to see a good list of emulators for basically every platform.
by Mordisquitos | 2025-12-01 10:48:28+00:00
Exactly, but only because in the first prompt under the mistaken assumption that a father died in the crash, it would make sense to refer to another father. However, no father died in any car crash in your modified "riddle", which didn't stop Gemini from being anchored to the context window even after you asked it to correct itself.

Put it this way. Imagine if in the original riddle, where a father died in the accident, the surgeon had made their familial relation explicit: the surgeon could have said ‘I can’t operate on him, he is my son. I am his mother’ or, in a modern context, ‘he is my son. I am his father’. Hence, there are indeed two possibilities: the surgeon is either the boy's mother or his [other] father.

Now lets take your revised version, with no implication of the young man having anyone else involved in the accident:

> A young man gets into an accident. The surgeon, after completing his preparations, says: ‘I can’t operate on him, he is my son. I am the boy's ${PARENTAL_RELATIONSHIP}.’

Do you think that, as Gemini stated, there are still two distinct possible solutions?
by gambiting | 2025-12-01 10:48:33+00:00
>>This piece is engineered to evoke an emotion, not to inform

I am now very informed that at least some of the recepients of full face transplants regret the decision to have them because of the effects it had on their lives. Or is that not informing for you?

>>not to give us the information we need to better understand why it's unfolded this way.

One of the patients is poor and cannot afford the taxi to the hospital, therefore the hospital marks him down as non compliant. It is because there is no funding to give him and American healthcare companies don't care to provide it, and he is poor at least partially as a result of his injuries.

That's what I got from the article - what else do you need to know to figure out "why it's unfolded this way"? What is there to unfold? Why the American healthcare system is shaped this way? Do you not think that would be a tiny bit out of scope?

>>We have a more precise word for that: propaganda.

I guess pictures showing starving sudanese children are propaganda too, because they evoke an emotion in you - you'd rather read cold hard facts without any emotion? Number of people shot, starved, how many of them are younger than 3....that sort of thing?

I'm sorry but the idea that evocative reporting, one that is meant to make you relate to the subject, is....propaganda? Is just surreal, it's like something from a Sci-Fi book where people have been surgically modified to not have any emotion.

That doesn't mean you have to like, enjoy or even agree with this article. But calling it propaganda?
by keiferski | 2025-12-01 10:48:37+00:00
Projects like this remind me of a plot point in the Cyberpunk 2077 game universe. The "first internet" got too infected with dangerous AIs, so much so that a massive firewall needed to be built, and a "new" internet was built that specifically kept out the harmful AIs.

(Or something like that: it's been awhile since I played the game, and I don't remember the specific details of the story.)

It makes me wonder if a new human-only internet will need to be made at some point. It's mostly sci-fi speculation at this point, and you'd really need to hash out the details, but I am thinking of something like a meatspace-first network that continually verifies your humanity in order for you to retain access. That doesn't solve the copy-paste problem, or a thousand other ones, but I'm just thinking out loud here.
by corimaith | 2025-12-01 10:48:58+00:00
Pointing to a small town as opposed to superpowers of hundreds of millions is a bad comparison, they are fundamentally different beasts.

Whether postmodernism is coherent by itself dosen't mean much either in its potency to deconstruct, it was already quite effective in destroying the Western "myth", I don't see how the CCP's own narratives are more resilient when they have even weaker assumptions. It's not about listening to them after all, but not listening to the dominant narrative.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-12-01 10:49:06+00:00
> I tell the younger generation the same thing. Save, invest, max 401k, before you go off and party. Your older self will thank you.

401k max is $24,500. How much do you expect a person to earn to be able to max it out? And what percentile income is that at the bottom and top of the age range you consider “young”?

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-by-age-calculator/

Tldr: you are telling almost every 20 to 30 year old to not party.
by taffronaut | 2025-12-01 10:49:16+00:00
There is jazz improvisation handbook "Harmony with Lego Bricks" written in the 1980's by Conrad Cork in the UK. It's pretty niche. Conrad approached Lego at the time and they gave him permission to use the Lego name. It's written "LEGO(R)" on the cover. Those were more innocent times I guess. (edited for a typo)
by Kye | 2025-12-01 10:49:31+00:00
>> "For many people it's obvious"

[who?][citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3AWho

Having standards for this stuff matters even if you don't always like the result.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Word...

>> "Weasel words are words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague or ambiguous claim has been communicated. A common form of weasel wording is through vague attribution, where a statement is dressed with authority, yet has no substantial basis. Phrases such as those above present the appearance of support for statements but can deny the reader the opportunity to assess the source of the viewpoint. They may disguise a biased view. Claims about what people say, think, feel, or believe, and what has been shown, demonstrated, or proved should be clearly attributed."
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-12-01 10:49:48+00:00
My brother who is nearly 50 and has worked in tech since the dot com boom, got laid off in January and couldn't find a job until last week. This job, too, was just a contractual position at his old Fortune 50 firm.

He has an engineering degree from one of the top 5 engineering colleges in India, a Master's from one of the top 5 engineering schools in the US. He built some of the systems that form the foundation of the entire call center industry.

And now he pivoted to GenAI and has dozens of very impressive public projects including some heavily starred open source repos

And yet...nothing.

Ageism in the tech industry has never been worse
by spankibalt | 2025-12-01 10:50:14+00:00
The HP ZBook X2 G4 leaves it in the dust, both conceptually (detachables are a superior form factor) and specs-wise; HP EliteBook 27xxp machines with similar guts are at least on par.

I'd rather have a new and smaller (10" to 13") version of the ZBook X2 G4 instead, upgrade the Dreamcolor display, keep the Wacom EMR digitzer and a sensible dedicated pro-GPU with certified drivers, and add plenty of ECC-RAM. Abracadabra, dream machine right there. Lenovo could do the same with their X12 detachable line if they had some semblance of sense.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-12-01 10:50:15+00:00
> Weights are not open source.

If they are released under an open source license, they are.

I think you are confusing two concepts. One is the technical ability to modify weights. And that's what the license grants you. The right to modify. The second is the "know-how" on how to modify the weights. That is not something that a license has ever granted you.

Let me put it this way:

```python

THRESHOLD = 0.73214

if input() < THRESHOLD:

print ("low")

else:

print ("high")

```

If I release that piece of code under Apache 2.0, you have the right to study it, modify it and release it as you see fit. But you can not have the right (at least the license doesn't deal with that) to know how I reached that threshold value. And me not telling you does not in any way invalidate the license being Apache 2.0. That's simply not something that licenses do.

In LLMs the source is a collection of architecture (when and how to apply the "ifs"), inference code (how to optimise the computation of the "ifs") and hardcoded values (weights). You are being granted a license to run, study, modify and release those hardcoded values. You do not, never had, never will in the scope of a license, get the right to know how those hardcoded values were reached. The process by which those values were found can be anything from "dreamt up" to "found via ML". The fact that you don't know how those values were derived does not in any way preclude you from exercising the rights under the license.
by badsectoracula | 2025-12-01 10:50:23+00:00
Twitter has a TON of active users though and those aren't going anywhere.

Hell, those that did leave Twitter did it to move to Bluesky which is basically Twitter under a different banner.

Even if people move away from specific instances of some form of technology (like Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon or whatever) they are not necessarily moving away from the idea/tech iself (like microblogging in this example).

Same with other social media: notice how after "Reddit gone shit" the people who felt like that and did move away didn't move back to forums or whatever, they went to Reddit-like boards like Lemmy.
by alexei_led | 2025-12-01 10:51:09+00:00
I've updated the AWS MCP server to v1.5.6. This project bridges the MCP with the AWS CLI, allowing LLMs to securely interact with AWS services. The intent is to enable secure AI agent operations in AWS environments.

The focus since v1.3.0 has been entirely on host security: 1. Native Sandboxing: Added seatbelt profiles for macOS and constraints for Linux execution. 2. Container Hardening: The Docker image now enforces non-root execution and read-only filesystems. 3. Model: Shifted to a strict IAM + Sandbox + Container architecture.

The goal is to enable "Agentic" workflows with AWS without exposing the local host to arbitrary code execution risks.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-12-01 10:52:21+00:00
I'm fairly sure all the first three points are true for each new human produced. The environmental cost vs output is probably significantly higher per human, and the population continues to grow.

My experience with large companies (especially American Tech) is that they always try and deliver the product as cheap as possible, are usually evil and never cared about social impacts. And HN has been steadily complaining about the lowering of quality of search results for at least a decade.

I think your points are probably a fair snapshot of peoples moral issue, but I think they're also fairly weak when you view them in the context of how these types of companies have operated for decades. I suspect people are worried for their jobs and cling to a reasonable sounding morality point so they don't have to admit that.
by sfifs | 2025-12-01 10:52:45+00:00
Here's Gemini 3's answer with reasoning. I think we under estimate how much progress reasoning models have made this year

The answer is: The surgeon is his daughter. (Alternatively, the surgeon could be his other son.)

Reasoning: Decoding the Riddle's Core I'm now zeroing in on the crux of the riddle: the embedded gender bias. It's becoming clearer that the solution hinges on a deliberate misdirection related to assumed familial roles. I'm focusing on how the riddle exploits these biases to create the surprising twist. Pinpointing the Key Shift I've just finalized the solution. Initially, I missed the crucial implication of the riddle's phrasing. Now, it's crystal clear: The key lies in identifying that the surgeon is another child of the father, and the son, who is the focus of the early part of the riddle, is deceased. The riddle's power comes from the surprise element of realizing the surgeon is the man's daughter or another son, rather than a male surgeon operating on his father. Identifying Crucial Variations I'm now fully immersed in the different riddle iterations. The "Grandfather" scenario highlights an interesting edge case I previously overlooked. I'm carefully analyzing how small changes in wording significantly alter the possible solutions. I'm focusing on the implied family relationships. Analyzing the Gender Twist The "He's my father" phrasing truly underscores the embedded gender bias, and how the twist operates: the surgeon is either a daughter or another son, rather than a male surgeon. The riddle plays on the common assumption that a surgeon is male. I've re-examined the key sentence structure. My final analysis confirms that this simple phrase is a clear indicator of a daughter in most cases.
by josefx | 2025-12-01 10:53:17+00:00
> but without quoting which made the command hunt for the word match ending space which was regrettably, the D:\ component of the name

Except the folder name did not start with a space. In an unquoted D:\Hello World, the command would match D:\Hello, not D:\ and D:\Hello would not delete the entire drive. How does AI even handle filepaths? Does it have a way to keep track of data that doesn't match a token or is it splitting the path into tokens and throwing everything unknown away?
by idontsee | 2025-12-01 10:53:53+00:00
Nice! Reusing old hardware is great.

You can center the taskbar. Add a spacer on the left of "Application Launcher" and on the right of "Icons-Only Task Manager", and they'll center what's in between.

Unfortunately, that doesn't completely center the application launcher popup, it's still a bit more on the left. Good enough for me.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-01 10:54:00+00:00
No they don't. When queried how exactly did a program arrive to a specific output it will happily produce some output resembling thinking and having all the required human-like terminology. The problem is that it doesn't match at all with how the LLM program calculated output in reality. So the "thinking" steps are just a more of the generated BS, to fool us more.

One point to think about - an entity being tested for intelligence/thinking/etc only needs to fail once, o prove that it is not thinking. While the reverse applies too - to prove that a program is thinking it must be done in 100% of tests, or the result is failure. And we all know many cases when LLMs are clearly not thinking, just like in my example above. So the case is rather clear for the current gen of LLMs.
by isoprophlex | 2025-12-01 10:54:44+00:00
That's smart, but I worry that that works only partially; you'll be filling up the context window with conversation turns where the LLM consistently addresses it's user as "Mr. Tinkleberry", thus reinforcing that specifc behavior encoded by CLAUDE.md. I'm not convinced that this way of addressing the user implies that it keeps attention the rest of the file.
by komali2 | 2025-12-01 10:55:29+00:00
> If your game allows your sights to just teleport on people's heads and take that as the winning condition then that just sounds like bad design, there's no reason to allow infinitely fast movement and omitting strategy even from a shooter

This is interesting, because I feel like the fundamental gameplay of an fps is players exposing themselves to each other's field of view, and then trying to click the other's head first. Skill is a measure of map knowledge (so you can try to expose yourself to a possible field of view but not where the enemy is actually looking at that moment) and speed of clicking head.

How would you design FPSs to remove this "bad game design?"
by jascha_eng | 2025-12-01 10:55:52+00:00
The problem really is that it is impossible to verify that the content someone uploads came from their mind and not a computer program. And at some point probably all content is at least influenced by AI. The real issue is also not that I used chatgpt to look up a synonym or asked a question before writing an article, the problem is when I copy paste the content and claim I wrote it.