MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SRKD | 2025-12-10 20:14:30+00:00
I’ve been building a tool called Brandiseer that generates full brand systems (color palettes, typography, voice, mockups, etc.). Not posting this to promote anything—just sharing observations in case others here are working on generative AI products.

A few unexpected challenges that came up:

1. Consistency > Creativity

Getting a model to generate a beautiful design is easy. Getting it to generate consistent assets across dozens of categories is surprisingly hard. In branding, inconsistency breaks the whole experience, so this becomes a technical problem, not just a design one.

2. The UX layer matters far more than expected

I spent weeks improving model pipelines and embeddings. Users mostly notice:

latency

the order of steps

whether the preview feels “cohesive”

It’s humbling how little most people care about the underlying architecture.

3. Feedback loops can completely reshape your product

I started with “AI that generates brand assets.” Users wanted:

brand guidelines

templates

tone-of-voice systems

asset organization

export tooling

The scope expands fast when the outputs touch multiple domains.

4. Pricing is a moving target

AI users expect things to be cheap. But the product technically replaces a service that costs thousands. Not sure yet if the right approach is:

usage-based

subscription

tiered “power user” features

or something value-based

Would love to hear how others priced AI tools that automate creative work.

5. Debugging generative output feels like debugging intuition

When something goes wrong, it’s rarely obvious whether the issue is:

prompt structure

model limitations

seed randomness

pre/post-processing

user expectations

There’s no call stack for “why this color palette looks weird.”

Questions for the HN community:

How do you enforce global coherence across multiple AI-generated assets?

Has anyone found a reliable pricing strategy for tools that replace traditional creative labor?

What guardrails or workflows do you use to prevent a generative product from becoming a Frankenstein of user requests?

Interested in hearing how others have approached similar problems.
by yannyu | 2025-12-10 20:14:47+00:00
Why would someone in an Idaho suburb care about how Manhattan manages its congestion pricing? Why is this national news?

Everything you're saying has zero impact on 93-97% of the US population (New York State is 6% of the US population, NYC is 3%). None of these people have real skin in the game, because this literally has no effect on them. New Yorkers don't vote in other states.

Why is a single student's grade in OSU national news? Why is congestion pricing national news? Why is a library in the middle of nowhere California news?

None of these things are actually related to why people are stretched thin and getting screwed by the system. In fact they're exactly unrelated which is why we're blasted with this stuff on the news 24/7. You're worried about a slippery slope argument when most of us are already being fleeced by current, real policies from government and corporations.

Congestion pricing is not the thing screwing over American families, it's the thing they're pointing at so you don't look at the actual thing.
by mlyle | 2025-12-10 20:15:02+00:00
Author was explicitly not--

> That if you’re a life form and you cook up a baby and copy your genes to them, you’ll find that the genes have been degraded due to oxidative stress et al., which isn’t cause for celebration, but if you find some other hopefully-hot person and randomly swap in half of their genes, your baby will still be somewhat less fit ...

You're right that it's a relatively weak effect-- which is a good part of why the effects of variance and selection (incl sexual selection) win out and fitness doesn't decline with each generation.
by cube2222 | 2025-12-10 20:15:14+00:00
Yep, as of yesterday’s 1.11 release it’s supported!

That also includes a new “enabled” meta argument, so you don’t have to hack around conditional resources with count = 0.

[0]: https://opentofu.org/blog/opentofu-1-11-0/

Disclaimer: affiliated with the project
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 20:15:16+00:00
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
by autoexec | 2025-12-10 20:15:31+00:00
> 100% coverage seems like an inevitability in a country where filming in public is a constitutionally protected right a

It really doesn't have to be though. The rights of individuals to record in public doesn't have to translate to the right of corporations (flock, amazon, etc.) to do it without restriction. Time, place, and manner restrictions on our rights already exist, it just needs to be found that this manner is unacceptable as an imposition on our freedom which should be protected under the fourth amendment.
by trhway | 2025-12-10 20:15:46+00:00
>It's not just counter-intuitive, it's bonkers.

you need to look at numbers instead of intuition - intuition naturally gets us wrong when we deal with unfamiliar things like space.

A ready 10 ton house will cost $500K-1M to place in a well developed area - the cost of land itself, communications, permits, also delays and unpredictability of process, etc. Add to that yearly taxes. Add tremendous electricity costs in case of the datacenter. And all those costs have and will be growing.

Launching 10 tons on Starship - sub-$1M and that cost will drop down to about $100K-200K.

> It implies that building wind and solar on Earth is somehow worse than building it in space _and_ moving the data center there?

exactly. Space is cheap and plentiful :)
by matsemann | 2025-12-10 20:16:04+00:00
Had the same thought. Growing up in a small town (couple of hundred inhabitants), internet access early 2000's was a gift for teenage me. I joined web forums and discovered new interests (=web development which lead to my career), chatted with friends on msn, later played runescape and wow and met friends I later traveled countries to meet.

Of course, these things were different than the beasts today. Everything was more personal, smaller. No algorithms.

So not sure what I feel. Social media as we know it today is obviously bad (not just for teenagers). But maybe I'm just nostalgic for how it was.

But what about hn?
by immibis | 2025-12-10 20:16:11+00:00
Different unit tests work on different state. One unit test says that if I start from a blank database, add two users, now there are two users. A different unit test says that if I start from a database with two users, and list the users, I get them.

If you rely on the add-user test running before the list-users test, you introduce bad coupling between tests. However, you could run them all in order in one test - it would be a more complex test. You could then run that on a real database and call it an integration test.

Tests at all levels of complexity are useful. You could run end-to-end tests on a production e-commerce system, from signup to payment with a real credit card and delivery of a real physical product, if you wanted. Backup power systems are tested by shutting off the power a few times a year.

But this article is clearly about unit tests. You shouldn't run unit tests against the production database and you should aim to minimize their dependencies.
by ianbutler | 2025-12-10 20:16:31+00:00
It's not particularly hard for current models to wire up a http client based on the docs and every major company has well documented APIs for how to do so either with their SDKs or curl.

I don't know that I really agree its as annoying for agents since they don't have the concept of annoyance and can trundle along infinitely fine.

While I appreciate the standardization I've often felt MCPs are a poor solution to a real problem that coincided with a need for good marketing and a desire to own mindspace here from Anthropic.

I've written a lot of agents now and when I've used MCP it has only made them more complicated for not an apparent benefit.

MCP's value lies in the social alignment of people agreeing to use it, it's technical merits seem dubious to me while its community merits seem high.

I can accept the latter and use it because of that while thinking there were other paths we probably should have chosen that make better use of 35 years of existing standards.
by ok_dad | 2025-12-10 20:16:36+00:00
Well, I guess we disagree on this, but I think it's a shit move to blow up a bunch of any object that is normally benign and which could logically be sitting next to or in the hands of an innocent. I'll die on that hill. I know it goes against most people's opinions on HN but I don't mind that. As you can see, I have some points to spare so feel free to downvote me to oblivion, even though that downvote button is meant for people who go against the rules; I don't believe I have in any of my posts in this thread, but I am willing to apologize if so.

Also, I have a thought for you: what would you call it if a foreign nation which your country had poor relations with, possibly open hostility, had blown up the work laptops (which they might take home) of a bunch of high ranking military members in your country? Would that be terrorism or a legal attack to you? What would you think of the innocent lives lost to such an attack?
Show HN: WhatsApp Backup Reader – Browse exports offline, data stays local
by rodrigogs | 2025-12-10 20:16:39+00:00
Built this after a business partnership went bad and I needed WhatsApp conversations for legal proceedings. My lawyer had me screenshotting hundreds of messages, trying to keep them in order, then having opposing counsel question if anything was tampered with. I looked at existing tools but they choke on large chats and have no way to bookmark or search efficiently - useless when you're digging through years of conversation for specific evidence.

So I made this. Drop in your WhatsApp export zip, get a proper chat interface with all media. The original export stays untouched (important for evidence), bookmarks and annotations layer on top. Voice messages get transcribed locally via Whisper/WebGPU - nothing leaves your machine.

Tested with 18k+ messages, no issues. Runs in browser or as an Electron app for all desktop platforms (Android and iOS coming soon).

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who's dealt with digital evidence.
by ivape | 2025-12-10 20:16:44+00:00
That's exciting. I doubt there are any polished voice chat local apps yet that you can easily plug this into (I doubt the user experience is "there" yet). Even stuff like Silly Tavern is near unusable, lots of work to be done on the local front. Local voice models are what's going to enable that whole Minority Report workflow soon enough (especially if commands and intent are determined at the local level, and the meat of the prompt is handled by a larger remote model).

This is part of programming that I think is the new field. There will be tons of work for those that can build the new workflows which will need to be primarily natural language driven.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 20:16:45+00:00
'pcwalton, I'm coming for you. You're going down.

Kidding aside, the comments it picks out for us are a little random. For instance, this was an A+ predictive thread (it appears to be rating threads and not individual comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703512

But there's just 11 comments, only 1 for me, and it's like a 1-sentence comment.

I do love that my unaccredited-access-to-startup-shares take is on that leaderboard, though.
by colordrops | 2025-12-10 20:17:08+00:00
No, sorry, it's orthogonal to the poster's comment, which states that, regardless of merit, the purpose of the ban is political. Arguing for or against it is beside the point.

Perhaps the original comment should have been more direct in and just said that Zionists are the ones pushing for these bans. The head of the ADL has made comments about this. A video by Sarah Hurwitz, Obama's speechwriter, went viral recently about how social media needs to be banned for young people because it's hurting the zionist movement.

https://x.com/jennineak/status/1992395176283922767
by nradov | 2025-12-10 20:17:21+00:00
You're making a huge leap there based on zero scientific evidence. No one has ever demonstrated maximum lifespan extension for mammals living in the wild. Experiments have been limited to animals living in nice safe, sterile cages. There's no free lunch in genetics and modifications that increase maximum lifespan are likely to result in other undesirable changes. Like suppression of immune response can be helpful but that comes with a huge obvious downside if you're ever exposed to random pathogens. Outside of some very limited genetic defects it's usually impossible to alter a single trait in isolation.
Ask HN: What're the most annoying repo setup stories you have?
by kamesstory | 2025-12-10 20:17:24+00:00
Curious about situations or repos that have given you the most painful setups or dependency hell!

Could be something repo-specific (weird build systems, architecture-dependent steps, broken/missing docs), or something caused by your own machine quirks (multiple Python env managers, conflicting toolchains, GPU/CUDA messes, etc.).

Would love to hear concrete examples — what your local setup looked like, what the repo expected, and where things went sideways.

Thanks y’all!
Show HN: Alter – Switch Git username and email and credential in one line
by amase | 2025-12-10 20:17:38+00:00
Hello HN!

I built a profile switcher for Git because, I regularly use multiple Git identities and found the existing workflows too long (git config user.name, git config user.email, etc) and easy to mess up. I wanted a tool that lets me switch usernames, emails, and credentials with a single command.

I previously made a similar tool in Python, but it had performance issues and required a few seconds of startup time. After learning Rust and finding a crate that handles Git config nicely, I rewrote the tool to make it faster and more reliable.

Thanks for checking it out, happy hacking!
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-10 20:17:53+00:00
One niggle: France was mostly made up of duchies, not kingdoms. The King of France had allegiance from some of the duchies making up modern France, but notably Burgundy was the one who captured Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) and turned her over to the English - so clearly not all.

Not sure about the Occitan; IIRC Eleanor was considered a queen in her own right as rule of Aquitaine, not a duchess.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-12-10 20:18:11+00:00
You assume that banning usage was the first step instead of the last step.

I'm not OP, but I'm guessing they started with talking to the kid, or more intermediate steps.

> Are you concerned at all about your son's ability to cope independently from oversight and control?

Kids aren't fully independent for good reason, and a very hard part of parenting is deciding how much independence to give them vs. sheltering them from the parts of the world that will hurt them. If a kid comes home with drugs or hardcore porn it is completely reasonable to confiscate them with no regard for independence and control. Is TikTok the same as heroin? No. But it is provably harmful in any number of ways that young brains do not have the tools to handle, and the benefits are arguably non-existent for most. With other things like sports, we know that there is the possibility of getting hurt, but that can be mitigated and the benefits far outweigh the risks.
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by Californiasober | 2025-12-10 20:18:44+00:00
Look. As gen z person who basically grew up with tech and social media and had it since I was ~12, there is no way that any ban that is not direct id verification will work, this will instead make the forbidden fruit more tasty and teens more tech literate since they will look for ways around the ban. It feels like a lot of older people are more detached to the times when they first got access to Internet and social media and assume that its all dopamine hits and brain rot, while in reality its curiosity for a bigger world beyond school and limited things that you can do while being underage, cheap entertainment, knowledge.
by Xylakant | 2025-12-10 20:18:49+00:00
That's the other interesting observation you can draw from that report. The numbers contained in the first parts about review times, rollback rates, etc. are broken down by change size. And the gap widens for larger changes. This indicates that Rusts language features support reasoning about complex changesets.

It's not obviously clear to me which features are the relevant ones, but my general observation is that lifetimes, unsafe blocks, the borrow checker allow people to reason about code in smaller chunks. For example knowing that there's only one place where a variable may be mutated supports understanding that at the same time, no other code location may change it.
by knollimar | 2025-12-10 20:19:18+00:00
I do electrical so parsing lighting is often a big issue. (Subcontractor)

One big issue Ive had is drafters use the same symbol for different things per person. One person's GFCi is another's switched receptacle. People use the specialty putlet symbol sometimes very precisely and others not. Often accompanied by an annotation (e.g. 6-15R).

Dimmers being ambiguous is huge; avoiding dimming type mismatches is basically 80% the lutron value add.
by dang | 2025-12-10 20:19:19+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221729 sounds like cross-examining to me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221631 is not flagged. That might be because we'd already turned off flags on it (I can't remember).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221972 I agree should not be flagged and I've unflagged it.
by beedeebeedee | 2025-12-10 20:19:40+00:00
> I advocate concerning yourself with the things you can control, which do not include this forum’s idiosyncratic moderation style.

I can control my comments, which are a part of this forum's moderation style, and I can advocate in those comments for people to act in good faith, and appeal for help in figuring out how to make it more common.

If we can't discuss important topics in good faith on a nerd website, what hope do we have of discussing them elsewhere? It's not hyperbole anymore to say that if we don't come to some consensus we are going to end up in authoritarianism or war.
by red2awn | 2025-12-10 20:19:56+00:00
They had a Flash variant released alongside the original open weight release. It is also mentioned in Section 5 of the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17765

For the evals it's probably just trained on a lot of the benchmark adjacent datasets compared to the 235B model. Similar thing happened on other model today: https://x.com/NousResearch/status/1998536543565127968 (a 30B model trained specifically to do well in maths get near SOTA scores)
by bjelkeman-again | 2025-12-10 20:20:27+00:00
I think it is a valid military strike if a Venezuelan soldier does it on an order. Military targets where a strike are in danger of killing civilians are a hard judgment call. Generally one should never risk targeting civilians. Military law is a complex subject and officers spend quite a lot of time being educated in it. Here is a Swedish defence college course on it. https://www.fhs.se/en/swedish-defence-university/courses/int...
by exasperaited | 2025-12-10 20:20:29+00:00
Swindon is not a village, it’s a fairly large town. About 180,000 people live there. It is a very old town that has a slightly undeserved reputation for being grey and boring and too far from anywhere fun.

Sandford is inspired by Wells and Wimbourne, though neither of those are villages either. Wells is tiny, but actually a city.
Show HN: An Automated Document Gap Analysis Tool Using AI
by sophia-martinez | 2025-12-10 20:20:40+00:00
Hi HN, we built Riftur to automate the repetitive work involved in document gap analysis. In many roles and industries, people still compare requirements to drafts manually—switching between two documents, marking gaps, and tracking mismatches in spreadsheets. We wanted to see whether we could handle that comparison step with AI in a way that’s transparent and useful.

Riftur takes a requirement set (proposal instructions, audit criteria, evaluation rubrics, regulatory checklists, internal standards, etc.), interprets each item, and compares it to a document you upload. It highlights what’s missing, partially addressed, or inconsistent, so users don’t have to manually read two documents side-by-side to figure out alignment.

The tool isn’t limited to compliance—you can also use it for things like mapping internal engineering guidelines, reviewing technical documentation, checking process adherence, or assessing structured submissions in education or training contexts.

The current version is live and testable, and we’re trying to understand how well the gap-identification approach generalizes across different types of documents.

We’d appreciate feedback on: – whether the gap identification feels accurate and explainable – the UX around understanding mismatches – formats or frameworks you’d want us to support – any concerns or limitations you think we should be aware of

Happy to answer technical questions about the approach and implementation.
by richardfeynman | 2025-12-10 20:20:59+00:00
1. There aren't a lot of dead civilians given that this was a 2 year war fought in a built-up urban environment fought against a plainclothes terrorist enemy that violated every law of war, including using hospitals and schools as military bases.

2. Semites is not an ethnicity, it's a language family, sorry. When used colloquially it has always referred to Jews.

3. “Semitic” is a language group, not a racial caste. Jews—including Ashkenazi—have documented Middle Eastern ancestry, and about half of Israelis are Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. The idea that Israelis are “non-Semitic Europeans pretending to be Jews” is just antisemitic nonsense, not a serious factual claim.

4. See above. Semitic is a language family, not a people. "Anti-semite" as a term has always meant "anti-Jew."

5. Correct, Arabs are Arabian. You're not "making shit up" you're repeating evidence-free nonsense you want to be true without examining its validity.
by Sevrene | 2025-12-10 20:21:00+00:00
I bet you Sky news gets more views through social media than TV broadcast these days! Many of their hosts are all over X, spreading misinformation. They are downstream from social media now, not seperate from it I suspect.

Murdoch benefits from the political agitation that the landscape of social media provides.

I do agree on making platforms moderate themselves. This legsliation helps do this by creating a discussion about the harms, enforcing a culture of harm (this is not for all ages, not default for everyone). Saying to the companies: "Hey, if you don't want to be regulated, clean up your platform so it's safer". Will that happen? no idea, but if it doesn't, no children is still a good goal (it's how you get there that has the contention).