MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsdza | 2025-12-05 12:07:17+00:00
I built Potato, an AI meeting assistant that joins your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls in real-time.

You paste a meeting link, a bot joins, and as your meeting progresses it automatically tracks the agenda, captures decisions, and logs action items. But the part I'm most excited about: you can talk to it during the meeting. Ask a question and it'll research the answer live, or ask it to draft a document and it generates it on the fly. Everything streams to a dashboard in real-time—no waiting until after the meeting to see your notes.

No sign-up required to try it. Just go to meetpotato.com, paste a meeting link, and the bot joins.

Would love feedback from anyone who tries it. What's missing? What's broken? What would make this actually useful for your meetings?
by tinodb | 2025-12-05 12:07:48+00:00
For lots of jobs of “text querying” they do good enough of a job to be on par with humans (which are not infallible either).

And there are applications where you don’t have/wouldn’t pay another human, and the job that an AI does for mere cents is good enough most of the times. Like doing an analysis on a legacy codebase. I’ll read and verify, but running that “query” then saved me a lot of time.

Not everything needs to be deterministic to be of value.
by IshKebab | 2025-12-05 12:07:56+00:00
Here's the list: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe...

Actually I am slightly surprised that the US isn't right at the top (excluding middle eastern countries). It's actually just behind Canada and Australia.

Still kind of mental that your per-capita CO2 emissions are 3x higher than the UK.
Show HN: Daily Logic Grid Puzzles
by slig | 2025-12-05 12:08:01+00:00
Hi all!

I’ve built a puzzle generator that creates logic grid puzzles using an algorithm designed to mimic how a human would actually solve them. It produces raw constraint statements like “Person:Carl, Age:30, Car:SUV, Hobby:TableTennis are all different people,” which are then passed through an LLM to turn them into clean, themed English clues. There are ~600 themes available, and difficulty levels range from very-easy to ultra-hard.

Today’s six puzzles are free to play; the full archives are behind a paywall.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
by sylware | 2025-12-05 12:08:08+00:00
Isn't AV1 on the level of H.265? And are H.265 and the future H.266(will face the upcoming av2) free of charge forever and wherever like av[12]?

They could do the Big Tech way: make it all 'free' for a good while, estinguish/calm down any serious competition, then make them not 'free' anymore.

In the end, you cannot trust them.
by oersted | 2025-12-05 12:09:00+00:00
There must be more to that story. Netflix, HBO, BBC and a bunch of others keep pumping out these kinds of crime dramas exactly because they are quite conservative bets. They are extremely cheap to produce, a handful of mid-range actors on very mundane locations. They can stay as a miniseries or expand later on as wanted. And if the writing is good some of them become incredibly popular and profitable.

I mean, the last Stranger Things series, of all things, is the single most expensive production in history. More expensive than Marvel films, than both Avatars, than all of Games of Thrones, than Rings of Power per episode… It’s mad, for a quaint small-scale mild-horror story set in the 80s.

There is no way Mindhunter was simply too expensive.
by steveBK123 | 2025-12-05 12:09:06+00:00
Further theres been directors that comment on how aggressively NFLX manages them to create lowest-common-denominator type format. One was talking about getting notes back saying "the show needs to be easy enough to follow that someone across the room washing the dishes understands whats going on.

It's why theres no subtext in shows anymore, and they hit you over the head repeatedly with obviousness.

So while TikTok leads the short form race to the bottom, I believe NFLX leads the long form version.
by freeqaz | 2025-12-05 12:09:50+00:00
I spent way too many hours writing this all today, but I wanted to get this pushed out for others to learn from. There is a ton of detail in this notes file[0] that Claude Code helped me assemble.

If anybody has any suggestions or questions, shoot! It's 4am though so I'll be back in a bit. These CVEs are quite brutal.

0: https://github.com/freeqaz/react2shell/blob/master/EXPLOIT_N...
by nabla9 | 2025-12-05 12:10:04+00:00
In the news:

X hit with $140 million EU fine for breaching content rules, TikTok settles https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

- First penalty under landmark EU digital legislation

- TikTok avoids fine with transparency concessions, EU says

- EU's tech chief: X fine proportionate, not about censorship

- US has accused EU of targeting American companies

Politico.eu: EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-e120m-fine-on-x-str...

Euronews: European Commission hits Elon Musk’s social network X with €120 million fine https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/12/05/european-commi...

CNBC: EU regulators hit Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/eu-regulators-hit-elon-musks...
by lordnacho | 2025-12-05 12:10:38+00:00
I think it really did. It went from "how nice, I can read the FT and the Economist on a screen now" to "Earth is flat, here is the research" in a few years at most.

Newspapers themselves were already in the old game of sensationalism, so they had no issues maxing out on clickbait titles and rage content. Especially ad-based papers, which have every incentive aligned to sell you what you want to hear.

The new bit was everyone sharing crap with each other, I don't think we really had that in the old world, the way we do now. I don't even know how someone managed to spread the rumor about Marilyn Manson removing his own ribs to pleasure himself in pre-social media.
by skywhopper | 2025-12-05 12:11:02+00:00
Cloudflare was crowing that their services were better because “We write a lot of Rust, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it.”

The last outage was in fact partially due to a Rust panic because of some sloppy code.

Yes, these complex systems are way more complex than just which language they use. But Cloudflare is the one who made the oversimplified claim that using Rust would necessarily make their systems better. It’s not so simple.
Turned a simple idea with friends into an actual app
by paoloauletta | 2025-12-05 12:11:14+00:00
Hey everyone! I’m a first-year university student and I just finished building an app I really needed myself. It’s in waitlist mode for now, and the App Store launch is coming next week — but you can already check it out here: getcravit.com.

When I moved from my hometown to Milan, I kept having the same experience: 1. Trying to find “our pub” with a friend — our own McLarens from How I Met Your Mother. 2. With another group, trying every smash burger in the city to find the real #1. 3. With my roommate, searching for the best Sunday breakfast spot. Every time, we ended up creating random notes, spreadsheets, IG saves… nothing that made the experience fun or organized. After doing this three times in three completely different ways, I thought: why isn’t there an app for this?

So… I built one. It’s called Cravit.

The idea is super simple: * You create a “Cravy,” which is basically a personal food mission. * You choose your criteria (taste, vibe, price, etc.). * You add all the spots you want to try. * You invite your friends. * Every time you try a place, you log a review. * And at the end, Cravit shows a leaderboard of all the spots — so you finally know which bar becomes your new McLarens. If this sounds fun or useful, I’d love if you checked it out → getcravit.com Any feedback is super appreciated!
by rmunn | 2025-12-05 12:11:21+00:00
Yes, though more broadly my point was that the radius is the natural measurement of the circle for most things since most things are center-based. But for some physical measurements, mostly based around pipes, "what is the width of this pipe" is the question you need answering, and that is diameter-based. And pi is circumference/diameter, while tau is circumference/radius.

But yes, if the world switched to tau then you wouldn't need pi anymore, you'd just write tau/2 in the rare cases where having the circumference/diameter ratio handy is useful.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-12-05 12:11:52+00:00
Bias != Agenda

And the hole fact checking concept falls apart when you prematurely conclude a dialog. This is the most valid critique to any political participant and way more on point: botched online discourse.

I am not concluding that fact checker are bad by nature, they are at worst, incomplete, imbalanced ... biased like any other political participant. Shutting them down with visas or labeling them as malicious will not foster the dialog.
by aniviacat | 2025-12-05 12:11:59+00:00
> specially in Europe

The EU has much lower CO2 per capita than China. Hence why we're talking about US polluters.

> they chose to procreate

How evil of them. But considering that that's the reality now, it'd be absurd to expect China to have lower total emissions than the USA.

> if they think it's so important

Are you implying that you don't find pollution and climate change important? Do you have no empathy for future generations, or are you in denial about its effects?
by philipallstar | 2025-12-05 12:12:03+00:00
> And while lobbying from corporations is not an unstoppable force, it has certainly shown to be overwhelmingly strong when compared to the lobbying power of individual citizens or non-profit citizen groups.

That's what I'm saying. Why is that?

For example: nepotists hire family members over other people. Would you describe that as "And while being a family member is not an unstoppable force, it has certainly shown to be overwhelmingly strong when compared to the hiring chances of other people." Or would you say "nepotist bad"? And doubly so when you're forced by law to fund the nepotist's salary?
by veunes | 2025-12-05 12:12:06+00:00
Timing is everything here. The swiss army knife approach only loses when tasks stop changing. Intel suffered when workloads like web and mobile stabilized

In AI, we're still in the explosion phase. If you build the perfect ASIC for Transformers today, and tomorrow a paper drops with a new architecture, your chip becomes a brick. NVIDIA pays the "legacy tax" and keeps CUDA specifically as insurance against algorithm churn. As long as the industry moves this fast, flexibility beats raw efficiency
by lingohr | 2025-12-05 12:12:26+00:00
G'day - I used to run a Meta Ads agency, and I found there was a huge disconnect with client onboarding. There are plenty of tools to manage projects, there are many tools to invoice and track work in progress, but there's next to nothing when it comes to gaining access to clients' accounts. ClientInvite solves this by securely 'handshaking' the access using official APIs, so that no passwords are ever shared.
by ElFitz | 2025-12-05 12:13:28+00:00
I remember reading that one of the issue regarding the EU and it’s institutions' exposure to lobbyists was that a big part of the population is uninterested in the EU and EU elections.

Which may or may not be true, maybe only partially true at that, and is perhaps simplistic, but does kind of make sense. EU elections do have a particularly low turnout, and if people themselves don’t care enough, then who will?
by amluto | 2025-12-05 12:13:31+00:00
As I understand it, RSC is locating the code to run by name, where the name is supplied by the client.

JS/Node can do this via import() or require().

C, C++, Go, etc can dynamically load plugins, and I would hope that people are careful when doing this when client-supplied data. There is a long history of vulnerabilities when dlopen and dlfcn are used unwisely, and Windows’s LoadLibrary has historical design errors that made it almost impossible to use safely.

Java finds code by name when deserializing objects, and Android has been pwned over and over as a result. Apple did the same thing in ObjC with similar results.

The moral is simple: NEVER use a language’s native module loader to load a module or call a function when the module name or function name comes from an untrusted source, regardless of how well you think you’ve sanitized it. ALWAYS use an explicit configuration that maps client inputs to code that it is permissible to load and call. The actual thing that is dynamically loaded should be a string literal or similar.

I have a boring Python server I’ve maintained for years. It routes requests to modules, and the core is an extremely boring map from route name to the module that gets loaded and the function that gets called.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-05 12:14:21+00:00
>The amount of hoops I had to jump through to get things to print properly on paper...

Anybody know how that compares to Report Definition Language?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/rep...

Seems like an awfully scattered shitshow just to arrive at a typical "What You See Is Not What You Get" result.

And this one is made for printouts.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 12:14:25+00:00
The problem has been that people in the west have been continually told how corrupt Russia is, without noticing that the Ukraine has the same problem.

In fact, the former USSR is riddled with it. Strong men associated with crime and intelligence services emerged through the late eighties and early nineties, alongside smiling good looking politicians who act as frontmen for them.

For what it's worth, within Europe, Albania, Moldava and Slovakia have appalling corruption we rarely hear about. Bulgaria and Romania are pretty bad too. All former Iron Curtain states. Further west, Ireland and Italy have clientilism in spades (Northern Ireland, not just the Republic).
by seec | 2025-12-05 12:14:28+00:00
Yep that's pretty much it. And in France (I believe most of rich Europe as well), there are mandatory "social contribution" on capital gains which are collected directly by the banks. So if you don't have much money "working" for you, they will take a good part of whatever small gains you made.

So it doesn't go down, but the gains are so small it's kinda pointless. Of course, those who can save a lot every year get compounding benefits quite fast, but is a class that is becoming more rare every year passing.
by criddell | 2025-12-05 12:15:06+00:00
There are lots of great theaters where I lived (Austin, TX) that are well maintained and have great food and drink.

My problem is other people. People can’t make it more than about 15 minutes before they check their phone and start scrolling. Or if they aren’t checking their phone they are still using the screen like a flashlight to see the menu or their food. Or they eat like a noisy animal. The worst is people with glasses of ice they chew on. Every time they raise their cup it’s basically an ice maraca followed by the sounds of them crushing ice cubes in their mouth.

Even in theaters where phones are banned (Alamo Drafthouse) they generally don’t do anything about it.
by rmunn | 2025-12-05 12:15:26+00:00
The gain is pedagogical: giving kids a good intuition about angles is so much easier when the constant you're working with represents an entire turn around the circle (360°) rather than a half-turn of 180°. The advantage of using tau instead of pi is much smaller in other situations, but when it comes to measuring angles in radians, it's huge. And kids who have a better understanding of angles and trigonometry are just a little bit more likely to become good engineers. So persuading math teachers that there's a better way to teach trig is an investment in the future whose potential payoff is 20-30 years (or more) down the road.
by steveBK123 | 2025-12-05 12:15:39+00:00
Yes and I think the biggest media consumption habit in the last 5-10 years is really no one talks that much about what we are watching with friends / coworkers / on social media.

Game of Thrones feels like the last broad cultural simultaneous viewing kind of series.

Everything now is micro-niche algorithmic targeted single season shows with forgettable titles and actors.

One funny anecdote was overhearing the voice-overed NFLX shows my wife was watching in the other room and realizing they used the same handful of voice actors in a whole slew of series.
by squigz | 2025-12-05 12:15:52+00:00
After thinking some time, I think the baths quote is saying that, contrary to common wisdom, it isn't necessary to have intense, long discussions about "deep" subjects - small, quick conversations can still be as productive.

I think there's some truth here. I've held for a long time that minds are not changed overnight or in a single discussion - this happens over time, as you repeatedly discuss something, and people consider their own views and others. To that point, I suppose small conversations would work.

Still, I don't think it can be one or the other. Many subjects we're referring to are very complex and require more in-depth analysis (of the problem, and of our views) than a short conversation.

But I'm probably misreading the quote.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 12:16:04+00:00
I think you underestimate the complexity of the right. It is not just secular nationalists all the way down.

First, there are still religious people there, and this very wing is splintered among several groups at least. Famously, many Catholics including JDVance were in a value conflict with their own late Pope Francis. The actual religiously educated people tend to be very good at writing, because the schools that they graduated from are good at teaching persuasion.

Second, there are libertarians, not very numerous but somewhat influential, especially in tech circles.

Then, there still are some trigger-happy neocons, nowadays marginalized, but they may yet come to the fore in case of a bigger war that directly involves the US.

Then, there are reactionary types like Curtis Yarvin, who dismiss any nationalist ideas as blind alley of "demotism".

Even the practical question of "how many people from which country should get a visa yearly and under what conditions" will hit enormous ideological differences in the right-wing tent.
by skywhopper | 2025-12-05 12:16:12+00:00
Having a self-hosted “backup” that is ready to go at any time means having a self-hosted server that’s always on, basically. There are lots of cheap colo or VM options out there. But the problem is going to be dealing with an outage… how do you switch DNS over when your DNS provider is down?

Well, one way is to use a different DNS provider than either of your hosting options.

You can see this is getting complicated. Might be better to take the downtime.

But if I had to make a real recommendation I’m not aware of any time in the last decade that a static site deployed on AWS S3/Cloudfront would have actually been unavailable.
by 47282847 | 2025-12-05 12:16:28+00:00
While it not being ‚wrong‘, there lies a certain danger in this “Western“ approach to what is real. When people believe their dead child is singing in heaven, or that the ghost of their grandmother is watching over them, who are we to deny them that reality? Do we really want to reduce our experience to that which is physical or what we personally can relate to?
by KaiserPro | 2025-12-05 12:16:30+00:00
No, I believe the term is "parents don't want 8 year olds getting access to tits, violence and gore"

Given that kids need a device for school in a lot of areas (mine included) and the tools for stopping kids getting either access or bombarded by such stuff are either shit, require deep technical knowledge, or predatory, I can see why people are asking for it.

I presently hate the current system of handing over biometric data in exchange for tits. I don't want some shading startup having my biometrics so that when they go bust, pivot or get hacked, can be used to steal my stuff.

The middle ground is a system that _normal_ people can us to make sure kids who have access to devices can't easily access nefarious shit.

None of that is useful idiots.

When it get fun is the all or nothing crowd. The internet is going to be age gated, whether you like it or not. If you continue to go "INTERNET MUST BE FREEEEEEEE" without accepting that the tools that the populace _want_ don't exist means you get porn bans, or worse.
by strzibny | 2025-12-05 12:16:54+00:00
I think this is pretty cool. Congrats on the project, might play with it later.

If you want something even simpler, something that doesn't run on your servers at all, you can look at Kamal: https://kamal-deploy.org

What I like about Kamal is that it's backed by a company that actually fully moved out of K8s and cloud, so every release is battle-tested first.
by Orygin | 2025-12-05 12:16:55+00:00
I disagree, adding context to errors provide exactly what is needed to debug the issue. If you don't have enough context it's your fault, and context will contain more useful info than a stack trace (like the user id which triggered the issue, or whatever is needed).

Stack traces are reserved for crashes where you didn't handle the issue properly, so you get technical info of what broke and where, but no info on what happened and why it did fail like it did.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-05 12:17:18+00:00
The problem is that laws need to have precision, and that precision can be sidestepped. For the obvious example - most of all chocolate in America still uses labor involving not only child labor but defacto child slavery. [1] So they say some kind words and make an effort to use supplies who aren't using child labor. But all that involves is them asking the supplier 'Hey, you're not using child labor are you. No? Okay, great.' Of course they are and e.g. Nestle knows they are, but so long as they go through some superficial steps to give plausible deniability for both parties, they can then be 'my gosh, we had no idea.' This, btw, is the exact same way that NGO corruption works - shell companies that offer plausible deniability.

There's no real room to evade tariffs outside of misclassifying or misrepresenting imports, which is a straight forward criminal felony.

[1] - https://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/chocolate-slave-l...