MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-12-19 19:59:20+00:00
I am assuming competence. Competent people make these mistakes.

If "assume competence" means "assume that people do not make the mistakes they are observed to make", then why write tests? Wherefore bounds checking? Pilots are competent, so pre-flight checklists are a waste of time. Your doctor's competent: why seek a second opinion? Being mindful involves compensating for these things.

It's possible that you're just that good – that you can implement a solution "as simple as not making these mistakes" –, in which case, I'd appreciate if you could write up your method and share it with us mere mortals. But could it also be possible that you are making these mistakes, and simply haven't noticed yet? How would you know if your understanding of the program didn't match the actual program, if you've only tested the region in which the behaviours of both coincide?
by lentil_soup | 2025-12-19 19:59:21+00:00
There's some mention as to why in the article, I don't think it's about being effective but about it becoming a tag and movement and the people associated with it

"EA ... was originally concerned with how to get rich philanthropists to donate to the most “effective” charities but is now just as well known for its booster-doomerism about artificial general intelligence and for having had the convicted crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried as a notorious benefactor"
by monocasa | 2025-12-19 19:59:22+00:00
It goes a bit deeper than that since they got funding in the wake of 9/11 and the requests for intelligence and investigative branches of government to do better and coalescing their information to prevent attacks.

So "panopticon that if it had been used properly, would have prevented the destruction of two towers" while ignoring the obvious "are we the baddies?"
Ask HN: Has anyone used AI to write a full-length book?
by eibrahim | 2025-12-19 19:59:45+00:00
I'm a software developer who published a technical book with Wrox years ago. The process was brutal—months of work, endless rewrites, lost plot threads.

Recently I've been experimenting with using AI as a writing partner (not just for drafts, but for maintaining consistency across chapters, tracking characters, generating outlines, etc.)

Has anyone else tried this seriously? I'm curious about: - What worked and what didn't - How you handled the "AI voice" problem - Whether you'd consider publishing something AI-assisted
by wiseowise | 2025-12-19 20:00:04+00:00
Still remember how my PC was freezing on VC 20 years ago, and now I can play it in a browser in 120 fps. Wild.

Big kudos to https://github.com/SugaryHull/re3/tree/miami on which this is based on. Wholeheartedly agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community can keep games alive instead of letting them rot.
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 20:00:07+00:00
You’ve identified the exact tension we are navigating.

I support platforms like Shopify and Wix because they empower 80% of independent merchants to exist online. But I oppose their move toward 'enterprise-only' data silos. When Shopify gates their catalog API for a few select partners, they aren't protecting the merchant. They are protecting their own rent-seeking position.

CommerceTXT is a way for a merchant on any platform to say: 'My data is mine, and I want it to be discoverable by any agent, not just the ones who paid the platform's entry fee'.

Regarding 'design smell': Every major shift in computing has required specialized protocols. We didn't use Gopher for the web, and we shouldn't use 2010-era REST APIs for 2025-era LLMs. Models have unique constraints-token costs and hallucination risks-that traditional APIs simply weren't built to handle.

We aren't building for the gatekeepers. We are building for the open commons.
by danaris | 2025-12-19 20:00:35+00:00
> I want my lawyer armed with LLMs to not do that.

The only way to guarantee that is to have a lawyer not armed with LLMs.

We've seen dozens of examples already of lawyers doing exactly that. (Some of them have then doubled down in court, to their eventual detriment.)

If you're making a habit of using LLMs to draft briefs for you, how long before you just forget to check the cited cases to replace the hallucinated ones with real ones? Or decide not to check, because surely they'll be fine this time...only they're not?
by lxpz | 2025-12-19 20:01:04+00:00
They are not solving the same problem.

Syncthing will synchronize a full folder between an arbitrary number of machines, but you still have to access this folder one way or another.

Garage provides an HTTP API for your data, and handles internally the placement of this data among a set of possible replica nodes. But the data is not in the form of files on disk like the ones you upload to the API.

Syncthing is good for, e.g., synchronizing your documents or music collection between computers. Garage is good as a storage service for back-ups with e.g. Restic, for media files stored by a web application, for serving personal (static) web sites to the Internet. Of course, you can always run something like Nextcloud in front of Garage and get folder synchronization between computers somewhat like what you would get with Syncthing.

But to answer your question, yes, Garage only provides a S3-compatible API specifically.
by Aloisius | 2025-12-19 20:01:26+00:00
run_tests.py does not appear to be checking the number of errors or the errors themselves for the tokenizer, encoding or serializer tests from html5lib-tests - which represent the majority of tests.

There's also something off about your benchmark comparison. If one runs pytest on html5lib, which uses html5lib-test plus its own unit tests and does check if errors match exactly, the pass rate appears to be much higher than 86%:

$ uv run pytest -v 17500 passed, 15885 skipped, 683 xfailed,

These numbers are inflated because html5lib-tests/tree-construction tests are run multiple times in different configurations. Many of the expected failures appear to be script tests similar to the ones JustHTML skips.
by squigz | 2025-12-19 20:01:57+00:00
> Rather, abusive parents who don't lock their kids out of social media websites should be sanctioned. First offenders get all of their Internet accesses taken down for a few months.

Wow, people really will advocate for anything except actually fixing the harmful aspects of these sites.

Also, calling parents "abusive" who let their kids on social media is harsh and will likely only ever push people away from understanding your position.

What happens after the second offence, out of curiosity?
by squigz | 2025-12-19 20:01:59+00:00
> We absolutely do need regulation of this harm by the law

> There's plenty of precedent in other threshold ages at which children can start indulging in other potentially harmful vices.

In those other vices, we have various other regulations in order to reduce their harm as much as possible. Yet, there has been no similar push for the purported harm done by social media - or, apparently, the Internet in general. It's like we've tried nothing and are surprised it's still an issue.
by kstrauser | 2025-12-19 20:02:16+00:00
> Yes, it has. They made it clear right when they launched the store.

No one except those who explicitly went looking for this knew it. It wasn't made clear in any way.

> This became big news a long time ago:

Speaking of orthogonal. I remember this well. It was a case where Amazon stole back books people had purchased. The core concern at the time wasn't that Amazon had revoked a license to read a book, but that they had deleted purchased books from users' collections.

But at the end of the day, for many years Amazon had an action button saying "Buy now with 1-Click" with no legal fiction disclaimer. The button was identical to what you'd see when buying a bag of cat food, DVD, or anything else you'd flat-out purchase from them.
by 1123581321 | 2025-12-19 20:02:31+00:00
It was easy to find news stories. Here are a couple from neutral sources.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-women-misogyny-raids-inte...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-police-launch-nationwide-o...

It seems reasonable to be concerned about a government that wants the power to reveal Internet users, but I couldn’t say on what basis Proton expects legal protection to continue after the move.
Show HN: AI Audience Platform for Practicing Public Speaking
by speakupai | 2025-12-19 20:02:35+00:00
We are building a platform to solve a problem a lot of people are struggling with: how to practice public speaking when you have no audience.

Traditional methods are limited: practicing with friends is very limited(their qualification can be lower than yours, and you are limited in the amount of times you can practice), Toastmasters requires scheduling and gives you like 5 mins of speech per week(also limited in the amount of times you can practice), and speech apps just correct your spelling. Yet 77% of people fear public speaking, and most of them have no idea how to practice it.

Our platform lets you practice presentations in front of a customizable AI-generated audience without any limitations. You can practice as much as you want as often as you want.

Just start speaking and AI will simulate real audience: ask questions, etc.

We're in early development. Looking for brutally honest feedback from the HN community:

1. Does this approach make sense? 2. What specific features would make it actually useful? 3. Would you use this for preparing to your presentations/interviews?
by rolph | 2025-12-19 20:02:58+00:00
client encryption is about keeping the MITM out of your fibre.

if you are scared of spooks using metadata, that can be managed with some warwalking around cafes/campus, a wifi extender, a burner phone tether, and action in discretion.

at that point WTF your doing had better be a noble cause, not a malediction.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-19 20:03:14+00:00
The thing is, there was evidence it wasn't working properly. The court rule doesn't change anything.

In the middle of the prosecutions they even settled with some post masters who were able to independently find that the Horizon system worked incorrectly and then they continued to go after other post masters who hadn't figured it out.

The Post Office Scandal [1] is not some story about the dangers of computers being wrong. It's a story about how covering up evidence can allow you to gain a wrongful conviction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
by dpark | 2025-12-19 20:03:45+00:00
The part of him that I hate most is that he’s exposing a huge chunk of the country as being willing to continue to support a man who very clearly cares nothing about democracy or the country except to the extent that it lines his pockets.

> hopefully the hate will subside and we can start to come together as a country

Trump got elected on a platform of divisiveness and hate and he’s continued that playbook since. You can’t support him and then seriously say you want the country to come back together.
by ActorNightly | 2025-12-19 20:03:57+00:00
No, because its not needed.

The transformation from latent space of thoughts in the form of brain signals is going to be much more difficult than building something that can interpret all the ways I can communicate with my body.

Some system that can track body movements, skin temp, pulse, respiration, facial expression, eye movements, and voice is more than sufficient to infer a lot of information, especially when its given training data on your own history.
by soorya3 | 2025-12-19 20:04:01+00:00
Hardware are more reliable and lasts longer. The software makes the hardware less useful over time.

Apple is moving into the subscription everything model slowly if you noticed. You can get new phone every year with Apple Upgrade Program, News+, Fitness+, iCloud+, Apple TV+ etc. Slowly you will be locked into the ecosystem and can't escape it. We might as well call Apple (Google/Amazon to an extent) an utility at this point.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-19 20:04:20+00:00
Fair, the US government is not a saint in this respect. I will say that a three letter agency getting upset and requesting a backdoor does seem different than a legislative (executive?) commission proposing laws to backdoor communications.

From a recent EFF post[0], it appears they've backed off the scanning and encryption demands so that's good, I guess. Hopefully that sticks and they don't propose something similar in the future.

0: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/after-years-controvers...
by Gardinengleiter | 2025-12-19 20:04:46+00:00
Definition of a simulation: A simulation is a synthetic, computed reality that is generated and controlled by a higher-level system or intelligence. It is not fundamentally real; its apparent physical constructs (like atoms, galaxies, and laws of physics) are facades or imaginative representations created by the simulation's rules. The entities within the simulation may or may not be aware that they are simulated.
by MinimalAction | 2025-12-19 20:05:07+00:00
Crazy! Brought back the summers of my childhood where I mindlessly roamed around the Vice City with my custom MP3 list of songs. For so long, I was stuck on flying the RC helicopter in an abandoned skyscraper level. It has been years, and now I have the itch to try that again!

Thanks to whoever made this possible. There goes my weekend.
by mtlynch | 2025-12-19 20:05:18+00:00
>The Avelo team was responsive, professional, and took the findings seriously throughout the disclosure process. They acknowledged the severity, worked quickly to remediate the issues, and maintained clear communication. This is a model example of how organizations should handle security disclosures.

Sounds like no bug bounty?

It's great if OP is happy with the outcome, but it's so infuriating that companies are allowed to leak everyone's data with zero accountability and rely on the kindness of security researchers to do free work to notify them.

I wish there was a law that assigned a dollar value to different types of PII leaks and fined the organization that amount with some percentage going to the whistleblower. So a security researcher could approach a vendor and say, "Hi! I discovered vulnerabilities in your system that would result in a $500k fine for you. For $400k, I'll disclose it to you privately, or you can turn me down and I'll receive $250k from your fines."
by filearts | 2025-12-19 20:05:24+00:00
Is it really AI slop if someone leverages AI to improve / transform their novel experiences and ideas into a rendition that they prefer?

I'm not suggesting whether or not the article is AI assisted. I'm wondering if the ease of calling someone's work "AI slop" is a step along the slippery slope towards trivializing this sort of drive-by hostility that can be toxic in a community.
by snickerbockers | 2025-12-19 20:05:26+00:00
Its not just Europe. america is too, it just seems less egregious because the American people are used to seeing the government contract out constitutional violations to private corporations which have incestuous links to the government.

With recent AI advancements, an orwellian hell is all but inevitable. If you (by which i mean the powers that be not you specifically) don't build it then some competing faction will and they'll be in control of it. Its the classic prisoner dilemma.
by swisniewski | 2025-12-19 20:05:57+00:00
look up the parent tree... There was this statement:

> From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix backend infrastructure at the very least.

The HBO Max service has something like 128M subscribers. This is < half of the 301M subscribers Netflix has, but is still a large number.

Certainly there's going to be some duplication, but it would be unwise to suddenly disrupt the delivery vehicles that you have 128M paying customers using in favor of a different delivery vehicle.

So, you should expect all the various HBO Max clients in existence to continue working for at least 5 years after the acquisition closes, if not longer.

Suddenly turning that off and saying "go use the Netflix app" wouldn't be good.

In any case, moving all the WB content onto the Netflix CDN and making it available on all the Netflix clients is "product integration", not "infrastructure integration". You are likely to see that very quickly. Weeks to months after the acquisition closes.

But, getting rid of all the HBO Max client software that talks to the HBO Max Servers running in whatever data center or cloud WB is using, and downloading video from whatever CDN WB has, and all the associated infra stuff, that's infra integration and it won't happen for a while. I think that will take 5-10 years.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-19 20:06:06+00:00
Related:

Reddit Accuses 'Data Scraper' Companies of Stealing Its Information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695433

Our Response to Reddit, Inc. vs. SerpApi, LLC: Defending the First Amendment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45739889
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-19 20:06:50+00:00
And that's under extreme loads. In gaming it's only like 50-75w

https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/images/power-g...

from https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/24.ht...
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-19 20:06:53+00:00
DEI is practically in the communist playbook too. So, they basically get support from the super rich and also pro-communist forces. Of course, many pro-communist idealogues are super rich people who have nothing in common with workers. They dream of running things based on prior status, and never having to yield to popular opinion. At least under capitalism, you can work your way up from nothing, and you can keep the fruits of your labor.
by db48x | 2025-12-19 20:07:10+00:00
That doesn't make much sense. Surely anything salacious would simply be released by the next administration? We've already seen how eager the Democrats are to tie Trump to Epstein. Just a few weeks ago they ”released” a photo of Trump surrounded by women with their faces redacted to imply that they were victims whose identity needed to be protected. Turns out it was taken as a publicity photo at a public event held at Mar-a-lago put on by a sunscreen company as advertising. The women were all models hired by the sunscreen company, and have testified that Trump ”was a gentleman”. The DoJ did not think that they were victims of anything, except maybe of participating in a tacky advertising scheme. If Democrats are that desperate now, how long do you think anything hidden now will remain hidden once the next administration appoints someone to run the DoJ?

I don't like Trump much, but anyone who thinks that he's a pedophile based on this evidence is not thinking critically.
by km144 | 2025-12-19 20:07:36+00:00
> “In my trips to Wall Street,” Dyer told the panel, “one of my analyst friends took me to lunch one day and said, ‘Joe, you have to get iRobot out of the defense business. It’s killing your stock price.’ And I countered by saying ‘Well, what about the importance of DARPA and leading-edge technology? What about the stability that sometimes comes from the defense industry? What about patriotism?’ And his response was, ‘Joe, what is it about capitalism you don’t understand?’”

I find this article a pretty compelling critique of the extractive incentives of Wall Street and a good argument for government stepping in from time to time to adjust those incentives. Where is the societal good in the engine of capitalism prioritizing short-term extraction over long-term value creation?
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-19 20:07:36+00:00
> but I realized that email is inherently insecure

I've always seen Proton benefits as a moot point because it's not E2E to the other side. You can encrypt all you want but as soon as you actually communicate with anyone (this is the email after all) you are now give all your messages to a third party often times without any encryption at all.
by jajuuka | 2025-12-19 20:07:58+00:00
5800X3D have been high for a long time now. Ever since they were discontinued the price has only inflated. Same as the 5700X3D. AM5 was a bit of a slow start for a lot of people who didn't a big bump in jumping to the new platform. So while their high price isn't driven by RAM prices, I'm sure it's getting some extra inflation from it.
by reactordev | 2025-12-19 20:08:05+00:00
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/oss/ps4/

https://opensource.apple.com/

GPL where applicable. If it's MIT or just "as is" then no, they won't but they definitely publish the sources to what they are required to. Since FreeBSD is "as is" 4.4BSD licensed, they aren't required to publish the sources of Orbis.
by fragmede | 2025-12-19 20:08:07+00:00
Just like there are some easy "tells" with LLM generated English, vibecode has a certain smell to it. Parallel variables that do the same thing is probably the most common one I've seen in the hundreds of thousands of lines of vibecode I've generated and then reviewed (and fixed) by now. That's the philosophical Chinese room thought experiment though. It's a computer. Some sand that we melted into a special shape. Can it "understand"? Leave that for philosophers to decide. There's code, that was generated via LLM and not yacc, fine. Code is code though. If you sit down and read all of the code to understand what each variable, function, and class does, it doesn't matter where the code came from, that is what we call understanding what the code does. Sure, most people are too lazy to actually do that, and again, vibecode has a certain smell to it, but to claim that some because some artificial intelligence generated the code makes it incomprehensible to humans seems unsupported. It's fair to point out that there may not be humans that have bothered to, but that's a different claim. If we simplify the question, if ChatGPT generates the code to generate the Fibonacci sequence, can we, as humans, understand that code? Can we understand it if a human writes that same seven lines of code? As we scale up to more complex code though, at what point does it become incomprehensible to human grade intelligence? If it's all vibecode that isn't being reviewed and is just being thrown into a repo, then sure, no human does understand it. But it's just code. With enough bashing your head against it, even if there are three singleton factory classes doing almost the exact same thing in parallel and they only share state on Wednesdays over an RPC mechanism that shouldn't even work in the first place, but somehow it does, code is still code. There's not arcane hidden whitespace that whispers to the compiler to behave differently because AI generated it. It may be weird and different, but have you tried Erlang? You huff enough of the right kind of glue and you can get anything to make sense. If we go back to the Chinese room thought experiment though. If I, as a human, am able to work on tickets to cause intentional changes to the behavior of the vibecoded program/system that results in desired behavior/changes, at what point does it become actual understand vs merely thinking I understand the code.

Say you start at BigCo and are given access to their million line repo(s) with no docs and are given a ticket to work on. Ugh. You just barely started. But after you've been there for five years, it's obvious to you what the Pequad service does, and you might even know who gave it that name. If the claim is LLMs generate code that's simply incomprehensible by humans, the two counterexamples I have for you are TheDailyWtf.com, and Haskell.
by _heimdall | 2025-12-19 20:08:20+00:00
Oh I wouldn't expect Amazon to care what I think, especially with regards to digital books as at least I am not a customer.

I'm also not going to write off everything they do as evil only because of who they are though. Defaulting to disabled vs enabled would be reasonable too, though I don't know enough publishers or independent authors to know which option would be more often selected to pick a default.