MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-12-11 07:27:58+00:00
You know the fonts on our roads are standardized? And a lot of other official documents?

Designing a font that will be public domain forever costs next to nothing. It's a one-time cost that pays dividends into the future and that will probably outlive us.

The government would create something standard and accessible, and anyone could use it. No encumbered licensing.

I think companies refreshing design systems is a waste of money, but the government doing it is actually incredibly prudent.
by 112233 | 2025-12-11 07:29:21+00:00
Is claude code with both Sonnet and Opus agentic enough? Because it is constantly finding creative ways to ignore direct, repeated instructions ("user asked X but it is hard, let's do Y instead"), implement fake tests ("feature X is complex. we need to test it completely. let's write script that will create files that feature X would have created, then test that files exist"), sabotage and delete working code ("we need to track FD of the open file (runs strace). The FD is 5 (hardcodes 5 in the code instead of implementing anything useful) tests pass now!")

I have not experienced the level of malice and sweet-talking work avoidance from anyone. It apologizes like an alcoholic, then proceeds doubling down.

Can you force it to produce actually useful code? Yes, by repeatedly yelling at it to please follow the instructions. In the process, it will break, delete, or implement hard to find bugs in rest of the codebase.

I'm really curious, if anyone actually has this thing working, or they simply haven't bothered to read the generated code
by sipofwater | 2025-12-11 07:29:57+00:00
PDF: https://moralitylab.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/192/2025... (moralitylab.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/192/2025/09/markowitz-et-al-an-exploration-of-basic-human-values-in-38-million-obituaries-over-30-years.pdf)
by mk89 | 2025-12-11 07:30:07+00:00
I like this article more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyp9d3ddqyo

It goes through numbers, potential ways it's gonna be implemented, and also which other platforms are affected.

For example:

> Dating websites are excluded along with gaming platforms, as are AI chatbots, which have recently made headlines for allegedly encouraging children to kill themselves and for having "sensual" conversations with minors.

It wasn't enough the online pedo or weirdos trying to get your kids through chats or games.

It wasn't enough the instagram meat grinder that leads to depression, social anxiety, etc.

Now we even have to worry about chatbots leading kids to suicide.

What a hell of a world are we building - no wonder people don't want to make kids anymore.
by komali2 | 2025-12-11 07:30:35+00:00
We had a bizarre time as a brick and mortar being even allowed to be on Google Maps. We had to take multiple pictures and videos of outside of our business with our sign, and then schedule a call with someone not in our country (or didn't speak mandarin anyway), then show them in a video call our outside of the restaurant, us locking and unlocking the door of our restaurant, us opening our cash drawer, then showing receipts, then our back storage room. It was super uncanny.
by malux85 | 2025-12-11 07:30:59+00:00
I went to the USA a few months ago and was pulled aside and questioned (I have no idea why)

and when I told them I didn't have facebook they looked at me like I was mad. They asked "why not" and I told them I was ideologically opposed to it, because I believe it encourages narcissism. They acted like I was a criminal.

I found this enourmously funny and kept laughing at them insisting there was something suspicious about me not having a facebook account, which of course made me look even more guilty in their eyes.

In the end they got frustrated and just let me through, but there was an underlying and quite theatening tone which I felt was like a presumption of guilt, I laughed at the time at the absurdity of the situation, just because I wasnt expecting it, but on deeper reflection its pretty disturbing.
by irjustin | 2025-12-11 07:31:23+00:00
> so are less able to afford ebikes

Many countries with gig economies where the individual can't afford to own the actual method of transport, a rental market pops up to enable people to be able fulfill orders.

This usually does mean they're the first ones to get squeezed. But lesser known who gets squeezed is the rental operator/provider as well. Because many times they don't own their own fleet. They can't charge higher prices like normal car rentals and own the fleet because the individual gig driver is very price sensitive.

It doesn't take too many vehicle losses to really upset the delicate math.

It's just rentals all the way down.
by rswail | 2025-12-11 07:32:15+00:00
I'm Australian and just had to age verify on X/Twitter. They used some app called "selfie" and took a pic and said I was verified. That was it.

This social media ban is not so much about banning kids from social media.

It's more about banning social media apps/companies from accessing kids.

The SM apps are entirely about exploitation of their audiences via algorithms to push advertising and political positions. That needs to be stopped.

This is a start.

It's a bit like the bans on under 18 (Australia) drinking without supervision. We know that the bans aren't "perfect", but they work for the majority of the time for the majority of the kids.
by genuser | 2025-12-11 07:32:20+00:00
A recent investigation has uncovered a significant pricing practice on the Instacart platform. A collaborative report from Consumer Reports and other groups reveals the company tested different prices for identical products. These variations appeared for different users shopping at the same store at the same time. This “AI pricing” experiment affected major retailers like Safeway and Target, raising questions about transparency and fairness in digital shopping.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-11 07:32:57+00:00
> English prides itself on not having diacritics, or accents or whatever that thing where you merge a A and E is called, unless they are borrowed

Its called the letter “ash” and its borrowed from... (Old) English. Though its functionally reverted to being a ligature, which is what is was before it was a letter.

(Also, English has &, which was a letter even more recently—its current name being taken from the way it was recited as part of the alphabet [“and, per se, and”], including the effect of slurring with speed—and which also originated as a ligature.)
by lukan | 2025-12-11 07:34:13+00:00
"Academia is where one goes to explore oneself in pursuit of one's interests. Industry is where one goes to explore others in pursuit of serving their needs."

Unfortunately, also in academia you cannot just do what interests you, unless you got unlimited funding somehow. Because also academia requires money. For you to live and to fund your research. And this does not get handed out freely, you got to apply for it - and you only get it, if your needs match the needs of those giving out the grants. Now yes, there is more possibility to do research not bound by a concrete practical application, but the framing is really not correct. You cannot just research what you want (Source, I left academia to do my independent research of what I want, what I could not do there)
by 112233 | 2025-12-11 07:34:55+00:00
But doesn't your argument actually mean it is terrible at absolutely everything in a very subtle, convincing way, so that it takes an actual expert in the field to tell that the generated text is not a profound revelation but a bag of nonsense?

Meaning, is the answer in the field I'm not an expert of good, or am I simply being fooled by emoji and nice grammar?
by webglfan | 2025-12-11 07:36:18+00:00
I'll give you one: "Do any odd perfect numbers exist?"

You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number#Odd_perfect_num...

You can watch a short documentary about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY
by zeta0134 | 2025-12-11 07:36:34+00:00
The primary complication is that objects move around between frames, so the list doesn't stay sorted. Insertion requires a second scan once I've found an object that is out of position, whereas bubble can swap right away. (The candidate object is always N-1, after all.)

My goal is to stop working as soon as possible; this is a 1.7 MHz CPU and it has many other tasks to perform on a given frame. It's hard to appreciate unless you sit down to actually do it, but on a processor this slow, the scanning of the list and the comparison of depth is not cheap. It's computed on the fly as we go, there isn't spare RAM to cache it, and it changes every frame anyway. All of that makes the scanning and comparisons way more expensive than the eventual swap.

Insertion would be ideal here for a freshly spawned object, since we already know it is out of position and merely need to find its destination. (The work to shift the rest of the list down isn't super expensive, thankfully.) In practice this is already a big enough visual change that the player doesn't have much time to notice a depth error before it corrects itself.
by vintermann | 2025-12-11 07:36:51+00:00
I haven't researched it explicitly, but I do come across "what happens in the wider world" notices in small historical newspapers and sometimes I search to see what it was about. Saw a mention about some general winning an important victory, searched his name, found out he was one of the whites, and the first thing claimed about him was that he only came in "once the war was already lost".
by stinkbeetle | 2025-12-11 07:37:11+00:00
The most dangerous, untrue, and extremist content I've ever seen has come from governments.

Lies upon lies about WMDs and going to war for our freedoms and how we need to "liberate" Libya and fund and arm rebels and insurgents. Millions of people killed, trillions of dollars wasted and stolen.

Someone who is not completely trusting of politicians or pharmaceutical corporations, or who wants to give birth like 99.999% of humanity has, really are so far down the list of "dangerous misinformation" they don't even register.
by N19PEDL2 | 2025-12-11 07:37:31+00:00
I have questions about the concept of legality in a war like the one between Hamas/Hezbollah and Israel. The idea that in a war there can be legal and illegal actions established by international treaties to protect civilians as much as possible can only work if two (or more) legitimate states are fighting each other, with leaders who can be held accountable for the orders they give. But does it still make sense to talk about legality and international treaties when on one side there is a terrorist organization whose method of warfare consists of kidnapping or killing civilians? At this point, doesn't complying to international treaties only mean further endangering their own population?

Important note: I don't want to spark a debate for or against Israel's actions, but simply to better understand the real sense of applying international treaties and conventions in a war like this.
by 256_ | 2025-12-11 07:37:51+00:00
A lot of the arguments I see in this thread are about whether modern mainstream social media are bad for young people. When the debate becomes about that, it's very easy to defend these types of Orwellian laws. It becomes "This is a problem, therefore the solution is good", without questioning the solution itself. I think this type of thinking is demonstrated, or perhaps exploited, very well by this article (I'm not implying the WEF is secretly behind everything, I'm just using this as an example):

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/davos-2025-special-a...

The first part of that article is an absolutely scathing, on-point criticism of mainstream social media. I find myself agreeing with everything said, and then, suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, the article pivots to "therefore we need completely 24/7 mass surveillance of everyone at all times and we need to eradicate freedom of speech". That article is like a perfect microcosm of this entire international shift in internet privacy.

People and their governments seem to agree that modern social media is a problem. The difference is why. The people think it's a problem because it harms people; governments think it's a problem because they don't control it.

I think that the root cause of this shift to mass surveillance is that people in democratic countries still have a 20th-century concept of what authoritarianism looks like. Mass surveillance is like a novel disease that democracies don't yet have any immunity to; that's why you see all these "it's just like buying alcohol" style false equivalences, because an alarming number of people genuinely don't understand the difference between normal surveillance and mass surveillance.
by moomoo11 | 2025-12-11 07:38:02+00:00
I don't think you understand how gov spends money lol.

What you think is "next to nothing" will 99% turn into $300 million dollars and 10 years later about $4 billion will have been spent.

And 100% there are people waiting to milk the gov doing this. Maybe you are one of them? In that case...
by palata | 2025-12-11 07:38:30+00:00
> I think argument for seatbelts is that there is minimum disruption to usage, there is limited revocation of other rights, and the societal benefit is large and pretty unambiguous.

Said like this, it looks to me that it has a parallel with social media.

> The idea that I have to give up privacy

You don't have to, though.

> expose myself to additional risk (by having my identity logged)

It doesn't have to be, we can have privacy-preserving age verification. Now we could discuss the specific implementation, but in general that's feasible.

> increase the chances that mentally susceptible people will have more exposure to fraud

It's not enough to say it: is it actually the case? You can already get phished by trying to access a social network, how does that make it worse? I don't think it's obvious. While the problem with kids and social media is, at this point, very well documented.

> if not an out right straw man.

I, for one, think it's an interesting experiment. All the arguments above could be used against making cigarettes illegal for children. Yet I am very convinced that making cigarettes illegal for children is the right choice.
by dnhkng | 2025-12-11 07:39:14+00:00
Running LLM's directly might not be effective.

I think there are probably Law Firms/doctors offices that would gladly pay ~3-4K euro a month to have this thing delivered and run truely "on-prem" to work with documents they can't risk leaking (patent filings, patient records etc).

For a company with 20-30 people, the legal and privacy protection is worth the small premium over using cloud providers.

Just a hunch though! This would have it paid-off in 3-4 months?
by splonk | 2025-12-11 07:39:23+00:00
I was part of the team that built exactly this. It launched in 2010. Some Googlers of that era are probably still annoyed at all the internal advertising we did to get people to seed the data. This is one of the launch announcements: https://maps.googleblog.com/2010/11/discover-yours-local-rec...

> Google Maps shows you what the average person thinks is a good restaurant

I'm fairly sure this isn't true. At least, I still get (notably better) results searching while signed in. Couldn't tell you what the mechanism for that is these days, though. But at least back in 2010, the personalization layer was wired into ranking. You can see in the screenshots how we surfaced justifications for the rankings as well.

Pretty much immediately after launch, Google+ took over the company, the entire social network we had was made obsolete because it didn't require Real Names(tm), and a number of people who objected (including me) took down all our pseudonymous reviews. Most of the team got split off into various other projects, many in support of Google+. As best as I can tell the product was almost immediately put into maintenance mode, or at least headcount for it plummeted like 90%. Half of my local team ended up founding Niantic, later much better known for making Pokemon Go.

As for why collaborative filtering didn't take off, I can offer a few reasons. One is that honestly, the vast majority of people don't rate enough things to be able to get a lot of signal out of it. Internally we had great coverage in SF, London, New York, Tokyo, and Zurich since Geo had teams in all those places and we pushed hard to get people to rate everything, but it dropped off in a hurry elsewhere. The data eventually fills up, but it takes a while. I'm told we had 3x the volume of new reviews that Yelp had at the time, but Yelp mostly only covered the US, while Google Maps was worldwide, so density was quite low for a long time. It was probably 5-10 years before I started hearing business owners consistently talk about their Google reviews before their Yelp reviews.

Another thing is that people are really bad at using the whole rating scale. On a 1-5 scale, you'll probably find that 80% of the reviews are either 1 or 5 stars. Even more so in a real life situation where you meet the humans involved. While you can math your away around that a bit, at that point you're not getting a ton more signal than just thumbs up/down (anecdotally I've heard that's why Netflix moved away from 5 stars). And then at that point, you might be getting better signal from "were you motivated enough to rate this at all?", which is why there's the emphasis on review counts. Many people just won't review things badly unless things have gone terribly wrong. I sat in on a few UX interviews, and it was really enlightening to hear users talk about their motivations for rating things, many of which were way different than mine.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-11 07:39:34+00:00
Stylometry killed that a long time ago. There was a website, stylometry.net that coupled HN accounts based on text comparison and ranked the 10 best candidates. It was incredibly accurate and allowed id'ing a bunch of people that had gotten banned but that came back again. Based on that I would expect that anybody that has written more than a few KB of text to be id'able in the future.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-11 07:39:59+00:00
Because C standard library isn't part of the OS.

Outside UNIX, the C standard library is a responsibility of the C compiler vendor, not the OS.

Nowadays Windows might seem the odd one, however 30 years ago the operating system was more diverse.

You will also find similar issues on dynamic libraries in mainframes/micros from IBM and Unisys, still being sold.
by timonoko | 2025-12-11 07:40:53+00:00
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by orbital-decay | 2025-12-11 07:41:14+00:00
As someone who always avoids four-wheeled cages if possible, I can say highways are more or less safe if you have a fast enough motorcycle, compared to slow lane filtering with big vehicles on the road. Tiny spaces, poor visibility, and things that crush you on a slighest mistake is a dangerous combination.

If you look at the "motorcycling countries" (SEA, India/Pakistan, Africa, Latin America, etc.), most terrible accidents happen because trucks share the road with an army of scooters. I've been to a few of them on a motorcycle and it's a nightmare. For the same reason, big cities in China introduced dedicated scooter lanes separated by concrete barriers.
by arjie | 2025-12-11 07:41:19+00:00
In San Francisco, I noticed that many of the delivery drivers' e-bikes and e-scooters were labeled HMP. The natural structure for these is that you rent the bike from the provider and you keep net earnings post rent. And sure enough, when I came home and Googled there is precisely such a structure: https://www.hmpbikes.com/pages/rental-page
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by teroquyiqwu | 2025-12-11 07:42:03+00:00
Hi HN,

I often need to grab a high-quality still image from a video for thumbnails or documentation. Opening a heavy video editor feels like overkill, and taking a screenshot usually includes the player controls or loses quality.

So I built this little utility to do it quickly in the browser.

Key features:

Drag and drop interface. Frame-by-frame seeking (using the progress bar). Downloads the image in original resolution. No server-side upload required. It's a simple tool, but it saves me time. Hope you find it useful!

Link: [https://www.blurimageonline.com/video-frame-extractor]
by IceDane | 2025-12-11 07:44:35+00:00
Look, I'm not trying to dunk on your website for fun. The issue is that you're making a specific argument: you're an experienced developer who uses AI to be 5-10x more productive without downsides, and you properly audit all the code it generates. You then offered your project as evidence of this workflow in action.

The problem is that your project has basic performance issues - FOUC, render waterfalls - that are central concerns in modern React development. These aren't arbitrary standards I invented to be mean. They're fundamental enough that React's recent development has specifically focused on solving them.

So when you say I'm inventing quality standards (in your now-deleted comment), or that this is just a passion project so quality doesn't matter, you're missing the point. You can't argue from professional authority that AI makes you more productive without compromise, use your work as proof, and then retreat to "it's just for fun" when someone points out the quality issues. Either it demonstrates your workflow's effectiveness or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways.

The kids' artwork comparison doesn't work either. You're not a child showing me a crayon drawing - you're a professional developer using your work as evidence in a technical argument about AI productivity. If you want to be treated as an experienced developer making authoritative claims, your evidence needs to support those claims.

I'm genuinely not trying to be cruel here, but if this represents what your AI workflow produces when you're auditing the output, it raises serious questions about whether you can actually catch the problems the AI introduces - which is the entire crux of your argument. Either you just aren't equipped to audit it (because you don't know better), or you are becoming passive in the face of the walls of code that the AI is generating for you.
by rsynnott | 2025-12-11 07:45:16+00:00
> The Netherlands I assume is like the rest of Europe and is fanatically anti-Palestinian

The Netherlands is one of five countries to withdraw from the Eurovision over Israel being allowed to participate in 2026 (the others are Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Iceland), fwiw.

> and anti-Russian to the point of demanding invasion

... Eh? Russia is currently invading Europe. You may be a bit confused about that one.
by asim | 2025-12-11 07:45:33+00:00
Two reasons. 1 - they print cash through Ads which means there's opportunity or desire to do more things, or even a feeling like you should or can. So new products emerge but also to try diversify the revenue stream. 2 - the continuous hiring and scale means churn, people get bored, they leave teams, they want to do something new, it all bifurcates. It keeps fragmenting and fragmenting until you have this multilayered fractal. It's how systems in nature operate so we shouldn't think corporation's will be any different. The only way to mitigate things like this is putting in places limits, rules and boundaries, but that also limits the upside and if you're a public company you can't do that. You have to grow grow grow and then cut cut cut and continue in that cycle forever or until you die.