MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-24 20:20:59+00:00
Interesting but for a country like china with the fact that companies are partially-owned by CCP itself. I feel like most of these discussions would / (should?) have happened in a way where they don't leak outside.

If the govt. formally anounces it, perhaps, I believe that they must have already taken appropriate action against it.

Personally I believe that we are gonna see distills of large language models perhaps even with open weights Euro/American models filtering.

I do feel like everybody knows seperation of concerns where nobody really asks about china to chinese models but I am a bit worried as recently I had just created if AI models can still push a chinese narrative in lets say if someone is creating another nation's related website or anything similar. I don't think that there would be that big of a deal about it and I will still use chinese models but an article like this definitely reduces china's influence overall

America and Europe, please create open source / open weights models without censorship (like the gpt model) as a major concern. You already have intelligence like gemini flash so just open source something similar which can beat kimi/deepseek/glm

Edit: Although thinking about it, I feel like the largest impact wouldn't be us outsiders but rather the people in china because they had access to chinese models but there would be very strict controls on even open weights model from america etc. there so if chinese models have propaganda it would most likely try to convince the average chinese with propagandization perhaps and I don't want to put a conspiracy hat on but if we do, I think that the chinese credit score can take a look at if people who are suspicious of the CCP ask it to chatbots on chinese chatbots.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-12-24 20:21:07+00:00
Will these heavy-handed constraints ultimately stifle the very innovation China needs to compete with the U.S.? By forcing AI models to operate within a narrow ideological "sandbox," the government risks making its homegrown models less capable, less creative, and less useful than their Western counterparts, potentially causing China to fall behind in the most important technological race of the century. Will the western counterparts follow suit?
by rewgs | 2025-12-24 20:21:14+00:00
Putting aside anything specific to Framework, this article really puts into perspective just how piss poor the laptop market is right now.

Macs have fantastic hardware, but of course only really run macOS. The future of Asahi Linux is very questionable and, like the author, is not something I'm interested in relying on. I don't hate macOS by any means but I much prefer running Arch with Hyprland.

PC laptop hardware is just shit in comparison. Like the author, my X1 Carbon (Gen 11) has keys that intermittently fail, and the cooling is pretty bad (I actually love the OLED display, though, and don't really understand the author's concerns here).

I haven't found any non-Mac laptops that beat the X1 Carbon line, though (relatively low bar that it is). Frameworks are cool if you are fine with the tradeoffs, but personally I'm just not -- I much prefer to tinker with desktops/servers, and am totally fine with laptops being a physically-closed "appliance," as long as that results in great battery life, cooling, and adequate performance (I can always offload heavy tasks to my desktop if need be).

Which is all to say: what I want is Mac equivalent hardware that can reliably run Linux.

For now, I've landed on using my extremely beefy Arch desktop when at home, and my M1 MacBook Air (which is still running great 5 years on) when mobile. Even accepting that I'll be using an Apple device when mobile, though, there's still room for improvement in this setup: I'd love LTE support (no, a hot spot isn't a good replacement), a nano-texture display (which appears to be locked to the MacBook Pro line), and either an even smaller footprint (like the old 12-inch MacBook) or a little bit of active cooling to offset the performance regressions in macOS. An iPad might make sense, but I own one and frankly hate it due to OS limitations, such as only a single stream of audio at a time (which causes lots of bugs -- watching a YouTube video while scrolling Reddit will cause the YouTube video to pause whenever you scroll past a video on Reddit, even if it's muted), a lack of terminal, etc. I want a "real" OS, so tablets are out of the question entirely.

I don't understand why absolutely zero PC manufacturers have even tried to take on Apple's laptop offerings. Sure, Apple Silicon is great, but Intel and AMD have done an admirable job at increasing battery efficiency since its release; it's not the only component that makes Mac laptops so great. I'm sure these manufacturers know what they're doing in this regard and have decided it doesn't make business sense to take on Apple. But man, I just wish someone would at least try.
by turtletontine | 2025-12-24 20:21:15+00:00
Framework 16 owner here, had mine for a year and a half. While most of this post is also true in my experience, I just don’t care. These are largely small cosmetic nitpicks that you need to look for to notice. The only complaints here that I really share are the jankiness of the spacers (a little jarring at first, but now I’m used to it), and the speakers really are noticeably worse than any of my other devices. So? I don’t watch movies on it, or listen to music, that’s what I have a TV and headphones for.

Seems inarguable that you can get a much more “premium” laptop for about the same cost. But I didn’t buy a framework for a “premium” feel… I was hoping to buy the last laptop I’ll ever need. And so far I’m happy with the result!

PS: the battery life is by far the best of any laptop I’ve owned. Maybe that just shows that my previous ones were junk, but I’m quite happy with it

PPS: I should note my employer was willing to buy it for me, so price was much less of a concern. Not everyone is so lucky ofc
by tremon | 2025-12-24 20:22:15+00:00
The problem is that the user generally doesn't have a functioning mental model of what's actually going on

Sorry, but a professional user not having an operational understanding of the tools they're working with is called culpable negligence in any other profession. A home user not knowing how MS Word works is fine, but we're talking desk clerks whose primary task is document management, and lawyers who were explicitly tasked with data redaction for digital publication. I don't think we should excuse or normalize this level of incompetence.
by ck2 | 2025-12-24 20:22:25+00:00
The wild part to me is they aren't starting with the financials

Follow the money, where did it all come from and where did it all go

1200+ survivors means it was a full blown enterprise, they were using modeling agencies to traffick girls

And when someone says they had never ever been on his plane and then it turns out there are a dozen documented cases, find out why they are lying because it's probably very significant

And why haven't they subpoenaed the cellphone tracking to the island like Wired bought?
by dakiol | 2025-12-24 20:22:34+00:00
While the guy is brilliant, I doubt he could fit the role of senior/staff/principal engineer in any one-level-below faang kind of company. Typically, these roles require good communication skills and working together with other engineers (which is really hard). So, while he's very good at the tech level, I think he primarily works alone? In that regard, it would be a very bad fit. I may be wrong, tho.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-12-24 20:23:08+00:00
Everything belongs in version control imho. You should be able to clone the repo, yank the network cable, and build.

I suppose a URL with checksum is kinda sorta equivalent. But the article adds a bunch of new layers and complexity to avoid “downloading Cuda for the 4th time this week”. A whole lot of problems don’t exist if they binary blobs exist directly in the monorepo and local blob store.

It’s hard to describe the magic of a version control system that actually controls the version of all your dependencies.

Webdev is notorious for old projects being hard to compile. It should be trivial to build and run a 10+ year old project.
Show HN: I built a tool to scrape and summarize Reddit long discussions
by MartinMachava | 2025-12-24 20:23:14+00:00
I built this because I spend too much time digging through thousands of comments on Reddit to find the actual conclusion or consensus.

First I used manual approach:
- add .json to URL to get metadata (fetches ALL comments)
- pass json to AI to get the summary

It works, you can use it, but metadata are "dirty", containing lots of unnecessary fields that bloats up the context for AI. And it's not that fast, I wanted single click solution.

It wasn't hard to automate it in chrome extension.
Supported pages are Threads, Subreddits, Search results.

It’s built with Plasmo and React. The backend is a serverless proxy (Vercel) to handle rate limiting, key security and calls to OpenRouter API.

Demo: https://youtu.be/9MGwQElbBXE
Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jccgjnbkibbigimcfoh...

Feedback is welcome!
by fancyfredbot | 2025-12-24 20:23:24+00:00
The article contains the questions they asked. The questions are only asking about social media. Specifically whether social media is sufficiently regulated and whether political advertising should be allowed on social media.

It does not mention surveillance, and it's not about tech in general. The title is misleading. (Edit: the OP kindly updated the title and it's no longer misleading)
by lastdong | 2025-12-24 20:24:03+00:00
From reading the page the study “examines public attitudes social media regulation and banning political advertising from social platforms.”

The question: To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose banning political adverts from being shown on social media platforms?

They conclude with: Voters for far-right parties are frequently less likely to support banning of political advertising on social media … and less likely to think regulations are too lax … typically less likely to think social media regulations are too relaxed (with Italy being an exception).
by chistev | 2025-12-24 20:24:18+00:00
I posted this 23 days ago -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511

I've been enjoying past discussion threads on HN, currently in 2012.

Interesting conversations about how Facebook would fail back then, lol, and about how Bitcoin would not be as valuable as it is today. Who would have known?

Great site, this.
Show HN: Hackernewsd – Automate monitoring topics on Hacker News
by somegenericdev | 2025-12-24 20:24:29+00:00
Hello everyone.

I've built a daemon to automate monitoring topics on Hackernews. It takes a list of queries (say, "Ruby", "C#" or "Laravel" for example) and exposes stories that match them through an RSS feed.

I've made this for my own purposes really but given that it's worked well for about a year I thought I'd share it here for anyone who might be interested.
by archon810 | 2025-12-24 20:24:48+00:00
why is it so hard to use Google's APIs @OfficialLoganK ?

steps:
1⃣ "Get API key" in the docs page → redirects to a different page
2⃣ "Create API key" → asks me to select a project
3⃣ "Select a project" → asks me to create a project
4⃣ Project created → asks me to name the key
5⃣ Name the key → asks me to connect billing account
6⃣ Click on "free tier" → redirects to a different page
7⃣ "Link billing account" → prompts me to fill the form to increase the quota

I saw 4 pages, 7(!) modals and I still can't use the API key.

Then somewhere along the way I also see a prompt to use VertexAI which quadruples the confusion. it's just stupid.

Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK 3h
I am sorry for the pain on this, we are doing a bunch to address this:

1. We are moving the docs into AI Studio, so you won't need to jump from the docs into AI Studio, it will all be integrated, ETA is Q1 to be fully complete with this.

2. Right now, we auto create projects and keys for new users so they don't need to click anything, it just works. I think the edge case is that it only happens during the account creation flow right now. I pinged the team to make sure we add this for existing users so they will be able to just have a project and key created by default, ETA 2nd week of Jan.

3. Will be fixed by the above, we will also auto select a project going forward, ETA 1st week of Jan.

4. We will auto populate a name for you when you create a new key, ETA 2nd week of Jan.

5 & 6. We are bringing the billing setup process directly into AI Studio, this will make it so we don't have to redirect to the cloud console for you to setup a billing account, ETA for initial rollout is Jan 20th.

7. I will debug this part further, agreed it is super confusing. The issue here is that we limit the number of projects you can add to a single billing account (since this is one of the ways that people commit mass scale abuse / fraud on our platform), let me poke around to see what we can do to make this more simple.

Thank you for the feedback and sorry for the hassle on this. Always more to do!
by dmd | 2025-12-24 20:25:18+00:00
Thanks. I would love to understand what people are doing with Playwright that doesn't involve those things. I really can't recall ever using it where that wasn't what I was doing. I use it letting Claude fix things. You can't fix what you can't see! What else are people using it for? Obviously there must be a (very popular!) use case for "just clicking", but I can't seem to imagine it.
by jdgoesmarching | 2025-12-24 20:25:53+00:00
My friends are in real life, not on Mastodon or Bluesky.

Not everyone interested in doing detective work to find accounts related to their interests. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect social media platforms to help with that discovery.

If preventing centralization is important to you, then you should care about the product experience of the decentralized platforms.
Show HN: My open-source tool for visualizing Crossplane resources
by moeidheidari | 2025-12-24 20:27:46+00:00
Hi HN,

We just released Crossview 3.1.0, an open-source tool to visualize Crossplane compositions, managed resources, and claims as interactive graphs.

Since the initial launch, we’ve focused on making Crossview more powerful and reliable for real-world Crossplane users.

In this release, notable improvements include:

Enhanced multi-cluster context support for seamless switching

Faster rendering and smoother UI interactions

Advanced search and filtering capabilities for large-scale setups

Bug fixes and improved stability

Crossplane setups can get complex quickly, and Crossview aims to help teams understand and debug their infrastructure more effectively.

We’d love to get feedback from the community:

How do you handle Crossplane visualization and debugging today?

What features would make Crossview even more useful for you?

Are there any challenges you face with Crossplane UIs that we haven’t addressed yet?
by docjay | 2025-12-24 20:28:19+00:00
If you’re on the road with one you’re wearing the bracelet. If you’re driving one you’re wearing two. I don’t mean to sound so sour, I was hoping the analogy would alias that into the background a bit, it’s just that the hoopla around self-driving cars is causing people to skip reading the footnotes.

Safe vs Unsafe isn’t as simple as who gets a 10/10 on the closed course test. Humans are more predictable than random chance would allow, and often even when drunk or distracted. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen someone wobbling on the road and knew to stay back. You can also often tell when someone might yank over into your lane based on them flying up in the other lane, getting just in front of you in that lane then wiggling a bit, clearly waiting for the first chance to pull in front of you and take off. There are lots of other little ‘tells’ that, if you’re a defensive driver, have avoided countless accidents.

Being a prudent defensive driver goes out the window when the perfect speed limit adhering driver next to you goes to straight to -NaN when someone drives past it with Christmas lights on their car, or the sun glares off oversized chrome rims, or an odd shaped vehicle doesn’t match “vehicle” in the database, or, or, or.

* I’m very much not saying that the example I mentioned above is reason enough, I’m saying that I’m not sure enough thought is being put into how many more pages I could go on, and I’m just some schmuck that worked for some number of years on the underlying technology - not the guy watching it fail in imaginative ways on the road.

Something said earlier that really overestimated what’s happening: it doesn’t get smarter, it gets another “if” statement.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-12-24 20:28:26+00:00
We have been here before. Same reason why CV driven development is a thing. When you look for a job, if you are a junior or a mid dev for too long, recruiters will think something is wrong with you. The idea of being happy remaining at your current level is anathema in an industry where chasing the next new thing whether it is a JS framework or a new title is an axiom.
by tguvot | 2025-12-24 20:29:39+00:00
Majority of Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia, Russia culture, language etc. Given that a bulk of "shared culture" is Russian attempts to suppress anything Ukrainian over past few hundred years.

This is where interest of Ukrainians lay.

And I'll quote you a Russian journalist, that had to run away from Russia and later was assassinated by Russians in Ukraine. 10 years ago or so he wrote: west should dig a deep ditch around Russia and fill it with alligators.

There is also non-zero amount of actual russians that think that russian culture brings only misery and should be destroyed together with russia (state as we know it)
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-24 20:31:27+00:00
Veritasium has some of the worst horseshit "clickbait" of anyone on Youtube. They know it too, because after they let the algorithm A/B test different clickbait titles on you for a month, they will change it to a real title that actually is relevant to the title and then I will finally be interested in the video because it actually suggest what it might be about.

He's very much "selling out" but meh, he was never really a "high brow" creator anyway. Still managed to cover lots of cool things, but just not trying to make good content. They were optimizing for profitable content.

However, the couple of discussions around "how to think about electricity" and "how do sails work" he participated in and somewhat spawned were great, and showed how actual productive discussion among people genuinely trying to come to a real understanding works. Lots of groups chimed in and actual experiments were run to support arguments and the end result was essentially "eh, there's nuance"! Wonderful outcome.

It was clear for a very very long time that he wasn't doing it for the same reason as most of the good people: A desire to share learning and lust for scientific inquiry.

I also think the new animation style is mediocre, but that's just opinion.

Get out of the way, enjoy the life you have left, and let someone else blossom into the space you left!
by Amezarak | 2025-12-24 20:31:37+00:00
> Banning criminals and neonazis who act against our nation's interests is a simple matter of sovereignty and I hope we continue to do it despite your and JD Vance's opinions; it's a right the nation reserves.

The UK seems to mainly ban thought criminals, while letting actual criminals run rampant. This, of course, is why much of the world views the UK as teetering on the edge of being a failed state.

> This is pie-in-the-sky fantasy. It's just not true at all.

It's absolutely true. How many hours of Nazi propaganda would it take to turn you into a Nazi? I don't know about you, but the answer for me is "no amount of Nazi propaganda would ever turn me into a Nazi." People are becoming extremists in the UK because of the worsening cultural and economic situation. You were once the richest nation in the world. Now, the GDP per capita PPP of the UK is comparable to Mississippi with a major class divide. The UK government has miserably failed its people for decades and continues to get worse in addressing the needs of its people. The best anyone can offer is scaremongering about neonazis which are not a threat anywhere in the western world.

> The tiniest, most meaningless, most temporary grievance can be exploited by demagogues and everyone knows it. Including the American president

This is the same old argument that tyrants and dictators have made for thousands of years. You can't have freedom or democracy because then demagogues will fool the people. Nevertheless, democracy is still a better system than the alternatives. The solution is to do a good job governing your people so mass dissatisfaction doesn't lead them to lend their ear to demagogues. If you would prefer to live in an authoritarian state where demagogues aren't a problem, there are plenty of them - try Russia if you want to stay in Europe.
by mellosouls | 2025-12-24 20:31:59+00:00
They weren't implementing "government censorship regulation". They were trying to ensure the different views on speech in their own countries are respected and conformed to.

This is a clear example of global operators running up against the natural friction of conflicting national customs and laws.

It's a particularly knotty issue in the intuitively borderless and passionate medium of internet speech and won't be helped by regulators or commenters here ignoring that.
by chrsw | 2025-12-24 20:32:06+00:00
I'm still chugging along on a Dell XPS Developer Edition that came with Ubuntu 20.04 preinstalled. It's not as repairable as a Framework but it's been very reliable.

If I had to get a new laptop for personal use today I'd probably go for an X1 Carbon. Those seem to have very good luck with Linux even without OEM installs.
by rwaksmunski | 2025-12-24 20:33:40+00:00
Early in 1999 my 1st build was a Celeron 300A on Asus P2B-LS overclocked to 450. Later upgraded to 1.4Ghz and 512MB ECC RAM. Much later running FreeBSD as a home server probably till 2015 when the power supply finally gave out, I wish I kept it. Got me through the capacitor plague and was competitive with Pentium 4 for a while. Absurdly stable and quite snappy with a 10k SCSI system drive. Would love to install Windows 98SE again on it and play some Unreal Tournament.
by mmooss | 2025-12-24 20:34:17+00:00
Unless they mix together or there are other causes involved.

First, when was journalism 'weakened'? The conservative anti-journalism campaign goes back to people like Rush Limbaugh in the late 1980s and Fox News in the mid-1990s. And journalism lost funding due to Craigslist taking over the main source of income, classified ads.

Second, if these people are really interested in good journalism and truth, why do they attack journalists for reporting truth and insist on disinformation?

Maybe come up with some evidence of your own, for your own argument. Mine won't help you much.
by mircerlancerous | 2025-12-24 20:35:03+00:00
I'm not sure I can accept the findings of this article. It seems to me that all the concerns and issues can be summed up to bad design. A mini framework should be designed to be easy to adapt and extend, and any layer on top should be just as easy to further adapt and extend.
That to me is the crux of this, "avoid frameworks that are difficult to adapt and extend".
by asmor | 2025-12-24 20:35:27+00:00
I bought a Framework 13 because I wanted to send a signal to the industry that there was a market for repairable devices with good Linux support.

I also wouldn't be buying anything from them in the future one because supporting a certain individual developer, DHH, who holds political opinions incompatible with my existence very easily makes the "buying Framework for political reasons" bit moot. Their CEO avoiding the issue and throwing a red herring (Hyprland) into the discussion didn't help either.

I know I'm certainly not the only one who feels this way.