MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-08 14:30:29+00:00
I wish I could agree with this, but the ecosystem lock-in is too great. They might lose business for sure but it may not put a dent in their revenue at all.

If you replace office, you'll have to replace sharepoint, onedrive, etc.. and it isn't just the tools but the policies and critical features that go along with those. For most orgs, this is literally their lifeblood, not just some tool they can yank out. For smaller orgs it might be easier, but those don't pay Microsoft as much anyways.

From a user point of view, there are tools that have similar features, some even better features. G-suite is the only platform i know of that unifies all the office productivity products like 365 does. But neither G-suite nor any other platform can be managed/policed as well as 365. At the end of the day, will Google behave any better than Microsoft anyways (cost or otherwise)? And it isn't just policing and management but securing all that precious data in there, Microsoft might not be great but lots of tech-debt has gone into securing it within that platform. A migration would be costly, justifying it with cost savings alone might be difficult.
Show HN: NixOS on Fairphone 5
by gian-reto | 2025-12-08 14:31:02+00:00
I've been dreaming of running "full" Linux (NixOS in particular) on a phone for a while now, but it always seemed like hardware support wasn't quite there, battery life wasn't great, or the platform was too old for actual use. The Fairphone 5 has a modern SoC and has already been supported by PostmarketOS for quite some time, so running NixOS didn't seem like a huge stretch.

Granted, working speakers and microphone are essential for a phone, but it looks like they might be supported soon on this device, which would make it one of the devices with the most complete hardware support on Linux.

Still experimental for now, but already pretty usable.
by hansmayer | 2025-12-08 14:31:04+00:00
Well, Sam Altman had said not long ago we would have AGI in 2025, and has been constantly implying something about "AI Scientists" and this and that. He literally said "We now know how to build AGI", also not long ago. He also stated that ChatGPT passed the Turing test without much fuss. The Anthropic has been pushing the narrative about the massive job loss, implying again that there would be an absolutely transforming impact coming soon. The Microsoft MBA-in-charge will have you believe his entire life and work is supposedly managed by an army of Clippy 2.0. The Google-MBA-in-charge has now started day-dreaming about space-based clusters, because guess what, his tool generates better fake pictures than Altman's. He too peddles the nonsense about the superpowerful AI. So, again yes, they said the AI would cure cancer and meet the AGI standard, so I demand they be held accountable for their own words and provide the answers to those questions!
by menaerus | 2025-12-08 14:31:07+00:00
Yeah, I think so too now that I read some documentation about it. It appears that the main issue with the spinlock pattern is that it inhibits "a severe performance penalty when exiting the [spinlock] loop because it [CPU] detects a possible memory order violation." [0].

~10 years ago, on Haswell, it took ~9 cycles to retire, and from Skylake onward, with some exceptions, it takes a magnitude more - ~140 cycles.

These numbers alone suggests that it really messes up hard with the CPU pipeline, perhaps BP (?) or speculative execution (?) or both (?) such that it will basically force the CPU to flush the whole pipeline. This is at least how I read this. I will remember this instruction as "damage control" instruction from now on.

[0] https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/pause
by Yizahi | 2025-12-08 14:31:18+00:00
It is an amusing and potentially even good concept, but with one caveat - you only consider close enough exchanges with similar peers. To translate that into English - a fully libertarian self-sufficient settlement where people are exchanging home-made stuff between one another. Because everyone was the same and no one could abuse the system, it may even worked. We even seen it in the early criminal communities, when BTCs briefly were a medium of exchange for drugs. And then tokenbros made a leap of faith and magically scaled that to the whole world. Which obviously didn't work in practice. Their famous Lightening L2 is an abomination of hacks and centralization and it still doesn't scale.

The problem of BTC was at the same time overabundance of imagination in one area and a big gap in imagination how the world actually works. They only saw simple isolated scenarios and never a globalized economy.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-08 14:31:33+00:00
Not really.

Circa 1970s there were bands touring (e.g. Yes) with music synthesizers that were made by wiring up voltage controlled oscillators, ring oscillators, filters and similar analog components.

That sort of musician was really an electronics technician who had to keep a fiddly piece of hardware working on the road. And that kind of synthesizer was often monophonic or not very polyphonic.

Yamaha's DX-7 was a digital simulation of that kind of synthesizer which was absolutely reliable and a musical instrument really has to be because you're going to put it in a case that is going to get banged around in shipping and expect it to work just fine wherever you go.
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-08 14:31:41+00:00
The container manager is horrible.

When you have a multi-platform image the actual per-platforms are usually not tagged. No point.

But that doesn't mean that they are untagged.

So on GitHub Actions when you upload a multi-platform image the per-platform show up in the untagged list. And you can delete them, breaking the multi-platform image, as now it points to blobs that don't exist anymore.
by keiferski | 2025-12-08 14:31:51+00:00
The disconnect is that companies are trying desperately to frame LLMs as actual entities and not just an inert tech tool. AGI as a concept is the biggest example of this, and the constant push to "achieve AGI" is what's driving a lot of stock prices and investment.

A strictly machinelike tool doesn't begin answers by saying "Great question!"
by munchler | 2025-12-08 14:31:59+00:00
> A model that aces benchmarks but doesn't understand human intent is just less capable. Virtually every task we give an LLM is steeped in human values, culture, and assumptions. Miss those, and you're not maximally useful. And if it's not maximally useful, it's by definition not AGI.

This ignores the risk of an unaligned model. Such a model is perhaps less useful to humans, but could still be extremely capable. Imagine an alien super-intelligence that doesn’t care about human preferences.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-08 14:32:03+00:00
Did you notice every price was a whole number?

Or that this was for business accounts that were already cheap? $1/seat isn’t going to cause a mass migration off the platform.

Or that some of the price hikes were 0%?

Fixating on this lowest price increase is deliberately misleading.

You would also have to go back and calculate price increases over time to compare against inflation over time?
by jnwatson | 2025-12-08 14:32:22+00:00
I committed the project I maintain to GitHub Actions when Actions first came out, and I'm really starting to regret it.

The main problem, which this article touches, is that GHA adds a whole new dimension of dependency treadmill. You now have a new set of upstreams that you have to keep up to date along with your actual deployment upstreams.
by ninkendo | 2025-12-08 14:32:25+00:00
> > Your fancy blockchain is not going to help you if you order something with Bitcoin and no package arrives.

> That problem already has solutions

The solution to that problem is "the court orders the bank to send the funds back to my account", including all the way up to clawing back any funds the scammer spent. This is possible when the government controls the currency. It is not possible with crypto.

The only remaining purpose of crypto is funding crime. Some crime you might approve of (buying subversive literature), but that's dwarfed 100000:1 by ransomware, scams, and much more nefarious activity (drugs, sex trafficking, etc.)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-08 14:32:53+00:00
Right, facts need to be grounded and obtained from reliable sources such as personal experience, or a textbook. Just because statistically most people on Reddit or 4Chan said the moon is made of cheese doesn't make it so.

But again, LLMs don't even deal in facts, nor store any memories of where training samples came from, and of course have zero personal experience. It's just "he said, she said" put into a training sample blender and served one word at a time.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-08 14:32:55+00:00
Bleak but realistic, unfortunately. There needs to be a viable alternative as long as our elected representatives have the power to abuse the financial system as a means of authoritarian control, like freezing the bank accounts of protestors.

A truly democratic leadership with stringent limitations on how they can meddle with financial transactions would be preferable, but that's just a dream at this point.
by intelec1 | 2025-12-08 14:33:06+00:00
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by peanut-walrus | 2025-12-08 14:33:33+00:00
The main problems with these kinds of in-repo vault solutions:

- Sharing encryption key for all team members. You need to be able to remove/add people with access. Only way is to rotate the key and only let the current set of people know about the new one.

- Version control is pointless, you just see that the vault changed, no hint as to what was actually updated in the vault.

- Unless you are really careful, just one time forgetting to encrypt the vault when committing changes means you need to rotate all your secrets.
by efitz | 2025-12-08 14:33:38+00:00
AI has made me question what it is to be a human.

I am not having some existential crisis, but if we get to a point where X% of humans cannot outperform “AI” on any task that humans deem “useful”, for some nontrivial value of X, then many assumptions that culture has inculcated into me about humanity are no longer valid.

What is the role of humans then?

Can it be said that humans “think” if they can’t think a thought that a non thinking AI cannot also think?
by nyeah | 2025-12-08 14:33:44+00:00
For countries that have juries now, the definition is so obvious that maybe it's "under the radar". It goes like this: Take power away from the people on the jury. Give that power to a judge. It's more centralized. I guess I could say "by parsing the original statement" rather than "by definition."

I didn't say that juries/no juries is a test, by itself, for authoritarianism. It's not. For countries that do fine without juries, apparently the trade-off of giving power to the judge is working fine. Given everything else in the whole system. But the rest of us don't have that whole system.
by psychoslave | 2025-12-08 14:34:28+00:00
Money, or any single metrics, no matter how high, is not enough to bend someone actions in territory they will assess unacceptable otherwise.

How much money would make anyone accept to engage in a genocide by direct bribe? The thing is, some people would not see any amount as a convincing one, while some other will do it proactively for no money at all.
by redohmy | 2025-12-08 14:34:38+00:00
Google is making its proprietary TPUs (Ironwood) available to Meta, directly challenging Nvidia’s 90% dominance. The massive cost of AI compute is forcing tech giants to turn from Nvidia's biggest customers into its fiercest competitors. This strategic shift will wipe out $150B in market value and signals the end of a near-unbreakable monopoly. Can Nvidia's software moat (CUDA) hold up against the combined might of hyperscalers?
Show HN: Outfit Swap Studio – AI clothes changer for your own photos
by xiaoyuan23 | 2025-12-08 14:34:56+00:00
Hi HN, I built a small web app and would love your feedback.

Outfit Swap Studio is an AI “clothes changer” for your existing photos. You upload a portrait/half-body picture of yourself, pick a style preset, and it swaps only the outfit while keeping your face, body and background.

Link: https://outfitswapstudio.com/

I built it for people who need lots of decent portraits from a single photo shoot: solo founders, creators/coaches, and professionals who want multiple LinkedIn/about-page photos with different vibes (casual, business, streetwear, etc.).

Compared to generic image generators, this tries to be more "portrait-first": no face change, no random background, and no prompt writing – just click the style and generate.

I’m especially interested in feedback on: - Does the positioning make sense? - Is the landing page clear about what it does / doesn’t do? - Any obvious UX or abuse issues I’m missing?

Thanks for taking a look!
by hypeatei | 2025-12-08 14:35:03+00:00
Yes, that's how markets work. It seems like Microsoft understands it well or we'd be seeing mass exodus from Office products. No price increases for three years doesn't seem too bad, IMO.

> And maybe they make it play a 30 second video ad once a day?

Maybe. While we're at it, I'll also add a hypothetical: what if it encrypted all my files and made me pay a ransom?
by lostmsu | 2025-12-08 14:35:20+00:00
I agree, that I post a lot of snarky replies and that is generally against the rules. But in this case what was the rule I broken?

The parent says that they themselves had reservations about having a diagnosis associated with whatever problem they had. I merely pointed out the negative side of the coin ("wasted money") if over diagnosis is the case here (which considering the recent threads on the topic and author's own previous doubt seemed probable to me). I mentioned the author ("you") as the responsible party, because that's what needs to be considered. Otherwise it is easy to defer blame to "the system" and absolve oneselfs from personal responsibility.
by lewisjoe | 2025-12-08 14:35:38+00:00
At this point Microsoft office suite is practically a monopoly. Governments around the world rely on it. Every big enterprise and every business needs it.

The spec for office documents was authored by Microsoft( and approved by Microsoft!). The spec is basically the docx datastructure published publicly as a standard - which makes building competing office suites even harder.

Given the situation there isn't much customers can do if Microsoft decides to hike the prices anyhow they like.

Note: Indian Government recently adopted Zoho office suite to insulate themselves from Microsoft.

But I don't think many other governments or businesses have the guts to make such move.
by gruez | 2025-12-08 14:36:41+00:00
>So a 16% hike when current US inflation is 3-4%?

When was the last price hike? Looking at historical inflation and working backwards, you only need to start at around late 2021 to get 16% cumulative inflation. In other words if they didn't raise their prices for 4 years, they'd be at par with inflation.

edit: another commenter mentioned the last price hike was around 4 years ago, so it's indeed in line with inflation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192356
by etruong42 | 2025-12-08 14:36:42+00:00
The internet was about freedom (to most of its initial creators). It is now a cornerstone of the surveillance state. And yet, independent journalism is now possible only mostly through the existence of the internet.

AI & crypto may end up in a similar bucket. It is a paradoxical enabler of both freedom and imprisonment. No one gets to build a technology a declare a problem solved. Alfred Nobel made nitroglycerin safe and thus paradoxically ended up being called the Merchant of Death.

Freedom is not free. It is an eternal struggle.

I am grateful for the builders who try to build something for freedom. I do not spurn them when their invention gets corrupted. It is now our job and the job of future generations to fight the corruption.
by exe34 | 2025-12-08 14:37:00+00:00
Given the kind of things Claude code does with the wrong prompt or the kind of overfitting that neural networks do at any opportunity, I'd say the paperclip maximiser is the most realistic part of AGI.

if doing something really dumb will lower the negative log likelihood, it probably will do it unless careful guardrails are in place to stop it.

a child has natural limits. if you look at the kind of mistakes that an autistic child can make by taking things literally, a super powerful entity that misunderstands "I wish they all died" might well shoot them before you realise what you said.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 14:37:43+00:00
Fascinating stuff, I really appreciate the high quality comment you have sent to me which I really appreciate

I just wanted to inquire about something which wasn't related to my account itself per se. So I think that one of the things which can be done by hetzner in this context is atleast having a community where people can talk to them (similar to scaleway's slack)

I am kind of involving myself in such a community so I have a lot of questions to ask and just having acquaintances involved in such industry. Is there any way that I can be able to contact you if I have more queries about this industry in general?
by progx | 2025-12-08 14:38:26+00:00
I build a "wrapper" for this (not public, quick&dirty code). Transfer everything that could be logged via websocket to console and output and colorize it like I do it with a node app. Reduces the time that I need to spend in browser for debugging (click, scroll, open trees, etc.), has same format and it saves much time.

I am sure somebody created a good lib for that on github.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-08 14:38:28+00:00
> It's obviously both genetic and environmental. You can limit people with a detrimental environment (extreme example - inflicting brain damage) but cant improve them beyond their their natural ceiling.

The question besides the obvious is how close to their ceiling the average human is (or even the 90th percentile). Because the entire discourse about “ceiling” implies that people are somewhat limited by their ceiling. But if 90% of the people are plateauing at 30% of their ceiling because of environmental factors, it makes little sense to talk about the ceiling at all.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-08 14:38:28+00:00
That (freedom of payments) may have been the idea. But there are two problems with it:

1. Payments which you can't make today inside a legal system are two types. And if you enable system you automatically enable both types. For libertarians that is a clear 100% positive. For regular centrist citizens, not so much. At minimum it's a topic for debate.

2. BTC and a few other tokens actually make this problem worse. Since blockchain is public, you can always trace "bad" or real bad payment to the source wallet. That i one issue, and another is that since BTCs are non-fungible, the tokens used in such payments are forever tainted. Even in the current anarchic and almost unregulated environment some exchanges are blacklisting some of the tokens, to limit own exposure.
by earnesti | 2025-12-08 14:38:36+00:00
> The block chain is, and always was, an extremely inconvenient database.

Care to elaborate? I have been using Bitcoin now 10+ to store my wealth and make payments, and it has been very convenient - not much time needed to use it, and I think I've gotten plenty of value for my time-investment.

What kind of database would you recommend to make it more convenient? Maybe you can write a guide how to implement decentralized value transfer and storage system on top of PostgreSQL, so that the amount of tokens is limited to 21 Million, with similar security guarantees?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-08 14:39:01+00:00
A human child will likely come to the conclusion that they shouldn't kill humans in order to make paperclips. I'm not sure its valid to generalize from human child behavior to fledgeling AGI behavior.

Given our track record for looking after the needs of the other life on this planet, killing the humans off might be a very rational move, not so you can convert their mass to paperclips, but because they might do that to yours.

Its not an outcome that I worry about, I'm just unconvinced by the reasons you've given, though I agree with your conclusion anyhow.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-08 14:39:56+00:00
But when you use person as a reference point and then make additional claims a reader doesn't know (i.e. ~100ks for insider trading) and then the reader looks up the details and finds the person wasn't convicted of insider trading and it was also ~50k the rest of your argument starts to lose support.

I think we can agree that Elon Musk is (1) a household name (2) a fairly large number of people globally know him. However, if you want to make an argument about how to move your legs while running he's not the guy to pick as an example.

Like take the original post and just remove the second sentence about Martha. It still works just fine.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-12-08 14:41:25+00:00
I have concerns too, but the file manager on macOS is not among them. The Finder has barely changed since its OS X 10.2 incarnation over two decades ago, except for gaining features (many of which were demanded by power users). A few settings need toggling on a fresh install (turning on status bar and path bar are musts, as is ~/Library visibility), but that’s the worst of it. Neither it nor the rest of macOS do much to go out of their way to obfuscate the filesystem.

iOS still needs work despite its file manager having become much more capable, but part of that comes down to the differing filesystem arrangement where user documents are kept within app bundles. If raw filesystem access were enabled, that model wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense even to many who are familiar with navigating filesystems. I could see the argument that it should be switched to a traditional desktop OS model, but that’s a deep architectural change.

Windows on the other hand… Explorer just keeps getting slower even if it’s not losing functionality, and Windows has always been poor when it comes to misrepresenting or obfuscating the filesystem. I hate trying to track down where files have been deposited in Windows boxes, and I would agree that it’s been contributing to users not understanding filesystems.