MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdjon | 2025-12-01 16:48:14+00:00
Netflix seems to basically do everything in their power to own the experience of using Netflix as much as possible, short of making a device and OS themselves.

This and refusing to work with the Apple TV app are the 2 big examples that come to mind but there are likely others.

I am not really sure what this solves though since you would still be using their app.

Them refusing to work with the Apple TV app was one of my biggest reasons for canceling. They really need to get knocked down a few pegs.
by cj | 2025-12-01 16:48:17+00:00
It's like saying "Star Wars is the best movie in the world" - to some people it is. To others it's terrible.

I feel like it would be advantageous to move away from a "one model fits all" mindset, and move towards a world where we have different genres of models that we use for different things.

The benchmark scores are turning into being just as useful as tomatometer movie scores. Something can score high, but if that's not the genre you like, the high score doesn't guarantee you'll like it.
by lunias | 2025-12-01 16:48:27+00:00
> some way to remote control the computer from the couch (ideally from a phone)

If you use Kodi then you could try Kore (their remote app). I tried it once a long time ago and it was alright, but it's hard to beat a keyboard. I think similar apps exist for VLC and other media players, but I haven't looked into a solution that allows controlling the entire computer via a phone.
by seanw265 | 2025-12-01 16:48:34+00:00
After reading the post I kept thinking about two other pieces, and only later realized it was Taylor who had submitted it. His most recent essay [0] actually led me to the Commoncog piece “Are You Playing to Play, or Playing to Win?” [1], and the idea of sub-games felt directly relevant here.

In this case, running a studio without using or promoting AI becomes a kind of sub-game that can be “won” on principle, even if it means losing the actual game that determines whether the business survives. The studio is turning down all AI-related work, and it’s not surprising that the business is now struggling.

I’m not saying the underlying principle is right or wrong, nor do I know the internal dynamics and opinions of their team. But in this case the cost of holding that stance doesn’t fall just on the owner, it also falls on the people who work there.

Links:

[0] https://taylor.town/iq-not-enough

[1] https://commoncog.com/playing-to-play-playing-to-win/
by tim333 | 2025-12-01 16:48:36+00:00
An example near the start of that article is

>Physics was originally part of philosophy, like Isaac Newton's observation of how gravity affects falling apples.

like back then people would wonder how apples fall and it was labeled philosophy. Now we understand gravitation it's part of physics for the most part. People launching satellites seldom call a philosopher to calculate the orbit.

It remains to be seen if qualia, which we don't understand very well and are so regarded as philosophical, make the transition to neuroscience.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-12-01 16:49:05+00:00
I signed up again for netflix while I was back in the states. when I arived in colombia, netflix gave me an error so I contact customer support. Apparently accounts are now region locked. I would have to cancel my account and then sign up again here (which I can't because they require a new number)

I loved the service but now its literaly unusable for me. whoever came up with these new policies should be "voluntarily" relocated to gaza.

I've resorted to piracy now. Its hard to imagine a company going through so much effort to not take my money.
by bluGill | 2025-12-01 16:49:35+00:00
That is the easy part - most of the core routers have supported ipv6 for decades - IIRC many are IPv6 only on the backbone. The hard part is if there is even one client that doesn't have the update you can't use the new non-legacy addresses as it can't talk to you.

Just like today, it is likely that most client will support your new address, but ISPs won't route them for you.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-01 16:50:06+00:00
> An mp3 file is also a machine-generated lossy compression of a cd-quality .wav file, but it's clearly copyrightable.

Not the .mp3 itself, the creative piece of art that it encode.

You can't record Taylor Swift at a concert and claim copyright on that. Nor can you claim copyright on mp3 re-encoded old audio footage that belong to the public domain.

Whether LLMs are in the first category (copyright infringement of copyright holders of the training data) or in the second (public domain or fair use) is an open question that jurisprudence is slowly resolving depending on the jurisdiction, but that doesn't address the question of the weight themselves.
by benmanns | 2025-12-01 16:50:10+00:00
For Shopify in particular, they have a headless front-end services called Hydrogen[0] (with optional hosting called Oxygen). It's basically an opinionated wrapper around the storefront[1] and customer account[2] APIs, which allows interacting with the store from the front-end. It allows you to host Shopify on your own domain under your own control and gives a bit more customization than is available via hosted Shopify. It's what I run for the Creature Publishing site[3] and allows some extra customization for wholesale accounts, etc, without the exceptionally expensive enterprise (Shopify Plus) plan. To be completely honest, sometimes I question the decision over a simple hosted shop subdomain. Some light SSR/API calls are necessary for our setup, which is hosted on Cloudflare Pages/Workers.

[0]: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/

[1]: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/latest

[2]: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/latest

[3]: https://creaturehorror.com/
by Kuinox | 2025-12-01 16:50:20+00:00
two or three months ago, I played a game that did exactly what you proposed, V-Rising, it have a server browser, I played a week with friend on a busy server. Then the server was gone for two weeks. When it was back, mosts of the bases were gone due to inactivity.

That's the kind of things that were common too, maybe you forgot about it.
by toast0 | 2025-12-01 16:50:32+00:00
UEFI is a weird environment. I'm not sure you can take an off the shelf OS and turn it into a UEFI application, because of things that are missing or restricted versus running standalone. But once you exit UEFI bootservices, you lose most of what UEFI provides, like storage access.

Easier would probably be running something like a single guest hypervisor that would essentially translate the storage (and NICs) into an interface the OS understood.
by silexia | 2025-12-01 16:50:35+00:00
I have done that, I have no social media or anything. The only apps I have that I use are the phone, text for business, gmail, and chrome. Chrome is by far the most addictive. I also have Youtube, but that is mostly good as I have "do not recommend channel" most non-educational stuff. I mostly see construction and mechanic related videos.

But still I accrue 5-6 hours a day on it. Chrome is my biggest weakness and I have blocked my worst sites, but I still come to HN way too much. Maybe block this one next?
by Findecanor | 2025-12-01 16:50:43+00:00
x86 has no architectural zero register, but a x86 CPU could have a microarchitectural zero register.

And when the instruction decoder in such a CPU with register renaming sees `xor eax, eax`, it just makes `eax` point to the zero register for instructions after it. It does not have to put any instruction into the pipeline, and it takes effectively 0 cycles. That is what makes the "zeroing idiom" so powerful.
Show HN: ScreenBreak – Enter addictive apps only if you complete an effort task
by gregzeng95 | 2025-12-01 16:50:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ScreenBreak after realizing that most app blockers failed in practice. “Hard blocks” were too rigid — I either locked myself out entirely or tapped Ignore Limit and kept scrolling. There was no useful middle state.

In reality, people still need to open apps like TikTok or Instagram for specific tasks: looking something up, replying to someone, checking updates, etc. The problem isn’t intentional use; it’s the unplanned, unconscious scrolling that follows. I wanted a system that interrupts the impulse without fully preventing access.

ScreenBreak uses soft blocking plus effort-based unlocks. When a block triggers, the user must complete a small physical challenge (rapid tapping, shaking the phone, drawing a circle). If they succeed, they get a short access window. If not, the urge typically breaks.

Over the past year, I’ve implemented several flexible block rules: - Schedule Block: active only during set hours - App Launch Limit: blocks after exceeding a daily open count - Usage Budget Limit: blocks once a daily or hourly time quota is used up

The goal is to add friction exactly at the moment of impulse, instead of relying on absolute blocking or self-discipline alone.

I’d appreciate feedback on the concept, challenge mechanics, and whether this approach fits how you manage attention or screen use.
by dweekly | 2025-12-01 16:51:08+00:00
Prior HN posts/discussions:

Chromium Team Re-Opens JPEG XL Feature Ticket https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018994

FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179

Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940

Chromium jpegxl issue closed as won't fix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40407475
by paxys | 2025-12-01 16:51:15+00:00
Imagine you go to get your car's tires replaced but can only buy BMW brand (because that's what your car will support) and they cost 3x the price of the generic ones.

Imagine you want to do some home renovations but the builder of your house has installed a kill switch that will detonate the entire thing to the ground should you try to move even one brick without using their preferred contractor.

Imagine the manufacturer of your couch shows up to your doorstep 2 years after you bought it and says they need it back. But you paid full price for it? Nope, you actually bought a license, and the license has now expired. So will you get a refund? Lol, nope.

All of this would be laughable in the real world, yet when it comes to tech we look at the same practices and go "of course, all this makes sense".

So no, this isn't really about the "huge amount of work" it would entail. Companies are perfectly capable of doing this work, and happily do so as long as it benefits them. The problem is that there is no regulation in the space and customers have been trained to accept these practices as a way of life.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-12-01 16:51:48+00:00
Hmmm... I think it's still stricter to consider Science a philosophy than the other way around. It's the belief (and an extremely useful and successful one) that the nature of the world can be understood through observation, experiment and deducing mathematical relationships between things. There branches of philosophy that are not strictly scientific, but nothing in Science that is doesn't rely on the fundamental philosophical principle of empiricism.
by ux266478 | 2025-12-01 16:52:34+00:00
The OpenSSH/XZ exploit from a year or so ago was actually a systemd exploit[1], fun fact.

Looking back on the time I spent in systemd land, I don't miss it at all. My system always felt really opaque, because the mountain of understanding systemd seemed insurmountable. I had to remember so much, all the different levers required to drive the million things systemd orchestrated... and for very little effect. I really prefer transparency in my system, I don't want abstraction layers that I have no purpose for. I don't take it as a coincidence at all that since I moved away from systemd distributions, my system has become quite a bit more reliable. When I got my Steamdeck, the first systemd setup I've used in years, one of the first things I noticed is that the jank I used to experience has showed its face once again. It might not be directly tied to poetteringware, but it's very possible that this is a simple 2nd or 3rd order effect from having a more complex system.

[1] - https://www.fortinet.com/resources/articles/xz-utils-vulnera...
by voakbasda | 2025-12-01 16:52:37+00:00
If this effort does not create more “domestic terrorists” than it catches, I will be shocked, because this is crossing way over several lines.

If this truly comes to pass, I expect and endorse violent resistance. If this comment brings them to my house, I will put my money where my mouth is and engage them myself, as I would view that as a fully legal exercise of my second amendment rights.

They want a revolution? Because this is how you incite a revolution.
by philippstelzer | 2025-12-01 16:52:39+00:00
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by troupo | 2025-12-01 16:52:49+00:00
> I have no concern whatsoever whether this is about licensing or just money grubbing. You're making things suck for the paying customer.

That's the thing though. Streaming services have very little say in how the content is licensed.

> the last few drops of blood from the stone trying to stop people from actually watching from two screens they paid for in two different locations and other idiocy.

Those restrictions you're talking about? They literally come from licensing terms that rights owners impose.

(Most) streaming platforms would gladly not spend a lot of time figuring the devices, what they are playing etc.
by grayhatter | 2025-12-01 16:52:53+00:00
> We used the steam engine for 100 years before we had a firm understanding of why it worked. We still don’t understand how ice skating works. We don’t have a physical understanding of semi-fluid flow in grain silos, but we’ve been using them since prehistory.

I don't think you and I are using the same definition for "firm understanding" or "how it works".

> I could go on and on. The world around you is full of not well understood technology, as well as non deterministic processes. We know how to engineer around that.

Again, you're side stepping my argument so you can restate things that are technically correct, but not really a point in of themselves. I see people who want to call themselves software engineers throw code they clearly don't understand against the wall because the AI said so. There's a significant delta between knowing you can heat water to turn it into a gas with increased pressure that you can use to mechanically turn a wheel, vs, put wet liquid in jar, light fire, get magic spinny thing. If jar doesn't call you a funny name first, that's bad!
by smada | 2025-12-01 16:53:18+00:00
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by goku12 | 2025-12-01 16:53:29+00:00
As concerning as it is, this is just another addition to the pile of malware that a modern smartphone is. Everyone including SoC manufacturer, RF baseband manufacturer, OEM, OS developer, browser developer and app developers add their own opaque blobs, hidden executable rings, lockdown measures, attestation layers, telemetry, trojan apps, hidden permissions and more.

We lost the game when we allowed these players to impose limits on us in the way we can use the device that we bought with our hard earned money. Even modifying the root image of these OSes is treated like some sort of criminal activity. And there are enough people around ready to gaslight us with the stories about grandma's security, RF regulations, etc. Yet, its the extensive custom mods like Lineage OS that offer any form of security. Their extensive lockdown only leads to higher usage costs and a mountain of malware.

We really need to demand control over our own devices. We should fight to outlaw any restrictions on the ways we can use our own devices. We should strongly condemn and shame the people who try to gaslight us for their greed and duplicity.
by jfx2006 | 2025-12-01 16:53:45+00:00
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by anonymars | 2025-12-01 16:53:51+00:00
Sorry, it's not. Latest example, Canon's phone app for its cameras, for GPS tagging, remote shutter, transfer to phone, didn't require any Internet access, but now they changed it to require an online login for no reason. Oh and that login only works with chrome installed.

So miss me with this caveat emptor libertarian fantasy land ("openly lies about its specs" is the buyer's fault?!)
by Glemkloksdjf | 2025-12-01 16:54:03+00:00
They pay people in Malaysia to solve issues.

Google has a ton of code internal.

And million of people happily thumb down or up for their RL / Feedback.

The industry is still shifting. I use LLMs instead of StackOverflow.

You can be as dismissive as you want, but that doesn't change the fact that millions of people use AI tools every single day. People start using AI based tools.

The industry overall is therefore shifting money and goals etc. into direction of AI.

And the author has an issue because of that.
by xuaihua | 2025-12-01 16:54:04+00:00
Apparently AI/agentic commerce drove $3B in online sales over Black Friday per this report being shared around by retail executives today.

The underlying Salesforce data doesn't seem to support this, however. From my POV, there's absolutely no way AI drove $3B of $11.8B total ecommerce sales for Black Friday based on current AI usage. Am I misinterpreting this data?
by gerad | 2025-12-01 16:54:06+00:00
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by eviks | 2025-12-01 16:54:17+00:00
Why not go one abstraction further and go expected deviation from deviation? Probably the word "expected" plays a mind trick? "Expected" doesn't mean the probability increases, the easiest way to understand it is just by looking at the probability distribution function chart for coin tosses - you'll immediately see that mean has the highest chance of happenning, so exactly 100 is the most likely outcome
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-01 16:54:23+00:00
The lies that Trump used to send that mob to the capital are in a different galaxy of falsehood than the BBC editing down some of his less fiery invective. It's one hell of a choice to focus on the latter over the former. Your bar for the the left is on Mt Olympus, your bar for the right is buried underneath the Mariana Trench.
by regularization | 2025-12-01 16:54:26+00:00
Six months ago five members of a group called Palestinian Action broke into an RAF base and spray painted two refueling planes involved in surveillance of Gaza. They were charged with a crime.

Then, mainly because of this, the group Palestinan Action was classified as a terrorist group. Since the thousands of people have been arrested in the UK for support of terrorism, for holding signs that say "I support Palestinian Action" and the like.
by internetter | 2025-12-01 16:54:28+00:00
> My guess is that adblock became too easy on smartphones

Not within native apps. Your only option is essentially dns/hosts based on both platforms however this can also be done on the router. On Android there is ReVanced I guess. But these are almost as technical as a pihole. What is the percent of people who know of DNS based adblock but not pihole?

Edit: And DNS adblocking can be done on android tv.
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by throw7 | 2025-12-01 16:54:49+00:00
Chromecast is a dead product. Google killed it, but I think in this case it was when they lost a patent case in good ole Texas. I have several chromecast devices and have no interest in the replacement, google tv streamer.

"... the decision was made to improve the customer experience." Of course that's a lie, but it is ironic, as the reason why chromecast was initially conceived was that TV UX is horrible.
by tacker2000 | 2025-12-01 16:55:04+00:00
Sure, but it seems here that they are rejecting everything related to AI, which is probably not a smart business move, as they also remark, since this year was much harder for them.

The fact is, a lot of new business is getting done in this field, with or without them. If they want to take the "high road", so be it, but they should be prepared to accepts the consequences of worse revenues.