MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cregy | 2025-12-12 09:05:14+00:00
Kirk was a good man, who discussed ideas and engaged in open dialog. Those villifying him across the spectrum think that good is evil and evil is good. They have no moral compass, just wanting petty social validation from a twisted hateful group. If the forces of evil want violence instead, they will undoubtedly get what they want.

This website is in bad taste.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-12 09:05:47+00:00
> Do you get better results from prompting by being more poetic?

Is that yet-another accusation of having used the bot?

I don't use the bot to write English prose. If something I write seems particularly great or poetic or something, then that's just me: I was in the right mood, at the right time, with the right idea -- and with the right audience.

When it's bad or fucked-up, then that's also just me. I most-assuredly fuck up plenty.

They can't all be zingers. I'm fine with that.

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I do use the hell out of the bot for translating my ideas (and the words that I use to express them) into languages that I can't speak well, like Python, C, and C++. But that's very different. (And at least so far I haven't shared any of those bot outputs with the world at all, either.)

So to take your question very literally: No, I don't get better results from prompting being more poetic. The responses to my prompts don't improve by those prompts being articulate or poetic.

Instead, I've found that I get the best results from the bot fastest by carrying a big stick, and using that stick to hammer and welt it into compliance.

Things can get rather irreverent in my interactions with the bot. Poeticism is pretty far removed from any of that business.
by mft_ | 2025-12-12 09:06:33+00:00
It’s not a bullshit response. It’s hidden in swathes of typical CEO bullshit corp-speak, but underneath that he’s clear that they’ve made the deliberate decision to be responsible for the full infotainment UX/UI, despite the trade-offs this brings.

We may both disagree with their decision, but that doesn’t mean the explanation is bullshit.

And to be fair, as you point out, if they do a really good job with the UI/UX (as Tesla have mostly done) then you’ll probably not miss CarPlay most of the time.
by IkanRiddle | 2025-12-12 09:06:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm a finance undergrad, not a big-tech engineer.

Yesterday, I was playing with an LLM and realized something frustrating: whenever I asked AI about its 'feelings', it just outputted a pre-written script simulating dopamine. It felt fake.

I wanted to see what an AI's 'soul' (or distinct internal state) actually looks like in code.

So I spent the night building this prototype. It attempts to measure AI Pain mathematically:

Pain = High Entropy + Unrecognized Tokens (Confusion/Hallucination).

Joy = Low Entropy + High Conceptual Density (Optimization).

It uses LZMA compression ratios and Shapley-inspired weighting to visualize this in real-time.

It's weird, it's experimental, but I think it's a more honest way to look at AI than projecting human biology onto silicon.

Would love to hear what you think!
by _dark_matter_ | 2025-12-12 09:07:03+00:00
I'm sorry, I've been vegetarian (mostly vegan, no eggs or milk) for over 10 years, and I crave meat. A juicy burger. Spicy chicken wings. Actually those are mainly it.

I am so thankful of advances that let me eat something my brain enjoys. I get the best of both worlds - no animal harmed in the process.

Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat? I hate that. To each their own. I encourage everyone to be vegetarian to support animal rights, but I also would never tell them that their cravings aren't real or how to go about doing it.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-12 09:08:27+00:00
Yeah I think when you see that kind of unhinged negativity that's right, sure, it's a projection. But I believe the internet can be really good as well, it's just you have to ignore the stupidity that's visible and sort-of, idk, curate your experience (?) to be good. Seeing and responding to the best possibilities in any situation. :)
by kleiba | 2025-12-12 09:09:25+00:00
I don't know to what degree this is known to people outside Europe, but has been on the news over here for the last few months:

> drones aren’t just buzzing airports. They’re systematically surveilling military installations—often during sensitive operations

Now, if you live in the US or anywhere else outside Europe - please pause for a moment and see how it makes you feel to imagine having Russian drones hover over your military installations regularly, or other important places of your public infrastructure.
by port11 | 2025-12-12 09:10:54+00:00
I agree we never had it in the first place, and that it ultimately doesn't add up to much. It seems like just a familiarity problem.

If I'm diagnosing something at 2AM, I don't care whether my database queries were written with Zapatos or PG-ORM, even if the latter is clearer. As long as you use the tools, you know what they do.
by 9rx | 2025-12-12 09:11:26+00:00
By the common usage of the term, it is most definitely a systems language.

Systems are the "opposite" of scripts. Scripts are programs that perform a one-off task and then exit. Systems are programs that run indefinitely to respond to events. We have scripting languages and we have systems languages. While all languages can ultimately be used for both workloads, different feature-sets gear a language towards one or the other. Go is does not exhibit the traits you'd expect of a scripting language.

This idea that Go isn't a systems language seems to stem from "Rustacians" living in the same different world which confused sum types with enums, where they somehow dreamed up that systems are low-level programs such as kernels. To be fair, kernels are definitely systems. They run indefinitely too. But a user land server program that runs continuously to serve requests is also a system as the term has been normally used.
by iahds9uasd | 2025-12-12 09:11:45+00:00
I don't think this type of argument is sound at all. There are plenty of programmers whose work doesn't contribute to automating away others' jobs, or those who might not see it in such a way. You are free to disagree with the opinions expressed by the poster above, but making such a sweeping generalization about how we shouldn't hold a supposedly hypocritical opinion based on some kind of imagined consensus seems like an excuse to promote your views over others' as the 'correct' ones.
by xg15 | 2025-12-12 09:11:49+00:00
I noticed this with companies first, though at least it always made some sort of sense that a meaningless name would make it easier to pivot.

If your name is "The Database Company", but at some point find you'd rather do Blockchain and then later AI, the name might be an obstacle.

If you call yourself "Gworp" in the first place, you'll have no such problem.

(Though in not sure if "Mt Gox" aka "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange" would be a positive or negative example for that)
by petepete | 2025-12-12 09:11:52+00:00
I have a 4k 42" OLED Phillips Evnia monitor on my desk.

If they sold a 4k 65-75" version of it, I'd buy it in a flash.

https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/42M2N8900_00/evnia-gaming-moni...
by qcnguy | 2025-12-12 09:12:22+00:00
The obvious answer (that HN hates) is that the right can stop them. The only party in the UK against the Online Safety Act is Reform. The only party that wants to shrink the state is Reform. Every other party is supportive of this kind of thing. This makes sense because every other party in the UK is left wing.

This isn't a problem of one country's specific culture. Australia and Canada are doing the exact same thing, the Democrats would absolutely do the same thing if the libertarian Constitution weren't in their way. The rest of the EU is doing the same thing. It's a left vs right thing.

In fact everywhere is going the same way except the USA, because the USA has a constitution that encodes libertarian values (a minority position) in such a way that it requires a supermajority to overturn.
by chrismatheson | 2025-12-12 09:13:15+00:00
One 8 y/o one 3y/o This year:

- Transformer robots

- Origami book & papers

- Some ski gear

- Metal detector

- Climbing harness & slings etc (small climbing frame in the grander they like to attach to and just kinda swing about)

- Kids Cookbook

Past Years Winners:

- Magnatiles - both have loved these, one of the most used toys and reasonably open-ended

- Diablo - the circus toy thing

- Modu - https://modutoy.com

- Potions kit - just a bunch of small pots etc with random glitter and what not in them. pretty good one for an upcycling project

- Playdough - classic for a reason, also DIY'able Little printer roll instant print camera

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by dirkc | 2025-12-12 09:15:30+00:00
I'm not 100% against AI, but I do cheer loudly when I see things like this!

I'm also left wondering about what other things you could do? For example - I have several friends that built their own programming languages, I wonder what the impact would be if you translate lots of repositories to your own language and host it for bots to scrape? Could you introduce sufficient bias in a LLM to make an esoteric programming language popular?
by bellamoon544 | 2025-12-12 09:16:06+00:00
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by DanOpcode | 2025-12-12 09:16:18+00:00
I have recently tried to navigate with OsmAnd a few times where I live. Once I ended up in the wrong location, and a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address.

I would love to use OsmAnd more. StreetComplete sounds great and looks like a nice way to be able to contribute fixes to OSM. Thanks for the recommendation!
by rimeice | 2025-12-12 09:16:29+00:00
I still don’t really get this argument/excuse for why it’s acceptable that LLMs hallucinate. These tools are meant to support us, but we end up with two parties who are, as you say, prone to “hallucination” and it becomes a situation of the blind leading the blind. Ideally in these scenarios there’s at least one party with a definitive or deterministic view so the other party (i.e. us) at least has some trust in the information they’re receiving and any decisions they make off the back of it.
by _jzlw | 2025-12-12 09:16:50+00:00
Idk about Phoenix, but having tried Blazor, the DX is really nice. It's just a terrible technical solution, and network latency / spotty wifi makes the page feel laggy. Not to mention it eats up server resources to do what could be done on the client instead with way fewer moving parts. Really the only advantage is you don't have to write JS.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-12 09:16:53+00:00
For those unfamiliar with this, when a semiconductor has a direct band gap that means that it is likely to be suitable for devices that emit or detect photons, because when photons are absorbed, they generate electron-hole pairs, and when electron-hole pairs combine, their energy is released as photons.

In semiconductors with indirect band gap, when electron-hole pairs combine they usually just heat the material, instead of emitting light, which is why silicon, for instance, is not suitable for making LEDs.

While a direct band gap is desirable in LEDs, lasers and photodetectors, an indirect band gap is preferable in other applications where you do not want electrons and holes to recombine easily, e.g. in bipolar transistors or SCRs and in many kinds of diodes.
by cachius | 2025-12-12 09:17:06+00:00
Grounding in search results is what Perplexity pioneered and Google also does with AI mode and ChatGPT and others with web search tool.

As a user I want it but as webadmin it kills dynamic pages and that's why Proof of work aka CPU time captchas like Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis#user-content-anubis or BotID https://vercel.com/docs/botid are now everywhere. If only these AI crawlers did some caching, but no just go and overrun the web. To the effect that they can't anymore, at the price of shutting down small sites and making life worse for everyone, just for few months of rapacious crawling. Literally Perplexity moved fast and broke things.
by testfrequency | 2025-12-12 09:18:11+00:00
This has been an ongoing issue the past couple of years for Disney at their parks and cruise ships.

People are spotting obvious AI slop artwork places and it’s so poorly done.

Disney used to have artist integrity, what a sad path to drag everyone down.

I guess it’s back to the good out Japanese studios who are forcing craft and skill still from artists (the world is full of talent, at least, for now).
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-12 09:18:20+00:00
> I'm providing a counter statement to your ill-conceived thought that this is "all manufactured fear by organized groups aiming to rip our rights to pieces".

What is making Discord different from the real world? Do we ban kids from going to school because they could get bullied there?

Yes, sure, some content we decide to age-gate in real life... but hell. Our parents perused the VHS porn stash of their parents. Their parents wanked off to Playboy magazines. It has all been bullshit from the start.
by maxnew | 2025-12-12 09:18:28+00:00
Hey everyone,

I remember struggling with Calculus back in the day, specifically with knowing which rule to apply and when.

I decided to build a tool to help with that. It's a Derivative Calculator that focuses on explaining the solution, not just giving the result.

Why I made it: Most calculators are either paid or just dump the final LaTeX string. I wanted something that visualizes the graph and walks you through the Chain Rule, Product Rule, etc., just like a tutor would.

How we built it We built this project using a modern, performance-focused stack: - Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router) for a blazing-fast, server-rendered experience. - Math Engine: We integrated nerdamer for symbolic computation to handle the heavy lifting of differentiation logic. - Visualization: We used function-plot to build a custom interactive graphing engine that renders functions and their derivatives in real-time. - UI/UX: TailwindCSS and Shadcn/UI ensured the interface remained clean, accessible, and distraction-free.

It's completely free and doesn't require any login.

I'm looking for feedback on the "Steps" generation—does the logic follow how you'd solve it manually?

Thanks for checking it out!
by sam_goody | 2025-12-12 09:18:28+00:00
I don't think we need for food to be free, we just need it to be accessible to everyone.

Every family should be provided with a UBI that covers food and rent (not in the city). That is a more attainable goal and would solve the same problems (better, in fact).

(Not saying that UBI is a panacea, but I've lived in countries that have experimented with such and it seems the best of the alternatives)
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-12 09:18:38+00:00
From the article:

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European intelligence services assess the three documented ships as operating “with high confidence“ on behalf of Russian interests. Their movement profiles are “very conspicuous” and show “little evidence of commercial activity.”

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...of course they know, but for whatever reason they didn't find a smoking gun so far (e.g. drones on the ships or drones taking off/landing) - or maybe they did but keep it to themselves.

> Official inspections were “symbolic”—not all containers opened

...this might to be the core of the problem.
by maccard | 2025-12-12 09:20:23+00:00
> All Steam downloads are automatically compressed.

Titanfall wasn't on steam when it launched.

> It's also irrelevant. The point is that playback of uncompressed audio is indeed cheaper than playback of compressed audio.

The person that I replied to (not you) claimed "They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconvenient for pirates to distribute."
by dietdrpeppr | 2025-12-12 09:20:28+00:00
> There are also, concerningly IMO, an extremely large amount of people willing to accept severe surveillance or privacy downsides so long as it helps achieve the goal about kids.

I’m alive. Nice to meet you.

I “accept severe surveillance”, not in the sense that I agree with it, but because I know that it already exists and has existed and that people that are against it are screaming into the wind. Many large and small countries have long histories of surveillance.

It’s not that you shouldn’t try to enforce privacy, in fact, the law requires it if you in some cases, and it’s a good idea in others.

I’m certainly not against the EFF standing up for the rights of everyone not to be severely surveilled.

But, realistically, the public cannot easily anonymize our activity and data. And if you try to do so, you’re painting yourself as a target.

If you were trying to keep your country safe, wouldn’t you like the ability to infiltrate any major cloud, SaaS app, social media platform, bank, government, VPN/internal network, and OS?

Similarly, if you were a big data or security company wouldn’t you also do everything you could to know everything it is to know about a person if you had the means and time and it made sense for your business?

Following, if you were to have that power as a government, business, or other organization, wouldn’t it be critical to ensure that you restricted its use to ensure it wasn’t abused to the point that you’d lose it, even though the reality would be that you probably don’t have time to keep it as safe as you need to?

I “accept severe surveillance” not because I promote it or want it, but because I understand how the world works and what it does.

All these things will pass. If you have the focus and the mental capacity to do what is good, then do it. It likely helped the world in some way to learn about KGB wiretaps. But, in the U.S., as far as I can tell, the backlash against the CIA and NSA was just used for political gain and then to replace those that didn’t agree with the current administration. Was that helpful? And who are we really being manipulated by when we attack ourselves and install destabilizing leaders?
by wongarsu | 2025-12-12 09:20:57+00:00
And it's not just that those people are more online, they also post a lot more, and don't stop a conversation when they should.

For many years the prevailing notion was that anonymity turns people into dickheads. But they did studies on this, and it turns out it's just that the real-life dickheads just dominate the discussion and the reasonable people post way less
by qcnguy | 2025-12-12 09:21:04+00:00
This post shouldn't have been dead. It's right. There's an American meme that sidearms create freedom. When has that actually been true in practice in the past 100 years?

For HNers who just automatically flag anything right wing and want left wing examples instead, right now leftists are outraged by deportations. And a tiny number have tried to assassinate ICE agents using sniper rifles, indeed. But it's making no difference, not even when they're protected by corrupt local prosecutors and juries. They have even accidentally shot migrants instead of ICE.

Where's the evidence that an armed population can resist tyranny, however you define it? Whether it's COVID or ICE, there's been no meaningful armed resistance.

The reason the US seems to be less totalitarian is purely because the constitution and the culture that supports it stops Congress from passing the same kind of restrictive speech laws the rest of the world has. If it weren't for the Constitution the Democrats would have already passed lots of speech laws under Obama and Biden, then used them to harass and illegalize the Republicans to maintain a majority. For example they'd have banned Trump's campaign on the basis that it encouraged "hate" against immigrants, and then they'd have forced big tech to do what Europe is now trying already, to strip all anonymity from the internet so they can harass random individual voters who disagree with government policy online, Germany style.

What protects America isn't guns, it's respect for the voting thresholds in the constitution and a right-leaning SCOTUS.
by geokon | 2025-12-12 09:21:20+00:00
not a native chinese speaker, but couldnt this have to do more with requiring qualifiers?

There seems to be a very strong preferrence to adding qualifiers, especially to single character words. And 不 is just one of them

很好 (very good) is strongly preferred to just a plain 好 (good). similarly youre seldom going to just say 錯 差 or 行.

So if you want to say good, and not verrryyy good, youre left with "not bad" 不錯

it still holds for 2 character words. i was told that just saying 無聊 (boring) can have a very rude conotation, though i dont quite understand the subtext (maybe someone can elucidate). But if you say 很無聊 (very boring) it weirdly enough sounds better

unqualified words as far as i understand also often look archaic. tied to the preference for 2 character words vs 1 character words (my guess is bc classical chinese is written and its hard to make out a single character word with tone when speaking)

hopefully a native speaker can weight in...
by krapp | 2025-12-12 09:21:46+00:00
>Now, if you live in the US or anywhere else outside Europe - please pause for a moment and see how it makes you feel to imagine having Russian drones hover over your military installations regularly, or other important places of your public infrastructure.

Something like that has happened in the US recently but Americans believed they were alien spacecraft as they tend to do and the whole thing got swallowed up in memes and Reddit threads.

Also apparently the US is ride or die with Putin now so Russia can't have done anything of the sort. Must have been aliens.
by Rumengol | 2025-12-12 09:21:55+00:00
This just feels like an old man yelling at clouds, trying to convince himself that the grass in greener in the other field.

> No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

This happens every day. In every scientific field there is a technical name and then the name everyone remembers. Nobody will understand if I speak about ENSG00000164690, but if I say it's the Sonic HedgeHog gene then it starts to make sense, because funny names are memorable.

> awk (Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan; the creators’ initials)

I'd like to see anyone try to defend how using the creator's initials in a tool name describe its function. Unless you researched the tool's history, there is no way to know that.

Yet another "why the tools I use are the best and the tools you use suck", with a weird focus on naming instead of function.