MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exasperaited | 2025-12-13 10:56:34+00:00
Well it is that but I think it is also that it is, at some informational level, fundamentally incoherent and unreal. It looks fine, but it is not anything. It has no intent in the art strokes (which I think always shows in geometry), it has no reality in the lighting of a photo.

It may be, I concede, that I see more AI-generated photos than other art types (AI generated photo fraud is a serious issue in a corner of the web I frequent) but I tend to find that I literally can't remember what they look like long after I see them.

Same exercise, focussing on faces specifically:

- try to visualise Taylor Swift's face. Or that of Rachel Weisz or Ming-Na Wen, or Sarah Silverman, or Alfre Woodard.

- now try to visualise the face of Tilly Norwood.

Obviously if you don't know who any of these people are, you can't do this exercise (which is why I included Taylor Swift). And if you don't know what Tilly Norwood is, you can't do this exercise.

But if you've seen a lot of content about Tilly Norwood, can you visualise the face in the same way? Is it memorable? It is not.

It is my contention that these images actually have something very undefinable missing, that my brain needs to find them worth memorising. I have seen many "AI models" now and I can't remember any of "their" faces.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-12-13 10:58:31+00:00
> programmer time spent dogfooding the new audio format can be used towards something else that improves the value of the end product

Like exploring the 'widely accepted industry practices' and writing code to duplicate the assets, then writing the code to actually measure what it did what the 'industry practices' advertised and then ripping this out, right?

And please note what you missed the 'if it really bothers you'.
by jmpman | 2025-12-13 10:58:33+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Integrity_Field

This, along with RAID-1, is probably sufficient to catch the majority of errors. But realize that these are just probabilities - if the failure can happen on the first drive, it can also happen on the second. A merkle tree is commonly used to also protect against these scenarios.

Notice that using something like RAID-5 can result in data corruption migrating throughout the stripe when using certain write algorithms
by exasperaited | 2025-12-13 10:59:12+00:00
They relatively recently essentially doubled in price in Lidl in the UK.

Some sort of confluence of Brexit and cocoa prices must have fundamentally broken Lidl's ability to purchase Ritter Sport in huge bulk and discount it.

I managed to use it as a brief entreaty to the chocolate cortex of my will-power-less brain that I should maybe not buy it again because it's now too expensive.

But now I've mentioned it...
by cipherself | 2025-12-13 11:00:51+00:00
I have used systemd services before to do this to run an application, I had a user created specifically for the application, and I defined the capabilities the application needed via CapabilityBoundingSet and AmbientCapabilities [0] and I used a lot of stuff from [1] to restrict the application e.g. the sandboxing facilities, restricting the allowed syscalls [2], ...etc. systemd also comes with a useful command systemd analyze security [3]

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

[3] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
by vasac | 2025-12-13 11:01:04+00:00
A similar thing happened to me - I lent a phone to my mother-in-law and created an account for her. She returned the phone once her own phone was fixed.

A few years passed, and a couple of weeks ago my phone broke, so I wanted to use that one until I bought a new one. It turned out that Apple had permanently deactivated the iCloud account on that phone. I could make calls, but I couldn’t install or update any apps, even though I still controlled the email address that was used to create the Apple account. Not that 5S is very useful these days but still.
by emilss | 2025-12-13 11:01:13+00:00
So you know how you don't want to sit and watch over every command of claude but you also don't want to come back to a post-nuke of `rm -rf ~/`? The solution is simple - sandboxing.

I present you my latest SaaS (Script-as-a-Service) product - safe-claude.com

Works on linux&mac.

Source - https://github.com/sssemil/safe-claude "Announce" - https://x.com/esnx_xyz/status/1999745050532807028
by xorcist | 2025-12-13 11:01:29+00:00
It's always entertaining to hear such absurditites presented with a straight face. An alien studying our race would struggle to understand who would even care about this.

The obvious solution is, of course, to just allow people to pass on other's land. Maybe with some provisionings so ensure it isn't abused. You can already beathe the air legally, why not walk the ground legally?

Land "ownership" isn't really ownership in the physical sense anyway. You are allowed a certain set of rights, but you can't even mine your ground without permission, or dump toxic waste, or forbid planes to pass over. You could easily just decide to let people over on foot, too. It wouldn't take anything away from land rights.
by rendall | 2025-12-13 11:02:35+00:00
> When [Sacks] woke up in the middle of the night with an erection, he would cool his penis by putting it in orange jello.

This is a remarkable sentence, and it appears suddenly in the article without context or explanation.

Naturally, there are questions. Was it necessarily orange jello? Does orange refer to the flavor or the color? What property of this particular jello made it preferable to other flavors and colors of jello? Did he prepare the jello for this particular purpose, or did he have other uses for the orange jello? What were they? Did he reuse jello or discard it after one use? Most important though: why would he do this??

The article does not say.
by maccard | 2025-12-13 11:02:49+00:00
> what’s the rationale

Their mega high risk - high value gift cards are effective for laundering stolen/fraudulent credit cards. Buy a $500 gift card with a stolen CC and sell it on FB marketplace for $400 - you’re up $400, the buyer saves $100, Apple get paid by the retailer and the CC company are (likely) on the hook.

Of course the actual solution here is _don’t sell high value gift cards_, or require the Apple ID email at time of purchase/activation of the card
by wiether | 2025-12-13 11:03:00+00:00
Exactly!

I have to have a kettle for other purpose (including heating water for other mugs than mine), and no self-heating mug is going to be as efficient as a kettle to heat water.

Furthermore, I also put cold or room temperature liquids in my mug. With a self-heating one, I would be carrying the heating parts for absolutely no reason.

Same goes for a TV. By keeping things separated, I can decide what I do which each device and manage their lifecycle separately. If the device reading video files is included in the TV, I can't plug it to another TV or a projector or even take it with me to use it elsewhere. While I've upgraded three times my video playing device to follow tech evolution, I've kept the same TV to plug them in.
by wink | 2025-12-13 11:04:38+00:00
That's so much not a fitting comparison.

The most money I have ever had on my PayPal account was 100 bucks from a reversed transaction (like, double booking of a hotel room or wrong item sent), otherwise it's just a gateway. It would be annoying if my PayPal account was locked, because I use it a lot to order pizza online and a few small purchases. I could just use my credit card or something else but it's more clicks. And I know a lot of people who do it like this. The only thing lost is convenience. No past purchases, no digital identities.

Maybe you meant the merchants who really amass thousands but I suppose they are a small minority of active users.
by rain1 | 2025-12-13 11:04:48+00:00
I've used Google Antigravity to write scripts to download and produce architecture diagrams for various LLMs from huggingface. It's pretty useful so I thought I'd share it.

There's also a model comparison spreadsheet that you can compare sizes and such https://weavers.neocities.org/architecture-encyclopedia/mode...

If you'd like any additional models to be added I can add them in.
by literalAardvark | 2025-12-13 11:05:23+00:00
That paper unequivocally states in the beginning that the authors aren't trying to contradict that food processing affects health outcomes, they're just dissatisfied with the low quality of the classification system.

So there's no debate that ultra processed foods affect health, there's only debate on whether the category itself is good enough. And if you go deeper into the subject, it becomes pretty obvious that the Nova system is a pretty bad model. But it's a simple model that can be easily communicated to Doomscroll Sally. The better models we have haven't caught on anywhere near as well.

"The participants in this debate agree that food processing vitally affects human health, and that the extent of food processing significantly affects diet quality and health outcomes. They disagree on the significance of ultra-processing, as defined within the Nova food classification system."
by quietbritishjim | 2025-12-13 11:06:42+00:00
That is still true and still irrelevant here. The comment we're talking about was not written by a bot with a disclaimer at the start. They just asked about its output. They didn't even quote its output - they paraphrased it and added their own commentary!

I know HN rules prohibit saying "did you even read it?" but you surely can't have read the comment to have come to this view, or at least significantly misread it. Have another look.

Most of all, HN guidelines are about encouraging thoughtful discussion. sundarurfriend's comment asked a genuinely interesting question and inspired interesting discussion. This subthread of "but AI!" did not.
by krapp | 2025-12-13 11:07:49+00:00
Every frame of everything Miyazaki has ever done and every other movie, tv show, anime, screenplay, book and work of art by every artist everywhere have already been assimilated. Ghibli slop memes are already old hat.

I'm not claiming it's a good thing by any means but there's no point in worrying about it, the paperclip maximizer has done its work.
by jmpman | 2025-12-13 11:07:51+00:00
The paranoid would also follow the write with a read command, setting the SCSI FUA (forced unit access) bit, requiring the disk to read from the physical media, and confirming the data is really written to that rotating rust. Trying to do similar in SATA or with NVMe drives might be more complicated, or maybe impossible. That’s the method to ensure your data is actually written to viable media and can be subsequently read.
by jeroenhd | 2025-12-13 11:08:38+00:00
There's a lineageos template for Android TV. I don't think grapheneos will ever run on something like that (it doesn't even run on phones with ten times the security capabilities of TV SoCs) but alternative ROMs are available. There's also KDE Plasma if you want to go the non-Android route, though you'll struggle to find good support for that.

One problem with that approach is that you'll lose access to DRM'd contents, so while the official Netflix/HBO/Prime apps will install on lineageos, their video quality will be terrible or they will refuse to work.

There are a bunch of Google TV variants (brands like TCL and Philips) that will let you turn on "basic TV mode" (https://support.google.com/googletv/answer/10408998?hl=en), disabling pretty much everything other than displaying content.

As for why the Chinese TVs don't have a dumb mode, I think it's because the Chinese market is full of devices crammed to the brim with smart features, so smart TVs are sort of expected these days.
by shelled | 2025-12-13 11:09:49+00:00
I am in a situation right now where Amazon delivered a fake product. Support suggested they can also try redelivery, and when I asked what if it happens again, they said it should not happen.

It happened - fake again. Now the customer support flow is: you upload images of the product (max. three), and the system approves the verification or rejects it, and then you have a way to contact customer care. System rejected. The trick is - they do not know why the rejection happened, they are not able to tell me, they are confirming the images are very clear and crisp, but they can't do anything to help me because the system leaves them with zero options to move forward - in fact, there is no further escalation matrix either. Nada!

The bank (credit card issuer) refused to raise the chargeback because "but the merchant 'delivered' the item". But it was fake, so? No, no, it "delivered" - that is what counts, so you have to sort it out with the merchant. But they are refusing any further help. You have to sort it out with them. And so on... in a loop.

Can I take them to court? Sure. It may take weeks, months, and maybe years, and even then, in the end (if I win), the court may just instruct them to refund and possibly (possibly!) compensate a trivial amount for legal expenses, which is never even remotely close to the actual legal expenses in this country's courts.

Just stonewalled. It almost feels Kafkaesque.
by sn | 2025-12-13 11:11:05+00:00
Yes, the price is higher, maybe partially because it's not ad-subsidized. I was happy to pay it, this is what I bought: https://www.sharp.eu/sharp-nec-multisync-e868

There's historical speculation that a smart TV could connect to an open wireless access point, or more realistically, that it refuses to operate without internet access, perhaps after a certain number of power on hours.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-12-13 11:11:42+00:00
Dell offers a 43" display with speakers and DP, HDMI, and USB. It costs three times as much as a TV, but it is highly-rated kit if you can afford it.

I would rather have a quality large display with speakers and DP than a TV. The only argument in favour of buying a large TV for coding is cost.
by breve | 2025-12-13 11:11:46+00:00
There's no dancing around any issue. North America is the third largest EV market. Tesla's sales are down everywhere, even in a market it leads in.

Tesla used to claim it would sell 20 million vehicles per year:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Now Tesla's much revised goal is to have sold 20 million in total by 2035:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-...

China and Europe are the two biggest EV markets. Those EV markets are growing but Tesla's sales have declined there too:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Q...

Tesla carries a large amount of needless, self-inflicted brand damage. Swasticars don't sell well.

Toyota, meanwhile, has been setting sales records this year:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota...
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-13 11:12:53+00:00
Okay. Let's say we find out tomorrow that Spirited Away was animated via generative AI. Unbeknownst to everyone, Ghibli has a top-secret AI division which—thanks to some key lucky breakthroughs—is many decades ahead of everyone else and has been for a long time. The animators are a front to hide the truth; Miyazaki's anti-AI declarations were pure jealousy.

Would Spirited Away no longer be a good film?
by rjknight | 2025-12-13 11:13:24+00:00
I wonder if it would be possible to have gone directly to Zed, without going through Atom first (likewise, Plan 9 would never have been the first iteration of a Unix-like OS). "Rewrite it in Rust" makes a lot of sense if you have a working system that you want to rewrite, but maybe there's a reason that "rewrite it in Rust" is a meme and "write it in Rust" isn't. If you just want to move fast, put things up on the screen for people to interact with, and figure out how you want your system to work, dynamic languages with bytecode VMs and GC will get you there faster and will enable more people to contribute. Once the idea has matured, you can replace the inefficient implementation with one that is 10% of the size and 10x the speed. Adding lots of features and then pruning out the ones that turn out to be useless may also be easier than guessing the exact right feature set a priori.
by Mawr | 2025-12-13 11:15:32+00:00
> Now those prices for intermittent wind exclude the cost of providing backup power with gas

Yes, let's just handwave those concerns away, it's not like the grid needs power 100% of the time or anything. Two weeks without wind? No problem, just burn gas :) It's so cheap, independent of foreign supply, doesn't leak out of pipes and isn't a huge environmental hazard at all.
by ang_cire | 2025-12-13 11:17:47+00:00
> You can't really own a gun and practice castle doctrine. Your landlord has a key to your home and can lock you out at any time, or can go through your mail.

None of this is true in the US.

Castle doctrine applies to your domicile, and is not based on property ownership. If you have a lease, it is your home as far as CD is concerned. WRT gun restriction rules for rental properties, they vary by state, but in states where they can be prohibited, it would require a clause in the lease for a landlord to prohibit a tenant from having them (and these are nearly unheard of in practice because of enforceability issues). And that still would not affect their legality in a defensive shooting.

Landlords usually require written notice to enter the premises, in advance, and cannot "lock you out at any time" without going through an eviction process if you have a lease.

Landlords opening your mail is a federal crime. Mail can only be opened by the named recipient, it's not based on who owns the address of a building it's delivered to.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-12-13 11:17:53+00:00
Strange story and it seems like in most developed countries a grant of land in this way would necessarily be accompanied by a public right of way over the corners (and indeed without knowing too much about the case it seems like this is effectively what the court imposed).

Even the fact that the ranch manager got worked up about their having passed over what must have been two feet of private property at the very edge of the ranch leads me to believe that the ranch owner was effectively treating the public square as an extension of his land and recruiting the local authorities to act as his enforcers. All very Yellowstone-y.
by jmpman | 2025-12-13 11:18:21+00:00
My son was just scammed out of $1000 using some gift card scam. Typically these gift cards cannot be revoked once issued and anyone using the gift cards (like the people who scammed my son) would be able to reap the rewards without any consequences. I’m hopeful that Apple has found a way to track fraudulent Apple Gift cards and are now locking people’s Apple ID who use them. I suspect there’s more to the story than is being shared. What’s the provenance of the original gift card? Could it have been obtained through some not 100% above board means?
by userbinator | 2025-12-13 11:18:57+00:00
A CH341A-based programmer with the accessories ("chip clip" cables and adapters) is available on AE for cheap (~$10) and will work to read/write the main BIOS.

If you need to recover the EC, then I believe anything that can work as a generic JTAG device, like an FX2LP dongle (~$5 or less, and useful for other things like a logic analyser) will also be needed.
by reify | 2025-12-13 11:19:24+00:00
you must be prompting it wrong, LOL!

so ai cannot do regular expressions?

even my 13 year old great nephew can do this without ai.

sed -e :n -e '$!N;/\n.*\n/!{$!bn }; s/some text,\n* *something else\n* *another thing/this is completely\ different text/;P;D' <infile perl -i -p0e 's/Some.*?thing\n/`cat new`/se' input.txt

proper good that ai.

The most annoying thing about gemini is that when I search for information on gemini.dev protocol, all I get is fucking poxy google ai shit.
by padjo | 2025-12-13 11:19:40+00:00
“The NO position argues that the concept of UPF is poorly defined; gives rise to misclassification of foods; is without clear mechanisms of action; and that the observed associations with obesity are likely confounded.“

Is my point. There’s a lot of correlation but whole classification system is poorly designed and mechanisms are not really explained. The whole idea of labelling foods as ultra processed as a proxy for bad seems poorly conceived. If I was to go further I’d say it has a whiff of naturalistic fallacy about it.
by RossBencina | 2025-12-13 11:19:59+00:00
Yes that's what I'm thinking. Essentially a stateful function definition defines both a function, and a struct containing the state. I think there needs to be two ways of invoking a stateful function f: (1) if you invoke f within another stateful function g, each call site in g that calls f automatically gets a distinct state instance that becomes part of g's state, on the other hand, (2) if you want to invoke f in a regular (non-stateful) function, you need to manually manage the state and explicitly pass it in. That would be one purpose of the statetype(f) operator: to allow you to explicitly declare a state instance. Manual state management would also be used when you want to invoke f with the same state multiple times (e.g. from within a loop).
by davvid | 2025-12-13 11:20:55+00:00
> We did not want to spend time maintaining a backward compatible parser or doing code archaeology. So this option was discarded.

Considering all of the effort and hoop-jumping involved in the route that was chosen, perhaps this decision might be worth revisiting.

In hindsight, maintaining a parser might be easier and more maintainable when compared to the current problems that were overcome and the future problems that will arise if/when the systemd libraries decide to change their C API interfaces.

One benefit of a freestanding parser is that it could be made into a reusable library that others can use and help maintain.
by rikroots | 2025-12-13 11:21:26+00:00
It's sub-optimal in that browser developers have - for a number of legitimate reasons - chosen not to spend their time building SVG engines into their browsers that are efficient, robust and fast. I think its more a story of benign neglect rather than active discouragement. Compared to the Javascript and CSS engines, which have improved massively over the past decade, SVG remains ... serviceable for basic requirements (simpler stuff - static graphics, icons, etc), but nothing more. If that makes sense?
MicroMint – invest small amounts together with friends
by MicroMint | 2025-12-13 11:21:42+00:00
Hi HN

I’m building MicroMint — a platform that lets friends invest together using small, shared contributions.

I kept seeing people want to invest but feel blocked by: • minimums • complexity • doing it alone

MicroMint is about starting small, together.

It’s early and currently in private beta. I’d love feedback from anyone who’s built fintech products, invested with friends, or has thoughts on what would make this useful (or not).

Landing page: https://micromint.crowdstake.app/

Happy to answer questions.
by areyousure | 2025-12-13 11:24:03+00:00
I have wanted one general application of this idea in a spreadsheet. Specifically, I track some of my running, including speed (pace), distance, and time. Under different circumstances, I have exactly two of the three available and I want the third to be computed, but it varies which. I have found it fairly difficult to implement this kind of data entry in Google Spreadsheets and Excel, even know conceptually it's a very simple constraint "a*b=c" where I know some two variables.

As a more substantive comment: You may find the thesis "Propagation networks : a flexible and expressive substrate for computation" by Alexey Radul interesting. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/54635