MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sv0 | 2025-12-02 10:49:10+00:00
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by lionkor | 2025-12-02 10:49:13+00:00
My main issue is that people assume that their AI generated slop is interesting.

You may generate whatever you want, but if I ask a question, I don't want an AI answer. If I did, I would have asked an AI.

If I look for an image, I do not want an AI image. If I did, I would have asked an AI.

If I look for information, research, papers, opinions, videos, audio, music, etc. I do not want an AI version. If I wanted that, I would have asked an AI.
by OuterVale | 2025-12-02 10:49:17+00:00
Unfortunately I can confirm his observations. They're all pretty accurate, though those that stood out to me most are:

> Young men in old cars were very aggressive, acting as if to frighten me off the road—they lowered their windows and shouted abusively, waved their arms, and hooted. I did not see this with women drivers and older men in more expensive cars.

I've had so many slurs, usually of the homophobic variety, shouted at me from cars. Some have felt the need to swerve their vehicle erratically at me.

> They tried to put me off balance by suddenly shouting, jumping out of hiding, kicking a football, throwing stones, or riding a bicycle at me; a few asked for a ride in addition to aggressive behaviour.

I've experienced plenty of teens that are aggressive and then proceed to ask for a go.

The positive experiences far outnumber the negatives overall, though.
by debarshri | 2025-12-02 10:50:06+00:00
Tech is full of ironies. 5 years ago cloudflare was held as the savior of internet. People in HN and tech in general put them on pedestal. 1.1.1.1, generous ddos protection, cdn, adn to name a few.

Fastforward to today, they being hated foe bringing down the internet, compared to failing giants.

I think it is a reminder that evil and good recides within oneself.
by arthens | 2025-12-02 10:50:37+00:00
I wonder if we are getting different versions based on geolocation (I'm in Europe) because my experience is the absolute opposite of this. I actually had the thought "maybe I should switch to apple to stop having to deal with this" just this week (although reading this thread siri is as bad).

My experience is only through android auto and it honestly makes me furious how bad it is. There is absolutely no other tech product in my life that gets even close to how bad voice commands are handled in Android.

In my experience, literally everything sucks:

- single language voice recognition (me speaking in English with an accent)

- multi language voice recognition (english commands that include localised names from the country I'm in)

- action in context (understand what I'm actually asking it to do)

- supported actions (what it can actually do)

Some practical examples from just this week:

- I had to repeat 3 times that "no I don't want to reply" because I made the mistake of getting google to read a whatsapp message while driving, and it got stuck into the "would you like to reply" (it almost always gets stuck - it's my goto example to show people how bad it is)

- I asked it to queue a very specific playlist on Spotify, and it just couldn't get it right (no matter how specific my command was, I couldn't get it to play a playlist from MY. account instead of playing an unrelated public playlist)

- I asked to add a song to a playlist, and it said it couldn't do that (at least it understood what I was asking? maybe)

And in general I gave up trying to use google maps through voice commands, because it's just not capable of understanding an English command if it contains a street/location name pronounced in the local language/accent.
by andy_ppp | 2025-12-02 10:50:40+00:00
I really want to be quite harsh, but instead I’ll try to constructively explain it; if you spend time, resources, focus and money on making your product worse like Apple are and actively not make your AI assistant better for 15 years then there’s a problem. You as Apple can obviously hire some AI R&D and software engineers to improve your options. My comments about transparent UI are the tip of a much larger iceberg.
by franciseni722 | 2025-12-02 10:50:43+00:00
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by camgunz | 2025-12-02 10:51:12+00:00
This is the kind of thing that's so impressive that if you're not an (experienced) SWE you think "man LLMs are the future, and I am making some major decisions based on this". But you look at the code, and it's essentially gluing three.js and some DB stuff together. There's no lobby, no real interaction logic, no physics apart from what you get from three.js, chatting, commands, map editing, game modes.

In other words, this is slop. We know these new models can generate slop images, text, videos, and code. Sometimes slop can be useful; maybe you can shape it into something useful, maybe you can slop a slopper. But we're learning it's not economical--this is some of the costliest slop we've ever made.
Show HN: Quash – A mobile-use agent for Android QA
by pr_khar | 2025-12-02 10:51:22+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Quash, a mobile-first QA tool where you can write test flows in plain English and have an agent execute them on real Android devices.

We’ve finally shipped a downloadable desktop app (macOS, Intel + Apple Silicon), and you can try it now. No managed “demo” environment – it runs tests against your own apps and devices. (Can connect any device locally as well)
by NoahZuniga | 2025-12-02 10:51:27+00:00
This article seems to imply that when works enter into the public domain depend on where they were published. This is not true! It's based on where you are and when it was published.I E, if you're in the USA and some work published in a death+50 year country is in the public domain in said country, it would still be illegal to distribute in the US.

Similarly, some works that are published in the US but are not in the public domain there could be perfectly legal to publish in a death+50 year country.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-02 10:51:35+00:00
I didn't mean Bhutan in general. I was referring to Bhutan's new city project. It seems similar to new cities elsewhere, maybe even Auroville (or whatever it is called). Singapore is great in some ways, not so much in others. (It is arguable how democratic Singapore is, since its parliament has a lot of hereditary politicians in it, like Thailand or Greece.)

Bhutan has sold itself as a Shangri La for decades. Whether it is, is another problem. It seems all over the world the peasants are being herded into urban panopticons.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-12-02 10:52:12+00:00
Did Microsoft just completely give up on QA in the name of accelerated slop delivery? They are in the news once a month for a serious windows bug. My disdain for windows id getting immense, at this point I'd rather have a linux computer, if I can't have a macbook. (But don't get me started on OSX & iOS, which are also total messes)
by kuschku | 2025-12-02 10:52:21+00:00
If that was the case, that'd be great. I don't necessarily care how something was achieved, as long as the software engineering and architecture was properly done, requirements were properly considered, edge cases documented, tests written, and bugs reported upstream.

But it's not the case. Of course, I could be wrong – maybe it's not AI, maybe it's just actual incompetence instead.

That said, humans usually don't approach tasks the way LLMs do. Humans generally build a mental model that they refine over time, which means that each change, each bit of code written, closely resembles other code written at the same time, but often bears little resemblance to code nearby. This is also why humans need refactoring – our mental model has changed, and we need to adjust the old code to match the new model.

Whereas LLMs are influenced most by the most recent tokens, which means that any change is affected by the code surrounding it much more than by other code written at the same time. That's also why, when something is wrong, LLMs struggle with fixing it (as even just reading the broken code distorts the probabilities, making it more likely to make the same mistake again), which is why it's typically best to recreate a piece of code from scratch instead.
by arvida | 2025-12-02 10:53:24+00:00
Building https://localhero.ai, automated on-brand i18n translations that run in your CI pipeline.

Right now I'm working on better .po/gettext support, based on feedback from an early customer. With gettext you usually keeps source strings in the actual source code. So I'm building a workflow where non-technical people (PMs, designers) can edit translations in the web UI and then easily generate a PR with both code changes and translation file updates. Trying to make translations work smooth for both automated CI pipelines and PMs/designers who don't live in Git, when translations are checked into the repo. Also going through my network, talking to devs and localization folks to understand what could be improved in their orgs for translations.
by devnonymous | 2025-12-02 10:53:32+00:00
Buddhism in India grew in opposition to the Hindu caste system instead of spiritual change of thought. The current Indian government is loudly Hindu nationalist and prefers to minimise or even dismiss the diversity of Indian religious practices as well as pretend that the caste system is no longer present.

They and their supporters downplay Buddhist followers by pretending that the lived experiences of these Buddhist (on in general the non-hindu) don't exist.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-02 10:54:45+00:00
I'm happy because there is a misunderstanding of my words here. I am not saying that the ethos of the artist should be "taste is random". In fact the act of being an artist is to embrace biases.

I agree with the Kant interpretation of aesthetics as a "teleologic" thing : there is no objective "beauty" yet we perpetually fail to embrace this and instead, when we find something "beautiful" we consider this judgement as if it was universal, absolute and objective (when it is not).

On the other hand, to complete this, I agree with Wittgenstein when he says that "you cannot SAY anything about aesthetics/ethics".

These two ideas aren't forming any paradox.

> Create for the people right now.

I would prefer :

Set your own dogma or not, but do what you feel you want to do, be it creating for others, for yourself (you abominable narcissus), for your cat, for the banana you just eaten, or for whatever supreme being you chose to believe in.

Choose your audience, let an audience choose you, or choose to be alone, whatever fits for you.
Show HN: Doomscrolling Research Papers
by davailan | 2025-12-02 10:55:09+00:00
Hi HN,

Would love your thoughts on Open Paper Digest. It’s a mobile feed that let’s you “doomscroll” through summaries of popular papers that were published recently.

Backstory There’s a combination of factors lead me to build this:

1. Quality of content social media apps has decreased, but I still notice that it is harder than ever for me to stay away from these apps. 2. I’ve been saying for a while now that I should start reading papers to keep up with what’s going on in AI-world.

Initially, I set out to build something solely for point 2. This version was more search-focussed, and focussed on simplifying the whole text of a paper, not summarizing. Still, I wasn’t using it. After yet another 30 min doomscroll on a bus last month, point 1 came into the picture and I changed how Open Paper Digest worked. That’s what you can see today!

How it works It is checking Huggingface Trending Papers and the large research labs daily to find papers to add to the index. The PDFs gets converted to markdown using Mistral OCR, this is then given to Gemini 2.5 to create a 5 minute summary.

I notice that I am now going to the site daily, so that’s a good sign. I’m curious what you all think, and what feedback you might have.

Cheers, Arthur
by tim333 | 2025-12-02 10:55:55+00:00
An issue with betting against the AGI hype is he's basing it on

>The AGI-from-LLMs thesis fails...

but what is you get a better algorithm? Hinton's neural network work was in the 1980s, transformers are from 2017 but none of it worked that well then because the hardware wasn't that good. Now we have loads of fast hardware and thousands of bright people working in AI and things seem ripe for algorithm improvements. I'm pretty sure it's possible because the brain works so much more efficiently than the LLMs.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-02 10:56:36+00:00
No particular order:

Max Richter, John Cage, Tangerine Dreams, Klaus Schulze, Gavin Bryars, Richard Chartier, Asmus Tietchens, Tomaga, Boards of Canada, Stars of the Lid, William Basiniki, Joanna Brouk, Pauline Oliveros ...

I do way too much coding...
by styanax | 2025-12-02 10:56:44+00:00
Hi Arathorn, I recognize your name as the core developer lead. :) Alas, when I was trying to cull my old messages I tried that (and a lot of other API type hacks I found floating around) and none of them, at that time, worked.

In short: the complete lack of user-facing easy to use controls for data retention and culling in the Matrix (Element) clients is a deal killer for me. That painful experience taught me a lesson - now when I test something new, one of the first things I look for is "how do I extract from this thing?". I never want to go through my Matrix extraction pain again, so a personal life lesson was learned.
by altairprime | 2025-12-02 10:57:00+00:00
If you think of it as a homeowner debt subsidy, that forces a higher percentage of the country into recurring-revenue rentals, that provides an adverse incentive against correcting home prices for income. Right now the consumer debt that’s substituting for wage increases hinges on the middle class being able to access lines of credit; one very popular LOC is home mortgages. If home values are allowed to fall to the level predicted by median wages, that could trigger a massive wave of defaults and bankruptcies as existing loans go underwater, homeowners have their lines of credit shorn, and then start missing mortgage payments and file for bankruptcy. U.S. mortgage loans for 1-4 bedroom properties are currently $14.5 trillion USD; for comparison, U.S. GDP is around $31 trillion USD. So if 10% of homeowners default or discharge their mortgage debts due to home prices collapsing to realistic levels, U.S. GDP drops 5% that year (not accounting for the loss of interest the banks would’ve recorded to GDP as production output for up to decades). Median household wages for homeowners is $86k, well below the $120-140k threshold recently discussed, supporting the government estimates that 30% of homeowners have difficulty making payments on their homes. So, if those 30% went bankrupt over a home prices crash, there’s a plausible threat of a 15% collapse in GDP (compared to Covid, which was around 10%).

Relative to that, I don’t think economic policy is likely to prioritize new home ownership, not when a catastrophic reversal of years of GDP gain is a material risk. It would be a different story in a first world country, I expect, but here trying to reset home prices would just result in a massive rent costs spike (the U.S. free market tends not to build median-wages housing if it can avoid it) and a notable fraction of those households becoming homeless, while they watch as other families benefit from the price correction’s devastation by buying up their home at auction. The best that policy can do with the restrictions the U.S. government places on itself is to issue federal funding to regional governments to build median-price housing — and since much of that funding would go to regions explicitly hostile to current U.S. leadership, that is extremely unlikely to be passed by Congress.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-02 10:57:16+00:00
The 15 minute city is sold as a place with amenities within easy. The reality will end up being forced to live within a small area in some kind of gated community with a curfew.

Besides which, where are these amenities nowadays? Small businesses were decimated by discriminatory lockdown enforcement. Physical libraries and community centres are being shut. As are bars and cafes. If there was a real 15 minute city, it's in the past. The internet is no substitute for in person interaction.
by tags2k | 2025-12-02 10:57:49+00:00
One way I've found is to break the problem down, and think about each step in reverse. So for example, what does the final stage want to do in order to achieve the result in a simple way? It might be that to get the final result it needs to sum numbers, but also needs to know their matching index in another array, plus some other identifier you got from an as-yet-unwritten previous step. This means your final stage needs a bunch of records that are (number, idx, sourceId), which means the step before needs to construct them - what information does it need to transform into that?

Write the simple code you want to write, and think about what makes the prior step possible in the easiest way and build your structures from there, filling in the gaps.
by ptsneves | 2025-12-02 10:58:04+00:00
Not American and I also agree that the current big techs should be broken up by force of the state, there is a very big difference between a company becoming monopolistic due to market forces, and a company becoming monopolistic due to state strategy, intervention, backing.

Things can be bad in a spectrum and I believe it is much easier for society/state to break up a capitalistic monopoly than a state backed monopoly. To illustrate, the state has sued some of those companies and they were seriously threatened, because of competition ills. That is not the case with a state company.
by rramadass | 2025-12-02 10:58:21+00:00
From Google;

"Silly goose" is a lighthearted, informal expression used to describe someone who is acting foolish, silly, or has made a silly mistake. It is a playful term that is not meant to be offensive and is often used affectionately. The phrase can also refer to a "silly person" or "simpleton" in an informal context.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-12-02 10:58:25+00:00
> Twice is democracy speaking.

Those of us who live in countries that banned gerrymander decades ago, made discriminating against voters a crime, and use something other that first past the post have a quibble about you calling the USA a beacon of democracy. One citizen, one vote, one value has never been a priority there.

Having a high percentage of participating voters invariably drags the outcome towards the centre. It's almost certain if the USA had of bothered to get their democratic institutions in order sometime in the past 2.5 centuries Trump would not have won. But as the citizens of the USA demand they have the freedom to not participate in their democracy, it's unlikely it will be fixed any time soon.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-02 10:58:26+00:00
> I could write a blog of interesting Pod behavior. I thought having one or a pair in each room would be nice. No, more of them is not nice. Constant bizarreness.

Oh my fucking god, thank you. I have one in my kitchen and one in the living room, and every few weeks they decide it would be the bees knees to have a 3AM conversation with one another.
by mopsi | 2025-12-02 10:58:57+00:00
The idea of an invasion of Russia from Europe is utter nonsense and completely detached from reality. Tell it to Russian military experts and you will get sighs and eyerolls in response. Not even Russian military exercises like Zapad simulate such a scenario. On the ground, the border remains completely open - you can walk straight into Russia (and lost mushroomers often do so by accident) because there isn't even a chainlink fence or a cleared sand strip marking the border.

Contrast that with the European countries that actually fear an invasion: they are preparing bridges for demolition, scouting suitable areas for minefields, digging anti-tank ditches, installing reinforced pillboxes and bunkers. Last week, Latvian media reported that the government is even considering tearing up railways near the Russian border to slow the invading force.

The scenarios the Russians are preparing for include, for example, mass unrest in Belarus that would lead to Russia invading the country to keep its dictator in place, like they did in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and in Hungary in 1956. In 2020, this almost happened in Belarus over fraudulent elections and mass protests that were ultimately suppressed without requiring a "brotherly military intervention" by Russia.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-02 11:01:00+00:00
If you trust your employees so little, why even bother employing them in the first place though? And for what it's worth, I'm equally capable of slacking both in-office and at home and I'm definitely not alone in that one, it's just that the slacking is more often in the form of socializing, eating snacks, taking toilet and smoke breaks etc.

We have a choice thankfully, so no one really slacks in person or remotely because surprise surprise, when you treat your employees like human beings and not cogs in the machine they're actually motivated to do good work, who'd'a thunk it?
by gwd | 2025-12-02 11:01:16+00:00
> IP law was originally to protect artist and authors from the wealthy, but now it seems to have the opposite intent.

I like Cory Doctorow's analogy: Artists are, to a large degree, at the mercy of big companies (publishers, music labels, etc), who have the leverage to force artists to sign over all of their rights. Giving artists more rights is like giving your kid more lunch money when it's being stolen by a bully: no matter how much money you give your kid in that situation it's not going to give him any lunch.
by metalman | 2025-12-02 11:01:57+00:00
I prefer a tool bag or box, with the razor sharp stuff in leather sheaths, and a leather tool belt and/or pouch that can be equiped for specifc jobs.Specialists who know exactly what they will need, may have an on body kit which has evolved to the point that they reach for stuff without looking, but then, there are always contingencies for which the only answer is a creative solution.The rest is just play, we all do it, have fun is the main thing.