MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelly99 | 2025-12-01 13:13:15+00:00
I’m a solo indie dev who has been building small AI-video tools for the past year. This week, I shipped… probably my strangest project so far: a Sora 3 site — even though Sora 3 doesn’t exist yet. Project: sora3ai.io To be clear: I don’t have access to Sora 3. No one does. It hasn’t launched. All I did was build the interface, the workflows, and the “shell” around what I think people will want once it comes out. It’s basically a speculative product — like building a case before the phone is released. Why did I do this? A few reasons, none of which I feel fully confident about: 1. The ecosystem is moving faster than the models themselves. Users already search for “sora 3 generator”, so wrappers appear before the actual API. 2. Indie developers don’t get access early, so building in advance feels like the only way to stay alive. Otherwise, by the time APIs open, the big players have already taken the top 10 Google spots. 3. I’m trying to figure out whether “being early” actually matters — or whether this is all pointless. My Sora 2 site got traffic but weak conversion. My storyboard generator had interest but little retention. Being early didn’t lead to product-market fit. 4. Is this ethical? Is it stupid? Or is it just how the AI ecosystem works now? I genuinely don’t know. Some questions I’d love to hear thoughts on: * Is it reasonable to build tools for models that aren’t released yet? * Does this create user confusion, or is it harmless speculation? * As a solo dev, is “being the first wrapper” actually a viable strategy? * Or is this whole AI-tools race destined to be a zero-margin commodity market? I’m not trying to promote the site — it barely does anything yet. I’m more interested in whether this kind of “pre-emptive product building” is smart, predatory, or just inevitable. Curious how people here think about this trend. Happy to share data, mistakes, or the weird SEO patterns I’ve been seeing. — A slightly confused solo founder trying to keep up with a model that hasn’t shipped
by simianwords | 2025-12-01 13:13:15+00:00
https://x.com/sama/status/1946569252296929727

>we achieved gold medal level performance on the 2025 IMO competition with a general-purpose reasoning system! to emphasize, this is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence.

asterisks mine
by woliveirajr | 2025-12-01 13:13:33+00:00
When you go through a problem and have to solve it, you learn to see patterns (of mistakes) and develop a sense for similar problems. Outsourcing the thinking will speed you up for known problems but won't develop your thinking ability.

The gap between those who can solve new problems (and so earn money with it) and those who can't will only increase, with all the social consequences of it. Idiocracy[0] becomes more and more a documentary.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
by Balinares | 2025-12-01 13:13:59+00:00
No one is "forcing" anything on you, and I'm finding this argument increasingly disingenuous. If you prefer the current versions then you're entirely free to keep them.

But you do not get to demand that future versions are only ever implemented your way. If that's what you want, fork the project or pay someone to do it for you. Acting entitled about the work of volunteers who are sharing it with you for free is not a good look.
by lawn | 2025-12-01 13:15:24+00:00
> I don’t fucking care about Nazi Germany, I see facism from both ends of the US political spectrum honestly.

It's not about fascism in particular, but the behavior that enables it and other discriminatory control systems.

> “do what I say the way I tell you to do it or else you're a nazi sympathiser at best” is a super compelling argument by the way.

That's not the argument, which you may have realized if you weren't so upset.
by account42 | 2025-12-01 13:15:49+00:00
I would go even further than a full refund - that doesn't really make the user whole who will now to have invest time into finding and learning an alternative product.

And even with the ability of rolling back somewhere hidden in the settings, forced UI changes are annoying at best - they should always come at a time chosen by the user (including "never") and not any other time.
by mso3i | 2025-12-01 13:15:52+00:00
"Critical thinking" is highly over rated. People are just doing what they have been trained to do by someone else, or copying what they see others doing. That's all that is required really.

Its easy to prove - take some one who is quite full of themselves and their critical thinking skills, and put them in a situation they haven't been trained to handle and watch what happens. It doesn't matter who they are.

Humanity survives not because of its critical thinking skills or their ability to solve quantum field equations, but because there are enough surplus people to take a hit when the whole system is thrown into situations where critical thinking does jack.
by carlosjobim | 2025-12-01 13:15:56+00:00
There are a lot of things in this world besides YouTube Premium, which cost $14 or more. That some people in the world are very poor is no kind of argument as to how companies should price their products.

"Purchasing power parity" is a non-concept for almost 100% of companies and products. But YouTube Premium is priced differently in different regions. Sometimes much cheaper than $14.
by JetSetWilly | 2025-12-01 13:16:35+00:00
I'm sure you'll also find that lawyers make statements in favour of hopelessly guilty murderers. That's what they are paid to do. Your "freedom of expression" does not include hitting people with sledgehammers and attacking and disabling national defence infrastructure. Of course, we should withdraw from the HRA precisely because it is perverted in this way by lawyers, but those bald statements do not in fact show that hitting people with sledgehammers is legitimate freedom of expression or protest, and it appears that committing such acts is the principle reason for PA to exist.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-01 13:16:49+00:00
The other day I was researching with ChatGPT.

* ChatGPT hallucinated an answer

* ChatGPT put it in my memory, so it persisted between conversations

* When asked for a citation, ChatGPT found 2 AI created articles to back itself up

It took a while, but I eventually found human written documentation from the organization that created the technical thingy I was investigating.

This happens A LOT for topics on the edge of knowledge easily found on the Web. Where you have to do true research, evaluate sources, and make good decisions on what you trust.
by daeken | 2025-12-01 13:16:56+00:00
Back in 2005 or 2006, I was working at a little startup with "DVD Jon" Johansen and we'd have Quake 3 tournaments to break up the monotony of reverse-engineering and juggling storage infrastructure. His name was always "xor eax,eax" and I always just had to laugh at the idea of getting zeroed out by someone with that name. (Which happened a lot -- I was good, but he was much better!)
by 123malware321 | 2025-12-01 13:17:02+00:00
as you noted its even chance tis auto-generated or included in a large batch of copycat activities trying to copycat any repos which have certain engagement with them.

you could contact github about that sid e if there's issues on there, but thats MS so they arent always as helpful. For the social media thats a bit shittier, as people are free to register names, its not illegal or against the EULA.

if you are worried about scams, you could put a note or an additional .md file on your projects which emphasizes these accounts are not affiliated to your project. - depending on the volume of impersonations that might be a bit much bookkeeping, so perhaps a generic message on readme.md that there are people impersonating, and if applicable a list of your own accounts that _are_ affiliated with the project. - then atleast/perhaps people can be aware of the situation from visiting your github.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-12-01 13:17:09+00:00
IME the integration with FreeBSD and ZFS just works better than BTRFS and linux distors, and I've read far too many reports about data loss with BTRFS to trust it.

But I definitely believe that everything you can do on FreeBSD, you can also do on Linux. For me it's the complete package though that comes with FreeBSD, and everything being documented in the man pages and the handbook.
by saberience | 2025-12-01 13:18:27+00:00
I have to say, I've read many out-of-touch comments on HN over the years but this is definitely among the most out there, borderline delusional comments I've ever seen!

The idea that anyone who doesn't know any code would:

1) Complete in Advent of Code at all.

2) Complete a single part of a single problem.

let alone, complete the whole thing without it being a "tremendous challenge"...

is so completely laughable it makes me question whether you live on the same planet as the rest of us here.

Getting a person who has never coded to write a basic sort algorithm (i.e. bubble sort) is already basically impossible. I work with highly talented non coder co-workers who all attended tier-1 universities (e.g. Oxford, Harvard, Stanford) but for finance/business related degrees, I cannot get them to write while/foreach loops in Python, and simply using Claude Code is way too much for them.

If you are even fully completing one Advent of Code problem, you are in the top 0.1% of coders, completing all of them puts you in the top 0.001%.
by eloeffler | 2025-12-01 13:18:52+00:00
Thank you very much for this writeup!

I've had my rM2 since 2020 and enjoyed the hacking community a lot. I've since lost track - at some point I updated the firmware because I wanted the automatic shapes feature from upstream and couldn't use the framebuffer anymore.

You've summed up a lot of findings that I've made again and again trying to pick up where I left but it's become very confusing.

Looking forward to your next update! No pressure, though :)

I've just remembered: Check out KOreader if you haven't. I think it doesn't rely on QT and it runs on rM2 tablets with recent firmware if you launch it via ssh after stopping xochitl.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-01 13:18:55+00:00
Announcement from the dev, in the project GitHub and Patreon:

Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to release counterfeit versions under my name.

To completely eliminate any threats, I’ve decided to stop using the current signature and switch to a new one. Because of this, the app’s identifier will also change. You don’t need to delete the old app (but it will no longer receive updates) — the new one will install as a separate app and will need to be configured again.

Thank you for your understanding and attention to security.[1][2]

---------------

There aren't any new apk releases on GitHub yet. However, concerningly, the SmartTube website (which I won't link directly) still offers undated "Stable" and "Beta" downloads.

It sucks to deal with security breaches as an indie or solo dev, but I'll be waiting for a more detailed postmortem before assessing whether to install a future release... Hopefully one that details new security procedures to guard both the dev's key and the production build environment.

Factory resetting my Shield as a precaution, but nothing sensitive was really on there, and Android's security model did exactly what it was supposed to and limited the damage. When using a third party app like this, it's prudent to use it signed out or else with a purpose specific Google/YouTube account which is connected to nothing else critical.

[1]: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/releases/tag/notificat...

[2]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/important-144473602
by Brajeshwar | 2025-12-01 13:19:06+00:00
I’ve come past way beyond the 1st year honeymoon with AWS.

Edit:

I’m sorry but I’m today years old learning that AWS indeed is free-ish, “Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet is now free for up to 100 GB of data per month (up from 1 GB per region).”

“Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup.”

Now, I need to figure out why am I being billed each month for some of the files I use AWS for!
by docdeek | 2025-12-01 13:20:21+00:00
>> In your case you believe your cost is only 1200€ a year, because your government has not made at all clear to you how much you’re paying from your other taxes into the healthcare system.

I absolutely do not believe my healthcare costs only €1200 a year. As I wrote, my top-up insurance costs about €1200 a year, and the healthcare costs more and that is why my taxes are so high.
by kmundy | 2025-12-01 13:20:22+00:00
OP here. This is Part 3 of my series on US Healthcare structural flaws. The core argument is that the ACA’s 'Medical Loss Ratio' (which caps insurer profits at 15%) inadvertently created a 'Cost-Plus' incentive for inflation. Insurers bought Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to 'launder' profits from the regulated insurance side to the unregulated PBM side via rebates. I also dig into why the 'Association Health Plan' rule change in 2024 effectively locked small businesses out of the market.
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-01 13:20:29+00:00
Unless there is an active sensory loop, no matter how fast or slow, I don't see how qualia can enter the picture

Transformers attend to different parts of their input based on the input itself. Currently, if you want to tell an LLM it is sad, potentially altering future token prediction and labeling this as "feelings" which change how the model interprets and acts on the world, you have to tell the model that it is sad or provide an input whose token set activates "sad" circuits which color the model's predictive process.

You make the distribution flow such that it predicts "sad" tokens, but every bit of information affecting that flow is contained in the input prompt. This is exceedingly different from how, say, mammals process emotion. We form new memories and brain structures which constantly alter our running processes and color our perception.

It's easy to draw certain individual parallels to these two processes, but holistically they are different processes with different effects.
by Fethbita | 2025-12-01 13:20:46+00:00
Sauna is really helpful for getting rid of them, also the usuals, use clothing made from natural materials, wool, cotton, linen, replace your teflon pans with stainless steel or cast iron, replace plastic utensils with wood or metal, replace your plastic food storage boxes with glass or metal, use a reverse osmosis water filter for your drinking water etc. Having them in your blood is bad but passing them to your children might be called negligence. I’m glad to see that the public awareness is increasing for this issue.
by qwertfisch | 2025-12-01 13:21:01+00:00
What about Typst? Looks to me as a valid TeX successor with a streamlined syntax and much better programming abilities without the limitations of 1977/1982.

Typst is on my list, I wanted to have a look at this year, but unfortunately no time and no need. Except for one letter every one or two years I did not use LaTeX since my diploma thesis.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-01 13:21:10+00:00
What does open sourcing have to do with "reproducing"? Last I checked, open sourcing is about allowing others to modify and to distribute the modified version, which you can do with these. Yes, having the full training data and tooling would make it significantly easier, and it is a requirement for GPL, but not for Open Source licenses in general. You may add this as another argument in favor of going back in time and doing more to support Richard Stallman's vision, but this is the world in which we live now.
by tenthirtyam | 2025-12-01 13:21:24+00:00
IIRC it is possible to have some clever encryption so that the person you sent your message to can prove to their own satisfaction that it came from you, but they cannot prove to anyone else that it came from you. Which gives you plausible deniability; you can always claim that your contact forged the message.

Can't remember what the algorithm is called.
by SonnyTark | 2025-12-01 13:21:28+00:00
I share an opinion with Nick Bostrom, once a civilization disrupting idea (like LLMs) is pulled out of the bag, there is no putting it back. People in isolation will recreate it simply because it's now possible. All we can do is adapt.

That being said, the idea of a new freer internet is reality.. Mastodon is a great example. I think private havens like discord/matrix/telegram are an important step on the way.
by piltdownman | 2025-12-01 13:21:49+00:00
Graham Linehan is an example of nothing other than how to tank your marriage, friendships, and any semblance of a professional career over a misguided moral crusade.

He was a well-known and liked figure in Ireland off the back of Father Ted, Black Books and the IT Crowd. He was a huge blogger and early presence on Twitter, with both him and his wife being public feminists and supporters.

He was also - and this is the important bit - a public advocate and supporter for the pro-choice position in our abortion referendum, which gave him some sense of intellectual and moral security in his heartfelt positions, as well as a huge fanbase.

Unfortunately some of his previous advocacies evolved into TERFs, and he with them. This then became a mono-crusade under the guise of standing up for the women in his life and women in general. Slowly but surely his fanbase, his professional connections, and society at large fell out of step with him.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/23/graham-linehan-joins-queer-wo...

As his antics became more extreme and problematic in their optics, his friends, his family, and his Wife begged him year after year to stop sabotaging his own existence before eventually having to leave him.

He's dug down so far at this point that he's being courted by Joe Rogan, which is probably the saddest bit of this entire story.
by thrance | 2025-12-01 13:21:50+00:00
Blame the misguided belief elevated to State motto that "private is always better than public". They've shoe-horned a profiteering class of parasites into an inelastic market, free to jack up prices of literally vital goods as much as they want. And the current administration, who holds much contempt for life, is perfectly happy to tear down the last poor band-aid the previous admin half-assedly put in place.
by rootnod3 | 2025-12-01 13:21:52+00:00
It is unnecessarily complex to begin with. On top of that, the maintainers are historically not the most open to criticism and try to aggressively push the adoption. So much so that Gnome for example now has very strong dependecies on systemd which makes it very difficult to adopt Gnome on non-systemd systems unless you wanna throw a bunch of patches at it. This hard coupling alone is something that I wouldn't want to rely on, ever.
by eloeffler | 2025-12-01 13:22:33+00:00
I remember having run netsurf from toltec.

Netsurf isn't fun on many websites but it should be enough for rendering HTML content from RSS, no? Terminal emulators and lynx/elinks/links/w3c work, too. And terminal RSS readers. HTML rendering is also possible with KOreader which runs well on rM2, come to think about it.

Here is the repo for netsurf https://github.com/alex0809/netsurf-reMarkable
by pansa2 | 2025-12-01 13:22:52+00:00
> Unlike other partial register writes, when writing to an e register like eax, the architecture zeros the top 32 bits for free.

I’m familiar with 32-bit x86 assembly from writing it 10-20 years ago. So I was aware of the benefit of xor in general, but the above quote was new to me.

I don’t have any experience with 64-bit assembly - is there a guide anywhere that teaches 64-bit specifics like the above? Something like “x64 for those who know x86”?
by dijit | 2025-12-01 13:22:54+00:00
> That's not the argument, which you may have realized if you weren't so upset.

“Do DEI the way we say, or else” is littrally what we’re discussing. The PR guidelines state that background doesn’t matter.

Ignorance of context is not a compelling argument either, though I notice that people I would ideologically align with on the internet treat it like a weapon. Ugh
by pmarreck | 2025-12-01 13:23:26+00:00
Critiquing Israel as well as any political or religious entity or set of beliefs should be allowed, or there will be problems. This is basically the Paradox of Tolerance coupled with the fact that intolerance itself seems to be a viral meme if left unchecked.

I still can't believe the UK has arrested people based on their social media posts. Why are people standing for that, over there? (I'm a US citizen.) Meanwhile, one could make direct quotes from the Quran or Hadith and you'd likely remain unchallenged because religion gets a free pass from reasonable critique for some illogical reason. Appeasement will eventually lead to fear...
by xrd | 2025-12-01 13:24:00+00:00
The comments here make you think about whether this is an issue or not. But, regardless, I wish that Amazon execs were literally shackled to their data centers. If they move to avoid taxation, like when Bezos moved to Florida, at least they would have to drag those data centers with them. If there truly are pollution issues, at least they can share that with their new neighbors. Bezos certainly seems to care about fitness, so if anyone can drag a data center that is shackled to his neck, it would be Bezos.
by Ray20 | 2025-12-01 13:24:03+00:00
> As you said Ukraine’s demographic situation was quite horrible before the war. Very few people in their 20s

This is a perfect situation for waging war. Young people are prone to rebellion and overthrow the authorities that send them to war.

> Hence the conscription age being 27 earlier in the war. > seemed to be very politically unwilling to send actual conscripts there

It is exactly because of that reason. The younger the people, the more dangerous they are for the government.
by 123malware321 | 2025-12-01 13:24:06+00:00
https://linux.die.net/man/1/man https://linux.die.net/man/1/info

for a lot of linux things these 2 utils / commands are good, if pages are available etc. etc. - i prefer info in there to any online docs.

ofcourse, that doesn't include things 'on linux' but not linux, unless they are installed and include for example man pages (a lot of things do this actually, which is nice.)

know its not like devdocs perhaps but its a good core base of knowledge people can tap into when working on linux. imho a lot of answers can be found in there.

you can also add your own man pages / info pages specific to an org or machine and tell people how to open those pages to include offline docs for things u like in a bit of a standard way across linux devices. (i never seen a linux that doesn't support these commands, but didn't try all distros ofc...)
by krisoft | 2025-12-01 13:24:34+00:00
> The purpose of zoomed out comparison is to show the quality reduction of applying this tool.

Reduction? Shouldn't the tool be improving the quality of the image? If it is reducing the quality then why do it?

> The purpose of zoomed in before picture is to show how a typical pixel misalignment.

Okay, but how does this supposed "misalignment" look on the picture? Would I even notice it? If not, does it matter? Did they just zoom in, and draw a misaligned grid over the zoomed in image? Or the grid fault lines are visible in the gestalt?

> Aligned pixels can be easily imagined.

Everything can be easily imagined. Misaligned pixels can be imagined. They could just write "our processed images look better" and let me imagine how much nicer they are. The purpose of a comparison is to prove that they are nicer/better/crisper whatever they want to claim.