MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-19 02:17:04+00:00
What evidence are you thinking of?

The parent comment is essentially correct that translations of the same material into different languages represent different views of the same data. A human translator must put in quite a bit of effort establishing what underlying situation is being described by a stretch of language.

Machine translations don't do this; they attempt to map one piece of language to another piece of (a different) language directly.
by hollerith | 2025-12-19 02:17:23+00:00
I'd pay a monthly subscription fee for this. All the service would need to do to get my money is guess which words that already exist on the page I will be interested in and show me those words in black-and-white type (in a face and a size chosen by me, not the owner of the web site) free of any CSS, styling or "innovative" manner of presentation.

Specifically, the AI does not generate text for me to read. All it does is decide which parts of the text that already exists on the page to show me. (It is allowed to interact with the web page to get past any modal windows or gates.)
by pests | 2025-12-19 02:17:56+00:00
I was curious so I did some research. These devices do seem to be being produced, currently mostly overseas. The inclusion of 5G support does not seem to be hidden or nefarious. They provide a SIM card slot just like your phone would. Some models are incorporating a built-in router to provide connectivity to other devices. It seems like the cellular companies are promoting these TV's too, with built in service.

My opinion is this is just a consolidation of devices. I have many friends who live off their phone data plan giving hotspot to the TV and other devices. Now being moved into a common device format, the TV. I don't think they can spy any more effectively this way. Eexcept via the router integration that gives them way more access, but I'm sure this exists already as a wifi feature on tvs. Just technology trudging along. Perhaps they have a secret sim card or esim embedded, that might be a risk as the hardware is already there for a valid reason.
by TheAdamist | 2025-12-19 02:18:16+00:00
No.

.its an insane lawsuit, there are basically two outcomes crazy side effects from his lawsuit:

Tvs are banned. (Possibly can only texas permitted tv)

Or if he loses, which might be his donors goal of him litigating so terribly, all your data now belongs to the companies.

Theres no consumer friendly option here
by donavanm | 2025-12-19 02:18:36+00:00
Enterprise never ever mattered, and there arent enough digits available to show your “home lab” use case in the revenue numbers. Xserve, the RAID shelves, and the directory services were kinda there as a half hearted attempt for that late 90-00s AV setup. All of that fell on the cutting room floor once personal devices, esp iphone, was realized.

By the time I left in ‘10 the total revenue from mac hardware was like 15% of revenue. Im honestly surprised theres anyone who cared enough to package the business services for mac minis.

So if everything else is printing cash for a HUGE addressable consumer market at premium price points why would they try and compete with their own ODMs on more-or-less commodity enterprise gear?
by culi | 2025-12-19 02:18:46+00:00
I used to follow this blog — I believe it was somehow associated with Slate Star Codex? — anyways, I remember the author used to do these experiments on themselves where they spent a week or two only reading newspapers/media from a specific point in time and then wrote a blog about their experiences/takeaways

On that same note, there was this great YouTube series called The Great War. It spanned from 2014-2018 (100 years after WW1) and followed WW1 developments week by week.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-19 02:18:47+00:00
Many of those posts are opinionated and even provably wrong. The very first one about Deepseek's "recent breakthrough" was never proven or replicated in practice. He's drawing premature conclusions, ones that especially look silly now that we know Deepseek evaded US sanctions to import Nvidia Blackwell chips.

I can't claim to know more about GPU compilers than Lattner - but in this specific instance, I think Mojo fucked itself and is at the mercy of hardware vendors that don't care about it. CUDA, by comparison, is having zero expense spared in it's development at every layer of the stack. There is no comparison with Mojo, the project is doomed if they intend any real comparison with CUDA.
My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation
by Gardinengleiter | 2025-12-19 02:18:55+00:00
Especially Elon Musk brought the idea of a simulation that we all live in to the table again and again. And people throw themselves at it, are excited, share their opinion. And I want to chime in. I also want to share my opinion about the idea that we live in a simulation.

Now what I contribute to that is this. We live in a simulation and somebody sees us or something sees us. There's an awareness of us, what we are doing. So all the atoms are just an imagination that we have. All the interactions, the fact that there's a Milky Way, that there are stars billions of light years away or other galaxies, that it's all fake and that we just see that because that's what the simulation creates.

Then those people that control us, that see us being in a simulation, are also subject to that. They themselves could be viewed by others. They could be in a simulation. There could be a recursive simulation. So regardless how many times you do a recursion, one constant is that there's no beginning and no end. There's constant change. And even if dying, for instance, meant that you woke up in the next higher dimension, which is unlikely because then before birth, you would have been in this other dimension to begin with and remember it. So you are in this higher dimension, then you are born, then you go into this lower dimension that is being observed and when you die, you go up in the higher dimension, which is unlikely.

But then this game would repeat itself even on the higher level. So regardless how many levels you go, you will always end up being in a surrounding that changes, that is subject to death and birth of everything. So picture that for a moment. Regardless how deep you go, you will always face both sides. And not really sides, but demonstrations of change that is never ending.
by squeaky-clean | 2025-12-19 02:19:47+00:00
I went with Philips Hue smart lighting specifically because it could work without an account or any internet access for the bulbs or hub.

Guess what became required this year? At least it seems I can still use them offline if I don't use the official app. But the official app is now just a popup requiring me to create an account. I'm not sure if I could add new lights using third party apps. Not like I'm ever buying a Hue product again though.
by chapoly1305 | 2025-12-19 02:19:48+00:00
I am prompting my project here because I think it is useful. Here is my pitch. Do you share a computer with family and friends? Concerned they might click through and see your AI conversations? I've built Chatbot Incognito to solve exactly this problem. This open-source project automatically enables private/incognito mode on AI chat platforms the moment you visit them, ensuring your conversations never appear in shared chat history. Whether you're using Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok, these lightweight userscripts detect when you visit the platform and automatically activate privacy mode without any manual intervention. No more worrying about forgetting to toggle the privacy setting or having sensitive work discussions, personal questions, or brainstorming sessions visible to others who use the same computer. The scripts are run entirely in your browser with zero data collection.

It depends on the Chatbot already has such a feature. If one does not have it, e.g., Gemini, then there is nothing I can do.

Check out the project at https://github.com/Chapoly1305/chatbot-incognito
by 1dolinski | 2025-12-19 02:20:21+00:00
OP: Returns during the holidays and going to the mall was killing me!

BoughtLook lets you try on any clothes from retail stores, Pinterest, Facebook marketplace or photos from your closet.

Once you generate a look, it can be shared and others can try it on by uploading a photo of themselves.

For the HN community, respond with your social handle and I'll send over from free generations!
by asadotzler | 2025-12-19 02:20:22+00:00
Local translation of websites so you don't have to tell Google about all the sites you want to read that are not in your language. Firefox's address bar that learns what you type most often and moves those items higher in the autocomplete list. There are plenty of great cases for AI very tightly integrated in the browser. That you haven't thought very hard about it or even bothered to see what AI Firefox has already had for ages (Awesomebar was about 15 years ago) is precisely why you don't "get it."
by elif | 2025-12-19 02:20:26+00:00
I always thought the GWT->react branch of the webdev family tree was an inbred, unecessarily cumbersome compromise bred from JavaScript and performance metrics rather than descending from the beautiful code family we used to have with Rails and Django.

The only reason react seems to look beautiful is because it's compared to custom JavaScript state management rather than the server-state paradigm that probably makes most sense for over 90% of apps.

The only real place it makes sense is when you're Google or Facebook and those 15 milliseconds actually translate to quantifiable lost user attention.

If your app is actually useful and not just an attention farm, those 15ms are almost never worth your engineering team's sanity.
by temp0826 | 2025-12-19 02:21:31+00:00
I lived with someone who was a Greek Orthodox monk (has a PhD in philosophy and masters in theology) and this is exactly what he says. The actual theological differences are 2 or 3 very specific technicalities that are basically glossed over at the lay level (overshadowed by the cultural/political as you say). Thanks for the great articulation of this stuff.
by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-12-19 02:21:33+00:00
I recently changed all my language flashcards to be like this. Anki is probably the best option. I have the field with the Hanzi, but just configure my cards not to show it at the moment, so I break the habit of translating everything to characters in my head when I'm trying to listen. It's worked well, and the characters will be there when I decire to do something with them again.
by nijave | 2025-12-19 02:21:41+00:00
Part of the advantage is a fully hosted service where you don't need to worry about a control plane managing and scheduling jobs.

There's some cost involved there--especially if you're offering hosted runners (you need some capital to buy infra to run jobs)

There's also advantage of limiting how many companies you share your code with. If you're using GitHub, you're already trusting them with your source code so GitHub Actions doesn't require more trust or an additional entity to manage/pay
by owl57 | 2025-12-19 02:21:58+00:00
And most of them are pretending to be Chrome. If Google had a good case against someone reusing their user agent, maybe they would already have sued?

Or maybe not. Got some random bot from my server logs. Yeah, it's pretending to be Chrome, but more exactly:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

I guess Google might be not eager to open this can of worms.
by rekabis | 2025-12-19 02:22:40+00:00
> A 32-character password + TOTP can still be entered on a phishing website, e.g. if you happen to follow a fabricated link.

…How? The password manager only permits exact links. If the URL does not have the UTF-8-identical characters to the correct url - at which time, IT IS the correct URL - it will simply not populate the username and password fields.
Show HN: GPT Image 1.5 – High-Fidelity Image Generation and Precision Editing
by lu794377 | 2025-12-19 02:22:43+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re sharing GPT Image 1.5, an image generation and editing model focused on high instruction fidelity, realistic detail, and reliable multi-step image edits.

What GPT Image 1.5 does well:

Strong Prompt Understanding

Handles complex prompts involving layout, style, and object relationships with higher consistency than earlier image models.

Precision Image Editing

Modify existing images—add, remove, or adjust elements—while preserving lighting, composition, and identity across iterations.

Improved Text & Layout Rendering

More reliable generation of readable text, UI-like layouts, posters, and structured visual designs.

Faster Iteration

Optimized generation speed enables rapid experimentation and creative iteration.

Why we built this:

Many image models excel at one-off generations but struggle with control, consistency, and iterative edits. GPT Image 1.5 is designed for creators and builders who need images that stay coherent as ideas evolve.

We’d love feedback on:

How you’d use GPT Image 1.5 in real creative or product workflows

Where image editing still breaks down

What controls or API features would matter most to you

Try it here: https://www.gptimageai.org/?i=d1d5k
by hippo22 | 2025-12-19 02:22:49+00:00
I don't think "liking" is the correct phrasing.

Many jobs _do_ have someone constantly looking over your shoulder to ensure that you're doing to job adequately. These jobs are often low-trust environments often staffed by low-trust individuals.

In terms of the unemployed, are they mostly high-trust or low-trust? That's what should determine the terms and conditions of the program, not whether they "like" the program or not.
by mopsi | 2025-12-19 02:23:03+00:00
> NATO itself said they would join the alliance back in 2008.

No. That was merely a polite statement without any timetable or actionable steps, made after the allies had decided at the 2008 summit not to invite Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, leaving both countries exposed to Russian pressure and eventual military aggression.

Nowadays, this is widely considered a severe mistake. For example, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO secretary-general, has on many occasions referred to the exclusion of Ukraine and Georgia as mistakes that emboldened Putin to invade them.

Perhaps you should drop him an email to explain that he doesn't know what he's talking about and that Ukraine was "actually" on the path to NATO membership. So much ignorance in the world, ain't there.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-19 02:24:36+00:00
I agree that political sentiment analysis is one area where the high-level players really do have oracular resources that the rest of us lack. Besides Musk, a good example might be how Bezos pivoted instantly from neutral to pro-Trump leading up to the 2024 election. Seems clear that he knew what was about to happen when he killed the Harris endorsement in the Post.

But the question here is more general than that. Musk didn't have a reliable source of ground truth when he accused the Thai cave diver of being a pedophile. If he did, he didn't use it. Ditto, when he woke up one day and decided that Twitter was worth $54.20/share. You could point to countless other examples where highly-positioned, highly-resourceful, "high agency" people simply read the room wrong.
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-19 02:25:53+00:00
With over 600 million in revenue they can afford to put up a different page for Firefox AI.

A large percentage of users, particularly Firefox users , don't want this AI stuff built in.

Where does this AI even run. Does it have to make an API requests to send all of the webpages I view somewhere else ?

Is it even my computer anymore, my browser, or am I sharing it with people who want to extract more money from me.

As is Google forced me to view often incorrect AI summaries when I have no interest in them.

Do I want the only real Chrome competitor to also force bad ai content in my face ?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-19 02:25:56+00:00
Yes, but in that case, as this article argues, you'd expect something that looked good. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/teentitans/images/e/e3/TTO...

The Honnecourt illustrations strongly suggest that (a) photorealism is the goal, but (b) Honnecourt doesn't know how to draw it. He does things like place a person's right eye at a different angle to the rest of the face than the left eye has. But hey, how likely is it that viewers will notice a malformed human face?
by thunderbong | 2025-12-19 02:26:14+00:00
Brilliant! Its been a while since I've seen a brand new UX patten.

As some others have mentioned, the picked state needs to be a bit more clear.

Some suggestions -

1. As a border around 'Pick' to indicate it as an action

2. Once an item is picked, add a mask on the whole page, with only the picked item in front of the mask. (This is going to be a bit challenging, I'm guessing, to show the gaps between the items as you scroll)

3. Once an item is picked, the 'Cancel' and 'Place' bar should have a background. Sometimes this overlaps the list and is not clearly visible.

4. It should not be possible to scroll way above or below the list.

5. On 'Cancel' scroll back to the item.

Again, congratulations! It's one thing to think of something, quite another to be able to implement it nicely.
by ryan_lane | 2025-12-19 02:26:43+00:00
> Cities that have almost completely banned Airbnb (e.g.: NYC) have not seen any improvement on affordability. What's next?

New York, as expensive as it is, is still considerably cheaper than cities like SF. Part of this is that they build more, part of it is that they have a usable train system, which allows people to live more spread out across the city, but part of it as well, is that they've banned airbnb. It would be ideal to also see empty unit taxes on units >$10m (inflation adjusted). It would also be good to see high taxes on sales of units >$10m (inflation adjusted).

> Minimum contract length of 5 years.

This is good, assuming it's one sided (the tenant can choose to move out, but the landlord can't break the lease). People need stability in housing more than landlords need to be able to end leases.

> Maximum increase of rental per year regulated to 2/3% (even during high inflation years)

Sure, it should be generally tied to inflation, but what other investment exists where you're guaranteed yearly increases? Why are people so adamant that landlords need to be guaranteed minimal increases in their profits?

Housing is a natural monopoly, and allowing businesses to maximize their profits, unchecked, isn't capitalism.

> It can take years to evict a non-paying tenant. If there are children in the apartment, it's even harder.

This is often brought out as a massive negative of regulations, but let's be honest, this is an outlier. Without tenant protections, however, it's common for landlords to evict tenants to increase rents. Even with protections, landlords still take illegal measures to try to evict tenants to increase rents, like doing constant construction at night, or refusing to do maintenance.

This is basically the same complaint about welfare programs. We have to accept some percentage of fraud to serve the greater good.

It's completely normal for most businesses to take a risk based approach to fraud, to maximize profits. Retail businesses, for example, will try to maximize their credit card auth rates, even though that may increase their fraud rate, if the increases in auth rate outweigh the cost of the fraud.

A stable society is worth a small percentage of fraud.

> If the landlord is not a person but a company, regulation is even harder.

Good. I don't see how this is a downside.

> Maximum prices set by the local government, seasonal contracts banned, and even room rentals regulated.

Again, this is good. If there's a housing crunch, then residents should be prioritized over tourists.
by kgeist | 2025-12-19 02:27:38+00:00
If they imply that Polish is best at instruction following in LLMs, then I doubt it. It's highly dependant on the prompts, schemas and the LLMs. I maintain bechmarks for our product across 33 languages. Slightly changing the prompts or the schemas can easily change the rankings completely. Polish is okay, but not something special. In the latest test run, Polish was on the same level as German, but for some reason Croatian was leading (other than English). Go figure :)
by nl | 2025-12-19 02:27:40+00:00
I think it's difficult to estimate how profitable both are - depends too much on usage and that varies so much.

I think it is widely accepted that Anthropic is doing very well in enterprise adoption of Claude Code.

In most of those cases that is paid via API key not by subscription so the business model works differently - it doesn't rely on low usage users subsidizing high usage users.

OTOH OpenAI is way ahead on consumer usage - which also includes Codex even if most consumers don't use it.

I don't think it matters - just make use of the best model at the best price. At the moment Codex 5.2 seems best at the mid-price range, while Opus seems slightly stronger than Codex Max (but too expensive to use for many things).
by rekabis | 2025-12-19 02:28:23+00:00
> some sites mandate email/SMS 2FA

Which should be made illegal on a national/international level.

The only possible reason for that is sheer laziness or malicious ignorance. Full stop, end of story

And I also include eMailed login links and eMailed 2FA in with that determination. Any secure login attribute that gets transmitted over eMail or SMS should be illegal. Password reset links, only. And vendor-locked/vendor-specific apps as the only 2FA path should also be illegal. TOTP should be a fully open system, letting anyone use any legitimate provider or app.

Yeah, let’s just say I have some pretty strong opinions.
by rainonmoon | 2025-12-19 02:30:48+00:00
Except discord.com doesn't execute JavaScript, the user's browser does. These are meaningful distinctions that delineate the impact. You aren't "discord.com" if you target someone with an XSS exploit, you've only run a script in a user's session. Whether you can actually do anything with that script or not decides whether you can take over the account or not.
by deaux | 2025-12-19 02:31:12+00:00
Correct, this has been true for all GPT-5 series. They produce much more "enterprise" code by default, sticking to "best practices", so people who need such code will much prefer them. Claude models tend to adapt more to the existing level of the codebase, defaulting to more lightweight solutions. Gemini 3 hasn't been out long enough yet to gauge, but so far seems somewhere in between.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-19 02:31:21+00:00
That may actually be underselling it. So far as I can follow, this is trying to replace more of the OS than systemd is, and coming from a different (although in some ways not wholly dissimilar) paradigm. It's like.. I dunno, building a smalltalk machine over a Linux kernel might replace systemd, but that's almost incidental to it rotating the entire universe 90°.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-19 02:31:34+00:00
> If they want to eliminate the sanctions then the path to doing so is clear and would have tremendous benefits for the Iranian people.

Didn't... uh, didn't they... try?

And then Trump killed it?

My understanding is that there are allegations they were still pursuing nuclear capability but, we still don't have any actual evidence, and then we bombed them anyway.
by darth_avocado | 2025-12-19 02:32:36+00:00
> A "Manhattan Project" would be building some shocking new technology that didn't previously exist.

You’re missing forest for the trees. ASML at the moment has the monopoly on these machines. This is not only a great tool for the West to keep China at bay, but also a way to maintain economic dominance. Even if they can’t get the machine up and running until 2030, and the machine is a generation behind, China has effectively gained leverage in world theater.

From geopolitical perspective, it’s huge. Right now Taiwan produces the world’s chips, so China plays nice. The minute they can produce their own chips, even an older generation, they can invade Taiwan anytime they want. And then the rest of the world won’t even have older chips.