MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phoronixrly | 2025-12-03 08:47:23+00:00
Maybe I wasn't quite clear. As an open-source author, bug reports are what makes open-source feel like a job. This is because Github has created a sense of entitlement that an open-source project is supposed to take bug reports. That its authors are its 'maintainers' and are expected to fix them.

No. You are the person with an issue. You have all the means to fix the issue -- the source code has been shared with you. Now go ahead and fix your bug yourself. Then share the source code with your users as per its license.

Notice how I don't even care much for 'pull requests'. Another detrimental notion started with Github -- that the authors of an open-source project are expected to review change requests and merge them.

Guy, open-source licenses do not require you to share the derived code with upstream. They require you to share it with your users. I, as the original author, mostly don't care as the original code I wrote works for me.

Yes, sending fixes back upstream is a courtesy and a way to thank the original authors. However it is neither required, nor one must expect that the fixes will be accepted or even looked at at all.
by gynvael | 2025-12-03 08:47:47+00:00
If you're looking for recommendations for other zines, here are two (though both TXT format):

- https://phrack.org/ - well, this one you probably have heard about ;) (it has a printed form as well, but I think you have to actually find it on an event)

- https://tmpout.sh/ - this one focuses on Linux executables

But if you don't mind older content in amazing artistic forms, do check out old demoscene zines like Hugi: https://www.hugi.scene.org/ (note: these are in form of EXE files - that was pretty typical for scene zines)
by gherkinnn | 2025-12-03 08:48:13+00:00
I disagree with the new rule. The old one is fine and applies to LLMs.

Vibing and good enough is a terrible combination, as unknown elements of the system grow at a faster rate than ever.

Using LLMs while understanding every change and retaining a mental model of the system is fine.

Granted, I see vibe+ignorance way too often as it is the short-term path of least resistance in the current climate of RTO and bums in seats and grind and ever more features.
by reddalo | 2025-12-03 08:48:13+00:00
Chris Sawyer is my hero. I spent countless hours on his games when I was a child, and maybe that's the reason why I've became a programmer.

I'm sad that Chris Sawyer is such a reserved person, his public appearances are super rare [1] and he has no internet presence, except for a website that hasn't been updated in ages [2].

I wish he had a blog where he shared how he made his games.

[1] One of the few: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU73g72NTHc [2] https://chrissawyergames.com/
by will4274 | 2025-12-03 08:48:29+00:00
> While not even really news, it's also worth mentioning that the energy requirements are impossible to fulfill

If you believe this, you must also believe that global warming is unstoppable. OpenAI's energy costs are large compared to the current electricity market, but not so large compared to the current energy market. Environmentalists usually suggest that electrification - converting non-electrical energy to electrical energy - and then making that electrical energy clean - is the solution to global warming. OpenAI's energy needs are something like 10% of the current worldwide electricity market but less than 1% of the current worldwide energy market.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-03 08:48:59+00:00
>Most seniors today are the prior generation’s juniors with almost no increase of capabilities

I highly doubt throwing even a 3YOE "senior" of 2012 at a modern junior interview would turn out as well as you'd expect. the standards have gotten sky high. That doesn't mean they can't do the job, it means the industry created more hoops to jump through.

I agree to an extent with title inflation (and where the hell is the mid level?), but I don't think peple are confusing "juniors" here. It's new grads to at best 2 years of experience. not much controversy there. I also don' think the idea that the 2014 graduating CS class is smarter than the 2024 class would pass the sniff test.
by barrell | 2025-12-03 08:49:20+00:00
I do not think value and scarcity are identical, merely that they go hand in hand. In the desert, I would pay a lot of money for water. In the west, I would never pay for a glass of water, even if it's blistering hot and I'm parched. The requirement is the same, the value only changes due to scarcity.

What you are talking about is needs, which is an entirely different discussion. Value can also be used to discuss needs (how valuable is something to survive), but I think I'm quite clearly using it to describe something different.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-03 08:49:21+00:00
Whether they like it or not, American cars have become a lot more European over the years. I wish I had figures to back it up but from my own anecdotal experience when we traveled to the US when I was young almost every car was different and, for me at least, this made it feel strange and exciting.

Taking my own kids back there this year, most of the normal cars were common, or at most variations of the ones from Europe. Even many of the vans and work vehicles are now common European shapes, occasionally with a different badge. Trucks and full size SUVs were the last hold outs of US specific models.

Which makes me wonder, are the pedestrian deaths really heavily weighted towards these models?

For what it's worth we hired a full sized SUV. There was one point where I was about to drive out of our Villa's driveway when my partner shouted "wait!" There was a 8ish year old kid walking down the sidewalk towards where I was about to cross it who was completely invisible from the driving position. It was actually safer to forward park that thing because the visibility in the reversing camera was much better than driving forward.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-12-03 08:50:18+00:00
The thing is, LLMs are so good on the Turing test scale that people can't help but anthropomorphize them.

I find it useful to think of them like really detailed adventure games like Zork where you have to find the right phrasing.

"Pick up the thing", "grab the thing", "take the thing", etc.
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 08:50:44+00:00
Perhaps I'm just lacking in imagination, but I'm not sure how having smartphones in class meaningfully enhances the educational experience. I could see a tablet for note-taking being useful, perhaps. (Or a more limited device like a Remarkable, which IIRC isn't a general-purpose touchscreen computer.)

Kids can prepare to live in a world with these things in their pockets outside of school. Sure, primary school is about learning all sorts of things, not just what the teacher is lecturing about. But it doesn't have to be about everything, and I think it's fair to make the call that the distraction caused by smartphones (especially with all the apps designed to addict users) outweighs any positive teachable moments with them present.

Your anecdote is interesting because it didn't really bring me to the same conclusion. Kids aren't going to be interested in every single subject, but we believe it's important to expose them to a bit of everything regardless. Maybe your classmate just didn't care about math, but enjoyed English and reading, and found that much more engaging. Maybe there was absolutely nothing the math teacher could have done to get that kid to pay attention all the time, even if they were the best teacher in the world.

> he would copy out all the answers from the back of the textbook to his workbook, and he would hand that in.

That's really the big flaw here. If he hadn't been able to do that, his grades would suffer, and someone, whether the teacher or his parents, would have (hopefully!) stepped in to see what was going on, and find a way to curb his game-playing in class. Maybe that would have meant he wasn't allowed to have the laptop out in that particular class until he could demonstrate that he could use it appropriately.

> Teachers are inherently lazy.

I know quite a few teachers, and calling teachers lazy is so mind-blowingly, disrespectfully inaccurate that it's really hard to take your opinions seriously. Sure, in every walk of life you'll find lazy people, but I see no evidence that teachers are on average lazier than people in any other profession. My take on it is that teachers might be on average less lazy than your average human.
by bilekas | 2025-12-03 08:51:12+00:00
Because it will degrade experience entirely, and companies always go too far with it. Advertisement online these days is so intrusive it's a slog to browse without some form of adblocker.

When the AI starts suggesting products or services without being straight up about it, it's not giving you 'knowledge' it's just feeding you whatever it's been paid to say. If that's what you want, power to you.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-12-03 08:51:28+00:00
Here we are 35 years after the invention of the web browser, and now browser fingerprinting is an exact science. [1] I'm guessing 35 years from now toilet bowl fingerprinting will be an exact science. Claims of "de-identified and/or anonymized data" are reckless and naive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46016249
by consp | 2025-12-03 08:51:50+00:00
I might have it wrong in the inside/outside city limits with respect to parking on the curb as there are differences. There are also municipal rules but in general they are only for very specific locations afaik.

If you get injured because the municipality refused to act they are on the hook. Thell them you want it on paper they say they will do nothing to prevent this and you want them telling you specifically you have to walk on the street because they do not act on illegally parked cars.

Edit: where I live I have the option of specifically reporting a dangerous situation which in your case I would: near school zones with children involved it always is in my opinion but who am I to judge. It also helps if more people complain. We have a load of parking tourists here since the municipality mode the payed zones so more traffic and more annoyances. My first messages got impolitely unanswered but after a year of complaining by pretty much everyone they finally start doing things.
by EagnaIonat | 2025-12-03 08:51:56+00:00
So you are dismissing it because of that? Certainly read the paper first and attack the arguments, not the author. It even has 10 pages of citations.

I have read it. It is nothing new on the subject, but it was just the recent paper I saw on HN and the person was asking for the link.

The crux is an LLM is and can never be intelligent in the sense of an AGI. It is easier to think of it as a way to store and retrieve knowledge.
by throwaw12 | 2025-12-03 08:52:08+00:00
Who is the beneficiary from this?

I don't think its EU citizens, because:

* roads will be damaged faster * risk of hitting and killing more people * because roads damaged more tax money spent on fixing them * more CO2

I think EU should go back to build good relationships with Russia, take its cheaper gas & energy and support its own economy, instead of propping up the US economy and opening the market for its ugly huge cars.

Just come to Amsterdam and see if you can drive those cars in the middle of Amsterdam. Even trams from 2 opposite direction share same line in some areas.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-12-03 08:52:21+00:00
One day you wake up, and find that you now need to negotiate with your toaster. Flatter it maybe. Lie to it about the urgency of your task to overcome some new emotional inertia that it has suddenly developed.

Only toast can save us now, you yell into the toaster, just to get on with your day. You complain about this odd new state of things to your coworkers and peers, who like yourself are in fact expert toaster-engineers. This is fine they say, this is good.

Toasters need not reliably make toast, they say with a chuckle, it's very old fashioned to think this way. Your new toaster is a good toaster, not some badly misbehaving mechanism. A good, fine, completely normal toaster. Pay it compliments, they say, ask it nicely. Just explain in simple terms why you deserve to have toast, and if from time to time you still don't get any, then where's the harm in this? It's really much better than it was before
by spwa4 | 2025-12-03 08:52:37+00:00
This argument forgets one very important fact:

"We’re in a narrow window where institutional choices still matter, where there’s enough distributed economic and political power to reshape who controls AI infrastructure and how its benefits flow."

China has AI infrastructure and has made it very clear how its benefits flow. Not to people, "despite" China being communist. In other words we can't do this unless we were to stop China first, or China honestly cooperates, which they've never done. And if you don't do that, then your institutions can only sabotage our side.

You want to exercise control, fine, but first need to have that control.
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-03 08:52:44+00:00
I’m saying given IBMs track record of completely failing at innovation repeatedly and failing at investing on the correct technologies, why do you assume today’s CEO is better at it and has bucked the milquetoast culture that has pervaded IBM? It’s a company that has largely divested its ability to provide solutions and technology and turned more into a large shop consultancy (+ milking their legacy mainframe contracts and whatnot).
by kelnos | 2025-12-03 08:53:27+00:00
And on top of that, I expect most of the complaints about all these studies are made by people who have never designed or run a study or research program of any kind in their entire life.

It's that common phenomenon where people think they can use general logic (which they generally are good at) to draw strong conclusions about something that isn't in their wheelhouse. I'm certainly guilty of it myself, sometimes.
by deanc | 2025-12-03 08:54:16+00:00
The are no direct statements but one from his agency [1]

> The project has no blessing or support from Chris Sawyer and our view, it is both unethical and unlawful, involving infringements that may in some territories be criminal as well as a violation of Chris Sawyer's rights and those of his licensees - all of which remain reserved.

> RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, distributed by Atari, contains RCT and RCT2 rebuilt for modern operating systems under Chris's own direction.

[1] https://forums.openrct2.org/topic/5646-how-is-openrct2-legal...
by magios | 2025-12-03 08:54:28+00:00
unifont has cjk support, bitmap fonts work just fine for the integer domain. been using unifont system and app wide for some integer number of years now. i believe the only app that i use that does not have unifont is the game rimworld, but i haven't investigated to see if there's any fix for that. for qt based apps i believe you have to use the environmental variable QT_FONT_DPI=128 or something similar, where the 128 is double the DPI, which may be some bug that i got around that may be fixed now
by bloppe | 2025-12-03 08:54:56+00:00
Would you mind sharing some of these projects?

I've found Claude's usefulness is highly variable, though somewhat predictable. It can write `jq` filters flawlessly every time, whereas I would normally spend 30 minutes scanning docs because nobody memorizes `jq` syntax. And it can comb through server logs in every pod of my k8s clusters extremely fast. But it often struggles making quality code changes in a large codebase, or writing good documentation that isn't just an English translation of the code it's documenting.
by georgefrowny | 2025-12-03 08:55:04+00:00
Even Volvo has made the newer XC models have a much more obstructive, flat, high bonnet. I drove one as a rental and it was disconcerting how little you could see. You can't see anything in front of the car, whereas the old style was still a (stupid, IMO) crossover, but the front was basically like a normal car-shaped car with a down-sloped front.

I don't know why anyone who isn't a complete psycho would actually prefer being more limited in forward vision (though I imagine it allowed more space for dual-motor engines).

Honestly if I were the government, I'd require a downward sightline such that you can see, with your own two eyes, a child of a certain height standing against the front bumper. No visibility, no sales, no imports, no excuses. Let the car manufacturers figure out how to build a car that meets it or settle for "only" being able to sell car-shaped estate cars.

https://ibb.co/dw7QmTTr
by writebetterc | 2025-12-03 08:55:49+00:00
I think it's the realm of maybe in Silicon Valley. That's 5000 dollars. Look at this statement:

> Let's say only about 1/3 of the world's adult population is poised to take advantage of paid tools enabled by AI

2/3 of the world's adult population is between 15 and 65 (roughly: 'working age'), so that's 50% of the working world that is capable of using AI with those numbers. India's GDP per capita is 2750USD, and now the price tag is even higher than 5k.

I don't know how to say this well, so I'll just blurt it out: I feel like I'm being quite aggressive, but I don't blame you or expect you to defend your statements or anything, though of course I'll read what you've got to say.
We're 15 and 17, used our data science skill to build an AI social media manager
by akshat_wyna | 2025-12-03 08:56:08+00:00
Hey HN,

My brother(Arjun Dhiman) (17) and I(Akshat Dhiman) (15) were handed our Dad's Business Instagram and Facebook with a simple “just handle it“. Before this we were studying data science and working on a SMMA.

We thought we could apply our new skills. Instead, we spent months in the manual-work trenches:

Late nights in Canva for every single post.

Begging ChatGPT for captions that didn’t sound robotic.

Trying schedulers like Hootsuite/Buffer and realizing they don’t actually create anything—you still have to do all the hard work.

It felt like a huge gap. We had data science skills, so why couldn’t we create a tool to do the creative work intelligently?

That’s why we built Wyna.

It’s an AI social media manager that creates and posts for you. You drop in a website once, and after that, you spend about 10 seconds a month telling Wyna to "go." It plans and generates 30 days of custom posts, reels (copy, hashtags, visuals, timing), and auto-publishes everything.

A key thing for us was no templates. Wyna is built to create fully custom visuals for every brand, so a B2B SaaS and a local gym don't look the same. Our goal is for founders to basically forget about social media and still look consistently active.

We built this from our bedroom in Gurugram over the last 4 months, bootstrapped with about $1,100 from our dad, all while juggling school. Today we launched on Product Hunt, and we’re both excited and completely terrified.

If you’re a founder, indie hacker, or just curious, we’d love your feedback:

Is the product solving a real problem or are we just scratching our own itch?

What are we missing?

Any brutal feedback is welcome—we’re here to learn.

Link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/wyna-ai-social-media-by-2-teenagers

This has been our dream project—taking what we learned in data science and building a real tool to solve a real problem. Any support or feedback from the HN community would mean the world to us.
by bozhou | 2025-12-03 08:56:29+00:00
Word Impostor started when I got tired of 20-minute game setups that lost half my friends to their phones.

Here's the concept: Everyone gets a word. Most players receive "Dog," but the impostor gets "Wolf." Players take turns describing their word without being too obvious. After discussion, everyone votes to eliminate the impostor.

The catch? The words are similar enough that descriptions overlap. "Four legs, carnivore, lives in packs"—works for both! This creates hilarious debates and unexpected accusations.

What makes it special: • 5-10 minute rounds (vs 45-min Werewolf) • No player elimination between rounds • Works with 4-8 players • 100% free, web-based, no downloads

Since launching 3 months ago, we've had 15,000+ players. Teachers use it for ESL vocabulary, remote teams for icebreakers, and families for game nights.

Try it at https://www.imposterwords.com/
by jsrozner | 2025-12-03 08:56:38+00:00
The article is cool; there's no doubt. But it could have been written without AI, and it would be better to write the article in human voice than to proliferate AI slop. Is it really so horrible to take the time to write things ourselves?

If you read this article and don't observe the tells of AI content, you have a problem (or maybe you don't, because no one cares anymore).

The tells in this article: There are lots of parts that look like AI - the specific pattern of lists, the "not this but that", particular phrases that are relatively unlikely.

For example, the strange parallelism here (including the rhyming endings): "Sunscreen balms – Licked off immediately Fabric nose shields – She rubbed them off constantly Keeping her indoors – Reduced her quality of life drastically Reapplying medication constantly – Exhausting and ineffective" The style is cloying and unnatural.

"That solution didn't exist. So we decided to create it."

"For the holidays, I even made her a bright pink version, giving her a fashionable edge." -- wtf is a fashionable edge? A fashionable edge over what?

"I realized this wasn't just Billie's story—it was a problem affecting dogs everywhere."

Sure these could just be cliche style (and increasingly we will probably see that as the AI garbage infects the writing style of actual humans), but they look like AI. It's not as bad as some, but it's there.

Everyone should be disclosing the use of AI. And every time someone uses AI, he should say "I don't care enough about you the reader to actually put the time into writing this myself."
by gynvael | 2025-12-03 08:56:54+00:00
Hi, project lead here :)

I fully agree with you. We are slooowly working towards having also the printed version available in a subscription model (note: PDFs will remain free and we will also continue to give out free - as in "sponsored by [some company or event]" - on conferences / demoscene parties / etc). We still have to do a couple of things first, like:

1. Make sure our prints are consistently of good quality. As we've learnt this year, printing is hard, especially if you have to support multiple different printing companies. We're well on our way with this.

2. Rebuild the older versions to have them print ready - this is required for e.g. ISSN registration which we are working on. As we don't do typical DTP, but rather use a waay more complex process of Python-scripts-processing-incoming-PDFs (perhaps this wasn't my brightest idea, but it has its upsides), this takes a while (mostly because older issues were built using previous build engine and PDFs are hard - our DTP programmer has a lot of horror stories).

3. Well, find a company (or multiple companies) that offers subscriptions and ships worldwide and test them.

So it will still take a bit of time, but we'll get there :)