MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mgbmtl | 2025-12-16 14:31:33+00:00
I for one, am grateful to Mozilla for still being around, pushing for an open web.

Their documentation is excellent, the improvements and roadmap for Thunderbird made me finally adopt it, and I appreciate their privacy-friendlier translation services. uBO works great in Firefox, and I can't stand using a browser without its full features.

About MBA types: the free software project I work for has an MBA type, which I initially resented as being an outsider. However, they manage the finances, think about team and project growth long-term (with heavy financial consequences), and ignore the daily technical debates (which are left to the lead devs), and listen to users, big and small. Some loud users like to complain that we don't listen to them, and sometimes we kick them out, because we do listen to users.

I don't know much about Mozilla internals, if I am to judge from the results: Mozilla is still here, despite everyone saying for 10+ years that they are going to die. They are still competitive. They are still holding big tech accountable, despite having a fraction of their power. I can imagine that they make a lot of people here very uncomfortable.
by throwaway_2494 | 2025-12-16 14:31:43+00:00
Come on you can't come up with a single five minute period when observing animals where they seem to be calm?

That does not fit the evidence.

And besides you can read thousands of articles on HN about anxiety in humans, a mostly useless anxiety focused on societal 'threats' which we suffer from just as much.

At least a deer is on the lookout for something real.

Also if you compare animals lives to human ones, with our propensity for war and torture and persecution, I think the animals _do_ objectively live calmer lives.

You don't see them systematically tearing each other to pieces over made up goods like money.

I think this trope that "nature is a constant struggle" is a projection of human values (or lack of) onto nature.
by zetanor | 2025-12-16 14:31:46+00:00
> Aspiration: doing for AI what we did for the web.

> Strength: $1.3B in reserves + diverse operating models (product, deep tech, venture, philanthropy) make Mozilla unusually free to bet long-term.

> Strategy: Pillar 1: AI. Pillar 2: AI. Pillar 3: AI.

Oh yes.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-16 14:32:23+00:00
There are way ways past this, from religion and Amish-style cultural approaches, to legal prohibition of making and selling and using it, to dictatorial control of the companies which could make it, to individuals being personally immune, to paying people money if they don't use it. Like there are people who avoid alcohol, opioids, heroin, all other wireheading-style drugs and experiences that exist already, and people who do exercise and stay thin in a world of fast food and cars.

A great filter needs to apply to every civilisation imaginable, no exceptions, nerfing billions of species before they get to a higher Kardashev scale, not just something that "could happen" or the latest “Dunning-Kruger” mic-drop in every thread. In 1960s "the great filter is nuclear war", in 1890 "the great filter is heroin", in 1918 "the great filter is world war, we are destined to destroy ourselves", in 2015 "the great filter is climate change our emissions will end us like bacteria in a petri dish", in antiquity "the great filter is the punishment for crossing the will of the Gods".

It's got to be something you cannot get around even if you try really really hard and get very very lucky, because there are ~200,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way and with those numbers there will be some species which lucks its way past almost any candidate, spreads out and in a mere 100k years is all over this galaxy leaving rocket trails and explosion signatures and radio signals and terraforming signs and megastructures.

Maybe when NASA, ESA, SpaceX, RosCOSMOS, CNSA, IRSA all collapse because of this effect… look how many countries have a space agency! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government_space_agenc...
by FatherOfCurses | 2025-12-16 14:32:32+00:00
I have what I believe is an acceptable setup at home (Denon AVR-X1700H and Apple TV like the OP, a decent Sony display, 7.1 speaker setup, but the plethora of audio coding options completely mystify me. I know this is a me problem. I'm hoping in the new year to watch more movies with the family and would like to make better use of the surround system for sci-fi and action movies but for whatever reason I have no idea where to start.
by r721 | 2025-12-16 14:32:40+00:00
>Durov's TON shitcoin

>Telegram reeks of FSB/SVR honeypot

Btw interesting connection between Durov/TON and Jan Marsalek (alleged Russian spy) was recently uncovered by FT:

>In 2018 Marsalek invited Ben Halim and other backers of the Libya projects to invest in a new crypto token being launched by messaging platform Telegram, whose founder Pavel Durov had met Marsalek and invited him to participate.

>A special purpose vehicle was set up for them to pool their money and invest but Credit Suisse, which was organising the sale of the token, blocked the transaction. It turned out the bank was happy to take money from Marsalek, whose role in the biggest corporate fraud in recent European history had yet to be revealed, but was wary of his Libyan friends.

>As a workaround, Ben Halim and others decided to let Marsalek invest their money in his name, sidestepping Credit Suisse’s money laundering checks. However, the US Securities and Exchange Commission blocked Telegram’s issuance of the tokens and Marsalek refunded his Libyan associates.

https://archive.fo/7evmm
Show HN: Pokémon Claude skill (emulates Pokémon itself using Claude Code.)
by devjelly | 2025-12-16 14:32:40+00:00
I created a Pokémon Claude skill. This skill is not about controlling an emulator with Claude; it’s a project that emulates Pokémon itself using Claude Code.

As I mentioned in the README, this is an experimental project. To make it properly, the prompt would need to be refined further, and in some ways it also depends on future model improvements.

Until now, I hadn’t really used Claude Code. While using it, it was my first time having an opportunity to spend this many tokens. Out of that, and from a mix of different daydreams and ideas that came to mind, this project happened. The things I found myself thinking about were: 1. I once read an article along the lines of “What if computing resources were infinite,” and it stuck with me. • If I had unlimited tokens (both context and usage), and an infinitely fast LLM, what could I do? 2. Simulating a computer inside Minecraft. 3. A colleague’s idea of wanting to make a game with Claude led me to wonder: what if Claude itself became the game? 4. I wanted to build something useless—but fun. 5. Claude isn’t just a code-generation model; it’s a protocol that can access my computer. 6. How deterministic can we make an LLM through Claude skills?

With these simple thoughts and fantasies, I started looking for a project I’d enjoy building—something that explores what might be possible right now—and began implementing it.

Some people might think this is similar to services like character.ai, but I hope you’ll see it as an experimental project made through Claude skills, and that it becomes an opportunity to expand your own imagination. (On macOS, running the skill also plays background music!)

It’s still unfinished, and I’m not sure whether I’ll continue developing it—but I’d be happy if you take it simply as “Oh, this is something you can do,” at least once.

This translation was written in Korean first and then translated using ChatGPT.
Show HN: AI-Augmented Memory for Groups
by vishal-ds | 2025-12-16 14:32:48+00:00
We’re building Largemem, (https://largemem.com) a shared knowledge base where groups upload and maintain a common set of documents (PDFs, scans, audio) and query them conversationally.

Each group has its own persistent knowledge base. We parse content into chunks, extract entities, and combine vector search with a lightweight knowledge graph, so answers can synthesize information across multiple documents and across the group’s shared context - not just retrieve isolated snippets.

We would love to hear your feedback!
by ryandvm | 2025-12-16 14:33:07+00:00
Indeed. Often mutually exclusive.

To really build great software, you need time and space to git your head around the problem. This is obviously not possible if you're spending most of your week in meetings and tracking the work of 7 or 8 team members.

In my experience, you can be a great IC *or* a great tech lead, but you cannot be both at the same time.
by jankovicsandras | 2025-12-16 14:33:09+00:00
You can do hybrid search in Postgres.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25 BM25 search implemented in PL/pgSQL ( Unlicense / Public domain )

The repo includes plpgsql_bm25rrf.sql : PL/pgSQL function for hybrid search ( plpgsql_bm25 + pgvector ) with Reciprocal Rank Fusion; and Jupyter notebook examples.
by alias_neo | 2025-12-16 14:33:20+00:00
I have to agree, simply not buying LG isn't an option, we'd have to rule out just about everyone for the same reason.

I have a slightly older WebOS LG TV, it has PS5, Switch 2, and FireStick 4K Max and an Onkyo receiver plugged in, and as an OLED TV it's incredible, LG would always be my first choice for picture. Don't care about built-in sound as I use a sound-system.

Right now I'm in the market for another TV at around 65inches and was looking at the 2025 model LG OLED, I likely won't connect it to the internet and will probably just hook up an Apple TV following some discussion in another comment section about how much I hate my Fire TV for being ad-ridden.

Really I wish LG or someone would just make a dumb TV with 4+ HDMI, ARC, perhaps DP and a remote and let us hook up what we want; but it'll never happen.
Show HN: POEFlip – Path of Exile 2 web socket search monitor (macOS)
by pj4533 | 2025-12-16 14:33:32+00:00
I built this tool during the last league and decided to open source it since we just started this new league. It is just a native interface for saved searches. It uses the same functionality you can get from the trade website by tracking searches via web sockets. But rather than having multiple tabs, it is in a native interface and saves the searches to local storage.

It even implements the 'tap to travel' functionality!

The downside is the setup is kind of technical (have to inspect the console to grab your token), and adding searches is done via pasting JSON. I usually just do a search, then look at the network requests and grab the JSON that way.

I might try to figure out a better way, but meh, it works.
by kakacik | 2025-12-16 14:33:58+00:00
This is my plan for beginning of new year (42" model), mixed games & desktop usage (I know oled ain't best for windows work but non-oled gaming monitors are rather crap ie due to non ideal local dimming, ghosting, mediocre colors compared to oled and so on).

Didnt plan on making it also a TV with internet connection, now I darn sure as hell won't.

Its really sad state of things that the best course of action now for new hardware is to simply use it as it is, never update or plug online since for any chance of any minor issue being fixed there is 100x the risk it will go to shit in substantial ways (I have Samsung q990d - they soundbar literally dying for good after an official update, but that one you had to at least push yourself from phone or via usb).

Not possible with everything, or at least not without substantial hacking for many.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 14:34:03+00:00
Not sure about the UK. I've seen a lot of outdoor plumbing in Ireland. I lived in a place that had that. They were literally running on the outside. Our maintenance guy said they did that to make maintenance easier, but it also makes wear & tear a lot easier obiously (not to mention frost). And chipboard floors that would crack with heavy furniture. It was terrible quality. These houses were built in the mid 80s.

And a dirty tank of water in the attic to act as a "in-house water tower" because only one tap may be connected directly to the mains. Really archaic.
by bavent | 2025-12-16 14:34:11+00:00
You know you’re allowed to swear online right?

You actively had to go looking for something about this blog poster to be angry about. It must be painful to live that way, needing to find fault in people so desperately. Therapy might do you some good my friend.

We’re talking about a furry, not a war criminal. “Silent capitulation” lol. You’re hilarious.
Show HN: Skyz AI – Deploy MCP servers like you'd deploy to Vercel
by Elemenopi | 2025-12-16 14:34:38+00:00
Author here. After building my third MCP server and spending another weekend on deployment configs, I got frustrated enough to build Skyz (skyz.ai).

The tutorial walks through building a weather MCP server that connects to VS Code in 7 minutes. The pattern works for any MCP server - database connectors, API integrations, internal tools.

I've seen teams use this for Notion search, Shopify order lookup, and PostgreSQL analytics. The code is standard Node.js/TypeScript, so no vendor lock-in.

Happy to answer questions about MCP, the deployment process, or how we handle the infrastructure!
by thiago_fm | 2025-12-16 14:34:45+00:00
With that much revenue, maybe it's time to look into your ratios of payment processing method being used.

For example, if 90% use Credit card, go with a simpler and cheaper payment provider and implement a mechanism that switches between them based on some frontend configuration.

I've worked for a company that they've essentially done that.

I know you might then need to handle having two places where you have invoices etc, but for the amount you are transactioning, it might be the right way to go.

This isn't important only to reduce how much you pay, but your lock-in and dependency on them, otherwise you have no leverage on those negotiations.

Your pain, their profit!
by kace91 | 2025-12-16 14:34:46+00:00
I can't help you much, as currently I happen to use ruby at work and native debugging is enough - you can drop into an interactive console at a breaking point adding a single line, with no tooling.

Here's the chapter on debugging in the book I mentioned if you want to take a look: https://lazyvim-ambitious-devs.phillips.codes/course/chapter...
by lekevicius | 2025-12-16 14:34:55+00:00
I do disagree that some of these were not inevitable. Let me deconstruct a couple:

> Tiktok is not inevitable.

TikTok the app and company, not inevitable. Short form video as the medium, and algorithm that samples entire catalog (vs just followers) were inevitable. Short form video follows gradual escalation of most engaging content formats, with legacy stretching from short-form-text in Twitter, short-form-photo in Instagram and Snapchat. Global content discovery is a natural next experiment after extended follow graph.

> NFTs were not inevitable.

Perhaps Bitcoin as proof-of-work productization was not inevitable (for a while), but once we got there, a lot of things were very much inevitable. Explosion of alternatives like with Litecoin, explosion of expressive features, reaching Turing-completeness with Ethereum, "tokens" once we got to Turing-completeness, and then "unique tokens" aka NFTs (but also colored coins in Bitcoin parlance before that). The cultural influence was less inevitable, massive scam and hype was also not inevitable... but to be fair, likely.

I could deconstruct more, but the broader point is: coordination is hard. All these can be done by anyone: anyone could have invented Ethereum-like system; anyone could have built a non-fungible standard over that. Inevitability comes from the lack of coordination: when anyone can push whatever future they want, a LOT of things become inevitable.
by brettgriffin | 2025-12-16 14:35:09+00:00
That's not really how data is requested. Most of these identifiers are foreign keys - they exist in a larger object graph. Most systems of records are too large for people to associate surrogate keys to anything meaningful - they can easily have hundreds of billions of records.

Rather, users traverse that through that object graph, narrowing a range of keys of interest.

This hacker news article was given a surrogate key, 46272487. From that, you can determine what it links to, the name/date/author of the submission, comments, etc.

46272487 means absolutely nothing to anybody involved. But if you wanted to see submissions from user pil0u, or submissions submissions on 2025-12-15, or submissions pertaining to UUID, 46272487 would in that in that result set. Once 46272487 joins out to all of its other tables, you can populate a list that includes their user name, title, domain, etc.

Do not encode identifying information in unique identifiers! The entire world of software is built on surrogate keys and they work wonderfully.
by antonymoose | 2025-12-16 14:35:27+00:00
Arguably, yes?

Had the US somehow magically lost WWII, the firebombing atrocities would almost certainly have had a few Air Corp generals executed by the victor.

We could just as well look at the systemic atrocities committed against the Vietnamese civilian population and yet we still lost that war.

Excepting the Gulf War, how far back to we go to find something America has won (somewhat) cleanly?
by boxed | 2025-12-16 14:35:29+00:00
I already knew about US immigration services abuse. It's absolutely a problem. It seems like a non sequitur in the discussion though. The actions of ICE in the US since Trump was elected don't seem like they have any relevance to the educational problems in Latin America in the 60s though? I mean, unless ICE now has time machines. If that's the case, I will absolutely start worrying. A lot.
by rayiner | 2025-12-16 14:35:32+00:00
The U.S. is up 39% since that time: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0 [EDIT: Didn’t see it was disposable real income per capita. That figure is 39% not 30%.][1]

The only countries that outperformed the U.S. were former soviet-aligned countries, Malta, and Iceland.

[1] I don’t know if the Fed disposable income calculation accounts for everything the EU calculation does, specifically the value of free services. European growth could be higher if their welfare states and tax burdens have gotten relatively larger during this time.
by NetMageSCW | 2025-12-16 14:35:35+00:00
Try looking at the bubble I live in around Martinsville VA. Fortunately if I had a BEV, most trips would be toward chargers though often not very conveniently. A common trip is to Meadows of Dan on 58W - where would you charge?

In general charger penetration appears slower on the East coast to me.
by crtasm | 2025-12-16 14:35:57+00:00
I think installing KOReader would let you configure it https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Ko...

That said I have a 2012 Kobo Mini with the option in stock firmware (and an undocumented "only refresh when I choose to" setting too). Maybe there's a firmware update for yours that would add it?
by mindcrash | 2025-12-16 14:36:58+00:00
"Just" some Copilot integration (in the form of chat or smart suggestions) is just the start.

The next major Windows 11 update coming in 2026 will have full agentic AI with full control over your (your?) PC. And it will hard require a pretty recent processor with Neural Processor Unit to make it work (so a lot more e-waste is coming).

I fear for the future.
Ask HN: Share a random link from your bookmarks
by TechSquidTV | 2025-12-16 14:37:03+00:00
I recently implemented a proper bookmark manager so I can actually organize collections of links, and I'm looking for interesting internet curiosities, useful tools, historical contexts, and such.

What's something from your bucket of links?

I'll start.

- https://barrarchiverio.cl/p/clippy/

This is an old-school-style web graphic generator that makes a custom MS Clippy image.
by carstout | 2025-12-16 14:37:09+00:00
Most of the pubs are owned by the PubCos Back in the past it was mostly brewery owned with 6 big brewers owning most of them. So a law got passed in the 90s which limited the breweries to a max of 2k pubs. Unfortunately what happened was we ended up with a bunch of very large Pubcos who were often linked to a particular brewery anyway (some were formed by former brewery execs and the pubs were "donated" in return for an agreement to keep buying from the brewery"). The Pubcos started with low rents but high stock prices but now go for both high rents and high stocks. Its why often see pubs changing hands frequently when someone tries the dream of pub landlordship but runs out of money. Its why Wetherspoons is "cheap" since generally they convert buildings and so have a freehouse model.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-16 14:37:14+00:00
This isn’t entirely news to people in the field doing research, but it’s important information to keep in mind when anyone starts pushing fMRI (or SPECT) scans into popular media discussions about neurology or psychiatry.

There have been some high profile influencer doctors pushing brain imaging scans as diagnostic tools for years. Dr. Amen is one of the worst offenders with his clinics that charge thousands of dollars for SPECT scans (not the same as the fMRI in this paper but with similar interpretation issues) on patients. Insurance won’t cover them because there’s no scientific basis for using them in diagnosing or treating ADHD or chronic pain, but his clinics will push them on patients. Seeing an image of their brain with some colors overlayed and having someone confidently read it like tea leaves is highly convincing to people who want answers. Dr. Amen has made the rounds on Dr. Phil and other outlets, as well as amassing millions of followers on social media.
by tiagom87 | 2025-12-16 14:37:22+00:00
I styled my portfolio site like the world's first website [0].

Times New Roman. Blue links. Horizontal rules. No gradients, no animations.

16 consumer infrastructure brands I've built, invested in, or advised.

Site: https://notacompany.com Source: https://github.com/not-a-company/notacompany

[0] https://info.cern.ch/
by graemep | 2025-12-16 14:37:35+00:00
That shows a 21% increase.

However, its not the same number at all. it is median real disposable income per head (person), whereas the the EU number is mean real income per household.

I think it is probably correct to say the UK has broadly speaking performed about as well as obvious peers such as France and Germany over the last 20 years, but its not greater performance for any of them.
by delichon | 2025-12-16 14:37:36+00:00
For you it's "purely for pleasure," for me it's for money, health and fire protection. I heat my home with my wood stove to bypass about $1,500/year in propane costs, to get exercise (and pleasure) out of cutting and splitting the wood, and to reduce the fuel load around my home. If those reasons went away I'd stop.

That's a good metaphor for the rapid growth of AI. It is driven by real needs from multiple directions. For it to become evitable, it would take coercion or the removal of multiple genuine motivators. People who think we can just say no must be getting a lot less value from it then me day to day.
by IAmBroom | 2025-12-16 14:37:37+00:00
James Corden pulled a stunt in a small pub where, if you picked a Beatles song on the jukebox, instead of the record playing a curtain would open, and Sir Paul McCartney and his band would play the song. Then the curtain would close.

Then ensuing mob of (well-behaved, deliriously happy) fans rushing to the pub was videotaped as well.

All in all a very cute stunt.