MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-12-19 14:44:49+00:00
There is a very simple and powerful alternative; add a flag to the http header standard, which is enforced device-wide or web-browser wide for any parent controlled device.

If you dont want to serve or moderate your site for children and be exposed to fines, you block any request with the relevant flag.

You just need a law to enforce what can be served when using the relevant flag, and some talks with Google, Apple Microsoft and w3 to implement it.

you can even segment it my category; no-login, no-posting, no-18-plus, no-violence, no-politics, under-16, region-EU, region-UK.

This leaves control to parents to do what they deem appropriate for their age, and doesn't turn into a authoritative surveillance state.... wait thats the point isn't it...

nevermid there is no alternative /j
by conductr | 2025-12-19 14:44:50+00:00
Companies and hyper focused on integrating AI right now, which means they’re building this bench strength, and the obvious eventual question become what paid software can we bring “in house”. They will of course look at revenue growth opportunities and such first and how to improve known problem areas but cost reduction is an eventuality. I’m actively building products with AI that will replace millions of value in Enterprise software. I’m not even a programmer, I can do this as a CFO with an AI consultant (human consultant that specializes in AI that is)
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-19 14:45:06+00:00
Developments in technology, innovation, and commerce are all inherently value-laden, because those things are nothing without their users and their uses and their contexts, and values are politics. Eliminating politics from HN just means eliminating HN.

I notice that your style of pleading appears only ever on articles of a very particular subject category, namely conversations highlighting a particular US group being liars and grifters and abusers, and not on any of the other inherently political subjects discussed on HN, like

software freedom,

the value of historical preservation,

the moral position of hacking,

libel,

the justice of DRM,

privacy and the inherent injustice and dangers of televisions monitoring what you watch,

how old is old enough to use social media,

AI eliminating, or not eliminating, people's livelihoods that they depend on to eat, house, and clothe themselves,

whether AI training data is spying, stealing, or fair use,

the human value of AI-generated media,

whether warrants should be needed to access data about you,

whether data about you is yours,

the relationship between increased accumulation and centralization of wealth and decreased personal autonomy,

and so on.

I find it strange how participants in your refrain don't seem to see the politics in those conversations, only in this particular one. It's almost like your values and politics are showing. This suggests to me a non-rigorous understanding of the reach of what politics means and where it comes from.
by TSiege | 2025-12-19 14:45:44+00:00
I agree. This is just make believe based on a smaller subset of human writing than LLMs we have today. It's responses are in no way useful because it is a machine mimicking a subset of published works that survived to be digitized. In that sense the "opinions" and "beliefs" are just an averaging of a subset of a subset of humanity pre 1913. I see no value in this to historians. It is really more of a parlor trick, a seance masquerading as science.
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-12-19 14:46:49+00:00
> If you can avoid Orleans and kubernetes and all that, the better. It just adds complexity to this setup.

I’m starting to appreciate simplicity away from containers that’s why I’m even exploring systemd. I bet big on containers and developed plenty of skills, especially with k8s. I never stopped to appreciate that I’m partly in the business of making processes run on OSes, and it kinda doesn’t matter if the pid is a container or running ‘directly’ on the hardware. I’ll probably layer it back in but for now I’m kinda avoiding it as an exercise.

E.g. if I’m testing a debug ready build locally and want to attach my debugger, I can do that in k8s but there’s a ceremony of opening relevant ports and properly pointing to the file system of the container. Not a show stopper since I mostly debug while writing testing/production code in dev… But occasionally the built artifact demands inspection.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-12-19 14:46:56+00:00
It's not normally dangerous, on average. That doesn't mean confronting an armed suspect in a dangerous part of town is "safe" and that there's no reason for officers to get jumpy when that person turns and appears to point a concealed gun at them.

I'm not saying I know a better solution, but punishing officers for acting in what they believed to be self-defense in a very scary life-threatening situation doesn't seem particularly helpful. If you put your employees in a situation where they feel like they have to chose between a possible trip to jail and a possible trip to the morgue, they're going to pick jail every time, assuming they're even dumb enough to put themselves in that situation by working for you in the first place.
by quitit | 2025-12-19 14:47:05+00:00
One function of R&D involves how to manufacture things cheaply, quickly + en masse.

Those efficiencies that started with consumer drones now serve drones used in war. DJI being used at the start of the war is the evidence of that.

Continuation of that investment in R&D will also lead to new technologies: such as quieter drones, drones that can carry more, go further, and be controlled through difficult to counter means.

It's blithely short sighted to think that the technology is already at its maximum, or that these concepts are disconnected from each other. It's a type of naive thinking that people on the internet do to rationalise a false sense of security.

Also: to address another set of comments in this thread - China aren't looking at EUV so they can break into the graphics cards market or lower the price of RAM. Absolute utter numpties.
by quesera | 2025-12-19 14:47:28+00:00
> Still can't believe people buy their stock, given that they are the closest thing to a James Bond villain, just because it goes up.

I proudly owned zero shares of Microsoft stock, in the 1980s and 1990s. :)

I own no Palantir today.

It's a Pyrrhic victory, but sometimes that's all you can do.
by ranyume | 2025-12-19 14:48:23+00:00
This is my humble opinion, but such a coordinated action from the governments around the world at this particular time has a certain smell. It smells like they're worried about losing governmental narrative control. It could be about foreign powers, but tech nowadays allows regular people to contest power from the government so they become a target as well. AI, the internet, anonymity/cryptography, a probable war with china and/or russia, all exacerbate this worry.

In short, governments want to retain control and prepare for the future, and to retain control they need to control the flow of information and they need to have a monopoly on information. To achieve this they need an intelligence strategy that puts common people at the center (spying on them) and put restrictions in place. But they can't say this outloud because in the current era it's problematic, so the children become a good excuse.

This is particularly clear in governments that don't care about political correctness or are not competent enough to disguise their intentions. Such an example is the Argentine government, which these years passed laws to survey online activity and to put it's intelligence agency to spy on "anyone that puts sovereign narrative and cohesion at risk".
by maxsilver | 2025-12-19 14:48:53+00:00
> I'm not saying culture is irrelevant but saying china's success is due to "Chinese way of thinking" or america was dominant because of the "american dream" is an adult believing santa-tier take.

I don't know that it's a fairy tale. Certainly, it helps nations project more influence than they really have. But it's not nothing, commonly-shared philosophy is useful. It matters, because it differs, and that impacts things.

(as an American) America definitely does not share this philosophy. The idea that "Corruption and fraud can slow China’s progress, but they will not affect the final outcome." is not something most Americans would ever say about America as we struggle with mostly-unchecked corruption and fraud, and have zero enforcement over the consequences of such. It is absolutely effecting the final outcomes of the US, and in a massively negative way.

> Material conditions shape history

Sure, but not just material conditions. "Hope for the future" plays a bigger role than many people give it credit for.
by zetanor | 2025-12-19 14:48:53+00:00
In theory, libertarian-type approaches seem reasonable when you model for cooperative actors. In practice, however, you hit tragedies of the commons and severe first-mover disadvantages. Well-meaning parents who ban teenagers from social media at the level of the family rather than at the level of society will mainly just socially ostracize their kids. I'd imagine you'd need to go Amish-mode and build a social network on behalf of your kids for anything like this to work.

If you want to restrict kids from social media (which is an open question), I would much prefer that the laws not gate kids from social media directly as this would require social media websites to ask for ID. Rather, abusive parents who don't lock their kids out of social media websites should be sanctioned. First offenders get all of their Internet accesses taken down for a few months.
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by subpixel | 2025-12-19 14:49:26+00:00
Claude also has custom slash-commands, so you can force skill usage as you see fit.

This lets you trigger a skill with '/foo' in a way that resembles the way you'd use the command line.

Claude Code is very good at using well-defined skills without a command though, but in a scenario where this is some nuance between similar skills they are useful.
by VBprogrammer | 2025-12-19 14:49:27+00:00
Not sure where you are from but it's not exclusive to the UK. People directly quoting the US president following the tragic death of a right wing commentator also found themselves locked up. Not to mention the same president suggesting that people suggesting that the military should refuse illegal orders should be locked up etc.

I think realistically we've grown up in an age where you could say almost anything online, free from any threat of any kind of reprisal. It probably reasonable that, given the internet is key to daily life these days, that we treat it as no different from standing on a park bench and shouting. If you're calling for the death of people based on their religion or some other characteristic then there are consequences to your speech.

Unfortunately the most recent example of this kind of legislation, the laws surrounding age verification on websites, was introduced under a previous government so it really doesn't matter who you vote for on this anyway.
by moffkalast | 2025-12-19 14:49:31+00:00
Ah yes, copyright infringement simulator.

Kidding aside it's really cool, it's insane to me that one can just download the entire map of Most Wanted to their browser in seconds. Some of these maps would make great webgl case studies for shaders and rendering, they're reproduced really well. Also god were they efficient in those days, any polygon that can't be seen from ground level is just removed from the mesh entirely instead of culled at runtime.

I'm glad to have seen this before Nintendo's lawyers load their book throwing catapults.
by wavemode | 2025-12-19 14:50:07+00:00
> There's plenty of precedent in other threshold ages at which children can start indulging in other potentially harmful vices.

Yeah but, there's no precedent for regulating something that parents are opting into (by buying their kids devices and then turning them loose with no oversight).

We should be punishing liquor stores when a parent willingly buys their child alcohol, then?
by crazygringo | 2025-12-19 14:50:07+00:00
I'm not defending Apple here. But I think the logic is, if you rightfully bought the card then nobody but you should be able to activate it. So the first person activating it is legit, and a second person attempting to activate it is necessarily trying to engage in fraud, having stolen it from a trash can or something.

But this breaks down for the reasons described, that thieves get the code before you do and manage to spend it first once the cashier activates it but before you get home and actually use it.

So maybe that's new and Apple hasn't updated their scam detection logic? It's the only thing I can think of.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-19 14:50:11+00:00
It’s a myth that the “cash injection” from Microsoft saved Apple.

Microsoft gave Apple $250 million. The next quarter Apple turned around and spent $100 million on PowerComputing’s Mac assets.

Apple lost over a billion more before it became profitable. The $150 Net wouldn’t have been make or break.

Now Microsoft promising to keep Office on the Mac was a big deal
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-19 14:50:52+00:00
In the same way that Shazam can identify songs despite the audio source being terrible over a phone, mixed with background noise. It doesn't capture the audio as a WAV and then scan its database for an exact matching WAV segment.

I'm sure it is way more complex than this, but shazam does some kind of small windowed FFT and distills it to the dominant few frequencies. It can then find "rhythms" of these frequency patterns, all boiled down to a time stream of signature data. There is some database which can look up these fingerprints. One given fingerprint might match multiple songs, but since they have dozens of fingerprints spread across time, if most of them point to the same musical source, that is what gets ID'd.
by oakwhiz | 2025-12-19 14:50:58+00:00
To me the problem with drag and drop is not only that it has to be a single continuous motion, but that nothing else interrupts you at an inconvenient time while you are doing it. The consequences of an incorrect drag and drop can be confusing. This "pick and place" UI is more precise and less error prone but a lot less convenient. Maybe there is a middle ground.
by myrmidon | 2025-12-19 14:51:27+00:00
What is your worst-case scenario here?

Something like a pop-sci article along the lines of "Mad scientists create racist, imperialistic AI"?

I honestly don't see publication of the weights as a relevant risk factor, because sensationalist misrepresentation is trivially possible with the given example responses alone.

I don't think such pseudo-malicious misrepresentation of scientific research can be reliably prevented anyway, and the disclaimers make your stance very clear.

On the other hand, publishing weights might lead to interesting insights from others tinkering with the models. A good example for this would be the published word prevalence data (M. Brysbaert et al @Ghent University) that led to interesting follow-ups like this: https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/words

I hope you can get the models out in some form, would be a waste not to, but congratulations on a fascinating project regardless!
by ericskiff | 2025-12-19 14:51:52+00:00
Awesome to see real UX experimentation, and this elicited a strong response from me at first "oh I haaaaate that".

On further reflection, this is very interesting and I understand where the drag and drop interaction breaks down on long lists. Some additional UI affordances to communicate what's happening may make it intuitive and clear.

Things I'd want to experiment with if I was implementing this:

* A "wheel" effect where the items in the list grow slightly as they near the chosen item which stays locked in the interface at the center, popping into place at at each 'click'. Somewhat like the Price Is Right wheel flipper

* Making the interaction entirely scroll based once I click. Setting the item in place can be done by any other click or keypress, and cancelled with the escape hotkey. My interaction is pick, scroll, click (without having to aim back at the thing I just placed by scrolling)
by jaennaet | 2025-12-19 14:51:55+00:00
But the thing is that they aren't even making money; eg. OpenAI lost $11 billion in one quarter. Big LLMs are just so fantastically expensive to train and operate, and they ultimately really aren't as useful to eg businesses as they've been evangelised as so demand just hasn't picked up – plus the subscription plans are priced so low that most if not all "LLM operators" (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) apparently actually lose money on even the most expensive ones. They'd lose all their customers if the plans actually cost as much as they should.

Apropos to that, I wonder if OpenAI et al are losing money on API plans too, or if it's just the subscriptions.

Source for the OpenAI loss figure: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1...

Source for OpenAI losing money on their $200/mo sub: https://fortune.com/2025/01/07/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-pro...
by alexfoo | 2025-12-19 14:52:10+00:00
> Imagine being 14 and having an entire laptop to prevent you from ever needing to focus in class.

Depends on the school obviously, but at my 15 year old's school they default to their laptops staying in their bag and only get them out for specific tasks when directed by the teacher. The rest of the time the laptop is in their bag. They don't just sit there staring at a laptop during every lesson and goofing around on the Internet.

Also all of these school provided laptops have pretty extensive keylogging/etc installed. The laptops are not provided for personal use and the school picks up pretty quickly on any student browsing websites they shouldn't be looking at or typing things they really shouldn't be typing, even when at home and not on the school's wifi. The students are all aware of this and cope quite well.
by tsazan | 2025-12-19 14:52:40+00:00
That is the current standard. But it is hard for agents to read efficiently. To access JSON-LD, an agent must download the entire HTML page. This creates a haystack problem where you download 2MB of noise just to find 5KB of data.

Even then, you pay a syntax tax. JSON is verbose. Brackets and quotes waste valuable context window. Furthermore, the standard lacks behavior. JSON-LD lists facts but lacks instructions on how to sell (like @SEMANTIC_LOGIC). CommerceTXT is a fast lane. It does not replace JSON-LD. It optimizes it.
by mapt | 2025-12-19 14:52:54+00:00
Initially, thermal throttling was a safety valve for a failure condition. A way to cripple performance briefly so as not to let the magic blue smoke out. Only a terrible PC would be thermal throttling out of the box; Only neglectful owners who failed to clean filters, had thermal throttling happening routinely.

That's not how it works any more.

Many of these CPUs both at the high end and even a few tiers down from the top, are thermal throttling whenever they hit 100% utilization. I'm thinking of Intel's last couple generations particularly. They're shipped with pretty good heatsinks, but not nearly good enough to run stock clocks on all cores at once. Instead, smarter grades of thermal throttling are designed for for routine use to balance loads. Better heatsinks (and watercooling) help a bit, but not enough, you end up hitting a wall; Only the risky process of delidding seems to push further. We're running into limitations on how well a conventional heatsink can transfer the heat from a limited contact patch.

GPUs seem to have more effective heatsinks, and are bottlenecked mostly by power requirements. The 600 watt monsters are already melting cables that aren't in perfect condition.
by soared | 2025-12-19 14:53:56+00:00
That’s a really cool link! One guy predicted it very well:

> Second, I think Apple is using this as a "sneaky" device to sneak large capacity hard drives into our pockets. Basically, once we're used to carrying around something like this, they can build on it. Add the PalmOS or OSX/CE (OK, bad joke, but you get the idea) and you have a PDA with more massive storage than any other. Add a firewire connection to some optics and you have a video camera with 10 hours of battery life, smaller and easier to conceal than Sony's smallest. The thing I like about the video camera idea is that with tapeless storage, editing is much, much faster, and with the disk unit in your pocket, the camera can be really tiny and lightweight and still have a lot of features. Basically, once they up the drive capacity to 20GB (maybe 3-6 months?), that's enough for 90 minutes of broadcast quality digital video, enough for almost any common event! Think about it. This is just an iSeed iPod. Many other things can and probably will grow out of it.
by sedawkgrep | 2025-12-19 14:55:07+00:00
This is an interesting thread to me and my experience as a total hack programmer has been both awesome and pathetic with regards to AI.

Recently I tried working with both ChatGPT and Gemini (AI Studio) to take a really badly written PHP website and refactor it into MVC components. I've worked strictly through the web UI as this only involved a few files.

While both provided great guidance around how to approach disentangling this monolithic code, GPT failed miserably, generating code that was syntactically incorrect, and then doubling-down on it by insisting that it was correct and that errors were faults lying elsewhere. It literally generated code that lacked closing parenthesis and brackets.

In contrast, Gemini generated a perfectly working MVC version from the start. In both instances I did intentionally keep it on track to only separate the code into MVC and NOT to optimize anything, but it worked the first try. I've then taken it through subsequent refactorings and it's done superbly in that role.

So I can't speak to how well this works for large code bases, much less agentically. (my initial, very focused MVC refactor was about 1300 lines.) But when giving it a very specific task with strict guidance and rules, my results with Gemini were fantastic.
by everdrive | 2025-12-19 14:55:20+00:00
Leaving it in the bag sounds really reasonable. I'm not really worried about _where_ a kid goes on his laptop. Even if all you had was wikipedia that would be way more interesting than what you were being taught in your lecture. It's the opportunity for distraction here which is what I'm worried about rather than what the kid actually does online. (social media is its own problem, but I'm not addressing that here)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-12-19 14:55:40+00:00
Presumably that would reflect Gemini 3.0 Flash having more extensive RL for coding training than Pro ? Maybe we can expect a "Gemini 3 Pro Coding" model in the future?

Opus 4.5 seems different - Anthropic's best coding model, but also their frontier general purpose model.