MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randycupertino | 2025-12-18 20:45:07+00:00
I've gotten fooled by these fake-movie trailers before, ones made by AI and ones made of "fan edits" using the actors from other scenes. It's definitely annoying, especially when you're anticipating a film and excited to see the new trailer, it's weirdly bad or off and then you realize it's a fake trailer!

> Screen Culture had created 23 versions of a trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps by March, some of which outranked the official trailer in YouTube search results. More recent examples include HBO’s new Harry Potter series and Netflix’s Wednesday.

Also this is interesting:

> Our deep dive into fake trailers revealed that instead of protecting copyright on these videos, a handful of Hollywood studios, including Warner Bros Discovery and Sony, secretly asked YouTube to ensure that the ad revenue from the AI-heavy videos flowed in their direction.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/youtube-ad-revenue-fake-movie-t...
by someNameIG | 2025-12-18 20:45:08+00:00
> Well, yes. If you build a userbase out of power users and folks who care about privacy and control...

Is that their core user base, or just the vocal user base online? Only 5-10% of their user base have UBO installed (FF has almost 200 million users, extension store reports ~10 million UBO installs).

Firefox isn't LibreWolf, it's user base are just average people, not much different than that of Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
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by stephen_cagle | 2025-12-18 20:45:23+00:00
Fair enough. I guess I am making a bit of a straw-man in that I feel I just don't buy the idea that doing the same thing 10 times over the course of 10 years is somehow worse than doing different things over the course of 10 years. They are signals, and depending on what we are attempting, they just mean different expected outcomes. One isn't necessarily worse than another, but in this case it seems to be implying it is the distinction between Midlevel and Senior.
by filloooo | 2025-12-18 20:46:06+00:00
Handing out sanctions without at least a plausible legal cover, sounds like a recipe for disaster that would come back to bite.

I wonder what could be used here, non-compete? IP infringement? Or doing it "for all mankind"?

As for knowledge, the YouTube channel Branch Education explained EUV lithography in great detail, sponsored by ASML itself.

My impression is that the knowledge is not that secretive, the precision required at every step is the key.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-12-18 20:46:08+00:00
> The problem is that research work generally takes the following form:

> * Come up with 5 possible approaches (2 days)

Even that gives you something to talk about, that looks "solution-oriented" in the way managers like; in deep work the first steps can actually be:

* Break down the existing approach into its fundamental assumptions and components (3 days)

* Try to build a few approaches challenging some assumptions in a useful way, and fail (2 days)

* Get a clearer picture of the cloud of possibilities that are more likely to work, and start assembling the pieces from that cloud (3 days)

and so on. This is the kind of stuff that's really hard to communicate, and often sounds like you're doing nothing at all in the initial stages, even though that time pays for itself many times more once(/if) you get to take it to completion instead of doing patchwork upon patchwork on a design based on outdated assumptions.
by wl | 2025-12-18 20:46:29+00:00
That's a rather confused account of the matter.

The rebus principle where someone might use a depiction of an eye for the sound "I" and so forth is the very basis of the script and was there from the beginning. The complicated part is they'd use words with one to three consonants and strip the vowels. To continue the example, we might use 𓃠 to represent the consonants "ct" and thus use it to write "cat", "cot", and "cut."

There was an inventory of uniconsonantal or uniliteral signs dating back to the very beginning of the language which the ancient Egyptians could have used as an alphabet (or abjad if we want to be pedantic) if they had wanted to, but they never did—at least to write Egyptian. The basis of our alphabet, Proto-Sinaitic script, seems to have come about when speakers of Caananite languages in the Sinai Peninsula borrowed a small number of Egyptian hieroglyphs, assigned them the phonetic value for the thing depicted in their own Caananite language, and they didn't bother with anything other than uniconsonantal signs.

The "three different alphabets" thing is unrelated to any of this. Hieroglyphs and hieratic appear around the same time. Hieroglyphs were used for monuments and more formal contexts. Hieratic is a cursive form of hieroglyphs that was much faster to write with a brush pen and ink. It tended to be used for literature, correspondence, and record-keeping. From what we know of Egyptian scribal education, they started out with hieratic and then moved on to hieroglyphs, with not everyone progressing to the point where they started learning hieroglyphs. This is quite the reversal from how we approach things today, with virtually every student of ancient Egyptian language learning hieroglyphs (specifically, Middle Egyptian) first and then moving on to learning hieratic. Demotic was a later evolution of hieratic. And eventually, the Egyptians wrote their language using a modified Greek alphabet ultimately derived from their hieroglyphs (Coptic).
by snarf21 | 2025-12-18 20:46:29+00:00
Yeah, it is way worse than that. In the past two days, I have had two separate non-engineer team members ask some AI agent how some mobile bug should be fixed and posted the AI response in the ticket as the main content and context and acceptance criteria. I then had to waste my time reading this crap (because this is really all that is in the ticket) before starting my own efforts to understand what the real ask or change in behavior needed is.
by the_af | 2025-12-18 20:46:36+00:00
I believe researchers are under pressure not to extrapolate too wildly, unless they can find strong evidence for their extrapolations. In TFA itself they are quoted (very briefly) saying this is not a representation of what the statues actually looked like, it's just the pigments they guaranteed were there.

> Cecilie Brøns, who leads a project on ancient polychromy at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, praises the reconstructions but notes that ‘reconstructions can be difficult to explain to the public – that these are not exact copies, that we can never know exactly how they looked’.

Consider that had they gone wild with creativity, they would have been criticized for it. Apparently the current overcautious trend is an (over)reaction to previous careless attitudes in archeology.

This is my uninformed take, anyway. I think TFA's author should have engaged more directly with researchers instead of speculating about their motives; the article -- while making some interesting points -- reads a bit snarky/condescending to me. Why not go straight to the source and ask them?
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-18 20:47:28+00:00
Borderline deception is a bad way to correct inaccurate knowledge.

And frankly, if I wanted to ridicule the ancients and flatter my own age, I could think of no better way than to make the old stuff look bad.

I would much rather have an exhibit that showed the bare marble, then a conservative reconstruction based on what direct evidence merits (to the degree possible, noting that it is not a complete reconstruction), then more liberal but reasonable reconstructions based on indirect evidence.
by sunrunner | 2025-12-18 20:47:41+00:00
Also not on Twitter and try hard to avoid the easy source-less Internet drama, though I recall some comments about the vaccines being rushed out and not going through the standard trial processes and periods.

It doesn’t seem untrue, though given the environment at the time justified, but that comment was extrapolated to “He’s a hard-right anti vaxxer”. No citations of my own though, so this is just memory.

Either way, this is why I try to stay off Twitter.
by KittenInABox | 2025-12-18 20:47:46+00:00
Why link you to the handful of individual links directly when you clearly can identify and sort through the source yourself? The poisoning the well clearly wouldn't work on you. Well, here the links are:

"This is true, the gaming press is super left-wing, but on the other hand they have almost no impact now. I would say that the social pressure keeping "indies" in line mostly comes from them being socially fearful in the normal way. (It doesn't help that all males currently under the age of 40 were raised to be supercucks.)" https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1854708962462982465

(Feb 2025 for context)"Are you kidding? He is the best President we have had in my entire life, by far. It's a miracle. I just hope it doesn't abruptly go bad." https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1887599339037663629

"Interest is not the same as ability. I believe it is likely that the sexes have different interests on average, and that biological factors play a large part in this. This is *NOT REMOTELY* a controversial opinion except on Weird Far Left Twitter 2017." https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRT4vNEUIAEJgP3.jpg

"There's a weird disconnect in this vaccine mandate debate: many are still pretending that Covid-19 is of natural origin, which gives such mandates a different feel than they otherwise have." https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/1447601578123296769
by marknefedov | 2025-12-18 20:48:02+00:00
> Especially for people who have never attempted to write the software they are criticizing.

Casey was criticizing new Windows Terminal got into an argument with Microsoft's project manager that said that it was impossible to implement optimizations that Casey talked about. Well, Casey reimplemented terminal, it was not that hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38650254
by the_af | 2025-12-18 20:48:58+00:00
> Imposing the garrish 5-yeard old colouring book style is no less biased.

I don't think they claim this is what the statues actually looked. In fact, the article quotes an expert saying the opposite: "we can never know what they looked like".

These are conservative but incomplete "this is the part we have strong evidence for".
by ayushmaanbhav | 2025-12-18 20:48:58+00:00
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by BryantD | 2025-12-18 20:49:03+00:00
I don't disagree with the underlying point, I just don't agree that the effects of this particular issue are all that minimal. Mockery only gets you so far when the moralizing fools are, say, serving as Speaker of the House.

Probably also worth asking if this problem is really independent, or if it's a facet of larger, more clearly damaging trends.
by rufo | 2025-12-18 20:49:06+00:00
https://x.com/jonathan_blow/status/1887599339037663629?s=46&...

> Are you kidding? He is the best President we have had in my entire life, by far. It's a miracle. I just hope it doesn't abruptly go bad.

(In reply to a post ruing Trump’s “showmanship” and wishing that the Republican Party had produced a “legit” candidate.)
by p1necone | 2025-12-18 20:49:16+00:00
The difference from 2015 to 2025 is enormous.

Gaming on linux in 2015 was a giant pita and most recent games didn't work properly or didn't work at all through wine.

In 2025 I just buy games on steam blindly because I know they'll work, except for a handful of multiplayer titles that use unsupported kernel level anticheat.
by bgnn | 2025-12-18 20:49:42+00:00
They are nowhere close to beat ASML.

This isn't a moat ASML can keep for long though. There can be alternatove technologies to achieve the same goal. So far only China has that incentive. The real problem is process scaling is slowing down. How many more generations of lithography machines will ASML design? Probably not many. This means there will be no edge left in 5 or 10 years, as eventually brute force will work and China will achieve the same lithography resolution.

Till that point, they are just going all in with cheap coal + solar, so even if they use older machines and run longer exposure times, even if they achieve lower yields and toss away a lot of the dies, they are still economically competitive. At the end cheap enery solves a lot of the issues.
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-18 20:49:50+00:00
But they don't actually differ, see the "no graphics API" blog post we're all commenting on :) The primary difference between mobile & desktop is performance, not feature set (ignoring for a minute the problem of outdated drivers).

And beyond that if you look at historical trends, mobile is and always has been just "desktop from 5-7 years ago". An API split that makes sense now will stop making sense rather quickly.
by wahern | 2025-12-18 20:50:16+00:00
I've been nerd sniped. Per Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Mountains

> In the Paleogene and Neogene Periods (~66 million to ~1.8 million years ago), the mountain chains that today constitute the Atlas were uplifted, as the land masses of Europe and Africa collided at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.

But it also notes,

> The Anti-Atlas Mountains are believed to have originally been formed as part of the Alleghenian orogeny. These mountains were formed when Africa and America collided

Anti-Atlas? If we jump over to the Anti-Atlas article we see,

> In some contexts, the Anti-Atlas is considered separate from the Atlas Mountains system, as the prefix "anti" (i.e. opposite) implies.

and

> The summits of the Anti-Atlas reach average heights of 2,500–2,700 m (8,200–8,900 ft),

So in addition to subsequent events, the portion of the Atlas originally formed with the Appalachian is geologically distinguishable from the other portions of the Atlas chain, and actually significantly lower than the parts of the chain formed later, though not as low as the Appalachians.
by phil21 | 2025-12-18 20:50:32+00:00
Medicare is a form of welfare, just branded differently. It's a means-tested benefit funded in a pay-as-you-go manner via income tax just like any other. The means are just different amongst various programs.

Are there any actual cases of making more earned income via a regular job worse than taking that extra dollar of pay? I'm guessing a few very rare corner-cases exist, but I can't immediately think of any. I imagine they would be somewhere in the neighborhood of the EITC or AMT type things.
by codeddesign | 2025-12-18 20:50:34+00:00
Political games like this guy is playing drive me crazy, and then people believe him and don’t do any research.

This guy has a U.S. green card. The letter from USCIS (immigration) is because he previously had a travel visa in his passport that is now invalid since he has a green card. He was claiming that he would protest the U.S. by entering on the visa rather than his green card - at the same time USCIS informed him that the visa was (correctly) being revoked (due to green card status)
by FloorEgg | 2025-12-18 20:50:35+00:00
Ah my bad, that was a silly deduction on my part.

Yes I see your point better now, however I still think this is temporary. It's probably something like accidental/manufactured complexity is friction, and I'm this example the friction is dehumanizing jobs. You're right this is a limiting factor. My theory is that something will get shaken up and refactored and a bunch of the accidental complexity that doesn't effectively increase global entropy will fall off, and then real complexity will continue to rise.

I'm kind of thinking out loud here and conflating system design with economics, sociology, antitrust, organizational design, etc. Not sure if this makes sense but maybe in this context real complexity increases global entropy and manufactured complexity doesn't.

Manufactured complexity oscillates and real complexity increases over longer time horizons.

So what you see as approaching a limit (in the context of our lifetimes) is the manufactured complexity, and I agree.

My point is that real complexity is far from its limit.

I'm a lot less confident, but suspect, that if real complexity rises and manufactured complexity decreases we will see jobs on average become better aligned with human qualities. (Drop in dehumanizing jobs)

Not sure how long this will take. Maybe a generation?
by hamdingers | 2025-12-18 20:51:19+00:00
Since you asked I will share some wild speculation, but to be clear I don't know how Apple's fraud prevention works.

Gift cards are the currency of modern confidence scams. Accounts that redeem a lot of high value gift cards are suspect for that reason alone. Buttfield-Addison makes it sound like this is common practice for him, so his account may have been on a shitlist already.

Apple may be so sensitive they'd close a suspect account after one failed redemption. It's also possible that card was first redeemed by an account that was closed soon after for fraud, and Buttfield-Addison's subsequent attempt linked his already-suspect account to the fraudulent one resulting in automated actioning.

Again, this is pure speculation, and is not meant to justify Apple's actions.
by glenstein | 2025-12-18 20:51:32+00:00
I definitely heard there was a risk of that happening, but you're right that it seems not to have materialized. I'm honestly not sure what remedy they landed on or if they are still deliberating but I think a fascinating option that follows precedent would be a pop-up browser picker in Android instead of rolling Chrome as default, as that has precedent in other antitrust cases and could potentially change the market share issue overnight.

Another interesting one would be truly spinning off Chrome, but paying a search licensing fee to them, too. Actually, that's fascinating to consider in this context, because I know that option (spinning off the browser into its own company) has been criticized on the grounds that it would be unrealistic to assume a browser can simply monetize itself. Ironic given the Mozilla criticism.
by jijijijij | 2025-12-18 20:51:39+00:00
If a $500 drone is coming for your $100M factory, the price limit for defense considerations isn't $500.

In the end, you are trying to encourage people not to fuck with your shit, instead of playing economic games. Especially with a bunch of teenagers who wouldn't even be fully criminally liable for doing something funny. $4K isn't much today, even for a teenager. Thanks to stupid AI shit like Mintlify, that's like worth 2GB of RAM or something.

It's not just compensation, it's a gesture. And really bad PR.
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-18 20:51:44+00:00
You're right that it's a specific programming culture that is especially vulnerable to it. And for the same reasons they were vulnerable to the same thing to a lesser degree before the rise of LLMs.

But like, this case isn't really a dependency or supply chain attack. It's just allowing remote code execution because, idk, the dev who implemented it didn't read the manual and see that MDX can execute arbitrary code or something. Or maybe they vibe coded it and saw it worked and didn't bother to check. Perhaps it's a supply-chain attack on Discord et al to use Mintlify, if thats what you meant then I apologize.

I think you're right that I have an extreme aversion to SFBA-style software development, and partly because of how gen-ai is used there.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-18 20:51:46+00:00
Whether or not that is true is heavily disputed.

Most academic sources say the death toll of the famine was modest.

The only source for a 25% fatality rate is based on US State Dept population figures for Iran over time, not on any actual Iranian sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...
by DougN7 | 2025-12-18 20:52:15+00:00
It seems like there is a big business opportunity for someone to create a box you attach to your network to filter outgoing info, and incoming ads. Too much work for a tiny team to research what everything is talking to, and MITM your devices and watch DNS queries, etc, but if there was something dead simple to block a Samsung fridge from getting to its ad server, I have to think it would sell.
by johanyc | 2025-12-18 20:52:21+00:00
How do you use your passkeys? Do you have them sync with your apple or google accounts?

I've only experienced using passkeys with 1password and it's smooth as butter. Assuming 1p is unlocked, To login: press login with passkey on website -> press sign in on 1p extension pop-up -> done To create account: click create passkey on the website -> click save on 1p extension pop-up -> done

Tbh i think it's more important to get people to use password managers than passkeys.
by koinedad | 2025-12-18 20:52:33+00:00
This is very helpful for a team and even though it takes a little time it actually speeds things up in the long run. Using PR templates can help. A general description of the problem including a screenshot or video go a long way.

I remember when I was working at a startup and a new engineer merged his code and it totally broke the service. I asked him if he ran his code locally first and he stared at me speechless.

Running the code locally is the easiest way to eliminate a whole series of silly bugs.

Like mentioned in the article adding a test and then reverting your change to make sure the test fails is really important, especially with LLMs writing tests. They are great at making things look like they work but completely don’t.
by beeflet | 2025-12-18 20:52:53+00:00
We criminalize behavior based on whatever we feel like, based on our cultural expectations of what is allowed. That's what "we criminalize behavior not only on its base but due to its intent" and "considering the context" is all about. That's why we have juries. We reserve the right to break the rules if public opinion allows, based on our feelings. It turns out that justice in practice is not so blind.

For example, we feel like it is fair for credit card companies to monopolize payment systems, charge fees to businesses, and use a portion of the money from this scheme to set up this bullshit reward point system.

But to undermine this system is criminal, because the system is established, but undermining it is novel and therefore disallowed. Any new way to play the game is breaking the rules, because the purpose of the system is what it does.