MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lalabadie | 2025-12-05 18:27:11+00:00
I live up North (capital N) from you, where we have ~4 months of calcium spread on our roads to manage the accumulating ice every winter. A well-maintained car has the chance to live long enough to succumb to rust from that.

Rustproofing is still a good treatment to get done to delay and minimize damage, but it's a thorough and slightly expensive job.

People who have a hobby car usually retire it in a garage from November to April-May instead.
by runako | 2025-12-05 18:27:15+00:00
> during this time the pitch degraded from “you won’t get sick or spread the disease” to “well I still got sick, but it probably would have been worse without the vaccine”

This line of thinking is so odd to me. Would you have preferred communications to use inaccurate, outdated points for the sake of consistency?

When honest interlocutors learn more about something, they communicate details more accurately. What would you have suggested they do instead? Keep in mind that Covid-19 was as new to them as it was to the rest of the world, and they were also learning about it in real time.

> Hard to anticipate long term effects when something has only been tested for a short period of time

This also applies to Covid infections in immunologically naive people! The two choices were unvaccinated Covid exposure or vaccinated Covid exposure. It's folly to pretend an imagined third option of zero Covid exposure. Comparing to that fake third option does not make any sense.
by pphysch | 2025-12-05 18:27:29+00:00
> Because historically this has been found to be the most critical issue killing nations.

This sounds tautological, like "stable states are stable". There are many stable states that don't have term limits on their head of state, and there are many unstable states with 4-6 year presidential terms.

Democracy-as-in-term-limits is a relatively meaningless historical indicator. When political stability is threatened, term limits are swiftly discarded. When the military junta is stabilized, it may introduce term limits to justify its reign (while actively filtering viable candidates).
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-12-05 18:28:02+00:00
All good, malleable software etc...going back to the directly personalized approach. But as with anything AI, the problem is the scale. And this manifesto seems to be talking about the opposite somewhat, a scaling back. (even tho it isn't at the same time, as we're talking about mass personalized software/AI deployment).

The problem is the scale. The scale of impact is immense and we're not ready to handle it.

In a mutitude of areas because of all the areas technology touches. Millions of jobs erased with no clear replacement? Value of creative work diminshed leading to more opportunities erased? Scale of 'bad' actors abusing the tools and impacting a whole bunch of spheres from information dispersal to creative industries etc. Not even getting into environmental and land-use impacts to spaces with data centers and towns etc (again, it's the scale that gets ya). And for what? Removing a huge chunk of human activity & expression, for what?

We're already into the forward mass scaling of AI and continuing to suffer the creeping consequences. How are we to scale back to this resonant form?
by catapart | 2025-12-05 18:28:12+00:00
- navigate to dist directory

- run pnpm dlx http-serve

- navigate to one of the provided ip addresses

(this uses the tunnl.gg service and is not necessary for local network access)

- [optional, for access via internet] run ssh -t -R 80:[provided ip address including port] proxy.tunnl.gg
by al_borland | 2025-12-05 18:28:19+00:00
> Conversely, 'lifetime' purchases can be a total disappointment if the software folds or is bought out.

They can also work out really well. I bought a "lifetime" PlexPass on the day it was launched. From what I can tell, that was around 2012. 13 years of service and updates so far. Plex is starting to have its problems with some questionable decisions as they look to give investors some ROI, but it's more than paid for itself by now.

I wish more of these companies would be ok with staying relatively small or growing slow, to avoid the compromised decision making that investors bring to the table. I wonder what the future of 1Password will look like as well, as they brought on investors too.
by lawlessone | 2025-12-05 18:28:20+00:00
Part of this the behavior around it too from some users. Like that guy spamming FOSS projects on github with 13k LOC of code nobody asked for and then acting forwarding the criticism from people forced to review it to the Claude and copy pasting the response back to .

Triumphant Posts on linkedin from former seo/cryptoscam people telling everyone they'll be left behind if they don't adopt the latest flavor text/image generator.

All these resources being spent too on huge data centres for text generators when things like protein folding would be far more useful, billion dollar salaries for "AI Gurus" that are just throwing sh*t at the wall and hoping their particular mix of models and training works, while laying people off.
by szopin | 2025-12-05 18:29:06+00:00
The revolutionary part is full linux with root a checkbox in the settings, no need to flash fishy roms, compile graphene yourself etc, it is mostly aimed for linux geeks who like to tinker, if you're fine with android, it's probably not for you (no matter how much they push for it being usable by normal users, there's always fixes/tweaks/workarounds that you'll need to use terminal for, or wait for proper fix, but again full root access is a checkbox in settings that will install terminal for you, for geeks it's the best option out there)
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 18:29:06+00:00
Netflix is a terrible media company. They don't invest in their library and are happy to cancel shows without concluding them screwing the creators and the fans. They canceled a show within the same month it released!

If a show does somehow get more than one season they can also be painfully slow. Stranger things took a 9 years to drop just 5 seasons. The Witcher was 6 years for just 4 seasons.
by vintermann | 2025-12-05 18:29:07+00:00
> The fact checker can provide other sources that may support their position.

Sure, and that woman could surely have come up with some bible verses or something. But would they even bother, if we accept them as an authority?

There weren't exactly many sources to support the claim that a certain laptop "had all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation"

The point isn't that the truth is unknowable, but that we should be deeply skeptical of people who claim to be truth experts. Of course real experts exist, but the more generic a person claims their expertise to be, and the more political the topic (in the sense that people have genuine conflicts of interest over it, that what benefits you may not benefit me), the less we should trust them.

At least Divine Authority Lady probably didn't have much opportunity to benefit at my expense, the same can't be said for all media experts.
by aseipp | 2025-12-05 18:29:14+00:00
The Macbook M2 Air running Asahi Linux is easily my favorite Linux laptop ever, far superior to any Thinkpad or Dell XPS I've owned, imo. I think things like Thunderbolt and some DisplayPort features are missing, but I have never needed this as it is purely a laptop for me. But it has everything else I could want: suspend/sleep, proper frequency scaling, great GPU drivers, USB/wifi/bluetooth, speakers, brightness/keyboard settings, etc. The webcam works I think but I haven't tried it. The battery life is great, though macOS is still quite a ways ahead in that department.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 18:29:25+00:00
I am a fairly prolific writer, having published ten books since 2018 and averaging some three articles per week, all of that next to my programming work.

But I understood quite early that I am a fluke of nature and many other people, including smart ones, really struggle when putting their words on paper or into Word/LibreWriter. A cardiologist who saved my wife's life is one of them. He is a great surgeon, but calling his writing mediocre would be charitable.

Such people will resort to AI if only to save time and energy.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-05 18:29:26+00:00
Another thing that seemed to work is the unvaccinated getting sick themselves.

2/3 of the unvaccinated COVID patients who were admitted to hospital regretted their decision, declared they would promote the vaccine post-discharge, and declared they would get it post-discharge.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8950102/
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-05 18:30:01+00:00
A major factor in the backlash is that the AI is obnoxiously intrusive because companies are forcefully injecting it into everything. It pops up everywhere trying to be "helpful" when it is neither needed nor helpful. People often experience AI as an idiot constantly jabbering next to them while they are trying to get work done.

AI would be much more pleasant if it only showed up when summoned for a specific task.
by ikkun | 2025-12-05 18:30:21+00:00
I don't think many people want one monolith to own all content, what they want is an easy way to watch content from multiple different content owners without having to juggle subscriptions.

music does this far better, there's multiple different platforms that all have the vast majority of music people care about, you can easily opt to rent with streaming or purchase outright and download without DRM. spotify would probably love to have tons of exclusive content, and they're trying this with podcasts etc, but the music industry hasn't been able to enshittify as much as the movie industry, yet.
by JohnMakin | 2025-12-05 18:30:38+00:00
I am not changing any subject. These are glue logic scripts connecting massive pieces of infra together, spanning what is likely several teams and orgs over the course of many years. It is impossible to blurt something out like "well, source code testing" for something like this, when the source code inputs are not possibly testable outside the scale of the larger system. They're often completely unknowable as well.

With all due respect, it sounds like you have not worked on these types of systems, but out of curiosity - what type of test do you think would have prevented this?
by khazit | 2025-12-05 18:31:23+00:00
In case you don't already know, there are Github-hosted runners that run Windows arm64 [1]

Also, it's not what you're asking, but self-hosted runners are a security nightmare if you don't have the hardware to completely isolate them from your local network.

[1] https://github.com/actions/partner-runner-images/blob/main/i...
by calyth2018 | 2025-12-05 18:31:35+00:00
Electrek's take on the rusty brake is lousy.

Rusty rotors has reduced effectiveness. EV with regen uses the actual brakes because the driver hits the brakes hard enough, presumably emergency braking.

The fact that they rust and it's not programmed to regularly enable physical brakes to scrape the rotors could be the difference between the driver can emergency stop in time or hitting something.

There's a reason why TUV flags rusty rotors as a problem.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-05 18:32:00+00:00
In fact one of my close friends is a co-owner of the Kraken

Sports teams and leagues are primarily owned by billionaires - like the amount of discussion around who is the owner is a significant portion of sports reporting

The only exception I know off the top of my head I believe is the Packers are community owned but even then I would be skeptical as to how the power dynamics play out in practice
by strifey | 2025-12-05 18:32:00+00:00
A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an engineer from a feature team for a quarter.

The amount of improvements to our collective understandings was super valuable. Feature devs got to help fix problems with their tools more directly (while also learning that it's not always as straightforward as it may seem), and we brought back much stronger insights into the experience of actually using our tools day-to-day.
by beej71 | 2025-12-05 18:32:02+00:00
I do believe it really is this simple. I don't buy a $47 carton of eggs because it's just not worth it.

People do the math and think, "I don't want to spend $40,000 on this. I can get a decent job without spending that, and then I can buy a car, too."

Politically and economically, it's incredibly dangerous for universities to keep going down this path. When the common citizen finds low value in a particularly expensive-to-run government institution, they elect lawmakers who dispose of those institutions.

As a society, we need to highly value widely-obtainable post-secondary education, from the citizens to the President. Or we're doomed.
by VanshPatel99 | 2025-12-05 18:32:50+00:00
R.I.P to the quality of HBO shows and looking forward to slow burn shows getting cancelled more now. HBO has been going through a really bad phase recently ha. With Discovery, WB and now this. Is it too much to hope that the quality of content won't drop to Netflix level? I just hope the "give writers the time and resources" mindset of HBO doesn't change
by unit149 | 2025-12-05 18:32:51+00:00
Criterion licenses Turner Classic Movies (TCM) after launching their streaming service in 2019. According to the Wall Street Journal, the offer was $27.75 per Warner Discovery, which owns TCM accounting for a $82.7 bn value. Paramount's bid was $30 for Warner Brothers's cable network M&A, seeking lateralise the monopoly.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20251205081209/https://www.wsj.c...
by presz | 2025-12-05 18:32:59+00:00
This is the same problem with cheating on tests and homework. By making getting a higher education degree mandatory for entry level jobs to be able to afford a normal life, people are incentiviced to get the degree, not the education. By tackling this particular case of students with fake disabilities, the universities will hurt people with real disabilities. Same thing with anti cheating measures that affect people that don't cheat. The root case of all this is making degrees mandatory on our society.
by Sevii | 2025-12-05 18:33:16+00:00
The annoying part is that every tech company made an internal mandate for every team to stuff AI into every product. There are some great products that use AI (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Nano-banana, etc). But we simply haven't had time to come up with good ways of integrating AI into every software product. So instead every big tech company spent two years forcing AI into everything with minimal thought. Obviously people are not happy with this.
by mrob | 2025-12-05 18:33:26+00:00
I'd give this the benefit of the doubt because the y section is more complex than I'd expect from AI. If it said "it's about the ubiquity of these tools", I'd agree it feels like AI slop, but "it's about what the ubiquity of these tools signals" has a deeper parse tree than I usually see in that negative parallelism structure.
by chaseadam17 | 2025-12-05 18:34:11+00:00
Meta playbook.

Netflix was a great product innovator for a long time but now that they're running out of ideas they're pivoting to acquisitions.

I guess one big difference is that their direct competitors aren't startups - they're Amazon, Apple, etc. - so perhaps this plays out more as a race to acquire studios, IP, and creative talent.

Then if/when they have a monopoly they'll charge $20 a month and still play ads every 5 min and we'll be back to cable.
by dangus | 2025-12-05 18:34:17+00:00
Some reading that could help you think like a sales engineer:

Great Demo! by Peter E. Cohan

Sales on Rails by John Haldi - less relevant to your scenario but it is short and could give you insight into how technical selling works.

This is some decent reading on ICP: https://blog.hubspot.com/customers/ideal-customer-profiles-a...

Basically, the short version of it is that you want to have a really good idea of the persona of the buyer that you want, what drives their urgency to buy, and how you address their pain points.

Some of this is more relevant to B2B selling but a lot of the ideas are still helpful.

At some point you might even want to think about who you don’t want to buy your product. Who will buy your product and then be unhappy with it?
by lisper | 2025-12-05 18:34:31+00:00
I don't think AI is comparable to cars. The problem with cars is that they necessarily use the commons. The more roads you build, the less space you have for trains, parks, housing, etc. AI isn't like that. I can continue to think for myself and look for ways to add value as a human even if everyone around me is using AI. And if that fails, if I can't find a way to compete with AI, if AI really is capable of doing everything that I can do as well as I can do it, why would I not want to use it?
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-05 18:34:32+00:00
As RSS was being widespread around 2010, this is what most people said they were using it like, at least in my experience. It was the time when we still didn't have great spam filters, and people were used to receive and discard many emails without reading them.

RSS was also frequently compared to discussion forums, where you also want to efficiently ignore non-relevant content. RSS gave us the power to ignore the budding information overload.
by morshu9001 | 2025-12-05 18:34:50+00:00
Their own cables were the most fragile things ever invented. There's no reason for that other than selling more cables. And it's not just about revenue, it's about control/lockin.

It's striking, iPhones have always been top except for charging. They were always dead cause the cables were so unreliable and difficult to find. Finally that's fixed, rare thanks to the EU.
by dentemple | 2025-12-05 18:35:02+00:00
> At one side, people are unhappy about AI, at the other side, who of those same people will stop using ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments for them.

As Newsweek points out*, the people most unhappy about AI are the ones who CAN'T use ChatGPT to write their work e-mails and assignments because they NO LONGER have access to those jobs. There are many of us who believe that the backlash against AI would never have gotten so strong if it hadn't come at the expense of the creators, the engineers, and the unskilled laborers first.

AI agents are the new scabs, and the people haven't been fooled into believing that AI will be an improvement in their lives.

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*and goes deeper on in this article: https://www.newsweek.com/clanker-ai-slur-customer-service-jo...
by edu | 2025-12-05 18:35:25+00:00
I actually think that AI is a great use case for writing emails, starting from a draft or list of what you want to say and getting it polished to a professional tone. You need to prompt it correctly, review and iterate so it doesn’t become slop, but very useful.

OTOH, I’d never use it to write emails to friends and family, but then I don’t need to sound professional.
by spongebobstoes | 2025-12-05 18:35:26+00:00
seems like this was a decision between two technical solutions, not a people problem. one solution had a kind of perverse incentive

even without perverse incentive, it seems to be human nature that work expands to fill available time (this is another kind of perverse incentive)

maybe best to frame problems of human nature as technical problems. ex, the preferred path should be the easiest path

sadly, people do not behave like the utopian ideal
by echelon | 2025-12-05 18:35:50+00:00
We're too early.

This is AI's "dialup era" (pre-56k, maybe even the 2400 baud era).

We've got a bunch of models, but they don't fit into many products.

Companies and leadership were told to "adopt AI" and given crude tools with no instructions. Of course it failed.

Chat is an interesting UX, but it's primitive. We need better ways to connect domains, especially multi-dimensional ones.

Most products are "bolting on" AI. There are few products that really "get it". Adobe is one of the only companies I've seen with actually compelling AI + interface results, and even their experiments are just early demos [1-4]. (I've built open source versions of most of these.)

We're in for another 5 years of figuring this out. And we don't need monolithic AI models via APIs. We need access to the AI building blocks and sub networks so we can adapt and fine tune models to the actual control surfaces. That's when the real take off will happen.

[1] Relighting scenes: https://youtu.be/YqAAFX1XXY8?si=DG6ODYZXInb0Ckvc&t=211

[2] Image -> 3D editing: https://youtu.be/BLxFn_BFB5c?si=GJg12gU5gFU9ZpVc&t=185 (payoff is at 3:54)

[3] Image -> Gaussian -> Gaussian editing: https://youtu.be/z3lHAahgpRk?si=XwSouqEJUFhC44TP&t=285

[4] 3D -> image with semantic tags: https://youtu.be/z275i_6jDPc?si=2HaatjXOEk3lHeW-&t=443

edit: curious why I'm getting the flood of downvotes for saying we're too early. Care to offer a counter argument I can consider?
by TZubiri | 2025-12-05 18:35:54+00:00
"The Commission said X's verified accounts which carry a blue checkmark do not correspond to industry practice and negatively affect users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts they interact with"

I think X is in the wrong here, the blue checkmark usually means the identity has been verified, in other social media, but also historic twitter.

Nowadays on X it only means that a fee has been paid, it's used for scams, some even claim to be Elon Musk or official twitter announcements, which is very ironic.
by donmcronald | 2025-12-05 18:36:02+00:00
I hate this. Writing skills used to be a way to show you're paying attention to detail and making an effort. Now everyone thinks I'm cheesing it out with AI.

I also have a tougher time judging the reliability of others because you can get grammatically perfect, well organized emails from people that are incompetent. AI has significantly increased the signal to noise ratio for me.
by fencepost | 2025-12-05 18:36:40+00:00
I think a related but separate question would be "Can I do these things if the proceeds are going directly to charity instead of to me?"

I suspect it would be important that any funds never reached you, so you couldn't simply receive money then donate that amount. Playing a charity gig where the receipts go directly to the charity would likely be fine, streaming/Spotify revenue I don't know, acting in a movie might be out of the question if it's being professionally shot because the producer might have insurance or other requirements that only paid performers and crew can be on set, etc.
by gorfian_robot | 2025-12-05 18:36:48+00:00
my dad (who has had the shingrex) sometimes still gets a mild case on his legs and when it does it is too painful to have anything touch his legs. no pants, not even a sheet.

my mom (who passed before shingrex) got a bad case in one eye and went blind in that eye.

so nice that kids have been getting the chickenpox vaccine for a while now and shouldn't have to deal much with shingles as the age.
by stiray | 2025-12-05 18:37:04+00:00
Sure, I am not complaining about that. Again, Sailfish OS is great (!!!!!), no doubt about it. Unfortunately, I need a daily driver instead of carrying 2 phones with me.

Once Jolla will understand that, I am prepared to get back. Until they don't, they will need to find users elsewhere. I can ditch a lot of bloat from my life, but unfortunately, ability to use public transport is not one of them.