MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by igor_mart | 2025-12-28 14:42:03+00:00
What if... we removed the month-ends?

I typically imagine time as a line, so I wondered what it would look like if days were rects in one line, just word-wrapped. It doesn't auto-adjust to page size, but 75% zoom works fine for printing in my case.

https://igormartynov.com/calendar2026.html
by hypertexthero | 2025-12-28 14:42:12+00:00
It took me a long time to notice that the word in the title is “massage”, and not “message”, in Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage (An inventory of effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

Links to various editions: https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall...

Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom
by systemtest | 2025-12-28 14:43:28+00:00
I understand wanting to control how your code is used, that’s completely fair. Most open source licenses, though, are written to permit broad usage, and explicitly prohibiting AI training can be tricky legally.

That said, it’s interesting how often AI is singled out while other uses aren’t questioned. Treating AI or machines as “off-limits” in a way we wouldn’t with other software is sometimes called machine prejudice or carbon chauvinism. It can be useful to think about why we draw that line.

If your goal is really to restrict usage for AI specifically, you might need a custom license or explicit terms, but be aware that it may not be enforceable in all jurisdictions.
by glopesdev | 2025-12-28 14:44:41+00:00
> But I just watched/listened to a Richard Feynmann talk on the nature of time

I hate to break it to you, but you were fooled by an AI dupe. Also took me a while to realise this. It’s sad we live in this tiring world where we have to fact check every single piece of content for authenticity. It’s just tiring. I’m sure many will reply it doesn’t matter, which of course will be funny to consider given someone went to the work of vocal cloning Feynman to make a channel of content (copyrighted of course) while claiming “no disrespect intended”.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-28 14:45:07+00:00
Very often misquoted as being a blunt attack on religion, but people often just cut out the second half of the quote --

"opiate of the masses... heart of the heartless world"

Marx was despairing at the heartlessness of the condition of working class people in industrial slums, people one generation or less removed from the flight from rural landless dispossession and starvation into the polluted cities and factories and tiny apartments in slums in search of survival. He saw religion as one tool people used to salve the pain, to reduce the suffering.

Far more complicated than "religion bad, we should ban it, mmkay"

There's probably an analogy here around the "attention economy" and "social media."

Look for root causes. If you turn everything and everyone into a commodity -- "market yourself!" -- don't be surprised when the consumptive model takes over all consciousness.

The commodity form is the [post|hyper]modern religion.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-12-28 14:46:05+00:00
The fines are already plenty high, it's just that they are essentially not enforced at all. You could definitely illegally commute everyday in a carpool lane, and expect to maybe get a $409 ticket between 0 and 1 times every 5 years or so.

A $490 ticket every 5 years works out to only $1.88 per week- effectively free for anyone that makes enough money to commute in a car in the first place.
by meindnoch | 2025-12-28 14:46:13+00:00
Calling arbitrary callbacks from a destructor is a bad idea. Sooner or later someone will violate the requirement about exceptions, and your program will be terminated immediately.

In a similar vein, care must be taken when calling arbitrary callbacks while iterating a data structure - because the callback may well change the data structure being iterated (classic example is a one-shot event handler that unsubscribes when called), which will break naïvely written code.
by 578_Observer | 2025-12-28 14:46:15+00:00
I've been a loan officer for 20 years.

To extend your analogy: AI is effectively mass-producing 'Subprime Housing'.
It has amazing curb appeal (glittering paint), but as a banker, I'd rate this as a 'Toxic Asset' with zero collateral value.

The scary part is that the 'interest rate' on this technical debt is variable. Eventually, it becomes cheaper to declare bankruptcy (rewrite from scratch) than to pay off the renovation costs.
by stevekemp | 2025-12-28 14:46:29+00:00
Look up the concept of "day fines", which are used in Finland elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

Surprisingly they were experimented with in the UK, for a very brief period of time. But not taken into use.

Every now and again a particularly large fine, often for speeding, will make the news. For example this story does the rounds now and again "Finland, Home of the $103,000 Speeding Ticket":

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
by bob1029 | 2025-12-28 14:46:38+00:00
> It's a shame this game has to pander to eSports fanatics rendering it into a completely hollowed out soulless experience.

There have been many victims of the eSports neuroticism. League of Legends is probably the most extreme example I can come up with. You will eventually get banned from the game if you choose the "wrong" play style. You don't even have to cheat or play poorly. Overwatch suffered a very similar fate - They removed a player slot to force it to fit the "5 man" meta. In the case of OW, the changes proved so unpopular they had to literally delete the original title from everyone's PC to force use of the only remaining option.
by pxc | 2025-12-28 14:46:38+00:00
> Any license that discriminates based on use case would not qualify as open source under the Open Source Initiative definition, nor as free software under the FSF definition.

Freedom 0 is about the freedom to run the software "for any purpose", not "use" the software for any purpose. Training an LLM on source code isn't running the software. (Not sure about the OSD and don't feel like reviewing it.)

Anyway, you could probably have a license that explicitly requires AIs trained on a work to be licensed under a compatible free software license or something like that. Conditions like that are comparable to the AGPL or something, adding requirements but still respecting freedom 0.

But that's not an "anti-AI" license so much as one that tries to avert AI-based copyright laundering.
by rkomorn | 2025-12-28 14:47:17+00:00
I don't understand what you find odd about "affecting IOPS."

If someone does something that has an impact on IOPS, then it's sensible to say they (or what they're doing) are "affecting IOPS."

Screaming at the JBOD wasn't "causing" IOPS, so using that phrase would've been more confusing.
by simg | 2025-12-28 14:47:34+00:00
I built something slightly unusual over Christmas

Radioscope, a device that turns Wi-Fi activity into sound.

It started as an exploration into sonifying data and finding ways to perceive invisible systems without looking at a screen. With a Raspberry Pi and headphones, you can “hear” your wireless environment in real time. Access points, clients, handshakes, data transfers all become texture and rhythm.

It’s not a surveillance tool and it doesn’t capture payloads, it just listens to signal activity patterns and maps them to audio.

One thing that interested me was the ability to passively recognise different behaviours and wifi environments by ear. For example, bursts of management frames (like deauth storms) have a very distinct “signature”. Not sure if the use case here is art, accessibility, security research or just curiosity but exploring the boundary between networks and perception is interesting.

Mostly, it was an excuse to play with Rust and Dioxus, pcap parsing, and audio design and to see what happens when you treat networks like music. I find it quite relaxing as background noise.
by kj4211cash | 2025-12-28 14:47:45+00:00
Former transportation engineering prof here. This is exactly right. And for many transportation engineers, it's a reason to support toll lanes and to oppose adding (other) lanes. But I agree with some of the other commenters here, that adding lanes supports greater movement of people and goods and, separately, that toll lanes are regressive and come with plenty of (other) issues that are often ignored. My personal take on this is that toll lanes and congestion charging are the most effective methods we know for relieving congestion BUT that they are an incredibly difficult sell politically and maybe for good reason; maybe their issue are worse than the congestion they mitigate.
by TrueDuality | 2025-12-28 14:49:23+00:00
Pretty unlikely in my book. This runs OpenWRT out of the box. Given, there are still closed source binary blobs in these things, especially around WiFi 6 and frequently the customizations for the kernel isn't released, but those tend to be more expensive locations to place backdoors especially when the system is very open to inspection. These kind of devices are VERY frequently torn down by security researchers and used in WiFi shoot-outs leading to much higher potential increased detection of anything present.

A lot of this these "backdoor" style hypothesis' still need a motive justification for the cost. Who would they be targeting? What is the potential value of the backdoor?

Given the visibility and complex locations required for the firmware, this would be an expensive backdoor to put in place for any amount of time. The attack is completely untargeted, at best you may be able to say tech enthusiasts that travel. You probably can't count on executive targeting, this device requires a separate battery pack as well as per-site configuration as opposed to pairing to their iPhone and not carrying all that extra stuff.

What are the chances of an expensive, high-visibility backdoor showing up in a dirt cheap product line for a high-risk untargeted attack? Pretty low in my book but your threat model may vary.
by CrazyStat | 2025-12-28 14:50:40+00:00
The legal premise of training LLMs on everything ever written is that it’s fair use. If it is fair use (which is currently being disputed in court) then the license you put on your code doesn’t matter, it can be used under fair use.

If the courts decide it’s not fair use then OpenAI et al. are going to have some issues.
by alhirzel | 2025-12-28 14:51:03+00:00
If you are talking about having the copyrighted source code not be used to train an AI, you could look at the discussions surrounding a recent license change in the Reticulum project [1].

I had previously been curious about this, and made a post on HN that got limited attention [2], but if you are wanting your software to not be used to create training data for third-party models, it could be a little relevant.

[1]: https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum?tab=License-1-ov-file...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384196
by willnix | 2025-12-28 14:51:03+00:00
During our research we discovered three vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20700, CVE-2025-20701, CVE-2025-20702) in popular Bluetooth audio chips developed by Airoha. These chips are used by many popular device manufacturers in numerous Bluetooth headphones and earbuds.

The identified vulnerabilities may allow a complete device compromise. We demonstrate the immediate impact using a pair of current-generation headphones. We also demonstrate how a compromised Bluetooth peripheral can be abused to attack paired devices, like smartphones, due to their trust relationship with the peripheral.

Examples of affected vendors and devices are Sony (e.g., WH1000-XM5, WH1000-XM6, WF-1000XM5), Marshall (e.g. Major V, Minor IV), Beyerdynamic (e.g. AMIRON 300), or Jabra (e.g. Elite 8 Active).
Show HN: FlowCode – Visual Flowcharts That Generate and Execute Python
by adamclement | 2025-12-28 14:53:02+00:00
I built FlowCode, a browser-based tool for teaching programming logic. You drag flowchart blocks, connect them, and:

the flowchart executes step-by-step

variables update live in a watch window

Python code is generated automatically

loops (for / while) and if / elif / else are auto-detected

you can save/load as JSON

no backend — everything runs client-side

Demo: https://southernadd-cmyk.github.io/flowCode/

It’s aimed at:

computing / CS teachers

students learning sequencing & control flow

anyone who thinks in diagrams first

A few things it currently supports:

Start/End, Process, Variable, Decision, Input, Output nodes

live execution highlighting

variable trace table

zoom / pan canvas

import/export example diagrams

loop pattern detection (including basic for inference)

I’d really value feedback on:

UI clarity for students

whether execution semantics feel intuitive

missing blocks you’d expect (functions & arrays maybe coming soon)

browser performance with larger charts

anything confusing or obviously wrong

I’m especially interested in teacher perspectives using this with classes.

It’s a pure HTML/JS project — no accounts, no tracking, no ads.
by makeitdouble | 2025-12-28 14:53:04+00:00
> people who work on the codebase need to somehow know what to expect.

IME this is the exception more than the rule. There will be a ton of manipulations where I don't really care what the types are, just whether I can do the specific thing I want on them.

For instance you receive the data from an API and want to pass it to the appropriate validator. The type definitions are noise, and checking them is the validator's job.

Now it's nice to be able to work with stricter types where needed, ideally I'd want to switch that on and off, instead of being stuck with them everywhere.
by pama | 2025-12-28 14:53:05+00:00
The credit markets often offer early signals. If data center buildup was indeed excessive, maybe we will enter a period of inexpensive rental compute in a couple years from now. On the other hand, as compute becomes more practical, humanity tends to use ever increasing amounts of it. It is hard to balance exponentials, and there is more to lose from underprovisioning than from overprovisioning.
by arusahni | 2025-12-28 14:53:20+00:00
As others have said there are challenges with the core assumption that something can similultaneously be open source and restricted from being used in AI training.

That being said, here's a repo of popular licenses that have been modified to restrict such uses: https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses

IANAL, so I can't speak to how effective or enforceable any of those are.
by ronsor | 2025-12-28 14:53:44+00:00
Quoting a previous comment of mine:

Ignoring the fact that if AI training is fair use, the license is irrelevant, these sorts of licenses are explicitly invalid in some jurisdictions. For example[0],

> Any contract term is void to the extent that it purports, directly or indirectly, to exclude or restrict any permitted use under any provision in

> [...]

> Division 8 (computational data analysis)

[0] https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/CA2021?ProvIds=P15-#pr187-
by rondaerth92 | 2025-12-28 14:54:08+00:00
That's false; she was a great actress regardless of her beliefs. The far left is ridiculous again, trying to smear names with white guilt, multiculturalism, and transgender ideologies.

Diversity is a farcical ideology that is quickly losing its appeal.

White Europeans have the most phenotypic diversity of any earthly group. A true "people of color".

Yet the leftist diversity peddlers fail to acknowledge this and insist that inserting monocoloured non-Europeans who lack this genetic diversity into European spaces is what it means to be "diverse".
by sumoaps | 2025-12-28 14:54:19+00:00
Author here. This is a minimal (~1k LOC) Python implementation showing how to make
retrieval strategy a learnable decision in RAG/agent systems.

Key ideas:
- Router extracts query features (digit_ratio, rare_ratio, etc.)
- Chooses between keyword, vector, or hybrid retrieval
- Feedback loop updates weights based on evaluation scores
- All runs logged to SQLite (or Databricks Lakebase)

The repo runs on CPU with no external API calls. Happy to answer questions
about the design or production considerations.
by 6510 | 2025-12-28 14:54:28+00:00
Actually, I do think that. Wouldn't it be lovely to have an image format for truly enormous images and have the browser request only the chunk currently visible? It could just be a container format with jpg's in it. Let the file system figure out that x/y means tile number 56436.

You could provide multiple image versions for zooming to get to the TB scale.

Computers are really good, performance is astonishing, no reason why we should never be able to use a TB size image. Never is a really long time.

Have epic panoramas, detailed scans from paintings, extremely easy game design and maps that just work.
Show HN: Meter – Web scraping that syncs only what changed
by mckinnonr | 2025-12-28 14:54:38+00:00
I spent a ton of time writing custom scrapers for different use cases, and I got tired of following the same pattern. Recently, I spent tons of time firing up custom scrapers and syncing data for a RAG app I built.

I built Meter to solve both of these issues: it makes creating a fast, CSS selector based scraper easy and it makes tracking content changes simple for use cases where data needs to stay in sync.

It's free for now - you can test it out by clicking "Get Started" and going to the dashboard and testing the scraping out. I'd love any feedback!
by Rotundo | 2025-12-28 14:54:45+00:00
I remember. It was very expensive for not a lot of extra bandwidth.
You also needed a special ISDN phone or a, again expensive, box to convert the signal to normal POTS.

Not long after the cable company started offering 'broadband' at 115 kbps, quickly upgraded to 512kbps.

ISDN was a complete non-starter in my locale.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-28 14:55:47+00:00
Yeah I think it's just a way to try and extract some money from the ecosystem.

But many people will never pay for Linux and it's even causing people to move away (eg to Mint which removes snap)

Perhaps it makes sense in the enterprise market though. They're always trying to push launchpad to us at work and I'm sure this will integrate with snap. But launchpad doesn't work for us because it only works with Ubuntu. So it's just a non starter for us, we have more distros to support. Sure Ubuntu is the biggest in our environment but we want a single pane of glass for everything. More similarities between distros would make that a lot easier.
by brookst | 2025-12-28 14:57:21+00:00
While I think OP is shortsighted in their desire for an “open source only for permitted use cases” license, it is entirely possible that training will be found to not be fair use, and/or that making and retaining copies for training purposes is not fair use.

Perhaps you can’t dissuade AI companies today, but it is possible that the courts will do so in the future.

But honestly it’s hard for me to care. I do not think the world would be better if “open source except for militaries” or “open source except for people who eat meat” license became commonplace.
by rlupi | 2025-12-28 14:57:28+00:00
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by daneel_w | 2025-12-28 14:57:59+00:00
Wow. It's as if you're completely unaware of how lucrative the market for malware in affordable IoT devices is.

It doesn't have to be targeted. The general demographic is a fantastic subject, and cheap affordable devices are a fantastic method. If one such trojan device happen to end up in the home of an employee in a valuable position, or better , in some office, an attacker has a chance to pivot further into a network.
by dkdcio | 2025-12-28 14:58:30+00:00
that would be “source available” software, and it’s not a random initiative

there is disagreement on exactly what “open source” means, but generally clear boundaries between open source and source available software in licensing and spirit of the given project. e.g. MIT and Apache 2.0 are open source, BSL is source available. if you don’t welcome outside contributions, it isn’t open source
by Aurornis | 2025-12-28 14:58:39+00:00
These changes are occurring in a server backend database. They’re not client side cheats.

The people receiving the credits aren’t even the ones initiating the changes.

Also many anti-cheat packages do have Linux versions. The primary reason you’re not getting ports for Linux is because companies don’t want to do the port and support all versions of Linux clients they would encounter in the very tiny number of additional installs.
by tapirl | 2025-12-28 14:58:42+00:00
The details / summary feature can also be implemented with pure css without JavaScript. Here is an example: https://docs.go101.org/std/pkg/io.html, just click all "+" signs to expand contents.

We can also use pure css to implement tab panels. A demo: http://tmd.tapirgames.com/demos.html#section-demo-4

Modern css is powerful.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-28 14:59:25+00:00
I don't per se mind using snaps instead of flatpaks (though I do prefer the latter). What bothers me is that Canonical replaced Firefox in their apt repos with a fake package that installs the snap version of the app. If I choose to install via apt, it's because I want the standard version of the app, and I don't appreciate bait and switch nonsense trying to push snap usage. That was when I lost interest in using Ubuntu, I don't want my OS trying to override my decisions.
by zzzeek | 2025-12-28 15:00:02+00:00
> And then uv arrived. And they disapeared for those people.

I'm not arguing against tools that make things as easy as possible for non programmers, I'm arguing against gigantic forks in the Python installation ecosystem. Forks like these are harmful to the tooling, I'm already suffering quite a bit due to the flake8/ruff forking where ruff made a much better linter but didnt feel like implementing plugins. Just overall I don't like Astral's style and I think a for-profit startup forking out huge chunks of the Python ecosystem is going to be a bad thing long term.
by devnavigator | 2025-12-28 15:00:49+00:00
Large Language Models are often described as intelligent systems that are foundational to much of the work today surrounding Agentic AI, yet the way they actually operate remains opaque to many leaders and practitioners. This article provides a clear, step by step explanation of how transformer based language models process input, build contextual meaning, and generate responses. By separating what happens during training from what happens during inference, the goal is to demystify LLMs without relying on code or mathematical detail. Understanding this workflow helps organizations set realistic expectations, communicate AI capabilities more effectively, and design better applications that align with how these models truly work.