MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dtn | 2025-12-16 17:00:25+00:00
> I understand artists etc. Talking about AI in a negative sense, because they don’t really get it completely, or just it’s against their self interest which means they find bad arguments to support their own interest subconsciously.

Yeah, no. It's presumptuous to say that these are the only reasons. I don't think you understand at all.

> So if I produce something art, product, game, book and if it’s good, and if it’s useful to you, fun to you, beautiful to you and you cannot really determine whether it’s AI. Does it matter? Like how does it matter?

Because to me, and many others, art is a form of communication. Artists toil because they want to communicate something to the world- people consume art because they want to be spoken to. It's a two-way street of communication. Every piece created by a human carries a message, one that's sculpted by their unique life experiences and journey.

AI-generated content may look nice on the surface, but fundamentally they say nothing at all. There is no message or intent behind a probabilistic algorithm putting pixels onto my screen.

When a person encounters AI content masquerading as human-made, it's a betrayal of expectations. There is no two-way communication, the "person" on the other side of the phone line is a spam bot. Think about how you would feel being part of a social group where the only other "people" are LLMs. Do you think that would be fulfilling or engaging after the novelty wears off?
by kevinsync | 2025-12-16 17:01:19+00:00
> The Berenstain Bears’ A School Day

Given how often people love to swear with certainty that they remember Berenstain spelled as Berenstein [0], I find it kind of neat/interesting when this sort of digital archaeology refutes the silliness with undeniable proof.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears#Name_discrepa...

Edit: that's one of the ROMs they recovered from tape backup -- wanted to add context since, if you don't actively expand the list in the article, my comment appears wildly non-sequitur
by nout | 2025-12-16 17:01:29+00:00
Well, you are right. This article sort of sucks in explaining anything and it is also already outdated. Understandably your summary of how it could work is wrong and the article is indeed to blame.

My suggestion would be to skip it and learn about nostr from other sources. I'm on Nostr since almost the beginning and it's been very exciting to watch. For reference my android client app (Amethyst) is currently directly connected to 390 relays (using the new "outbox model") and it works well, no slow down, no battery drain.
by glenstein | 2025-12-16 17:01:32+00:00
It would be organizational suicide to spend down their endowment just because they can. Right now it exists as a firewall to buy them some time in the event that search licensing goes away, which I think is exactly what they should have done with it.

And it's been talked to death before but the idea that the browser side bets are at some prohibitive cost is an unsubstantiated myth, conjured into existence by vibes in comment sections. It's the HN equivalent of American voters who think foreign aid is 50% of the federal budget.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-16 17:01:52+00:00
I've noticed that for most hobbies, there comes a point where to improve you need to do the boring part. Yes, to a certain extent, practice can be play, but unless you're the one-in-a-million prodigy who's just obsessed day and night, it's not going to be much fun drilling scales, or practicing your serve, or crimping on a hangboard, or whatever.

Once you get to a certain level, you stop being able to just easily add new skills and capabilities and have to cycle between adding skills and polishing skills. And once you get far enough, adding skills becomes a much smaller portion of time you spend on the activity than polishing, until one day you've mostly added all the skills you're going to and the only thing left to do is polish them to perfection.

And that's why I don't strive for excellence in most any of my hobbies -- they stop being as fun when I'm no longer getting to do new things and only ever pushing against my limit to improve things I'm already doing.
by tdb7893 | 2025-12-16 17:02:00+00:00
Many of my engineering friends happen to work in defense (I'm friends with a lot of aerospace engineers from college) and are now highly specialized engineers on stable and long term projects and happen to be at the forefront of innovation in that space and all have high level security clearances (for some of them I don't really know what they do since it's classified). Though it also could be they just have gotten lucky. My friends I made from hobbies work random and less highly technical jobs and I know a decent amount of people "in between jobs" right now. It's all anecdotal but there's a clear enough pattern that if the chair of the Fed also thinks we're underestimating I think it's very likely we are.
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-16 17:02:15+00:00
This argument has been had thousands of times across thousands of forums and mailing lists in the preceding decades and we're unlikely to settle it here on the N + 1th iteration, but the short version of my own argument is that the entire point of Free Software is to allow end users to modify the software in the ways it serves them best. That's how it got started in the first place (see the origin story about Stallman and the Printer).

Stallman's insistence that gcc needed to be deliberately made worse to keep evil things from happening ran completely counter to his own supposed raison d'etre. Which you could maybe defend if it had actually worked, but it didn't: it just made everyone pack up and leave for LLVM instead, which easily could've been predicted and reduced gcc's leverage over the software ecosystem. So it was user-hostile, anti-freedom behavior for no benefit.
by yardie | 2025-12-16 17:02:17+00:00
> Safari.... I dont know why this battery life argument keeps coming up because it is not the case. It hasn't been so for at least 5 - 6 years.

I can assure you, this is still true. I use Chrome when plugged in at my desk and Safari for everything else on the go. Chrome still isn't great on memory or battery life.
by ChaosOp | 2025-12-16 17:03:01+00:00
Thanks! Yes, or at least it will be in the future as we have not yet publicly released our SDK's for 3rd party devs :)

What sets us apart from AirConsole is our strict niche focus on real-time action party games and social couch gaming. In practice this means that the games added to our platform's public playlists should adhere to being short, competitive and real-time (no asynchronous or text/language-based trivia games).

AirConsole on the other hand is fully focused on in-car-entertainment at the moment as the whole company was recently sold to a car software manufacturer. My understanding is that they are not accepting any new 3rd party games on the platform apart from few very high-profile games based on already established studios and IP.
by yetanotherjosh | 2025-12-16 17:03:15+00:00
I struggle to understand what this specifically has to do with rails or global IDs. In ANY framework or query system, if you are asking an LLM to produce IDs which you are then passing to a database for lookup, you need to understand those identifiers could be hallucinated or incorrect in surprising or malicious ways, and can lead to data leaks or exfiltration.

It's like writing an article about "the dangers of PostgreSQL" ... when generating SQL from an LLM. It has nothing to do with Postgres specifically, it's that you're generating queries to run in a trusted context from an untrustable origin.
by candiddevmike | 2025-12-16 17:03:27+00:00
What recourse do you have if the app store review process finds "issues" with your app that are "obviously unrelated" to your payment setup but seemingly can't be resolved after multiple review iterations?

It seems like the app store review process is designed to be opaque enough to ensure Apple gets their way in their sandbox, regardless of judicial ruling. In my experience, the review process is wildly inconsistent.
by BoredPositron | 2025-12-16 17:03:44+00:00
Even within the already small Linux desktop community, the user base of omarchy and extreme customization ('unixporn') is minuscule. The narrative of omarchy or even tiling window managers 'taking over' the desktop world is largely a hyperbolic delusion perpetuated by YouTube influencers and tech bros. For most of them it's just a performance if you watch them struggle navigating it in their videos. The omarchy release video is probably the best example.
by program_whiz | 2025-12-16 17:03:56+00:00
Couldn't it get a lot worse much sooner than that? Even if a handful of industries collapse, its not clear we have more jobs for 100M displaced workers. I just haven't seen any proposals of what that future looks like that seem good, but I do hear "don't worry more jobs will appear". But can anyone say where 50-100M workers will go? All the answers I think of or see seem like things that can easily be automated.
by eslaught | 2025-12-16 17:03:56+00:00
The other answers are great, but let me just add that C++ cannot be parsed with conventional LL/LALR/LR parsers, because the syntax is ambiguous and requires disambiguation via type checking (i.e., there may be multiple parse trees but at most one will type check).

There was some research on parsing C++ with GLR but I don't think it ever made it into production compilers.

Other, more sane languages with unambiguous grammars may still choose to hand-write their parsers for all the reasons mentioned in the sibling comments. However, I would note that, even when using a parsing library, almost every compiler in existence will use its own AST, and not reuse the parse tree generated by the parser library. That's something you would only ever do in a compiler class.

Also I wouldn't say that frontend/backend is an evolution of previous terminology, it's just that parsing is not considered an "interesting" problem by most of the community so the focus has moved elsewhere (from the AST design through optimization and code generation).
by labcomputer | 2025-12-16 17:03:59+00:00
Pick your poison:

* no gas

* no oil changes

* no annual emissions testing (if they do that in Oz)

* more than 1 second faster 0-60/0-100

* twice the towing capacity

* semi-automated trailer connecting (maneuvering the truck to the trailer)

* longer bed and more rear seat leg room
by Centigonal | 2025-12-16 17:04:33+00:00
This is a distorted comparison and you know it. DC in unique among US states and territories in that it encompasses a major metropolitan area with no rural regions. In this comparison, DC also leads the country in population density, average building height, public transit usage, latte consumption, and any other correlate of living in a city.

If you compare DC against other major metropolitan statistical areas, the leadership disappears -- see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropol...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-16 17:04:35+00:00
We cannot afford both, the elderly are too expensive current state. 1/4th of Medicare spending is someone's last year of life. So, life expectancy has ballooned spending on the elderly while not paying for child healthcare.

Medicare’s Real Fiscal Crisis Is Much Worse than Trust Fund Insolvency - https://www.cato.org/blog/medicares-real-fiscal-crisis-much-... - October 8th, 2025 ("Medicare isn’t just facing a trust fund shortfall—it’s threatening America’s entire fiscal future. While headlines warn that the Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund2 will run out in 2033, the real danger comes from a different part of the program: Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI). SMI refers to Medicare spending by Part B (doctors’ visits and outpatient services) and Part D (prescription drugs). Unlike the HI fund, SMI is set up to take whatever it needs from taxpayers—no limits, no debate. In 2024 alone, Medicare Parts B and D financed under SMI added $498 billion straight onto the national credit card. Unless Congress makes fundamental reforms to Medicare, federal healthcare spending will drive the US toward a catastrophic fiscal crisis.")

Medicare Spending at the End of Life: A Snapshot of Beneficiaries Who Died in 2014 and the Cost of Their Care - https://www.kff.org/medicare/medicare-spending-at-the-end-of... - July 14th, 2016 ("Of the 2.6 million people who died in the U.S. in 2014, 2.1 million, or eight out of 10, were people on Medicare, making Medicare the largest insurer of medical care provided at the end of life. Spending on Medicare beneficiaries in their last year of life accounts for about 25% of total Medicare spending on beneficiaries age 65 or older. The fact that a disproportionate share of Medicare spending goes to beneficiaries at the end of life is not surprising given that many have serious illnesses or multiple chronic conditions and often use costly services, including inpatient hospitalizations, post-acute care, and hospice, in the year leading up to their death.")
Show HN: Beyond RAG: Introducing Papr Context Intelligence
by amirkabbara | 2025-12-16 17:04:46+00:00
A few months ago, we launched Papr — a predictive memory layer for AI agents. It helps agents remember conversations, documents, and context over time, so they don’t start from scratch on every interaction. Instead of just storing information, Papr learns the connections between memories and surfaces the right context in real time, exactly when it’s needed.

Today, we’re building on that foundation. We’re introducing Papr Context Intelligence — the ability for agents to not only remember context, but to make sense of it: to reason over information, generate insights, and understand what changed and why.

Here’s a simple example of what that means in practice.

Imagine an AI assistant helping a customer support team. Before context intelligence, the assistant can retrieve past tickets and related conversations. If you ask, “Why is this customer frustrated again?”, it might surface previous messages or similar issues — leaving a human to piece together what actually happened.

With Papr Context Intelligence, the assistant understands the situation. It can explain that the customer experienced the same login issue last month, that the original fix didn’t fully resolve it, and that a recent change reintroduced the problem. It can also tell you that 37 other customers are currently reporting the same issue, that reports spiked after the latest release, and that most affected users are on the mobile app.

Instead of just showing history, the agent explains what changed, why it’s happening, and how widespread the issue is — helping teams respond faster and decide what to prioritize.
by intended | 2025-12-16 17:04:47+00:00
As someone who spends quite a bit of time sketching and drawing for my own satisfaction, it does matter to me when something is created using AI. I can tell whether something is a matte painting, Procreate, watercolor, or some other medium. I have enough taste to distinguish between a neophyte and an expert.

I know what it means to be that good.

Sure, most people couldn’t care less, and they’re happy with something that’s simply pleasant to look at.

But for those people, it wouldn’t matter even if it weren’t AI-generated. So what is the point?

You created something without having to get a human to do it. Yaay?

Except we already have more content than we know what to do with, so what exactly are we gaining here? Efficiency?

Generative AI was fed on the free work and joy of millions, only to mechanically regurgitate content without attribution. To treat creators as middlemen in the process.

Yaay, efficient art. This is really what is missing in a world with more content than we have time to consume.

The point of markets, of progress, is the improvement of the human condition. That is the whole point of every regulation, every contract, and every innovation.

I am personally not invested in a world that is worse for humanity
by rvz | 2025-12-16 17:04:52+00:00
> This really feels like the beginning of the end for Mozilla, sadly.

The moment Mozilla failed to stop being dependent on Google's money whilst being true to their own mission in being a 'privacy first browser' it already was the end and the damage in trust was done.

In 2007, the CEO at the time said they could live without Google's money - Now, their entire survival was tied to Google funding them [0] and got rewarded for failure whilst laying off hundreds of engineers working on Firefox.

Other than the change in leadership after 17 years of mis-direction, the financial situation has still not changed.

Do you still trust them now?

> Are there any true alternatives (not dependent on financing or any engines from third parties) to Google, if you wish to use the web in 2025?

After thinking about it, the only viable browser that is not funded by Google (Firefox 75%, Safari (>20%) and Chrome) is Ladybird. [1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...

[1] https://ladybird.org/
by jmclnx | 2025-12-16 17:05:06+00:00
Where I grew up in the US, in grade school, our neighborhood school in the small city had teachers from both Quebec and Ireland. So we learned non-US spelling first. That caused a pain when I and my friends ended up in high school and had to use US spelling.

But to me, who cares, there was a time ages ago people spelt a word the way they wanted and no one cared. Just look at old documents from the 18th century in the US.

Even decades later, once in a great while, I end up using colour instead of color :)
by nostrademons | 2025-12-16 17:05:37+00:00
The short-form video craze started in the U.S. though, right? And with firms like Vine and SnapChat rather than TikTok. Like I said, media (particularly social media) has strong network effects, so if you get a critical mass of early users you can take over the rest of the population even if the initial spark that attracted them doesn't apply to the rest of the world. Same as how Facebook started out at the most prestigious dorm in the most prestigious college of the U.S. - by the time it got to senior citizens they don't care about college prestige, but they got on because their grandchildren were sharing their photos on it, and the reason the grandchildren got on was because they wanted to be cooler.
by daveguy | 2025-12-16 17:05:43+00:00
But without regulation they clearly devolve into scam and fraud vehicles. Crypto just isn't worth the time or effort for regular folks. I'm not sure what's going to happen first -- abandonment or bank run, but crypto like all unregulated banking systems, are destined to fail. I guess it could end up being regulated but at this point, with such pervasive scam/fraud use, that will probably just accelerate the bank run.

Shouldn't you have already moved on to AI hype? The fact that you're still worshipping crypto is telling as to your close-mindedness.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-16 17:05:57+00:00
> I do not have the time to properly respond to each issue I see. The literature is out there in any case.

I think your expertise would be very welcome, but this comment is entirely unhelpful as-is. Saying there are bad comments in this thread and also that there is good literature out there without providing any specifics at all is just noise.

You don't have to respond to every comment you see to contribute to the discussion. At minimum, could you provide a hint for some literature you suggest reading?
by retrocog | 2025-12-16 17:06:01+00:00
The trust equation implicitly assumes honesty. It’s a second-order model: it explains how trust forms among good-faith actors, not how to detect bad ones.

Credibility, reliability, and intimacy all collapse without honesty — you can simulate them briefly, but they’re structurally unstable. Once dishonesty is detected, self-orientation effectively goes to infinity and trust snaps to zero.

So the equation is a trust amplifier, not a lie detector. Useful for healthy teams, dangerous if applied naively in adversarial or performative environments.
by exogen | 2025-12-16 17:06:03+00:00
I agree, in practice I see this occasionally on gigantic GitHub pull requests with 1000+ files, or very clunky Atlassian/Confluence pages. I'd say both sides need to work on their resource management!

(On that note, many complaints about Safari I hear from developers fall on my ears as "I don't care about web compatibility!" as it has never NOT been the case on the web that you need to care about feature support and resource management.)
by Jeremy1026 | 2025-12-16 17:06:11+00:00
I felt like the coolest kid in the neighborhood with Sega Channel. It was so cool to have a dozen or so new games every month. There was a stunt car driving game that was on there at one point. I have no idea what it was called, I couldn't really explain it anymore than that, but whew was it a great time when it was there!
by phantasmish | 2025-12-16 17:06:50+00:00
I think the difference is fundamental to the engine and the gap will be hard to close, too (I mean, how long has it been and the gap remains?). WebKit-based ultralight browsers remain usable after you’ve cranked hardware specs down far enough that nothing based on Chrome or Firefox’s engines do. Resource use among the three engines seems to differ at some kind of low, basic architecture level.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-16 17:06:53+00:00
> There is install, but even that is not really that significant.

The install itself isn't that hard they come pre-charged with refrigerant. I have installed a few of the air-to air myself and had no issues. All you need is a vacuum pump and proper refrigerant manifold or adapters. Vacuum out the lines for at least an hour to draw out all the air and moisture, close valve and let sit for an hour, if the gauge shows no leak, open the heat pump zone valves and you're in business.

A friend did it and had all the refrigerant leak out after a year but he realized the flared end that came from factory was malformed so he cut and re-flared the end, vacuumed out the system, left it overnight, saw no leak, and had an AC tech do the charge. Was solid after that. A from zero charge requires some knowledge of the systems capacity and a scale to weigh the charge so he hired someone to do it.
by ksec | 2025-12-16 17:06:59+00:00
I use all three.

Safari loses out when you run with a lot of Tabs. Both Chrome and Firefox knows when to unload tabs. ( Firefox even have about:unloads to tell you the order of Tabs it will unload! )

Try opening Tab Overview in Safari and it will start loading all the website for thumbnails, paging out to disk due to low memory, writing hundreds of GB to page. It also put Tabs on low running priority in the background rather than pausing them like Firefox or Chrome. ( Not sure if that is still the case with Safari 26, at least it was with 18 ). To combat that, restarting the browser time to time helps.

Safari is well tuned for iOS as a single tab, single page usage. On MacOS when doing many tabs it start to get slow and inefficient. And this is very much a Safari issue not an Webkit issue because Orion is a lot better at it.

And yes I have filed Radar report for many of the issues but I have come to the conclusion Apple doesn't care about multi tab usage on desktop Safari.
by imiric | 2025-12-16 17:07:02+00:00
I have a very vague familiarity with how it works, but I don't think there are alternatives. If you're using Wayland, you either have to rely on a distro or DE to configure it for you, or do it yourself.

To be fair: I don't think the idea behind portals is necessarily bad. But the half-baked implementations that all do things slightly differently is a pretty bad UX overall.