MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Timwi | 2025-12-19 01:19:59+00:00
When I had to implement a UI for reordering a list, I just had a “move” button on each item, and when you press it “move here” buttons would appear between every item (and at the top and bottom). These buttons are positioned absolutely, so there is no reflow from stretching the list. The location where you ‘place’ the item is where you click, not dependent on scroll position. Without even planning for use on mobile it ended up “just working” on mobile because you only need to tap buttons.
by anonnon | 2025-12-19 01:20:31+00:00
You should do that, and afterward, add some Funkos to accentuate it, especially for the #1 title on the list, Looking for Alaska, by John Green. His multi-talented brother Hank made this, BTW (the music, specifically, not the animation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItBDepGyfK0
by bjourne | 2025-12-19 01:20:35+00:00
Considering your hallucinations about "mass purges of older books" I would consider your claim about Mein Kampf not being found in your "local library SYSTEM" as bs. You haven't checked, don't know how to check, or don't know what a "local library SYSTEM" is. It is unfortunate that utter falsehoods about how public libraries work are used to justify or somehow "balance" banning books about adolescence.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2025-12-19 01:21:27+00:00
Having been adjacent to this for years, it's because it's a cost center and not attached to the bonus of any product or program manager. Every now and then we'll get an advocate for security/integrity at a company but the effort lives and leaves with them.

Microsoft, after getting beat up over this for decades, is still horrible at it. In my area they're have been enforced regulations for years but they're written by the industry itself and infected with compliance managers and thus result in wastes of effort that makes compliance managers that came over from HR and legal happy with their eternal job security and minimal hard work.

Until some heavy handed top down regulation, written by people who understand the nature of ongoing security and software and embedded lifecycles, it's going to stay like this. Most existing supply chain regulation I've seen ends up saying "vet your vendors" and gives minimal practical guidance of how to actually do that. Likelihood of some really good law coming out of the current US administration and business climate is left as a comedy for the reader.
by paradox460 | 2025-12-19 01:21:55+00:00
I wrote a small custom component using Lit[1] for use on my personal blog[2]. It provides some clever logic around timestamps, showing them in the readers time zone and with their locale formatting. Should that fail, there's a fallback to just plain text. When working with shortened, relative, or whatever else timestamps, the full value is available, in iso 8601, as the title text. I've used them all over the site, and they work rather nicely

A funny story about developing them. I had a friend in India check them to see if they worked on his computer/browser combo, and for a short period of time I was incredibly frustrated at the screenshots he was sending back. They displayed nearly the exact same time as mine, but shifted by half an hour. After a bit of thought, I realized his locale formatting didn't use a meridian indicator, and his time zone was 12:30 different than mine, so 9pm was 9:30 in the morning for him

[1]: https://github.com/paradox460/pdx.su/blob/main/assets%2Fjs%2...

[2]: https://pdx.su
by jaennaet | 2025-12-19 01:22:10+00:00
LLMs really can't be improved all that much beyond what we currently have, because they're fundamentally limited by their architecture, which is what ultimately leads to this sort of behaviour.

Unfortunately the AI bubble seems to be predicated on just improving LLMs and really really hoping that they'll magically turn into even weakly general AIs (or even AGIs like the worst Kool-aid drinkers claim they will), so everybody is throwing absolutely bonkers amounts of money at incremental improvements to existing architectures, instead of doing the hard thing and trying to come up with better architectures.

I doubt static networks like LLMs (or practically all other neural networks that are currently in use) will ever be candidates for general AI. All they can do is react to external input, they don't have any sort of an "inner life" outside of that, ie. the network isn't active except when you throw input at it. They literally can't even learn, and (re)training them takes ridiculous amounts of money and compute.

I'd wager that for producing an actual AGI, spiking neural networks or something similar to them would be what you'd want to lean in to, maybe with some kind of neuroplasticity-like mechanism. Spiking networks already exist and they can do some pretty cool stuff, but nowhere near what LLMs can do right now (even if they do do it kinda badly). Currently they're harder to train than more traditional static NNs because they're not differentiable so you can't do backpropagation, and they're still relatively new so there's a lot of open questions about eg. the uses and benefits of different neural models and such.
by dluan | 2025-12-19 01:22:12+00:00
It's wild to me that so many skeptical westerners who want to nitpick certain unproven technicalities, when the entire world only gets bits and pieces of the on the ground reality of China's progress, like the original Reuters article which was clearly fed information by insiders.

You should be living in the world of "China has successfully developed EUV and equivalent litho supply chain" and basing your decision making off of that.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-19 01:22:25+00:00
> Solution is to make school non mandatory!

The obvious unintended consequence of this is that then nobody learns how to read (because who wants to go to school?) and then our economy crumbles and everyone is stupid and then everyone dies.

Or maybe some kids do go to school, so they become the global elite while the other 98% are illiterate and they flee the country because obviously and so the economy still crumbles and everyone dies.

See, these are the things we need to be thinking about.
by bccdee | 2025-12-19 01:22:51+00:00
1. No, templating strings is actually quite cheap. I'm doubtful that you could benchmark any substantial difference between templating html and serializing json.

2. Who has a server with a weak, limited processor? HTML templates power Django, Rails, and PHP. This paradigm worked fine on the servers of 20 years ago, in the slowest languages we use. I could serve a Django app on my phone and see reasonable performance.
by nis0s | 2025-12-19 01:23:08+00:00
All that says to me is that basic income support had a beneficial effect on mental health in Germany, Finland, and Malawi. This isn’t like a drug trial, where the underlying system, the human body, is more or less the same. Each country is different enough that the same policies don’t necessarily produce the same outcomes, which is why mental health did not improve in every program which provided basic income support, such as Mincome (Manitoba). As such I am still unconvinced these results mean anything for different places where these programs have not been implemented and tested, where day-to-day life, socioeconomic realities, and government policies are different.

You observe further differences in program outcomes when you notice that providing basic income support in both Finland and Germany did not reduce crime, but there was some evidence of crime reduction in other places under similar programs. So I don’t take the mental health improvement results for granted, especially since, at least in the Finland case, it’s unclear what will happen when you increase the sample of respondents, ie is the effect going to increase, or decrease, or become negligible altogether.

I also think these studies need to report on societal benefits like crime reduction, graduation rates, or gainful employment activity as well. Maybe you cannot ensure that individual effects such as mental health status might improve across countries under such programs. But maybe by pulling enough levers, you can ensure that crime reduction is always a guarantee regardless of type of place.

Consider also that there’s an unnecessary assumption that giving people more money is a meaningful benefit. What if you tested against different options, like creating more community programs, third places, or apprentice programs which guarantee jobs with a certain income. UBI is a useful tool under some circumstances, but assuming that it will improve individual outcomes across the board is unfounded. I still do think that a thoughtful and robust UBI program might ensure more stable local communities and economies, regardless of its benefits or lack thereof for an individual receiving it. In short, these studies are measuring the wrong outcomes to make their case.
by 1659447091 | 2025-12-19 01:23:13+00:00
> So, this is either a misdirection, shakedown or revenge

This is about being in the news as much as possible. He is in a close 3 way race for the 2026 Republican spot for US Senate. The other two are current old-school conservative senator John Cornyn, and new comer MAGA Wesley Hunt (but not as MAGA as Paxton). Lots of in-fighting over funding, so Paxton is making sure to get in the news as much as possible.

Throughout the year he has been in the news for things that are useful like this and another suit against a utility company for causing a fire and others for typical maga things like lawsuit to stop harris county (Houston) funding legal services for immigrants facing deportation or immigrant-serving nonprofits or a "tip-line" for bathroom enforcement or lawsuits against doctors...it goes on and on and on. It's a page out of the Trump playblook, its like watching a trump clone. And thats the point.
by felipeerias | 2025-12-19 01:23:50+00:00
As the article points out, the more of the original color scheme that has survived, the better the reconstructions look.

Example: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/...

The author suggests that this minimizes the opportunity for mischief, but tbqh it's likely that the ancients were simply much better artists than the people carrying out these reconstructions today.

I'd love to see a modern artist attempt one of these reconstructions using original materials but with greater artistic freedom.
by jojobas | 2025-12-19 01:23:55+00:00
The whole publication model is broken, not just the incentives. It used to be researchers eager to share their new findings with the few hundred people that could understand them, now it's throngs of PhD students grinding their way to degrees and postdocs trying to secure tenure. The journals are flooded with nonsense and actual researchers resort to word of mouth point out valuable papers to each other.
by shawneechase | 2025-12-19 01:24:42+00:00
Work in AI infrastructure and we wrote this to reason about current inference pricing from a systems and economics perspective.

The core claim is that inference is often priced below marginal cost today to drive adoption, which creates incentives that are rational short-term but risky to assume are permanent.

Not arguing AI is a bubble – arguing that application builders should treat current economics as a temporary advantage, not a baseline.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-19 01:24:51+00:00
This is too far from correct for any correction to be anything but a full restatement of the facts. Moving the tech over requires US approval. Listen, the Dutch are not going to risk it. Even if they were, ASML would not risk it because all of their customers wouldn't buy anything from a company that's on the EAR Entity List (which is where they'd end up if they tried this without the US allowing it) without US approval. I don't get why people are saying this stuff. It's like saying "Oh yeah, so you divide by zero and then multiply both sides and ta-da". Like, the whole statement is nonsensical.

To enable the whole thing to work you'd need the US to have shrunk to the equivalent of Canada in influence. I'm not saying that's impossible, but in that scenario, the Dutch might well be trying to keep Russians out of Amsterdam and the Turks out of Germany rather than trying to pull an IP heist on the Americans.

You can buy an e-book on Kindle and Amazon still controls what you do with it, right? ASML's ownership of Cymer is like that, except it's the US instead of Amazon.
Show HN: LongCat Video Avatar – Audio-Driven AI Avatars for Long-Form Video
by lu794377 | 2025-12-19 01:25:41+00:00
Hi HN,

We've built LongCat Video Avatar, an audio-driven AI system for long-form avatar video generation with stable identity, natural motion, and professional lip-sync.

Most avatar models work well for short clips but break down over time. LongCat Video Avatar is designed specifically for minutes-to-hours video generation without identity drift or quality collapse.

Key capabilities:

- Long-Form Stability: Generate videos from minutes to hours without quality degradation. Cross-chunk latent stitching reduces visual noise common in chunk-based generation.

- Natural Human Dynamics: Disentangled motion modeling produces realistic gestures and idle motion, even during silent segments.

- Multi-Person Support: Native handling of multi-speaker conversations with accurate turn-taking and identity preservation.

- Production-Ready Output: Up to 720p/30fps with flexible aspect ratios (16:9, 9:16, 1:1). Designed for commercial deployment and SaaS integration.

- Unified Generation Modes: Supports AT2V, ATI2V, and audio-conditioned video continuation in one framework.

Why we built this:

Existing avatar tools struggle with long-form content—they accumulate errors, produce stiff motion, and rely on repeated reference images. We wanted a system purpose-built for podcasts, lectures, corporate presentations, and other extended-format use cases.

We'd love feedback on:

- Workflows where long-form avatar video is useful

- API features for content pipelines

- Technical approaches to improve motion naturalness

Try it here: https://www.longcatavatar.com/?i=d1d5k

Technical details and evaluation results are available on our site.
by AuthAuth | 2025-12-19 01:26:52+00:00
Thats not a reason for crypto being useless, anything can bribe corrupt governments to pour tax money into it.

Crypto has shown people are willing to use it as a currency for investment and day to day transactions. Its held value for a significant amount of time. The tech is evolving still and people see a lot of value in having a currency that operates outside of Governments in a decentralized way even if some people will misuse that freedom.
by ryan_lane | 2025-12-19 01:27:15+00:00
> There are often no hotel rooms with 3+ beds and kitchenette

There are very few hotels with kitchenettes. Most people don't cook (and don't want to cook) on vacation. Most hotels also don't cater to the low-income, and folks who cook on travel tend to be low-income. There's business rentals that offer this, but they're often not bookable for short-terms (usually 2+ weeks minimum).

Most hotels can accommodate 5+ people in a room, if you call them. Though no rooms (except suites) will have more than 2 beds, hotels will provide cots. In general, though, rooms aren't expected to host any more than that, and if you have more people than that, the expectation is that you'd book more than one room. Plenty of hotels have adjoining rooms for this purpose.

Again, though, hotels aren't really targeting low-income folks. Airbnbs can be cheaper in this regard, but most rentals on Airbnb charge by the person, so in some cases can be as expensive or more expensive than getting 2 rooms.

In either case, I think the issue is your needs are uncommon for vacation travel.
by mr_toad | 2025-12-19 01:28:39+00:00
> West-- as usual-- is pursuing quarterly profits and forgetting to look up.

The companies building out vast data centers for AI aren’t looking to make profits for several years (if ever), and are catching a lot of flak for it. The shareholders who seem to be focused on short-term profits and punish them every time they get cold feet. Oracle is a prime example of this.

I don’t know if the markets in Asia work differently, or if the investors there are just as fickle.
by rainonmoon | 2025-12-19 01:29:03+00:00
XSS is categorically not an RCE and my point is that mitigations exist which make "It allows you to run any action as if you were the owner of the account" an unwarranted assumption. The writeup shows that it's possible to pop an alert box. That doesn't tell you anything about what's actually possible. Obviously Discord got enough information to take it seriously, but extrapolating that to suggest every third-party using Mintlify is vulnerable to account takeover is highly dubious based on what's presented.
by nsagent | 2025-12-19 01:29:57+00:00
I'll be honest and blunt: I try to avoid his blog posts and comments as much as possible because I do find his contributions to be super spammy. It's about the frequency of his self-promotion (as a researcher in NLP it's tiresome to constantly see his self-promotion on nearly all posts on HN related to LLMs). Seems I'm not the only one.

If he posted on the ML subreddit while I was still a mod there (left after the API kerfuffle) I would have messaged him and asked him politely to tone it down.
by underlipton | 2025-12-19 01:30:25+00:00
This is crucial. From the article:

>As a result, we internalized a deep-seated attachment to an unblemished white image of Greek and Roman art. We became, to use David Bachelor’s term, chromo­phobes. It is this accidental association between Greek and Roman art and pristine white marble, we are told, that accounts for the displeasure we feel when we see the statues restored to color.

And there's indeed been quite a bit of push-back since the story first broke. Unspoken is the reason. Primacy bias is probably a part of it, but what really accounts for the intensity of the attachment to the idea of white marble finishes? I'm sure you can imagine.

>Bond told me that she’d been moved to write her essays when a racist group, Identity Evropa, started putting up posters on college campuses, including Iowa’s, that presented classical white marble statues as emblems of white nationalism. After the publication of her essays, she received a stream of hate messages online. She is not the only classicist who has been targeted by the so-called alt-right. Some white supremacists have been drawn to classical studies out of a desire to affirm what they imagine to be an unblemished lineage of white Western culture extending back to ancient Greece. When they are told that their understanding of classical history is flawed, they often get testy.

https://archive.is/qTreQ#selection-1695.0-1695.693

So, yes, it was important to categorically falsify the notion that the statues, frescoes, etc., were unpainted. Anything that left it open would have been something for the worst sorts of people to latch onto. Now that that's out of the way, possibly even more accurate explanations can be given the time of day, instead of being stuck having to hash out, "Oh, but were they even colored at all?"
by Swannie | 2025-12-19 01:31:01+00:00
I am in Sydney, Australia.

It was a nice surprise to see teenagers working in my local brewery this past weekend, collecting glasses, clearing and cleaning tables, etc. They were probably between 13 and 16. Not allowed to serve alcohol until they are 18, and can take on the personal legal responsibilities for Responsible Service of Alcohol.

Most jobs for teenagers here are in fast food service - two of my friends have mid/late teenagers working these jobs. Most jobs in retail, at least near me, seem to be taken by adults.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-19 01:31:13+00:00
> same problem as the past administration

Did you miss the Infrastructure act that spent $500B on roads, ports, and water projects? The CHIPS act that spent $50B on decoupling and R&D?! The Climate & Energy act ("IRA") that spent $400B on clean energy subsidies??!!

I can understand the perspective of wanting more, but the forward-looking policies of the last administration were in a different galaxy compared to those of the current administration, where the big plan is to chop USAID, boost deportations, and cut capital gains tax.

This is the difference between corn and the cob and corn in the toilet. No, it is not the same.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-12-19 01:31:15+00:00
If you pick "I longer need this item" as the return reason, you are pretty much 100% guaranteed to get a full refund from amazon scammers in my experience. If you pick any reason suggesting the product is deficient, they'll fight you and waste your time, even if it's demonstrably true. Given that, I take the risk, it saves me money when the thing turns out to work.
by undershirt | 2025-12-19 01:31:19+00:00
Maybe a “heresy” is simply that which is valid but not sound.

The ecumenical councils were in some ways the means by which they imprisoned and cut away what is valid (according to some presuppositions) to leave only what is sound (according to the presuppositions of the apostles).

It is the opposite of enlighenment carte-blanche thinking, to take a multivariate attack on delusion through reason anchored in a legacy of wisdom. Too bad the schism broke our understanding of this, but it is still preserved in Eastern Orthodoxy.
by eek2121 | 2025-12-19 01:31:34+00:00
Respectfully, LLMs are nothing like a brain, and I discourage comparisons between the two, because beyond a complete difference in the way they operate, a brain can innovate, and as of this moment, an LLM cannot because it relies on previously available information.

LLMs are just seemingly intelligent autocomplete engines, and until they figure a way to stop the hallucinations, they aren't great either.

Every piece of code a developer churns out using LLMs will be built from previous code that other developers have written (including both strengths and weaknesses, btw). Every paragraph you ask it to write in a summary? Same. Every single other problem? Same. Ask it to generate a summary of a document? Don't trust it here either. [Note, expect cyber-attacks later on regarding this scenario, it is beginning to happen -- documents made intentionally obtuse to fool an LLM into hallucinating about the document, which leads to someone signing a contract, conning the person out of millions].

If you ask an LLM to solve something no human has, you'll get a fabrication, which has fooled quite a few folks and caused them to jeopardize their career (lawyers, etc) which is why I am posting this.
by perrygeo | 2025-12-19 01:31:39+00:00
This is far from transparent. It's a massive change in behavior. Fork may be very hard to get right, but every python developer using multiprocessing has already paid that cost - and expects it to keep working!

With fork, you could pass objects that couldn't be pickled (lambdas, local functions, file handles, database connections). With forkserver, everything must be pickleable. That alone breaks thousands of repos of code.

You can no longer work with global module-level objects, so it fundamentally changes how scoping rules work.

It launches a server with some extra machinery at runtime - startup cost and hidden complexity just snuck its your app without you knowing.

forkserver may be technically a better choice. But that's irrelevant. Changing the default breaks existing code.
Show HN: Postman-style TUI for API testing built with Rust and ratatui
by PranavVyas | 2025-12-19 01:31:41+00:00
In the past I've used tools like Postman for API testing but I always found myself wanting to stay in my terminal without switching contexts.

So I started building a new tool to bridge the gap, combining terminal-native workflow with the API collection management we get from GUI tools.

It's definitely in the early stage of development but if you work with APIs from the command line, I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this post or even a feature request in a Github issue!

Feel free to check it out here and give it a spin: https://github.com/pranav-cs-1/nexus