MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-12-10 21:09:57+00:00
Bad is relative. I usually don't bother with the MPV/yt-dlp combo (except for rare local downloading for backup/convenience purposes) and just let it play in the browser. Not being logged in, because I have no google account anymore. It's smooth, and plays instantly when opened in a new tab. I let it have its cookies, and don't erase them, so I get the content I like, mostly. For things I'm unsure how they'd affect the algorithm, or if they are AI-slopped music, I'm just opening them in a private window. Works for me with just uBO and some additional list subscriptons in there.
by fsckboy | 2025-12-10 21:10:12+00:00
but compare the wear of the tires, and weigh tires vs brakes by the amount of "total pollution delivered to the environment", i.e. 20% more wear of something that is 2x as polluting is 40% more pollution. I don't know the numbers or the answer, I'm just saying it's not as simple as your statement makes it out to be.
by pembrook | 2025-12-10 21:10:14+00:00
It's my fault for wading into a political discussion on a forum of react developers. That's on me.

But the "banned" chips this article is referring to and the original chips act is from the Biden administration, having nothing to do with the current tariff climate.

Also, obviously US actions have nothing to do with free market maximalism. Nor does China feel that way either. Which is my point.
by ge96 | 2025-12-10 21:11:44+00:00
Love the lore in gundam, usually ends in sadness but yeah

Watched almost all of them except igloo/build fighter type

Hathaway had a great fight sequence where you felt the scale of Gundam and the violence/heat

the soundfx tooo ahhhh

https://youtu.be/oiiIkSuiios?si=ylHdAqVnE2pPeSKv&t=202

Thunderbolt has great graphics too and the jazz

And unicorn the bell pepper gundam
by tim-- | 2025-12-10 21:11:59+00:00
Can't you just put a middle man on there then? Get a non-profit organisation like Mozilla to ask the govt. on behalf of the user.

The organisation asks the govt, and gives back a signed token.

The the only thing the government knows is that an age verification was requested. Once verification has been done once for one site, it can be used for future verifications.
by breppp | 2025-12-10 21:12:36+00:00
Regarding the pagers in any case these were specially imported by hezbollah, so these were not used by doctors, even if we assume they only use pagers in Lebanon.

Regarding the group, it has signed a cease fire agreement with very unfavorable terms which essentially let Israel bomb any of its members or locations that violate the terms of the cease fire agreement and the lebanese army did not work to resolve, this happens on a weekly basis since the end of the war

If you compare this state to the state just prior to October 2023 where Hezbollah had setup a tent in Israeli territory which Israel was too afraid to do something about for months over fear of starting a war, then this is essentially a complete break up in my opinion.

Is it dead? no. it's alive enough to keep lebanon in its permanent failed state status due to fear of all other sects of civil war. But together with what happened to its patron, and the local popularity it lost it might break up completely
by jasomill | 2025-12-10 21:12:52+00:00
Just because the Steam Machine isn't powerful enough to support high framerates in modern AAA games doesn't mean it can't do so with older or less graphically-intensive games.

VRR and HDR are presumably the biggest issues, because HDMI 2.0 should already have enough bandwith to support 8-bit 2160p120 with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, which should work fine for most SDR games, and 144 Hz vs 120 Hz is, in my experience at least, not noticeably different enough to be worth fussing over.

Some people will want to use their Steam Machine as a general-purpose desktop, of course, where RGB or 4:2:2 is nonnegotiable. Though in this case 120 Hz — or 120,000/1001 Hz, thanks NTSC — is, again in my experience, superior to 144 Hz as it avoids frame pacing issues with 30/60 Hz video.
by palata | 2025-12-10 21:13:28+00:00
> kids pretending to be adults so they sneak through these filters

The real question is: how hard does it make it for them to pretend to be adults? We just need it to be hard enough that most kids won't do it.

> platforms winding back their (meagre) child safety efforts since "children are banned anyway"

If the law forces the platforms to properly ban children, I don't see how they can do that. If you're thinking that the platforms will just say "it's illegal for children to join, so we don't have to do anything because they shouldn't come in the first place", then I don't think the law is made like this.

> everyone being forced to prove their age via e.g. uploading ID (which will inevitably get leaked)

Some countries have been working on privacy-preserving age verification. I find it's a lot better than uploading an ID.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-10 21:13:43+00:00
>I hate this distinctly American idea that no policy can cause any detriment to any disadvantaged people at all

This "Distinctly American idea" you cite does not at all exist.

Tens of millions watch a news channel that openly stated we should euthanize homeless people. Millions more moved to a crazier channel because that one wasn't lying enough

They vote against free school lunch programs that cost very little.

They hate "welfare queens" with a passion, despite that being a lie, and still being a lie decades later.

Democrats had no qualms voting for the Crime Bill back in the 90s, and were willing to turn around and get aggressive about the border to win an election.

>This is how we end up with carveouts for every special interest group in every single policy

No, the reason we get so many special interest carve outs in the US is that special interest groups fund election campaigns. Fix campaign funding (IE, make it publicly funded and extremely time limited) and you make it significantly easier for people who eschew bribery to be and stay politicians.

Sure, HN has a strong "Not perfect should never be done" bias, because HN is full of turbonerds that crave validation for how smart they are and always need to pipe up with a nitpick to be heard. 95% of the time, the exact "complaint" someone on HN makes up was already noted and covered in the very article. We aren't allowed to sass people for not reading the article.

This is not the case off of HN and in reality. Conservatives are perfectly happy doing "Obvious and common sense" measures that actually have insane second order effects. They insist tariffs are a good policy the way they are being implemented. Democrats want all sorts of things that are not at all perfect and would be happy to have slightly fewer new problems than the same problems our grandparents had to fight about.
by LeroyRaz | 2025-12-10 21:14:32+00:00
I am surprised the author thought the project passed quality control. The LLM reviews seem mostly false.

Looking at the comment reviews on the actual website, the LLM seems to have mostly judged whether it agreed with the takes, not whether they came true, and it seems to have an incredibly poor grasp of it's actual task of accessing whether the comments were predictive or not.

The LLM's comment reviews are of often statements like "correctly characterized [program language] as [opinion]."

This dynamic means the website mostly grades people on having the most confirmist take (the take most likely to dominate the training data, and be selected for in the LLM RL tuning process of pleasing the average user).
by kyboren | 2025-12-10 21:14:37+00:00
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli-mossad-pager-walkie-tal...

> Gabriel said Mossad had learned that Hezbollah was buying pagers from Gold Apollo, a company in Taiwan.

> "When they are buying from us, they have zero clue that they are buying from the Mossad. We make like the 'Truman Show,' everything is controlled by us behind the scene," Gabriel said. "In their experience, everything is normal. Everything was 100% kosher."

> To further the plot, Mossad hired the Gold Apollo saleswoman Hezbollah was used to working with, who was unaware she was working with Mossad. According to Gabriel, she offered Hezbollah the first batch of pagers as an upgrade, free of charge. By September 2024, Hezbollah had about 5,000 pagers in their pockets.

https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/how-did-israels-mossad-spy-a...

> Going analog has been a signature move for terror groups ever since the September 11th attacks as a way to successfully mask communications from Western militaries and government defense agencies.

> A source cited by the Wall Street Journal said many of the affected devices were from a new shipment delivered to Hezbollah militants in recent days.

> Apparently, the encrypted pagers currently in use by Hezbollah were brand new models and bought in bulk for the members just a few months ago, several sources told Reuters.

I'm sure you can find more if you look; there's a lot of articles about it.
by fsflover | 2025-12-10 21:14:43+00:00
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application (twitter.com/lapcatsoftware)

2603 points by mattsolle on Nov 12, 2020 | 1292 comments

> I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and [it's down]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-10 21:15:29+00:00
See personally I hate crypto, I am not even touching / do not even want to stablecoins too much now(I made a comment about it somewhere here) but basically I am getting rid of that too so yeah

I am saying that yes they choose intentionally by having buckets of higher value transactions earlier than later but the transactions happens instantly even lower amounts

That being said, there have been points in past where I have seen in its history where it got spammed and yea it can have an impact but even that, they say that they have mitigated it now

But even then, the premise is in all honesty you were mentioning how every crypto has fees but even if it may have spam which might delay an transaction from its default literally 1 second to lets say something like a minute...

Even then it will take 0 gas fees. So I think I still gave an solution to you no?

That being said, I think its tech is cool but the way its implemented in stablecoins whatever could've been nice but its all just regulatory gimmick. Personally I am not that interested in any of these things but still I feel like it was worth mentioning.

I think nano has more potential whatever that means than bitcoin but I am not gonna be foolish and invest in nano because I dont think its something like investing, it would still be speculation and the traders and everyone is irrational because its sort of gambling and I think that what nano can be good for is, instead is people working on it to create their own stablecoins or tokenomics but as I have said, I personally think most if not everything in crypto is kinda about regulations so I have mixed opinions honestly about crypto in general but the technology behind nano was cool tho which is what I wanted to share (still please do not invest in nano, I think its highly speculative and irrational market and tech literally doesnt matter and if you like the tech, build something similar but with which can have more financial sense I suppose and usecases etc. too I suppose)
by hearsathought | 2025-12-10 21:15:35+00:00
> It feels like there's an obviously correct side to most of these issues, the problem is half the audience here believes their side is correct and yours is wrong.

You think half the audience here or anywhere is on the side of israel and genocide? The only reason no discussion can be had is because of the influence of israel in tech, media, government and the bot farms they are allowed to employ all over social media.
by euleriancon | 2025-12-10 21:15:40+00:00
I worked on something very similar for my master's degree.

The problem I could never solve was the speed, and from reading the paper it doesn't seem like they managed to solve that either.

In the end, for my work, and I expect for this work, it is only usable for pre generated terrains and in that case you are up against very mature ecosystems with a lot of tooling to manipulate and control terrain generation.

It'll be interesting to see of the authors follow up this paper with research into even stronger ability to condition and control terrain outputs.
by jonas21 | 2025-12-10 21:15:41+00:00
They have a major outage every couple of years. These don't have as much impact as some other cloud outages because they only affect Apple products, i.e. they're not hosting services for other companies.

- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/apple-investigates-app-store...

- https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-a...

- https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4944089/apple-maps-down-icloud-...

- https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/itunes-and-app-stores-s...

- https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/27/app-store-outage/

- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/apple-reporting-outages-for-...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/some-apple-services-sufferin...
by averageRoyalty | 2025-12-10 21:16:16+00:00
Exactly. Most ads are cringy and rubbish. This concept could easily have been made with real actors and a VFX crew and been equally as shitty.

I find people complaining about bad ads odd. Do people want good ads? Do they want to be engaged as they're being sold Pepsi? I work hard to avoid ads, their quality isn't even a factor for me.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-12-10 21:16:41+00:00
depends on where in the world you live.

If you live in a region where they operate their own data centers, you will be running on Apple data centers. If not, you're running on a mix of Google Cloud and AWS (IIRC). They used to use Azure as well, but I think that's no longer the case.

In any case, your data is encrypted (by Apple) before being uploaded to Google or AWS, and only Apple has that key. Whatever E2EE encryption you use will be applied on top of that.
by tialaramex | 2025-12-10 21:16:52+00:00
> Why would they use the one approach that leaves a verifiable trace?

It is NSA practice to avoid targets knowing for sure what happened. However their colleagues at outfits like Russia's GRU have no compunctions about being seen and yet likewise there's no indication they're tampering either.

Although Cloudflare are huge, a lot of transactions you might be interested in don't go through Cloudflare.

> the hardware that generates those keys in the first place

That's literally any general purpose computer. So this ends up as the usual godhood claim, oh, they're omniscient. Woo, ineffable. No action is appropriate.
by UncleEntity | 2025-12-10 21:17:02+00:00
> Yes: I used arenas a lot when I was shipping C code; they're a very easy way to get big speed boosts out of code that does a lot of malloc

This is something I look forwards to exploring later in my current pet project, right now it has possibly the stupidest GC (just tracks C++ 'new' allocated objects) but is set up for drop in arena allocation with placement new so, we'll see how much that matters later on. There are two allocation patterns, statements and whatnot get compiled to static continuation graphs which push and pop secondary continuations and Value objects to do the deed so, I believe, the second part with the rapid temporary object creation will see the most benefit.

Anyhoo, slightly different pattern where the main benefits will most likely be from the cache locality or whatever, assuming I can even make a placement new arena allocator which is better than the performance of the regular C++ new. Never know, might even add more overhead than just tracking a bunch of raw C++ pointers as I can't imagine there's even a drop of performance which C++ new left on the table?
by shykes | 2025-12-10 21:18:13+00:00
I vouched for your post because your question is legitimate and asked in an appropriate manner; there is no good reason to flag it.

The answer to your question is yes: the "4,000 civilians wounded" figure is attributed to Mustafa Bairam, a high-ranking Hezbollah member. I have not seem any corroborating sources. As far as I can tell every mention of that number, including Wikipedia, traces back to him. Obviously this is a highly biased source that should not be trusted blindly.
by orbital-decay | 2025-12-10 21:18:29+00:00
Convincing AND useful procedural terrain is usually hard-simulated along some manually placed guides, which is typically faster and more versatile than a diffusion model. I don't see any model being used in practice for this, at least not until it has good controlnets trained specifically for this task. However something like this can be useful for texture generation, especially with geometry/camera position/lighting as additional inputs.
by cs702 | 2025-12-10 21:18:41+00:00
Cool. Memory bandwidth is a major bottleneck for many important applications today, including AI. Maybe this kind of memory "at the speed of light" can help alleviate the bottleneck?

For a second, I thought the headline was copied & pasted from the hallucinated 10-years-from-now HN frontpage that recently made the HN front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
by afavour | 2025-12-10 21:18:43+00:00
> It's an ad - a 30 second clip that will run for a while to get people to buy products. If you can make an ad with AI for less money, why do it without AI?

> Who cares

If it has mistakes and is overall a shitty ad I imagine it'll be less persuasive in getting people to buy the product. I have to imagine someone cares very much about that.
by neilv | 2025-12-10 21:18:45+00:00
Thanks, I have a better idea where you're coming from.

If I understand correctly, you have both practical (near-term or long-term) and also philosophical objections, to the power imbalance between citizen and state, when citizens can't have guns. And it's a high priority.

FWIW, I sympathize with vigilance. Though my own priorities around guns are different. I live in a fairly safe city, with good police. Where I live, the prevalence of citizen guns seems to create more problems than it solves. The problems I have don't seem to be solvable with guns. I might feel differently, if I lived in a less-safe place or in different circumstances.
by all2 | 2025-12-10 21:18:47+00:00
These are standard business practices. They own IP. People want to use that IP. They say "pay us X to use our IP". People throw a tantrum because money. Instead, people want to capitalize on someone else's hard work for free.

I understand the ideas behind open source, and I think they are excellent. But I also understand that people and the businesses they operate want to make money.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-10 21:18:47+00:00
It doesn't really work right on "normal" PS1s yet, at least when it was making the rounds a few weeks ago, so you need either an emulator or modded/dev PS1 with more RAM to prevent crashes and most people won't have the latter https://www.reddit.com/r/psx/comments/1p45hrm/comment/nqjtdp.... Probably shared a few months to early.

But yeah, on a "real" PS1 it would be blockier due to lower res. The main rendering problems should be the same though.
by throw310822 | 2025-12-10 21:19:01+00:00
> Because rebuilding the temple would trigger a regional war

Ah because there isn't already one, and Israel is not the only one armed with nuclear weapons and its unwavering ally is not the dominant world superpower?

> despite people actually believing these things, they find it much harder to put into real logical action

Yet they don't find it hard at all as long as it aligns with Israeli interests.

> My theory explains both the rampant anti-semitism throughout the GOP

This part I miss. Where is the rampant antisemitism in the GOP? Last time I checked, the prime minister of Israel is always welcomed in the US (especially by the GOP) as a demigod. All advisors and mediators for Israel Palestine and the middle east are Jewish. Antisemitism is Trump's justification for all repression. What are you talking about?

> It's not random at all: there's a clear lineage between evangelical and Jewish belief systems.

LOL. It's random in the sense that you keep insisting that there is no causal connection between Israel's interest and the support it receives. Somehow for some lucky coincidence they get a lot of money and privileges but hey, they've nothing to do with it!
by illdynamics | 2025-12-10 21:19:14+00:00
I've made a quickstart video for QonQrete, you can watch it here:

https://youtu.be/sofVP63-eS0

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This video walks through the full QonQrete v0.5.0 quickstart: initializing a fresh qage, explaining the file structure, and demonstrating both user-gated and autonomous cyQle modes. You’ll see QonQrete plan, generate, and review a simple Python webserver, then tackle a more complex webserver tasq using lower briq sensitivity to show how the agents behave with looser constraints. The demo highlights the full multi-agent flow — InstruQtor’s planning, ConstruQtor’s code generation, InspeQtor’s review loop — and shows how QonQrete evolves files, data, and project structure inside its isolated environment.
by doug_durham | 2025-12-10 21:19:16+00:00
Writing code is my passion, and like you I'm amazed I get paid to do it. That said in any new project there is a large swath of code that needs to be written that I've written many times before. I'm happy to let the LLM write the low value code so I can work on the interesting parts. Examples of this type of code are argument parsers and interfacing with REST interfaces. I add no value there.
by codyb | 2025-12-10 21:19:17+00:00
American Hegemony or Pax Americana (post WWII until present) is the most peaceful period of human history, despite the myriad atrocities which have occurred during that period, from myriad different parties, including the USA itself

A big reason for that, as far as I can tell, is that if one side has the USA on its side, they're basically unattackable for many places since the USA is so over powered militarily and can project force anywhere

It stands to reason as the USA recedes from the world's stage it will get more violent as more nations stand at parity with their adversaries again. And we're certainly seeing wars cropping up lately as the US continues to undermine its traditional allies, bully adversaries, declare trade wars, and withdraw from agreements.
by whimsicalism | 2025-12-10 21:19:19+00:00
Mandani did really well in NYC which is entirely consistent with the social media helping the left in urban cores but hurting elsewhere.

I think it is structural about the medium because it elevates the profile of relatively rare things like crime or ‘wokeness gone amok’ that dems are losing on. Similarly, with regards to ICE, it is helping dems by also raising the profile of rare incidents. But on net I think this sort of coverage hurts dems more than it helps.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-10 21:20:02+00:00
Remarkably, Youtube's logged out experience will still be completely available to all age groups. And an a Australian HN user mentioned that one 14-year old had another (presumably older looking) 14-year old do the "video selfie" for her to verify her account on one the sites. So I'm not sure the fight will go away, but it may be slightly more tractable.

It will normalize people thinking that uploading their state-issued ID to whatever contractor is validating accounts is safe and normal.
by wk_end | 2025-12-10 21:20:17+00:00
The README mentions that it uses both (new) fixed point as well as soft floating point.

Unless I'm mistaken, the PS1 just plain doesn't support perspective correction. All texture mapping is done in hardware using a very not-programmable GPU; there'd be no way to do perspective correction, decent frame rate or not, outside of software rendering the whole thing (which would be beyond intractable).

The common workaround for this was, as suggested, tessellation - smaller polygons are going to suffer less from affine textures. Of course that does up your poly count.