MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rudolftheone | 2025-12-17 18:46:23+00:00
I though I will test this case with Gemini 3 pro and bam: it nailed it perfectly on the first attempt:

The string "alemwjsl" is a classic example of a keyboard input error specific to Korean users. Here is the explanation: The Hypothesis: The "Han/Yeong" (Korean/English) Toggle Error In South Korea, keyboards are bilingual. Users frequently switch between the Korean script (Hangul) and English (QWERTY) using a toggle key. If a user intends to type the Korean word for Midjourney (미드저니) but forgets to toggle the keyboard input from English to Korean, the output corresponds to the physical location of the keys on a standard QWERTY layout. The Proof (Mapping the Keys) Let’s break down the Korean word 미드저니 (Midjourney) key by key on a standard "2-Set" Korean keyboard: 미 (Mi) ㅁ corresponds to the A key. ㅣ corresponds to the L key. Result: al 드 (Deu) ㄷ corresponds to the E key. ㅡ corresponds to the M key. Result: em 저 (Jeo) ㅈ corresponds to the W key. ㅓ corresponds to the J key. Result: wj 니 (Ni) ㄴ corresponds to the S key. ㅣ corresponds to the L key. Result: sl Put it all together: al + em + wj + sl = alemwjsl Why this happens and why they bid on it Muscle Memory: Midjourney is a very popular search term in Korea (113K volume for the main keyword). Thousands of users type it quickly without looking at the screen. By the time they realize they are typing in English mode, they have already hit enter or the search bar has auto-suggested the "gibberish" term. Smart SEO/SEM Strategy: High Intent: Anyone typing "alemwjsl" is 100% looking for "Midjourney." There is no ambiguity. Lower Cost: While "미드저니" might have high competition (CPC 0.31), "alemwjsl" often has lower competition because many advertisers overlook "gibberish" keywords, though in this specific case, the CPC is quite similar (0.28 vs 0.31), indicating the secret is out. Capture All Traffic: By bidding on this, Midjourney ensures that even clumsy typists find their website immediately rather than being redirected by Google to a "Did you mean...?" page or a competitor. Conclusion: "alemwjsl" is simply 미드저니 typed with the keyboard set to English. It represents high-intent users making a very common technical mistake.

Not the first time ChatGPT being inferior in such tasks.
by samgranieri | 2025-12-17 18:46:46+00:00
have you tried using pi-hole or adblock plus running on a raspberry pi on your network?

whenever i'm off my home wifi network, i have wireguard configured to connect home and get me that ad blocking. it's so nice.

yes, i prefer to use brave for personal stuff and i use edge for work stuff (reasons,,, don't ask)
by speed_spread | 2025-12-17 18:46:52+00:00
You need unsafe Rust for FFI - interfacing with the rest of the kernel which is still C, uses raw pointers, has no generics, doesn't track ownership, etc. One day there might enough Rust in the kernel to have pure-Rust subsystems APIs which would no longer require unsafe blocks to use. This would reverse the requirements as C would be a second class citizen with these APIs (not that C would notice or care). How far Rust is to get pushed remains to be seen but it might a long time to get there.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-17 18:46:56+00:00
>with no good way to get back in.

which is why at the very least your email provider gives you a recovery kit to print out (the equivalent of the notebook) and if you can get back into that account you'll likely be able to get into whatever else you signed up for.

There's no difference here between passkeys and any other central storage be it a password manager or a physical notebook. If you lose that access, well you're screwed. But it always beats having hotdog123 as your password for 70 different sites.
by vel0city | 2025-12-17 18:46:57+00:00
Its totally my business when their choices make my family and friends less safe and less healthy and makes our communities worse off.

Imagine if someone had a machine that they could press a button and it would just give them a bit of happiness, but gave your kids asthma and lung cancer, poisoned the water, killed crops, and could potentially kill a random innocent person in a gruesome way. Should they press that button? Are you good with them pressing that button all the time for practically any reason? Do you feel you should have a say on if they should press that button, or how often they could press that button? Do you think you'd probably go around talking to people about these machines and the issues of pressing that button, to try and convince others to only buy the machine and press the button if they actually need to, or maybe buy the machine that poisons us less per press?

Should you have a say when a company excessively releases cancer-causing particulates into the air? Should we have a say when a company releases machines into our communities that have an excessively higher risk to maim and kill the people around those machines? If we should have a say when a company does these things, why shouldn't we when its private individuals doing the same?

I've said in my previous comment, if you actually do drive around in places where you need the ground clearance, when you actually do tow things, when you actually do use the bed in ways that are needed, fine by me. I see lots of trucks doing actual truck things as well. But the vast majority of these vehicles aren't used in these ways. This is the problem I'm talking about. I've had someone say to me they needed their pickup truck, no other vehicle could possibly be used because sometimes they have to carry their kids bicycles around and the only way that could be done effectively was in the bed of their truck. There was someone in the comment section here suggesting a truck was necessary to take a canoe someplace, as if that's something only a truck could do. The craziest thing about that canoe story, I've heard it from several other people as well, incredible this is a common idea it seems.
by throw3e98 | 2025-12-17 18:47:22+00:00
Most of the time my time spend operating my A1 Mini is... maybe 2-3 minutes per plate? Drag and drop into Bambu Studio, run the slicer, send the job to the printer, come back in 4 hours and grab my prints. I might need to break off the supports and clean them up - but with an injection molded kit I'd be snipping the sprues, cleaning up mold lines with a knife and gluing the models together anyway.

The commericial overhead rate for an SLA printer is about $5 a plate - the washing and curing steps can be largely automated, or even if they are done manually, it's not that much work.
by calepayson | 2025-12-17 18:47:47+00:00
Speaking as a junior, I’m happy to do this on my own (and do!).

Conversations like this are always well intentioned and friction truly is super useful to learning. But the ‘…’ in these conversations seems to always be implicating that we should inject friction.

There’s no need. I have peers who aren’t interested in learning at all. Adding friction to their process doesn’t force them to learn. Meanwhile adding friction to the process of my buddies who are avidly researching just sucks.

If your junior isn’t learning it likely has more to do with them just not being interested (which, hey, I get it) than some flaw in your process.

Start asking prospective hires what their favorite books are. It’s the easiest way to find folks who care.
by ericmcer | 2025-12-17 18:47:54+00:00
really? My very first interaction was it prompted me for my company name, and the basic html text <input/> didn't behave correctly.

It had no highlight styling so if you wanted to highlight a portion of your input it would be impossible to tell what the current selection was.

Looks cool, not trying to hate, I just have a pet peeve around native elements having basic function/accessibility features removed during heavy styling.
by fwip | 2025-12-17 18:48:04+00:00
That's how these things go, sadly.

As an example, Loving v Virginia, the Supreme Court case that struck down all anti-miscegenation laws, was in 1967. In 1968, a Gallup poll indicated that less that 20% of white Americans "approved of marriage between whites and non-whites."

Three decades later, in 2000, Alabama finally voted to repeal its (inactive) law, and a full 40% of voters voted to keep the racist, useless law in their state constitution.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-17 18:48:07+00:00
The shift is based on the argument that because the Communications Act of 1934 does not contain explicit for-cause removal protections for commissioners (unlike the laws creating the FTC, NRLB, FERC or others, which do), they are legally removable at will by the president, placing the agency under executive control.

The FCC has often been called an independent agency. But this may be a mistaken assumption. The 1935 Supreme Court ruling in Humphrey’s Executor held that when Congress included for-cause language, the president could not fire commissioners for simple policy disagreements. The FCC charter does not have that.

Under this interpretation, the FCC is considered part of the executive branch and aligned with the president's policy objectives rather than operating as an autonomous body
by acdha | 2025-12-17 18:48:21+00:00
Reporters tend to be very careful about this in the context of things like deaths, embarrassing scandals, etc. where they might be sued. If you note, the kind of stories you’re referring to tend to be referencing what someone else said—a source in law enforcement, neighbors, friends, etc.—because that makes it clear that there are not the opinion of the news organization itself.
by peanut-walrus | 2025-12-17 18:48:23+00:00
It's an open protocol, you don't need to use any of the vendors. My Yubikey is a "passkey", so is my Flipper Zero. Keepass provides passkey support.

For the general public, they already rely on either Google or Apple for pretty much all of their digital life. Nothing wrong with extending this to passkeys, it's convenient and makes sense for them.
by GeoAtreides | 2025-12-17 18:48:46+00:00
When I first opened QBasic, <N> years ago, when I was a wee lad, the online QBasic help didn't replace my trusty qbasic book (it supplemented it, maybe), nor did it write the programs for me. It was just there, doing nothing, waiting for me to press F1.

AI, on the other hand...
by informa23 | 2025-12-17 18:48:55+00:00
EDIT: Hacker News has limited my ability to respond. Please keep in mind that Rust has a large number of active fans, who may have biases for whatever reasons.

> Still, having smaller sections of unsafe is a boon because you isolate these locations of elevated power, meaning they are auditable and obvious.

The Rustonomicon makes it very clear that it is generally insufficient to only verify correctness of Rust-unsafe blocks. If the absence of UB in a Rust-unsafe block depends on Rust-not-unsafe code in the surrounding module, potentially the whole module has to be verified for correctness. And that assumes that the module has correct encapsulation, otherwise even more may have to be verified. And a single buggy change to Rust-not-unsafe code can cause UB, if a Rust-unsafe block somewhere depends on that code to be correct.
by tompark | 2025-12-17 18:49:15+00:00
After Coursera/Udacity/EdX discontinued courses that I wanted to take, or removed access to ones I only partially completed, I switched to buying classes on Udemy. I completed only a handful of many purchases, and the quality level was okay-to-mediocre but better than nothing, so I got more value out of Udemy than Coursera.

I also found that Youtube videos are just as informative as Udemy classes, but they're not always as well structured.

The MOOCs had some pretty cool/interesting university classes that don't exist anywhere else. It's a shame those videos weren't preserved where we can access/purchase them without attending the college.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-17 18:49:23+00:00
I see you're familiar with Stephen Elop. Also, remember that the people who hired Elop probably hired him with the intention of making a fortune off of that destruction.

It's not that he's some secret agent or some mentally ill person who wants to destroy the company while twirling his mustache, it's that he's a person carefully chosen by people who have made large fortunes from Firefox through indirect means. He would be chosen to destroy it in a way optimized for their gain, like Elop was chosen by the board to turn Nokia into a cheap, obvious Microsoft buy, Clegg was chosen to enable the Tory government, or Sturgeon to make sure that indyref2 never happened.

Google is under no antitrust threat at all anymore. Obama judges don't believe in antitrust. Google wants to get out of paying that 500M/yr, and shitting up Firefox is a great way to do it. They'd be more than happy to throw a couple dozen of those Ms to Enzor-DeMeo or whoever will help them get that done.

How much you willing to bet that he becomes Mozilla's highest paid CEO in history, ruins the product completely, then leaves and ends up an exec at Google or some 80% owned by Google offshoot founded by a Google alum?
by mtalantikite | 2025-12-17 18:49:27+00:00
I don't speak Hindi unfortunately, but it's definitely on my list of languages to study (after Bangla)!

It looks like the Hindi tanha comes from Classical Persian [1], whereas the Pali tanha comes from Sanskrit [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B9%E...

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ta%E1%B9%87h%C4%81
by bongodongobob | 2025-12-17 18:49:40+00:00
Beyond that, there's a huge culture/propaganda problem for the demographic. Electric vehicles are gay, for sissies, we run on gas like my grandpappy did, climate change is fake, toaster on wheels, Joe Biden wants to take our trucks away, etc. Also the legitimate repair complaint: joe redneck can easily get parts for his 1998 F150 and fix it himself. There is no EV repair culture yet.
by shantara | 2025-12-17 18:50:01+00:00
Vendor lock-in a serious concern. Just reading through this KeePass issue again and seeing how much pressure the industry is trying to exert to prevent the users from being able to export their own private keys should be concerning. I come back to this discussion every time I see someone arguing in favor of passkey adoption.

>The unfortunate piece is that your product choices can have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem as a whole. I've already heard rumblings that KeepassXC is likely to be featured in a few industry presentations that highlight security challenges with passkey providers

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407
by everdrive | 2025-12-17 18:50:05+00:00
Yes. For ICE cars I can just buy older cars. _Some_ modern ICE cars avoid this. As recently as 2024 the Nissan Frontier base model has no cellular modem, and also only has one small screen but otherwise has physical buttons and physical gauges.

The Slate would be the only EV coming out that avoids this problem, which combined with the price is one of the reasons I'm interested.
by SilasX | 2025-12-17 18:50:13+00:00
This. People act like it's a hyper-complicated rule that English speakers magically infer, when in reality, a) other languages do it, and b) it's a much simpler rule (that you've given) which someone overcomplicated.

As a counterexample (in line with your explanation), consider someone snarking on the WallStreetBets forum: "Come on, guys, this is supposed to be Wall Street bets, not Wall Street prudent hedges!" Adjective order changes because the intended significance changes. (Normally it would be "prudent Wall Street hedges".)

Side note: please don't nitpick about whether "Wall Street" is functionally an adjective here. The same thing would happen if the forum had been named "FinancialBets".
by anonym29 | 2025-12-17 18:50:26+00:00
Why do you close the bathroom stall door in public?

You're not doing anything wrong. Everyone knows what you're doing. You have no secrets to hide.

Yet you value your privacy anyway. Why?

Also - I have no problem using Anthropic's cloud-hosted services. Being opposed to some cloud providers doesn't mean I'm opposed to all cloud providers.
by HanClinto | 2025-12-17 18:50:27+00:00
Whoa. A website that cares about its users enough to _easily support limiting access to itself_?

That's so refreshing in terms of being a user-focused feature, and yet it stands in sharp contrast against today's engagement-hyperfocused climate. I never would have thought to look on a website's own settings page to limit my access to that same website.

I love it, thank you for pointing me to this!
by samdoesnothing | 2025-12-17 18:50:28+00:00
It's just moving the goalposts. "If it compiles it works" to "it eliminates all memory bugs" to "well, it's safer than c...".

If Rust doesn't live up to its lofty promises, then it changes the cost-benefit analysis. You might give up almost anything to eliminate all bugs, a lot to eliminate all memory bugs, but what would you give up to eliminate some bugs?
by dijit | 2025-12-17 18:50:31+00:00
“why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge (for other applications, not specifically just docker) only 12 years ago.

I have had people working who don’t in the slightest understand how a filesystem works, so taking it a step further is impossible.

When I tune things I am asked how I know, but everything is just built from the basics, and the basics don’t make you feel productive, so they’re always skipped when possible.
by physPop | 2025-12-17 18:51:05+00:00
agree. especially the comments saying "just address it". Its a lot of technically complicated interactions between the physics, imaging parameters, and processing techniques. Unfortunately the end users (typically neuroscience/psych grad students in labs with minimal oversight) usually run studies that just "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" not realizing that is the antithesis of the scientific method. No one goes in to a resting state study saying "we're going to test if the resting state signal in the <region> is <changed somehow> becuase of <underlying physiology>". They instead measure a bunch of stuff find some regions that pass threshold in a group difference and publish it as "neural correlates of X". Its not science, and its why its not reproducible. People have build whole research programs on noise.
by mothballed | 2025-12-17 18:51:21+00:00
The neutral viewpoint, I think, is that "some CEOs do nasty things that get people killed, and some get away with it."

Although yours is more neutral than "CEOs do nasty things that get people killed, and get away with it" which you often hear from the same populations that cheered the assassination of a CEO that did nasty things and most definitely did not get away with it.

It's definitely become more politically charged in the wake of the Luigi event, when framing CEOs as violent people implicitly authorizes "self-defense" cheered on by what is usually associated with left-wing leaning actors.
by Aperocky | 2025-12-17 18:51:51+00:00
Unnecessary complexity, completely arbitrary one off designs, over emphasis on one part of the behavior while ignoring others. Using design patterns where they shouldn't be used, code once and forget operations exist, using languages and framework that are familiar but unfit for that purpose. The list goes on and I see it happen all the time, AI only makes it worse because it tend to verify all of these with "You're absolutely correct!".

Good luck maintaining that.
by sltkr | 2025-12-17 18:52:45+00:00
We both know that CEOs are never fired, but there is a difference between resigning on their own accord and “resigning” because they had no organizational support. What happened to Eich was the CEO-equivalent of getting fired.

> Donations are public material support. Not private views.

Not really? Nobody would know what causes Eich donates to if they didn't make an effort to look it up and broadcast that information.

Even if you take that view, are you saying that nobody who works for Mozilla is allowed to make any political donations ever? Or are you simply saying that you Mozillians aren't allowed to donate money to conservative causes? Because it sounds a lot like the second one, and then we're back to the original allegation: that Mozilla today is a political project first, and a technological project second. Otherwise, how do you explain Mozilla caring so much about which political campaigns its employees donate to?
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-17 18:53:08+00:00
They are looking at OperaGX and Brave selling literal spyware and still growing marketshare and correctly recognizing that the only people willing to switch browsers in the current day do not give a shit about any of that stuff and are weirdos looking for "features"

Look at all the people in this very comment section insisting that Mozilla is just the worst while using fucking chrome or chromium. Mozilla knows they will never get that market back, because that market just hates Mozilla for "reasons", usually "They fired a guy for being openly hostile"

The thing google did to cause the demise of firefox was pay to bundle chrome with tons of things users installed, and put a giant "Install Chrome for BEST EXPERIENCE" banner on every single page they control. Sane governments would have broken them up for their clear anti-competitive practices, but at the same time the vast majority of the users they "lost" never knew they had firefox in the first place and didn't notice when it got changed.

These users never even noticed when conficker changed their browsers to literal adware FFS, they certainly didn't "Choose" a browser freely.
by happyopossum | 2025-12-17 18:53:11+00:00
> whereas the Gemini models, even 3 Pro, always answer after a few seconds and never cite their sources

Definitely has not been my experience using 3 Pro in Gemini Enterprise - in fact just yesterday it took so long to do a similar task I’d thought something was broken. Nope, just re-chrcking a source
by SeanAnderson | 2025-12-17 18:53:14+00:00
Your perspective is kind of confusing to me.

I'm 35, don't own a vehicle, and have never owned a vehicle. I live in SF. I think I'm finally getting to the point in my life where, maybe, I want a vehicle. I'd use it to take myself to camping music festivals and Burning Man. That's about it. Oh, I'm sure I'd find other uses for it, helping friends haul stuff, etc... but, practically speaking, most of my needs are consistently addressed by public transit and/or Waymo.

I guess what I'm trying to say is - literally the only time I feel like I'm missing out on a vehicle is when I have a need to transport a large amount of stuff a large amount of miles into desolate environments.

Does that mean my desire for a truck is imaginary/aspirational because, if I were to own it, 99% of the time I'd be content with a low range battery? I can see why people would think that, but, to me, it seems more like the 1% is the rationale for owning the vehicle.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-17 18:53:21+00:00
echo '127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Does the trick as well :) For bonus points (and so you can't workaround it with your phone), do it on your router/switch instead.

You'll still open new tabs and go to HN, but you'll be reminded quickly, and every day can be downtime day \o/ (for you, personally)
by Foriney | 2025-12-17 18:53:40+00:00
In 2008. You know, the year the majority of Americans didn't approve of gay marriage? [1] The year Obama said that marriage is between a man and a woman? [2]

Applying modern sensibilities to history is stupid.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20111017161259/http://www.quinni...

[2] https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/08/obama-says-...