MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slumberlust | 2025-12-31 23:00:16+00:00
Stardew seems to make choices consistent with the gaming community's interest, such as continued free updates and DLC along with reasonable pricing, messaging, and scope.

Epic values exclusive titles, walled gardens, poor support, and a scumbag CEO who will stomp over every market he can to get his next 8 Billion.

They ruined Rocket League, a game I purchased on steam while supporting Psyonix, which is now unusable until I agree to give them my PID and create an account. It's so egregious you can't even play bots offline. Every goal will move focus to a popped up browser window requesting account creation.

Everyone can decide where to draw the line on personal support, but to act like Epic is just being given shade because it's a corporation (as the comments below implied), is inaccurate.
by linguae | 2025-12-31 23:01:09+00:00
I have fond memories of watching Computer Chronicles as a kid in the 1990s on PBS in Sacramento. Even though Sacramento is only a two-hour drive from Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley felt like a far-off place as a kid from a low-income family; it wasn’t until college when I visited Silicon Valley for the first time. While we couldn’t afford the latest and greatest of computing, Computer Chronicles enabled me to keep up with computing news. Even when we got Internet access in 1998, I still regularly watched Computer Chronicles until it stopped airing.

There seems to be a sense of wonder, excitement, and positivity about technology back in the 1990s and 2000s. I miss those days.
by dpark | 2025-12-31 23:02:04+00:00
1. Pop up demanding I make a choice about their cookies.

2. Pop up telling me my adblocker is bad and I should feel bad.

3. Pop up suggesting I join their club/newsletter/whatever.

Every. fucking. site.

The newsletter one is especially obnoxious because it’s always got a delay so it shows up when I’m actually trying to read something or do something.

Edit: Oh, yeah. 4. Pop up to remind me I should really be using their app.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-31 23:02:14+00:00
These "gas turbines" are located next door to the Allen Combined Cycle Plant, a grid scale natural gas power plant with 1.1GW capacity. It's there to power a nearby steel mill. That's the kind of neighborhood xAI has put its cluster in.

I'm incredibly skeptical of any claim that xAI's power use is putting a dent in the local environment, and "environmental racism" just reeks of the usual agenda pushing.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-31 23:02:16+00:00
> In case you're unaware, Australian style ban is enforced via surveillance, such as a a mix of methods, such as facial age estimation, behavioural signals and an option to upload government-issued ID

Sure. Australia opted for private compliance. Adults who choose to use social media are subject to more surveillance (because that’s how the social media companies chose to comply). In exchange, not only does that level of surveillance not apply to children, but the default state of surveillance they were under from social media companies (and being normalized towards) is gone.
by redsymbol | 2025-12-31 23:02:24+00:00
This is absolutely true, speaking as someone who has both self-published and also published with a big publisher. Each choice has pros and cons.

In my case, I self-published and sold a book for several years, and then published an updated version with O'Reilly.

I decided to do that because I came to realize people judge self-publish books as less vetted and lower quality.

That may be often true. But in many cases, a self-published book can be much better than those released by a former publisher. I certainly believe it was true in my case.

But in the end, I decided my highest best opportunity was to go with a well-regarded publisher, for the authority that would bring.

And it changed things. People treat me differently now, like they consider me more of an authority. Even though it's essentially the same book; it just has an O'Reilly logo on the cover now.

Whether that should be the case is up for debate...

But it absolutely made people listen more seriously to my message. and I believe it has massively increased the positive impact of that book on the world.

Financially, I think it's been about even. For me it was worth the tradeoff for other reasons, but I don't think that is always the case for every author and every book.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-31 23:02:50+00:00
I read somewhere that Bershire Hathaway had sort of finished it's mission. 40 years ago there were lots of large companies who were very 'inefficient' and BH would come along, invest a lot, and start demanding changes. Company performance would improve and BH would make big $$$$.

Now there are few of these and it is hard to do.

I don't know enough to know whether it is right or wrong. but I think that is what I read.
by sagyam | 2025-12-31 23:03:40+00:00
I built a small web tool that generates a single install command for multiple Linux applications.
You select apps and a distribution (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc.), and it outputs grouped commands for APT, DNF, Pacman, Flatpak, Snap, and AUR, including setup steps when needed.

Inspired by the friction of repeatedly setting up fresh Linux machines.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-31 23:03:50+00:00
Unconstructible numbers are completely irrelevant at the point their container class, the "reals", are introduced. I.e. typically in algebra courses.

Unconstructible reals got shoehorned into mathematics, which would remain coherent without them, except for the mathematics that assumes them (or makes an equivalent un-required unsupported assumption). I.e. they are an unnecessary and circular invention.

The invention and then assumption without need or support, that unconstructible reals somehow exist in some way beyond fiat, is how we got cardinalities higher than countably infinite. Which creates a circular argument for those cardinalities, since assuming unconstructible reals exist requires assuming infinite information numbers exist, without any other need for them.

Of course, having defined something in any way creates a new interesting mathematical game.

But that game itself must be completely constructible, so is isomorphic to a relabelling of its theory without the unnecessary interpretation of unconstructible numbers or higher infinities.

Constructible isomorphic system:

Define a theory of math over a system that readily gives you references to numbers, and allows you to poll for more information about each number, but never tells you everything about the number. Furthermore, that system can view anything you do, so it can use gaps in your information to ensure you don't ever pin down the numbers it is catering for you. I.e. it constructs the numbers with a recursive continuation/generator algorithm, specifically to maintain consistency, while maintaining strictly partial information disclosure.

These new "numbers" are never actually fully created, defined, or specified. Only an unbreakable blackbox-maintained illusion of them is created.

But they both work with Cantor's famous diagonalization proof, and reveal the limits of the proof. The proof assumes that if you can have a number that can't appear in any particular countably infinite generator, at any finite step i, then somehow that means the number won't appear even if the generator has (somehow!) already produced an infinite number of numbers over an infinite number of steps.

The diagonalization proof, depends on a completely unprovable, arguably incoherent, inference.

The only way out of the general practical confusion about the nature of "reals" this has caused, would be to either redefine "reals" as constructible reals, and create another term for a class that also include the exotic unconstructible reals, or create a new term for constructible reals and do a mass copy/paste through the majority of mathematical communications/texts which do not depend on unconstructible things.

The highly pre-mature introduction of a class of numbers that includes the wobbly concept of unconstructible reals, creates a false level of credibility and perceived dependency on them.
by roughly | 2025-12-31 23:03:58+00:00
> COVID didn’t cost anyone anything in terms of improved standard of living. Curbing emissions growth would do that.

We live in a horrendously inefficient way. We ship everything from half way around the world in diesel ships, trucks, and trains, we buy shitty single-use plastic items packaged and shipped in single-use plastic packaging, we replace our phones instead of our batteries, our clothing and shoes degrade within a couple years, our restaurants and grocery stores throw away half the food they purchase, our agricultural system spends nitrogen and pesticides like they're free to grow corn as an industrial chemical component. I don't know exactly how much meat there is on that bone, but there's a whole lot of emissions we could remove that wouldn't negatively impact our lives and would probably improve them.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-12-31 23:04:07+00:00
I've seen it do that as well. Especially Gemini 3 lately.

I've started to add an instruction to my GEMINI.md after I'm happy with the tests telling it not to edit them, but to still run them.

I solve the documentation issue the same way. By telling it when and what to update in the .md file.
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-31 23:05:33+00:00
Correct, the whole affiliate system is ethically dubious, and the idea that someone can be trusted to produce honest, complete information about a topic when their message is paid for is unrealistic. Meanwhile, paid shills crowd out every space, making it more difficult to find actual honest information. They reduce signal and increase costs for the economy. It also relies on pervasive non-consensual tracking.

Simple consideration: how likely is a shill to tell you that you could save that extra $.89 by buying it from a store through which they get no commission? By using Honey? If they know those things, only telling you about their worse deal is not honest. Someone who's job it is to sell you things can never be a reliable source of information.

I already block affiliate tracking when possible (so the seller keeps the entire commission). I'm not going to install something like Honey, but I'm not seeing the problem with those who do.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-12-31 23:05:45+00:00
I feel like the worst offenders of this are pretty much every mainstream news website.

A little while back I visited one of the bigger ones without my ad blocker on and it was completely unusable. Autoplay videos, banners, ads between every paragraph of the article, sponsored links, popups, and the list goes on.

If the news industry is in fact struggling and laying off writers, I'm not sure making people want to leave your site as quickly as possible is really the best strategy.
by buescher | 2025-12-31 23:05:52+00:00
Working on your knife skills will pay off more than any small organizational optimizations and it's fun.

The top oven of a 30" double oven heats up almost as fast as a toaster oven, you don't have to bend over far to use it, and it takes up no counter space. I thought these were just for people who frequently cook huge meals for large gatherings but we moved into a house with one, used the top oven constantly, and it became a must-have when it was time to replace the range.

I got a gigantic weston vacuum sealer for Christmas one year. Fortunately we have the counter space for it, and drawer space beneath it for the bags, in our pantry. In the amounts we cook it's taken a long time to break even on any cost savings but it's a quality of life game changer. Plus sous vide. In a world where less-than-super-premium American butchery has gone from mediocre to downright sloppy in my lifetime, it's very, very nice being able to break down big roasts and subprimals into chops and steaks and smaller roasts etc and trim them up nicely and freeze whatever we're not going to use immediately. I tie roasts before freezing them.

Just buy the big box of sharpies for the kitchen. They walk off and dry out and get that weird thing that happens when they touch something oily. I mark things like super-duper-pasteurized dairy products with the date opened. I'm not michelin-star disciplined about using painter's tape for other containers. If I have a subprimal's worth of meat to go in the freezer, I use a label maker.
by beagle3 | 2025-12-31 23:06:43+00:00
Somewhat related - I want control over devices in my home. Too many things these days need an internet connection to be useful. I run my own OpenWRT router and set up firewall policies for them so they only get the access they need to provide their function. But I'm getting tired of it.

I'm looking for a nice tool that would give me that "control" over my home network -- at the very least, proper observability. Like "little snitch / open snitch" but running on my home router... and I haven't found anything like that yet.
by AuthAuth | 2025-12-31 23:07:28+00:00
If the debate is on the trade offs then his entire argument collapses when he fails to highlight a single legitimate trade off. His examples were absolutely refuted.

I dont know how so many people read that thread and agreed with the OP. When I read through his post I thought that this person cannot even accurately identify what is a wayland issue and what is an application issue. He is looking at an application called xkill and getting mad that it doesnt work outside of x. Its like me getting mad that windows disk cleaner doesnt run on linux and blaming linux for it.
by echelon | 2025-12-31 23:07:42+00:00
We all die on the same order of magnitude.

We all have pleasure and suffering along the same couple of orders of magnitude.

In geological timespans, none of the fun you had will matter. Even a year from now, your memories are just wistful nostalgia (perhaps a psychological detriment!) And that's if your brain architecture is even set up to recall senses and events well (not everyone can).

My view is that the intellectual pursuit is more fulfilling than a world simulating traversal of novel experiences. Those neurons will turn to dust soon anyway, and it'll be like it never even happened. Why spend so much time fretting over it?

Spend time with family, but trying to rack up on restaurants and things and places and visits - meh, it's just simulation and squirts of neurotransmitters. Ephemeral. They leave no trace. It all fades to emptiness.

I'm not saying be completely stoic. But don't overdose on pleasure and thrill and novelty. Over indexing that way cuts down on impact.

Building never stops, even when you do. Laying a foundation shapes human behavior at scale. Leads to more shoulders being stood upon. Higher order effects.

Every single person I admire made an impact.

I'm not my genes that I was built from or the genes that I might pass down. I'm the ideas and deeds of a short life that hopefully left lasting impact and caused second order effects.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-12-31 23:08:36+00:00
Thanks, that’s interesting. IEA definitely seems like a solid source for this kind of thing.

1% (if that’s accurate) isn’t nothing, but it’s also nowhere near what seems to be implied by the level of people’s reaction to AI buildout and the framing as an environmental catastrophe. (Of course there are other factors, such as local pollution from gas turbines.)

Interesting comparisons are blast furnaces (6% of global emissions) and aviation (2.5%). Both arguably more economically necessary than AI, for sure, but if we could make either of those meaningfully less of a contributor to climate change we’d have covered the whole AI buildout. And that’s not even getting into the possibility of a transition to solar energy for running datacenters, which China is already deep into and in which the US is far behind.
by Slash65 | 2025-12-31 23:09:06+00:00
This is the rub, tech is able to track you based on your browser, viewport size, os, location (a vpn still has a location if you aren’t rotating) and more. I use Firefox for privacy and just that measure alone rules out 97% of internet traffic and zeros down who I am within 3%. How private am I if I default to that 3%. 1440p monitor and a half screen Firefox viewport? Now we’re building an advertising profile!
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-31 23:09:33+00:00
And seeing as Windows is now a nightmare, and I am a technical person, I’ve moved everything to Linux.

Everything is still harder to get set up right on Linux, but it stays right. I’ve also found the LLM’s dramatically shorten the time required to configure things I don’t have experience with.

MS have abandoned their power users, and the power users (some of them at least), are abandoning MS. I keep Windows around in a VM for work purposes; never had a better setup! I’m in complete control of my PC again.
by zem | 2025-12-31 23:11:16+00:00
it's definitely a privilege to be able to find a fun job! but note that I'm not saying that everyone should hold out until they find one, I'm pushing back against the dour people who are convinced in their heart of hearts that "it's a job, it's not supposed to be fun" and that you are being an idiot for thinking it's even possible to find a job you really enjoy.
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-12-31 23:11:29+00:00
Don’t be pissed. You the one sentient being in a family of NPCs (no offence).

I always microwave my ice-cream.

People freak out when I tell them I do this.

Another thing people freak out about is when I tell them I sprinkle instant coffee on supermarket bought vanilla ice cream. The (too) sweet ice cream balances with the bitter coffee and it adds a textural element.
by ccppurcell | 2025-12-31 23:11:42+00:00
I think your objection regarding future governments is valid. The others I don't think are valid. For the record I agree with your conclusion that any effort like this is doomed to fail. But we already enforce point of sale age checks at scale across multiple domains. And as for perverse incentives, part of the proposal is more or less identical to how scratch cards for gambling work. There probably is a black market for these and there probably have been attempts at fraud. But they aren't very large, not enough to tank the system anyway.
by josephg | 2025-12-31 23:11:48+00:00
Thanks for writing this up and posting it! So:

- It’s not E2ee. It’s not even client side encrypted.

- You encrypt at rest. But using a key that you control anyway. The master key presumably is never stored in the database, which is a nice touch in case the database gets stolen.

- Images aren’t encrypted at all for some reason. (I think you’d find encrypting images with aes to be pretty fast. If you’re using tls, the image data is already being encrypted and decrypted over the wire, but too fast for you to notice).

How long is data stored for? Are images ever deleted? Is text?

And are you using TLS? At the protocol level everything is sent in the clear. So your transport security is quite important.
by benregenspan | 2025-12-31 23:12:30+00:00
> Pop-ups are back, and they’re worse than ever

The article opens with a screenshot of genuine pop-ups, and they are clearly so much worse than the (still annoying) modals presented later in the article. In the past, sites spawned a mess of popups that extended out of the browser window and persisted even when the page was navigated away from. Now if you don't like what the page is doing, you can at least just navigate away.
by analogpixel | 2025-12-31 23:12:30+00:00
btw, if you use https://kagi.com/ , they have a workflow for this: if you are on a site, and they popup a modal asking for you to sign up for something, you click back to the kagi.com search results, click the shield icon, and then click block. Now you'll never see that site show up again in your search results.

I've found those sites that want you to sign up for stuff usually have poor content to begin with, so this is just helping you curate out all the bad content out there.
by cj | 2025-12-31 23:12:38+00:00
> Even if your dream job is worth $100m to you, is the delta between this job and your realistic best alternative really worth that much?

At least for me, regular financial decision making breaks down once the numbers are above a certain amount.

E.g. You won’t feel 10x better about a $100m windfall vs. a $10m windfall.

The best case scenario for a lot of founders is to do a secondary, cash out / de-risk, and keep on building.

That’s the route I took. Paired with obsessive focus on work/life balance, I don’t regret taking this route.
Show HN: YouTube Auto Like – Auto-like videos from whitelisted channels
by fastfingertips | 2025-12-31 23:12:57+00:00
Backstory: YouTube creators constantly say "don't forget to like" – and I kept forgetting. I wanted a simple way to automatically support channels I follow without thinking about it every time.

What it does:
- Whitelist channels → auto-like their videos
- Blacklist channels → auto-dislike
- Timing options: instant, after X%, or after X seconds
- Optional "humanize" mode adds random delay

Technical notes:
- Manifest V3, minimal permissions (storage + activeTab)
- All data in chrome.storage.sync, nothing leaves your browser
- No analytics, no tracking, no remote calls
- ~500 lines of vanilla JS

Chrome Web Store (no signup needed):
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-auto-like/n...

This is my first Chrome extension. Open to feedback on the code or UX.
by achille | 2025-12-31 23:14:04+00:00
The analysis and tools were most definitely ai-aided, but this was done with homegrown forensics tooling, and about an hour of labor that involved cc, gemini (to check for synthid), chatgpt + a lot more. I also signed up for ideogram and generated more images to try and replicate the output:
- e.g: https://ideogram.ai/g/fcqp-qTlQV-moS-OuhebhQ/1 (although I refused to pay for ideogram so I could not get a png output, only jpg)
by analogpixel | 2025-12-31 23:14:17+00:00
Oh hi, I noticed you closed the live video window I opened up, let me open that up again for you.

Oh, looks like you closed that live video window again, let me get that back up for you again.

Ooops, looks like your clumsy fingers accidentally closed that live video again, let me just get that opened back up for you.
by gamblor956 | 2025-12-31 23:14:30+00:00
OpenAI is a corporation, so their losses do not flow up to their owners.

Their investors, if publicly traded like Microsoft do have to take write-downs on their financial statements but those aren't realized losses for tax purposes. The only tax "benefit" Microsoft might get from the OpenAI investment is writing off the amount it invested if/when OpenAI goes bankrupt.
by brandonmenc | 2025-12-31 23:15:12+00:00
These laws are like requiring a license to watch R-rated movies on your cable TV. How is this even enforceable?

Block the sites at the country level - good luck with that - or stfu.

This is never going to work, and in 20 years we'll all be laughing at this omg get the genie back in the bottle legislation.
by satvikpendem | 2025-12-31 23:15:22+00:00
It's funny, people complain about this but I actually like smooth panning scenes over juddery ones that give me a headache trying to watch them. I go so far as to use software on my computer called SVP 4 that does this but in a way better GPU accelerated implementation. I'm never sure why people think smoothness means cheapness except that they were conditioned to it.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-12-31 23:15:37+00:00
Massive wealth inequality is certainly a factor, not just in this but the associated affordability situation being faced by the group of people whose wealth isn't being buoyed by the stock market.

But I don't know what we can do about it when government has been captured by people with vested interests in not fixing anything.

It feels like things have to get bad enough to get people to actually rise up. Not like, revolution or anything, but real protest (and enough political awakening to understand that they are being fed culture war bullshit to distract them from the class war they should be waging).