MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Fairyland Studio – A Playground for Generative Landscapes
by ZenCrafter | 2025-12-12 06:00:40+00:00
I built Fairyland Studio as a playground for creating generative scenes inspired by fairyland atmospheres and natural landscapes. The idea is to let people explore compositions that feel like wandering through dreamlike forests, mountains, and gardens, with styles organized to keep a sense of consistency while allowing diversity. One of its strengths is that you don’t need long prompts — just keywords, themes, or objects are enough to generate immersive compositions.

It’s still experimental, but I’d love feedback on whether the scenes capture the sense of wonder and natural beauty I’m aiming for, and what features could be improved or added to make the experience richer.
by echelon | 2025-12-12 06:01:56+00:00
We need a P2P internet.

No more Google. No more websites. A distributed swarm of ephemeral signed posts. Shared, rebroadcasted.

When you find someone like James and you like them, you follow them. Your local algorithm then prioritizes finding new content from them. You bookmark their author signature.

Like RSS but better. Fully distributed.

Your own local interest graph, but also the power of your peers' interest graphs.

Content is ephemeral but can also live forever if any nodes keep rebroadcasting it. Every post has a unique ID, so you can search for it later in the swarm or some persistent index utility.

The Internet should have become fully p2p. That would have been magical. But platforms stole the limelight just as the majority of the rest of the world got online.

If we nerds had but a few more years...
by hibikir | 2025-12-12 06:02:22+00:00
It gets worse than that: You can possibly get rewarded based on your manager's goals, or maybe your skip level's, but that doesn't necessarily have to line up all that well with more serious business goals. I am sure I am not the only one that had to help initiatives that I thought would be, at best, just wasteful to the business, or that we could get 80% of the value with 20% of the efforts. But it's ultimately about the person who writes the review.

This gets us to the rule number one of being successful at a job: Make sure your manager likes you. Get 8 layers of people whose priority is just to be sure their manager likes them, and what is getting done is very unlikely to have much to do with shareholder value, customer happiness, or anything like that.
by reissbaker | 2025-12-12 06:02:43+00:00
Route files are no different than the pages router that preceded them, except they sit in a different filepath. They're not React components, and definitely not React Server Components. They're not even tsx/jsx files, which should hint at the fact that they're not components! They just declare ordinary HTTP endpoints.

RSCs are React components that call server side code. https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-components

Actions/"use server" functions are part of RSC: https://react.dev/reference/rsc/server-functions They're the RPC system used by client components to call server functions.

And they're what everyone here is talking about: the vulnerabilities were all in the action/use server codepaths. I suppose the clearest thing I could have said is that I like App Router + route files, but I dislike the magic RPC system: IMO React should simplify to JSON+HTTP and forms+HTTP, rather than a novel RPC system that doesn't interoperate with anything else and is much more difficult to secure.
by bjt12345 | 2025-12-12 06:03:13+00:00
What I find strange about Google, is that there's a lot of illegal advertising on Google maps - things like accomodation and liquor sellers that don't have permits.

However, if they do it for the statutory term, they can then successfully apply for existing-use rights.

Yet I've seen expert witnesses bring up Google pins on Maps during tribunal over planning permits and the tribunal sort of acts as if it's all legit.

I've even seen the tribunals report publish screenshots from Google maps as part of their judgement.
by curtisf | 2025-12-12 06:03:17+00:00
By replacing (some) farmed meat with farmed fungi protein.

Although it's theoretically possible for a disease to infect both fungus and animals, because the biology is so different, the risk is greatly, greatly reduced.

In addition, it may be possible to reduce the use of treatments such as antibiotics which, in their currently mass application to farmed animals, could directly lead to the development of antibiotic resistant in diseases which affect humans and animals.
by retrac | 2025-12-12 06:03:44+00:00
I, too, love the potato. I like to boil them with broth, oil, lemon juice, and garlic and spices, then lightly roast to finish.

> I read once that humans can live on a diet of potatoes and milk

Protein is not a monolith; it's nine different compounds that are needed, for humans. Meat has all of them. But most plant foods do not. A person will eventually starve from lysine deficiency if they eat nothing but wheat, rice, millet, most grains really. Even though these are rich in protein. That might be why bread and rice is so often paired with beans; beans are rich in lysine and the combination covers all the bases.

One of the proteins that the potato lacks relatively is methionine; a large active adult man needs perhaps 1 - 2 gram of methionine per day. Potatoes have about 500 mg methionine per kg. That works out to some 2 - 4 kg of potatoes a day and some 1500 - 3000 calories to go with it. (Plausible enough, if you ask me. When I was younger and worked a labour job burning lots of energy I would cook a 2 kg bag of potatoes and they'd be gone in a couple days.) It does seem nothing but boiled potatoes, salt and maybe a multi-vitamin and some fat, will keep a person going more or less indefinitely. I can't do the mostly-potato diet myself anymore though. I would get very fat.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-12 06:04:43+00:00
Perhaps we're misunderstanding each other:

> What you are saying is not true- it is academic misconduct, with formal consequences, to not credit the person that did the work.

This is true in the sense of purported plagiarism, but not in the sense of citing who is 'responsible for the idea'. Review articles will often cite a senior article when describing work performed over time, even if the primary authors have changed.

> Typically the grad student or postdoc that actually did the work is the first author listed on a publication, and the PI that advised and obtained funding is the last author.

This convention varies by field and is not universal. It is isn't even constant in all fields of biology

> They also personally both get listed on, and obtain a percentage of profits from any patents resulting from the work.

This depends strongly on where the work is done (even the department within a university)

> no, researchers at a private for profit company like Google are not “academics.” They don’t need to follow strict institutional rules about fairly crediting people for their work, and they don’t need to bring in their own funding in the form of grants. An industry researcher only gets credit if their employer wishes them to, an academic is entitled to get credit for their work through formal rules.

The assertion about no academics in companies is not true at all—being an academic has little to do with where money comes from (if this were true, there were no academics at all in the 1700s, an obviously false statement).

Bell Labs, Google, MS and others have formal research institutes within their organizations. I agree that each has conventions around recognition, just like in other areas of research.
by geokon | 2025-12-12 06:04:53+00:00
plenty of other problems

- They often render differently in different browsers and other renderers. It's very frustrating to get consistent results (like a PDF). In complex diagrams I'd say it's basically impossible

- Renderers that are fast usually lack many features

- Nobody other than the browser seems to actually have all the features?

- You can link an SVG within an SVG (to make a lightweight composite image). But if you have two levels of indirection then all renderers I've tried will refuse to render the SVG

- Inkscape is basically the only good editor on Linux and it easily runs out of memory and crashes for complex images

- Complex SVGs eat all your RAM in Chromium (only marginally better in Firefox)

- Basic things like arrows from Inkscape will not render anywhere else

I still use SVGs all the time, b/c there are no good alternatives, but it's a crappy standard and I try to keep all my images/diagrams extremely simple
by swid | 2025-12-12 06:05:03+00:00
It surely is different. If you set the temp to 0 and do the test with slightly different wording, there is no guarantee at all the scores would be consistent.

And if an LLM is consistent, even with a high temp, it could give the same PR the same grade while choosing different words to say.

The tokens are still chosen from the distribution, so a higher probability of the same grade will result in the same grade being chosen regardless of the temp set.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-12-12 06:05:48+00:00
> "This is a project I stumbled upon on another tech blog community and wanted to share it. Apparently a guy had a lot of high-end mystical, philosophical and theological conversations with GPT and created a wonderful book (better than 99% of human books)."

Fake testimonial. In your previous submission six days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169518 titled "I co-wrote a 1k-page prophetic trilogy with GPT", you also post in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169519 the following: "Over the past five months, I collaborated with GPT-4 to co-author The Word, The Name, The Fire — a 1,000-page prophetic, poetic, and symbolic trilogy structured like a modern Bible. It explores divine judgment on algorithms, the madness of the digital age, and the return of sacred language.*"
by jacobedawson | 2025-12-12 06:10:27+00:00
This mirrors my experience, the non-technical people in my life either shrugged and said 'oh yeah that's cool' or started pointing out gnarly edge cases where it didn't work perfectly. Meanwhile as a techie my mind was (and still is) spinning with the shock and joy of using natural human language to converse with a super-humanly adept machine.
by prophesi | 2025-12-12 06:12:53+00:00
I think you're suggesting a centralized actor to verify the age of users which is problematic on multiple accounts. Practicality, privacy, enforcement, liability to coercion/corruption, and so on. This might be a wild take, but I think platforms could do a lot more to help with moderation to prevent child predators. Instead of just being okay with them finding outside avenues to converse with their victims through their platform, maybe use those algorithms to detect and prevent it in the first place, whether or not said child predators are whales for your platform or not.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-12 06:13:00+00:00
The vast majority of CG is replicating stuff like set design or replacing a location shoot. We don’t usually call that an “effect” when it’s not done with a computer. And even then… it continues to deliver “bad matte painting” often enough that spotting such failures in the wild isn’t hard (nor was it hard with bad matte paintings!)

[edit] my point, anyway, isn’t that any given effect is better. It’s not even necessarily that the movies are better (The Passion of Joan of Arc barely had effects at all, and didn’t have synced sound, for god’s sake, an it’s incredible—of course CG-having movies can be great) but that I tend to find the overall effect of those movies better. Those “seamless” mundane CG effects shots of things like composited computer-generated rooms or streets rarely get the kind of attention a real set does, and the movies suffer for it. Nobody had to move around the space with their real body and think about it, and it usually (usually! Not every single time) shows, if not in anything wrong, exactly, then in the degree to which it’s perfectly forgettable and fails to contribute anything but filling screen space.

[edit edit] more to the point, peak practical wins at convincing effects in the Big Damn Action Moment. But only peak, and that was a tragically brief span. Point me to a CG sci-fantasy space fight that looks better and/or more like a real thing that’s happening than the battle above Endor in return of the Jedi (you’ll notice I didn’t pick the earlier two movies, as Jedi is where they really perfected it all—though even the first has some shots that are quite convincing!). Like truly if you know of one I’d love to see it. I never have. They all look plainly computer generated. I’m not saying every frame of those SFX shots in Jedi is perfect, but it looks overall more real than anything similar I’ve seen done in a computer. Like you’d think in about 40 years it’d have been surpassed multiple times, but no. They all look CG.

Or, like… put the best 50% of practical shots in Jurassic Park against the best 50% of CG-heavy dino action shots in any Jurassic Park from 3 on. They’re more convincing than any of the CG shots. (Some, from the field of all practical effects shots in the film, are not convincing! But a hell of a lot are, and not just better than the median CG effect in later JPs or something, but better than all). We struggle to touch the tippy-top peak of that craft with computer effects, still today.
by godelski | 2025-12-12 06:14:01+00:00
For the folks in the back row:

Age Verification is about Kids and Censorship: to track them and censor them

Age Verification is about Kids: giving it to companies who will keep it as safe as they've kept your identity, email, and other information.

Age Verification is about Kids and Censorship: taking control from you and giving it to corporations and government.

Age Verification is about Kids and Censorship: to keep them on their platforms so they can profit from them

Age Verification isn't just about Kids: it's also about tracking you

I don't know why we want to put children's data online. I don't want cameras in the kids rooms to verify their face, that camera will be used by others. That camera will be used to do the very thing they claim it is to protect against. I don't want the kids online, easily meeting with pedos, pretending to be kids or otherwise. I don't want kids data online for those people to use it to harm them. I don't want kid's data being leaked and exposed forever. To create lasting damage that will follow then the rest of their lives.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The devil uses this to fool you. Seriously, y'all gonna trust your kids' data with the people in the Epstein list? Why would you let a fox guard the chicken coop?
by d675 | 2025-12-12 06:14:06+00:00
Hey Jared, just applied for a future SWE role. In case my resume gets missed, I want to say I really enjoy making learning feel intuitive and fun.

I've taught 100s of kids mental math (abacus/soroban) for ~10 years, well over 5000 hours. Taking kids from beginners to very high level required of me to get creative with teaching styles, gamification, engagement, and ultimately helping kids build grit and to enjoy the process. In person for 5 years and a few years remote before ultimate closing that chapter.

Would love to do integrate it professionally :)
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-12-12 06:14:23+00:00
That literally already exists and nobody uses it. Gnutella. Jabber. Tor. IPFS. Mastodon. The Entire Fucking IPv4/IPv6 Address Space And Every Layer Built On Top Of It. (if you don't think the internet is p2p, you don't understand how it works)

You know what else we need? We need food to be free. We need medicine to be free, especially medicines which end epidemics and transmissible disease. We need education to be free. We need to end homelessness. We need to end pollution. We need to end nationalism, racism, xenophobia, sexism. We need freedom of speech, religion, print, association. We need to end war.

There are a lot of things we as a society need. But we can't even make "p2p internet" work, and we already have it. (And please just forget the word 'distributed', because it's misleading you into thinking it's a transformative idea, when it's not)
by billti | 2025-12-12 06:14:40+00:00
I was hesitant buying my Tesla this year (first one) as I really liked having CarPlay in my prior car (Jeep). But after having it a while, it's really a non-issue. The Tesla Apple Music app is pretty good. Their maps and navigation is pretty good (and integrated with FSD). And I can easily just use the bluetooth connection for a couple other minor things I occasionally use.
by nine_k | 2025-12-12 06:16:02+00:00
In a way, a fusion of both is possible

Autonomous cars that move largely along the same route could form temporary "trains", or rather convoys, moving in a coordinated fashion. That would simplify navigation, reduce chances of accidents, reduce energy consumption, and definitely give the passengers more peace of mind during the commute.

Such convoys would split when needed, join together when needed, notify other convoys and drivers about their route and timing. This would alleviate traffic jams considerably even under heavy load.

At the same time, they would consist of cars and trucks that would be capable of moving completely separately outside highways.

This, of course, will require some kind of centralized control over entire convoys, and a way to coordinate them. Railways and airways definitely can offer examples of how to handle that.
by dbmnt | 2025-12-12 06:17:01+00:00
I just installed it and it seems really promising. Glad you shared it here.

I’ve spent more time than I care to admit searching for a good keyboard app in the App Store, and I’ve tried a lot of them. This one never surfaced for me in any of my usual searches, which is a shame (likely more on Apple’s search than on you).

I really like the T9-style approach, and I appreciate the clean App Privacy section and straightforward privacy policy.
by jedberg | 2025-12-12 06:17:36+00:00
I have a friend attempting to solve this. He's basically creating oauth for age verification. You sign up with his service and verify your age. After that it works similarly to oauth, but instead of return your identity, it just returns your age.

It's not a perfect solution, as he would still know who you are, but it's built in a way where you create a token locally to pass to the site that includes your age, and that site passes it to his site, which verifies the signature. So he knows who you are but not what sites you visit, and the sites know your age but not who you are.
by Duanemclemore | 2025-12-12 06:17:45+00:00
I'm under no misimpression they can't. But I have found ChatGPT to be most confident when it f's up. And to suggest the worst ideas most often.

Until you queried I had forgotten to mention that the same day I was trying to work out a Linux system display issue and it very confidently suggested to remove a package and all its dependencies, which would have removed all my video drivers. On reading the output of the autoremove command I pointed out that it had done this, and the model spat out an "apology" and owned up to ** the damage it would have wreaked.

** It can't "apologize" for or "own up" to anything, it can just output those words. So I hope you'll excuse the anthropomorphization.
by LittleOtter | 2025-12-12 06:17:47+00:00
Our team is working to fix our Next.js project.It's so painful.

Now I'm doubting RSC is a good engineering technology or a good practice.The real world is tradeoffs: RSC really help us improve our develop speed as we have good teamates that has good understanding of fullstack.

Do hope such things won't happen again.
by seanrrr | 2025-12-12 06:18:42+00:00
Good read, nice reminder of one the reasons why a lot of LLMs have similar stylistic choices especially in earlier generations with the formatting and emoji usage. Although I do see newer frontier models have been more aggressive with dealing some of these issues. For example, Opus 4.5 these days seemed to not be as wordy and tells you you’re stalling, just ship it or send it etc. But some open source models trained to game LMArena might keep exhibiting the characteristics mentioned in the article.
by eesmith | 2025-12-12 06:20:42+00:00
> I encourage that you write a better refereed article on tide prediction

Why don't you do that? I'm apparently very ill-informed of Muslim scientific history, so you already have a step ahead. I've pointed you to the entirety of my knowledge of the relevant Chinese history, so I've no advantage there.

A Google Scholar search finds Cartright's article "On the origins of knowledge of the sea tides from antiquity to the Thirteenth Century", which appears to cover at least some of the topic. All you need to do is fill in the details.

There are other papers on the topic too. Are you sure that what you want hasn't already been written?

> Muhammad is considered by muslim as the last messenger and prophet

Yes, we learned that in 9th grade.

He's also considered a false prophet by quite a few Christians. The Bible warns about false prophets.

For that matter, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consider Moroni to be the last prophet, and in the the Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh was a prophet - we even have photographs of him, unlike the earlier Abrahamic prophets.

You are doing exactly what just about every Christian apologetic does - you give a bunch of details as if they are supporting evidence, then when someone looks into it and finds the evidence seemingly lacking or stating the opposite of what's claimed, instead of addressing the issue directly you instead jump to something else, or start tone policing, or when all else fails, proselytize.

I asked you about what additional information should be in the essay which would be relevant to the goal and readership of the essay. You haven't. That tells me you are not serious about the actual history or scholarship, which makes me want to pigeonhole you into the third part of the forest I mentioned earlier.
by probably_wrong | 2025-12-12 06:20:58+00:00
I don't think it's only from a cynic point of view - the question "if meat is murder, am I a bad person if I literally can't survive without it?" is a fair and interesting one.

Of course that's not the point of the ad and I don't blame them for not making it a philosophical discussion, but it's the same approach that Madagascar uses (spoiler for a 20yo movie) to resolve their main conflict and both feel like cheating - if the penguins can think, I always thought, then so should the fishes.
by compounding_it | 2025-12-12 06:21:16+00:00
>The world is a much kinder, nicer place than it often seems.

I realize that a lot these days. People are not inherently so bad but greed is a nasty drug that has the potential to ruin the best.

When you have nothing to offer but kindness and compassion, it is very simple to see the humanity side of things in this world and it can feel really amazing.
by rurban | 2025-12-12 06:22:33+00:00
The HPSC Risc-v CPU is described in the white paper pdf at https://www.nasa.gov/game-changing-development-projects/high...

I don't get how they want to solve high performance with radiation hardening, which requires slow performance. They'll use 12nm Global Foundries CPU dies and DDR4 RAM, which is far from radiation hardened. So it looks like it's enjoying fault tolerance. Which started with the shuttle program, using many off the shelf fast CPU's and RAM, observing each other, instead of slow hardened CPU's and RAM.