MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluefirebrand | 2025-12-10 14:18:02+00:00
That doesn't sound like immortality to me

It might look like immortality to outside observers, but I don't see how it is the same thing

Any process that could theoretically allow me to exist at the same time as my future self must clearly not be me anymore

So any kind if "mind backup" is a copy. A clone with a copy of my memories absolutely cannot be me. We would somehow need to be able to transfer my consciousness into a clone body

It seems very likely to me that consciousness is actually a side effect of a physical network in the brain and cannot actually be separated from the biological brain to move to an artificial brain
by Aurornis | 2025-12-10 14:18:13+00:00
> I've been hunting for ways to minimize friction when quickly capturing random thoughts and this is a novel idea that seems to go further than anything else I've tried.

Since you’re the target audience, I’ll ask you: How do you envision you’ll work through all of the captured notes? Do it all at the end of the day? Go back and look for something after you remember making the note?

I’m wondering if this product will have the same problem that many discover after they buy a Moleskin journal and think it will solve specific problems in their life: Recording the thought or idea is the easy part, but it only defers the action. Additional diligence is required to review the notes and act on them.

For a very specific type of person who is both forgetful but also diligent enough to process the notes thoroughly and in a timely manner I could see this being helpful. For the people saying this will help with easily distracted people I’m not so sure. It could easily become a tool which gives a false sense of handling a task when really it just blackholes the thought into an ever growing collection of 3-second notes that are never revisited. Like the person who clicks the “mark as unread” button on every email with the intention of responding later, but then has 100 messages in their inbox by the end of the week.

The advertised use case of recording 20 short thoughts per day means over 100 notes to process every week. For a highly diligent person who clears their inbox (and now audio notes) every day that’s nothing. For all of the commenters thinking this is going to solve their distractability problems, I have my doubts.
by crote | 2025-12-10 14:18:36+00:00
That's not exactly a great example, is it? "Barclay" even has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia, because it's a reasonably common Scottish surname.

For example, there used to be a Scottish company constructing steam locomotives which traded under the "Barclays & Co" name - because it was founded by one Andrew Barclay. There's also the Barclay Academy secondary school, and a Bentley dealer which until recently operated as Jack Barclay Ltd.

And that's just the UK ones! Barclays operates internationally, which means they want "barclays.com", so suddenly there's also Barclay-the-record-label, Barclay-the-cigarette-brand, Barclay-the-liquor-brand, Barclay College, golf tournament The Barclays, Barclays Center (whose naming rights were bought by the bank, but they of course want their own completely distinct website), Barclay Theatre, three Barclay Hotels.

Of course there's also all the stuff under "Barkley", "Barkly", "Berkley", and probably a dozen other variations just waiting to be used to scam dyslexic Barclays custumers.
by voidmain | 2025-12-10 14:18:40+00:00
I find these arguments unconvincing. But I do think that as an immortal it would be very difficult and painful to adapt to the changes in society and its values over time as an immortal. Eventually you must either join some isolated group like the Amish or else betray everything you love and believe in, over and over and over again, because whatever you think is important, the future will despise and forget it, while inventing new values incomprehensible to you now. Probably I am too opinionated to happily live even a normal human lifetime, but it's hard to imagine anyone so easygoing that a few thousand years of changes wouldn't leave them homeless.
by rbanffy | 2025-12-10 14:18:43+00:00
I think Celery has a lot of magic happening under it. When the abstractions are so high, it's important they never leak and you don't see anything below the turtles you are supposed to see.

I often prefer designing around explicit queues and building workers/dispatchers. One queuing system I miss is the old Google App Engine one - you set up the queue, the URL it calls with the payload (in your own app), the rate it should use, and that's it.
by lotsoweiners | 2025-12-10 14:18:48+00:00
> Because how do you reorient the demand to those areas that have the supply? It's not easy. We can't seem to do it currently, and there's no real plan to do it if even if we could somehow build even more housing.

Uh have you heard of telework? I am sure that both federal and state governments could incentivize companies to offer telework instead of some forced RTO situation.
by vidarh | 2025-12-10 14:19:10+00:00
> - Jon Richelieu-Booth for posting a picture of himself with a gun in the US

A quick search suggests that the photo with the gun wasn't the sole cause of the arrest, given there were stalking allegations "involving serious alarm or distress" from someone he had a conflict with, where the gun was one part of what caused the complainint to (claim to) feel threatened. Police may well have overreacted due to the gun post, but your framing leaves out rather relevant details.

> - Jordan Parlour for Facebook posts that were deemed ‘hateful.’

Appears to have incited violence by advocating an attack on a hotel, something he pleaded guilty to.

> - Bernadette Spofforth for a post with a “mild inaccuracy”

Was arrested for posting a fake name for an attacker, but released and faced no further action.

Calling potentially putting a target on the back of someone innocent by connecting them to a violent crime a "mild inaccuracy" is at best wildly misleading.

> Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine

These people did get a wrongful arrest payout, but the claim was most certainly not just raising concerns in a private parent's WhatsApp group. The claims including harassment, and causing a nuisance on the school premises. The claim was still wrong, and the payout reflects that the police should not have been so quick to believe the allegations before making an arrest. But your claim is still hyperbole.

> - Lucy Connolly, for a post calling for mass deportation and to set fire to hotels housing immigrants

At least in this one you admitted the arrest was over incitement to violence.

> - Norbert Gyurcsik, for having “extreme right wing music”

No, for buying and distributing albums whose lyrics breach terrorism legislation and intended to incite racial hatred.

I have plenty of issues with UK terror legislation, which I believe is being abused to shut down legitimate speech at times, but framing this the way you did is again wildly misleading and hyperbolic.

But even if none of your claims were wildly misleading, none of them support your initial claim:

> You are allowed to say it. Unlike UK, you won’t be arrested. But you won’t be allowed in.

... about a comment referring to criticism of the government.

None of the cases above were relevant to that. Most of them are relating to classes of speech that are not protected in the US either.
by plqbfbv | 2025-12-10 14:19:12+00:00
> However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.

That's basically why I stopped using them altogether. I'm using COSMIC DE now on my Linux systems, and while it also has animations, it doesn't look nearly as bad as MacOS.

On MacOS I resorted to tiling and alt-tabbing my way through because of the delays. I don't want to wait for the window system to draw pointless animations, but I can't disable them.

And then in Sequoia they implemented primitive tiling too and of course decided they HAD to add a non-configurable, impossible to disable resizing delay on tiling which nearly brought me to install a VM and use the MacBook as a glorified VM host (before Sequoia it used to be instant).
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-10 14:19:15+00:00
> All of the models that can do tool calls are typically good enough to use Git.

But again, it's the "user message > llm reason > llm tool call > tool response > llm reason > llm response" flow I think is inefficient and not good enough. It's a lazy solution built on top of the chat flow.

What I imagined would exist by now would be something smarter, where you don't say "Ok, now please commit this" or whatever.

I already have a tool for myself that launch Codex, Claude Code, Qwen Code(r?) and Gemini for each change I do, and automatically manage them into git branches, and lets me diff between what they do and so on.

Yet I still think we haven't really figured out a good UX for this.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-10 14:19:16+00:00
When I last visited the US some years ago, I had to submit a link to my Facebook profile and such. How exactly will this differ? What do they classify as "social media history" and how would I realistically provide 5 years worth of that to them?

Regardless, I had a few more places in the US I had wanted to experience, but I'll easily pass if something like this is in play.
by falcor84 | 2025-12-10 14:21:12+00:00
As I see it, the purpose of AI is the same as the purpose of every technology ever since the hand axe - to reduce labor. Humans have a strong drive to figure out ways to achieve more with less effort.

Obviously there are higher order effects, but same as we wouldn't expect the Homo Erectus to stop playing with stone tools because they'd disrupt their society (which of course they did), I don't understand why we should decide to halt technological progress now.
by rayiner | 2025-12-10 14:21:24+00:00
> A vast majority of people aren’t happy about what’s going on.

Because Trump hasn't gotten prices to pre-Biden levels like he promised, not because of what he's doing at the border. Trump has a 49% approval rating on immigration, 50% on "returning America to its values," and 51% on "fighting crime in America's cities." https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HHP... (page 9).

51% of the country, including 32% of democrats, support "us[ing] the National Guard and active-duty military to police American cities and stop crime and disorder." (Page 23)
Relational AI vs. Constitutional AI: Are we focusing on the right question?
by buttersmoothAI | 2025-12-10 14:21:42+00:00
I've been building AI validation systems for the past year, and I keep coming back to a fundamental question:

Are we asking the right question about AI ethics?

*Constitutional AI* focuses on constraints: - "Don't do harm" - "Follow these rules" - "Comply with these principles"

*Relational AI* focuses on amplification: - "How can we make humans stronger?" - "How can we enhance human capability?" - "How can we amplify thinking?"

I've analyzed 10,000+ AI interactions, and here's what I found:

- AI designed to amplify human thinking → 3x better outcomes - AI that enhances decision-making → 2.5x more confidence - AI that strengthens collaboration → 4x more engagement

The difference isn't just philosophical—it's practical.

Constitutional AI asks: "How do we constrain AI?" Relational AI asks: "How do we amplify humans?"

What do you think? Are we focusing on the right question?

I'm genuinely curious about the community's thoughts on this.
by twodave | 2025-12-10 14:22:02+00:00
Edit: thanks for the gracious reply. I was probably overly defensive myself.

I didn’t read all of that, but what I gathered is that it’s relying on survey response about future expectation? And probably being conflated a bit with the end of ZIRP and the effect that had on the market in general. I think it’s rather more likely that tech companies were allowed to play with funny money for a while, driving up demand, and suddenly when we are on a rebound from that people want to point to AI as a scapegoat to avoid saying, “Yeah we over hired while it was advantageous and now we are cutting back to prior levels.” I’ve seen first hand what happens to tech businesses that try to go “all in on AI” and it isn’t a happy story for the company anymore than the employees.
by wooger | 2025-12-10 14:22:23+00:00
You've never heard of google search (with AI), gmail (with ai), google maps (with ai). Not to mention that most android devices come with google-ified apps that are at worst a click away from Google AI being on the device, in many cases the AI search app is bundled.

No clue how many google smart speakers sold either, but not reason to think it's lower than homepods really, they're 1/3 the price.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-12-10 14:22:58+00:00
At the time those cinematics were top tier. Blizzard continued to have some of the best cinematics until Warcraft 3, after that I believe they and many other game developers switched to in-engine cutscenes because the engine visuals were good enough. That said, Blizzard does still make prerendered cutscenes for Diablo 4 and WoW, but they're just... not as impressive anymore as they used to be back then. And a big part of that is that they're not that much different from in-engine. There's some games (FFVII Remake/Rebirth) that have pre-rendered cutscenes that are visually indistinguishable from in-engine cutscenes, but they pre-rendered them because of e.g. wider / zoomed out camera angles or lots of effects.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-10 14:22:59+00:00
Let's say, for argument's sake, that Uber takes 25% of the fare. But let's say that the alternative is old-style taxi companies, and they were protected from competition by the medallion system. They were not exactly lean-and-mean companies. What percent did they lose by inefficiency? Less than 25%, or more? And is losing it to inefficiency better than losing it to Uber, or worse?

Note well: I do not have answers for these questions. But I think the questions are interesting.
by DaSHacka | 2025-12-10 14:23:02+00:00
> To that extent can't kids just pop in a live USB and get a totally ephemeral and open os?

That's a lot more difficult if you leave secureboot enabled on the computer. Plus, most devices, especially newer ones, allow you to pin your own certificates and sometimes even disable the OEM certs.

That, in addition with locking the BIOS with a password (and if the device does not have known OEM override passwords like on bios-pw.org), should be more than enough to keep a kid out.
Show HN: Stridewars – A team step competition with Mario Kart-style power-ups
by nugzbunny | 2025-12-10 14:23:58+00:00
Hello Hacker News,

Stridewars is a team-based step competition with power-ups. Power-ups can increase your steps and reduce your opponent's steps, adding a bit of fun and strategy to a standard step competition.

Many years ago I helped run workplace step competitions using pedometers as part of a workplace health programme. Back then we managed them with a weekly spreadsheet. Stridewars is an attempt to bring that idea back, but with a bit more personality and less admin.

Power-ups are earned by syncing your steps each day in the Stridewars app and hitting a daily 7,000-step target. The further your team falls behind the leaders, the higher your chances of drawing stronger/rarer power-ups.

Example Power-ups:

- Duvet Day (Rare) – play 10,000 steps for the day

- Roller Skates (Epic) – increase your step count by 50% for the day

- Shield (Rare) – protect your team from being targeted

- Thief (Rare) – steal an uncommon power-up from another team

- Sludge (Common) – reduce another team’s steps by 4%

There’s no power-up equivalent of a Blue Shell. We thought that might be a bit too much.

We originally tried using the Fitbit app to sync steps, but the setup was clunky and the data wasn't always accurate. So we reluctantly built the Stridewars app. It reads steps directly from your phone (via Health Connect or Apple Health), includes a simple team chat, and links to a web dashboard showing the leaderboard, recent news feed, and your available power-ups.

We’re running a one-week competition starting Monday 15th December (local time), open to anyone. If you would like to participate, please register by Saturday 13th December and complete a quick test sync from the Stridewars app.

Here is the link to join the competition: https://www.stridewars.com/join-competition?competitionId=e4...

It does require a quick registration but you can use a fake name and email if you prefer. Please use an address ending in @deleteme.com so the system doesn’t try to send an email. After registering, download the Stridewars app and complete one test sync so you’re ready when the competition starts. We only use your email address for sending communications like reminders and joining information. Your email will be deleted shortly after the competition too.

It's 5 people per team and you will be randomly assigned to a team. If you want to be on the same team as a friend, send me the email addresses you both used and I’ll place you together. If team sizes are uneven, we have a few “bot walkers” that sync steps daily and donate their power-ups to teammates.

Privacy

All data is deleted within six weeks of the competition ending, including your account. The only data we collect from the Stridewars app is your daily step count. We don’t send any data to third parties.

Tech stack

- React frontend

- C# API

- MySQL database

- Flutter mobile app

It's all a bit of fun while being a bit more active than you normally would.

Happy to answer questions or hear any feedback.
by sallveburrpi | 2025-12-10 14:24:30+00:00
I get your point but it very much depends on how you define intelligence.

In school for example it was mostly defined as being able to regurgitate information when being prompted - LLMs are really good at that.

In intelligence tests like IQ most of the stuff you listed doesn’t really matter - I don’t think these actually measure intelligence but alas

To me it’s mostly “alien” - i cant compare it to how humans think
by vidarh | 2025-12-10 14:24:42+00:00
I don't want/use anything fancy - I just use git diff in a separate terminal. I don't care about the individual changes Claude is making during a unit of work. I'll review a final change. Sometimes not even that - if the tests pass I may way until it's committed a bunch of changes, and review them as a whole.

Trying to follow along better is exactly the opposite of what I'd advocate - it's a waste of time especially with Claude, as Claude tends to favour trying lots of things, seeing what works, and revising its approach multiple times for complex tasks. If you follow along every step, you'll be tearing your hair out over stupid choices that it'll undo within seconds if you just let it work.
by actionfromafar | 2025-12-10 14:25:13+00:00
Gosh, they have statistics! By a man. A man from Goldman!

"I was quoted by a man from Goldman's in the mansion house, that in Hong Kong it cost them $70 to onboard a client. In the UK, it now costs them $10,000 to onboard a client just because of the regulation."

Well I'll be darned!
by jerf | 2025-12-10 14:25:43+00:00
Which can rapidly exceed in size and count the "non-user-facing" objects.

This objection really needs to die. GC does not instantly mean you can't program games. At most it locks you out of the tip-of-the-tippy-top AAAA games, but if you were trying for that you weren't going to use "someone's GitHub project" anyhow. And most of them probably have meaningful GC in them anyhow.
by antonvs | 2025-12-10 14:25:44+00:00
If you count game demos on the web, then Epic Citadel, based on the port of Unreal Engine to various mobile and web platforms including HTML5/WebGL/asm.js, had a much detailed and more 3D world - it used all 3 dimensions fully, unlike OP which appears to be a flat world that’s quite restricted vertically. That demo first came out about 15 years ago, with the HTML5 version coming out a few years later.

Since then I’ve seen several other sites along similar lines, since Unity released a similar capability, but I haven’t kept track of them. The problem is they’re all essentially games that are more impressive for their look than their functionality, so they tend to have a spike of interest when people first see them and then you never hear of them again. And typically, the tech bitrots and the sites stop working after a while.
by jfindper | 2025-12-10 14:26:07+00:00
Whoever posted/titled this has a bone to pick with Apple specifically, apparently, because the actual article is just about "App Stores" (i.e. both Apple & Google).

>"Blacklisted foreign companies persist in app stores [...]"

>"Watchdog finds firms and organizations in Apple and Google stores [...]"

>"[...] remained available in app stores maintained by Apple and Google [...]"

Wonder why the submitter of this article titled it "Apple Faces Scrutiny [...]"...?

(Kind of funny that 7777777phil, the submitter, was just complaining about a clickbait title yesterday! And then they submit this with an editorialized title.)
by chuckreynolds | 2025-12-10 14:27:01+00:00
Seems longer than 10 years ago? But hey... Let's Encrypt absolutely changed the game... TLS and certificates were a huuuuuge PITA and expensive... we only used them when money was moving around online and they were slow most times. It was also a process to add one, update one, etc. I remember not trusting it at first because it was so easy lol. THANK YOU Let's Encrypt... you made us all more sane, saved time, and secured us all up too. Firm handshakes.
by jamesbfb | 2025-12-10 14:27:02+00:00
I’m very much an Odoo guy who has dabbled with Django (and notably, celery in the past) but as someone who makes huge use of the Odoo OCA queue module[0], I never understood why Django never made use of the Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY to offload tasks. Maybe this is my misunderstanding as I’m pretty green with the Django ecosystem as a whole.

[0] https://github.com/oca/queue
by neonnoodle | 2025-12-10 14:27:15+00:00
I wish there were a good workaround for those of us condemned to MS365/Outlook. Outlook desktop is very unstable and buggy, and Outlook web is full of weird antipatterns. For example, it is absurdly annoying to get a direct link to an e-mail message in Outlook web. If it were easy, I would just pass that url to org-protocol in the browser and keep my tasks organized with backlinks to the e-mails that originated those tasks or projects.

As it is, my emacs and e-mail are almost fully separated due to (I'm assuming intentional) lack of a simple method of interoperability.
by superkuh | 2025-12-10 14:27:34+00:00
> the term of problematic use characterizes individuals who experience addiction-like symptoms as a result of their social media use. Problematic social media use reflects a non–substance related disorder by which detrimental effects occur as a result of preoccupation and compulsion to excessively engage in social media platforms despite negative consequences.

This study is taking "problematic social media use" as it's implicit given and then from this arbitrary base it is then saying this small subset of problematic people experience depression because of the fiat declaration of "problematic".

But then it goes on,

>While there exists no official diagnostic term or measurement, Andreassen et al [17] developed the Facebook Addiction Scale, which measures features of substance use disorder such as salience, tolerance, preoccupation, impaired role performance, loss of control, and withdrawal, to systematically score problematic Facebook use.

Which isn't even a real journal article but instead a comment in a non-research paper which hasn't ever even been cited by anyone else until this paper. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C29&q=Dev... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22662404/

This is not real science. This is anti-facebook political manipulation via science sounding words. I'm plenty anti-facebook myself but I am very pro-science so it's sad to see this successfully masquerading as real science.