MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bogtog | 2025-12-13 17:13:38+00:00
Using voice transcription is nice for fully expressing what you want, so the model doesn't need to make guesses. I'm often voicing 500-word prompts. If you talk in a winding way that looks awkward when in text, that's fine. The model will almost certainly be able to tell what you mean. Using voice-to-text is my biggest suggestion for people who want to use AI for programming

(I'm not a particularly slow typer. I can go 70-90 WPM on a typing test. However, this speed drops quickly when I need to also think about what I'm saying. Typing that fast is also kinda tiring, whereas talking/thinking at 100-120 WPM feels comfortable. In general, I think just this lowered friction makes me much more willing to fully describe what I want)

You can also ask it, "do you have any questions?" I find that saying "if you have any questions, ask me, otherwise go ahead and build this" rarely produces questions for me. However, if I say "Make a plan and ask me any questions you may have" then it usually has a few questions

I've also found a lot of success when I tell Claude Code to emulate on some specific piece of code I've previously written, either within the same project or something I've pasted in
by amlib | 2025-12-13 17:14:33+00:00
> Eventually every smart TV becomes dumb when they inevitably shut down the backend services.

Except that on newer tvs all the nagging will still be there, all the ads will be "frozen" in time (mine has ads for stuff from 2023, the last time I connected it for some firmware update that _GASPS_ actually fixed some things) and some features may depend on internet connectivity. The manufacturer may care to release a final update and solve these issues, but you know they are much more likely to fraudulently just disable features that worked offline as a last middle finger.

Repeat with me, SaaS is fraud. Proprietary digital platforms are fraud.
by al_borland | 2025-12-13 17:15:17+00:00
There are options like LibreELEC (Jeff Geerling did a video on setup a year ago[0]). However, these options are rarely plug and play. It also doesn’t let people simply download and use apps from the popular streaming services. They tend to rely on pirated content or someone who is willing to rip all their own physical media for more convenient access. FOSS has always had an issue with that last 10% of the user experience, and the services to make things pleasant to use, which I think really hurts mainstream adoption.

[0] https://youtu.be/3hFas54xFtg
by frozenseven | 2025-12-13 17:15:34+00:00
>personal life

>Maybe you should grow the f*ck up?

Not very "personal" when this form of psychopathy oozes through on every step and happens to be on full public display. But that's the intent, for both of youse. And silent capitulation is the minimal subscription. But that's not happening. Eat sh*t.
by Havoc | 2025-12-13 17:15:46+00:00
Great timing - I've taken up vibecoding and picked personal tools with simple HTML/CSS/JS/python stack as the learning ground too.

Personal tools seem like a reasonable place for happy path vibecoding given small blast radius and LLMs can do that sort of static page in front of python backend really well.

I've also been surprised how much active learning I'm doing despite specifically not look at code. Between the need to spec things out carefully (plan.md) and fast iteration loop it's been a huge boost. Having the LLM look at a plan.md and suggest improvements has lead to a lot of "oh I didn't think about that" learning on architecture and user requirements link.

Presumably much of that learning boost is because I'm a hobbyist tier programmer, guessing professionals wouldn't experience the same since they learned this via manual coding trial & error over years.
by bwfan123 | 2025-12-13 17:15:54+00:00
I need to sharpen my BS sensor. At first glance, I struggled to parse the voice in the article. Going back to the article I can now see the obvious gaps. Generally, AI tends to say things that make us go - "what the hell is this" ? for example in the article "The Problem: Ordering Chaos" is a very weird way to phrase it. As a human I struggled to accept it, and I did by stretching the meaning of that phrase to world model where it made sense. ie, our tendency is to give wide leeway to what we read or see and be very "accepting" in that sense. Instead, i think a better option is to reject everything we see or read as the default.
by SenseiOS | 2025-12-13 17:16:19+00:00
Thank you so much for this incredibly insightful comment as well!! You've perfectly articulated the 'why' behind HaleES. That's exactly it—those decades of frontline experience reveal the true 'loose ends' in an operation, the subtle, often unwritten rules that make a business truly run, which off-the-shelf software completely misses. Sensei is built to codify that wisdom, to act as a living memory of that operational expertise, and to continuously improve upon it. And you're absolutely right about obsession. When you truly believe there's a better way, it becomes your life's work to build it. We believe that by creating an Orchestrated Operational Intelligence like Sensei, we can bring that 'better way' to every business. While we're starting in hospitality, the underlying challenges of managing complex, dynamic systems with people, products, and processes are universal. We're excited to see where this journey takes us!!
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-13 17:18:20+00:00
tbf 95% of the time when I get a gift card these days it's Amazon or a big retail chain, that ain't exactly a deep cut in the gift department either.

We should probably normalize Chinese Red envelopes because honestly I'd take a nice envelope with a hand written note and some crisp bills over the annoying gift cards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope)
by fmx | 2025-12-13 17:19:06+00:00
There have been so many cases of Apple, Google, etc. doing this that it's hard to have any sympathy for them at this point. If it was some grandma who didn't know better that would be another story, but the author was surely aware

- that Apple *can* always *just* disable their account - that Apple regularly *does* do that - that Apple does not care about them at all

and they chose to bet their entire digital life on Apple's benevolence anyway. They lost that bet.

We need more stories like this hitting the mainstream news until even a non-technical person's reaction to this is "well, what did you expect?"
by kmoser | 2025-12-13 17:19:17+00:00
Overall it works really well. A bunch of comments/feedback:

Registration/login required before you can create videos, ok, I can deal with that. But the toast message at the top right of the screen asking me to log in ("Video generation failed, authentication required") obscures the Login and Sign Up buttons on the top nav. Suggestion: in the box where the video would go, where it says "Generation Failed / Authentication Required / X Dismiss", replace the Dismiss button with Login / Sign Up buttons, and remove the toast (or make not obscure the Login / Sign Up buttons).

Once I register and authenticate, my original prompt and settings are lost. Oops, those should be retained, so when I return they are still there.

"Space" is a weird name for the page that has my videos. It's also right in the middle of a bunch of other items that are not specific to me. I suggest you rename it "My Videos" (or similar) and/or have it under the avatar dropdown.

How do I create more videos? The only way to get to the video creation page seems to be by going to the Home page, then clicking the "Try Now - Free Demo" button.

"Random seed for reproducible results" seems wrong. Wouldn't you want a fixed seed for reproducible results? In other words, if it selects a seed at random, wouldn't the results be different every time? But if I enter, say, 42 for the seed, then the results would be the same every time? That's not really clear.

Option for 4:3 aspect ratio (or others) would be nice.
by gardnr | 2025-12-13 17:20:33+00:00
I was wrong. I confused this with their open model. Looking at it more closely, it is likely an omni version of Qwen3-235B-A22B. I wonder why they benchmarked it against Qwen2.5-Omni-7B instead of Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B.

I wish I could delete the comment.
by MLgulabio | 2025-12-13 17:20:56+00:00
I really don't understand this comment? Its quite commonly known that this is the same/related?

Your 'source' is btw. from 2023 and as far as i understand it, the main issue is, that due to covid, a lot more people got it but because it was already ignored or played down before, it still is and the people in need just don't get help.

Covid apparently triggered it in more people than before.

I also have the feeling that someone else posted this missconception a few weeks ago on hn. Or was that you too?
by pessimizer | 2025-12-13 17:21:14+00:00
A monitor has a processor in it that is running an OS and software. These are digital devices. The nit you're picking is silly.

If you want to buy a bare LCD panel, they're cheap. But you're going to have to add a processor to it that runs an OS (which you're free to write yourself, along with the driver) in order for it to understand any input. All that slapped together is what we call a monitor, or a television.

If you want an analog television, they'll pay you to haul it off from wherever you see it, but you're going to have to add an external computer to it in order to process the digital information that you want to display into waveforms that you can push over coaxial cables.

Not wanting a "smart tv" means people don't want a smartphone for a television, an OS that they don't have any control over. If you want to make up another definition, you're going to have to set limits to acceptable RAM, clock speed, number of processors, and I don't know why you would waste your time doing that. The number, however, will never be zero for any of these things.
by toastal | 2025-12-13 17:21:20+00:00
> The alternative to CDNs is to use npm and have a build step for your projects. I find this reduces my productivity at hacking on individual tools and makes it harder to self-host them.

No. You can vendor these scripts & host them 1st party so you aren’t leaking data to these CDNs or risk users not actually getting the scripts. It isn’t like CDNs give you a performance boost anymore.

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/public-cdn-risks/
by mid-kid | 2025-12-13 17:21:35+00:00
Of course not, but unlike chat services, everyone has an email address or phone number, so if I need to reach out to them for something other than a casual chat, e.g. an invitation, a birthday felicitation, or a document that they should review later, email is a method through which I can reach all of them.

Similarly, reaching out to companies for support also often happens over email.
by dboreham | 2025-12-13 17:21:51+00:00
1. Introduce it to the code base (tell it: we're going to work on this project, project does X is written in language Y). Ask it to look at the project to familiarize.

2. Tell it you want to refactor the code to achieve goal Z. Tell it to take a look and tell you how it will approach this. Consider showing it one example refactor you've already done (before and after).

3. Ask it to refactor one thing (only) and let you look at what it did.

4. Course correct if it didn't do the right thing.

5 Repeat.
by jerf | 2025-12-13 17:23:07+00:00
This is about minimizing attack surface. Not only could secrets be leaked by hacking the OS process somehow to perform arbitrary reads on the memory space and send keys somewhere, they could also be leaked with root access to the machine running the process, root access to the virtualization layer, via other things like rowhammering potentially from an untrusted process in an entirely different virtual context running on the same machine, and at the really high end, attacks where the government agents siezing your machine physically freeze your RAM (that is, reduce the physical temperature of your RAM to very low temperatures) when they confiscate your machine and read it out later. (I don't know if that is still possible with modern RAM, but even if it isn't I wouldn't care to bet much on the proposition that they don't have some other way to read RAM contents out if they really, really want to.) This isn't even intended as a complete list of the possibilities, just more than enough to justify the idea that in very high security environments there's a variety of threats that come from leaving things in RAM longer than you absolutely need to. You can't avoid having things in RAM to operate on them but you can ensure they are as transient as possible to minimize the attack window.

If you are concerned about secrets being zeroed out in almost any language, you need some sort of support for it. Non-GC'd languages are prone to optimize away zeroing out of memory before deallocation, because under normal circumstances a write to a value just before deallocation that is never effectfully read can be dropped without visible consequence to the rest of the program. And as compilers get smarter it can be harder to fool them with code, like, simply reading afterwards with no further visible effect might have been enough to fool 20th century compilers but nowadays I wouldn't count on my compiler being that stupid.

There are also plenty of languages where you may want to use values that are immutable within the context of the language, so there isn't even a way to express "let's zero out this RAM".

Basically, if you don't build this in as a language feature, you have a whole lot of pressures constantly pushing you in the other direction, because why wouldn't you want to avoid the cost of zeroing memory if you can? All kinds of reasons to try to avoid that.
by alex1138 | 2025-12-13 17:23:47+00:00
Facebook's actually the only company I've heard of that will ban you for inactivity. Gmail will delete addresses if you don't log in for a while though I think they probably scan for 'one and done' things, and not things that look like critical infrastructure, but that's just a guess

Seems very hand in hand with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15222240

See, this is why IT MATTERS when we have confirmed emails of Zuckerberg going "...dumb fucks". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 You get all kinds of excuses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38560321 Sounds good until you can't see any posts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 or they lock you out of your contacts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 Some people are just malicious and should be avoided at all costs and if their feet were held to the fire early they would've never been allowed to take over people's lives in the way they have. It matters.
by lubujackson | 2025-12-13 17:23:51+00:00
5th grade, my best friend at the time was in a basketball team, just a small town league for kids. I never really played basketball, so I was planning to watch the game then we'd hang out. It was the first game of the season and my friend was getting his uniform from a table when a dad running things asked me what team I was playing on and I said no, I'm just here to hang out with my friend.

He shook his head and said, "No, that won't do. You're on his team, too" and handed me a jersey. Then he went ahead and paid my registration fee.

More than the money, it was the proactive nature of it that struck me at the time. The thing is, if I had asked my parents they probably would have signed me up. But it was one of those things where it would have never crossed my mind to ask. I ws as one of those kids that needed a push every now and then and rarely got one.

I never got very good at basketball but I never missed a game and had a great time with my friend. So not a tragic or desperate story, but still meaningful to me all these years later.
by tguvot | 2025-12-13 17:24:47+00:00
https://www.threads.com/@senamyklobuchar/post/DSK4Uf6kezY/

"It has been nearly 30 years since Congress passed Section 230 and gave platforms immunity from lawsuits.

Our children deserve a safer internet and tech companies need to be held accountable for what happens on their platforms."
by alexpotato | 2025-12-13 17:25:05+00:00
So I wrote up how I ended there: https://x.com/alexpotato/status/1663668616233885699?s=20

but that story is not the most efficient way (although I do talk about a better approach at the end).

To summarize:

A LOT of hedge funds hire non finance people for specific roles e.g. cloud, Linux tuning, networking etc

The smarter ones have realized that there are great people everywhere e.g. Gaming company SREs have a lot of relevant experience due to high traffic load, short SLAs and lots of financial risk due to outages. Applying for a role in one of those departments is a lot easier than trying to jump directly into a trading desk/operations role.

Finally, knowing someone on the inside also helps a lot which is made MUCH easier by LinkedIn, Twitter etc
by closeparen | 2025-12-13 17:26:19+00:00
Please make remote development work well in the IntelliJ-based IDEs. It's very difficult to get corporate employers to continue supporting their toolchains locally when VSCode Remote is "good enough" and disposable cloud VMs are so much easier to support/secure/manage/scale.

The development experience in IntelliJ-family IDEs is incomparably superior, but you have got to figure out how to run the code indexing on the remote server and the UI locally. This quasi VNC thing isn't it.
by thegrim33 | 2025-12-13 17:26:34+00:00
It's been my belief for over 20 years now that dedicated/instrumented roads for autonomous vehicles is the only way autonomous cars will ever be a thing, at mass scale, other than via the invention of true AGI (which I still don't think we're close to). Such roads becoming a thing within the next 6 years though, I'd doubt.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-13 17:27:06+00:00
> If you were an investor or trader, managing millions of dollars, would you keep the only copy of critical information in a cloud?

I don't think the idea that they could lose access to their accounts occurs to most people. I've done enough business continuity and disaster recovery work with small business to be confident in saying it doesn't occur to small business owners. I'm not sure why individuals would be any different.

It's very hard to put yourself in the mindset of a non-technical person.
by sokoloff | 2025-12-13 17:27:46+00:00
I think social media has clear positive and negative aspects. That makes it closer to food than cigarettes in my mind.

We can all immediately conjure up images where food or social media has brought something positive into our lives.

News.yc is something I visit almost every day and it has added value to my life, including introducing me to a few people I’ve met in real life and to interesting tech.

Equally, we can all pretty readily conjure up images where excess food or social media has harmed people.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-13 17:28:23+00:00
I have a question. Section 230 basically says companies are allowed to moderate without being defined as publishers and losing liability protection.

Could X just basically stop moderating all together? The one (many?) conflicts here is that they legally have to moderate some things (CSAM) and there would be conflict in terms of moderating adult content. Basically is the law consistent enough to adopt a hands off strategy to maintain liability protection? Or would you be forced to go the other direction.
by neilv | 2025-12-13 17:28:34+00:00
Seconded. I've been doing a game console with monitor or dumb-TV for ages (PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim, PS4 Slim, PS4 Pro, PS5 Slim).

I also use this for occasional gaming, or I would've stuck with the PS3 Slim or PS4 Slim. Both of which would mount pretty nicely, with a VESA bracket, to the back of a pre-smart formerly top-of-the-line 1080p Sony Bravia TV (like I use currently with the PS5 Slim).

Were I not in minimalism culling mode of personal belongings right now (in case the current job search moves me cross-country), I'd be stockpiling a backup or two of this workhorse dumb-TV.
by Xmd5a | 2025-12-13 17:29:27+00:00
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/algorithmic-informa...

I - Formalisms for Computation: Register Machines, Exponential Diophantine Equations, & Pure LISP

Gregory. J. Chaitin

> And in Chapter 4 we present a register machine interpreter for this LISP, and then compile it into a diophantine equation.
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-12-13 17:30:03+00:00
> I really doubt the user data for a smart tv user is all that valuable.

According to a 2021 article about Vizio's user-hostile advert display devices, they boast of an average revenue of $13/yr - up from $7.30/yr, though consider this was 2020 when more people were at-home watching TV instead of going outside, meeting people, touching grass, the usual.

https://deadline.com/2021/03/vizio-smart-tv-streaming-ipo-12...

> A range of advertising opportunities drive revenue, including revenue sharing with programmers and distribution partners as well as activations on the device home screen. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the company said average revenue per user on SmartCast was $12.99, up from $7.31 in the same period of 2019.

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If you'll allow me to make an arbitrary assumption that a new TV set bought today will last about 10 years, then $13/yr means the advertising revenue implies Vizio has reduced the sale-price of their TVs by $130 compared to before we had no-opt-out advertising displayed on our own property as a condition for the privilege of using said device.
by bambax | 2025-12-13 17:30:14+00:00
> It holds terabytes of family photos

Why do people still do this, why??!? This is not an ignorant user! The author (and victim) has written several books about Apple tech, how do they not know that these "platforms" cannot be trusted with anything -- especially data that isn't backed up somewhere else!

Companies don't care about people, and the bigger they are the more evil they behave. They need to be treated like hostile business partners because that's what they are. They're only after money and absolutely nothing else.

This is not some radical leftist manifesto, it's the plain reality. And it's not new either. It's always been like this.
by lapcat | 2025-12-13 17:31:02+00:00
> I just ask that as you read various articles over the next few weeks, please pay attention to headers especially of the form "The ___ Trap", "The ___ Problem", "The ___ Solution".

No, I'm going to try very hard to forget that I ever engaged in this discussion. I think your evidence is minimal at best, your argument self-contradictory at worst. The issue is not even whether you and I agree but whether it's justifiable to make a public accusation of AI authorship. Unless there's an open-and-shut case—which is definitely not the case here—it's best to err on the side of not making such accusations, and I think this approach is recommended by the HN guidelines.

I would also note that your empirical claim is inaccurate. A number of the headers are just "The [noun]". In fact, there's a correspondence between the headers and subheaders, where the subheaders follow the pattern of the main header:

> The Situation • The Trigger • The Consequence • The Damage

> The "New Account" Trap • The Legal Catch • The Technical Trap • The Developer Risk

This correspondence could be considered evidence of intention, a human mind behind the words, perhaps even a clever mind.

By the way, the liberal use of headers and subheaders may feel superfluous to you, but it's reminiscent of textbook writing, which is the author's specialty.