MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-19 08:34:49+00:00
I'd love for Netflix or other streaming movie and series services to provide chat bots that you could ask questions about characters and plot points up to where you have watched.

Provide it with the closed captions and other timestamped data like scenes and character summaries (all that is currently known but no more) up to the current time, and it won't reveal any spoilers, just fill you in on what you didn't pick up or remember.
by icetearun | 2025-12-19 08:35:14+00:00
I've found that most independent developers don't know how to promote their products. This could be because they're too focused on building their own projects, or they're too shy. The more astute developers might try to acquire their first users through Reddit subcommunities, but this is far from sufficient for product growth and there's no way to predict whether it will bring in real users. So they try to find reliable marketing partners – but this is too inefficient and, in most cases, requires paying the partner upfront.

So I designed a tool for independent developers to promote their products. It's very low-cost to use, but you can see results quickly.

The specific usage process is as follows:

1. Click the link below and log in. 2. Enter your product's website URL. 3. Receive a complete marketing plan (including SEO, ASO, GEO, content publishing plans, etc. I've compiled 11 of the most effective growth workflows at different stages of your product's development). 4. Click to execute or modify the plan (Yes, it's not just about providing a plan; it helps you implement it directly, producing usable content and bringing in real users). 5. Monitor the results in the dashboard to see how many people are starting to visit your website. 6. Obtain real data and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan's execution, then update the plan for the next time.

https://amplift.ai/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_campaign=post_...

Most importantly, we don't just give you a plan; we help you execute it through an agent and let you see if it's truly effective. One tool is a marketing team. If you’re interested in this product, leave a comment saying “Interested”. I’ll give you a personal access code so you can use it for free.
by sandworm101 | 2025-12-19 08:35:57+00:00
>> people saying they want insane power density are, in my personal view, deluded ridiculous individuals who understand very very little.

Or they are simply not-rich people who cannot afford to purchase extra hardware to run in parallel. Electricity is cheap. GPUs are not. So i want to get every ounce of power out of the precious few GPUs i can afford to own.

(And dont point at clouds. Running AI on someone else's cloud is like telling a shadetree mechanic to rent a car instead of fixing his owm.)
by D-Machine | 2025-12-19 08:37:04+00:00
> the typesetting done by a publisher is in the majority of the cases on a very fine-grained level. A lot of is is simply enforcing the rules that were missed by the authors (with the goal of fairness, comparability, and conformity) and small perfectionist's edits that you might not even notice at a casual glance but that typesetters are trained to spot.

As I said, if this is the case, the vast majority of typesetting and formatting has clearly been outsourced to submitters, and this means the amount of actual typesetting/formatting done by journals can only be minimal compared to in other domains.

EDIT:

> On top of that, authors often want to present their research in a specific way, and often have strong opinions about e.g. how their formulas are typeset, what aligns with what else, etc. and typically spend quite a bit of time tweaking their documents to look the way they want it. That is, the authors already have an interest in using something more powerful than Markdown.

Yes, generally, I don't want to present my formulas and figures in the shitty and limited ways the journal demands, but which would be trivial to present on a website (which is the only way 99.9% of people access articles now anyway). So journal requirements here are usually harmful and generally 20+ years outdated.
by pendenthistory | 2025-12-19 08:37:55+00:00
> our cultural and educational institutions—America’s soul—have succumbed to leftist rot

Sure, let's examine this. Do you disagree that most organisations are extremely dominated by the left? Something like 90% of people in academia, media, schools, (until recently) corporate leadership, various government institutions etc vote democrat. Do you disagree that in the past 20 years or so, the right has been heavily censored online and in the work place by the left? These are all facts, he is not wrong here. When one side has spent 20 years pushing out the other, taking over institutions, censoring them and calling them fascist/nazi, don't be surprised when they are viewed as the enemy.

I also know exactly what you're thinking, the reasoning you use to justify this:

1. It's not censorship, it's preventing disinformation and "hate". This argument doesn't hold when "disinformation" is political opinions of roughly 50% of the country

2. Academia and institutions lean left because Republicans are simply less intelligent than Democrats. "Truth has a liberal bias". You think kind of arrogance from the left is conductive to a good dialogue and friendly relations?
by croon | 2025-12-19 08:38:51+00:00
I surmise that the first two paragraphs are in jest, and I applaud you for it, but unless they're not, or someone else does not realize it:

How do you instruct LLM 3 (and 2) to do this? Is it the same interface for control as for data? I think we can all see where this is going.

If the solution then is to create even more abstractions to safely handle data flow, then I too arrive at your final paragraph.
by Jean-Papoulos | 2025-12-19 08:39:21+00:00
>Bergmann agreed with declaring the experiment over, worrying only that Rust still "doesn't work on architectures that nobody uses".

I love you Arnd. More seriously, this will become an issue when someone starts the process of integrating Rust code into a core subsystem. I wonder whether this will lead to the kernel dropping support for some architectures, or to Rust doing the necessary work. Probably a bit of both.
by uecker | 2025-12-19 08:39:33+00:00
I do not think it is weird. Every C bug was taken as clear evidence that we need to abandon C and switch to Rust. So the fact that there are also such bugs in Rust is - while obvious - also important to highlight. So it is not weird hatred against Rust, but hatred against bullshit. And considering that most of the code is C, your 150 C vulnerabilities is a meaningless number, so you still continue with this nonsense.
by dr_dshiv | 2025-12-19 08:39:36+00:00
Everyone learns that the renaissance was sparked by the translation of Ancient Greek works.

But few know that the Renaissance was written in Latin — and has barely been translated. Less than 3% of <1700 books have been translated—and less than 30% have ever been scanned.

I’m working on a project to change that. Research blog at www.SecondRenaissance.ai — we are starting by scanning and translating thousands of books at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, a UNESCO-recognized rare book library.

We want to make ancient texts accessible to people and AI.

If this work resonates with you, please do reach out: Derek@ancientwisdomtrust.org
by kleiba | 2025-12-19 08:39:44+00:00
> e.g., we handle our own formatting

I used to work for a small publisher some years ago, and while this is true to some degree, we spent a lot of effort doing additional formatting or correcting formatting mistakes. For a typical journal publication, this process alone takes weeks if you're aiming at a high-quality publication.

On top of that, there are a lot of small things that you typically don't get if a paper is just put on the author's website, such as e.g. long-term archiving, a DOI, integration with services like dblp, metadata curation, etc.

Now, to what degree these features are an added value to you personally varies from person to person. Some people or even workshops are totally fine with simply publishing the PDFs written by the authors on a website, and there's nothing wrong with that, ymmv.
by bondarchuk | 2025-12-19 08:40:07+00:00
>The problem is with any sort of closed system, the signal immediately gets gamed.

I agree, but..

>Therefore, the open system is the least bad of the available options.

this does not necessarily follow.

>A journal could still achieve prestige by curating and selecting the best available studies and research

See, this is just the kind of thing that I think will just not work when organized top-down like that. "Oh, we'll just make a prestigious journal by only letting the best papers in" - everyone could say that, but what would induce the authors of the best papers to submit them to your specific journal at all in the first place? Currently it's the fact that it's already prestigious, and this reputation has grown over many years through informal social processes that are very hard to codify.

>Scientific publishing is free speech. As such, it shouldn't be under the thumb of institutions or platforms that gatekeep for profit or status or political utility or any of a dozen different incentives that will fatally bias and corrupt the resulting publications.

Of course I agree, just to be clear I am a great proponent of openly accessible science - just think the prestige thing is an interesting corner case.
Show HN: Peitho – Automated social media writing for mom-and-pop shops
by Nikp263 | 2025-12-19 08:40:12+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m a 23 year old solo developer who quit his job and is working on building an AI business over the next year.

I realized that local shop owners (bakers, mechanics, florists) know they need to be on social media but hate managing social media. They often to abandon their socials because being consistent is a chore and hiring an agency isnt in their budget.

I built Peitho to solve this:

It learns the "vibe" of the business so the posts don't sound like generic AI spam. It generates weeks of ready-to-go text posts for LinkedIn, X, and Facebook instantly.

I posted about this previously but I’ve spent the last week making it self-serve, so thought I’d write an update.

I hope this helps some busy owners get back to actually running their business rather than worrying about what to write. Would love your feedback on the quality of the site and any ideas for how to improve the product!

Nikhil
by hagbard_c | 2025-12-19 08:41:49+00:00
The first iPod had 5 GB of storage, less than e.g. the Creative Nomad Jukebox which had 6 GB. If you were around at the time you may remember the (in)famous verdict of CmdrTaco [1]:

. No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

So no, the fruit factory did not produce the first device which could haul your entire music collection. What they did is what has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread: they took an existing product - digital high-storage portable music player - and put it in a sleek package with an equally sleek user interface - click wheel etc. Then they marketed the hell out of it to their loyal followers, portraying it as the thing to be used by all the right people. They also locked the thing tight into their own 'ecosystem' so that you could not just hook it up to any old computer and dump music on it like you could do with most other devices in this category except for Sony's - which is not that strange given that the fruit factory seems to have taken quite a few clues from Sony elsewhere.

Your statement is in itself a testament to their success in marketing and something which can be seen in many places: someone develops a product, the product gets some traction on the market, people seem to like the concept. Other companies also start making similar products which also gain some traction but it remains just that, a new product in a sea of many such. Then along comes the fruit factory which takes the product, wraps it in its trademark Dieter Rams-inspired shape, puts a large fruit stamp on it and markets it to the bone to their loyal audience. Pretty soon that audience will claim that the product was 'invented' by the fruit factory, that it is 'insanely great', that nobody has done something like this before and if they did they copied it from the fruit factory, etc.

[1] https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
by keepamovin | 2025-12-19 08:42:22+00:00
Re pain: the brain "lacks pain receptors" according to standard thought (tho same can't be said for the meninges, so I guess all bets are off). Tho what about emotional pain? Increasing the signal/inputs might increase possible negativities (tho chips would probably monitor and adapt your "recommended content and styles" to increase pleasantness - taking "brain hacking" to whole new level I guess). And interfacing with it might might consume more "mana" making your brain hurt due to depleted resources. Idk.
by Daril | 2025-12-19 08:42:58+00:00
I used Turbo + Stimulus with a CodeIgniter PHP backend. Later, I used an HTMX bot with CodeIgniter and GoLang. Now, I have migrated my second brain web app (Brainminder) from HTMX to Unpoly.

I really liked HTMX, and I thank the authors for this marvelous library!

I switched from Turbo to HTMX because the latter is much more flexible, and I try to avoid Node.js as much as possible, only using it to compile some JavaScript code for Stimulus.

I finally moved from HTMX to Unpoly for the following reasons:

1. Layer support: Unpoly makes it easy to create layers and modal overlays, saving a lot of time and JavaScript code. You can achieve the same functionality with HTMX, but you have to write more code.

2. JavaScript code is better organized thanks to up.compile hooks.

3. HTMX and Unpoly treat fragments slightly differently. With HTMX, you have to use an out-of-band feature to update multiple fragments together. With Unpoly, you can easily add them to the response (and declare them in the front end, of course).

In my opinion, Unpoly has a better-organized approach to everything. On the other hand, apart from the official documentation, it is difficult to find examples for some edge-case features.
by koliber | 2025-12-19 08:43:03+00:00
No one needs to be kicked to do anything. Welfare payments are needed for various reasons. Some people are unable to work for various reasons and need welfare to live. Some people find themselves in temporary situations where the money helps them during hard job transitions or difficult periods in life. It’s important to give people incentives to help them achieve what will make their lives truly better. Sometimes, free money removes those incentives and temporary situations become permanent. I hope you don’t perceive all incentives to encourage constructive behavior as “kicking people.”
by yourdetect | 2025-12-19 08:43:05+00:00
I am very wary of going that route. If there is undefined behavior, the compiler is in principle allowed to do anything and everything, unless it promises something beyond what the language promises.

One could then argue that a specific version of a specific compiler with specific settings in a specific case, after investigation of the generated assembly or inspection of what guarantees the compiler provides beyond the language, is not exploitable. But other settings of the compiler and other versions of the compiler and other compilers may have different guarantees and generation of assembly.

The Linux kernel uses, as I understand it, a flag for GCC for C code that disables strict aliasing. That basically means that strict aliasing is no longer undefined behavior, as long as that flag is used. Basically a dialect of C.
by jameshilliard | 2025-12-19 08:43:09+00:00
> The ICC is responsibility if the crime is committed by a citizen or happens in the territory of a state party of the Rome Statute. Palestine is such a state party

Depends on how you define a state, Palestine not being a full state able to delegate jurisdiction is a big argument against the ICC having any jurisdiction over the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Palestine is neither a full UN member state, nor a state recognized by either the US or Israel. The ICC appears to be trying to set some of precedent for an extremely broad interpretation of their jurisdiction which is clearly at odds with US/Israel views.

> Additionally the UN can hand over cases in non-state parties to the ICC. IIRC that also happened.

What case was that?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-19 08:43:17+00:00
Pardon me but is there any way that openxml can be converted to a format similar to https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

If openxml can be converted to csv/similar perhaps which can be converted to recutils

Recutils supports both mdb (Microsoft Access database files)/csv files to/from recutils

I saw this project on a recent hackernews comment and I had seen some comments there about how it does / can work decently with git features iirc (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46265811)

I am interested to hear what your thoughts on recutils are and if perhaps we can have microsoft word/similar to git+recutils like workflow maybe

I thought about it and a tar/zipped git folder which can contain images/other content too which can be referenced with recutils instead of openxml/word document to me does feel an interesting idea

I am not sure but I think that openxml directly embeds data like pictures which can defnitely make it hard for git software to work perhaps but basically I am interested what you think about this/any feedback
by azangru | 2025-12-19 08:43:59+00:00
> Do you ever...

There probably is a big difference between 'do you ever' and 'how often do you'.

I very rarely visit websites that I want translated; so rarely that I can tolerate google translate, or copying and pasting a section of a page into a tab with gemini; so on its own, this feature wouldn't sell me a browser. Besides, as a sibling comment says, even the current non-AI-enhanced browsers offer, sometimes too intrusively, to translate a page in a non-matching language. At least Chrome does this to me.

Your second scenario happens much more frequently; but again, it is so frictionless to type the term or a phrase in a search box in another tab that I never find myself wishing for a dedicated panel in the browser that could do this for me.

Your third scenario, for me, is finding something in api docs. Like, what's that command again to git cherry-pick a range of commits? So far, just googling this stuff or asking copilot / gemini in a separate tab has always worked. I am not sure I would be upset at a browser that didn't have an inbuilt tool for doing this.

What I do want from a web browser is evergreenness, the quickest and fullest adoption of all the web specs, and great web developer tools.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-19 08:45:25+00:00
There's this bit from the article which might provide a hint:

> Drivers in Rust, [Greg KH] said, are indeed proving to be far safer than those written in C.

And since CVEs haven't been getting assigned to Rust code until recently, I think he's more well-positioned to opine on the safety of Rust code vs. C code in Linux than those who are only indexing off the singular Rust CVE so far.
by darkwater | 2025-12-19 08:45:36+00:00
Shoving an AI agent in every website is distracting and not that useful. Shoving an AI agent in every app is distracting as well.

Having one global AI agent per operating system or browser (where most of the digital life happens, in the case of desktop browsers), for the people that want to have an AI agent, it's probably going to be useful, if well implemented.
by reincarnate0x14 | 2025-12-19 08:47:05+00:00
I agree with that sentiment in general but even though I've seen systems in continuous operation for 15 years, I've never seen anything make it to 20. I wouldn't write something with the external expectation it never made it that far, but in practical terms, that's probably about as safe as it gets. Even like embedded medical devices expect to get restarted every now and again.

Just as an example the Voyager computers have been restarted and that's been almost 60 years.
by chironjit | 2025-12-19 08:48:19+00:00
I'm surprised your take is so controversial. This really is it - yes, the current core users are not interested in AI but most people in our lives who are not techies do use them, and Firefox needs win these users if it wants to stay relevant.

Of course, I have opinions on other ways it could make money instead of jumping on the latest hot thing (pocket, fakespot, VPN, etc) without actually truly building the ecosystem but at least they are trying.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-19 08:48:51+00:00
Nonsense. Formatting demands make things worse here, you could just ask authors to submit unformatted content (e.g. Markdown or RMarkdown, or utterly minimal LaTeX file, with references and a bibliography file) and then trivially move that content into whatever format is required. There are in fact journals that do this too (i.e. don't have formatting requirements).

As a submitter applying to multiple journals with arbitrary formatting requirements, you are often forced to meet arbitrary and irrelevant (visual) style requirements even before you are likely to be published, so of course you keep a base unformatted copy that you modify as needed to satisfy whatever bullshit policies each random journal demands. This wastes everyone's time.

The reason submitters don't "play nicely" is because the publishers' demands ("style guides") are demented here: they should just be asking for unformatted content (besides figures), certainly for submissions, and even for accepted publications: they should actually be doing the work of formatting and typesetting. But instead they force most of this on the submitters, to save costs by extorting the desperation of academics.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-12-19 08:49:05+00:00
Compare the causes of death in midlife now with the causes of death in midlife 50,000 years ago. What is total over all causes of the lesser of the % of deaths by that cause 50,000 years ago and the % of deaths by that cause now? My guess is that total overlap is way less than half. So the things that kill us are mostly modern. The things that we evolved to survive are mostly ancient. And we are a species controlled by the brain, mostly by the subconscious brain, which is basically a collection of ancient survival mechanisms and ancient survival inhibitions. Our brains are proud of removing us from our roots and strive to accelerate our separation from what we are prepared to deal with, which introduces just a few changes that appear to our conscious brains easy enough to mitigate in the long run. But our brains are much better at handling the short run and are absolutely confounded by choices involving both the long run and short run. IOW, we live by deep myths and the myths are dying.
by pmontra | 2025-12-19 08:49:31+00:00
Well, my Androids do not have ads because I can install Firefox with uBO and Blockada to block ads even inside apps. I don't know if uBO works in Safari and I don't know if iOS allows for something like Blockada. In doubt (and for other reasons,) I'm on Android. However I'm not the typical user. The typical buyers just want an iPhone or do not want one, like they want one brand of shoes or a brand of bags, no technical considerations. Fashion.
Ask HN: How do you detect compliance risk in Google search results?
by paolocermelli | 2025-12-19 08:50:20+00:00
I’m experimenting with a rules-based approach to classify Google SERP snippets (neutral / adverse / authority-regulatory) for compliance and due diligence use cases.

One issue I keep running into is false positives from high-authority sources: a single regulator PDF or an old enforcement action can outweigh dozens of neutral results, even when the context has materially changed.

For those working in OSINT, risk, or search analysis: how do you usually validate false positives vs. true adverse signals at scale? Do you weight authority differently, or apply temporal or contextual decay?