MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by randycupertino | 2025-12-06 02:22:14+00:00
A makeup influencer I follow noticed youtube and instagram are automatically adding filters to his face without permission to his videos. If his content was about lip makeup they make his lips enormous and if it was about eye makeup the filters make his eyes gigantic. They're having AI detecting the type of content and automatically applying filters.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO9MwTHCoR_/?igsh=MTZybml2NDB...

The screenshots/videos of them doing it are pretty wild, and insane they are editing creators' uploads without consent!
by gonational | 2025-12-06 02:22:57+00:00
I sometimes think that the direction web development took is like some kind of bad dream that we will wake up from. It's unbelievable to me. The problems we faced before SPAs were things like "great we've got two forms on the same page and this widget on the top right needs to update when a message comes in from the back end… How will we ever solve this", and before anybody could come up with any good patterns google came on the scene with Angular, and ruined the entire direction of the Internet, forever.

TBH I also think that Alpine and HTMX are just as dastardly and disgusting, maybe even worse. I don't know why nobody can figure out a good way to just put in reactive components where you need them. All of the frameworks support that, Svelte seems to be the one that is the least against that, but I still don't see anybody using it that way. Front end developers, which tend to have the least business logic experience, somehow captured the entire SDLC. This is why literally all software is just completely riddled with insufferable bugs, beyond anything anyone in the 90s could have imagined.
by adzm | 2025-12-06 02:23:10+00:00
Right, I know some studios have used it for high quality/resolution/framerate exports too, so it is definitely not dead. But still a dead end, from everything I've seen. No one seems to want to bother with it unless it is already within the entire pipeline. Every project I've seen that worked with it that went to consumers or editors ended up running into issues of some sort that they ended up using something else entirely and any VVC support basically abandoned or deprecated. It's a shame because VVC really is pretty awesome, but the only people using it seem to be those that adopted it earlier assuming broader support that never materialized.
by randmeerkat | 2025-12-06 02:23:20+00:00
> If an individual site took on the infra challenges themselves, would they achieve better? I don’t think so.

I’m tired of this sentiment. Imagine if people said, why develop your own cloud offering? Can you really do better than VMWare..?

Innovation in technology has only happened because people dared to do better, rather than giving up before they started…
by VikingCoder | 2025-12-06 02:23:51+00:00
Right, but what if I just shared a script?

You start with a digital copy of the movie I'm starting from...

I extract the audio...

And then my script downloads the Public Domain movies...

...and I've got a hard-coded list of cuts to take from each of the Public Domain movies...

...and combine it with the movie audio?

My script is just a few hundred KB.

As long as the movie you start from is pretty well in audio synch with the version I start from...

Heck, I could probably even compensate for that, too... A little bit of analysis to listen for the first words spoken...
by reactordev | 2025-12-06 02:24:04+00:00
That’s the ritalin. Find a healthier alternative like an energy bar with that double espresso. I find if I stack too much at once, I crash. One cup in the morning when I wake up. One before work right before the meetings. One in the afternoon to keep me fueled until dinner where I let myself gorge on protein and sugars until I crash.
by overfeed | 2025-12-06 02:24:23+00:00
> Human rights aren't those.

What are they, then? If you can name one, I'll find you a jurisdiction where that right is not respected.

Your (incorrect, IMO) definition of human rights based on the lowest common denominator whittles them down to nothing. Fundamentally I suspect what you and I are calling "human rights" is not the same thing at all.
by array_key_first | 2025-12-06 02:24:36+00:00
Virtually nobody has been able to demonstrate any tangible harm outside of weak "ooo morality" type arguments.

I get that intuitively porn is bad, but we are creatures with thousands of years of baggage. Practically every institution, everywhere, has spent trillions of dollars across hundreds of years to convince people sex is bad as a control mechanism. We don't even know if sex is addictive, there's a lot of disagreement about that among experts, let alone porn. All we have, really, is some anecdotes from people on Reddit that they stopped touching themselves and now they're not suicidal. Frankly, I don't think that's much of anything.

I'm not sure it's worth it giving up everything for a problem that we're not even sure exists.
by shkkmo | 2025-12-06 02:24:42+00:00
> A presumably short-term price spike in RAM of all things is a non-issue. It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about

Um... What?

Pretty much every adult owns one or more items with DRAM chips in them and depends on businesses that use even more.

The supply crunch will effect a surprising spread of the economy given how ubiquitous computers are now.

Looking at delivery dates, the dram price blip could last over a year and the price blips further down could last even longer.
by data-ottawa | 2025-12-06 02:25:18+00:00
Are these AI filters, or just applying high compression/recompressing with new algorithms (which look like smoothing out details)?

edit: here's the effect I'm talking about with lossy compression and adaptive quantization: https://cloudinary.com/blog/what_to_focus_on_in_image_compre...

The result is smoothing of skin, and applied heavily on video (as Youtube does, just look for any old video that was HD years ago) would look this way
by Frannky | 2025-12-06 02:26:18+00:00
It's a good model. I worry that they will be able to win the game by offering the best service for free, thanks to selling users' data—kind of like search, email, etc. It's sad. Not that the alternatives are better... You either trust synchopathic ChatGPT backed by Scama, go with woke Claude (they once banned my account for asking how some news was trying to influence me), Grok that feels like a 20-year-old sure about stuff that don't work, and Chinese models that are agenda-aligned...
by mohamad08 | 2025-12-06 02:26:41+00:00
Hotwire Native tbh wouldn't have been a bad choice at all to use tbh. Especially if you wanna maintain 1:1 parity with the website. It combines both being a "web app" and native features we could still use like Tap to Pay and Push Provisioning. The downsides of it is that it isn't a cross platform framework like React so all changes would have to be pushed to both an iOS app repo and an Android app repo. Another downside is that it isn't a "write once run anywhere" type application as you're integrating Hotwire into the native code so you have to be comfortable with both Kotlin and Swift (however if you're writing native modules in React Native same applies).

Both are 2 completely valid and separate paths you could take when building an app and I'd actually be curious what'd HCB Mobile look like if we did use Hotwire Native.
by Zambyte | 2025-12-06 02:27:07+00:00
> and yet there’s questions on the semi-official forum on how to read from files properly.

That is currently in the process of changing. Of course people are discussing things that are changing.

> no, the docs really don’t cut it.

Yes they do :) - source: have written multiple small projects in Zig.

I encourage you to actually read the page I linked from top to bottom if you are interested in learning Zig. I did it because mitchellh mentioned in an interview that it's what he did. It's easy to follow, useful, and not an overwhelming amount of information.
by reactordev | 2025-12-06 02:28:13+00:00
The hardest part of quitting anything is changing the behavioral habits that came with it.

For smoking, I bet you have the urge after a meal to smoke. Maybe you’re triggered when you drive long distances to “calm the nerves”. The issue is those triggers, those behaviors, need to be unlearned before you can attempt to quit. That’s why it’s easy for people who haven’t developed those behavioral habits and hard a hell for those who have. Former smoker myself so I totally get it. I can give that up, but caffeine - coffee? I’ll die with a cup on the counter half full.
by kimixa | 2025-12-06 02:28:55+00:00
I don't think they were "intended" for anything - it's just that was the state of the control lines after it decoded that instruction byte, and combination might do something somewhat sane.

Wiring all the "illegal" instructions to a NOP would have taken a fair bit of extra logic, and that would have been a noticeable chunk of the transistor budget at the time.
by rjdj377dhabsn | 2025-12-06 02:29:20+00:00
That's really not true. Sure, there are huge amounts of scams and ponzi schemes and that's what gets attention, but crypto is absolutely used every day by many in a decentralized and effectively anonymous way.

Dark markets are still active and people move large amounts across international borders effortlessly.

As an example of being effectively anonymous, I can easily take some cash, meet up at a cafe nearby with someone from a p2p site to swap it to crypto, and then pay a foreign company for hosting services for years with that crypto, sharing zero personal information.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-12-06 02:31:10+00:00
I just used Nano Banana Pro from LMArena, but if you have access to a paid account I'd love to see you try it out! I just gave it the puzzle image as an input along with the prompt: "Please solve this word search puzzle".

For generating the prompt which included the word positions I had Gemini 3 Pro do that using the following prompt: "Please try to solve this word search puzzle. Give me the position of each word in the grid. Then generate a prompt which I can pass to Nano Banana Pro, which I will pass along with the same input image to see if Nano Banana Pro is able to properly highlight all the words if given their correct position."
by tamimio | 2025-12-06 02:31:12+00:00
The whole medicine industry in North America needs an overhaul. Canada isn't better. The ER delays aren't because of anything but a (intentional?) convoluted process that causes them. Same with prescriptions. Why aren't pharmacists allowed to issue them? Why not even utilize AI (which is superior to any human when it comes to memorizing and correlating, both essential in diagnosis) and have a human to double check it just in case? The reason is obvious. It's lobbying and gatekeeping, from making it hard to become a doctor, to the pharmaceutical industry profits, insurance, among many others, to simply "monetize" every single step of the process and profit off people's misery.
by MaxL93 | 2025-12-06 02:31:26+00:00
"Making AI edits to videos" strikes me as as bit of an exaggeration; it might lead you to think they're actually editing videos rather than simply... post-processing them[1].

That being said, I don't believe they should be doing anything like this without the creator's explicit consent. I do personally think there's probably a good use case for machine learning / neural network tech applied to the clean up of low-quality sources (for better transcoding that doesn't accumulate errors & therefore wastes bitrate), in the same way that RTX Video Super Resolution can do some impressive deblocking & upscaling magic[2] on Windows. But clearly they are completely missing the mark with whatever experiment they were running there.

[1] https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/bj1qbwcklg

[2] compare https://i.imgur.com/U6vzssS.png & https://i.imgur.com/x63o8WQ.jpeg (upscaled 360p)
by nerdponx | 2025-12-06 02:31:54+00:00
It's interesting that this isn't actually illegal to do except in the specific context of an exchange market. I did a very cursory search of the US Code and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and yeah, unless there's some additional legal precedent or other applicable law I didn't find, then this might just be a gap in the law.

It even seems to skirt around notions of illegal vertical integration. For example in this address from 1998, a former FTC commissioner describes several types of illegal "vertical alliances", all of which rely on both the upstream supplier and the downstream consumer being aligned in anticompetitive intent, which (if the article is to be believed) they couldn't have been here because there are two suppliers who were unaware of each other's deals.

Is it really not illegal to just buy up a huge chunk of a critical input for an industry and stockpile it for the purpose of locking out competitors? Seems hard to imagine that some robber baron of the 19th century didn't already do this.
by estearum | 2025-12-06 02:32:28+00:00
No, not really.

The main expense is proving your drug works. It’s not really fair to describe that as incurred by FDA regs.

And in any case: drugs are (surprisingly) not a major driver of healthcare costs in the US.

The things that are uniquely costly in American healthcare are administrative overhead and doctors + nurses.

Go read KFF reporting on it.
by elijahparker | 2025-12-06 02:33:07+00:00
Hola de los estados unidos!

Good idea on customizing the names. That’s at least an easy way around translations for everything, although Spanish would be a good one to add anyway.

It’s already supposed to get the country holidays automatically (it uses some free API I can’t recall atm), so I’m not sure what’s wrong there, but I’ll see if I can find out.
by mohamad08 | 2025-12-06 02:33:25+00:00
My parents nor did any parent step in to help me on this application or the approval processes. Furthermore, the approvals didn't get "rammed through". It took me quite a bit to actually acquire their entitlements and app review approval. I dislike when people assume just because I live in "Silicon Valley" I automatically have everything handed to me. If you would like to learn more about how the processes that I took to achieve this feel free to ask!
by walterbell | 2025-12-06 02:33:47+00:00
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05/exclusive-memory-...

> Lenovo has begun notifying clients of coming price hikes, with adjustments set to take effect in early 2026.. Dell is expected to raise prices by at least 15-20%, with the increase potentially taking effect as soon as mid-December.. Dell COO Jeff Clarke warned that he’s “never seen memory-chip costs rise this fast,” .. Lenovo [cited] two key factors: an intensifying memory shortage and the rapid integration of AI technologies.. TrendForce has downgraded its 2026 notebook shipment forecast from an initial 1.7% YoY growth to a 2.4% YoY decline.

Matt Levine, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-01/ope... | https://archive.is/S3MPq

> your business model might end up being sort of a … startup incubator or private equity firm; you’d spend your time starting or acquiring companies on which the robot could work its magic. Your business model would be “general business, but with AI.” .. OpenAI has a $500 billion valuation largely as a bet that a lot of the value of AI will accrue to its builders, but it could hedge that bet by owning the users too. Either it will sell AI at high margins to lots of businesses, or it will sell AI at lower margins to lucrative businesses that it owns.
by wholinator2 | 2025-12-06 02:34:28+00:00
Is this satire? Does merely seeing a picture of a cantaloup on a shelf harm your psyche? Sure, if it's a model holding them up to her chest saying "come get my melons" i can understand that might qualify. But i don't see how "joe's has cantaloup again" would make you feel literally anything unless you already wanted cantaloupe, in which case the notification was beneficial in _allieving_ a negative emotion and not creating one.

I admit that the line gets very fuzzy at a certain point but i think we can agree that the extremes are different things.
by dmoy | 2025-12-06 02:34:29+00:00
I would put mikrotik ahead of ubiquiti in terms of giving control to do stuff. But.... more of a learning curve.

I use both mikrotik and ubiquiti at home. The mikrotik is necessary for a few things the ubiquiti can't do, but mostly it's a wash.

Incidentally mikrotik tends to be behind ubiquiti for rolling out new wifi stuff
by TazeTSchnitzel | 2025-12-06 02:34:32+00:00
The AI filter applied server-side to YouTube Shorts (and only shorts, not regular videos) is horrible, and it feels like it must be a case of deliberate boiling the frog. If everyone gets used to overly smooth skin, weirdly pronounced wrinkles, waxy hair, and strange ringing around moving objects, then AI-generated content will stand out less when they start injecting it into the feed. At first I thought this must be some client-side upscaling filter, but tragically it is not. There's no data savings at all, and there's no way for uploaders or viewers to turn it off. I guess I wasn't cynical enough.
by nrp | 2025-12-06 02:34:37+00:00
Our total set of 2025 sponsorships and donations is around $225k, which is a fraction of a percent of our 2025 revenue. We would like to and plan to increase the funding we allocate to open source projects that our products and customers depend on in 2026. Our financials are healthy, and we see this as a good investment.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-06 02:36:16+00:00
I had the i3 with the upgraded headlights. Left blinker stopped working one day. Well, turns out before the upgraded headlights that would have been a quick easy bulb change. After it require replacing the entire headlight unit, a $800 part plus labor.

I decided to wait and see if I could find some other way, and in the meantime the car got hit while I was driving in a round-about. Moved the car several meters, but hardly any visible marks. The repair company wanted to fix the paint and get a new rim for the rear tire, but when I told them the car had been thrown a few meters they had a closer look and found a crack in the carbon fiber frame. And with that the car was totalled.

On the bright side, glad I hadn't just forked out the $1200 or so for a new headlight unit...
by NathanielK | 2025-12-06 02:37:19+00:00
That does not sound enjoyable and seems like HDR abuse.

The "normal" video should aim to be moderately bright on average, the extra peak brightness is good for contrast in dark scenes. Other comments comparing it to the loudness war ar apt. Some music streaming services are enfircing loudness normalization to solve this. Any brickwalled song gets played a bit quieter when the app is being a radio.

Instagram could enforce this too, but it seems unlikely unless it actually effects engagement.
by Retr0id | 2025-12-06 02:38:14+00:00
> Browsers recently added convenient and safe functions to process base 64 functions Uint8Array.toBase64() and Uint8Array.fromBase64()

Wow, finally! I've had to work around this so many times in the past (btoa/atob do not play nicely with raw binary data - although there are workarounds on the decode path involving generating data URIs)
by throwup238 | 2025-12-06 02:39:45+00:00
The proof is in the pudding. To my knowledge Monsanto has never sued anyone over inadvertent cross contamination regardless of the percentages. The cases where they have sued were farmers who explicitly went out and got Roundup resistant seeds to use with Roundup from unlicensed vendors or in violation of a license they themselves signed with Monsanto.

It has never made any sense for them to enforce it against cross contamination because farmers don't want the seeds if they're not already nuking everything with glyphosate. They either buy F1 seeds every year for the extra yield hybrid vigor gives them or they save seed that's somewhat optimized for their growing conditions.

> Saying nobody within pollination range can grow their own crops anymore once someone nearby purchases Monsanto seeds is absurd.

This is a fantasy you have concocted, not the reality.
by WalterBright | 2025-12-06 02:40:31+00:00
D does a pretty good job translating function-like macros, including creating lambdas out of macro expressions like:

#define X 3+y

I haven't experimented with translate-c to see just what it does, I am going by the description of it which is a bit vague.

ImportC can also import D modules, so C code can access the D code.
by derektank | 2025-12-06 02:41:48+00:00
>I expect they pay a flat fee to license content

I wouldn't tbh, though I'll admit I'm speculating solely on public information. During the 2023 strikes, SAG-AFTRA and the WGA negotiated additional residuals based upon whether 20% of the streaming services subscriber base viewed the content within 90 days of release.[1] So, streaming platforms are evidently willing to share subscriber viewership data with 3rd parties if it's a contractual requirement.

I would be surprised if content licensors haven't negotiated an as good or better deal for themselves.

[1] https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-streaming-bonus-...
by cyco130 | 2025-12-06 02:41:53+00:00
These instructions were not intentionally designed and put in there in secret. They're simply an unintended consequence of the "don't care" states of the instruction decoding logic.

The decoder is the part of the CPU that maps instruction opcodes to a set of control signals. For example "LDA absolute" (opcode 0xA5) would activate the "put the result in A" signal on its last cycle while "LDX absolute" (opcode 0xA6) would activate the "put the result in X" signal. The undocumented "LAX absolute" (opcode 0xA7) simply activates both because of the decoder logic's internal wiring, causing the result to be put in both registers. For other undocumented opcodes, the "do both of these things" logic is less recognizable but it's always there. Specifically disallowing these illegal states (to make them NOPs or raise an exception, for instance) would require more die space and push the price up.

See here[1] for example to get a sense of how opcode bits form certain patterns when arranged in a specific way.

[1] https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/CPU_unofficial_opcodes
by vunderba | 2025-12-06 02:42:33+00:00
Multimodal certainly helps but "pretty well" is a stretch. I'd be curious to know what multimodal model in particular you've tried that could consistently handle generative prompts of the above nature (without human-in-the-loop corrections).

For example, to my knowledge ChatGPT is unified and I can guarantee it can't handle something like a 7-legged spider.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-12-06 02:42:34+00:00
1. I am not claiming that low support-need autists cannot advocate for hight support need autists. I am saying that I have encountered little evidence to support the idea that low support-needs autists have more insight into the needs and interests of someone who is nonverbal, intellectually disabled, and has severe self-injurious behaviors than others, including those who know and support those individuals daily. 2. Sometime being non-verbal is about trouble with expressive communication. But for others, it is an all encompassing impairment and communication, if much at all, has huge subjective/interpretative component by the observer. fMRI in these indivuals show near absence of activation differences for contrasts between passively listened to language and random noise. They absolutely cannot advocate for themselves, and to not understand this, which occurs in 10-20% of autism, suggests a blindness to the full spectrum, because those people are not seen, they are not on Twitter, they are at home with their loving and hardworking caregivers who should have a seat at the table.