MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cj | 2025-12-10 22:29:38+00:00
Isn't OpenAI equally annoying?

I remember multiple waiting periods, and multiple requirements to cross spend thresholds to increase in tiers. I remember at one point spamming the OpenAI API with garbage just to consume credits in order to get to the next tier to increase rate limits.

More recently (couple months ago) I tried using a 3rd party client for ChatGPT which needed a OpenAI API key. I gave up after 20 mins.
by protocolture | 2025-12-10 22:29:46+00:00
I do have a son. I plan to tell my kiddo not to engage with those platforms and set boundaries. I dont plan to force every kid in every scenario into the same pattern.

>Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho

"Locking" Why not instead ban the social graph, or certain engagement techniques. Theres a whole other arm here, where the AusGov has pulled back entirely from promised gambling restrictions. Its easy to see a path where dark patterns in both industries are outlawed instead of banning half.

Not to mention that 4chan and youtube are unaffected, so I doubt those kids with the broken backs or whatever are going to be "free".
by gabriel666smith | 2025-12-10 22:29:55+00:00
Of course! This is my favourite example, from Sense and Sensibility, because it announces itself with "burst", and that's the novel where she deploys it most:

"Elinor could sit it no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease."

She 'tends towards Iambic' in literary criticism terminology. So it's not a strict Iambic, more like a 'soft Iambic' which is a term I can't remember if it's actually used in lit crit, or if I made it up.

You need to drop the "at" syllable, in that example (which you would do in vocal rhythms of English, then and now), for it to be a true Iambic.

There's lots of good writing on the King James Bible "tending towards" Iambic, which should be more Google-able, and her father was a preacher, so that's a likely influence there, I would speculate.

Some others I like that I remember:

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." - Persuasion (I think?).

"Till this moment I never knew myself." - Sense and Sensibility again? I can't remember off the dome. That's a gorgeous strict Iambic.

There are much longer examples - whole paragraphs that close chapters of Sense and Sensibility specifically. I'll try and find the version I have notations on when I'm next around my books. She regularly slips into it to close moments of emotional crescendo - "Cursus" being the Latin term for an analogous technique, when it was more frequently used in a more stylised manner.
by LinXitoW | 2025-12-10 22:30:40+00:00
You mean like Epstein? We've got a bunch of truths about rich people and nothing happens.

The fear of an evil government misusing something, more often than not, is a thought terminating cliche. It means we cannot regulate, or create any laws about anything, because evil people could abuse those laws. In reality, evil people do evil shit, irrespective of the laws available for abuse.
by leptons | 2025-12-10 22:30:41+00:00
It's not performative when people are losing health insurance and other people are at risk of starving. I agree with holding out on the government shutdown to try to prevent Americans losing healthcare. But when Republicans are absolutely fine with poor people starving so that they can take away people's healthcare, with a bonus that they get to shut down the government and say "see, government doesn't work", it becomes clear that letting the government shut down (especially food program shutdowns) continue is going to hurt more people than the government shutdown is going to help. So, when you say "performative" it sounds like you support the "both sides are the same" meme, but the ideologies are vastly different - one side is fine with people starving indefinitely, and the other actually doesn't want that.

I would think at least some of this should be obvious, but I guess not?
by impossiblefork | 2025-12-10 22:31:08+00:00
It's also important to understand how bad LLMs actually are.

It's very easy to imagine that LLMs are smart, because they can program or solve hard maths problems, but even a very short attempt to have them generate fiction will demonstrate an incredible level of confusion and even an inability to understand basic sentences.

I think the problem may have to do with the fact that there are really many classes, and in fiction you actually use them. They simply can't follow complex conversations.
by neom | 2025-12-10 22:31:58+00:00
I complained about this on HN recently and Logan responded and asked me to email him with feedback on how I'd like the experience to work (I didn't, sorry Logan, been busy :)) - Logan, to his credit, is very active everywhere reading and soliciting feedback. I think they're going to be giving it a pretty big bump on ux/ui of AI studio next month. It's easy to see he's a super smart guy trying to build something complex within a massive machine - given how focused on the product he appears to be, I have high hopes.

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK
by NoPicklez | 2025-12-10 22:32:44+00:00
Well kids can discuss political issues across other discussion boards just not those on the social media sites impacted by the ban. They can also continue to do it say, in person in public.

I think the discussion of political issues in a sensible way on platforms like instagram, tiktok, X, Reddit etc for those ages is perhaps a lower priority than the mental health impacts that those platforms in general provide.
by ndriscoll | 2025-12-10 22:32:55+00:00
I suppose I don't know what kind of antics you get up to where that's an accident, but in any case you could maybe use those patch things, or you can probably buy a bit of new drywall, cut an even shape around the hole and use that as a template to cut your new drywall, insert it, and use putty to clean up the edges. Still only like $20-30 total.
by DocTomoe | 2025-12-10 22:33:03+00:00
First they came for Facebook, and I didn't protest, I was not on facebook.

Here's what's going to happen next: Whatsapp/signal/telegram groups will become wildly popular. Which gives the wannabe-fascists the excuse to ban those as well 'for the children'.

We've seen this salami tactic often enough to know the pattern.
by estimator7292 | 2025-12-10 22:33:36+00:00
Part of what you're paying for is the right to use the trademarked tern HDMI, just like how the USB Consortium charges you stupid money to use the USB logo.

The suit over usage of "HDMI" in a reverse engineered version would wind up arguing whether or not HDMI is a genericised term and the HDMI Forum would lose their trademark. They will throw every cent they have into preventing such a decision and it'll get ugly
by timoth3y | 2025-12-10 22:33:59+00:00
I think if we are going to ban people under 16 from social media, we should also ban people over 70 from social media.

At least as much mental and societal damage is done by elderly falling for bigoted, scammy, manipulative nonsense online than by teenagers having their self-esteem lowered.

As recent holiday gatherings have shown us, the young handle social media far better then the elderly.

/s
by kbelder | 2025-12-10 22:34:29+00:00
What? Mel is regarded as deserving massive respect, not as crazy. If a developer thinks Mel is nuts, they are coming from a perspective I don't understand.

And yes, the shift to higher level languages like C, FORTRAN, etc., was regarded by some as pandering to the new generation that didn't want to actually learn programming.

With some truth, in my opinion. I think higher level languages bring huge benefits, so I'm not bemoaning their existence. But it still weirds me out when there's a professional developer that doesn't have at least a cursory knowledge of assembly. AI programming assistance (which I'm sure will be very different than today's 'vibe coding') does seem like a similar state change. I certainly don't object to it in principle, it will probably be a large productivity improvement.

But I'm sure that with it, there will be the loss of fundamental knowledge for some people. Like digital artists who never learn the properties of real paint.
by yosame | 2025-12-10 22:34:30+00:00
I'm pretty sure this take is incorrect on multiple accounts. Trans demographics tend to skew towards trans women by about a third, not trans men - at least in all the research I've come across.

And regardless, increased acceptance and awareness of different gender identities can very plausibily explain increased numbers, not "social contagion". Calling it a contagion is pretty indicative of your underlying beliefs here.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-10 22:34:56+00:00
> They own IP. People want to use that IP. They say "pay us X to use our IP".

The general premise of patents and copyrights is that you're going to do some development work and then you get an exclusive right that yields a competitive advantage.

Standards are different. The purpose of the standard is that Alice wants her output device to be compatible with everyone else's input device and Bob wants his input device to be compatible with everyone else's output device.

There is no competitive advantage to be had because the very premise is that everyone possible is going to implement it to maximize the network effect. And the entire industry has the incentive to want the standard to be good and put whatever good ideas they have into it because they're all stuck with it if it isn't. Meanwhile because of the network effect, everyone has to implement the standard because if they come up with their own thing -- even if it's better -- it wouldn't be compatible.

So all of the normal incentives from copyrights and patents are wrong. You can't gain a competitive advantage from it, companies have a preexisting incentive to make it good even without an exclusive right, and someone who doesn't want to pay doesn't have the option to try to do better on their own because of the network effect. And the network effect makes it an antitrust concern.

The result is that NDAs and royalties on standards are just a shakedown and the law shouldn't allow them.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-12-10 22:35:07+00:00
Yep, I've seen what craziness happens when the admin is woke, and I've seen the craziness when it's "anti-woke" and I preferred woke. At least woke didn't kidnap people into unmarked vans for writing a college newspaper article. I don't agree with woke, but they won't send me to Guatemala torture prison bc I don't agree
by websiteapi | 2025-12-10 22:35:12+00:00
I'll never understand this silly take. they just took a venezuelan oil tanker. is that a joke to you? you might disagree with what they're doing, or argue they are incompetent, but joke is very strange take. they are very serious. ask some undocumented immigrants in the USA about how much they're joking.

in fact - any country seeing what trump is doing both domestically and internationally and not taking their actions potentially against them seriously is stupid imho.
by hedayet | 2025-12-10 22:35:35+00:00
You’re framing this as an all-or-nothing choice. The logical inverse of your argument would be: "should we unban hard drugs for everyone, and allow alcohol, tobacco, or porn for kids?"

That kind of binary framing doesn’t really move the discussion forward.

A more constructive approach is case-by-case. Different things sit at different levels of harm, and "ban everything" vs. "ban nothing" isn’t a workable model for society.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-12-10 22:36:01+00:00
If you had read the article, you would know the answer to this question.

Calibri is a font designed to be easier to read on screens, which is where documents are primarily read in 2025. Switching to using Calibri as the default was a meaningful change that provided improved accessibility at literally no cost to anyone.

Switching back to Times New Roman, a serif font that is provably more difficult to read on screens is yet another act of performative cruelty by this administration who seemingly operates with "the cruelty is the point" as one of its core tenets.
by fnordprefect | 2025-12-10 22:36:07+00:00
I'm with John Gruber, who is hardly a fan of this administration:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/10/state-departmen...

"Calibri does convey a sense of casualness — and more so, modernity — that is not appropriate for the U.S. State Department. And I do not buy the argument that Calibri is somehow more accessible for those with low vision or reading disabilities. People with actual accessibility needs should be catered to, but they need more than a sans serif typeface, and their needs should not primarily motivate the choice for the default typeface."

Official departmental paperwork shouldn't look clownish.
by imglorp | 2025-12-10 22:36:26+00:00
Full agree on these auto maker comments. The US makers for decades have dug in their heels on any new features: look how long it took to get basic safety features like seatbelts, airbags, and crumple zones. Then delay wipers. Then it took decades to add a $1 part like an aux input for the stereo. And of course all the super poor EV gestures.

But I was talking about motorcycles. There are some new brands like Zero and some old ones like Harley (the "live wire" disaster). They need a fire lit to make real bikes at real prices.
by consumer451 | 2025-12-10 22:37:12+00:00
It's nice that the LLM-enabled panopticon still cannot find this very recent related media, [0] but my silly mind can. It is actually an interesting commentary from a non-tech point of view. This is how the rest of the world feels:

Anyway, back to work trying to make my millions using Opus and such.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1pj5bg9/al_companies...
by andy99 | 2025-12-10 22:37:41+00:00
I haven’t looked at the output yet, but came here to say,LLM grading is crap. They miss things, they ignore instructions, bring in their own views, have no calibration and in general are extremely poorly suited to this task. “Good” LLM as a judge type products (and none are great) use LLMs to make binary decisions - “do these atomic facts match yes / no” type stuff - and aggregate them to get a score.

I understand this is just a fun exercise so it’s basically what LLMs are good at - generating plausible sounding stuff without regard for correctness. I would not extrapolate this to their utility on real evaluation tasks.
by shkkmo | 2025-12-10 22:37:49+00:00
The HDMI Forum isn't "most people", it's a non-profit run by some of the largest companies in the space that self describes this way.[1]

I think it is reasonable to complain when "someone" is being so hypocritical and arguably engaging in anti-competitive practices. How do the crazy NDAs in any way server the self stated mission of the forum?

> [1] https://hdmiforum.org/about/

Chartered as a nonprofit, mutual benefit corporation, the mission of the HDMI Forum is to:

Create and develop new versions of the HDMI Specification and the Compliance Test Specification, incorporating new and improved functionality Encourage and promote the adoption and widespread use of its Specifications worldwide Support an ecosystem of fully interoperable HDMI-enabled products Provide an open and non-discriminatory licensing program with respect to its Specifications
by squigz | 2025-12-10 22:38:27+00:00
> If you want to say something, then say it with your identity. You don’t get to be anonymous when saying something to my face so why should it be allowed across a screen?

My face is not my identity. Do I have to tell you my full name and address when I talk to you? I sure hope not!

Beyond that, what about the threat of violence for saying something? As another commenter points out, this is a real issue for marginalized groups, but also could easily become an issue for your average citizen sharing their political opinion.

While I agree it would be nice having some level of assurance that you're talking to a human, particularly going forward, the only way I could support such a system is if no party involved would be able to track what I visit or pin an actual identity to me as a user - but, perhaps more importantly, it also needs to not be easily broken by those actors who it's trying to stop. Otherwise it's useless and just hurts your actual citizens.
by elric | 2025-12-10 22:39:15+00:00
Pretty sure that was meant as a joke.

Mouth breathing is not a cause of sleep apnea, but it can be a consequence. Bad pillows and bad sleeping positions aren't causes of sleep apnea either, but some people do have "positional sleep apnea" where the apnea is (usually) much worse on the back and much better on the side.

One can also have sleep apnea without ever experiencing hypoxia. Drops in oxygen saturation during hypopneas are very minimal, and pretty much nonexistent with respiratory effort related arousals (RERAs). Not breathing is bad, but for many people with sleep apnea, the problem is the constant arousals and the lack of decent sleep, not a lack of oxygen.
by two_handfuls | 2025-12-10 22:39:21+00:00
Thank you! I believe you. If you work at Samsung, maybe you can get them to make the "Galaxy XR" landing page mention passthrough then? Because if it does, I missed it.

While we're at it, Samsung may have its reasons to mention "Google Photos" prominently as the first concrete application, but to me as a user that decoded as "ok they have no games to speak of." (I don't know if that's true, but that's how it comes across).
by bena | 2025-12-10 22:39:22+00:00
This is a performative change.

The change to Calibri was meaningful.

Because Calibri is an easier to read font on screens, which is where a lot more reading is being done.

Since it was done as an accessibility measure, it is seen as something for "inclusion" which is part of the scary "DEI" (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion). So it had to go, because forbid we do something that makes things slightly easier for people.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-12-10 22:39:26+00:00
My quick searching is finding that 3% of US vehicles are motorcycles.

Sure, more competition is good, but given their safety profile (terrible!) I suspect motorcycles are a secondary mode of transportation rather than a primary. Mopeds for intra city usage seems more high demand than highway speed vehicles that have to drive alongside SUVs.
by Rygian | 2025-12-10 22:39:27+00:00
What an LLM does is not an algorithm. It's called a heuristic.

To have an algorithm, you need to have a concrete way to show than an output is the correct or optimal one.

An LLM is satisfied by providing any random output that passes some subjective "this-does-not-seem-to-be-a-hallucination" test.
by kayfox | 2025-12-10 22:39:39+00:00
These stations and networks still have about 80% of their previous funding, so nothing is really going to get shut down right away.

Also, in many cases the TV and radio spectrums in markets these stations are in are not saturated to the point where new licensees are prevented from operating just because of saturation.

So this is really just some group asking for public broadcasting to be punished even more.
Looking for SIMPLE graphics Markdown language
by morpheos137 | 2025-12-10 22:39:57+00:00
Is there anything out there that enables users to drawn 2d graphics without having to learn to program or without having to use a CAD GUI?

Basically looking for a 2D scripting language like markdown but for graphics to generate blue prints.

Example of ideal functionality

-You can set drawing scale -set output scale -set origin -add, edit, primitive objects. -generate SVG, PS or PDF output.

Split screen drawing environment command window, preview/output window. Also CLI capable. Source of drawings is stored as text or JSON.
by NoPicklez | 2025-12-10 22:41:34+00:00
"the Social Media Minimum Age legislation specifically prohibits platforms from compelling Australians to provide a government-issued ID or use an Australian Government accredited digital ID service to prove their age.

Platforms may offer it as an option but must also offer a reasonable alternative, so no one who is 16 or older is prevented from having a social media account because they choose not to provide government ID. This includes situations where other age check methods return a result the user does not accept."
by josters | 2025-12-10 22:41:40+00:00
It’s likely a mix of availability bias and pattern-seeking/apophenia: a few recent outages stand out and the rise of LLMs in recent years is also ever present. This increases the chance to assume a link between both even without evidence that outage frequency actually changed.

Also, I don’t think the switch is as binary: these industry shifts tend to be more gradual where more experienced programmers adopt LLM tools to suit their workflow and newer developers still learn fundamentals because real-world engineering of complex systems quickly exposes a lack of understanding.
by hypeatei | 2025-12-10 22:41:50+00:00
Okay, so the HTTP header idea seems like it would have two issues:

1) Given that it just says you're a "child", how does that work across jurisdictions where the adult age may not be 18?

2) It seems like it could be abused by fingerprinters, ad services, and even hostile websites that want to show inappropriate content to children.
by dijit | 2025-12-10 22:42:00+00:00
To be perfectly honest with you, I wanted to come here to say that their services (on a good day) aren't very reliable anyway.

I routinely have email issues, file transfer issues (to icloud) and issues accessing their binary notarisation service.

The only thing that works routinely well is Apple Pay, however I think that it's refreshing a key lazily in the background and does not actually need a network connection to work. Good design at least.

So when I saw that they're having an outage, I thought. "All at once this time I guess".

I'll be really open here and say that I applied for an SRE job there out of hatred because whoever is in charge of SRE/Infrastructure Operations at Apple is doing a terrible job (or has terrible circumstances).
by kreetx | 2025-12-10 22:42:16+00:00
Having an organization install custom root certificates onto your work or personal computer and hosting a public blog on Cloudflare are two entirely different topics.

That your healthcare, government, bank, etc. are using Cloudflare, is a third. In an ideal world I guess I'd agree with you, but asking any of these institutions to deploy proper DDoS protection may just be too much of an ask.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-10 22:42:26+00:00
I think the reason is much simpler than that. Resetting the timestamp lets them easily resurface things on the frontpage, because the current time - posting time delta becomes a lot smaller, so it's again ranked higher. And avoiding adding a special case, lets the rest of the codebase work exactly like it was before, basically just need to add a "set submission time to now" function and you get the rest for free.

But, I'm just guessing here based on my own refactoring experience through the years, may be a completely different reason, or even by mistake? Who knows? :)
by aetherspawn | 2025-12-10 22:42:34+00:00
Australia already has a government digital ID verification service, so this social media ban is just a first step towards legislators realising they can force people to just integrate and use that, then there is no user data changing hands.

Edit: > or use an Australian Government accredited digital ID service to prove their age

Here you go. If you’re concerned about your personal data, only use platforms that integrate and use this.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-10 22:42:57+00:00
I have an RTL-SDR rig with the stock tiny omni antenna in a second story of a building adjacent a public parking lot. I'm using rtl433 and I am able to reliably pick up TPMS from the lot. I've never done any testing to see what the metes and bounds of my reception are, but it's definitely not touching the tire. My rig is at least 30 feet away from the closest parking spot.