MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by api | 2025-12-06 13:35:40+00:00
Like other things the market will bisect. Discerning people who are self aware and resist addiction and are put off by this stuff are already jumping ship from these platforms. They’ll be hypnosis machines for everyone else.

There’s a component of people around here who will shrug or even cheer. That’s because we are losing any belief in compassion or optimism about uplifting humanity. When I really think about it, it’s terrifying.

We are headed for a world where normal people just step over the dying, and where mass exploitation of the “weak” gets a shrug or even approval. Already there in some areas and sectors.

Is this the world you want, folks? Unfortunately I’ve met a disturbing number of people who would say yes.

Now consider that this includes children, whose childhood is being stolen by chum feeds. This includes your own relatives. This includes your friend who maybe has a bit of an addictive personality who gets sucked into gambling apps and has their life ruined. Or it’s you, maybe, though I get the sense there’s a lot of “high IQ” people who think they can’t be conned.
by echelon_musk | 2025-12-06 13:37:24+00:00
It's just common sense that things would not be geared toward the patient's best outcome.

It's easier (read: cheaper) for the broken NHS and cash strapped government to shovel pills than it is to get someone to revamp their life.

Imagine the alternative cost of talking therapies for the NHS. There are three year waiting lists for them already.

Depression usually occurs for a causal reason, it just may not have been found for the individual yet. It could be poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive escapism as a response to unprocessed trauma etc. Ultimately though these causes require the patient to exert effort toward improving their life, and so they have to have willpower and motivation.

Thankfully exercise can now be prescribed by doctors in the UK!
by latexr | 2025-12-06 13:37:31+00:00
> What is the goal then? Why do they care that you're bypassing it?

Mass surveillance, population control, and the destruction of services they disapprove of. Pornhub’s traffic went down by 80% when they implemented the mandatory age verification checks in some state. So they simply blocked them because it wasn’t worth it. Later, someone (I don’t have the ability to track down the source right now) was caught admitting one of the goals of the law is to drive those sites out of business.

I recommend reading about authoritarian regimes in Europe (it was not just Germany) and how they controlled discourse, and what people had accessed to. Some of their decisions have repercussions which are felt to this day. In Spain, foreign media is dubbed while in Portugal it is subbed. Both are due to their respective dictators.
by gnosis67 | 2025-12-06 13:37:34+00:00
“Too big to fail, [America] lumbers on at the expense of the lives of others.”

The new world order involves ordinary people living their ordinary banal life as though everything is fine and they are the pinnacle of modernity. They simply have no true power over their natural destinies. Their rights of consent, even lawful recourse are inhibited by invisible rules and consequences that swallow up dissonance with a shrug, an eye roll, and a yawn from the rest of the population who is more satisfied keeping the comforts and conveniences they have been allowed.

Rather than the George Jetson future we strive for, we will have a ~1950s peak society with technology and features relegated to gimmicks or class perks.
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by uzername | 2025-12-06 13:38:33+00:00
I had immich running great for a while, maybe for months. It would seamlessly sync photos from phone to local home server. I was going to setup nightly outbound sync too (1 is none, 2 is some).

I updated the container for usual appliance maintenance. Entire thing is toast. Metadata files can't be read, mounted, permission issues and more. It's been four months since.
Show HN: KnockKnock – Circular video calls that bring you closer, faster(macOS)
by HamounKarami | 2025-12-06 13:38:38+00:00
hi hn, i’m ham!

i built KnockKnock! because I missed how easy and spontaneous it used to be to just "knock" on a friend’s door. it’s a native macOS app that sits quietly in your menu bar and lets you video call your friends instantly—no links to generate, no scheduling, just a genuine moment of connection.

it is completely free and exclusive to macOS.

we’re gearing up for our big Product Hunt launch next week, but I really wanted to share it with this community first to hear your thoughts.
by emschwartz | 2025-12-06 13:38:47+00:00
It's very fun to try to make that limited data model do more than it was intended to.

When I did a little bit of contracting for TigerBeetle, I was working on these learning exercises and came up with some fun ingredients that could be used if you're trying to push what's possible https://github.com/tigerbeetle/tigerlings/pull/2
by techblueberry | 2025-12-06 13:39:05+00:00
I feel like there’s a balance between —- a thing that really helped me in life was seeing a therapist in my early twenties who really validated a lot of my struggles and take them seriously. But also, kept me from going to far in the other direction of wallowing or being driven by a label.

Part of the problem is the medical system doesn’t have great language around this, I think in America in order for insurance to pay for therapy there has to be diagnosis. My therapists solution to that was to provide a diagnosis but we didn’t really lean into it, he just explained that’s the process.

But the language around diagnosis unfortunately has implicitly power. We probably should talk about mental illness much less that way.
by r0ckarong | 2025-12-06 13:39:18+00:00
More like most people are dragging a cruise ship through a desert while being baited with the possible opportunity to belong to those enjoying the endless buffets and on-board water park.

This whole "should we ration so everybody gets some" is complete BS. There is an abundance of resources that are concentrated to a few and the rest made to suffer. We don't have to ration, we have to prevent the greedy from hogging it all. It's quite the opposite.
by baubino | 2025-12-06 13:39:41+00:00
If the question is „what happens if/when the US loses its global power?“, my first impulse is to point out that losing global power doesn’t mean becoming powerless. The US will lose global power but will remain the dominant power in the Americas. Recent activity in relation to Venezuela has suggested that that is in fact the plan — to cede global power in order to assert authoritarian control over the Americas.

On the global scale, naturally China and Russia jockey for a dominant position but clearly China has the economic and political advantage. I see Europe being preoccupied with stemming Russian incursions while China gradually expands their economic reach until they serve the global economic role that the US once did. China’s continuous investment in Africa means that African nations (Nigeria in particular) might start to play a bigger role on the world stage.

I think the west vs the rest divisions that have structured the geopolitical world since WWII might be significantly reorganized with China at the helm. What that means for us normies out here just trying to live life, I have no idea.
by monerozcash | 2025-12-06 13:40:56+00:00
Oh no, I can think very evil. I just don't see what kind of evil thinking would arrive at "Hey lets use this website to collect IP address/license plate pairs at a small scale"

That just doesn't strike me as a very efficient way of doing evil.

You can just go on accurint and find the oldest people living alone in the richest neighbourhoods near you. You can even fairly reliably find out whether or not they have living relatives.

All this deeply sensitive data is already readily available. I don't think IP+license plate data would be particularly interesting unless you're Google and able to gather that at an absolutely massive scale. But even then, you'd be using it for extremely boring kinds of evil.
by onionisafruit | 2025-12-06 13:41:04+00:00
I’m 20 years older than I was in 2005. My kids moved out of state, and I barely get to see them. My hip hurts most of the time.

Of course I’m joking, but people do generally look back fondly on their youth. I think that’s a big reason for the perception that everything is awful now compared to the recent past.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-06 13:41:06+00:00
Iran's situation with water has always been precarious, hence the massive ancient system of channels and aqueducts, which was mostly destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century.

I wonder if, today, the overall brain drain is contributing to the situation. Iranian engineers don't have to put up with the regime's shenanigans if they don't want to. How many of the people who could have managed the situation are abroad?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-06 13:41:14+00:00
I honestly thought there was some app - even one from Google - that let you just run on your Windows or Mac and downloaded all of your Google Photos to your computer.

That’s all the author is trying to do. He isn’t trying to avoid or replace Google Photos - just have a local backup.

Even Apple has a Windows app that does that for iCloud Photos
by wasmainiac | 2025-12-06 13:41:43+00:00
No. I work in VC backed startups. Externally they might say that for investors, but talk to a software engineer. Agentic IA is not working, it will regurgitate code from examples online, but if you get it to do something complex or slightly novel, it falls flat on its face.

Maybe it will someday be good enough, but not today, and probably not for at least 5 years.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-06 13:42:08+00:00
> What's a crime is that it can stay commercial. Source code should enter public domain in a decade at most.

In many cases, people are free to write their own implementation. Your claim "Source code should enter public domain in a decade at most." means that every software vendor shall be obliged after some time to hand out their source code, which is something very strong to ask for.

What is the true crime are the laws that in some cases make such an own implementation illegal (software patents, probitions of reverse-engineering, ...).
by okr | 2025-12-06 13:43:04+00:00
I am all in favor of continuous development. Program. Check-In. Build. Test. Merge to dev. Build. Test. Merge to master. Build. Test. Deploy. I have a very fancy Play Button, that does everything automatically.

But it always takes like half an hour. :))

I usually start then something else. I have many projects open. But its like....these context switches, they are draining.

So yeah, i like to go the dangerous part, deploy right away from my dev machine. But i get immediate reaction. I dont have to wait. But my mates dont like it. And so i deal with it.
by SpecialistK | 2025-12-06 13:43:50+00:00
It's the smug superiority too many "tech smart" people have.

"Why would you buy HP? Everyone knows that it stands for Horrible Product."

"Serves you right for getting a TV with built in Netflix, everyone knows that it's a backdoor to botnet!"

I don't think it's apologetics for dogpoop corporate behavior, directly. But it has that effect because those of us with knowledge enjoy being smart asses or belittling those whose ignorance rewards trends we disagree with.

People should be able to go into a store and buy a thing without researching how evil it has become in the decade or two since the last time they did. Or move into a house pre-furnished. That is a failure of legislatures, not of average Joe.
by bityard | 2025-12-06 13:44:39+00:00
I used to follow a few personal finance and FIRE subs. Pretty much all of them had surprising number of creative writing exercises too:

"I just inherited $10 million from a dead relative I never knew, what should I do?"

Or:

"I sold my online business for $37 million, is this enough to retire on?"

These daydreamers always create fresh throwaway accounts and usually never come back to answer clarifying questions. If they do, their answers are vague and unhelpful.
by nis0s | 2025-12-06 13:46:02+00:00
Oh okay, that’s what you meant by “target”. I make two distinctions here from my understanding: 1) if group A targets group B, then that’s not a personal attack, but a social or system issue, which I would count as a source of stress, not distress. 2) If group A targets a person, then that is a personal attack, and not a social issue, which is a source of direct conflict, and therefore distress.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-06 13:46:05+00:00
I do think the word spectrum is most usefully applied to something that can vary only in a single dimension.

The partition I'm talking about is a set of sets of behaviors. I think the vector space you're talking about is a set of people (each person being a vector on the basis of the sets of behaviors).

So I think we're on the same page, just referring to different parts of the construction. I.e. everybody is somewhere on the verbal/nonverbal spectrum, and somewhere else on the sensitive/tolerant stimulus spectrum and so on for each dimension.
by techblueberry | 2025-12-06 13:46:29+00:00
To quote one of my favorite movies: “In prison I learned that everything in this world, including money, operates not on reality... but the perception of reality”

We are much more constantly aware of the chaos of our world through social media. And in regards to mental illness, perception is reality.

That and of course, housing prices. Jebus, 20 years ago I paid $400 per month for a studio apartment in the downtown of a major city.

I do find this an interesting retort though. I would argue that if a few numbers go one way, and broad sentiment goes another way, things _have_ gotten worse. Like this whole argument on “life’s gotten worse” is inherently subjective so subjective measures have more validity.
by dangus | 2025-12-06 13:46:50+00:00
This is what I like about Ente. I can pay them to give me an e2e encrypted cloud service, and then the desktop app has a continuous export feature that will dump everything into a plain folder structure on my home NAS automatically.

Ente could go out of business tomorrow and I’d still have all my photos, neatly organized into folders.

And I don’t have to bother with self-hosting overhead. Or I could self host, too, if I wanted. But I still need an off-site backup so I might as well pay for the cloud service.
by ryukoposting | 2025-12-06 13:47:52+00:00
Get screened for whatever you think you've got. Think you've got ADHD? Go get an ADHD screening. Autism? It's not easy to find a psych who does adult Autism screenings, but they're out there. OCD? You get the idea.

Regardless of whether the conclusion is "yes you have x" or "no you don't have x" the diagnosis will be accompanied by a detailed analysis of your psychological condition. Whether or not you are diagnosed, that analysis will cover the issues that led you to believe you may have that condition.
by jrmg | 2025-12-06 13:48:13+00:00
It’s not genuine. The fridge doesn’t show full-screen ads, the original Reddit post and image of the ‘Carol’ ad is staged. At best, this is a parable about the slippery slope our ad-ridden society is sliding down.

https://9to5google.com/samsung-smart-fridge-ads-how-to-turn-...

Update 11/14: Samsung has commented on the image posted to Reddit, noting that the ad format shown on the smart fridge display is not one that would appear over the cover screen. Any ad shown would be limited to the cover screen widget, which displays news, weather, and calendar events. Those slides rotate every 10 seconds or so, and an ad is looped in around every 40 seconds.

It appears that the ad shown in the Reddit photo is of the fridge’s Samsung Internet app. Through that, an ad seems to have shown up organically through a third-party website.

Samsung notes that full-screen ads do not appear as part of these recent software updates, and users shouldn’t expect to see ads that take up the entire display.

‘Shown up organically’ seems like a very generous interpretation to me - it seems far more likely that someone viewed it deliberately for the purposes of staging the photo.
by da_grift_shift | 2025-12-06 13:48:13+00:00
HN baited by karma farmers once again.

Here's the /r/assholedesign post: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...

It shows a webpage with an ad being displayed in the browser app.

How do we know?

Full-screen ads don't show on the cover screen (home screen).

Here's the investigation:

https://9to5google.com/samsung-smart-fridge-ads-how-to-turn-...

>Any ad shown would be limited to the cover screen widget, which displays news, weather, and calendar events.

>The ad shown in the Reddit photo is of the fridge’s Samsung Internet app. Through that, an ad seems to have shown up organically through a third-party website.

Here's the docs that talk about ads on the cover screen:

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS10007562/

It's easy for ragebait to short-circuit your critical thinking skills.

Don't let Redditards like /u/Shellnanigans get their fix.
by esrauch | 2025-12-06 13:49:16+00:00
I'm not sure I follow the argument. If literally every individual site had an uncorrelated 99% uptime, that's still less available than a centralized 99.9% uptime. The "entire Internet" is much less available in the former setup.

It's like saying that Chipotle having X% chance of tainted food is worse than local burrito places having 2*X% chance of tainted food. It's true in the lens that each individual event affects more people, but if you removed that Chipotle and replaced with all local, the total amount of illness is still strictly higher, it's just tons of small events that are harder to write news articles about.
by stfp | 2025-12-06 13:49:40+00:00
Let’s assume it’s simulations all the way down and we exist in plane P=n. The question is are we at n=0.

Looks like this result says we can’t simulate our plane in a computer. But the stuff in that simulation exists in P=n+1. So maybe the conclusion is “you can’t simulate n from within n+1” which means we can’t simulate our own plane, let alone our potential parent, and doesn’t mean we don’t have one
by tmtvl | 2025-12-06 13:50:01+00:00
Would you rather have a heart surgeon who studied for years, spent years practising and assisting, and took time building up the skills needed; or a heart surgeon who just flipped through a book and watched a video on heart surgery?

Finding the golden middle ground between 'move fast and break things' and 'move slow and fix things' is difficult and as the stakes get higher it's only natural to favour slow, steady, and careful over flying by the seat of your pants.
by lonelyasacloud | 2025-12-06 13:50:49+00:00
Yes.

It wasn't an unintended consequence.

The goal of the legislation was to "stop children from accessing age inappropriate content" on the internet.

Ahead of the legislation it was known that there would be a significant proportion of individuals who would switch to using VPN's because without platform based verification it would be a pita for users (more logins, random age verification services, and some sites just deciding to block).

However, VPN's, come with their own minimum age 18 T&C's, as do the means of payment for those services (credit and debit).

So from the pov of "stop children from accessing age inappropriate content" similar result

Not perfect, but empirically this seems to be working well enough e.g. "New data shows no rise in children’s VPN use after the introduction of online age checks" (https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/data-shows-no-r...), i.e. the VPN traffic is largely adults.

As to other unintended consequences, such as making it more difficult for the authorities to snoop on their citizens, I doubt this effectively makes any difference whatsoever.
by alchemist1e9 | 2025-12-06 13:51:07+00:00
Global poverty at 100-year lows, US murder rate half the 90s, you’re more likely to die from obesity than starvation or violence. Objectively the cushiest moment in human history.

Yet “mental illness is the only rational response.”

Happiness = Reality − Expectations

Most of material Reality is fine. The part of Reality that’s broken is spiritual/emotional. The expectations causing unhappiness aren’t for more money or stuff, they’re subconscious, millions of years deep, baked into the species of tribe, offspring, transcendence, cosmic order.

Leftism spent half a century screaming that those instincts are bigotry, that family is oppression, that religion is a mental illness, that wanting roots or rituals or a legacy is fascism.

You can’t propagandize the human soul out of its own operating system. The subconscious still demands what it demanded in 200,000 BC. We just demolished every institution that used to answer the call and replaced them with therapy, porn, and corporate pride slogans.

That’s the real insanity. Not climate change or late-stage capitalism. The soul shows up for duty and the building’s condemned.
by lapcat | 2025-12-06 13:51:18+00:00
> Isn't social awkwardness sort of inherently impairing in social relationships?

Yes, but I think the distinction is explained in the article: "show significant improvement with practice and maturity" and "generally achieve life goals despite awkwardness".

To put it another way, those who are socially awkward can get better, whereas some of the other diagnoses are lifetime impairments with little or no possibility for improvement or cure.
by mynegation | 2025-12-06 13:52:08+00:00
I run Immich for more than two years and there was an upgrade to 1.33 I think around spring 2024 that required special instructions on editing docker compose file because they changed the vector database. I think there was also a database migration same year when - if you did not update the version regularly - would need to run two step upgrade. They provided plenty of documentation always. A while ago sync was quite wonky but they improved that a lot lately.
by Unlisted6446 | 2025-12-06 13:52:25+00:00
I think I understand what you mean.

You're saying that relative to the 'typical individual', autistic brains weigh sensory inputs more heavily than their internal model. And that in schizotypal brains, relative to the 'typical individual', the internal model is weighed more heavily than the sensory input, right?

I don't know much about this area, so I can't comment on the correctness. However, I think we should be cautious in saying 'over-weigh' and 'under-weigh' because I really do think that there may be a real normative undertone when we say 'over-weigh'. I think it needlessly elevates what the typical individual experiences into what we should consider to be the norm and, by implicit extension, the 'correct way' of doing cognition.

I don't say this to try to undermine the challenges by people with autism or schizotypy. However, I think it's also fair to say that if we consider what the 'typical' person really is and how the 'typical' person really acts, they frequently do a lot of illogical and --- simply-put --- 'crazy' things.