MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qzcanoe | 2025-12-15 13:45:31+00:00
Thank you!

ComfyUI Cloud is very powerful and flexible, especially if you want full control over nodes and workflows. PhotoToVideoAI is aimed at a different audience: people who just want to go from a single photo + a simple prompt to a usable video as fast as possible.

We focus on:

* a very low learning curve (no workflow setup) * consistent presets for photo-to-video use cases * fast generation with predictable results

In short, it’s less about maximum flexibility, more about speed and simplicity. Some users actually use both, depending on the task.
by egypturnash | 2025-12-15 13:45:47+00:00
There were probably a few more sentences hand waving these sorts of details in the books, by the time they got mentioned you were probably more interested in worrying about the Moon-wide epidemic of suicide that the Moon’s governing AI had tasked the book’s protagonist with discovering the cause with, after the protagonist recovered from being brought back in a fresh clone after succumbing to it.

That’s the plot of Steel Beach, if you want to go see what happens next and how much time Varley actually spent on the details of this stuff.
by dinasorous | 2025-12-15 13:45:51+00:00
Hey all, I am a noob at building my own things. Recently, I have started building my own web app, which collects AI related news worldwide. I also cluster them to identify trends within the AI economy. This was interesting to me as I do actively invest in stocks. The website also generates a newsletter, collects details related to new corporate deals announced, etc. It is collecting everything related to AI and the economy.

Now I feel lost, I don’t know where to go from here. I don’t even know if I am doing the right thing. What do you think? Is there any guidance or roast you can give? Here is the website https://www.racetoagi.org/

Here is the trends collection https://www.racetoagi.org/trends

Here is the deals graph https://www.racetoagi.org/deals

Finally, here is the newsletter https://www.racetoagi.org/research/newsletter

One terrifying piece of news I saw today https://www.racetoagi.org/news/2025-12-15-japanese-local-med...
by yeutterg | 2025-12-15 13:46:45+00:00
With the Atmos lamp, yes! It constantly makes very minor, imperceptible changes every few seconds. I also developed an app, currently in public beta, for Philips Hue that does this as well [0].

We're working on a Nest-style ML feature for the Atmos lamp that learns your intensity preferences and automatically applies them. And we have a whole bunch smart circadian products we're working on—something for the desk and workspace next.

For Bedtime Bulb v2, not out-of-the-box because it's all analog electronics, but we REALLY want people to dim it gradually throughout the evening. If you want to automate dimming, the Leviton Smart Dimmer we offer on the site will allow you to control it with any of the popular smart home platforms.

Why isn't Bedtime Bulb smart? Bedtime Bulb v1 was our MVP, and we focused on getting the quality of light right over adding any smart features. It turns out, many of our customers have told us they don't want anything smart. So when we made v2, we focused on doubling down on quality of light features: infrared, warm dimming, "Perfect Dimming" (smooth dimming with any TRIAC or ELV dimmer), really high CRI/R9/TM-30, etc.

Smart bulbs are definitely a future possibility, but right now, we have the analog line (Bedtime Bulb v2) and smart line of fully-integrated lamps (Atmos).

[0] https://restfullighting.com/pages/circadian-mode-for-philips...
by bri3d | 2025-12-15 13:46:46+00:00
> You're not going to try and extract a timestamp from a uuid.

What? The first 48 bits of an UUID7 are a UNIX timestamp.

Whether or not this is a meaningful problem or a benefit to any particular use of UUIDs requires thinking about it; in some cases it’s not to be taken lightly and in others it doesn’t matter at all.

I see what you’re getting at, that ignoring the timestamp aspect makes them “just better UUIDs,” but this ignores security implications and the temptation to partition by high bits (timestamp).
by sdenton4 | 2025-12-15 13:46:47+00:00
Meh. Information is often jumbled and wrong in the immediate aftermath of a newsworthy event, and it is tempting to accept tenuous claims which reinforce one's biases. Take the murder of Bob Lee, in which early reports were a bit off and convinced maaaaany people it was a street crime (confirming their biases about San Francsisco).

There's no real advantage to accepting PEOPLE's claim at this point. It's possibly wrong, and we'll probably know the truth in good time.
by pandaman | 2025-12-15 13:46:57+00:00
It looks quite literally and "falling out of window" had been repeated many times in this thread. I believe the original meme predates 2022 and stems from this event: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikehayes/russian-lawye... If you can read Russian you can find that it was an accident during a house renovation with a whole bunch of people present and the person was airlifted to the hospital.

Now this is rebranded into "oligarchs" not giving money to Putin and being thrown out of the windows of their apartments. None of the people on the list is a billionaire and if a manager of a company falling out of the window constitutes some kind of dictatorship then how about this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bed-bath-cfo-falls-deat...

Probably did not give money to Biden?
by grafmax | 2025-12-15 13:46:59+00:00
American tech companies have already built an apparatus of mass surveillance that works hand in glove with our government to violate our constitutional rights on a regular basis.

But it turns out that an economy based on rent extraction and enshittification can’t in the long run compete with one based on a real economy of industry, agriculture, and public services.

We should have privacy laws including mandated user control of user data. In my view, scaremongering around China just demonstates how uncompetitive the US is, in the long run. We should set our sights higher than merely begging to trade one form of technofeudalism for another.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 13:47:30+00:00
>Same can be said about private corporations.

Didn't I say the same thing?

>We humans still havent figured out how to structure institutions without constructive destruction in the end.

And we never will. There's nothing to figure out here, since human greed is constant everywhere. No matter what perfect system you think you create, over time, power hungry greedy sociopaths climb to the top, and steer it to favor them and their cronies until it collapses.
Show HN: Drawing Guessing Game with an LLM
by victornomad | 2025-12-15 13:47:55+00:00
I made a small game where you are given a word that you have to draw and the AI guesses what are you drawing.

It uses gemini flash 2.5 via API but also works with local models. I had very good results with mistral/pixtral 12b.
by Zigurd | 2025-12-15 13:48:12+00:00
iRobot hasn't got that excuse. They had market dominance and high margins for long enough that, had they retained focus, they could've created follow up products that would've made for durable, defensible market leadership, even if not every product was a success. I hope everyone is clear that that's the world we live in now <cough>Model Y</cough>.
by throwaway109731 | 2025-12-15 13:48:22+00:00
In my experience as a tourist, you can skip the fluent part.

But the quantity of smiles goes up 300% when you talk to them in bad French with finger pointing as opposed to fluent English, even in tourist trap areas.

Maybe slightly better service too.

Edit: hey HN, can we have the option to post one anonymous coward comment every couple days from our regular accounts? We're going to run out of throwawayNNNNNN ids sooner or later.
by jlawson | 2025-12-15 13:48:24+00:00
Studies on basic income have shown that it's harmful to the people who receive it.

They report no improvements on any measured outcome. Not lower stress, not more education, not better health. They work a bit less but that doesn't help them or their kids.

Over the long term it harms them because their productive skills, values, and emotional capacities atrophy away from lack of use.
by tossandthrow | 2025-12-15 13:48:33+00:00
In the country I live the 401k equivalent is taxed yearly on gains (and again as income when I retire), and I think that is fine - I get a world class society in return (you guessed right, it is a Nordic country)

so the answer is yes.

However, i did not go as far as proposing anything. You are assigning value on my statement.

I merely pointed out that it is a mute point to say that you can not use your unrealized gains.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-12-15 13:49:11+00:00
>In those languages, correct logic and getting the program to compile doesn't guarantee you are free from data races or segmentation faults.

I don't believe that it's guaranteed in Rust either, despite much marketing to the contrary. It just doesn't sound appealing to say "somewhat reduces many common problems" lol

>Also, Rust's type system being so strong, it allows you to encode so many invariants that it makes implementing the correct logic easier (although not simpler).

C++ has a strong type system too, probably fancier than Rust's or at least similar. Most people do not want to write complex type system constraints. I'm guessing that at most 25% of C++ codebases at most use complex templates with recursive templates, traits, concepts, `requires`, etc.
by robhlt | 2025-12-15 13:49:27+00:00
I wouldn't assume Roku is better to share your data with. Google uses your data to feed their own algorithms instead of just straight up selling it. Their incentive is to keep the data internal so they alone can extract value from it.

Roku just directly sells it to anyone who wants it: https://advertising.roku.com/learn/resources/roku-unveils-da...
by Miraltar | 2025-12-15 13:49:32+00:00
You're doing it the wrong way imo, if you ask gpt to improve a sentence that's already very polished it will only add grandiosity because what else it could do? For a proper comparison you'd have to give it the most raw form of the thought and see how it would phrase it.

The main difference in the author's writing to LLM I see is that the flourish and the structure mentioned is used meaningfully, they circle around a bit too much for my taste but it's not nearly as boring as reading ai slop which usually stretch a simple idea over several paragraphs
by tunaoftheland | 2025-12-15 13:49:57+00:00
https://plimsoll-line.app

I learned that ships have a "max load" line (or Plimsoll Line) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_line_(watercraft) to prevent overloading them with cargos, but my todo list didn't. So I built an app to surface my emotional load and put mental health above raw productivity.

I am experimenting with the concept of giving each item in the iOS Reminders app an impact multiplier between -1.0 and +1.0 to assign them "weights". The net weight of the todo items should indicate my overall mood or emotional burden. If it doesn't maybe I have yet thought about what's making me feel good or bringing me down. The net weight is visually represented by the "water line" that rises the more into the negative the net weight becomes. I'm thinking of adding features to nudge me into addressing the rising water line.

And since I want to lower my own stress and anxiety using this app, there is no signup or subscription. No data collection other than the bare minimum to make the "tip jar" working through the App Store IAP, so no PII collection.

Do you think you'd find this approach to be helpful for managing your own anxiety level?

(Edited to add a bit more clarification)
by CuriouslyC | 2025-12-15 13:49:59+00:00
Not sure why the argument is SaaS or build from the ground up. Agents can deploy open source projects and build new featurees on top of them pretty effectively.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess that if you have open source competitors, within two years your moat is going to become marketing/sales given how easy it'll be to have an agent deploy software and modify it.
by signatoremo | 2025-12-15 13:50:01+00:00
He didn’t say “how could anyone”. His words:

"I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT. Clearly, people did it for a long time, no problem."

Basically he didn’t know much about newborn and relied on ChatGPT for answers. That was a self deprecating attempt on a late night show. Like every other freaking guests would do, no matter how cliché. With a marketing slant of course. He clearly said other people don’t need ChatGPT.

Given all of the replies on this thread, HN is apparently willing to stretch the truth if Sam Altman can be put under any negative light.

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/25/12/49323477/openais...
by smallmancontrov | 2025-12-15 13:51:08+00:00
No, the exponential runaway of "rich people get paid for being rich in proportion to how rich they are" is the core problem and focusing on the derivative is a magic trick intended primarily to draw attention away from the core problem.

The fact that an earned derivative gets heavily taxed and an unearned derivative gets lightly taxed is so stupendously wacky that the absurdity is obvious, but the integral is the core problem.
by clan | 2025-12-15 13:51:22+00:00
Try a larger n.

They are more than capable. I have just looked at what BMW, Mercedes and Audi have on offer. Then compare what Zeekr and Xpeng has on offer (7X, G9). Quality wise they feel the same or even better.

While I agree as a "complete car" the full package might not quite be there yet. But that is from a European perspective as they mostly are focused on their home markets. But this is changing. This is then simply iterating for product/market fit.

Personally I find the major problems in chinese cars are the software. That is the easy fix and they are getting closer with each iteration.

So much that today I would choose a Zeekr 7X but choose to postpone as the software was too annoying (adaptive cruise control, lane assist, sign recognition, auto brake, audio cues).

The big loss we have with EVs are servicability. But that is a universal problem with all automakers.
by jlawson | 2025-12-15 13:51:57+00:00
The problem is that for the vast majority of people to be psychologically healthy they must have a job. This isn't a societal decision, it's a reality about how humans are.

The alternative is like feeding an animal instead of letting it live the lifestyle it's adapted for. That helps it in the moment but over time its capacities atrophy and it ends up weakened, twisted and harmed with nothing to spend its natural instincts on.
by nout | 2025-12-15 13:51:58+00:00
I meant "good" in the formatting, grammar, vocabulary sense. I'm not arguing that LLMs are "good" in writing amazing prose.

I mean look at two of us - I have typos, I use half broken english, I'm not good in doing noun articles, my vocabulary is limited, I don't connect sentences well, you end sentences with "..." and then you start sentence with "And", etc. I very much believe you are a real person.
by mvkel | 2025-12-15 13:51:58+00:00
As an aside, it's been fascinating reading the comments here about news media.

People want journalists to publish quickly AND only publish what’s fully verified.

They want anonymous sources named "in the spirit of truth," without grappling with the reality that doing so would instantly dry up anyone risking their job, or worse, to provide information.

They expect journalists to release raw information as soon as they have it, while simultaneously acting as perfect filters; never amplifying rumors, or being wrong, even as new facts emerge.

They want neutrality, except when neutrality conflicts with their priors.

It's no wonder that morale among journalists is at an all-time low. Is any other profession held to such an impossible standard?
by CyanLite2 | 2025-12-15 13:52:01+00:00
I think you're basing AI only on modern 2025 LLMs.

If there is a magnitude increase in compute (TPUs, NPUs, etc) over the next 3-5 years then even marginal increases in LLM usability will take white collar jobs.

If there is an exponential increase in power (fusion) and compute (quantum) combined with improvements in robotics and you're in the territory where humans can entirely be replaced in all industries (blue collar, white collar, doctors, lawyers, etc).
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 13:52:26+00:00
>If I've learned anything from my 40+ years on this earth it's that there are no guarantees that adults/grownups are more reality-based than late teens

You don't think that adult taxpayers with full time careers and mortgages have a higher chance at a better understanding of the state of play, than kids who can't spell their name without asking CHatGPT?
by blmayer | 2025-12-15 13:52:30+00:00
I'm working on an experimental display server, for educational purposes and fun:

https://terminal.pink/bgce/index.html

Or https://github.com/blmayer/bgce

The idea is to have the minimum needed for a usable graphical experience. So drawing to drm buffer and handling inputs basically. It's been fun to do.

I am build a toolkit for it too:

https://terminal.pink/bgtk/index.html

Or https://github.com/blmayer/bgtk

I think it is nice that we can just write to a buffer and it appears on the screen. Very little abstraction is needed. Hope you like it.

I also made some progress on my hardware projects, but I'll keep a low profile for now.
by InMice | 2025-12-15 13:52:47+00:00
It is a free for all in USA, sometimes the trash truck comes down and grabs both recycling bins and trash bins and just dumps all into the same truck. No one cares, customer or trash service company. Many facilities dont sort if sorting becomes too much work they just toss what was picked up as reycling into the trash. Walk inside any warehouse type facility in America and they throw anything and everything into the trash that has lost its utility for the business. Working inside an order fulfillment warehouse opened my eyes to how much waste is created just to pack and ship everyones cheap single use junk. Bottle deposits haven't been adjusted for inflation in decades, no one even talks about it. States that dont have deposit laws people just litter aluminim cans everywhere. When there are bottle deposit laws they have exceptions like no deposit required for aluminum can if its contents are not carbonated. Why should that matter? Most people toss their food waste into the trash, effectively no one bothers with the effort to return nutrients back into the earth. Why do that when we can just pointlessly haul it away in a fuel burning truck and seal it away with toxic everyday garbage. The people who actually care about re-use and or reducing waste are tiny vocal minority compared to everyone else. When I walk into a grocery story filled with 100+ shoppers I am always the only person using reusable, non-plastic bags. I also laugh when if you don't use plastic bags, they slap plastic stickers on your items thanking you for not using plastic bags LOL. I know other countries are worse with pollution but gosh. Sounds nice in Zurich if there's actually people that care.
by Yizahi | 2025-12-15 13:53:09+00:00
Fair use doctrine is explicitly for the humans. For the better overall state of humankind. It is not logically "fair" in the terms of some abstract logic, since we are giving preference to some part of the population and not everyone equally/fairly. So the fairness is not in the perfect mathematical equality of the application of fair use law, it is in the inequality of it and this is what makes it fair. In short - fair use is a hack, which we humans invented for ourselves, for our better living.

There is no some law of the universe that a hack we have invented for ourselves should be extended to literally everything everywhere, we don't "owe" this to anyone. So we don't "owe" it to our computers that fair use doctrine should be extended to the computer programs. The fairness word in the fair use doctrine doesn't mean that every entity should automatically benefit from such law. It's only for humans now.

My point of this long rant is that making fair use universally fair, automatically makes it unfair for the humans, for the original recipients of the benefits of this law. And there is no compromise here. We either ignore human rights, or computer program rights.
by Thorrez | 2025-12-15 13:53:37+00:00
I don't see how a single absolute address could be exploitable based on my understanding of the threat model of this library. The library is in charge of erasing the secrets from memory. Once the secrets have been erased from memory, what would an attacker gain from knowing an absolute address?

The only thing that makes sense to me is a scenario with a lot of addresses. E.g. if there's an array of 256 integers, and those integers themselves aren't secret. Then there's a key composed of 32 of those integers, and the code picks which integers to use for the key by using pointers to them. If an attacker is able to know those 32 pointers, then the attacker can easily know what 32 integers the key is made of, and can thus know the key. Since the secret package doesn't erase pointers, it doesn't protect against this attack. The solution is to use 32 array indexes to choose the 32 integers, not 32 pointers to choose the 32 integers. The array indexes will be erased by the secret package.
by vintermann | 2025-12-15 13:54:01+00:00
You can argue that, but then what is its purpose? Why should anyone care about the creation date of a by-design completely arbitrary thing?

I bet people will extract that date and use it, and it's hard to imagine use which wouldn't be abuse. To take the example of a PN/SSN and the usual gender bit: do you really want anyone to be able to tell that you got a new ID at that time? What could you suspect if a person born in 1987 got a new PN/SSN around 2022?

Leaks like that, bypassing whatever access control you have in your database, is just one reason to use real random IDs. But it's even a pretty good one in itself.
by socketcluster | 2025-12-15 13:54:09+00:00
I'm actually more thinking about the client sitting on the front-end like a single page app. Network instability could cause the response to not reach the front-end after a successful insert. This wouldn't be extremely common but would definitely be a problem for you as the database admin if you have above a certain number of users. I've seen this issue on live production systems and the root cause of duplicate records can be baffling because of how infrequently it may happen. Tends to cause issues that are hard to debug.
by thadt | 2025-12-15 13:54:12+00:00
What does a "digital education" look like, specifically?

Having spent several years teaching kids to code everything from games to lightbulbs on Chromebooks, I can confirm that there are certainly difficulties - but they're tradeoffs. I could spend my time coming up with a way to work through the platform restrictions, or I could spend my time maintaining a motley crew of devices and configurations. Having done it both ways, they both have different pain points.
by egypturnash | 2025-12-15 13:54:40+00:00
Demon has some interesting additions to the ongoing “Gaea fucks with Scirocco” relationship but is mostly about Gaea getting senile and watching too many old 1950s movies. Varley was clearly enjoying writing the latter part but it dragged for me.

Titan introduced the setting and went through different parts of Gaea. Wizard summarized the basics of this, if you want more details of what happened to Scirocco’s whole crew then they are in there.
by fny | 2025-12-15 13:55:12+00:00
I'm all for antitrust, but it's a shame the Amazon acquisition was blocked.[0]

iRobot was in a distressed state then, and immediately laid of 1/3 of staff when the deal fell through. I knew a survivor of that mess. Now this.

0: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/29/24034201/amazon-irobot-ac...

0: https://archive.is/rBn7z