MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gilrain | 2025-12-05 12:40:08+00:00
> Not only they make my browsing experience a LOT worse

No, I did (metaphorically, for the websites I control). And I did it because otherwise those sites are fully offline or unusable thanks to the modern floods of unfilterable scrapers.

Months of piecemeal mitigations, but Attack Mode is the only thing that worked. Blame the LLM gold rush and the many, many software engineers with no ethics and zero qualms about racing to find the bottom of the Internet.
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-12-05 12:40:23+00:00
Maybe they mean more content will be produced, which I believe. But I'd also argue that we really don't need more content on Netflix, we need higher quality. Netflix is drowning in a sea of mediocrity to the point where I have almost given up on investing in a new show because almost all of them reek of lazy writing and good-enough-but-not-outstanding direction. There are exceptions, but they are damn hard to find.
by brnt | 2025-12-05 12:40:45+00:00
> AV1 is not new anymore

Uh what. (Embedded) hardware lasts a long time (and it should!). TV's around the globe are not all built after 2018. H264 is still the gold standard if you want to be sure a random device has hardware acceleration.

I make use of this by taking a USB hard drive with me on trips. Random TV's rarely have issue with my H264 catalogue. It'll be a while before I look at AV1 for this. Sure, I wish I could benefit faster, but I don't want people to throw out perfectly good hardware either!
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 12:40:59+00:00
History does not begin in 2001. There were a lot of invasions which devastated the region, and they went both ways. The Hindu Kush mountains are often described as "Hindu killer" in India, because of how many Indian slaves lost their lives when being forcibly transported over them.

Maybe the whole region would have been better off if it stayed Buddhist.

"Well, ask people in Kabul how they feel about Ostrava compared to where they live."

If "being visibly more developed than Kabul" is the same as "Capitol of global capitalism", then global capitalism did a good job lifting people out of poverty. Because at least a few billion people live in a way that, from Kabul, will look attractive. Even most of India is now developed well beyond Kabul standards.
by jmclnx | 2025-12-05 12:41:48+00:00
>how many people are really going to read it directly

For me probably very few if any :) It does not help I moved to my site Gemini (the real gemini, not google's thing) a year or 2 ago. Not that I blog much anyway.

But I hope some future digital archeologist may find our blogs and get a view into what non-corporate controlled people thought :)

Note, I find Gemini and Gopher far easier to maintain then anything on the WEB. FWIW, I mirror my items on gopher.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 12:43:41+00:00
The economic difference between rural former GDR and, say, Denmark, is pretty huge, and AfD mostly dominates in the former GDR regions, where local industries collapsed almost overnight and all talents got picked off by West German employers.

I traveled around most of Europe with a backpack. Former GDR is a dying country, and no amount of subsidies into fixing roads will help it. You cross the border to Poland, nominally you entered a poorer country, but everything is so much more lively there. Poles are so much more optimistic about their future than Germans in general, and East Germans extra.

This psychological difference cannot be appreciated if you only look at GDP per capita tables.
by tim333 | 2025-12-05 12:45:08+00:00
I think there's probably a middle way without going as far as "biometric data in exchange for tits"

I'm in the UK and so far the only thing I've noticed age wise is Reddit asked me for a webcam selfie, which could easily have been faked by a kid with an accomplice but if the aim of this is to stop actual vulnerable kids that kind of thing is maybe enough. If they are with it enough to use VPNs and stuff they are probably old enough to see porn etc.

Like in the old days people used to avoid the kids looking at porn by putting the porno mags on a high shelf so they couldn't reach them. I don't think you need passport control level ID for this kind of thing.
by pluc | 2025-12-05 12:45:46+00:00
Aaah the race to the bottom accelerates.

I haven't been a Netflix user for years, the quality of their stuff went past a level I was no longer comfortable supporting. It became a platform that is designed to keep you watching (literally anything) as opposed to a platform to find interesting/relevant entertainment. So much low quality, low effort content. Wonder which of AI wrong-but-instant answers or Netflix' empty entertainment will contribute more to genpop enshitification.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-05 12:47:02+00:00
In the book "Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing", shows a bit more nuanced point of view.

She might have been against, but apparently many on the team were pretty much in favour, as Xerox already had a sharing culture with Standford people that would drop by, even without permission, which lead to drastic changes in Xerox PARC security.
by leeoniya | 2025-12-05 12:47:21+00:00
> When you're just unwinding in front of a 65-inch screen, you might not notice the quality loss from compression.

this has little to do with the resolution, though. maybe 4k just gets the benefit of being compressed with better codecs.

for me at least, watching shows/movies at typical viewing distance, a well-encoded 4k->1080p mkv is only very slightly less sharp and is vastly smaller to store on the media server.
by bflesch | 2025-12-05 12:48:11+00:00
Of course they are, but these botnets are actively combated by the ISPs.

The main bad traffic that I receive comes from server IP ranges all over the world and several rogue countries who think it makes sense to wage hybrid war against us. But residential IP ranges are not the majority of bad traffic.

I would even say that residential IP ranges are most of the paying customers for companies, and if you just block everything else you most likely wouldn't need to use cloudflare.

Unfortunately firewall technology is not there yet. It's quite hard to block entire countries, even harder to block any non-residential ASN. And then you can still add some open source "i am human" captcha solution before you need to use cloudflare.
by Sbugo | 2025-12-05 12:48:21+00:00
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by dcminter | 2025-12-05 12:48:22+00:00
> So biology becomes incredibly fine tuned for one goal: survival

Again, this is a category error. It works well as a metaphor, but evolution has no goal. Evolution is a description of a simple fact of the universe: things that are good at making copies of themselves become more prevalent. Hence things that become better at making copies of themselves prevail more than ones that don't.
by myrmidon | 2025-12-05 12:48:34+00:00
I don't agree with this. I think the article does a good job at pointing out the problematic aspects of this particular lobbying campaign, and even how/why to stop it.

A lot of people view lobbyism as basically exchangeable with nepotism and bribery (strictly negative), but this is not the case.

The "happy path" with lobbyism is that local industry gives input on new laws/regulation to prevent unintended negative side-effects. Politicians have typically a much more cursory understanding of how a new law is going to affect any particular industry than people in that industry (obviously).

If you lock down any mechanism like this, you are invariably going to end up with numerous laws that are highly detrimental to local industry in a way that achieves very little (compared to laws designed with input from lobbies).

The article points out exactly how this fossil lobbying case deviated from this ideal (foreign influence instead of domestic, obfuscation and lack of transparency on originators/funding, use of methods to directly affect/manipulate the outputs of lawmaking instead of providing inputs).
by usrusr | 2025-12-05 12:49:00+00:00
Is that supposed to be long-lived for a TV?

I'm running an LG initially released in 2013 and the only thing I'm not happy with is that about a year ago Netflix ended their app for that hardware generation (likely for phasing out whatever codec it used). Now I'm running that unit behind an Amazon fire stick and the user experience is so much worse.

(that LG was a "smart" TV from before they started enshittifying, such a delight - had to use and set up a recent LG once on a family visit and it was even worse than the fire stick, omg, so much worse!)
by lynx97 | 2025-12-05 12:49:08+00:00
I cancelled my NetFlix subscription already, what, 7 years ago, for that reason... However, it is not just NetFlix. Most newish movies don't do anything for me. I prefer a movie from the 90s (or even earlier) over almost anything produced in the last 5 to 10 years. It is likely a generational thing, and a case of old man yelling at clouds. If studios think effects are more important then the actual story, well then, so be it.
by veunes | 2025-12-05 12:50:03+00:00
I'm not surprised. Roleplay means endless sessions with huge context (character history, world, previous dialogues). On commercial APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic), that long-context costs a fortune. On OpenRouter, many OSS models, especially via providers like DeepInfra or Fireworks, cost pennies or are even free, like some Free-tier models. The RP community is very price-sensitive, so they massively migrate to cheap OSS models via aggregators. It skews the stats but highlights a real niche for cheap inference
by close04 | 2025-12-05 12:50:04+00:00
> BMW refuses to provide training access for ISTA usage

Refusing access to training isn't a BoM issue by any means. Neither is a repair process that's so error prone that it can do even more damage to the car. We are surrounded by evidence that manufacturers in every field are taking decisions that are hostile towards their customers in the chase for profits. With the rise of EVs with far fewer moving parts needing constant maintenance, the manufacturers had to shift to different revenue streams, like killing repairability and locking everything behind manufacturer approval.

This is a professional shop voicing the complaints, not a random guy trying to do a fix on the side of the road.

Imagine someone told you they work for Apple and the reason everything is soldered, glued, stacked in a way it will never survive disassembly, and every bit of software and hardware in the device needs the manufacturer's blessing to be replaced or just keep running is because it was cheaper and safer this way.

> it becomes a very tricky problem to solve.

It was a solved problem for everything mechanical where locking it down or preventing people from learning wasn't really an option. How did it become tricky again just now when we deal with far more flexible software and possibility to lockdown?
by pornel | 2025-12-05 12:50:38+00:00
You do the same thing, if that's really the architecture you need.

Channels communicating between persistent workers are fine when you need decoupled asynchronous operation like that. However, channels and detached coroutines are less appropriate in a bunch of other situations, like fork-join, data parallelism, cancellation of task trees, etc. You can still do it, but you're responsible for adding that structure, and ensuring you don't forget to wait for something, don't forget to cancel something.
by phartenfeller | 2025-12-05 12:50:48+00:00
I don't like this. Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? Are cinemas now second behind streaming?

Edit: I agree Netflix has good Originals. But most are from the early days when they favored quality over quantity. It is sad to see that they reversed that. They have much funding power and should give it to great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time instead of mediocrity.
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by Vespasian | 2025-12-05 12:51:35+00:00
Not here (Germany).

HBO isn't available at all on it's own. It's exclusively sublicensed (until the end of this year) to Sky which has a terrible terrible user experience and of course is another subscription.

Two days ago there was an announcement that HBO Max is to start in Germany in January. Let's see how that develops after the acquisition.
by inglor_cz | 2025-12-05 12:51:42+00:00
Taking the knee because everyone around you is taking it as well. Pure social pressure. Remember the soccer matches in places like the UK, where some continental teams or players were booed for not doing so?

Political theatre by people who wouldn't be able to tell you who was the Prime Minister, how much does milk cost etc.

Even well-meaning US liberals overestimate the count of black people shot by the police by three orders of magnitude. That is some serious divergence from reality, and it was hyped by social networks.
by throwaway_x235 | 2025-12-05 12:51:44+00:00
I have the same experience as you. I have been working with many non-native English speakers from different countries, and Americans (and to some degree Brits) are usually the ones who can't follow what is said. This improves over time as they get used to different accents, but it seems it is easier for non-native speakers to understand foreign accents than native speakers in general.

I'm not saying I always understand 100% of what is said. When someone with an accent from a specific part of a country speaks super fast and is on a poor line with lots of street traffic in the background, it can be hard to follow. But usually I catch enough of it to be able to communicate.
by bflesch | 2025-12-05 12:51:49+00:00
Yes. Especially they do the full checklist:

- Friday

- Christmas time

- Affecting both shopify.com and claude.ai, so no phased deployment

- Takes 30 minutes to remediate

If they would've just deployed to a single of their high-value customers at once, they could've spared shopify.com an hour of downtime and maybe millions in abandoned shopping carts.
by komali2 | 2025-12-05 12:52:06+00:00
"Priced in" I guess. I mean look at Warner Bros stock, steadily climbing the last couple months until it hit basically exactly the price shareholders will get in exchange for their shares as part of this deal.

Whenever one of my friends says they're thinking about getting into daytrading, all I can think is good luck beating the funds... they either can predict the future or just write it themselves.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-12-05 12:52:08+00:00
97% of AI enthusiasts will be astonished by complete garbage, and just blindly copy-paste it into forums, assuming that others will share their astonishment (and somehow consider them intelligent / interesting for it, despite expending almost zero effort themselves?).

Let's take a look at just the first few instructions here:

ASCII HEX ASM j% 6A 25 PUSH 25h ; 80186+ only, won't work on Atari Portfolio! 1! 31 21 XOR [BX+DI],SP ; complete nonsense P 50 PUSH AX ; AX sort-of-undefined at this point, depends on DOS version and command line arguments Z 5A POP DX ; copy AX into DX Y 59 POP CX ; CX = 25h? fX 66 58 POP EAX ; 80386+ only! also nothing on stack anymore! 0f1 30 66 31 XOR [BP+31h],AH ; complete nonsense ...

This looks like randomly jumbled together from fragments of ASCII-only machine code intended for much newer x86 processors -- just look at how often `f` appears in those strings, which is the operand-size prefix, and meaningless on 16-bit chips. The memory addressing might make more sense in 32-bit mode too, where a different encoding is used (modr/m and SIB byte).

And this is how LLMs work. They can associate the tokens for e.g. `PZ` with the instructions `PUSH AX / POP DX`, and a certain kind of program in which those would be likely to appear, drawn somewhere from their massive training set.

Humans can easily learn to recognize these 'words' of ASCII text in machine code too, just by spending time looking at it. Another good one is the pair of `<ar` and `<zw` (usually next to each other, with an unprintable character between), present in most upcase()-like code from that era. So if you had asked Grok to accept both upper and lower case of hex input, I would bet that it would have inserted those sequences somewhere too.

But what LLMs CAN NOT do is plan ahead on how to use these program fragments to accomplish a specific task, or keep simple constraints in mind like "this must run on the 80C88 processor in the Atari Portfolio". They even have trouble with keeping track of registers, stack, or which mode the CPU is in.

(yes, late, but I can't let this stand here uncommented. https://xkcd.com/386 )
by ducdetronquito | 2025-12-05 12:52:24+00:00
Good job, template partials looks like a nice improvement !

That being said, the current state of type annotations is a pain: django-stubs works on mypy but with a plugin (and mypy is slow as hell), django-types is a fork a django-stubs that works on pyright but is usually out of sync and pylance ships its owned stubs forked from django-types.

My biggest wish for next Django release would be that they finally ship type annotations themselves where it is possible. I don't need the crazy inheritance parts or the crazy stringly typed parts to be have proper type annotations, but just some simple stuff like HttpRequest, HttpResponse, View, Model, etc would help a LOT !
by hylaride | 2025-12-05 12:52:28+00:00
The USSR was never economically or scientifically on par with the US. They managed to be relatively competitive in some endeavours by concentrated massive percentages of their national people and resources on certain endeavours (industrialization, space, the military), often with brutal violence. The US was militarily competitive, often with more advanced equipment, at a fraction the economic resources - and did it at the same time as having one of the highest living standards in the world (and often had the positive results of military tech bleeding into the civilian sector, like computers).

Magnitogorsk, a massive soviet city built around a steel mill, was essentially built with American expertise (this whole documentary is extremely fascinating on how central planning got to sophisticated and how the USSR ground to a halt): https://youtu.be/h3gwyHNo7MI?t=1023

This is not to say that any planning is bad, but having a central state trying to control everything from how many belt buckles to make down to how far cab drivers should drive each year, and you're going to become a bureaucratic nightmare. Central planning everything becomes a logarithmic planning nightmare, especially when trying to innovate at the same time. You can't plan around output of innovation because the planners are often far removed from everything. A planner would probably try and "plan" on how to breed a faster horse instead of a car, for example.

I'm reminded of an interview I once saw with Gorbachev. He was talking about how he was just promoted into the central committee, essentially the highest ring of the Soviet state. He had just made it to the top and one of his first meetings was having dealing with the issue of persistent shortages of women's panty hose. He was flabbergasted that he was at the top rung of a country that can blast people into space, but can't deal with basic consumer goods availability.

Also, many countries have industrialized just as fast without central planning, particularly several asian ones. True, then did centrally set goals and use various carrot and stick initiatives, but otherwise let the market dictate most of the rest.
by ccppurcell | 2025-12-05 12:53:00+00:00
It's obviously of more interest as a piece of outreach than as a piece of mathematics. Nevertheless I've always wondered about the e^ipi + 1 = 0 formulation. It seems ugly and ad hoc, and the connection between the "5 constants" is not all that meaningful.

That e^ipi = -1 is related to the much more profound observation that the complex numbers represent a sort of rotation into a previously unknown dimension of numbers.
by xtiansimon | 2025-12-05 12:53:13+00:00
“There's an immediacy to a spreadsheet…”

The immediacy is you are looking at the data. What you’re going to do with it may not yet be known Is it the right data? What are the values? What are the features?

I write scripts at work and tell colleagues if they want my help they should first work it out in Excel and write an outline of the details. If they can’t do that, then the problem may not be a candidate for _script automation_.

Our pipeline is not fully automated, but that’s how I describe it. The rest is Excel Carpentry.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 12:53:38+00:00
> every declarative language becomes a programming language.

Overly pessimistic, lots of non-programming languages remain non-programming languages. Just because one of the most widely used declarative languages start adding conditionals doesn't mean the whole world is turning upside down...

> The distinction between code, config and data is being erased.

As as lisp programmer, I love it. Get rid of treating things differently, make everything the same and make everything work with everything, code should just be data.