MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leosanchez | 2025-12-30 08:04:44+00:00
> Before you trash it, saying that the Manusmriti is not relevant - may i point out that people have gone to jail even recently for "disrespecting" the Manusmiriti.

I haven't met anyone who actually read about Manusmriti. I don't think most Hindus know about what is in it.

Few people few going to jail in one state doesn't make Manusmriti valid. Most states in India have their own language and their own distinct culture.
by saghm | 2025-12-30 08:05:29+00:00
> Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alter the original look of the content.

I know I'm pretty unsophisticated when it comes to stuff like art, but I've never been able to appreciate takes like this. If I'm watching something on my own time from the comfort of my home, I don't really care about what the filmmaker thinks if it's different than what I want to see. Maybe he's just trying to speak to the people who do care about seeing his exact vision, but his phrasing is so exaggerated in how negatively he seems to see these settings makes it seem like he genuinely thinks what he's saying applies universally. Honestly, I'd have a pretty similar opinion even for art outside of my home. If someone told me I was looking at the Mona Lisa wrong because it's "not what the artist intended" I'd probably laugh at them. It doesn't really seem like you're doing a good job as an artist if you have to give people instructions on how to look at it.
by szszrk | 2025-12-30 08:06:50+00:00
> Maybe you're using the internal speakers?

Which is just another drama that should not be on consumers shoulders.

Every time I visit friends with newer TV than mine I am floored by how bad their speakers are. Even the same brand and price-range. Plus the "AI sound" settings (often on by default) are really bad.

I'd love to swap my old tv as it shows it's age, but spending a lot of money on a new one that can't play a show correctly is ridiculous.
by bambax | 2025-12-30 08:07:05+00:00
You can try creating a profile as a woman. I did, five years ago, on a site that advertised itself as being dedicated to "affairs" between married people.

All I said was I was 20, was red haired, and open minded. Nothing more, and no photo.

Indeed, within a couple of minutes there were guys asking me if I liked to be whipped while handcuffed to a radiator, and offered to send me dick picks if I sent naked photos first. One of them added later "maybe I'm too direct for you, is that why you're silent?"

I didn't respond to any message, but the offers kept coming. It's insane.
by zmmmmm | 2025-12-30 08:07:31+00:00
Very little there about the code itself being good. A lot about putting good guardrails around it and making it fast and safe to develop. Which is good for sure. But I feel it's misconstruing it to say the actual code is "good". The whole reason the guard rails provide value is the code is, by default, "not good" and how good the result is presumably sitting in a spectrum between "the worst possible that satisfies the guardrails" and "actually good".
by sunshowers | 2025-12-30 08:08:23+00:00
To be honest I've used rebase-heavy workflows for 15 years and never used rerere, so I can't comment on that (been a happy Jujutsu user for a few years — I've always wondered what the constituency for rerere is, and I'm curious if you could tell me!) I definitely agree in general that whenever you have a cache, you have to think about cache invalidation.
by hansmayer | 2025-12-30 08:08:26+00:00
> littered with ppl who only use AI

"Littered" is a great verb to use here. Also I did not ask for a deviated proxy non-measure, like how many people who are choking themselves to death in a meaningless bullshit job are now surviving by having LLMs generate their spreadsheets and presentations. I asked for solid proof of succesful, commercial products built up by dreaming them up through LLMs.
by reconnecting | 2025-12-30 08:08:39+00:00
There is common ground, as per my initial message. Only one AI company spends billions of dollars yearly on marketing their software to make it work. I work on open-source software development on a bootstrapped basis.

My input is: water, nutrition, a bit of electricity, and beliefs and the output is a fairly complex logical system like software. AI's input is billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of people's lives spent in screen time daily, gigawatts of electricity, and still produces very questionable results.

To answer your question in other words: if you spent the same amount of resources on human intelligence, it might bring much more impressive results in one year. However, taking into account the resources already paid into these AI technologies, humanity is unlikely to have a chance to buy out of this new 'dependency'.
by frazbin | 2025-12-30 08:09:12+00:00
If anyone else is as puzzled as me I think i've cracked it: rich hickey and rob pike are language owners. That's a real specific job, and it's one that requires unbridled arrogance. Pretty sure that's what we're seeing here. Why else does their anger seem so poorly thought out.. so surprised? So it's one of those tragic flaw things. So let me piss them off by saying: thanks! thanks but your immense focus has forced you to ignore until now this huge thing bearing down on us.. but we who use your stuff and respect your work would benefit more if you happened to find time for a more thoughtful take on this massive thing happening right in our backyard, now that you've deigned to notice it at all. What would be cool would be if you were like "yes this is all terribly powerful I will apply my massive intellect towards helping it not cause our extinction, sorry about yelling at clouds, that was distracting"
by bb88 | 2025-12-30 08:09:13+00:00
> FT-8 doesn't seem usefully relevant here. The fact that the bandwidth is so low that it can be sampled with a sound card isn't at all helpful when Meshtastic doesn't require a PC.

This is what I meant about adding noise to the argument. This isn't a useful argument. FT8 could be decoded with a microcontroller. But you wouldn't know that. And it only shows your ignorance of the subject.

Meshtastic maximalists are the true believers, throwing away the decades of experience and knowledge because they drank the kool-aid of the leaders that think they are smarter than the folks who have been doing this for the last 40 years.
by _flux | 2025-12-30 08:10:31+00:00
> Most of the issues (like "judder") that people have with 24fps are due to viewing it on 60 fps screens

That can be a factor, but I think this effect can be so jarring that many would realize that there's a technical problem behind it.

For me 24 fps is usually just fine, but then if I find myself tracking something with my eyes that wasn't intended to be tracked, then it can look jumpy/snappy. Like watching fast flowing end credits but instead of following the text, keeping the eyes fixed at some point.

> Films are more like dreams than like real life. That frame rate is essential to them, and its choice, driven by technical constraints of the time when films added sound, was one of happiest accidents in the history of Arts.

I wonder though, had the industry started with 60 fps, would people now applaud the 24/30 fps as a nice dream-like effect everyone should incorporate into movies and series alike?
by pm90 | 2025-12-30 08:11:20+00:00
This is incredibly sad. From the complaint (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405847):

"""
When she arrived at the hospital and learned that Annie had died, Ms. Connolly
collapsed and screamed non-stop for hours. Hospital staff placed Ms. Connolly in a separate room
for observation, and the doctor who declared Annie dead had to speak to other family members
about what had occurred because Ms. Connolly could not bear to speak to him or to see Annie’s
body.
88. Mr. Surman was alone in the back of a taxi to the airport when he received the call
that Annie had died. He could hear his wife’s screams in the background while he was helpless to
comfort her. He sobbed through his redeye flight to join Ms. Connolly.

"""

Reading the complaint, I don't see any way in which the company is not responsible for this. The about turn in requiring her to come back in couple of weeks or else be terminated is just cruel. Now, I know what companies can be like, and especially if they're doing layoffs, things can get quite bonkers. But ultimately, the responsibility rests with the company: like it or not, an employer in America is responsible for their healthcare, which means you need to be careful when dealing with what happens when you suddenly end it.
by georgeecollins | 2025-12-30 08:11:22+00:00
>> The people that pirate for the wrong reasons will do it anyway and you don't gain much from restricting copies.

That is also an opinion. Also-- as an aside-- I am curious what you think the "right" reason is for piracy. DRM free games is not a new idea. They have always existed and people have tried different models with them like including advertising. Do you remember the Ford driving simulator? The skittles game. there have been other models and there is a huge universe of DRM free games for decades.

If you don't gain much from restricting copies, please explain to me why it is so common in the best games?
by snozolli | 2025-12-30 08:11:49+00:00
If someone told me I was looking at the Mona Lisa wrong because it's "not what the artist intended" I'd probably laugh at them.

That's arguably a thing, due to centuries of aged and yellowed varnish.

You can watch whatever you want however you want, but it's entirely reasonable for the creator of art to give tips on how to view it the way it was intended. If you'd prefer that it look like a hybrid-cartoon Teletubby episode, then I say go for it.
by knorker | 2025-12-30 08:13:14+00:00
To me it's not about art. It's about this setting making the production quality of a billion dollar movie look like a cardboard SNL set.

When walking past a high end TV I've honestly confused a billion dollar movie for a teen weekend project, due to this. It's only when I see "hang on, how's Famous Actor in this?" that I see that oh this is a Marvel movie?

To me it's as if people who don't see it are saying "oh, I didn't even realise I'd set the TV to black and white".

This is not high art. It's... well... the soap opera effect.
by weatherlite | 2025-12-30 08:14:11+00:00
> Are you sure it’s _people_ driving this increase?

Most likely - yes. If Google has been dead for years people wouldn't pour hundreds of billions of dollars into ads there. The Search revenue keeps increasing, even since ChatGPT showed up. It might stagnate soon or even decrease a bit - but "death" ? The numbers don't back this up. One blog saying he stops paying for Google ads conflicts with the reality of around 200 billion yearly revenue from Search.
by jasimvk | 2025-12-30 08:14:13+00:00
Hi,

Been working on Study Buddy for the past two weeks and finally ready to share it.

The problem: I was tired of spending hours manually creating study materials from lecture notes and textbooks.

The solution: Upload any PDF, URL → get instant study materials.

What it does:
Summary & Notes - Generates notes and summary in organized manner

Flashcards - Good for memorization

Quiz - MCQs with explanations, can regenerate.

Mock Exam - exam style practice test with timer

AI Podcast - Two AI hosts discuss your content (you can interrupt and ask questions!)

Mind Map - 4 level visual concept diagram

AI Tutor — you can learn with your uploaded material

Stats - Performance tracker

Tech stack used - Next, OpenAI GPT-4o-mini, Supabase, Vercel, dodo payments
by gorgoiler | 2025-12-30 08:14:35+00:00
We already know that hackers from NSA / FSB / PLA are working day and night on nation-state level attacks. Diverting toilet tissue deliveries and hacking traffic signals to raise my blood pressure to a tipping point where, presumably, I am supposed to demand local regime change?

Now I have to worry about passing drones using blinkenlights to Stuxnet my wool wash and shrink my merino socks? Brilliant. Bloody brilliant.

It’s like the most banal version of Battlestar Galactica ever but instead of an alien intelligence leveraging computer integration to attack mankind from within, it’s a guy in a t-shirt in a sweaty bunker filling my dishwasher to the brim with cold water then laughing at me via my Ring camera as he watches me flood my kitchen.

[Very cool talk, thanks for sharing :) ]
by instagraham | 2025-12-30 08:14:39+00:00
I know this might seem reductive but when you say "look where everyone is looking", the answer hasn't really changed since the 2010s — it's our phones.

(and to some extent, monitors if you account for the amount of time 9-5 people spend on their work laptops or screens. desktop is not dead but that's another matter)

The hot apps are for now, chatbots and vertical shortform platforms. We know advertisers get much better bang for their buck marketing where the influencers are.

Google is "dead" because search advertising is much worse at figuring you out and showing you stuff when you're not necessarily looking for it. But Google can easily advertise where the eyeballs are - your phones.

We must remember that enshittification is an ongoing process and Google has the power to reach billions of people, one shitty update at a time.

From their POV, it definitely feels like a miss that they don't own a successful and dedicated social media platform. Maybe they will make another foray into it.
by neilv | 2025-12-30 08:14:45+00:00
That imprecise chunking (with MD5 sums, and distributed across an FS tree, and using hash IDs, then separately storing the assembly information) seems like it would be a headache to restore, or to use with other mail programs.

An alternative idea is to properly parse it and store in smaller mbox files, such as one file month, with the idea that any month in the past usually will not change. (And if it changes because they are storing frequently changing attributes in a faux header, like an atime, then maybe strip that header.) Then your incremental `restic` backups work fine, and you can also use it easily with a variety of mail programs (MUAs, impromptu IMAP servers for migration, quick text editor, etc.).
by jclulow | 2025-12-30 08:15:23+00:00
This is what I do! The API itself is not particularly amazing (the way it handles batch requests as a MIME multipart formatted POST body where each part is itself a HTTP request is particularly obscene).

The underlying data model is kind of OK though: messages are immutable, they get a long lived unique ID that survives changes to labels, etc. There is a history of changes you can grab incrementally. You can download the full message body that you can then parse as mail, and I save each one into a separate file and then index them in SQLite.
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by metalman | 2025-12-30 08:16:31+00:00
the nuisance of another charger, little fiddly bits that are easy to loose, discomfort for some and expense,can add up the stress to the fuck it level
personaly I like a standard 1/8 jack, as it is backwards compatible with a huge amount of equipment
I removed the infotainment system from my truck, and replaced it with a shelf in the dash that has a 1/8 going to a power amp with a "high z" input,
hit play, bumpin tunes, everything is local
by anal_reactor | 2025-12-30 08:17:09+00:00
I remember when I was a kid I found a game where the goal was to sexually harass girls. It was in the times where sex crime in games was "a strange Japanese thing" rather than "a deadly sin". I distinctly remember a level where I was supposed to harass a girl in the subway but the only action I knew how to perform was clicking on the titty so I massaged the fuck out of that titty. It was funny.

I'm not even attracted to women. It was just enticing to play "the forbidden game".
by opan | 2025-12-30 08:17:11+00:00
Real high framerate is one thing, but the TV setting is faking it with interpolation. There's not really a good reason to do this, it's trickery to deceive you. Recording a video at 60fps is fine, but that's just not what TV and movies do in reality. No one is telling you to watch something at half the intended framerate, just the actual framerate.
by troupo | 2025-12-30 08:17:16+00:00
> You can generally tell which ones are actually doing something if they are using skills, with programs in them.

> Otherwise, you're just feeding in different prompts and steps

"skills" are literally just .md files with different prompts and steps.

> That's actually adding something claude code doesn't have, instead of just saying "You are an expert in blah"

It's not adding anything but a prompt saying "when asked to do X invoke script Y or do steps Z"
by Porygon | 2025-12-30 08:17:54+00:00
Memoization to limit left-recursive recursion is nicely described in Guido van Rossums' article here: https://medium.com/@gvanrossum_83706/left-recursive-peg-gram...

I recently tried that approach while simultaneously building an abstract syntax tree, but I dropped it in favor of a right-recursive grammar for now, since restoring the AST when backtracking got a bit complex.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-12-30 08:18:26+00:00
The tone might be a miss, but I enjoy having access to information on the intended experience, for my own curiosity, to better understand the creative process and intentions of the artist, and to habe the option to tweak my approach if I feel like I'm missing something other people aren't.

I hear you, artists (and fans) are frequently overly dogmatic on how their work should be consumed but, well, that strikes me as part-and-parcel of the instinct that drives them to sink hundreds or thousands of hours into developing a niche skill that lets them express an idea by creating something beautiful for the rest of us to enjoy. If they didn't care so much about getting it right, the work would probably be less polished and less compelling, so I'm happy to let them be a bit irritating since they dedicated their life to making something nice for me and the rest of us, even if it was for themselves.

Up to you whether or not this applies to this or any other particular creator, but it feels appropriate to me for artists to be annoying about how their work should be enjoyed in the same way it's appropriate for programmers to be annoying about how software should be developed and used: everyone's necessarily more passionate and opinionated about their domain and their work, that's why they're better at it than me even if individual opinions aren't universally strictly right!
by darubedarob | 2025-12-30 08:18:39+00:00
The narrowing of free speech and the declaration as hate speech, insanity or "backwardness" was a routine process in the USSR. You have private NGOs tracking and harassing speech that is still within the law in europe, while state actors support hate speech pushed by foreign actors. Its bad.

Take the use of taxes in fraud to buy votes en mass in michigan by the almost vice president. Or keir starmer just ignoring crimes comitted by his voting clientele. Its soviet block level bad out there.
by XorNot | 2025-12-30 08:18:58+00:00
The problem is 100km back just isn't very far, when missiles like the Ukranian Neptune have a range currently of 200km, and extended range variants in the works that push that to 1,000km.

That's a non-NATO, "country at war" system. Within NATO inventory you have the Tomahawk that dates to the 80s and has a range of 1,350km conservatively.

So if you needed to fulfill a long-duration shore bombardment mission against a non-peer opponent...sure, there's advantages to being able to loiter and reload.

But it seems abundantly clear that versus any peer or near-peer opponent, the closer to their coastline you get then the further in-land they can launch anti-ship missiles from - which they are heavily incentivized to do, and where the sky is also just getting more and more dangerous - i.e. a ship within 100km of a shoreline is starting to be in the range of medium weight drones, or autonomous surface vessels (which might deploy drones - as the Ukranians have been doing).

In your example, the issue isn't that the ship doing the shooting is in range: it's that the resupply ship is also in range and a better target.
by georgeecollins | 2025-12-30 08:20:33+00:00
That's actually honestly a really good point. Things are changing. In real dollar terms games are getting cheaper and the size of the market has grown so I don't know if maybe a DRM free store will soon support premium games.

I can't think of a game available on GoG that sells on Steam for > $20. I am sure one exists, but in general these are older, cheaper games.

You could also point to games that the Epic store gives away that are sold on Steam. That's an even better example. You are right that people don't just pay for games because they can't get them for free, they are also willing to pay to get them in a convenient format even when another format is free.

My question is, does that really support the model for most premium games? Nobody likes DRM, the game industry didn't used to have it.