MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by patresh | 2025-12-18 16:11:13+00:00
Indeed, there are different societal structures that would attract more one or the other type of person.

I wonder if it would be possible to simulate this to understand what behaviors will emerge if you set certain types of rules. It is certainly difficult to create coherent personalities with LLMs that act in realistic ways but I wonder if one could get an approximation.

Perhaps what I have in mind is also not best described as "pleasant", but also something that is net-positive for society, where as a whole society is better off having that than not. This is arguably the case for HN but not necessarily for some of the bigger ones out there.
by dsego | 2025-12-18 16:11:17+00:00
I think on average a dev can be x percent more productive, but there is a best case and worst case scenario. Sometimes it's a shortcut to crank out a solution quickly, other times the LLM can spin you in circles and you lose the whole day in a loop where the LLM is fixing its own mistakes, and it would've been easier to just spend some time working it out yourself.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-12-18 16:11:31+00:00
Sure, on the other hand sometimes people take a with-us-or-against-us position, and trying to remain neutral means you have become political.

I don’t know which of the two happened here, maybe both, but if we’re mentioning one let’s also mention the other.

Edit: just read some tweets and I think I know which one it is XD you were underselling it.
by elcritch | 2025-12-18 16:11:34+00:00
Yet despite using systemd installing Tailscale on Manjaro and other Linux’s still can’t handle integrating with MagicDNS without some hackery.

So far tailscale magicdns just works on FreeBSD.

I second that systemd is great, for services. Anything beyond that? Just a gargantuan opaque buggy overreach.
by lithocarpus | 2025-12-18 16:11:44+00:00
More fundamentally, the trend of the world economy is toward turning everything anywhere in the world into either a resource to be exploited or a playground for the rich.

This is a big generalization but I think it's broadly true.

If you are in a "resource" area you'll get pollution and often instability and war.

If you are in a "playground" area you get massive cost increases and are eventually forced out.

As the trend is toward concentrating more and more wealth at the top, the slice of rich who can afford to enjoy the playgrounds becomes smaller and the number of refugees, homeless, and poor becomes larger and poorer.
by hibikir | 2025-12-18 16:11:49+00:00
They couldn't use the same paint, if just because for miniature painting we are almost always running acrylics, so it's all plastic binding the pigments. Even a modern oil paint is quite a bit more advanced than what they could do then.

They also had a significant disadvantage in pigment availability. Chances are that there's a whole lot of modern, synthetic pigments among the colors you use regularly. Pyrrole Red is from 1974, for example.

We know that painters were well aware of things like how many good, natural pigments get different outcomes when diluted (go see what happens as you thin ultramarine), so it's not as if they had no technoology. But something like mica vs aluminum vs just gold leaf is a budgetary issue, both today and back then. You will find that good metallics are more expensive and avoid mica. But for an important statue, I suspect they'd take fewer cost cutting shortcuts, just like we can tell in renaissance and medieval art that got to us in relatively good shape. This is the kind of thing some people spend their lives studying.
by dubme1 | 2025-12-18 16:11:56+00:00
I am looking at the content for moderation purposes and customer support. Not sure why saying that this affects me mentally should be a bad thing.

Also maybe you missunderstood what AliveAi.app is. It is strictly a on-platform AI generation. We do not allow editing of user uploaded content (i.e. deepfake) for obvious reasons.
by seer | 2025-12-18 16:11:59+00:00
I don’t think that is the only solution.

I like what Singapore is doing - having a government built “base level” of housing that is both abundant and readily available - it can anchor the price where deep excesses are harder to end up with.

It’s like a market where a very significant player keeps the price law, because of its own reasons.

In such a scenario the price will not go up as sharply, so there would be less incentive for people to buy real estate just as a financial vehicle.

And the government can also prioritise who it sells the units it builds to - e.g. not investors.

I honestly am surprised why western governments are not trying this.
by egypturnash | 2025-12-18 16:12:04+00:00
searches for images ofthe Atelier online damn I sure did not get that far in Blue Prince, I gave up when I had about half the keys to the underground room. I just figured getting all those and figuring out the right data to input into the rooms behind them would trigger The Real End.

Mostly I just remember being stuck on that @#$%^ art gallery rebus. And having done somthing at some ppint that made it much less likely to spawn, to boot.
by bicepjai | 2025-12-18 16:12:09+00:00
So this is the reality we're living in now, where bot farms have become normalized? I always associated bot farms with authoritarian regimes like Russia and China, but are we becoming the same thing? And VC funds are actually backing this? I hope I'm not the only one who finds this completely insane. I can't even listen to the a16z podcast anymore; my mind now permanently associates them with bot farms. These are the news that makes me think does people ever think about moral values and ethics.
by therobots927 | 2025-12-18 16:12:30+00:00
I don’t think any serious post WWII historians would agree with you. There was a concentrated effort by the UK and US to displace Mossadegh, who was democratically elected by the way. At the very least it disproves your unspoken assertion that the Iranians are primarily to blame for their problems when it’s been proven that the most powerful intelligence agencies on the planet were actively destabilizing their society so that oil revenue would continue flowing into western pockets.
by thrance | 2025-12-18 16:12:45+00:00
I'm telling you: I'm out of my depth here. I don't need opinion on gay conversion therapy though, it's been shown repeatedly to be completely ineffective (and extremely cruel too). What's your point?

Careful though, I'm not telling you that playing video games as a kid makes you autistic, I'm telling you that doing so can make an individual adopt behaviors previously thought to define/be exclusive to autism.
by MisterTea | 2025-12-18 16:13:07+00:00
I was in Spain this past summer and it certainly seems they are experiencing tourist burnout. I saw anti tourist messages on banners hung on buildings, graffiti, posters and stickers in Madrid and Barcelona. Some of it was a bit threatening but I had zero issues.

The issue of airbnb is a sticky one. On one hand, being able to temporarily live in an apartment greatly enhances the immersiveness when your travel - you get to feel like a local and experience life in another place. Hotels suck as they cut corners to the point where an article posted here complaining about the lack of bathroom doors in hotels. On the other hand, these rentals drive up real estate prices and drives out locals. And often these rentals are in run-down low-income turning affordable yet poor quality housing into high quality temporary rentals. This drives out low income residents deepening income inequality issues while subjecting them to the threat of homelessness.

As long as we tolerate a society that only values ROI while ignoring the value of investing in humanity we won't resolve any of these issues. In a better world we would think about others and realize that easy access to shelter is foundational to stabilizing people to enable them to succeed in life. It's not hard, we have an abundance of materials and labor yet we have built a culture where helping others is some form of weakness for both parties.
by miningape | 2025-12-18 16:13:13+00:00
> Are you able to predict with 100% accuracy when a loop will successfully unroll, or various interprocedural or intraprocedural analyses will succeed?

Yes, because:

> They are applied deterministically inside a compiler

Sorry, but an LLM randomly generating the next token isn't even comparable.

Deterministic complexity =/= randomness.
by unbalancedevh | 2025-12-18 16:13:22+00:00
> We should impose, by law, the following rules on all companies that offer accounts to their customers.

When the services that a company provides gets to this level, it starts becoming like a public utility. If it's not possible to participate in society without using such a service, then the services should be governed like utilities are.

I wouldn't be opposed to having actual government-provided services for things like e-mail, text message, and discussion forums at a very basic level. Then (in the US anyway) we could apply the government restrictions on privacy and freedom of speech, with laws governing the oversight and implementation. Of course there would be major details to work out to prevent misuse, corruption, etc.; but it could solve the problem of losing your essential on-line identity -- as long as the government has any interest in you at all for something like expecting you to be able to send/receive an e-mail in order to pay your taxes, then they wouldn't ever cancel your account. 3rd-party services would still be possible, but then they could do whatever their business model supports, and caveat emptor. How people can expect businesses services like Facebook to comply with their personal expectation of free speech is beyond me.
by adrian_b | 2025-12-18 16:13:40+00:00
I believe that you have not read carefully either the article or my posting.

I have not said anything about the police.

I have quoted directly from the article exactly what the school management said.

It is the school management who has said that the guilty party in this incident is neither the school nor the surveillance equipment, but the student who "was holding his musical instrument like a rifle". (This does not even take into consideration that there may be legitimate reasons for holding a musical instrument like a rifle, e.g. for checking it for defects or dirt.)

It is also the school management who implied that they will reprimand any student for "pretending to have a weapon".

I do not know how you played as a child, but "pretending to have a weapon" is certainly an exceedingly common behavior, perhaps more so in countries where people would never think about using true weapons.
by weitendorf | 2025-12-18 16:13:42+00:00
I completely agree. I don’t think it’s bad for code to be complex if it’s essential complexity that has to go somewhere. To me it’s a red flag when someone cares more about making the code look simple than solving the problem.

I guess what I mean is that you can’t just assume that you can get clever to work if it doesn’t capture some inherent quality of the problem or relies on unrealistic assumptions. In other words, you often can’t just define the abstraction and requirements and iterate/vibes your way from there. Things like the CAP theorem of the discrete number cells in a small blood sample make certain abstractions literally impossible to deliver.
by pants2 | 2025-12-18 16:13:48+00:00
In the early 2010s I had a couple friends working at a biotech startup with a moonshot cancer cure. They had amazing results in animal testing, and had raised just enough funding to do a first human trial on a terminal patient.

That patient was hit and killed by a car two days after finishing their treatment.

Along with the CEO's stubborn refusal to give up any more equity in the company, they went under, and the world will never know if that treatment worked.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-18 16:13:55+00:00
Some of this sounds appealing to me, but I wonder how wise it is. I've been banned unfairly, and it would be fun to try to stick it to those who have... but then there's almost surely someone here on HN wanting to start some online game or something who would not be able to afford to comply with the law. He's just completely cockblocked by the barrier to entry.

If you try to make carveouts for him, they will still be absurdly restrictive and the carveouts will be abused by the likes of Reddit.
by naasking | 2025-12-18 16:14:00+00:00
> Assembly experts still write code that runs faster than code produced by compilers.

They sometimes can, but this is no longer a guaranteed outcome. Supercompilation optimizers can often put manual assembly to shame.

> Impact of having 1.7x more bugs is difficult to assess and is not solved that easily.

Time will tell. Arguably the number of bugs produced by AI 2 years ago was much higher than 1.7x. In 2 more years it might only be 1.2x bugs. In 4 years time it might be barely measurable. The trend over the next couple of years will judge whether this is a viable way forward.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-18 16:14:10+00:00
Dealing with fraudsters should be baked into the cost of doing business for these megacorps. A smaller business couldn't get away with this kind of "support". The largest companies should be held to the same standard.

The only way this is going to change is if shareholders hold executives accountable. Consumer protection regulation with real "teeth" that impacts the bottom line will bring angry shareholders to the table very quickly.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-12-18 16:14:27+00:00
edit:

from gpt5.2 with prompt:

<< 'adversarial review request. please look at the github link for signs of being written by llm ( extra points if you can point to the llm that generated it ) https://github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory'

>> I can’t prove it’s LLM-written from the outside, but the README (at least) has a lot of “LLM smell.” I’d put it at high likelihood of AI-assisted marketing/docs copy, with some sections bordering on “generated then lightly edited.”

but then it adds a list of style reason why it could be generated by llm

<< “Extra points”: which LLM wrote it?

Most likely: Claude 3.5 Sonnet–style output

<< if i were to point to comments in readme and code, what would you say upon re-review

>> Comments that narrate the obvious (especially line-by-line) >> Tutorial voice inside production code

**
by azemetre | 2025-12-18 16:14:34+00:00
Probably a nuanced point in what's the purpose for espousing the virtues of performance if you don't have the output to show it is worth it?

If you want advice about making games would you rather learn from the person that routinely ships games or a person that shipped a game once 10 years ago?

Is that a trade off worth chasing? "Potential perfection" with nothing to show for it?
by bluGill | 2025-12-18 16:14:43+00:00
> means destroying potentially historic building, changing the skyline and viewpoint

Get over it! Seriously, most buildings are not historic. By trying to make them all historic you ensure they are all lost and the few that really are historic can't stand out for the history they represent. Save what is really history, but not everything.

Similarly, the skyline will change. That is life. Accept it. You do not own the view, it is the combination of everyone, and not everyone agrees with you so why are you forcing your preferred view on others?
by pphysch | 2025-12-18 16:15:00+00:00
The West hasn't stopped interfering in Iran though. They did massive terrorist attacks there just a year ago. Israel would openly salivate at the prospect of destroying Iranian agriculture and water supply.

China is an interesting counterfactual. Circa 2010 when Xi came to power, the CPC also essentially destroyed the CIA's footprint in the country, something that was not widely reported in the West. And PRC has done very well since...
by 0x500x79 | 2025-12-18 16:15:11+00:00
I am currently going through this with someone in our organization.

Unfortunately, this person is vibe coding completely, and even the PR process is painful: * The coding agent reverts previously applied feedback * Coding agent not following standards throughout the code base * Coding agent re-inventing solutions that already exist * PR feedback is being responded to with agent output * 50k line PRs that required a 10-20 line change * Lack of testing (though there are some automated tests, but their validations are slim/lacking) * Bad error handling/flow handling
by jtr1 | 2025-12-18 16:15:16+00:00
The ending of the article left me feeling he had more of an axe to grind here. The mostly unspoken ideological background is that classical art is often appropriated by proponents of Western chauvinism to demonstrate their supposed innate cultural superiority. Poorly painted reconstructions undermine that image, but it does not mean this was done intentionally. I agree that a more neutral observer would have been interested in learning the thought process of those researchers.
by catapart | 2025-12-18 16:15:20+00:00
> A prefilled list is never an acceptable solution for a search box.

Yes it is. When the query is more expensive than the entire dataset included in some other query, a static list built from previously queried content is the more performant search, even if you want to classify it as a filter. I, as a user, am still searching through this list of unknown nodes even if you, the program, are just filtering what your nodes are for me. All searches are filters; hard lines for best practices only matter insofar as they engage with their practical application.
by htx80nerd | 2025-12-18 16:15:40+00:00
they shouldnt be paid at all. they're in prison for a reason. they have a debt to society. a great many of those people didnt do 'one bad thing' then got caught. it was just the last bad thing they were caught for. any many of them did 'the bad thing', then continued doing other bad things up until the point they were put in prison.
by bonzini | 2025-12-18 16:15:42+00:00
> (#2 and #3 are both in Spain at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_cities_... in "density per km2" for example, 50% of top 10 on that list is in Spain!)

That list does not make much sense, because it mostly consists of small municipalities that have been engulfed by growing metropolitan areas. Four of the five Spanish entries are like that, three in Valencia and one in Barcelona; and most other entries in the top 20 are suburbs of Paris, Athens or Naples.
by fao_ | 2025-12-18 16:15:43+00:00
The problem here is that contextually you are falling into the trap of "talking about committing a terrorist act" as being relevant to "having private communications", and in the process you are conflating the two. This means you are falling into the trap that the UK government intentionally creates to suppress privacy — within a reader's head, now the two are related. This also means you haven't had to develop any arguments other than "muh free speech!" with respect to why having private communication is important.

The second problem is that American conservatives have framed Nazi speech as a free speech issue, so to an onlooker who is not in the USA, when people talk about "free speech", it comes across as someone defending someone's right to say incredibly harmful, violent things about Jewish people, Transgender people, and so on. I think for most people outside of the USA (and, to be honest, most minority populations within the USA) you should consider "free speech" as being an incredibly tainted phrase for that purpose.

The flipside of all of this is that fascism is very, very possible even with freedom of speech (actually it seems to rely on it, given how virulent the spread of outright Nazi rhetoric has been in the USA so far). Freedom of speech is not the sole thing that holds up a democracy and it weakens your arguments for you to rely upon it like this.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-12-18 16:15:47+00:00
> Most people never think twice about the random mix of letters and numbers the DMV assigns them.

I started thinking about it when someone parked next to me in a nearly-identical model - same brand, year, etc, the only difference was some roof accessory - and a nearly identical license plate. (Think ABC D12 and ABC E12). I started trying to open their car door, and was confused until I noticed some things in their front seat that were clearly not ours.

Later that week, I was shopping around for car tires, and saw that some shop - PepBoys or something - let you punch in your license plate and let you know what kind of tires you need, and that their API response included the car make and model. I thought about poking around it, and seeing if there was a pattern to the way my state assigned license plates, but never got around to it.

(They live in town, too, and I've seen where they park. I should go introduce myself to our car twin.)
by hnburnsy | 2025-12-18 16:15:50+00:00
>“In large scale experiments, we found that over 90% of the time, visitors to a parked domain would be directed to illegal content, scams, scareware and anti-virus software subscriptions, or malware, as the ‘click’ was sold from the parking company to advertisers, who often resold that traffic to yet another party,” Infoblox researchers wrote in a paper published today.

Hey, same thing happens with my Google search results, what a coincidence!
Recommend a web article to speech tool
by a99c43f2d565504 | 2025-12-18 16:15:50+00:00
I'd like to give a URL to an article to some app and have it read the article out loud to me. I tried the Android apps of ChatGPT and Gemini already but neither of them could do it. ChatGPT provided me with a text input element in the speech mode but said that it can't read the article out loud: It could only summarize it. Gemini wasn't even aware of its own interface: It kept asking for the URL in a chat, which doesn't exist in the speech mode where we were communicating. It then started speculating about how websites typically work which has notning to do with our interaction.

Is there some app that could do what I ask for: I give a URL, and the app reads the article out loud, preferably in the background i.e. in such a way that I can turn off the screen of my Android phone while it keeps reading.

Note also that the app should be smart enough to realize what is the interesting content on the web page, i.e. not read out loud any irrelevant headers and sidebars and footers and menus etc.
by nycerrrrrrrrrr | 2025-12-18 16:16:07+00:00
Conflicted. Obviously open access is great, but it's never been that difficult to find most papers either on arxiv or the author's website. And I despise the idea of paying to publish, especially since unlike other fields the "processing" required for CS papers is minimal (e.g., we handle our own formatting). FWIW, USENIX conference papers are both open access and free to publish.

My understanding is that this is at least to some degree in response to the surge of AI generated/assisted papers.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-18 16:16:08+00:00
I don't use passkeys, so I haven't run into it. It seems like that screen would be gated behind entering an e-mail address or username that is already registered with a passkey on another device.

What I'm saying is, I thought I had the right mental model of how passkeys work, after researching them, and that mental model told me you wouldn't be able to log in on a different device without going through a whole procedure to set up a new passkey, which you wouldn't want to do for something temporary.

The mental complexity is just too much for me to trust that if I adopt them, they'll work when I need them. The fact that I got this thing wrong means there's probably other things I'm still getting wrong.

I understand passwords and password managers and even 2FA. I feel like I can plan how to use them right so it all works and I don't need to worry about not being able to access my accounts. I just don't have that confidence with passkeys.