MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bossyTeacher | 2025-12-07 11:37:39+00:00
Investors are not dumb. The current duopoly is entrenched and merely asking for money to create an alternative os won't give you investment. Microsoft and Nokia among others failed big time even though they had plenty of money and competing operating systems. Investors give you money if they think you will be successful and return a multiple of that investment within a reasonable timeframe.

You need to solve the 3 player problem before you even ask for money: getting device manufacturers in even though you have no operating system, no devs and no users, getting devs even though you have no operating system, no devs, no users and no devices, getting users even though you have no device, no operating, no devs and no apps.

You need an MVP that shows promise towards all the above if you seek money.

This is like taxi on demand app business or the takeaway delivery business but with more players and with a higher minimum funds requirement. Plus the fact that unlike taxi apps or takeaway apps, choosing an operating system is a zero sum game so you are competing in the most direct way against well known and well established brands like iOs and Android who are funded by the richest companies on earth. Unlike Uber vs Lyft, where a user can install both and use both, your battlefield only has one victor. And given that other companies with more funding that you will ever see in your lifetime still failed, you have a virtually impossible task of explaining (before they even consider giving you a single cent) how you are going to be able to capture market share with your own solution to the 3 player problem.

Nokia and Microsoft only understood this right at the end: to avoid losing in the mobile os market, you need an ecosystem. Miss any of the elements and it all crumbles. Read Elop's memorable Burning Ship note on the final days of Nokia.
by bloomingeek | 2025-12-07 11:38:04+00:00
When I was a child, my Father's Father was considered a black sheep of the family, thus most extended family held my Father at arms length. The exception was his first cousin, Imogene and her husband. They farmed land in northern Louisiana, and we visited them at least once a year while I was growing up. I loved going there and enjoyed their large family, which had two boys my age who taught me how to hunt, fish and ride horses.

I remember the early years when they didn't have running water or indoor plumbing, which my Mother hated, but I thought was fun. As the years went by and the price of the main crops that were grown increased, the "shack" was updated more to Mother's liking.

When I reached my tween years, I was asked if I wanted to earn a little money by working in the fields, I was thrilled. My first assignment was to work hoeing cotton, a semi-brutal job performed on endless rows in scorching heat. I was working with a black family who, I was told, worked on that particular piece of land for generations. They took care of me and, after a few days, I began to understand their accented speech. As a kid from a middle-class white family who lived in a city hundreds of miles away, it was my first time to experience a culture shock. It was a lot to process being so young, but I do have fond memories, especially of the Mother of the family. I didn't have any contact with the family except in the fields, so I can't pretend to know how they felt about their lives, I do know they worked very hard in the summer and found whatever work they could in the winter. This all took place in the seventies.
by jll29 | 2025-12-07 11:38:48+00:00
I met RMS at a lunch in his honor at an Edinburgh vegetarian restaurant with very high ranking scholars/academics present, after an invited talk of his. Everyone was talking, eating, drinking and having a good time, whereas he was sitting at the head of the table doing email on his ThinkPad (yes, in text mode).

So I walked up, I introduced myself and asked a question about the freedom of _data_ versus the freedom of _software_, and without looking up to me he said "I don't do smalltalk". So I got back to my seat and told my "story" to my immediate neighbors, who were keen to learn what he'd said.

(He is much more constructive by email.)
by Lio | 2025-12-07 11:41:22+00:00
I don’t know what you mean by “market realities”. If the market wanted convertible laptops it would be willing to pay more for them.

For me it’s because my workflow is keyboard driven and I fined touchscreens annoying.

On the laptops I’ve had I generally disable touchscreen because I have no use for it and it gets in the way.

I want a good screen, a decent keyboard and a good trackpad. That’s it.
by ACCount37 | 2025-12-07 11:41:58+00:00
It's a major reason. Back when TVs were made of tubes, you could expect any tech-savvy guy to be able to learn how to go in there and swap the tubes out.

Nowadays? A techpriest that can take apart Apple's iPhone stacked PCB assemblies, replace large BGA components in there, and then put them back together and have it work is a rare specimen. And "rare" means "expensive".

A hour of labor of someone who does neurosurgery on electronics isn't going to be cheap.

Not that Apple has any good reasons to make it even harder on the madmen who attempt and learn such repairs.
by goku12 | 2025-12-07 11:42:13+00:00
> until more traditional business-oriented management has begun to restrict the information provided to the public.

Curious to know why you think this cutthroat approach is 'traditional'. Is there another historical background to it? Every account that I've seen, including the origin story of free software (at MIT) and even the rest of your own explanation, seem to suggest that such institutionalized confiscation and hoarding of knowledge is a recent phenomenon - since about the 70s. Am I missing something?
by andsoitis | 2025-12-07 11:42:42+00:00
> the platform "deceives users" because the firm is not "meaningfully verifying" who is behind the account.

Are users confused? The checkmark clearly means “paid subscriber” rather than “verified identity,” and this is publicly disclosed.

Would the commission prefer that X does away with the mechanism altogether OR is their real goal to force the collection of users’ identity?
by logicprog | 2025-12-07 11:42:52+00:00
The "original affluent society" theory is based on several false premises and is fundamentally outdated, but people keep it alive because it fits certain Rousseauean assumptions we have. I recommend reading this:

https://kk.org/mt-files/reCCearch-mt/kaplan-darker.pdf

There are so many things wrong with those time estimates.
by killerstorm | 2025-12-07 11:43:26+00:00
Well, back in the day many of the people making buying decisions were tech enthusiasts who like the idea of upgradeability, etc. Computers were quite expensive, and people didn't want to waste money on a box which can only do one thing.

Besides that, "app store" was just not feasible with tech of the day.

When vast majority of customers do not care, you can ship a locked down device.

You can buy a hackable phone, but it's a niche
by justsomejew | 2025-12-07 11:44:00+00:00
26 million people killed in Soviet Union. Jews massacred in Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine by the local population (not all of them participated, but your current friends ideological fathers did). Only in Leningrad's blocade 2 million people died.

It was the Soviet Army which liberated Auschwitz, Soviet Army which crushed the nazi war machine starting from Stalingrad.

And these are the main points which your nauseating antirussian propaganda pretends as if it does not exist. And the rest, some of it happened, some of it did not. And wikipedia is not a reliable source for historic events, itis full of propaganda as most educated people realize.

[Just saw that this comment got hidden; if it was not so dangerous, one could have only laughed at how the "free speech" warriors want to suppress other people's views. Nothing new of course.]
by loup-vaillant | 2025-12-07 11:45:38+00:00
> When the government has access to unlimited labour and military via robots, why do they need citizens anymore?

Wait a minute, didn’t you just assume Western countries are not democracies?

I’ve noticed how fashionable it is in the US in particular, to distrust the government — not just this government, but on principle. This idea that a government never acts on behalf of the people, unless forced to. I wouldn’t disagree to be honest. But then we need to follow this up to its logical conclusion: governance by elected officials is not democratic.

Then we need to decide if we actually want democracy or not. Personally, I’d like this decision to be… err… you know, it would be nice if everyone had a say?
by oarsinsync | 2025-12-07 11:47:36+00:00
> > Trivially consequential: Somebody relates a story about an anonymous, random person peddling misinformation based on photos with false captions on the internet. Whether I believe that specific random person did has no bearing on anything.

> The point about the stakes is a good one. But there is an individiual factor to it.

Indeed. The so called "trivially consequential" depends on whether you're the person being "mis-informationed" about or not. You could be a black man with a white grandchild, and someone could then take a video your wife posted of you playing with your grandchild, and redistribute it calling you a pedophile, causing impact to your life and employment. Those consequences don't seem trivial to the people impacted.

True story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear...
by notahacker | 2025-12-07 11:47:37+00:00
The OP made the point (amongst many more dubious claims) that SpaceX was one of the few established launch providers that hadn't sent a payload to Mars. This is true (it says more about Mars not actually being a priority for SpaceX than it does about their technical capability, but that in itself is interesting). Another person suggested that we should count the Tesla roadster as a Mars mission; I pointed out that it shouldn't count as a Mars mission because it wasn't a Mars mission (and injecting a meme into a random deep space orbit isn't a more impressive display of technical prowess than deploying an actual mission payload to an L2 staging orbit; the whole point of the Roadster stunt was they didn't particularly care if the payload survived never mind where it ended up). It's not rocket science! Most stuff a Falcon 9 launches reaches its final orbit with its own propulsion; it still gets credited with the launch.
by cjfd | 2025-12-07 11:49:24+00:00
Documentation like doxygens is almost completely opposite from literate programming. The comment you are responding to emphasizes the ability to determine yourself the order in which to present the documentation. Literate programming is writing a document in the first place where, as an afterthought, a program can be extracted. Source code with doxygen is source code where, as an afterthought, documention can be extracted from. In many cases doxygen documention is quite worthless. Very often it is very helpfully documented that the method get_height, "gets the height". It is very fragmentary documentation where the big picture is completely missing. There is also a case where doxygen-like documentation is needed. This is when writing a library that is going to be used by many people. But then the doxygen comments should only be used on methods that you want those other people to use. And then there is still the danger that there will be too little higher level documentation because the doxygen is treated like it is sufficient.

Literate programming is, in my opinion, only used very seldomly because keeping an accurate big picture view of a program up to date is a lot of work. It fits with a waterfall development process where everything that the program is supposed to do is known beforehand. It fits well with education. I think it is no coincidence that it was brought to prominence by D.E. Knuth who is also very famous as an educator.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-12-07 11:50:04+00:00
And in the Ukraine we see that the corruption is uncovered punished, even if it is in the direct circles of the president.

There are problems in uncovering it, but the attempt to get rid of corruption is a big factor in the whole situation and one of the things Russia fears.

For Russia a corrupt system was a lot simpler to influence and Ukraine showing how a partially Russian speaking country, where people moved back and forth, fighting corruption was a threat to the system.
by logicprog | 2025-12-07 11:51:35+00:00
"Deprivation of material things, including food, was a general recollection [of Zhu adults] and the typical emotional tone in relation to it was one of frustration and anger…. Data on !Kung fertility in relation to body fat, on seasonal weight loss in some bands, and on the slowing of infant growth after the first six months of life all suggested that the previously described abundance had definite limits. Data on morbidity and mortality, though not necessarily relevant to abundance, certainly made use of the term “affluent” seem inappropriate."

"While the !Kung way of life is far from one of uniform drudgery—there is a great deal of leisure in the !Kung camp, even in the worst time of the year—it is also true that the !Kung are very thin and complain often of hunger, at all times of the year. It is likely that hunger is a contributing cause to many deaths which are immediately caused by infectious and parasitic diseases, even though it is rare for anyone simply to starve to death."

"The give and take of tangibles and intangibles goes on in the midst of a high level of bickering. Until one learns the cultural meaning of this continual verbal assault, the outsider wonders how the !Kung can stand to live with each other …. People continually dun the Europeans and especially the European anthropologists since unlike most Europeans, the anthropologists speak !Kung. In the early months of my own field work I despaired of ever getting away from continual harassment. As my knowledge of !Kung increased, I learned that the !Kung are equally merciless in dunning each other."

"In reciprocal relations, one means that a person uses to prevent being exploited in a relationship … is to prevent him or herself from becoming a “have”…. As mentioned earlier, men who have killed a number of larger animals sit back for a pause to enjoy reciprocation. Women gather enough for their families for a few days, but rarely more …. And so, in deciding whether or not to work on a certain day, a !Kung may assess debts and debtors, decide how much wild food harvest will go to family, close relatives and others to whom he or she really wants to reciprocate, versus how much will be claimed by freeloaders."

"The !Kung, we are told, spend a great deal of time talking about who has what and who gave what to whom or failed to give it to whom (Wiessner 1982:68). A lot of the exchange and sharing that goes on seems to be as much motivated by jealousy and envy as it is by any value of generosity or a “liberal custom of sharing.” In his survey of foraging societies, Kelly (1995:164-65) notes that “Sharing … strains relations between people. Consequently, many foragers try to find ways to avoid its demands … Students new to anthropology … are often disappointed to learn that these acts of sharing come no more naturally to hunter-gatherers than to members of industrial societies.”"

https://kk.org/mt-files/reCCearch-mt/kaplan-darker.pdf
by lukan | 2025-12-07 11:52:43+00:00
"Nobody would choose this life unless if they had to."

You mean nobody would choose the half nomadic hunters life?

Hm, some indigenous cultures I spoke to disagree, but the choice is not there anymore, as the bison herds they sustained on got slaughtered. The conflict of the nomads vs sedentary is an old one and the establishment of the latter, made the old ways of life simply impossible.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-07 11:53:17+00:00
Totally agree. The output is what matters.

At this point, who really cares what the person who sees everything as "AI slop" thinks?

I would rather just interact with Gemini anyway. I don't need to read/listen to the "AI slop hunter" regurgitate their social media feed and NY Times headlines back to me like a bad language model.
by jasonkester | 2025-12-07 11:53:42+00:00
I dunno... Different times, different risk tolerance.

Back in 1980, my dad was sitting at his desk in Bellevue one morning when news came in that Mt. St. Helens was erupting. Him and a pilot friend had the presence of mind to head straight to the local airport and rent a plane.

"Be careful not to head South. Mt. St. Helens is erupting, and you sure don't want to get close that by accident."

"Oh, yeah, sure. No way we'd do something like that."

He has this amazing framed aerial photo of the mountain with the ash plume rising. Evidently, the flight home was pure chaos, bobbing and weaving to avoid dozens of midair collisions since every other pilot in the Seattle area had had the same idea, but 45 minutes later.
by snek_case | 2025-12-07 11:53:45+00:00
The problem is going to be how to control those models to produce a universe that's temporally and spatially consistent. Also think of other issues such as networked games, how would you even begin to approach that in this new paradigm? You need multiple models to have a shared representation that includes other players. You need to be able to sync data efficiently across the network.

I get that it's tempting to say "we no longer have to program game engines, hurray", but at the same time, we've already done the work, we already have game engines that are relatively very computationally efficient and predictable. We understand graphics and simulation quite well.

Personally: I think there's an obvious future in using AI tools to generate game content. 3D modelling and animation can be very time consuming. If you could get an AI model to generate animated characters, you could save a lot of time. You could also empower a lot of indie devs who don't have 3D modelers to help them. AI tools to generate large maps, also super valuable. Replacing the game engine itself, I think it's a taller order than people realize, and maybe not actually desirable.
by tim333 | 2025-12-07 11:54:13+00:00
From travelling to different places I'm not sure about the women's work was brutal bit. The ones not in paid work tend to spend their time looking after the kids and cooking and cleaning and stuff regardless of the style of living. The main thing that's hard seems to be the kids going "mum! I want..."/"don't want to..." at all hours but that's human nature which doesn't change much.
by d-lisp | 2025-12-07 11:54:18+00:00
I dream of a world where the Knuth idea of programming and mathematics are naturally embedded in our cultures, like novels are.

I find it weird to not be able to find linux source code and commentaries or even math/physics/science masterpieces in libraries where you can find Finnegan's Wake easily (at least where do I live), and not be able to talk about the GHC in between two discussion about romance or the weather at the bakery.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-07 11:54:20+00:00
OK. Fair enough, but remember that Doxygen also analyzes code structure, and can generate things like UML diagrams, and inheritance trees.

Maybe a tool like Rational Rose is more along those lines.

I’ve always been a proponent of writing code in a manner that affords analysis, later. That’s usually more than just adding headerdoc.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-12-07 11:54:30+00:00
This is a complete and total misrepresentation of what I said. The key point here is that the "accused" in the trivial story is anonymous. They are fungible. Their identity is irrelevant to the story; it is merely an anecdote about the fact that a person like this exists, and people who exhibit the exact same behaviour as them verifiably do exist, so there is nothing to be misinformed about. A tangible accusation against a specific individual is completely different, and obviously is consequential.
by Amezarak | 2025-12-07 11:54:44+00:00
"German" does not mean "white" anymore than "Bantu" means "black."

French people, Slavic peoples, and Irish people living in Germany do not become ethnically German because they are white, and it's obvious that in any nation-state it would be reasonable to be surprised if the vast majority of people were not members of the ethnicity that formed the nation-state.
by bilekas | 2025-12-07 11:55:01+00:00
I'm not sure you understand the e2e encryption, the search can be ran on client side after decryption, there's no need to run it on the server side.

The chat is a bit more transient but you're transferring messages encrypted again over websocket for example, then decrypted on client.

I'm not seeing what the blocker is, or even issues with scale given its the client side doing the work.

Working example : http://securinote.com/#/notebook/bf528a8d-bf34-4f49-8cb9-e63...

key : embedding

Open up a second tab, make a change, check the network you'll see its sent over the wire encrpted via websocket.
Show HN: I Implemented "Two-Pass Generation" in Gemini Using Only System Prompts
by DosankoTousan | 2025-12-07 11:55:18+00:00
Hi HN,

I am a "No-Code" architect. Based on technical advice from a RAG engineer on Reddit, I implemented "Two-Pass Generation" (separating fact extraction from composition) in Gemini 3.0 Pro using only System Prompts.

It works by strictly separating the "fetching" phase from the "writing" phase, structurally eliminating hallucinations.

GitHub (Prompt): https://github.com/dosanko-tousan/Gemini-Abhidhamma-Alignmen...

Full Story (Medium): https://medium.com/@dosanko_tousan/the-engineer-and-the-budd...

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this "Logic-Bonded" architecture.
by tosti | 2025-12-07 11:55:28+00:00
Working with both at the same time makes their strengths and pitfalls shine. It's like that dual-boot computer where you're constantly in the wrong OS.

HTML has better separation of concerns than latex. Latex does typesetting a lot better than html. HTML layout can differ wildly in the same document. Latex documents are easier to layout in the first place.

...etc...
by defrost | 2025-12-07 11:55:37+00:00
Some hunters have elders rather than dedicated full time priests, and they can veer more rabbinical; they've got the stories and pass down the classics as food for thought and discussion.

On a superstition v superstition basis it's hard to get a photo finish between them and a Bishop.

https://www.magabala.com/products/yorro-yorro
by delusional | 2025-12-07 11:55:43+00:00
In my opinion, this isn't a problem of AI. the people who get deceived by this are willing participants in the lie. When proven wrong, they will fall back to the echo chamber and rely on it to give them more false facts. They won't seek information outside of their own circle. They cannot be understood as merely passively misinformed. They are actively lying to themselves.
by pferdone | 2025-12-07 11:57:08+00:00
It‘s mainly due to system requirements that Flux.2-dev doesn’t get same usage as Z-Image. A 5090 needs about a minute to generate an image with a basic workflow with Flux.2-dev. But prompt adherence and scene/character consistency in edit mode is (way) ahead of Qwen-Edit-2509 if you ask me.
by integralid | 2025-12-07 11:57:10+00:00
>I’m convinced that the fatal flaw of humanity: forgetting the lessons of the past, is a function of our lifespan

Counterpoint: some lessons deserve to be forgotten. Like there are many old people in my country that hate Germany and Germans for the things that happened in 2nd world war. Yes, nazis were bad and Holocaust was a nightmare. But modern day Germany moved past it. In fact, in Europe almost every country both did and was a victim on many atrocities. Dwelling on that forever would make peace or things like EU impossible. We would still be angry at things that happened 500 years ago.

Unfortunately we forget more than we should, but maybe it's the price we have to pay to evolve as a society.