MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kilpikaarna | 2025-12-22 14:51:49+00:00
I know I'm ngmi with this attitude, but I just find it hard to believe there even could be such a thing. All the numbers point towards us hitting up against planetary limits, at some point something's got to give.

Positive news about e.g. solar PV shrinks away to some miniscule number when compared against the big picture, do nothing to address the myriad other things such as species loss or peak-phosphorus and the gains are eaten up by Jevon's paradox (or LLM datacenter buildout) anyway.

Even the past performance of AAPL feels like it's more to do with central bank funny money than the real economy. Numbers keep going up but in the rral world everything gets increasingly enshittified.

Change My Mind.

Happy Holidays!
by dns_snek | 2025-12-22 14:52:18+00:00
The press release is.. not great. The summary document linked at the bottom of the page is written in English and makes it clear that the fine was issued due to their double standards:

> xii. As a matter of fact, revenues from App Store services increased, in terms of higher
commissions collected from developers through the platform; likewise, Apple’s advertising division, which is not subject to the same stringent rules, ultimately benefited from increased revenues and higher volumes of intermediated ads

[1] https://en.agcm.it/dotcmsdoc/pressrelease/A561_SUMMARY.pdf
by Blackthorn | 2025-12-22 14:52:50+00:00
In order, the most popular ones of these are probably

* Max. It's built into a popular DAW, and is shockingly capable as an actual programming language too. The entire editor for the Haken line of products is written in Max.

* Pure Data or Supercollider.

* Csound.

Not ordering things like Scala or LilyPond that are much more domain-specific.
by cpburns2009 | 2025-12-22 14:52:54+00:00
I forgot to mention that for service B, the API being down is a common, daily occurrence and does not last long. The behavior of services A-C is from my real world experience.

I do mean revisiting the log seventies as the behavior of the API becomes known. You start off treating every error as a hard error. As you learn the behavior of the API over time, you adjust the logging and error handling accordingly.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-12-22 14:52:59+00:00
The problem here is the usage of "no-fault". It can be interpreted differently by everyone.

Does fault only include cheating? Can the fault be on the same one who initiated the divorce? What if the fault is simply someone has changed so much that they're no longer compatible with person they fell in love with before? The fault could be on oneself without any inkling of infidelity.

Til death do us part has been ironically dead for decades now since people have been divorcing at high rates for long enough that it doesn't really mean much anymore, and that's okay. Things change.
by fnordlord | 2025-12-22 14:53:05+00:00
I really hope that Max becomes fully accessible in a text based format one day. It's so cool and I've spent a few months randomly through the years building neat plugins for Ableton but, for me, it would be so much stickier if it was code. Especially now with AI assistance, Claude can still be helpful but it hallucinates a lot harder when trying to describe visual code.
by piva00 | 2025-12-22 14:53:12+00:00
No, they are punishing because the ATT pop-up is not enough to comply with privacy rules, requiring 3rd party apps to have a secondary pop-up to be compliant (which Apple's own apps wouldn't need since they don't use ATT).

So it's more that Apple's ATT is not compliant with stricter privacy rules, not the opposite...
Show HN: Solved the missing native speaker problem
by bijucyborg | 2025-12-22 14:53:37+00:00
During the pandemic, I reached conversational German by practicing daily with a human native speaker. It worked incredibly well, but it was expensive and hard to scale.

Now, with real-time AI interaction and high-quality image generation, I’ve built LangTrak — an attempt to recreate that effective, contextual, exercise-based learning experience for French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Finnish.

How it works:

- Watch a YouTube video in your target language and the app sets the context based on this content.

- Generate an exercise — the AI tutor creates a relevant language exercise based on the video content.

- Speak and solve — talk through the exercise with the AI tutor in real time.

It combines comprehensible input (via YouTube) with an AI Tandem partner, so you learn from content you enjoy and immediately practice in context.

Try it out here: https://langtrak.com

I’d love your feedback, especially from language learners or those who’ve used AI for practice. What languages or features would make this most useful for you?
by tacker2000 | 2025-12-22 14:53:38+00:00
How is the EU tech company lack of growth related to fining companies for not obeying the law?

Yes, Europe is a laggard in tech, but I don't see any relationship here. Even if they wouldn't fine these companies, EU would still lag, and now that they are fining them, EU companies are not at an advantage, nor growing faster.
by amarcheschi | 2025-12-22 14:55:04+00:00
It's way too long for me, but just skimping I read that

1)apple was reported to the authority by meta, the authority then started investigating (and this is honestly extremely funny)

2)apple says that att prompt is enough to work as a gdpr consent form, meta didn't agree with this. The authority after a long investigation found apple was in wrongdoing because the att prompt breaks some rules on I don't understand what and so is not gdpr compliant - the only thing I understood is that it doesn't provide enough informations to the end user

3)authority also notes that this prompt was imposed by Apple without input from third parties, thus distorting the market because the same prompt is not required for apple's own apps
by mopsi | 2025-12-22 14:55:40+00:00
> The maidan revolution, that put selenski in office was supported by the US.

The Maidan ended with Petro Poroshenko being elected president in the 2014 election. His term ended in 2019, and Zelenskyy won the 2019 election.

The remark about being supported by the US sounds a bit like weasel language. US preferences do not determine the outcome of elections.
by Joker_vD | 2025-12-22 14:55:48+00:00
> The (n: i32) can be just (n i32), because there is no benefit to adding the colon there.

> The -> i32 can also be just i32 because, again, the -> serves no purpose in function/method definition syntax.

Well, there is, but it's more of a personal trait than a universal truth. Some human programmers (e.g. me) tend to read and parse (and even write, to some extent) source code more accurately when there is a sprinkle of punctuation thrown in into a long chain of nothing but identifiers and subtly nested parentheses. Some, e.g. you, don't need such assistance and find it annoying and frivolous.

Unfortunately, since we don't store the source code of our programs as binary AST blobs that could be rendered in a personalized matter, but as plain text instead, we have to accept the language designer's choices. Perhaps it actually has better consequences than the alternative; perhaps not.
by salawat | 2025-12-22 14:55:55+00:00
No, it bloody well isn't, and I kindly request you stop with that nonsense. Remote start is a glorified CAN message paired with either a TOTP or HOTP message. That's it. There should be zero room for a manufacturer to justify inserting themselves in the middle except greed. Goddamn tired of solving problems only to see companies keeping the problem around for the sake of market segmentation.
by kpcyrd | 2025-12-22 14:56:14+00:00
The problem is that "once the package is qualified to be included in Debian" is _mostly_ about "has the package metadata been filled in correctly" and the fact that all your build dependencies also need to be in Debian already.

If you want a "simple custom repository" you likely want to go in a different direction and explicitly do things that wouldn't be allowed in the official Debian repositories.

For example, dynamic linking is easy when you only support a single Debian release, or when the Debian build/pkg infrastructure handles this for you, but if you run a custom repository you either need a package for each Debian release you care about and have an understanding of things like `~deb13u1` to make sure your upgrade paths work correctly, or use static binaries (which is what I do for my custom repository).
by jsheard | 2025-12-22 14:56:26+00:00
The Sony FW900 was the peak of desktop CRT monitors, and it came out in 1999 so it or one of its rebadges might have been what you saw. That was much smaller than the PVM-4300 at 24" but with a much higher max resolution of 2304x1440@85hz, roughly what we'd now call 1440p, about eight years before the first 1080p LCDs arrived.

Those were still sought after well into the LCD era for their high resolution and incredible motion clarity, but I think LCDs getting "good enough" and the arrival of OLED monitors with near-zero response times has finally put them out to pasture as anything but a collectors item.
by kashyapc | 2025-12-22 14:56:38+00:00
"Because LLMs now not only help me program, I'm starting to rethink my relationship to those machines. I increasingly find it harder not to create parasocial bonds with some of the tools I use. I find this odd and discomforting [...] I have tried to train myself for two years, to think of these models as mere token tumblers, but that reductive view does not work for me any longer."

It's wild to read this bit. Of course, if it quacks like a human, it's hard to resist not quacking back. As the article says, being less reckless with the vocabulary ("agents", "general intelligence", etc) could be one way to to mitigate this.

I appreciate the frank admission that the author struggled for two years. Maybe the balance of spending time with machines vs. fellow primates is out of whack. It feels dystopic to see very smart people being insidiously driven to sleep-walk into "parasocial bonds" with large language models!

It reminds me of the movie Her[1], where the guy falls "madly in love with his laptop" (as the lead character's ex-wife expresses in anguish). The film was way ahead of its time.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
by p-e-w | 2025-12-22 14:57:20+00:00
> What happens if Apple just exits the Italian market?

They can’t.

If they did, the company (and thus shareholders) would lose money. Shareholders would vote out the board, and the new board would appoint a CEO who would promptly re-enter the Italian market.

This is why corporations get slapped around by regulators everywhere, even though on the surface, the regulators need the company far more than the other way round.
by CodingJeebus | 2025-12-22 14:57:31+00:00
It’s a chicken-and-egg problem. News content, just like all other content, is tracked and analyzed for engagement.

Publishers want to create content that people want to engage with, and we see over and over again that people prefer content that elicits a reaction.

Also, news subscriptions are now seen as a luxury good and not an essential need. Who wants to pay $15/month for a report on how many people died of heart disease this month?
Ask HN: What are your Favorite Things? (2025)
by i5heu | 2025-12-22 14:57:38+00:00
I'm eager to hear about your favorite things that have significantly influenced your life, work, or both! These could be essential software tools, books, physical items, art pieces, music, or similar things you cherish and find meaningful.

Optional Template for answer:

*Work*

*Daily life*

*Media*

Previously:

12-2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42449776 (4 comments)

01-2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163944 (57 comments)
by matthewdgreen | 2025-12-22 14:57:52+00:00
Obviously RC4 itself isn't the problem. The problem is that Microsoft ships a "ciphersuite" that includes a bad password-based key derivation algorithm that also happens to be tied to a whole pile of bad cryptography. And the real, real problem is that Microsoft still ships a design in which low-entropy passwords can be misconfigured for use in encrypting credentials, which is a nightmare out of the 1990s and should have been completely disallowed in 2010.

But I'm not going to get particularly picky if people identify the bad ciphersuite by the shorthand "RC4", because even Microsoft does this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/2025/12/...
by Krasnol | 2025-12-22 14:58:24+00:00
Oligarchs can buy only so many BMWs.

It does work but so does advertising which is why the mass which is actually relevant here, will not react. They don't care about the screws. They don't even care about the extra cost for specials. They'll go out there and advertise the fact that they can afford a BMW with ALL features and so it spreads on...

We're also not even talking only about the private customer. It's business cars who are even more relevant.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-12-22 14:58:41+00:00
America's AI Debate Is Missing the Point

Absolutely.

But I argue the more urgent issue is simple misunderstanding.

LLMs were designed to summarize web pages while sidestepping copyright issues --- they are fundamentally *language* prediction engines. You don't have to take my word for it, it is right in the name --- Large *LANGUAGE* Model.

But what people seem to be expecting is a *logical* deduction engine. This is a total misapplication.

Examples are posted here on a daily basis --- "Can AI run your business?"

Short answer --- no, not now and not anytime soon. Expecting LLMs to actually *understand* or *reason* or *make decisions* is a misapplication. And one that I expect will carry significant legal liability issues once this becomes painfully clear.
by aristofun | 2025-12-22 14:58:57+00:00
The general sentiment of being aware about your career and decisions is true.

But this reminds me of what I hate about modern corporate “culture” the most. And what is broken about it the most.

Im speaking about the rat race. Tge fact, that you have to waste a noticeable part of your work time, effort and energy to sell your work instead of doing it. To the point where good salesmen make a “career” and become your bosses without any correlation to their work abilities or even management skills. Those are very good at designing their careers.

As a result the more corrupted the company with this style of internal management the more reliable it drowns in a swamp of ineffectiveness.

In a well functioning company or society “building a career” shouldn’t be a goal nor priority. It should be the natural outcome (more or less) of a “job very well done” that is a true priority.

Yes we’re not in a perfect world. But at least we should try to reach our ideals rather than promoting rat race mentality as a norm.
by alpha_squared | 2025-12-22 15:01:10+00:00
This is so strange to me. It's the news, it's supposed to report on the uncommon. No one cares that the morning commute's traffic is just as it was the day before and the day before that, but they do care that an accident shut down the main highway. It was commonly understood that news represents the unusual, not the usual.

At some point, media literacy went out the window in the US. Probably right around the time humanities education did.
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-12-22 15:01:47+00:00
There's something about having so many planners online/digital that sucks.

I want to plan, but I don't want to be on the computer yet. But if I plan non-digitally, it's slower, I can't copy/paste, and then I don't really have good access to it unless I have it with me.

But if I plan too much digitally, it's stored in digital memory, not my memory.

I'm really struggling to find something to mitigate this. I wish I had a tactile miro board that also created the miro board online.
by clrflfclrf | 2025-12-22 15:01:48+00:00
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sharks-use-math-hunt

A new study suggests that some sharks and other marine predators can follow strict mathematical strategies when foraging for dinner. The work, reported online June 9 in Nature, is the latest aiming to show whether animals sometimes move in a pattern called a Lévy walk.

Unlike random motion — in which animals take similar-sized steps in any direction, like a drunk stumbling around — Lévy walks are punctuated by rare, long forays in any direction. Draw a Lévy walk on a graph, and its squiggly pattern echoes a fractal, the mathematical phenomenon whose shape remains similar no matter the viewing scale.
by dinkblam | 2025-12-22 15:02:09+00:00
no year goes by without Italy imposing random >100m€ fines for 2-3 american tech companies. whenever they need money, they just hit another one without care whether actual laws were violated. the amount they take has no correlation to what has been blamed, only to how much the companies can afford to pay without threatening to leave the country.

the 'Guardia di Finanza' has a long standing tradition of trying to extort money without regards to actual laws. its not long ago that they told all companies 'if you pay X% more than your tax report says you own then we won't destroy your company'. more recently they went after the Agnelli family trying to extort money without having an actual case.

its not the rule of law, its simply Might makes Right or modern robber knights...
by jasode | 2025-12-22 15:02:19+00:00
The first leftmost column of most common causes of death (heart disease, etc) ... would be a "dog bites man" story.

The rightmost columns of media coverage (homicides, terrorism, plane crashes, etc) ... are "man bites dog" stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog

It's just the nature of journalism and headlines.

E.g. A frequent story that hits the front page of HN is "I'm quitting social media..."

But the much more common scenario of "I'm still keeping my social media account active today just like I did yesterday" ... is not submitted -- and nor would it be upvoted to the front page.

Real-life high frequency of normality doesn't make for compelling news.
by maverwa | 2025-12-22 15:02:33+00:00
The difference being that while people have a good intuition on one may spend their vacation and what one would talk about, it’s not so easy to extrapolate for other things.
Sure, everybody knows that media talks more about homicides and terrorism than the thousands of people dying or „old age“-kind of things, but it’s not always easy to keep in mind on how far apart these numbers are.

I think „manipulation“ may be to strong of a word here, since it assumes intent to manipulate, which is not necessarily to focus on „out of the ordinary“ events. But I think nonetheless that this infographic is interesting and important, because it reminds us that these biases exist and how big they are.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-22 15:03:06+00:00
I'm reminded a bit of a robotics professor I had at uni, a very long time ago in the 1990s. When he was at uni in the late 70s he and a couple of friends were working on a robot arm, which didn't work because it kept dropping stuff. They made a more precise linkage for the gripper, and if anything it was worse. They made ever more precise bushings for the pivots, and it just didn't help or made it worse.

Eventually after a conversation in the pub with one of his friends who was studying sports physiotherapy, they ripped out the 47th set of really precise little Teflon bushings and put in new ones made of medical silicone rubber tubing.

Now all the joints were a bit sticky and squashy and wobbly, and it picked everything up perfectly every time.
by simonw | 2025-12-22 15:03:52+00:00
... this inspired me to try using a "rg --pre" script to help reformat my JSONL sessions for a better experience. This prototype seems to work reasonably well: https://gist.github.com/simonw/b34ab140438d8ffd9a8b0fd1f8b5a...

Use it like this:

cd ~/.claude/projects
rg --pre cc_pre.py 'search term here'
by jszymborski | 2025-12-22 15:04:00+00:00
I'm running the MXFP4 [0] quants at like 10-13 toks/sec. It is actually really good, I'm starting to think its a problem with Cline since I just tried it with Qwen3 and the same thing happened. Turns out Cline _hates_ empty files in my projects, although they aren't required for this to happen.

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/RakshitAralimatti/learn-ai-with-...
by neuralkoi | 2025-12-22 15:04:16+00:00
Nihilism and resentfulness go nowhere good. I want to see bestregards.com.

From: Humanity

To: 2025

Subject: Love you, 2025.

Hey 2025,

Love you for revealing authoritarian drift early enough to resist it, for challenging us to bridge divides with intention, for forcing truth to sharpen itself against noise, for pushing us to reimagine work rather than fear its loss, for making peace urgent instead of theoretical, for exposing wealth gaps so plainly they demand repair, for pressuring tax systems to be questioned and improved, for reminding us that nothing lasting is taken for granted, for steering innovation back toward creation instead of extraction, for teaching us what love costs and why it matters, for turning difference into something worth protecting, for insisting essentials be valued as essentials, for honoring those we lost by deepening how we live, for revealing how empty digital validation is compared to real regard, for asking us to choose deliberately rather than survive passively, for making nature’s limits impossible to ignore, for showing that screens are tools and faces are irreplaceable, for watching closely enough that we learned to speak and listen with care, and for everything else.

With commitment,

Humanity
by jader201 | 2025-12-22 15:04:28+00:00
While the image itself is interesting, and indeed points out one of the reasons I don’t watch/read the news from mass media, there are two problems I find with the (clickbait) title:

1. “Manipulation” suggests that outlets are leading people to believe these ratios of causes of deaths, when in fact, they’re just reporting on what they think viewers find more interesting (basically unnatural over natural causes of death).

2. The “(social)” feels misplaced. “Social” media, to me, always represents media shared by others, not by news, via sites and apps like TikTok, FB, Instagram, etc. The image only shows news media (though I’m sure this isn’t far from what the distribution also looks like on actual social media).
by mohamadkk7 | 2025-12-22 15:04:30+00:00
I got tired of clickbait "Top 10 AI Tools" articles that are just affiliate spam, so I built this.

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- 365 Productivity & Automation
- 108 Developer Tools (coding assistants, debugging, DevOps)
- 68 Marketing & Sales
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What makes it different:
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Built it as a side project because I needed this for my own workflow. Figured others might find it useful too.

Open to feedback on how to make it better.
by WolfeReader | 2025-12-22 15:04:32+00:00
It's actually simple:

1. Install ADE on Windows (or a Windows VM (recommended))

2. Log in with Adobe account

3. Download ASCM files from Kobo or Google Play Books and open with ADE

4. the optional step I've been trying to hint at for like 3 posts now

5. Put it on your reader!
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-12-22 15:04:52+00:00
If your friend then believes that work, sleep, and hygiene are not things you did at all because you don't talk about them, then your analogy would be comparable. People believe homicide and terrorism are significantly more common than they are, and vote accordingly. It's affecting all of our lives. Let me know when your vacation stories change public policy, and then I'll start complaining about those.