MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bachmeier | 2025-12-16 14:49:28+00:00
Oh, let's see who's going to be the leader of the organization that's going to save privacy on the internet. Bet he has a track record of valuing free information and user privacy.

Wait, just like the last CEO, the only way to find out anything about him is a LinkedIn page. I'd have to create an account, log in, and consent to letting them collect and do anything they want with my information.

Apparently Mozilla doesn't have the technical capability of displaying an html web page that doesn't require a login and surrendering to data collection in order to view. Now try to find information about Satya Nadella without giving up your privacy.
by viega | 2025-12-16 14:49:43+00:00
Yes, I meant to clarify the memory model discussion; I had tried to simplify and did a poor job; I got similar feedback after it was published, and never remembered to get to it. Will try to do it soon, though it's about the worst time for this to have hit, not sure when I'll be able to sit down for it, but will try to get it done in the next day. Hopefully it doesn't wait until next time it gets some views.
by darkwater | 2025-12-16 14:49:59+00:00
I think it's more because they are too much "in the middle", so they get shit from both sides: the side that wants them completely disconnected from BigTech and the side that, well, just doesn't want them because BigTech is good (I presume?).

Every organization and every org leader make mistakes, often or less often, and Mozilla is no exception. But the sentiment here on HN towards it in every news that talks about Mozilla is frankly disappointing.
by alecco | 2025-12-16 14:50:16+00:00
Since 2004?? If anything, it's a terrible statistic.

Meanwhile, since 2010:

> House prices across the EU have soared by 48% between 2010 and 2023, according to Eurostat, while rents increased 22% over the same period. By 2023, nearly one in 10 people were spending 40% or more of their disposable income on housing, including 29% of the population in Greece, 15% in Denmark and 13% in Germany.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/15/europe-housi... (Published Mon 15 Dec 2025)
by sam_goody | 2025-12-16 14:50:21+00:00
I agree that most of their money comes from Google (at least for now).

But when you load their home page (https://www.mozillafoundation.org), the first thing you are greeted with is a banner that says they have raised over $6M in their last campaign alone.

So, it seems that millions are being donated by users.

The claim that most of those users want it to go to their browser is not supported or refuted by that page, but I have read a detailed breakdown of all their donations and attempts to guess what people really think they are donating for, and it matched my original statement - though I haven't got the time to search now, what do _you_ think people are donating for?
by zwnow | 2025-12-16 14:51:02+00:00
Because the average media incompetent Joe is easy to influence. Just spread some tinfoil hat theories, or fearmonger publicly and they have nothing else to talk about. They wouldn't even understand how bad big tech is if you forced them to research for a month. Humans are way more stupid than we believe (just look at all the people who'd love to cuddle a wild bear they meet in Yellowstone). That we managed to get on top of the food chain is a miracle.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-16 14:51:30+00:00
It's very hard to find a part of the industry that isn't enabling these bad actors. Also, the amount of anger from regular people toward the industry is such that I try to hide what I do for a living. That's a big red flag. Even if I worked in a "good" part, I'd still have to be quiet about it or have to constantly be on the defensive.

But I don't know. I've not made a decision yet (abandoning a career is a pretty huge decision), these are just the things that have been boiling up in me for a few years now.
Show HN: There's now a full suite of open hardware available
by iris-digital | 2025-12-16 14:51:32+00:00
It's been a difficult two decades for those of us who expect the products we buy to respect our freedom and privacy. We've been marginalized by the mobile revolution for so long that we'd nearly given up looking for options.

While commiserating recently, we realized that several important missing pieces of the puzzle have neatly dropped under our noses while we weren't looking! What are they?

Well, the Fairphone6 w/eOS, Furilabs FLX1s, Starlite Tablet, new Framework laptops, OpenWRT One, and a number of others are already shipping. Software options are plentiful as well. The landscape has changed significantly in a few short years.

Of course, these products are not perfect. Right now you might be counting their flaws. But we feel there's a another way to look at the situation. One long-term view is that these respectful options are now good enough for the vast majority of folks—and they'll only get better, if further invested in.

The catch? One needs to wrangle numerous products from almost as many companies. That's tedious for normal folks and busy geeks alike, plus it splits investment into small portions.

So, how can we get these organizations to work together? We've brainstormed some ideas, such as a unified storefront, licensing, mergers, etc, but don't know how feasible they are. What do y'all think?

If we can help these products get attention, increase sales, and further investment, we'll complete a libre product line that much faster. (These goals are detailed at "The Ethical Computing Initiative," https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/ ).

TL;DR—The products are listed at: https://aol.codeberg.page/eci/status.html Now they need our support!
by voxleone | 2025-12-16 14:51:39+00:00
The author says>> "Not being in control of course makes people endlessy frustrated, but at the same time trying to wrestle control from the parasites is an uphill battle that they expect to lose, with more frustration as a result."

While this reaction is understandable, it is difficult to feel sympathy when so few people are willing to invest the time and effort required to actually understand how these systems work and how they might be used defensively. Mastery, even partial, is one of the few genuine avenues toward agency. Choosing not to pursue it effectively guarantees dependence.

Ironically, pointing this out often invites accusations of being a Luddite or worse.
by titzer | 2025-12-16 14:51:45+00:00
It's been driving me nuts for at least a decade. I can't remember which MacOS update it was, but when they reorganized the settings to better align with iOS, it absolutely infuriated me. Nothing will hit my thunder button like taking my skills and knowledge away. I thought I might swear off Mac forever. I've been avoiding upgrading from 13 now. In the past couple of updates, the settings for displays is completely different for no reason. That's a dialog that one doesn't use very often, except for example, when giving a presentation. It's pretty jarring to plug in on stage in front of dozens or even hundreds of people and suddenly you have to figure out a completely unfamiliar and unintuitive way of setting up mirroring.

I blame GUIs. They disempower users and put them at mercy of UX "experts" who just rearrange the deck chairs when they get bored and then tell themselves how important they are.

https://suno.com/song/797be726-c1b5-4a85-b14a-d67363cd90e9
by atq2119 | 2025-12-16 14:51:45+00:00
Eh, I get it. I also independently came up with these MPMC approaches before hearing about LMAX. They're not entirely trivial but they do follow fairly naturally from the problem space when you really think about it. It's a good piece of engineering, but the one thing that's really unique about LMAX is the amount of advertising it gets.
by freedomben | 2025-12-16 14:52:16+00:00
Yeah, for most of us in the real world, we can't afford to be way underproductive for a week while we learn and set up our new editor from scratch. Learning vim is one of the greatest gifts I think I gave myself, and I'm extremely glad I did it, but it was not easy. A more gradual curve or even a crutch is completely fine in my opinion. I've seen plenty of people get started with vim just by putting them key bindings in their IDE and getting used to the motions, and then gradually moving over. The main key is to iterate, and not stagnate
by ang_cire | 2025-12-16 14:52:19+00:00
Inevitability just means that something WILL happen, and many of those items are absolutely inevitable:

AI exists -> vacation photos exist -> it's inevitable that someone was eventually going to use AI to enhance their vacation photos.

As one of those niche power users who runs servers at home to be beholden to fewer tech companies, I still understand that most people would choose Netflix over a free jellyfin server they have to administer.

> Not being in control of course makes people endlessy frustrated

I regret to inform you, OP, that this is not true. It's true for exactly the kind of tech people like us who are already doing this stuff, because it's why we do it. Your assumption that people who don't just "gave up", as opposed to actively choosing not to spend their time on managing their own tech environment, is I think biased by your predilection for technology.

I wholeheartedly share OP's dislike of techno-capitalism(derogatory), but OP's list is a mishmash of

1) technologies, which are almost never intrinsically bad, and 2) business choices, which usually are.

An Internet-connected bed isn't intrinsically bad; you could set one up yourself to track your sleep statistics that pushes the data to a server you control.

It's the companies and their choices to foist that technology on people in harmful ways that makes it bad.

This is the gripe I have with anti-AI absolutists: you can train AI models on data you own, to benefit your and other communities. And people are!

But companies are misusing the technology in service of the profit motive, at the expense of others whose data they're (sometimes even illegally) ingesting.

Place the blame in the appropriate place. Something something, hammers don't kill people.
Show HN: Jordle – Japanese Furigana Practice
by qmarchi | 2025-12-16 14:52:30+00:00
I was talking with a friend (@finnvoid) about how we could make it easier to practice their hiragana and katakana reading while they are living in Japan. After some quick basic idea-crafting with Gemini, they took it and ran with to, building "Jordle" a Wordle-esque tool to help them (and you) learn your furigana.

Playing is easy, your goal is to transliterate the shown characters into the romaji (romanization). Pick between the two character sets (hiragana and katakana) or both to practice.

Data is local to the device, so it's pretty snappy and technically works offline.

We'll probably be hanging out in the comments for a bit if people have questions or comments!
by Ajedi32 | 2025-12-16 14:52:39+00:00
That's a very different argument about a hypothetical future problem that may or may not ever actually materialize. (I'd argue given the current trajectory of AI it probably won't for the foreseeable future.)

But yes, if we develop artificial superinteligence to the level where humans become literally useless (e.g. we don't just automate 90% of everything, but 100%, and there's actually no tasks left in the world that humans can do better or cheaper than computers) then assuming humanity survives we'll need a different economic system for distributing the nearly-unlimited resources resulting from that. Probably in that situation the best thing to do would be to ask the AI to design our new economic system, since it would obviously do a better job at that than any human.
Show HN: PaperDebugger – An Overleaf companion for revising LaTeX papers
by andrelinhk | 2025-12-16 14:53:22+00:00
Hello HN! We’re a small team from NUS (undergrad + PhD). PaperDebugger started as a research project and evolved into an open-source tool that integrates directly into Overleaf as an academic writing assistant. It provides LaTeX-aware debugging, reviewer-style feedback, and targeted revision suggestions without leaving the editor, ideal for users who already write and collaborate on projects in Overleaf.

A small beta release picked up more traction than we expected over the past week. It’s far from perfect but since people are already trying it, we decided to share it more widely and prioritise stability, reliability, and gathering feedback earlier than planned.

There’s no signup: install the Chrome extension and it attaches immediately to your Overleaf project. You can highlight any section and receive specific suggestions, issue reports, or multi-step revision passes. Under the hood, it reads your project structure and is powered by our custom MCP-based orchestration engine that simulates a Research → Critique → Revision workflow rather than a single chat prompt.

Try it:

Chrome extension (Overleaf integration): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/paperdebugger/dfked...

Landing page (demo + overview): https://www.paperdebugger.com/

What we’re looking for:

• Whether the Overleaf-embedded workflow is actually more useful than copy/paste LLM editing

• Thoughts on UX and interaction inside the Overleaf editor

• Any concerns, e.g., about privacy or extension behaviour (we do have a policy published)

• Feature requests that would help with conference/journal submissions (we’re currently working on a formatter, citation verifier)

For readers interested in the technical details and research background that motivated the system, here’s a link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02589

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, MCP design, prompts, or anything else.
by corimaith | 2025-12-16 14:53:31+00:00
>for free to the US would suddenly have a big existential problem

No they're not sending it for free, the US dollars and IOUs are real and ultimately translated into maintaining the salaries of millions of factory workers. Thats the whole point of export driven growth. Trying to abstract away the balance sheet as imaginary is not how real economics works.

The CCP, the IMF, World Bank, BIS, etc certainly aren't thinking like you are, growing consumption has proven extremely difficult in practice over growing industry.
by ksec | 2025-12-16 14:53:39+00:00
>Technically.....

Since its birth, Firefox is still the only browser that manage multiple ( hundreds or in some cases, thousands! [1] ) tabs better than any browser. And in my view in the past 12 - 24 months Firefox has managed to be as fast as chrome. While Chrome also improved on its multiple Tab browsing experience.

Safari.... I dont know why this battery life argument keeps coming up because it is not the case. It hasn't been so for at least 5 - 6 years.

Mozilla could have played the trust angle when they have the good will and money. They could have invested into SaaS that provides better revenue generations other than getting it from Google. They could also have partnered with Wikipedia before they got rotten. But now I am not even sure if they still have the "trust" card anymore. Gekco is still hard to be embedded, XULRunner could have been Electron. They will need to get into survival mode and think about what is next.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/software/mozilla-firefox/firefo...
by jjice | 2025-12-16 14:53:59+00:00
I really don't like the "everything is political" sentiment. Sure, lots of things are or can be, but whenever I see this idea, it usually comes from people who have a very specific mindset that's leaning further in one direction on a political spectrum and is pushing their ideology.

To clarify, I don't think pushing an ideology you believe in by posting a blog post is a bad thing. That's your right! I just think I have to read posts that feel like they have a very strong message with more caution. Maybe they have a strong message because they have a very good point - that's very possible! But often times, I see people using this as a way to say "if you're not with me, you're against me".

My problem here is that this idea that "everything is political" leaves no room for a middle ground. Is my choice to write some boiler plate code using gen AI truly political? Is it political because of power usage and ongoing investment in gen AI?

All that to say, maybe I'm totally wrong, I don't know. I'm open to an argument against mine, because there's a very good chance I'm missing the point.
by azemetre | 2025-12-16 14:53:59+00:00
It is absolutely the the role of government to regulate commerce and establish competitive markets (note the lack of the word free here).

I also have zero faith in tech leadership as they have been the major driver of mass misery across humanity. Not only should they be stripped of their positions in their companies, but leadership should be directly given to the workers.

It's the only way to right to the wrong. If it's good enough for executives (voting for other executives, pay packages, and company direction), it's also good enough for workers.
by coredog64 | 2025-12-16 14:54:07+00:00
You are, of course, aware that the current US single payer system (Medicare) subcontracts their administration to private health insurance companies? And that the "overhead" typically discussed when talking about Medicare doesn't include said companies but is instead only the overhead of what it takes to shovel money from the IRS to private insurance companies?

No, this is not Medicare Advantage, in which Medicare just directly pays private health insurance premiums for enrollees.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-12-16 14:54:12+00:00
https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c?tab=readme-ov-file#requi... says that the current implementation only targets Linux+x86_64 but that they see no reason it couldn't be portable.

But you're in the wrong (sub)thread; this (sub)thread is about whether it's safe.
by jasonshen | 2025-12-16 14:54:12+00:00
You may be saving money but wood smoke is very much harmful to your lungs and heart according to the American Lung and American Heart Associations + the EPA. There's a good reason why we've adopted modern heating technologies. They may have other problems but particulate pollution is not one of them.

> For people with underlying heart disease, a 2017 study in the journal Environmental Research linked increased particulate air pollution from wood smoke and other sources to inflammation and clotting, which can predict heart attacks and other heart problems.

> A 2013 study in the journal Particle and Fibre Toxicology found exposure to wood smoke causes the arteries to become stiffer, which raises the risk of dangerous cardiac events. For pregnant women, a 2019 study in Environmental Research connected wood smoke exposure to a higher risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, which include preeclampsia and gestational high blood pressure.

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2019/12/13/lovely-but-dangerou...
by runjake | 2025-12-16 14:54:38+00:00
I’m not sure why people are surprised. If you watch Nadella interviews, he tells you what he thinks and where he wants to take the company.

He touts AI, services, agentic copilot, and all the other stuff customers are railing against.

Some Windows manager got crucified on X recently for an enthusiastic tweet about turning Windows into an agentic OS. People called for this persons firing. But, this was straight out of Nadella’s playbook.
by sporkxrocket | 2025-12-16 14:56:08+00:00
No, it's about genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Again orders of magnitude more Palestinians have been killed by Jewish supremacists. Really strange when the aggressor pretends to be the victim.

> It's not about the numbers of people killed anywhere.

Palestinians are human and it's disgraceful to discount their lives like that. Jewish lives are not worth more than Palestinian lives.
Show HN: VideoReview – Collaborative video review for games and animation
by KirisameMarisa | 2025-12-16 14:56:18+00:00
I built VideoReview to reduce review overhead for team members working on game cutscenes, skits.

It lets collaborators leave time-based comments, draw directly on video frames, and discuss feedback in a lightweight, SNS-like interface.

Integrations include JIRA (create tasks from comments) and Slack (share comments).

I’d love feedback on usability from people who review game or animation footage!
by senkora | 2025-12-16 14:56:37+00:00
I really like this article.

> One could specify a smallest effect size of interest and compare the plausibility of seeing the reported p-value under that distribution compared to the null distribution. 6 Maier and Lakens (2022) suggest you could do this exercise when planning a test in order to justify your choice of alpha-level

Huh, I’d never thought to do that before. You pretty much have to choose a smallest effect size of interest in order to do a power analysis in the first place, to figure out how many samples to collect, so this is a neat next step to then base significance level off of it.
by nostrademons | 2025-12-16 14:56:45+00:00
I've got a hypothesis that the reason short-form video like TikTok became dominant is because of the decline in reading instruction (eg. usage of whole-word instruction over phonics) that started in 1998-2000. The timing largely lines up: the rise of video content started around 2013, just as these kids were entering their teenage years. Media has significant economies of scale and network effects (i.e. it is much more profitable to target the lowest common denominator than any niche group), and so if you get a large number of teenagers who have difficulty with reading, media will adjust to provide them content that they can consume effortlessly.

Anecdotally, I hear lots of people talking about the short attention span of Zoomers and Gen Alpha (which they define as 2012+; I'd actually shift the generation boundary to 2017+ for the reasons I'm about to mention). I don't see that with my kid's 2nd-grade classmates: many of them walk around with their nose in a book and will finish whole novels. They're the first class after phonics was reintroduced in the 2023-2024 kindergarten year; every single kid knew how to read by the end of kindergarten. Basic fluency in skills like reading and math matters.
by Incipient | 2025-12-16 14:57:02+00:00
I'm not sure anyone really is debating if the US is losing its control, I feel that's a given - I'd say much quicker recently than before, but still happening.

I'm personally worried who takes over - none of the other parties vying for power instil even the vaguest sense of wanting to maintain the status quo. I feel fairly malicious authoritarianism and corruption will be observed in our own countries within this century (if that matters to you, depends on your age I suppose).
by Symmetry | 2025-12-16 14:57:06+00:00
It's very important in this case to specify which orbit the satellite is going to be in. If you're in LEO like the international space station you spend all day inside the Van Allen Belt protected from all those charged particles that the sun is pumping out. You're still lacking the atmosphere's protection from cosmic rays but that's not a huge dosage.

If you go out to MEO then suddenly you're outside that protective magnetic shield and you have to deal with charged particles smashing into you and you want a large mass of water or wax shielding if you don't have radiation tolerant electronics.

SSO, a low earth orbit whose plane is perpendicular to the direction of the sun so it gets constant sunlight, is harsher than normal LEO orbits because it passes over the poles where the protection from the Earth's magnetic field is weakest, but it's still a lot better than higher orbits. This is probably where you want a datacenter to get constant sunlight and as much protection as possible.
by pjc50 | 2025-12-16 14:57:18+00:00
> Every choice is both a political statement

I think this is a variant of "every action is normative of itself". Using AI states that use of AI is normal and acceptable. In the same way that for any X doing X states that X is normal and acceptable - even if accompanied by a counterstatement that this is an exception and should not set a precedent.