MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wiseowise | 2025-12-11 15:41:50+00:00
Judging by how bad recent Marvel movies were, I wouldn't be surprised if fans plop out far better quality.

Not an AI slop (I think?), but looks an order of magnitude better than any Marvel crap released in the last 3 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9b7BOJyE9A
by dagmx | 2025-12-11 15:42:23+00:00
Putting aside feelings on AI, and also putting aside worst case scenarios of the kind of content (which will happen regardless of what they promise), I think this is a terrible move for the brand.

Content saturation works out very poorly for IP holders. The value of your brand reduces dramatically , and you reduce excitement for new releases.

This is the company that had to walk back its plans to saturate streaming and theaters with their content because they ruined the hype for Star Wars and Marvel content. Two of the most beloved franchises!

This is just going to make that worse when ever social media feed will be blanketed by even more slop.

Unless the gambit is that they expect merch sales to go up, or they have a way to guarantee a cut of any used content. I’m sure there are some IP infringement lawyers who have basically secured a life time of work with this announcement.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-12-11 15:42:24+00:00
Out of all of those, only Instagram is on the list (or I have heard has complied despite not being on it).

You seem to be confusing messaging software and social media ?

Do (the others than Instagram) have an algorithmic feed, or (effectively) do not work without making an account ?

I guess that there's also Discord (that isn't on the list but has still complied) that is in an awkward in-between ?

(IMHO both Instagram and Discord ought to be banned anyway, for everyone, because they're deep web platforms that are owned by Meta/Tencent, and are therefore a threat to the open web and liberal democracy.)
by jerf | 2025-12-11 15:42:41+00:00
"there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor, and it became increasingly unhinged"

Also Google "Elsagate" to see what sorts of things people would like to do with Disney characters. Or a YouTube search for Elsagate.

The other thing I'd point out is that people kind of seem to forget this, but it isn't a requirement that AI video be generated, then shoveled straight out without modification. Elsagate shows the level of effort that people are willing to put into this (a strange combination of laziness, but extreme effort poured into enabling that laziness). You can use the blessed Disney video generator to generate something, then feed it into another less controlled AI system to modify it into something Disney wouldn't want. Or a video of a Disney character doing something innocent can be easily turned into something else; it's not hard to ask the AI systems to put something "against a green screen", or with a bit more sophistication, something that can be motion tracked with some success and extracted.

"A front camera shot of Cinderella crouching down, repeatedly putting a cucumber in and out of her mouth. She is against a green screen." - where ever that video is going, Disney isn't going to like it. And that's just a particularly obvious example, not the totality of all the possibilities.

Just putting controls on the AI video output itself isn't going to be enough for Disney.
by everdrive | 2025-12-11 15:42:56+00:00
>but your comment reads like these sort of problems were to be expected because the team started out small and inexperienced or something.

More or less nothing is optimized these days, and game prices and budgets have gone through the roof. Compared to the other games available these days (combined with how fun the game is) I definitely give HD2 a big pass on a lot of stuff. I'm honestly skeptical of Sony's involvement being a benefit, but that's mostly due to my experience regarding their attempts to stuff a PSN ID requirement into HD2 as well as their general handling of their IPs. (Horizon Zero Dawn is not only terrible, but they seem to try to force interest with a new remake on a monthly basis.)
by jasonthorsness | 2025-12-11 15:42:58+00:00
You can run the compiler with a flag that shows all the escapes with -gcflags “-m” and there’s also support in goland and vscode to show the escapes as inline annotations in the editor. This sort of thing IMO is one of the useful things about IDEs: showing hints from later parts of the tool chain about how things are going to turn out
by Aramhakobyan | 2025-12-11 15:43:23+00:00
I’ve been exploring how far we can push fully autonomous, multi-agent investigations in real SRE environments — not as a theoretical exercise, but using actual Kubernetes clusters and real tooling. Each agent in this experiment operated inside a sandboxed environment with access to Kubernetes MCP for live cluster inspection and GitHub MCP to analyze code changes and even create remediation pull requests.
by afavour | 2025-12-11 15:43:37+00:00
> That is not how we use the term "moat" in this context, because competitors eventually converge on offerings within 1-2 years.

Then I guess we need a new term because that's not how I interpret the term moat either. To me, ChatGPT chat history is a moat. It allows them to differentiate their product and competitors cannot copy it. If someone switches to a new AI service they will have to build their chat history from scratch.

By comparison a business deal that can be transferred to a new partner the second it expires is much more temporary.
by mcphage | 2025-12-11 15:43:48+00:00
This feels like the origin of a lot of these mistakes (and more besides): they weren't based on "what is it that lots of real designers are actually trying to accomplish?". Why did it take so long to get support for pinstriping, when prior to that there were 1001 different ways to try and accomplish it, because so many people wanted it? Why did it take so long to get layout functionality that even just matched the power of what CSS was intending to replace? Or vertical alignment, or drop shadows, etc, etc, etc. I like CSS and the intentions of it, but man, it was designed from a place of having no idea what people wanted to do.
by jack_nclx | 2025-12-11 15:43:51+00:00
I trained Andrej Karpathy’s nanoGPT model on his Shakespeare corpus with four separate 1x GPU nodes (representing four distinct chip models) from my spot aggregator. I found that for this (very small) training run, A100 40GB SXM was nearly 2x as efficient as H100 SXM. SXM > PCIe, and cheap per/hr consumer chips were actually more expensive per train than all due to long train times.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-12-11 15:44:15+00:00
The only reason that GCC needs executable trampolines is for the program to be able to create an ordinary function pointer and have all the captured data come along with it. The proposal is to reuse the syntax of nested functions, but change the semantics so that they are no longer callable via ordinary function pointers, but rather "fat pointers" that reference the captured data alongside the raw function address. This is similar to the method used by C++ and does not need trampolines.
by Supermancho | 2025-12-11 15:44:55+00:00
> People use the term to refer to a proprietary definition from the OSI

some people do. A vast minority of the superset. Most people (person on the street) take the words "open source" at face value and dispense with the whole idea when faced with a needless ideological argument. This specific process of thought is casually observed in most entry compsci highschool/college classrooms. The whole point of open source was to achieve a goal, which has ironically been subject to feature creep.
by SV_BubbleTime | 2025-12-11 15:44:57+00:00
I’m keeping Claude’s tasks small and focused, then if I can I clear between.

It’s REAL FUCKING TEMPTING to say ”hey Claude, go do this thing that would take me hours and you seconds” because he will happily, and it’ll kinda work. But one way or another you are going to put those hours in.

It’s like programming… is proof of work.
by ossner | 2025-12-11 15:47:01+00:00
Yes, that is certainly true, but I think there is a certain monetary value attached to that virality that Disney now wants to cash in on, which is something they haven't done before.

There's also the outward plausible deniability of "well we couldn't have known that people would break the guard rails". I can't imagine any other explanation. This decision must have gone through a lot of channels and they must be aware what these characters will be used for.
by margalabargala | 2025-12-11 15:47:04+00:00
No, it doesn't.

With the ICE car, if you want to go 55, you might accelerate to 57 and then coast down to 55 without using brakes.

With an EV you might accelerate to 57 and then brake to 55 when you let off the accelerator.

Tire wear is a function of how often you use your tires to slow down the car. With an ICE car that's every time you hit your brakes. With an EV that's both brakes and regen. An EV's time spent braking or regenning is more than the time an ICE car spends braking.

Someone could design an EV that behaves the way you describe, but aggressive regen sells better, so no one does.
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-11 15:47:19+00:00
Love the sick burn at the end:

>Who knows? Maybe they're just trying to simulate the butterfly keyboard in software.

Apple truly has some incredibly incompetent people working for it, obsessively focused on cosmetic style instead of substance and usability.

Alan Dye voluntarily leaving certainly won't solve the root problem that they didn't fire him years ago.

Bad Dye Job:

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Gruber: Apple employees ‘giddy’ about Alan Dye’s departure:

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/gruber-apple-employees-giddy-...
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-11 15:47:21+00:00
> It's now in the business of getting you to watch any video, related or not to your query, in order to serve you ads.

Youtube was in this business from day 1. Even before Google. Youtube was never going to be anything other than an ad-platform with videos to lure in the products.

Vid.me tried to be a video platform with videos to lure in users, but it went bankrupt, because nobody wanted to pay and nobody wanted to watch ads.
by immibis | 2025-12-11 15:47:29+00:00
You just made me check a business where I left a negative review and was threatened with a lawsuit. I didn't remove it, but Google did automatically. Looks like I'm still algo-banned from leaving a review there (I even tried a 5-star review with no text, and was told their AI found it a violation of content policy, lol) but now above most of the obviously bought 5-star reviews with generic test is a 6-month-old negative review with a lot of "likes", stating the owner files criminal complaints against negative reviewers, they appealed to Google twice, they defended themselves in court, and they saw other negative reviews had been reviewed. (possibly mine)

Of course, it also has a reply from the owner, stating this review that says he files criminal complaints against reviewers is a complete lie, and therefore, he's filing a criminal complaint against this reviewer.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-12-11 15:47:30+00:00
Dyslexia seems to be more of an issue in English than other languages right?

But also, maybe the difficulty of parsing recruits other/executive function and is beneficial in other ways?

The per phoneme density/efficiency of English is supposed to be quite high as an emergent trade language.

Perhapse speaking a certain language would promote slower more intentional parsing, humility through syntax uncertainty, maybe not, all I know is that from a global network resilience perspective it's good that dumb memes have difficulty propagating across cultures/languages.
by tptacek | 2025-12-11 15:47:37+00:00
I'm not moving the goalposts. Instead, what I'm pretty sure is happening is that you see this as an argument about whether the strike was good or justified. I don't. I'm not interested in that question, which will never, ever be resolved on a message board. I'm just interested in getting the clearest picture of what actually did happen.

Most of this comment is you arguing points that I don't disagree with. The one place we're clearly not aligned is your belief that there were more civilian casualties (or even a comparable number of civilian casualties) than combatant casualties. I've argued, at length and with specific details, as to why that doesn't seem possible, regardless of what Lebanon or Hezbollah reports. If you want to keep hashing this out, that's probably the place where there's something to actually discuss.
by doomerhunter | 2025-12-11 15:47:42+00:00
Interesting. Quick question in regards to the code generation : Do you dump the DOM to provide relevant context to build the automation or does the agent automatically tries to discover relevant segments (like a claude code) ?

Edit : Answered in the video, dump of a simplified version of the DOM. How is the discovery of the rest is performed ?

Super nice, can really see the use cases, even for security testing.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-11 15:47:50+00:00
So the big fatso corporations all rally behind AI.

I don't like this. I don't dispute that AI has some useful use cases, but there are tons of time-wasters, such as fake videos generated on youtube. So when they now autogenerate everything, the quality will further go downwards but they will claim it will go upwards. Well, what may go up are the net profits. I don't think the quality will really go upwards. They also kind of create a monopoly here. Only other big corporations can break in - and they won't because it is easier to share the profits in the same market in a guaranteed manner. Quite amazing that this can happen. Who needs courts anymore when the base system can be gamified?

Then there is also the censorship situation. If you keep on censoring stuff, you lose out information. I see this on youtube where Google censors cuss words. This leads to rubbish bleeps every some seconds. Who wants to hear that? It's so pointless.
by 1313ed01 | 2025-12-11 15:48:04+00:00
There were generic VESA SVGA drivers towards the end of the MS-DOS era.

Sound blaster(16) also came close to being standard enough that games could just support that.

Extrapolating I think MS-DOS was on a nice trajectory to having complete enough (and reasonably simple and non-bloated!) APIs for everything important, when it was killed off. Late MS-DOS 32-bit games were usually trivial to install and run.
by Bender | 2025-12-11 15:48:30+00:00
Can someone explain why OpenAI credits expire?

Just guessing but probably to bring it up to par with a coin operated car wash to get more monies.

- Insert Duckets [1]

- Start Washing Car

- Insert More Duckets to Rinse Car.

[1] - slang, Items of a lootable nature, usually looted off fools.

That, or they don't want criminals building up a cache of credits from stolen credit cards, stolen accounts and reselling the credits / accounts but I prefer to think it's to be a car wash.
by general1465 | 2025-12-11 15:48:45+00:00
> 4. a GATTACA-type future where the super rich figure out a way to birth super humans with perfect genetics and top 0.001% IQs. All of those make the future look so unappealing.

If everything goes alright for them. The thing is that we don't know about knock-on effects and monkey paw results - we can switch this gene on, your child has IQ 190, but later parents will figure out that it has social intelligence of a rock. Or we can switch this gene on, your child is now able to compete with marathon runners, whoops heart attack at 32 years.
by 9rx | 2025-12-11 15:48:53+00:00
> You are trying to assert this equivalence to ultimately assert a similar equivalence between vibecoding and software engineering.

I don't know what vibecoding is, but from past context and your arbitrary thoughts about about using natural language for writing software that came from out the blue, I am going to guess that you are referring to the aforementioned talk about criminal code. That is the only time we said anything about natural language previously. That should have been obviously seen as a tangent, but since it appears you didn't pick up on that, what do you think criminal code and software have to do with each other?
by underlipton | 2025-12-11 15:49:14+00:00
Pushing back for the sake of conversation: corporations are amoral, because they're containers for business activities. Those activities don't necessarily inherit that amorality, though. A business decision is made by a person, and so is a task undertaken or okayed by an employee; those can therefore be subject to measures of morality. Because people involved in a company have the capacity for moral or immoral action, it is in the company's best interest to monitor and correct behavior.
by maccard | 2025-12-11 15:49:15+00:00
I've worked in games for close to 15 years, and every studio I've worked on we've played the game very regularly. My current team every person plays the game at least once a week, and more often as we get closer to builds.

In my last project, the gameplay team played every single day.

> Games would be much better if all people making them were forced to spend a few days each month playing the game on middle-of-the-road hardware

How would playing on middle of the road hardware have caught this? The fix to this was to benchmark the load time on the absolute bottom end of hardware, with and without the duplicated logic. Which you'd only do once you have a suspicion that it's going to be faster if you change it...
by AleixR | 2025-12-11 15:50:10+00:00
Hi there, I'm the composer of the soundtrack—glad that you enjoyed the music.

The idea was to have a single instrument (a cello) that builds upon itself, like the cells in an organism. It starts with a very minimalistic loop, and new layers of music are progressively added as the organisms grow in size.

Thanks for sharing Operation Neptune! I didn't know about it, but it's a great example of early adaptive game music.
by shevy-java | 2025-12-11 15:50:31+00:00
But you have not addressed the problem that governments control the flow of information in this case here.

The antisocial media may be irrelevant, but I still fail to see why a government should be able to proxy-control the flow of information. So I am totally against this. I am also against antisocial media, but I don't see why a government actor should filter and censor information here.
by renewiltord | 2025-12-11 15:50:32+00:00
Pretty cool. I think it’s completely normal to be under a crunch and just go with some standard practices under normal conditions. Cool that they went back and sorted it out afterwards!

I’ve got to say. I do find it somewhat unusual that despite the fact that every HN engineer has John Carmack level focus on craftsmanship, about 1/100k here produce that kind of outcome.

I don’t get it. All of you guys are good at pointing out how to do good engineering. Why don’t you make good things?
by DonHopkins | 2025-12-11 15:50:38+00:00
I have a frequently reoccurring dream (nightmare scenario) that I'm somewhere unpleasant where I don't want to be, and need to leave right away, so I try to order an Uber on my iPhone, but the app is just so fucking hard to use and figure out, with all the important commands hidden so that the user interface is clean and sleek and beautiful and minimalistic without any visible scrollbars or labeled buttons or visual affordances, so much that I can't even use it, and I'm trapped in some horrible place in a nightmare I can't get away from, desperately fumbling with my iPhone.

I think it's a manifestation with my pain and disgust with Alan Dye's vain cosmetic approach to user interface design.

Now maybe my nightmares will shift to being trapped in the Facebook user interface, now that Alan Dye is at Meta. They totally deserve him, and I hope he destroys Facebook once and for all.
by adamzwasserman | 2025-12-11 15:51:25+00:00
The body of knowledge on Ericksonian hypnotherapy is pretty clear that the effect of language on Level 1 is orthogonal to, and sometimes even opposed to, conscious processes.

I became interested after being medically hypnotized for kidney stone pain. As the hypnotist spoke, I was consciously thinking: "this is dumb, it will never work." And yet it did.

That's exactly your point — I was fully conscious and "at home" the whole time, yet something was processing and acting on the language independently. The question is whether that something shares any computational properties with LLMs, not whether the whole system does.
by echelon | 2025-12-11 15:51:36+00:00
The RIAA got it their way with Suno and Udio.

Sam Altman must be an unbelievable salesman. Iger is tired and is looking for a way out. He's quit once already, but got dragged back because of Chapek.

I spoke with several folks in the C-suite Disney leadership a year ago about AI - Disney is learning and trying literally everything they can to capitalize on AI. Every division is experimenting, including ABC and ESPN. I spoke with the Pixar folks - of course they're using it too. They want to see what works.

They're internally partnering and trying out lots of companies and tools. It's been a mandate for a long time. Well before it was kosher in greater Hollywood. Before Coca Cola's first AI Christmas video last year. Disney was an early believer.

I've heard through the grapevine (companies talking to investors) that Disney has been working with multiple foundation video model companies. One of them was trying to animate parts of the live action Moana film, supposedly. Not the one you've read about in the news that got rejected. A much better funded one. Not sure if it made it into the film - I suppose we'll find out soon.

Do recall, also, that Disney has publicly rebuffed OpenAI's proposals twice in the past. Something changed, and my guess is the Netflix/WBD deal.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-12-11 15:51:37+00:00
We can't observe these ancient snakes or sharks actually living, so we can only make assumptions based on their morphology. And morphology certainly constraints and suggests behavior, and so we can make some assumptions here.

That being said if the question is "why have we not seen significant morphological changes" - there are a few ways to think about this.

First is that we would be blind to many types of morphological evolution. For example, if an isolated sub population of snakes or sharks started shrinking due to isolated environmental pressures, we would be unlikely to see this, but also if we fixate on the "largest anaconda", then we would filter out all "smaller snakes".

Second, the way we talk about "not evolving", especially for sharks is probably misleading. When we say sharks haven't changed, we mean to say that the shark body plan hasn't significantly changed. And this makes sense - they have a very efficient body plan for being a hunter in the see. We have "proof" of the suitable-ness since dolphins and other whales have converged onto a very similar body plan. Conversely, there are plenty of extinct sharks with body features that seem totally bizarre (https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/four-fossil-sharks-are-cool...).

Finally, especially in the context of "the largest" - the largest animals that can exist in a given environment is.... environmentally constrained, especially for land animals. The largest anaconda is likely near the largest sizes that the local environment to support, and so something larger appear is unlikely, without drastic environmental changes.
by Minor49er | 2025-12-11 15:51:44+00:00
> When programming becomes repetitive, the odds of you creating something that makes people go “wow” are reduced quite a bit.

Unless you're working on something with a lot of breadth, of course. A great example is yt-dlp which works on a huge number of sites. The wow-factor is high because it feels like it just works everywhere. That's only possible through a huge number of data parsers, many of which are not terribly different from one another