MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-12 16:39:27+00:00
Not to mention that "nothing tastes like it naturally" is false. Plenty of fruits have a jelly like consistency, they're just not common in the modern western world. Consider ripe persimmons, caimito, or abiu. Jelly palm and quince are cooked into literal jelly. Further afield you also have aloe leaf and cooked nopal.
by m4rtink | 2025-12-12 16:39:37+00:00
A tunnel on the Kurobe gorge railway (originally used for dam contruction, now partially open to tourists) has reached 160 °C (!!) during construction, but has cooled down to manageable 40 °C since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurobe_Seny%C5%8D_Railway
by milch | 2025-12-12 16:39:46+00:00
Trains are also just more comfortable. More space, more comfortable seats, more space for luggage, you can walk around, better bathrooms, easier to work from especially in the 4 seat configuration, … Personally I would always prefer the train even if it is a bit slower. Once you account for traffic a bus that is scheduled to be faster ends up slower anyway, especially when you really needed it to be on time
by chimeracoder | 2025-12-12 16:39:53+00:00
> The whole concept of nationalism and border sovereignty has been with us for essentially all of human history,

Quite the opposite. The modern concept of "border sovereignty" as intertwined with the nation-state is a Westphalian construction. (Students of world history will recognize why this timing is not a coincidence). And even then, they didn't exactly catch on immediately.

Sovereign nation-states are a tiny piece of human history. They're not even the majority of recorded human history.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-12-12 16:40:09+00:00
How had I never seen this? Mel Gibson and a red-headed stalkee Julia Roberts as co-leads!?! Patrick Stewart as government villain?!?

My review after watching it last night (thanks again): definitely worth watching, but you'd be a nut to recommend this to anybody that has both feet on this planet. The first-half does a great job capturing what being a schizoid talkaholic feels like (both for self and others). The second-half is action packed with multiple mindfucks for the audience ("why does he have that picture?!" 3x). Not a good date movie, keep it for a personal tinfoil.popcorn movienight.

Ensemble: 9/10

Mel: 5/10 plays crazy too well

Julia: 10/10 wow no publishable notes

Patrick: 8.5 strobelit flashbacks of Captain Kirk waterboarding The Passion

Actor Synergy: 2/10 nobody seemed too thrilled with the screenplay

Explosions: 10/10 guy knew what he was doing DAM

Tinfoil: all the squarefeets

Believability (1997): 2/10

Believability (2025): 8.5/10

Overall: 5.5/10

Worth watching, even if just certain sassy actress scenes. Julia Roberts explores all damsel emotions in this one.
by keepamovin | 2025-12-12 16:40:13+00:00
Don't agree to dumb contract terms, nor fail to push back/negotiate over-reaches. I would not say this is representative of the Stripe that most know. We can expect companies to employ aggressive sales teams and business is often about extracting the most possible, especially at "enterprise" level.

Your "we had no idea" "advice to others: add redundancy to payments stack" is what, supposed to be sage advice? It's sort of basic SOP.

If you guys agreed to the gouge and are now playing victim, are we supposed to cry for your stupidity? I'm sorry. Not sorry, it's business. Not saying "stripe sales are right" just "you get what you sign up for". Dont' be a fool then come looking for sympathy and blaming, you exp[ect the competitive marketplace to grant you passage and add gold with no loss? Bah! Double bah! Triple humbug!

Your post may curry favor with devs (those innocents, those pure-of-heart) but those "at the corp level" will not be so easily fooled, deceiver!

I'm only slightly joking.
by neilv | 2025-12-12 16:40:21+00:00
> Second, the issue couldn’t be the quality or the quantity of the content. I came across some other pretty barebones Bear blogs that don’t have much content, and looked them up on Google, and they showed up in the results just fine. An example:

Suggestion: Remember that many large companies are emergently shitty, with shitty processes, and individuals motivated to act in shitty ways.

When a company is so powerful, this might be a time to think about solidarity.

When you're feeling an unexplained injustice from them, sometimes saying "but you let X do it" could just throw X under the bus.

Whether because a fickle process or petty actor simply missed X before, or because now they have new reason to double down and also punish the others (to CYA consistency, or, if petty, to assert their power now that you've questioned it).
by bluGill | 2025-12-12 16:40:53+00:00
IF Colorado did this all alone they could potentially avoid a lot of the high costs that result from getting federal dollars. Maybe - Federally funded projects tend to cost 4-7x would they would elsewhere in the world - but nobody really knows why and so it is questionable if Colorado could figure out how to build cheap. Still the potential is there. Colorado's costs would be a lot higher at 7x the cost with federal funding vs doing it all themselves for reasonable costs - but only if they solve all the issues the drive costs up.

Note that I have no confidence Colorado will tackle the issues driving costs up. Several of the known factors are places where politically powerful people (from all sides so don't bring in class warfare) are increasing costs and they let you cut them off. There are a lot of unkonwen issues left after factoring the above, and it is likely they also have politically powerful people increasing costs.
by everdrive | 2025-12-12 16:40:54+00:00
This is a pretty tangential to the article but Debian is just about the worst there is here. An application will be given a friendly name in an attempt to make it more user friendly. (eg: gedit is called "Text Editor") But, there is often no way whatsoever to map the friendly name back to the actual package name. Want to uninstall gedit? Well if you don't already know what it's called, good luck.
by jakewins | 2025-12-12 16:41:08+00:00
I asked Gemini the other day to research and summarise the pinout configuration for CANbus outputs on a list of hardware products, and to provide references for each. It came back with a table summarising pin outs for each of the eight products, and a URL reference for each.

Of the 8, 3 were wrong, and the references contained no information about pin outs whatsoever.

That kind of hallucination is, to me, entirely different than what a human researcher would ever do. They would say “for these three I couldn’t find pinouts” or perhaps misread a document and mix up pinouts from one model for another.. they wouldn’t make up pinouts and reference a document that had no such information in it.

Of course humans also imagine things, misremember etc, but what the LLMs are doing is something entirely different, is it not?
by jeyzolo | 2025-12-12 16:41:16+00:00
I’ve been building a small side project this week and wanted to share it. It’s called C2Story, a simple tool that generates AI-illustrated picture books from a short story prompt.

You type a sentence like “a bunny searching for a rainbow”, choose an art style (watercolor, cartoon, anime, Pixar, etc.), and it will generate: • a multi-page children’s story • consistent illustrations • an online flip-book reader • a downloadable PDF

You can also browse picture books made by other users in the Explore section.

This started as an experiment to see if AI could create something warm and personal instead of purely “utility” content, and I’m surprised how wholesome some of the results look.

Here’s the link if you want to try it: https://c2story.com

Would love feedback on: • story quality • illustration consistency • usability of the reader • whether people would use this for kids, gifts, or creative projects

Thanks!
by nickthegreek | 2025-12-12 16:41:17+00:00
> But when your kid needs Internet access to do their homework, and you forget to turn off the WiFi to their device after they're done... then they sneak that Chromebook to their room and watch videos all night, you lose.

You are at fault.

> When you have a extra phone that was sitting on your desk that you were preparing to resell and your kid sneaks that to their room to watch a few hundred YouTube shorts before you catch him, you lose.

You are at fault.

> When you have parental controls set up on your wifi network, but it's trivial to shut the wifi off and use the cellular network instead, you lose.

This can be controlled via Parental Controls on iOS via Screen Time. If you chose not to, you are at fault.

> When your friends all have personal cell phones but you don't, you lose.

Not sure what you want anyone to do about this. I recognize that life isnt fair.

> Parents have their hands full enough. Make it easier for parents, don't poke at them with a pointy stick.

No one is arguing against this. They are arguing how to implement this.
by MarkusQ | 2025-12-12 16:41:48+00:00
They don't really lie, they just produce text.

But the Eliza effect is amazingly powerful.

Applying the same reward strategy to the answer itself would be a more intellectually honest approach, but would rub our noses in the fact that LLMs don't have any access to "truth" and so at best we'd be conditioning them to be better at fooling us.
by rconti | 2025-12-12 16:42:07+00:00
Autonomy + insurance is an interesting way to arrive at what the insurers are already trying to push with their tracker dongles, where they encourage you to drive like a mouse by putting bits of carrot in front of you.

I had been worried that non-tracked insurance would become increasingly expensive once we reached a tipping point where more and more drivers accepted the devil's bargain, but likely the trackers will be obsoleted by autonomy.
by Rover222 | 2025-12-12 16:42:28+00:00
Yeah, that is all reasonable. I think the jury is still out on if sensor fusion can really get far enough up the march of nines (will it work in 99.99 percent of scenarios)? Karpathy has given some good interviews about why Tesla ditched the sensor fusion approach and switched to vision-only.

Same can be said for vision-only, of course. Maybe it won't every quite get to 99.99.
by lxgr | 2025-12-12 16:43:48+00:00
Doesn't Flixbus cap their fleet to 100 km/h? I'd be surprised if that's higher than the average speed of most intercity trains.

Graz–Vienna is admittedly a bit of a special case, since the railway tunnel there isn't finished yet, so I could see cars/buses being faster. (The train makes up for that in views, though ;)
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-12 16:43:54+00:00
Rust adoption in privacy tooling always feels like watching an old fortress quietly replace its wooden beams with steel ones. Tor’s codebase has carried decades of security assumptions, C-era tradeoffs and performance scars, so a gradual Rustification seems like the most sensible way to buy safety without breaking the ecosystem. The real win isn’t “rewrite everything” but reducing the surface area where memory-unsafety bugs can even exist. If the team can shift the high-risk subsystems (parsing, crypto glue, protocol edges) into Rust while keeping well-tested C where it’s stable, Tor ends up with a sturdier core without a multi-year rewrite freeze. The interesting question is how far they’ll push it: Will future pluggable transports be Rust-first? Will relay operators eventually run a hybrid runtime? Or does this turn into a long coexistence phase like Firefox? Either way, a safer Tor is a good Tor.
by jknightco | 2025-12-12 16:44:26+00:00
This doesn't work with the current architecture, because we have to introduce some element of stochastic noise into the generation or else they're not "creatively" generative.

Your brain doesn't have this problem because the noise is already present. You, as an actual thinking being, are able to override the noise and say "no, this is false." An LLM doesn't have that capability.
by rich_sasha | 2025-12-12 16:44:31+00:00
Add to that weird and counterproductive rules. Can't ask questions about framework selection on programming sites. Can't ask for gear recommendations on outdoor sites. Can't ask counterfactual questions on politics site. On history sites you can only ask questions after extensive research. If an obscure subsite of Wikipedia half-answers something vaguely related, the question gets closed (or at least you get angry comments).

It's weird how SE turned itself into a site for not answering questions!
by docjay | 2025-12-12 16:44:56+00:00
The advertising mechanism you outlined proves too much. Every parody, every satirical cartoon, every unflattering depiction creates profit risking associations? The idea that negative association might originate from AI generated Mickey doing something vile does not seem categorically distinct from the hand drawn rule 34 that has existed for decades, or from South Park episodes, or from bathroom stall drawings. Memories, sure, but I’m not sure the details of the studies support the idea that seeing childish or satirical works that are obviously not created or supported by the IP holder will have that kind of negative cognitive association. Actual acts done by the company, or willing associations with unsavory acts - absolutely. But there’s a wide distinction between taking a cartoon episode out of syndication because Epstein was a guest character voice, and fretting over a 3rd grader typing “Daffy but with boobs and stuff” into photoshop-o-matic.com. The question is whether fleeting cognitive residue constitutes actionable damage or simply the background noise of living among other minds who create things.

Kids making their computers say profane things about famous people or even making crude jokes at the expense of the disabled themselves created “negative associations” with the technology, and potentially with the companies producing it (if the effect is somehow unaffected by context), but the developers did not restrict access and blind people gained a tool that fundamentally altered their ability to navigate the world.

Now? Parents of a terminally ill child who cannot afford a trip could place their daughter in a photo with Elsa. Therapists working with autistic children who connect only with specific Disney characters could generate personalized social stories and visual supports. Teachers in underfunded schools could create engaging materials without licensing fees. Placing a real person alongside Mickey Mouse, or just making a Disney character give a thumbs up and “Happy Birthday, Billy”, required Disney's permission, professional artistic skill, and significant money. That gatekeeping is dissolving and I can’t imagine the positive impact it could have in people’s lives…apparently assuming Billy doesn’t get access to the prompt input first and ruin it for everyone.
by RHSeeger | 2025-12-12 16:45:17+00:00
All we _ever_ have is an idea of the correct solution. There's no point at which we can ever say "this is the correct solution", at least not for any moderately sized software problem.

That being said, we can say

- Given the implementation options we've found, this solution/direction is what we think is the best

- We have enough information now that it is unlikely anything we find out is going to change the solution

- We know enough about the solution that it is extremely unlikely that there are any more real "problems/puzzles" to be solved

At that point, we can consider the solution "found" and actually implementing it is no more a part of solving it. Could the implemented solution wind up having to deal with an off-by-one error that we need to fix? Sure... but that's not "puzzle solving". And, for a lot of people, it's just not the interesting part.
by mttpgn | 2025-12-12 16:45:19+00:00
Your site has a search bar for typing in a full prompt to an LLM about what is my current mood, and I just find it interesting that one's mood is the important thing for your users to supply as input to your service. For me, unless a major event has taken place, I usually don't take time to think much about what's my mood beyond one or two words. If I've been on a journaling kick I'll usually write about the concrete experiences of the day as a proxy for describing my mood without actually getting to what this means for my energy levels/affectations, etc. The mood descriptors I do recognize in myself (eg. kinda sad!) generally factor little into my content consumption decisions (at least consciously). More important to me are questions like "What are folks talking about? (driving discourse online or at the office)", "Which movies have been recommended to me (by friends/family or by advertising)", and "What's accessible? (On a service I already subscribe to without needing an additional purchase)".
by HigherMathHelp | 2025-12-12 16:45:35+00:00
I'm architecting a procedural geometry engine to address gaps and defects in the creative-coding landscape with a state-of-the-art mathematical implementation. I realized that to do it right, I needed to go beyond high-level abstractions and internalize the low-level mechanics of the graphics pipeline.

I wrote this guide to be the resource I couldn't find: it focuses on the irreducible minimum of the WebGL2 state machine and GLSL, structured for spaced-repetition learning (Anki). It bridges the gap between creative coding and raw graphics engineering—using hands-on projects to guide you from a blank canvas, to a 2D sketch, to building a minimal 3D engine from scratch.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-12 16:46:24+00:00
>Doesn't Flixbus cap their fleet to 100 km/h?

And the train is even slower than that. Let that sink in.

>Graz–Vienna is admittedly a bit of a special case

Special case at being ripped off when flights from London, Paris or Berlin across the continent are cheaper than trains from Graz to Vienna.

>The train makes up for that in views, though ;)

It really doesn't when you factor in the ticket prices. Some people who are not tourists use transportation out of necessity to get from A to B as quickly and cheaply as possible, not to do sightseeing and die of old age, so speed and value for money is more critical than what you see out the window. And a significant part of the trip is through tunnels anyway.

And there's only so many times you can see the same hills and houses before it gets repetitive and you go back to your phone. Not to mention if you travel second class, trains on that route are typically full of loud obnoxious people talking on their phone on speaker mode, who don't have courtesy for others so it ruins any enjoyment of sightseeing unless you have good noise cancelling headphones.
by runtimepanic | 2025-12-12 16:47:35+00:00
As sports betting became mainstream in the US, it was only a matter of time before major news networks joined the orbit. The problem is that betting partnerships pull journalism away from public-interest reporting and toward a monetized probability show. When information is framed as odds rather than insight, trust erodes. It’s one more step in turning newsrooms into promotional surfaces instead of watchdogs
by surgical_fire | 2025-12-12 16:47:40+00:00
This is something I am conflicted about as a parent.

My daughter is still a baby, so the problem is still a few years away. But I don't know how to best handle it.

In some ways, I see social media as more poisonous to the brain than alcohol or tobacco. So, forbidding - or heavily limiting - internet access sounds like a plan.

On the other hand, part of me being a parent is teaching her how to navigate the world. And part of that, wether I like or not, is using the internet. Having contact with the communication tools that exist.

The world is full of sons of bitches. If I don't teach her how to deal with that, I would be raising an idiot.

Still, a problem for the future me to ponder over.
by pessimizer | 2025-12-12 16:47:51+00:00
> to make them more tasty and addictive by processing in more fats, salts and sugars.

This is a very specific definition of "ultraprocessed" that many people don't associate with the term at all. Most people are trying to avoid the strange chemicals and fillers used to market food (like color and shine), to preserve food (so it can last longer on the shelf/warehouse and travel farther), or fill food (to replace expensive fats, starches and sugars with cheap fats, starches and sugars, or even to add indigestible elements for bulk and texture.) We have no idea of a lot of the long-term effects of some of this stuff, and much of it has never been tested for safety, just assumed to be safe.

Other people are trying to tell people to eat healthy food. This is your camp. You don't have to "ultraprocess" things to dump sugar into them. You can just dump sugar into them. I'm a home cook who doesn't really eat much processed food at all, but I certainly eat a lot of fats, salt, and sugar. I can tell you exactly how much. I put it in because I like it. I'm not interested in anybody's suggestion that I cut it other than my doctor. It's a public morals crusade disguised as a health crusade. "Ultraprocessing" often comes in when you dump some strange chemical in to disguise the lack of butter, the lack of a real sugar, or to lower salt content.

But with the other stuff, I hate that it's all lumped together in an "ultraprocessed" category. Each of the types of processing that is done on food is different, each should be justified on its own merits, the process should be public, and things that are notable should be labeled so people who want to avoid them can. Lobbyists fight in order not to label things, and not to have to test things.

I also don't mean to be overcritical about people who want people to eat healthier, but I believe that it undermines the fight to not have unknown dangers in food to turn it into an orthorexia crusade.
by ivraatiems | 2025-12-12 16:47:53+00:00
I support this, but I am not sure if it can be done via executive order? (Not that that has stopped any recent president from doing whatever they like via EO.)

It looks like, maybe yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_cannabis_from_Sched...

but it could and probably will be challenged.

Still, it would be a good move and has been needed for a while now.
by codexb | 2025-12-12 16:47:58+00:00
At one point, there was a case for preventing scammy and fraudulent apps. For a long time, the ios App store had a much higher quality than android.

But now? There are tons of scammy and fraudulent apps on the app store. If you try to search for any popular app, you'll be presented with a dozen apps that look similar with similar names and logos.
by perihelions | 2025-12-12 16:48:04+00:00
The explanation is deceptively unclear, IMO. What's being authorized is court-ordered searches of a type that were previously prohibited, even for courts to authorize, by strict privacy laws. The US has always had the power to conduct these searches [0]; the "inviolability of the home" human dignity concept doesn't exist in the US. (I'll defer to German people to explain this concept).

As explained in heise.de[1] (in German) about a parallel law being enacted in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,

> "For the online search, the deputies now also grant the law enforcement the right to secretly enter and search apartments with judicial permission."

[0] e.g. https://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138916011/home-visits-and-oth... ("Home Visits And Other 'Secrets Of The FBI'")

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Durchsuchun...