MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AngeliqueB | 2026-01-05 21:04:34+00:00
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by honkycat | 2026-01-05 21:04:50+00:00
SEGA has lost it's shine over the years, but IMO they are the greatest game company of all time. Their arcade output was STELLAR, their game dev teams were the most elite all through the mid 00's.

Seriously, look at their list of output. Just banger after banger. Not to mention their arcade hardware was top notch and was widely adopted.

Rest in peace David! Thank you!
by 999900000999 | 2026-01-05 21:04:55+00:00
To be completely honest I don't 100% trust the medical industry whenever there's so much money behind marketing something. There's a very real vested interest in trying to downplay the risk factors because let's just say tomorrow they found out this stuff makes all your teeth fall out.

A whole lot of folks would lose billions of dollars. My first instinct is to think I need to go and take another Europe. The food is better there and I lost a good amount of weight the first time.
by KoolKat23 | 2026-01-05 21:05:07+00:00
I don't know, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with this whole saga. Perhaps I havent seen the full story.

The fact of the matter is they do have a policy and they have removed it, suspended accounts and perhaps even taken it further. As would be the case on other platforms.

As far as I understand there is no nudity generated by grok.

Should public gpt models be prevented from generating detestable things, yes I can see the case for that.

I won't argue there is a line between acceptable and unacceptable, but please remember people perv over less (Rule 34).
Are bikinis now taboo attire? What next, ankles, elbows, the entire human body?(Just like the Taliban).
(Edit: I'm mentioning this paragraph for my below point.)

GPT's are not clever enough to make the distinction by the way either, so there's an unrealistic technical challenge here.

I suspect the this saga blowing out of proportion is purely "eLoN BAd".
by bluGill | 2026-01-05 21:05:23+00:00
The problem is when you reach SR the next step is often so far removed that you can't have that impact without not doing your real job. A jr to mid-level engineer: just be better at what you do. However Sr to the next level is a whole different way of working and you can't do those things and also write the code that a sr is expected to write.
by libertyit | 2026-01-05 21:05:38+00:00
Thanks for the questions.

> why do you care

I care about the health and happiness of my fellow humans. It's not unusual to seek restrictions for the community if they prevent harm. Seat belts?

> Obviously AI is not conscious

That may be obvious to you and me, but I am absolutely certain that that is not obvious to the majority of mankind, many (most?) of whom have never even contemplated what "consciousness" means.

> I want to understand your impulse to control others

If you saw someone walking into the path of a train while scrolling on their phone, wouldn't you reach out to stop them? Or would that just be your "impulse to control others"?

> I ask these questions not to be combative.

In my version of reality, questions are never combative.
by GMoromisato | 2026-01-05 21:05:46+00:00
I totally agree with you.

The trick is that:

1. Sometimes we don't know what is most valuable (from the company's perspective).

2. It is easy to convince ourselves that whatever we want to do is really the most valuable thing (e.g., "Refactoring this massive subsystem will help the company in the long-term" or "Introducing this new technology (that I really like) will make it easier to recruit talent.")
by techblueberry | 2026-01-05 21:06:13+00:00
I'm really not trying to be an asshole, but is this true? When I was a kid it feels like the culture was super-judgemental, and historically we had all sorts of norms about what one said in polite company.

This idea that everyone should feel comfortable saying and being whatever they want to be is relatively new, maybe to the internet age? I don't know when you went to school; maybe there was this unique time in the late 90's where transgression was cool (I do vaguely remember this era you talk about of people your generation having memories of "at least one loud debate with that one steadfastly pro-life classmate or the kids with weird experimental politics. But none of it was taken all that seriously beyond spur of the moment conversations. And afterwards everyone would still play video games with each other."

But it seems like such a short moment in time, and maybe one that required not having an internet where everyone just says all this shit all the time.
by MaysonL | 2026-01-05 21:06:51+00:00
Recent moves have convinced me that Apple is getting ready to push Vision Pro substantially harder.

In recent weeks, I’ve been getting push notifications about VP.

They hired Alex Lindsay for a position in Developer Relations.

And there’s the M5 update.

Just remember, it’s a lot cheaper than the original Mac(inflation adjusted). Give it 40 years – hell, given the speed of change in tech these days, it won’t even take 10.
by bgirard | 2026-01-05 21:06:54+00:00
Yea. When my girlfriend and I travel I use Google Maps and she uses Apple Maps. And it's a running joke at this point that if we're struggling to get somewhere, she'll pull up Apple Maps and get us unstuck and bug me to switch. I think it comes down to minor UI polish that makes Apple Maps more intuitive with transit and cardinal directions but I've never done a full comparison.
by epistasis | 2026-01-05 21:07:11+00:00
At this point in time, no comment that has the string "230" in it is saying that Section 230 absolves X of anything. Lot's of people are asking if it might, and if that's what X is relying on here.

I brought up Section 230 because it used to be that removal of Section 230 was an active discussion in the US, particularly for Twitter, pre-Elon, but seems to have fallen away.

With content generated by the platform, it certainly seems reasonable to understand how Section 230 applies, if it all, and I in particular think that Section 230 protections should probably be removed for X in particular.
by AngeliqueB | 2026-01-05 21:07:27+00:00
SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | UX/UI & web design

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I help organisations involved in social and environmental causes with the design of their website, UI, products and social media posts. I've worked on projects focused on thermal solar energy, household waste reduction, plant-based food advocacy and data science for social/environmental issues. My collaborative design process is based on creating designs that align with your goals while taking into account what's practical to develop.

---

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· UI/UX design: wireframes, mockups, clickable prototypes

· Web design: responsive mobile/desktop designs that are lightweight and fast, where I can also arrange web development

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by financetechbro | 2026-01-05 21:08:02+00:00
They don’t have to say anything. The market speaks for itself: do illegal stuff, don’t get caught, capture enough market share of whatever it is you are pursuing, and you will be rewarded handsomely by investors. The name of the game is capital return at whatever cost necessary. We will be living through the repercussions of this system for decades
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-05 21:08:31+00:00
The definition of CSAM is broad enough to cover it:

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-06/child_sexual_abuse_materi...

Generating a non-real child could be argued that it might not count. However thats not a given.

> The term “child pornography” is currently used in federal statutes and
> is defined as any visual depiction of
> sexually explicit conduct involving a
> person less than 18 years old.

Is broad enough to cover anything obviously young.

but when it comes to "nude-ifing" a real image of a know minor, I strognly doubt you can use the defence its not a real child.

Therefore your knowingly generating and distributing CSAM, which is out of scope for section 230
by chaps | 2026-01-05 21:09:08+00:00
Great recs.

Reclaim the Records and I do a loooot of the same work but it's separate enough that we don't really interact much. But I'm a big, big fan of their work and have had a couple light chats with the founder a couple times. She's great and yeah, wonderfully aggressive. Her work's the sort of foundational work that enables so much.

Muckrock and I go back quite a long way! Sending about 200 requests through them later this month :)
by gwbas1c | 2026-01-05 21:09:09+00:00
Don't make assumptions. My employer does not do end-of-year reviews.

To make a long story short, my manager got angry because I wrote a quick and dirty tool that bypassed a lot of confusing abstraction layers, and is significantly easier to use than the tool the company currently uses.

When my manager got angry, I first told my manager that we shouldn't argue in front of the entire office. Then I went to the CEO for advice. The CEO gave me advice that I used on my 1-1 with my manager later that day. (The CEO was also quite happy that I made a quick-and-dirty tool that made peoples' lives easier.)

> Why not mention to your manager that CEO supported you?

I suggested that my manager discuss the issue with the CEO when they told me that he didn't think he could "sell my tool" to the CEO.

To make a long story short, this is a case where my manager started the company, and people / project management is not their strong part. The limiting factor is funding, otherwise we'd have hired a proper project manager and promoted my manager (the founder) to a thought leadership role.
by evanelias | 2026-01-05 21:09:15+00:00
> ClickHouse went with PostgreSQL.

What do you mean by this? AFAIK they added MySQL wire protocol compatibility long before they added Postgres. And meanwhile their cloud offering still doesn't support Postgres wire protocol today, but it does support MySQL wire protocol.

> Even search here on HN.

fwiw MySQL has been extremely unpopular on HN for a decade or more, even back when MySQL was a more common choice for startups. So there's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy where MySQL ecosystem folks mostly stopped submitting stories here because they never got enough upvotes to rank high enough to get eyeballs and discussion.

That all said, I do agree with your overall thesis.
by mrexcess | 2026-01-05 21:09:36+00:00
Some really excellent points, here. I think reading the old HIG documents should be mandatory in UI design, and departure from it should require serious justification.

One small nitpick: the ellipsis reuse in item #8 - that’s actually valid and would have been back in the 1990s as well. A menu item that is followed by an ellipsis indicates that selecting that menu option will open a dialog box. Inconsistently applied, but that’s always been the meaning.
by 578_Observer | 2026-01-05 21:09:40+00:00
@doix, thank you for the fascinating deep dive into semiconductor design. To make sure I’ve grasped your point correctly, let me try to summarize it:

- Base Layer (Silicon) = "Steel": Re-manufacturing it is extremely costly, so it must be perfect from the start.
- Top Layer (Metal) = "Scaffolding": The wiring layers. These are much cheaper to produce, allowing for "patches" or corrections later on.
- The Wisdom of "Unused Cells": By embedding spare cells in the base layer upfront, you can fix bugs later just by changing the metal layers.

Did I get that right?

If so, this logic deeply resonates with what I’ve seen in Japanese "Shinise" (long-standing businesses) as a banker. Specifically, two practices that might look "inefficient" in a modern business model are, in my view, the "Unused Cells" of our Base Layer:

1. Not firing employees easily:
While some models treat labor like a "Metal layer" to be cut and replaced for quick optimization, Shinise treat people as part of the "Silicon layer." We keep them even in hard times so that when a big crisis hits, we can "re-wire" their roles to survive together.

2. Keeping high cash savings:
Many modern companies prefer to spend all their cash to maximize growth speed. However, Shinise keep a lot of cash. This is like the spare cells in your silicon—it allows us to finance our own "re-wiring" when the market crashes, without the foundation collapsing.

Your insight has given me a powerful new framework for why some organizations survive for 500 years while others vanish in three. Thank you!
by solarkraft | 2026-01-05 21:09:49+00:00
So this is a web app embedding thing like Cordova, but embedded inside of Flutter. It does not draw Flutter elements using web technology by default like React Native, though it can.

It sits in a weird spot for me. If I want to build a web app, why not Cordova/Capacitor?

Is the Flutter ecosystem so good that you’d want to use it from a web app? I do find the widget integration quite interesting, is it possible to build entire Flutter UIs like that?
by alnwlsn | 2026-01-05 21:10:18+00:00
It depends. My job and hobbies are closer to mechatronics than programming. I do like programming; I appreciate the feeling of cracking a hard problem or getting something to work for the first time, and I tend to prefer programming things myself when it makes sense.

But, I almost never do something "for the programming". Programming is just an ingredient to make the thing I actually want. This is why I use Solidworks and not OpenSCAD for most 3D modeling, for example. I've learned many things from it but I can't honestly say I'm in it for the programming.
by mothballed | 2026-01-05 21:10:22+00:00
The restrictions against abortion in case of something like rape, I think the thought is that the fetus's perceived right to life or perceived right to not be assaulted (chemically or physically) can't be deprived just because of a crime against the mother that was no fault of the fetus.

I actually find abortion with no exception for rape to be far more ideologically pure position than abortion with exceptions for rape.

The one that makes the least sense is restriction on abortion even in the case the fetus cannot survive. That one is far less defensible than not having a rape abortion exception as it can't be explained from the viewpoint of the rights of the mother nor from one of the rights of the fetus.
by nawgz | 2026-01-05 21:10:43+00:00
It's pretty clear the "kind of content" I'm referring to is the doublespeak that pervades American politics. And what is there to say about it? The comment section seems to pretty clearly align on "there is both no legal authority for this move and the action being punished is clearly not illegal", and yet we will all get to watch this slowly unravel however Trump wants, will we not?
by oatmeal1 | 2026-01-05 21:10:44+00:00
Calling a chatbot yes-man a manipulator in this case is unreasonable. If you take a drama class and then believe you have become the King of England and try to attack Scotland, that isn't the fault of the drama teacher.

There are all kinds of products we know people will misuse for violence (guns, cars, knives), but we do not hold makers of these products accountable because it isn't reasonable to blame them for what a fringe minority do.
by rounce | 2026-01-05 21:10:52+00:00
Possibly because you won’t have as many logs to look at on Windows, merely given the option of sending a proprietary dump blob to the developer’s bug tracker, and then hoping they eventually fix whatever mystery issue is affecting you. God help you if it’s the overzealous DRM or anticheat from some other game that likely isn’t present in their QA machines.
by measurablefunc | 2026-01-05 21:11:19+00:00
How many more cases will be sufficient for OP to conclude that gaslighting users & encouraging their paranoid delusions is detrimental for their mental health? Let us put the issue of murders & suicides caused by these chat bots to the side for a second & simply consider the fact that a significant segment of their user base is convinced these things are conscious & capable of sentience.
by bgbntty2 | 2026-01-05 21:11:42+00:00
If it's AI-generated, it should be legal - regardless of whether the person consented for their image to be used and regardless of the age of the person.

You can't have AI-generated CSAM, as you're not sexually abusing anyone if it's AI-generated. It's better to have AI-generated CP instead of real CSAM because no child would be physically harmed. No one is lying that the photos are real, either.

And it's not like you can't generate these pics on free local models, anyway. In this case I don't see an issue with Twitter that should involve lawyers, even though Twitter is pure garbage otherwise.

As to whether Twitter should use moderation or not, it's up to them. I wouldn't use a forum where there are irrelevant spam posts.
by mxfh | 2026-01-05 21:11:54+00:00
Like the whole recoverability paradigm, seems more like a feature from developer perspective looking for a reason to exist, than a true user demand.

You have state management for debugging purposes already, so why not expose it to the user.

As an example in photoshop no non-professional users care about non-destructive workflows, these things have to be learned as a skill.

Undo is nice to have in most situations, but you can really only trust your own saves and version management with anything serious.

Sonething as simple as a clipboard history is still nowhere to be found as built in feature in MacOS, yet somehow made it's way into Windows.
by debarshri | 2026-01-05 21:12:23+00:00
Theres more to it. This falls into the realm of privileged access management. I think if you are critical infrastructure, financial institution, healthcare tech. This is non negotiable and it is part of your compliances. Just VPN do not cut it out. At adaptive [1], we do the same for server, databases and kubernetes clusters. It is a double digit billion dollar TAM.

[1] https://adaptive.live
by ithkuil | 2026-01-05 21:12:34+00:00
Yes, sometimes that's indeed an opportunity cost. But it's also a catalyst for making things possible or affordable that otherwise wouldn't be.

Many technological progress are first explored in niche and luxury segments and only later fully developed for the masses with mass utility. Space exploration, motor racing sports, military, .... they all can seem like wasteful enterprises and yet a lot of new technologies come from these areas
by CascadeGuard | 2026-01-05 21:12:44+00:00
A bunch of people keep asking me: “What forces are actually moving my portfolio + balance sheet right now?” In 24/7 tokenized markets it’s often not price— it’s liquidity constraints (funding, haircuts, margin, venue concentration, collateral fragility) and contagion paths across venues/time zones.

So I built CascadeGuard (PatternOS): read-only monitoring that tries to surface early “cascade regime” signals + show why risk is rising (what changed, where, and via which constraint), with guardrails + what-if scenarios.
by kshacker | 2026-01-05 21:12:46+00:00
I am just speculating after reading a part of this discussion, and my thoughts are quite raw and evolving. LLM plays a lot of roles - doctor, lawyer, healthcare professional. It is not a stretch to say that if a Doctor has obligations, so does LLM that plays that role.

// At least that's how we save some jobs from AI :)
by akudha | 2026-01-05 21:12:51+00:00
How does one decide what should be in the public domain for the good of society and what should be commercialized? These are a couple of examples that I learned recently

1. In the UK, Royal Mail owns the postal addresses data. I was looking at UK's open datasets - apparently lot of datasets that have addresses can't be used without paying Royal Mail. There are some exceptions - but I am no lawyer. It is depressing to learn that Royal Mail is no longer a public institution, it was sold against public will by the UK government to a private entity, and sold again and as of last year it is owned by a Czech billionaire. Similarly, Canadian postal code database is also not free.

2. CPT code descriptions are owned by AMA (apparently they're super litigious?). Sure they took the time to write them, they should be compensated - but imagine how many interesting projects can be built if this data was freely available

On one hand, multi Billion dollar companies like Bloomberg exist, thanks to free and open data. But also things that should be free (dictionaries, postal codes etc) aren't.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-05 21:13:51+00:00
I'll tip my hand a bit, I suggested Reclaim the Records because while I am time poor, if they take up fighting anything you suggested, I can send a directed donation towards that work. If you have someone else in mind who will take on these legal challenges in Illinois, I am interested.

Love the Muckrock love, they are a treasure.
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-05 21:14:24+00:00
Nice logical fallacies.

> As far as I understand there is no nudity generated by grok.

There is nudity, and more importantly there is CSAM material being generated. reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1pijcgq/unlocking_gro...

> Are bikinis now taboo attire?

generating sexualised pictures of kids is verboten. Thats epstien level of illegality. There is no legitiamte need for the public to hold, make or transmit sexualised images of children.

Anyone arguing otherwise has a lot of questions to answer
by loeg | 2026-01-05 21:14:47+00:00
> Python doesn't have a built-in way to run untrusted code safely. Multiple attempts have been made, but none really succeeded.

Long, long ago, there was "repy"[1][2]. (This is definitely included in the "none succeeded" bucket, FWIW.)

[1]: https://github.com/SeattleTestbed/repy_v2

[2]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1866307.1866332