skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone knows you need the mouth open dumb face or the completely fake AI image for max brain rot which drives views and "engagement" (commenting on the fact that it's nonsense with people then defending the video as an authority as if it isn't stock footage with an AI voice reading a reddit comment).
Article was deleted and reposted as '20 Years Of YC' https://vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/20-years-of-yc/
That isn't always true, there's plenty of times where companies push features that users don't want. No Chrome users have been clamouring for more ads and more invasive tracking, for example.
Gimp is about as complicated or less than Photoshop which is what it's replacing... as a matter of fact there's even a Photoshop UI interface template that sits on top of gimp that makes it act exactly as Photoshop... so what are you talking about specifically
Mr Beast says he designs the thumbnail before making the video, then plans how to make a video to fit it.
History is written by the victors unfortunately and world history gives me little reason to believe things will be different this time around. Part of the point of erasing all these things is quite similar to destroying the past to control the future. But from their perspectives this is all corrupt, immoral, unethical information barely distinguishable ethically or even worse than Mengele’s experimental data. Except even people left of absolute insanity somewhat concede the relative scientific validity of all the data obtained while those ordering the deletions and redactions now have zero authority nor experience in the fields.

It’s a pity that creating anything of value takes at least an order of magnitude more effort than to destroy something, but I suppose this is why we’re funding back-ups and archives of all this data out there.
It is worth reflecting on group dynamics - every group has a small core of members who set the standards for everyone else. They can reform the group. No-one else can. Sometimes an outsider can manage through sheer force of personality.

Groups display some sad behaviours where most of the members know that what they are doing but the leadership is committed to something silly so they go along anyway. Sometimes it gets bad enough that they quit the group, but that is all they can do since most never have a chance at reforming it. This turns up formally in corporations (the executive team have the power to reform) but that is actually just a mirror of a natural social dynamic.

Consider religion for the more natural form of this. It gives a good indication of how the ratio of insider to outsiders pans out in practice. Catholicism is a very well established one, and how many people have the moral and practical authority to reform their doctrine? Not many.
Good riddance, there's too many layers of management for a company that touts "It's always day 1", and once you become a manager you can only fail upwards.
Been a user since 0.48 running on a SGI Indy with IRIX 7.x because I needed something with a UI for my undergrads to mark up image. Amazing how far it has come along.
Sad to see these small businesses close down. I wish them luck.
Exactly the problem with georgism.

It was conceived in a time when all wealth arose from land, and doesn't account for a service or knowledge economy.

The ultra rich don't get that way from accumulating land, they accumulate intangible contracts and earning rights, 1s and 0s on a server.

The only answer I have heard from georgists is that the costs would would be passed from all of the teachers, farmers, and laborers to the ultra rich.

If that that were true, we could just replace everything with a sales or value added taxes.

I find that georgism appeals to a segment of people who are entirely preoccupied by urban real estate prices, and haven't thought through the implications for the broader economy
It's hard to take the "stock market is just a game" claim seriously when it's been reliably delivering returns for the past 5 decades. Moreover the stock market pays for the retirement of working people after they've retired, and funds working parents' college fund for their kids.
If it causes "no liquidity" in the open market because nvidia (tsmc) can only produce so many GPUs / month and that causes nvidia's other cards to have a street price of 2x MSRP due to lack of availability? I would say yes.. It's just that "H100" or "RTX 5090" is not a registered stock with the SEC, so there aren't specific laws / penalties for manipulating the GPU market.

Same as "10 per store" limits when PS5s or whatever are in short supply, but then the CEO calls up the warehouse to get one for every student in their kid's class.
The reason that Adobe can do AI gen "out of the box" is because you're paying for it (Firefly).

If GIMP were to implement it, they'd probably have to go the same route as Krita and either spin up or call out to a running instance of Automatic1111 or ComfyUI.

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

MCP would be cool, but it would be significantly harder than Blender which can represent the "world" as a formal set of expressions. MCP for GIMP would be dealing with layers of rasterized data which would mean integrating with YOLO/LLava/etc in order to make sense of it. It would be neat, but it'd be a daunting integration and potentially VERY VERY slow.
I may have worked for that company, but I came away with a different take.

People are User Interface bigots!

People get used to something and that's all they want. The amazing thing Apple was able to do was get people to use the mouse, then the scrollwheel, and then the touchscreen. Usually, that doesn't mean that you get rid of an interface that already exists, but when you create a new device you can rethink the interface. I used the scroll wheel for the iPod before it came out and it was not intuitive, but the ads showed how it worked, and once you used it 20-50x it just seemed right... and everything else was wrong! People would tell me how intuitive it was, and I would laugh, because without the ads and other people using it, it was not at all.

Now we're in a weird space, because an entire generation is growing up with swipe interfaces (and a bit of game controller), and that's going to shape their UI attitudes for another generation. I think the keyboard will have a large space, but with LLM prediction, maybe not as much as we've come to expect.

I could go on about Fitts testing and cognitive load and the performance of various interfaces, but frankly people ignore it.
> It's called YouTube Face[1] and the fact that it works makes me

( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

(fixed it for you)
I have tobwonder how many variations of "gaping mouths and shocked expressions" we can come up with.
That person only has one comment but they also made a database 8 months ago. Crazy coincidence, you could get together and compare notes.
>and it is hypothesized

By whom and on what basis? Those are non-optional questions that should have strong answers as preconditions to you posting about it, if the objective is to offer something more than simple bullshitting (in the Harvey Frankfurt sense of indifference to truth).

This also doesn't answer like 90% of my concerns from my previous comments. Who has ever intentionally had a software development approach of having one team develop features and another person revert those features, working in tandem? And why would they need donations that are 0.20% of what they already get in revenue to finance it? I feel like you're just improv riffing here.
What do you consider the primary benefit of pinpointing a particular house in nuclear war?
> extreme tells

It's not a "tell" if it has no predictive value. Most things popular in output are that way because they were already popular--or possibly hackneyed--in inputs. I'm pretty cynical when it comes to LLM overhyping, but mimicking forms and styles written text is one of the things they actually do well.

Even if you see something odd like "adumbration" (vague foreshadowing) you're still stuck distinguishing between (A) a human trying to sound a certain way and reaching for a thesaurus vs (B) someone setting up an LLM prompt to try to mimic the first kind of person.
The name of this piece of software makes me unreasonably happy.
Krita is vastly better if you come to it from photoshop.

I doubt there is anything that couldn't be done in either and it is simply a matter of time spent in the UI and personal preference.
Well I guess what is more important to these places, money from the federal gov. Free and Open exchange of Ideas, not in US Univ. and Colleges these days.
I can save anyone reading this a click: it's an announcement of an announcement with a vague picture, a date, and a price ($2000).

If you zoom in it looks like the print head has two extruders but that's pretty meaningless without details.
That stock has been so absurdly high compared to other carmakers… this seems all but inevitable.
> Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more

Those... are not "pro-quality" things but cheap gimmicks.

Good that they're introducing non-destructive editing! I've long moved to DarkTable for photo editing. Photo editing never seemed like GIMP's goal.
Discussions

(104 points, 12 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388133

(33 points, 11 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388769
There's a reason I didn't say "innovation"—I knew that people would immediately point out it's been around forever. What's new is that it's in mainstream tooling.
1. That makes up a sizeable share of all apps
2. Those apps actually over-perform versus the overall app population (if you’d take “all apps” they’d do slightly worse)
I hope this isn't true. I'm very upset reading this.
My parents were quite tolerant of my devil worship[1], but they did tell me to hide my BSD Unix books when religious relatives visited.

[1] I think they knew Beastie was a harmless computer thing, but they also thought the moon was the size of a basketball.
What’s ridiculous is believing the cover story. This isn’t just some random joke about the previous guy, it’s a trial balloon to see if they can ignore the Constitution by pretending Biden didn’t really sign something. This is at the level of the “sovereign citizen” nuts who claim that they don’t need to pay child support because the courtroom had the wrong color flag, except that it’s in service of prosecuting political opponents.
what is the best plastic to print these lenses from? I've found over time all of the clear prints I've don't suffer from UV degradation.
I think more people might adopt this language if there weren't such in-group terminology like "oxidizing", "Rusteceans", pictures of rusty equipment etc.

I still wish for a serious book in the style of K&R or Stroustrup with no pictures, no mentioning of the package manager at all (sometimes it is mentioned in the first chapter!) and interesting code examples.
GNU/Linux/IMP
Discussion (350 points, 2 hours ago, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43393822
I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
If this were the case, then the existence of the Enigma machine, and also the existence of those Nazi communications which so kindly provided the daily seed for deciphering the codes, should have been published in the newspapers along the WWII.

I just hope that publishing the ransomware vulnerability was not ego-driven or anything like that, because they burned a period of time in which they could have helped many people.
This is a well researched article, my main disagreement in this field is the hubris necessary to even think greater tax receipts are the goal, and this is reflected in the language choice.

I think this is a blind spot as it seems the only people interested would be those hoping for some kind of "tax justice" which taps into a popular sentiment: people choosing to wonder why we aren't being screwed equally, instead of wondering why we are being screwed at all.

I get it, your tax bill comes and is inconvenient, someone else in a seemingly higher tax bracket seems to leverage a card or chess move that you don't have the ability to pursue.

But this is all a red herring. To the Supreme Court, choosing to go to a gas station in a neighboring town for lower tax rates is just as valid as doing what some multinational does for lower tax rates by having a nominal structure in another country. (And that's from the Supreme Court you actually liked!)

The aggregate priority of the US government is velocity within the economy. The speed that money moves within the economy, not the revenue collection from [ostensibly] facilitating it.

And even detractors to this reality can never reach agreement on what a "fair share" is. A completely arbitrary and undefined sentiment, based on a misunderstanding of the world and that individual's own socioeconomic status or outright mediocrity.

What is the most interesting is that these multinationals are sometimes paying tax somewhere else. Like the article mentions about how they are currently paying Denmark at 22% and have an inability to deduct enough. Ultimately, the state needs to figure out their revenues, taxing earnings is not the only way to do that and its only controversial to say that because some states can't balance their budget without it, and yet, others can by providing a good or service people are willing to pay for.
I do. Primeval social media, sure. Social media that predates the term "social media," even. Nearly all things exist before we agree on a name for them, so that's nothing new.

All of those services you list are examples of an online medium that exists for the purpose of socializing. So yes, they're all forms of social media, even if they're considerably less structurally harmful than something like Facebook.
I came here to say this too. I assume the developer only uses dark mode and didn't test light mode.
> At an industry standard 4% drawdown, they could provide $88,000 of “aid” to every student indefinitely.

Just to confirm: Are you saying that all endowment proceeds should go towards student aid? What would you suggest be done to restricted-purpose investments?
It’s not anachronistic to make this complaint about a product still being sold in 2025. The product name is now an anachronism.
not a single share of tesla has been bought in the last 10 years because someone thought they are a “car company.” of course whether “non-car” part ever materializes we shall see (I give this 0.76% chance) but tesla should never be compared or put into context of other car companies as that is completely irrelevant - stock prices wise…)
Congrats and thanks for all the hard work.

I'm an occasional/light user of image editing software and Gimp has been my go-to for years now.

I really appreciate all the work you've put into small UX details and performance over the past 3-5 years. It shows.
Cool. But this literally crashed my phone. I've never seen anything like it. Was impressed really. Little nervous. But it locked my Brave browser first then it locked my entire phone. System UI and Android crashed. It recovered but wow. What a trip.
Didn't help Jeep when Biden did it, either. Stellantis is going out of business.
>I think more people might adopt this language if there weren't such in-group terminology like "oxidizing", "Rusteceans", pictures of rusty equipment etc.

I write Rust and I agree. Hype is the downside of attracting trendiness.
Jagged Arrays [C#]
> this will hurt the US Defense Industry and make their programs less cost-effective, increasing the tax burden on all Americans.

Or maybe the other way: it will put pressure on the US defense industry to be more cost competitive, and this will result in a lower tax burden on the American tax payer.
It's like a headline in visual form. The most attention-grabbing thumbnail gets the clicks.
What? Krita had proper color space handling and conversions for many years, probably a decade now.

GIMP is the one that's still missing proper colorspace handling, especially regarding CMYK.

And Krita has had vector layers with text support for quite a while as well.
Yet, somehow DevOps and Visual Studio (proper) continue living as near zombies.

I would never have predicted Microsoft would still be developing a (sort of) Github competitor after acquiring Github. Why not plow all of that focus and energy into making Github the best project management system around? Project management in Github is one of the biggest gripes people have - even on Teams and Enterprise.
I had to check if HackerNews even supports ipv6, apparently it only recently started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099065
Laughed at "Unix was fun before all this DNS stuff messed it up." from your gunkies page XD
> income taxes will increase for high earners who cannot evade income tax

i.e., those pesky jumped-up merchants who think that $1M a year in wages entitles them to speak to us.

And who, despite what seems like limitless wealth to the lower middle class (I would know), don't have nearly enough to really influence on a major scale.
If it's a menu or toolbar and it mentions GEGL, it's wrong. GEGL is not something that end users should have to care about. Not to mention superfluous, since almost every fancy operation uses GEGL under the hood anyway.
Nice, now we can have plugins again thanks to having a stabilized API.
I saw that Beast Games used 1100 simultaneous cameras in the opening days to record every contestant, so I could see something wild like that, where you have 1000 GoPros out in the field all day.
I believe that would be mullvad. Tor browser without the tor.
https://lian-li.com/product/dk07/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v2PfSuDJAE&t=282s

My next desk, I've been done with wires.
It's kind of odd that this same article gets two separate front page threads in 4 days. It's a repost. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43353240
Maybe past 2 years, once it become obvious that sales growth is stopping and Tesla 'pivoted' to another story.

Until about mid-2024, Tesla was still projecting a 50% growth in car sales per year, until 2030 - with a goal of selling 20M car / year by that deadline. That was a very nice story that people believed.

Now they believe that Tesla will produce billions of Optimus robots. Which is also a nice story.
> I read this as Harvard being more stringent on admitting more students whose families make enough to pay their children’s tuition.

From https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi...:

> Most importantly, your financial situation will not affect your chances of admission to Harvard College.

> If you think I’m wrong, understand that there will be limited funding available for this program.

First of all, be aware that this program is not new. Until now the cutoff was $150,000, not $200,000. See https://web.archive.org/web/20240229232535/https://college.h...

To the question "How does Harvard afford raising the threshold by $50,000?", I think the plan is to use endowment investment returns to cover the cost.
I make more than 250k as an engineer in a small startup. The only reason to join a FAANG is to make much more than 250k. According to levels.fyi an average senior SDE at amazon makes $412k total comp.
This doesn't seem like we are getting anywhere on this part of the thread, unfortunately.

My suggestion would be - if we are ever in the same place, let's just grab coffee or something.

In the end - i suspect we are just going to find we have different enough experiences that our views of safe encapsulation and its usefulness are very different.

Let's put that aside for a second - I'll also take one more pass at the original place we started, and then give up:

To go back all the way to where we started, the comment i was originally replying to said "No, C lacks encapsulation of unsafe code. This is very important. Encapsulation is the only way to scale local reasoning into global correctness."

So we were in fact talking about scale and more particularly how to scale to global correctness, not really whether rust enables safe encapsulation, but whether encapsulation istelf enables local reasoning to scale to global correctness (In theory or in practice)

My view here, restated more succinctly, is "their claim that encapsulation is the only way to scale local reasoning to global correctness is emphatically wrong" (both in theory and practice).

My argument there remains simple: Tooling is what enables you to scale local reasoning to global correctness, not encapsulation.

Putting aside how useful or not it is otherwise for a second, encapsulation, by itself, does not enable you to reason your way from local results to global results soundly at all - for exactly the reason you mention in the first sentence here - bugs in local correctness reasoning can have global correctness effect. Garbage in, garbage out. Encapsulation does not wave a wand at this and make it go away[1]. There are lot of other reasons, this is just the one we went down a bit of a rabbit hole on :)

Instead, it is tooling that lets you scale. If you can have "catches 95+%" of local reasoning error (feel free to choose your own bar), you can almost certainly parlay that into high-percent global correctness, regardless of whether anything is encapsulated at all or not.

Now: If encapsulation enables an easier job of that tooling, and i believe it helps a lot, fwiw, then that's useful. But it's the tooling you want, not the encapsulation. Again, concretely: If I could not safely encapsulate anything, but had tooling that caught 100% of local reasoning issues, i would be much better off than having 100% safely encapsulated code, but no tooling to verify local or global reasoning. This is true (to me) even if you lower the "catches 100% of local reasoning issues" down significantly.

[1] FWIW, i also don't argue that this problem is particular to rust. It's not, of course. It exists everywhere. But i'm not the one claiming that rust will enable you to scale local reasoning to global correctness through encapsulation :P
Seems closer to representing the experience, but probably less interesting for enhancing the experience.
And also squatting on the i3 name because one of these is not like the other https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bmw+i3+2020&iax=images&ia=images vs https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bmw+i3+edrive+35l&iax=images&ia=im...

I mean, seriously, there are more numbers available
> 1. That makes up a sizeable share of all apps

No, there are literally millions of mobile apps.

> 2. Those apps actually over-perform versus the overall app population

Citation needed.

3. Can you explain why the majority of your 8 total comments are related to RevenueCat?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=HHaan
I thought they just wanted the $5B back.
Our psyche.

The exogenous of thought control is the imminent threat to humanity that humanity doesn’t know about, and is not prepared to comprehend.

“Beware The Exogenous of Thought Control”

https://pastebin.com/3cPXbjhA
Um, yes?

My impression is that huge corporations in a wide variety of industries are using various dodges to more-or-less avoid paying US taxes.

(But they are paying their US lobbyists and politicians quite generously, so this situation isn't likely to change.)
> People get used to something and that's all they want.

It's more than "getting used to." Learning to type (or to edit text fast using a mouse) is a non-trivial investment of time and energy. I don't think wanting to leverage hard-earned skills is bigotry, seems more like pragmatism to me. Unless the "new way" has obvious advantages (and is not handicapped by suboptimal implementation) the switching cost will seem too high.
Agreed. They've stated they used 1100 cams for Beast Games simultaneously.