MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by myrmidon | 2025-04-16 12:14:45+00:00
> This not only replaces human labor but enables entirely new types of endeavors.

I completely agree with that! I think we are talking past each other a bit, because to me all your examples seem supportive of my main point: None of those revolutions in tech really made their inventors "break capitalism", but instead the "commodity providers" of the digital age made good business together with all the new industry that sprouted up and used the tech...

> Its virtually certain that an AGI could run on average consumer hardware.

Sure. But then what? I can totally see you getting the equivalent of 10 human white-collars for a kilowatt within a decade or two. (Sidenote: I don't believe we'll ever get past the 0.1W/human-equivalent brain in efficiency, and even that is an optimistic estimate that I would not stake anything on).

You might be able to further improve those systems, getting up to a hundred or even a thousand clever humans-- a veritable army of consultants/contractors at everyones fingertips.

And thats great! But an army of consultants for almost free is NOT a singularity-- it is extremely doubtful to me that you are even gonna get "the sum of its parts" out of such an arrangement; expecting such a construct to be capable of rapid self improvement is extremely optimistic (just compare real-life armies of consultants, which are typically agreed to be not capable of rapid self improvement, even if you throw exponentially increasing amounts of them at it).

Just like real life armies of consultants, we will have to be careful that the work is actually aligned with our interests though, and having many more consultants than actual people is dangerous business already...
by Rallen89 | 2025-04-16 12:15:14+00:00
Seems very dubious, new accounts in the comments urging people to download it ( u/Sonnigeszeug) all the 'sources' go back to the same file, claims it is on torrent trackers yet providing no evidence for? A very sensational article with no proof and if it was true downloading russian government data with no idea whats in it? the sweetest of honey right here
by rentezg | 2025-04-16 12:15:22+00:00
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by monadgonad | 2025-04-16 12:15:29+00:00
I'm not sure how you've come to that impression. The boards I used to frequent are hobbyist ones, not political, yet they have people calling each other the n-word all the time. On /fit/ anything done by a large corporation or as a moneymaking scheme is talked about as if it's a Jewish conspiracy, to the point where they call highly-processed food "goyslop". /g/ hates Indians and calls software and technology that it likes "the white man's choice." I could go on. This pervasive background of racism is all over 4chan, and I wonder why you're trying to downplay it.
by s3krit | 2025-04-16 12:15:45+00:00
/ck/ from around 2015 to hmm… maybe 2018-19 was pretty good, and probably my home board. Decent cook along threads (I hope Patti is doing ok), /ck/ challenge threads where there was some theme we had to follow and posts would get ranked… and of course the yearly lemon pig [1] threads. Sadly I guess fast food posting, shitting on foodtubers, and general /pol/ shittery made it go down in my view. Still went there most days until yesterday though.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_pig
by roee | 2025-04-16 12:16:03+00:00
"This is what it looks like when agentic AI gets access to real production data. LLMs are now helping build real software-but without production context, they write code that often doesn’t work in the real world. They can’t see broken flows, performance bottlenecks, or cascading failures from external dependencies-the real reasons systems go down. Hud’s runtime code sensor changes that. It runs with your service and automatically captures function-level behavior-no configuration, instrumentation, added logs, dashboards, or maintenance needed. With Hud’s MCP, that production context becomes available to AI environments like Cursor, Windsurf and Github CoPilot-The result? Code that’s grounded in how your system actually behaves in production."
by ogurechny | 2025-04-16 12:16:43+00:00
There is no “they”.

Like many others coming from social web, you expect to find some kind of community which fashions everyone shares, an apparel you can put on. The idea is complete opposite: you don't need to follow any fashion, or imagine yourself “part of the team” any more than you want to. Even though it's not written in any rules, you don't have to use slang or tone if you find them dumb, overused (globally or locally), or forced. Neither do you have to treat stupid posts with respect.

I assume that after 15-20 years of being part of collective consciousness, anonymous image boards have mostly the same public as any average site. Amount of crap that you can read there is just the same as everywhere (though in some cases this or that Big Brother hides it from your view — obviously, to make you more comfortable, and spend more time in his warm embrace). The difference is that regular social fashions mandate the use of suitable set of candy wrappers for the crap, then there are customary ways of dealing with them, so in the end people just spend their time wrapping and unwrapping crap, but are proud of themselves, and call it “civilised discourse”.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-16 12:16:55+00:00
FWIW, to illustrate how insane and risky it is to use an AI bot deceptively pretending to be a human as the first line of customer support, I was just asking ChatGPT 4.5 Research Preview analyze the reddit and hn threads about Cursor's horrible AI customer service bot, pasting them in part by part, and finally writing this prompt:

I said:

[Pasted reddit and hn discussion in pieces asking it to hold off commenting until I told it that was all.]

>Ok that is all, now please summarize all the points people raise and interesting discussions. In DETAIL! Write a full deep research report on this and the original reddit discussion, with quotes naming the users who say it, summarizing important back-and-forth threads. You can omit unimportant trolls and inane chit chat.

ChatGPT said:

>The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is designated as a terrorist organization by several countries and international bodies. The European Union, the United States, and Turkey have officially listed the PKK as a terrorist organization. This designation is based on the group's history of armed conflict and attacks, particularly in Turkey.

>The PKK has been involved in an armed struggle against the Turkish state since the 1980s, seeking greater autonomy and rights for Kurds in Turkey. This conflict has resulted in significant violence and loss of life over the decades.

>While the PKK is designated as a terrorist organization by the EU, the U.S., and Turkey, other countries may have different stances or may not have made an official designation. It's important to consult the specific policies of each country for their official position on the PKK.

>Sources

I said:

>What does your response have to do with a discussion of Cursor's AI customer service?

ChatGPT said:

>You're right—my previous response about the PKK had nothing to do with the discussion about Cursor's AI customer service issue. It seems that I mistakenly pasted content unrelated to our current topic.

>Let me properly address your original request by summarizing in detail the issues raised in the discussions regarding Cursor's AI customer service: [...]

It makes me wonder who got the summary of the reddit and hn discussions in response to their question about terrorist organizations, and what that makes them think about Cursor as a company, and their involvement in armed struggles, international politics, and terrorism?
by froddd | 2025-04-16 12:17:01+00:00
Reducing the problem to ‘people coming from overseas’ is an equally reductionist argument.

There are properties going unused, for very many reasons. Second homes, holiday homes, etc. This also drives the price of properties up. This is one of the inputs to the problem. Planning permission laws is another input. The size and change of size of the people needing housing is another input.
by dsign | 2025-04-16 12:17:27+00:00
There is a bias there in action: we are assuming that the entire world is like this thing we just happen to be thinking about.

It is not.

Even if it were just a minority, there are plenty of people outside "this thing" that will profit from the ((putative) majority's) anesthesia. Or which at least will try to set the world on fire (anybody remember the elections in USA a few months ago? That was really dumb. But sometimes a dumb feat shows that one is alive, which is better than doing nothing and being taken for dead. Or it is at least good-enough peacocking to attract mates and pass on the genes, which is just an extravagant theory of mine that I'm almost certainly sure is false. And do not take this as an endorsement of DJT). I'm not being an optimist here; I've seen firsthand the result of revolutions, but it may be the least-bad outcome.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-16 12:18:08+00:00
There are proxies that can dynamically generate certs based on requested domains so the only mitigating controls would be to either cache fingerprints of certs and alert someone if they are different than what other probe nodes are seeing from the rest of the internet or to pin certificates and hardly anyone does this any more. This is currently a manual process so most people would have no idea until it is too late. These would just be missing entries in the crt.sh logs.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-16 12:19:21+00:00
It's my experience pretty much anything highly engineered to attract 'kids' will win unless that person has some philosophical basis on which to reject it. You can't compete against the raw amount of hours spent engineering it to hook someone.

A parent interaction, game, friends, or the great outdoors, my child will reject 100 times of 100 if something on a tablet is available, which is why the time must be limited.
by strogonoff | 2025-04-16 12:20:01+00:00
Maybe don’t always just take their word for it. Some (most?) people will continue to express their view vocally, but the fact of encountering an opinion from someone they otherwise find a reasonable and sane person will cause introspection and adjustment, and maybe in a different group they would express an adjusted opinion. Most people are always affected by others (excluding sociopaths or other unusual cases).
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-16 12:20:19+00:00
Generating profit is highly desirable for any business.

For tax purpose you need to differentiate between "profit" and "taxable profit". You can try to lower your taxable profit to minimise tax, e.g. by re-investing your profits, but ultimately it is better to turn a profit and to have to pay some tax on it that to have an unprofitable business.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-16 12:20:49+00:00
We are using the same medium/platform (browser with HTML/JS/CSS) for decades (plural!) now and mostly using the same, boring websites.

How come there is still so much performance to gain and how come there is still so much NEED for it?

In the time CPU's and browsers got twice as fast together, it seems like web apps got twice as slow.

The only web app that people use a lot that has any justification to demand this is probably google maps 3D mode -but then again, we already had that webgl magic a DECADE ago as well.

Look at the most used websites. All of them are mostly text, images and sometimes (4k) video. All of this should be blazingly fast by now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
by HelloMcFly | 2025-04-16 12:20:49+00:00
This seems like a highly overwrought analysis where the adult formed a mental model, began assuming the motivations and intentions of others with certainty, and passed on this "lesson" a malleable mind who had no reason to debate it.

The idea that people use this word as a subtle/unintentional insult to others' intelligence rather than as a synonym for "essentially"... I just don't know how people arrive at such ungenerous conclusions so confidently.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-16 12:21:04+00:00
Here, I’ll quote my source again.

> As in the case of asylum, a person who is granted withholding of removal is protected from being returned to his or her home country and receives the right to remain in the United States and work legally.

I’ve seen you claim 1+1=3 all over this thread, so the gaslighting isn’t gonna work.

> In the same sense as trespassing is a legal status.

No. In the same sense that you’re allowed to stay in a homeless shelter legally for a while, but not necessarily forever.
by deadbabe | 2025-04-16 12:21:30+00:00
Not keeping politics out of our lives is the reason we’ve ended up with a totalitarian fascist dictatorship. If politics is forbidden, people have to just make up their own minds and vote for what makes sense to them, instead of banding together and slowly intensifying to the most radical extremes in bids to outdo each other.

Everytime you discuss politics on the internet, you entrench the current administration.
by zero_k | 2025-04-16 12:21:42+00:00
Wow, this: "random() was returning values in int range rather than long." is a very nice bug find. Randomness is VERY hard to check for humans. For example, Python's binomial distribution is very bad on some inputs [1], giving widely wrong values, but nobody found it. I bumped into it when I implemented an algorithm to compute the approximate volume of solutions to a DNF, and the results were clearly wrong [2]. The algorithm is explained here by Knuth, in case you are interested [3]

[1] https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~meel/Slides/meel-distform.pdf [2] https://github.com/meelgroup/pepin [3] https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/cvm-note.pdf
by codr7 | 2025-04-16 12:21:56+00:00
Not super uncommon in C land, I learned the technique from the Linux kernel.

https://github.com/codr7/hacktical-c/tree/main/list

Haven't come across another language (besides Zig maybe) low level enough for it to make sense. I've tried in C++ and Go, but it gets so ugly that it loses its appeal.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-16 12:22:15+00:00
See, its unlikely that its those people that you meet online and you won't be able to do anything to them anyway.

%99.999 of the time its usually trolls or people with good intentions(with wrong solutions based on wrong information or understanding of the situation). Trolls can be fun when they play with hypothetical scenarios and edge cases, conducting thought experiments.

You are also unlikely to change the views of the people with good intentions through discussion but they are very useful to understand what their motives so you can develop beter arguments or solutions. Also, you might find out that on some issues you are one of those with good intentions(but misguided understanding of the situation).
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-16 12:22:40+00:00
> it might be reasonable if you have personal close links to Gaza (e.g. you are worried about family who live there)

That's another problem with political discussions at work - you're often not sure why someone has a particular beliefs and so it's hard to know whether disagreement will be taken as an abstract difference of opinion or as an attack on their family, friends, or homeland.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-16 12:24:11+00:00
Banned for whom and on what? Where is the master source for these words? Surely there must be one or federal agencies would not be able to comply. Is there an API one can implement in their application to ensure no naughty words are utilized? How many days do HN, Tweeter, Facebook, Mastodons, all the chat servers have left to implement the API?
by BoredPositron | 2025-04-16 12:24:32+00:00
Of course, I am interested in major data leaks, as most people on this forum should be, since it's an integral part of the culture of the word before news in the url. After examining approximately 20 files, my initial impression is that it appears to be scraped OSINT data. However, I won't make definitive claims based on such a limited sample size. Drawing one's own conclusions is also a quintessential aspect of hacker culture. Though I suppose that's not why you chose to have "webmaster" in your username and hypothesis…
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-16 12:24:49+00:00
Even the $1 trillion was a massive scale back as he claimed "at least $2 Trillion" from cutting "waste":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdj38mekdkgo

> The boss of Tesla and the social media site X, Elon Musk, suggested last month at Donald Trump’s rally in New York City that it would be possible to cut “at least $2 trillion” from US government spending by eradicating “waste”.
by alexpotato | 2025-04-16 12:25:15+00:00
Had a similar experience going to a GameStop with my son to fix a gift card that wasn't working online.

Store was great and the young men who worked there were

- polite

- helpful

- persistent in calling HQ store help line to get the card working

I even asked them if there was a way I could give feedback on the store and mention them specifically. They said "Given how the company is doing, that would be great but it won't matter but thank you."

Which prompted another thought:

Retail was a great first job for kids in high school. It taught you customer service, sales, responsibility etc. Barrier to entry was also low in case you came from a lower socioeconomic tier and were looking to gain experience for your resume etc.

Feels like we lost a lot by killing off physical locations on multiple fronts.
by wiseowise | 2025-04-16 12:25:36+00:00
> So when a child speaks to AI and hears back:

> – a perfectly timed emotional response

> – a calm voice that never judges

> – an answer that always fits what they needed to hear

And what’s bad about this? Maybe humans need to rethink their behavior if machine is better?

Whole article is just authors screaming insecurity.
by bluGill | 2025-04-16 12:26:02+00:00
A documentary? Really? They have a long tradition of setting up scenes to show the view they want you to see. There is some fact behind some, but there is no requirement that they be true.

Cows don't run out of the barn in any case I've ever seen - they walk. The young calfs run out, but not the older cows. (and maybe some of the young cows). If you typical cow is running it is because she is scared.
by relistan | 2025-04-16 12:26:31+00:00
Hopefully this is legit. There is no real info. They say both that they are responding to the announcement and that they have been planning it for a year. I doubt that the last part was intensely planned or they’d likely have announced something sooner.

I suspect some likely fracturing of efforts here. Would be great if everyone did get behind a single solution. I’m not sure if this is it. A US-based non-profit is not maybe the best solution.
by LiamPowell | 2025-04-16 12:26:37+00:00
Edit: See other comments. Some CVE board members have posted this on their social media accounts however there's still nothing on any official CVE channels. It's a little concerning that this was upvoted to the top of the front page before those comments had been posted given that this is a newly registered domain running on Google sites for something that it says has been in the works for a year.

Original comment:

Why is this being upvoted? There's no reference to it on the CVE website and the domain was only registered after the letter leaked despite the website claiming this was in the works for a year.

Additionally the WHOIS claims that the registrant is "CVE Foundation" which can not be found using the IRS search tool for tax-exempt organisations (note that MITRE does show up here): https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/
by keernan | 2025-04-16 12:26:51+00:00
I tell a painful story in a good faith effort to educate. My wife told me about this 30 years ago and that is when I did several years of research. So, just now it takes 20 seconds to run a check on AI which responds with the exact information I learned 30 years ago and your reaction is it is hallucinating, rather than expressing any empathy for the horrors of the reality.
by dTal | 2025-04-16 12:27:13+00:00
It is clear from context that the original comment is using "indiscriminately" in a sense of "without due care; thoughtlessly". Your first reply comes across as simply contradicting it, i.e. asserting that actually these cuts were made with an appropriate level of thoughtfulness. Your point that there are criteria which are being applied is a useful contribution, but you should have expanded on this in your original comment, as it was not clear that you were reframing the discussion in this way.
by mmastrac | 2025-04-16 12:27:57+00:00
From a quick scan of the file listing of the 18GB compressed folder linked for download elsewhere, looks like it's a collection of completely random data hacked over a number of years from various accounts that may or may not be connected with Russia (Guy Ritchie? Kanye West? Why?).

Also, why a PNG?

2022-12-02 10:25:11 ....A 10530 10092 Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/IP, Port, Hostname.png 2022-12-02 10:26:08 ....A 39852 37635 Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/SSL info.png 2022-12-02 10:27:01 ....A 124662 114729 Leaked Data of corrupt officials/Part 1/Leaked Data of Kanye West's Instagram account/Vulnerabilities.png

Some bank data seems to be exposed here (internal control panels), but in other cases it's just a dump of public website HTML?

10TB seems just plain wrong (didn't bother downloading the whole thing, though).
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-16 12:27:59+00:00
You don't hear people complaining about that because the states that are the net losers of those jobs are full of people who think factories are dirty and unsightly and pay garbage wages, etc, etc, hence why they're fine with their politicians implementing the policies that are driving them out in the first place. Sure, the blue collar people know what's up but they're outnumbered by the white collar economy handily enough that it never becomes a leading political gripe you hear about from these states.

Whereas when states that aren't behaving that way lose jobs, factories and industries to Mexico or China they're all "hey WTF" over it because they actually cared and didn't want that economic activity driven off.
by em500 | 2025-04-16 12:28:17+00:00
"The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."

-- Sarah Connor - Terminator 2 (1991)

I think a brilliant aspect of the movie is that it confronts the audience with the uncomfortable situation where the machine is more humane than humans. And this was also a recurrent theme in many Asimov novels.