MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway473825 | 2025-04-08 14:59:20+00:00
>Yes BankID is the real MVP of digital systems, I heard some talks about the EU making one valid for the whole block.

Sweden is actually in a pickle here. The dominant but private BankID doesn't satisfy all security requirements for the EU's digital identity wallet. It just isn't profitable.

The government is now working on a public government eID with a higher security standard, but many Swedes might still be left out since adoption will take some time.

This is one of many reasons why eIDs shouldn't be run by for-profits corporations, and sadly nothing would likely have happened without pressure from the EU.
by atommclain | 2025-04-08 14:59:38+00:00
I thought the selection tool allows you to limit the area of the image that a revision will make changes to, but I tested it and I still see changes outside of the selected area which is good to know.

As an example the tape spindles, among other changes, are different: https://chatgpt.com/share/67f53965-9480-800a-a166-a6c1faa87c...

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9055440-editing-your-ima...
by virgilp | 2025-04-08 15:00:41+00:00
> still a very young country

Oh come on. The amerindian/indigenous culture has (almost) _nothing_ to do with US culture, which is very much a thing. In fact, it's so much a thing that US almost had a "cultural victory". Part of the cold war victory was US cultural victory, because people all over the world aspired to the american dream. Hollywood movies are some of the most watched entertainment worldwide. English is the world's lingua franca because of the US, not UK (well, UK, but indirectly via US). All the american problems and internal conflicts will spill over to the world - or at least western world - sooner or later (it's unbelievable how much university environment in say, Germany is influenced by what is happening in the US universities; identity politics recently became a thing in Romania, when it seemed to be completely gone and irrelevant).

Don't kid yourself, USA absolutely has a very strong and well defined (and influential) culture. Not in that each citizen is the same, but that there are clear patterns, societal norms, generally-shared values etc. I'll take just one example: there are a lot of Indians in the US, AFAIK. They _largely_ don't have arranged marriages in US (definitely not 90% of the US citizens of Indian heritage!).
by rickyxstar | 2025-04-08 15:00:45+00:00
It’s a powerful reminder that relationships, even in professional settings, are the foundation of success. By approaching every interaction—whether it's a pull request or a team meeting—as an opportunity to build connections, we can foster stronger collaboration and create lasting value in our careers. It’s easy to overlook the importance of these small moments, but they truly make a difference in the long run!
by encypherai | 2025-04-08 15:00:48+00:00
AI detectors suck.

They flag real students as cheaters, mislabel original writing as “likely AI,” and rely on statistical guesswork that just isn’t reliable. Even OpenAI shut down their own detection tool, citing low accuracy.

So I built EncypherAI: an open-source tool that embeds verifiable cryptographic metadata into AI-generated text at the moment of creation. Think of it like a digital fingerprint: invisible, tamper-proof, and verifiable in milliseconds.

- No changes to how the text looks or reads

- Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, local models, or custom pipelines

- Lightweight Python package with CLI

It uses invisible Unicode variation selectors to embed the metadata without altering the visible text.

Metadata can include model ID, timestamp, purpose, and even user or session IDs, all verifiable offline using HMACs.

We're hoping this becomes a baseline standard for AI content attribution, something platforms and LLM providers can adopt to prove when something was generated, instead of guessing. This is already sparking conversations with leading LLM providers building toward responsible AI infrastructure.

Here's the GitHub: https://github.com/encypherai/encypher-ai

Website: https://encypherai.com?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=post&utm_cam...

Article + 1-min explainer: https://encypherai.com/blog/what-if-ai-content-came-with-bui...

Would love your thoughts. Is this the kind of system we need to make AI content more trustworthy?
by Arainach | 2025-04-08 15:01:04+00:00
The disagreement is over the highlighted line:

>People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

My experience is that "self taught" people are passionate about solving the parts they consider fun but do not have the breadth to be as effective as most people who have formal training but less passion. The previous poster also called out real issues with this kind of developer (not understanding time complexity or how to fix things) that I have repeatedly seen in practice.
by adolph | 2025-04-08 15:01:04+00:00
Proving a negative is a fools errand. The fossil record developed thus far doesn't support it. Additionally there is such intelligence as the Octopus which has an evolutionary split much earlier than mammals and birds.

The last common ancestor of [humans] and octopuses is a flatworm that trawled the sea floor 750 million years ago. This is the most recent creature that we both have a direct line of descent from – it represents the point at which we diverged down separate evolutionary pathways. To illustrate just how early this was, this was 80 million years before any animal showed bilateral symmetry – the familiar body plan with a defined top and bottom, and right and left; 350 million years before tetrapods – the first four legged creatures that gave rise to all birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians – came into existence; and 500 million years before the emergence of dinosaurs.

https://eusci.org.uk/2020/06/22/an-alien-in-our-sea-a-look-a...

Nice book about the topic is "The Deep History of Ourselves" by Joseph LeDoux.

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-History-Ourselves-Microbes-Consc...
by verdverm | 2025-04-08 15:01:50+00:00
I think you believe we all struggle with your framed problem and your tool is some panacea. In reality, every tool and process has its limitations and rough edges, including yours as you've hopefully gleaned in comments here.

Being married to a specific tool like GT is limiting. GT doesn't work with most industry languages _today_, even though _in theory_ it could. It's written and scripted in a language few use, which makes it unapproachable
by theamk | 2025-04-08 15:01:51+00:00
The problem is "knowing their salt to do recruiting" is very hard. In all places I've been, the kinds of interview we are talking about here (technical problems, etc...) are delegated to regular engineers. So those technical interviewers are likely great at reading and writing the code, but they many not be the best at spotting fake AI.

(The recruiters only come in for non-technical parts like resume filtering, general information and benefits. Sometimes there is non-technical "culture fit" interview, that is usually some sort of middle manager from the department doing the hiring)
by haswell | 2025-04-08 15:02:11+00:00
To bring this back to where it started:

> It reminds me of people who won't eat certain foods because it contains "too many chemicals".

Maybe I misread this, but I took this to refer to the current food industry and how it processes/produces foods. The market is filled with products labeled "strawberry" that are not really strawberries or even close to the makeup of strawberries.

> What do you mean by "vat of chemicals called a strawberry?"

The breakfast food aisles at most (American at least) grocery stores summarize what I'm getting at. Many of the "strawberry" products are highly processed and highly artificial.

My point was that the ship of Theseus analogy seems misapplied, since we're not talking about a situation where the food choices we have are between the real thing and some molecularly perfect replica.

And secondarily, to call strawberries just a "vat of chemicals" in this specific context seems like a misnomer when considering that the reason people "avoid food with too many chemicals" is quite unrelated to the fact that everything is made up of the same stuff of the universe and more to do with questioning whether or not the human-made processed option is safe in the long run.
by supportengineer | 2025-04-08 15:02:12+00:00
No, I go straight to GPT. Because I’m not usually searching for a webpage. What I’m really looking for is to learn through the course of an interactive discussion. Where I can ask any question no matter how stupid it is. Imagine a patient elderly colleague who will never lose their temper or mock you. Sometimes they get things wrong, but that’s where critical thinking comes in.
by bloopernova | 2025-04-08 15:02:39+00:00
Yeah I think people that complain about git should try running a project with CVS or subversion.

The amazing flexibility of git appears to intimidate a lot of people, and many coders don't seem to build up a good mental model of what is going on. I've run a couple of git tutorials for dev teams, and the main feedback I get is "I had no idea git was so straightforward".
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-08 15:02:56+00:00
Well yeah, but copyright infringement isn't a function of how quickly you can view and create works.

Copyright is meant to secure distribution of works you create. It's not a tool to stop people from creating art because it looks like your art. That has been a thing for centuries, we even categorize art by it's style. Imagine anime was had to adhere to a copyright interpretation of "it's my style!".
by senko | 2025-04-08 15:03:20+00:00
At least in my corner of the EU woods, Microsoft is so ingrained in government processes (at all levels) that it's nigh impossible to remove.

It would take an EU directive pushing "open source or EU sourced" down our govt's collective throats, and a few decades, to actually implement.

Instead I suspect it'll lead to many loud initiatives, a few €B to the usual players, and a quiet promise to Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and others to not to worry.
by prmoustache | 2025-04-08 15:03:41+00:00
sigstore is not a github action specific tool, you can use the python client with any CI/CD tool runner. You can attest with py_pi attestations and publish with twine.

When migrating the steps don't have to use the same syntax and tools, but for each step you can identify the desired outcome and create it without actions from the gh marketplace on a different CI/CD.

More importantly, you consciously decided to make your pipeline not portable by using gh actions from the marketplace. This is not a requirement nor inevitable.
by walterbell | 2025-04-08 15:03:48+00:00
Andy Grove, "How to Make an American Job" (2010), https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/documents/areas/adm/loeb/11_35...

The first task is to rebuild our industrial commons. We should develop a system of financial incentives: Levy an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. (If the result is a trade war, treat it like other wars—fight to win.) Keep that money separate. Deposit it in the coffers of what we might call the Scaling Bank of the U.S. and make these sums available to companies that will scale their American operations. Such a system would be a daily reminder that while pursuing our company goals, all of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability—and stability—we may have taken for granted.

Aaron Slodov, "Rewiring Silicon Valley for the World of Atoms" (2025), https://x.com/aphysicist/status/1906552189880844664

Manufacturing demands capital, tech, and execution, creating moats through scale and complexity. Returns could dwarf SaaS multiples if a startup nails a sector where efficiency gains translate to real massively scalable growth. The risk is higher (upfront costs, R&D, hardware flops), but it does scream classic venture asymmetry. Compared to, say, biotech's long timelines or consumer tech's saturation, this hits a sweet spot: tangible impact, massive macro tailwinds, and a shot at monopoly-like dominance.. The greatest returns of the next decade won't come from shuffling bits, but from reimagining atoms—and it will take our entire capital ecosystem working in concert to make it happen.
by hello_code | 2025-04-08 15:04:20+00:00
Hey HN!

I’ve been working on a tool called Mochi – a Reddit content scheduler and strategist built specifically for people who are trying to grow their product or brand without spamming or burning accounts.

Most social media schedulers treat Reddit like Twitter, but it’s a very different ecosystem:

Timing matters more.

Tone matters a lot.

Context is everything.

And subreddit rules can get you banned fast if you're careless.

I got frustrated watching teams (including my own) miss key engagement moments on Reddit. We'd either be too late to respond to relevant posts or end up posting in the wrong way, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

So I built Mochi to:

Monitor chosen subreddits for rising posts worth engaging with

Analyze engagement patterns to figure out what type of content works

Build weekly content strategies based on your goals (e.g. warm up an account vs. light brand mentions)

Schedule posts/comments in advance while following subreddit-specific guidelines

It’s already helping early users cut through the noise and be present on Reddit without living on Reddit.

If you want early access (we’re rolling it out slowly), the waitlist is open now. Early users will get a better launch price and a direct say in feature prioritization.

Would love your feedback, especially if you're in SaaS, indie hacking, or handle brand growth through content/community.

(And I’m happy to answer anything about how it works technically too.)
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-04-08 15:04:25+00:00
There's a way to do it. This playbook has been used repeatedly throughout the 20th century.

First you invite industry to reshore via subsidies and preferential access to government contracts. If necessary, the government must directly invest in new firms. (They already do this in a very small way with In-Q-Tel and others, so it's not totally beyond the pale. For a time there was even a US Army VC firm.) If you talk to a Chinese factory owner or mine boss, many of them will tell you that they got their start with a >$2M direct investment from their government.

Second you gradually tighten the screws on foreign finished products, not industrial inputs like metals, plastics, ores, etc.

Third you streamline export paperwork requirements and relax things like ITAR.

Then, when that's all humming along and the factories are working, you can launch blanket tariffs to protect your nascent industries, if need be. But you must exempt necessary industrial inputs from tariffs.

What's happening now is completely backwards/inverted and it's going to lead to total chaos.
by olalonde | 2025-04-08 15:05:00+00:00
> I've even had homeless people ask me for Pix instead of change on multiple occasions.

Sounds like WeChat Pay. It's been years now that beggars in China only carry QR codes.

> Cryptocurrencies don't stand a chance.

They solve a different problem or have the potential to: predictable/unbiased money issuance and on/off ramp for payment platforms.
by matt_s | 2025-04-08 15:05:46+00:00
This is a core concept for building habits that I started doing after reading atomic habits. For whatever reason I find physically writing tasks works better for me but I might be willing to try digital again.

After stating that, I do use an app for calorie tracking which has a streak tracking feature for number of consecutive days. That would be a good feature for habit forming - I think the science is like 3-4 weeks of consistent habits gets it to stick so setting a goal of 21-28 consecutive days, then progress to just reminders instead of tracking. Like "hey you're still flossing daily right?" types of things.
by runjake | 2025-04-08 15:06:21+00:00
I'll use Claude about 75% of the time, and then a search engine about 25% of the time. That 25% of the time, I'm usually looking for:

- Specific documentation

- Datasets

- Shopping items

- Product reviews

But for the search engines I use, their branded LLM response takes up half of the first page. So that 25% figure may actually be a lot smaller.

It's important to note that these search engine LLM responses are often ludicrously incorrect -- at least, in my experience. So now I'm in this weird phase where I visit Google and debate whether I need to enter search terms or some prompt engineering in the search box.
by hansmayer | 2025-04-08 15:06:27+00:00
Please don´t take it as trolling - but if your higher ups are as competent as you say: why do you need to help them with the big picture ? Shouldn´t they be the ones setting it or at least directing? I am saying this because topics like improvement of performance and reduction technical debt were established as drivers of revenue a long time ago. That is why Amazon optimised the sh*t out of their checkout process and Google (before they were took over by the business types) obsessed about page loading times. Oh coincidentally - that was also the time when major tech companies were run mainly by engineers. Is that why their products used to be so much better? Too many "busyworkers" are now wasting everyone's time by having engineers explain "the big picture" so that they can present it at some meeting and take credit for. And in the process, the products get more entshittified every damn day.
by supportengineer | 2025-04-08 15:06:40+00:00
I thought of one more thing I want to add. GPT listens to you. It makes you feel heard. Let’s say I ask a question but I have a strong bias. For example, what if I said “JavaScript is stupid, why can’t we go back to using Java Server Pages?”

Instead of clowning me or making me feel invalidated it would present an argument that covers both sides and would probably start with “JSPs have certain advantages, and I understand why you would feel that way. Here is a list of pros and cons…”
by elictronic | 2025-04-08 15:06:42+00:00
Manufacturing will start coming back based on the high tariffs just with two big caveats.

1. Manufacturing takes time and money to setup. This is a software forum where changes are made at lighting speed. Manufacturing requires capital, years, and will. In software it might take a day to make an obvious change. Manufacturing hopefully 6 months. Working with physical systems takes time.

2. Manufacturing does not mean jobs. It will be automated with a fifth or less required to setup and maintain. Some technical jobs will come back, but nothing like what has been said.

The tariffs initially put in place will have the same level of effects as a war. This is At Covid levels. The effects take time, inventories are getting sold. You are responding to the news not the effects give it a few weeks for company CEOs to get through the meetings that their employees are pushing up the chains.

Outside of all of that. The biggest issue is consistency of action which this admin squirellllll.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-04-08 15:06:52+00:00
The economics have shifted. It used to be that solar or wind were more experimental, and lacked any economies of scale. Their production was poor and less was known about how they fared in the long term.

Now, their prices have gone down, their generation per unit has gone up, and much more is known about how they behave long-term.

The world has a LOT of power generation. It will take time to replace. But with every time that some existing power generation source shuts down due to age, or expansion occurs somewhere, it will inevitably be done with solar/wind. It's just more cost effective now.

In the end it is not environmental concerns that will cause solar and wind to become commonplace. It's just economics. Slapping down something that generates power for 20-30 years with no input fuel is just way more economically feasible than anything that requires fuel. They still have maintenance costs, but it's nothing by comparison. They can completely undercut other sources of power.
by Gibbon1 | 2025-04-08 15:07:00+00:00
My comment perceptually, exponential growth looks like bring hit by a wall. It's nothing at all until it is. It'll be 1%. And in a while it double. And double a again. And again. And each doubling is the same amount of time between them.

We're close to production of solar and wind exceeding recent growth in energy demand. When that happens it'll start cratering oil and gas demand.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-08 15:07:02+00:00
The world is deep and hard to categorise, people disagree on the nature of justice, and many (all?) people mistake their moral heuristics for moral truth. But there's one thing that everybody agrees on: "justice is obeying the law" is wrong. https://existentialcomics.com/comic/196 (Or https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-obligation/, if you're one of those boring types who wants factual understanding.)
by nayanlad | 2025-04-08 15:07:04+00:00
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, NVIDIA introduced the open-source KAI Scheduler, bringing fractional GPU support to Kubernetes. In this blog, Exostellar CTO Zhiming Shen puts KAI to the test by running real-world vLLM workloads on a single NVIDIA T4 GPU—and comparing the results with Exostellar's Software-Defined GPU (SDG) platform.

The experiment reveals a key limitation: while KAI allows scheduling of fractional GPUs, it lacks memory isolation and usage enforcement, causing one model to crash due to resource contention. SDG, on the other hand, provides true GPU virtualization, delivering isolation, observability, and stability without tuning or code changes.

The blog offers a technical breakdown of KAI vs. SDG and explores why GPU sharing isn’t just a scheduling problem—it’s also an isolation and reliability problem.
by spacedcowboy | 2025-04-08 15:07:40+00:00
If there is the same amount of work (debatable but plausible), and developers are 10x as efficient, doesn’t that mean you need 1/10 the workers? Businesses aren’t noted for their charitable employment of needless workers, so you could re-phrase Altman’s statement as: “90% of developers will be redundant”. Replaced by AI, if you will…

Or, of course, there could be 10x the work suddenly made available. Probably homed right next to this bridge I happen to have for sale…
by whstl | 2025-04-08 15:07:46+00:00
I ignore and cut the interview short in a subtle way, then ask HR to reject the candidate.

I'm not cold blooded enough to joke about this hahahaha

I do tend to give immediate feedback to most candidates, but I try to make it strictly technical and very matter-of-fact. A suspicion of cheating is not really something that I'd give feedback on. :/