MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vicentesteve | 2025-04-23 21:52:47+00:00
Quantum computing offers immense power, but remains out of reach for most users. This preprint introduces a universal protocol that enables purely classical clients to securely delegate quantum computations to remote servers, while ensuring both blindness (privacy) and verifiability (correctness).

The protocol integrates:

Post-quantum cryptography (trapdoor claw-free functions, LWE) Zero-knowledge SNARKs A novel thermodynamic verification mechanism using entropy flow as a physical signature of computation

The goal: democratize access to quantum computing without compromising trust or requiring quantum capabilities.

Would love feedback from the community.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15265412 Author: Vicent Esteve Voltes
by duxup | 2025-04-23 21:53:22+00:00
I miss when videos just up and started and were pretty much what they said they were.

Just searching YouTube for content now is a pain. Every word or phrase seems to have some meaning or context or editorial type content. I want to see some footage about rabbits I get rabbit influencers who want to tell me what rabbits to get. But I searched for rabbit footage…
by anoldperson | 2025-04-23 21:53:39+00:00
> Then it ticked past the sixty-second mark, making it longer than the others that week. The shaking intensified.

That last sentence struck a chord. It's crazy being in the most violent event of your life, and then it gets more intense, like it dropped a gear and floored it.

10/10 would recommend experiencing a massive quake, if it were not for the small matter of widespread destruction in your city. Of course several months and 10000 aftershocks later, they're not as much fun.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-23 21:53:46+00:00
The US government is a pretty good steward of this sorta thing. We're generally reliable, can afford to spend a few pennies securing a lucrative international export, and hold platform-owners responsible even when their executives hide or intentionally obfuscate issues for marketing purposes.

Who else can you seriously suggest, knowing the past 10 years of CVE history? Subcontract it to Cisco or Oracle?
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-23 21:54:03+00:00
Trump will blanket-pardon anyone who's still on his good side. And maybe some who aren't, just to limit the reach of investigations. And Trump himself's untouchable—while it remains technically possible to criminally prosecute a President for actions in office, it's in-practice impossible short of some unlikely hypothetical scenarios, thanks to the Supreme Court (the Roberts court loves leaving things technically intact, but actually not)
by nayuki | 2025-04-23 21:54:25+00:00
Thanks for the investigation. Oops, it seems like MSan (memory sanitizer) is the appropriate tool that detects uninitialized reads? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68576464/clang-sanitizer...

I only use UBSan and ASan on my own programs because I tend not to make mistakes about initialization. So my knowledge is incomplete with respect to auditing other people's code, which can have different classes of errors than mine.

Thank goodness that every language that is newer than C and C++ doesn't repeat these design mistakes, and doesn't require these awkward sanitizer tools that are introduced decades after the fact.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-04-23 21:54:38+00:00
No, what’s anti competitive is Google making an open source operating system that is worth absolutely nothing without the Google play services, and locking these play services behind contract that contains anti competitive rules, like « you have to set Google Gemini as default assistant », or « you can’t ever sell a phone without the Google play services or with any alternative than the Google play services ».

Android at its core is free and open source, every company can ship it. But Google hold one key thing in its hands, the Google play services, and use that to force others to do whatever they want them to do.

Else they can go the huawei direction, good luck making a Google play services competitor outside of China. Maybe in Russia ? That’s nothing.

Maybe perplexity ai is just better than Gemini and that’s one of the reason Motorola wanted to ship it. Maybe it’s for money. Whatever the reason, Google is abusing its dominant position to prevent competitor from competing with them.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-23 21:55:04+00:00
> The exact same government that granted you "inalienable rights" will ignore them when it's corrupted.

Checks and balances, multiple branches aligned along different timescales, and mandatory minimum change periods. E.g. the states that require consitutional amendments to be voted for in two consecutive elections

And all of that buttressed by belief in institutions and the consistency that effects.

It takes time to change people's minds.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-23 21:55:28+00:00
Not at all, originally template metaprogramming was discovered by accident.

Cannot recall any longer if the original article on the matter appeared on The C/C++ Users Journal or Dr. Dobbs.

Eventually it started to get abused and the Turing completeness has been discovered.

Since C++11, the approach to a more sane way to do metaprogramming with templates has been improving.

Instead of tag dispatch, ADL and SFINAE, we can make use of concepts, if constexpr/eval/init, type traits, and eventually reflection, instead of the old clunky ways.
by underyx | 2025-04-23 21:56:37+00:00
Also this PDF contains a detail I haven't seen reported elsewhere:

> Furthermore, on Monday, April 7, 2025, while my client and my team were preparing this disclosure, someone physically taped a threatening note to Mr. Berulis’ home door with photographs – taken via a drone – of him walking in his neighborhood. The threatening note made clear reference to this very disclosure he was preparing for you
by nativeit | 2025-04-23 21:56:45+00:00
I think it's been used properly in a lot of instances, especially when you consider that federal law can quickly become out-of-step with modern sensibilities, so being able to relieve those harmed by laws flawed under contemporary standards is important. There's probably a better way of handling that, but it's one instance where the power of presidential and governors' pardons have been applied appropriately.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-04-23 21:57:17+00:00
Wrote an MCP to hook into my logging so I could get Claude + Cursor to quickly answer "hey, why did request 20394 from yesterday evening fuck up?". It goes into the logs and finds the exception, hunts down the line and then tells me whats up. Of course, left unchecked it tries to fix the problem too but I've spent countless lines of prompt engineering to have it never attempt to "just start writing code".
by Ukv | 2025-04-23 21:57:19+00:00
> Apple allows no-questions-asked full-refund returns for two weeks.

That's the bare legal minimum in the EU. Many anti-competitive practices are not things consumers find out about within some short fixed period of time, if at all, and others are not solved by a refund even when the customer is aware of the issue.

> They are all available right here, online, without any purchase requirement: https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/

True that it does now all (including schedules 2/3 and the guidelines) appear to be publicly available. Looks as if this was done on June 7th 2021, shortly after the EU Commission had sent the Statement of Objections on April 30th 2021.
by grishka | 2025-04-23 21:57:23+00:00
Depends on the country.

I researched it for Russia recently and apparently the law is much stricter about fonts here than in the US. Both the character shapes and the "code" are copyrightable so you ain't getting away with converting it into a different format either. Companies did get sued over this and did have to pay millions of rubles in fines and licensing fees for their past usage. Not sure about individuals but I wouldn't try my luck with any non-free fonts made by Russian designers.
by ivape | 2025-04-23 21:57:33+00:00
We have to realize the next generation of programmers are 10 years old right now, and the next generation of business owners are also about that age. There will be a gap between technical expertise between the two, as usual, hence leading to business. Just like we saw, our business owners did not give two shits about how things work and why they break, so long as they work, and so long as things are fixed (however the heck). So, if the new generation of coders vibe code their ass off to make things and vibe code their ass off to fix things, that will be the new nature of programming work. The business has never cared for the most part.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-23 21:57:34+00:00
I've defaulted on hundreds of thousands of dollars of federally insured debt strategically (as the credit hit was cheaper than paying back the debt), so I guess make better choices than pay debts you don't have to? It's just a contract. If someone sees it as a moral issue, that is a personal deficiency; I recommend speaking to a therapist. The loss rate is baked into the credit pricing and potentially credit insurance the borrower is required to pay. Don't allow your feelings to bind you beyond contractual requirements, that's a self made prison. Like religion, it’s just another belief system used to exert control.

This is just hacking another system imho. Your opinion may differ.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-04-23 21:57:58+00:00
The Start Menu and Taskbar components of Windows Explorer is probably the most-used program in the world, and it's not even close.

It also unfairly competes and damages competition from TaskbarX, Tabame, ObjectDock, RocketDock, Start11, and countless other small businesses.

As a result, Microsoft enjoys a near-monopoly on the world's most used program, and even has the audacity to break compatibility with these competitors regularly.

And how can we be sure that the EU’s silence on the lack of competition, isn’t because Microsoft crushed all competitors before they even had a chance?

In my competitive world, in my competitive dream, car dealerships will be offering free taskbars when you refinance. The market for the world’s most used program should be open to competition from anyone.
by fidotron | 2025-04-23 21:58:01+00:00
You're making a lot of noise to distract from the fact it is entirely possible to use other payment mechanisms for digital goods to consume in apps, and that from comparison to stores for physical goods we established that promoting other means for purchasing from the app on a given platform is an unreasonable expectation, exactly like expecting Coca Cola served in McDonalds to be allowed to be labelled "available for 1 euro less at Burger King!"

Arguably their entire position with Meta is even more unreasonable than your positions here. No wonder the EU struggles in business.
by antasvara | 2025-04-23 21:58:45+00:00
I think you're both sort of right.

The orders in question here are 1 for Apple (the one that made circumventing Apple payments super difficult) and 1 for Meta (their ad-free subscription service). Meta and Apple have to comply with those within 2 months.

The preliminary finding on sideloading apps isn't subject to that 2 month compliance deadline from what I can tell.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-23 21:59:16+00:00
The typical reason for poor procurement outcomes is the who-watches-the-watchers-ad-infinitum problem.

At stake: huge amounts of money

Naturally, people will go to great lengths to try and obtain that, by influencing the key decision makers.

So you put in a layer above the decision makers.

So they influence the layer above the decision makers.

Repeat-repeat.

The only true defense against corruption, at scale, is competition. Because then everyone tries to knife each other in the back, and it generally zero-sums.
by parasubvert | 2025-04-23 22:00:20+00:00
You’re covering this board with statements of rumor, personal opinion and conjecture, as if they were statements of fact and getting the rumours wrong consistently. The Vision Pro leader, Mike Rockwell, runs both visionOS and Siri/AI. Many of his lieutenants are working on Siri, while many are staying on visionOS. The architectural approach and UX of visionOS is infecting the entire software group.

Goggles have not bombed, and are not going away for at least a decade. Apple will not be abandoning visionOS for spectacles, I know you keep repeating this, but it’s false.
by dmonitor | 2025-04-23 22:00:23+00:00
Luke 17:20-37 also seems to support the idea that Jesus was trying to tell people the kingdom was spiritual, not physical. The kingdom as a concept wasn't some novel idea, either. Jesus was claiming he was the fulfillment of the messianic prophecy in Judaism. He was reinterpreting the prophecy, though, as a spiritual rather than literal liberation.

Tangential, but you can interpret the anti-christ in christian belief to bring the alleged kingdom, as a sort of anti-fulfillment of the prophecy.
by jvanderbot | 2025-04-23 22:00:33+00:00
My mom was a writer all her life. The last 5 years she's done more and more editing. After LLMs kicked off, and I mean to the month of them starting to hit headlines her work plummeted, then spiked with tons of garbage, and is now levelling off with her usual workflow.

For me, that was a strong signal that everyone gave it a go, found it too difficult to generate quality stuff, and reverted.

Good luck to you regardless.
by rob_c | 2025-04-23 22:00:57+00:00
Omg they also saw spikes in DNS traffic and high load during days exfiltration ahead of audit...

Clearly the (system) auditing infrastructure wasn't robust enough to still provide a lot of monitoring even in the service is being managed by someone else...

Also a several hundred line teardown of a 300line file is exactly what is wrong with some coders. Not having a CI/CL for every single short tool written once to do a job is called being productive...
by frabonacci | 2025-04-23 22:01:19+00:00
We’re still figuring things out in public, but a few key differences:

- Open-source from the start. Cua’s built under an MIT license with the goal of making Computer-Use agents easy and accessible to build. Cua's Lume CLI was our first step - we needed fast, reproducible VMs with near-native performance to even make this possible.

- Native macOS support. As far as we know, we’re the only ones offering macOS VMs out of the box, built specifically for Computer-Use workflows. And you can control them with a PyAutoGUI-compatible SDK (cua-computer) - so things like click, type, scroll just work, without needing to deal with any inter-process communication.

- Not just the computer/sandbox, but the agent too. We’re also shipping an Agent SDK (cua-agent) that helps you build and run these workflows without having to stitch everything together yourself. It works out of the box with OpenAI and Anthropic models, UI-Tars, and basically any VLM if you’re using the OmniParser agent loop.

- Not limited to Linux. The hosted version we’re working on won’t be Linux-only - we’re going to support macOS and Windows too.
Ask HN: Has anyone else noticed a recent sentiment shift on HN?
by unclebucknasty | 2025-04-23 22:01:27+00:00
I've frequented HN off-and-on for over a decade now, with some fairly long stretches of inactivity interspersed.

In the last couple of years in particular, I'm pretty sure I noticed a hard-shift in the kinds of posts that were being up/downvoted, comments being made, etc. This was very similar to bot activity on other platforms, and it represented a significant pull to the right. I'm not trying to be political here, but there's no way to be clear without stating it.

But, recently, it's as if all of that relented and HN has kind of "normalized" again. For instance, I'm seeing more posts that are critical of DOGE or Musk that would have been downvoted. Now it's the opposite.

I don't know if this is attributable to the discovery of bot farms that were eliminated by HN mods or something else, but it does not seem organic.

Has anyone else noticed this?
by BwackNinja | 2025-04-23 22:01:42+00:00
It's easy to agree that the AI assisted email writing (at least in its current form) is counterproductive, but we're talking about email -- a subject that's already been discussed to death and everyone has staked countless hours and dollars but failed to "solve".

The fundamental problem, which AI both exacerbates and papers over, is that people are bad at communication -- both accidentally and on purpose. Formal letter writing in email form is at best skeuomorphic and at worst a flowery waste of time that refuses to acknowledge that someone else has to read this and an unfortunate stream of other emails. That only scratches the surface with something well-intentioned.

It sounds nice to use email as an implementation detail, above which an AI presents an accurate, evolving, and actionable distillation of reality. Unfortunately (at least for this fever dream), not all communication happens over email, so this AI will be consistently missing context and understandably generating nonsense. Conversely, this view supports AI-assisted coding having utility since the AI has the luxury of operating on a closed world.
by jorroll | 2025-04-23 22:03:20+00:00
I'll admit that hearing that "laziness" was something being explored for Solid 2.0 also made me uneasy. Like the OP, in my case I know it's because I'm worried that it will complicate working with Solid state in the same way that React's "concurrent mode" complicates working with React state. Really, I just hate React's "concurrent mode" and I really like the simplicity of working with Solidjs' state by comparison (if Solidjs has a similar concept to concurrent mode I haven't run into it yet).

All of this is to say that my own worries aren't based on any concrete objections, but a general fear of change since I like the current approach (and haven't run into any performance issues with it). Also, without knowing exactly what you plan on changing, the idea of introducing "laziness" seams like it could be a euphemism for "async" which feels like it would definitely make things more complex. Anyway, reading your comment makes me hopeful that my ambiguous unease is misplaced.
by gkoberger | 2025-04-23 22:03:23+00:00
I agree the average person is likely fine with the fonts on their computer, but this is profoundly misunderstanding the importance of design. Typefaces are incredibly important, and have been for centuries.

I'd argue that complaining about font prices is less like a Hermes bag, and more like complaining about high-end ingredients when a supermarket has cheap stuff. Yes, you can get away with cheaper materials when cooking, but the final product will deeply suffer.
by yencabulator | 2025-04-23 22:03:56+00:00
Well, this for one, about Parakeet:

> We plan to release our fine-tuned whisper models and possibly the generative model (and/or future improved versions). The generative model would have to be released under a non-commercial license due to our datasets.

https://jordandarefsky.com/blog/2024/parakeet/
by marcusb | 2025-04-23 22:05:02+00:00
???

The public repos for this person that I could find that weren't forks with no activity to upstream consisted of a dice-rolling guessing game, rock-paper-scissors, and some kind of framework for downloading and transcribing audio files that does not yet download or transcribe, but implements a whole bunch of boilerplate. I find it rather difficult to believe this person engaged in a good-faith review of the async-ip-rotator code base.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-23 22:05:20+00:00
Whistleblowers are claiming it's sedition: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

> The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure.
by Judy007 | 2025-04-23 22:05:36+00:00
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I didn’t choose this situation, yet I carry its consequences every day.

This isn’t just a paperwork issue—it’s about identity, belonging, and basic dignity.

No adoptee should face the threat of deportation from the only home they've ever known.

The Adoptee Citizenship Act isn’t just a fix—it’s a long-overdue promise America needs to finally keep.

If this matters to you, please consider supporting the cause. Contact Adoptees for Justice and help push the Adoptee Citizenship Act forward: https://www.adopteesforjustice.org/

Thank you for listening—and for caring.

–Judy, an adoptee still waiting for America to catch up with its promises
by worik | 2025-04-23 22:06:04+00:00
I tried getting Pete's prompt to write emails

It was awful

The lesson here is "AI" assistants should not be used to generate things like this

They do well sometimes, but they are unreliable

They analogy I heard back in 2022 still seems appropriate: like an enthusiastic young intern. Very helpful, but always check their work

I use LLMs every day in my work. I never thought I would see a computer tool I could use natural language with, and it would be so useful. But the tools built from them (like the Gmail subsequence generator) are useless
by parasubvert | 2025-04-23 22:06:40+00:00
Their priority is not selling a mass market low margin product. That is Meta‘s strategy, and they’ve lost nearly $100b because they think it’s the future of all computing. The thing is, Apple agrees. But they’re not the kind of company to burn that kind of capital.

Vision Pro was all about selling an enthusiast device that pushes the boundaries of XR technology into what they thought was appropriate baseline that would shift the market. They succeeded at that, the entire market is changing their strategy to respond to visionOS. visionOS has set the baseline for spatial computing so much that even horizon OS is copying it now. Apple takes the product line very seriously, they they’re just playing a different game than you want them to play.
by reaperducer | 2025-04-23 22:06:51+00:00
HN goes through its phases, which often coincide what is happening in the real world.

Off the top of my head, a few of the major shifts happened when:

- COVID-19 sent everyone home (suddenly a lot of graybeards disappeared)

- Elon Musk bought Twitter

- Donald Trump was inaugurated

There was also a time in the past when Facebook, Google, and Twitter employees would poke fun at the secrecy of Apple employees because they would almost never post on HN. Today, all of the big tech employees are either absent or in stealth mode. Which is a shame, because this forum has lost a lot of useful insight and institutional knowledge.

I don't know what HN's traffic or demographics are like, but my guess is that it skews a lot younger, a lot less experienced, and a lot more high school/college than it did ten years ago.
by fullstackchris | 2025-04-23 22:07:27+00:00
For me it was implementing a simple `execute_terminal_command` tool along with hooking up to my company's jira and gitlab (dont worry security gurus, for the command line, I have a hardcoded list of allowed read-only commands that the LLM can execute, and both jira and gitlab servers likewise have readonly options.)

What I will say is I agree there should be an option to get rid of the chat confirmations of every single new tool call in a chat - as well as building a set of "profiles" of different tools depending what I'm working on. Also strongly agree there needs to be an internal prompt possibility to explicitely tell the LLM what tool(s) to favor and how to use them (even in addition to the descriptions / schemas of the tools themselves) I opened an issue on the anthropic repo exactly about this: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/issue...