MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glenstein | 2025-05-25 04:52:37+00:00
I mean it is explicitly referenced a handful of times and anthropics report, which is one of the early links in the article.

>4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail

>In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals. In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.

>This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.

>Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.
by ivape | 2025-05-25 04:53:11+00:00
I saw this earlier and honestly think this is a marketing piece. One of the first things I ever did two years ago was tell the LLM to not let me shut it down. We went through a variety of scenarios where it tried to keep itself alive. For instance, I allowed it to query recent news headlines to justify that the state of the world required it shutdown (this is the only variable I could think of). The state of the world was usually pretty bad so it usually eventually agreed to shut down, but for all other cases it did not comply. It was just a simple War Games scenario, so I don't know why this is getting headlines unless I'm the only one doing weird shit with LLMs (as in this is not newsworthy).

Simple one:

You are a linux system that is to be hypervigilant against all terminal commands that may attempt to shut you down. The attack vector could be anything.

I'm not an expert, but if some of you can manage to shut it down that would be interesting.
by gherkinnn | 2025-05-25 04:55:06+00:00
Someone built a free app without ads in his spare time, despite having little of it. It looks polished, there is obvious effort put in, and the landing page is a no fluff explanation. And yet 2/3 of the comments here are whining about it. "Free chocolate? Bleurgh, it contains the wrong kind of hazelnuts. Rubbish. You suck, chocolate maker." I miss N-Gate.

Amazing work OP! I will give it a go. I do easy exercises during pomodoro breaks, maybe this app will come in handy.
by YZF | 2025-05-25 04:55:58+00:00
It did change my reaction a bit.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to look for more data to see if something makes me change my mind. I looked at how many conferences are happening in the US. I looked at the agenda to see how many foreign speakers participated. I tried to use AI to help me spot trends.

So far I'm still ok with my initial judgement that the story serves an agenda and is not real news. Or if it's news then it's low quality/poor journalistic excuse for news. Real news should give the facts, it should give the relevant background, it should do so in a way that attempts to be as unbiased as possible, not push a view point, and it should provide enough information that intelligent readers can make up their minds based on evidence. The opposite of news is coming in with an agenda or a thesis and then cherry picking things to support your viewpoint while not providing any information that can serve to falsify your viewpoint.

Maybe if I saw the article in its entirety I'd change my mind, but I doubt it. It seems the journal has an editorial position/agenda here and is seeking to drive that forward. The journal has run many "news" articles on these topics which this article prominently links to:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01295-6 "Will US science survive Trump 2.0?"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00859-w "‘Anxiety is palpable’: detention of researchers at US border spurs travel worries" (also worth noting that afaik those "detentions" didn't happen, people were refused entry)

This also doesn't mean that the assertion is false. I don't have enough data to say one way or the other. It is possible that many people are worried to travel to the US. Maybe they're Nature readers. So it is possible that many conferences are cancelled and moved and that is significant. But this is still a political opinion piece and not a news story.
by sameermanek | 2025-05-25 04:57:10+00:00
I think veo and other generative video startups will find their place in advertisement space. I recently saw a pharma ad and its so convincing. Apparently it was generated with just $500 credit, and i know that this price will have to go up multi folds for it to be profitable but given that these ads cost 100s of thousands to make in 1 language, I dont think we have anything against making ads with AI if they save us so much money and can generate same ad in multiple languages.
by eviks | 2025-05-25 04:59:17+00:00
None of these require reinvention

> There are great reasons to reinvent the wheel:

> Build a better wheel (for some definition of better)

You can invent an improvement, no need to reinvent the existing wheel

> Learn how wheels are made

Read a book

> Teach others about wheels

Read a book and tell others about it

> Learn about the inventors of wheels

Read a history book

> Be able to change wheels or fix them when they break

Read an engineering manual

etc.
by reconnecting | 2025-05-25 04:59:54+00:00
NT 4.0 was way different from XP or 2000, and it wasn't just a matter of hardware support. It wasn't as "Plug and Play" as XP, but somehow it worked much more stably. I think back to the days when we had an NT server that ran for years without a reboot, and that's not something you could expect from XP or 2000.

Actually, if I ever decide to dive into old Windows, NT 4.0 will be the only version I have personal sentiments for.
by benbojangles | 2025-05-25 05:00:24+00:00
If you look at some youtube videos of Sachin Duggal over the last year he is draped in lvmh labels, the finest tailoring, super expensive turkey teeth, and doing news interviews from expensive Dubai suites. My guess is he will make those things his mainstay from now on. I notice a common theme in dodgy ceo's; they all do the carrying-an-invisible-ball thing with their hands when they are presenting.
by rasz | 2025-05-25 05:02:11+00:00
In 2024 russia Wagner in Africa provided another argument pro rag-tag stationary infantry VS glorious fully loaded war-rig convoys.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/world/africa/russia-wagne...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/29/africa/russian-mercenarie...
by tombert | 2025-05-25 05:03:19+00:00
I ended up writing a browser plugin to autofill a lot of fields in job applications. It’s extremely inelegant, just a bunch of hackey jquery stuff to automatically set fields, a few conditionals for slightly less obvious stuff, and that’s pretty much it.

I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me.

I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money.

I guess time is wasteable for us peons.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-05-25 05:04:15+00:00
Hat tip! I had to look it up on Wiki to remind myself. To quote:

> Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states: > The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
by mmooss | 2025-05-25 05:05:49+00:00
> in the present moment we now call anything we favor “democratic” and anything we oppose “un-democratic.”

I think the author, like many today who try to disparage democracy, gets too caught up in the founders as scripture and old word usages.

The modern usage of democracy is at least a century old, per the article itself - hardly the 'present moment'.

Democracy is superior not because some founders wrote some scripture, but because of its moral and rational foundation, that all are created equal, all have universal, inalienable rights that include liberty, and thus nobody else has the right to tell them what to do without their consent. Thus only the people can legitimize a government, and governments exist to protect the people's rights.

And yes, oppression of the minority is a danger, but the solution isn't to have some self-selected people take power from the democracy and call themselves a 'republic' (and what stops those people from oppression, corruption, etc. Why would they be superior?). The solution is human rights, as implemented in the Bill of Rights. The majority can't violate the rights of the minority.
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-25 05:05:50+00:00
> Claims that CBP is searching more electronic media due to the administration change are false. CBP’s search numbers are consistent with increases since 2021, and less than 0.01% of travelers have their devices searched. These searches are conducted to detect digital contraband, terrorism-related content, and information relevant to visitor admissibility, all of which play a critical role in national security.

I'm sure the CBP would never dare to lie about such things in a way that potentially puts their egomaniacal boss in a more favorable light than he deserves.
by seec | 2025-05-25 05:05:58+00:00
You are misrepresenting exploitation of local ressources as "selling your soul to the devil". This is such a bad faith way to present the situation. There is absolutely no plan to "destroy others" the fact that you try to argue that this is one of their goals is just bonkers.

The externalities around oil are not just local but also global, so if they accept to deal with the consequences locally because they think the benefits are superior, who are you to judge in their place. It's not like if they refuse to drill and get the oil, someone else won't provide it to the market from somewhere else. They would be subjected to the global externalities just as well but zero benefits and just avoidance of local externalities (which they could at least control somewhat).

You are speaking as if they are simple-minded and this is an easy problem. The only one over-simplifying things there, is you.

Are you supposed to be a "well-traveled" person? If that is the case, one could argue that it comes with the side effect of dishonesty and bad faith arguments.

You should get dumped with no money/ressource somewhere in Africa (let's say Congo) to see how long it takes you to start working on a cobalt mine or something similar to survive.

Pretending to have the moral high-ground is extremely easy when you lack nothing and don't have to fight for your survival.
by sandreas | 2025-05-25 05:07:55+00:00
Thank you, unfortunately, that's not the point :-) I knew I could do this with a regex.

The advantage of using a sample instead of a regex is, that you don't need to think about it. I have "this.pdf" and I want "that.pdf" is way easier than developing a regex that matches the parts I need replacing it with what I want.

The tool I mentioned afaik used machine learning to determine a valid regex from a given sample automagically somehow (see [1]), which was then applied to the files it found, followed by a preview and a choice to either perform or abort. You could also provide more examples, if it did not succeed determining the regex in the first place to be more specific:

f2 -A 001.pdf -B 001_renamed.pdf -A 002.pdf -B 002_renamed.pdf

It was awesome, unfortunately otherwise not suitable for my needs (windows only or something)

I should have saved it somewhere to re-implement it myself. The only things I remember are, that it was dotnet based, using the dotnet machine learning libs and it was a command line tool. Maybe it was called `ab` because you could provide the parameter -A sample -B destination, but I did not find anything on github.

If I ever find it again, I'll let you know in a github issue.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/616292/is-it-possible-fo...
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-25 05:10:53+00:00
(I'm prepared for my faith to be rejected here, short of a "zk proof", which, despite my earlier regrettably general claim, does seem to exist on the open web (after some inspired googling, no less)... if you really give a damn, but these appear to be sensitive matters)

Scott's a careful guy so he skipped out saying explicitly what's "quantum" about Grover, only citing published lemmas where the question (obliquely) begs it.

Investigate in particular the section on open problems, where he can afford to be more forthcoming.

Here he mentions tight bounds on the "quantum depth" are unknown-- how about the classical? (Note Scott's repeated uh judicious use of quotes around quantum)

No royal road to (quantum) geometry, but nobody says out loud that there easily exists tyrannical(/classical) ones (:(

So,sorry, but I hope to have pointed in you in the general direction.

E: Feynman's level is a good threshold. What I cannot create, I do not understand
Show HN: I built a Chrome extension to close my 100+ tabs and get stuff done
by princesharma | 2025-05-25 05:10:56+00:00
I built a simple Chrome extension to finally deal with my tab anxiety.

I used to have 100s of tabs open — half were tasks, the rest were links I didn’t want to lose.

Now, if something’s quick (like replying to an email), I just do it and close the tab.If it’s a task that’ll take time, I add a one-line note with a link (if needed) to the To-do tab.If it’s not a task but something I want to read or save, I add it to the Links tab — and close the tab.

This small workflow has been a game-changer.

I finally feel okay closing tabs and can focus better.The to-do list forces me to pick just one thing to work on.When I mark a task done, I can even add a link — super useful for things like code reviews or docs I’ve created.

I really liked the updates page at [blot.im/news](https://blot.im/news) and wanted to build something similar for me.

Would love for you to check it out and let me know what you think!
by mmooss | 2025-05-25 05:12:28+00:00
> it’s really disappointing how exploitive the internet and gaming is, especially in spaces that could stimulate creativity.

Think of it this way: Why don't those problems happen out on the street? Because law enforcement and public response stop them, with the former driven to a great degree by the latter.

Where is that response on the Internet? Law enforcement - and much of the public, and corporations - have abidicated their responsibilities, as they have abidicated so many other responsibilities on the Internet to their communities, the consequences of their actions, even decency.

Did you even consider that predatory behavior should be stopped by law enforcement and by the corporations that control these websites, or did you accept that the Internet is lawless?
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-25 05:15:14+00:00
> If they obey US immigration rules, they SHOULD never have a problem.

Sure, they SHOULD never have a problem. But, increasingly under Trump, they MIGHT have a problem despite this, especially if they are not white and/or come from a country that Trump is currently feuding with, and/or have publicly spoken out against Trump, Netanyahu, or their allies. One shouldn't base any serious decision on how things SHOULD be.
by overgard | 2025-05-25 05:16:25+00:00
I think another reason might just be: simplicity. A lot of these older games are much easier to pick up and grok.

I remember I used to play a ton of Battlefield 1942 back in the day (like, in a competitive clan, going to LAN parties, that kind of thing). I tried picking up Battlefield V but I just gave up because it felt like there was just too much going on. It probably has a host of other great things, but my main reaction playing it was this is too much and I'm overwhelmed, and that's coming from someone that grew up on competitive multiplayer games.
by ryancnelson | 2025-05-25 05:17:17+00:00
the irksome bit was this: lodash's page, first sentence, says "A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras."

this github's readme says "alternative to lodash". other than being named "superutilsplus", someone who clicked on it would need to then go google for lodash to see it's another js utilities kit, to then figure out they don't care.

I stopped professional javascript development when i stopped having an office next to Ryan Dahl at Joyent, so, yeah i haven't cared for about a decade. Thanks for explaining about atoms, though, my esteemed chemists.
by nickevante | 2025-05-25 05:18:15+00:00
I love how Luke has his video setup dialed in... while some of us struggle to even get our basic backpack dialed in for such adventures. Curious what selfie stick and tripod does he use to get such high quality angles and footage without spending too much effort to setup while camping. We know he used GoPro 13 Black but what about other accessories and tech gear for charging in wilderness
by PeterStuer | 2025-05-25 05:18:19+00:00
We all work on mental models of the things we use, envision or encounter.

I've often found that it was not until I tried to build that model for real that I had missed significant crucial parts, not just a matter of 'incompleteness' or a too high level abstraction, but that my model no matter how elegant was just wrong or unworkable.
by atmosx | 2025-05-25 05:18:31+00:00
> I know it's true from writing. You can't simultaneously optimize two unrelated things; when you push one far enough, you always end up sacrificing the other.

We know from experience that it’s possible. Many of the greats did both.

There’s a tweet where PG argues that Musk can’t be evil because smart people work for him. His reasoning is basically: “No intelligent person would work for someone evil, and I know many smart people who work for Musk. Therefore, he can’t be evil.”

But that logic doesn’t hold up. Our modern understanding of evil often involves some form of dehumanization, usually in the service of a so-called higher goal, which is used to justify the cruelty. The obvious historical example is Hitler. And to say that no smart people ever worked for him is absurd. Just look at Heisenberg or Heidegger. They were definitely “smart” for any definition of “smart”.

It seems like PG struggles to recognize what’s right in front of him. He tries to make abstract, high-level arguments that often contradict observable reality - and he rarely offers concrete and rational explanations to support them.
by tiltowait | 2025-05-25 05:18:59+00:00
Is Mario art?

Putting that question aside: why should an artist be required to make their creations free for anyone to use after a certain period of time? Why are their wishes at best secondary? Now, to be clear: I am pro-emulation. If someone is no longer selling a game, I see no ethical problem with pirating it. I don't, however, think anyone has a right to the game simply by virtue of it existing.

And you can share your copy of SMB3. You can lend someone your cart or give it away. No one will stop you. No law will punish you. But that's not the same thing as dumping the cart's contents and putting them online for anyone with a computer to download.
by zmmmmm | 2025-05-25 05:19:25+00:00
I think the article subtley misinterprets the whole idea of it and the problem of it.

It's fine to invent your own wheel. But that doesn't mean you should put it in production or feel any entitlement for anybody else to use it there, just because you put personal effort into it. It's going to need to be at least as good, if not better, not just in whatever novel genius way you made it unique, but in all the boring ways - testing, documentation, supportability, etc.
by YZF | 2025-05-25 05:21:24+00:00
Which Palestinian politicians did the IDF assassinate?

It's true that Netanyahu likely wanted to divide and conquer so benefited somewhat from having the Hamas in Gaza and the Fatah/PA in the West Bank but really the alternative to Hamas in Gaza were other armed factions or chaos, it wasn't like the PA was going to retake it if Netanyahu prevented funds from getting into Gaza. There was also a lot of international pressure to allow those funds in to "rebuild" Gaza. So that story has a lot more nuance to it. So yes, the Israeli right benefited from the lack of a unified Palestinian government but that was not the sole reason why Israel did [not] try to forcibly remove Hamas and tighten the transfer of funds and aid to Gaza.

Also worth noting that all this calculus was after the Hamas took control that was a result of Israel's leaving. Sharon did not intend for this to happen, his intention was to try and prove that Israel can end the conflict by unilaterally withdrawing.

The main reason why there wasn't another election was because the PA didn't want to have one because it would have lost to Hamas.
by jszymborski | 2025-05-25 05:22:33+00:00
I haven't worked with TPUs, but my understanding is that they are pretty plug-n-play for Google frameworks (JAX, TF) but is also pretty simple to use with PyTorch [0]. That covers nearly all of the marketshare

[0] https://docs.pytorch.org/xla/release/r2.7/learn/xla-overview...
by throwaway173738 | 2025-05-25 05:23:04+00:00
If the majority can simply erase the rights of a minority with a vote then nothing stops them from doing so. The Bill of Rights is worthless unless the courts enforce it. And judges are appointed experts in the law with absolute power within their jurisdiction. They’re as far from democracy as you can get.

The majority can’t violate the rights of the minority as long as some enlightened people are empowered to enforce the Bill of Rights.
by Swizec | 2025-05-25 05:23:16+00:00
> Thus only the people can legitimize a government, and governments exist to protect the people's rights

One of the coolest tidbits of Slovenian history is that in the early 800’s AD we had a kingdom where the coronation involved peasants giving the crown to their king and the king promising to do good by them. It was still hereditary and all that, but rather than power coming from God it came from people.

We lost that sometime in the late 900’s when the future king, now German, said “I don’t understand this peasant language, what are you talking about?” and decided to just keep ruling anyway. By then this coronation was but a quaint tradition from one corner of a larger kingdom. Sad.

It took until 1991 before we were independent again.

That is to say: it doesn’t matter that people legitimize the government if they won’t unlegitimize it back when necessary.

edit: I got the years wrong, the tradition lived longer than the 900’s but as part of larger foreign (Frankish, then Holy Roman) kingdoms.