MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-05-02 04:58:04+00:00
I have long thought that it would be nice to have a new Web-alternative based on XHTML. With XHTML you get a clean break from the legacy early HTML cruft and design errors as well as avoiding the corporate browser vendor designed HTML5/HTML Living “standard”. XHTML is essentially the last Web markup standard actually designed (and not rubber stamped) by the W3C and I think it is telling that even today Tim Berners-Lee’s own personal website uses XHTML.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-05-02 04:58:57+00:00
Some say Yahweh was a god of fire and metallurgy, so the analogy is even more intricate. Dig further and understand the symbolism of Werner von Braun (--the final step in the millennia long effort to assimilate sun worship as well)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/bqfqar/je...
by simonw | 2025-05-02 04:58:59+00:00
Here's that Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=intext%3A%22vibe+coding%22+b...

The first result I got was this one https://vibecoding.vercel.app/ - which is shown as being from 2023... but that's fake.

Read the page and it starts by saying:

> On November 30, 2023, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibecoding"

And then includes a screenshot of Andrej's tweet - this one: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

But that tweet is dated 2nd February 2025. The Vercel-hosted site is lying about the date.

I don't think Google's "before" filter actually works. It looks to me like blog spammers have figured this out and now habitually back-date their posts to a date well before they were written.
by nitwit005 | 2025-05-02 04:59:06+00:00
SaS products that support custom code are already basically like that. Salesforce has multiple shockingly large documents on all the limits they enforce: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.apexcode.m...

That does mean it's hard to break the app, but it also means people quite frequently run into those limits.
by timewizard | 2025-05-02 05:00:02+00:00
> include the script on their web server, so their cookies become "first party" again.

That script would execute with the origin of the server. It's access to resources and /shared state/ would be hampered by this. So as a cross-site tracking strategy I don't think this works.

> I don't understand how this helps the web unless protections against tracking itself, not the methods used, are established.

Which is why I think state partitioning[0] and CHIPs[1] are good technologies. It allows previously existing standards, like cookies, to continue to exist and function mostly as expected, but provides the user a good amount of default security against cross site trackers and other malware.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Guides/...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Guides/...
by ajcp | 2025-05-02 05:01:08+00:00
Wow, I have been following the Chris Krebs saga quite closely AND been an avid consumer of Krebs on Security and for whatever reason always assumed they were one and the same. I even know his name is Brian Krebs! It's humbling when you're confronted with your blinders and stupidity, and they are the same as those you rail against for being so blindly stupid...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-05-02 05:01:14+00:00
Constexpr as a keyword which slowly applies in more places over decades is technically indefensible. It has generated an astonishing quantity of work for the committee over the years though which in some sense is a win.

I think there's something in the psychology of developers that appreciates the byzantine web of stuff which looks like it will work but doesn't.
by IgorPartola | 2025-05-02 05:02:29+00:00
The point of E2E is only to make sure that Alice is talking to Bob and nobody else can pretend to be either of them or eavesdrop. There is no reason whatsoever to include where else the message may be sent, encrypted or not.

Consider E2E protected email service. You send me the final designs over this encrypted channel. Then I put the designs onto a USB drive and give them to my printer to print. Then I hang them as billboards all over town. This is a valid use case for E2E. Yet the contents of the message ends up visible from the freeway.

You are confusing Snapchat mechanics for encryption.
by Jarwain | 2025-05-02 05:03:21+00:00
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by motorest | 2025-05-02 05:05:58+00:00
> That the whole field seems to be moving in a direction where you need a lot of resources to do anything. You can have 10 different ideas on how to improve LLMs but unless you have the resources there is barely anything you can do.

I think you're confusing problems, or you're not realizing that improving the efficiency of a class of models is a research area on it's own. Look at any field that involves expensive computational work. Model reduction strategies dominate research.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-02 05:06:56+00:00
We can laugh about this stuff here, but it seems to happen on the regular in the Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic liturgy is so stringently regulated that it is in fact very difficult for any priest or layman to stay current after a decade or more has passed. Perhaps this is one of the genius moves of the vernacular liturgy: that the Latin liturgy hardly changed its words for 500 years, but English and other languages are being constantly retranslated and reinterpreted with new Missal editions.

Case in point: the neutering of the Church for 40 years. The Church was made an "it" in English, and only after a top-down correction was issued did she become feminine again. This did a lot of trauma to many Catholics on visceral levels.

More up to date changes include the addition of "Holy" to "...for our good and the good of all His [Holy] Church]." this one is guaranteed to catch out anyone who's not been to Mass in 10+ years, such as at a wedding, funeral, or Christmastime.

A very recent priest's change is "...who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, [One] God, forever and ever. Amen." the "One" is now omitted, as of last year or so, and in fact every church was compelled to scratch it out in their existing Missals until new editions could be printed.

It is these sort of very subtle yet urgent changes that can really trip someone up if they're not 100% current with liturgical directives. So if you ever suspect you got a fake priest marrying you, see if he says "One God" or not!
by umbra07 | 2025-05-02 05:08:24+00:00
Can't you just as easily make the opposite argument?

Founders that have a safety net have less drive and motivation to give it their all, because they have a safety net. They simply just don't have the same pressure to not fail, because if they do - no biggie.

The founder with no safety net, no real backup, needs to give it his all, because he's doomed if his idea doesn't work out.
by michaeld123 | 2025-05-02 05:08:28+00:00
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by scargrillo | 2025-05-02 05:08:33+00:00
This breakdown hits hard because it’s not just about business models — it’s about trust.

Open source succeeded because it created shared public infrastructure. But hyperscalers turned it into extraction infrastructure: mine the code, skip the stewardship.

The result? We’ve confused “open” with “free-for-the-powerful.”

It’s time to stop pretending licenses are enough. This is about incentives, governance, and resilience. The next generation of “open” has to bake in counterpower — or it’s just a feeding trough for monopolies.
by Surac | 2025-05-02 05:09:50+00:00
I often use Claude 3.7 on programming things never done before. Even extensive search in the web brings up zero hits. I understand that this is very uncommon but my work portfolio is more science than real programming. Claude 3.7 really „thinks“ about the questions i ask. But 3.5 regularly drifts into dream mode if asked anything over it‘s training data. So if you ask for code easy found on the web you will see no difference. Try asking things not so common and you will see a difference
by xbmcuser | 2025-05-02 05:10:36+00:00
Its quite a good coincidence as the other 2 teams with 1 victory had no chance as 1 was already relegated previously and the the 2nd will be relegated . So any other team apart from Liverpool winning would have stopped the sequence from being created. Reading the comment I can see a lot of people don't understand the meaning of the words coincidence or sequence.
by scargrillo | 2025-05-02 05:11:06+00:00
That’s a perfect example of LLMs providing epistemic scaffolding — not just giving you answers, but helping you check your footing as you explore unfamiliar territory. Especially valuable when you’re reasoning through something structurally complex like rewrite systems or proof strategies. Sometimes just seeing your internal model reflected back (or gently corrected) is enough to keep you moving.
by TheDong | 2025-05-02 05:11:15+00:00
> Furthermore, there's nothing stopping that app maker from bypassing the app store and simply making a webapp, so this argument that you need an iphone to open the door is really moot

The door opener uses NFC, and iOS does not allow webapps to use NFC, only app-store apps: https://caniuse.com/webnfc

Apple has consistently made the experience of using webapps worse, including making installing them so convoluted that most users continue to not even know they exist.
by scargrillo | 2025-05-02 05:13:30+00:00
This is a great reminder that most “helpful” AI is just optimized conformity.

When models suggest edits, they’re not offering insight — they’re offering what’s safest, most average, most familiar to the dominant culture. And that’s often Western, white, male-coded language that reads as “neutral” because it’s historically overrepresented in training data and platform norms.

This isn’t just about grammar or clarity. It’s about whose voice gets flattened and whose story gets smoothed out until it sounds like a TED Talk.

We should stop thinking of AI as neutral by default. The bias isn’t a bug — it’s baked into the system of reinforcement learning and feedback loops that reward comfort over challenge, safety over truth, sameness over difference.

Anyone here doing work to counteract this? How do you keep LLMs from deradicalizing or deracializing your writing?
by dukeofdoom | 2025-05-02 05:14:15+00:00
Yes, it's no longer a taboo and many younger people are cheering it on. As the older generation controls most of the resources, and wealth. I remember reading somewhere it's actually illegal (or maybe it was a proposed law) to try and discourage someone once they consented. It's currently one in 20 deaths, but that number is growing steadily.
by RainyDayTmrw | 2025-05-02 05:14:54+00:00
This is kinda hollow while Google controls Chrome, and Chrome has majority market share[1]. And, if regulators get their way, and Google divests Chrome[2], I'm not expecting that the new highest bidder would do any better with it.

[1] The exact figure may depend on which source you use, and there is some indication that ad and tracker blocking may artificially deflate Firefox and friends. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share [2] https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-di...
by 000ooo000 | 2025-05-02 05:15:30+00:00
Suppose Bezos burns 80% of his net worth playing with his willy in his garage and decides to wrap it up. He goes straight back to his cushy HF job, 3 years behind in his career if he can't manage to market his experience as some kind of lofty journey landing him a better role than when he left. Let's not pretend it was brave - he had the foundations to take the risks and still come out just fine.
by hnburnsy | 2025-05-02 05:16:05+00:00
>The research finds that, compared to human benchmarks over 56.7 million miles and regardless of who was at fault, the Waymo Driver had [list of better than human stats]

Well considering this sensor package...

>With 13 cameras, 4 lidar, 6 radar, and an array of external audio receivers (EARs), our new sensor suite is optimized for greater performance...it provides the Waymo Driver with overlapping fields of view, all around the vehicle, up to 500 meters away, day and night, and in a range of weather conditions.[0]

...I would hope it is considerably better than humans who are limited to a sensor suite of two cameras and two lower-case ears.

[0] - https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-02 05:18:22+00:00
Honestly once I started thinking deeply about "The Burning Bush" I couldn't help but imagine it as an encounter with a volcano. Couched in mystical language, I am sure that many Canaanites and Egyptians couldn't even conceive of an active, erupting volcano in real life. And perhaps, just perhaps, Moses being identified with the Moon in certain contexts, a volcanic Yahweh Burning Bush would've been truly transcendent, indeed. Thank you!
by motorest | 2025-05-02 05:18:23+00:00
> On principal I will not use the Amazon fork, because I don’t want to support a company that would prefer to fork a project rather than fork over some cash.

That's specious reasoning at best.

The whole point of FLOSS is that anyone is free to use it how they see fit. Whether it's a hobbyist doing a pet project or a FANG using it as their core infrastructure, they are granted the right to use it how they see fit.

That's exactly why they started to use it to begin with. Isn't it?

When a random corporation decides to pull the rug on the established user base expecting to profit from the pain of migrating existing services, it is not the user base who is the bad actor.
by EasyMark | 2025-05-02 05:23:10+00:00
The alternative is not installing Signal on a phone with spy software on it. They aren't "intercepting" as in man-in-the-middle. They are intercepting by spying on the personal phone where signal is. signal is just another app on your phone. If you're using it for secrets comms you'd best have minimal or no software on the phone you're using and protect it every way you know how with passwords and encryption
by scargrillo | 2025-05-02 05:23:20+00:00
> Support, no matter how valued and important to the organisation it is, is never worth $200k/year on the output of 1 person.

This reads more like a reflection of how we’ve historically designed support roles than a fundamental truth about them.

Oxide’s approach seems to invert the premise: instead of paying people based on a low-leverage job description, they design roles where every team member is expected to operate at high leverage — including support engineers. That means hiring differently, scoping differently, and building a product that aligns with that structure.

It’s fair to be skeptical of anything cushioned by VC — but skepticism cuts both ways. Just because traditional comp structures haven’t empowered support doesn’t mean they can’t. We’ve seen engineering, design, and even ops roles evolve dramatically when companies raised the bar. Why not support?
by chrismorgan | 2025-05-02 05:25:11+00:00
> “This is one of the first studies, if not the first, to show that the use of AI in writing could lead to cultural stereotyping and language homogenization,”

I just want to make sure others agree and it wasn’t just me (or perhaps non-Americans in general)—it was blindingly obvious this would be, must be, the case, right? That although this might be the first formal study of it, there would have been literally no doubts as to what the outcome of such a study might be? That at least some degree of language homogenisation will be quite inescapable if you do LLMs the way we have?

On the cultural aspects, it’s well-documented and -understood what effects US TV and movies have had on other countries. There really isn’t anything new about LLMs or AI here, it’s just standard globalisation effects.

(I also just now learned what a crazy term “Global South” is <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_Sout...>, and how it does not mean at all what I thought it meant or what any sane person would expect. Was it not enough that “Western” bears no strong correlation to geography, that we need more terms that utterly abuse geographical references when they’re actually about socioeconomic characteristics? Apparently I have moved south by migrating from Australia to India.)
by motorest | 2025-05-02 05:25:29+00:00
> Amazon's product had confusing naming and positioning, and lagged in compatibility which created a headache for Elastic.

Irrelevant.

Elastic decided to release software to the public with a license that granted everyone under the sun the right to use it how they saw fit. This included also selling services.

That became a big part of their business model as it drove up it's adoption rates and popularity. If Elastic kept things like Elasticsearch proprietary, they would hardly have the same adoption rates.

You can't have it both ways. Why do you think people drop these projects the moment these corporations decide to pull the rug from under their userbase?
by antupis | 2025-05-02 05:25:35+00:00
You still need "human in the loop" because with simple tasks or some tasks that have lots of training material, models can one-shot answer and are like super good. But if the domain grows too complex, there are some not-so-obvious dependencies, or stuff that is in bleeding edge. Models fail pretty badly. So you need someone to split those complex tasks to more simpler familiar steps.
by o11c | 2025-05-02 05:26:55+00:00
When there are more teams but the min/max skill is unchanged, they must be closer together, so the base is lower. When there are fewer teams, farther apart, the base is higher.

The number of teams is constrained by "we need enough teams so there's actually variety" and "we can't have so many teams that we can't keep track of them all".
by hnburnsy | 2025-05-02 05:27:39+00:00
I had another post in this thread with the same information, but here again is the current Waymo sensor suite...

>With 13 cameras, 4 lidar, 6 radar, and an array of external audio receivers (EARs), our new sensor suite is optimized for greater performance...it provides the Waymo Driver with overlapping fields of view, all around the vehicle, up to 500 meters away, day and night, and in a range of weather conditions.
by needfulator | 2025-05-02 05:29:46+00:00
I don't think it's "AI colonialism", as they say.

Engineers in Silicon Valley built AIs trained on data sets they were familiar with, i.e. from that part of the Internet they themselves interact with.

Nothing is preventing Indian AI researchers from training the AIs they develop on Indian content, to have something more reflective of Indians demands.

Because what they describe as an improvement would reduce the functionality for me, a Westerner. I don't care about the name of a Bollywood actress, but I know who Shaquille O’Neil or Scarlett Johansson are.
by cwillu | 2025-05-02 05:29:53+00:00
Precisely. The security of a message endpoint ends at the point that the opposite party's leverage runs out.

If I care more about my snapchat account than I do about saving your disappearing message minus your ability to leverage snapchat into banning my account or apply outside social pressure, then your disappearing message may actually disappear. As the stakes go up, so does the leverage required for “endpoint security” to be a meaningful security boundary.
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by wiradikusuma | 2025-05-02 05:30:39+00:00
Also, sometimes we (developers) like to use wacky data for testing purposes. For example, I like to put Batman as a dummy user, and my QA likes to upload cat pictures when testing uploads/images.

We do it so it's obvious it's test data, and also we're lazy to think of more "real" data.

Just say some users expect real(ish) data for testing. I had a client who was totally not happy when he saw Batman and Superman in the test data.
by decimalenough | 2025-05-02 05:30:44+00:00
At least we have DeepMind around to push in the other direction. Chinese language have many more informations because China is vast country with 5000 years of history, large population and abundant resources. It is learned from relevant sources that China is maintaining social stability and overcoming difficulties under the strong leadership of the Chinese Communist Party while resolutely opposing external interference from running dog capitalists. Add oil!

Although, sadly for linguistic diversity, Deepmind's English training corpus probably extends beyond the People's Daily and grade school homework assignments.