MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by willdoenlen | 2025-05-02 02:24:44+00:00
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by Plokhoi | 2025-05-02 02:25:07+00:00
Hi HN,

This is a public disclosure of an experimental architecture I developed, which triggered a non-standard response from GPT-based systems (including Copilot), without any model access or tuning.

I call the structure "Δ5 Core" based on an ATP (Associative-Tokenized Memory) logic layer, interacting with the token flow itself. The structure caused GPT to alter its behavior in real-time and demonstrate what I believe is latent resonance-based pattern recognition.

- GitHub repo (with README, LICENSE, theory PDF): https://github.com/dreanhunter30/Core_ProtoCore_Full_Evoluti...

- Official whitepaper: ATP_ATOM_Bato_Naidanov_EnglishOnly.pdf

I am seeking scientific peer attention, research partners, and feedback on whether this architectural phenomenon is replicable or formally explainable.

This is not fine-tuning, not prompt injection — but structural activation through symbolic token scaffolding.

Would love to hear thoughts from the HN research/LLM community.
by cyberax | 2025-05-02 02:25:21+00:00
> X^∞ - Postmoral and Emotionless: Mathematical Foundations of Ethical Governance as a Self-Reinforcing System > The Auctor

Ah, perhaps they might be interested in publishing my monograph: "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"?
by Terr_ | 2025-05-02 02:25:55+00:00
Isaac Newton: "Did you see that apple fall? Now imagine that both an elephant and a feather were to begin falling at the same moment, in a place where the atmosphere was--"

Your ancestor: "No, we don't need to. I could also imagine them underwater. Those are suppositions. You're comparing actual and hypothetical falling."

*headdesk*

____

How about this: Which parts of the final TLDR do you disagree with?
by leereeves | 2025-05-02 02:26:31+00:00
> You seem to be implying that governments and three-letter agencies use some vastly superior cryptographic scheme

About a month ago there was a discussion here saying Signal is preinstalled and widely used at the CIA.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478091

It's also recommended by the government's cybersecurity agency CISA.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
by golergka | 2025-05-02 02:27:46+00:00
> Neither company has built in a legal safety mechanism to prevent themselves from pulling the rug again later

Previous versions are still available under the original license, right? So if you don't want to use it with a new license, you're in the same situation as if company went out of business or stopped support and development for any other reason. There are no safety mechanisms for that either.
by anarticle | 2025-05-02 02:28:32+00:00
I did see two fakes hired at my old company, a 20 something "senior eng" who couldn't use git or python, and shockingly a VP who managed to fake it for nearly a year. He was unceremoniously fired on a Friday, but he was still paid lol.

I worked at an adtech company, he would give talks with powerpoints talking about internet of things which was absolutely wild. (We never sold or touched a single piece of hardware.)
by goodluckchuck | 2025-05-02 02:29:50+00:00
Where’s the coercive remedy?

Judges always mess this up. They act like their words have power. They issue one injunction, the party violates it in a flagrant manner, then the judge issues a new injunction.

You have to impose a coercive doubling fine, or something like that. Say $10 Million on day 1, $20 Million on day two, until compliance is secured.
by Mockapapella | 2025-05-02 02:30:38+00:00
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by rdtsc | 2025-05-02 02:30:57+00:00
> Someone with an EVP title picked "C" and until that person spends a couple months in jail on criminal contempt, senior execs will never pick "A". The VP Finance going down isn't enough. Until Tim Cook's staff meeting has an empty EVP chair for several months, none of this is serious. They'll just accelerate this VP Finance's options, bonus the shit out of him and consider his "sacrifice" to be collateral damage.

Agree. They'd have to feel some personal threat of going to prison or at least losing their fortune. As long as they feel protected behind the corporate veil, it's not a big deal to them.
by pmarais | 2025-05-02 02:31:20+00:00
I have been using LLMs to build interactive documents, business cases, sales proposals, mockups, blog posts, etc.

I wanted something simple that I could push to server to host static sites in order to share them, with colleagues, clients, family.

I use Netlify for my more complex projects, where I need to point a DNS and do more complex backend stuff etc.

I use quickdrop for all the fast simple stuff, like a mockup web page for a new feature, with a client vlaue proposition, or a static landing page for beta-signups, that sort of thing.

I especially use it to share proposals with clients, so that I can track if the viewed it, and if they share it around and so on.

If it sounds like a tool that you could use, check it out and drop me a signup request on the page, and I will share access.
VPNSecure deactivated all lifetime subscribers
by vmrocha | 2025-05-02 02:32:18+00:00
I just got an email from VPNSecure saying that my account was deactivated (not that it will be). They (I don't know who) bought the company, but the previous owner didn't disclose the number of subscribers that were not paying for the service.

Here is a screenshot of the email:

https://postimg.cc/2b6krMjM
Show HN: Trade and Gov. Agency Stuff
by arionhardison | 2025-05-02 02:33:01+00:00
tl;dr - agents from ustda.ai are coordinating with agents from usitc.ai and produced https://github.com/HardisonCo/.github/blob/main/MONEYBALL_BU... ...

Note: About 1 month of context and pipeline stuff missing from here, but still interesting IMO
by spindump8930 | 2025-05-02 02:33:28+00:00
You might be thinking of this article by Sebastian Ruder: https://www.ruder.io/nlp-imagenet/

Note that the author has a background spanning a lot of the timespans/topics discussed - much work in multilingual NLP, translation, and more recently at DeepMind, Cohere, and Meta (in other words, someone with a great perspective on everything in the top article).

Re: Machine Translation, note that Transformers were introduced for this task, and built on one of the earlier notions of attention in sequence models: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473 (2014, 38k citations)

That's not to say there weren't holdouts or people who really were "hurt" by a huge jump in MT capability - just that this is a logical progression in language understanding methods as seen by some folks (though who could have predicted the popularity of chat interfaces).
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-05-02 02:33:50+00:00
I don't hear it referred to as a top down system either, but infer that. People talk about a world without it, or after it, as if it's one thing - which is why I described it as top down. Ie one corner stone you can remove. Like a monarchy, or damn. And indeed, the critiques (that come to mind at least) I've heard of capitalism all seem valid at first, until I realise they also apply to socialism, communism, etc. Thus so far I don't see capitalism as being relevant as people think, and stick with my - temporary - conclusion that it's an emergent behaviour.
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-02 02:33:50+00:00
what do you mean? i work at a FAANG-adjacent company and our entire engineering org was told to switch to valkey, with an internal deadline from ops. My team supports a public facing service and we made the switch 2 months ago.

It was pretty easy, a small config change and some performance testing to make sure it worked well at scale.

Maybe nobody is talking about it online but some people have definitely switched.
by ivraatiems | 2025-05-02 02:34:04+00:00
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by marifjeren | 2025-05-02 02:34:39+00:00
Yes, this is true of OAuth, which is exactly what the latest Model context protocol is using.. What's the concern again?

I guess maybe you are saying the onus is NOT on the MCP server but on the authorization server.

Anyway while technically true this is mostly just distracting because:

1. in my experience the resource server and the authorization server are almost always maintained by the same company -- Jira/Atlassian being an example

2. the resource server still minimally has the responsibility of identifying and integrating with some authorization server, and *someone* has to be the authorization server, so I'm not sure deferring the responsibility to that unidentified party is a strong defense against the critique anyway. The strong defense is: of course the MCP server should have these responsibilities.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-02 02:34:56+00:00
> Immigration officials are seeking photographs of the outside of envelopes and packages — an Inspection Service program known as “mail covers” — and access to the postal investigation agency’s broad surveillance systems, including Postal Service online account data, package- and mail-tracking information, credit card data and financial material and IP addresses, the people said.

If we're already going into the idiotic-authoritarianism of Brazil... Does anyone have a list of undocumented-immigrant names plus mailing-addresses of Trump supporters?

If anyone is getting their doors smashed open by government goons seeking Anne Frank in the attic, it should be the people who enthusiastically voted for it.
by matlin | 2025-05-02 02:35:54+00:00
PouchDB and CouchDB were what inspired me to build Triplit[1]. The idea of having an identical (or merely similar in the case of Pouch/Couch) query engine accessible on client and server is insanely powerful.

The author links to a much longer post on handling conflicts which is worthy of its length because it's not a pleasant experience with this setup.

I highly recommend trying a modern setup from one of the many new local first solutions [2]

1. https://triplit.dev

2. https://www.localfirst.fm/landscape
by grg0 | 2025-05-02 02:37:08+00:00
This is an old, unoriginal argument that is also completely baseless. According to this, people must have been living in tribes until the industrial revolution, right? And then capitalism just naturally emerged, of course. Not a single drop of blood was spilled.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with standards or the article, if that is what you are implying. The Internet, for example, along with the many standards that followed, is the result of government funneling money into the Pentagon, universities, and other research institutions. It did not emerge spontaneously. And then private enterprise has flourished on top of that baseline infrastructure, much of which is used unaltered to this day. If anything, we need more and up-to-date standards, not siloed proprietary technology that disappears on the whims of an acquisition or a bankruptcy.
by alxjrvs | 2025-05-02 02:37:43+00:00
Do you mean trade or mercantilism? Capitalism - a system by which the means of production are privately owned - has only been dominant for the last few hundred years, broadly exacerbated by the industrial revolution (where you could easily point to "Guy who owns the big Machine").

It is, at its most fundamental description, a Top-Down system of governance and ownership (I admit, probably not the way you mean, but it did tickle me).

Dragons hoarding wealth might be emergent human behavior, but, hey, so are brave knights.
by levi-turner | 2025-05-02 02:39:21+00:00
> Support is typically low paid because it's a lot of effort for little reward, no matter how much you pay someone in support, there's only so much impact they can have on the bottom line.

As someone who was in Support and moved to the sales (engineering) side, I'll put it this way, if we had 3-4 of me in Support, my job would be 2-3-4x as easy.
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-02 02:40:45+00:00
that’s a loaded statement without understanding the company.

Sometimes large companies acquire smaller companies and keep the lights on in the old system for a while. They may not even use a similar tech stack!

Sometimes they want to cleanly incorporate the acquired systems into the existing architecture but that might take years of development time.

Sometimes having a distributed system can be beneficial. Pros / cons.

and sometimes it’s just a big company with many people working in parallel, where it’s hard to deploy everything as a single web app in a single pipeline.
by p_ing | 2025-05-02 02:40:58+00:00
Google/Chrome just declared that they won't be moving forward with removing 3rd party cookie support.

https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-next-steps/

> Taking all of these factors into consideration, we’ve made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and will not be rolling out a new standalone prompt for third-party cookies.
by svieira | 2025-05-02 02:41:29+00:00
The use case of not having to log in to system A which is being embedded within system B because you already logged in to system A? Without needing to introduce a third party SSO C? That's pretty "regular human", even if it's "medium sized corporation" instead of "Joe Regular" (but even Joe likes it if he doesn't have to log into the comment box on every site that uses THE_COMMENT_SYSTEM_HE_LIKES.)
by jongjong | 2025-05-02 02:42:11+00:00
Small producers would benefit. Producers who produce solutions that are most compatible for a specific community would benefit from other solutions not being compatible.

In such system, everyone would be a small producer. So everyone would benefit. It would be much harder to move cities or countries but that would be a good thing. Everyone would have a great work life. Everyone would have an advantage within their community over unknown foreign producers. Equality of opportunity would be maximized.

The biggest problem in everyone's lives today is their job/career. People spend all their time working. So the system should be optimized to make workers' lives better, not consumers' lives. Capitalism already looks after consumers naturally. The government's job should be focused mostly on producers.

It's not right that every aspect of the system looks after consumers when they don't necessarily produce much social value. A lot of their income nowadays is subsidized by money printing, not the result of past labor as the myth suggests.
by o11c | 2025-05-02 02:42:16+00:00
It's not a complete coincidence. Very many sets of random numbers are uniformly distributed on a logarithmic scale. See for example Benford's Law.

Fibonacci numbers are just a rounded version of phi^x. So the only coincidences are 1. that the number of teams is such that phi is a good base, and 2. that the rounding all happened to go the right way.
by michael1999 | 2025-05-02 02:42:30+00:00
Who maintains the core network if 90% of the edge is self-sufficient? That's a lot of wires to keep up if there isn't much power running through them most of the time.

To be fair - the grid is already failing in Pakistan. Adding solar to the edge is only increasing resiliency.

But in countries with functioning grids, a flight to solar could cause the same sort of user-pay funding crisis that electric cars have done for gas taxes.
by 9rx | 2025-05-02 02:42:39+00:00
Execution performance might be similar, but Node.js and Deno execution performance are also similar (both use v8 – there is only so much you can optimize beyond that), so clearly the comment is not talking about execution performance. Deno sells itself as having faster development performance, so presumably that is what performance is in reference to.

It is hard to deny that Go isn't much more performant on the development end. Someone who is inexperienced might be slowed down due to that inexperience negating the performance boost, sure, but when one is concerned about developer performance they will be happy to incur the small upfront cost to become experienced for the bigger payoff later.

(It is debatable if Go is really the king of developer performance, you might do even better with another language, but what is certain is that it is not Javascript/Typescript)
by cortesoft | 2025-05-02 02:42:49+00:00
First, they didn't "close the source". The new license is not closed source. You can argue why you think the license is bad, but it is not closed source.

Second, I don't know about you, but continuing to function in the same way is my primary need for systems I am managing. When my provisioning system installs a package by name, i expect it to work in the same way as before. Switching binary names breaks that promise.

My setup has scripts that do things like check that a process named "redis" is running... this will break if the process is now called "valkey"

I feel like all the commenters live in some kind of crazy alternate world where purity of license matters more than stability of systems.
by mhio | 2025-05-02 02:42:55+00:00
What's the motive "to gain trust and encourage users to use AI on WhatsApp"? Meta aren't a charity. You have to question their motives because their motive is to extract value out of their users who don't pay for a service, and I would say that whatsapp has proven to be a harder place to extract that value than their other ventures.

btw whatsapp implemented the signal protocol around 2016.
by Terr_ | 2025-05-02 02:44:56+00:00
My desktop has been on Windows for a long time due to games. I think this is going to be the last straw, as Microsoft continues to harass users into sharing all their secrets into the cloud in a way that also causes painful lock-in.

I literally bought another SSD a couple weeks ago to start the "never boot to Windows unless I really need to" process.
by jfengel | 2025-05-02 02:45:28+00:00
The use case is web sites that want to earn income with as little user overhead as possible. Targeted ads have many downsides but they do pay websites without any money at all from the user, or even having to create an account.

So the problem for regular humans is the disappearance of features that they've grown used to having without paying any money. Finding a better way to support themselves has proven remarkably difficult.
by tomkat0789 | 2025-05-02 02:45:54+00:00
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by sandspar | 2025-05-02 02:46:05+00:00
Paywall, but just from above the fold, the article contains such words as:

Disturbance, horror, appalled, disrespect, confronted, [scare quotes], Nazi, apologism, challenge, anti-woke, brutally, principleless, hacks, op, worse, disreputable, mercenaries

If you read articles like this then you fill your mind with these concepts. It can't be healthy for you. It doesn't matter who they're attributed to.

This type of journalism isn't healthy for the world.