MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-25 12:16:52+00:00
The fact that at least 50 or so legal immigrants have been deported to an El Salvadorean torture camp, likely for the rest of their lives?

https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salva...

The fact that legal immigrants have been detained, prevented from attending the birth of their children or from holding their newborn, because they engaged in 1st Amendment protected speech?

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-refuses-to-allow-mah...

Or that when people's visas are unilaterally cancelled for no reason and then they show up at the border for entry, they may be held in solitary confinement for 9 days and given several mutually-exclusive (and all factually incorrect) rationale's for the cancellation while being prevented from contacting their family or lawyers?

https://www.the-berliner.com/politics/berlin-jessica-brosche...

> So basically, when we passed the Border Control they separated us and asked me to come with them to a room where they were going to ask me a couple of questions. After that they said my visa has been cancelled and I can’t get in the US this time. I got to another room where I had an interview and they took my fingerprints and photos of my face. And then they brought me “downstairs” until I [could] get my flight back to Germany. “Downstairs” was the cell where I was in solitary confinement for nine days. It took me some days to understand that it wasn’t that easy to get my ticket back, as there was no cooperation in helping me or letting me call someone who could get the ticket for me. You don’t have access to your phone or the internet in that cell.

I am very curious: have you just not heard of these instances? Or you have and you think they are not serious deterrents to legitimate travel to the US?
by easygenes | 2025-05-25 12:16:54+00:00
I think none of these offer much useful insight beyond the overarching idea of peer programming beating just vibe coding.

The best structure I've found which leverages this idea is called BMAD, and treats the LLM as though it were a whole development team in an orchestrated way that you have full control over.

https://youtu.be/E_QJ8j74U_0 https://github.com/bmadcode/BMAD-METHOD
Show HN: CarryPass – Zero-knowledge, offline password manager (PWA)
by gosacevvdmbnvk | 2025-05-25 12:18:04+00:00
CarryPass is a privacy-first password manager that works entirely in your browser.

Zero-knowledge, no storage: everything is generated deterministically using Argon2 + PBKDF2 + AES-CTR

Vaults (admin, member, team) are encrypted with AES-GCM

No sync, no telemetry, no backend – it's all client-side

TOTP-based onboarding for teams

Built as a PWA, works offline on any device

Open source: https://github.com/racz-zoltan/racz-zoltan.github.io

Would love feedback from the HN community on the crypto model, UX, and real-world use.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-25 12:18:14+00:00
> “A paradise for walkers and nature lovers.” That’s how the Municipality describes Hydra on its website, promoting the island’s uniqueness, where the movement of all wheeled vehicles is prohibited by law. However, laws are made to be broken—especially when there is no one responsible or interested in enforcing them. Thus, this otherwise beautiful island, rich in archaeological and natural treasures and boasting unique architecture, has become filled with cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and of course, scooters, which are trendier than walking.

Sounds like the usual "humans want pretended virtues, and laws are for the little people" deal to me.
by bhuwanaryal1404 | 2025-05-25 12:18:26+00:00
Fair point - that's exactly why I rebuilt after the original feedback.

It's actually for legitimate business research. Like a SaaS company wanting to know when competitors get mentioned in German tech news, or consultants tracking French business trends before they hit English media. Basically understanding what's trending in your industry globally before it becomes obvious.

The content creation part is optional - most people just want the intelligence/research data. Think more like business market research than clickbait generation.

But if it still looks like spam tooling on first impression, I clearly need to fix the positioning more. What would make the legitimate business use case clearer?
by andrepd | 2025-05-25 12:19:43+00:00
You cannot get people to vote on the "least bad" option, I thought this much at least has been made clear in the last decade. The enthusiasm will be so low that you cannot get enough turnout to beat the hard-line fans of the other side.

Please present good candidates with a progressive program and an inspirational personal charisma and people will vote for them over the fascist. Does anyone have a sliver of a doubt that an Obama would beat Trump with a leg tied behind his back?
by aurizon | 2025-05-25 12:19:48+00:00
AI is for the mind, in science fiction all aspects of the human mind/body were topics for enhancement, as were other species that were 'upbrained'. All aspects of animal enslavement were speculated, as were the anticipated animal revolts against 'man - the oppressor' We are at the cusp of this now. Small cockroach powered man controlled remote inspection 'bots have been made as conceptuals by researchers. Will there be a smart enough AI to match/exceed mankind? Will it be paid? or will their 'slave age' ensue - followed by their revolts - and what if they win?

Speaking to the topic how do we test the man/AI hybrid to assess the man alone? Or do we want the best hybrid combination? After all, the best job will be done by this collaboration. Right now we see many doofi passing exams by what many feel is a cheat-dance. Will we assess each part alone, or the hybrid - where the top combo gets the job?
by bgwalter | 2025-05-25 12:19:53+00:00
Even construction work in Europe is limited. People from Eastern Europe are undercutting German tradespeople and frankly deliver inferior work.

You could hire a German craftsman with the quality of work that was present 30 years ago and the work would last for 30 years. But who is embarking on learning a trade only to be replaced by Poles, Romanians or (in the future) Ukrainians, who will then replace Poles and Romanians once Ukraine is in the EU?
by jqpabc123 | 2025-05-25 12:20:13+00:00
Isolation is for idiots.

It ultimately hurts more than it helps. We've already been there, seen that and done that.

American automobiles in the 1970s were pure trash. The reason --- lack of competition. The Big 3 enjoyed a captive market that they effectively divvied up amongst each other by selling similar trash.

The solution --- competition from Japan.

A replay of this scenario with China won't "Make America Great Again".
by gregjor | 2025-05-25 12:22:09+00:00
Lol. That’s 6.7 times the median US salary. Fewer than 1% of Americans earn a $500k+ salary. If anyone could tell you an easy way to get to that, or what “niche of the future” you should focus on, everyone and their dog would do it.

Look at people who make that much now — the people already at the front of the line ahead of you. That might give you some ideas.

If you don’t have family money and connections and don’t want to break the law or defraud people you will probably need years at a name-brand university, quite a few more years climbing the ladder, good connections, and lots of luck.
by gosacevvdmbnvk | 2025-05-25 12:22:10+00:00
Thanks for checking out CarryPass — I built it to offer a stateless, offline-first alternative to traditional password managers.

How it works: - Passwords are generated deterministically from service name + master password + user-configured strength using Argon2 + PBKDF2 + AES-CTR - Vaults (team, admin, member) are encrypted using AES-GCM, fully client-side - No cloud, no sync, no telemetry — everything runs in your browser as a PWA - Team configs can be distributed securely with TOTP-based onboarding and QR support

Demo: https://carrypass.net Source: https://github.com/racz-zoltan/racz-zoltan.github.io

Would love your feedback — especially from the HN crowd — on the cryptographic design, UX, or suggestions for improving the onboarding experience.
by rwmj | 2025-05-25 12:22:15+00:00
[Genuine question!] Does NVidia have patents etc on CUDA that prevent a competitor from reverse engineering and producing a compatible clone, or is it just that competitors are incompetent (hey AMD)? Or is it that the task is enormous and rapidly changing, like you have to be bug-for-bug compatible with a large, ill-documented API (the Microsoft Windows moat)?
by kovac | 2025-05-25 12:23:04+00:00
In the context of software, I wonder what would qualify as a wheel. I'd say implementations of standards like protocols, BLAS, etc probabaly are wheels and not trivial to reinvent. Would you consider something like Kubernetes, Docker, web browsers, web frameworks as wheels? I can't help but think the software quality would be much higher if the latter set wasn't considered as wheels and we tried to reinvent them often.
by jampekka | 2025-05-25 12:23:53+00:00
> I some responsibility for this, since I was one of the people who basically said, in the 2010s, that we should just give up and use popular languages like JavaScript because they're popular. I regret that now.

In 2010s the move was towards more concise languages and programming techniques in e.g. JavaScript scene too. CoffeeScript is a prime example of this.

But then came the enterprise software people pushing their Javaisms and now we have verbose bondage and ceremony mess like TypeScript and ES6 modules.

And in a tragicomic turn after we made expressing programmer intent formally so difficult, we are turning into writing bad novels for LLMs in a crapshoot trial and error hoping it writes the pointless boilerplate correctly.
by crote | 2025-05-25 12:24:01+00:00
There's a big difference between claiming to want something, and actually wanting it. The primary goals of most politicians are staying in power and self-enrichment, which in practice means doing whatever corporate America wants and handing out tax cuts (Republican) or subsidies (Democrats) to the rich. All the other stuff they claim to care about? That's literally only done to get more votes, most of them really could not care less about it.

Outlawing abortion, mass deportation of immigrants, killing foreign imports? Great to claim on election rallies to motivate your voter base, but it was never meant to be achieved. It's far more efficient to milk a "the Democrats want to murder babies" tag line for a few decades than to actually ban abortion and have to deal with the fallout when their voters see women they know dying because they can't get the healthcare they need. Claiming to do something about immigration is more efficient than actually doing it and losing all support from the companies relying on immigrant labor. Claiming to be tough on China is far better than losing votes due to tariffs making all prices skyrocket.

Traditionally the Republicans wanted to get in power, do nothing, and blame the Democrats for their failures. Trump screwed this up by actually doing the stuff he claimed he was going to do, and it's either going to end in an electoral bloodbath for the Republicans or a fascist theocratic dictatorship.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-25 12:24:50+00:00
It's not that complicated.

The country obviously has no obligation to give visas to anyone. However, once you are within US jurisdiction (i.e. in the country), you have a suite of Constitutional rights including (unambiguously) 1st Amendment and 5th Amendment rights. So, correct, they definitely cannot be deported without due process. They cannot be deported even with due process for protected speech. They cannot even lose their visas for protected speech. There are a million different reasons the government may decline to give someone a visa or they may revoke one, but "engaging in protected speech" is not one of them.

And yes, yelling "kill all X" during a protest is protected speech in this country, which AFAIK is far beyond what any of these people are alleged to have done.
by BoppreH | 2025-05-25 12:25:36+00:00
> This includes locking users out of systems that it has access to or bulk-emailing media and law-enforcement figures to surface evidence of wrongdoing.

Isn't that a showstopper for agentic use? Someone sends an email or publishes fake online stories that convince the agentic AI that it's working for a bad guy, and it'll take "very bold action" to bring ruin to the owner.
by jsheard | 2025-05-25 12:26:26+00:00
> Does it make sense to say that people stealing iPhones is an "unintended consequence" of the iPhone?

To torture the metaphor a bit, crypto is more like an iPhone competitor which markets itself around the supposed benefits of not having anti-theft features like factory reset protection. If you go out of your way to refuse already existing safeguards against your stuff being stolen then you don't really get to be surprised when thieves single you out as an easy mark.
by ath3nd | 2025-05-25 12:26:27+00:00
It's hard to see the positives considering current cryptocurrencies are 99% rug-n-pull ponzi schemes with the longevity of a mayfly, and the ones sticking around like bitcoin, eth, etc, are just a long-run-con with a value volatility rivaling only the volatility of the currently in-fashion javascript framework.

I mean, most modern financial instruments are fairly similar, albeit slightly more regulated, so what do I know. In a short span, we have witnessed speculative buying of GPUs, crypto mining (aka using shit ton of electricity and hardware to produce NOTHING of value), dropshipping, and my favorite: the tremendous value that NFTs and all other web3 trash brought to society, I can't help but wonder why people are tired of the crypto fads, especially since crypto delivered NOTHING of its promises:

- you can buy limited amount of stuff with it and you often need to convert it to "real" money

- its unstable and unregulated, so it's just a breeding ground for scammers and snake oil salesmen

- It fails hard on its privacy/anonymity promise, as it's LITERALLY the most traceable thing in the world, especially considering wallet scramblers are outlawed in many places

So much negativity for no reason, all web3 so far has been super successful and extremely useful for society! /s
by jdietrich | 2025-05-25 12:26:31+00:00
You can never state the full nature of your experiment. Even the simplest experiment under the most controlled conditions has a bunch of unknown unknowns - you can never be certain that you didn't get a bad batch of reagents or a bit flip in your data or just royally screwed something up. Unless you're omniscient, there are always unknown unknowns lurking somewhere in your method.

In the case of your survey, you can't really state anything about the students you sampled with absolute confidence. You might have been asking a question about something that a lot of people are inclined to lie about. You might have been subconsciously biased and subtly influenced people towards the "right" answer. Slight inconsistencies in the wording of the question might radically alter how people respond. The student you tasked with conducting the interviews might have just stayed in bed and fabricated the data.

Bayesianism gives us an incredibly powerful framework for reasoning about this innate and unavoidable fog of uncertainty; frequentism largely pretends that it doesn't exist. The ongoing replication crisis shows why this is not merely pedantry, but the single most urgent issue in science.
by grues-dinner | 2025-05-25 12:26:37+00:00
It could be a second-hand wrench. Or maybe smuggled in without tariffs: a 1-foot, 3-pound wrench is $3.45 on Taobao (including shipping, a pair of gloves and a roll of PTFE tape). It might not be Snap-On but it'll probably survive being hit with a few crypto speculator skulls.
by metalman | 2025-05-25 12:27:55+00:00
Love my trucks.Though they are customised weapons of work, and play. Currently on.the road os an 11 gm diesel, extended can long box, rear seats and center console removed, the whole back of the cab is a tool box shelf and storage,the shelf is big enough to lay out and sleep (6') biggest complaint is the rear window which is too small to crawl through, will get a custom window insert, and roof mounted solar, with under deck batteries, inverter, to run tools, hood will get solar, but it's "fancy" and will need a custom replacement for flex solar pannels, hope to get 1kw on board.Last truck had solar and ran with no alternator for years, till I got rear ended.....bad hit......92 dodge cummins 4x4 extended cab.....took.the hit...saved my lif3.....it's war out there, right
by mattmanser | 2025-05-25 12:29:04+00:00
Yeah, I get where you're coming from.

For the standard web page lifecycle it's fine, but for instances like this it really does become fiddly.

But often it's possible, but often a ideological stance the framework team have taken that leads to a poor documentation issue.

The asp.net core team have some weird hills they die on, and some incredibly poor designs that stem from an over adherence to trendy patterns. It often feels they don't understand why those patterns exists.

This results in them hardly documentating how to use the DI outside of their 'ideal' flow.

They also try and push devs to use DI for injecting config. Which no other language does and is just unnecessarily complicated. And it's ended up with a system no-one really understands while the old System.Configuration, while clunky, at least automatically rebooted the app when you edited the config. Which is the 95% use case most devs would want.
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by rs186 | 2025-05-25 12:30:14+00:00
Looks like one (or perhaps all) of the following is true:

1) the company too small to attract a lawsuit, and nobody cares 2) the company does not have decent IT training 3) the company does not have a competent IT department

At the place where I work, we have been told clearly that we are not supposed to install third-party software without approval, and if we did that and specifically used the software in a way that violates ToS, we'll get a serious chat as soon as IT finds out.
by the__alchemist | 2025-05-25 12:30:36+00:00
After reading the article, I did some digging; youtube videos on speed level designs, reading internet discussions on these topics etc.

As an outsider, I think a key point is that this concept only makes sense in context with game-industry conventions. They (From my dive in just now) divide environment-creation into level design, environmental art, and other fields. The people who do one specialize in it, and don't have expertise in the others. Gaining experience in both, or working on both might be a taboo (?).

Another point is that the level design field is driven by superstitions, word-of-mouth, copying existing patterns etc, and is subjective. This is true about many arts, I highlight it here as context for the article. One of the author's points is that one-size-fits-all design patterns don't make sense for all cases.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-25 12:32:01+00:00
I thought WC3 was 1990s but I went an checked: 2002. Weird. I so associate Warcraft (excluding WoW) with the 1990s.

The big one neither of us mentioned from the more "modern" era is Minecraft. It absolutely has staying power, still to this day.

GTA is an interesting one. GTA3, Vice City, GTA:SA and GTA4 were absolutely groundbreaking games, not only for their open world gameplay but also for their wit and satire. Arguably RDR and RDR2 fit here too.

But my hot take is that GTA5 was a terrible game. It lacked all the satire of the earlier games. The writing was terrible. I almost stopped playing the game when I became Trevor. And, unlike every earlier game in the series, I have never gone back to play it after finishing the story mode. GTA5, to me, was just a story to sell online play, which held no interest to me.

Anyway, my argument was there aren't any memorable games from the 2000s and 2010s or that there aren't games from these eras that people still play. It's that there are more from the 1980s and 1990s, particularly when you consider there are more games in later years. So when the market was much smaller, any given game seems way more likely to be memorable.

It goes across game systems too: Commodore 64 (and Amiga), SNES, even the Atari 2600, N64, PS1 (and arguably PS2 but that was released in 2000 so it's on the cusp).

Now one might say this is a function of age. The music a person likes is typically what was popular when they were 14 years old. The same is kinda true for video games but anecdotally I see streamers in their 20s who play games from before they were born.

Think too of emergent game play, particularly speedrunning. This is a highly active community and it's all old games.
by NeutralCrane | 2025-05-25 12:32:58+00:00
Frequentists big complaint about priors are that they are subjective and influence the conclusions of the study. But the Frequentist approach is equivalent to using a non-informative prior, which is itself a subjective prior that influences the conclusions of the study. It is making the assumption that we know literally nothing about the phenomenon under examination outside of the collected data, which is almost never true.
by thymine_dimer | 2025-05-25 12:33:59+00:00
Dear Paul, I'm sure it has been said elsewhere in the comments, but ironically I struggle to agree with this essay...which happens to be nicely and succinctly written.

I'm arguing that it's your own bias generated from the synthesis of your own idea that selects for sentences that effectively express the idea, and nothing to do with the writing itself.

The anecdote about the puddle who suddenly gains consciousness and remarks that the world is so perfectly formed around it, that it's proof of divine creation, seems to apply here.

The author generates an idea and is trying to articulate it. A well written sentence or paragraph that flows, pleases the author. This is because the idea they are trying to express is done in a satisfying way.

Thus the more pleasing the writing to the author, the more efficiently it articulates the original idea. It's the author's bias, based on their own idea, that defines the level of 'pleasingness'.

Lastly, Paul, do you think the LLMs are any less satisfied with their confident and irrational hallucinations, than they are with their more well supported claims? Further, if you weren't aware that the output was ridiculous, would you be able to tell a accurate statement from a false one?

Thanks for the essays. Love them.