MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by itchyouch | 2025-06-29 16:03:13+00:00
This article isn't really about whether there's some situation where there were some wrong doings, but it's yet another piece adding to the overall body of Israel's offenses against humanity.

As a random bystander with no real skin in this conflict, other than being American, what I can say is that for a while, it did seem that Israel the country had to unfairly deal with hate and war and it seemed quite unfortunate.

Most of the horrifying stories that would occasionally rise up seemed unbelievable, if not overblown.

Though in recent weeks, social media & news has provided another perspective.

1. Numerous Israeli citizens mocking Palestinians and having the gall to upload it to social media.

2. Numerous classrooms and children being taught that non-Israeli's do no deserve the same human rights as Israelis, and the children from a young age reveling in their superiority.

3. Videos showing citizens in normal cars being a nuisance to Palestinian medical vehicles.

4. Videos showing the absolute decimation of Gaza.

5. Israeli news articles reporting 70% and more of the population supporting certain war actions.

6. Ex-IDF soldiers whistleblowing the atrocious acts they needed to commit.

7. Citizens barbequing and hanging out right along the Gaza's border as Palestinian folks on the other side starve.

8. The video of Palestinian medics getting murdered on the side of the highway.

9. Pictures of the logos on IDF uniforms showing "our promised land" with a map showing borders that claim the land of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon.

I don't think there is something "broken" in aid delivery. It appears that there is a systemic and concerted effort by the bulk of the government and citizens (100% of who have to serve in the IDF) to colonize and usurp Palestinian land and beyond.

And it seems that the latest set of conflicts have pulled back the curtain on the attitudes held by both the Israeli citizens and government.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-29 16:03:44+00:00
Mitre ATT&CK's T1497.001 (VM Detection) lists SMBIOS checks as a known vector means its open for injection anyways.

i did one little expirement on faking VM's powersupply. done it with 'HotReplaceable=Yes' and 'Status=OK', and you suddenly look like a $5k baremetal server.

cmd used

pip install dmigen dmigen -o smbios.bin \

--type0 vendor="American Megatrends",version="F.1" \

--type1 manufacturer="Dell Inc.",product="PowerEdge T630" \

--type39 name="PSU1",location="Bay 1",status=3,hotreplaceable=1
by SSLy | 2025-06-29 16:04:39+00:00
> Phil Schiller

Rings a bell.

>Tim Cook asserted his control over the company, putting his own personnel in place, and now his authority is absolute. Even those few others who remain from the Jobs era, such as “Apple Fellow” Phil Schiller, are overridden by Cook

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/5/6.html by way of https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/23/apple-turnaround/
by rsync | 2025-06-29 16:05:15+00:00
"Ads and privacy are not fundamentally opposed"

I agree with this.

There was a (brief) period when website advertisements were simple, first party hosted image files. IIRC, the first text ads on metafilter (2001 ?) were just strings in the same HTML file.

You may like or dislike these things but they were not a privacy concern.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-29 16:05:39+00:00
It's genuinely getting depressing watching HN try to justify Tim Cook's actions ad-hoc. You can't name a single ideal Apple values more than money.

Soon (2028?) "Yes, we know Apple advertises to us and backdoors their services for the government. But *at least* my personal data isn't being sold, without Apple's privacy promise I would be helpless."
by bobbiechen | 2025-06-29 16:06:39+00:00
Great high-level overview. One of the challenges about learning about bot detection is that it's adversarial, and revealing info about your techniques can help the attackers evade you.

I do work on a bot detection product, and I've seen some group chats where crackers are sharing notes about how they're evading detection tools. The more unnerving part is that the public groups are less serious, and there are certainly better private groups aiming at anything with a good financial reward.
by somedude895 | 2025-06-29 16:07:08+00:00
> at the end of the day society does not need them the way it needs taxi drivers or grocery baggers

This is absolutely true. In my country psychologists are complaining about "low" wages and tough conditions, and yet people go study psychology in droves because they "find it interesting." There's only so much demand for any one thing and if you decide because you enjoy something you want to make that your career well tough shit, there's thousands like yourself and nobody wants more of what you supply. So you can keep it as a hobby, but to make a living you have to provide something that people want and need, otherwise you're just a leech on society. It's funny that the ones complaining about these issues are usually the people who care about the social aspect of things, yet there's absolutely nothing social about demanding money without contributing anything that others actually need.
by RangerScience | 2025-06-29 16:07:25+00:00
This is a good starting point, but it doesn't have to be the _conclusion_ to this line of thinking.

Philosophically: You can being building criteria for consciousness; the things you look at in yourself that tell you are, and then begin looking for that (or symptoms of that) in other people.

Anecdotally: you can totes spot "unconscious" people. You can even watch people gain consciousness, if you watch 'em in the right circumstances. You can even watch yourself regain consciousness (for me it's usually a sensation of "what was I even doing for the past day/week/month).

All of this gets at least as weird and fuzzy as trying to define "consciousness" in the first place.
by Jensson | 2025-06-29 16:07:31+00:00
> It also didn't create democracy, they more or less immediately wound up under Napoleon, a self crowned Emperor

It did create democracy, the French Republic, Napoleon did end that though but its much easier to reinstate democracy later than to create it from scratch.

> I'm no expert on the French Revolution but I'm pretty sure that "We're all poor while the monarchs are all rich" was a huge driving force behind the French Revolution. "Let them eat cake", etc

Revolutions to loot the rich happened a lot throughout history, but here the explicit goal was to end monarchy and create democracy not just looting the rich, that is a big difference.
by trinsic2 | 2025-06-29 16:07:32+00:00
In this context, I disagree. Its really clear what the good in "Common" means.

Its like principles of what the Constitution was written on. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Principles like these are qualities we all naturally exhibit and as such doesn't need any explanation or qualifications. I know in our modern world people have decided that everything is open to interpretation. But I believe this was indoctrinated into us, over a long period of time, not to consider the human value[0] aspect of our being that we are born with. This was done by watering down the direct meaning of words and slowly changing the perception that humanity doesn't have infinite value and has to rely on external power structures to give it meaning.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/end-of-all-evil/page/n1/mode/2up
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 16:07:47+00:00
Thank you. I completely understand your point of view. I did put a lot of effort actually trying to come up with a simple concise description that can fit in an HN 80-char wide title but I simply could not do it. If you think about it, other fairly complex projects such as Kubernetes or Istio are also very hard to concisely describe for newcomers. There is always some assumption that potential users of the project are already acquainted with the terms used in modern zero trust architectures and familiar with similar commercial products such as Cloudflare Access, Teleport, StrongDM and many other related products.
by pas | 2025-06-29 16:08:03+00:00
> resistance to growth at all costs is futile

humans want to improve their (material) conditions, it's pretty much the thing we do at this point (that other species don't really)

the issue that was a bit of an inconvenience, a mere side-effect of our culture is nowadays burning down the whole shebang

we overvalue short-term gains (thus we have serious agent-principal and integrity issues), we have a laundry list of cognitive biases, and we managed to invent the weaponized cognitive-bias-exploitor and immediately tried it out on ourselves, and ... since the good old days of pamphlets and religious wars we are engaged in all kinds psyops.

we are both great and terrible at "winning hearts and minds" (that's why it works, but unfortunately it works much better at turning people into crazy self-destructive antisocial trolls than courageous prosocial reformers)
by rglullis | 2025-06-29 16:08:13+00:00
> Group chats work when everyone knows each other.

That is (a) not true and (b) a non-issue, because you can create as many groups as you'd like.

> PostX is indeed something like a private blogging space. I just wanted a place where I can dump my thoughts without feeling like seeking immediate attention.

So, you are working on yet-another blog engine and you are promoting it like it's some revolutionary new idea? It may be interested for you if you want to treat it as some exercise, but do you see how underwhelming this seems to anyone else?
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-29 16:09:05+00:00
> There are certainly big missing pieces too though -- like the article talks about, physical grounding

I think that it may be possible to view consciousness as the combination of three things:

(1) A generalizable predictive function, capable of broad abstraction. (2) A sense of being in space. (3) A sense of being in time. (#2 and #3 can be combined into a "spatiotemporal sense.")

Animals have #2 and #3 in spades, but lack #1. LLMs possess #1 to a degree that can defeat any human, but lack #2 and #3. Without a sense of being in space and time, it's not clear that they are capable of possessing consciousness as we understand it.
Show HN: EliteSaaS – Self-Contained SaaS Starter (Auth, Billing, Email, Launch)
by eibrahim | 2025-06-29 16:09:46+00:00
Hi HN,

I got tired of rebuilding the same boilerplate for every side project — auth, billing, dashboards, waitlists, email flows, SEO metadata, launch pages… you know the drill.

Most “SaaS starters” still require stitching together a bunch of external tools — Zapier, Intercom, Mailchimp, analytics, Stripe, etc. That ends up being fragile and expensive.

So I built EliteSaaS to solve that.

What’s included:

• Auth, user management, password reset

• Stripe subscriptions (recurring billing + coupons)

• Admin dashboard, user table, impersonation

• Built-in email flows and campaign manager (uses Resend)

• Basic analytics

• SEO + OpenGraph generator

• Product Hunt + social launch content generator

• Optional waitlist mode with invite codes

Tech stack:

• Next.js

• Tailwind

• Supabase

• Resend

• Vercel (deploy-ready)

I built this for myself originally, and now I’m using it to spin up side projects fast without losing momentum on boring setup.

Site: https://www.elitesaas.dev

Happy to answer questions or get feedback!
by layer8 | 2025-06-29 16:09:47+00:00
They could do “tacky things” without affecting a whole product category. Arguably they are doing potentially unprofitable experiments in their main product lines, like with the iPhone mini and the upcoming iPhone Air. They just aren’t “tacky”. I think they could go a bit more outside the comfort zone without immediately jeopardizing profitability and incurring the wrath of the shareholders.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-29 16:09:58+00:00
Windows' sins are the utter lack of elegance and outright hostility to the generic users. And I understand those trigger visceral reactions for many.

Yet macos' polish and elegance just hide different issues, in particular the utter lack of flexibility (Apple's way or the highway) and expecting to solve most issues by throwing money at it (want 3D perfs ? just buy another computer)

I personally couldn't understand why I'd keep paying for both a macbook and an ipad just to have a "real" computer and a touch screen. Microsoft made the Surface Pro a decade ago now.
by somat | 2025-06-29 16:10:02+00:00
First, I don't think sega's trademark was voided, it is more like "It is not a violation of a companies trademark to use it when they require using it to access the device." That is, the registered trademark still protects everything else it is intended to protect.

Second, that was the US ruling, I have no idea of how the rest of the world, specifically japan, views using a trademark like this. I do know japan is weirdly(at least to US sensibility) strict about copyright and trademark law.

So it was an attempt by Nintendo(and Sega) to have a legal crowbar to use to control third party use of their system. In the US it was ruled that this would not work for Sega. So Nintendo probably never used it for that purpose (in the US)
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-06-29 16:11:15+00:00
You're missing that it's not that difficult. Unless you have a very complicated home network, setting up IPv6 should take you an evening tops. For my network and my ISP (Comcast), it's literally just turn on IPv6 in the router, it will pick up a prefix from the ISP and advertise it locally, then I add a firewall rule for whatever I want to be accessible from outside (which isn't much).
by photochemsyn | 2025-06-29 16:11:18+00:00
I don't see how you can have human-like consciousness without (1) a sense of self and (2) a certain degree of agency. Self-awareness is different from mechanical responses: thinking "The sun is warm, the sun is getting hot, I will move my physical body out of the sun to avoid overheating" is fundamentally different from a robot or a microbe doing the same thing in response to triggers from sensors.

This leads to the interesting question, can you simulate consciousness in a virtual in-silico world setting? Can you create an entity that inhabits this virtual world, taking in simulated sensory data, from which it orients itself, learns to speak a language, develops symbolic representations of reality in its own mind which it uses to navigate and understand its world - would that be human-level consciousness? And if so, is this an ethical undertaking?
by itchyouch | 2025-06-29 16:11:20+00:00
The "nuanced" rhetoric to add doubt that things may not seem like what they are, is tiresome at this point. neepi's comments seem reasonable, innocent until proven guilty, but it's simply a strategy to exhaust onlookers with bureaucratic formalities of investigation and prosecution under the masquerade of reasonable justice.

It's a cop out and putting one's head in the sand to the real atrocities of zionistic ambitions of usurping Palestinian land.

In America, if someone trespasses into one's home and the home owner kills the trespasser, the vast majority of the time, the owner is justified and there are numerous court cases we can point to. Recently, it has become clear to me that Palestinians are simply trying to defend their own property/land/humanity.

Israel's trespasses are finally seeing the light in the latest set of conflicts and folks reading this comment that are unsure should spend 30 minutes looking up the videos of the conflict.

Israel blocking aid, murdering medical personnel with impunity, the before/after of Gaza, the list of crimes perpetuated by the government is undeniable at this point.
Show HN: I created a popular word game using an AI coding assistant
by gogo61 | 2025-06-29 16:11:36+00:00
I have not been coding for a long time. I was exploring how I could use coding again in a fun way.

I gave myself a small challenge — to build something useful and simple. Since I love word games, I decided to create one. I started writing prompts, testing outputs, and improving logic bit by bit.

In a week, with the help of AI, I had a working prototype of a word game. I didn’t write all the code myself. But I understood every part of it, and that made it feel like my own.
by ptx | 2025-06-29 16:11:42+00:00
> Gartner still expects that by 2028 about 15 percent of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by AI agents, up from 0 percent last year.

Companies hoping to automate decision-making had better keep in mind that article 22 of the GDPR [1] requires them, specifically in the case of automated decision-making, to "implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision."

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/
by wongarsu | 2025-06-29 16:12:37+00:00
We would presumably stop calling it an LLM somewhere along the way. But I don't see why it couldn't be a transformer architecture at the heart of it, and why that transformer couldn't bee pretrained from Reddit. You would have to track a lot of stuff on to allow an internal stream of consciousness and interaction with the world as well as memory, and do significant reinforcement learning. But we are already doing all of that while still calling the thing an LLM. It's unclear to me where the border lies where it would cease to be an LLM
by ralferoo | 2025-06-29 16:12:47+00:00
In many countries, making a large percentage of your workforce redundant requires following special procedures. This is true in the UK and Ireland (as in this case), and if more than 20 people are being made redundant within 90 days a certain process has to be followed, which will add at least 2-3 months before the staff can be let go.

The reason it would be a cynical view is that firing a lot of people for failing to reach some required standard wouldn't be classed as redundancy, but a firing. This also reflects worse on the affected employees when seeking future employment.

I actually hope some of the people challenge this in court, as there are also regulations around this - if the people had already passed their probation period, and especially if they had already been working a significant length of time without issue, and then fired because of this test, it might well be found to be unfair dismissal. And, as I said before - if over 50% of your workforce don't know your policies, that shows a failure in management for not providing adequate training, not a reflection of the employees.
by yndoendo | 2025-06-29 16:13:07+00:00
Amazon does this with Jeff Bezos' project Alexa [0].

We really need to start taxing these companies appropriately. Sad that the US treats business better then their own citizens. A business that goes bankrupt can shed their debt while a person goes bankrupt will retain their debt.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/alexa-had-no-profit-...
by HelloMcFly | 2025-06-29 16:13:09+00:00
> at the very least they should be transfered into a role that doesn't involve coming up with good ideas, since obviously that is outside of their skill set.

Proposing one bad idea is not unusual for people whose job is idea-driven. When ideas are the primary currency of your occupation, you'll necessarily generate some losers. But in a company of Apple's size, that's why you rely on colleagues and - critically - a more robust approval process to move from idea to deliverable.

I hate your idea of firing (from org. or role) the idea person based on one bad idea. I don't hate the idea of firing (from org. or role) the leaders accountable for getting this idea into the world.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-06-29 16:13:10+00:00
> You'd lose things like hardware acceleration.

This is increasingly less true. SR-IOV and S-IOV are becoming increasingly common even in consumer hardware and OS manufacturers are increasingly leaning on virtualisation as a means to protect users or provide conveniences.

WSL has helped with virtualisation support quite a bit as a means of getting hardware manufacturers to finally play nice with consumer virtualisation.

And Microsoft is even now provides full ephemeral Windows VM "sandboxes". The feature that came with them that surprised me was that they support enabling proper GPU virtualisation as well.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-29 16:13:16+00:00
what if this wasnt something you add after infra but the checkpoint you start with. right now you spin up a vm or db then wrap vpn or firewall around it. but imagine writing access rules first in way : 'team ml can hit service x' or 'web app can hit this backend' and the system wires infra from that.. infra becomes a side effect of access intent. access isnt something you cant guard always( as things move fast, breaks fast), it's may become seed where you can design with.
by dangus | 2025-06-29 16:14:06+00:00
Yes, Meta has other properties:

- Quest was an acquisition (not an original idea) and has been a money sink, VR market is declining.

- Instagram was an acquisition and as mentioned was surpassed in userbase by a newcomer despite cloning TikTok’s functionality relatively early.

- Facebook has a declining userbase. It’s still huge but it’s declining.

- Threads is the most impressive “original” new Meta product in terms of adoption but it’s about half the size of Twitter if not smaller, and growth is reported as slowing. It’s also mostly recruiting the same users who are already in Instagram.

- Meta Workplace got sunsetted and failed

I’m not betting against Meta as I acknowledge that they’re a cash cow, but I think that a better CEO for the company exists and could have done better. I think a better CEO would have beat TikTok, I think a better CEO would have Meta competing in more platforms than just social media, and a better CEO would have been able to maintain a better reputation for privacy and security or at least do a better job of separating Facebook’s reputation from the rest of the company. Something like Meta Workplace was doomed from the start at least in part because companies don’t trust Meta with their sensitive data. That is the CEO’s fault.
by aayush-kosh | 2025-06-29 16:14:11+00:00
I'm building autoship.dev - a SaaS that creates instant development databases using Docker containers on ZFS datasets.

The Problem: Setting up dev databases takes forever. You either wait for data imports, deal with fake data, or risk breaking production.

The Solution: Branch your database like code. Create fully-populated dev databases in under 2 seconds with real, anonymized production data.

Why I built this: I was tired of spending hours setting up dev environments. Now you can reset to a clean state instantly and get back to building.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-06-29 16:14:23+00:00
I do a lot of things as an amateur but at pretty high level: athletics, music, art and more. I also pay a huge portion of my income as a software developer in direct and indirect taxation. Convince me I should fund people to focus full-time on things where they can't make a living, the same things I love to do but realize can't be your sole pursuit.

You've conflated people busting ass who can't keep up with those following their passion in the arts voluntarily. Those don't feel anything like the same thing to me. I don't think I'm alone in a perspective that if you keep taking more from me I'll stop contributing all together, and we'll all fail. The ultra-rich and others with means to avoid picking up the tab have already done so.