MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-10 23:47:34+00:00
"but nobody will pay for a browser, so they need to offer other services"

Why will no one pay for a browser

Why are web browsers available for free

I'm submitting this comment using software I downloaded for free, like a web browser

But it is not a web browser like Mozilla's

The software I'm using is not supported by advertising

No developers were paid to write it

What makes Mozilla's software different

Is it really better than software that is not supported by advertising

Better for www users, better for software developers, better for advertisers

What if it is better for one group but worse for another

I'm in the www user group
"A Logic-Based Cipher I Designed Broke Every AI. Can You Solve It?"
by Writer1530 | 2025-06-10 23:47:50+00:00
I’m a novelist, not a mathematician. But I designed a logic-based cipher for a story that turned out to be... brutal. No XOR, no primes, no RSA. Just addition, subtraction, and the periodic table.

It’s not a math problem. It’s a sequential logic ritual:

Miss one step, and you get garbage. Guess the rule order wrong? Total failure. Even with the full message, decryption is impossible without the correct rule set.

Every AI I tested—GPT-4, Claude, Grok—failed to break it. Grok imploded after a dozen clues. The kicker? It uses only public references: the periodic table and the current date.

Here’s one of the encrypted strings:

71 50 49 63 102 65 70 126 61 64 52 112 117 56 57 141 80 51 58 125 93 @ElonMusk 92 167 55 94 62 66 68 6 10 25 DECRYPTION CODE: 1313 First 3 words (verified): THIS IS SIMPLE The rest? You tell me. Decode the full message, reverse engineer the system, and you win. Or—build your own cipher that’s just as logic-driven and AI-resistant.

No gimmicks. Just logic. I’ll answer questions and confirm attempts.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 23:48:14+00:00
>Most people don't seem to want that and as long as that's the case it won't happen.

Most people, as usual, are apathetic and don't care as long as it doesn't affect them.

For those that do: it seems that that's exactly what they want to do. Hence 2016 pushing a supposed anti-establishment Trump (an obvious mistake, but no one ver said the people made well informed decisions). It's a shame the DNC spent the last 3 elections rejecting such a sentiment.
by bradfa | 2025-06-10 23:48:16+00:00
I have a ton of respect for what Oxide did by not using an off the shelf firmware for their Epyc chips. But unless you’re them, AMD is going to send any small customer to Insyde to buy their UEFI and AMD is not going to give you the kind of access and info that normal engineering teams would expect to get in order to implement their own firmware for Zen based Epyc chips.

Most small customers have no choice but to buy a preexisting firmware from an IBV and you get all their security bugs included. You’re lucky if you get full source code and it actually compiles. This is the state of our industry today.
by kazinator | 2025-06-10 23:49:45+00:00
> Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body established a dualistic model of mind and matter that still hampers our thinking today.

That is quite possibly going to be mainstream technology one fine day!

We have machines that are beginning to vaguely grope toward having some kind of soul, and we can easily get their state to survive the replacement of their hardware.

The intuition is correct that there is a dualism there. The mind is separate from the implementation substrate on which it operates and we can contemplate preserving and migrating it.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-06-10 23:49:53+00:00
Waymo is a particularly good one. Yes, it's been harder and taken longer than expected to get cars self driving, but it's starting to show real results now, and the sheer difficulty could act as quite the moat -- right now in the Western world, nobody is even close to Waymo in operational L4 or higher self driving cars, and the incumbent automakers in particular seem to have mostly given up.

And it's not just that Waymo will inevitably expand beyond robotaxis into personal cars as well, they could take their expertise in vision and robotics and apply it to adjacent domains. Maybe we'll actually start seeing the humanoid helper robots of the 50's a decade or two from now!
by gruez | 2025-06-10 23:50:23+00:00
>Suppose you want to be assured of the software running on your machine. You go into the firmware, point it at your boot loader and say "only this one". It makes a hash of the boot loader and refuses to use any other one until you change the setting, which requires your firmware password. Your boot loader then only loads the operating systems you've configured, and so on.

What if you need to update the bootloader?

>The only thing the signature gets you is remote attestation, which is the evil to be prevented. Simple hashing would get you everything else.

TPMs can do remote attestation without signatures just fine, by measuring the hash of the bootloader. It'd be clumsy, but doable, just like your idea of using hashes for verification.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-10 23:51:36+00:00
I highly recommend giving the S Ultra series a try. I use them for the built-in stylus, I had a few Note devices before the S.

Once you realise what life with a stylus is like, you'll not accept anything less.

I modify my devices slightly to make the stylus easier to remove, if you're interested I could show it off.
by jug | 2025-06-10 23:51:58+00:00
And unfortunately revealed to be largely a vibe check these days with that whole Llama 4 debacle. But why should we be surprised, really, when users have an easier time feeling if the replies sound human and conversational and _appear_ knowledgeable than actually outsmarting them. This Arena worked well in the ChatGPT 3.0 days… But now?
Show HN: I built Settle.nz a searchable, daily-updated housing auction database
by mdotk | 2025-06-10 23:52:07+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on Settle.nz — a clean, searchable, daily-updated database of property auction results across New Zealand.

I come from a WordPress/PHP/HTML background and used Cursor start learning about TypeScript, React and full-stack development.

What it does:

- Tracks all NZ auctions daily - Clean interface with filtering by price, location, status, and date - Market dashboards: price trends, suburb comparisons, auction success rates, and heatmaps - Agency analytics: see performance by region and over time - Email digests: daily/weekly summaries

Under the hood:

- Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript - Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, Recharts, Mapbox - Supabase for DB/RPCs, Prisma for some internal data - Redis (Upstash) for sitemap/cache - Mailgun for transactional email - Hosted on Vercel

It's been one heck of a learning curve! Any feedback or suggestions much appreciated.

Also, I realise that being a New Zealand focused site, the content won't have much direct relevance to the audience here, but I thought from a technical / AI coding perspective some of you might find it interesting nonetheless.

Thanks!
by io84 | 2025-06-10 23:52:26+00:00
Just like with food: there will be a market value in content that is entirely “organic” (or in some languages “biological”). I.e. written, drawn, composed, edited, and curated by humans.

Just like with food: defining the boundaries of what’s allowed will be a nightmare, it will be impossible to prove content is organic, certifying it will be based entirely on networks of trust, it will be utterly contaminated by the thing it professes to be clean of, and it may even be demonstrably worse while still commanding a higher price point.
by matt-attack | 2025-06-10 23:52:29+00:00
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-migrants-shelter-time-li...

https://nhjournal.com/as-illegal-immigrants-swamp-mas-emerge...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/migrant-arrested-broad-daylight-r...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/migrant-custody-person-interest-ra...

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/salvadoran-illegal-immig...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/haitian-migrant-accused...
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-10 23:52:33+00:00
There is the web of trust. If you really trust a person to say that their stuff isn't AI, then that's probably the most reliable way of knowing. For example, I have a few friends and I know their stuff isn't AI edited because they hate it too. Of course, there is no 100% certainty but it's as certain as knowing that they're your friend at least.
by dmix | 2025-06-10 23:52:38+00:00
Have you tried the beta on iPhone? 75% of the time it seems much nicer with 25% degraded. It's a weird mix but I see why they went in that direction. The only real problem is the religious adherence to the glass design language that is hurting it... because there are very good UX/design improvements via the glass, just not everywhere.

I wouldn't judge the new Android until I tried it on a phone either.
by iczero | 2025-06-10 23:54:11+00:00
Software engineering is not just about building new things. I'd propose that by far the majority of the time of software engineers is spent on maintenance, bug fixing, minor incremental improvements, etc. Almost all software is either sold directly as a service or as a product with a servicing agreement.

> most software development is creating an asset that pays off over time

This is a fantasy.
by tsungxu | 2025-06-10 23:54:24+00:00
Great question! I don't think there's any sub $5k VTOL you can just buy COTS that can get close to 3 hours of range. Also, nothing is as plug and play as DJI. If you're motivated enough to do a little DIY and learn how to use Ardupilot or PX4 (easier), you can buy a kit like the Heewing T2 VTOL and assemble yourself. But I don't think that will do more than two hours flight time, even with a similarly high energy density battery pack to what I used.
by orionsbelt | 2025-06-10 23:54:41+00:00
You might be correct about LLMs. Let's say that you are.

40 years ago we were clearly compute bound. Today, I think it's fairly clear we are not; if there is anything a human can do that an AI can't, it's because we lack the algorithms, not the compute.

So the question becomes, now that we have sufficient compute capacity, how long do you think it will take the army of intelligent creative humans (comp sci PhDs, and now accelerate by AI assistance) to develop the algorithmic improvements to take AI from LLMs to something human level?

Nobody knows the answer to the above, and I could be very wrong, but my money would bet on it being <30 years, if not dramatically sooner (my money is on under 10).

It seems to me like the building blocks are all here. Computers can now see, process scenes in real time, move through the world as robots, speak and converse with humans in real time, use tools, create images (imagine?), and so forth. Work is continuing to give LLMs memory, expanded context, and other improvements. As those areas all get improved on, tied together, recursively improved, etc., at some point I think it will be hard to argue it is not intelligence.

Where we are with LLMs is Kitty Hawk. The world now knows that flight (true human level intelligence) is possible and within reach, and I strongly believe the progress from here on out will continue to be rapid and extreme.
by downsplat | 2025-06-10 23:55:23+00:00
With the huge usage that LLM APIs are getting in all sorts of industries, they cannot be going away, and they're cheap.

If consumer AI chatbots get enshittified, you can just grab some open source bring-your-api-keys front-end, and chat away for peanuts without ads or anything anti-user.

I use https://github.com/sigoden/aichat , but there are GUIs too.

Plus, anyone enterprising can just write a web front-end and sell it as "the ad-free AI chatbot, only $10/mo, usage limits apply".
by Avicebron | 2025-06-10 23:56:08+00:00
That's great, but Becky at the farmer's market doesn't want to be re-inventing notepad on her computer to sell sourdough.

This smells like "Self-checkouts", "perfect bespoke solution so that everyone can check their own groceries out, no need to wait for a slow/expensive _human_ to get the job done, except you end up basically just doing the cashiers job and waiting around inconveniently whenever you want to get some beer
by cyanydeez | 2025-06-10 23:56:18+00:00
I reviewed and purchased a smaller drone, from WHISPR. Through that, I looked at similar VTOL drones, which OP is demonstrating. In theory, they're cheap:

https://www.uavmodel.com/products/makeflyeasy-hero-2180mm-ua...

This one has a maximum climb rate of 3 degrees. Which means you'd need to plan a route that's continously climbing, and tacking back and forth to avoid going steeply. So you would probably combine flight planning using Mission Planning: https://ardupilot.org/planner/ and custom json tweaking following MavLink protocol: https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/mavlink-routing-in-ardupilot....

The open source flight controllers and systems are https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-autopilots.html#ope... a good place to start. There's a few orgs building the full experience, but you'll of course pay for fully integrated, but still open source, hardware+software.

The scenario you describe is exactly what a VTOL or normal play is for; quad copters simply do not cover enough ground.

Also consider the camera. DJI typically ship with really low quality cameras, but https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1785754-REG/sony_ilx_... would get you a much higher pixel density so if you're more interested in the imaging, you can flight higher, near the licensed ceiling, completing more ground faster.

I've also found AI models know how to calculate pixel densities, so it's pretty easy to mock out a flight plan even if you dont have the actual drone available.
by matt-attack | 2025-06-10 23:56:54+00:00
Why try to minimize it or be defensive about the figure? The Biden administration is proud the number is high. Do you want the number high or low?

From ChatGPT:

> So, while 10–11 million CBP encounters is the most solid official figure, when you add gotaways, overstays, and parole entries, the total number of people likely entering without full authorization could reasonably be around 15–17 million during the Biden presidency.
by cafard | 2025-06-10 23:57:12+00:00
RFK Jr. is old enough and in theory intelligent and educated enough to know better. The only reason that his frolic in Rock Creek did not lower him in my estimation is that it was pretty low to begin with.

I posted my remark because "swimming in raw sewage" gives a pretty lurid picture, as of Oliver St. John Gogarty's escape through the Liffey--"not really swimming, just going through the movements."
by Amezarak | 2025-06-10 23:57:15+00:00
> There need be only a single law, the law of the land - and the legislature must be able to change it - and only them, otherwise why have a legislature at all?

The legislature can change the US Constitution. The federal Congress proposes an amendment with a 2/3rds yes-vote, then it must be ratified by legislatures of 3/4ths of the states.

The reason to make some laws harder to change than others is to protect civil rights. In the US, it is very difficult to legally infringe on the right to free speech, for example. In the UK, it is simply a matter of a majority vote in Parliament.

> Democratic representatives weep that alas much as they wish otherwise they "cannot" fix obvious problems because change is "impossible" and then of course somebody who actually does want to change things just does and says (as we might expect remembering these are only man's laws) if you don't like it too fucking bad.

Passing Constitutional amendments is perfectly feasible and has been done many times. It just can't be done without majority political support and the will to do so. They've been passed and "repealed" before, with Prohibition, for example.

A lot of kvetching in the US system (on both sides) comes from people whose ideas are simply not very popular and would like to change the rules so they win. In a democratic society, you need majorities of the population to agree. For larger changes, you preferable want larger majorities.
by Ray20 | 2025-06-10 23:58:23+00:00
No, what you are suggesting is a typical strategy of avoiding punishment and creating an opportunity to break the law. A very common strategy, used everywhere, especially in dictatorial and socialist regimes.

There is a substitution of one real crime, committed by real people, for a crime "they didn’t know, but should have" against other people, for which there is no real responsibility, while the real criminals are declared to be simply "cogs" in the system.

As a result, no one is held accountable for a crime for which dozens of people who directly committed it could go to prison for many years, because the person held responsible is a high-ranking manager who "should have known, but did not know," who himself issues "a severe reprimand" or assigns a tiny fine for it.

Thus, the entire system is drowning in crimes, the commission of crimes becomes a REQUIREMENT of the system and the commission of crimes becomes a guarantee of the loyalty to the system.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-10 23:58:33+00:00
I don't think the economics are a problem. I think it'll be the fed they call in to testify that will shed crocodile tears about how some murdering pedophile was brought to justice using this data.

Very similar to how we lost a ton of civil liberties because shows like 24 bombarded the country with ideas that the only way to stop terrorism was torture.

Unfortunately, a good number of people will happily sacrifice liberties that will be abused simply because it might catch a single bad guy.
by dotancohen | 2025-06-10 23:58:48+00:00
As a two and a half decade user of Linux desktops, this comment is spot on.

That said, at work I'm using a Windows desktop for the first time in over 15 years. There are so many places I'd like to run scripts to improve this thing. i have come to the conclusion that running scripts to fix small annoyances is a feature of those who are drawn to Linux, not a shortcoming of KDE or Gnome. I'd do the same if it were even possible on this (locked down corporate) Windows box.
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-10 23:58:52+00:00
My ideas about how to fix this (with a new operating system design) involves:

1. Use of FOSS will be helpful, since it can be improved if something is wrong with it.

2. UI controls are objects with data models like any others are, so even if a API is not provided by a program, these UI controls, and the data associated with them, can be added into scripts like any other API can be.

3. Capabilities are needed for I/O and proxy capabilities can be created and used. Even if the program does not expect the I/O to be filtered or modified, the system forces that it can be done anyways (and the command shell in the system is designed to allow this, too).

4. This metadata is required even for a program to start (due to the way the I/O is working).
by mynegation | 2025-06-10 23:59:32+00:00
Give me Delphi. No, seriously, give me Delphi, but for the web and in a modern popular programming language. Python would be great, but I will not turn my nose away from TypeScript or Go or Lua.

For those who don’t know, Delphi was (is?) a visual constructor for Windows apps that you outfitted with a dialect of Pascal. It was effing magic!

Nowadays the web ecosystem is so fast-paced and so fragmented, the choice is paralyzing, confidence is low. The amount of scaffolding I have to do is insane. There are tools, yes, cookie cutters, npx’s, CRAs, copilots and Cursors that will confidently spew tons of code but quickly leave you alone with this mess.

I haven’t found a solution yet.
by filoleg | 2025-06-11 00:00:23+00:00
Realistically, I feel like most women (and men) have never even heard about IJ, even those who read books on a regular basis and would call themselves readers.

The only crowds I know of where IJ has truly become a mainstream piece of knowledge are /lit/, some specific subreddits, some specific twitter circles, a bunch of edgy hipsters, and HN. I bet there are more of those, ofc, but imo IJ absolutely isn’t something most people would recognize or be able to appreciate those memes about it that you shared (which I actually think are funny and hit the mark well).

Maybe I am just in the wrong circles irl, but I often enough get to hang out with people who read way more books than an average person (or me) does, and I am yet to encounter any who actually read IJ. And even those who are aware of it are relatively minor in numbers.
by alwillis | 2025-06-11 00:00:46+00:00
> After 5 years since they picked up the pace of development Safari is still behind Firefox and Chrome.

According to Interop 2024, Safari is right there with Firefox and Chrome: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024?stable

Feature that Safari shipped before Firefox and Chrome [1]

Features that were missing from Firefox that Safari has shipped as of 2½ weeks ago [2]

Show all tabs [3]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074789

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067706

[3]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/206451
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-11 00:02:20+00:00
My opinion is:

There are advantages and disadvantages of the reduced human population; I think the advantages are more significant.

At this time, human population is too much and should be reduced, so anyone who does not want to have children should not have children (this is the good way to do it, voluntary, rather than being forced or "expected" to do one way or other way). Humans is not the only living things in this world. What is not enough population at this time is insects.
by sprobertson | 2025-06-11 00:03:42+00:00
This in combination with making the tool call / json response itself also "batched" is a good pattern. Instead of returning a single `{english, foul}` object per record, pass in an array of records and have it return an array of `[{english, foul}]`. Adjust the inner batch size depending on your record size and spread the rest over the batched API.
by StanislavPetrov | 2025-06-11 00:04:28+00:00
Nonsensical excuses like the people who wanted to buy their gas wouldn't pay them in their own currency? If I'm selling you my car, it is my right to say I only accept US dollars. If you insist on only offering me Mexican pesos, it isn't "nonsensical" when I say no, and refuse to sell you the car unless you pay US dollars.

It is amazing how objective reality and basic common sense go out the window when it comes to the Ukraine/Russia situation.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gas-still-flows-russ...
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 00:04:28+00:00
Yes. You are exactly right. If you want the model to have some adaptability, you will need to train a policy like ACT or GR00T.

Just a quick difference I need to point out as it's critical product spec: leader arms are using 7.4v version of ST3215 (various gear ratios) while follower arms are using 12v version of ST3215. (12v version have higher peak torque at close to 3 Nm)
by zzo38computer | 2025-06-11 00:05:13+00:00
I think having the monochrome mode (which might be available at start time, and would also (temporarily) reset the font) would help with this and other problems (e.g. if one colour of the display is defective). This might be used for the UI to confirm the change but also when you start the computer that it can display such a message so that you can use that to recover from this and other problems (including screen resolution, colours, fonts, languages, and many more).