MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toxic | 2025-06-10 03:38:32+00:00
Your neighbor's car and business are 100% safe from protesters, unless your neighbor is a fed.

You realize that this is all happening in a very small part of LA, which is an absolutely enormous metropolitan area with more than 10 million residents. The cars being torched are Waymos (which have been happily recording video that is turned over to authorities at request, instead of by warrant -- this action will keep them out of the protest zones) and no businesses are being harmed. The ones being violent are in uniform (even LAPD is saying that protesters are peaceful and those who are violent are people who are frequently violent and showed up for the fight, which is telling on themselves more than a bit).

For 99% of Angelenos, this weekend could have been business as usual if they chose to ignore the federal threats to their neighbors. Millions went to farmers markets, kids birthday parties, church, and all of the other regular weekend activities. The city has not been invaded by anyone other than feds, it is not a war zone, it's not even close to a riot. You are being lied to and manipulated if you believe any of that.

And this week, many residents who have the privilege of doing so are standing in line to barricade the entrance to schools that are hosting graduation ceremonies, so abuelas can celebrate the end of elementary school without being terrified of being kidnapped by men in masks. This is how the community protects its own, and a lot of other places could learn from that if they gave a shit.

In LA, the guys standing outside of Home Depot are the kind of guys that a woman would feel safe telling that they're carrying cash, invite them into their car, and bring them to their house... alone. These are not dangers to anyone.

LAPD and especially LASD, on the other hand, aren't the kind of guys who are safe alone with their own wives.
by jimbob45 | 2025-06-10 03:39:29+00:00
I’m not a fan of newspapers allowing their platforms to be used by federal officeholders for announcements. RFKJr has a much larger and better platform for this as a high-ranking member of the federal government. There’s no reason for him not to issue a release through the WH for this. Doing it through a paper just feels like the press is in bed with the government (ironically, given the content of this article).

I’m okay with federal officeholders selling ideas in newspapers like Obama did with Obamacare. He didn’t receive special treatment - just another voice in the marketplace of ideas. It’s just the announcement exclusives that feel wrong.
by almosthere | 2025-06-10 03:40:14+00:00
Life before the 00's was pretty incredible. Even with the inequality, if you asked anyone (black, female, white, hispanic) they would say they were very happy. I grew up in the era of "Family Matters", "Full House", "In Living Color" and MC Hammer... Now I know I'm not an "old person" - but I too am watching reruns of a better time.

That being said, we have no idea what's coming. AI (or GenAI) came out of nowhere. I bet another emergent technology that no one was expecting will come soon (perhaps unlimited energy, or anti-gravity) will create the next boom.
by plandis | 2025-06-10 03:40:22+00:00
According to the military release [1]:

> Approximately 700 Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division will seamlessly integrate with the Title 10 forces under Task Force 51 who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area.

It seems like Trump has not invoked the insurrection act but instead it’s all under a different federal law. Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, has a write up [2] on Title 10 vs the Insurrection Act and some possible concerns. He posted this about the National guard but given the military release states they are being deployed to assist the nation guard under title 10 it still seems relevant. To quote the TL;DR of his post:

> The TL;DR here is that Trump has not (yet) invoked the Insurrection Act, which means that the 2000 additional troops that will soon be brought to bear will not be allowed to engage in ordinary law enforcement activities without violating a different law—the Posse Comitatus Act. All that these troops will be able to do is provide a form of force protection and other logistical support for ICE personnel. Whether that, in turn, leads to further escalation is the bigger issue (and, indeed, may be the very purpose of their deployment). But at least as I’m writing this, we’re not there yet.

[1] https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/421...

[2] https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/156-federalizing-the-californ...
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-10 03:40:34+00:00
I've been considering a... protocol? for improving this. Consider this repo:

foo.py bar.py bar.py.vibes.md

This would indicate that foo.py is human-written (or at least thoroughly reviewed by a human), while bar.py is LLM written with a lower bar of human scrutiny.

bar.py.vibes.md would contain whatever human-written guidance describes how bar should look. It could be an empty file, or a few paragraphs, or it it could contain function signatures and partially defined data types.

If an LLM wants to add a new file, it gets a vibes.md with whatever prompt motivated the addition.

Maybe some files keep their assiciated *.vibes.md forever, ready to be totally rewritten as the LLM sees fit. Maybe others stick around only until the next release, after which the associated code is reviewed and the vibes files are removed (or somehow deactivated, I could imagine it being useful for them to still be present).

What do people think, do we need handcuffs of this kind for our pair programming friends the LLMs?
by boxed | 2025-06-10 03:41:12+00:00
> WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML

Chromiom is a hostile fork of WebKit. Webkit was a rather polite fork of KHTML, just that they had a team of full time programmers so KHTML couldn't keep up with the upstream requests and gave up since WebKit did a better job anyway.

I personally would LOVE if a corporation did this to any of my open source projects.
by ascagnel_ | 2025-06-10 03:41:20+00:00
I agree, it was the right call to make -- a temporarily-impaired device is always better than a temporarily-failed device, especially when you're talking about something you may need in an emergency situation.

That said, Apple _significantly_ erred in not over-communicating what they were doing. At that point, the OS would pop warnings to users if the phone had to thermal throttle, and adding a similar notification that led the user to a FAQ page explaining the battery dynamics wouldn't have been technically hard to do.
by bunnie | 2025-06-10 03:41:33+00:00
I keep seeing an objection in this thread along the lines of "what make software so special that it deserves a tax deduction".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if a company hires someone to say, mine coal or brew beer, the expense of those employees is an expense any company can claim a full tax deduction on. If you're a line chef or wait tables, your salary is tax deductible to the restaurant.

So it's not that we are asking for R&D to be treated "specially" and get a deduction that other companies don't have. The problem is that R&D salary expense is being singled out as producing an asset (e.g. IP), and thus being classified in the same category as other assets, like, brewing equipment, a mining excavator, or a pizza oven. Simply put, Section 174 argues to classify people in the same category as things because ... 'these people's work outputs may have long-term value, kind of like things'(?).

Allowing Sec 174 to stand is a slippery slope to classifying more and more everyday Americans' salaries into this category. One could argue in the future, for example, that those who design cars or operate machines to produce tooling dies, should not have their labor treated as regular expenses, but instead as capital assets because their labor output is captured in assets, just as Sec 174 treats the labor of software developers as assets. Everyday people should be concerned by this because if the rule stands, it could be extended to you, too.

For those objecting to the equal treatment of R&D employees as all other employees in America of all stripes and vocations, keep in mind that software people have to pay personal taxes on the income, just like everyone else. Section 174 doesn't have anything to do with personal income taxes: we all pay income taxes fair and square. The question is whether there is a double-tax on software labor, paid at the corporate level (and in all likelihood, your salary is currently a tax deduction for your company, unless you write software or do R&D).

I think the assumption that we are asking for "special treatment" is driving some confusion and grass-roots objection to the movement here, so I wanted to highlight that we are just asking for everyday people who work software and other R&D jobs to be treated just like every other American who works a day job.

[edits for clarity]
by 90s_dev | 2025-06-10 03:42:16+00:00
> if you asked anyone they would say they were very happy

Nobody I ever knew was ever happy. All of them would say they were, but their lives clearly showed otherwise. Addictions and fights and divorces and unemployment and problems of literally every kind.

Yet they still long for those days. As if in those days they were happier than they are now. I think it's the opposite.
by hexaga | 2025-06-10 03:42:23+00:00
> It's not about importing every historical association, but about identifying specific parallels that shed light on user behavior and expectations.

Indeed, I hold that driving readers to intuit one specific parallel to divination and apply it to AI is the goal of the comparison, and why it is so jealously guarded, as without it any substance evaporates.

The thermometer has well-founded authority to relay the temperature, the bones have not the well-founded authority to relay my fate. The insight, such as you call it, is only illuminative if AI is more like the latter than the former.

This mode of analysis (the structural) takes no valid step in either direction, only seeding the ground with a trap for readers to stumble into (the aforementioned propensity to not clear caches).

> That's a meaningful observation, regardless of whether AI is "causally disentangled from reality" or not.

If the authority is well-founded (i.e., is causally entangled in the way I described), the observation is meaningless, as all communication is interpretative in this sense.

The structural approach only serves as rhetorical sleight of hand to smuggle in a sense of not-well-founded authority from divination in general, and apply it to AI. But the same path opens to all communication, so what can it reveal in truth? In a word, nothing.
by dgs_sgd | 2025-06-10 03:44:49+00:00
> It was passed by Congress during the first Trump administration in order to offset the costs of other corporate tax rate cuts, due to budgeting rules.

Wow, so there isn’t really a good faith steel man for this? They were just like, hey, we need to offset other cuts so let’s arbitrarily pick a high paying profession that, not so coincidentally doesn’t have a lot of influence in government, and let them take the hit?
by dang | 2025-06-10 03:45:10+00:00
This post was part of a project that happened in 2017, the year that Alan Kay donated a Xerox Alto to YC. That was amazing but also challenging: what do you do with such a treasure? You can't just let it collect dust.

After sweating a bit, we found a perfect answer and I think it's still valid today. What you do with something as precious as an original Xerox Alto, is you find someone as good as kens to entrust it to.

Here's me describing the effort at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11930198.

Ken ended up pulling in a brilliant bunch of volunteers (loosely grouped around the Computer History Museum, IIRC), and they eventually got the Alto working. Not only that but they made an incredible series of videos and posts along the way, so the rest of us could follow along.

Once they'd gotten it working, we had a new challenge: what do you do with a working Alto? Again, the answer didn't take too long to figure out. What you do in such a case is you give it to the people who actually knew (and cared) enough to resuscitate it.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-10 03:45:17+00:00
> judgmental and condescending

pushing back against judgement and condescension is not judgemental and condescending.

> may not really exist

I'm open to reading over any resources you would like to provide, maybe it's "real", maybe it isn't, but I have personally both experienced and witnessed the effect in myself, other individuals and groups. It's a good heuristic for certain scenarios, even if it isn't necesarily generalizable.
by daft_pink | 2025-06-10 03:45:45+00:00
I lived through the BLM protests in a liberal city. They let them destroy everything, then they called in the National Guard to stop looting that already happened.

Everyone’s okay with peaceful protests, but they should call in the national guard and prosecute people for violence. You might hate Trump, but in my previous experience, it’s the residents of the most liberal districts that suffer all the consequences of this nonsense.
by adversaicom | 2025-06-10 03:45:47+00:00
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*Why we built it* Security teams drown in alerts but still don’t know what to fix first. We wanted an AI that diagnoses the root cause, writes the playbook, and teaches the human at the same time.

*What’s new today* * Released a 5-page technical white-paper (vector risk graph, LLM orchestration, privacy model). * Pushed a fresh landing page with product walkthrough + early-access signup. * Rolled out “AI Cyber Range” beta—scoreboard-driven labs tied to your own findings.

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Happy to answer anything in the comments.

Alex
by roenxi | 2025-06-10 03:46:47+00:00
> how could you possibly know that your symptoms are caused by the vaccine?

They can't, and often neither can the doctors. That is one of the major practical reasons why vaccinations should be voluntary - it is quite hard to assess the evidence of what exactly medicine does. Some things take a while for the evidence to really form a meaningful pattern.

It was like them declaring the vaccine safe and effective after a few months of trials - that isn't a crazy standard but if the vaccine literally caused people to drop dead after 12 months for some weird reason they just couldn't have detected it because not enough time had passed.
by gigatexal | 2025-06-10 03:46:52+00:00
I too am more of a reluctant convert to Mac from Linux. It really does just work most of the time for me in the work context. It allows me to get my job done and not worry because it’s the most supported platform at the office. Shrug. But also the hardware is really really really nice.

I do have a personal MacBook pro that I maxed out (https://gigatexal.blog/pages/new-laptop/new-laptop.html) but I do miss tinkering with my i3 setup and trying out new distos etc. I might get a used thinkpad just for this.

But yeah my Mac personal or work laptop just works and as I get older that’s what I care about more.

Going to try out this container binary from them. Looks interesting.
by Spivak | 2025-06-10 03:48:39+00:00
> This is also where the “stimulant medications affect ADHD people differently” myth comes from

This doesn't seem right, the effect people talk about isn't a non-ADHD person taking adderall and going off the wall— it's someone with ADHD taking a stimulant, even a pretty high dose, for the first time and it having very little effect outside of a mild calm and focus.

It very well might be a myth that this is related to my ADHD and it's caused by something else weird with my body but I can vouch for this experience. I was offered a 30mg adderall at a party and it didn't do much of anything for me except I felt "normal." No euphoria, just kinda sleepy, but I could think about stuff and my brain wouldn't hurt after a while which was nice.
by ufmace | 2025-06-10 03:48:52+00:00
Now that I have a little more time to search around, I easily found this study, published March 31st this year, so not quite 3 months ago:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23674

I only skimmed it, but I don't see anything clearly wrong about it. According to their results, GPT-4.5 with what they term a "persona" prompt does in fact pass a standard that seems to me at least a little harder than what you said - actively picks the AI as the human, which seems stricter to me than being "unable to distinguish".

It is a little surprising to me that only that one LLM actually "passed" their test, versus several others performing somewhat worse. Though it's also not clear exactly how long ago the actual tests were done - this stuff moves super fast.
by mkfs | 2025-06-10 03:49:01+00:00
Pharo and Squeak had a DVCS called Monticello that integrated with the system much better than git, but they abandoned it in favor of git, primarily so they could use github, expecting it would raise their profile amongst developers (also the VM was already developed there). The end result was the method-level modification history, including timestamps and authorship info, was lost, since it didn't fit into git's model of treating everything as text files or blobs.

Git is also much more confusing than Monticello.
by mpalmer | 2025-06-10 03:49:09+00:00
It's way too long and too obviously generated for my tastes. The idea is ok but the metaphors should generally be enhancing understanding. And the part about scribes being "modified" lost the fantasy plot altogether.

And nonsense like this:

"It’s like equipping a Knight with a special glove instead of retraining them entirely."

does not signal to the reader that you produced this with a lot of care or thought. I'm not saying you didn't, just that this is a risk of saving time with LLMs; missing the occasional nonsense hallucination is enough to change people's mind about the piece, maybe even you as a writer.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 03:50:08+00:00
The figure they measured, in terms of global acreage, works out to an increase in forestry across 8% of the Earth's land area. That's completely viable, in fact some multiple of that is as well. The overwhelming majority of land on this planet is doing pretty much nothing owing to our habit of packing ourselves into tiny densely packed cities which are supported by a fairly small amount of agriculture - 39% of all land there to be exact. [1]

So this is completely viable, and then some! Even more so if one accounts for the fact that increases in CO2 are creating a substantially greener planet making this even easier.

[1] - https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-10 03:50:56+00:00
Ha, I would count myself among those if my handwriting wasn't so terrible and I didn't have bad arthritis since my youth. I still reach for pen and paper on the go or when I need to draw something out, but I've gotten more productive using an outliner on my laptop, specifically Logseq.

I think there's still room for thought augmentation via LLMs here. Years back when I used Obsidian, I created probably the first or second copilot-for-Obsidian plugin and I found it very helpful, even though GPT-3 was generally pretty awful. I still find myself in deep flow, thinking in abstract, working alongside my agent to solve deep problems in less time than I otherwise would.
Ask HN: Does the word "tone" break ChatGPT-4o image analysis on mobile?
by its_down_again | 2025-06-10 03:51:02+00:00
I've been testing 4o's ability to analyze conversations by uploading screenshots to the mobile app. When I ask:

"What's the tone of this conversation?"

I consistently get this response:

"Please re-upload the image as a supported format like .jpg, .png, or .webp. The current file type can't be viewed, so I can't assess the tone yet."

However, when I use the exact same image and instead ask:

"How are people feeling in this conversation?"

it responds correctly with an emotional analysis of the screenshot.

Even stranger one is when I type something like:

"I see the tone of the response has changed"

the app just shows the black flashing square (as if it's thinking), but never returns a response.

It seems like the word "tone" might be breaking something in the input parsing or triggering a silent failure. Has anyone else run into this? Could this be a prompt classification edge case or a bug in the image pipeline?
by giardini | 2025-06-10 03:51:08+00:00
That is a useful suggestion and I wish it were the practice here. But a request of "what RFK thinks" is honestly too broad to be useful. I read his book(1) and just that alone covers far, farm more than could be encompassed in an HN discussion.

Better to state what you argue or what you believe an opponent is arguing, so that a reasonable discussion can then ensue. IOW I agree with you that each of RFK's contentions could be discussed dispassionately here; however, in contrast mrtksn 55 minutes ago wrote:

+I like the suggestion, but this is not a debate really, this is action."

which, to me, sounds like some sort of (insurrectionist/Marxist/something I'm unfamiliar with) "call to action" rather than a consideration of further discussion. If so, then my imagined discussion would be likely impossible. Instead I see two possible alternatives depending on what your state laws are:

I. You live in a state where firearms are heavily regulated and there is no "stand-your-ground" law or "castle doctrine". Result: possible burnings, lootings and days of general lawlessness, or

II. You live in a state like Texas where one can possess firearms and use them to "stand your ground". Result: a few possible deaths, some wounded burners, looters and rioters after 15 minutes of clarification.

(1) "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health"

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Pharma-Democracy/d...