MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knorker | 2025-06-25 14:28:18+00:00
Yeah, but my point was as a reply to the claim that it was clearly something else that denied him entry.

Which it could still be. ESTA was granted because it was a "maybe". Then they found something at the border that was not in meme form, that the article doesn't mention.

Maybe he had no pre booked return ticket, was claiming to stay with a friend he didn't have the address of, and then the meme was the last (albeit tiny) straw.

My experience with CBP is that if you answer "wrong" (including saying that you only have the hotel name on your phone, which you are not allowed to check at the desk), then you need something "right", like a business card, to dig yourself out.
by friendzis | 2025-06-25 14:28:50+00:00
> Why would a network operator allow caller ID to be so easily spoofed?

Call centers want the ability to call "on behalf of" and are willing to pay for that. Unless strict id verification is mandated by a regulatory body, even in the presence of a network-wide agreement the first to defect eats the whole pie.

> But Amazon allows sellers <...> This allows sellers to cheat.

Things like this allow for a secondary market of "amazon experts" to be formed, which brings sellers to amazon in particular. Again, revenue.

> Is engagement the only metric that matters?

Yes. Welcome to the world of enshittification.
by tomhow | 2025-06-25 14:29:18+00:00
> Your unrelated, idiotic disdain

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by thechao | 2025-06-25 14:29:19+00:00
Most people tend to punch with a loose hand to the top of the head: this simultaneously increases the chance of breaking their hand; reduces the impact force; and, strikes one of the most insensitive & hardest parts of the body (the skull). Trained fighters are targeting an untucked chin with a short high acceleration punch (jab, uppercut), with a tight fist. It is technically very challenging to do this, even for professionals.

In general: use your sneakers; if necessary, push opponents away with with your palms and tightly held fingers.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-06-25 14:29:42+00:00
Google is fumbling the bag so badly with the pricing.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model I've used (even better than o3 IMO) and yet there's no simple Claude/Cursor like subscription to just get full access.

Nevermind Enterprise users too, where OpenAI has it locked up.
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-25 14:29:48+00:00
I find it hard to imagine that any of the major model vendors are suffering from demand shortages right now (if that's what you mean?)

If you mean: This is "inspired" by the success of Claude Code. Sure, I guess, but it's also not like Claude Code brought anything entirely new to the table. There is a lot of copying from each other and continually improving upon that, and it's great for the users and model providers alike.
by Analemma_ | 2025-06-25 14:30:17+00:00
I don’t think technical standards merit the same level of “deference to the creator” as personal names. People are wrong about standards they created all the time (ask me what I think about John Gruber’s “stewardship” of Markdown) and should be corrected, a standard is meant for all. Obviously the pronunciation of an acronym isn’t anywhere near as important as technical details, but I think the principle holds.
by echelon | 2025-06-25 14:30:25+00:00
It's a spectrum.

A lot of people who are unfamiliar with how the technology works talk about "my GPT". Google that phrase, or start watching for it to crop up in conversation.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are lots of tiny little pockets like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
by bastawhiz | 2025-06-25 14:30:31+00:00
I could save my photos as BMPs like early digital cameras did but that doesn't make it practical or reasonable. My camera takes pictures as RAW or HEIF files. Why would I save my photos to a primarily lossy codec that's optimized and designed for distribution rather than preserving fidelity?

We used to do this with JPEG, in fact. And that's why many pictures on Facebook from pre-2018 or so all have a distinctive grainy look. It's artifacts on top of artifacts. Storage on phones isn't tight anymore, we don't need to store photos in a format meant to minimize bytes at the expense of quality.
by troyvit | 2025-06-25 14:30:32+00:00
> In my experience the bad managers are constantly trying to impress their bosses and curry the next promotion.

Heh, I'm a worse manager. I keep trying to impress the people I manage. Working on the mama bear part though.

That's frustrating that you've only had one manager whose calendar was viewable by their team. That's the norm all up the chain of the current place I work. I think it was like that previously too.

I like that your manager had _you_ make the meetings for them after sending all the materials to prep for it. I get the feeling that several times that resulted in solving the problems asynchronously instead of actually having the meeting.
by barbazoo | 2025-06-25 14:30:34+00:00
> To use Gemini CLI free-of-charge, simply login with a personal Google account to get a free Gemini Code Assist license. That free license gets you access to Gemini 2.5 Pro and its massive 1 million token context window. To ensure you rarely, if ever, hit a limit during this preview, we offer the industry’s largest allowance: 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day at no charge.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. What’s the catch? How/why is this free?
by vinc | 2025-06-25 14:30:42+00:00
I got a FP3 in 2020, replaced the battery and the bottom module in 2022 because I couldn't charge it anymore, and I've been really happy with it ever since. I'm not planning on buying a new phone until this one die.

My only issue with my FP3 is that I have to tighten all the screws from time to time otherwise whenever the screen displays too many green pixels the touchscreen will start to trigger at random.
by iaresee | 2025-06-25 14:30:51+00:00
Whoa. Who at Google thought providing this as an example of how to test your API key was a good idea?

https://imgur.com/ZIZkLU7

This is shown at the top of the screen in https://aistudio.google.com/apikey as the suggested quick start for testing your API key out.

Not a great look. I let our GCloud TAM know. But still.
by compyman | 2025-06-25 14:31:09+00:00
I think this might underestimate how gambling + kids games can reinforce destructive behavior.

There are lots of similar tools that casino owners/game designers/sports betting apps/social media/&c use to build addiction into their products, all while offloading responsibility onto individual consumers.

A really interesting study of this is the book 'Addiction by Design' by Natasha Dow Schüll examines this in the context of slot machines/video poker/casino games, but you can see the same process at work basically wherever you look.
by Mond_ | 2025-06-25 14:31:16+00:00
Oh hey, afaik all of this LLM traffic goes through my service!

Set up not too long ago, and afaik pretty load-bearing for this. Feels great, just don’t ask me any product-level questions. I’m not part of the Gemini CLI team, so I’ll try to keep my mouth shut.

Not going to lie, I’m pretty anxious this will fall over as traffic keeps climbing up and up.
by jajko | 2025-06-25 14:31:33+00:00
As an owner of airbnb listing, there is some truth there (although as a blanket statement its obviously not true). Its mostly Karens of this world, or simply people pissed off enough to bother getting an app and creating an account, and putting time to write down the review.

Normal folks in normal situations simply couldn't be bothered, not in 2025. The only exception is when platform forces you to do so, and then the sea of dishonest shallow blah to reach certain word count ensues. That's now you get 4.8-4.9* average review out of 5, while judging an OK but not perfect place (and no place is ever perfect since many subjective aspects enter the game).
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-25 14:31:53+00:00
The entrepreneurial people I know are incredibly social. They don't mind having, or striking up a conversation they weren't anticipating, or learning about strangers. It frequently isn't about business, but leads to networking regardless.

It isn't like they are bugging people, its more like they overhear a conversation or see something of interest and find a way to jump in, in a way that isn't intrusive. "I can't help having overheard, but are you planning to open a Taco truck on 5th?" That kind of thing.
by MongooseStudios | 2025-06-25 14:32:04+00:00
Did it tell you that your embedded video seems to be struggling to buffer content? How about that there isn't a way to seek to where I was in that video after it failed to resume playing and I had to refresh the page?

Did it tell you that it's weird the section headers on the homepage look like buttons? Or that it's also weird they are smaller than the text below them?

Did it tell you about the invisible footer links that were already mentioned?
by Jun8 | 2025-06-25 14:32:18+00:00
I’m using Lovable heavily for PM prototyping and it’s great. I think, if anything, current subscription may be too cheap! They’re probably want to get a huge mass of users now, eg they recently had a free usage weekend.

The comments on the Add Ons are spot on, I think:

“Lovable is creating lots of new software founders who will eventually spend lots of money on vendors. That money will flow, but Lovable currently captures zero of it.”

Having a Lovable App Store sounds like an excellent tool.
by throwaway390209 | 2025-06-25 14:32:53+00:00
You have sort of chosen a bad example, although I appreciate the response - my phone runs a Linux kernel (Android) and the Linux kernel does have software and interfaces for CAN! They will not be compiled in, because the phone doesn't have the requisite hardware, but that bolsters my point even more, the Linux kernel is an example of software flexibility done right and it does a better job of providing software flexibility for cars than AUTOSAR which was designed for cars!

So code reuse for cars, yes, that's a good idea. But that's hardly revolutionary, it's barely even an idea, it's certainly not unique. It's like saying world peace is a great idea, or solving world hunger, okay, so then what? How's that idea actually implemented? Terribly (which we agree on).

To be honest, I don't think we disagree that much, just arguing over very minor points. I happened to chose your comment to reply to instead of another, it should really be viewed as a generic rant against AUTOSAR instead of against anything you've said.

I think I'm taking the view the software is theorem building, it is a bunch of ideas, thus AUTOSAR is a bad idea. Sure, you could argue the core idea is a good idea, but "reusable software", or even "reusable software for industry X" is barely an idea, it's "nice things are nice".
by AlanYx | 2025-06-25 14:32:58+00:00
Copilot is powered by a Microsoft-hosted version of OpenAI's models. If you ask it, it says "I'm based on GPT-4, a large language model developed by OpenAI. Specifically, you're chatting with Microsoft Copilot, which integrates GPT-4 with additional tools and capabilities like web browsing, image understanding, and code execution to help with a wide range of tasks."

OpenAI's models are also available via Azure.
by mandmandam | 2025-06-25 14:33:20+00:00
If the creator insists on a weird pronunciation, because of an inside joke most won't ever get, then I feel no responsibility in humoring them.

The G in gif is for graphics. Not 'giraffics'. And most people in the world have no idea what Jif even is, much less a particular catchphrase from an old ad campaign that barely even connects.
by lantry | 2025-06-25 14:33:28+00:00
no, because it's much more complicated than can be summed up in a hn comment. "the media" is not a real thing, it's just a term that refers vaguely to a very large collection of different people, each of whom has different beliefs, ideas, and goals. What they write/say will be filtered through those beliefs, ideas, and goals.

If my neighbor, who grew up in Canada, says "it's not very cold out today", he is attempting to describe the world as it is. Is he correct? If I consider him to be incorrect, it doesn't follow that he is trying to mislead me.
by TheCondor | 2025-06-25 14:34:07+00:00
I don’t know if it’s the whole internet but what about a company or service that did this? The benchmark to a review on Amazon and Goodreads is really low. It seems like we want/need the Costco model where you pay a fee to take part and then maybe the product inventory is more curated and reviews are attached to real authentic buyers.

Counterfeit goods on Amazon is a meme, everyone knows. There are YouTube channels that make a sport of it. Once the market just accepts that, it seems impossible to elevate something like reviews
by ur-whale | 2025-06-25 14:34:42+00:00
> Delightful!

You clearly have never had the "pleasure" to work with a Google product manager.

Especially the kind that were hired in the last 15-ish years.

This type of situation is absolutely typical, and probably one of the more benign thing among the general blight they typically inflict on Google's product offering.

The cartesian product of pricing options X models is an effing nightmare to navigate.
by embeng4096 | 2025-06-25 14:35:29+00:00
The author very briefly mentions "bigtech employees" and "famous bloggers" - I think that's a small part of something larger which is worth talking more about: the internet creates a giant monoculture. I think it takes at least a little more passion and grit to create e.g. YouTube content than it used to 10-15 years ago. Now, you post videos, then see massive influencers (whether you like them or not) such as Mr. Beast and the like, and it's hard not to compare yourself to them. That's just one example but I think it applies to a lot of things: music, visual art, writing, etc. How hard is it now to be #1 rising on RoyalRoad, for example, compared to a year or two after the site started. You start playing guitar and the TikTok/Reels/Shorts algorithm feeds you video after video of pretty darn good amateur guitarists. It can be both inspiring and discouraging to see how big the skill gap is.

Related link: Gwern's "The Melancholy of Subculture Society" https://gwern.net/subculture
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 14:35:30+00:00
I think the difference between the Netherlands and other countries is that the Netherlands is quite open about the amount of phone taps they place. You'd be crazy to think other countries don't tap phone lines at the same rate or worse.

As bad as the surveillance situation here is, it's still better than the situation in the UK, of that I'm sure. Unfortunately, I can't find any very recent data about wiretaps in the UK. The 2023 report (https://ipco-wpmedia-prod-s3.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/E032...) shows a sharp rise in communications data applications (441,900 in 2023 alone) but those can range from single phone calls to months of data collection. The Dutch reports only claim 5397+1258 phone taps in 2024, but those don't say anything about their daily volume.

If your government's wiretaps per capita is lower, double check that they're not using coded language to exclude most of their activities, and if the numbers are much lower, think twice before taking them for their word.
by unshavedyak | 2025-06-25 14:35:41+00:00
In addition to others mentioning subscriptions being better in Claude Code, i wanted to compare the two so i tried to find a Claude Max equivalent license... i have no clue how. In their blog post they mention `Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license` but they don't even link to it.. lol.

Some googling lands me to a guide: https://cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/discover/set-up-gemini#...

I stopped there because i don't want to signup i just wanted to review, but i don't have an admin panel or etc.

It feels insane to me that there's a readme on how to give them money. Claude's Max purchase was just as easy as Pro, fwiw.
by nailer | 2025-06-25 14:36:18+00:00
> a minority of Jews will ally with the false Messiah and persecute people throughout the world and cause corruption

finally, you’ve responded to the point. This isn’t in the text and is your own personal reading. But at least you’ve acknowledged it exists unlike previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351915

> I've already rebutted that

No you haven’t rebutted either example of me pointing out your 'no true Scotsman' fallacy. In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350839 you just wrote 'no u' - that's 'tu quoque', another logical fallacy.

If it’s unclear, I am not stating Islam is only violent because the text is violent. I think you might be trying to refute a point I’m not making. There were many reasons why Islam is violent. What do you think causes Islamic violence?

> I am not going to let you snake around. I can see the slithering.

> Is that why you slid away from the other thread to this one

You insult people like a medieval wizard.

Did I forget to read one of your posts on the other thread? I’m sorry, I clearly missed out.

I’m on this thread reminding you of a second instance of you using the no true Scotsman fallacy. Here is a link to refresh your memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372664
by albertzeyer | 2025-06-25 14:36:46+00:00
The API can be used both via your normal Google account, or via API key?

Because it says in the README:

> Authenticate: When prompted, sign in with your personal Google account. This will grant you up to 60 model requests per minute and 1,000 model requests per day using Gemini 2.5 Pro.

> For advanced use or increased limits: If you need to use a specific model or require a higher request capacity, you can use an API key: ...

When I have the Google AI Pro subscription in my Google account, and I use the personal Google account for authentication here, will I also have more requests per day then?

I'm currently wondering what makes more sense for me (not for CLI in particular, but for Gemini in general): To use the Google AI Pro subscription, or to use an API key. But I would also want to use the API maybe at some point. I thought the API requires an API key, but here it seems also the normal Google account can be used?
by SeifAlmotaz | 2025-06-25 14:36:49+00:00
Really enjoyed this very clever and hilarious, If you want to see it absolutely lose its composure, try feeding it a thought experiment that sneaks in a change of coordinates ike reformulating physics in logarithmic (hyperbolic) space instead of the usual linear one.

Turns out, if you push the AI to actually work through the math, it goes from snarky to existential crisis mode pretty fast. It even starts reluctantly admitting that a lot of our so-called “constants” and “singularities” might just be artifacts of using the wrong measuring stick. The best part is watching it try (and fail) to find flaws when you show how the fine structure constant could drop out of geometry and zeta functions.
by bfeynman | 2025-06-25 14:37:04+00:00
MCP is eating whatever the next buzzword is until something else or better comes along. The hype cycles with these ancillary things (RAG etc) is so overblown compared to what actually makes it into practice and production. I would use MCPs as developer. In making AI systems, unless you are in large org (also rare) not even worth doing.
by DrillShopper | 2025-06-25 14:37:38+00:00
> NYTimes sent a journalist to Denver

That was none other than Maureen Dowd, famous as a warmonger and booster of Trump's foreign policy in his first term: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-o...

Not surprised that reading and decision making aren't her strong skills.
by analognoise | 2025-06-25 14:37:42+00:00
https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/opendesk/deployment/opendesk/...

It looks like multiple items in deploying the "enterprise edition" have licenses and are actually a closed-source model.

To me this looks like a flashy web page that makes all the right noises about "data sovereignty", etc, but relies (on the actual back-end) on multiple providers who have in fact cut off access to code; they even take pains to say it is "less than x% of code" or "Admin Console container image: 100% closed source", etc.

There are multiple examples on that page.
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-06-25 14:37:47+00:00
Hi again, I'm happy that I made your day! You seem pretty easy to please if that is all it takes. Keep in mind that customers must be 18 years old. I believe that is a legal requirement here in Germany, where we are based. Until then, if you're a fan, maybe you'd enjoy seeing what we're up to. We're on YouTube, reddit, Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, and X. --Katie
by Buttons840 | 2025-06-25 14:37:57+00:00
I've been meaning to write a blog post about the "level of purpose" in a job:

At level 3, the best level: The company is curing children's cancer or something else that you are personally motivated to do and satisfied by. The work is something you would do without pay (though you might not have as much time to do it if you weren't paid). Your highest purpose is to cure children's cancer.

At level 2: The company is doing work you are not personally interested in, but you work with good people doing good work. The company and people support each other and build a profitable product. Your highest purpose is to make the company profitable.

At level 1: The company starts doing stupid shit and acting in self-destructive ways. The company is run by managers who care more about growing their own headcounts than the overall profitability of the company. Your highest purpose is to make your manager happy.

At level 0: Your manager is also doing bad things. At this level the only purpose the job fulfills is giving you money, and there's no reason to not go full psychopath and do whatever it takes to maximize the amount of money you get. Your highest purpose is to make money without doing anything too illegal and avoid trouble.

What level is your job at?

Level 3 is rare and always will be, that's okay.

Level 2 is good, and I sometimes hear people on HN offering level 2 as the correct attitude to have towards work. But we need to recognize that workers are often asked to do stupid or semi-dishonest things that are not profitable for the company.

Level 1 and 0 are stages of hell, and it's sad how common they are.
by rtaylorgarlock | 2025-06-25 14:38:03+00:00
I spent 8k tokens after giving the interface 'cd ../<other-dir>', resulting in Gemini explaining that it can't see the other dir outside of current scope but with recommendation ls files in that dir. Which then reminded me of my core belief that we will always have to be above these tools in order to understand and execute. I wonder if/when I'll be wrong.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-25 14:38:20+00:00
The quality of the headhunters has taken a steep nosedive, though.

Employers pay a lot less, these days, than they used to, so headhunters tend to be pretty young folks.

That makes a difference. My last job was one that I stayed at for almost 27 years. The guy that recruited me, was in his fifties.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-06-25 14:38:32+00:00
[dupe]

Denmark Is Switching to Linux

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44346120

Previously:

The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234552

Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44255352