MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spankibalt | 2025-06-25 11:41:59+00:00
Such a device, sufficiently deshittified, might win some contracts in the sasec (safety and security) biz. But let's be honest, the Fairphone, strictly from a security standpoint, is more aimed at the performativity crowd. Heck, most people already seem to lack the imagination for when and why killswitches and the like might be a really good idea. Kind of like with mSD card slots, audio jacks, etc.

Wireless-only, data-harvesting slabs are good enough for ME, so they oughta be good enough FOR EVERYONE!
by graemep | 2025-06-25 11:42:01+00:00
Oracle is a better word for this than religion for what you are talking about. Maybe people should remember how notoriously tricky oracles were even in their believer's eyes (the "an empire shall fall" story.

This video is about people who believe ChatGPT (or another LLM) is a sentient being sent to us by aliens or the future to save us. LLM saviour is pretty close to a religious belief. A pretty weird one, but still.

> o get a reality check, open up 3-4 different models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), and ask them topics you know really well, and questions you already know the answers to. And see that maybe a quarter, or 25% will fail somewhat.

I have tried this a bit with ChatGPT, and yes, there are a lot of issues. Things such as literally true but misleading answers, incomplete information, and a lack of commonsense.
by vel0city | 2025-06-25 11:42:05+00:00
When your rule fails to accurately describe reality over and over, it's pretty worthless as a rule.

> Perhaps you need to read it again? It clearly asserted "rural areas as a rule"

Yeah, it's comparing rural areas to urban areas as a rule. So comparing and talking about metro areas is absolutely relevant here. And the metro areas I've been talking about include a mix of rural and urban areas. Metro doesn't mean urban.

> You certainly did for some strange reason, but I have no idea why.

You have no idea why someone would link to data to back their assertions instead of just saying things like "as a rule" without supppying any data. As a rule US males are 12 feet tall. As a rule dogs have eight legs. Don't bother linking to any data about these things, don't bother actually engaging with real examples, I'm not talking about any specific dogs or specific people, just some imagined models in my head. It's a total waste of time to actually research the data when I've conjectured a general rule in my head!
by theqwxas | 2025-06-25 11:42:06+00:00
Some years ago I've used the Lottie (Bodymovin?) library. It worked great and had a nice integration: you compose your animation in Adobe After Effects, export it to an svg plus some json, and the lottie JS script would handle the animation for you. Anything else with (vector, web) animations I've tried is missing the tools or the DX for me to adopt. Curious to hear if there are more things like this.

I'm not sure about the tools and DX around animated PNGs. Is that a thing?
by landgenoot | 2025-06-25 11:42:31+00:00
Yes. There is even an active function that allows you sign arbitrary bits to check if the passport actually contains the private key. Otherwise you could spoof a passport by just replaying the government signed data.

Source: I have been working on a blockchain implementation in the past that was compatible with the cryptographic functions in an NFC passport. Basically using a standard NFC passport as a cold wallet.

Fun fact. The cryptographic system even differs per country.

E.g. the Dutch don't trust the NIST elliptic curves so use the brainpool curves instead. Some other countries are still using RSA iirc.
by T3OU-736 | 2025-06-25 11:43:06+00:00
(This is a bit of a continuation of what `whiteandnerdy` posted in a different comment) - the distributed trust model seems to assume that the governments won't cooperate to seize different necessary distributed things across borders. I am reasonably sure that this is not an assumption which holds true - plenty of multi-national raids on criminals happen (and classifying people who hold decryption bits to stuff governments want as being criminals is a fairly trivial task).
by shocking63 | 2025-06-25 11:43:26+00:00
Back in the dim dark ages of the 80s, I persuaded one of the system programmers to print out the source for the curses library, which I the diligently typed in to my CPM/80 machine, I then got the source for rogue, which someone else had done a partial port for, using overlays. It was a bit big for the 48k you could reasonably expect a Z80 CPM machine to have. Mostly worked...
by ackbar03 | 2025-06-25 11:43:28+00:00
> The market for bounties is a circus, breadcrumbs for free work from people trying to 'make it'. > The number of CVSS vulns with a score above 8 that have floated across the front page of HN in the past year without anyone getting paid tells you that much.

You make it sound like there's a ton of people going around who can just dig up CVSS vulns above 8 and is making me all confused. Is that really happening? I have a single bounty on H1 just to show I could do it, and that still took ages and was a shitty bug.
by jostylr | 2025-06-25 11:44:17+00:00
Thanks for the tip. That does work much more like Zed's integration. I used multipass to setup a VM, created a non-admin user, restricted its internet with tinyproxy, mounted the repo I am working on, and I don't worry about the danger. Just have to make sure to ensure the directory mounted is backed up. I do find that I hit the limits and have to wait for it to reset. That is either a good time to take a break or maybe supplement with Zed. Zed has the feature that one can pay for extra prompts. The context window with Claude Code seems less of an issue than in the Zed integration. It also has memory comapctification if necessary though I find most of my feature work finishes before hitting that limit.
by benrutter | 2025-06-25 11:44:24+00:00
By "hostile" I mean a market set up such that it's not possible for renewables to meaningfully participate, rather than that people are actively anti-renewables and campaigning against them etc.

I think the US is moving this way, by removing grants for green energy, continuing grants for oil, placing targetted tariffs on solar panel manufacturing countries, and blocking planning permission for wind.
by adlpz | 2025-06-25 11:45:34+00:00
It's a bit like general web browsing.

The internet is full of pure nonsense, quack theories and deliberate fake news.

Humans created those.

The LLMs essentially regurgitate that, and on top they hallucinate the most random stuff.

But in essence the sort of information hygiene practices needed are the same.

I guess the issue is the deliver method. Conversation is intrinsically felt as more "trustworthy".

Also, AI is for all intents and purposes already indistinguishable from magic. So in that context is hard for non-technical people to keep their guard up.
by sublimefire | 2025-06-25 11:45:36+00:00
I found it hard to even bid to solve problems for councils locally. The requirements are mental sometimes, there is a reason the company would focus on consumers rather than gov sales. This in turn makes it easy for the large corps to win over contracts. There needs to be more willingness to engage locally with the engineers to help them setup and run OSS systems. With the new generation this could become true.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-06-25 11:45:40+00:00
Just like VW, Seat, Skoda, Cupra etc many of these are sub brands.

Omoda is Chery for example.

MG and Maxus are both SAIC.

Haval and ORA are Great Wall.

A diagram as of 2024: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D22AQE4uiRLMqkneQ/fee...
by kcplate | 2025-06-25 11:46:33+00:00
Who is arguing that? I’m not. The only argument I have made is that you do not have all the values you need to plug into your “calculator” to make a BDA.

But perhaps you can figure all of those values you need by just knowing the wingspan and airspeed of the aircraft delivering the payload, if so…I defer to you and this amazing deductive knowledge that you possess.
by georgyo | 2025-06-25 11:46:42+00:00
File extensions are just a hint about what the file might be and have nothing to do with what the file actually is. If the server sets the MIME type, the browser will use that as the hint.

But even beyond that, most file formats have a bit of a header at the start of the file that declares the actual format of the file. Browsers already can understand that and use the correct render for a file without an extension.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-25 11:47:41+00:00
Tabs open right now: Chatgpt, claude, and grok.

Local LLM: deepseek r1 and qwen2.5coder; phi4 for my project.

Pycharm pro as my main IDE. I <3 pycharm.

I have been giving Void IDE a try this week but it's just frustrating me more than anything.

Has to be a bug where when i approve it to edit the file and it reads maybe 5 lines, stops, still says its running but isnt doing anything. then the chat keeps going like an error happened; but then it really errors out. I'm not ruling out that im just screwing it up somewhere.
by prepend | 2025-06-25 11:48:35+00:00
I imagine that we need a bootstrap ai to help you optimize the right ai for each task.

I don’t think I’d trust the vendor’s ai to optimize when they will likely bias toward revenue. So a good case for a local ai that only has my best interests at heart.

Currently, the guidance from vendors is “try it and see which yields the best results” which is kind of like “buy this book, read it, and see if you like it” and how of course the publisher wants you to take this action because they get their money.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-25 11:48:55+00:00
Article says they are switching to OnlyOffice.

It looks and feels very similar to ms office (So easier to adopt than libre)

https://www.onlyoffice.com/document-editor.aspx?docs=downloa...

https://www.onlyoffice.com/spreadsheet-editor.aspx?docs=down...

(Edited to remove statement saying paid product, as it's free with enterprise offerings as below)
by bpt3 | 2025-06-25 11:49:44+00:00
I said your list was not relevant if you didn't believe the items on it should not exist, but that's not the case.

Frankly, the inherent contradiction of your vehement support for something you think shouldn't exist has confounded me, and your position that video games, guns, and alcohol also should not exist is so far on the fringe of society that it's hard to take at face value.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-25 11:50:42+00:00
Fyi, virtually all diesel locamotives already employ regenerative braking. They just send the electricity to resistors, turning it into heat. The amount of energy is simply staggering. No battery tech can absorb the power fast enough. Its funny that this train is in australia. Only on a very flat run will braking be so slow that power can be stored efficiently.

https://youtu.be/cIQ0yIZgQeE?feature=shared
by the_gipsy | 2025-06-25 11:50:52+00:00
Feature detection is not the only reason the new protocol exists; it offers a variety of options to create scaled text (not only x2) and alignment, and it can be detected reliably, unlike the older sequence which is also not widely supported anyway.

This was my experience when writing the tool, which had started out only with the image rendering, but then could use the new kitty protocol. The old sequence is moot for this use case, because it's impossible to query if supported and only can scale to x2.
Show HN: Blender Scripting Cookbook
by salaivv | 2025-06-25 11:50:55+00:00
A collection of recipes for the Blender Python API. Each recipe presents a (mostly) self-contained solution to a well-defined problem.

I started working on this book mostly for myself – as a companion that I can refer to when building non-trivial things using the API. While Blender has an excellent API documentation, certain techniques and workflows are hard to discover just by reading it. Often, you need to dig into Blender's source code or study existing addons to figure things out. This book is an effort to document those practical, but sometimes obscure solutions.

The goal of each recipe is to give you just enough information to solve a problem quickly. When programming, most of the time we are looking for solutions in bits and pieces while tackling a larger problem. If I can express those bits and pieces clearly and concisely, I consider that a win.

Learn how to use the API to build addons, manipulate geometry, create custom interactive operators, build user interfaces, write custom CLIs, and more...
by celltalk | 2025-06-25 11:51:25+00:00
Last week, we had a dinner with a big group and as usual the restaurant said we cannot split the bill. So, nobody wanted to pay it, not because of the money but all the hustle of sending tikkies (money requests) afterwards.

As usual... I got annoyed by it and coded a solution for it with AI :)

billsplit.co

Just upload the bill, review the items, and send the link to friends. Then, they can select and pay their parts. It’s free and no registration required.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-06-25 11:52:03+00:00
It’s not all over yet.

MSFT is the world’s best 2nd mover and can often make profits on ideas pioneered/launched by other companies before MSFT.

MSFT came late to the cloud party (2011? AWS launched in 2006 IIRC), still they became a big player there (~25% market share in 2025).

Yes they botched Mobile, but to me it looks like they are still in the AI game

(I personally prefer models from Google, Anthropic or OpenAI though).
by al_borland | 2025-06-25 11:52:41+00:00
Wearables often seem like a way for people to buy their way to health, but the wearable itself doesn’t actually do anything. It’s the treadmill/coatrack that people wear on the wrist. Good intentions that quickly fade once the novelty wears off.

The people I know who actually use their wearables for fitness were already doing stuff or would do it with or without the wearable.

Telling the public that they need a wearable fitness tracker to get started is a bad message.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 11:53:16+00:00
When I had to get a cat neutered last summer I was was hoping to skip the line at the SPCA ($40) or the clinic for community cats ($0 and seems to sell out 30 seconds after registration opens) and called some private practice vets and was shocked to get quotes like “two visits + bloodwork = $700”

Went to the SPCA but I can see why talk of an affordability crisis wins elections.
by overu589 | 2025-06-25 11:53:27+00:00
They’re just saying… you know… it’s just not as cool. The real haxor is the one who “gets it done”. True is what comes of it, not what people think is most cool. Someone more hard core will always neg the lazy noob. Doing is what does, everyone else is trying, to some 1337ists it’s just not good enough for the hacker name.

You want to be sure? Learn what the exploits do technically. Know why they do and don’t work. All that competence and prestige come in due time.
by eeeeeeehio | 2025-06-25 11:54:41+00:00
This doesn't say anything about many false positives they actually have. Yes, you can write other programs (that might even invoke another LLM!) to "check" the findings. That's a very obvious and reasonable thing to do. But all "vulnerability scanners", AI or not, must take steps to avoid FP -- that doesn't tell us how well they actually work.

The glaring omission here is a discussion of how many bugs the XBOW team had to manually review in order to make ~1k "valid" submissions. They state:

> It was a unique privilege to wake up each morning and review creative new exploits.

How much of every morning was spent reviewing exploits? And what % of them turned out to be real bugs? These are the critical questions that are (a) is unanswered by this post, and (b) determine the success of any product in this space imo.
by fidotron | 2025-06-25 11:54:57+00:00
This stuff is why I am so cynical about modern software development management. Bill Atkinson wrote QuickDraw, a masterpiece of low level programming, but also had a very solid grasp about what it was for right down to the UX it was to enable, and as shown here how the UX evolved with user testing. These days the idea someone can span that range is seen as an impossibility.
Ask HN: How does my usage of LLMs train the underlying models?
by emehex | 2025-06-25 11:55:02+00:00
I understand that using tools like Chat, Cursor, and Claude Code for software development is likely providing training data to help these LLMs get better at coding (the irony isn't lost on me that I might be contributing to making myself obsolete...)

But I'm curious about the actual mechanics: How exactly does this feedback loop work? When I accept, reject, or modify the code that these models spit out, is that signal fed directly back into training?

Not necessarily against this, just genuinely curious about how the sausage is made.
by latexr | 2025-06-25 11:55:29+00:00
> Students are often fully aware their use of ChatGPT is a bad idea.

Often and fully aware? I sincerely doubt it. I’d bet it’s only a tiny minority of students who use ChatGPT who think it’s a bad idea.

Unlike the gambling addict, they can’t feel the immediate repercussions of their actions. Those will only be available in hindsight, long after they can correct.
by fossgeller | 2025-06-25 11:55:35+00:00
I noticed the same general reactions for Framework laptops. Some folks are acting like these smaller companies are trying to force their products on the consumers, but their advertising is completely fine.

However I also find some of the supporters of consumer friendliness unbearable (e.g. Framework or Thinkpad fans).

I get that tribalism is present in many layers of our society and culture (politics, sports, music), but I always found it weirder when people do it for products. The only goal of a company is to maximize their profits, why someone becomes a die hard supporter of them is beyond me.

To summarize, I just wish people would put less emphasis on consumer practices. Buy a product you like and is beneficial for you, but don’t judge others for their choices.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-25 11:55:58+00:00
> Your 20$ baby monitor bought from an authorized store you know... whatever happens, it's not gonna kill anyone very directly ...

Yeah, not kill, but participating in a DDoS against a heavily frequented commercial site that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue a minute, that's still some substantial damage.

In the end it should boil down to the ability of holding the seller of the product with security issues accountable for the damages, and the seller in turn can hold the manufacturer accountable. Maybe that will lead to some substantial change.
by adrian_b | 2025-06-25 11:56:14+00:00
Really sad.

Based on what I had read yesterday, when I still hoped that it will have the same USB 3.0/DisplayPort like Fairphone 5, I was considering very seriously to upgrade my rather old ASUS smartphone to a Fairphone 6.

However, if it lacks USB 3.0/DisplayPort, which can be acceptable for a $200 smartphone, but never for a $600 smartphone, then Fairphone 6 is completely disqualified from my point of view.

Unfortunately, only some Chinese smartphones, e.g. from Motorola, offer USB 3.0/DisplayPort in smartphones with decent price/performance ratios and up-to-date Qualcomm SoCs, starting as low as $400.
by Gormo | 2025-06-25 11:56:17+00:00
It does seem "modern" in the sense that it is incredibly limited in functionality (EDIT.COM from DOS is much more full-featured) and deviates from well-established UI conventions.

CUA-style menubars aren't that uncommon in textmode editors. Midnight Commander's editor has traditional menubars with much more extensive functionality, as does jedsoft.org's Jed editor. Both of these also support mouse input on the TTY console via GPM, not just within a graphical terminal.
by sublimefire | 2025-06-25 11:56:19+00:00
Each group needs to do something and they come up with the ideas. Sometimes it is driven by various leaders, e.g. “use copilot”. Sometimes it is an idea from some hackerdayz event which gets expanded. Sometimes this is driven in research units where you have a bunch of technical people twiddling their thumbs. Sometimes this is an idea that goes through deep analysis and multiple semesters before it gets funding.

Look at the amount of contributors here. This project was probably some strategic investment. It did not come to existence overnight.
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by rgavuliak | 2025-06-25 11:58:47+00:00
You are wrong. There have been multiple attempts at micro-transactions - and they all failed. One of the biggest was Blendle - https://www.pugpig.com/2023/08/18/why-micropayment-champion-...

Why? why do most B2B companies prefer subscription based pricing? Because it brings in predictability you can run a business on. Micro-transactions only work in utility context (electric, water, cloud compute). You can't run a news company on micro-transactions.
by craftkiller | 2025-06-25 11:58:57+00:00
1. The government doesn't have any way to only track the phones of people torching cars. Everyone in the vicinity with an active cellphone is going to get caught up in that dragnet.

2. That advice sounds more reasonable if you assume a reasonable government that is only interested in tracking people who are torching cars. Governments have retaliated against political dissidents in the past who have committed no crimes.
by graemep | 2025-06-25 12:00:26+00:00
> any smarter and you start to be able to make 400k a year curing disease or building a reusable rocket or any number of other actually interesting jobs.

A co-founder of something like Jane Street must be making a great deal more than $400k/year. Its probably small change for him.

You cannot make that much money doing those "interesting jobs". You might by financing and employing the people doing them.

A smart person going into finance will definitely make a lot more money than that same person going into another field. Going into finance from an "interesting" field has made a lot people rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-25 12:01:10+00:00
While there are plenty of valid reasons not to tell the government where you are 24/7 (including reasons like "I don't feel like it"), I agree that protests shouldn't be a reason. Functioning democracies don't arrest people for peaceful protests, and the governments that do won't be fooled by just not bringing your phone with you in the age of surveillance planes regularly sweeping areas to track movements, facial recognition, and simply finding you because they've arrested other protestors you know already.

For protests, the physical switch is an attempt to find a technical solution to a societal problem, which rarely works out. You may as well keep your (Android) phone in your pocket (but turned off, though that won't help with iOS' Find My network).
by navane | 2025-06-25 12:01:28+00:00
I think you got it backwards. Israël is just another military base for the US. Everything the US does "for Israël" is to keep a fat finger in the middle eastern porridge.

The base is not entirely in their control, but also doesn't shed US military lives when it stirs the pot. Using a local minority to project influence over their majority neighbors. A play as old as colonialism.
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