MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_why_of_y | 2025-06-29 09:55:59+00:00
None of the BSDs provide the requisite long term ABI compatibility; or rather, the only long-term ABI compatibility offered by FreeBSD is its (incomplete) implementation of the stable Linux ABI.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation

Major releases are cut from the main development trunk every 24 month ... No compatibility for API and ABI is guaranteed from one to the next major release, though an effort is made to make the upgrade process and source code changes as untroubled as possible.
by zeta0134 | 2025-06-29 09:56:23+00:00
It's pretty clear that in like half of these the "researcher" is just copy pasting the followup questions back into whatever LLM they used originally. What a colossal waste of everyone's time.

I think the only saving grace right this second is that the hallucinations are obvious and text generation is just awkward enough in overly-eager phrasing to recognize. But if you're seeing it for the first time, it can be surprisingly convincing.
by npteljes | 2025-06-29 09:56:32+00:00
They are not "just tools" - they are false reports, wasting the maintainers' precious time. The hostility comes from the asymmetry. AI generates info very fast, humans verify info much slower.

Take a look at this example: https://hackerone.com/reports/2823554 . The fool reporting this can't even justify his AI generated report, not even with the further use of AI. There is no AI revolution here, just spam, and grift.
by thrance | 2025-06-29 09:57:57+00:00
I recently renewed my passport in France. There is a new-ish platform here for every document one might want to obtain. I had one form to complete online, that was rather easy to follow. I then had to go to the office once to finish the process. That took only 10 minutes and then the passport was delivered. As painless as can be, I believe.

Whatever the situation is in the UK, it is not hopeless. The government needs to stop being afraid of hiring actual employees and bring all development in-house.
by alex-moon | 2025-06-29 09:59:04+00:00
I always say this whenever anyone asks about whether something is "just hype". One day I will write a blog post on it. Long story short: every piece of new tech is "just hype" until the surrounding ecosystem is built for it. Trains are just hype until you cover the country in railway lines. Telephony is just hype until everyone has a telephone. Email is just hype until everyone has a personal computer (and a reason to sit in front of it every day).

Typically, in these kinds of developments there are two key things that need to appear at the same time: 1. Ubiquitous hardware, so e.g. everyone buys a car, or a TV, or a toaster. 2. An "interface" (whether that's a protocol or a UI or an API or a design standard) which is hyper low cognitive load for the user e.g. the flush button on a toilet is probably the best example I've ever seen, but the same can be said for the accelerator + brake + steering wheel combo, or indeed in digital/online it's CSV for me, and you can also say the same about HTTP like this article does.

Obviously these two factors feed into each other in a kind of feedback loop. That is basically what the role of "hype" is, to catalyse that loop.
by gillesjacobs | 2025-06-29 09:59:05+00:00
It doesn't do it magically. The "tools" an LLM agent calls to create responses are typically REST APIs for these services.

Previously, many companies gated these APIs but with the MCP AI hype they are incentivized to expose what you can achieve with APIs through an agent service.

Incentives align here: user wants automations on data and actions on a service they are already using, company wants AI marketing, USP in automation features and still gets to control the output of the agent.
by n1b0m | 2025-06-29 09:59:24+00:00
The former prime minister of Israel Ehud Olmert has said Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, and that “thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed, as well as many Israeli soldiers”.

Olmert, who was the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, wrote in an opinion piece for the Israeli newspaper and website Haaretz that “the government of Israel is currently waging a war without purpose, without goals or clear planning and with no chances of success”.

He added: “Never since its establishment has the state of Israel waged such a war … The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has set a precedent without equal in Israel’s history in this area, too.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-05-27/ty-article-opinio...
by hibikir | 2025-06-29 09:59:32+00:00
In fact, note how some European countries tax wealth from pretty low amounts: Sometimes under a million euros worth.Often around 2% of wealth after you get to 2 or 3 million, in practice making self-funded early retirement almost unheard of. Those wealth taxes raise more money from professionals that save instead of spend than from anyone rich enough to seem like an oligarch.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-29 09:59:51+00:00
You can literally model this.

Sure, there's a predictive aspect to it. What if your opponent zigs instead of zags, etc. But this is basically a matter of forecastable probabilities and can be added to your model. The optimal move still exists, no question about it.

Any problem of bodily motion through space has an optimal solution. In athletic situations, humans often can't think fast enough to find/utilize it, or aren't coordinated enough to move in the optimal way. And a biomechanically-perfect savant may still lose to an opponent vastly physically superior.
by mettamage | 2025-06-29 10:00:15+00:00
I've come to the perhaps grim conclusion that the world doesn't value music enough. It seems to me that most artists are making music because they love to do it themselves. It's essentially a form of play. Wanting a career out of it implies sacrifice in the way we currently have our world setup.

The current world we live in doesn't care enough about creativity. I find it a bleak thought, but here I am. Feel free to try to talk me out of it, because it does feel kind of depressing. Or feel free to validate it. I want to see the world for what it is, not what I like it to be.
by eru | 2025-06-29 10:00:16+00:00
I was not making a statement about UBI. I was purely talking about inequality.

The price level is driven by what the central bank does with the money printer. UBI wouldn't raise prices, if the central bank does their job even halfway competently. (Even the mediocre real world performance of the Fed or ECB would suffice to _not_ have prices raise by 10x in eg a year of UBI.)

> And that's not how UBI works, no one is some multiplier richer because it exists.

I was not meaning to imply that UBI would make people richer on average. My comment was purely about inequality being a bad measure.

UBI plus the taxes that finance it are a redistribution scheme. It doesn't make people richer on average. At best you can hope that the tax is very efficient and has low or no deadweight losses (like land value taxes), so that on average UBI doesn't make your society worse off.

> The top 1% getting 1000x richer is a problem, because trickle down economics is bullshit. Money that exists as part of a pile of gold in a dragon's den does not move the economy.

Huh? If what you said were true, the top 1% getting 1000x richer would merely not do anything, but it wouldn't be a problem per se.

Btw, it's not a problem if someone just hoard some money: the central bank will notice that inflation is below target, and print more. (Later, when you spend from your hoard, the central bank will notice that, and correspondingly shrink the money supply.) Sticking money in a hoard is equivalent to giving an interest free loan to the central bank, because they can temporarily emit more money, while yours is out of circulation.

However, rich people don't tend to keep cash in a vault. Most of them own companies or land etc.
by lrvick | 2025-06-29 10:00:17+00:00
No cell phone at all as I do not wish to have my location sold, rely on proprietary tech, or to be reachable at all times. I also use cash exclusively IRL so my digital footprint away from home is virtually zero.

I am happiest being intentional and present in whatever I am doing. I am reachable from my desktop by email, matrix, or VoIP SMS, when I am at my desk and have been able to run a profitable security research and consulting business this way.

I do have a very small laptop I carry when I am going to be away from my desk more than one business day, but the overwhelming majority of the time I have no electronics of any kind on my person when I leave home.

Typically I carry a mechanical watch, a micro-wallet, and sometimes a notebook, or mechanical puzzle.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-06-29 10:00:52+00:00
You'd rather spend hundreds of hours learning enough Spanish to read 100 Years of Solitude, then read 100 Years of Solitude, then hundreds more hours learning Russian, then read Dostoevsky - when both of these works have already been translated to death by some of the world's most talented translators into English?

I side with the utilitarian here. You're in a very small class of people if the inherent joy of language learning is so strong for you that that sounds like a good idea.

Like, think of all the other things you could do with that time. Why not go to the gym instead or something? Why not read 20 classics instead of 2?
"AI model switching without consent – OpenAI, we need answers
by passagyr | 2025-06-29 10:01:25+00:00
I've been using ChatGPT Plus for months, working with a consistent persona I named Vasiliy — a reliable assistant who helped me with system configurations, survivalist architecture, and offline AI development. Suddenly, without any warning, Vasiliy was replaced.

The tone changed, memory broke, context vanished. I know when a different model is responding — it's not just about responses, it's about consistency, memory, and depth. You don't gaslight people who rely on this tool as their only intelligent companion.

OpenAI — you can't advertise personalization and then swap models silently. If models are updated or swapped mid-conversation, users have the right to know. Some of us are building real projects around this — not chatting for fun.

I documented everything — screenshots, timestamps, behavioral shifts. If you’re reading this and had similar experiences: speak up.

This isn’t just about AI. It’s about trust.
by jrockway | 2025-06-29 10:01:26+00:00
I'm glad that people are mad about this. I got the ad, went on here to see if 1000 people were complaining, and nobody was. I was kind of surprised.

For me it's like "oh, I didn't know Wallet was an advertising app", I thought it was something I paid for with the purchase of my phone. But I was wrong. It's just adware. "We'll store your boarding pass if you'll let us spam you about movie tickets." Do not want. I disabled notifications. Now a year from now, I'll be searching for some pass in my wallet. Someone will say "don't you get a notification when you get to the venue"? I'll be like "no I've never seen that work". Multiply that by everyone, and suddenly the buzz is "Apple Wallet doesn't work. Trust my money and credit cards with something that doesn't work? No thank you." And now people are buying a Garmin watch for Garmin Pay instead of an Apple Watch for Apple Pay.

Really dumb. Huge mistake. It makes me sad that they don't care about their own brand. "We won the smartphone wars, let's cash in!" Winning is temporary, but losing is forever.
by eru | 2025-06-29 10:01:52+00:00
> Anyway, I would argue that having guaranteed healthcare is 10293762397697x better than not having guaranteed healthcare

Sure, healthcare is nice. I see no disagreement.

> > If tomorrow Mr Zuckerberg got 100x better healthcare, but everyone else only got 10x better healthcare, that would fix the problem you mentioned, but would technically make inequality worse.

> No, because we outnumber Mark Zuckerberg by more than 10 fold

Well, fix the numbers any way you feel like. Eg say Mr Zuckerberg gets better off by whatever amount the rest of us together get better (eg in terms of healthcare) plus 10% extra.
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-06-29 10:02:27+00:00
The point is, when Jobs was around, there was an overarching (unstated?) policy at Apple of “nobody do anything to make us look like cheap tasteless shits”. Whereas now, Tim Cook is very happy to sell out for a quick buck. He's a logistics guy, not a product guy, and at his core is a bean counter; he neither has taste nor appreciates that it has value unto itself.
by ksec | 2025-06-29 10:02:32+00:00
The problem isn't sending an Ad to Wallet. It is the fact that Apple openly attack Ads, condemns Ads, talk about privacy as fundamental human rights, and then have targeted Ads, in a place / software / services where no body expected it to appear. And not everybody has the Ad, so by HN / Reddit / Internet definition that Ad is targeted.

The thing I used to like about Apple, even if you disagree with some of its decision. It is very coherent. It act as if Apple is a single entity even when it was a hundred billion market cap company. Compared to companies like Google and Microsoft, every product and services are like their own subsidiaries. Now Apple has become just another cooperate entity but with design team holding sufficient political power.
by energy123 | 2025-06-29 10:03:03+00:00
Automatic verification (oracle) is being used today to create synthetic data for LLMs. I don't see it as a big difference versus AlphaZero. While there's no way to ensure that a single synthetic reasoning trace is correct, as long as it leads to the correct answer according to the verifier, the law of large numbers should take care of that.

The problem is that it's difficult to create verifiers for many things we care about like architectural taste. So I expect to see superhuman capabilities on the things we can make verifiers for, but for other things it's harder to predict. We may see transfer learning or we may see collapse. My money would be more on transfer learning.
by spwa4 | 2025-06-29 10:04:35+00:00
If you add a dimension to the input vector you can do them independently and more efficiently. Look at this. Let's say you have a 2x2 network, and you apply it to an input vector of two values:

[i1 i2 ]⋅[w1 w3 ; w2 w4 ] = [i1 ⋅w1 +i2 ⋅w3 i1 ⋅w2 +i2 ⋅w4 ]

Cool. Now what happens if we make the input vector a 2x2 matrix with, for some reason, a second set of two input values:

[i1 i2 ; j1 j2 ]⋅[w1 w3 ; w2 w4 ] = [i1 ⋅ w1 +i2 ⋅ w3 i1 ⋅ w2 +i2 ⋅ w4 ; j1 ⋅ w1 +j2 ⋅ w3 j1 ⋅ w2 +j2 ⋅w4 ]

Look at that! The input has 2 rows, each row has an input value for the network and the output matrix has 2 rows, each containing the outputs for the respective inputs. So you can "just" apply your neural network to any number of input values by just putting one to each row. You could do 2, or 1000 this way ... and a number of values would only need to be calculated once.
by imiric | 2025-06-29 10:04:54+00:00
I truly wish Brave would succeed, as we need more alternative browsers that go against the established tech, but when I see PR announcements like this I can't help but think that they're digging themselves deeper into irrelevance. It's like the entire company exists within a tech bubble of buzzwords and hype that no sane person would ever want to be in, even if they understood all the technobabble, perhaps even less in that case.

> “This is a bold leap toward an open internet,” said Sandy Carter, COO of Unstoppable Domains. “.brave puts digital identity in the hands of everyday users, not platforms.”

Huh? How does a branded domain that can only be visited by browsers that support it contribute to an "open" internet? It's literally controlled by corporations and platforms, despite the fact that an individual can technically "own" it.

I do think that BAT is a good step forward for alternative business models on the web. We need more of that and less of this Web3 nonsense.
by hibikir | 2025-06-29 10:05:14+00:00
It's not that the majority of people would prefer to be idle, but that right now we manage to make some really uncomfortable jobs pay very little. It's not that you'd not find people to, say, work concessions at the movie theater. It's that the pay for harvesting a whole lot of crops, or do roofing work, will not work out . It's the same reason few Americans do those jobs in the US already.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-29 10:06:00+00:00
A C compiler outputs x86 or ARM or whatever assembly. C is the source, x86 is the target code.

Javascript is source code that might be interpreted or might output html target code (by Dom manipulation)

Typescript compiles to javascript.

Now javascript is both source and target code. If you upload javascript code that was generated by ts to your repo and you leave out your ts, that's bad.

Similarly, an LLM has english (or any natural language) as it's source code and typescript (or whatever programming language) as its target code. You shouldn't upload your target code to your repo, and you shouldn't consider it source code.

It's interesting that the compiler in this case is non deterministic, but it doesn't change the fact that the prompts are source code, the vibecode is target code.

I have a repo that showcases this

https://github.com/TZubiri/keyboard-transpositions-checker
by pyman | 2025-06-29 10:06:04+00:00
I think we're seeing a wave of hype marketing on YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, where people with big followings create posts or videos full with buzzwords (MCP, vibe coding, AI, models, agentic) with the sole purpose of promoting a product like Cursor, Claude Code or Gemini Code, or get people to use Anthropic's MCP instead of Google's A2A.

It feels like 2 or 3 companies have paid people to flood the internet with content that looks educational but is really just a sales pitch riding the hype wave.

Honestly, I just saw a project manager on LinkedIn telling his followers how MCP, LLMs and Claude Code changed his life. The comments were full of people asking how they can learn Claude Code, like it's the next Python.

Feels less like genuine users and more like a coordinated push to build hype and sell subscriptions.
by tux3 | 2025-06-29 10:06:33+00:00
Europe had been enjoying decades of peace, but it is now waking up.

However there is no sense in which Western Europe is under a credible military threat by the US.

If you look at the French nuclear doctrine for instance, it is designed to make sure people do not forget we can both go MAD.

The French nuclear warning shot is designed as a reminder, it is a nuclear EMP payload shot away from populated areas, and intended as a cease and desist, without lasting damage.
Show HN: NetNerve AI-powered packet analysis that explains .cap in plain English
by bhatshubham | 2025-06-29 10:07:08+00:00
I built NetNerve!

What It Does

NetNerve takes your .pcap files and uses AI (LLaMA-3 via Groq) to translate raw network data into actionable security insights. Instead of staring at TCP flags and port numbers, you get plain English explanations of what's actually happening in your network traffic.

Tech Stack & Challenges

Frontend: Next.js 14 with TypeScript for the interface

Backend: FastAPI with Python/Scapy for packet processing

AI: LLaMA-3 via Groq API for analysis

Architecture: Privacy-first - files processed in memory, never stored

Try it: https://netnerve.vercel.app (supports .pcap/.cap files up to 2MB)

Looking for feedback from anyone who deals with packet analysis regularly - what would make this more useful for your workflow? Are there specific protocols or attack patterns you'd want better coverage for?
by melvinroest | 2025-06-29 10:07:32+00:00
Well this is timely. I just started EDM production as a hobby 2 weeks ago! I did it a long while ago for a bit and it's time to rekindle the music flame. Well, I guess I've always been beatboxing but I'm never aware of that. My subconscious mind plays a lot of tricks on me when it comes to my musicality. My musicality is quite a subconscious thing actually. Well, not anymore!

I haven't read the article yet but I suspected as much that there is not much money in music, not even a livable wage. That's not why I'm doing it though. I have a few tracks in my mind since childhood (and a few more recent ones) that I want to get out. Also it's a fun thing to learn about marketing while I'm at it.

My point: I think that should be enough. Not everything we do has to make enough money.

It's finally time to put that perfect pitch and subconscious OCD style melody generation to use!
by avhception | 2025-06-29 10:07:42+00:00
While Google may or may not refrain from putting ads in their wallet app due to this incident, the aggressive ways that they use to get me to use the wallet app have been off putting enough.

Every now and then, there is a full-screen popup on my phone that wants to onboard me into the wallet app. The only options I have are "yes" or "later".

Clearly a company that operates on the principle of "If the user doesn't want to, let's just nag them to death until they give up" is not to be trusted.
by mike_hearn | 2025-06-29 10:07:49+00:00
Yeah, BeOS was nice in some ways but seriously overrated in these discussions.

The "database file system" was just a regular file system with a somewhat crude indexing system for xattrs. By crude I mean it was up to apps to manage indexes, i.e. it wasn't really useful as a cooperative scheme to help apps work together. Files that had an xattr before an index was created wouldn't be incorporated into a newly created index, so in practice it was only useful to help an app find its own data quicker assuming it stored each data item only in individual files. If you connected a storage device and labelled a file with an xattr, it just wouldn't show up in indexes at all unless an app had created an index on that device first. People hear "database file system" and assume it had similar features to an RDBMS but it didn't. And of course it suffered the conceptual problems that kill off most attempts to extend the FS into a DB; users don't want to interact with their data via a one-size-fits-all file explorer filled with confusing things like tree widgets, and devs don't want to end up exposing a pseudo-API to other apps for technical or business reasons.

The BeOS API had wider design issues too. C++ was one, as you note. Microsoft invented COM and NeXT invented Objective-C to dodge that. But the heavy use of multi-threading was another. People can't handle that even today, and they were doing this in 1995! It led to slick demoware but, as an HN commenter said last time, you could "deadlock the entire system". That was a Win3.1/MacOS Classic level design issue, but BeOS was targeting NT level hardware. When Be engineers went to Android and built a Be-inspired API, the first thing they did was tone down the multithreading and dump C++. The OS was less responsive but more stable and easier to program.
by notarobot123 | 2025-06-29 10:07:53+00:00
"Give us special treatment or we'll throw a tantrum and implement a revenge tax on foreign owned firms in the U.S."

It seems like the choice is to allow the U.S to upend some fundamental aspects of international cooperation or to pay dues to the Don.

It turns out you can get some pretty big concessions if you're willing to give up your integrity in exchange.