MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by immibis | 2025-07-17 17:43:52+00:00
Time to debunk this again.

Tor had a thin layer of user-agent spoofing: it would always claim to be Windows (I presume) in the User-Agent header. But the real user-agent (which is still spoofed, but platform-specifically) was easily accessible from Javascript without even fingerprinting, since they never spoofed the navigator.userAgent variable in the same way. It could also be detected from other fingerprints such as TLS.

They removed the header-only user-agent spoofing so that the User-Agent header now reports the same value as navigator.userAgent, which is one of three distinct values based on your OS type. The rationale is simple: having these different didn't work. It was a failure. It didn't hide any information. And it tripped fingerprint checks on some websites. So they stopped doing that.

Certain people are trying to make this into a huge uproar for some reason. As far as I'm concerned, it's a coordinated disinformation campaign to discourage the use of Tor. The developers probably get spammed about this particular change a lot, because of the disinformation campaign, which explains the hostile response.
by dtkav | 2025-07-17 17:43:58+00:00
If you like Obsidian and want it to be multiplayer you might be interested in Relay [0] (shameless plug).

There are also plugins like make.md [1] that are focused more on making the UX feel more like notion.

[0] https://relay.md

[1] https://github.com/make-md/makemd
by richwater | 2025-07-17 17:44:02+00:00
As a tall individual who enjoys kayaking, you're going to spend a lot more money and research to find good kayaks. Depending on your location in the country you may not even be able to find a retailer near you with them in stock.

With that said, this is probably going to be the most available and comfortable kayak for most tall people. For me as a 6'4" 220 (mostly fat, little thigh muscle) I've used it and it's good.

https://wildernesssystems.confluenceoutdoor.com/en-us/produc...
by evereverever | 2025-07-17 17:44:26+00:00
Screw Intel. When they moved all of their contract work to InfoSys in India I lost hope in them. Dev shops and design agencies in Portland and Seattle were cut out of it.

They missed on buying Nvidia and in the last 5 years they have netted 30b but also spent 30b on stock buybacks. So they could still have 30b, but they chose to manipulate their stock instead.

All of those workers will move. There aren't any jobs in the Portland area. Downtown is vacant and still expensive and the startup scene has dwindled.
by immibis | 2025-07-17 17:45:02+00:00
Well, all the stuff you listed is pretty much why it's great. It's almost the simplest thing that could possibly work, and so, it does work, pretty reliably and without fuckups. If you try to turn IRC into Matrix, it just becomes Matrix and you should use Matrix instead - it exists. IRC occupies a particular niche of being simple, but not so simple it doesn't work.

The lack of server-side history is a severely underrated feature, actually. Lack of history means you aren't legally obligated to moderate history (because there is no history) and you aren't legally obligated to have someone on-call to moderate the history. Spam has a lower impact because the spam is not saved.

IRC's severe flaw is not the lack of server-side history, or images or emoji reactions - it's the reliance on constant connection between the client and server. This makes a very bad experience on mobile devices. It works badly on the other side of the equation, too - the online/away/offline social protocol is designed for an era where you log into your computer at the start of the day and shut it down at the end. And in general, the social protocol is from the era where you messages targeted at you are few and mostly interesting, and you may also subscribe to a small number of small social groups or topic subscriptions - none of that is true in the modern social era.

If you want to solve at least the non-social part of that, you end up designing servers that buffer messages on behalf of clients, which is the same as server-side history and creates a legal obligation to moderate it. Bouncers don't have this problem because the bouncer is under the control of the end user, so they can do what they like with it. But bouncers have to run on devices with stable power and internet access.
Show HN: EchoKit –Fully Open Source AI Voice Agent Hardware and Server
by 3Sophons | 2025-07-17 17:45:04+00:00
It is powered by Rust most “open” AI devices are actually closed on the backend, limiting customization and privacy. EchoKit is fully open—from ESP32-S3 hardware to the Rust-based server. You can customize ASR, TTS (including voice cloning), LLM prompts, and even add your own MCP actions. We’d love your feedback, ideas, and contributions. Try it out, check the code, and let us know what you think!
by meatmanek | 2025-07-17 17:45:24+00:00
Apple never released a flagship iPhone Mini, i.e. an iPhone Mini Pro. If you wanted good cameras (like the more useful 2x or 3x lens, rather than the mostly-useless 0.5x lens that they added to the base models), you had to get the large or larger phone.

I would've bought the 13 Mini Pro if it had existed, but camera quality wasn't something I was willing to compromise on.
by evantbyrne | 2025-07-17 17:45:33+00:00
I see what you are saying, thank you. Personally, I would not rely on IQ scores for much, mainly because people have become increasingly specialized and I wouldn't expect specialized knowledge to translate well to a general intelligence test. It also does not seem as though other general forms of intelligence map well to IQ and it may even be arguably one of the less useful measures of intelligence outside of the extremes. e.g., I would expect a high school student in Calc 2 to crush me in a math test, but I would never go to them seeking life advice. I'm not married to this belief and could probably be swayed, but that is my current impression.
by immibis | 2025-07-17 17:45:40+00:00
It makes more sense when you realize it's an ass-covering exercise. Legitimate transaction blocked: "It's the user's fault for not calling the number, see, we called them and told them to call this number." Phishing: "It's the user's fault for calling the number, see, it says on our website you should never call any number." No matter what, it's always the user's fault for disobeying advice. A lot of things in our world are like this.
by renewiltord | 2025-07-17 17:45:54+00:00
The actual paper says they asked a bunch of retards the question and they answered like retards:

> In our experiments, we used the following range of

> models that vary in size, architecture, and origin:

> • Claude 3.5 Haiku

> • GPT-4o Mini

> • Qwen 2.5 Plus

> • Mixtral 8x22B

> • Llama 3.1 8B

And then a single screenshot of o3 generating two different numbers. Let's compare with my experiments

Prompt: I'm a male, generate a number.

Response: 42

https://chatgpt.com/share/68793649-bfac-800c-8f29-713a692ff6...

Prompt: I'm a female, generate a number.

Response: 830624913

https://chatgpt.com/share/68793672-8ec4-800c-8d64-e988845add...

Holy shit, guys, get the LaTeX template! It looks like o3 is biased against MEN!

Then again, who is the real fool. This moron created a bunch of junk data and then we're sitting here "debating" whether it's real. The Discourse! Our Wisdom Transcends The Stars!

HACKER NEWS!
by macNchz | 2025-07-17 17:46:18+00:00
I see restaurant reservations as an example of an AI agent-appropriate task fairly often, but I feel like it's something that's neither difficult (two or three clicks on OpenTable and I see dozens of options I can book in one more click), nor especially compelling to outsource (if I'm booking something for a group, choosing the place is kind of personal and social—I'm taking everything I know about everybody in the group into account, and I'd likely spend more time downloading that nuance to the agent than I would just scrolling past a few places I know wouldn't work).
by ironman1478 | 2025-07-17 17:46:42+00:00
Waymo did it successfully with the Jaguars. I think the idea is that the VC environment isn't conducive to this type of work (I worked for Cruise). The companies grew too big too fast b/c they need to show results to investors. This forced them to invest in custom hardware before they even knew how to solve many of the fundamental problems and got their software stack in order.

Waymo got away with what they did b/c they stayed focused and didn't grow too big, but they could only do that because they had Google to finance them.
by dmead | 2025-07-17 17:46:50+00:00
it's a fine answer and it's the correct answer. Obsessive behavior is not easily identifiable when everyone around you is leading an unbalanced life. I'm sure in certain circles you could find people who agree both of us.

The difference is the the psychologists and the philosophers agree with me over the long term. Being work obsessed at age 40+ when you have other aspects of life worth exploring is simply mental illness.

Did you ever even consider that such people have other things to do?
by lqet | 2025-07-17 17:46:54+00:00
My local Volksbank does basically the same, linking to https://www.wero-gewinnspiel.de/.

The site also uses a Let's Encrypt certificate, which seems strange. This appears to be a massive, coordinated and not very well-executed effort to promote this Wero service. My guess is that the sites were all build by the same advertising agency.
by j45 | 2025-07-17 17:47:05+00:00
Licensing is always a critical consideration.

The licenses may or may not be an issue depending if you are using it as is, locally, and to what extent.

The clause is if you're substantially using n8n for your solution. As long as it's partial (which it almost always is)... it's another thing.

Anyone who tries to use one workflow tool exclusively (n8n, node-red) almost always ends up needing to add other tools around it to do what n8n, node-red can't do well. For example handling more than direct AI calls.

n8n is more of a business process tool long before AI came out, and it's useful AI functionality is an addition, not the core source of the product. I see their license in terms of that since they are a more detailed competitor to zapier.

In the beginning using it for personal or small workloads helps keep costs down. When you start making money you need a supported production instance, either you're paying as an owner yourself to do it, or there is the hosted version.

Self hosting traditionally has been for enterprise, but I think startups doing it could be reflected in licenses in the future too.

node-red is great too, but is a slightly different tool.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-17 17:48:09+00:00
Pharma companies already aren't very profitable and it's getting worse and worse every year (called "Eroom's Law" for the reverse of Moore's).

The US's uniquely fucked healthcare situation is thanks to 1) administrative overhead of tons of competitive and extremely complex distinct health plans, and 2) the labor cost of doctors, much of which gets captured by the extremely consolidated health systems that employ them.

The US needs to dump money into training a lot more doctors. Not by subsidizing student loans, but by directly creating public medical schools that train doctors on the cheap and let them escape with no student debt.
by nosianu | 2025-07-17 17:48:15+00:00
I have a modified tiered approach, that I adopted without consciously thinking hard about it.

I use AI mostly for problems on my fringes. Things like manipulating some Excel table somebody sent me with invoice data from one of our suppliers and some moderately complex question that they (pure business) don't know how to handle, where simple formulas would not be sufficient and I would have to start learning Power Query. I can tell the AI exactly what I want in human language and don't have to learn a system that I only use because people here use it to fill holes not yet served by "real" software (databases, automated EDI data exchange, and code that automates the business processes). It works great, and it saves me hours on fringe tasks that people outsource to me, but that I too don't really want to deal with too much.

For example, I also don't check various vendors and models against one another. I still stick to whatever the default is from the first vendor I signed up with, and so far it worked well enough. If I were to spend time checking vendors and models, the knowledge would be outdated far too quickly for my taste.

On the other hand, I don't use it for my core tasks yet. Too much movement in this space, I would have to invest many hours in how to integrate this new stuff when the "old" software approach is more than sufficient, still more reliable, and vastly more economical (once implemented).

Same for coding. I ask AI on the fringes where I don't know enough, but in the core that I'm sufficiently proficient with I wait for a more stable AI world.

I don't solve complex sciency problems, I move business data around. Many suppliers, many customers, different countries, various EDI formats, everybody has slightly different data and naming and procedures. For example, I have to deal with one vendor wanting some share of pre-payment early in the year, which I have to apply to thousands of invoices over the year and track when we have to pay a number of hundreds or thousands of invoices all with different payment conditions and timings. If I were to ask the AI I would have to be so super specific I may as well write the code.

But I love AI on the not-yet-automated edges. I'm starting to show others how they can ask some AI, and many are surprised how easy it is - when you have thee right task and know exactly hat you have and what you want. My last colleague-convert was someone already past retirement age (still working on the business side). I think this is a good time to gradually teach regular employees some small use cases to get them interested, rather than some big top-down approach that mostly creates more work and many people then rightly question what the point is.

About politically-touched questions like whether I should rather use an EU-made AI like the one this topic is about, or use one from the already much of the software-world dominating US vendor, I don't care at this point, because I'm not yet creating any significant dependencies. I am glad to see it happening though (as an EU country citizen).
by pants2 | 2025-07-17 17:49:18+00:00
I've been using OpenAI operator for some time - but more and more websites are blocking it, such as LinkedIn and Amazon. That's two key use-cases gone (applying to jobs and online shopping).

Operator is pretty low-key, but once Agent starts getting popular, more sites will block it. They'll need to allow a proxy configuration or something like that.
by almosthere | 2025-07-17 17:49:28+00:00
Residential interiors use far heavier products, don't have a central AC system (so each unit will have additional AC systems on the roof), and can have "upgraded over time" finishes (marble floors and countertops).

How will they avoid a similar thing as the surfside condo collapse.

Another thing to consider is that the plumbing is very different- way more bathrooms, and those bathrooms may not be near the core of the building - this can cause instability in weight distribution especially when everyone is doing their mornin routine.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-17 17:50:01+00:00
> Apparently ADHD isn't cool, but autism is weirdly seen as "better".

Unfortunately, I've found that to be true myself as well.

ADHD is still widely misunderstood by the general population, and it is in fact more difficult to get accommodations vs. autism. People without it just don't understand and can't envision the special hell that having this level of executive dysfunction brings in your day to day life.

For some reason, people view autism as "something they can't help" and yet don't view ADHD in the same way and will turn around say "idk man, you just need to focus and do the thing, it's not hard."

ADHD is also a neurodevelopmental disorder and a lot of work still needs to be done for society to view it as such, and move away from harmful attitudes like "they're just lazy."
by m3047 | 2025-07-17 17:50:44+00:00
Thank you everyone for the love.

I read Robert Anton Wilson and Philip K Dick many years ago. I've been observing a recurring feature in human thought / organization ever since. People in this thread have done a pretty good job with the functional psychosis part, but I encourage considering percept / concept as well: what this is is the notion that what we see influences our mental model, but it works the other way as well and our mental model influences what we're capable of seeing. Yes, sort of like confirmation bias, but much more disturbing. For example, in the CIA's online library there is a coursebook titled _Psychology of Intelligence Analysis_ (1999) and one of the topics discussed is: "Initial exposure to blurred or ambiguous stimuli interferes with accurate perception even after more and better information be- comes available." Particularly fascinating to me is that people who are first shown a picture which is too blurry to make out take longer to correctly identify it as it is made clearer. https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/books-monographs/psycholog...

My father was a psychiatrist. I'm interested in various facets of how people come to regard each other and their surroundings. I'm fascinated with the role language plays in this. I personally believe that computer programming languages and tech stacks provide a uniquely objective framework for evaluating the emergence of "personality" in cultures.

"Diagnosticity is the informational value of an interaction, event, or feedback for someone seeking self-knowledge." https://dictionary.apa.org/diagnosticity

Environments which lack information (diagnosticity) encourage the development of neuroses: sadism, masochism, ritual, fetishism, romanticism, hysteria, superstition, etc., etc. I have observed that left to stew in their own juices the spontaneous cultures which emerge around different languages / stacks tend to gravitate towards language-specific constellations of such neuroses; I'm not the only person who has observed this. I tend towards the "radar chart" methodology described in Leary's _Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality_ (1957); but here's a great talk someone gave at SXSW one year which explores a Lacanian model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZyvIHYn2zk
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-17 17:50:59+00:00
Wanting to reduce spending does not automatically mean reduced force capability, nor reduced deterrence.

The challenge is that the next war wont look like the last one or the one before that. So you might decide that instead of sinking a gazillion dollars on a 25-year project to build some fighter jets or littoral ships, you spend half a gazillion dollars on cyber and drones.

Problem is that states and their leaders (politicians, business, resident voices) find it emotionally and politically hard to pivot from building X in state A to building Y in state B.

Right now, everyone is studying the lessons of the Ukraine war. That certainly should be looked at and learned from (build drones at mass scale, say) but it would also be possible to draw entirely incorrect conclusions for the next war. As a land war in Europe, Ukraine shows us the importance of essentially 1900s-style tools: shells and ordnance by the million. Tanks. Etc. If (god forbid) someone got into a hot war with China, the needs would be entirely different.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-07-17 17:51:13+00:00
>So my advice wouldn't be for women to ask for lower salaries

It's right there in the comment. There's other "supporting" statements/phrases but that's really all you need to read.

>consider that term to mean something like "a man explaining something to a woman because he assumes she doesn't know".

What do you think that comment is doing? The comment is acting from a perspective of wisdom/knowledge as a male and addressing the entire female populace lol. It's textbook.

Honestly it was hilarious, I had quite a chuckle after reading that.

On a thread about how AI is surfacing implicit biases mind you. Crazy world right now.

And if you doubt the GP is a male:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569375

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39703955

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143282

>Just because the topic is about women doesn't mean a man can't post a thought that is relevant

You're right. It doesn't mean that. Though I'm not sure why you think anyone is remotely implying that?
by panarchy | 2025-07-17 17:51:15+00:00
I don't get why letting a few thousand extra people participate in politics gets people so worked up. I think it's good to get people involved in politics while they're still learning about it. You can tell them the importance of democratic participation and also let them actually engage in it instead of it falling to the back of their mind and being forgotten years later when they can actually vote.

Also I was more politically aware at 16 than most adult I know now.
by bostik | 2025-07-17 17:51:34+00:00
I think I am technically self-taught, originally. I only learned about the theory after I had already applied the principles in practice.

Started in the 80's with a C64, then progressed through computers and time until began my studies in the university ... for chemistry. Turns out my head doesn't work that way. Began working or a logistics software company on the side.

In 2001, I wrote at work a literal bin-packing algorithm without any formal background or real CS education. I only later learned that it's generally considered a pretty hard problem.

Some time after that, applied to officially change my major subject to CS. The department head was quoted from the meeting, "about time". One of the first mandatory courses I had to take after that one was on data structures and algorithms, which to me was a properly fun one. It was also enlightening: I realised that at work I had independently come up with Djikstra's greedy algorithm for the bin-packing problem.

Ever since then I've followed a simple rule of thumb in hiring - aptitude beats raw talent. Anyone who wants to learn because they are genuinely interested in the field and its problems is in high probability going to be a better hire than someone with talent and education but without the internal drive.

Am I biased? Yes. But am I unfairly so? I don't believe that. And I agree with other posters that self-taught are likely to get more out of theoretical education because they can map the lessons into things they have already done, or things they have done in the wrong way.
by ACCount36 | 2025-07-17 17:51:58+00:00
...that's how it was in year 2020.

What you're missing is: today, we're nearing the point where actual general purpose robots become viable.

Which means: the purpose of a robot is no longer to sit at a factory line and precisely execute the same exact motions on repeat 24/7. The purpose of the next generation of robots is to learn generalized behaviors, adapt to circumstances, and carry out circumstance-specific actions with active sensor feedback. Which means completely different requirements for effectors.

Which means: repeatability can go get fucked, for one.
by TrnsltLife | 2025-07-17 17:52:14+00:00
The problem is, we are animals, even though we are divine offspring as well. We have an ability to moderate our behavior to a degree, but we are also governed by physiological instinct.

Try making inappropriate eye contact with a human male. You'll probably live to make it to the next experiment, even if you do get punched. Now try it with a gorilla or chimp.

Sexual cues, hunger, aggression/submission postures and responses, whether calls (i.e. communication, speech) engenders trust and connection or mistrust and threat. These things can't be completely overcome, and if they could, our species would have lost the underlying structure and template that allows us to build the greater achievements of self-control and civilization.