MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by esseph | 2025-07-15 01:54:55+00:00
XAI key is potentially root into X (social media), and Tesla via grok, yes?

If so, sounds potentially life threatening.

NTSB might wanna look into that.

Edit: DoD is also contracting for $200 million for grok. Yeah, this is bad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/14/elon-mu...
by bcoates | 2025-07-15 01:54:57+00:00
The idea of app timers seems like exactly the weird self-negotiation alcoholics do around booze where they think mimicking the habits of casual drinkers (on what is, to the casual, a bender) will make them not an alcoholic anymore.

Yes, normies might have three margaritas on a Tuesday. Like, once a quarter. Not every single day, and also not followed by a whole lot more once you’re loosened up.

Likewise, the reaction of a mentally stable person to TikTok is like the reaction of a normal person to a casino full of slot machines--discomfort and more than a little disgust. If you start wagging your tail to that shit, there is no safe level and you need to delete it all yesterday, app timers and clever little boxes are making you worse.
by simoncion | 2025-07-15 01:55:33+00:00
It has also been about that long since I used the service. According to my very, very distant memory this requirement was implemented by having you punch in your IPv4 address into a form to configure their end of the tunnel. I know for an absolute fact that Comcast was not providing me with a static IPv4 address, and the HE.net tunnel worked just fine.
by Sanzig | 2025-07-15 01:55:47+00:00
Ah, okay, well if you already have the IPv4 address space available for all your customers that's a different story. I can understand why you want to wait to dual-stack in that case.

I do think NAT64/464XLAT is a pretty good architecture for new ISPs that can't get their hands on IPv4 space, though. Or even MAP-T, but CPE support isn't really there yet.
by clumsysmurf | 2025-07-15 01:56:40+00:00
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote. “This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can’t be patented by Pharma."

Anyone know what chelating compounds he is talking about?

He mentions clean foods, but the Trump EPA is protecting corporations from regulations more than its protecting citizens from pollution.
by somat | 2025-07-15 01:57:00+00:00
It reminds me of the sulfur dioxide situation.

I was trying to figure out why volcanoes sometimes have a global cooling effect, I mean the things are pumping out obscene amounts of carbon dioxide right, so whats with the cooling. Well it turns out sulfur dioxide has a negative greenhouse coefficient(it will pass infrared light better than visible light). And if the volcano dumps tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, you get the cooling effect.

At which point I got too clever for my own good and went "Hey wait a minute, we(as a species) worked very hard to get the sulfur compounds out of our fuels, what it that was a mistake" conveniently ignoring why you don't want sulfur in your fuels. "Acid rain was not that bad, right?"

But sometimes it is fun do a little mustache twirl and in my best supervillain voice, proclaim "You know what would reduce global warming, we need to add a bunch of sulfur to jet fuel, to increase the amount of sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere"
by bell-cot | 2025-07-15 01:57:25+00:00
1st thought: Let's say you have engineered wood surfaces in a just-vacated patient room - a room now tagged "MDR Pathogen Positive, Double-Sterilize ALL Surfaces". Do your normal cleaning/sterilizing products and procedures work correctly on those wood surfaces?

2nd thought: The fire inspector just got interested. He wants to see your documentation - for that engineered wood meeting Hospital-level fire resistance standards at 30% oxygen.
by pseudo0 | 2025-07-15 01:57:34+00:00
Illegal migration makes it infeasible to invest in technology to automate the work, because any business that wants to invest in automation will be undercut by a less ethical competitor employing illegal, artificially cheap workers. This also makes it hard to attract investment for companies building technology to automate this work, because investors assume that the government will continue to not enforce the law, leading to reduced demand for labor-replacing technology. We won't get significant innovation and investment in this field until the government sends a clear message that they will be consistently enforcing the law going forward.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-15 01:59:54+00:00
While I appreciate things like this that have a lot of references, and I have been aware of this piece since it was published two years back, it is one of those essays that tends to swing far too pessimistic on its claims. Not saying that there isn't an issue but things like 6-7 billion dead in the next 25 years, that is a bold claim.

It reads similar to the works of Guy McPherson & James Kunstler in that they are continually pushing back the doomsday date as they miss again and again. But I think they do love the attention of publishing these dramatic predictions because it can make people feel like their lives are like that of fiction based drama. Alas normal life it much more humble and slow, at least for the most part.

I do think we will hit a long term equilibrium of about 2 billion people like claimed but over more like 150-300 years as we balance out from overshoot and ecological blow back. But that is a very different real world experienced scenario to what they propose.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-15 02:01:13+00:00
For the most part, readers here are against it. Just because someone doesn’t know how to do it does not mean it is not doable. If it were not doable, these companies would not exist. I’ve already spent more time than I care on the topic. So if you want to think that people are collecting the data and not selling it to interested parties, the, boy, I don’t know. You can only lead hostess to water, but you can’t make it drink.
Ask HN: How is my MacBook temp getting misread?
by GWBullshit | 2025-07-15 02:01:32+00:00
Ever since the last MacOS update, my MacBook has been overheating very easily, very often. When this happened in the past, I would simply put it in the freezer for a few minutes and then pull it out and get back to work. Now something strange is happening: The MacBook itself will be ice-cold, but unlike before when it would just resume working wonderfully, now it "sort of" works, but not really. For example synching stops and says "It needs to wait until the temperature drops". I installed an app to see what's going on and it's reading the CPU at 190º+ F and the GPU at 200º+. Why? How could anything inside be that hot when the frame itself is ice cold?
by pnw | 2025-07-15 02:02:31+00:00
Great site. The DYE-2 and DYE-3 stations built on the glacier that they just abandoned remind me of something you'd see in a post apocalyptic movie or game.

This video shows some explorers looking around inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTTjVIMWoE

My other favorite Cold War site is Safeguard, a 70's era anti-ballistic missile system that cost six billion and was only operational for six months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_R._Mickelsen_Safeguard...
by Nursie | 2025-07-15 02:02:57+00:00
Also wanted to add that while I think this is very clever, and I am a big fan of Mr Tatham's work, that by the time we're talking about the 'advanced' version at the end we're edging towards using a stack-based system in the form of a context object and at that point it feels like we're just a leap and a jump to stack-based coroutines and full-on cooperative multithreading.

Also, by the time you're passing a coroutine context around anyway, you could refactor (say) the decompressor around a decompression context and the code would stay nice...

It's definitely interesting though, and it's been a few years since I read that coroutines page.
Ask HN: Feeling disillusioned by AI and the state of things
by ioned2025 | 2025-07-15 02:03:59+00:00
I'm excited by AI, and use it daily and build stuff with it. I use the ChatGPT/Claude apps, and Cursor and CC for coding.

However, I can't help but just not feel any satisfaction anymore.

Using AI for actual work (like, to make money) kind of blows unless its some RAG based workflow/chat/suggest crap type of stuff. The APIs barely work, the results are garbage most of the time, and the issue of using probabilistic tools to drive deterministic work is kind of moronic if I'm being honest. Worse, the current hype is to spend $1 to make $0.50 which is also dumb and I've not really seen any breakout companies - either they were using Indians off shore or were just committing monetary fraud lol.

I feel a bit trapped, and I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore. I guess I just don't feel much joy and satisfaction anymore in my "craft" or "work" and it kind of makes me really sad.

I'm 34 and I just feel lost. What the hell should I do?
by cyphar | 2025-07-15 02:04:05+00:00
If the source code is actually GPLv3 then they should be distributing the sources without any additional charges (section 6(d) is very clear on this point). Of course, if they are the sole copyright holder they can make up additional rules, but I bristle with describing this as free software under the GPLv3. As it stands, they are implicitly dual-licensing it under a proprietary and GPLv3 license.

Personally, if I was one of the people that bought the source code, I would just upload it on GitHub since you have the right to do so.
by knowsuchagency | 2025-07-15 02:04:41+00:00
Ironically, Claude Code has me working in lower-level languages with more low-level tools than ever before, simply because of how powerful it is, particularly as a terminal tool. I've always been more of a GUI person, but now the editor I use most often is Helix.

If I've atrophied in certain aspects of my thinking, I honestly think I've more than made up for it in learning how to engineer the context and requirements for Claude Code more effectively and to quickly dive in to fix things without taking my hands off the keyboard and leaving the terminal.
by dmm | 2025-07-15 02:04:49+00:00
Reading "Bottle of Lies" by Katherine Eban, I'd argue that the collapse of the FDA was well underway before the current administration. The FDA was completely unable to regulate overseas drug manufacturers, resulting in many, many problems. Sincere attempts to inspect overseas drug makers with random inspections universally results in shutdowns, which cause politically unpopular drug shortages, making enforcement politically difficult.
by cyphar | 2025-07-15 02:07:15+00:00
But they are distributing binaries of the game to the public for free[1] -- the text you quoted describes the exact opposite situation to what is happening. In this particular case you cannot charge separately for source code under the GPLv3 -- see section 6(d).

Of course, if they are the sole copyright holder, they can dual-license things under a GPL and proprietary license (which is effectively what they are doing here -- the DogWalk binaries available from the linked page are not GPLv3 binaries because they are not following the GPLv3 requirements). But this situation is absolutely not permitted under the GPLv3. Otherwise a company could fork a GPL'd project and just avoid releasing GPL'd source code by charging $1B for the source code.

[1]: https://studio.blender.org/projects/dogwalk/gallery/?asset=8...
by zdragnar | 2025-07-15 02:07:31+00:00
External tech workers have been a thing since at least the catastrophe that was the original ACA launch. That "tech surge" was definitely full of more experienced people than the "smart kids" we see in DOGE though.

More worrying is that the article points out at time of writing the key was still valid. Why such a high level key was used in an agent script, why it hasn't been rotated (can't be rotated?) and about a dozen other "whys" point to some rather damning practices.

I get that the idea was to avoid the obscene levels of red tape that can be common in government IT, but the pendulum has clearly swung far, far far too far the other way.
by androng | 2025-07-15 02:07:40+00:00
I invested in META stock because I have an addiction to instagram and the tracking is so good that the ads are actually tailored to me and my desires so my CTR is i think 7% on average. contrast with YouTube and Google and Twitter where I block all the ads because the CTR is 0.00% because they are all garbage. Instagram keeps showing me ads for expensive stuff I don't need but I do want, like meal kits and fancy clothes
by dietr1ch | 2025-07-15 02:09:22+00:00
> Prohibiting certain kinds of investors from investing in housing would be an example of interfering.

Note that I did not propose forbidding investment, just having rules to help make sure final ownership ends in people (who ideally live there and don't own other 10+ homes).

I'm just making sure that investments don't fuel a system where regular people can't own, but only rent forever, paying past the investment and a healthy interest for their lending, planning and doing service.

Why do road and other infrastructure investments can get these limited profit kind of terms for governments, but housing can't get similar ones for the people?
by rented_mule | 2025-07-15 02:09:45+00:00
This might be too pedantic, but a dataset is not a tool in and of itself. It's something that can be processed by a tool. And it's not simple for anyone to reproduce without significant access, either to the original observational opportunities or to the dataset itself. Information about individuals is often in datasets and those people too seldom have a say in the security practices used to safeguard it.

Tools (or pick another word that illustrates this distinction) like encryption, hammers, etc. do not contain our information. They are fairly straightforward to reproduce. And therefore nearly impossible to contain. Bad actors will have encryption and hammers, whether we want them to or not. The only question is whether good actors will also have them, or if they will be restricted by laws. This, for example, can make it easier for datasets to fall into the wrong hands, because they are less likely to be encrypted.
by acdha | 2025-07-15 02:10:11+00:00
> The .com bubble was largely companies with no business

Ah, yes, companies like Amazon.com, eBay, PayPal, Expedia, and Google. Never heard of those losers again. Not to mention those crazy kids at Kozmo foolishly thinking that people would want to have stuff delivered same-day.

The two lessons you should learn from the .com bubble are that the right idea won’t save you from bad execution, and that boom markets–especially when investors are hungry for big returns–can stay inflated longer than you think. You can be early to market, have a big share, and still end up like Netscape because Microsoft decided to take the money from under the couch cushions and destroy your revenue stream. That seems especially relevant for AI as long as model costs are high and nobody has a moat: even if you’re right on the market, if someone else can train users to expect subsidized low prices long enough you’ll run out of runway.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-15 02:10:30+00:00
> I genuinely don't understand what value Cursor itself brings. It's like a wrapper for some APIs, right? As far as I can tell there's like four actual AI firms in the world and everyone else is trying to whitelabel. It reminds me of the hosting industry in the early 2000s.

Yes, there's (maybe?) four, but they're at the very bottom of the value chain.

Things built on top of them will be higher up the value chain and (in theory anyway) command a larger margin, hence a VC rush into betting on which company actually makes it up the value chain.

I mean, the only successes we see now are with coding agents. Nothing else has made it up the value chain except coding agents. Everything else (such as art and literature generation) is still on the bottom rung of the value chain.

That, by definition alone, is where the smallest margins are!
by ryao | 2025-07-15 02:11:18+00:00
I am not familiar with Android, but Linux ELF binaries that specify 4KB alignment will not work on systems with 16KB page sizes, since the ELF interpreter will refuse to load them. This hit me recently when trying to run a 32-bit binary on a Linux ARM system that had 16KB size pages, since the 32-bit OpenSSL libraries specified 4KB alignment. Presumably, this was done for maximizing entropy available to ASLR, but it breaks the binaries when the page size increases.

In any case, I assume that there is something similar affecting Android.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-15 02:11:46+00:00
Don’t give the buffoon too much credit, as a lot of these weaknesses were engineered starting around Reagan (with Carter and Nixon also shouldering some, but far less overall, blame). Neoliberalism and its “invisible hand of the free market” alliance with Laissez-Faire Capitalism all but ensured the demise of institutions and social safety nets in the name of maximum profit for the moneyed classes. We built a Golden Age atop the New Deal, and Capital threw it all away to return to the 20s, violent strikebreaking and all.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-15 02:12:34+00:00
The fact is that we just do not know. But what we can actually observe is... Quite grim. And we are not even taking the smallest, tiniest steps we can possibly take to fixing it.

We are basically doing only what is STRICTLY dictated by economy. And we know that it is simply not enough. Whether in 2 decades or 10, billions of human beings are going to die from the direct or indirect effects of climate change. And that is... Incomprehensible.
by androng | 2025-07-15 02:14:31+00:00
I think I can obtain a triple benefit by using Cursor "ask" mode instead of "agent" mode.

1) I don't over-rely on the AI so I don't accidentally commit bugs

2) I can just put in a OpenAI API key pay-as-you-go instead of subscribing to Cursor Pro monthly and getting screwed by SaaS fee I don't use

3) I actually learn what the AI says and add it to my long-term memory instead of just having it write code for me in Agent mode

admittedly this only works for small tasks, for bigger edits I think trying to learn everything the AI says is not really scalable or at least it takes me much longer.
by cyphar | 2025-07-15 02:15:24+00:00
You cannot charge extra for distributing source code in this way under the GPLv3 (or any version of the GPL, for that matter -- there is a carve-out for physical distribution that lets you charge for shipping, but that doesn't apply here). Section 6(d) explicitly says this:

> You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, in one of these ways: d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. [emphasis added]

That bit in the FAQ is describing the situation where the software binaries are being sold for a fee -- in that case, the GPL only requires you to provide the source code (for no additional fee) to the customers that bought the software from you. In fact, is the case in general that the GPL only requires you to provide source code to the same people you gave binary copies to -- the FAQ is just clarifying that that GPL does not require you to publish source code in public (the FSF considers such licenses to be non-free). This game is available for free to the general public, so this situation (and the text from the FAQ) do not apply -- they need to provide the source code to everyone that they distribute the binaries to.

The need to disallow charging extra for source code is obvious -- if distributors were allowed to charge for source code, they could fork a GPL project and then charge $1B for the source code, making the code effectively proprietary.
by mingus88 | 2025-07-15 02:15:32+00:00
I get what you are saying but it’s 2025 and a mobile device is basically required to operate in society today. Especially if you want an active social life or to excel at work.

Nobody needs a margarita or any other addictive substance to function in society (barring actual substances issues). So it’s a false equivalence to compare apps like this.

An example in my middle aged life is that my kids extra-curriculars are all organized on WhatsApp. If I choose not to have a Meta account then my kids suffer when I am out of the loop on their events. Then of course all of the invites and venues are on Facebook. And all the parents post their pics to IG.

Because these apps are purposely designed to addict you, it is a real sticky thing to have to dip your toes in without getting sucked into a scrolling nightmare.
by SnowflakeOnIce | 2025-07-15 02:15:33+00:00
> Lexing, parsing and even type checking are interleaved in most C++ compilers due to the ambiguous nature of many construct in the language. > > It is very hard to profile only one of these in isolation. And even with compiler built-in instrumentation, the results are not very representative of the work done behind.

Indeed, precise cost attribution is difficult or impossible due to how the nature of the language imposes structure on industrial computers. But that aside, you still end up easily with hundreds of megabytes of source to deal with in each translation unit. I have so many scars from dealing with that...
by jampa | 2025-07-15 02:17:21+00:00
> Having your phone in the same room while doing cognitive work reliably drops your memory, attention, and overall cognitive performance.

That is my biggest problem with most Multifactor authentication. I try to leave my phone in another room to focus, but needing the phone authenticator for something always happens within two hours.

I still don't know why apps think a device I carry in the streets is safer than one I leave at home to do important transactions like moving money, for example. Where I live, there are a lot of cases of people being kidnapped and coerced to make payments (which are instant), yet no Banking app allows you to do anything without a phone.
by tzs | 2025-07-15 02:17:31+00:00
Sure, but I'd have an advantage over them because I'm not from Hitler's time and I'm not German.

Germany had a lot of lingering problems from WWI and prejudice against minorities such as Jews was widespread. This made people more receptive to arguments blaming minorities for the problems they were having. (And even with that many were able to resist). Sure, he apparently had god-like levels of charisma, but he was also in an environment that made converting people not as hard.

There wasn't anything going on the the mid '80s in the US that I was aware of that might make me similarly receptive. I was a few years out of college making a good living programming with plenty of friends and everything was going great. Plus I would be going in knowing his history and how it didn't work out well for those who joined him.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-15 02:17:55+00:00
Per the article, yes:

> Twice, however, OPD staffers searched their system explicitly on behalf of the FBI.

And "other California police departments" are California cops subject to SB34, too.

> Rather, other California police departments searched Oakland’s system on behalf of federal counterparts more than 200 times — providing reasons such as “FBI investigation” for the searches — which appears to mirror a strategy first reported by 404 Media, in which federal agencies that don’t have contracts with Flock turn to local police for backdoor access.