MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mandmandam | 2025-07-28 19:36:53+00:00
> it’s not because they are afraid of America.

In some cases, it is precisely that. Ireland, for a fact, has been economically threatened for putting forward measures against Israel, ie [0]. We only know this because of investigative journalists, not mainstream media.

Then you can look at America's sanctions against Francesca Albanese, and ICC judges [1], which has the additional effect of 'legally' allowing America to sanction anyone who supports them.

Trump and Europe just signed a 'deal' which was basically just Europe promising to buy arms and LNG for the next 5 years, and pay more in tariffs, getting nothing in return. This is about as strong a suggestion that they are being threatened in some way that you could ask for.

And then there's a huge range of threats coming from Israel itself, such as thinly veiled threats to not allow citizens out of various countries out of Gaza [2].

A majority of the people in European countries are aghast, horrified, traumatized by the daily atrocities being committed with the tacit backing of their political and media classes. The disconnect has never been quite so stark.

> Everyone is just standing around saying how bad it is but they are perfectly content to let Gaza be leveled while they keep trading with Israel.

Again, all across Europe people are taking all the action they can; and are being brutally suppressed by state forces in response. Corporate and state media invert reality with a terrifying consistency, such as in Amsterdam with the football hooligans. In Germany peaceful protesters are being savagely beaten on the daily, and (illegally) threatened with deportation. In England, they are being charged as terrorists for holding signs supporting necessary Action in Palestine.

Even in Ireland, long-time bastion of anti-colonialism, peaceful protesters have been strip searched, had their hijabs removed, and detained. We've been working for years to end trade with Israel, but somehow our trade has increased sharply the past couple years, and we're even selling Israeli bonds out of our Central Bank. There's a lot more going on here than apathy.

> who really cares about genocide in Africa? Maybe there isn’t anything different when it comes to genocide elsewhere. :(

If you want to understand those conflicts, just follow the money. It always seems to lead right back to Western interests, after being washed in the UAE.

The thing is, there is massive profit being made from these genocides. Trade routes, oil, land, arms development, funding, minerals, gold, political control, media control; there's something in it for all the oligarchs.

0 - https://www.ontheditch.com/us-ambassador-warned/

1 - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70rllxr0kyo

2 - https://x.com/wereontheditch/status/1768702362615460116
by strictnein | 2025-07-28 19:37:02+00:00
Confused on the Max 5x vs Max 20x. I'm on the latter, and in my email it says:

> "Most Max 20x users can expect 240-480 hours of Sonnet 4 and 24-40 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits."

In this post it says:

> "Most Max 5x users can expect 140-280 hours of Sonnet 4 and 15-35 hours of Opus 4 within their weekly rate limits."

How is the "Max 20x" only an additional 5-9 hours of Opus 4, and not 4x that of "Max 5x"? At least I'd expect a doubling, since I'm paying twice as much.
by itsalotoffun | 2025-07-28 19:37:30+00:00
No. They're just desperately trying to limit the number of tokens burned per $200/mo account. It's trivial to burn 1-3x that dollar amount per DAY even before you're loaning your account out to friends in different timezones. And as ccusage will show, if you were paying API pricing rates your $200/mo plan would consume closer to $3-5k/mo in "credits".

Somehow you're "not allowed" to run your account 24/7. Why the hell not? Well because then they're losing money. So it's "against their ToS". Wtf? Basically this whole Claude Code "plan" nonsense is Anthropic lighting VC on fire to aggressively capture developer market share, but enough "power users" (and don't buy the bullshit that it's "less than 5%") are inverting that cost:revenue equation enough to make even the highly capitalized Anthropic take pause.

They could have just emailed the 4.8% of users doing the dirty, saying "hey, bad news". But instead EVERYONE gets an email saying "your access to Claude Code's heavily subsidized 'plans' has been nerfed".

It's the bait and switch that just sucks the most here, even if it was obviously and clearly coming a mile away. This won't be the last cost/fee balancing that happens. This game has only gotten started. 24/7 agents are coming.
by vrnvu | 2025-07-28 19:37:40+00:00
> For example let's look at Microsoft pricing. Using a single macOS runner for 1 year costs 0.08 * 60 * 24 * 365 = 42 thousand USD. Meanwhile, for Zig's CI testing we purchased a beefy mac mini for $3000 two years ago.

Hard to explain this to some folks
by clharman | 2025-07-28 19:37:54+00:00
Pretty sure they are still losing money on it, which is great for us. And these limits wouldn't even be happening if there weren't people bragging about having their CC running constantly for 30 hours writing 2 million lines of (doubtless bad) code. And sharing accounts to try to get even MORE usage. It's all that swarm guy tbh and he's proud of it.
by posterguy | 2025-07-28 19:38:06+00:00
weird to parlay someone making publicly available information known to those who you are asking money from into an accusation of wanting harm to come to your kids. least of all given that you harmed a kid. "nobody will employ me", well, probably because they have the benefit of the knowledge being shared here.

> paid for in abundance

its my opinion, shared by many in our society, that you did not pay for it "in abundance". in fact, harming a child incurs a debt that can never be truly "paid for". your reward for time served was to no longer be in jail, not to have your history erased.
by ionwake | 2025-07-28 19:38:29+00:00
Alot of people seemed surprised, that I was surprised.

I was surprised, because I dont follow politics.

I just sort of stumbled upon issues when travelling around Europe.

The point of my comment is not that I was surprised, but that Brexit "happened", from my pov. Im sure many others understood the repercussions like gifted clairvoyant giraffes before it occurred, but I alas did not.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-28 19:38:34+00:00
How is this even a counter argument?

Was anyone ever arguing that child porn is not illegal? And from the Judge's statement, Visa and Mastercard were aware it was there and also aware it was illegal

So.. what are you even trying to say here?

Make an argument, don't just blindly post paragraphs like that is supposed to discredit what I'm saying

And just to clarify for certain: what I am saying is that when Visa and MasterCard became aware of the child porn they should have taken action at that time

This is clearly about them failing to do so
by __d | 2025-07-28 19:39:09+00:00
As an example, I started working on Y2K issues in 1991, and it was a project that had been running for several years already. It was an enormous amount of work, at least 25% of the bank’s development budget for over a decade.

30 year mortgages were the first thing that was fixed, well before my time. But we still had heaps of deadlines through the 90’s as future dates passed 2000.

The inter-bank stuff was the worst: lots of coordination needed to get everyone ready and tested before the critical dates.

It’s difficult to convey how much work it all was, especially given the primitive tools we had at the time.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-28 19:40:06+00:00
Not to downplay this as I do not know what really happened, but you could theoretically (and practically?) get these charges just by peeing outside and a kid walking by. Is this correct? I suppose it would count as "exposing organs". Or sending a "dick pic" online to someone you assumed to be an adult. So many guys do this and I have never understood how they could get off of that, but then again, there are weirder kinks out there. :|

I would like to hear from someone who is more familiar with the law, be it US or EU. I am asking because I have urinary incontinence, and I do wear "panties" diaper when I go outside, but still. Would be good to know.
by serial_dev | 2025-07-28 19:40:27+00:00
Emphasis on “and”.

> it affects pretty much everyone who got some value out of the tool AND is not a casual coder.

I didn’t mean casual in the negative sense, so there is no “better”, there is only casual and not casual.

My theory is that 5% sounds like a small number until you realize that many people just tried it and and didn’t like it, forgot to cancel, have it paid by their employer wishing for 100x improvements, or most people have found AI useful only in certain scenarios that they face every once in a while etc.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-28 19:40:48+00:00
Payment processors should be like power and water companies - completely agnostic - by law

If you asked a poll about whether an undesirable person should have their power and water cut off, as if it was actually up for debate, many people would treat power and water as a reward to be removed and say yes

Its been determined that is a problem, and financial access should be at the same standard
by tompark | 2025-07-28 19:41:21+00:00
> In the absence of Western tools like ChatGPT and Claude, many Chinese universities have begun deploying local versions of DeepSeek on campus servers to support students. Many top universities have deployed their own locally hosted versions of Deepseek. *These campus-specific AI systems–often referred to as the “full-blood version” of Deepseek—offer longer context windows, unlimited dialogue rounds and broader functionality than public-facing free versions.*

This makes so much sense. Are there any U.S. universities doing this?
by swalsh | 2025-07-28 19:41:25+00:00
This happens when you prompt it poorly. If you want to avoid slop, the first step is to write an extensive BRD. Read it, understand it, make sure it has everything needed. Then write a solutions architecture document. Read it, understand it, make sure it is fully specified including how things are structured, architecture, principles etc. You can use AI to write these documents. Just make sure to read them, and edit them as needed.

When you have your functional spec, and your tech spec, ask it to implement it. Additionally add some basic rules, say stuff like "don't add any fallback mechanisms or placeholders unlessed asked. Keep a todo of where you're at, ask any questions if unsure.

The key is to communicate well, ALWAYS READ what you input. Reivew, and provide feedback. Also i'd reccomend doing smaller chunks at a time once things get more complicated.
by gizajob | 2025-07-28 19:41:46+00:00
Yeah totally agree - whether it’s Keir or Boris or whoever in charge, the one thing I want to scream at them is “turn the ‘net off! Turn it off!” People are simply too stupid to handle social media. If I was in charge of authoritarian Britain the first thing I’d do would be to flip the serious switches in the big network cabinet down at GCHQ.
by 9rx | 2025-07-28 19:41:50+00:00
> You need to constantly check that your documentation is aligned to your specs

Documentation, tests, and specs are all ultimately different words for the same thing.

You do have to check that your implementation and documentation/spec/tests are aligned, which can be a lot of work if you do so by hand, but that's why we invented automatic methods. Formal verification is theoretically best (that we know of) at this, but a huge pain in the ass for humans to write, so that is why virtually everyone has adopted tests instead. It is a reasonable tradeoff between comfort in writing documentation while still providing sufficient automatic guarantees that the documentation is true.

> If you cannot see how these are different things

If you see them as different things, you are either pointlessly repeating yourself over and over or inventing information that is, at best, worthless (but often actively harmful).
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-28 19:42:13+00:00
I hadn't considered that. I'm using it almost exclusively to validate logic, kind of like a fuzzer in nature ("What if we need to do this with this logic/someone tries to do that/what am I missing/etc"), or to fill in specifications ("what feature would compliment this/what could be trimmed to achieve MVP more easily/does this spec appear to be missing anything according to this set of requirements"), which requires a lot of review, and using more expensive models like Opus doesn't appear to provide meaningfully better results. After prompting it, I typically have a lot to think about and the terminal goes quiet, or I prompt it on a related matter that will similarly require my eyes and brain for long enough that I won't be able to limit out.

I can see how work involving larger contexts and deeper consideration would lead to exhausting limits a lot faster though, even if you aren't using it like a slot machine.
by atoav | 2025-07-28 19:42:20+00:00
Not for me. But I am in the unique situation of sometimes having to spin up 12 projects a week only to come back to two of them 5 weeks later unpredictably.

This means I treat every project like a letter to my future self that needs to be 100% self explainatory and work even if the environment around the project changed. And this means as few moving parts as possible.
by el_benhameen | 2025-07-28 19:42:22+00:00
This is how I feel about the 100 msg/wk limit on o3 for the ChatGPT plus plan. There’s no way to see how much I’ve used, and it’s an important enough resource that my lizard brain wants to hoard it. The result is that I way underutilize my plan and go for one of the o4-mini models instead. I would much prefer a lower daily limit, but maybe the underutilization is the point of the weekly limit.

*edited to change “pro” to “plus”
by KaiserPro | 2025-07-28 19:43:02+00:00
> The waitlist for chronic pain surgeries are 3-4 years long

The NHS has _many_ problems, don't get me wrong. But 3-4 years for "chronic pain surgery" isnt one of them. There are huge wait times, but 3-4 years is not representative. (Hip replacement times are ~4 months, much higher than it used to be)

Would I fly out to turkey to get a knee done? fuck no, half the problem is physio. Can you fly out and do it? you sure can.

This kind of doomerism is going to lead to farage getting his way and replacing universal healthcare for shitty half arsed insurance.
by jahewson | 2025-07-28 19:43:32+00:00
What you are describing, from the POV of the British firm, is ownership, not investment. Water is a classic example of failure because there was no shareholder capital invested - exactly my point. We don’t talk about all the successful investments because they’re doing just fine.

What the UK desperately needs is actual shareholder capital actually being invested into British companies, so that they can create new wealth. They are welcome to take a share of the wealth they create! Everybody wins!
by lern_too_spel | 2025-07-28 19:43:41+00:00
> But if they don't isolate the network then it's all on them, they do not get to check all devices.

This is a ridiculous point to think that I disagreed about. Of course they don't get to check that your TV and your washing machine have been rooted. I explicitly specified your devices connected to your employer's network. You're trying to interpret this in a way that doesn't make sense simply to find a point of disagreement where there is none.
by notahacker | 2025-07-28 19:44:27+00:00
No credible account suggests the Rochdale grooming gangs' victims numbered in the thousands.

Implying that the recently -convicted gang who spent several years hosting "rape nights" targeting minors in Glasgow I've linked to was somehow less depraved than people of Pakistani descent doing the same thing in Rochdale years earlier because they weren't members of an ethnic minority does kind of underline my point.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-07-28 19:44:40+00:00
While uncommon, some ordinary comets also have an "anti-tail" that points toward the sun. As a recent famous example, the very bright comet in October 2024 [0] had a prominent anti-tail. The main photo on the wikipedia page shows it clearly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
by shagie | 2025-07-28 19:44:44+00:00
Anytime that someone is going to get sued for monetizing something that is illegal somewhere, the payment processor is likely to get pulled in also as part of the lawsuit. It's been shown that the payment processor can't say "we just move money from one customer to another" and absolve themselves of liability in the court case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...

While some of that content may be legal in the US, it isn't everywhere else in the world. As such, they're going to be in the situation of Collective Shout saying "when we sue {company} for hosting that content, we're going to sue you too for allowing {company} to monetize it through your system."

Payment processors have lost that court case before and are likely rather risk adverse to be brought into another one.
by SamuelAdams | 2025-07-28 19:45:16+00:00
The cited article is a better source, and it was written a month ago. I am not sure why this is making the rounds now.

They cite 99.9%, and “reduce the risk”, not 100% like this sub article claims.

https://www.gilead.com/news/news-details/2025/yeztugo-lenaca...
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:46:19+00:00
That is not a black and white situation, and I received only 10 days in jail because of the circumstances, despite the prosecutor asking for the full 365 days. The statues of Illinois do not permit any evidence prior to the day of the incidents to be presented. I could not provide the jury any evidence that my son was becoming a very real danger who I had to protect myself and my other children from for at least a month beforehand. I am not and have never been a violent person, so he didn't get that from me. I could not present to the jury that I had called 911 on him several times, that he threw sharp objects at me, that I did everything I could do disarm him with as least physical force. I did not know about crisis hotline and the police never told me about it or suggested it, they simply said I'd have to figure something out. All I could present to the jury was his own testimony, under oath, that he had in fact harmed me and caused me physical harm. I used as little force as necessary to restrain him from another episode of dangerous behavior. I'm not sure what I could or should have done differently. And anyone commenting this or that solution, I would just say, I agree violence is rarely the answer, but I'm not sure what you would have done differently either. He has since been arrested at least once for similar violent behavior, so I am vindicated at least somewhat, because he didn't learn that from me, and I tried everything I could to prevent and stop it for the month before my arrest, and I haven't seen him since the arrest 4 years ago. And I was never violent. He didn't learn it from me. In order to protect another person's reputation, I will not say where I think he learned it.
by ac29 | 2025-07-28 19:46:40+00:00
> the intended audience was the people who showed support on the previous Show HN thread

Your previous Show HN had 113 comments. That's a nice accomplishment but even if 100% of those commenters paid $25/month you aren't going to get to the equivalent of $25/hour.

> there was significant interest in this project

Are you referring to the Show HN? Was there significant interest in paying?
by w10-1 | 2025-07-28 19:46:50+00:00
I would just say I think this is great communication. It's direct but explanatory, and addresses multiple issues without exposing details.

Also the timing is close enough to be relevant, but far enough to plan, and nicely placed near a (US) holiday.

But it doesn't address a fairness question: if you signed up for an annual subscription, should you get the service levels in place at the time of your commitment?

Also it sneaks in some quality issues:

during this same period, users users have encountered several reliability and performance issues

There I would appreciate a link to a system performance dashboard, so users could see whether others are experiencing difficulties, and purchasers could assess SLA's. I want them to address quality directly instead of hand-waving about bad actors.

I would add that I like Kagi's approach: they give you your choice of models, and show you how many credits you've used, so you can buy more credits or fall back to cheaper models in advance of being capped. Help people plan!
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-07-28 19:46:54+00:00
I use this approach because I like to work on features or logical components in isolation and then bring them together. I still can't limit out most of the time because I need to actually look at the outputs and think about what I'm building. At the moment I have 3 directories in my work tree. Sometimes I prompt in more than one at a time, especially at interfacing code, but that could mean 30–90 minutes of reviewing and implementing things in each directory. Over a work day I apparently send an average of ~40 messages according to `claude --resume`
by kazinator | 2025-07-28 19:47:14+00:00
"aura" and "brain rot" are not new, sorry.

etymonline.com on "aura":

- 1870: In spiritualism, "subtle emanation around living beings".

- 1859: "Characteristic impression" made by a personality.

- 1732: "An aroma or subtle emanation".

The hyphenated term brain-rot was used by Henry Thoreau in Walden [1854]; search for it in this Project Gutenberg copy:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm
by serial_dev | 2025-07-28 19:48:50+00:00
It is still not the users fault, pricing is not their responsibility. As a user, I check the price and what the service offers, then I subscribe and I use it. If these users did something illegal or breaking some conditions, any service would be free to block them. But they didn’t, meaning the AI tools promised too much for the price so they update their conditions, they are basically figuring out the pricing.

I don’t know what is there to be mad about, and using dramatic language like “everyone suffers because of them”
by throwup238 | 2025-07-28 19:48:59+00:00
Not for the Los Angeles metro area. There isn’t a single calendar or event aggregator that covers the entire area and with an LLM I can give it complex schedules (i.e. a dump of my calendar for that week) and preferences to filter the list of events for the stuff I like, including vague stuff like “I like country music in the style of ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ but not modern country radio”.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-07-28 19:49:05+00:00
Are you sure this isn't an Eternal September thing where the initial organizers were just an early-adopting minority, now overrun by a majority that actually has broad consensus on many issues? Also, do you actually have any evidence of bot effects? Would you be able to unleash a bunch of bots on Bluesky and make it seem to have a consensus on tariffs being a good policy?
by 90s_dev | 2025-07-28 19:49:13+00:00
I don't mind not getting full time payment. That's not the goal of this. The goal is to try an experimental method of funding open source projects, something we have all been thinking about for a while. This is just one variation. If it doesn't pan out to full time employment, then fine, that's expected. I'd be surprised if it did.

[Edit to clarify] I'm not trying to pressure or guilt anyone into donating for personal reasons. My only goal in this post is to propose a way to experiment with open source funding. Other details are just me answering unrelated questions.
by motorest | 2025-07-28 19:49:49+00:00
> Acceptance criteria is a human-readable text that the person specifying the software has to write (...)

You're not familiar with automated testing or BDD, are you?

> (...) to fill-up a field in Scrum tools (..)

It seems you are confusing test management software used to tracks manual tests with actual acceptance tests.

This sort of confusion would be ok 20 years ago, but it has since went the way of the dodo.