MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-12 20:43:10+00:00
How about having a page consisting of pure html, less than 0.5kb, with the server only providing content alone (simple, one mp4), but serving you none of the html?

So it even works when there is no page on the web at all :0

In that case your browser only needs to load 0kb of html from the web in order to successfully reach the page.

That can be pretty fast. Either way. 0.5kb is real small but 0kb is a bit smaller ;)

Fairly elementary, all you're wanting to do is access some media which is found on the web itself at a known address.

But there's a catch, you would have to supply the html "landing page" file yourself from your own PC if none of the html's going to be coming in from the web to your browser.

Here it is:

<!doctype html><html lang=en><meta charset="utf-8" /> <style type="text/css"> body {background-color:#0000ff; color:#ffffff; font-size:28px; text-align:center;} </style> <br /><br /><br /> Fuzzfactor Minimal Player <br /><br /><br /> <video controls src="https://archive.org/download/BigBuckBunny_124/Content/big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.mp4" type="video"> </video> <br /><br /> big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.mp4 <br /> </html>

Copy and paste the code into a text editor, save file as fuzzplayer.txt into your favorite folder, then save it again as fuzzplayer.html, right there in the same folder. To edit in the future, double-click on the TXT version to edit, double save again as both file types when done. Double-click the identical html version (identical to txt except for file extension) to launch your browser and go to "my" page where you can play the media. Not much differently than the Mozilla example does.

"Header" (not formally), three "paragraphs" (without paragraph marks), EOF.

Backward indenting for me, old (without) school I guess.

Pretty straightforward

Almost everything indented except things that you might want to change more easily in the future. Then you can just go down the left margin and kill 'em all or take pot shots.

Page formatting is associated with a block of displayed text in preference to other objects. This is the indented html formatting which is quite likely to need some future editing, very often in concert with the text itself, so it's good to have it right there. Almost seems like some html belongs without indentation also but that kind of defeats the purpose of the "clean" look. You get used to it.

Editing 5kb or 10kb of this kind of stuff manually, covering all the bases in a couple minutes, and having it work the first time can make you smile more than a lot of things :)
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:43:33+00:00
The EU is both pro-privacy and anti-privacy. In many ways, they're ahead of the US - you can opt out of more telemetry, more advertising, more tracking. Good. But then the encryption stuff - bad.

Informed consent laws - good. Laws about third-party tracking - good. So it's some good, some bad.

But, on the topic of encryption, it's not like the US is pure here either.
by pikseladam | 2025-07-12 20:44:13+00:00
XAI is valued not for its intelligence, but for its practical potential—especially in robotics and autonomous vehicles. In robotics, XAI helps ensure machines behave predictably in complex environments. In cars, especially self-driving systems, explainability is key to trust, regulatory approval, and user adoption. Intelligence without interpretability is a liability in these fields.

If xAI can pull this off, it holds massive potential for passive income and a large user base—even if it's not the best LLM. Success in integrating with robotics and vehicles could secure long-term contracts, licensing deals, and infrastructure partnerships. The market rewards utility, not just raw intelligence.
by MichaelBosworth | 2025-07-12 20:44:47+00:00
Sounds like the article isn’t incorrect? The first two criteria depend on which community is doing the judging. New Yorkers will have à different norm than people from say a quaint 5k-person town where there’s an 8:1 church:supermarket ratio. The third criteria is vague, but vagueness cuts both ways.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-07-12 20:44:51+00:00
> it is about a perceived explosion in complexity both in terms of number of developers & in terms of allocated hardware, without an accompanying explosion in actual end user software complexity.

Do we want software to be more complex? Can you explain what you mean here? The explosion from my POV seems to be related to simply more software.

> at its core we all understand that nobody needs 600mb of npm packages to build a webapp.

Perhaps, but isn't this a different argument/different problem?

If the argument is that these software packages are bloat, which can be detrimental to performance (which BTW is a bank shot as you describe it here), we all understand we don't need npm at all to build a webapp. However, it might make it easier? Isn't easy really important in some domains?

Again -- software engineering is an economic activity. If Word startup speed was important then more engineering resources would be expended to solve that problem.

>> I think it is important to note, as the parent comment alludes, that these performance problems are real problems, but they are usually not correctness problems (for the counterpoint, see certain real time systems).

The thing is we agree that performance problems are real problems. The problem is imagining that they are the same problem for every programmer in every domain. A high speed trading firm or a game dev studio simply has different constraints than Microsoft re: Word or a web dev.

"Why does this software not behave like my (better) software?" is a good question. Unfortunately I think Blow, et. al, only give this question a shallow examination. Maybe one doesn't treat the engineering of a thermostat the same way one treats a creative enterprise like a game? Maybe the economic/intellectual/self rewards are not similar?
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-07-12 20:45:16+00:00
There are two common definitions of the phrase "free speech" that I think you are conflating:

1. The Constitutional right to free speech under the first amendment (i.e. specifically that the government may not use its authority to limit or punish its peoples' expression of ideas)

2. The vague notion that others should not be able to criticize you for something you've said or written

In this thread we are more concerned with the former. No one on the left is trying to enact laws to punish anyone's impolite use of pronouns. At worst, maybe someone has asked you to be considerate in some non-official setting (which has little to do with the first amendment).
by deanc | 2025-07-12 20:45:20+00:00
Chrome full on blocked uBlock Origin (and others) this week. There is still four flags [1] you can play with that will allow you to re-enable it again, but this is a losing battle of course. The inevitable is coming.

Nothing comes close to Safari battery life on MacOS, followed by chrome, followed by firefox in last place (with all its other issues - those claiming otherwise have stockholm syndrome). I've tried taking Orion for a spin which should offer the battery life of Safari with the flexibility of running FF and chrome extensions - but it hasn't stuck yet. As much as I'd like to use FF, I really don't want to shave 10-20% (?) off a battery charge cycle when I spend 90% of my day in the browser.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1lx59m0/resto...
by narmiouh | 2025-07-12 20:45:29+00:00
The one thing automatic system failure theory can't explain is whether there is a reverse connect from the machine back to the switches where if the machine decides to cut off fuel, would the physical switches toggle to cut-off or stay in run position while the fuel is actually cut off, this would require an actuator setup to flip the switches from inside the system which there is no documentation of if that is even support let alone reported?
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-12 20:45:58+00:00
I think it's such a huge mistake to think "well, it's always been like that, this is just a continuation of what's been going on in recorded history." Especially when the data tells a very different story.

For example, just look at one metric: weight. Kids these days (and, obviously, adults as well) are overweight and obese in numbers that are off the charts (off the charts because you barely had any obese kids in decades past). They used to always call it "adult-onset diabetes", which now they prefer to call it Type 2 diabetes because you see so many kids getting it, which is tragic IMO. To be clear, I'm not solely blaming the childhood obesity epidemic on smartphones or social media - I'm just using it as an example of something that has changed for kids that we should be worried about, not just hand wave away as "Meh, adults have always bemoaned youth."

Rates of teenage depression, loneliness and anxiety have skyrocketed in the pass 15 years, and when you dig into the data it doesn't look like just a rate of diagnosis issue.

Teenagers themselves (as a group) are telling us they are significantly more unhappy than teenagers in years past. We should listen to them.
by echelon | 2025-07-12 20:47:50+00:00
This should lead to a full-on antitrust breakup of Google. Period.

They own the web.

I can build my business brand, own my own dot com, but then have to pay Google ad extortion money to not have my competitors by ads well above my domain name. And of course the address bar now does search instead of going to the appropriate place.

Google is a scourge.
by philwelch | 2025-07-12 20:48:53+00:00
I’m not pleased with Trump’s trade policies either but your central claim was that nobody is willing to address the issue at all, and that’s simply not true. You, me, and Trump all probably mutually disagree with each other’s preferred solutions, but we aren’t in denial about the problem itself. It is one of the most widely discussed economic and national security issues we have if not the most.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-12 20:49:43+00:00
> Adblockers basically need webRequestBlocking to function properly. Pretty convenient (cough cough) for a company that makes most of its revenue from ads to be removing that.

Why does this keep getting repeated? It's not true.

Anyone can use uBlock Origin Lite with Chrome, and manifest v3. It doesn't just work fine, it works great. I can't tell any difference from the old uBlock Origin in terms of blocking, but it's faster because now all the filtering is being done in C++ rather than JavaScript. Works on YouTube and everything.

I know there are some limits in place now with the max number of rules, but the limits seem to be plenty so far.
by mihaaly | 2025-07-12 20:49:45+00:00
How can it be known that the switches were moved physically and not some electrical signal occured on its own (fault) equivalent of switches operated, without actual physical moement of the switch? Some electronic fault in the line of the signal. I do not expect having an independent sensor for this switch monitoring actual physical movements of the switch in parallel of the intended fuel controlling signals occurring, so the faulty signal reaching valves may have been registered and assumed that actual physical movement of the switch caused it?
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:50:45+00:00
It doesn't - rather, it attacks the preposition at it's source. Pornography is bad, supposedly, but is it actually? It seems to me we all moved on without actually answering that question.

We know it's bad for moral reasons, but moral reasons are stupid and I don't trust them. But is it actually bad - like in the real world, with tangible effects, not made-up ones? I don't know, and it looks like you don't know, and OP doesn't know, and the people who are pushing this age verification don't know either.

Sure, two girls one cup is disgusting. It's vile. It's immoral. But is it harmful? That's a different question.

That's a huge problem. You see, we're attempting to solve a problem which we haven't proved even exists.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-07-12 20:51:09+00:00
> No, give me a new "hobbyist" computer in the spirit of those days. Throw an ARM m-series/RISC-V/etc on it with some custom blitter/vdpu and sound ASICs and 512MB of RAM. Give it some easily accessible programming environment on ROM, with an option to baremetal with ASM, C, etc. Add a few slots that are MMAPed in. And let the hobbyist field run wild.

Isn't a pi awfully close to that, at least in spirit? For my 10 year-old's science project, I bought a trio of interesting sensors off amazon, showed her a diagram of the GPIO pins and a diagram of the sensor pins, explained how to map between the two, and had her draw it out with colored pencils.

Then I burned a fresh raspbian image onto a sd card, connected a keyboard, mouse, and tv, and helped her figure out how to read the GPIO pins in python. The vibe of the whole thing felt a lot like the old things we had in the 80s and early 90s, but more accessible because I didn't have to deal with weird serial/parallel junk or with putting together a PCB for the slots.

It does sound like this crew harbors ambitions of moving past nostalgia to embracing that spirit a little more, but I don't personally feel like that's lacking in the Pi ecosystem, at least...
by toast0 | 2025-07-12 20:51:15+00:00
> If I open a single port to my home server, then anybody can send any traffic to my server on that port. The attack surface is exactly the process running on my home server, listening on that port.

If you open a single port on your home server, you're exposing that port, sure. But you're also exposing your IP, and with that comes attacks on your IP stack, if you're worried about that. Presumably cloudflare proxies application traffic, but likely normalizes fragmentation and tcp flags and what nots.

Additionally, when you're exposing your IP, you're subject to volumetric attacks on your IP. High volume DDoS is often spoofs your IP to UDP servers that will respond, generating high volumes of traffic that overwhelm either your system in general, or the bandwidth on your connection. If you're behind a tunnel, the tunnel endpoint will get that traffic, and Cloudflare seems to manage that well. If you manage to attract a DDoS at your application level, that could very well make it through the tunnel and overwhelm your service. I think Cloudflare does offer some filters for that, but my knowledge is limited. IMHO, most of the value is from avoiding non-application traffic; but I just host most of my stuff in cheap hosting and if someone wants to DDoS me, my server will go down and that's fine.
by duxup | 2025-07-12 20:51:18+00:00
I feel like this is like "free market should build roads thing" we fund roads so everyone has access and goods can move freely / more economic activity can take place without problems.

What would the free market solution be here? Someone builds all the infrastructure to track all the satellites, and maybe more than one (if not you have a monopoly) person does it. Then they charge for it?

But someone doesn't use it an now we have more space junk ...

If anything a government organizing this and everyone utilizing it seems like it makes for more efficient / lower risk situation with satellites. Everyone just gets on with more important business.
by counters | 2025-07-12 20:51:19+00:00
> Governments rarely give genuine explanations for their actions and rarely need to.

This is an absurdly cynical take. It certainly doesn't jive with how NOAA has historically operated - which has necessitated as much transparency as possible, because that is the only way it can engender the trust with the public necessary to steward life and property.

The standards have historically been much higher, and we ought to strive for them to be higher still.
by mrob | 2025-07-12 20:51:34+00:00
Agreed it looks like slop, and it's IMO a bad sign. I think a big part of the appeal of old computers is the fact that they're simple enough for a single human to completely understand.

Generative AI is a black box that's impossible to completely understand. Using generative AI signals to me that whoever did it probably doesn't find any inherent value in understanding things, and sees understanding only as a means to an end. Old computers have little practical use, so this leaves nostalgia as the main appeal, and nostalgia has less stringent requirements.
by Veedrac | 2025-07-12 20:51:37+00:00
I find this hard to believe. Let's math it. Let's put grid storage at $200k/MWh, or about 4x current battery prices. Let's keep it at that level for sake of argument. Let's very pessimistically say we need to replace 50% of storage every decade, and again for sake of argument let's say replacing the batteries costs the whole 4x (eg. no reuse of material or converters or grid connections). So the math there gives $1T/y for storage.

Idk, it seems like even pretty pessimistic arguments with frozen costs and early retirements suggest this is cheaper than the numbers you gave.

> That is assuming we can hit that scale in the next couple decades and that nothing happens to push up costs with increased scale.

This strikes me as odd to posit about a technology that has had a steady 23% cost reduction per doubling over the last 6 decimal orders of magnitude.
by chuckreynolds | 2025-07-12 20:52:40+00:00
seemingly small amount of sites that manually downloaded that version from the site as opposed to 'most' that get premium(paid) update files through their API gateway (that I think calls file from AWS).

> The Gravity API service that handles licensing, automatic updates, and the installation of add-ons initiated from within the Gravity Forms plugin was never compromised. All package updates managed through that service are unaffected.
by lossolo | 2025-07-12 20:53:23+00:00
It's actually super easy. I modified Chromium's internal code myself to do what I wanted, I added some logic in C++ and then compiled it. It just works. They mainly want to gather more data and have access to more functionality, so the LLM agent isn't constrained by the plugin API etc. It's not really hard. They won't do any browser level stuff, instead they'll basically create their own plugin on top of Chromium with full access to everything, and that's it.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-12 20:53:59+00:00
> It is true though. Like, literally.

Doesn't seem true to me. If it's true, then why is uBlock Origin Lite functioning properly as an adblocker for me?

> Why do you think it is called Lite?

Because it's simpler and uses less resources. And they had to call it something different to distinguish it from uBlock Origin.
by aaaja | 2025-07-12 20:54:06+00:00
Proving one's age is required for many other activities that are considered unsuitable for children, such as purchasing alcohol and drugs, and watching age-restricted films in the cinema.

Of course this means that any adult, when challenged, who refuses to show ID as proof of age, will be denied service. But again that refusal is their choice. They voluntarily refrained from complying with the access requirements.

How is this substantially different to an adult refusing to show ID to access an age-restricted website?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-12 20:56:08+00:00
I hope that the black footed ferret reintroduction efforts are successful (https://www.fws.gov/project/black-footed-ferret-recovery). There would be a lot less plague out there if so.

Lime disease has a similar relationship with predators that eat mice, so let's also keep an eye out for the owls and snakes.
by const_cast | 2025-07-12 20:56:54+00:00
You might not be pushing for it, but certainly your fellow conservative Christians are.

The problem with moralistic thinking is that it's stupid and it blows up, and we've known this for hundreds of years. What you view as moral means fuck-all. I don't particularly care if you think something is degenerate, and in fact by using a term like degenerate I respect you less as a person.

So when morals are used as the sole reason to justify law, we have a problem. Morals were used to justify slavery. To justify a lack of suffrage. To justify legal domestic abuse.

What's changed since then? Time. The passage of time. But time does not stop. Where will we be in 10 years, or 20? Progressing forward, ideally, but that's not a guarantee. We're laying the ground work for abuse.

For a large part of the American constituency, anything containing homosexuals is degenerate pornography. Right now. So if "it's pornography" is our justification, we have a problem.

I think we agree that said laws are bad, but why they're bad matters. The wider-scale implication is that moralistic law making is bad. Listening to Christians and having them come up with laws based on their personal beliefs is bad. Appealing to the American purity culture is bad. This is all ripe for abuse.
by foxglacier | 2025-07-12 20:56:58+00:00
It's a triumph of humanity over rational thought. Imagining intelligent beings is a core part of being human. We do it with gods, ghosts, monsters, etc. It's exciting and it's kind of a major reason we're exploring space to begin with. If you want pure rationality, might as well kill all astronomy research because what's the point? We do it because it's exciting to discover things, not for any practical purpose.
by abxyz | 2025-07-12 20:57:13+00:00
Buried in the comments the OP acknowledges that this was specifically an AI role and that the OP was unprepared to be asked to vibe code in the interview, not that the OP was surprised the role itself involved vibe coding. We are reading it as if this was a PM interview and vibe coding was sprung on the OP — and that’s why it is interesting — but it was actually just someone who didn’t expect an interview for an AI role to involve demonstrating the skill.