MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rshemet | 2025-07-10 20:45:00+00:00
The models themselves live in an isolated sandbox. On top of that, each mobile app has its own sandbox - isolated from the phone's data or tools.

Both the model and the app only have access to the tools or data that you choose to give it. If you choose to give the model access to web search - sure, it'll have (read-only) access to internet data.
by baobun | 2025-07-10 20:45:17+00:00
> What's the use case and/or value proposition for the average person?

Weird take. If it doesn't make sense to you, maybe it's just not for you (yet). That's not an indictment of either you, the project, or other people being excited about it. Not everything has to be targeting the lowest common denominator on launch.

Who even is "The Average Person"?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-07-10 20:45:46+00:00
Public utilities are.... public utilities. That is a specific thing that is not a standard 'capitalistic business'. They can't operate without special concessions/allowances. They can't be severed, but the 'squeeze every penny types' have severed the generation from the grid as if they two are separate, and allowed the 'generators' to behavior as it they aren't tied to a Public Utility grid.
by Uehreka | 2025-07-10 20:46:43+00:00
> In January I would have told you AI tools are bullshit. Today I’m on the $200/month Claude Max plan.

Same. For me the turning point was VS Code’s Copilot Agent mode in April. That changed everything about how I work, though it had a lot of drawbacks due to its glitches (many of these were fixed within 6 or so weeks).

When Claude Sonnet 4 came out in May, I could immediately tell it was a step-function increase in capability. It was the first time an AI, faced with ambiguous and complicated situations, would be willing to answer a question with a definitive and confident “No”.

After a few weeks, it became clear that VS Code’s interface and usage limits were becoming the bottleneck. I went to my boss, bullet points in hand, and easily got approval for the Claude Max $200 plan. Boom, another step-function increase.

We’re living in an incredibly exciting time to be a skilled developer. I understand the need to stay skeptical and measure the real benefits, but I feel like a lot of people are getting caught up in the culture war aspect and are missing out on something truly wonderful.
by Filligree | 2025-07-10 20:46:54+00:00
It’s a tiny percentage of software work because the programming is slow, and setting up new projects is even slower.

It’s been a majority of my projects for the past two months. Not because work changed, but because I’ve written a dozen tiny, personalised tools that I wouldn’t have written at all if I didn’t have Claude to do it.

Most of them were completed in less than an hour, to give you an idea of the size. Though it would have easily been a day on my own.
by dctoedt | 2025-07-10 20:47:10+00:00
> Regulating the “public health, welfare, and morals” is the prerogative of state legislatures. So the question is whether there is anything in the constitution that overrides that general power. Resort to “emanations from penumbras” is a concession that there isn’t.

Your comments these past months seem to evince an extreme textualist view of the Constitution's limits on government power.

Would it be fair to say that, in your view, a state government can take whatever action it wants, so long as the action isn't literally prohibited by the text of the Constitution? (In other words, for state governments, anything not prohibited is allowed?)

I'm curious: What's your view of the doctrine that under the 14th Amendment, state governments must comply with the Bill of Rights to the same extent as the federal government?

You periodically mock "emanations from penumbras" — is it your view that the phrase has more significance than simply a figure of speech to communicate the underlying concepts? (I have my own issues about Justice Douglas's track record, but that's not one of them.)
by fsflover | 2025-07-10 20:47:34+00:00
> Neither of them requires trusting application code, nor depending on its correctness.

I'm not speaking about trusting the application code. This is obviously not safe. I'm talking about trusting as few lines of code as possible, including the OS itself.

In other words, security-critical code should be minimized. For GNU/Linux, it's tens of millions of lines of code. You rely on their correctness. For Qubes it's about 100000: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/security-critical-code.
by strangefellow | 2025-07-10 20:47:40+00:00
I think they're implying that Grok is smarter because it's less censored, and then separately noting that it still tends to be fairly progressive despite the lack of censorship (when it's not larping as Hitler) even though it was presumably trained on the worst humanity has to offer.

Man, that sentence would have been incomprehensible just a couple years ago.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-07-10 20:47:45+00:00
The original ones, in Germany. It was short for "national socialist" - that is literally where "Nazi" comes from. They were different from the communists in that they were national rather than international socialists.

At least, that's what it said on the tin. Not sure, once they got into power, how actually socialist they were. (On the other hand, once the communists got into power, I'm not sure how communist they actually were.)
by mook | 2025-07-10 20:47:45+00:00
The docs for ZBT-1 seems to indicate that it can only do one of ZigBee or Thread at a time (that is, you must choose one of the two firmwares to flash), right?

It looks like there's third-party work to make Sonoff ZBDongle-E (which is _not_ the linked device) do both at once, but that's not officially supported…
by KineticLensman | 2025-07-10 20:48:23+00:00
Looking at the actual synopsis of the 1000-page (!) book [0], and the table of contents [1], rather than the press release, suggests that this was a fairly serious undertaking.

[0] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-domesday-9780...

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/making-domesday-9780...
by ShamblingMound | 2025-07-10 20:48:41+00:00
Had a handful of interactions with Matt. Probably the last was sometime in the mid- to late-2010s. I essentially started my software development career using software that he was largely responsible for (unknown to me at the time):

* Catalyst (web framework) * DBIx::Class (ORM) * Moo (object-oriented code)

These are, in my opinion, some of the best packages in Perl, and there are rarely counterparts that are as good in other languages. Have not found an ORM that is as effortless and featureful as DBIx::Class, for example.

I've read about his tough interactions with other people, and it does seem that, at times, he fell into the classic trap of loving his own ideas too much; but in our interactions (reviewing some of my code on a Perl project), he was really helpful and kind. Also amazingly quick. He read my beginner-level Perl code, instantly understood it, and instantly gave clear, concise feedback.

It's a shame he has passed.
by Synaesthesia | 2025-07-10 20:49:02+00:00
I've been thinking about nuclear powered container ships for a while. Ships burn the worst fuel, bunker fuel or heavy fuel oil. Nuclear is a lot more clean.

And yes there's the risk of greater nuclear proliferation but we already have colossal stockpiles of nuclear weapons that pose a massive threat to mankind. That's been the reality for 70 years.
by martinald | 2025-07-10 20:49:13+00:00
But it is very well understood and accepted that teenage - especially male prefrontal cortexes don't fully develop until mid 20s.

I'm sure they knew it could have major consequences, but when your risk taking pedal (limbic system) pedal is pushed to the floor all the time and your risk avoidance brakes (prefrontal cortex) is not fully developed that all goes out of the window, not unlike being intoxicated.

For example, I shudder to think how aggressively I drove when I first got a car - and I was very sensible compared to many people I knew! I hadn't actually drove for a couple of decades since I was an adolescent until very recently and I had to rent a car for something, but it was absolutely startling to me my frame of mind vs the last time I drove. All I can remember back then that driving was extremely fun and the more windy the road the better, this time all I could see was loads of giant risks.

Now if you compare this to the whole population, if you have a segment of it that are much more risk seeking either through genetics or environmental reasons, you can see the problem.

You can see this in all kinds of statistics at a societal level - crime, accidents, addiction risk. It is all much higher in these age ranges (and especially skewed towards males).

I don't think we should just dismiss good science like this "because I knew better". It has always been a very grave societal issue that has tended to be ignored or downplayed.

Obviously this doesn't give people carte blanche to do what they want - I'm not saying that. But hopefully societal views will catch up a bit with society and we can actually do something about it.
by FluGameAce007 | 2025-07-10 20:49:25+00:00
I discovered this while analyzing system logs during unrelated testing. What began as an anomaly led to repeatable behaviors — silent BLE scans, GPS activation, trust logic continuing even after keychain failures. I used Console.app on a clean iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 18.5 — no jailbreak, no third-party tools.

Full details are in the post, along with raw footage and a downloadable report. I'm open to technical discussion and critique.
by luke-stanley | 2025-07-10 20:50:14+00:00
You're right, and when the behaviour of large codebases violates expectations, the intertwined webs of code are problems. Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research studied this, and famously Kay proposed "t-shirt sized algorithms", where short rules can be used to make even fancy desktop word processing and presentation software. There are also projects like From NAND to Tetris that show understanding a full stack is achievable. Could this go broader, and deeper? Of course, and this is what Bret Victor is getting at. Not just for when code goes wrong, but to make it more modifiable and creative in the first place (See Maggie Appleton's essay/talk "Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers"). Projects like SerenityOS show how powerful "small" software can be. For instance, its spin-off project, the Ladybug browser has vastly fewer lines of code compared to Chromium, and yet it seems that the Ladybug team is able to implement one specification after another. Last I saw, they were close to meeting the minimum feature set Apple requires for shipping as a browser on iOS.
by keoneflick | 2025-07-10 20:50:33+00:00
I am well read on this case.

> She would have got the same treatment even if she spoke French.

This is simply untrue and I would be happy to hear a source for your position. It happens to allophones and white presenting anglophones:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/anglophone-accuses-fre...

Feel free to have the last word. My last word is leaving Quebec and never coming back.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-07-10 20:50:40+00:00
The UK is in the middle of a huge scandal that prompted a national enquiry regarding actual physical harm done to countless teenage girls: in the hundreds for sure, probably in the thousands:

"PM announces national inquiry into grooming gangs"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7872pngj2qo

Note that the PM eventually bowed and launched a national enquire due to pressure: it's not as if he's a white knight here.

For it was all covered up by local politicians and police (some of which whom, for sure, also abused the girls) for fear of showing certain communities in a bad light (that's the official statement of several police officers as to why the countless reports of rape weren't followed).

It's great to "think about the children" but the UK should first look into why the number of rapes in the UK went 10x from 2000 to now. Ten fold. 10x. In a quarter of a century. What happened to the UK?

So the UK protecting children: remains to be seen.

As a sidenote there feels like there's an hint of posing here by BlueSky too: many call that social network "PedoSky" and the reason for it is many people with very dubious behaviour who couldn't silence their critics on Twitter/X moved to BlueSky. You know which kind of people: those who'll say it's acceptable to be attracted by children as long you don't physically do anything to them, those men wearing women outfit and dancing salaciously under the pretext that it's "art". They are on BlueSky, that's a fact. Hence, maybe, the posturing by BlueSky now.

I see that announcement as a safe haven for pedos teaming up with a government actively involved in the coverup of massive rape rings operation.

But I take it we should all applaud because it's all done in very good faith?

It's Orwellian stuff.
by flerchin | 2025-07-10 20:51:01+00:00
It's a local attack via bluetooth, location tracking is not very interesting. Recording audio likewise not all that exciting for much the same reason. The phonebook though, that's exfiltrating PII.

>In some cases pairing is possible without any user interaction.

Baloney. No implementations in the wild do this, or they would have loudly trumpeted it.
by hydrogen7800 | 2025-07-10 20:51:27+00:00
>Section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)

>An alien whose presence or activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is deportable.[0]

What one deems reasonable ground can speak very clearly about their intended application of that law.

[0]https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...
by ahofmann | 2025-07-10 20:51:39+00:00
Oh, wow. When I have to use Thunderbird, I never move emails. I manually copy emails to a folder and delete the emails from the old folder after that. I forgot why I have to do this. Now I know again. A lot of people here are speculating that this bug must be very rare. I maintained like 30 Thunderbird installations for other people. This bug bit me at least twice. It can't be that rare.
by shkkmo | 2025-07-10 20:51:55+00:00
I don't believe the "this work" that the article is talking about here is GKR, but work that is referenced earlier in the article:

> In the early 2000s, computer scientists showed how to do just that, contriving interactive proof protocols that were specifically designed to fail when they underwent Fiat-Shamir

Indeed, the artcile points out that targeting GKR was the idea of the Ethereum Foundation researcher.

> Soukhanov had the idea to target a Fiat-Shamir proof system based on something called the GKR protocol
by csherratt | 2025-07-10 20:52:03+00:00
That's my suspicion to.

My issue with this being a 'negative' thing is that I'm not sure it is. It works off of the same hunting / foraging instincts that keep us alive. If you feel addiction to something positive, it is bad?

Social media is negative because it addicts you to mostly low quality filler content. Content that doesn't challenge you. You are reading shit posts instead of reading a book or doing something with better for you in the long run.

One could argue that's true for AI, but I'm not confident enough to make such a statement.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-10 20:52:07+00:00
it sounds like the impact of LISTEN/NOTIFY scaling issues was much greater on the overall DB performance than the actual load/scope of the task being performed (based on the end of the article), and they're aware that if they needed something more performant for that offloaded task, they have options (pub/sub via redis or w/e).
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-10 20:52:07+00:00
Working with the UK government and other mass surveillance lovers to create the forcible use of digital I'd identity to be online, which so many lobby companies are creaming at the idea of getting the concracts for.

Protecting the children in the UK would actually be pushing for less wars, lowering taxes and improving healthcare and education. Providing good community centers and paths to economic independence.

These "think of the children" excuses are the same as "oh no the terrorists/drug kingpins" and all those other threats.

The threat is plutocracy and concentration of power.
by aboringusername | 2025-07-10 20:52:11+00:00
The claim is that the data is "deleted", but there is no way to actually verify it is in fact being deleted (and the chances are data itself might be stored in say AWS which may have its own way of "deleting" data, such as in backups, caches, multiple regions etc (however they have their own legal process which may not allow data to be deleted in the event of a law enforcement request, and there's no way for anyone using the service to understand who is actually handling the data as it passes by their servers, which could be suspectable to interception etc)). Truth is, the data is much too valuable, and is useful for long term storage to know what somebody looked like or who they were when accessing content online. The UK has the RIPA so they could serve a technology notice for data to be retained and prevent disclosure of that fact. Apple was recently involved in such a request to disable advanced data protection, and the UK government is disgusted by E2EE and the very idea they cannot access every piece of data they like on demand, and wanted the entire thing held in secret.

So the reality is, assume everything on the internet is being archived, including any scans you do, and adjust the threat model accordingly. The UK government will absolutely be able to access this information and know all about what you've been doing if you're foolish enough to actually submit legitimate information.
by Aachen | 2025-07-10 20:52:28+00:00
> there hasn't been a widespread migration to MariaDB

I don't think I even knew I was running MariaDB at first, or perhaps more as a side note that I saw it dropping in mariadb when I apt installed mysql. If you upgraded Debian some time ago, I'm pretty certain you were automatically migrated, so anyone running that (or, presumably, one of the derivatives like Ubuntu) would have migrated knowingly or unknowingly, hence my assumption
by Dzugaru | 2025-07-10 20:52:36+00:00
This is really interesting, because I do gamejams from time to time - and I try every time to make it work, but I'm still quite a lot faster doing stuff myself.

This is visible under extreme time pressure of producing a working game in 72 hours (our team scores consistenly top 100 in Ludum Dare which is a somewhat high standard).

We use a popular Unity game engine all LLMs have wealth of experience (as in game development in general), but the output is 80% so strangely "almost correct but not usable" that I cannot take the luxury of letting it figure it out, and use it as fancy autocomplete. And I also still check docs and Stackoverflow-style forums a lot, because of stuff it plainly mades up.

One of the reasons is maybe our game mechanics often is a bit off the beaten road, though the last game we made was literally a platformer with rope physics (LLM could not produce a good idea how to make stable and simple rope physics under our constraints codeable in 3 hours time).
by jona777than | 2025-07-10 20:52:45+00:00
> but then hit a brick wall

This is my intuition as well. I had a teammate use a pretty good analogy today. He likened vibe coding to vacuuming up a string in four tries when it only takes one try to reach down and pick it up. I thought that aligned well with my experience with LLM assisted coding. We have to vacuum the floor while exercising the "difficult skill [of] continually avoiding temptation to vibe"
by why_at | 2025-07-10 20:52:48+00:00
I'm only just now reading about Dynamicland for the first time, so maybe I'm not understanding something obvious. The text description is not very helpful, as far as I can tell from pictures it's a place where you can move around physical objects and papers to do computer programming type stuff?

Under visibility they say:

>To empower people to understand and have full agency over the systems they are involved in, we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and non-magical as possible

But the programming behind the projector-camera system feels like it would be pretty impenetrable to the average person, right? What is so different about AI?
by rtkwe | 2025-07-10 20:52:52+00:00
Projectors have been strong enough to be visible in decently lit rooms for ages. The reason you want the room extremely dark for most projector setups is for contrast, because the darkest thing you can make on a projected image is the ambient surface illumination (and the brightest is that surface under full power from your projector [0]). If you accept that compromise you don't need a super dark room, the recommendation for tight light control is mostly for media viewing where you want reasonable black levels.

Do still need to keep hands out of the light to see everything but that can also be part of the interaction too. If we ever get ubiquitous AR glasses or holograms I'm sure Bret will integrate them into DL.

[0] Which leads to a bit of a catch 22 you want a surface that looks dark but prefectly reflects all the colors of your projector so you need a white screen which means you ideally want zero other light other than the projector to make the projector act the most like a screen.
by andrewstuart | 2025-07-10 20:54:12+00:00
There’s lots of ways to invoke NOTIFY without doing it from with the transaction doing the work.

The post author is too focused on using NOTIFY in only one way.

This post fails to explain WHY they are sending a NOTIFY. Not much use telling us what doesn’t work without telling us the actual business goal.

It’s crazy to send a notify for every transaction, they should be debounced/grouped.

The point of a NOTIFY is to let some other system know something has changed. Don’t do it every transaction.
by shadowgovt | 2025-07-10 20:54:23+00:00
Oh, no doubt. The only observation I'm making is that while the old adage was speaking specifically of USENET, it is often true of online comms in general: the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

If a government with nearly no backstops against public message-shaping has as much trouble as China does keeping criticism out, imagine the trouble one where many pieces of the system, structural and individual, will actively oppose erosion of the First Amendment (the real "criticism of the government" kind, not the hand-wavey "It should be a crime to ban me from Facebook" kind) will experience.
by thesz | 2025-07-10 20:54:29+00:00
What is interesting here is that all predictions were positive, but results are negative.

This shows that everyone in the study (economic experts, ML experts and even developers themselves, even after getting experience) are novices if we look at them from the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities."
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-10 20:54:40+00:00
> It's curious how megafauna extinctions coincide with human arrival... Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and other "First Peoples" were just as deadly as later European settlers.

That's one possible, maybe even likely scenario.

But humans started moving around at that time for a non-human reason; the end of the Ice Age. There's some evidence for populations of large mammals dying out before humans are believed to have showed up in those places, like Australia.

(As with most changes of this magnitude, the true answer is probably "more than one thing".)