MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasonjayr | 2025-07-31 20:02:02+00:00
I worry that the way the models "Speak" to users, will cause users to drop their 'filters' about what to trust and not trust.

We are barely talking modern media literacy, and now we have machines that talk like 'trusted' face to face humans, and can be "tuned" to suggest specific products or use any specific tone the owner/operator of the system wants.
by dang | 2025-07-31 20:02:09+00:00
It's because https://www.krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-open-source-release contains this:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.krea.ai/blog/new-krea">

Our software follows canonical links when it finds them.

I've fixed the link above now (and rolled back the clock on the submission, to make up for lost time) but you might want to fix this for future pages.
by atoav | 2025-07-31 20:02:40+00:00
I agree with the point of the post tho. It is something I repeatedly keep stressing: many people confuse the goal ("having a nice shop") with the way (everything you need to so to get there and maintain its existence once it is there).

You can be good at a thing you don't enjoy, but if it is your dream you should better make sure it is a thing you enjoy. A thing everybody should understand is that enjoying the consuming of a thing, be it coffee, videogames, music, films or books is a vastly different experience from making them. I don't say worse, I don't say better, I say different.

And only a minority of those who love consuming a thing also love making it and having to deal with what comes with making it. But I suggest to everybody to try this for themselves.
by qwertox | 2025-07-31 20:02:42+00:00
I recently had to add `ssl_preread_server_name` to my NGINX configuration in order to `proxy_pass` requests for certain domains to another NGINX instance. In this setup, the first instance simply forwards the raw TLS stream (with `proxy_protocol` prepended), while the second instance handles the actual TLS termination.

This approach works well when implementing a failover mechanism: if the default path to a server goes down, you can update DNS A records to point to a fallback machine running NGINX. That fallback instance can then route requests for specific domains to the original backend over an alternate path without needing to replicate the full TLS configuration locally.

However, this method won't work with HTTP/3. Since HTTP/3 uses QUIC over UDP and encrypts the SNI during the handshake, `ssl_preread_server_name` can no longer be used to route based on domain name.

What alternatives exist to support this kind of SNI-based routing with HTTP/3? Is the recommended solution to continue using HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 over TLS for setups requiring this behavior?
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-31 20:03:24+00:00
To me this seems outlandish (e.g. if you're part of PRISM you know what's happening and you're forced to comply.) But to think through this threat model, you're worried that the NSA will tap intra-DC traffic but not that it will try to install software or hardware on your hosts to spy traffic at the NIC level? I guess it would be harder to intercept and untangle traffic at the NIC level than intra-DC, but I'm not sure?
by asoneth | 2025-07-31 20:03:42+00:00
I've spent many hours debugging my Macbook's erratic insomnia and the only thing I know is that WindowServer is the culprit and it'll likely require a full OS reinstall, which has been on my todo list for months.

The only thing worse than opening my laptop bag to find a hot, dead laptop a couple times a month is the inevitable response of: "Well, you must be doing it wrong, that doesn't happen to me!"
by cameron_b | 2025-07-31 20:04:17+00:00
"Agriculture use" is the zoning class of choice for developers to hold land out of town until the town gets there. They have to show some actual agricultural use, so they lease it to farmers or cut the pine trees, and in return they get the lowest tax value for holding the land.

Then when they want to cash it in, they rezone it to commercial or residential and build on it.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-07-31 20:04:19+00:00
People don't consider that there are real physical/thermodynamic constraints on intelligence. It's easy to imagine some skynet scenario, but all evidence suggests that it takes significant increases in energy consumption to increase intelligence.

Even in nature this is clear. Humans are a great example: cooked food predates homo sapiens and it is largely considered to be a pre-requisite for having human level intelligence because of the enormous energy demands of our brains. And nature has given us wildly more efficient brains in almost every possible way. The human brain runs on about 20 watts of power, my RTX uses 450 watts at full capacity.

The idea of "runaway" super intelligence has baked in some very extreme assumptions about the nature of thermodynamics and intelligence, that are largely just hand waved away.

On top of that, AI hasn't changed in a notable way for me personally in a year. The difference between 2022 and 2023 was wild, between 2023 and 2024 changed some of my workflows, 2024 to today largely is just more options around which tooling I used and how these tools can be combined, but nothing really at a fundamental level feels improved for me.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-07-31 20:04:42+00:00
> So now when the targeted population is actually increasing, we can still call it a "genocide".

Please show me where the targeted population is "increasing" over the last two years? is it because people from other areas are being forced to relocate and you guys call that a population increase?

Where should i get my news from? last I checked, 100+ journalists came out with a written statement about how higher ups at the BBC were preventing news critical of Israel from being broadcast on air. The concentration camp thing has been corroborated by several news sources including some from within Israel itself. Even CNN nowadays is starting to be critical of the genocide.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/02/more-than-400-...
by Bostonian | 2025-07-31 20:05:11+00:00
https://archive.is/rlO1K

...

I applied to countless tenure-track positions across the country in 2019 and 2020. One of those applications went to Cornell, for a position in their Neurobiology and Behavior department. Unknown to me, a few months later Cornell initiated a separate search for a faculty member in evolutionary biology—my exact field—but kept it confidential. Internal emails now show this was no accident.

Last month, the America First Policy Institute released internal Cornell emails showing the university conducted an effort to recruit what the search committee referred to as a “diversity hire.” One committee member described the process bluntly: “What we should be doing is inviting one person whom we have identified as being somebody that we would like to join our department and not have that person in competition with others.” That “somebody,” who is black, was selected not because of research excellence, but because of race. I was denied the chance to compete—so were other academics who might have been qualified.

This discriminatory practice, conducted in coordination with Cornell’s Office of the Provost—led at the time by current Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff—violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race. That’s why, with representation from the America First Policy Institute, I’m taking legal action against Cornell.

What makes this worse is the university’s continued dishonesty. This year, Mr. Kotlikoff wrote: “We do not exclude anyone at Cornell for reasons irrelevant to merit, neither do we admit or evaluate students, hire or promote employees, award chairs or tenure, or make any other merit-driven decisions at Cornell based on race, ethnicity, or other attributes not relevant to merit.” The leaked documents show otherwise.

...
by Buttons840 | 2025-07-31 20:05:12+00:00
I appreciate the details.

Ultimately I'm not dissuaded from my original impression.

I worked at a company doing web scraping, and our code sucked and we knew it, and the lead programmer kind of liked Elixir, and we were always going to rewrite in Elixir one day, and he would mention it in interviews and stuff, and put it on job requirements, but really there was almost no Elixir in the company. We came up with all sorts of reasons Elixir would make sense technically, I even offered some myself because I got positive social feedback when I spoke well of Elixir. But now that I'm out of the company, I can see that Elixir is not uniquely suited to solve the problems we had. It was just one guy liked Elixir and so ultimately we all did.

I still predict the same for LadyBird. You can even see in the Tweet I linked that they choose C++ because of one person, so I'm guessing that one person also likes Swift. Time will tell.
by ggm | 2025-07-31 20:05:18+00:00
I think this is substantively correct, if misguided: people are going to stick metaphorical fingers in their ears and go LA LA LA LA LA when you explain what doing <x> actually involved, rather than wake up to how being an <x> is different to their dreams.

And very probably, it's a good thing. Otherwise, we'd still be banging the rocks together.
by throwawayoldie | 2025-07-31 20:05:34+00:00
My experience, speaking over a scale of decades, is that most people, even very smart and well-educated ones, don't know a damn thing about how computers work and aren't interested in learning. What we're seeing now is just one unfortunate consequence of that.

(To be fair, in many cases, I'm not terribly interested in learning the details of their field.)
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-31 20:05:51+00:00
Those numbers seem somewhat/mostly accurate. I'm somewhat concerned about issues raised on this page and specifically this section, but I won't re-litigate those issues here and now, as I believe you are probably aware of them and I don't think that they are especially relevant to your points, but they are relevant to why people mention these numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

I am wondering if you've come across the following work before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ophuls#Leviathan_or_ob...

> In his contribution, "Leviathan or Oblivion?", Ophuls wrote on the political and economical implications of environmental problems. His main argument was that "because of the tragedy of the commons, environmental problems cannot be solved through cooperation...and the rationale for government with major coercive powers is overwhelming." According to Ophuls "reforming a corrupt people is a Herculean task," which only leaves us with the choice of becoming a leviathan or oblivion.

> Eckersley (1992) argued that, "...although Ophuls has since moderated his position by placing a greater emphasis on the need for self restraint than on the need for external coercion, he continues to maintain that the latter must be resorted to if calls for the former are unsuccessful."

I'm concerned that we're on a path that leads to Leviathan or oblivion myself, and I think every world government is morphing into its most controlling form accepted by its governing bodies and local bodies public, but they aren't even paying lip service to tell us it's for our own good most of the time, it's just naked will to power.

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics doesn't really give up much to compete with republics, democratic or otherwise. Democracies have to cede a lot of moral high ground to get to the same levers of control that communism seems to hand to the leaders of one-party states. This future has a new electric car smell, like a code smell.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-31 20:06:21+00:00
https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-eco... (2019)

> In the coming years, another demographic trend could help further close the pay gap in the U.S.: the rising ranks of single working women. Based on Census Bureau historical data and Morgan Stanley forecasts, 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030—the largest share in history—up from 41% in 2018.

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/50th-edition-spring-2025 (2025)

> Just 48% of young Americans say having kids is important—the lowest ranking among the six life goals we measured. It signifies a generational shift away from traditional family formation. While both Democrats and Republicans prioritize financial security and homeownership, young Republicans are far more likely to believe those goals—and others—are within reach.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/18/us-adults... (2025)

> Americans in their 20s and 30s are planning to have fewer children than a decade ago, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The total number of children that women and men ages 20 to 39 planned to have, on average, dropped from 2.3 in 2012 to 1.8 in 2023. Those numbers remained stable from 2002 to 2012.
by dev1ycan | 2025-07-31 20:06:28+00:00
Because they aren't trustworthy:

1)Disney-adjacent properties.

Look at the amazing spiderman 1, it was better than anything Marvel has released with Spiderman, it got trashed on for a very simple reason in my eyes, Disney wanted the rights for Spiderman and tried to force them to give them it (it worked) via giving it terrible reviews.

Opposite thing happened with Star Wars, another Disney "product", the new trilogy getting "amazing" reviews at the start was ridiculous, they were very bad movies, like terrible, the first one which was the most watchable of the three was just bad acting mixed in with nostalgia bait, didn't push the universe forward at all which the prequels get hate for but they did hugely expand what star wars was, in good ways. Even midichlorians which people gave so much hate to in episode 1, makes sense if you rewatch the OT, Darth Vader suddenly turning good is like "snapping" out of the trance state he was in, because as we know now, the "force" in star wars is not like morality in the real world, while you play a part in you getting taken "over" by a side (light/dark side), once it happens you sort of lose control, sort of like a hard drug in the real world, it takes a lot for someone who has given in to the dark side to go back to normal, which I believe makes for a better science fiction universe, the concept of only giving in enough to receive the power but not enough to become evil was even explored with mace windu with Vapaad, anyways.

Lastly, Black Adam, I watched it and the movie was objectively not beyond terrible for current day standards, it was a watchable popcorn flick and the CGI was very very good compared to Marvel movies which made the movie look cool, the main villain was uninspiring but so are most first movie villains, it's all about the setup. It received beyond terrible reviews in my opinion directed from Disney/Marvel in an attempt to fully kill competition especially during Marvel's weak point post endgame. I would have enjoyed seeing a movie of Superman vs Black Adam but it is what it is.

Lastly any anime movie competing with Disney, just look at the Oscars, how many anime movies get snubbed? I still remember being shocked at how when marnie was there did not win vs inside out... or how look back wasn't even nominated, lol.
by csa | 2025-07-31 20:06:42+00:00
> If the builders are at capacity why aren’t there more?

Great question!

My friend says that it’s tough to hire for the following reasons:

1. Many people don’t want to do the work.

2. Many people aren’t willing to adhere to drug policies.

3. Some people, after being hired, don’t reliably show up to work.

Note that I have heard other similar stories in the trades locally — plumbing, hvac, electricians, etc.

Arguably, they could offer more pay or a more aggressive pay schedule, but I’m not actually sure that increased pay would eliminate most of the problems.
Show HN: Gensee – Free AI Agent Optimization and Deployment
by yiyingzhang | 2025-07-31 20:06:57+00:00
I'm the co-founder of GenseeAI (https://www.gensee.ai). We've recently launched the public beta of Gensee, an AI agent/workflow platform oriented for developers and small teams.

Here’s what I’ve heard again and again: it's gotten much easier to build a proof-of-concept AI agent, but turning that prototype into a high-quality, scalable, and cost-effective product is still a massive chore, involving endless trial-and-error with prompts, models, tools, testing, analysis, etc.

We built Gensee to automate that "last mile" from prototype to production.

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by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-31 20:07:00+00:00
You still need to offload your bytes to a NIC buffer. Either you can do something like DMA where you get privileged space to write your bytes to that the NIC reads from or you have to cross the syscall barrier and have your kernel write the bytes into the NIC's buffer. Crossing the syscall barrier adds a huge performance penalty due to the switch in memory space and privilege rings so userspace networking only makes sense if you're not having to deal with the privilege changes or you have DMA.
by autoexec | 2025-07-31 20:07:03+00:00
We train users to hover over links to see where it would send you before you click on them because some websites will link to malicious content/domains. Now I guess some of those users will end up silently browsing to and executing code in the background for those sites every time they do that.

Seems like a great way to track users too. Will hovering over ads count as a click through? Should users have to worry about where their mouse rests on a page or what it passes over?
by logicchains | 2025-07-31 20:07:16+00:00
These kind of predictions never address the fact that empirically speaking there's diminishing returns to intelligence. IQ only correlates with income up to a point, after which the correlation breaks: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.h... . Similarly the most politically powerful and influential people are generally not those at the top of the IQ scale.

And that matches what we expect theoretically: of the difficult problems we can model mathematically, the vast majority benefit sub-linearly from a linear increase in processing power. And of the processes we can model in the physical world, many are chaotic in the formal sense, in that a linear increase in processing power provides a sublinear increase in the distance ahead in time that we can simulate. Such computational complexity results are set in stone, i.e. no amount of hand-wavy "superintelligence" could sort an array of arbitrary comparables in O(log(n)) time, any more than it could make 1+1=3.
by lubujackson | 2025-07-31 20:07:24+00:00
Oo, the "pets vs. livestock" analogy really works better than the "craftsmen vs. slop-slinger" arguments.

Because using an LLM doesn't mean you devalue well-crafted or understandable results. But it does indicate a significant shift in how you view the code itself. It is more about the emotional attachment to code vs. code as a means to an end.
by asoneth | 2025-07-31 20:07:32+00:00
> I'm more surprised that any application can prevent sleep _when you close the lid_.

Absolutely. If my options are 1) halt the process when the lid closes or 2) let the battery die heating up the inside of my bag and then the process halts anyway when the laptop dies then please, please let me choose #1!

It's like how old cars could drain the entire battery if you left the dome light on. Why would they allow that?
by gruez | 2025-07-31 20:07:42+00:00
Read my comment again. keyword here is "recent". The second link also expands on why it's relevant. It's best to read the whole article, but here's a paragraph that captures the argument:

>The shift in recent economic research supports his observation. Although early studies suggested that lower performers could benefit simply by copying AI outputs, newer studies look at more complex tasks, such as scientific research, running a business and investing money. In these contexts, high performers benefit far more than their lower-performing peers. In some cases, less productive workers see no improvement, or even lose ground.
by exolymph | 2025-07-31 20:07:53+00:00
People love to hate on hypebeast trends. When something becomes suddenly popular, there's a scramble to declare yourself too cool to be into it :P The whole cycle is amusing because defining yourself in opposition to the zeitgeist... actually is just another form of letting the zeitgeist define you. (Which I don't think is a bad thing, necessarily, but people who e.g. complain about Taylor Swift do think it is.)
by flopsamjetsam | 2025-07-31 20:08:12+00:00
It's a good point. Everyone living in Australia knows what "NSW" means, and it's a website that's almost always only used by people living in the state. Except for a page on dark patterns :)

Same blindspot as Americans using two-letter codes for their states (AZ etc.), or any other country's inhabitants using locally-known place names, or not adding their country after it.
by margalabargala | 2025-07-31 20:08:14+00:00
I agree with the whole first half, but I disagree that LLM usage is doomed to ad-filled shittyness. AI companies may be hemmoraging money, but that's because their product costs so much to run; it's not like they don't have revenue. The thing that will bring profitability isn't ads, it will be innovations that let current-gen-quality LLMs run at a fraction of the electricity and power cost.

Will some LLMs have ads? Sure, especially at a free tier. But I bet the option to pay $20/month for ad-free LLM usage will always be there.
by kassner | 2025-07-31 20:08:30+00:00
GitHub Code Search was introduced in 2021 and made GA in 2023[1][2]. It's an improved version of the previous global search (aka across all repositories).

> I cannot view any pages on GitHub without logging in

There must be some sort of IP/browser reputation check going on. For Firefox on Mac, I get this on a private window:

https://vie.kassner.com.br/assets/ghcs-1.png

I'm not behind CGNAT and GitHub can pretty much assume that my IP = my user. The code tab you can't see without logging in though.

1: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-code-s... 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863175