MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by submeta | 2025-07-28 21:10:04+00:00
That’s bs. I just switched from 100 EUR a month to 200 EUR plan. Why? Because two days ago Anthropic decided that I had to wait until noon. And I just started my workday and used CC for half an hour.

I use CC 1-3h a day. Three days a week. Am I a heavy user now? Will I be in the 5% group? If I am, who will I argue with? Anthropic says in its mail that I can cancel my subscription.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-07-28 21:10:13+00:00
This email could have been a lot more helpful if it read “in the following months, your account entered one of these rate limits: Aug 2024, Jan 2025, May 2025” or similar.

I have no idea if I’m in the top 5% of users. Top 1% seems sensible to rate limit, but top 5% at most SaaS businesses is the entire daily-active-users pool.
by dang | 2025-07-28 21:10:16+00:00
You may have seen it already but here's an explanation of the moderation thinking on the topic (or rather, not on the topic but on this particular post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44713731. Like everything else, it's a tradeoff. Other people would prioritize it the other way around and I respect that. In terms of the principles of this site I think it's the best move on this occasion, though not on every occasion.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-28 21:10:18+00:00
yes, but this circumvents the egalitarian nature

lighting channels are expensive to open and close

as it stands, there already isn't enough block space for “mass adoption” users to all have their own single lightning channel

let alone several

lightning in its ultimate form will always be a hosted solution

and those with the acumen and willingness to pay to open and close channels (or perhaps use the L1 bitcoin) will be a separate class of people
by tlh | 2025-07-28 21:10:52+00:00
I enjoy the concept, and think you could be onto something - but it seemed a bit too easy to be satisfying. I think the path to solving the puzzle is a bit too straightforward. That is, removing a letter one by one WILL get you to the solution, and there’s not enough of a cognitive work-out to figure out the next one to remove.

I don’t have a solution mind you, but having made Stackdown and been on a similar journey, I needed the feedback to get it where it is now.

Keep going!

Oh, also I really like the tidy design.
by arach | 2025-07-28 21:11:22+00:00
5% of a large number is a large number - this why it's both a significant problem for them and why I'm thinking out loud about the downsides of discouraging good actors who happen to be power users.

that 5% is probably the most creative and excited cohort. obviously it's critical to not make the experience terrible for the 95% core, but i'd hate to lose even a minority of the power users who want to build incredible things on the platform

having said that, the team is elite, sure they are thinking about all angles of this issue
by mywittyname | 2025-07-28 21:11:34+00:00
Given the rulings of the current SCOTUS, I'll go out on a limb and say that it's trivial to go after left-leaning political speech and impossible to go after right-leaning speech.

They are already suppressing left-leaning speech by defunding CPB, and ahve openly said their reasons for doing so for are politically motivated.

There's a 0% chance this move gets struct down by SCOTUS.
by IshKebab | 2025-07-28 21:11:42+00:00
I've written to mine several times and usually I get a stock reply vaguely relating to the subject, but occasionally I've got actual replies. Once I sent a message about ordnance survey open data and they sent a clearly custom reply and forwarded my message to someone else.

In any case, my sister used to work in an MP's office and even when you get auto replies they tally it, and weight it quite heavily as a representation of constituents' views (unless it's a template letter in which case it goes straight in the bin).

It definitely has more effect than signing a petition - most of them are super dumb (lower taxes!) and as far as I know not a single one has actually changed the government's position. It's just too easy to sign them and too many dumb people do it.
by brianleb | 2025-07-28 21:11:55+00:00
Agree that it sounds 'close to correct.'

I think, though, that the underlying assumption is that the old virus hangs out, forever waiting for the moment to strike.

Cells senesce and die and get replaced, and the immune system is always active in the background. If the virus particles are released, the immune system is going after it and cleaning up. As essentially no new virus is being created, this is the body's opportunity to clear the virus at a slower, manageable pace where it doesn't have to contend with a rapid, expanding infection.

It feels like one of those ideas that's technically true in all the right ways, but misses one crucial piece that would make the whole thing accurate.
by vidarh | 2025-07-28 21:12:44+00:00
That's bizarre, given the division of seats in the NPC is a key element of maintaining the fiction of China being a multi-party "democracy". You'd think they'd want it to give a sycophantic answer to that.

(For those unaware, China does in fact have multiple parties, but they all have to accept the leading role of the CCP, and are largely ways of handing out favours, especially to people who would not meet the membership criteria of the CCP)
by swalsh | 2025-07-28 21:12:46+00:00
While it's being generated, I'll spot check it, and after I test the code i'll peek in more detail at it. I review the code in much the same way I review code from a human dev. I almost never look closely at ALL lines. I'll do a quick look through just looking to see if anything jumps out, and then for the areas I intuitively know there might be some funny business I'll do a deeper dive into the code.
by sippeangelo | 2025-07-28 21:13:39+00:00
I know next to nothing about video encoding, but I feel like there should be so much low hanging fruit when it comes to videogame streaming if the encoder just cooperated with the game engine even slightly. Things like motion prediction would be free since most rendering engines already have a dedicated buffer just for that for its own rendering, for example. But there's probably some nasty patent hampering innovation there, so might as well forget it!
by submeta | 2025-07-28 21:13:42+00:00
Tangential: Is there a similar service we can use in the cli, a replacement for CC? I like Cursor, I pay both for Cursor and CC, but. I live in the terminal (tmux, nvim, claude code, lazygit, yazi), and I prefer to have an agentic coding experience in the terminal. But CC has deteriorated so much in the past weeks that I constantly use repomix to compress whole projects and ask o3 for help because CC just can’t solve tasks that it previously would solve in a single shot.
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-28 21:13:59+00:00
Yeah, that’s my understanding of agricultural subsidies as well, and I’m surprised to see that only a couple low ranked comments (yours, and my top level comment) mention the food security angle when what we do with the excess corn is basically irrelevant if food security is the primary purpose of ag subsidies.

Wouldn’t be the first time most people on HN misunderstand an issue completely though.
by Bender | 2025-07-28 21:14:10+00:00
Reach out to every company fraud department that domain was used with and let them know the domain expired and is now being actively abused by criminals. There are whois history sites that can show you used to be in control of that domain.

Reset all of your authentication details with all financial institutions, ideally in person after showing them your state ID and let them know to block anything related to that domain. Have them treat your debit cards as stolen and issue new ones with entirely new numbers. Consider temporarily freezing your credit with the 3 credit agencies.

If the attackers are causing financial harm consult with an attorney and also with the FBI cybercrime division if you are in the US. [1] Log all details that you can including dates, times, events. Just the facts. Keep records of your communication with lawyers and the FBI so that you can show you were performing due diligence in for future related incidents.

[1] - https://www.ic3.gov/
by csb6 | 2025-07-28 21:14:12+00:00
The most developed one I know of is Atelier B [0], which uses the B-Method and has a C code generator. I believe this was the tool used to develop several driverless train control systems in the Paris Metro and other subways.

There is a free version but unfortunately it is not open source.

[0] https://www.atelierb.eu/en/
by zbentley | 2025-07-28 21:14:36+00:00
As a total outsider to sqlx, those issues don’t surprise me: any application on any platform that uses a SQLite in-memory DB concurrently is likely to violate many assumptions made by client-side connection pooling tools. In-memory SQLite is a great tool, but using it indirectly behind a connection pooler that assumes the database is external to the current process is bound to cause problems.
by EA-3167 | 2025-07-28 21:15:08+00:00
I've played it, and without spoiling, there's no way to play it through and come to the conclusion that the rapist (and mass murderer) is an even halfway decent person. It's not titillating (not that the graphics or art style would allow for that in any case), and it's not played in any way except upsetting and mature.

Tbh it's a pretty impressive narrative experience, it really leverages the difference between watching a story and experiencing it.
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-28 21:15:16+00:00
What it's legally obliged to do (or spend, in this case).

In many countries, there's obligatory spending and discretionary spending. His perspective (per this, never read about him before) was that you should not take on more debt than is actually required to meet the obligations. Skip the discretionary spending if it would lead to debt.

For a household analogy: If you have $50 in the bank and a $100 electric bill, go $50 into debt. If you have $50 in the bank and want to go to a dinner that will cost $100, skip the dinner.

> Isn't indebtedness an obligation? So are they not the same thing?

Indebtedness is a consequence, paying off debts can be an obligation.
by 9rx | 2025-07-28 21:15:30+00:00
> it's a lot more frustrating to realise the others don't really know what I'm getting at

I understand why it may initially seem frustrating to realize that you are not offering value to the team, but us ICs are used to recognizing that and quickly cutting you out of the picture. It is no big deal in the grand scheme of things. Don't worry.
by jononor | 2025-07-28 21:15:57+00:00
I do not think they are aiming to be cashflow positive now. That might not be possible. Though if it is within range they might want to go for it. Because the stamina needed to win this race is going to be immense. Especially since OpenAI is going hard for scaling up via investor funding, and Google can afford to loose/invest a couple billions annually by diverting from their main revenue sources.

A realistic business plan would be to burn cash for many years (potentially more than a decade), and bank on being able to decrease costs and increase revenue over that time. Investors will be funding that journey.

So it is way too early to tell whether the business plan is unsustainable. For sure the unit economics are going to be different in 5 and 10 years.

Right now is very tough though- since it is basically all early adopter power user types, which spend a lot of compute. Later one probably can expect more casuals, maybe even a significant amount of "gym users" that pay but basically never uses the service. Though OpenAI is currently stronger for casuals, I suspect.

Over the next decade, hardware costs will go down a lot. But they have go find a way to stay alive (and competitive) until then.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-28 21:16:25+00:00
Sure, but how big is the total pool of female swimmers? If we assume that ability to swim (within a sex, for the sake of argument) follows a normal distribution, the denominator of "people that gave swimming a real try" is going to have a direct relationship with the capabilities of the best ever to try. This is completely ignoring funding, encouragement, and access, and strictly discussing the sheer number of women that have literally tried swimming at a young enough age to discover their talent and have the opportunity to become the best swimmer they possibly could if they have it.
by Uehreka | 2025-07-28 21:16:53+00:00
I once asked Claude Code (Opus 4) to review a codebase I’d built, and threw in at the end of my prompt something like “No need to be nice about it.”

Now granted, you could say it was “flattering that instruction”, but it sure didn’t flatter me. It absolutely eviscerated my code, calling out numerous security issues (which were real), all manner of code smells and bad architectural decisions, and ended by saying that the codebase appeared to have been thrown together in a rush with no mind toward future maintenance (which was… half true… maybe more true than I’d like to admit).

All this to say that it is far from obvious that LLMs are intrinsically bad critics.
by lovich | 2025-07-28 21:16:55+00:00
Your question was

> What problems does Bitcoin bring along?

Not “is this tradeoff worth it?”

For a class of non technical people having the bank or credit card company in this case help them reverse charges when they’ve been scammed, and they are at risk of being scammed for a significant chunk of their resources.

I get why crypto enthusiasts like the irreversibility but the inability to understand why someone would want a protected system with an arbiter over it feels like the same energy I get from engineers who can’t fathom why anyone would choose the walled garden that comes with Apple products despite ample evidence for their popularity with the average joe
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-28 21:17:02+00:00
I have had running ideas for creating a credit card company for about a year now. It's an idea my head keeps wandering back into. The system is so ripe for disruption.

But the start-up costs are mind-bogglingly insane, and the organizations best equipped to help you with capital and/or navigation are the very organizations you would be rug pulling in some way or another.
by arach | 2025-07-28 21:17:03+00:00
fair enough - DS probably ran through data and came up with 5% and some weekly cutoff as a good starting point until they have better measures in place

my point is that 5% still a large cohort and they happen to be your most excited/creative cohort. they might not all want to pay a surchage yet while everyone is discovering the use cases / patterns / etc

having said that, entirely possible burn rate math and urgency requires this approach
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-28 21:17:12+00:00
Thank you. What if the evaluation system were based on smart contracts, excluding human biases and subjective judgment?

What if the evaluation were designed to reset every year, valuing current contributions rather than past achievements? The value system would prioritize those who are currently making the most contributions.

What if everyone could freely decide what type of contribution activity they want to engage in?

And if a gatekeeper-like person were to emerge, what if they couldn’t interfere with new contribution actions chosen elsewhere?

What if the evaluation were based on the actual number of contribution actions a person has taken, rather than the number of "likes" from others? Of course, the assumption would be that there are people benefiting and being helped by these actions.
by csa | 2025-07-28 21:17:26+00:00
Just a note you may find helpful.

> I feel your post is too long

It’s about 700 words.

It’s thought through, well-written, neatly organized, and it’s a fine set up for further discussion.

If that’s too long for you on this forum, then I’d probably take a look in the mirror and ask some tough questions.
by lucb1e | 2025-07-28 21:17:45+00:00
Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time)

Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the experience (when they don't even do it as first party). What if they all start doing it, facebook and github and the lot, you need to click away four banners? But maybe not enough people have privacy extensions installed and reddit can just track them forever and thus store a one-time dismissal. Anyone here in the know whether this doesn't show a measurable drop in returning users?
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-28 21:17:46+00:00
You really want something that lets you write

table=db.table("table1") table.insert({"col1": val1, "col2": val2})

at the very least, if you are really writing lots of INSERTs by hand I bet you are either not quoting properly or you are writing queries with 15 placeholders and someday you'll put one in the wrong place.

ORMs and related toolkits have come a long way since they were called the "Vietnam of Computer Science". I am a big fan of JooQ in Java

https://www.jooq.org/

and SQLAlchemy in Python

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/

Note both of these support both an object <-> SQL mapper (usually with generated objects) that covers the case of my code sample above, and a DSL for SQL inside the host language which is delightful if you want to do code generation to make query builders and stuff like that. I work on a very complex search interface which builds out joins, subqueries, recursive CTEs, you name it, and the code is pretty easy to maintain.
by jjice | 2025-07-28 21:18:11+00:00
As part of the 95% here, I'm totally cool with this. I'm just a Pro plan user, but holy shit I hit problems with their service constantly. Claude is my preferred LLM currently, but sometimes during a normal 9-5, I can't use it at all due to outages, which really gets in the way while developing an MCP server.

Anthropic seems like they need to boost up their infra as well (glad they called this out), but the insane over-use can only be hurting this.

I just can't cosign on the waves of hate that all hinges on them adding additional limits to stop people from doing things like running up $1k bills on a $100 plan or similar. Can we not agree that that's abuse? If we're harping on the term "unlimited", I get the sentiment, but it's absolutely abuse and getting to the point where you're part of the 5% likely indicates that your usage is abusive. I'm sure some innocent usage will be caught in this, but it's nonsense to get mad at a business for not taking the bath on the chunk of users that are annihilating the service.
by lovich | 2025-07-28 21:19:06+00:00
> This is also true for debit/cash, basically all payment methods throughout history except for credit cards.

Of course it is, since credit cards are a recent innovation if you are analyzing across historical time frames.

And even so, do you see most people preferring to pay in cash nowadays? Or debit card even? I’m not sure on debit vs cc usage rates but I’d for sure be surprised if cash was in use at a higher rate than cc
by quickthrowman | 2025-07-28 21:19:08+00:00
Just one question: can you eat photovoltaic cells?

Corn is edible, and I’d be more than happy to eat cornmeal for years in the event of a global war that stopped food imports/exports. This is precisely the reason for agricultural subsidies, to ensure our nation can feed itself if all agricultural trade is cut off. We’d grind up field corn and eat cornmeal instead of starving to death with plenty of electricity but no food.
by _tbl6 | 2025-07-28 21:19:19+00:00
Hamas is a terrorist organisation, the IDF is a state. Of course the state should be held to a higher standard than a terrorist organisation, this is not me excusing what Hamas have done, but if you start justifying a state's actions with "a terrorist organisation has done the same" where does that end? US state actors hijacking and crashing a Russian passenger jet into the Kremlin?
by toast0 | 2025-07-28 21:19:20+00:00
For 2d sprite games, OMG yes, you could provide some very accurate motion vectors to the encoder. For 3d rendered games, I'm not so sure. The rendering engine has (or could have) motion vectors for the 3d objects, but you'd have to translate them to the 2d world the encoder works in; I don't know if it's reasonable to do that ... or if it would help the encoder enough to justify.
by jstummbillig | 2025-07-28 21:19:26+00:00
I would put another spin on it: We place more value on not being hostile to readers and users in general. For example, I noticed that the good papers are less horribly written now then they were in the past. In academia, being difficult to read and understand used to be a sign of sophistication (but more realistically serves as a way to cover up bad thinking and overall slow down progress). Today, people are actually willing to point it out and treat it with the little patience this nonsense deserves.

That is not to say that complexity does not have merits, but I say let the pendulum swing. I think we could do with a lot less in most areas still.
by tonyarkles | 2025-07-28 21:19:29+00:00
Huh, that record format on the paper tape is almost identical to the Intel Hex format that still unfortunately gets used a bunch in embedded systems. All it's missing is a 1-byte "record type" field and it uses ";" instead of ":".

Also while confirming that I discovered that the Intel Hex format was standardized in 1973... so right around the same time as this KIM-1.
by reaperducer | 2025-07-28 21:19:34+00:00
Before anyone runs out and buys a modern-day KIM-1, be sure you know what you're getting.

I got one based on an Arduino (also hooked up to my Mac), and it's more of a simulator than a re-creation. It works fine if you want to play MicroChess and a few little loops and subroutine things in the assembler, but once you get beyond what's in the PDF you find out quickly that you're in a sandbox.
by tengwar2 | 2025-07-28 21:19:35+00:00
There was an sf short story based on someone implementing a worm (as in Morris Worm) which deleted all data on a planet. They fix it by flying FTL and intercepting some critical information being send at radio speed. I think it was said to be the first description of malware, and the origin of the term "worm" in this context.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-28 21:19:46+00:00
The current discussion included games like Detroit: Become Human, which AFAICT does not include the kind of content being objected to here[^1].

[^1]: I think there is a sexual assault scene against a robot — but the game isn't glorifying SA; if anything, exactly the opposite, since the entire point of the story is focused on questions of sentience and moral grey to outright morally horrendous areas around the rights of robots who are gaining sentience but exist in a society that does not see them as beings deserving of rights, but rather as objects, and the conflict/problems that creates.

To classify it as "rape content" or "porn" would require stripping it of literary & artistic value. Which seems to be the endgame of most of these book-burning groups.
by mandmandam | 2025-07-28 21:19:48+00:00
It was flagged, but was restored. Sadly, that's still a bit effective at suppressing the story.

The flags often have the effect of pushing things off the front page, even when they're restored within an hour or so. Not always though: this story [0] from today is currently front page after having been flagged as well.

Even temporary flagging also has the effect of diluting the conversation; so that instead of talking about war crimes, their perpetrators, or how to stop them, we're talking about flagging and algorithms.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714221#44715661