MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kfajdsl | 2025-07-11 15:44:32+00:00
I mean that you should only give the LLM the same privilege as whoever the source of your untrusted input is has. For the support agent example, it should only be able to access records related to user it's talking to, and only be able to do mutations that the user has permissions to do anyways. Though I've hated all the chatbot support "agents" I've interacted with so far, so please don't actually do this unless you have some secret sauce to make it not horrible.

I agree that for most tasks a pre-defined workflow with task specific LLM calls sprinkled in is a much better fit.

However, I really like agents with tool use for personal use (both programming and otherwise). In that case, the agent is either sandboxed or I approve any tools with the potential to do damage.

For the example of the Supabase MCP, it still seems pretty useful when limited to a test environment or read-only access to prod - it's a dev tool. Since it's a dev tool, the user needs to actually know what its doing. If they have no clue but are still running it on prod data, they have no business touching it or frankly any other dev tool. I class this as the same ignorance that leads people to storing passwords in plaintext.

So, I blame the developer for trying to use an MCP server 1) when they have no idea wtf it does and 2) in an environment that can affect real users who aren't aware of the incompetence of the dev whose service they're using. Likewise, in TFA, I blame the dev, not the tool. Unfortunately, no matter how you do it, lowering the barrier of entry for development while still providing access to ample footguns will always result in cases like this.
by ggordonhall | 2025-07-11 15:44:34+00:00
We have this! Vibe Kanban includes its own MCP server that you can use to create tickets within the Kanban board.

Click on the MCP Servers tab, then hit "Add Vibe Kanban MCP". Then create and start a "planning" ticket like "Plan a migration from AWS to Azure and create detailed tickets for each step along the way". Sit back and watch the cards roll in!

Will do more to document this better soon :)
by 0points | 2025-07-11 15:44:34+00:00
> https://github.com/Quad9DNS/quad9-domains-top500/blob/main/t...

{"position": 5, "domain_name": "kxulsrwcq.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}

What the

https://www.ipaddress.com/website/kxulsrwcq.com/

> Safety/Trust: Unknown
by the_snooze | 2025-07-11 15:45:07+00:00
This is a big reason why I'm so suspicious of AI. Those systems are largely backed by the same companies who have spent the last 15+ years disrespecting users and treating them as resources to extract, not actual people to serve.

The ethos in tech seems to be a simplistic toddler-like mindset for "more for more's sake" that doesn't care about others' agency.
by mock-possum | 2025-07-11 15:45:11+00:00
Oh my god I’ve been at the end of my rope wirh LinkedIn too. Between the obnoxious notifications and the absolute brain rot that is The Feed™ there’s basically nothing good about that site apart from the obligate profile-as-a-resume.

It is so pathetic how they beg and wheedle and connive to get you to engage. I’ve honestly lost all respect for that site at this point.
by speak_plainly | 2025-07-11 15:45:13+00:00
I just got back from Japan, and even though it wasn’t peak season, the effects of overtourism were immediately apparent.

The main driver seems to be social media, obviously not unique to Japan but is really blatant. Tourists were chasing selfies and videos at iconic locations they’d seen online, rarely venturing beyond those well-known spots. This creates heavy congestion and puts strain on specific neighborhoods and landmarks. In the West, TikTok appears to be the biggest influence; among Chinese tourists, the app Xiaohongshu (Rednote) by plays a similar role. The result is a tourism culture shaped less by genuine interest or curiosity and more by curated photo ops.

Japan faces unique challenges in managing the surge in tourism. Despite the modern and cosmopolitan feel of its cities, the culture remains markedly different: socially conservative and culturally illiberal. Xenophobia and racial bias are not uncommon, and nationalist political voices have increasingly framed tourists as scapegoats for a range of domestic issues. At the same time, the country lacks sufficient infrastructure to support the growing number of visitors. In Kyoto, for example, the city’s bus system is frequently overwhelmed…you could almost argue that separate systems for locals and tourists are needed.

Many tourists also appear unprepared, I admittedly was completely unprepared for the weather. Japan is not an easy place to navigate culturally, and some visitors behave with surprising ignorance or entitlement, especially at temples and shrines. There’s a tendency to treat the country like a kind of Disneyland, an exoticized backdrop for social media content, rather than a living culture with its own rules, rhythms, and expectations. This contributes to growing resentment, particularly in a society where individuals are often viewed in terms of the groups they represent. One tourist’s behavior can easily become a reflection on all.

There’s no easy solution. But it’s clear that both travelers and destinations need to rethink their relationship. Tourism should be approached with more awareness, humility, and a willingness to engage with complexity, not just consume it.
by anon-3988 | 2025-07-11 15:45:26+00:00
> The problem I see isn't that travel is democratized, it's that people are lazy at planning their trips and just go on social media and find these "hot spots" instead of actually doing their homework or heck even a little exploring around the city.

The problem is people are shallow. People are _actively_ seeking the queue. I know because I know people that are like this.

They want to be part of the queue because...I am not sure why. To take a quick picture at a very specific angle to avoid the crowd? To make their followers think they are doing something great? To make them jealous?

It is as if beauty have to be told and highlighted to them. They need a signboard that says "this is pretty, take a picture here!". They are not able to appreciate the minutiae of life.

Of course, I am sounding mighty superior here, but I don't think I am wrong.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-07-11 15:45:33+00:00
Yudkowski mentioned a nice thought blurb about cancer.

1. More cancer cases being recognized efficiently.

2. More bombardment of cancer cases news through diverse outlets.

3. Social media refreshing our minds with same cancer cases, even 4-5 year old ones.

4. The same news circulating through offline interactions.

This gives us insecurity that a particular disease is out of control. I think there was a Lesswrong post about this phenomenon.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-07-11 15:45:34+00:00
I would invite you to look into how modern cults started. Jonestown, Scientology, Children of God, Haven's Gate, Branch Davidians, Mormonism, etc.

It's really, really fascinating and there's tons of resources out there how they get started, how they function and why. Once you understand the functional purpose of them, you'll never look at other religions the same.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 15:45:59+00:00
There are plenty of examples, Light Blue Touchpaper talks about this a bunch. You do have a problem that courts will believe technicians very broadly unless somebody competent is cross-examining to highlight where the limits of their evidence are. So your defence will need to hire such an expert and your legal team need to get the judge to understand why everybody is going to listen to nerd stuff for however long when they thought this was a case about, say, theft.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 15:46:02+00:00
I think your position is a standard postmodern one and we’re definitely post- because modern theories in psychology and the social sciences and whatnot (Freud, Marx) were falsifiable and eventually falsified.

There are still predicates that are determined through observation or inspection of the record (is it raining? Who won Super Bowl XX?) which are key to any kind of fact checking but the the project of an LLM that is an oracle of the truth is a project to build a god.

I’m old enough to have had the experience that there is an “event” and I watched it live on TV and saw it in the evening news again and read about it in The New York Times the next day and then in The Economist next week but then 30 years later there is a really great book that looks at the primary and secondary sources and convinces me the account of it in my mind I got from ‘the first draft of history’ was essentially wrong. Some very good books in the phenomenon in accelerated form were written circa 1970 including Mailer’s Armies of the Night, Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 [1] and Schell’s Time of Illusion.

It gets me branded a charlatan by some but I say being able to work within contradictory systems is a quality of the mature mind so one hand I am an arch-reductionist who is trained in theoretical physics and builds ‘database animals’ as a software developer. I can’t work an E-Meter but I am great with dowsing rods and ouija boards even though I don’t believe in them and can’t see how there is any channel for information to support ‘ESP’.

[1] Totally stoned he’s the only reporter in the room who actually sees how McGovern got the democratic nomination right in from of them.
by Sami_Lehtinen | 2025-07-11 15:46:12+00:00
For CGI endpoints that are called infrequently—daily, weekly, or even monthly—the script startup delay is negligible. Even a persistent process waiting to handle a request can have its memory swapped to disk by the OS under varying server load. When a request finally arrives, the delay from swapping that memory back in can negate any theoretical advantage over a cold-starting CGI script.
by serf | 2025-07-11 15:46:12+00:00
you don't think a technical dev would let management foot-gun themselves like that with a stupid directive?

I do.

I don't have any sort of inkling that Musk has ever dog-fooded any single product he's been involved with. He can spout shit out about Grok all day in press interviews, I don't believe for a minute that he's ever used it or is even remotely familiar with how the UI/UX would work.

I do think that a dictator would instruct Dr Frankenstein to make his monster obey him (the dictator) at any costs, regardless of the dictator's biology/psychology skills.
by rzz3 | 2025-07-11 15:46:24+00:00
More and more Hacker News seems to be the contrarians and the “get off my lawn”s when it comes to AI and social media alike. I feel like there was a time in the late 2000s to early 2010s where we were still young and our skills were sharp and the tech was new and shiny, but the technology world kept moving and kept evolving and a lot of people…didn’t. Every day I see another post like “AI isn’t really smart, it’s just hype and I don’t like it!” or “I don’t use social media and here’s why!” or “Look at this phone I started using that isn’t a smartphone, I’m so much happier now”, all without realizing that this is just the “I don’t use the internet, it’s dangerous! My kids aren’t allowed to use it either!” or “I don’t need a cellphone, people can wait to call me when I’m home!” or “Why would I send a text message when I can just call?” of our time. People age and get set in their ways, and in my opinion in this rapidly evolving world of technology, it’s something that has to be actively avoided or we’ll get left behind.
by buzer | 2025-07-11 15:46:37+00:00
Proving bugs can be pretty hard if you don't have access to software & source code. That is similar to the US, courts usually won't give you access to source code to verify if software is operating correctly, you generally only get cross examine the company representative & person who performed the test. DNA tests are one good example.

One case where defense did get access to the code (FST developed by NYC) led to discoveries (https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judge-unseals-new...) that led to it being retired from use.
by 0points | 2025-07-11 15:47:20+00:00
More:

{"position": 26, "domain_name": "cmidphnvq.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}

{"position": 28, "domain_name": "xmqkychtb.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}

{"position": 37, "domain_name": "ezdrtpvsa.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}

{"position": 38, "domain_name": "wvdbozpfc.com", "date": "2025-07-10"}

{"position": 46, "domain_name": "bldrdoc.gov", "date": "2025-07-10"}

{"position": 52, "domain_name": "gadf99632rm.xyz", "date": "2025-07-10"}
by 7sigma | 2025-07-11 15:47:49+00:00
> Similar law exists in Palestinian Authority -- no land can be owned by Jews. Selling land to jews is punishable offense.

Source? but even if true, I suspect this is an act of resistance against settlers who are already encroaching on Palestinian land through intimidation and terror tactics (poisoning goats, burning trees, cars, houses and evening murdering palestinians, with the protection of the IOF). In any case, the PA is a puppet dictatorship controlled by Israel, so these laws are essentially powerless to stop the stealing of land by Israel. This argument ignores the fact that Israel is gradually ethnically cleansing the rest of Palestine by seizing more and more land every year.

> Who? You have to be specific. Palestinians are being occupied by Israel, the West Bank since 1967 more specifically.

> Israel is not supremacist ethno state. Multiple ethnicities live in Israel and have the same rights. Find me another state in the Middle East that offers at least the same rights as Israel to its own minorities.

Having multiple ethnicities does not negate ethno nationlist policies. South Africa was also multi ethnic, having for example people of Indian ancestry and yet there was still discrimination and apartheid. Palestinian citizens in Israel suffer from systemic discrimination and there are numerous laws that prioritise Jews.

Pointing to the poor human rights records of Middle Eastern countries doesn’t absolve Israel. Israel is the only country in the world that puts children through military tribunals. Given the current genocide, and its tacit support of that, those are not the hallmarks of a tolerant society.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-ma...
by jerf | 2025-07-11 15:47:54+00:00
It's not about it being crazy and it's not about personal opinions about AI. It's about chaos mathematics. Iterating with the same system like that has certain easy-to-understand failure states. It's why I phrased it specifically in terms of using the same architecture to validate itself. If we had two radically different AI architectures that were capable of evaluating each other, firing them at each other for evaluation purposes would be much, much less susceptible to this sort of problem than firing either of them at themselves. That will never be a good idea.

See also a cousin comment of mine observing that human brains are absolutely susceptible to the same effect. We're just so used to it that it is the water we swim through. (And arguably human brains are more diverse than current AI systems functioning at this level. No bet on how long that will be true for, though.)

Such composite systems would still have their own characteristics and certainly wouldn't be guaranteed to be perfect or anything, but at least they would not tend to iteratively magnify their own individual flaws.

Perhaps someday we will have such diverse architectures. We don't today have anything that can evaluate LLMs other than human brains, though.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-11 15:48:24+00:00
The United States (famously) has stronger free speech protections and weaker libel/slander laws, yet seems to have less of an issue with tabloids. Is there maybe more of a divide between what's alloweable for "public figures" versus private citizens? Or maybe even our right-wing rags are more skeptical of the government? I don't know what the difference is, but you seem to see less of this sort of thing, gross as our tabloids still are. Maybe it really is just a cultural difference somehow.
by hbn | 2025-07-11 15:48:32+00:00
> Its absolutely bllsht these companies can effect us in this way.

I'd be one of the last people to defend Instagram/Meta/Zuck, but is that really your takeaway from this? Execution videos are absolutely against Instagram's TOS and I'm sure they want it on their platform even less than you.

If anything, Instagram's issue is they're too heavy on the robo-censorship. My friend posted a photo of him standing on one leg with a chair in his hands, making a goofy face, with the caption "I'm gonna hit you with this chair!" directed at no one in particular, and it was taken down for, quote: "encouraging violence and leading to risk of physical harm, or a direct threat to public safety." Appeal was rejected too, and the post had to be deleted.

This happens because they're trying to moderate against people posting execution videos. One slipped through the cracks seemingly, but it's not like they don't put a lot of effort into preventing that. It's pretty hard to do at Meta's scale where most of the earth's population is using their platforms.
by krapp | 2025-07-11 15:49:06+00:00
It will never cease to amuse me that people calling themselves "rationalists" wound up recreating Pascal's Wager from first principles, just with time travelling robots, and drove themselves to sometimes murderous insanity over it. And that their Bible is essentially a Harry Potter fanfic.

These are the dipshits conspiring to shape our future, control our destiny and create the Machine God in their image. They make the billionaires messing around the big owl at Bohemian Grove look positively tame and... rational.
by cgriswald | 2025-07-11 15:49:09+00:00
Civil defamation laws could equally be used to undermine freedom of the press. In any case, the 'can of worms' you are talking about was the state of affairs in the UK until 2009 and is currently the case in several US states and yet somehow we still have people in those states openly criticizing a sitting president.

Rather than throwing our hands in the air, maybe we could expect our governments to craft laws in such a way that we can punish people for willful lies resulting in death while still preserving our right to free speech and the press.
by shortn | 2025-07-11 15:49:12+00:00
"Although the blog will be the main home for all my stuff (you can follow it via RSS and I think you should, because RSS is possibly the best and purest tech we still have)"

This. I watch youtube through my RSS feed. The videos actually loads instantly, without their BS loading times if you load it on their page (in FF with adblock). I can set up rules in my RSS feed to filter out previews/trailers from channels I follow. I can sort my YT channels into categories (music, sports, etc). It's actually usable, and the controls are in my hand.

More people needs to use RSS feeds. Don't let algorithms dictate your life. Youtube engineers are the worst.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-11 15:49:17+00:00
In the typical childish hive-mind logic of comments on this site, yours get downvoted for no discernible reason other than, apparently, politely adding a slightly different point of view and mentioning the interesting contrast with another book. Upvote from me, at the very least to counter such idiocies.

Maybe this resonates a bit too uncomfortably here:

>I remember thinking that the way the characters kept asking each other about their opinions on the same boring things and expecting them to answer in the same predictable way as some kind of status symbol was weird..

I too thought that Brave New World gets nowhere near enough attention despite being much closer to the mark on describing our present world, though i'd say we live more in something of our own unique creation, with elements from both novels: BNW closer to the mark in describing our social world and 1984 somewhat resonating with creeping tendencies in mass politics. However, I'd say we live in a reality much more fragmented and complex than the simplistic and very era-bound one described by 1984.
by silisili | 2025-07-11 15:49:21+00:00
> The result is a tourism culture shaped less by genuine interest or curiosity and more by curated photo ops

Well said, but definitely not unique to Japan. Sadly, I notice this almost everywhere I go anymore. It's also why you read about someone falling down a cliff or waterfall taking a selfie once or twice a year now.

I don't have any idea what the solution is, but it definitely makes most sights worth seeing less enjoyable now.
by ryandv | 2025-07-11 15:49:22+00:00
> We've lost all sense of judgment of what makes someone a professional or expert [...]

Well you see, everybody is equal, especially in the age of AI which is the great cognitive equalizer (in the same way gunpowder and firearms equalized one's capacity for violence). There is no such thing as individual expertise now; expertise is soon to become the exclusive domain of AI.

So yes, in the future, the only thing that will matter is hype, marketing, and how good of an "ideas guy" you are. Surface appearances don't need to have anything real underneath - that can just be synthesized and backfilled as needed, on demand, by the AI.
by TheBozzCL | 2025-07-11 15:49:48+00:00
Getting rid of most social media has been one of the best things I have ever done. I didn’t just delete my accounts, I also blocked the sites so I can’t visit them.

The best one to delete was definitely reddit. It’s too easy to doomscroll. It’s such a time sink, and being hyper-aware of everything that’s going on nowadays just made me anxious all the time.

HN hasn’t proven to be much of an issue for me. I guess it’s just less active, so I run out of new content faster whenever I visit.
by interpol_p | 2025-07-11 15:49:55+00:00
Sure, I'd be into that. But that would not comply with the DMA I think? As in, Apple still has a ton of work to do, engineering wise, if they are to make their platform available to all in the way specified by the DMA

For example, I don't think it would fly that they could say to the EU: users who want a third-party browser just have to enable root access and lose access to all Apple services and authentication
by peab | 2025-07-11 15:49:58+00:00
>It's obvious that the modern society requires addiction counseling and rehabilitation facilities is it? or is that your opinion? Why don't we look at actual evidence:

"There is high quality evidence that manualized AA/TSF interventions are more effective than other established treatments, such as CBT, for increasing abstinence. Non-manualized AA/TSF may perform as well as these other established treatments. AA/TSF interventions, both manualized and non-manualized, may be at least as effective as other treatments for other alcohol-related outcomes. AA/TSF probably produces substantial healthcare cost savings among people with alcohol use disorder."[0]

[0]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32159228/
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-07-11 15:50:11+00:00
I think one thing to remember that is often forgotten is just how new all this is. Society is moving incredibly fast and that can be both good and bad. Even 10 years ago the way people interacted with technology would be unrecognizable today. 20 years ago is the distant pass. We sacrificed a generation of kids to figure this out and hopefully we will actually figure this all out, but we shouldn't be surprised that we've had seismic shifts in how technology is impacting our society and we didn't get it immediately right from the get go.
by saghm | 2025-07-11 15:50:27+00:00
Other parents making a different decision doesn't matter if the schools find it virtually impossible to have these books because of the logistical requirements of allowing kids to leave the classroom every time certain books are read.

> Do you really think that there's a "right" to force others to read books that you choose?

Do I really think that public schools have a right to assign reading of certain books for classes? Is this even a real question? How do you think English classes work?