MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joezydeco | 2025-08-22 01:22:05+00:00
I have a few things. One is home security, I get basic notifications when something is in the driveway. I'm working on getting Frigate running to hopefully give me the names or license plates of people when they arrive.

I also have one tied to a manufacturing database at my company. When a batch of products rolls off the line I get an updated count of units made. Kind of a way to know production systems are running and there are no problems at the work cells.

I also made a rickety-ass system that scrapes the local commuter rail API and fires off a notification when one of my trains is late or cancelled. That's been pretty helpful. The rail company has a Twitter account, but I don't go there anymore. So I rolled my own.

ntfy makes this all incredibly easy. I love it.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-22 01:22:27+00:00
> Its almost like to use AI tools effectively, one needs to stop caring about the little things you'd get caught up in if you were already familiar and proficient in a stack. Style guidelines, a certain idiomatic way to do things, naming conventions, etc.

This makes me a little sad. Part of the joy of writing software is expressing yourself through caring about these little things. Stylistic coherence, adhering to consistent naming conventions, aligning code blocks, consistently applying patterns, respecting the way the language and platform's APIs work together rather than fighting it... heck, even tiny things like alphabetizing header declarations. None of these things make the finished product better/faster/more reliable, but all of these demonstrate something about the author: What he believes in. That he is willing to sand, polish and beautify the back of the cabinet that nobody is going to see. As Steve Jobs said:

"Even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

If you surrender to the AI, you're no longer carrying the aesthetic and quality all the way through. You're abandoning the artistry. You're living with the barf because it works, and because it's much harder to go back and beautify it than it is to build it beautifully from the start.
by foxylad | 2025-08-22 01:24:20+00:00
Seems to require an app. Which instantly gives ChangeFly my PII. Nope.

Anonymized identity requires some entity to certify that a given token proves what it says it does. That is an awesome power, and given the abuse of that power by private companies who have gained it in the past, I'm not going to give it to ChangeFly, whoever they are.

Which begs the question of who we DO trust enough to do provide this service. Perhaps our banks?
by andsoitis | 2025-08-22 01:25:37+00:00
> Nobody is saying it should be as easy to immigrate to the US as it is to immigrate to The Netherlands, they are saying that immigrating to the US should be easier than this administration is making it.

Ah, we're not talking about the same thing.

I drew the comparison to The Netherlands' list of reasons for why they would revoke or deny your VISA (which is what the article is about w.r.t. the US), and it is not dissimilar.

I wasn't contrasting ease of immigration between the two countries. It is a mixed bag, but for educated immigrants the it is generally easier to immigrate to The Netherlands than the US (if you are doing so outside the law, I'm going to guess it is much easier "to make it work" in the US than in The Netherlands - both in terms of getting in but also to make a living). There are some notable barriers like you cannot have dual citizenship (the US allows). On the other hand, demand for immigration to the US is much higher, which, together with more arcane and byzantine regulations result in other structural barriers.
by narrator | 2025-08-22 01:25:54+00:00
I agree. I have found GPT-5 significantly worse on medical queries. It feels like it skips important details and is much worse than o3, IMHO. I have heard good things about GPT-5 Pro, but that's not cheap.

I wonder if part of the degraded performance is where they think you're going into a dangerous area and they get more and more vague, for example like they demoed on launch day with the fireworks example. It gets very vague when talking about non-abusable prescription drugs for example. I wonder if that sort of nerfing gradient is affecting medical queries.

After seeing some painfully bad results, I'm currently using Grok4 for medical queries with a lot of success.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-22 01:26:33+00:00
A family member of mine has an Apple phone, and the lack of availability of not just open source software but even freeware or freemium software astounds me. They make it so difficult to distribute anything, that it's not worth it unless you are getting significant revenue. This means that often the only option is something extremely scammy that charges monthly for the most trivial capabilities.

Of course, Apple gets a 30% cut in any scams, so they have absolutely no incentive to do anything about it, and really their policies are what create it, in the first place.
by nullc | 2025-08-22 01:26:42+00:00
We may be talking cross purposes. I read the grandparent poster discussing provably untested patches.

I have no clue in ghostty but I've seen plenty of stuff that doesn't compile much less pass tests. And I assert there is nothing but negative value in such "contributions".

If real effort went into it, then maybe there is value-- though it's not clear to me: When a project regular does the same work then at least they know the process. Like if there is some big PR moving things around at least the author knows that it's unlikely to slip in a backdoor. Once the change is reduced to some huge diff, it's much harder to gain this confidence.

In some projects direct PRs for programmatic mass renames and such have been prohibited in favor of requiring submission of the script that produces the change, because its easier to review the script carefully. The same may be necessary for AI.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-08-22 01:26:48+00:00
Isn't that the same as UI/UX people being generally clueless about how to build applications for the very platform for which they are designing? Designers and product managers constantly have to be guided about the logical and the structural constraints of their target platforms, to be given workarounds, to be taught how to logically divide their reusable components so that they can build their dream design system which, by the way, always fights the platform's native design system.

It's totally fine to have an opinion on UI/UX if it is informed by cognitive psychology and other relevant HCI subfields, in the same way that it's OK for UI/UX to push for designs so long as they are also informed by business and engineering.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-22 01:28:21+00:00
> Trump’s assault on free-market capitalism is anything but conservative

As long as we have the heavy-handed Federal Reserve - tilting the game to pick winners and losers - we don’t have free-market capitalism.

Funny enough, I heard an interview with Robert Reich early today about his new book. I didn’t hear the full interview but in the time I listening he didn’t get close to naming the Fed. I was dumbfounded.

The truth is, the socioeconomic system and the sociopolitical system sits on a foundation. That foundation is the financial system. The Fed sits at the head of the table of the financial system. The Fed pulls the levers. The Fed shakes the snow globe.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-22 01:29:04+00:00
It's important to analyze decisions within the context at the time, not the modern context.

When Facebook went into gaming, it was about the time they went public and they were in search of revenue. At the time, FB games were huge. It was the era of Farmville. Some thought that FB and Zynga would be the new Intel and MIcrosoft. This was also long before mobile gaming was really big so gaming wasn't an unreasonable bet.

Waht really killed FB Gaming was not having a mobile platform. They tried. But they failed. We could live in a very different world if FB partnered with Google (who had Android) but both saw each other as an existential threat.

After this, Zuckerberg paid $1 billion for Instagram. This was a 100x decision, much like Google buying Youtube.

But in the last 5-10 years the company has seemed directionless. FB itself has fallen out of favor. Tiktok came out of nowhere and has really eaten FB's lunch.

The Metaverse was the biggest L. Tends of billions of dollars got thrown at this before any product market fit was found. VR has always been a solution looking for a problem. Companies have focused on how it can benefit them but consumers just don't want headsets strapped to their heads. It's never grown beyond a niche and never shown signs that it would.

This was so disastrous that the company lost like 60%+ of its value and seemingly it's been abandoned now.

Meta also dabbled with cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Also abandoned.

Social media really seems to have settled into a means of following public figures. Individuals generally seem to interact with each other via group texts.

Meta has a massive corpus of posts, comments, interactions, etc to train AI. But what does Meta do with AI? Can they build a moat? It's never been clear to me what the end goal is.
by zevisert | 2025-08-22 01:29:26+00:00
It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?

I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
by SlowTao | 2025-08-22 01:29:50+00:00
While this is not something I would probably use directly just due to technical limitations (incorrect hardware), I do really like the idea. I am constantly clearing out old stuff that I simple do not use, it is a good way to be. No need to carry everything around, everything gets voided in a long enough time.

Outside of the digital space, all the paintings I have done and everything I touch will be rendered null. Many will go to the rubbish tip either in my life time or very shortly afterwards. Don't try to cling on and drag this stuff everywhere.

Back to the OS however, hopefully you could allocate somethings to be manually exempt from the deletion but it would have to be done so that people must do it intentionally rather than just trying to avoid the issue of deletion. There are many one or two notes I keep with little bits and pieces I would like to keep, the rest of it is just noise.
by vorejdajo | 2025-08-22 01:29:53+00:00
The linked article seems purposely vague so much so that I'm wondering if you're a scam. It just has some privacy keywords like "zero knowledge proofs", but it doesn't really explain what's going on. Diving deep into your privacy policy, to know how it works - shows you use third party for the initial verification?

>For example, our Third-Party Providers may verify your government ID when you register for Changefly Anonymized Identity Protection[1]

[1]: https://www.changefly.com/policies/privacy-policy
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-22 01:30:00+00:00
You'd need to compile a custom kernel, but it might it be possible.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/rosetta-on-10-7-and-abo...

> 10.6 xnu does have special support for rosetta, namely in kern_exec where it seems to set some special ppc environment bits if the oah binary is invoked (and of course there's the handler to call the oah binary for a ppc mach-o, but the former is more important for minimal viable example since you can always invoke oah manually). I think this bit is actually needed because the kernel has other codepath here when allocating memory. (Not 100% confident though, bit it makes sense there are different conventions about base address, region sizes, etc.)

> Likely might need changes to dyld also for obvious reasons, but that's open source as well https://opensource.apple.com/source/dyld/dyld-132.13/src/dyl...

> Would be easiest to try getting a plain assembly hello world ppc binary working first. I see that someone on your linked thread tried copying translate binary but it crashed even without args; tracing in lldb would be the logical next step but seems he never followed up on that...

> Another thing which I'm not sure of is whether rosetta relies on existence of ppc-arch system frameworks; I'd assume not since they'd want to do high-level thunking here for performance, but maybe that only ends up being done in some cases? I couldn't find any docs on reverse engineering rosetta1m or if they exist they've disappeared.

A possible counterpoint to the last paragraph would be, if Rosetta doesn't need those system frameworks why are so many libraries in Snow Leopard compiled as intel-ppc universal binaries? If those actually get used, a port would be much more difficult.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-22 01:30:17+00:00
Sound comment, but a couple of points. There is no such thing as an absolute free market capitalistic system in existence today. Each system has thumbs on the scale in different ways to encourage different outcomes ("picking winners and losers") in some capacity. And while the Fed pulls the levers, trust is the foundation. Trust in consistency, the rule of law, and property rights. This is why US treasuries were considered the safest financial asset in the world. Once you begin to lose trust, the entire foundation shakes.

Also, I'd argue the bond market is far more powerful than the Fed. The Fed can set short term target rates, but the bond market sets longer term rates. The bond market is what kept this admin in check earlier in the year. One might say they are the Fifth Estate, after journalism and the three branches of US government. "Whoever holds the gold makes the rules."

https://tisegroup.com/news/2025/the-power-of-the-bond-market...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/12/what-to-k...

https://www.bloomberg.com/explainers/bond-vigilantes | https://archive.today/XcRIq

> Have bond vigilantes influenced government decision-making before?

> Yes. In fact, they’ve already influenced Trump’s decision-making. In the hours after Trump’s long-awaited tariffs on most imports to the US went into effect on April 9, the bond market tanked. Many investors, concerned that the duties would accelerate inflation and reduce foreign demand for US assets, started dumping their holdings in order to pressure the administration to reverse course.

> It worked: Just 13 hours after the tariffs had gone into effect, Trump announced that he would pause them, and yields came down. “The bond market is very tricky,” he conceded. “I was watching it.”
by jedbrown | 2025-08-22 01:30:37+00:00
Provenance matters. An LLM cannot certify a Developer Certificate of Origin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Certificate_of_Origi...) and a developer of integrity cannot certify the DCO for code emitted by an LLM, certainly not an LLM trained on code of unknown provenance. It is well-known that LLMs sometimes produce verbatim or near-verbatim copies of their training data, most of which cannot be used without attribution (and may have more onerous license requirements). It is also well-known that they don't "understand" semantics: they never make changes for the right reason.

We don't yet know how courts will rule on cases like Does v Github (https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/case-updates.html). LLM-based systems are not even capable of practicing clean-room design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design). For a maintainer to accept code generated by an LLM is to put the entire community at risk, as well as to endorse a power structure that mocks consent.
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-22 01:33:05+00:00
This is definitely the future: non-governmental entities compete for business, users KYC and self-identify with one or more of them, and they take the legal risk via insurance policies if children slip through. Then third-party sites trust the third-party vendors, who approve users without passing the PII.

Sure, the third-party identity vault companies could be hacked, but I would prefer one of those over a million various sites of dubious quality taking my PII themselves.
by benjsm | 2025-08-22 01:33:17+00:00
Thank you - would love to hear more about the gaming use case.

Not quite, because the buyer and seller would never agree to that being a real outcome. It would have to meet certain requirements/thresholds for customer satisfaction. That’s where we come in to verify that those contract terms are actually met as it happens.

There are a ton of ways to calculate cost savings depending on what it’s built for. Voice agents that handle booking and outbound calls, supplier sourcing agents that only buy the best priced items, etc. It’s then possible to translate those things into a monetary figure, relative to the business.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-22 01:34:47+00:00
And also clearly not what the OP means, who was trying to make a point that tuning the prompt to an otherwise stateless LLM inference job is nothing at all like teaching a human being. Mechanically, computationally, morally or emotionally. For example, humans aren't just tools; giving feedback to LLMs does little to further their agency.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-22 01:34:49+00:00
Echoes of an article posted here [1] some time ago called I Don’t Like Computers which had the same nostalgic vibe about computing in the past. This is exactly how modern OS's and devices make me feel. The Personal Computer used to be PERSONAL. The User was in control. We used to be in the driver’s seat. We used to tell computers what to do. Now we feel like passengers, and the computer is telling us what it's going to do and hedging us into a few small scraps of functionality it deems safe for us.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851371
by andsoitis | 2025-08-22 01:34:59+00:00
Commonly, when we talk about "support" for an organization (or a cause) it can mean any of the following:

1) financial (e.g. donations, membership fees, investments)

2) human resources (e.g. volunteers, staffing, training)

3) material & in-kind (e.g. equipment, office space, supplies)

4) knowledge & expertise (e.g advisory, R&D, workshops, training)

5) networking & partnerships (e.g. collaboration, referrals, advocacy alliances)

6) policy & institutional (applies to governments, not individuals, so not relevant "in this context")

7) community & social (e.g. public awareness, volunteer mobilization, cultural legitimacy)
by SnuffBox | 2025-08-22 01:36:10+00:00
This is something I've always felt about design in general. You should never make it so that a symbol for an inconvenience appears happy or smug, it's a great way to turn people off your product or webpage.

Reddit implemented something a while back that says "You've been blocked by network security!" with a big smiling Reddit snoo front and centre on the page and every time I bump into it I can't help but think this.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-22 01:36:12+00:00
Kind of wild you're willing involving yourself with the PII footgun.

There is no acceptable amount of PII a business should hold unless required to by the government for extremely limited industries (ie, banking or medicine or the act of employment).

Every single government that is requiring age verification is not also legally indemnifying companies that are performing this. Every single company that is trying to provide this will be hung out to dry when this blows up in their face: the company will be heavily fined under the existing laws in that country.

In many countries, banks that have to follow KYC or similar laws or hospitals that have to follow HIPPA or similar laws are given at least some form of partial legal indemnification as long as they can prove they were following the law. This is why they almost uniquely keep getting away with it with a slap on the wrist when they inevitably fuck up.

This will never be offered to companies like yours. You are taking on, essentially, infinite legal risk to make a quick buck.

If your legal council is telling you they can defend you from this, I suggest finding new legal council. IANAL, IANYL, but proceed very carefully. This is not a technological problem, this is a legal problem, and you cannot solve this with technology.
by jcranmer | 2025-08-22 01:36:39+00:00
Ad revenue runs around $1/1000 views, and her output looks roughly daily with a few hundred K views per video on average. That means she's grossing maybe a few hundred K/year. But that's gross, not net; she still has to pay for all of her expenses out of it, and converting that to a net income... I suspect the average Bay Area tech worker has a higher take-home pay than she does.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-22 01:37:21+00:00
> (1) the physically impossible perpetual motion of popular understanding, e.g. machine that operates at 100% energy efficiency in perpetuity from an initial one-time energy input

That's easy to make. If you spin up a wheel in the vacuum of space, it's going to keep spinning forever.

If doing it in space is not allowed, then you have to allow machines that take advantage of terrestrial conditions such as drawing energy from ambient sources.
by treetalker | 2025-08-22 01:39:13+00:00
First learn the material. Then use SRS to schedule the practice of effortfully recalling the material just before you would have forgotten it.

I think too many people use SRS to learn the material instead.

As I recall, the creator of Supermemo had a list of 20 suggestions or so, in which he urged people to first comprehend the information; then to learn it; then to memorize it; and then to rehearse it (SRS) so as not to forget it.
by tsuyoshi_k | 2025-08-22 01:39:35+00:00
Thanks so much — and I completely agree with your take on impermanence and letting go.

Actually, OS Yamato does support a kind of “favorite” (♡) to mark something you want to keep. But! Even favorites fade if unopened for a year

Because hey — if it really matters, you’ll probably open it at least once a year, right? (And if not… maybe it wasn’t that precious after all?)

Also, favorites are easy to find via sorting, and photos can be grouped in albums while memos can be organized with tags — so it’s not total chaos

It’s all part of keeping the garden tidy, not turning it into a museum.
by mindslight | 2025-08-22 01:39:39+00:00
I see your point if someone is at the level of tinkering enough to learn Mikrotik gear. I was loosely equating VRF with general Linux policy routing, where you end up owning a bit more of an overarching config with fwmarks etc. And then I reasoned that Mikrotik was more complex than that, because I personally avoid doing config on my Mikrotik devices in favor of the Linux router (which is the opposite if you're coming at it unopinionated). But if someone wants to understand just enough networking to copy and paste Mikrotik examples, I do think your post is good general suggestion for that.
by xvilka | 2025-08-22 01:39:46+00:00
I know Cardano has something similar (not sure how it's anonymized but it operates on the need-to-know basis) called Veridian[1][2]. And, of course, there are identity platforms from Ethereum[3].

[1] https://www.veridian.id/

[2] https://cardanofoundation.org/blog/veridian-digital-identity...

[3] https://ethereum.org/en/decentralized-identity/
by tw04 | 2025-08-22 01:40:15+00:00
>The job of a CEO is to maximize share price.

It absolultely is not. That was an idea floated by Milton Friedman, and he was wrong with his ridicluous assertion. His justification wasn't even legally sound...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/06/26/the-ori...

A CEOs job is to grow market share, increase the value of the company, and tend to its long-term health. All of which directly conflicts with "maximizing the share price" as we've seen time and time again with the corporate raider class.