MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-18 20:34:52+00:00
Until every new born child is forcefully implanted with a microchip in their brain at birth, you will never be able to stop people from thinking and having secrets.

If people are not fairly compensated for sharing their secrets and discoveries with the public, they won't do it. They'll take it to the grave if so be. And we loose out on information which can benefit an enormous amount of people.

So the quoted person is absolutely right that there is a great tension between these two factors. How should great ideas be greatly compensated while giving the widest access possible? Neither piracy nor expensive access to information is the right solution.
by mothballed | 2025-08-18 20:35:40+00:00
Cities charge a right-of-way fee, planning, and permitting process every time you connect to a public road. The county/city planning committee often requires new neighborhoods to cover the cost (often via HOA) of roads and their easements in the neighborhood. The end result is the neighborhood private planners have their hand forced to eliminate thru-traffic and minimize connections to arterials.

The county would basically have to do the opposite to change things; provide low-cost/low-overhead process for connecting to public road and pay neighborhoods/HOA for connecting to arterials to offload the traffick and provide thru-routes. Otherwise the public is just leaching off the private roads, and due to neighborhood planning requirements they usually can't charge a toll to get it back, so it gets designed to avoid that.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 20:35:44+00:00
Or it's evidence that the effect can't be measured, which is what I'm trying to say.

I honestly don't understand how you would even attempt to measure something like this. There's no counterfactual. How can you possibly know what sales would have been without piracy?

This study appears to be relying on survey results. That seems questionable to me, because no one wants to admit "I totally would buy more books if piracy wasn't an option, but I choose piracy because I like having money and I think authors deserve to starve." I'm exaggerating for the sake of effect, but really, how can anyone ever know what they would have purchased under different circumstances? It's human nature to self-rationalize your actions. And yet, despite this, the study still didn't find statistically significant results!

Maybe if one country ever manages to truly cut off access to piracy websites, and there's another economically and sociologically similar country where piracy remains readily available, it will be possible to get some valid data on this question. I mostly hope this doesn't ever happen, because while I'm not a fan of piracy, I am a fan of the free internet!
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-08-18 20:35:49+00:00
When Trump says "America First" he means whatever is needed for America to "win". Lots of major tech leaders and people around him think the AI race with China is going to define the next 25-50 years some think this is "the race" as in whoever wins is going to be The Superpower full stop not for the next 50 year just forever.

With that on the line a lot of principles are just plain unimportant.

Hell even Democrats are falling inline behind him on China. D.C. seems to think this is a make or break moment for the long term success of the country.
by bpt3 | 2025-08-18 20:35:56+00:00
It appears that you are jumping on posts by people who aren't an LLM advocate. My interest in debating a topic with someone who is anything approaching a zealot is near zero, but I will say this:

Yes, junior developers exist. They generally consume more resources than they produce in value, with the hope that they will become productive at some later point. LLMs do not appear to be capable of crossing that threshold at scale, and even if they are, there is a clear cost/benefit tradeoff that can be performed with respect to a senior developer's time, the amount of improvement an LLM can derive from that time, and the value of that improvement to the organization when compared to letting others shoulder that expense.

People skip code reviews all the time, where making a cursory, inadequate effort still can be considered skipping it. I agree a professional development team doesn't skip code reviews of their own code, but few people perform any meaningful review of dependencies.

That said, having people review large amounts of AI-generated code is plausibly (and practically in my experience and in some limited studies) worse than having no AI involvement. People aren't refusing to acknowledge the "ai-reviewed" state, they are pushing back on people (you seem to be one of them) who advocate for that state as some sort of solution to the problem LLMs create (cranking out intern/junior quality code at a rate competent humans struggle to keep up with).

Also, we are seeing more and more examples of "ai-not-reviewed" projects being released and used because non-developers are publishing the output from LLM coding assistants/agents.

You seem to be the one struggling with context, nuance, and implicit assumptions, given that almost everyone seems to be on the same page and you are the one who is confused.

In short, people are talking about the issues with "ai-reviewed" and "ai-not-reviewed", and focusing more on the "ai-reviewed" portion because the "ai-not-reviewed" issues are obvious as you stated. You just don't seem to get them for some reason.
by WorldMaker | 2025-08-18 20:36:30+00:00
As a low mile driver with a tendency to hold on to cars, it would also probably surprise people how much the average life of plastics are closer to the 15-20 year mark, especially when regularly handled by people. Things like plastic knobs and buttons can break in interesting ways that a lot of people wouldn't expect. We tend to think of plastics as "forever chemicals" because we hear that term a lot, but it's not that plastic is particularly rugged against regular use across time, it's that how it breaks down is awful (see all the discussions of microplastics; it break down and then becomes a part of ecosystems in disturbing ways).

(ETA: Also the EV is so much more the "software-defined" car than anything, and the lifecycle of software versus tech debt and long term maintenance is going to be a large issue, even though the cars are mechanically simpler, the software is something making up for that in its complexity.)

> I hope manufacturers realize this and make the battery easy for DIY removal

This seems to be the case so far. A lot of scrapped cars' batteries seem to be going directly into second use in a second car. A lot of the manufacturers are also prepared for future "power wall" secondary uses of depleted batteries, but so far there has been too much of a market for the used batteries in second cars for used (even depleted) batteries to build a "power wall" market for used batteries. (Tesla's brand of that concept that sounds a lot like the generic term so far has almost exclusively been using new batteries for their products. Nissan's brand that no one has ever heard of, dedicated to used batteries only, has scarcely built or sold anything and is in danger of shutting down as an effort.)

The economics of used EV batteries is already a fascinating thing to watch, and something we'll probably see get more interesting rather than less.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-18 20:36:31+00:00
> GET should not perform side-effects. That's what POST is for.

I agree, although not all triggered processes are things that cause changes; some might be calculations that are unnecessary for crawling, and other stuff like that.

> Also, for your blog, have you considered password-protecting it? As in, http passwords, which are still (surprisingly) a thing. You can even have a password-free landing page handing the password out to every human that visits, with an onward link to the password-protected site. That should stop the bots but keep letting the humans in.

I think it is a reasonable idea, although you can also add text into the password prompt that you can use to figure out the password (as the "realm" text). This also means that you will not need to use cookies.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-18 20:36:38+00:00
But if do not send a user-agent header then will get an error page that states servers are undergoing maintenance or there was a technical error; there's nothing about a new requirement for a user-agent header

Need to read the HTTP response headers to discover the new user-agent header requirement and the https://w.wiki/4wJS URL

(Cannot access this URL without sending a user-agent header)

https://web.archive.org/web/20250214164831if_/https://w.wiki...
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-18 20:36:51+00:00
WiFi-controlled 120V outlet plugs cost $20 or less retail (including tariff costs.) Those aren’t rated for the sorts of continuous draw an L1 charger needs, but upgrading the hardware to handle this isn’t going to make the hardware crushingly expensive. So the actual question mostly comes down to software and integration. Seems like a good ycombinator business. Think of the TAM!
by tolmasky | 2025-08-18 20:38:17+00:00
By bypass I mean "successfully pass the challenge". Yes, I also have to sit through the Anubis interstitial pages, so I promise I know it's not being "bypassed". (I'll update the post to remove future confusion).

Do you disagree that a trivial usage of an off-the-shelf puppeteer scraper[1] has no problem doing the proof-of-work? As I mentioned in this comment [2], AI scrapers are not on some time crunch, they are happy to wait a second or two for the final content to load (there are plenty of normal pages that take longer than the Anubis proof of work does to complete), and also are unfazed by redirects. Again, these are issues you deal with normal everyday scraping. And also, do you disagree with the traffic statics from Cloudflare's site? If we're seeing anything close to that 18% increase then it would not seem to merit user-visible levels of mitigation. Even if it was 180% you wouldn't need to do this. nginx is not constantly on the verge of failing from a double digit "traffic spike".

As I mentioned in my response to the Anubis author here [3], I don't want this to be misinterpreted as a "defense of AI scrapers" or something. Our goals are aligned. The response there goes into detail that my motivation is that a project I am working on will potentially not be possible if I am wrong and this AI scraper phenomenon is as described. I have every incentive in the world to just want to get to the bottom of this. Perhaps you're right, and I still don't understand the purpose of Anubis. I want to! Because currently neither the numbers nor the mitigations seem to line up.

BTW, my same request extends to you, if you have direct experience with this issue, I'd love to jump on a call to wrap my head around this.

My email is my HN username at gmail.com if you want to reach out, I'd greatly appreciate it!

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944761

2. https://apify.com/apify/puppeteer-scraper

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944886
by dwringer | 2025-08-18 20:38:45+00:00
On this machine it took me about 8 seconds to get the start menu open, about 5 seconds to get it to recognize that I'd typed "calc", another 5 seconds for it to let me actually select it to launch, and then about 20 seconds from the calculator window appearing - in its empty loading state - for it to actually come up. I admit this computer is several years old - but ... it's... a calculator.
by jajuuka | 2025-08-18 20:38:50+00:00
Agreed. Personally I really like asciidoc but hardly anything supports it. Markdown is just everywhere. In all the tools I use and all the most popular tools available. So it's far easier to use when it's so portable. So I only need to remember one set of operators to get the results I want. Even in systems where I don't know which syntax they support. There is a good chance Markdown is will be one of them.
by adrr | 2025-08-18 20:38:53+00:00
Carrier tracking isn't precise as GPS tracking via the phone. Its frequently a mile or more off. Banks were using it in lieu of a travel notice to see if the card swipe and phone were in the same city. Thats my experience with it. They moved away though and now try to ping the app(silent push) to get an IP or location data since buying location data from carriers is expensive.
by ralusek | 2025-08-18 20:39:20+00:00
Definitely the case. That being said, I think it would be hard, at least in the immediate future, to translate the concept of difficulty to a universal LLM for a bespoke/specific game. I assume most game AIs are tuned by hand to feel fair for a given difficulty level...but if you just give an LLM some new game, explain the rules and what resources/abilities it has available to it, you're stuck with adding some addendum to the tune of "and you're meant to represent an entity of 'medium' difficulty." For very well established games, it might have a sense of how given actions might fall into a skill-level hierarchy, but not for anything new.

Fine tuned LLMs though with actual experience with the game, maybe?
by nullandvoid | 2025-08-18 20:39:44+00:00
Similar story, running modded COD4 dedicated servers largely got me into programming.

It's depressing the modern COD lobbies - chucked in with skill matched randoms on a small range of gamemodes, comms kept to a minimum so no one gets offended.

Then don't get me started how 50% of playtime is spent loading / in lobbies so eye balls on store can be maximised - I'll pass.
by simianwords | 2025-08-18 20:39:45+00:00
It’s not excluding inflation which means you didn’t put any effort into actual investigation. You just googled for what you wanted and posted three links without reading it.

It’s very telling that instead of refuting my point you instead choose to derail the discussions into a personal attack. Were you discussing in good faith you would try to understand what I said and reply to it.

It’s not universal at all that people are less prosperous now.

Why don’t you do good faith research and try to answer whether the bottom earners are actually better off now than before? You will come to the same conclusion.
by keybored | 2025-08-18 20:40:05+00:00
It’s funny how in a society everything gets commodified to the point of commodifying what you previously got (for free) as a side-effect of the typical lifestyle? I don’t think that’s “funny” as in ironic or puzzling—I think it’s entirely freaking predictable.

Be right back. I just have to look for a completely quiet treadmill for the open office where I spend my life.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-18 20:40:15+00:00
I'm the same, they absolutely loathe Zohran Mamdani for talking about state run grocery stores, but getting involved in Intel is fine? What?

The cognitive dissonance is what blows my mind, this applies to almost every topic.

Borders? Well according to them borders are the most important thing ever, border security etc. Yet Ukraine? Well f** their borders, they're just something Putin can play with and that's totally fine according to them?

The ideology seems to be, "Whatever aligns with my or the great leaders world view, is good and I'll tell whatever stories I have to justify it to myself and others.".
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-18 20:40:18+00:00
> fix SharePoint governance and do lots of risk assessment

Pretty sure that's the product requirement that drove MS Purview (previously: MS data protection?).

No business wants to take the time to do data classification. No business is going to do cool new stuff with sensitive data.

... Therefore, flip Microsoft Purview on and when you leak data you now have someone to point the finger at. And can do cool stuff.
by more_corn | 2025-08-18 20:40:53+00:00
I follow the newsletter from Borderlands Books in San Francisco. I usually buy one book off their best seller list a month (sometimes I’ll stop in and buy three or four)

I’ve recently started using my local library’s mobile app and I love it. (I typically use this for re-reading or audiobooks for plane trips) I’m tempted to donate my entire bookshelf to the library and let them store and maintain it for me :-p
by taeric | 2025-08-18 20:41:24+00:00
Sadly, I can't comment on the article due to my incompentence at bypassing paywalls. That said, I'm a bit bewildered at the title. My perception of the value on most breakfast buffets is ridiculously low.

Unless I'm traveling with the whole family. Then the walk up service as everyone is getting ready is the main value point.

So, I presume that is the point they underline? It isn't just that it is saving some money on food. It is the value of having a place in building to get food as you settle in.
by NearAP | 2025-08-18 20:41:41+00:00
I refused to use chatGPT until they created the public version that you could use without signing-up.

I later started using Gemini but I use it without signing in to try to ensure my privacy.

I recently came across this App [0] and I've been trying/using it. I end up going back to Gemini if what I need is quite complicated but it's not that common these days.

[0] https://ai.nocommandline.com
by Atlas667 | 2025-08-18 20:41:42+00:00
Then why it's so pertinent that capitalist countries waste billions fighting it wherever it arises?

More murder and war has been perpetrated as part of anti-Marxism than any other cause in history.

- The Vietnam "War" (Genocide) - The Korean "War" (Genocide too) - The whole Afghanistan affair that still resonates on today - Balkanization (induced by NATO) - Indonesian govt killing 1.5 million in a single year (CIA) - US trained South American Death Squads - Invasion of Barbados by the US - the overthrow of Burkina Faso - the overthrow of Allende - the School of the Americas - Nazis killed more non-semitic East Europeans than jews in the name of anti-marxism

You could, in a very real sense, draw a line through the history of modern warfare and the history of anti-Marxism.

Only for Americans is it a myth because they are primed by their billionaire controlled media and educational system to avoid it.

All in all, its a theory of socio-economic development that implies the democratization of production. That's literally whats so bad about it.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-18 20:41:43+00:00
> Can someone explain this ideological whiplash?

Yes. The party used to be conservative; now it's populist. They are two very different ideological positions. It changed under Trump. It's the same party in name, but a totally different ideology. Many traditional conservatives have gone along with it because the party still slashed taxes, which has been their main goal for a long time. They care much more about lower taxes than government ownership.
by kelnos | 2025-08-18 20:41:48+00:00
> It tells me a company can sell newly created stocks and dilute the value of the old stocks. I didn't know this was possible.

Yes, absolutely, and it's a fairly normal process. How do you think VC investment works? Founders take funding in exchange for diluting their ownership. Further investment rounds dilute all shareholders, including big investors from prior rounds. IPOs often involve issuing new shares, further diluting existing investors. Acquisitions can even result in zeroing out some classes of equity.

Existing investors put up with it because either a) they believe their diluted shares will end up being worth more in the long run, because the new investment is critical to growth or success, or because b) they don't have enough voting power to stop it.

Corporate structure and ownership is just a legal fiction. There's no set number of slices that a company is cut into, and contracts, terms, by-laws, etc. can change that at any time.
by time0ut | 2025-08-18 20:41:51+00:00
I have so much nostalgia for that time period.

Counter-strike was my introduction to how the Internet and TCP/IP worked. I built my first PC to play it. I learned linux to run servers for it. It inspired me and my friends to learn C to try and make our own mod. I made a website for my clan, self hosted it, and registered a domain for it.

The community was incredible, partly because of the server browser, as you point out. There was also a massive IRC community around it that was way more cohesive than what exists today. So CS was also my on ramp to IRC and the technology communities there.

I don't play a lot of games any more. Every now and then I'll try something. I have the GPU anyway and everything works great on Linux now. I found out there are third party server browsers for CS2 with modded servers. It is so tiny compared to the old days, but they exist. I played around on a couple around a year ago and had a good time. If you are feeling nostalgic, you should check it out.
by ed | 2025-08-18 20:42:02+00:00
IME the competitiveness of results is probably a much bigger factor, considering exact-match domains are a very old SEO trick and Google doesn't reward them (it penalizes them, actually). "AEO" is a brand new concept so congrats on finding a new wave! Double down on SEO if that's working for you. It's hard enough finding 1 channel that works. The fact that you hit $500 MRR on the open web is actually pretty impressive, and you can likely scale significantly if you're aggressive about growth. Good luck!
by Spunkie | 2025-08-18 20:42:03+00:00
> Trusting the client is necessary, because even a 10ms ping means that you're a frame behind, and nobody will play that.

Your entire argument against this being a possibility falls apart when you realize the simple fact that full 100% server side verification does not actually need to happen in real time, only close to real time.

Does it really matter that a server takes 10 minutes to realize something was invalid if the cheater gets caught and banned in the end? You can easily load the bulk of this processing to inbetween ingame rounds when they server is already not processing real time events or offload it to another server if it's still too intensive.
by SimianSci | 2025-08-18 20:42:11+00:00
In general I see this as an issue of gaming becoming more professionally run and maturing over time.

Server Browsers make sense in a world in which members of the community are self-hosting their own infrastructure for others to play on. While a great way to build community, it can be a problem when it comes to player retention and competitive mechanics.

Player retention can often suffer over the long-term as such communities establish boundaries and rules, eventually orienting around a small clique of individuals, increasing the friction for integrating new members into the community.

Additionally, the competitive mechanics, which often draw a large amount of players, can suffer as player-run infrastructure can vary wildly in its connection, uptime, speed, etc. and bring a risk of unsanctioned modifications, cheats, and hacks, all negatively affecting the player experience.

Overall, its a tradeoff, the community building aspects of player run servers can truly build colorful and vibrant communities, but this can be at the expense of overall player retention, trading a large and accessible playerbase for a small dedicated community.

Most game companies choose the route of building and running dedicated server infrastructure. Which of course, internally run servers tend to be built with a set image that gets cloned each time more are needed, making each one indistinguishable and fungible. The only problem becomes assigning the players accross servers depending on which ones have available capacity, which is where matchmaking comes in.