MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-08 03:52:53+00:00
The question was "How do you know the email comes from that website? "

And the answer was, I can find out if the email is from abc.com by looking at the link, which should also be abc.com

I don't click in "track.monkey.exe". I don't click tracking links. I pay a lot of money for my newsletter provider because I can turn off (most) tracking links.
by jmyeet | 2025-08-08 03:52:59+00:00
The developed world is increasingly facing a funding crisis brought on by this propaganda that if we tax corporations and the very wealthy then they'll leave.

One of the most farcical examples of this is the decades-long race to the bottom on business taxes and incentives between Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas. For the non-Americans out there, this is basically one city but it sits at the border of two states. So the two states are constantly torching money to lure businesses that play this system and simply go back and forth.

I believe this situation will come to an end and there are several reasons for this:

1. For the EU in particular, reliance on US tech giants is increasingly becoming a security issue. The Eu will increasingly wants homegrown alternatives so the option of leaving will simply not exist because you could leave but then you lose the EU as a customer;

2. For a long time multinational companies used transfer pricing to avoid paying taxes. What's transfer pricing? Let's say you buy a sofa in China for @200, ship it to the US for another $200 and then sell it for $1000. You've made a gross profit of $600. What if instead you have a subsidiary in Vanuatu, which has no corporate income tax (AFAIK), and it buys the sofas for $400 and sell them to the US company for $950? Well, you've booked $550 in profit where there's no tax and only $50 profit where there is.

That's technically illegal. It's often-called transfer pricing manipulation.

So what do tech giants like Google do? They sell their IP to an Irish subsidiary. There's a nominal process to make sure this is done for a "fair" value (according to the IRS). Then they pay royalties to their own Irish subsidiary to shift profits to a lower tax regime. Previously, this created a problem because they couldn't repatriate the money without paying (then) 30%+ corporate taxes but this all changed in 2017 with a tax holiday and a change to how this kind of income was treated. The net result was way lower than 30% net tax however, even with Biden's 15% minimum tax (which was a good thing) that came later.

What's the difference between this kind of profit-shifting with IP and transfer pricing manipulation? Absolutely nothing, except one is illegal and one isn't.

3. Revenue will increasigly have to be taxed in the source country. For example, Google I believe books all UK ad contracts through Ireland such that the UK subsidiary has essentially zero income to tax. I believe governments will increasingly crack down on this such that if something is sold in the UK, it's taxed by the UK; and

4. While individuals may be able to notionally "leave", assets generally can't. Land can't be moved overseas. Natural resources that are mined or fished or logged can't be moved overseas. So it's really an empty threat.

I'm really sick of this "the businesses will leave" propaganda.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-08 03:53:03+00:00
1 is only true by default, both HFS and APFS have case sensitive options . NTFS also behaves like you described, and I believe the distinction is that the filesystems are case-retentive, so this will work fine:

$ echo yup > README.txt $ cat ReAdMe.TXT yup $ ls README.txt

Maybe the cursed version of the filesystem story is that goddamn Steam refuses to install on the case sensitive version of the filesystem, although Steam has a Linux version. Asshats
by rtkwe | 2025-08-08 03:53:19+00:00
That's one of my biggest hang ups on the LLMs to AGI hype pipeline, no matter how much training and tweaking we throw at them they still don't seem to be able to not fall back to repeating common misconceptions found in their training data. If they're supposed to be PhD level collaborators I would expect better from them.

Not to say they can't be useful tools but they fall into the same basic traps and issues despite our continues attempts to improve them.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-08 03:54:53+00:00
A terrible "feature", since it means someone can steal your car just by relaying the signal from outside your home at night, or an accomplice walking near you as you're entering the grocery store, etc.

I've become a big believer in leveraging some security features of the physical world, as it seems it's been long enough that everyone's forgetting Therac-25-style problems. (Or, perhaps more accurately, nobody cares because they aren't liable.)
by thomasfromcdnjs | 2025-08-08 03:54:58+00:00
100%

1) Build a directory of X (a gazillion) amount of tools (just functions) that models can invoke with standard pipeline behavior (parallel, recursion, conditions etc)

2) Solve the "too many tools to select from" problem (a search problem), adjacently really understand the intent (linguistics/ToM) of the user or agents request

3) Someone to pay for everything

4) ???

The future is already here in my opinion, the LLM's are good-enough™, it's just the ecosystem needs to catch up. Companies like Zapier or whatever, taken to their logical extreme, connecting any software to any thing (not just sass products), combined with an LLM will be able to do almost anything.

Even better basic tool composition around language will make it's simple replies better too.
by js8 | 2025-08-08 03:55:16+00:00
So, Karl Marx predicted that the capitalism will eat itself because capitalists will value creating money itself (and money-making enterprises, such as asset bubbles) more than the actual production of goods. This was later elaborated by many people, but since I am not an expert in this, I'll just mention Hyman Minsky and Thomas Piketty.

The OP is essentially a (white collar) labor version of this. What is evidently valued is an appearance of expertise, rather than expertise itself. Just like the capitalists who want to make money, and skipping production of actual goods in order to accomplish that, "professionals" are going to skip actual learning in order to appear knowledgeable.

For 200 years, people have hoped that the "free market" will sort out the problem that Marx saw. It didn't happen - we still get financial bubbles that cause trouble for many people. So, I suspect it's a mistake to assume the learning problem will fix itself either. I suspect people (society at large) will have to consciously value the hard work of learning for this to be fixed.
by ekr____ | 2025-08-08 03:56:05+00:00
More or less. Corporations fund research all the time. Just to pick a random example, check out the acknowledgements on this paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/132

"This work was funded in part by NSF Award CNS-2054869 and gifts from Apple, Capital One, Facebook, Google, and Mozilla."

That said, private grant funding is just of a completely different scale than government grant funding. For example, NIH's annual budget is 48 billion and most of that goes to research (https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/organization/budget).
by porcoda | 2025-08-08 03:56:18+00:00
That does happen: foundations will fund specific research and universities apply and get it. What is often different is that foundations rarely put out open calls outside the areas the foundation is specifically interested in. That is where government funding tends to be better: covers many more areas than foundations tend to be interested in. There’s nothing stopping foundations from doing that, but I haven’t seen it very often other than a couple calls here and there. I’ve been a researcher chasing money for decades: I’d love it if foundations would fill this role, but alas, they don’t so far. Plus, the scale doesn’t match: if you added up all the private funding that is available, it’s tiny compared to the federal science budgets.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-08-08 03:57:09+00:00
I find it interesting how many times they have to repeat instructions, i.e:

> Address your message `to=bio` and write *just plain text*. Do *not* write JSON, under any circumstances [...] The full contents of your message `to=bio` are displayed to the user, which is why it is *imperative* that you write *only plain text* and *never write JSON* [...] Follow the style of these examples and, again, *never write JSON*
by EthanHeilman | 2025-08-08 03:57:22+00:00
> Supposedly the idea was, once you get closer to AGI it starts to explore these breakthrough paths for you providing a positive feedback loop.

I think it does let you start explore the paths faster, but the search space you need to cover grows even faster. You can do research two times faster but you need to do ten times as much research and your competition can quickly catch up because they know what path works.

It is like drafting in a bike race.
by Supermancho | 2025-08-08 03:58:42+00:00
> But startups are thriving

I'm just some guy with an opinion. I worked in startups for 20 years. Startups are called exciting or thriving or good bets because a tiny few are successful and even fewer are trying to compete with established companies. Capital is pumped into lots of little ones regardless of the technology de-jour or market opportunity. They generally don't last. Statistically, if you were an AI startup from 6 years ago, you're long gone and you made out with what you could scrape together on the way out. Startups are thriving by feeding off dreams of grandeur, with very few happening upon the right combination of personality, capability and market enough to last for a decade. Is that thriving or thrashing? Don't confuse the velocity of gambling with the volume of opportunity.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-08 03:59:27+00:00
>3. Revenue will increasigly have to be taxed in the source country. For example, Google I believe books all UK ad contracts through Ireland such that the UK subsidiary has essentially zero income to tax. I believe governments will increasingly crack down on this such that if something is sold in the UK, it's taxed by the UK;

Wasn’t this only a thing while the UK was in the EU, because the EU expressly allowed it?
by saurabhyer | 2025-08-08 03:59:50+00:00
Hi HN,

OpenAI just dropped gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—powerful open-weight models you can run locally without fees.

To make migration easy, I built GptApiToOSSMigrator: an open-source tool that auto-converts your OpenAI API calls (e.g., chat.completions) to OSS Harmony format.

Keeps biz logic intact. Supports local inference on laptops/GPUs. No vendor lock-in, huge cost savings.

Repo: https://github.com/saurabh-yergattikar/GptApiToOSSMigrator

Early version—feedback, stars, or PRs welcome! What OSS AI tools are you using?
by ckemere | 2025-08-08 04:00:03+00:00
If there’s a specific researcher you want to fund, you can absolutely call them up. There will be paperwork around IP, independence, etc.

If you want them to do a specific experiment you’ll likely first need to convince them that it’s a good use of their time.

Harvard itself plays approximately zero role in the decision to do a study or not. (There are ethical oversight committees, etc.)

$1M total cost ($600-800k direct cost depending on terms) will buy you a postdoc’s time and effort for 5 years. Unfortunately most labs aren’t set up for a time/money tradeoff, so 5 postdocs for 1 year would be unlikely absent a really exciting project.

It definitely happens quite a bit!
by mwigdahl | 2025-08-08 04:00:56+00:00
It seems like few people are referencing the improvements in reliability and deception. If the benchmarks given generalize, what OpenAI has in GPT-5 is a cheap, powerful, _reliable_ model -- the perfect engine to generate high quality synthetic data to punch through the training data bottleneck.

I'd expect that at some level of reliability this could lead to a self-improvement cycle, similar to how a powerful enough model (the Claude 4 models in Claude Code) enables iteratively converging on a solution to a problem even if it can't one-shot it.

No idea if we're at that point yet, but it seems a natural use for a model with these characteristics.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-08-08 04:01:03+00:00
No one called to end anti-monopoly.

Rather a specific anti-monopoly activist, Matt Stoller, was revealed to have played fast and loose with his sources, and to have ignored actual pro-monopoly forces in housing.

Every day, local anti-housing activists lobby local politicians and defend status quo land use rules that grant a de facto floorspace monopoly to incumbent homeowners and landowners. Meanwhile some anti-monopoly activists are incapable of seeing a monopoly or anti-competitive behaviour unless it involves a corporation.
Show HN: I built a simple tool to automate data into Google Sheets and BigQury
by RyanDavid | 2025-08-08 04:02:04+00:00
I’ve been a freelance data analyst/developer for a while and I’d regularly get hired to build custom data pipelines and dashboards in Google Sheets/Looker Studio. Custom data integrations came with a large upfront cost, and possible maintenance but clients told me they were reluctant to use the major data connector platforms as they were complicated and expensive over time, so I decide to fix this. I recently built SyncRange to be dead simple data connector to Google Sheets with a generous free plan and simple pricing.

So far I’ve built out the following connectors based on the needs of my clients and early users:

- Shopify - Facebook/Instagram ads - LinkedIn Ads - Google Ads - Google Analytics - Google Search Console

I plan on adding more connectors as needed by my clients/users, most of which are in the ecommerce/marketing space so I will focus my time there.

After years of building projects that I thought we interesting, but were not validated, I have really noticed the difference building something customers actually want.

Please let me know if you have any feedback.
by csours | 2025-08-08 04:02:09+00:00
You can load Java Classes into Oracle DB and run them natively inside the server.

Those classes can call stored procedures or functions.

Those classes can be called BY stored procedures or functions.

You can call stored procedures and functions from server-side Java code.

So you can have a java app call a stored proc call a java class call a stored proc ...

Yes. Yes, this is why they call it Legacy.
by slt2021 | 2025-08-08 04:02:35+00:00
I agree you captured my thoughts exactly.

most of the perpetrators of child sexual abuse are victim's close people: teacher/cousin/brother/uncle/father/etc.

the reinforcement of their lust will only remove whatever remaining barrier against such repulsive behavior, and once the novelty from synthetic CP wears out, it will create urge to commit real crime with real victims
by rvz | 2025-08-08 04:02:59+00:00
I wasn't joking at all when I previously said in [0], moves like this is how to lose and now this is another reason why tech founders do not start companies in Europe and when a company gets too big, especially in Germany.

Just don't be surprised to see a decline in tax revenue when countries like Germany chase the wealth creators out of the country with high taxes + exit taxes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134832
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-08 04:03:11+00:00
> I don’t really understand why so much of science is funded by the government instead of by private philanthropy.

Two reasons.

First, private philanthropy is neither sustainable nor sufficient in scope.

Second, because government funded science is free from having to produce immediate results in order to satisfy the whims of a specific patron such that funding is continued.

> It seems like an obvious channel for corruption of science.

Yes, relying on private entities to fund scientific research does seem like an obvious channel for corruption.
by WrongOnInternet | 2025-08-08 04:03:47+00:00
A bit more from the book (which is a great read, and available in it's entirety on archive.org): "To enable its agents to communicate over greater distances, the government had installed “repeaters” at high elevations to relay the signals. The agents’ radios transmitted on one frequency and received on another; the repeaters had an input frequency to receive the agents’ transmissions, and an output frequency that the agents listened on. When I wanted to know if an agent was nearby, I simply monitored the signal strength on the repeater’s input frequency. That setup enabled me to play a little game. Whenever I heard any hiss of communication..."
by rw_van | 2025-08-08 04:04:10+00:00
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by socalgal2 | 2025-08-08 04:04:29+00:00
That's not really the point. The point is representing something as something it's not. poke is a representation of my culture. The things others are calling poke is not. It's a misreprestation. It tastes different. It taste worse IMO. A better name could be as simple as "poke salad", "poke with rice and lettuce". But not just "poke"

I don't see that as controversial. If you made a margarita with whisky you wouldn't put it on the menu as "margarita". You'd put it on the menu as "whisky margarita" to make it clear it's NOT a margarita.

Same with a mojito. If you change the liquor from rum or use a fruit other than lime then you change the name. "mango mojito" etc...

The same with poke. If you're going to add avocado, lettuce, edamame, rice, then don't just call it "poke". That's misprepresation of what you're serving.
by modeless | 2025-08-08 04:05:35+00:00
Well, it does something about the initial cause of the deficiency, but it doesn't fix the deficiency by itself.

Maybe if you took lithium carbonate after clearing the plaques then you would get a recovery. But if just taking lithium orotate instead comprehensively fixes the deficiency regardless of plaques, as it seemed to do in this study, then maybe we don't need to bother treating the plaques at all.

Can't wait for human trials!
by apparent | 2025-08-08 04:05:50+00:00
> “the browser will remain free for those who use the A.I. tool only a few times a week.” Miller also hinted at rolling out additional subscription tiers, ranging from $5 to hundreds of dollars per month.

When I saw the $20/mo price tag, I assumed that would cover more than a few AI invocations per week. I would have considered trying it had that been the case. But given this info, I can't imagine it would make sense for me.
by cc101 | 2025-08-08 04:06:28+00:00
The information on this site is so dense it is nearly impossible to get a clear picture of what is being said. Human beings do not write like this. Human beings do not read things like this. I'd like to give you advice on revising this, but you folks yourselves don't know what you want to say.

You want to create a high tech service company for organizations with practical projects. You need to find a CEO with practical grounding in one or more of these fields. He should be a superb communicator and a demanding leader. Only such a person can develop a vision and a practical plan for you. You are so remote from the practical world that you can't do this yourselves.

By the way sounds like you folks have got one hot technology!

P.S. Don't let a computer write your marketing literature again. It's fatal.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-08 04:07:57+00:00
Yes, the interests of private donors. Private philanthropy mostly feeds what private donors are interests in (weighted, of course, by having money to give, so for all intents and purposes, it goes where the interests of the superwealthy are.)

And those tend to be: things that are perceived by the donor as having high immediate returns, things that are perceived by the public as having high immediate returns and thus are good for buying status, and things that provide a convenient channel for the donor to exercise power via the donation, making it away to enjoy wealth while also getting a tax break for it.

Basic science doesn't tend to fit any of those, which is why science funded by private philanthropy is small compared either to government funding of basic science or total private philanthropy.
by chii | 2025-08-08 04:08:13+00:00
> how the site will send the 2FA code request to the bad actors phone, instead of the real users phone?

the 2FA code in this case is in the email, not via an app. This email is triggered by BAD on their end, but it is sent by GOOD.

If the 2fa is _only_ via the authenticator app, then the BAD will need to convince the user to type in that 2fa code from the app into the BAD site (which is harder, as nobody else does this, so it should raise suspicions from the user at least).
by somenameforme | 2025-08-08 04:08:18+00:00
Chechnya has its own laws on just about everything. It's ruled by Islamic Law such that homosexuality, alcohol consumption, and even pork consumption are illegal there. They also have their own laws and culture with regards to war and were even completely excluded from the partial mobilization and allowed to do their own thing, as usual. It's a negligible part of Russia (about 1% by population) and not representative of Russian law or norms.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-08 04:08:24+00:00
Not per-image, it would be per-app. The first time it happened it would ask you. There are already quite a few per-app toggles for things like this so it wouldn't be anything new or particularly surprising.

That said, an alternative to bugging the user might be that when the app makes the call to open the file that call should fail unless the app explicitly passes a flag to strip the location data. That way you protect users without causing needless confusion for developers when things that ought to "just work" go inexplicably wrong for them.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-08 04:09:16+00:00
I didn't suggest getting rid of anything. I suggested changing the name.

If you make brownies without chocolate you don't call them brownies. Maybe you call the blondies. Or if they're made with a unique incredient then you called them whatever. "vegan brownies", "no-bake brownies", etc. but not just "brownies" as that has a meaning.

If you make hummus from beets you call it "beet hummus". If you make it from avocados you call it "avocado hummus". Because calling it just "hummus" implies you made it from chickpeans, seseme, etc...

Same here. If you add lettuce, avocado, rice, etc to poke then call it "salad poke" or "poke salad" but don't just call it "poke" because with those things added it's not poke.