MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jFriedensreich | 2025-08-26 11:54:02+00:00
Its the most frightening naive reply i could imagine, if you can ask for it, it can hallucinate you asking for it or it can get prompt injected you asking for it. for voice only agents without UI approval process the only way is to have a separate clean room permission agent that does only get absolute safe context not even aggregate email titles. also for emails its impossible to design a safe agent that does any sort write action after reading anything in a mailbox because the mailbox is by definition tainted third party data and personal sensitive at the same time. even moving to a folder without can be used for attacks by hiding password reset notification mails etc.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 11:54:23+00:00
> A machine that uses language fluidly, convincingly, and tirelessly is a type of hazard never encountered in the history of humanity.

Though, interestingly, it has been _predicted_ for a while. It's a bit blink-and-you'll-miss-it, but the Ministry of Truth in 1984 has book-writing machines!
by rainsford | 2025-08-26 11:54:24+00:00
Even then the argument made in the article is a pretty bad one.

> Taxes discourage whatever you're taxing, but we like income, so why tax it? Payroll taxes discourage creating jobs. Not such a good idea. Instead, impose a consumption tax...

So discouraging consumption is somehow better? I mean maybe it is, but if that's the underlying argument they need to actually make it.
by anthk | 2025-08-26 11:54:31+00:00
https://www.recursivebecoming.info/RBT_v1.0_release.pdf

Also: Church encodings for integers and bootstrapping number systems from the empty set. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding And Lisp, of course; where the book Gödel, Escher, Bach shows's up how to build a number system from empty lists:

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/church_encoding.html
by wat10000 | 2025-08-26 11:54:44+00:00
It’s shorthand. You don’t have to repeat the full phrase every time. I’m talking about things like CECOT. No, it’s not Unit 731. I think being sent to a horrible prison in another country without a trial qualifies as “heinous.” Maybe you don’t. But that’s missing the point. The point is the support for these actions, not their precise description.

You say people don’t know about this stuff. My experience is otherwise. Maybe you’re right. I don’t think so.
by sublinear | 2025-08-26 11:55:05+00:00
> Tech company leadership often views engineers as useful idiots. Managers are expected to be professionals.

I'm not sure if this quote really adds value to the article. At best it's probably not true, especially if you avoid working at a "tech company". At worst, it's insisting on the false narrative of "class warfare" that only seems to be true when you're junior and still don't understand why nobody cares about you or wants to hold your hand.
by MisterTea | 2025-08-26 11:55:08+00:00
I am well aware of that. My point is a web browser, originally a hypertext viewer, is now a clunky runtime for all sorts of ad-hoc standards including a WASM VM. So instead, start with a portable WASM VM that is a light weight OS that you build a browser inside of composed of individual components like Lego. You get all the benefits of having a real OS including process isolation, memory management, file system, security, and tooling. WASI is a POSIX like ABI/API that does not fit the Plan 9/Inferno design as they thankfully aren't Unix.
by bboygravity | 2025-08-26 11:55:09+00:00
I'm in EU and maybe my opinion is controversial, but I think there's something very positive for EU citizens about Trump using tarrifs to pressure the EU politically.

Why? Because it's basically our only hope of slowing down the evolution towards a centralized totalitarian EU government. It's pretty obvious that the EU wants to ban free speech (online) ASAP and fully control the public political narrative ASAP.

I feel the US/Trump is our only hope of slowing this down as a guarantee of (future) true democracy at the EU level essentially doesn't exist for us any other way. The EU sees China as an example to follow and I feel Trump/US is the only thing trying to stop EU leadership of going there.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-26 11:55:55+00:00
reality can be faked even without use of LLMs.

Take for instance instagram, youtube shorts and tiktok. I see people watching tons of small either supposedly funny or shocking videos. And people seem to believe they are totally real and not organize/produced content until I challenge them on a number of trivial details that make those videos totally unbelievable they would have been recorded by chance or in an opportunistic manner.
by adamors | 2025-08-26 11:55:57+00:00
I'm going through the same processes as the author, after about a decade of Ruby I'm writing Typescript, Go and type-hinted Python, and I don't think I want to go back to the lack of namespaces/packages and the lack of typing.

And I've actually used Sorbet with Ruby for 2 years, but that seems like a really bad solution to this problem.
by mnw21cam | 2025-08-26 11:56:57+00:00
The heat in the oven will slowly leak out into the rest of the house, so the home heating system of the right now already uses that. The fridge example is much more relevant though. If you could get the hot-side radiator part of the fridge thermally-connected with the outside temperature, then it would run much more efficiently. However, you'd lose that heat from the house, so if you're having to heat the house as well it might not be worth it.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-08-26 11:57:15+00:00
I didn't "max out" the SSD, I chose an SSD to match the machine of the user.

You: "You're comparing the base M4 to a full fat Strix Halo that costs nearly $4,000."

Then

You: "A little disingenuous to max out on the SSD to make the Apple product look worse."
by niutech | 2025-08-26 11:57:55+00:00
OpenHarmony is open source. There are also: Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS being developed. Actually I am writing this from Sailfish OS. I can login to my bank using a web browser here in the EU. I have Telegram, Signal clients, maps, sideloaded packages, full terminal - I fully control the phone, in contrast to Android. I don't own and don't need Android phone at all. So definitely more people should usealternatives to closed Android/iOS.
by JoshStrobl | 2025-08-26 11:58:08+00:00
I'm not aware of your circumstances, but at least here in Finland I was able to get (and the bank was required to provide at my request) a cheap 2FA token generator device that can be used instead of the app (Danske ID). It works whether I am confirming an online transaction or signing into a service that uses the Suomi.fi centralized login system.

I requested it after they updated their Android app to have a check for pin-code enablement. Sailfish OS doesn't report it via the Android AppSupport system, so it was blocked before I grabbed an older build via Aurora and disabled it from updating. If it ever stops working, I'll only use the token. Once that stops working, I will switch banks.
by friendzis | 2025-08-26 11:58:27+00:00
Yes and no. Natural language processing querybox will be one of the interfaces for two reasons: some people already (still?) associate that with trustworthy search, however since it is like "I'm feeling lucky" button it is perfect place to hide paid advertisements. On the other hand, your PO dismisses the value of windowshopping and I don't see good catalogs disappearing anytime soon.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-08-26 11:59:10+00:00
> Why do people make hating a tool their entire personality? I have noticed this same thing with languages like Go

It runs very deep for some people. "That's not Pythonic!" or "That's all unreadable line-noise!"

It becomes a kind of language bigotry similar to English-speakers hating a foreign language. And yet, as you rightly say, these are just programming tools.

I suppose that when humans invest in any type of language, they form and protect the orthodoxy.
by llm_nerd | 2025-08-26 11:59:16+00:00
>it's that Europe is so cowed and poorly-led

If you have a 27 country bloc and are rationally limited to the actions of the most timid or compromised, it's pretty easy to manipulate the actions of the whole. We know Hungary is effectively a Russia proxy, for instance, and has massively influenced the response to Russia. Similarly a couple of EU leaders (Meloni, Orban) are Trump lickspittles/mini-mes so there again they'll deny any collective response that offends their best pal.
by goku12 | 2025-08-26 11:59:21+00:00
> Even if it's illegal? (like transmitting on forbidden frequencies)

That's not relevant here. If frequencies are illegal, it should be impossible to program it in such a way. But even otherwise, it's the responsibility of the user to follow local laws. If I have a PTT phone, it's not legal for me to use forbidden frequencies just because it's possible. Why do these manufacturers care about what doesn't concern them when they violate even bigger laws all the time?

> It's not always the user who's installing software. Lots of people depend on other people to manage their devices.

That should be up to the user. Here we are talking about users who want to decide for themselves what their device does. You're talking as if giving the user that choice is the injustice. Nope. Taking away the choice is.

> Manufacturers like the hardware they delivered to be trusted so users trust it regardless of who handled it.

I see what you did here. But here is the thing. Securing a device is not antithetical to the user's freedom. That was what secure boot chain was originally supposed to accomplish until Microsoft managed to corrupt it into a tool for usurping control from the user.

Manufacturer trust is a farce. They should be deligating that trust to the user upon the sale of the device, through well proven concepts as explained above. They chose to distrust the user instead. Why? Greed!
by moron4hire | 2025-08-26 12:00:32+00:00
Having grown up in a rural environment and nearly having my own catastrophic accident while using a circular saw with all of its safety features intact and myself being in an alert and mindful state, I can only describe the scenario you've outlined as, "typical idiot-class behavior".

You see this kind of stuff amongst the petty-criminal working class who chain smoke and binge drink and steal tools off the work site and complain about never being able to get ahead. I've had numerous uncles and neighbors who have life-long debilitating injuries because they showed up to work drunk and fell of a ladder or dropped a running chainsaw on their foot. Every single one of them thought they were a bad ass who "knew what they were doing".

My own accident occurred because I was over-using the tool. I did not have the best tool for the job. The tool was generally appropriate, but I also didn't have the best work space set up for it. The work space wasn't uncomfortable, but I didn't give myself room for error. I thought I had all of the safety features in place and was "being extra careful" while I used it at an awkward angle. Then, halfway through the cut, I noticed the off-cut drooping and knew it was going to damage the piece I was cutting if it dropped too far. I reached to support the droop with my off-hand, which given my angle meant I had to cross under my arm pushing the tool. In a moment I still don't completely understand, the path I sent my hand on did not go directly towards my armpit as I knew I would need to do to keep clear of the tool and instead went under the saw directly. I ended up touching the running saw blade sticking out of the bottom of the piece I was cutting.

A half-dozen different things could have been done differently to avoid the mistake, any one of which is not all that dangerous in isolation, but combined created an incredibly narrow error envelope.

What I didn't consider is that "being extra careful" can change in an instant. One little bump in balance, one little fleeting distraction, one little change of thought as you are mid-task and don't immediately stop to re-evaluate and you blow right on out of your after envelope.

Luckily, I only cut the tips of two fingers. I was able to get them stitched up and they have healed almost completely (there is some thick scar tissue right where my fingers hit keys in my keyboard that serves as a daily reminder).

You don't see this behavior amongst the professionals in the trades who successfully build their businesses from the ground up. Professionals over design their safety envelope. And they still occasionally get hurt. Just not as catastrophicly so.
by anthk | 2025-08-26 12:00:49+00:00
You are really wrong. The Common Lisp Hyperspecs weights very little in my machine. 2.2 MB compressed as a TGZ.

It's really docummented. But the standard compared to Scheme it's huge.

PD: 2.2MB as HTML text weights nothing. You don't need images. It's 16MB uncompressed. More than 1500 items. People often forgets how little plain text weights.
by lproven | 2025-08-26 12:01:21+00:00
Thanks for that.

Yep, I have given my wife an old (but high-spec: i7, 16GB) Dell Latitude with ChromeOS Flex as her desktop. She seems to like it more than the MacBook Pro she had before, because it's simpler.

I discovered ChromeOS Flex can't play movie files. So I installed VLC in the Debian session. Now, when she clicks on any movie file, VLC opens automatically and it just plays. I didn't have to do any configuration; ChromeOS just knows that there's an app installed that can play filetypes including .MOV, .MP4, .AVI etc and it Just Works™.

I also agree re the Android move. I wrote about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/android_replacing_chr...

I like the current ChromeOS. I am concerned by the change.
by mvoto | 2025-08-26 12:01:28+00:00
I’ve been working on PostCraft AI, a tool that helps people who struggle with posting consistently on LinkedIn.

The idea came from my own problem: I wanted to share thoughts and updates online, but I’d get stuck either overthinking the wording, or not posting at all. Many people I spoke to (especially introverts and busy professionals) had the same issue: they wanted to post, but felt blocked by the blank page, or worried about losing authenticity if they leaned too much on AI.

So I built PostCraft AI to act more like a writing assistant than a content factory. It tries to preserve the user’s voice instead of generating generic text. The workflow is simple:

You give it a rough idea (bullet points, notes, or even a half-written draft).

It helps shape it into a LinkedIn-ready post.

You can edit and fine-tune the final draft as much as you want.

A few things I tried to do differently:

No "push-button, one-click" viral post generator. It’s meant to help you write, not replace you.

Lightweight interface, built with Next.js + Supabase + OpenAI’s API.

Focused on one platform (LinkedIn) instead of trying to be "all social media."

It’s live now, and you can try it out here: https://postcraft-ai.com. Feedback would be super valuable, especially on whether the tool actually feels helpful vs. just "yet another AI writer."
by thrance | 2025-08-26 12:01:46+00:00
How exactly is the US/Trump preventing the progress of this wave of authoritarianism? They're part of it, dummy. Using all their influence and power to prop up far right parties accross the continent, normalizing insane ideas about population control and ending democracy. There's no getting out of this without a genuine regain of interest in actual liberal values (not speaking of american democrats here), and Trump embodies their exact opposite.
by pansa2 | 2025-08-26 12:01:48+00:00
> python is no longer the "learn in a weekend" language

For the last 10 years, Python's evolution has been directed by professional developers working for large software companies, and they've focused on adding features that help them work on million-line Python codebases.

Even if the language was originally intended to be easy to learn and ideal for small programs, that's clearly not a design goal any more.

Is there a language today that’s as easy to understand as the “executable pseudocode” of Python 2.x? I haven’t found one.
by nchmy | 2025-08-26 12:01:57+00:00
You haven't used many screwdrivers if you don't hate some of them for stripping screws, slicing your hand etc.

Likewise, other ones exist that make jobs super easy - be they having a ratchet, or quick change of bits, etc

Programming languages seem to be a pretty good parallel. Though, I don't see why Python in particular would be hated. It has its bullshit, but it's workable.
by 33a | 2025-08-26 12:02:00+00:00
Signing doesn't protect against maintainer sabotage, but it could theoretically help if the registry were ever compromised. It mainly works to prevent MITM type attacks on the package distribution itself.

In the case of central package managers like rails/npm/cargo/etc., these benefits are very speculative, but there is probably some merit to adopting this approach in distributed ecosystems like go.
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-26 12:02:24+00:00
> Despite being ~1.5x bigger than the M4 Pro

Where are you getting M4 die sizes from?

It would hardly be surprising given the Max+ 395 has more, and on average, better cores fabbed with 5nm unlike the M4's 3nm. Die size is mostly GPU though.

Looking at some benchmarks:

> slightly more MT.

AMD's multicore passmark score is more than 40% higher.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6345vs6403/Apple-M4-Pro...

> worse efficiency

The AMD is an older fab process and does not have P/E cores. What are you measuring?

> worse ST performance

The P/E design choice gives different trade-offs e.g. AMD has much higher average single core perf.

> worse GPU performance

The AMD GPU:

14.8 TFLOPS vs. M4 Pro 9.2 TFLOPS.

19% higher 3D Mark

34% higher GeekBench 6 OpenCL

Although a much crappier Blender score. I wonder what that's about.

https://nanoreview.net/en/gpu-compare/radeon-8060s-vs-apple-...
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 12:02:28+00:00
> What does having an unquestioning mirror that is always gracious and reflects your own biases back at you, do to the mind in the long term? We don't know.

We _kind_ of do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folie_à_deux

Though I suppose this is more Folie à Un.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-26 12:02:34+00:00
Well, political action is hard to bring and you would need an average citizen to weigh his vote into action and not just use his vote for his own biases and as I also said, its really depressing when we think of this to be as a reality and I myself, would like to hide or somehow "prove" that this isn't the case if that makes sense. So no wonder the majority of us techie/hn users feel this way, you aren't wrong for the impression, I also feel like that's true atleast in my opinion being in this community and there is nothing wrong with that but the reality is kinda bitter.
by lapcat | 2025-08-26 12:03:03+00:00
macOS Sequoia was released Monday September 16, 2024. The likely release date of macOS Tahoe is Monday September 15, 2025. That's only 20 days from now. Those icons have already been redesigned in Tahoe. What do you expect to happen in the next 20 days? There will maybe be one final beta.
by yaro330 | 2025-08-26 12:03:04+00:00
> Weird because LNL achieved similar idle wattage as Apple Silicon.[0] Why do you say it's impossible?

And where is LNL now? How's the company that produced it? Even under Pat Gelsinger they said that LNL is a one off and they're not gonna make any more of them. It's commercially infeasible.

> Honestly not sure how your statement is relevant.

How is you bringing up synthetics relevant to race to idle?

Regardless, a number of things can be done on Strix Halo to improve the performance, first would be switching to some optimized Linux distro, or at least the kernel. That would claw back 5-20% depending on the task. It would also improve single core efficiency, I've seen my 7945hx drop from 14-15w idle on Windows to about 7-8 on Linux, because Windows likes to jerk off the CCDs non stop and throw the tasks around willy nilly which causes the second CCD and I/O die to never properly idle.
by bluGill | 2025-08-26 12:03:24+00:00
It isn't experts who remove it. It is professionals whothink they know. I've been trained on chainsaws by USFS experts - they used the safety gear and demonstraighted that used correctly things work just as fast. In fact they were often faster than the professionals who thought they were faster - because the planning and communication steps (6 steps) often saved more time than was gained by jumping in)

safety gear doesn't cost much time to put on. Checking the safety gear also finds not safety things wrong with it.
by ulfw | 2025-08-26 12:03:27+00:00
Okay so that removes the last reason to use Android.

This is just another 'it's only about money' move from Google. Only Google approved apps means monetised apps. Monetised means Google gets it's cut. Google gets richer. More in-app purchases, more ads, more money for Google

Customers? Eh. What? Huh? Who cares
by mhast | 2025-08-26 12:03:38+00:00
As someone who used to work for a bank building applications I would say no. This is definitely a feature companies and organizations like banks would request if it wasn't available.

There are a lot of scams targeting vulnerable people and these days attacking the phone is a very "easy" way of doing this.

Now perhaps there is a more forgiving way of implementing it though. So your phone can switch between trusted and "open" mode. But realistically I don't think the demand is big enough for that to actually matter.
by rcarmo | 2025-08-26 12:04:21+00:00
Yes, it exists. Ryzen mini-PCs with an M780 can run many 5-year old AAA titles (with caveats) and most indie games at 60fps. We use a 7840HS one as a Steam box, and stream the games to our iPads or the living room Apple TV (because, well, nothing you will find will ever be truly quiet when playing games).

But that was around $700 a couple of years back on sale, and these days you are looking at $1000+ (with 20-50% increments if you need a better GPU or multiple NVMe slots), plus the new Ryzen AI chipsets command an additional premium.

I’d give it 2-3 years for things to settle down and discrete GPUs to be come a thing of the past.
by codegladiator | 2025-08-26 12:04:35+00:00
> ```markdown-ui-widget { "type": "button-group", "id": "plan", "label": "Plan", "choices": ["Brainstorm", "Review", "Launch"], "default": "Brainstorm" } ```

markdown-ui-widget-html-version-long <button-group id=plan label=Plan choices="Brainstorm,Review,Launch" default=Brainstorm />
by ddq | 2025-08-26 12:04:43+00:00
After decades of consumerism, most consumers already have most of what they need/want, so in order to keep selling widgets, corporations must manufacture demand. Enough big screen TVs have already been built and sold to give every American a fully functional 60"+ screen in every room in their residence, enough lightly used ones to go around to completely negate the need to manufacture more. But profit must not go down for any reason, so they must invent gimmicks to push the latest and greatest model onto a public that can't even tell the difference without marketing propaganda.

The entire global economic system depends on the unceasing transformation of natural resources into a stream of disposable crap for the benefit of the ownership class and shareholding leeches. It's obviously unsustainable, but so are the mortal lives of those who benefit from the system. What incentive have they to save a world in which they will no longer have any stake? Better to live out their days in comfort and wealth by cutting down the saplings under whose shade they will never sit.

I say enough is enough.