MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rogerrogerr | 2025-08-07 17:05:41+00:00
Oh, it’s rational for them! That’s the problem - it’s always rational to treat anything you write as the highest level of liability. No one loses money by adding more disclaimers. Observe:

Drinking water is a good idea.

*check with your doctor if you are allergic to water, have a history of drowning, or are unable to distinguish water from ethanol. Do not consume water while intubated. People with rabies may have adverse reactions to water. Use caution when drinking water if you cannot swallow or are currently vomiting. Water from some sources may be contaminated. Salt water may contain jellyfish.

—-

My legal exposure from the initial statement went down with every little stupid disclaimer I added there, and there’s no penalty for each one. But you probably didn’t even read the full thing. We’ve created a culture of everyone feeling like they need to cover their ass, and the real important things get drowned out.
by bityard | 2025-08-07 17:05:49+00:00
Maybe in some cars, but certainly not all. I have a 2021 Highlander. We have no subscription to anything related to the car itself, but there is definitely a mobile connection sending data back to the mothership every time the car is turned on. I know this, because A) Toyota's manuals/literature say they do this, and B) There's an icon on the "infotainment" screen showing the signal strength.

All car manufacturers are extremely vague about what data they are sending, but you can assume it's basically everything: GPS location, speed, engine and maintenance data, control inputs (accelerator, brake, light switches), even seat occupancy. (Yep, mine has seat sensors for that.)

I spent several hours researching how to disable this thing and there is very little information on doing so for my exact year/model. What little info I did find says there's no easy and simple way. The fuse for it powers several other things. There is a module you can disconnect somewhere deep in the dash, but you lose other functionality like Bluetooth. And the car will probably constantly warn you about a failed module and turn your check engine light on.

My best guess right now is to find out where cell antenna is and bridge it with a 50-ohm resistor. (But that is not necessarily bulletproof either as dummy loads can still transmit, just with greatly reduced output.)

I have read that car manufacturers make these systems intentionally hard to disable because each one is a perpetual stream of income for them for as long as the car is on the road: They sell the data to data brokers who then re-sell it to insurers and various other customer profiling companies.

According to my Vehicle Privacy Support (https://vehicleprivacyreport.com), LexisNexis is the data broker that Toyota uses. I submitted Consumer Disclosure Report with them and 6 weeks later, a snail-mail letter arrived saying they were not going to disclose any of my information to me.
by bArray | 2025-08-07 17:05:53+00:00
I think I have said the following till I go blue in the face:

1. Mobile phone numbers are not secure. SIM jacking is a thing, and a 6 digit code is not impossible to guess (it's only 1 in a million).

2. Sending codes/links via email is problematic as described by the article.

3. Inconsistent "best practices" confuse users, and frustrate them.
by weego | 2025-08-07 17:06:15+00:00
Agreed, I always give my one pager product briefs to AI to break down into phases and tasks, and then progress trackers. I explicitly prompt for verbose phases, tasks and test plans.

Yesterday without much promoting Claude 4.1 gave me 10 phases, each with 5-12 tasks that could genuinely be used to kanban out a product step by step.

Claude 3.7 sonnet was effectively the same with fewer granular suggestions for programming strategies.

Gemini 2.5 gave me a one pager back with some trivial bullet points in 3 phases, no tasks at all.

o3 did the same as as Gemini, just less coherent.

Claude just has whatever the thing is for now
by mighmi | 2025-08-07 17:06:28+00:00
The etymology is:

> A deliberate misspelling of lead, originally used in instructions given to printers to indicate which paragraphs constitute the lede, intended to avoid confusion with the word lead which may actually appear in the text of an article. Compare dek (“subhead”) (modified from deck) and hed (“headline”) (from head).

Further:

> In 1990, the American author and journalist William Safire (1929–2009) was still able to say: “You will not find this spelling in dictionaries; it is still an insiders' variant, steadily growing in frequency of use. […] Will lede break out of its insider status and find its way into general use? […] To suggest this is becoming standard would be misledeing […] But it has earned its place as a variant spelling, soon to overtake the original spelling for the beginning of a news article."
by torium | 2025-08-07 17:06:29+00:00
> I'm all for self-hosting like this or using less known services.

I'm all for the idea of self-hosting in abstract, but in practice I don't want to spend my life looking after services.

I'm all for the idea of growing your own rice, but in practice I'd rather pay someone else to do it for me.

I'm not trolling, I'm just emphasizing a super super important aspect which HNers tend to minimize, which is that self-hosting is work and even people who are technically able to do it might not want to.
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-07 17:06:38+00:00
I love reading about old UI interface guidelines, and how much research was done to make it useful to the user.

Now it's all about how to make it useful to the company.

<YOUR FILES ARE NOT BACKED UP, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TURN ON ONEDRIVE?>

<Yes> <Maybe later>

Anyway, the links in that post have deteriorated.

Here's the link to Raymond Chen's blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20190218080905/https://blogs.msd... (shame on MS for redirecting you to another page when showing you a 404, which make it harder to find the original URL).

Updated link to Raymond Chen's blog, where the comments have been 'retired': https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080619-00/?p=21...

And the 2 imgur links (same issue with the redirecting...):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230509182201/https://i.imgur.c...

and

https://web.archive.org/web/20230507201645/https://i.imgur.c...
by didibus | 2025-08-07 17:06:48+00:00
A bit tangential, but I've wondered with AI where is the growth?

If you want to move up the stock, cost cutting is good, to some extent, but it has limits, competition can become more fierce, and the whole thing can become a race to the bottom, you cut cost, than you're forced to cut margins, and now you are no less profitable.

Growth requires new products, new markets, for people to spend additional money, to acquire more customers, etc.

A few companies are growing because their product is AI, so that's going to be new money coming in from people who want AI in itself.

But for those using AI?
by hirvi74 | 2025-08-07 17:06:59+00:00
That's quite a stretch. Lithium does not cure bipolar disorder nor is it effective in many afflicted. Also, Lithium is not the only medication for Bipolar Disorder, there are a double-digit number of alternative options.

Also, to my knowledge, we are not entirely sure why most, if not all, of the psychiatric drugs work. Plenty of hypotheses though.
by spauldo | 2025-08-07 17:07:09+00:00
I'll tell you how not to do it.

Require me to give you my contact information just to download something. Have sales people blow up my phone and/or email and ignore polite brush-offs. Keep reaching out to me periodically with requests to have a meeting about how you product can help me.

I don't have buying power, but I do have bitching power and your product will wind up getting bad-mouthed by the whole team eventually. And when the engineer asks us for recommendations, guess what we tell him?

Lookin' at you, Veeam, AWS, and Keyence.
by RugnirViking | 2025-08-07 17:07:27+00:00
Its illuminating to do the calculation begged by the article. 30.000 public servants employed. $7 million total salary. That's 233 dollars per person for a couple weeks work - apparently one fifth of what they used to be paid.

To be honest, I really have no idea what value money would have in a situation like Gaza anyways. This seems to be backed up by the "rampant inflation" mentioned in the article

That's... Really not very much. Not even in the third world.
by andrewla | 2025-08-07 17:07:42+00:00
There were numerous ships that attempted to traverse the Atlantic to form colonies in the Americas. Many were lost, or died out, or failed to thrive for unknown unknowns. And many survived and flourished for reasons not even the settlers understood, and which frankly we will probably never understand because the moment has passed.

In Aurora society took a one-shot approach. This strikes me as unrealistic; why weren't there dozens of competing attempts? I thought the book was one of the best treatments of generation ships that I've ever seen in scifi except for this. And I don't love the "also we discovered new physics and made a sentient AI on our ship somehow" plots (the latter is also a reason I never liked "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"). I get that it feels unjust or unfair or morally wrong to subject new generations to an experiment that they never signed up for, but that's just the way that humanity works -- all of our children are part of an experiment that they never signed up for, because none of us know (or can even conceivably know) the "right" way or environment in which to raise children.
by seuros | 2025-08-07 17:07:49+00:00
Author here: Let’s be clear on backups:

Yes, I had backups everywhere. Across providers, in different countries. But I built a system tied to my AWS account number, my instances, my IDs, my workflows.

When that account went down, all those “other” backups were just dead noise encrypted forever. Bringing them up to the story only invites the 'just use your other backups' fallback, and ignores the real fragility of centralized dependencies.

It is like this: the UK still maintains BBC Radio 4’s Analogue Emergency Broadcast—a signal so vital that if it’s cut, UK nuclear submarines and missile silos automatically trigger retaliation. No questions asked. That's how much stakes they place on a reliable signal.

If your primary analogue link fails, the world ends. That's precisely how I felt when AWS pulled my account, because I’d tied my critical system to a single point of failure. If the account was just Read only, i will waited because i could have access to my data and rotated keys.

AWS is the apex cloud provider on the planet. This isnt about redundancy or best practices.

it's about how much trust and infrastructure we willingly lend to one system.

Remember that if BBC Radio 4 signal get to fail for some reasons, the world will get nuked, only cockroaches will survive… and your RDS and EC2 billing fees.
by achrono | 2025-08-07 17:08:59+00:00
Key highlights in addition to the model quality itself:

* real-time router that quickly decides which model to use based on conversation type, complexity, tool needs, and explicit intent (for example, if you say “think hard about this” in the prompt)

* router is continuously trained on real signals, including when users switch models, preference rates for responses, and measured correctness, improving over time.
by Sevii | 2025-08-07 17:09:12+00:00
For factory optimization they didn't ask people to track their hours at 7 minute intervals. They put a camera on them and analyzed what they did over an entire shift. Then they redesign the factory line to optimize things. Having people manually track time has far more overhead and is less accurate in general. In practice I've never seen a software org take estimates or time tracking seriously beyond "Track your hours in 15 min increments against tickets".
by thegeomaster | 2025-08-07 17:09:51+00:00
SWE-Bench Verified score, with thinking, ties Opus 4.1 without thinking.

AIME scores do not appear too impressive at first glance.

They are downplaying benchmarks heavily in the live stream. This was the lab that has been flexing benchmarks as headline figures since forever.

This is a product-focused update. There is no significant jump in raw intelligence or agentic behavior against SOTA.
by mtlynch | 2025-08-07 17:10:12+00:00
What's going on with their SWE bench graph?[0]

GPT-5 non-thinking is labeled 52.8% accuracy, but o3 is shown as a much shorter bar, yet it's labeled 69.1%. And 4o is an identical bar to o3, but it's labeled 30.8%...

[0] https://i.postimg.cc/DzkZZLry/y-axis.png
by jdefr89 | 2025-08-07 17:10:21+00:00
It's cute when people think they can all exploit the current market and "get rich" when in reality they almost always just help the same people who are already rich, get richer. I say that as someone who has himself, started and sold a startup with a couple friend... The reality is I got SUPER LUCKY. The chances of any individual "making it" in the system that currently exists are minuscule to none. You might be better off playing the lottery and hoping to hit big. The chances of either are ridiculously low. The author didn't say how to solve the bubble crisis we are watching. Usually they aren't things you can solve. He simply acknowledged a huge one is forming and he isn't wrong.
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-07 17:10:45+00:00
Low dose lithium is not going to cause kidney failure. I was also responding specifically to OP advocating for people to intentionally not to take it so there is a ready supply of people to test it on who are not already on it for a long period of time (decades). They are advocating for self sacrifice.

This by default means there must be a large supply of people not on it for a long period of time who will suffer and die from Alzheimer's instead of just taking the supplement. That was my issue. It seemed to call for the self sacrifice of many in order to allow for a long term study. But I think you already know that if you read my response and just chose to focus on a single sentence.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-07 17:10:56+00:00
the stock price thing at least seems like Goodhart's law. Stock price is supposed to be a measure of investors' confidence in whether a company will make money, because (common, non-voting) stock is nothing more than entitlement to a share of the profits. How much will you pay me today for a tiny slice of the pie periodically over the lifetime of the company? The problem w this is twofold:

1) You can sell stock after you buy it, which isn't itself a problem but introduces a confounding variable. Now stock price is a reflection partly of investors' confidence that the company will make money, and partly of investors' confidence that the stock price will go up. These two obviously feed back into one another: if a company announces things that make it seem profitable the stock price will go up, which can drive another round of investing beyond what the announcement warrants just hoping that they can ride the wave upward and get off at the peak. I personally did this with dogecoin when it went on its bull run a few years back. Despite my wholehearted belief that DOGE was basically worthless, I saw the price going up so I threw some money at it with the intention of bailing as soon as I saw any substantial growth. I tripled my money in three days and greater fool'd my way out of that position.

2) The tail starts to wag the dog. The perceived health of the company should make stock prices go up, but the stock price going up ends up influencing the perceived health of the company. What other measure do we have? The answer of course is "several, but none as easily summarized and delivered as a single number that has either increased or decreased since yesterday".
by Anamon | 2025-08-07 17:11:02+00:00
One does not imply the other.

Many European countries have public broadcasters 100% funded by tax money, yet consistently rank among the most impartial and factual media. Them being 100% independent in their reporting, also from the government that funds them, is core to their mission, and they usually have oversight boards to ensure this. That's how it should work in a working democracy. The people decided that a truly independent news source is to everyone's benefit so should be publicly funded.
by jancsika | 2025-08-07 17:11:56+00:00
> “Click a link in the email” is a tiny bit better because it takes the user straight to the GOOD website, and passing that link to BAD is more tedious and therefore more suspicious.

Somehow this makes me think of Pascal's Wager...

You just got through describing an attack where the victim was not aware that a bad actor can trigger a bona fide password reset code at an arbitrary time. For your little table of threats, you posit that at least clicking the link goes to the bona fide web site.

But there's a separate little table of threats for the case where an attacker controls the timing of sending a fake email. I believe realtors have this problem-- an attacker hacks their email and hangs back until the closing date approaches, then sends the fake email when the realtor tells the client to expect one with the wire transfer number/etc.
by cb321 | 2025-08-07 17:12:00+00:00
There hasn't been a ton of benchmark comparisons. From memory, on what remains in examples/:

The cligen/dents stuff is faster than anything not so enabled with a new kernel call and some perf stuff mentioned right in the comments there, but Linux has moved to blocking installing syscalls from modules.

I've timed gl/grls against ripgrep favorably, but it's obviously a very simple pattern subcase. Mostly those were to demo cligen/procpool.

examples/cols was faster than awk or xsv for me (which has really moved to https://github.com/c-blake/bu now along with several others like `rp` - which is kind of a "concept piece" showing that any command-line is kind of a "language" already and with just a little codegen magic you can beat awk at most of its own games: https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/rp.md).

Some subthread in one of the hundreds of closed issue threads got into a comparison of dups and jdupes ( https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/issues/99#issuecomment-485... ) where Jody shows up. I mean, in my test cases dups fared well, but on what many would call the "boring non-IO bound case". For IO bound cases things rapidly depend a lot on your host OS & devices.

I should say that "the point" of most of these things was not caffeine-fueled rage optimization, but more to show how easy it is to get performance & functionality out of Nim. Almost all are much smaller programs (perhaps with many fewer features) than their competing programs. But such catering to The Unix Philosophy felt like it fit well with a CLI toolkit. { Even sys_batch is like a 30 lines of C virtual machine for inside Linux instead of untold 10s of thousands for eBPF & IO uring. While porting to other arches would be more, that 30 lines could probably stay the same. }
by losvedir | 2025-08-07 17:12:04+00:00
Wait, isn't the Bernoulli effect thing they're demoing now wrong? I thought that was a "common misconception" and wings don't really work by the "longer path" that air takes over the top, and that it was more about angle of attack (which is why planes can fly upside down).

It seems like it's actually an ideal "trick" question for an LLM actually, since so much content has been written about it incorrectly. I thought at first they were going to demo this to show that it knew better, but it seems like it's just regurgitating the same misleading stuff. So, not a good look.
by trod1234 | 2025-08-07 17:12:06+00:00
The sunsetting of research tax breaks would explain why they threw everything into this.

They also view labor as a replaceable cost, as most accountant based companies that no longer innovate act. They forget that if you don't hire people, and pay people, you don't have any sales demand and this grows worse as the overall concentration or intensity of money in few hands grows. Most AI companies are funded on extreme leverage from banks that are money-printing and this coincided with 2020 where the deposit requirements were set to 0% effectively removing fractional banking as a system.
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by ogandreakiro | 2025-08-07 17:12:21+00:00
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- Hybrid workflows - Combine scripting and AI agents to reduce costs and improve reliability

- Secrets vaults - Credential management to store emails, passwords, MFA tokens, SSO, etc.

- Digital personas - Digital identities with unique emails, phones for account creation workflows

With these tools, Notte allows you to automate difficult tasks like account creation, form filling, work on authenticated dashboards. Close compatibility with Playwright allows you to cut LLM costs and improve execution speed by mixing web automation primitives and include agents only for specific parts that require reasoning and adaptability.

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by x0x0 | 2025-08-07 17:12:29+00:00
my drive: files/folders are owned by a person

shared drives: owned by the org; potentially locked to teams/sub-org structures inside the org

The difference: suppose you're a startup and you use my drive only to save half the price of gsuite ($7 vs $14/mo). Your eng lead sets up engineering folder, etc. But that is owned by that user. If that person leaves, that folder will be archived or transferred to a designed person with access disrupted. Because it's owned by an user account, not the org.
by simmerup | 2025-08-07 17:12:30+00:00
It depends on the amount. In that example the sugar clearly isn't a problem, but if you're eating multiple donuts where you're getting 50g of sugar, then youre getting 25g of fructose.

And overloading your liver with fructose is linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, visceral fat and inflammation - just like drinking alcohol
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-07 17:12:42+00:00
Yeah, I don't get how this thread is at the top.

You debounce a physical switch because it makes contact multiple times before settling in the contacted position, e.g. you might wait until it's settled before acting, or you act upon the first signal and ignore the ones that quickly follow.

And that closely resembles the goal and even implementation of UI debouncing.

It also makes sense in a search box because there you have the distinction between intermediate vs. settled state. Do you act on what might be intermediate states, or do you try to assume settled state?

Just because it might have a more varied or more abstract meaning in another industry doesn't mean it's a bad analogy, even though Javascript is involved, sheesh.
by SergeAx | 2025-08-07 17:13:01+00:00
Four times a day, times say 5 years = 7_300 tries. Times 10_000 accounts ≈ 73_000_000 tries. They should have access to ~70 accounts by now.

Cheapest VPS is $5/month, residential proxies are $3/1Gb, which equals ~$200 / 5 years.

$3 per hacked account — is it good unit economy?