MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mytailorisrich | 2025-08-11 16:07:28+00:00
This is about the duties of a "category 1 service" under the Online Safety Act. Wikipedia is one mostly because of their size, I believe. These duties are quite onerous, and over the top (someone might say that the government is seeing adults are real "snowflakes" these days):

Large user-to-user services, known as Category 1 services, will be required to offer adult users tools which, if they choose to use, will give them greater control over the kinds of content they see and who they engage with online.

Adult users of such services will be able to verify their identity and access tools which enable them to reduce the likelihood that they see content from non-verified users and prevent non-verified users from interacting with their content. This will help stop anonymous trolls from contacting them.

Following the publication of guidance by Ofcom, Category 1 services will also need to proactively offer adult users optional tools, at the first opportunity, to help them reduce the likelihood that they will encounter certain types of legal content. These categories of content are set out in the Act and include content that does not meet a criminal threshold but encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide, self-harm or eating disorders. These tools also apply to abusive or hate content including where such content is racist, antisemitic, homophobic, or misogynist. The tools must be effective and easy to access. [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act...
by nromiun | 2025-08-11 16:07:32+00:00
Because it is very hard to find new hardware to test it, let alone expect your users to take advantage of it on their machines.

AVX512 is such a mess that Intel just removed it after a generation or two. And on ARM SVE side it is even worse. There is already SVE2, but good luck finding even a SVE enabled machine.

Apple does not support it on their Apple Silicon™ (only SME), Snapdragon does not support it even on their latest 8 Elite. 8 Elite Gen 2 is supposed to come with it.

Only Mediatek and Neoverse chips support them. So finding one machine to develop and test such code can be a little difficult.
by mbesto | 2025-08-11 16:07:32+00:00
New todo apps have absolutely amazing UIs because people think the frustration of todo apps has to do with the UI. The thing is YOU WANT FRICTION in your todo app. There is something rewarding and satisfying about a UX where you've accomplished a task and you get to check it off.

The perceived holy grail of todo apps is the one that automatically creates tasks and then checks them off when we complete the task with zero interaction. This is wrong.
by hermannj314 | 2025-08-11 16:07:40+00:00
State sponsored babysitters?

Correct, the kid we were babysitting had an ear infection and we need parent authorization to adminster medicine. A simple phone call? Nope. The system require a lawyer, CPS, and several weeks delay at which point the kid didnt need the medicine, but we babysitter got to stay up every night for those two weeks listen to a kid cry we legally couldnt give medicine to.

We had no intention to adopt, we only wanted reconcilliation and to help kids. You seem to have a bone to pick with foster parents since you were quick to judge me and my wife's intentions.

We were glorified babysitters. Shitty, piece of shit babysitters apprently. I am glad we arent involved in that cluster fuck system anymore.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-11 16:08:07+00:00
I host my own wall calendar. There is an annual subscription cost, but it's so cheap I don't notice. I hacked it together with thumbtack 1.0 and Bic Crystal a very long time ago. Others have used it and find the interface extremely intuitive. Localization is supported. I even have pencil support. If things become tentative, we can switch over to it seamlessly. When I have a todo item, I input it onto the day and time that works best. Highly recommended.
by rancar2 | 2025-08-11 16:08:10+00:00
You can make Gemini CLI much better by making it behave more like Claude Code. Claude Code has some lovely prompt engineering at the system and subsystem level that can be replicated with Gemini CLI. I’m having great results already. I am still perfecting process and prompts to be a fully agentic system that can do well on benchmarks but more importantly do the right work with steerability, which was an absolute pain with Gemini CLI out-of-the-box. If you are interested, I can publish some of the basics now and then I can keep you posted as I develop it into a more robust system. Just email me at randycarlton@gmail.com with the subject: SaaS.bot (where this work will likely reside).
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-08-11 16:08:32+00:00
Not that these specs are outrageous, but “middle/low” is underselling it. The typical PC gamer has a modest system, despite all the noise from enthusiasts.

The Steam hardware survey puts ~5% of people with 64GB RAM or more

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-11 16:09:08+00:00
Just takes one google search to see that there are entire YouTube channels dedicated to the exact problem you claim doesn’t exist. Do bad parents exist? Yes. Do bad CPS agents exist? Also yes. Overzealous power tripping people exists in all functions of society, all the way from the guy checking receipts at the door at Walmart to the people in the highest places in the government.
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-11 16:09:27+00:00
Dialup could be had for very cheap last time I had if (big if) you had availability of cellular internet that is probably just as cheap now. However, the landline I had for dialup back in the day had become outright ridiculous in price by the time I convinced my wife we should cancel it (she liked that it worked when the power was out). It seems they don't even want to sell that service anymore.

VoIP is cheap but you need internet for VoIP and I'm not actually sure you could connect a modem to a VoIP even if it wasn't nonsensical.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-08-11 16:09:54+00:00
Trump created an executive order on that too, so they're trying: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/endi...

It directs the executive agencies to seek to loosen any restrictions on non-consentual admission to psychiatric facilities and to force homeless (and people with mental illness) into them.

It also aims to end drug abuse recovery programs and says that not having physical space for patients shouldn't stop them, IIRC.
by Jigsy | 2025-08-11 16:10:10+00:00
> They have surely ignored demands to censor Wikipedia in more authoritarian countries. What makes the UK different? Extradition treaties? Do they even apply here?

The UK has the authority to arrest them (anyone who owns a website) if they ever set foot in the UK if they feel they either haven't censored it adequately enough or refuse to do so.

It's one of the reasons why Civitai geoblocked the country.
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-11 16:10:20+00:00
>> Images of these driver’s licenses are publicly accessible web addresses, allowing anyone with the links to access them using their web browser.

Not justifying it, but many applications consider the uniqueness of the URL enough protection to prevent discovery.

> Is this just bad development? Are these just things could be missed by any developer or team?

It's not knowing them. And when you vibe-code something, and don't prompt for it, it's not gonna do it.
by nixpulvis | 2025-08-11 16:10:42+00:00
I'd be happy if I could define my own notification system on top of a text file tbh.

I can't tell you how many times I would have forgotten something if I had not made it a timestamped reminder.

That said, most apps all suck in various ways. So I feel the urge to just use text.

I'm currently using Reminders.app (the default on iOS) and it's nice that it's somewhat lightweight. But organizing things is clunky and the experience feels flimsy.

All throughout college I used Trello, and frankly it was better that way. I should go back, except every time I log in something new is different and I don't like change.
by whs | 2025-08-11 16:10:59+00:00
I kinda want to quit making my code publicly available. It is my believe that the model may output license contaminated code and any license I put into my code will not be accurate, so my policy is I don't use AI coding on my publicly available open source code. However, this also means that I'm working for free fueling the AI industry.

However, it is quite fun to remove the boring part in programming with AI, so any hobby code I write I won't be making them public.

Currently I'm working on a way to use models trained from MIT-licensed code (eg. Comma) by using normal commercial model to supervise it. I believe this make the output code only be tainted with permissive code, and so I can now slowly use AI to write open source code again.
by CodingJeebus | 2025-08-11 16:11:13+00:00
Curious to see how this works out. The flight booking example is interesting because it’s one of the last purchase powers I’d want to hand over to an AI.

If it gets a major travel detail wrong, purchases a business class ticket on accident, etc. and I need to adjust the booking by calling the airline, then I’m way less happy than I was if I just bought the ticket myself. Not to mention what happens when Google flights gets a UI refresh and knocks the accuracy rate of the agent down even 10%.

Digital criminals are gonna love it, though.

I’m personally much more interested in automating browser tasks that aren’t economically valuable because that mitigates the risk.
by lordkrandel | 2025-08-11 16:11:16+00:00
Nothing. You protect yourself with hiding your code away from Github. Anyway, when software will be produced WITH LLMs, that will inevitably repeat your code, then you will sue. Opensource is MADE to be copied. It's meant to be. You WANT it. You just want it to benefit EVERYONE and not corporations who make money out of it, and there are defenses to that. Opensource, free software, is a philosophy, not a business opportunity per se. Business is just tangential to it.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-11 16:11:20+00:00
Granted that these particular apps require personal information, but why should a general-purpose app ever need it in the first place?

A few weeks ago, I wanted a walk-tracking app that would show me a map of where I'd been, the distance, not much else (maybe the time it took to walk it). Looks nice, download the first one I find... wants me to register and sign in. Why? This should all remain local on my iPhone. I think I went through 5 of them before I realized they were all junk. It's bad enough that I'd consider a monthly subscription (none were "it costs this much, once" up front), but the idea that I want them data-mining me trying to be a little less fat was absurd to the point of lunacy.

This was all thoroughly broken long before "vibe coding".
by mandevil | 2025-08-11 16:11:45+00:00
The whole point of Facebook is that your friend network is going to be largely similar to you: that's how they can impute your interests from analyzing the interest of your friend network and then target ads for you. So what most Americans will see will be largely posts by other Americans. Immigrants from Algeria etc. will have overlapping interests and serve as node-points to move posts from one network to another, but still the majority of posts that an American will see, even on a controversial international topic like Israel/Palestine, will be from Americans, and thus largely outside of the Israeli censorship program.

Thus, my point is that your claim of personal experience as an American doesn't really have much bearing on the question of the scale of the censorship here. They are trying to bring to life censorship that is largely happening away from Americans, where Facebook historically doesn't exercise the same levels of care and respect for speech that they do with Americans (see Haugen's Facebook Files leaks).

I've also got to say that this article has apparently been flagged out twice already seems to be in line with the point of the original article. I know from experience that Facebook moderation discussions don't usually attract this level of flagging, so I'm pretty sure that this has to be related to Israel/Palestine, not Facebook.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-11 16:11:51+00:00
It's not that it's subsidized so much as that 1-500k of hoop jumping makes financial sense when your goal is to turn a forested lot on the side of the highways into a Costco or Target or some other Mecca for people with lots of money to spend.

The amount of hoop jumping is the same if you're putting in a family mini golf with a restaurant and bumper cars. But you'll never make it back so the development never happens...
by GeekyBear | 2025-08-11 16:12:12+00:00
It's covered a little farther down in the article.

It's optional, and the user's permission to send a request to ChatGPT is required every time.

> In most cases, LLM-related features built into iOS and macOS use Apple's own models, which live under the Apple Intelligence branding umbrella. But it gives users the choice of referring a prompt to ChatGPT on a case-by-case basis when the prompt is outside the scope of what Apple's models are designed for.
by estearum | 2025-08-11 16:12:14+00:00
You're asking for data that shows that people walk to schools when they're close? Seems self evident that if you're half a block from school 0% of people will drive and if you're 15 miles from a school, 100% of people will drive.

But okay...

Distance and traffic danger (also a function of urban planning decisions) are by far the strongest predictor of whether kids walk to school.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10917142/
by pc86 | 2025-08-11 16:12:40+00:00
Nobody is making that strawman of an argument. Most states give CPS very little (or no) ability to simply ignore reported child abuse. They get reports and they have to investigate.

"The local law enforcement agency is required to investigate all reports. Cases may also be investigated by Child Welfare Services when allegations involve abuse or neglect within families." [0]

Just one example, but 27 states came up in my search for where CPS has little or no latitude in choosing which allegations to investigate.

[0] https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/ss/ap/childabusereportingguide.asp
by dugmartin | 2025-08-11 16:12:49+00:00
If you live in VS Code there is a notes plugin that lets you create and manage Markdown notes in the sidebar. I usually create one note per repo and then pin the tab in that repo. If you work on a lot of projects it is a great way to segregate your todos by project so you don’t get overloaded. I also have a todo folder that has multiple notes pinned (today, scratchpad and long term notes) that I keep open in my main workspace window. It works for me, YMMV.
by claytongulick | 2025-08-11 16:12:53+00:00
There are a few different ways.

One really easy way is to put a custom element at the root of the dom and just add/remove event listeners, maybe one-shot if that's all you need.

I also have a convenient little library called ApplicationState [1], which basically does the same thing but can persist state in indexdb.

Lots of other libraries out there too.

[1] https://claytongulick.github.io/applicationstate/
by jonas21 | 2025-08-11 16:13:07+00:00
> GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media.

Huh? The whole premise on which Github was founded was that it was "social coding". The phrase was even in the logo in the early days [0]. Social features like stars, following, and the activity feed have been there from very early on.

If anything, I feel like Github has become a lot more corporate and enterprisey since getting bought by Microsoft.

[0] https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/3e6c0720-b15a...
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-11 16:13:11+00:00
We're talking about the prompting advice the author gave as vague spellcasting. How and why does it help getting to that output prompt faster? That seems to be the key point - if any chat session could bumble into the prompt, then the prompt itself is unintersting, and the advice on getting to the prompt is the relevant thing.

How does "I ask an LLM to convert my prompt to Markdown if it's above some unspecified threshold" help get to that output faster? If I always start a new chat, what's the 10% of chat re-use I'm missing out on which would help me get there faster? What are the "extra" rules I should be sure to include?
by benterix | 2025-08-11 16:13:16+00:00
This is the tricky part. The whole point of agents is, well, do things so that we don't have to. But if you need to check everything they do, you might as well copy and paste from a chat interface...

Which makes me feel early adopters pay with their time. I'm pretty sure the agents will be much better with time, but this time is not exactly now, with endless dances around their existing limitations. Claude Code is fun to experiment with but to use it in production I'd give it another couple of years (assuming they will focus on code stability ans reducing its natural optimism as it happily reports "Phase 2.1.1 has been successfully with some minor errors with API tests failing only 54.3% of the time").
by codazoda | 2025-08-11 16:13:24+00:00
I've hatched a plan to build a light-weight AI model on a $149 mini-pc and host it from my bedroom.

I wonder if I could follow that up by buying a 3090 (jumping the price by $1000 plus whatever I plug it into) and contrasting the difference. Could be an eye opening experiment for me.

Here's the write up of my plan for the cheap machine if anyone is interested.

https://joeldare.com/my_plan_to_build_an_ai_chat_bot_in_my_b...
by gbacon | 2025-08-11 16:13:27+00:00
You may be able to.

Pilots with useful vision in only one eye may obtain medical certification upon demonstrating the ability to compensate for the loss of binocular vision and to perform airman duties without compromising aviation safety. The Aviation Medical Examiner should not issue a medical certificate of any class to a monocular applicant unless he/she presents written evidence of prior clearance by the FAA. The Examiner may assist the applicant in the initial steps toward obtaining the clearance by submitting a Report of Eye Evaluation, FAA Form 8500-7, along with the application, and any other available information from the applicant's treating ophthalmologist. An airman is considered to have monocular vision if the best-corrected central visual acuity in an eye is 20/200 or worse.

https://www.aopa.org/go-fly/medical-resources/health-conditi...
by davidelettieri | 2025-08-11 16:13:41+00:00
The problem is not WeBuilt, issues usually arise with subcontracting.

Calabria is home of Ndrangheta https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Organized-crime/Projects/...

Ndrangheta is a huge criminal organization with ties to politics and a lot of economic power and it is based in Calabria.

The current government actively proposed special antimafia rules for checking contractors and subcontractors for the bridge which, IMHO, reinforce the idea that it is a gift to mafia. Luckily the proposal was rejected by the president https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/strait-bridge-no-derogation-a...

We already had issues with ndrangheta and infrastructures for example https://transparency.eu/the-eternally-unfinished-highway/ or https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioia_Tauro

All of this only on one side of the bridge, on the other you have Sicily.

I think that there are reasonable doubts about mafia interference with the construction of the bridge.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-08-11 16:13:58+00:00
That looks quite nice. A lot cleaner than the Irish teletext I remember with its very blocky text. I assume it is benefiting from modern fonts on that page and didn't look like that in the 90s?

It re-confirms my view that the terminal can be a great way to consume news if the content is specifically created for that format. Just using elinks to browse news websites doesn't really work well these days. I wonder if there are any telnet-based news services (or similar) out there still.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-11 16:14:02+00:00
The correct path of action would be, if you have children, to have the correct kind of lawyer on retainer already. This is the unfortunately reality we have.

You do not speak with the police, you calmly but firmly inform them that they can return with a warrant if they think there is something actionable.

You then proceed legal action against the false reporter. Sometimes all you can get is a no contact order, sometimes you can get a stalking injunction, sometimes a full blown restraining order. This is why you want a lawyer ahead of time, they know how to deal with this.
by netsharc | 2025-08-11 16:14:07+00:00
> I can't imagine that the image shown in CarPlay Ultra is still rendered on the phone. It's used to show all driving relevant things (speed etc.). Is a wireless connection to the phone reliable enough so this would be allowed by regulators?

For efficiency's sake, I hope it's like a theme (in the style of Winamp, or well, Windows XP), so you can pick some theme on your phone, and the phone tells the car to use that theme while rendering the car's instruments. For UI elements needing data from the phone (like album cover image), the theme would tell the car computer to fetch it from the phone. Considering the state of the tech industry, it's probably HTML and CSS too. And Javascript. Goatse anyone?

By the way... who the hell thinks it's important that someone operating a 800+ horsepower car should be able to be distracted by what the album cover of the music currently playing looks like..?
by Terretta | 2025-08-11 16:14:09+00:00
Author (who also replied to you) might have been "doing it wrong" but no wonder, Anthropic only made Claude Code smarter about this 5 days ago and there's too much to keep up with:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-security-review

The new command is something like /security-review and should be in the loop before any PR or commit especially for this type of web-facing app, which Claude Code makes easy.

This prompt will make Claude's code generally beat not just intern code, but probably most devs' code, for security mindedness:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-code-sec...

The false positives judge shown here is particularly well done.

// Beyond that, run tools such as Kusari or Snyk. It's unlikely most shops have security engineers as qualified as these focused tools are becoming.
by Warwolt | 2025-08-11 16:14:23+00:00
I found "A philosophy of software design" to be a well intended but somewhat frustrating book to read.

It seemingly develops a theory of software architecture that is getting at some reasonable stuff, but does so without any reference _at all_ to the already rich theories for describing and modeling things.

I find software design highly related to scientific theory development and modeling, and related to mathematical theories like model theory, which give precise accounts of what it means to describe something.

Just taking the notion of "complexity". Reducing that to _just_ cognitive load seems to be a very poor analysis, when simple/complex ought to deal with the "size" of a structure, not how easy it is to understand.

The result of this poor theoretical grounding is that what the author of A Philosophy of Software Design presents feels very ad-hoc to me, and I feel like the summary presented in this article similarly feels ad-hoc.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-11 16:14:23+00:00
This is harsh, but I agree with most of your points. The "blackmail" remark I find particularly damning: Threatening future leaks until Facebook stops "involvement with the Israeli government" is basically a self-admission that you put political success over journalistic integrity.

That turns you from a "legitimate" whistleblower (like Snowden) into an activist (at best) in my eyes.