MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-08-12 18:15:47+00:00
These aren't mutually exclusive. Even in The Terminator, Skynet's method of choice is nuclear war. Yudkowsky frequency expressses concern that a malevolent AI might synthesize a bioweapon. I personally worry that destroying the ozone layer might be an easy opening volley. Either way, I don't want a really smart computer spending its time figuring out plans to end the human species, because I think there are too many ways to be successful.
by nfriedly | 2025-08-12 18:15:56+00:00
I let the ArchiveTeam Warrior docker run in the background on my file server, configured to contribute to whichever project archiveteam picks. When I first set it up, that was archiving telegram channels, but I took a peak yesterday and it was backing up goo.gl links. Apparently I've uploaded 94gb's worth of links already.
by jorams | 2025-08-12 18:15:58+00:00
Having plugged your numbers into the pricing for both Neon and Planetscale I'm rather confused. At Planetscale, given the numbers cited in the post, you're paying for 4 servers (+ replicas) with one eighth of a vCPU each, running 24/7. That's equivalent to about 375 Neon compute-hours per month. Your $69 Neon plan included twice that. Neon only goes down to 1/4th of a vCPU, but that does include the same amount of memory as the 1/8th at Planetscale, so take that 4 times and you have 4 databases running all month for the price of your $69 plan at Neon. How did you get to $250?
Show HN: Raspberry Pi with portable touch monitor with a single USB-C cable
by mmajzoobi | 2025-08-12 18:16:08+00:00
Raspberry Pi only exposes HDMI display ports.

That means every time I want to connect a monitor to the Pi I have to power my monitor using a separate power adapter.

I use portable monitors a lot and wished I could just use one USB-C cable to both power the monitor and send video signals.

One of my portable displays also has touch support which works when I connect it to my Macbook.

I wanted to also get touch display working with a single USB-C cable setup. This would allow me to put my Home Assistant dashboard on it and control everything with touch.

So I embarked on a prototyping journey and got this setup working.

I am designing a compact adapter board that will add this capability to Raspberry Pi 4 and 5.

I am documenting my design and prototyping journey on my blog and Youtube. This design will be open source with KiCAD files published.
by osmsucks | 2025-08-12 18:16:08+00:00
Yes, practically all of my projects are private and visible only to me. Servers IIRC are located in the Netherlands. It's free to use with limitations, and financed by donations from supporters.

More:

- Annual financial reports: https://disroot.org/annual_reports - Someone's review: https://proprivacy.com/email/review/disroot
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-12 18:18:06+00:00
Yeah, I mean there's a chance they're wrong and some chance they'll eventually be right. At this point it's clearly impossible to say for sure what the outcome might be. There were plenty of people in 2005 saying there was a housing bubble in the making and plenty of evidence that they were wrong. Were they right but too early? Were they wrong on fundamentals but happened to have guessed right? We could be seeing something similar here where the nay sayers are right for the wrong reasons, or they're simply haters whose desires may align with the eventual outcomes. Or not.
by kentonv | 2025-08-12 18:18:31+00:00
OK but the same vulnerability exists if short URLs weren't used -- in that case the link source would link directly to the now-hijacked domain. So why does Google have to care about this?

Is it because they're worried that the domain name goo.gl in the link implies a Google endorsement? Seems like they should have thought of that before launching the service in the first place?

Still, the frequency of actual abuse must be low and going down over time (due to the data set being read-only since 2019 and actual traffic to these links surely decreasing as time goes on)...
by tim333 | 2025-08-12 18:19:04+00:00
I've pondered recursive self-improvement. I'm fairly sure it will be a thing - we're at a point already where people could try telling Claude or some such to have a go, even if not quite at a point it would work. But I imagine take off would be very gradual. It would be constrained by available computing resources and probably only comparably good to current human researchers and so still take ages to get anywhere.
by saalweachter | 2025-08-12 18:20:30+00:00
I think the promise of secret knowledge is important, but I think cults also need a second thing: "That thing you fear? You're right to fear it, and only we can protect you from it. If you don't do what we say, it's going to be so much worse than it is now, but if you do, everything will be good and perfect."

In the rationalist cults, you typically have the fear of death and non-existence, coupled with the promise of AGI, the Singularity and immortality, weighed against the AI Apocalypse.
by singleshot_ | 2025-08-12 18:20:40+00:00
They don’t have a reasonable expectation of buying a surveillance-safe new car because one does not exist.

Other than that I hear you. You’re talking about the reasonable expectation in someone’s head but I’m talking about the possibility even existing in the marketplace. I guess you could argue maybe the reality of the market is trumped by the opinion of a person as to the reality of the market. I’m not sure that makes sense (or that ut doesn’t).

I guess you’re saying “they do have that expectation” while I’m saying “regardless of anyone’s expectation, car manufacturers have all addressed the market in a way that makes the expectation false and therefore unreasonable.”
by weego | 2025-08-12 18:21:07+00:00
In a similar role and place with this.

My biggest take so far: If you're a disciplined coder that can handle 20% of an entire project's (project being a bug through to an entire app) time being used on research, planning and breaking those plans into phases and tasks, then augmenting your workflow with AI appears to be to have large gains in productivity.

Even then you need to learn a new version of explaining it 'out loud' to get proper results.

If you're more inclined to dive in and plan as you go, and store the scope of the plan in your head because "it's easier that way" then AI 'help' will just fundamentally end up in a mess of frustration.
by greenie_beans | 2025-08-12 18:21:10+00:00
same. agents are good with easy stuff and debugging but extremely bad with complexity. has no clue about chesterson's fence, and it's hard to parse the results especially when it creates massive diffs. creates a ton of abandoned/cargo code. lots of misdirection with OOP.

chatting witch claude and copy/pasting code between my IDE and claude is still the most effective for more complex stuff, at least for me.
by Hamuko | 2025-08-12 18:21:19+00:00
>We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. We see continued evidence that Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing their source ASNs to hide their crawling activity, as well as ignoring — or sometimes failing to even fetch — robots.txt files.

Yeah, I'm sure that Perplexity would only have noble ideas in mind if the acquire a piece of software that is installed on >60% of the web-browsing population and automatically updates in the background.
Show HN: AI-Powered Trip Planner
by houdinimind | 2025-08-12 18:21:34+00:00
Help Needed! What should I do to promote this AI Travel Planner app? Without any coding experience, I spent 3 days vibe coding to build this travel planner app. But several months later, there are no downloads at all. I have a couple of issues that can’t be solved by vibe coding.

Main features: 1. Plan ahead: Users can create multiple trips and save the places they want to visit. They can also see the places on the map.

2. Place details: Users can access local weather forecasts, ETAs between places, place details, website, directions, phone numbers, and info. They can also use AI to ask for more info about any specific place.

3. AI planner: Users can choose a city and visit dates, then AI will create an itinerary based on their preferences or a travel guide page. Also, they can upload their flight tickets and reservation images, and then AI will add them to the itinerary accordingly. In short, users can just create a one-week itinerary in one minute, and AI will introduce each place.

Main Issues:

Positioning Issue: Too many competitors: I have to admit it’s not an amazing idea that no one has ever thought about. There are so many apps that do the same thing. I do want to get into a niche market rather than compete with those big apps, but I have no clue.

What are some niche markets in the travel industry I can explore?

Product Issue: There was no survey, and I just built this app based on what I need when I travel. I found it’s difficult to do the research before going to a new city. I need to decide if I should walk or take Uber between places based on the distance and ETAs. Need to know more info about a place, and prepare based on the weather.

Maybe people have different ways to plan their trips? Or they don’t need all this info when they travel. How do you plan your trip? What travel info do you usually need when you travel?

Promotion issues: I’ve tried app store ads and social media, but increasing the budget on cost per tap didn’t generate any taps or downloads.

Should I target some less competitive keywords? Or how should I advertise this app?

Tech issues: To keep the app secure, I just followed the suggestions by ChatGPT. The backend is based on Google services. Firebase Authentication, Firestore, AppCheck. Google Cloud Secret Manager to save OpenAI KPI key, Cloud Function to run OpenAI request, and API Gateway in the code. I heard many people without any coding experience accidentally exposed their API keys. I’m not sure if this is safe enough.

Should I improve anything?

Please let me know what I can do to solve these issues and promote this app. Thank you so much!
by pimlottc | 2025-08-12 18:21:50+00:00
There are a couple options for other containers (Podman, Orbstack) on their wiki [0]. But you're free to dig into the Dockerfile [1] if you really want to try to figure out how to run it directly.

0: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior#A...

1: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile/blob/maste...
by Terr_ | 2025-08-12 18:22:02+00:00
That's like saying it's wrong to test a robot's ability to navigate and traverse a mountain... because the mountain has no win-condition and is really a context for human emotional experiences.

The purpose of the test is whatever the tester decides it is. If that means finding X% of the ambiguously-good game endings within a budget of Y commands, then so be it.
by sdesol | 2025-08-12 18:22:30+00:00
Thanks for the info. I actually want to make it easy for people to review aider, plandex, claude code, etc. conversations so I will probably look at importing them.

My goal isn't to replace the other tools, but to make them work smarter and more efficiently. I also think we will in a year or two, start measuring performance based on how developers interact with LLMs (so management will want to see the conversations). Instead of looking at code generated, the question is going to be, if this person is let go, what is the impact based on how they are contributing via their conversations.
by pixl97 | 2025-08-12 18:22:45+00:00
>If you’re able to share them here without fear of government reprisal then I would argue that’s not censorship

I mean, the definition of censorship is far larger than just that, and what you're talking about is it's more extreme form.

Moreso you ignore all the modern subtlety and nuance of modern censorship. The government doesn't need to attack you directly, they just tell the large companies that contract with the government they can't do business with companies that do certain things. Or they tell payment processors that businesses that are 'high risk' need to be audited more and will invite more government intervention in which the payment processors just drop said businesses.

I mean, if you were on a corner protesting, then the government came in and closed the roads and routed all traffic around you so no one saw you, it would be really sus, right?
by thomastjeffery | 2025-08-12 18:22:46+00:00
> It's still a valid argument. Again I wasn't really endorsing any position there, but I do think that in general the government should try to protect children. The only way I could imagine you disagreeing with that broad mandate is if you're a strong libertarian in general?

My point is that it is not a strong argument. It isn't an argument at all! Instead, "think of the children" is a thoughtless appeal to emotion. The irony is that my position comes from actually thinking of the children. Censorship does not help children at all. Instead, it degrades well moderated platforms, which incentivizes children into interacting with poorly moderated platforms.

> I just don't see them as being in that significant of a position.

That's incredible to me. What website could possibly be more important to laypeople? Maybe YouTube or Facebook, I suppose, but neither of those could begin to replace Wikipedia.

> The real nuclear option--blocking the UK from accessing Wikimedia sites--would certainly garner some attention.

That's an understatement. Everyone would notice. Even more interestingly, it would illustrate to everyone the absurdity of internet censorship: everyone would immediately learn a workaround, because it's impossible to actually censor the internet.
by ggreer | 2025-08-12 18:23:19+00:00
Since the article is about an Australian court case and comments discussed the US & EU, I was using figures for the whole world, which seems to be 16-18% depending on the source.[1][2] Even if we restrict numbers to the US, 57% is rarely considered monopoly. You'd need significant barriers to entry, and the smartphone market has enough manufacturers that it would be hard to argue that such a barrier exists.

1. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight/post-insight-re...

2. https://www.idc.com/promo/smartphone-market-share/
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-12 18:23:22+00:00
Of course it is.

Investors can't set realistic expectations for AI, so an ocean of capital is chasing a dream. When the rent comes due, the quick will cut and run. The rest will turn to extraction. If you want a front-row seat to the clusterfuck that is aligning LLMs with product placement or selling users' conversations to advertisers, you're in luck. Grab some popcorn.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-12 18:23:23+00:00
Meanwhile, vim's spell checker is one of the best I have used. I recommend reading [:h spell](https://vimhelp.org/spell.txt.html#spell).

Here are some nice examples (excluding obvious edit distance based ones which it does right)

"snowbalfight" --> "snowball fight"

"unrelevant" --> "irrelevant"

"fone" --> "phone"

"the the" --> "The"

And all of this with auto capitalization if it notices you're at the start of a sentence, and stuff like handling proper nouns, punctuations, etc,.

What I find really interesting is swipe-type spell checking (its basically word prediction) on phones. That is a really cool problem to solve well. Sometimes it works like a dream and other times it's annoying. I wonder how they write those.
by CafeRacer | 2025-08-12 18:23:30+00:00
I'd predict a one person unicorn company potentionally possible, but this will be an inflated valuation company backed by someone, who is willing to prove a point. Not a company that delivers a great product and can be sustainable in the long run.

Purely from the operational perspective, you need to handle support, you need to handle billing, to handle lawsuits, to handle infrastructure, to handle incidents... and still have a good idea of what's going on.

So no, not sure it's happening.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-12 18:23:43+00:00
Some articles arguing that's already the case (and why):

- https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/

- https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic-and-openai-have-begun-...

For me, the only consolation is things seem to be moving fast nowadays so the inevitable collapse must be close. See what happened to Github's CEO, it took 1 week from cocky to fired, hopefully the same happens to sama, Zuck, Musk and all the snake oil salesmen in this space:

- 2-nd of Aug 2025 Github CEO delivers stark message to developers: "Embrace AI or get out of the industry" https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...

- 11-th of Aug 2025 Github CEO resigns https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas...

Hopefully the amount of instability in the space and the many signals of stagnation (e.g OpenAI's valuation divorced from reality, the GPT-5 release, Claude changing their limits, Meta spending millions on single hires) will indicate to people paying attention that it's a very volatile and bubbl-y space to invest in.

Sources:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/microsoft_ai_apocalyp...

https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/business/meta-pays-250m-to-lur...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/anthropic-unveils-new-rate...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/the-g...

https://fortune.com/2025/08/08/openais-reported-500-billion-...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/beneath-ai-bubble-economy-loo...

I personally can't wait for the bubble to burst so I can "told you so" to all the enthusiasts/fanboys.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-12 18:23:50+00:00
> True skepticism has to start with questioning one's self, but everybody seems to skip that part and go right to questioning everybody else.

Nuh-uh! Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote that his mother made this mistake, so he's made sure to say things in the right order for the reader not to make this mistake. Therefore, true Rationalists™ are immune to this mistake. https://www.readthesequences.com/Knowing-About-Biases-Can-Hu...
by brunohaid | 2025-08-12 18:23:51+00:00
Oh, didn't think that'd make it to the front page, appreciated! OP and builder here.

The website was purely because a friend and I were looking for design work during lockdown and put together a couple of things we recently worked on, but basic design and build was a fun ~6 months solo project.

We had a good discussion on https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/1mlo6hu/tryin... over the weekend with more details, but also happy to answer any questions here.
by wongarsu | 2025-08-12 18:24:22+00:00
There were also people who said in 1999 that there was an unsustainable bubble of "internet" businesses. And they were right. The bubble burst, and the internet still went on to change the world

No doubt there's a lot of stuff right now that's completely overvalued, and companies that try to do things that the technology just isn't ready for yet. Those will eventually be culled, either one by one or all at once in a big burst. But for the way AI changes industries and our lifes that will only be a speed bump
by bcrosby95 | 2025-08-12 18:24:23+00:00
My current guess is it's how the programmer solves problems in their head. This isn't something we talk about much.

People seem to find LLMs do well with well-spec'd features. But for me, creating a good spec doesn't take any less time than creating the code. The problem for me is the translation layer that turns the model in my head into something more concrete. As such, creating a spec for the LLM doesn't save me any time over writing the code myself.

So if it's a one shot with a vague spec and that works that's cool. But if it's well spec'd to the point the LLM won't fuck it up then I may as well write it myself.
by nicce | 2025-08-12 18:24:29+00:00
> We want more browser engines, and slowing down development, e.g. to yearly, every two, or every three year for major releases would go a long way to ensure that.

Maybe you forget why we want more browser engines? It is not that we want the same standards rewritten differently. We want more competition, so that we get new ideas and alternatives. Maybe others don't have to catch up, since some standards or practices are currently dictated by Google and not seen as good in general.
by dav_Oz | 2025-08-12 18:25:03+00:00
For me largley shaped by the westering old Europe creaking and breaking (after 2 WWs) under its heavy load of philosophical/metaphysical inheritance (which at this point in time can be considered effectively americanized).

It is still fascinating to trace back the divergent developments like american-flavoured christian sects or philosophical schools of "pragmatism", "rationalism" etc. which get super-charged by technological disruptions.

In my youth I was heavily influenced by the so-called Bildung which can be functionally thought of as a form of ersatz religion and is maybe better exemplified in the literary tradition of the Bildungsroman.

I've grappled with and wildly fantasized about all sorts of things, experimented mindlessly with all kinds of modes of thinking and consciousness amidst my coming-of-age, in hindsight without this particular frame of Bildung left by myself I would have been left utterly confused and maybe at some point acted out on it. By engaging with books like Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann or Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by Robert Musil, my apparent madness was calmed down and instead of breaking the dam of a forming social front of myself with the vastness of the unconsciousness, over time I was guided to develop my own way into slowly operating it appropriately without completely blowing myself up into a messiah or finding myself eternally trapped in the futility and hopelessness of existence.

Borrowing from my background, one effective vaccination which spontaneously came up in my mind against rationalists sects described here, is Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung which can be read as a radical continuation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason which was trying to stress test the ratio itself. [To demonstrate the breadth of Bildung in even something like the physical sciences e.g. Einstein was familiar with Kant's a priori framework of space and time, Heisenberg's autobiographical book Der Teil und das Ganze was motivated by: "I wanted to show that science is done by people, and the most wonderful ideas come from dialog".]

Schopenhauer arrives at the realization because of the groundwork done by Kant (which he heavily acknowledges): that there can't even exist a rational basis for rationality itself, that it is simply an exquisitely disguised tool in the service of the more fundamental will i.e. by its definition an irrational force.

Funny little thought experiment but what consequences does this have? Well, if you are declaring the ratio as your ultima ratio you are just fooling yourself in order to be able to rationalize anything you want. Once internalized Schopenhauer's insight gets you overwhelmed by Mitleid for every conscious being, inoculating you against the excesses of your own ratio. It instantly hit me with the same force as MDMA but several years before.
by sdesol | 2025-08-12 18:25:15+00:00
> current state of overspending on context

The thing that is killing me when I hear about Claude Code and other agent tools is the amount of energy they must be using. People say they let the task run for an hour and I can't help but to think how much energy is being used and if Claude Code is being upfront with how much things will actually cost in the future.
by rangestransform | 2025-08-12 18:25:41+00:00
> Were I to travel to D.C. for leisure, I would expect to see unhoused people because it’s a city.

You've really been stockholm-syndromed by this godforsaken country and Western culture's persistent aversion to enforcing the law against anyone perceived as less fortunate. This wouldn't be acceptable in peer Eastern countries' capitals like Singapore, Tokyo, or Beijing