MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VitalKoshalew | 2025-08-20 05:52:57+00:00
Servers don't have Desktop GUI, so there is no way you can run a browser on a real server installation. That's done specifically to limit the attack surface. This applies to almost all Windows Server roles except very few such as ADFS which Microsoft is struggling to migrate for decades. Definitely to the root of all security - AD DC.

If you've elected to create a Frankenstein of a domain controller and a desktop/gaming PC and are using it to browse any websites, all consequences are entirely on you.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-20 05:53:29+00:00
The article is full of shit. SD Express cards, by virtue of being PCI-E x1 or x2, top out at whichever gen of PCI-E they implement.

Lets say its a brand new 4.0 card that implements x2 lanes, that is 3.93GB/s maximum speed (there aren't any 5.0 cards yet, afaik, but double that for 5.0).

Want to know where that 900MB/s figure came from? A 3.0 x1 card is 984MB/s. That is the first gen SD Express cards when the spec was launched, but not the currently available ones.

In other words, this is a PR release, this isn't news. It's marketing. They chose the worst case of their competitors, the best case of their own, and lied by omission.

Also, re: Valve's position on M2: they didn't support even swapping them when it first came out, although obviously allowed and expected, because you can put M2s in the device that are outside of the thermal parameters allowed by the design due to proximity to the battery and other heat producing items. This is also why they specifically used a 2230, as those are usually the lower power models meant for ultrathin laptops.

That said, Valve has worked with a few companies to get some officially blessed 2230s that actually do fit the intended use case and are also performant.

Like, if you think the Steam Deck sucks for actually doing the swap job, a) the new OLED replacement internally is a lot saner, with both construction and PCB layout, b) go try dealing with the really nasty designed laptops that don't have an externally accessible panel covering the drive bay; they're worse.
by lazide | 2025-08-20 05:53:35+00:00
Pol Pot was literally China’s man in Southeast Asia. He was taught by the French Communists. Vietnam hated the French (past colonizers), and the Soviets backed the North Vietnamese - and the Chinese disliked the Soviets. Power balance thing within the Communists.

It rarely spilled over directly until Cambodia kept crossing over into Vietnam and murdering people when they got overzealous with their own internal murdering. Eventually Vietnam got fed up and stomped on them.

The CIA hated both of them with a passion.

You have no idea what the hell you’re talking about.
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-20 05:53:42+00:00
Sadly much more common than it should be. The durations vary widely, but with the price of airline tickets and the nature of corporate software engineering jobs, it's extremely easy to self-justify a month abroad. The US government allows 6 months officially for green card holders.

If it wasn't literally 10x cheaper to live abroad than it is to live in Seattle/San Jose, it wouldn't be as prevalent. And not to mention, the quality of life is often better at the 10x cheaper price as well.

I can give you as much proof as you would like!
by ethersteeds | 2025-08-20 05:53:54+00:00
Huh. I'm sure there's some projects that release exclusively via docker or snap/flatpak, but in my experience that's pretty uncommon. Far more often I see a release page with a dozen or more options. Binaries for Arm, AMD64, flatpak, snap, a few flavors of Mac, dockerfile, and of course the venerable tarball. The advanced will have deb and rpm as well. I see these options as very much aligning with the spirit of free or open source software: everyone can pick what's best for themselves.

Obviously when the choices are removed and there's cramming down throats, that's a problem. And I'm sure being forced to shuck software from a container would leave a bad taste. However I don't see the popularity of the formats you dislike as causing a broad decline of those you do.
by card_zero | 2025-08-20 05:54:10+00:00
But the article, or the book it's promoting, isn't making any very strong point. I checked. It's saying that animals have great senses, and some of them can see Saturn's rings on a clear night. But they don't know or care that they're seeing Saturn's rings, and they don't have telescopes anyway, and we do and can see the rings much better if we want to, because we do want to, because we think about the things that we can see. So, I don't know, maybe there's nothing to talk about here except sidetracks.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-20 05:54:22+00:00
> Shares of Brazilian financial companies tumbled amid growing fears about the impacts from the US Magnitsky law sanctions on local lenders.

> Some of the largest Brazilian banks are concluding that the US sanctions against Justice Alexandre de Moraes apply only to his dollar-based accounts, limiting their potential impact on the country’s financial system

> "Brazil appears poised to intensify its confrontation with the United States" following the Supreme Court’s ruling, which has led to sharp declines in Brazilian stocks, especially those in the banking sector
by sema4hacker | 2025-08-20 05:56:15+00:00
> Copilot doesn’t learn. Not really. It doesn’t know what rqlite is trying to become. It doesn’t remember that last week we made a small refactor to make future development easier, or that I abandoned a particular idea as a dead end. Every session is a fresh start. There is no growth. No shared context. No mentoring relationship... There’s no growing rapport. Just output.

So... you don't have a "team".
by ofrzeta | 2025-08-20 05:57:12+00:00
"It is very efficient," Munnelly told the Forrester conference. "It does what our team used to do in about two weeks, in a day. It will strip through our documents and the legislation and produce a 25-page document for a client as a first draft.

"That speed is important," he added. "If we have a client who is about to do a merger, and they want to understand the tax implications, getting that knowledge in a day is much more important than getting it in two weeks' time."

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I really wonder what is the foundation for their confidence in LLMs. If you have ever used ChatGPT you will be highly skeptic that the output is correct. If it's code, you can at least compile, typecheck, run it, to verify it to some extent. How do you do that with a 25 page report?
by winternewt | 2025-08-20 06:00:10+00:00
> The amount of shady things going on in this domain (AI trained on stolen content, no proper attribution, not proper way to audit what's going out to third party servers etc.) should be a huge red flag for any professional developer.

If you already have your entire information infrastructure in Office 365 (including all email, Excel sheets with material non-public information etc) I think this point is moot. Why would MS abuse information only from Copilot and not the rest of its products when the legal agreements permit them to do neither?
by overfeed | 2025-08-20 06:00:47+00:00
I was going by the fine article's own definition.

> His definition is about whether there are certain “special people” to whom the general laws of the universe don’t apply

His definition can get fuzzy at the edges - Understand and The Story of Your Life has very special narrators - does it matter why they're special? They could have been a seventh son of a seventh son, foretold by prophecy, gotten abilities from a magic potion, or a burst of gamma rays. It's just that the premise of the stories is science fiction-y. I've just realized the protagonists of "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Story of Your Life" have similar beats in their stories, despite belonging to different genres.

Charles Stross (hi!) retconned the Merchant Princes series from straight parallel-worlds fantasy into parallel-worlds SF on book 3 or 4 of the series (it might have been part of lightly rewriting 6 novellas into a trilogy). The transition was seamless, the distinction between Science Fiction and Science Fantasy is gossamer thin.
by tgbugs | 2025-08-20 06:00:50+00:00
Given that blue books are likely to make a comeback in college as one solution to AI based cheating, I think that rumors of handwriting's death are somewhat exaggerated. Unfortunately that means that the ability to write in cursive might become a class marker, but given that being literate is likely to also become a class marker, not sure it is worth worry about >_<.
by SCdF | 2025-08-20 06:02:37+00:00
https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/our-response-to-the-january-2...

> No customer data was accessed

As far as I can tell this is a lie.

The real answer is that they have absolutely no clue if customer data was accessed, and no way to tell. I'm not even sure Github could tell, but it's not clear if the exploits way of generating private keys to access private repositories is any different to what CodeRabbit does in normal operation.
by bawolff | 2025-08-20 06:02:42+00:00
At first glance the library of congress link appears to be using server side XSLT, which would not be affected by this proposal.

The congress one appears to be the first legit example i have seen.

At first glance the congress use case does seem like it would be fully covered by CSS [you can attach CSS stylesheets to generic xml documents in a similar fashion to xslt]. Of course someone would have to make that change.
Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
by mbix77 | 2025-08-20 06:03:03+00:00
I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network.

Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it.

Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN" but it wasn't enabled.
by neom | 2025-08-20 06:03:05+00:00
Not OP but I write by hand daily, I take all my meeting notes by hand and all my personal notes by hand too actually. Over a full day I probably do an hour or so of writing. I also often lug quite a few different notebooks around with me (agenda, customer notes, meeting scratch, brainstorming/abstracting): https://s.h4x.club/8LuKkvpP - I'm a bizniz person on the strategy/growth side of things.
by jeffchuber | 2025-08-20 06:04:24+00:00
> Supabase/pgVector needs lots of resources when adding new rows to the index -> wish the resources scale up/down automatically. Instead of having to monitor and switch to the next plan.

Many ways potentially - but one way is Chroma makes all this pain go away.

We're also working on some ingestion tooling that will make it so you don't have to scale, manage or run those pipelines.
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-20 06:05:07+00:00
There's a thing in China where younger generations have to write out the pinyin for certain words when writing notes by hand. (I'm not sure if it's because they've forgotten the characters, or just how to write them. Maybe a little of both?)

So for example, if someone is jotting down a grocery list, they'll write common words like rice or milk in Hanzi, but then struggle to remember the characters for deodorant, and just write it out using pinyin.

There's a lot of hand-wringing about it there as well. Kids these days!
by merb | 2025-08-20 06:05:14+00:00
> Also, note that once everyone is "forced" to switch to automation, many will be doing it wrong just the same

tbf I think that is fine, overall the outcome after a while is still better than the current system. of course our industrial revolution also did not everything correct, but now in 202x I think the world is way better than before.

the same happening now with social media, of course not everything there is correct, especially misinformation. but the world still got closer through social media
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-08-20 06:06:42+00:00
While I'm not sure I agree with you entirely, I will say that any culture that fails at reproducing itself will ultimately be replaced by one that does.

The sad thing is that culture will probably have less concern over individual rights and freedoms, and much more likely to be collectivist and religious.

Not sure I like where this is headed, honestly, but I hope I'm not around to see the fall of liberal democracy.
by en | 2025-08-20 06:06:57+00:00
As I am mainly left-handed, I learned to like writing with a nice wooden pencil, like Faber-Castell, and a sharpener. Then, if it is something serious and if it is possible to use a felt pen, I use Staedtler or Faber-Castell felt pens in different sizes. I hate ballpoint pens.
by whimsicalism | 2025-08-20 06:07:39+00:00
I disagree - I saw a number of comments I would consider rude and unprofessional and once a PR gets posted on HN, frankly it typically gets much worse.

I find people on HN are often very motivated reasoners when it comes to judging civility, but there’s basically no excuse for calling people “fuckers” or whatever.
by rgovostes | 2025-08-20 06:08:00+00:00
I wonder how many people have paid for International Drivers Permits from scam websites. In the US these are only issued by AAA, and until recently they were only available by mail or in person, creating an opening for grifters to sell print-at-home PDFs.

(The concept seems outdated, and I've successfully rented cars abroad without an IDP at all. Also, isn't it weird that authority to issue these is delegated to AAA, and them only?)
by sema4hacker | 2025-08-20 06:08:38+00:00
> Qudan said that part of it – 5% was the figure given, though she now says that was only an approximation – was written using artificial intelligence. This, she tells me, comprised parts of the novel which are presented as a character’s exchange with ChatGPT.

So ChatGPT didn't "write her novel", ChatGPT was used to create about 5% of the novel that describes a character's exchange with ChatGPT.
by defrost | 2025-08-20 06:09:32+00:00
> How do you do that with a 25 page report?

Like any technical 25 page report it'll be ballpark with reality, shorter to read and grasp than crawling through a wall of document filled boxes, and passed to other people to 'verify' / offer their opinions on.

Once contracts are in place with millions of dollars in play (or tens of millions, or billions) there will be clauses addressing responsibility and recompense should key parts of the reports upon which an agreement is based prove to be false.

The world runs on technical reports that aren't perfect, but "near enough"; errors are assumed and a frequency of deliberate malfeasance (knowingly lying, misleading, faking results) can be estimated.

Part of my career consisted of producing summaries of two to three thousand documents a day from stock markets about the globe, documents that ranged from three lines announcing a change on a board, a table disclosing a change in holdings by largest investors, etc. to large (hundred+ page) quarterly and annual reports, to small book economic feasibility reports with wads of raw data, interpretation, proposed plans, costings, timelines, etc.

> It will strip through our documents and the legislation and produce a 25-page document for a client as a first draft.

is the key point here, it's a rapid first draft of the major dot points seen to be most important for <whatever>. It is intended to be crawled through with a finer comb and a keen eye before contracts are signed based on a separate framing of <deal>.

The big change here is that an AI churns out a draft faster, the quality of the document will be as suspect as a non AI created human first draft .. untrusted.
by woodpanel | 2025-08-20 06:11:16+00:00
As someone who values fast typing, and optimizing it as a way to minimizing the gap between thought and implementing it (e.g. from smart auto-completes to vim mode, etc ) I can hardly fathom how any like minded person can willingly throw away this amazing tool called hand-writing.

Sure, it doesn’t „scale“ into large texts as good as a keyboard, but beats „the digital“ still when it comes to immediacy, expressiveness and intimacy.

hand writing comes with close to zero dependencies: no software, no os, no booting time, no charging - just hand, surface, and optionally an instrument. It is offline first, offers great privacy, and fun.

This whole discussion seems to be driven by modern intelligentsia dismissing that they themselves most likely used cognitive foundations built by their hand-writing as a starting point into their own current skill-realm. For the vast majority of people (the non-intelligentsia) hand writing is an essential tool, and we shouldn’t deprive them and our kids of developing the cognitive links that come with using it.

In short: You don’t use keyboards for small or quick amounts of texts, just like you wouldn’t handwrite a code-base.

IMO The bigger „threat“ to hand-writing is proper voice assistants.
by mlyle | 2025-08-20 06:12:14+00:00
How much of it doesn't? We're deterministic? (aren't we less deterministic than LLMs?) All of our training is auditable? (there's a wealth of unknown experiences in each person writing code, to say nothing of the unknown and irrelevant experiences in our evolutionary background).

Maybe you can argue we don't use statistical completion and prediction as a heavy underpinning to our reasoning, but that's hardly settled.

Nah-- you will have to try harder to make an argument that really focuses on how LLMs are different from the alternative.
by inshinrei | 2025-08-20 06:12:29+00:00
i'm also leaving an example of production app setup here:

import {Level, halua, NewTextHandler, NewJSONHandler, NewWebConsoleHandler} from 'halua'

// an array of handlers that would accept logs

let handlers = [

NewJSONHandler(writeToZipArchive, {level: Level.Info}), // writes to client-size archive, only logs that are Info-Level or higher NewTextHandler(sendToServer, {level: Level.Notice}), // writes to server, only logs tat are Notice-level or higher NewTextHandler(sendUserAction, {level: Level.Info + 1}), // we will log user actions on a different level, so that it will be easy to filter NewTextHandler(sendToErrorMonitoringSystem, {level: Level.Fatal}) // writes to monitoring system

]

if (debug) {

handlers.push(NewWebConsoleHandler(self.console)) // writes to web / nodejs console

}

// now we have to apply the handlers we created

let logger = halua.New(handlers)

// or

halua.setHandler(handlers)

// later, you may call .New on any logger instance to get a new instance
by foo42 | 2025-08-20 06:12:49+00:00
I write with my hand below the line to avoid smudging. A consequence of this is my pen meets the page at quite a shallow angle which I find is perfect for fountain pens but scratchy with ball points. These days I do very little hand writing and find my traditional pose (described above) causes hand cramps, but I don't know if that's specific to the odd way I write or if all poses would when so out of practice
by bijant | 2025-08-20 06:13:31+00:00
Agree with the gist of 1. & 2. but was hoping for a more analytic-scientific approach to measuring the impact of the HN Front Page. That is probably impossible though. If you invent github/sliced bread then hitting the front page might be the best thing to happen to your idea. If your profitable business of scamming grannies gets the same exposure it will probably be removed from the iOS/Android App Stores within minutes. Launching Dropbox here is likely somewhere in the middle.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-20 06:14:50+00:00
In my opinion, a virus in the environment is quasi-dead, but once it enters a cell and it hijacks its components, it becomes alive.

This does not differ that much from bacterial or fungal spores, or even from plant seeds, which can also be almost "dead", i.e. without detectable metabolism or internal changes, even over many thousands of years, until they reach a favorable environment that triggers their revival.

The difference between a virus and a bacterial spore is that the viral particle contains only a subset of the parts of a living organism, so it could never be brought back to life in an environment where nothing is already alive. However, once the virus takes control over many parts of a cell, which provide the functions that it is missing, like the machinery for protein synthesis, the ensemble formed by the parts brought by the viral particle and the parts formerly belonging to the invaded cell, can be considered as alive and distinct from what the invaded cell was previously.

In any case, the evolution of the viruses and the evolution of the cellular forms of life are entangled, with a lot of genetic material exchanged between them, so considering the viruses as non-living is definitely counter-productive, because neither the viruses nor the cellular forms of life can be understood separately.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-08-20 06:14:52+00:00
I'm sorry I dont care how hard valve tried. They still failed. To the consumer, the sd card limitation on the Deck is consumer hostile. 100 MB/s is inexcusable for a device being sold today and one expected to run Unity and Unreal 4 games that clock in at the tens of gigabytes. They should have made it more open and allowed easy access to M2 slots. Instead they used storage cynically to sell higher tier products.

The entry level deck is $399 but the 1TB one is $649. Almost $800 with tax and shipping for something that can't even play Unreal 5 games and has no proper expansion is inexcusable, not to mention the bizarre and shortsighted decision to have only one USB-C port on the device, and being locked onto the 15-watt mode of the chipset.

Some of that cost is the OLED update but frankly its deceptive and dishonest customer hostile pricing. The storage limitations are intentional to sell the higher tier Deck. Gabe didn't get 5 super yachts by being a "good guy." He's just maximizing his profit. There are no "good guys" in capitalism, instead its purely transactional and game theory dictated from top to bottom.

I do find it a little depressing that Chinese and Japanese companies are eating US companies lunches because they somehow are more open, more pro-consumer, and more affordable the US offerings. When in the past the US products were the more open and hackable ones and the imports were the proprietary and locked down customer-hostile messes. Not just this but a lot of electronics now. The hackable, learnable, fun, etc ones are foreign while the US domestic ones are overly 'not repairable' and 'not hackable' and by design to maximize profit. What a shame. How far we've fallen.
by keiferski | 2025-08-20 06:15:10+00:00
You missed my point, entirely…

Humans are considered “evolved apes” because of our (culturally defined) system of categorization. Humans are just as related to every other species (itself a word that implies a static entity that actually isn’t) in our ancestry. It also isn’t really accurate to claim a microorganism ancestor of humans is some kind of proto-ape, or proto-human.

The point is that process is more accurate as a label. The choice of focusing on apes is a cultural one, not something inherent to the structure of biological reality.
by abetusk | 2025-08-20 06:16:19+00:00
I've also made a space invader generator.

live version: https://abetusk.github.io/iao/vadfad_1gen/

source: https://github.com/abetusk/iao/tree/main/vadfad_1gen

Inspired by Jared Tarbell (linked from another comment here from levitated.net).

I found it surprisingly easy to get good results. The major components are the eyes, bilateral symmetry and otherwise random pixels within a small rectangle, if I remember correctly.