MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asdff | 2025-08-26 22:59:48+00:00
>Claude not to get tricked than it is to train eg my parents.

One would think but apparently from this blog post it is still succeptible to the same old prompt injections that have always been around. So I'm thinking it is not very easy to train Claude like this at all. Meanwhile with parents you could probably eliminate an entire security vector outright if you merely told them "bank at the local branch," or "call the number on the card for the bank don't try and look it up."
by orwin | 2025-08-26 22:59:59+00:00
Britain and Japan are definitely the exception, not the rule, and "Homogeneous" does a lot of work here. At least 4 different ethnic group mingled together for a millenia (well, 3 of them did, and the fourth waited 400 years until they were kicked out of Aquitaine and normandy to start).

Not taking into account places like Cornwell which is so different from britain. I'm probably closer culturally from an average Cornish than anybody from Essex, York or probably almost anywhere in England not living near the Channel in front of Brittany (unless people in Essex have sea shanty festivals, play cornemuse, play Celtic games, eat blue cheese, and speak a language close to Cornish).
by causal | 2025-08-26 23:00:19+00:00
I don't think we should have to choose between "sycophantic coddling" and "alert the authorities". Surely there's a middle ground where it should be able to point the user to help and then refuse to participate further.

Of course jailbreaking via things like roleplay might still be possible, but at the point I don't really blame the model if the user is engineering the outcome.
by onesociety2022 | 2025-08-26 23:00:24+00:00
Even the websites whose primary source of revenue is not ad impressions might be resistant to let the agents be the primary interface through which users interact with their service.

Instacart currently seems to be very happy to let ChatGPT Operator use its website to place an order (https://www.instacart.com/company/updates/ordering-groceries...) [1]. But what happens when the primary interface for shopping with Instacart is no longer their website or their mobile app? OpenAI could demand a huge take rate for orders placed via ChatGPT agents, and if they don't agree to it, ChatGPT can strike a deal with a rival company and push traffic to that service instead. I think Amazon is never going to agree to let other agents use its website for shopping for the same reason (they will restrict it to just Alexa).

[1] - the funny part is the Instacart CEO quit shortly after this and joined OpenAI as CEO of Applications :)
by tick_tock_tick | 2025-08-26 23:00:27+00:00
> I'm impressed by Musk's PR team. They hype tech years behind competitors with puff pieces like this with gullible journalists that don't contextualize.

Ok where is a paraplegic who's life has been fundamentally improved more then the Neuralink patient one by some of these other technologies that are "years" ahead?
by Avshalom | 2025-08-26 23:02:56+00:00
"Then, within twenty minutes, we started ignoring the cows. … Cows, after you’ve seen them for a while, are boring"

Skill issue. I've been looking at cows for 40 years and am still enchanted by them. Maybe it helps that I think of cows as animals instead of story book illustrations; you'd get lynched if you claimed you got bored of your pet cat after 20 minutes.
by jijijijij | 2025-08-26 23:03:15+00:00
> That is why body cameras come with an option to be switched off, giving officers discretion over when to record and when not to.

See that's the problem. I don't want convenient malfunctions and "Uppsie, forgot to switch it on". If it doesn't cut both ways, then there is very little benefit IMO.

> If you believe an officer is misbehaving, you are generally not allowed to record the misconduct.

I think, you are allowed to record illegal acts by the police, or anyone (to collect evidence, not publish/share). It's a bit like a citizen arrest... you are liable for misjudgment of the situation. And plenty of people started filming before anything illegal happened. But in any case, I don't think legal consequences are too severe, so when in doubt deactivate biometric unlocking, press record and keep your distance.

The real problem is... the police got the power. If they are dicks, there is little you can do about it. Legal or not, if they get you, you lose. Legal or not, if you get away, there is a chance for justice.

Far, far more important than recording, would be truly independent investigations into police misconduct and violence, better witness protection for inside sources and harsher punishment for covering/lying for your colleagues.

> In the United States, it would be unthinkable for law enforcement to approach a journalist or cameraman in a public space and demand they stop filming.

Does this happen in Germany? Never heard of it and I doubt it's legal, if it happens. AFAIK in the US anyone can record anyone in public, no?

Finally, I think it's important to acknowledge the vast, vast difference in police violence between the US and Germany. Cops tend to be dicks everywhere, but it's not even the same sport in comparison. So does the recording help? I've seen plenty nasty shit bodycam footage and consequences are rare, aren't they? At this point, I don't see much pressure for recording reforms in Germany, tbh. Independent investigations is far more important.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-26 23:03:43+00:00
I’d love to read this article but unfortunately I hit the paywall, and so I’ll just add my generic thoughts based on the headline: this type of lobbying, fear mongering, and manipulation of our political/legal system has gone on for too long. We can’t afford t have that in layers of our economy that are very fundamental to a functioning democratic society, like the banking or payment systems we use. I know we have many banks and credit unions and brokers or whatever to choose from, but I feel like there is no getting away from the truth, which is that there are a few incredibly huge players like JP Morgan Chase, Visa, Mastercard, Blackrock, etc. and everyone else is a small player that’s at best vulnerable and cannot afford to compete fairly with them.

What we really need are all new antitrust laws that are very aggressive, to fine/jail/break up mega corp companies and execs. And heavy regulation so that even if they’re privately owned, they’re under control, and working in the public interest.
by wowczarek | 2025-08-26 23:04:10+00:00
Should have clarified: previous generation timing receivers. Yes, self-survey + stationary mode + O/D mode where you can track a single SV and such, are essential for stable time sync, not just sawtooth.

There is an exception re. sawtooth, but only a recent one: the Furuno GT-100, priced between the ZED-F9T and the Mosaic-T, has 200 ps clock resolution and doesn't even provide a quantisation error output.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 23:04:30+00:00
> For almost all of these options, autoscaling is a critical part of your hosting. While vertical scaling is important, scaling horizontally is an incredibly useful lever to pull. You need to be able to scale up to meet demand and scale down to keep costs under control.

Is there anyone on the entire Internet that writes about these things in terms that would make sense to programmers who have never done this stuff before? What is this horizontal/vertical metaphor, and why would non-entrepreneur hobbyists care?
by mrs6969 | 2025-08-26 23:04:35+00:00
you are getting this from the wrong perspective. I agree what you say here, but things you are listing here implies one thing;

"you didnt want to do this before, now with the help of ai, you dont have to. you just live your life as the way you want"

and your assumption is wrong. I still want to watch videos when it is generated by human. I still want to use internet, but when I know it is a human being at the other side. What I don't want is AI to destroy or make dirty the things I care, I enjoy doing. Yes, I want to live in my terms, and AI is not part of it, humans do.

I hope it is clear.
by Tade0 | 2025-08-26 23:06:00+00:00
From the announcement email:

> We were the first laptop maker to ship a USB-C 180W adapter with the original Framework Laptop 16, and somehow nearly two years later, we may be the first to ship with 240W too!

That is truly wild. When I first discovered that heavy gaming drains the battery in the FW16 I went out to search for a more powerful USB-C power supply. No results. Best I could find was a paltry 140W one. Definitely upgrading this part.
by LadyCailin | 2025-08-26 23:06:39+00:00
This is why you don’t talk to the police, ESPECIALLY if you’re innocent. Anything you say can and will be used against you. Never to help you. If you’re guilty, and you get found guilty because you accidentally confessed, who cares, you were guilty. If you were innocent, and you accidentally confessed, that is in fact a miscarriage of justice, but the police and courts don’t actually care about justice, if they did, the system would look massively different.
by krapp | 2025-08-26 23:06:39+00:00
> But the simple fact is that slavery was a fact of life in Paul's day, and he had to deal with the world as it was.

Weird how this only applies to slavery, though. For every other aspect of life, Christians aren't expected to simply accept the evils of the world as immutable and unchangeable.

>And, frankly, his advice to slaves is good advice.

No, it isn't. The only good advice for slaves is to cut the throat of their master and be free as soon as possible.

>Notice that this is far more than a one-sided "women must listen to their husbands" that it is often portrayed as.

It is very much that, according to 1 Timothy:

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

> Even if one doesn't like traditional gender roles, it is disingenuous to portray this verse as some kind of misogynistic oppression of women.

It has literally been the basis for the misogynistic oppression of women for more than a thousand years.

That's just fact. You can spin it any way you like, but the purpose of a system is what it does, and violence against women is what these verses do.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-26 23:06:59+00:00
> It is theater and it's more about sending messages to everyone else.

"More about", I think, ignores the degree to which sending the message publicly to everyone else can be a very important part of sending the message to the obvious direct target.

> A state can vocalize it's disapproval directly in a more direct and meaningful way using back channels and political ways

Yeah, but "we are not allowing you to publicly save face by restricting our protest to private back channels" is itself an important way of communicating the severity of the message to the direct target.
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-26 23:07:29+00:00
> Like it or not, employers will be forced to cooperate with you to get access to the talent pool you attract.

Except for the problem of "talent will be forced to seek out employers, no matter how shitty or stupid the latter behaves, because they'll starve and die within a matter of weeks or months while understaffed companies can survive for years."

Doubly so in tech where the combination of A) A huge hiring spree during covid & following layoffs has created a glut in applicants, B) Economic malaise is slowing the economy, and C) Companies are being irrationally hestitant to hire because of AI.

Ghost Jobs are fraudulent on several levels, they should be legislated out of existance. (The public company favourite of "pretending we're still growing when we're not" is very clear securities fraud.)
by sorrythanks | 2025-08-26 23:07:36+00:00
I have, yes! I do it a lot when dragging and dropping on Linux. Start the drag with one finger, and then bring a new finger in to move it. It's just like using a button.

I've not had to configure anything to make this work for a number of years now in Plasma. Though I've been running Linux on Macbooks for a long time, so maybe it's about specific hardware support.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-26 23:07:49+00:00
This just seems like it is filling in the gradient between a completely free market system and a pure centralized command economy. I guess it is also expected. If you look at China, the CCP is deploying capital through state owned companies and other means, and they’re achieving a lot due to the ability to grow companies and industries that otherwise have no chance in a market economy. And if you’re another country competing with China, you have to do the same thing or you’ll simply not have certain industries. And that creates risk. Look at America with mining, ship building, nuclear power, or other areas where it is deficient.
by worik | 2025-08-26 23:08:09+00:00
Not at all.

If there is money to be made the medical establishment will put much more effort into that area than if there is not

Bringing it back to the DSM: The more human states of mind that can be classified as a "psychiatric illness" the more money there is to be made in marketing various therapies

This is glaringly obvious in drug development but it applies to all forms of therapy that can be done in a way with a gate keeper who can charge a toll
Show HN: CashLedger – Offline-first PWA for cash tracking
by talhaahsan | 2025-08-26 23:08:13+00:00
I built *CashLedger*, an offline-first PWA for managing personal, family, or small business cash flow.

Why? Not every place has reliable internet, and many people don’t want their financial data stored on third-party servers. CashLedger works completely offline and keeps data private — stored locally on your device.

Features: - Add transactions quickly (text or voice input) - Spending insights with charts and analytics - Generate professional PDF statements - Customizable dashboard and transaction cards - Choose your flow: go straight to your account after login, or start with a customizable home screen

The UX twist: My first tester (my father) wanted to skip the dashboard entirely. I wanted one. So I added an option: users can choose their preferred flow.

Demo: https://cashflow-friend-pwa.vercel.app/

I’d love your feedback: - Is this useful for anyone beyond me? - What features would you expect from a privacy-first cash tracker? - Any pitfalls you see in making this offline-first?
by Amezarak | 2025-08-26 23:08:14+00:00
> Book of John - you may be misinterpreting the claims of authorship / identity there. And 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' is probably not really self-identifying anyway

We know the "disciple who Jesus loved" is John from John, and in the last chapter, the book is explicitly attributed to him as "the one who testifies of these things and wrote them down", in the typical third-person way of this sort of literature.

If you care what other people close in time thought, we know that for example, Clement of Alexandria believed this based on tradition as well. Of course, we can suspend judgement: we have no way of knowing. But in the absence of clear contradictory evidence, I don't think it's unreasonable to rest on the side of "whatever the text and the closest contemporaries we have thought."

> sources cited,

What do you mean by this?

> AIUI, the writings in 'Mark' (the first of the four) strongly suggest post-70CE, but perhaps much later.

This argument rests entirely on what I alluded to earlier. As I mentioned, from a purely secular perspective, it isn't surprising that someone could guess that Jerusalem would someday be destroyed. It happened many times before! On top of this, the political situation was delicate, and very similar to the last time Jerusalem had been destroyed. But setting all that aside:

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-Chapter-13/

Read this and tell me if this is a clear, definite allusion to the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70, or a vague handwavy prophecy about "Bad Things Will Happen and the Temple will be destroyed".

Eventually. If anything, it's very confused, since if you assume the passage is talking about the 70AD war, it's clearly also being mixed up with the actual end of the world. It seems just as likely as vague statements that could easily be fit into later actual events. The Greek world was certainly absolutely rife with these things. No doubt it helped the Christians to point to a vague "prophecy" and say "see, we told you!" and helped its spread, which in turn made it more likely for the text to survive to present day.

Historiography is not really an exact science, and it's very fad-driven. The academic consensus goes back and forth over time, depending on what's in fashion and who has died. That’s why relatively unsurprising archeological finds often result in major historiographical shifts.
by mrs6969 | 2025-08-26 23:08:16+00:00
I really wish, but I doubt that. I will definitely move to that direction though. I am a professional software engineer, and seriously considering doing another job.

not because AI can take over my job or something, hell no it can't, at least for now. but day by day I am missing the point of being an engineer. problem solving, building and seeing that it works. the joy of engineering is almost gone. Personally, I am not satisfied with my job as I used to do, and that is really bothering.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 23:09:30+00:00
So we have a single-page site that quotes and links to a few paragraphs of someone else's work, advertises the "creator"'s social media and the SSG used, and then a row of icons to reflect various social/political campaigns (presumably ones this person sides with).

This doesn't seem worth registering a domain, and it would have been more useful to submit the original article (https://www.aiweirdness.com/ignore-all-previous-instructions...) directly.
by jascha_eng | 2025-08-26 23:09:38+00:00
Oh the tools are hand coded (or rather built with Claude Code) but the agent can call them to control the browser.

Imagine a prompt like this:

You are a research agent your goal is to figure out this companies tech stack: - Company Name

Your available tools are: - navigate_to_url: use this to load a page e.g. use google or bing to search for the company site It will return the page content as well as a list of available links - click_link: Use this to click on a specific link on the currently open page. It will also return the current page content and any available links

A good strategy is usually to go on the companies careers page and search for technical roles.

This is a short form of what is actually written there but we use this to score leads as we are built on postgres and AWS and if a company is using those, these are very interesting relevancy signals for us.
by chaps | 2025-08-26 23:09:39+00:00
Dang responded saying, "That site is behind a signup wall, or at least mostly has been, without any consistent workaround. That makes them off topic for HN per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...."

Seems to be outdated info, since archive.ph works just fine in the same way that it works with WSJ, etc: https://archive.ph/CfALb
by cas | 2025-08-26 23:09:40+00:00
After finding Even Better TOML was eating all the memory in VS Code and that it is no longer maintained, I found an improved linter and formatter in Tombi.

It integrates with lots of editors and as a standalone tool with useful schema auto-complete and validation. I've found it fits in well with a Python ecosystem.

Best of all the author is really quick to respond to issues.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-26 23:10:26+00:00
I don’t see the controversy. It’s not reasonable for a passenger to take up room that other passengers next to them are also entitled to. On the other hand, seats have become smaller and smaller over the years. I don’t know if someone has measured the trends over time but it would be interesting to figure out how many people are forced into buying two seats today that would not have had to do that in 2000.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-26 23:11:04+00:00
Most businesses don’t need rockstar ninja developers. They just need professionals who give a damn. That doesn’t mean have “passion” and work 60 hours a week or filter based on people who can reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard.

Ordinary enterprise CRUD “senior” developers don’t cost that much especially if you hire remotely.

No offense to enterprise devs intended. That’s what most developers are who work in the US as was I for the first 25 years of my career.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-26 23:11:37+00:00
> Weird how this only applies to slavery, though. For every other aspect of life, Christians aren't expected to simply accept the evils of the world as immutable and unchangeable.

When it comes to authority structures, the approach (both in the Pauline corpus and elsewhere in the NT) is pretty consistent, slavery isn't treated any differently than secular political authority generally.
by leviathant | 2025-08-26 23:11:42+00:00
Knowing my audience, I've blocked entire countries to stop the pain. Even that was a bit of whack-a-mole. Blocking China cooled off the traffic for a few days, then it came roaring back via Singapore. Blocked Singapore, had a reprieve for a while, and then it was India, with a vengeance.

Cloudflare has been a godsend for protecting my crusty old forum from this malicious, wasteful behavior.
by cschep | 2025-08-26 23:12:04+00:00
Low effort contributions have always, and will ways be, unhelpful. We just now have a tool that generates them EVEN FASTER. :)

That must be frustrating for OSS maintainers, especially when contributing them can meaningfully move the needle on getting jobs, clients, etc.

Definitely makes sense to have rules in place to help dissuade it, but this brave new world isn't going away.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-26 23:12:13+00:00
I'd reframe that slightly. There is a vast foundation of stable, optimized businesses that are in commoditized/low-growth ares. They function as the underpinnings of the American economy.

When turning the spotlight to capital that is seeking returns, it is true that these areas may be mediocre places to deploy fresh capital, but it doesn't mean that these players aren't competing, and they will probably be cranking out sheet metal and port cargo logistics optimization well after 90% of the AI startups fold.

The caveat is of course Private Equity, which is about 10 trillion in assets. They can derive high returns from these areas, but it requires leverage.
by asdff | 2025-08-26 23:13:01+00:00
The forests are cleared because they are allowed to be sold for clearance. Doesn't matter if its palm oil or for cows or sugarcane or ranch homes or solar panels or data centers. People tend to want a return on their investment in land vs spending serious capital to not do anything with a jungle. If you want to limit this you need to prevent land from being sold to entities that would like to profit from it. The specific thing being grown is basically irrelevant.
by worik | 2025-08-26 23:13:16+00:00
My point is that all you USA people should work against division.

You need to build bridges with people that you disagree with

Casting somebody out of "the big tent" because of how they voted works towards increasing division. Increasing division, especially between majorities and minorities, is a time worn and effective tactic to create the conditions for authoritarianism.

If you favour authoritarianism over liberty then I am not talking to you.

If you favour liberty, support it, do not work against it