MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: Using Claude Code with official 3rd party APIs seems broken
by prmph | 2025-08-12 11:53:56+00:00
It's weird, but using Claude Code (CC) with GLM 4.5 from Z.ai, I spent $5 just starting CC and asking it to read the spec and guideline files. This on an API that advertises $0.6 per million tokens input, and $2.2 per million tokens output.

Then, I noticed that after the original prompt, any further prompt I gave CC (other that approving its actions) did not have any effect at all on it. Yes, any prompt is totally ignored. I have to stop CC and restart with the new prompt for it to take effect.

This is really strange to me. Does CC have some way of detecting when it is running against an API other than Anthropic's? The massive cost and/or token usage and crippled agentic mode is clearly not due to GLM 4.5 not being capable. Either CC is crippled in some way when using a 3rd party API, or else Z.ai's API is somehow not working properly.
by dannyw | 2025-08-12 11:54:39+00:00
Yes, but we have widely deployed efforts like certificate transparency, and cert pinning.

The first makes such attacks widely known events, browsers report by default, and it s provable. It’s very rare.

The second allows apps to only trust specific certs or CAs, ignoring system root of trust.

I just want to clarify HTTPS in practice is quite secure.
by rs186 | 2025-08-12 11:55:03+00:00
Just look at open issues, sorted by most thumbs up:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20st...

One that I am interested in is tree sitter syntax highlighting support: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140

There are a ton of things that could be done. The fact that you haven't personally needed more features doesn't mean it's "feature complete". Not even close. You just haven't hit those pain points in your workflow.

Also, look at what May 2024 changelog looks like https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_90

vs most recent one https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_103
by heisenbit | 2025-08-12 11:55:35+00:00
> as little …

This is exactly the opposite of what which is written in the quoted wikipedia article:

> Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and patient self-measurement using a home blood pressure monitoring device is being increasingly used to differentiate those with white coat hypertension or experiencing the white coat effect from those with chronic hypertension

Continuous monitoring is a viable workaround wrt. white coat symptoms. It is just a lot more effort and expensive.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-08-12 11:55:54+00:00
> There wasn't much more to be learned about large passenger jets using their intended custom engines from a small GEJ85 powered platform,

This is key to me.

I'm a layman in Aviation, so I'll unpack that.

The Boom XB-1 demonstrator (1) uses GEJ85: the General Electric J85 engines, as seen on military jets (2).

This is not the desired production jet's "Symphony" engine (3), which at a guess has to be both larger and more efficient?

So whatever is to be learned from the demonstrator, it doesn't tell us much about the final engine design.

In fact, all I know about this desired engine, is that Rolls-Royce isn't making it. (4)

Are they still planning to design the engines in-house? If they're making good progress, why are we hearing about how they're replacing excel as a design tool.

As I said in the other comment:

I'm not an expert, but this seems like the engine is on the critical path to success, and also high chance of failure. i.e. Without engines, they have nothing but a glider.

And if Rolls-Royce thinks that it's either not technically or commercially feasible, then who can do it?

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_XB-1

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J85

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom_Symphony

4) https://www.space.com/boom-supersonic-rolls-royce-engine-spl...
by skissane | 2025-08-12 11:56:23+00:00
Mussolini forced businesses to join fascist-controlled employer groups, and workers to join fascist-controlled labour unions - Trump appears completely disinterested in doing such a thing.

Hitler banned all youth groups except for the Nazi Party’s Hitler Youth. Mussolini tried to do the same; but the entrenched power of the Catholic Church meant he was forced to tolerate its youth groups competing with the fascist ones. I haven’t heard of any “Trump Youth” and Trumpism appears to lack the fascist focus on banning all civil society groups except those formally affiliated with the ruling party.

Both leaders enacted explicitly antisemitic legislation - Hitler with enthusiasm; Mussolini possibly more due to pressure from Hitler and a desire to please his Nazi allies than genuine antisemitic conviction. I’m not sure what Trump’s answer to Hitler’s Nuremberg Laws and Mussolini’s Leggi Razziali (Racial Laws) is meant to be

Calling Trump a fascist requires ignoring many things which Hitler and Mussolini had in common but which Trump lacks
by heresie-dabord | 2025-08-12 11:56:32+00:00
It is not misleading, Wayland is better than Xorg in this particular respect.

But the other concern is part of the systemic problem. Consider that the data that was transmitted was sent in the clear!

> StarDict ... while running on X11, using Debian's default configuration, it will send a user's text selections over unencrypted HTTP to two remote servers.

> Any user who did read the description of the package, and who knew what the YouDao plugin would do, might nevertheless expect the resulting communication to at least be encrypted. But the plugin actually reaches out to its backend servers — dict.youdao.com and dict.cn — over unsecured HTTP. So, not only are these servers sent any text the user selects, but anyone who can view traffic anywhere along its path can see the same thing.
by major505 | 2025-08-12 11:56:53+00:00
I used a lot of Todo and Note taking APP over the years.

My last and the one that ended up working more for me was Microsoft TODO because it was simple and synced with my phone, and actually worked seamless with IOs Reminder app. I sticked with it for a lot of time, but in the end, after a hell week, most my tasks where red with due dates long passed. It just added to my stress seeing all that red.

Today I just carry a small notebook and a pen I like in my back pocket. If I have to do something I start with a task like

- do something.

After done

+ do something

Every start of day, I just grab some coffee, sit for 5 min and go through the last day, what I done, what I could not finish, and create a new todo list for the day.

I also now just carry the notebook for quick notes. Notebook for temporary stuff. If is something more permanent stuff that I need to remember, I just add an entry in my OneNote. If is a event, in goes to my outlook Calendar.

OneNote is hardly ideal, I used to run my life on Notion, but it works well enough, but there where some problems.

* Too much cluter. I did not use 1/3 of what it could do

* I run out of space, and I did not wanted another monthly payment to get premium stuff

* The search in One is reasonable, and does the job

* I can draw in my tablet, for simple diagrams

* Tt syncs with my phone independent if I'm using Android of IOs without me have to think much about it

* is already included in my Office 365 family plan.

* works offline, different from Notion.

My only grip is OneNote don't have a Linux desktop app, just wrappers for the web app, and pasting code on it is a fucking disaster. Other than that, it does the job.

The only thing now that would make me switch is Obsidian, but the IOs app is a fucking disaster. you cannot open vaults outside the Obsidian folder, and I was using git to sync it, but IOs dont have a good free Git app that can sync folders anywhere I want it.

Also, having to sync manually and solving merge conflits for my notes is kinda a pain in the ass.
by kazinator | 2025-08-12 11:57:02+00:00
Even a tiny model for, say, classifying hand-written digits, will correctly classify digits that didn't appear in its training data. (Otherwise it wouldn't be very useful.) That classification is interpolative; the hand-written digit is lands in the space of the training data.

Every result is explainable by has having come from training data. That's the null hypothesis.

The alternative hypothesis is that it's not explainable as having come from training data. That's a hard-to-believe, hard-to-prove negative.

You don't get anything out of any computational process that you didn't put in.
by tialaramex | 2025-08-12 11:57:10+00:00
> It's not something that exists in the hardware

This is sort of on the one hand not a meaningful claim, and then on the other hand not even really true if you squint anyway?

Firstly the hardware does not have pointers. It has addresses, and those really are integers. Rust's addr() method on pointers gets you just an address, for whatever that's worth to you, you could write it to a log maybe if you like ?

But the Morello hardware demonstrates CHERI, an ARM feature in which a pointer has some associated information that's not the address, a sort of hardware provenance.
by palata | 2025-08-12 11:57:12+00:00
> This is one of the sadder things about AI usage getting more standard that I haven’t seen discussed much—-the barrier to entry is now monetary

Agreed. And on the one hand you have those who pay an AI to produce a lot of code, and on the other hand you have those who have to review that code. I already regularly review code that has "strange" issues, and when I say "why does it do this?" the answer is "the AI did it".

Of course, one can pay for the AI and then review and refactor the code to make it good, but my experience is that most don't.
by cluckindan | 2025-08-12 11:58:29+00:00
Also known as Expected Value (EV), as in, how much is in the pot right now compared to how much you’re betting/calling, usually compared to how likely you are to win a hand using the cards you’re holding.

That works well for limit games, where you can’t bet more than a set amount (in relation to the blinds or the current pot), especially when there are multiple people at the table, and you’re in an advantageous late position so others act before you do.

In high-stakes no-limit heads-up (1v1) play, the cards you’re holding matter less, especially before the flop. EV and pot odds are almost useless except for gauging when to bluff / if you’re being bluffed. Hands rarely end in a showdown as opposed to one of the players folding. The hands that do are essentially coin-flips, with both players holding what they believe are strong hands.
by cwmoore | 2025-08-12 11:59:37+00:00
>We have to be better at listening to experts

From the article; “financial burden of these disasters often falls on individuals, businesses and governments, rather than insurance firms.”

Considering the article, your post was simply off-topic and inaccurate. There are flooding issues far from the coasts, and desertification in farmland far from where most people live.

“Houses spontaneously combusting” was just the most obvious fiction that would draw downvotes.

This was not an article denying atmospheric carbon dioxide. Open your mind to awaken others. Respect the fact that some eyes are already open.
by stop50 | 2025-08-12 12:00:09+00:00
As long you are in the EU, they always can go to court. For the job offer: since you have an open debt, the SCHUFA will still have an record about you. The landlords usually check against them. Living in Germany makes them easier to find you. The easiest way is to contact debt collector and pay the debt, the banks are required to update the schufa about the cleared debt and the court problem is also solved. the court can order garnishing and distraints, but only up to the minimal amount you need to live, so food, water and rent are safe, but everything else not exactly required for living can be taken. Some stuff is sold directly or auctioned away. The absolute minimum distraint protected income is currently 1555€. The exact garnished/distrainted amount depend on your situation.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-08-12 12:00:24+00:00
Having gotten tired of subjecting windows users to a phishing campaign to trick them to use edge under the auspices of it being chrome, they're now moving on to obsoleting all windows machines without a TPM so they can cryptographically secure their right to use their users' need to authenticate as an opportunity to sell data about that user to the third party.

They have no respect for the agency of their users. We're no different than cattle to them, an asset to be squeezed until no more money comes out of it.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-12 12:00:35+00:00
Is there an actual general principle or theorem or anything that you can link on this? I’m skeptical because these “model collapse” ideas sound vaguely technical and intuitive, but mostly seem to be based on observations about things that happened to happen with current LLMs. It gets bandied about like it is the most obvious thing, but the support mostly seems to be… pseudo-technical vibes.
by thrance | 2025-08-12 12:01:11+00:00
I'm quite tired of this topic being brought up all the time. What's the solution? We've seen that economic incentives won't do, so what? Force women to have children? Punish celibates? Let's not kid ourselves (pun intended), the "solutions" to this "crisis" are worse than the outcome.

Look on the bright side, a declining demography makes human activity that much more sustainable, and maybe our descendants won't even have to worry about restricting their carbon emissions to keep the planet inhabitable.

In the meantime, we'll have to take a cut to our way of life, which I can live with. We don't need to travel to the other side of the globe yearly, we don't need three cars per household, etc.

It's quite telling that the people most concerned with this usually self-label as "pro-markets libertarians". Is market health more important than bodily autonomy? What happened to freedom?
by major505 | 2025-08-12 12:01:39+00:00
and just a quick resume: What I find that independent of your note taking system, what really makes the different is that 5 min I told, that I sit and process what was done in the previous day. The discipline to rethink your day, apply again what it works, and do a little different what it did not worked, thats whats really makes the different.
by shav7 | 2025-08-12 12:01:56+00:00
Expressive interaction design is the missing layer in robotics. The future isn’t just functional robots - it’s robots that feel natural to use and are designed from the ground up for expressive human-robot interaction.

We will continue iterating Le Lamp to make it expressive and useful in the upcoming weeks.

our github: https://github.com/humancomputerlab/LeLamp/

community: https://discord.gg/wVF99EtRzg
by dileeparanawake | 2025-08-12 12:02:10+00:00
Aha with you - so essentially the challenge is about enforcing accountability?

Humans = you’re fired / llms less clear?

Would or could rewards / penalties (like in reinforcement learning) address the accountability issue?

The assumed pre-requisite is LLM has clear responsibility (important for accountability human or otherwise).

I’m thinking responsibly is ownership of task vs accountability- who owns the outcome / get barked at if the outcome isn’t delivered?
by withinboredom | 2025-08-12 12:02:35+00:00
No. Excel changes the SEPERATOR when parsing depending on the locale settings. This means a CSV generated or saved with a decimal of . will not be able to be opened by one with a , and vice-versa. This is an Excel issue, as it doesn’t even try to determine or ask which separator to use. Hence why the comment above said you need to use the import wizard and not double click.
by Merrill | 2025-08-12 12:03:10+00:00
1870 sees the Franco-Prussian War, the unification of Germany, the unification of Italy, and the reorganization of continental politics. The US is in dynamic industrial and Western expansion following the Civil War. Britain is in the Long Depression of 1873 - 1896, until the flow of South African gold stops deflation and starts the economic boom. However, Britain is not competitive with the US and Germany and depends more and more on its Imperial system of trade.

Now consider that 1989-1991, with the reorganization of China following Tiananmen and the collapse of the Soviet Union are a similar epochal reorganization of global power structures.

It seems likely that we are now in our own Edwardian Era.
by nelox | 2025-08-12 12:03:13+00:00
The decision upholding the Online Safety Act verification rules against Wikipedia’s challenge overlooks practical and proportionality concerns. Wikipedia operates with minimal commercial infrastructure, relies on volunteers and does not require age-restricted content verification for its core encyclopaedia. The law’s blanket requirement for platforms to implement age verification fails to distinguish between services with high-risk harmful material and those providing general reference. That is a regulatory overreach that imposes compliance burdens without measurable safety gains. The ruling also discounts the privacy risks of verification schemes, which can create centralised databases vulnerable to misuse or breach. This is not a hypothetical threat; data leaks from verification providers are well documented. A risk-based approach would focus enforcement on platforms with demonstrated harm while exempting low-risk educational resources. Treating all online services identically undercuts the intended aim of child protection and diverts resources from genuine problem areas.
by Yizahi | 2025-08-12 12:03:15+00:00
For example - at minimum reasoning should match what actually happened. This is not even a complete set of criteria for reasoning, but at least a minimal baseline. Currently LLM programs are generating BS in the "reasoning" part of the output. For example ask the LLM program to "reason" how it produces a sum of two numbers and you will see that it doesn't match at all with what LLM program did in the background. The "reasoning" it outputs is simply an extract of the reasoning which humans did in the LLM dataset. Even Anthropic officially admits this. If you ask a program how to do maintenance on a gearbox and it replies with very well articulated and correct (important!) guide to harvest wheat, then we can't call it reasoning of any kind, despite that wheat farming guide was correct and logical.
by fsflover | 2025-08-12 12:03:21+00:00
> which anybody can now easily “regenerate”

I don't think this is as clear as you say it is. If a person "regenerates" GPL code from memory, it will still be a copyright violation. LLMs can't own copyright on their own, so a person must be responsible for the result. So it should be a violation. GPL should help (if you actually sue).
by kqr | 2025-08-12 12:04:41+00:00
Poker has much, much higher variance than dice though (or weighted coins, which is what you're actually modeling). It takes hundreds of thousands of hands to establish a statistically significant win rate.

At a common online pace of 1.5 hands per minute (live games are much slower) that's over a thousand hours of playing. I.e. even if playing for one hour every day, it takes years before a player knows whether they're profitable or not.

Seems disingenious to compare to dice when you presumably know poker belongs to that class of distributions to which the central limit theorem applies very slowly.
by hnquestion12345 | 2025-08-12 12:05:03+00:00
This really resonates with me. The part about purpose is something that I've seen as a separate struggle but you might be right and they're the same. I've brought this up to family and friends but they don't really understand. I tell them that I feel empty because I don't feel like I have a purpose. I don't feel like I'm doing anything meaningful. If my work ended tomorrow, people would quickly find another solution or probably just not need another solution.

My friends have moved at a different pace than me. They're married and having kids soon so I expected to see them less. I think sometimes I purposefully distance myself because of this fact.

I do have hobbies like reading and drawing but I also get stuck trying to figure out how I can make those into projects instead of just enjoying them as they are.

I find myself in your story, especially "dealing with my career is easier than facing those other parts of life I'm less adept at navigating". It feels easy to just dive into work and avoid everything else. Even the last part. Thinking about what I would do if I didn't have my job as a constant. I'm sorry to hear about your feelings of lack of purpose. I read a quote that I don't really remember fully but it was something along the lines of you don't know the answer because it's not the right time. So I'm hoping that the answer to my question of purpose reveals itself in time.

Thank you for sharing your story and insight. It's given me more to think about.
by mattmanser | 2025-08-12 12:06:23+00:00
It's because it's logically in the wrong order, it should be:

FROM Users WHERE Type = 'Foo' SELECT id, name

They use the right order in a lot of ORMs and as I was a SQL expert (but not master), I found it so jarring at first.

You probably have the reverse problem, it doesn't fit your mental model which is in fact the right logical model.

It gets even worse when you add LIMIT/TOP or GROUP BY. SQL is great in a lot of ways, but logically not very consistent. And UPDATE now I think about it, in SQL Server you get this bizarreness:

UPDATE u SET u.Type = 'Bar' FROM Users u JOIN Company c on u.companyId = c.id WHERE c.name = 'Baz'
by Dead_Lemon | 2025-08-12 12:06:39+00:00
Maybe its just me, but this P&E arch is underwhelming and screams similar issues AMD bulldozer again. Claims of massive core counts with mediocre performance, and little control over how things are assigned to the cores. Maybe that will improve over time with improved schedulers, but I doubt it. Its looks like an architectural issue. The experience feels so inconstant, even ending up worse than the prior generations with all normal P cores with lower core counts. I'm avoiding Intel P&E CPUs with anything that needs consistent performance, as my limited experience with the new Intel chips leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, and a frustrating computing experience.
by kelnos | 2025-08-12 12:06:43+00:00
> noodling around on a computer that cost $2500 (more like $5500 in today's dollars)

Wow! 12-year-old me was noodling around on a computer that my dad brought home from work because it would have otherwise ended up in landfill. We had very little money for computers back then, and I was thrilled when my parents gave me a budget to buy parts to build my own from scratch when I was about to go off to college (I'd saved up a bit myself, but not nearly enough).

I think your experience is pretty privileged, and not at all common.
by nerdjon | 2025-08-12 12:06:49+00:00
This is why research like this is important and needs to keep being published.

What we have seen the last few years is a conscious marketing effort to rebrand everything ML as AI and to use terms like "Reasoning", "Extended Thinking" and others that for many non technical people give the impression that it is doing far more than it is actually doing.

Many of us here can see his research and be like... well yeah we already knew this. But there is a very well funded effort to oversell what these systems can actually do and that is reaching the people that ultimately make the decisions at companies.

So the question is no longer will AI Agents be able to do most white collar work. They can probably fake it well enough to accomplish a few tasks and management will see that. But will the output actually be valuable long term vs short term gains.
by throw0101a | 2025-08-12 12:06:52+00:00
> * ML-KEM is NIST approved and AFAIK NIST is on record saying that hybrid KEMs are fine.*

See perhaps §3.2, PQC-Classical Hybrid Protocols from interim report "Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards" (draft):

* https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8547.ipd.p...

No algorithm explicitly mentioned, but the general idea/technique discussed.