MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by martin-t | 2025-08-12 14:34:58+00:00
It's actually not rhetorical - I really wanna know what leads to this to-me-obvious contradiction.

One answer is obvious - every organization's primary goal is its own survival. So a democratic state will indoctrinate ("educate") children into believing democracy is the right way. But no school teaches about corporate power structures and cooperatives are so rare that they have little influence on the curriculum.

What I absolutely hated was for example when Microsoft opened an extra curricular program for students to teach them some tech skills and some soft skills and (in exchange?) they were allowed to hang posters promoting their products at school. Linux does not have the money or organizational capacity to do this kind of thing so the entrenched players have a massive advantage.

> The VC era

As a gamedev, this reminds me of how the metagame shifts as the collective playerbase learns the rules of a game - what works and what doesn't. Step 1) IRL you need to build something valuable and you get paid according to how much value you produced. 2) Then people realized you could get a bunch of these builders to work for you and take a cut from each of them - sometimes at least in exchange for providing marketing or "the means of production" but without providing any _real_ (positive-sum) work. 3) And now people realized when you have enough money you can just buy those power structures from step 2 wholesale. Oh and you can buy up housing and take a third of someone's salary too.

A radical idea would changing the law so be that workers own what they produce. This would completely invert those power structures. Need marketing? You as a positive-sum worker hire those zero-sum workers.

But we're heading in the opposite direction instead. All intellectual work has now been stolen and it being resold to people who produced it in the first place.

And then you straight up have people who wanna replace even physical workers with robots. And they sell it to people by claiming they will no longer need to work, which sounds great. Until you realize that up until that point the rich zero-summers at least still needed positive-sum workers. Even governments needed humans to oppress other humans...

> tech jobs will become closer and closer to other regular office jobs

Yep. "We" (technically long before I entered the workforce) had all the power and slowly gave it away because we were interested in the cool tech we were making and not the power struggle that the people who only extract value from us are so good at.

> building products that are useless when not harmful, with no social value

I'd like to see a graph of the percentage of people whose work is positive-, zero- and negative-sum over time. Because I suspect the latter two are growing rapidly.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-12 14:35:42+00:00
The problem is not reinventing CSS, rather misusing a platform designed for interactive documents as application platform.

We should have left the Web be Web, and use native applications with Internet protocols for applications, like it has always been until the rise of Java applets, ActiveX and Flash.

Then HTML5 came to be, and we have yet to sort out all the mess, but hey should not complain too much, it pays most of the bills.
by specproc | 2025-08-12 14:37:23+00:00
Heh, I was musing on something I'd read recently that had Kodak as a case study. It was compared with Instagram which had about 10-15 staff when it was bought for USD 1bn. WhatsApp similarly small.

I hear tech can be big employers, maybe I'm overselling my point a bit there. That said, the trend is very much towards smaller operations, and a large headcount is not at all required for large money.

My overall point is that profits that at one time would require a town, or be a major part of a city's economy, can be made with a small office's worth of staff.
by mattwilsonn888 | 2025-08-12 14:38:01+00:00
"Performing something like this is definitely expensive"

That is false. A 51% attack is only expensive to the degree to which the hashpower required to exceed 50% is obtained at negative margins.

If an attacker can collect the total 51% or more hashpower at what would be a profitable rate despite the attack, then the attack is not "definitely expensive" - no, the attack is definitely profitable and the expense falls sorely on the minority.
by bbor | 2025-08-12 14:38:06+00:00
I could've sworn I remembered such a post, thank you so much for vindicating my hunch! At the time I figured there wasn't much harm in it, but in hindsight it's obvious that the absurd number of translations was the just smoke stemming from a self-promotion fire.

Props to whatever HackerNewsian (YCombinist?) took the time to chase all this down and do this fascinating writeup! You will be remembered in /r/TodayILearned posts every few months for many decades to come, no doubt.
by DrScientist | 2025-08-12 14:38:11+00:00
I edited it to make it more readable - not changed it's meaning.

In terms of the substance - bottom line they have taken something without permission and sold it on. Sure - they have added value in the process - but if I steal your car and mash it up with another one before selling it on - it's still theft.

The original post was implying there was no harm as a result because it's just copying - the original owner was not deprived of anything.

My point was they are potentially being deprived of a living - and that's through stuff being taken without permission - not through fair competition.

What matters here is not the semnatics of theft or copyright or whatever - what matters is fairness - and I accept that's a judgement.

I don't see a problem with these companies having to either pay to incorporate material into their models or/and the authors having the right to refuse to license.

Note - that's not to stand in the way of the development of these tools, but to ensure that the effort that went in to creating them ( which includes the generation of the source material ) is properly rewarded.

If OpenAI etc al think creation is a trivial part and it doesn't need rewarding - they are free to bootstrap their models by creating all the inputs from scratch.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-12 14:38:14+00:00
My memory is getting hazy, but wasn't Gmail originally just (something like) the simple HTML version, and it supported tags and classification from the beginning? Like I'm pretty sure I had filters to tag and skip inbox for newegg emails circa 2005 so I could have a separate "inbox" for them. Likewise for some mailing lists I was part of.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 14:38:34+00:00
The states with the most guns also have the highest percentage of households that own at least one gun: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map._Percent_of_hous.... In the Idaho to Dakotas region, more than half of households have a gun. But the same region has among the lowest homicide rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_intenti...

Crime rates are reported per 100,000 people, so population isn’t the reason.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-12 14:39:07+00:00
> Chile are agreeing to letting him leave, provided he donates $30k to charity

“The prosecutor’s office said Guo must also pay all costs for his ‘aircraft security and personal maintenance’ during his stay at the military facility. He also needs to cover all expenses for his return.” So possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

There is also a good chance the FAA revokes his pilot’s license.
by burnte | 2025-08-12 14:39:33+00:00
In the case of programming is not quite as problematic with unsolved problems as much as others, like completeness. In the case of programming, it's context and understanding. It's great for small chunks of code but people think you can vibe code entire interactive applications with no programming knowledge, but LLMs simply don't understand, so they can't keep a cohesive idea of what the end goal is in mind. The larger the codebase it needs to work on the more likely it is to make catastrophic errors, create massive security flaws, or just generate nonfunctional code.

Programming LLMs will become awesome when we create more narrowly targeted LLMs rather than these "train on everything" models.
by PhilippGille | 2025-08-12 14:39:40+00:00
It's worth being precise here:

- The attacker can doublespend their transactions if their hashing power is high enough to create more blocks than what the recipient is waiting for. E.g. you buy a lambo, the shop waits 10 blocks after the tx is in a block and gives you the lambo, then you create a longer chain with 11 blocks to replace the other one, and don't include the original lambo tx. 51% of hashing power is enough to create new blocks, but not enough to create 11 alternative blocks. That requires more hashing power.

- The attacker can prevent other transactions from landing in a block, as long as they have majority

- But the attacker can't create fake transactions (e.g. if they only have 1k Monero, they can't create a tx with 2k Monero). Because all nodes (not only miners) still verify the transactions

- And the attacker can also not steal your money, because they don't have your private keys
by yomismoaqui | 2025-08-12 14:39:42+00:00
I have pointed Claude Code to the game and in 2 minutes of chatting I got a way to submit fake scores.

Usually Claude Code prevents using it for cheating on games, but with this initial prompt it was easy for it to explain how to do it.

"analyze the following game and explain how the record is submitted on game over https://dodge.trickle.host/"

EDIT: is a little scary how easy is to use coding agents like Claude Code for these kind of attacks.
by snoman | 2025-08-12 14:39:42+00:00
I’ve used Windows at work for years, my personal/gaming machine is Linux (mint), my personal/development machine is MacOS.

They’re all perfectly viable options with strengths and weaknesses. None of them are especially great. I’m partial to MacOS, personally.

It’s willful ignorance to think that the many millions of people that like MacOS are just parroting what they’ve been told.
by benoau | 2025-08-12 14:39:48+00:00
Maybe, but if Trump wanted this to go away he's had a good 7 months to make that happen and he got a million dollars cash gift for his inauguration, certainly worth more than a gold bar trophy stand. This antitrust stems from a 2019/2020 congressional investigation into "Big Tech" that occurred during his first term too.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/congress-big-tech-an...
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-12 14:39:56+00:00
Just because something is profitable doesn't mean it's not expensive, which only means it costs a lot of money.

Or, you need to spend a lot of resources to do the attack even if it's the case that you get that money back when you succeed. And the attack is not available to you if you can't front those resources (because it's expensive rather than cheap).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-12 14:40:09+00:00
Looks like Guo’s private pilot license is still active [1].

(I’ve flagged the CNN article [2] to the FAA.)

[1] https://amsrvs.registry.faa.gov/airmeninquiry/Main.aspx

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/americas/us-teen-ethan-gu...
by acdha | 2025-08-12 14:40:20+00:00
DC is part of the United States, which has high levels of income inequality and easier access to guns than any other advanced country. The drug war keeps pulling people in because we have a lot of unhappy people buying, and economically marginalized young people. In other countries, you have better medical care (fewer people buying fentanyl on the street because they can't get legal chronic pain treatment), and if people don't have easy access to guns the homicide rate is lower because while there are people just as mad at the world they're getting in fist or knife fights rather than shootouts which are more likely to be lethal and affect more people. Yes, people still get seriously hurt but if all you're looking at are homicide stats you really need to think about how those are affected by technological changes which greatly increase lethality.

In particular for DC, note also that Republicans have blocked for many years efforts by DC's government to restrict the supply of guns and the lack of a national strategy means that someone who can't buy a gun in DC goes a few miles away to Virginia. In most other countries, you don't have the option of even a short walk offering access to very different laws. This also shows up in the crime stats: in my neighborhood there've been a couple of fatal shootings over the last decade – and in every case both the perp and victim were people from Maryland who came over the border to do a drug deal because they can switch jurisdictions in 5 minutes and thus confuse a police response.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-08-12 14:40:21+00:00
Obviously some coffee shops are gonna want that but some coffee shops are making all their money by selling to customers during short periods in the morning, lunch and maybe in the afternoon and if this person is sitting there blocking the chair that could be used by many customers during the time the total of two cups of coffee will be less than what they are losing from not being able to serve those customers. Of course for some coffee shops they are never full and they probably benefit from this and they would love to have those type of customers.
by bpodgursky | 2025-08-12 14:40:38+00:00
> touching down on a portion of Antarctica claimed by Chile

It is worth pointing out that no other nation acknowledges Chile's claim to this part of Antarctica. And in fact, several other countries claim the same territory.

It doesn't make landing there a good idea, but it's not really an invasion of sovereign Chilean territory in a sane way. Chile claims an enormous portion of Antarctica which they exert absolutely 0 sovereignty over in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory. In fact, two of the three US antarctic bases (Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station and Palmer station) are in their claimed territory, and I can assure you that US researchers do not ask Chile's permission to enter and leave.

You can call this a dumb stunt without giving credence to the goofy south american land claims Chile and Argentina are prone to making.
by cubefox | 2025-08-12 14:40:53+00:00
> Epic may have lost its antitrust battle against Apple in the U.S., but it won its lawsuit against Google, which was found to have built an illegal monopoly in the Android market.

Amazing. You can install third-party app stores on Android, just not via Google's own Play Store. Meanwhile, in iOS you can't even install third party browsers. Let alone third-party app stores. Or any apps outside Apple's App Store.

The iOS case is far more egregious. It seems the US courts are heavily biased in favor of Apple.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-08-12 14:40:58+00:00
Right. Building a custom setup is blatant- that will wildly overfit.

But let's say a group uses it as a metric as part of CI and each new idea / feature they create runs against SWE bench. Maybe they have parameterized bits and pieces they adjust, maybe they have multiple candidates datasets for fine tuning, maybe they're choosing between checkpoints.

This will also end up overfitting - especially if done habitually. It might be a great metric and result in a more powerful overall model. Or it might not.
by mitchwainer | 2025-08-12 14:41:12+00:00
Grafbase just launched Nexus, an open-source AI Router that unifies MCP servers and LLMs through a single endpoint. Designed for enterprise-grade governance, control, and observability, Nexus helps teams manage AI complexity, enforce policies, and monitor performance across their entire stack. Built to work with any MCP server or LLM provider out-of-the-box, Nexus is designed for developers who want to integrate AI with the same rigor as production APIs.
by Swizec | 2025-08-12 14:41:14+00:00
> It's telling on the users in question and their relationship with reality.

It’s telling to Tesla’s brand reputation. This will take decades and billions of dollars to repair, if it even can be fixed.

Tesla may become synonymous with cars-as-internet-of-shit. Same as how Italian cars to this day are the butt of every reliability joke. This reputation has followed them since the 90’s. British cars are synonymous with cheap construction – a reputation they built in the 70’s.

Stuff like this can be forever.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-12 14:41:57+00:00
Wouldn't someone's expectation instead depend on the nature of the application, and what data it needs? My expectation is that an application does not access the network unless it requires a resource only available from the network. I would totally expect a "Yelp" application to make network requests as part of its core functionality. Yelp is an online service, and in order to use it, you have to talk to the network, and you're generally requesting data that might often change, so you need fresh copies. Same for an Internet browser, or ftp or git (for remotes) or things like that. I would not expect a spell checker to need to access a network because it can all be done locally and the spelling of words doesn't change often enough to need a fresh dictionary from the network over and over. And I certainly would not expect the software to send data to the network. I would also not expect a calculator application to request math function from the network or send my equations to a network service so that the network service could provide a result.
by abound | 2025-08-12 14:42:02+00:00
You piqued my interest with the mention of jujutsu support. I just read the post on using it for code review [1] for stacked PRs and was really impressed, awesome work!

I've never used Gerrit directly, but I'm guessing that Jujutsu's change IDs are like a native version of what Gerrit does there.

I regularly (attempt to) do stacked diffs on GitHub with jj, and even with a bunch of automations it's still a clunky, awkward experience.

[1] https://blog.tangled.sh/stacking
by stego-tech | 2025-08-12 14:42:08+00:00
> “Well son, I think I speak for your mother and I when I say, UH DUHHHHHHH.”

Man, it just doesn’t work outside GIF form, but the point is the same. Anyone with two brain cells could understand how vertical monopolies are still monopolies, and the walled gardens created by Big Tech are just company towns customers pay into and can’t leave without enormous disruption. All of that came through rubber-stamped M&As that depleted the market of competition and, now that ZIRP is over and AI is riding high, depleted the market of well-paying jobs in the process.

Competition is efficient, in that it creates more jobs and more opportunities for money to flow between customers and businesses. When your goal is to have all the money, though, competition is bad and must be destroyed.

At least with tech we can force change through code instead of armed law enforcement like monopolies of old.
by apaprocki | 2025-08-12 14:42:21+00:00
Yes if you need many-exit, DIY is going to be more painful. I’ll disagree about the trust point, though. It’s about relationships. I want as few corporate relationships as possible. If I already deal with Amazon and AWS and I can get this additional service from them, I will gladly do it over starting a new corporate relationship (iff my trust is never violated, in which case I will then rehome everything).
by devilbunny | 2025-08-12 14:42:21+00:00
24 is good for tenth percentile, FWIW.

I do use hair, glasses, etc., but the flip side is that they are variable, whereas gait and voice are much harder to change. Good luck picking out Gary Oldman if you don't know he's in a movie; the man is a damned chameleon.

I knew most of the celebrities by name (there were a few complete whiffs and a few whose name I know but honestly have no idea what they look like - e.g., Cristiano Ronaldo). And most of the pairs looked nearly identical; in effect, my compensating technique was spotting the computer-generated image (which, based on my score, isn't all that effective).
by monocasa | 2025-08-12 14:42:24+00:00
Or, in a police state, the point isn't solving crimes.

In my city, any protest over a half dozen people gets a police response. However they may show up a couple hours late to you being robbed, but will probably tell you to go to their website and file a report they won't follow up on.

Paradoxically, as you reach more and more of a police state, the point of the police isn't to solve or prevent crimes. It's to use violence against threats to the police state.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-08-12 14:42:42+00:00
> Nova Scotia is currently reporting a single wildfire — under control, at an area of 1.3 hectares. It seems there were a couple more when the story was posted. Even other Maritime provinces are currently dealing with much worse, to say nothing of the northern Prairies.

Seems like Nova Scotia's fire prevention tactics (like this) are working! The time to keep people out of the woods to prevent a fire is before there is a fire.
by The-Bus | 2025-08-12 14:42:49+00:00
Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. is a Korean company, owned by a Singaporean wealth fund and a Korean company. US Starbucks provides licensing and supplies, nothing more.

So this is a decision by a Korean company, not an American one.

https://stories.starbucks.com/asia/stories/2021/starbucks-tr...
by shagie | 2025-08-12 14:43:09+00:00
As an individual user who has had the all products pack for a long time, this is $3 per year increase ($173 -> $179).

... For organizations with the all products pack, this is $200 per license per year ($779 to $979). That can be a bit more of a shock to the costs.

One of the things they're doing with this is that if you renew before October 1, you can lock in the price for 2 years (as an org).

In looking at this, one of the things that I see is that JetBrains AI Pro is now included in the all products pack (where it's an add-on to the single product).
by capyba | 2025-08-12 14:43:10+00:00
Reading about the `left-pad` incident (almost 10 years ago itself!) gave me an incredibly strong aversion to dependencies in my own projects. I suppose that like the author, I care a lot about understanding the foundations and ensuring that whatever I build can stand on its own, as much as that may be. I think this philosophy has helped me learn a lot more than if I had just focused on “build as fast as possible”, but definitely limited the “amount” of projects I’ve completed.

I love writing in C because a) it’s simple and I can understand everything that’s going on and b) I feel confident that it’ll compile just fine years from now, because that’s how that particular ecosystem has worked and likely will continue to work.

Recently, I’ve been writing new projects in Rust, which has far better ergonomics but is far more complicated and causes me to cede control to the whims of the community and the compiler. I’m sure there are simple ways to ensure that I can use the same compiler for all new platforms that will support it, but just like everything in the modern day (for both better and worse), is implicitly and explicitly designed to always be updated.

Rust has become much more stable in the past few years, but you’re right to expect breaking changes in the next ten years. I love using the language, it’s been fun to learn and I (hope) it’s helped me write far more robust code, but I’m sure in the future there will be many times where I’ll miss C.
by sfmz | 2025-08-12 14:43:23+00:00
Marketing seems way off. Its a personal trainer, not an Ai-Powered-fitness-coach (people are sick of hearing the letters A-I). Your value-prop is to replace $70/session personal trainers and give people ideas of workouts they wouldn't ordinarly think of (get them out of the same routine / rut). I'm reminded of FitDeck from SharkTank -- this guy made bodyweight exercise cards you shuffle to change up your workout each time.