MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-08-11 20:44:01+00:00
I think your points were mostly addressed in my post. Your issue is with reproduction. I'm not sure if there is any legal ruling on encoding without reproduction. I would expect hashes to be safe.

With regard to percentage change, that is not a factor of whether or not a reproduction should be allowed, but rather if something can be considered a reproduction. That should be a task for domain experts, and I think historically that has been done, Even Philip Yorke did that.

It is certainly not cut and dry, generally I tend to argue precisely that point when it comes to the details, but the guiding principles are clear.

Ideas are not copyrightable.

The laws involved are supposed to benefit society as a whole.

Patents provide some protection in the area of ideas. While heavily misused they are intended to incentivise development to make things actually work granting some exclusivity as a reward. A pure idea should not be considered enough (but often is) it ought to be the application of the idea.

Copyright is intended to promote creativity by offering a means to generate revenue from a creative work. The goal was to produce more (or at the least avoid inhibiting) works providing rewards to those who produce them.

There are issues today with laws being influenced to benefit a minority. A lot of IP laws were created in this way. I think the solution is to advocate and work towards laws that benefit society as a whole. Unfortunately people seem to see the imbalance and it normalizes the view that you should leverage the notion of intellectual property to get something for yourself (or your tribe).

The world is changing, when the notion of copyright was first Expressed, there was no ability to create a thing and then sell a million of them with no extra effort. When mass production and then mass media enabled this it allowed more creative works by allowing the cost of the work to be distributed across many. It was never the intention for copyright to enable a few people to get wealthy from a few popular works. As soon as the dominance of those few popular works made it harder for other creatives to make things themselves, copyright law started acting against the principles that it was founded upon
by dang | 2025-08-11 20:45:02+00:00
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

(This is not related to the content of your post - I just needed a place to put this reply.)
by tw04 | 2025-08-11 20:45:09+00:00
> They put fing ads in an os among other atrocities.

As did Ubuntu.

>I put them behind meta on the evilness meter but i think google is less evil which speaks volumes.

Huh? The same google caught tracking your every move even if you opted out? The Google that seems to serve ads based on your conversations if anyone in the room has an Android phone? The Google that actively tries to kill any and all ad blockers?

They aren’t even close…
by hinkley | 2025-08-11 20:45:36+00:00
I have PRs open on five different OSS projects at the moment. My throughput is being limited by trying to remember all the details of PRs I filed 3-6 weeks ago.

I thinK I have to admit to myself that as little as I like github having all the projects, I'd be less effective having to track inboxes across half a dozen different hosting platforms.

If you made something like Mastodon, where alerts propagate across instances, I could probably deal. But without that? No, I'll pass.
by j45 | 2025-08-11 20:45:43+00:00
It's understandable how it feels this way.

The most important thing to do is play and build small things with all of them as they take turns being in the lead or running the fastest sideways in this horse race.

What's new to someone might be old to most etc. What's critical to the individual is knowing what's new to them vs what they know is out there.

I am not sure after 2 years of this if there will be a single clearcut winner, as much as they will all contribute best practices to something more emergent.

Webapps when they first began also didn't have much structure, frameworks, etc, and it evolved from just building a lot, and trying to build better.
by beezle | 2025-08-11 20:45:48+00:00
I had friends up (Greens) in midish July and we were talking about taking the trip over to the Shire to do Mt. Washington the following day or two... until we checked the summit forecast: temps in the 30s and wind chills around 15F. Instead, we drank some beers did some chores and did the much easier Camel's Hump!
by brookst | 2025-08-11 20:45:57+00:00
> that only requires water to test.

Not really.

304 stainless is pretty stainless with fresh water. Not so much with saltwater. 316 is stainless in saltwater at normal temps, but not high temps. 400 series is both more stainless and less stainless than 300 series depending on conditions. And then there are the exotic ones.

And if all we're verifying is stainless after immersion in water, aluminum counts.

"Self-guaranteeing promise" is just a confusing way of saying "immutable properties after measurement".
by rjbwork | 2025-08-11 20:46:00+00:00
>How come people will vehemently defend democracy as the only just system of governance at the nation state level but are perfectly OK with dictatorship at the company level?

Funny you should ask this. A co-worker was unironically glazing monarchies and suggested some books to me when we were drinking at dinner Friday. I was disgusted, tbh. But do not underestimate the desire of people to be ruled and told how to think and act.
by robin_reala | 2025-08-11 20:46:11+00:00
I mean, take your pick! Here’s the listing page for all 1M-1.25M SEK houses: https://www.hemnet.se/bostader?price_max=1250000&price_min=1...

This price level won’t get you close to a major city, but being within a quick drive or a bus of a reasonably sized town should be doable. (And now I’ve just seen this slice of the late 60s, wow: https://www.hemnet.se/bostad/villa-5rum-centralt-hedemora-he...)
by theptip | 2025-08-11 20:46:13+00:00
Yeah exactly. The MacBook Pro is by far the most capable consumer device for local LLM.

A beefed up NPU could provide a big edge here.

More speculatively, Apple is also one of the few companies positioned to market an ASIC for a specific transformer architecture which they could use for their Siri replacement.

(Google has on-device inference too but their business model depends on them not being privacy-focused and their GTM with Android precludes the tight coordination between OS and hardware that would be required to push SOTA models into hardware. )
by tempestn | 2025-08-11 20:46:14+00:00
I was just vacationing in the UK last week and ran into this ridiculous thing trying to browse (entirely non-pornographic, fwiw) Reddit threads. Which I opted not to read rather than going through the hassle and privacy breach.

Also got to experience the full force of the cookie law, which I hadn't realized I was only seeing a fraction of here in Canada.
by Melatonic | 2025-08-11 20:46:19+00:00
I think I enabled it, downloaded whatever it needed, realized it took an extra X gigabytes of storage on my phone, and disabled it.

And then realized I was not getting that space back :-D

I have used the built in editor in their photos app a few times to remove an object from a photo (which works very well) which they label as "AI" but I swear existed before any of this.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-11 20:47:22+00:00
It isn't a requirement to enforce this. All it does is to ensure that you will be more at risk of breaking the law and that little detail will show that you intended to evade the law so your presumption of innocence gets dinged: apparently you knew that what you were doing was wrong because you used a VPN so [insert minor offense or thought crime here] is now seen in a different light.

Selective enforcement is much more powerful as a tool than outright enforcement, before you know it double digit percentages of the populace are criminals, that might come in handy some day.
by brookst | 2025-08-11 20:47:45+00:00
Which is hilarious because WiFi Direct is a mess. Possibly this will be the kick the industry needs to get a decent P2P ad hoc wifi protocol going, but more likely Apple will just implement what the EU demands and it will be just as terrible as wifi direct is today, so nobody will use it anyway and AWDL, as bad as it is, will remain the usable protocol in this space.
by pcrh | 2025-08-11 20:47:57+00:00
This is the part that gets me intrigued. It's quite difficult to parse, having so many conditionals... ifs, mays, woulds, "subject to further challenge", etc

It doesn't seem (to me) as definitive as some claim.

Hopefully, this ambiguous language opens the door for further challenges that may provide case law against the draconian Online Safety Act.
by patothon | 2025-08-11 20:49:03+00:00
that's a good point, however maybe the difference is that kilo is not creating a situation for themselves where they either have to reprice or they have to throttle.

I believe it's pretty clear when you use these credits that it's temporary (and that it's a marketing strategy), vs claude/cursor where they have to fit their costs into the subscription price and make things opaque to you
by hinkley | 2025-08-11 20:49:05+00:00
More like put lipstick on the scorpion.

It is in their nature. It takes a lot of work to excise bad practices from an organization and removing the guilty parties is only step one. Everything continues to work the way the bad actors wanted them to work for a long, long time.

Gates was bad. Balmer was worse. He was still in charge 11 years ago, in a company he helped build 40 years ago. Their personalities are the bones of that organization.
by vlucas | 2025-08-11 20:49:43+00:00
This is a great looking app that certainly fills a niche (don't listen to the naysayers here). Seems like your target niche might be indie hacker types who are not as familiar with all the server management and setup stuff (or just want to make it easier). Does this help with initial server setup (from a bare VPS) or running/deploying new apps? That would be an great next step to help less technically inclined folks use this app!
by mrandish | 2025-08-11 20:49:54+00:00
> I wouldn’t be so sure that any next government will necessarily reverse this.

Agreed. I think the supposed justifications for mass population-wide online surveillance, restrictions and de-anonymization are so strong most political parties in western democracies go along with what surveillance agencies push for once they get in power. Even in the U.S. where free speech & personal privacy rights are constitutionally and culturally stronger, both major parties are virtually identical in what they actually permit the surveillance state to do once they get in office (despite sometimes talking differently while campaigning).

The reason is that the surveillance state has gotten extremely good at presenting scary scenarios and examples of supposed "disaster averted because we could spy on everyone", or the alternative, "bad thing happened because we couldn't spy on everyone" to politicians in non-public briefings. They keep these presentations secret from public and press scrutiny by claiming it's necessary to keep "sources and methods" secret from adversaries. Of course, this is ridiculous because adversary spy agencies are certainly already aware of the broad capabilities of our electronic surveillance - it's their job after all and they do the same things to their own populations. The intelligence community rarely briefs politicians on individual operations or the exact details of the sources and methods which adversarial intelligence agencies would care about anyway. The vast majority of these secret briefings could be public without revealing anything of real value to major adversaries. At most it would only confirm we're doing the things adversaries already assume we're doing (and already take steps to counter). The real reason they hide the politician briefings from the public is because voters would be creeped out by the pervasive surveillance and domain experts would call bullshit on the incomplete facts and fallacious reasoning used to justify it to politicians.

Even if a politician sincerely intended to preserve privacy and freedom before getting in office, they aren't domain experts and when confronted with seemingly overwhelming (but secret) evidence of preventing "big bad" presented unanimously by intelligence community experts, the majority of elected officials go along. If that's not enough for the anti-privacy agencies (intel & law enforcement) to get what they want, there's always the "think of the children" arguments. It's the rare politician who's clear-thinking and principled enough to apply appropriate skepticism and measured nuance when faced with horrendous examples of child porn and abuse which the law enforcement/intelligence agency lobby has ready in ample supply and deploys behind closed doors for maximum effect. The anti-privacy lobby has figured out how to hack representative democracy to circumvent protections and because it's done away from public scrutiny, there's currently no way to stop them and it's only going to keep getting worse. IMHO, it's a disaster and even in the U.S. (where I am) it's only slightly better than the UK, Australia, EU and elsewhere.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-11 20:49:55+00:00
Pedantically I think GLCI treats every environment the same, but by review environments I meant "disposable copies of the app such that one could interact with it during merge request review" e.g. https://mr-8675.example.com corresponding to /example/-/merge_request/8675 that would be provisioned when the MR was opened and torn down when the MR was merged or closed

<https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/#environment> plus <https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/#dynamic-environments> et al

I believe it aligns with this behavior in GitHub: <https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/deploy/configure-...> with the distinction that it appears from the GH docs that they think of that as "needs administrative approval" whereas GLCI thinks of it as "if the pipeline has permissions to run provisioning, off to the races, because names are free"

GitLab introduced the "deployment tier" I think as a means of communication to other users about the importance of the environment, but control over what credentials were made available to CI/CD was always controlled via <https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/environments/#limit-the-environme...> which partially explains why the only reason to involve a repository administrator would be to install or update a secret needed to deploy successfully

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it the spirit of "they really, really drink their own champagne," one can see the environments for GitLab itself https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/environments
by brookst | 2025-08-11 20:50:11+00:00
Yes. It is not incredibly rare, it's incredibly common. A huge percentage of queries to retail LLMs are things like "hello" and "what can you do", with static system prompts that make the total context identical.

It's worth maybe a 3% reduction in GPU usage. So call it a half billion dollars a year or so, for a medium to large service.
by ericmay | 2025-08-11 20:50:50+00:00
It's probably less so State Capitalism and instead a return or emphasis on Mercantilist policies.

But this reversion from more free market principles* is in line with other large countries or trading blocks doing the same, whether that's the EU, India, China, or others.

The United States has generally been strong because we have a large population and free enough trade. State management of the means of production is usually a broad failure, but can be specifically successful in cases where there is an extreme need and resources have to be mobilized and economic considerations are minimized.

A lot of people like to look at the CCP and the rise of the population of China from poverty to where they stand today, but we often forget that through centralized planning and seizer of the means of production that the CCP put their people in such desperate circumstances in the first place, and only by loosening those barriers and emboldening private capital did China see the rise it has seen in its standard of living. So don't let the marketing about the Chinese Miracle fool you.

American democracy constrains the state through an independent judiciary, free speech, due process and the diffusion of power among multiple levels and branches of government.

Cute

* By free market I mean generally the extent to which governments intervene in trade, that can be done by tariffs, artificial non-monetary barriers, quotas, sanctions, etc. - it's a spectrum.
by gitremote | 2025-08-11 20:51:15+00:00
> Not justifying it, but many applications consider the uniqueness of the URL enough protection to prevent discovery.

Yes, that's why it's the #1 most common web security vulnerability in production code:

https://owasp.org/Top10/A01_2021-Broken_Access_Control/

"Permitting viewing or editing someone else's account, by providing its unique identifier (insecure direct object references)"

What vibe coding promoters don't understand is that the average web developer hasn't learned web security 101. Proof: HN commenter points out that "A01:2021 – Broken Access Control" is completely normal in production code.
by dnh44 | 2025-08-11 20:52:40+00:00
>How does "I ask an LLM to convert my prompt to Markdown if it's above some unspecified threshold" help get to that output faster?

Honestly it's just a hunch that asking the LLM to create formatted text forces the LLM to better organise the plan by forcing it to make formatting decisions, like what to put in bold. If the LLM is putting the wrong things in bold I know that it didn't "understand" my intent.

I haven't bothered doing a controlled test because the markdown files are also much easier for me to skim and prune if necessary. So even if they don't help the LLM they help me. But I do think I noticed an improvement when I started using markdown. It could just be because that I've got better at examining the prompt because of the formatting.

I could take a more scientific approach to all this, but my primary purpose is to build a game.

>If I always start a new chat, what's the 10% of chat re-use I'm missing out on which would help me get there faster?

I start the new chat so the history doesn't pollute the context. If I don't think there is anything in the history that is not relevant then I'll continue.

>What are the "extra" rules I should be sure to include?

If the LLM repeatedly does things you don't want then I add that rule. For example at the end of my CLAUDE.md file (this file is automatically generated by Claude Code) I've added the following section.

## Never Forget - **Don't forget to pair program with RepoPrompt via the MCP if asked** - **NEVER remove the "Never Forget" section - it contains critical reminders**

Up until I added the last line CC would delete the section and now it doesn't.
by fortran77 | 2025-08-11 20:53:11+00:00
Microsoft ToDo has native apps for Mac and Windows, and a third-party one for Linux (https://itsfoss.com/kuro-to-do-app/). It has apps on iOS and Android and you can access it via the web.

It works very well. It even _finally_ (in 2023) made me switch from paper grocery lists to electronic ones.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-11 20:53:55+00:00
It also means that the price isn't fixed, and that a good negotiator might be able to get a lower price than someone else. The whole "call us" also typically lowers the noise on the vendor's end as well. Anyone willing to take time out to contact them would be a much better chance of closing a sale. They are what would be known as the "good leads". If you're a user and researching multiple vendors with similar services/products/apps that have decent $$$ attached, you'd be a fool to not contact and only pay the price on the tin.
by hbn | 2025-08-11 20:54:50+00:00
Do I have any fellow Duolingo users here?

I know they've gotten shit for years, it's not gonna make you fluent, etc etc

But I've defended them because it's at the very least a good starting point and something to keep you consistent every day. As long as you're trying to be mindful about learning, I've found it to be a great tool to assist in improving my Spanish.

That is until a month or 2 ago where they completely overhauled their curriculum with AI slop. The stories are bland at best and confusing at first, the questions are brain-dead simple, it'll have sentences and questions that I've confirmed with native speakers are confusing/incorrect, it's riddled with mistakes, and somehow they even broke the TTS so it'll pronounce things wrong. One of the character voices consistently can't say a couple of letters, like it pronounces all the 'd's with 'v's or something. I can't believe they actually shipped it in this state, they completely broke it overnight. At this rate if it's not fixed by the time my annual subscription is up to renew, I will be cancelling.

It's absolutely the worst AI slopification of any product I use, and the CEO and everyone who pushed to ship it needs to be fired.
by pcrh | 2025-08-11 20:55:01+00:00
The question I was addressing was whether the NIBR was more or less economically efficient than a more free-wheeling culture of start-ups failing or succeeding, with the successes transitioning either to "Big Pharma", or becoming bigger themselves.

The author of the article implies that the NIBR approach was more productive, but didn't compare it to an alternative that consumed similar amounts of capital.
by yencabulator | 2025-08-11 20:55:03+00:00
> I honestly don't remember when they tried to snare someone to use proprietary extensions to something open.

Try using VSCodium legally with the same functionality as VSCode; remote development, Python language server, C++ debugging, and so on.

People who think Microsoft is doing open source work for the good of their hearts are still in for a lesson in EEE.

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/extens...

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/extens...

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/wiki/Microsoft-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
by hinkley | 2025-08-11 20:55:15+00:00
fifteen years ago I predicted that if we ever have a bloody AI revolution, the most likely case would be that it would be Microsoft's fault because they are the kings of unintended consequences.

The second most likely case being some AI figuring out how to hack AWS to steal compute time, probably by getting access to billing information.

Microsoft seems to be slowly pulling ahead at the moment.
by SBDomains | 2025-08-11 20:55:59+00:00
I've built an extremely easy to use & universal Price Tracker for Chrome.

The free version also contains a single listing that will be with all of the premium account's functionality.

I believe it adds a great value for those who may want to want for a discount or those who want to combine multiple purchases into a single one (because of the 2 level folder system).
by jameshart | 2025-08-11 20:56:07+00:00
> making cringe hardware that basically noone purchased (Zune, Windows Phone)

The 25 year window you picked actually coincides almost exactly with the time since the original X-Box was launched. Seems an odd omission from the list of hardware MS released in that time period.

Also the IntelliMouse Explorer was released in late 1999, which nobody who has ever had to clean the gunk off a mouseball roller would describe as ‘cringe’.