MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leelin | 2025-08-24 13:34:36+00:00
Best airport mental hack for last-minute types: Get lounge access beyond Priorty Pass

Even though most domestric lounges are hit-or-miss, it's a way to trick myself into getting to the airport 30 to 45 minutes earlier than I would. That way, if I'm running late, worst case I miss the lounge or cut short the time.

For those complaining that lounges are overcrowded with mediocre food, it's true and getting worse. However, it's buffet style - select a healthy salad option with a reasonable protein. Non Priority Pass options are somewhat worthwhile -- United Clubs have gone through a massive upgrade post Covid and so far haven't been too crowded. They also allow access upon arrival, if you really need to fire off some emails and hydrate upon landing.

As for in-flight, for former gaming geeks, try classic emulators. They won't require internet and drain very minimal battery life on your latop.

The adjacent hack is to bring an empty water bottle in your carry-on, which you fill once you clear security. Then, you have a full bottle of water and can decline everything from the "beverage cart" on your flight, meaning you never need to worry about managing a precarious open cup of liquid and ice sitting on your in-flight tray.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-24 13:34:49+00:00
Exactly right. That’s what I’m saying. The tracking itself for air traffic control purposes has an obvious good purpose. The side effect that any random public individual can access this from their couch does not.

So, perhaps to reword my “imagine:” imagine the government required a tracker on every car, AND that data would be available to anyone in the entire world who wants it at anytime with no restrictions whatsoever.
by prmoustache | 2025-08-24 13:34:57+00:00
I just use a trailer[1], I find it bonkers that one would use a car only for urban transportation. If I wasn't going regularly in remote area with my partners and my kids, I wouldn't even own a car.

[1] I like cargo bikes but storage can be a challenge compared to a trailer you can fold and remove the wheels when not in use.
by pragmatic | 2025-08-24 13:35:30+00:00
What are “db guys” in this context?

There are two distinct job functions.

1) dba - maintain OS, db software/hardware - DBs are complex beasts you want experts setting up hardware or deploying into the clown in a smarter way (virtual machines in the clown will cost you a fortune and your sanity) 2) database developers- specialists in writing sql.

The two functions work together but are distinct.

Nowadays due to private equity and Stanford MBAs we have junior engineers doing all plus “dev ops”.

It’s an absolute circus.

IMO, this is why we end up with ask these crazy DB startups - routing around the damage.

RDMS in modern hardware are insanely fast and powerful.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-24 13:35:41+00:00
Fair possibility, that's why my question here is - did anybody actually experience a car that won't let you change lanes easily without a turning signal?

I've driven Toyota, Ford, subaru and kia off the top of my head and while e.g. Toyota feels rougher than Honda, none of them approach anything that would even remotely stop, prevent, or even slow me down if I really want to change lanes, let alone if I did it forcefully in emergency. Can't speak for other brands and I definitely never drive a Tesla :-)
by zx8080 | 2025-08-24 13:35:57+00:00
> ads, propaganda and hate speech

Just think about this (which is not 100% correct, but for the sake of discussion): it's probably not meta, google and tiktok. It's the internet peoples who are the source of all that. It's peoples who say hate, who push for ideas they believe in, and they also (surprise!) publish ads! (While google et cetera are just a medium, with lots of moderation, yep.).
by rikies | 2025-08-24 13:36:04+00:00
*TL;DR* Someone on Twitter invited me to be a game community admin → gave me an activation code to download a so-called game → the client didn’t run on Windows or macOS → the website and whitepaper look polished, but the accounts have mostly bot followers → running the client showed encrypted scripts that generate local files → highly suspicious, possibly a scam or malware.

---

Here’s what happened:

A few days ago, I received a DM on Twitter from someone asking if I was interested in becoming an *admin for a game community*. At first, I declined since I wasn’t really interested. But he insisted that I could at least “give it a try,” and then connected me with someone claiming to be HR. That “HR” person provided me with an *activation code*.

![invitedMe.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

Following their instructions, I used the activation code to download a so-called *game client* from their website. I tried it on both Windows and macOS, but the game wouldn’t run at all.

![activateCode.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

Here’s where it got strange:

* Their *website and whitepaper* look well-designed and professional, not like the usual sloppy scam setup.

![website.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

* The person who DM’d me has a *Discord account created in 2018*, not a throwaway account.

![discord.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

* However, their Twitter account has *tons of bot followers*, clearly mass-registered. The same pattern applies to the person who messaged me.

![twitter.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

I dug deeper. After running the software, I found that it executes some *encrypted/obfuscated scripts*, which eventually generate files locally. I can’t be certain if this is malware, but it definitely looks risky.

![script.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

This left me with more questions than answers:

* Did I just encounter a *well-packaged scam*? * If it’s really a scam, why go to the trouble of building such a polished site, whitepaper, and Discord presence? * Or is the real purpose simply to *distribute malicious software* disguised as a game client?

If anyone has a sandbox environment, you might want to run this client and see if it triggers any suspicious behavior.

![maybe virus.zip](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPi...)

I’d love to hear the community’s take: was this just a failed attempt at a *web3 game project*, or a *scam hidden behind the façade of a game*?
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-24 13:36:21+00:00
YouTube et al's copyright detection is mostly nonfunctional. It can only match exactly the same input with very little leeway. Even resizing it to a wrong ratio, or changing audio sampling rate too far fucks up the detection.

Its illegal for artists to distribute recreated copyright in a way that is not transformative. It isn't illegal to produce it and keep it to themselves.

People also distribute models, they don't merely offer them as a service. However, if someone asks their model to produce a copyright violation, and it does so, the person that created and distributed the model (its the distribution that is the problem), the service that ran it (assuming it isn't local inference), and the person that asked for the violation to be created can all be looped into the legal case.

This has happened before, before the world of AI. Even companies that 100% participated in the copyright regime, quickly performed takedowns, ran copyright detection to the best of their ability were sued and they lost because their users committed copyright violation using their services, even though the company did everything right and absolutely above board.

The law is stacked against service providers on the Internet, as it essentially requires them to be omniscient and omnipotent. Such requirements are not levied against other service providers in other industries.
Is it a Web3 gamemaster scam, or a game program?
by rikies | 2025-08-24 13:38:18+00:00
*TL;DR* Someone on Twitter invited me to be a game community admin → gave me an activation code to download a so-called game → the client didn’t run on Windows or macOS → the website and whitepaper look polished, but the accounts have mostly bot followers → running the client showed encrypted scripts that generate local files → highly suspicious, possibly a scam or malware.

here is the origin url: https://blog.chiphub.top/2025/08/24/adventureverse-web3-game/

---

Here’s what happened:

A few days ago, I received a DM on Twitter from someone asking if I was interested in becoming an *admin for a game community*. At first, I declined since I wasn’t really interested. But he insisted that I could at least “give it a try,” and then connected me with someone claiming to be HR. That “HR” person provided me with an *activation code*.

![invitedMe.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/gu3ZFu.jpg)

Following their instructions, I used the activation code to download a so-called *game client* from their website. I tried it on both Windows and macOS, but the game wouldn’t run at all.

![activateCode.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/yMZ8Gs.jpg)

Here’s where it got strange:

* Their *website and whitepaper* look well-designed and professional, not like the usual sloppy scam setup.

![website.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/QiWzPo.jpg)

* The person who DM’d me has a *Discord account created in 2018*, not a throwaway account.

![discord.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/kcHLnN.jpg)

* However, their Twitter account has *tons of bot followers*, clearly mass-registered. The same pattern applies to the person who messaged me.

![twitter.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/OKKFru.jpg)

I dug deeper. After running the software, I found that it executes some *encrypted/obfuscated scripts*, which eventually generate files locally. I can’t be certain if this is malware, but it definitely looks risky.

![script.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/QiWzPo.jpg)

This left me with more questions than answers:

* Did I just encounter a *well-packaged scam*? * If it’s really a scam, why go to the trouble of building such a polished site, whitepaper, and Discord presence? * Or is the real purpose simply to *distribute malicious software* disguised as a game client?

If anyone has a sandbox environment, you might want to run this client and see if it triggers any suspicious behavior.

![maybe virus.zip](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chasays/mdPicGo/master/uPic/virus.zip)

I’d love to hear the community’s take: was this just a failed attempt at a *web3 game project*, or a *scam hidden behind the façade of a game*?
by afarah1 | 2025-08-24 13:39:07+00:00
But is it a game changer vs CoPilot in Agent mode with Claude 4 Sonnet?

Because it's twice the price and doesn't even have a trial.

I feel like if it were a game changer, like Cursor once was vs Ask mode with GPT, it would be worth it, but CoPilot has come a long way and the only up-to-date comparisons I've read point to it being marginally better or the same, but twice the price.
by on_the_train | 2025-08-24 13:39:29+00:00
I'd go further and say that Germany is not part of the (general) internet. From the top of my head I can list 5-10 domains that are blocked. No site explaining, just "this site can't be reached". Reasons are piracy, pornography, politics. And the biggest problem is that it's being widely defended with many voices to increase that censorship.
by potsandpans | 2025-08-24 13:40:00+00:00
Most people do not spend thousands of hours building something "not knowing what they're building."

On the contrary, in my experience it's much more important to "play" with a concept and see it working. Too many engineers think they're going to architect a perfect solution without ever getting code on the page.

A slapdash prototype is worth the weight of 100 tests and arch diagrams.

Note: I'm not saying the latter is not important. My comment is, it's ok (and encouraged) to do potentially throwaway work to understand the domain better.
by thro1 | 2025-08-24 13:41:19+00:00
Chrome mostly can do anything Firefox can do since removing its "legacy extensions", so Firefox has to remove XSLT too - as Google can't afford it being not helpful for tracking - and can compete only with its JS engine - so XSLT, if to stay, could in the future only be reimplemented in JS polyfills no more, making it less useful, not cached, not transparent - to let Chrome 'outcompete' others again, race to the bottom, everything looks like a nail.

Hopefully that could be enough to complete the evidence to split Google into pieces in antitrust case - or realizing that will make Google to back off ?
by Atreiden | 2025-08-24 13:41:28+00:00
> If a low six figure number of people in a handful of states

The key part being "in a handful of states". There are many states in the country in which your vote is all but meaningless at the federal level. The Electoral College + relentless Gerrymandering that has been done over the past decades ensures that only a small fraction of eligible voters can cast meaningful votes. Makes it much easier to target and propagadandize those smaller groups. We saw it play out with Cambridge Analytica, but there hasn't been another "scandal" of that sort because it's just established practice now. Everyone has their hand in the pot doing the same thing, it's all above belt.

You should still vote, because you can enact change at the local + state levels, but the levers of federal power have been taken from the people.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-24 13:41:41+00:00
This is one of the worst written articles I've read in a while. It feels like a confused jumble of the authors personal grievances, clambering over each other trying to be heard. It's repetitive and mixes facts and opinion. I read through half the article before it got to discussing the point and even then I still have no clue what the author is talking about. Is it ICE? Is it evil celebrities? Is it the sinister Jet Lobby? Or is it something else entirely?
by YesBox | 2025-08-24 13:41:47+00:00
> Their 30% cut is absolutely justified

That is debatable. For one thing, Steam is partly (mostly?) built off the backs of games marketing their games and providing a Steam link (marketing costs money for the devs). Steam kick started this chicken/egg problem by creating their own great games first.

Second, Steam does not provide your game any marketing (algorithmic visibility) unless it's already successfully marketed outside of Steam (marketing is not free), and again later once it hits a certain number of sales.

Third, per Tim Sweeney, games during the retail era had a bigger margin for the the studios than they do today [1]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/19_NC1ZskeN47LHaYJziotbA0sqL...

edit: So I do feel a little upset that Steam gets free marketing for every game put on the site (important note you can (and should in most cases) place your game up on the site long before its ready to purchase, and steam will advertise other games on your page), doesnt provide any marketing in return (via the discovery queue) unless you bring in tens or hundreds of thousands of clicks, and then turns around and skims 30% of all my work which they are greatly benefiting from (e.g. what if the customer goes to my page, wish lists my game, then purchased a different game in the mean time? At least e.g. amazon has referral links)
by AuthorizedCust | 2025-08-24 13:41:54+00:00
Texas is a big state. It’s lazy journalism to generalize the state as droughty, which is implied by that sentence.

Lake Texoma has been hovering by the “full” mark pretty consistently for over 55 years. Recently, its water level has significantly declined to—wait for it—100% full!

If you monitor water maps, the east half of Texas’s water supplies don’t often get far outside of “full”.

More data: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/texo...
by hnfong | 2025-08-24 13:41:55+00:00
They’re rich enough in both money and reputation to take the risk. Even if AGI (whatever that means) turns out to be utterly impossible, they’re not really going to suffer for it.

On the other hand if you think there’s a say 10% chance you can get this AGI thing to work, the payoffs are huge. Those working in startups and emerging technologies often have worse odds and payoffs
by mnvrth | 2025-08-24 13:42:26+00:00
I'll suggest giving it another shot. It really is a game changer (I can't tell what you're doing wrong, but in a few people I've seen it has been about doing a psychological switch. I wrote about it a bit here - https://mnvr.in/beginners-mind, sharing in case it helps you see how you might approach it differently)
by limi | 2025-08-24 13:42:48+00:00
> If anyone manages to get this running with an emulator in windows and could show a basic howto/walkthrough I'd give it another go…

Maintainer of the project here. Let me see if I can help you get it running.

> Download > We don't have downloads, but here's a download link > Archive search link, not direct link > eventually find big file > download…

We do not distribute the files because old games are still under copyright, so we can only link you to a search for builds other people may have done. I’m sure you saw the message about that when clicking the link :)

> Search which emulator is the best > WinUAE/FS-UAE > Pick FS-UAE > No installer > Download 4 rando zips > two need to be extracted in a nested location that doesn't exist until you run FS-UAE-Launcher.exe first

Yes, Amiga emulators are legendarily unusable and hard to work with, unfortunately. FS-UAE is your best option unless you are willing to learn how WinUAE works. I plan to create a WinUAE setup to include in AmigaVision, so I bought my first Windows computer in 20+ years because I care about things being as easy as possible — although I can’t fix the emulator user experience more than to try to give you a default setup that just works.

> Extract Amiga.vision > readme says "Double-click the `AmigaVision.fs-uae`” > Filetype not associated > open with FS-UAE-Launcher.exe

The launcher is not necessary. You should open that file with the main FS-UAE app. This is probably why the rest of the steps did not work. Could you try that?

> Search FS-UAE/WinUAE AmigaVision > videos > none

There are plenty of videos on AmigaVision, but since the project originally was built and optimized for the MiSTer FPGA project, most of the videos cover that instead. There are a few videos in German/Portuguese/French if I remember correctly that use emulators.

As mentioned, emulator support is still newer, and since I just got my Windows computer, it has only been tested properly on Mac until now. So either you found a bug I am not aware of, or it’s just a matter of opening up the file with FS-UAE using the right click menu in Windows.

Let me know how it goes, and happy to help you get it running — I want to know if there are bugs too, of course! :)
Show HN: BacklinkHelper – Chrome Extension to Automate Link Building
by hugh1st | 2025-08-24 13:43:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a small tool to make link building less painful. It's a Chrome extension called BacklinkHelper.

It does a few things:

1.Detects backlink submission forms automatically;

2.Autofills site information with one click;

3.Tracks submitted backlinks and checks if they're still live;

4.Website management and backlink management in one place;

5.Lets you manage sites by groups and export anchor text suggestions;

The idea came from my own frustration: submitting backlinks felt repetitive and error-prone, and I wanted something that saves time while keeping things organized.

I know link building isn't everyone's favorite part of SEO, but I’m curious what you think — especially if you’ve tried automating parts of the process before.

Would love feedback on:

1.What features would make this more useful for you?

2.Any pain points in backlink building that I might be missing?

3.Concerns about automation or how you’d want control over it

If you'd like to try it out:

Website: https://backlinkhelper.com

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/backlinkhelper-%E2%...

Thanks!
by wizee | 2025-08-24 13:43:34+00:00
Mistral models are largely along the likes of what you were asking for. However, Grok (any version) absolutely is not a “don’t say gay” model, it talks about sexuality of all forms quite openly and fairly and is happy to produce creative content of any level of explicitness about these topics. It’s the least censored unmodified model I’ve encountered on any topic. People dismiss Grok as a Nazi model based on Musk’s politics without using it themselves.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-24 13:44:40+00:00
Sure, it's obvious, but it's only one of the missing pieces required for brain-like AGI, and really upends the whole LLM-as-AI way of doing things.

Runtime incremental learning is still going to be based on prediction failure, but now it's no longer failure to predict the training set, but rather requires closing the loop and having (multi-modal) runtime "sensory" feedback - what were the real-world results of the action the AGI just predicted (generated)? This is no longer an auto-regressive model where you can just generate (act) by feeding the model's own output back in as input, but instead you now need to continually gather external feedback to feed back into your new incremental learning algorithm.

For a multi-modal model the feedback would have to include image/video/audio data as well as text, but even if initial implementations of incremental learning systems restricted themselves to text it still turns the whole LLM-based way of interacting with the model on it's head - the model generates text-based actions to throw out into the world, and you now need to gather the text-based future feedback to those actions. With chat the feedback is more immediate, but with something like software development far more nebulous - the model makes a code edit, and the feedback only comes later when compiling, running, debugging, etc, or maybe when trying to refactor or extend the architecture in the future. In corporate use the response to an AGI-generated e-mail or message might come in many delayed forms, with these then needing to be anticipated, captured, and fed back into the model.

Once you've replaced the simple LLM prompt-response mode of interaction with one based on continual real-world feedback, and designed the new incremental (Bayesian?) learning algorithm to replace SGD, maybe the next question is what model is being updated, and where does this happen? It's not at all clear that the idea of a single shared (between all users) model will work when you have millions of model instances all simultaneously doing different things and receiving different feedback on different timescales... Maybe the incremental learning now needs to be applied to a user-specific model instance (perhaps with some attempt to later share & re-distribute whatever it has learnt), even if that is still cloud based.

So... a lot of very fundamental changes need to be made, just to support self-learning and self-updates, and we haven't even discussed all the other equally obvious differences between LLMs and a full cognitive architecture that would be needed to support more human-like AGI.
by abxyz | 2025-08-24 13:45:02+00:00
“I almost always book the minimum flight, basic economy, whether or not I am paying. There is so little to be gained from moving up compared to the price.”

Perhaps I’m too precious but economy class is awful compared to business class. Lie-flat seats are a significant improvement over economy. If you are spending your own money, sure, stick to economy so you can spend your money on other things that are more important to you… but someone else’s money? What conceivable reason is there to choose economy if someone else is paying.