MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kristopolous | 2025-08-08 02:04:51+00:00
Right, I'm just a technologist. The psychological and sociological parts aren't my bailiwick

Typing a prompt in an AI box to make art has fewer real-world victims than performing the acts, filming them, and then sharing the videos.

I think that's inarguable. Maybe it's still unadvisable and someone should be in talk therapy. I have no idea. But at least nobody is actually getting molested and retraumatized in the ai art scenario.

If someone is spending their time using comfyUI drawing pictures instead of stalking the local middleschool, I'd hesitate to say mission accomplished ... but maybe I should?

People's time is finite. They can't be doing both. If the real is substituted for the imaginary then the real can no longer happen because that time is spent.
by WriteValda | 2025-08-08 02:05:00+00:00
IF everyone switches to PASSKEYS, hackers are going to focus exclusively on them and they WILL find a way; then everyone will be FUBAR. Worse, BIG TECH is not going to take responsibility. THAT and AI? PROBLEMATIC. Nothing is foolproof. However... Proper password protocol must be taught.Once upon a time, people had password hints. Why not tech a combination of that and proper passwords?
by refactor_master | 2025-08-08 02:05:12+00:00
I think the above post has a fair point. Demand for chatbot customer service in various forms is surely "insanely high" - but demand from whom? Because I don't recall any end-user ever asking for it.

No, instead it'll be the new calculator that you can use to lazy-draft an email on your 1.5 hour Ryanair economy flight to the South. Both unthinkable luxuries just decades ago, but neither of which have transformed humanity profoundly.
by theamk | 2025-08-08 02:05:27+00:00
A very long, but also very good article I always remember when I hear "debanking": "Debanking (and Debunking?)" by Patrick McKenzie (patio11) [0]

> Perhaps a founder might ask a friend: “I run a legitimate business which happens to be in crypto and suddenly found my personal accounts closed. Why did this happen? I did nothing wrong.”

> Playing the odds? The bank thinks there is an unacceptable risk that you will use your personal accounts to launder money on behalf of the business (and/or its customers, etc). The bank has insufficient controls to give them an appropriate level of certainty as to whether you’re doing this or not. They are disinclined to find out the hard way, so they invite you to find another bank.

> Why do they think you might launder on behalf of the business? In part because of the extensive history of crypto companies laundering funds through the accounts of their founders and employees, specifically, and the banking industry’s highly-evidenced belief that businesses and their owners routinely commingle funds, generally.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371476
by glp1guide | 2025-08-08 02:06:24+00:00
Sorry a bit late here, but the numbers for CagriSema are actually not as good as Retatrutide's were. Unless I'm missing something:

Reta 8mg -22% body weight at 48 weeks

CagriSema -20.4% body weight at 68 weeks

CagriSema has been on my radar for a while, and it's certainly going to be exciting.

Here's a slightly better link for the curious:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40544433/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05567796
by joegibbs | 2025-08-08 02:07:10+00:00
"If you covered a backhoe with skin, made its bucket look like a hand, painted eyes on its chassis, and made it play a sound like “hnngghhh!” whenever it lifted something heavy, then we’d start wondering whether there’s a ghost inside the machine."

Great point and I think this is kind of what has happened with LLMs by squishing them into the chat mode. Naturally they just continue the previous text which is much less likely to be anthropomorphised. Image generators don't get anthropomorphised nearly as much because they just output the image. But since we're used treating chat as if there's a person on the other end, and the LLM refers to itself in the first person etc, people act as if it can think.
by lowboy | 2025-08-08 02:07:32+00:00
Your metrics for community success might be misaligned with those of the community stewards.

There's more room for interpretation in "all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally" than with the explicit stated support for BLM, trans rights, and anti-nazi ideologies. Room for interpretation on codes of conduct make for more moderation work, allowing more undesirable behaviours to crop up.

> There's a reason most businesses/organizations don't engage in politics... even if the founders have very strong political views

Yes, but that might not be the goals of the Gleam stewards. Maybe they would rather take a moral stance even if it hurts Gleam's reach.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-08 02:07:42+00:00
> Jetbrains threaded this needle for years by having professional licenses tied to an individual with clauses for time and location shifting. So you could use their software at home, drive to work and also use the same license there.

It's a very, er, "enlightened self-interest" model, because it makes me "sticky" as a customer, since I'm less likely to learn a completely different IDE for work and then use that one for my own projects and eventually ditch theirs.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-08 02:08:56+00:00
There's a social media engagement tactic where people will deliberately add specially tailored elements to content in order to bait people into commenting about it. I wonder if there was some deeper strategy to this chart being used during their presentation or if it really was just a blunder.

Maybe the fact that there were additional blunders, such as the incorrect explanation of the Bernoulli Effect, suggests that the team responsible for organizing this presentation didn't review every detail carefully. Maybe I'm reading too much into a simple mistake.
by byronic | 2025-08-08 02:10:02+00:00
I have (not an exhaustive list) SSH keys and sensitive repositories hanging out on my filesystem. I don't trust _myself_ with that, let alone an LLM, unless I'm running ollama or similar local nonsense with no net connectivity.

I'm a few degrees removed from an air gapped environment so obviously YMMV. Frankly I find the idea of an LLM writing files or being allowed to access databases or similar cases directly distasteful; I have to review the output anyway and I'll decide what goes to the relevant disk locations / gets run.
by dhussoe | 2025-08-08 02:10:22+00:00
I've received some "bonus" performance related equity grants with a four year vesting period. These are beyond normal the refresher grants. They are not described by the company as "bonus", because we also have the sort of cash bonus you're talking about, but were I to describe them to people outside the company, I'd probably say "bonus grants" or something.

In this case it seems obvious that it needs some kind of vesting terms to prevent people from taking the bonus and then just taking another offer anyways.
by felixfurtak | 2025-08-08 02:10:31+00:00
It's definitely more like the railways of the 1880s. Lots of companies, with more-or-less the same product, competing for a highly extrapolated theoretical demand. Out of all that excitement comes an eventual crash and rationalization. Railways today are much more boring, regulated and utilitarian affairs. Many are state owned and still often loss-making.
by grahamjperrin | 2025-08-08 02:10:54+00:00
Thanks.

I have a vague sense that kernel panics with iwlwifi should have been resolved before 14.3-RELEASE. Bugzilla should be fairly close to definitive, expect info to be copious but well-organised.

Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics], it's harder to find information.

I spent around a year trying to pinpoint the cause(s) of apparently random failures with different (older) hardware. After switching to Kubuntu on the same hardware, I suspect that the issue with FreeBSD was ACPI-related.

If you have crash files from kernel panics: it should be possible to identify, but not necessarily solve, a problem.
by umanwizard | 2025-08-08 02:11:54+00:00
Are there any actual studies on this? Does access to simulations of illegal or objectionable material make pedophiles, rape fetishists, etc. more or less likely to try to access the real thing (or even worse, to try to commit crimes in the real world)?

Because both possibilities are plausible, it’s hard to know which is correct.
by spauldo | 2025-08-08 02:14:46+00:00
Found the Keyence sales rep!

No, I'm the lead integrator at a small-to-medium-sized company. Which means when an engineer brings me in on a project, I have a decent amount of influence on the software and controls hardware we use.

The customer may specify a PLC manufacturer or a particular SCADA system, but unless we're expanding an existing system we usually have a lot of leeway. I know this stuff better than the engineer does (that's my job, after all), so my recommendations are usually accepted.
by kiitos | 2025-08-08 02:15:05+00:00
> Write down your top-level dependencies. The computer will figure out transitive ones. They are guaranteed to be the same, since everything is immutable.

dep@ver can resolve to totally different outputs, depending on resolver (repository), DNS, time of day, user location, user network configuration, software author overrides, mistakes by anyone in the supply chain, etc.

everything is very obviously not immutable, this is one of the main motivations for lock files, checksums, etc.

dumb article :(
by antongribok | 2025-08-08 02:15:22+00:00
Thank you for this detailed reply!

I only want to add a small suggestion. I get that large distributed production systems will occasionally go down, but it would be great if you could look into reducing the latency of your status page.

By my count there was at least a 35 minute delay between when things broke and before the status page (https://fastmailstatus.com) was updated.

Also, I think it would have been nice to have a bit more explanation on this event than simply "database issues" [1]. Being able to know that this was related to an upgrade would have made me feel a bit better during the time the status page was updated and until the issue was resolved.

Thank you for your hard work and an excellent email service!

-A long time customer.

[1]: https://fastmailstatus.com/cme1fq7ej002dh0iu6z8pey4f
by accengaged | 2025-08-08 02:16:25+00:00
Law is all about gatekeepers - you need the right degree, have to pass the bar, then work your way up through established hierarchies. Classic professional credentialism where they keep access locked down tight.

Programming smashed that whole model - you can learn online, jump into open source, and prove yourself through what you actually build rather than what credentials you have.

Law school teaches you to think in precedent and interpretation within whatever frameworks already exist. Programming culture is way more about experimenting and building completely new stuff from the ground up. One field rewards you for working within the system, the other rewards you for tearing it down and rebuilding it better.

Sure, both require logical thinking, but they use it in totally different ways that create completely different professional mindsets.

What sucks for programming is that because of all this, it gets seen as something trivial - especially now with AI writing applications that technically work but have zero architectural thought behind them. They'll do exactly what you asked for and nothing more, then fall apart when you actually need them to scale.

Finding any programmer is easy these days, finding a good one isn't - it's gotten way harder with AI around and the Dunning-Kruger effect is everywhere in the field.

The ML community hit this wall too. Say you're an AI engineer and people immediately lump you in with those "pay-me-to-talk" types going on about "quantum fields and vibrations to boost your workforce energy and productivity."

"I'm a lawyer" still gets you respect. "I'm an AI/Software Engineer" gets you grouped with the snake oil salespeople. That disparity just makes the whole thing worse.
by ENGNR | 2025-08-08 02:16:41+00:00
Elon's Y Combinator interview was pretty good. He seemed more in his element back amongst the hacker crowd (rather than dirty politics), and seemed to be doing hackery things at X, like renting generators and mobile cooling vans and just putting them the car park outside a warehouse to train Grok, since there were no data centres available and he was told it would take 2 years to set it all up properly.

I think he's just good at attracting good talent, and letting them focus on the right things to move fast initially, while cutting the supporting infra down to zero until it's needed.
by sothatsit | 2025-08-08 02:18:58+00:00
GPT-5 is probably going to be a meaningful improvement for most of my non-technical family members who like ChatGPT but have never used anything other than 4o. In fact, most of the people I know who use ChatGPT pay no attention to the model being used, except for the developers I know. This update is going to be a big deal for them.

For me, it's just another nice incremental improvement. Nothing special, but who doesn't like smarter better models? The drop in hallucination rates also seems meaningful for real-world usage.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-08 02:20:32+00:00
When I saw this, the question which immediately came to mind was:

Who would turn loose arbitrary commands (content) generated by an LLM onto their filesystem?

Then I saw the installation instructions, which are:

curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash

And it made sense.

Only those comfortable with installing software by downloading shell commands from an arbitrary remote web site and immediately executing them would use it.

So what then is the risk of running arbitrary file system modifications generated from a program installed via arbitrary shell commands? None more than what was accepted in order to install it.

Both are opaque, unreviewed, and susceptible to various well known attacks (such as a supply chain attack[0]).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_chain_attack
by jmye | 2025-08-08 02:20:34+00:00
Why should banks be required to do business with you (for non-protected class reasons)? Why should Democrats want to make sure that colleges can ignore non-white and non-Asian applicants, regardless of potential ability? Why would Dems support any of this clear and obvious bullshit, that is solely being pushed to distract from other… issues the administration is having?
by foxglacier | 2025-08-08 02:21:39+00:00
> you get diddly shit

> If you're making money on my stuff, I want a cut. Simple as that.

It's clear that you're motivated by personal compensation for your work, which is fine, but it means you shouldn't license it as MIT. Other people are motivated by knowing that their work is useful to others, and those people shouldn't use GPL because it hinders that aim.
by jameslk | 2025-08-08 02:21:45+00:00
> let's say you publish a Steam game how to be a school shooter and shoot kids, wouldn't that lead to real school shootings ?

> who can definitely say that computer generated content about criminal behavior, won't lead to real crime with real victims?

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but there has been no found link between violent video games to violent crimes, despite it being researched extensively:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/violent-vide...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-019-01069-0

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6756088/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/84951

Of course, that hasn’t stopped video games being blamed for violence by the “think of the children” crowd and certain politicians:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_Protect...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/08/video...

Especially when shootings occur by white perpetrators:

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/09/video-games-...

The same narrative plays out for porn, despite the research findings being the same:

https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/08/story/pornography-sex-cri...

But blaming violent video games or pornography is an easy scapegoat
by dang | 2025-08-08 02:23:31+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and we've asked you many times to stop.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by da_chicken | 2025-08-08 02:24:01+00:00
Oh, no doubt it was hot garbage in 8. It was slightly improved in 8.1, and there were real improvements in the system in Win10 that really made it work better. Win10 was the first good version.

But Win10 is still over 10 years old. Win10 is end of life in about 2 months.
by bri3d | 2025-08-08 02:24:04+00:00
As far as I know no vehicles use this kind of rolling code algorithm for push button start, only key fob functions. Certainly not in Europe (due to immobilizer regulations) but I don’t believe anywhere else either.

Generally, long range key fob button functions and the short range start release functions are separated, both intentionally for security reasons and due to the different problem space occupied by each.

It’s also worth noting that European makes in general tend to have much better cryptographic key security. My understanding is that this is due to a combination of regulation, a relationship between insurance and automakers which requires some security standard, and a high rate of theft leading to an adversarial environment.
by defrost | 2025-08-08 02:24:38+00:00
And your suggestion for eliminating feral cats is?

Or are you in favour of the death of bilbies, quokkas, quolls, potoroos, et al en masse?

These nice ladies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7h9V4aKlJw

like to flush ferals out with grass fires and net, spear, or shoot them as they flee and either toss them or take them home to eat.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-08 02:25:11+00:00
In the article it shows that very rich owners can evade the tax (probably they've already planned and left!), while middle class people the tax wipes out their business and probably send them bankrupt. It's more like handcuffs than socialism.

I am sure they could achieve the same goals of fair tax but learn some game theory before doing so.
by tonypapousek | 2025-08-08 02:26:36+00:00
> Nothing to do with Apple Intelligence Sorry, the clarify - I mean in macOS beta 26, the `say` command's output matches the settings set in the System Settings -> Apple Intelligence & Siri -> Voice > Select... menu.

> speech synthesiser manager (the term manager was used for OS components in Classic Mac OS)

Especially fun to play with on the rainbow iMacs back then, too.
by powerbroker | 2025-08-08 02:26:42+00:00
As both a lawyer and a programmer, I tend to agree with the above. However, I've noticed among other lawyer/programmers, some further traits: easily bored, and extraordinarily focussed.

A quirky features of lawyers: can be unusually petty.

Quirky features of programmers: can be remarkably correct and still be very opaque.
by grahamjperrin | 2025-08-08 02:27:21+00:00
Yep, the coherence is a strong point.

Unfortunately, we now have a few people complaining about predictable, consistent behaviour with packaging that is coherent. The base system, FreeBSD, packaged.

The complaints are about the effect of wilful force.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

When I force something with my eyes shut (ignoring warnings), I do expect the unexpected as a result of my ignorance ;-)
by 8organicbits | 2025-08-08 02:27:36+00:00
I think this is written unclearly. Looking at the linked issues, the root cause seems to be related to a "all file access" permission, not just fine grained location access.

It seems great that an app without location access cannot check location via EXIF, but I'm surprised that "all file access" also gates access to the metadata, perhaps one selected using the picker.

https://gitlab.com/CalyxOS/platform_packages_providers_Media...
by joegibbs | 2025-08-08 02:28:25+00:00
I'm using GPT5 on Cursor and it honestly doesn't feel all that much better compared to Claude Sonnet 4 - it's definitely slower as well. I still find it making errors at about the same rate, maybe 10% better max. It's free which is good at least, and like the article says it's more usable - it hasn't told me I'm absolutely right once.

I'm not feeling the AGI with this one, I'm happy about that. If the leap from 4 to 5 was like the leap from 3 to 3.5 or 3.5 to 4 it would be very concerning, I don't think society would be able to keep up with it.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-08 02:30:03+00:00
This is just the same argument. If you believe demand for AI is low then you should be able to verify that with market data.

Currently market data is showing a very high demand for AI.

These arguments come down to "thumbs down to AI". If people just said that it would at least be an honest argument. But pretending that consumers don't want LLMs when they're some of the most popular apps in the history of mankind is not a defensible position
by typewithrhythm | 2025-08-08 02:30:14+00:00
The idea that a company is "siphoning out" value is fundamentally flawed. The company is creating value, and society enables it. This enablement is ongoing, and should be paid for with ongoing tax. If the actual value creator decides that they can get a better deal somewhere else, then barriers to exit come in because the government is trying to get more out of a company than it provided. (Since if there are superior places to operate, the worth of what the state you are leaving provides must be overvalued, otherwise you wouldn't leave).
by obloid | 2025-08-08 02:32:54+00:00
So far GPT-5 has not been able to pass my personal "Turing test" which has been unsuccessful for the past several years starting through various versions of Dall-e up to the latest model. I want it to create an image of Santa Claus pulling the sleigh with a reindeer in the sleigh holding the reins, driving the sleigh. No matter how I modify the prompt it is still unable to create this image that my daughter requested a few years ago. This is an image that is easily imagined and drawn by a small child yet the most advanced AI models still can't produce it. I think this is a good example that these models are unable to "imagine" something that falls outside of the realm of it's training data.
by el_benhameen | 2025-08-08 02:34:52+00:00
This is where I’m at, too. The o3 limits were more restrictive than the 5-thinking limits are now, but I regularly used o4-mini-high for complex-but-not-brain-breaking questions and was quite happy with the result. Now I have to choose between saving my usage with 5, which so far hasn’t felt up to the more complex use cases, or burn usage much faster with 5-thinking.

I suppose this is probably the point. I’m still not super keen on ponying up 200 bucks a month, but it’s more likely now.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-08 02:35:27+00:00
> Wouldn't the risk be the same if the same rolling code keys was used for both locking and unlocking?

Yes, what I meant is that such symmetry is not strictly required, and breaking the symmetry opens up ways to enhance security (of unlocking when you arrive) while keeping most of the convenience (of locking while leaving.)

For example, imagine "Lock" is a typical broadcast from anywhere within X meters, but "Unlock" requires touching the fob to an infrared port, and they use independent codes.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-08 02:36:01+00:00
> saying "you're giving access to images with embedded location data. Do you want to keep the location data in the images, or strip the location data in this application?"

This is a good example of a complex setting that makes sense to the 1% of users who understand the nuances of EXIF embedded location data but confuses the 99% of users who use a product.

It would also become a nightmare to manage settings a per-image basis.