MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dabockster | 2025-08-04 16:45:29+00:00
> If I now go one step further and use an LLM to summarize content because the authentic presentation is so riddled with ads, JavaScript, and pop-ups, that the content becomes borderline unusable, then why would the LLM accessing the website on my behalf be in a different legal category as my Firefox web browser accessing the website on my behalf?

Because the LLM is usually on a 3rd party cloud system and ultimately not under your full control. You have no idea if the LLM is retaining any of that information for that business's own purposes beyond what a EULA says - which basically amounts to a pinky swear here. Especially if that LLM is located across international borders.

Now, for something like Ollama or LMStudio where the LLM and the whole toolchain is physically on your own system? Yeah that should be like Firefox legally since it's under your control.
by agent327 | 2025-08-04 16:45:58+00:00
It works quite well in China, assuming of course you are not so unlucky as to want to protest on Tienanmen Square. Or have useful organs someone higher up might want to harvest. Or are an Uygur. Or a Tibetan. Or live in a place downstream of a large dam. Or want to express an opinion.

Oh, and you know how Nazi Germany was the first time that Nazism was tried as well? It also succeeded in some ways, and failed in others. So I guess we should excuse that as well, then?
by glenstein | 2025-08-04 16:45:59+00:00
I agree and disagree. It's certainly the case that facts imply underlying epistemologies, but it completely misses the point to treat that like it entails catastrophic relativism.

Building up an epistemology isn't just recreational, ideally it's done for good reasons that are responsive to scrunity, standing firm on important principles and, where necessarily, conciliatory in response to epistemological conundrums. In short, such theories can be resilient and responsible, and facts based on them can inherent that resilience.

So I think it completely misses the point to think that "facts imply epistemologies" should have the upshot of destroying any conception of access to authoritative factual understanding. Global warming is still real, vaccines are still effective, sunscreen works, dinosaurs really existed. And perhaps, more to the point in this context, there really are better and worse understandings of the fall of Rome or the Dark Ages or Pompeii or the Iraq war.

If being accountable to the theory-laden epistemic status of facts means throwing the stability of our historical understanding into question, you're doing it wrong.

And, as it relates to the article, you're doing it super wrong if you think that creates an opening for a notion of human intuition that is fundamentally non-informational. I think it's definitely true that AI as it currently exists can spew out linguistically flat translations, lacking such things as an interpretive touch, or an implicit literary and cultural curiosity that breathes the fire of life and meaning into language as it is actually experienced by humans. That's a great and necessary criticism. But.

Hubert Dreyfus spent decades insisting that there were things "computers can't do", and that those things were represented by magical undefined terms that speak to ineffable human essence. He insisted, for instance, that computers performing chess at a high level would never happen because it required "insight", and he felt similarly about the kind of linguistic comprehension that has now, at least in part, been achieved by LLMs.

LLMs still fall short in critical ways, and losing sight of that would involve letting go of our ability to appreciate the best human work in (say) history, or linguistics. And there's a real risk that "good enough" AI can cause us to lose touch with such distinctions. But I don't think it follows that you have to draw a categorical line insisting such understanding is impossible, and in fact I would suggest that's a tragic misunderstanding that gets everything exactly backwards.
by cies | 2025-08-04 16:46:08+00:00
The Corolla was simple but very well designed; it's manuals were used in classes teaching car mechanics.

PHP was not well designed. No one learning to program should choose it as a first language. That fact that people did choose it was because it was free, easier than Perl and cheap/easy to deploy (in the shared hosting era).

You are better off starting with a typed language like C#/Java/Kotlin (for OO-first) or OCaml/F# (for FP-first) or even Golang.

PHP sets you back if chosen as a first language.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-04 16:46:12+00:00
Many site operators want people to access their content, but prevent AI companies from scraping their sites for training data. People who think like that made tools like Anubis, and it works.

I also want to keep this distinction on the sites I own. I also use licenses to signal that this site is not good to use for AI training, because it's CC BY-NC-SA-2.0.

So, I license my content appropriately (No derivative, Non-commercial, shareable with the same license with attribution), add technical countermeasures on top, because companies doesn't respect these licenses (because monies), and circumvent these mechanisms (because monies), and I'm the one to suck this up and shut-up (because their monies)?

Makes no sense whatsoever.
by delecti | 2025-08-04 16:46:31+00:00
I think this might be a disconnect between what those lights are "really" for, and how they're actually used (de jure vs de facto, in a sense).

They aren't meant to have a specific meaning, they're just headlights, but when going in reverse. So if the car has a feature to "turn on the headights" it makes sense to activate the ones on the back too.

Though that's just pedantry that kicks the can down the road to the question, why are the headlights turning on with nobody in the car?
by vasco | 2025-08-04 16:46:50+00:00
I've created hundreds of small scripts that I wouldn't have bothered with before and either do some manual checks or just not possess the information. Just on "small script" productivity it already saved me a lot of time.

The problem is people trying to make the models do things that are too close to their limit. You should use LLMs for things they can ace already, not waste time trying to get it to invent some new algorithm. If I don't 0-3 shot a problem then I will just either do it manually or not do it.

Similarly to giving up on a Google search that you try a few times and nothing useful comes in the first few prompts. You don't keep at it the whole afternoon.
by gr4vityWall | 2025-08-04 16:46:51+00:00
I liked the article a lot, thanks to the author for writing it and sharing it.

At that point, personally I think it'd be easier to use Preact with a no-build workflow for those bits of the app that have a lot of contained logic themselves, and don't necessarily require a round-trip to the server.

I wouldn't use HTMX for that specific use case.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-04 16:47:18+00:00
Works when/where archive.ph is blocked:

No Javascript required

x=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/tesla-elon-musk-29-billion.html echo url=$x|curl -K- -A "googlebot" > 1.htm firefox ./1.htm
by shagie | 2025-08-04 16:47:23+00:00
And that is what should have been done. Steam and Itch should have blocked content that is illegal in Australia from being seen or sold in Australia.

The problem is that they didn't properly identify which content it is. "Does it involve a school girl outfit giving the indication of youth?" isn't something that they can filter on.

I could see something in the future where when someone puts up phonographic, they can't select all for the countries it can be sold in and instead need to specifically affirm that it is content that is legal in each of the checked countries.

However, Steam and Itch don't currently do that. So when pressure by Collective Shout was moved from Steam and Itch to Mastercard and Visa, Mastercard and Visa almost immediately put pressure on their downstream processors which in turn put pressure Steam and Itch. Since Steam and Itch couldn't filter the "just illegal in Australia stuff needs to be removed from being available in Australia" they appear to have removed all NSFW content until it could be reviewed.

I believe the key thing in this chain is that Visa and Mastercard are very risk adverse. While they do make a lot of money, on a per transaction basis any merchant that is a problem is a very small drop in the bucket compared to the legal consequences they could (and have) face.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-04 16:47:28+00:00
Baby boomer here. Married at 28, rented until 30, first kid at 31. Lower end cars for the first couple of decades.

But let me talk about my parents. As a baby, my dad lived in a tent. (I believe it was brick walls with a tent roof, but I'm not certain of that.) They moved to an actual house, with an outhouse. (While he was still a child, they got indoor plumbing.)

My parents had their first child when my mom was 30. Before that, they both worked - both of them in tech, too! They rented until they were 39 and 36, when they bought their first house.

We look at the baby boomers and think that where we are now is abnormal. I wonder if instead, where we are now is normal, and the baby boomers were a temporary bit of extraordinarily good times.
by tamersalama | 2025-08-04 16:47:38+00:00
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by pfisherman | 2025-08-04 16:47:43+00:00
> But here’s the kicker: we were told AI would free us up for “higher-level work.” What actually happened? We just found more work to fill the space. That two-hour block AI created by automating your morning reports? It’s now packed with three new meetings. The 30 minutes you saved on data analysis? You’re using it to manage two more AI tools and review their outputs.

This is basically the definition of increased productivity and efficiency. Doing more stuff in the same amount of time. What I tell people who are anxious about whether their job might be automated away by AI is this:

We will never run out of the problems that need solving. The types of problems you spend your time solving will change. The key is to adapt your process to allocate your time to solving the right kinds of problems. You don’t want the be the person taking an hour to do arithmetic by hand, when you have access to spreadsheets.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-04 16:47:45+00:00
It's insane that any company would just be OK with "IDK Claude did that" any more than a 2010 version of that company would be OK with "IDK I copy pasted from StackOverflow." Have engineering managers actually drank this Kool-aid to the point where they're actually OK with their direct reports just chucking PRs over the wall that they don't even understand?
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-04 16:47:49+00:00
I think the goal is to save as much as you can in the interim. Holding onto X bytes of archives is more time worth of data than X bytes of uncompressed. We do that stuff all the time in finance. Stuff gets spewed off to external places and local copies get kept but archived and we simply rotate the oldest stuff out as we go. If the cleanup process is configured separately from the archiving process you can absolutely archive things just to remove them shortly thereafter.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-04 16:48:03+00:00
The main reasons to store data are for safety and legal purposes first, diagnostics second. Collision data are all three. They need to be prioritized above virtually everything else on the system and if your vehicle has had so many collisions that the filesystem is filled up, that's a justifiable reason to have a service visit to delete the old ones.

If I were implementing such a system (and I have), I could see myself deleting the temporary without much thought. I would still have built a way to recreate the contents of the tarball after the fact (it's been a requirement from legal every time I've scoped such a system). Tesla not only failed to do that, but avoided disclosing that any such file was transferred in the first place so that the plaintiffs wouldn't know to request it.
by duxup | 2025-08-04 16:48:08+00:00
>For many military aviation watchers, the aerial engagement was the chance to to turn it into a referendum on the Rafale, but it’s actually something else, a well-flown, well-supported 4.5-gen fighter can still be surprised if the opposing side brings a longer reach, better timing, and a cleaner network on a given night.

Right after the initial engagements between India and Pakistan there were a lot of articles making dramatic and or just heavily hinting at various lessons you could glean from the handful of outcomes.

Many of them seemed almost like defense contractor spin about "our weapons are better" rather than anything that anyone could possibly have known so early on.
by rayiner | 2025-08-04 16:48:11+00:00
Not only is it true, it's not even debatable. 84% of federal employee campaign contributions went to Kamala Harris: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/11/federal-employees-.... If you exclude DOD, it's like 90%. In State and Commerce, it was like 95%.

To put that into context, replacing the federal workforce with random voters from AOC's district in New York City would double the percentage of Republicans! (https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/us-news/aocs-district-saw-mass...)
by mauvehaus | 2025-08-04 16:48:15+00:00
I'm across the river from you, and my understanding is that a lot of the incorrect street names on online maps come from data sources with older names. E911 apparently caused a certain amount of upheaval with road names.

Some of the online mapping services seem to have compromised by just listing all possible names for a road, whereas OnX seems to be working off of a different (older?) data set than nearly everyone.
by qsort | 2025-08-04 16:48:32+00:00
It's extremely hard to measure productivity correctly and self-reports are worthless. I don't think AI tools are a net negative in the average case (people are definitely indexing too much on that goddamn METR article) but "i'm 10x more productive, source trust me bro" is equally nonsense.

Using AI tooling means, at least in part, betting on the future.
by pftburger | 2025-08-04 16:48:41+00:00
AI efficiency gains don’t benefit employees, they benefit _employers_, who get more output from the same salary. When you’re salaried, you’re selling 8 hours of time, not units of work. AI that makes you 20% faster doesn’t mean you work 20% fewer hours or get a 20% raise. It means your employer gets 20% more value from the same labor cost.

Marx: workers sell their capacity to work for a fixed period, and any productivity improvements within that time become surplus value captured by capital.

AI tools are just the latest mechanism for extracting more output from the same wage. The real issue isn’t the technology—it’s that employees can’t capture gains from their own efficiency improvements. Until compensation models shift from time-based to outcome-based, every productivity breakthrough just makes us more profitable to employ, not more prosperous ourselves.

It’s the Industrial Revolution all over again and we’re the Luddites
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-04 16:48:45+00:00
I am actually surprised that people weren't upset over it in the startup side since a cousin of mine worked in a startup and he said that they were pretty immature and frankly "unprofessional"

I guess, maybe unprofessional might mean short essays but I'd like to work somewhere that supports such behaviours if I am being honest.

I just really feel like its so hard convincing a single person anything or let alone the world. What are your thoughts?
by binarymax | 2025-08-04 16:48:47+00:00
Here's how perplexity works:

1) It takes your query, and given the complexity might expand it to several search queries using an LLM. ("rephrasing")

2) It runs queries against a web search index (I think it was using Bing or Brave at first, but they probably have their own by now), and uses an LLM to decide which are the best/most relevant documents. It starts writing a summary while it dives into sources (see next).

3) If necessary it will download full source documents that popped up in search to seed the context when generating a more in-depth summary/answer. They do this themselves because using OpenAI to do it is far more expensive.

#3 is the problem. Especially because SEO has really made it so the same sites pop up on top for certain classes of queries. (for example Reddit will be on top for product reviews alot). These sites operate on ad revenue so their incentive is to block. Perplexity does whatever they can in the game of sidestepping the sites' wishes. They are a bad actor.

EDIT: I should also add that Google, Bing, and others, always obey robots.txt and they are good netizens. They have enough scale and maturity to patiently crawl a site. I wholeheartedly agree that if an independent site is also a good netizen, they should not be blocked. If Perplexity is not obeying robots.txt and they are impatient, they should absolutely be blocked.
by ndiddy | 2025-08-04 16:50:18+00:00
This article is about Cloudflare attempting to deny Perplexity access to their demo site by blocking Perplexity's declared user-agent and official IP range. Perplexity responded to this denial by impersonating Google Chrome on macOS and rotating through IPs not listed in their published IP range to access the site anyway. This means it's not just "you're free to deny access to your site arbitrarily", it's "you're free to play a cat-and-mouse game indefinitely where the other side is a giant company with hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding".
by esbranson | 2025-08-04 16:50:23+00:00
> Several countries are well on their way to this achievement, including Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland. Outside the E.U., countries such as Israel and Singapore also have very advanced systems, and after a rocky start, Australia’s My Health Record system seems to have found its footing.

When any country mentioned hits the population of a small or medium US state, let us know how it goes.

> Canada, China, India, and Japan also have EHR system initiatives in place at varying levels of maturity.

Apparently the author could not care less. Apparently even the WHO could not care less, given the linked document tells us nothing.

As always, it's the US versus the world, and the world is a giant nothingburger, save some flyover countries in Europe that could be part of Greater Germany or Greater Russia for all anyone cares. How is the UK, Germany, France, Russia, or China doing? Oh...

> The United Kingdom was hoping to be a global leader in adopting interoperable health information systems, but a disastrous implementation of its National Programme for IT ended in 2011 after nine years and more than £10 billion.

No doubt when the US gets the standards and apps done, the rest of the world will magically start working too. All the billions spent and the world piggybacks and gives nothing back, save, quite amusingly, China. As always.
by dazbradbury | 2025-08-04 16:50:49+00:00
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by PaulHoule | 2025-08-04 16:51:22+00:00
Parallel but with a limited number of streams (3) that I’m committed to. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

My RSS reader is ‘active” in the sense that I use it every day but I haven’t touched the code in months. I’ve been using Kanban control for side projects since maybe 3-4 years ago when I started doing side projects again. At the beginning of the year I had a lot of projects that were more programming heavy like I wrote a Python chess program that could beat my son that didn’t have time control, I did some work towards a Java chess program which would have had time control so we could take it to the chess club but my son quit going to chess club so I mothballed it.

The photo thing is converging towards transitioning from semi-pro to pro, figuring building my rep as a ‘social media photographer’ will get me work. I have other imaging projects in mind such as something to view stereograms with WebXR and something that can compose individual flowers to make ‘infinite flower fields’ that could be printed on fabrics but these are at the ‘pile of notes” phase waiting their turns.
by astrobe_ | 2025-08-04 16:51:29+00:00
What can one actually do with a 1 Watt laser? That's a good question to ask to an AI: "A 1-watt laser can be used for various applications, such as cutting materials, engraving, and even lighting cigarettes. However, it poses significant risks, including the potential to cause instant and permanent eye injuries, so safety precautions are essential".

So it looks like it packs some... Power. But I guess the frequency of the light makes all the difference, or maybe exposure duration?
by s1artibartfast | 2025-08-04 16:51:38+00:00
Pretty terrible and dishonest video. The author should feel bad.

They they throw up the following quote, omitting the first half. then bash him thinking this is the only explanation.

>Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment'

I think it speaks to a greater dispute about what topics are proper to think about, discuss, or even enjoy.
Ask HN: What's the Path for Innovation in Silicon?
by mikewarot | 2025-08-04 16:51:44+00:00
If someone comes up with an idea, and pushes it through TinyTapeout or some other ASIC shuttle, and it actually meets design goals, such as lowering the cost of LLM computation by an order of magnitude. How does that lead to actually realized profit? Are there any VCs who specialize in this?

It seems to me that if Meta and others are going to spend a Trillion $USD on datacenter, saving even 50% out to be a good value add.
by akudha | 2025-08-04 16:51:55+00:00
I haven't done it, so I don't have any data to back it up. I suppose it works, at least short term, that is why so many websites, video creators, copywriters, email newsletter writers etc use it?

Negative, cheesy, clickbait, rage inducing etc headlines do seem to get more clicks. There is a reason why politicians spend more time trash talking opponents than talking positively about themselves. Same goes with attack ads.