MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-08-29 16:48:17+00:00
> ToucanLoucan, as someone who doesn't know what a Mechanical Turk is, you do not need to post LLM output that proves my point to someone who already knows quite well what it is and gave you two wikipedia references and a suggestion to ask ChatGPT, but NOT a suggestion to post the response.

I didn't ask it what a Mechanical Turk was (because I know), I asked it if comparing it to a Mechanical Turk is a reasonable take, to which it said what I posted. You probably would've put that together if you bothered to read it, but I must admit, this is a good application for LLMs. Now I don't need to feel insulted that I took time to write something and it was then ignored by my interlocutor.

> and you're certainly not advancing your argument that LLMs are not knowledgeable by posting LLM output that's more knowledgeable than yourself,

In the text you're using in an attempt to skewer me, it literally states it is not knowledgeable: "Emergent behavior: While I don’t “understand,” I can simulate reasoning, creativity, and emotional nuance to a surprising degree." And it is correct. It can simulate those things. Simulate.

It also, previous to that, said: "Surface-level fluency: I generate responses that look like understanding, much like the Turk appeared to play chess. • No internal consciousness: I don’t “know” things in the human sense. I don’t have beliefs, intentions, or awareness. • Pattern-based output: My responses are based on statistical associations, not comprehension or reasoning in the way humans experience it." Again, it seems aware, in whatever sense of awareness you want to ascribe to these things, that it is not knowledgeable. And it readily states it is not sharing in anything approaching a human experience.

So if you're so dead set on seeing LLMs as knowledgeable intelligent machines, you might first try convincing the LLM that's true, since it itself doesn't seem to think it is.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-29 16:48:26+00:00
I can tell you, my friendly neighborhood Verizon store isn't any better. I used to not mind the higher price when you got better customer service when you needed it. Now everything is a race to the bottom and nobody seems to try/care.

Worse is when insurance misclassified a billing response from the hospital/provider and trying to go back and forth to fix it was agony. Of course the skeptic in me feels it may have been by design. It wasn't until the second time I manage to get a hospital and insurance rep on the phone at the same time that things got resolved... hah, can't play phone tag now bitches, you're both here.
by wrs | 2025-08-29 16:49:13+00:00
I have to say, I used to have a similar cheat sheet, but Claude has totally solved this problem for me.

Way more than that, in fact... I had a bunch of 20-year-old 8mm film transfers on DV, where the scanner had put white-on-black titles between the reels. Claude wrote me a script combining ffmpeg and other tools that not only converted the format from DV to MP4, but found the interstitial titles, did OCR on them, regenerated them in full resolution, replaced the original titles with the new ones, and rendered the result as one file per reel.
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-08-29 16:49:27+00:00
I've found that looking at USA as a middle-income country with extremely wealthy regions helps me better understand our country. The supposed wealth doesn't seem relevant in the hollowed out towns between the coasts. It's generally not being sent or spent there in any meaningful way.

Much of the actual wealth is in the northeast corridor, where the Acela is improving the quality of their product, and in California, where Southern CA and the Bay Area both have fairly nice regional trains that go as fast as the right of way will let them. I think we've done OK connecting places that matter, and as flying continues to enshittify and people will choose rail for comfort.
by coisasdavida | 2025-08-29 16:50:33+00:00
Very useful! I'll bookmark that! My most recent search to use with FFMPEG was to convert a folder of Sony videos to Prores. ChatGPT helped me with this one-liner: for f in *.MTS; do ffmpeg -y -i "$f" -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 1 -vendor apl0 -pix_fmt yuv422p10le "proResLT_${f%.MTS}.mov"; done Maybe having the option to create one liners like this, for different platforms, would be nice!
by jihadjihad | 2025-08-29 16:50:34+00:00
> If it's a ruse, they've gone through a lot of trouble.

Apollo News [1] has a Controversies section on the German Wikipedia in which the same Green Party member mentioned in TFA whom the "German Economist" allegedly posted on X about (Katrin Göring-Eckardt) had statements which "were 'distorted beyond recognition' in a TikTok video by Apollo News."

I'd say that their entire business is going through trouble for ruses like these, and that therefore they are not worth our time.

1: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_News
by nbulka | 2025-08-29 16:50:46+00:00
For those who do not, or cannot, read this announcement prior to September 28th (think people in the hospital, traveling, missed an email ..) is this not a total breach of contract?

Legally, I don't understand how Anthropic's lawyers would have allowed this. Maybe I am just naively optimistic about these matters? I am a Max customer and I might leave! Talk about a "rug pull" ... and I considering moving to an inferior provider! Privacy is a fundamental human right. Please do better, we have not learned our lesson in tech or society because no one is facing any consequences.
by jjangkke | 2025-08-29 16:50:48+00:00
Few things

1) Serverless isn't really serverless and we are sick of this AWS speak. The trend lasted briefly but it isn't appealing when you are metered for every little thing and unable to SSH into a host and resolve issues

2) You can already do matchmaking easily with FOSS self-hosted solutions. These don't cost a lot of computing or bandwidth but some developers think its a chaotic and resource heavy problem.
by matula | 2025-08-29 16:50:50+00:00
I think this is generally true, and there are SO MANY blog posts and articles. Using something like Claude Code to build an entire SaaS from nothing can seem like magic, but there is still a point where the code is too big and any LLM will lose context.

But there is a "sweet spot" where it's amazing, specifically highly targeted tasks with a specific context. I wanted a simple media converter app that tied into ffmpeg, and I didn't want to install any of the spammy or bloated options I found... so I got Claude to build one. It took about 30 minutes and works great.

I also asked it to update some legacy project, and it fell down a testing a loop where it failed to understand the testing database was missing. Had I not had years of knowledge, I would've looked at the output and suggestions Claude was giving and spent hours on it... but it was a simple command that fixed it. As with all new tech, your milage will vary.
by matt-p | 2025-08-29 16:50:58+00:00
I have zero issue with Ai Agents, if there's a real user behind there somewhere. I DO have a major issue with my sites being crawled extremely aggressively by offenders including Meta, Perplexity and OpenAI - it's really annoying realising that we're tying up several cpu cores on AI crawling. Less than on real users and google et al.
by myrmidon | 2025-08-29 16:51:02+00:00
Does not pass the smell test, those accusations hardly even qualify as a crime to be honest. If we had a fully democrat-controlled administration at every level (with every judge being a stout democrat), then I would still give you a <5% probability for Musk to end up behind bars for any of those (!!).

There is a pretty recent precendent on the other side of the political spectrum: Hillary Clinton. Republicans went on and on for how she belonged in prison. Anyone with half a brain was able to tell that this was not gonna happen, because there simply was no case. Republicans got basically absolute power since, and --surprise-- Hillary did not go to prison.

What makes you so confident that you are right about Elon, while the people back then were obviously wrong with Hillary (even without hindisght!).
by aatd86 | 2025-08-29 16:51:04+00:00
I don't know what they've been training on but I just canceled claude for the second time. Besides the numerous UI bugs of the web interface, incessant flickerings, it has gotten weirdly super condescending and negative in a way I hadn't observed neither in the past nor with other llms.

Probably that people accused it of being sycophantic and they have tried to adjust it but they didn't do it well. It'd rather criticize and make assumptions about my behavior rather than keeping it technical. Ha!

I prefer gemini. Seems a bit stressed always assuming that I might be frustrated by its answers which is also weird to assume but it is not straight disrespectful at least.

So I am back to testing chatgpt. I keep changing.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-08-29 16:51:07+00:00
>> target citizens for speech deemed offensive, sarcastic, or politically incorrect...

does not seem like "libel" - unless the person is most definitely not a nincompoop^1

^1 noun - A silly, foolish, or stupid person.

Could you imagine if the worst thing you heard in US media was "so-and-so is silly and foolish!" ?
by Gud | 2025-08-29 16:51:08+00:00
The people working at Meta are generally pretty tech savvy, while the general public isn't. Meta is an extremely rich company, and their employees are well compensated.

My question then is, when does this exploitative behaviour become criminal.

And if it isn't criminal, how do we make it so.

If you are working for Meta and you consider yourself a moral person, you should quit your job.

There are more important things in this world than making money. Help build a better world. You can live a comfortable life without helping Mark Zuckerberg ruin the planet. You can even make a lot of money, if that is what you dream of.
by marssaxman | 2025-08-29 16:51:37+00:00
It probably seems easy to you because you are already familiar with the pitfalls. For me, CSS felt like an endless minefield of unexpected interactions. When you say that "CSS is easy", do you perhaps mean only the syntax and the basic language structure? I would agree, but that doesn't get you very far; actually trying to use CSS frustrated me so much that I simply don't touch anything related to the web at all anymore.
by eqvinox | 2025-08-29 16:51:51+00:00
> Old trains: padded schedule

No — Old trains: schedule based on experiences from having ran them for at least a year (i.e. all seasons)

New trains' buffers are larger because you don't know e.g. how shit the brakes are when you have tons of leaves on your rails. (Yes this is an actual thing¹.)

[¹ Ed.: in case anyone is incredulous at the leaves thing: https://www.groupe-sncf.com/en/group/behind-the-scenes/traff... ]
by sdsd | 2025-08-29 16:51:51+00:00
Maybe the title means something more like "The web should not have gatekeepers (Cloudflare)". They do seem to say as much toward the end:

>We need protocols, not gatekeepers.

But until we have working protocols, many webmasters literally do need a gatekeeper if they want to realistically keep their site safe and online.

I wish this weren't the case, but I believe the "protocol" era of the web was basically ended when proprietary web 2.0 platforms emerged that explicitly locked users in with non-open protocols. Facebook doesn't want you to use Messenger in an open client next to AIM, MSN, and IRC. And the bad guys won.

But like I said, I hope I'm wrong.
by jimmyl02 | 2025-08-29 16:51:55+00:00
I understand the concerns around a central gatekeeper but I'm confused as to why this specifically is viewed negatively. Don't website owners have to choose to enable cloudflare and to opt-in to this gate that the site owners control?

If this was cloudflare going into some centralized routing of the internet and saying everything must do X then that would be a lot more alarming but at the end of the day the internet is decentralized and site owners are the ones who are using this capability.

Additionally I don't think that I as an individual website owner would actually want / be capable of knowing which agents are good and bad and cloudflare doing this would be helpful to me as a site owner as long as they act in good faith. And the moment they stop acting in good faith I would be able to disable them. This is definitely a problem right now as unrestricted access to the bots means bad bots are taking up many cycles raising costs and taking away resources from real users
by diggan | 2025-08-29 16:52:43+00:00
> Do they at least seed while watching?

Considering there is a file called "verify-no-uploads.js" ((https://github.com/hotheadhacker/seedbox-lite/blob/6a89d1974...)) in the repository, which contains "This script monitors network activity to ensure zero uploads", it seems to me like they're actively trying to just be leechers.
by jmarbach | 2025-08-29 16:52:45+00:00
I recently ran a test on the page load reliability of Browserbase and I was shocked to see how unreliable it was for a standard set of websites - the top 100 websites in the US by traffic according to SimilarWeb. 29% of page load requests failed. Without an open standard for agent identification, it will always be a cat and mouse game to trap agents, and many agents will predictably fail simple tasks.

https://anchorbrowser.io/blog/page-load-reliability-on-the-t...

Here's to working together to develop a new protocol that works for agents and website owners alike.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-29 16:53:00+00:00
If humans never even developed, many philosophers would say the concepts of "number" and "7" and "star" would not exist.

Others would say they all exist independently of humans.

Some think abstract mathematical concepts are more privileged than physical categories like stars.

That is the question. I can't even tell if you're arguing one side or the other because you say "of course not" followed by "doesn't change" when those appear to be contradictory positions. But of course there are a lot of subtleties here. There's no "of course" to any of it. These things take entire books to argue one side and try to refute the other.
by 4MOAisgoodenuf | 2025-08-29 16:53:11+00:00
If you pull the trigger far enough to disengage the drop safety and firing pin safety block, then it is entirely possible to discharge the weapon by applying force to the slide, shaking the weapon, or the like. Pulling the trigger disables the internal safeties that would prevent this.

This is not unique to the P320, Sig, or even striker-fired handguns in general. This could just as easily apply to a CZ-75B. There is no magic that keeps the striker from dropping until the shooter has their heart set on discharging a round.

There is a reason that rule #3 of firearm safety is to not put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to shoot
by jmull | 2025-08-29 16:53:23+00:00
We actually have three distinct one-of-one libraries.

There's no standard, so there's no way to really evaluate how standards-compliant they are.

It seems like the idea is for the turoso projects to be compatible with sqlite, but it's not clear exactly what means.

As a fork, libsql could be kept reasonably backward compatible with recent versions of sqlite by keeping up with merging changes, and avoiding extending sql in conflicting ways. That seems doable if they keep up with the merges, though mainly because they share very large parts of the implementation, so it's not clear it counts as a separate implementation from a web standards perspective.

Turso seems like a reimplementation and has a while to go before it achieves some level of compatibility. It probably needs to be much further along before we can really even evaluate it.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-08-29 16:53:35+00:00
They might have very zealous web filters. Something like Websense would categorize that site as "Weapons" related and visiting the site, even if not blocked, would result in a scoring change to the user's profile.

I don't blame them for playing it safe. I've personally had to help Bay Area HR types understand that looking at "weapons" sites by itself was probably okay when the company we worked for had thousands of employees across California and at least some percentage of them hunted, went target shooting, etc.
by marssaxman | 2025-08-29 16:53:51+00:00
Okay, but "stealing" is also an oversimplification, to the point of absurdity.

It makes no sense to put stuff up on the internet where it can freely be downloaded by anyone at any time, by people who are then free to do whatever they like with it on their own hardware, then complain that people have downloaded that stuff and done what they liked with it on their own hardware.

"Having machines consume large volumes of data posted on the Internet for the purpose of generating value for them without compensating the creators" is equally a description of Google.
by jmtame | 2025-08-29 16:54:25+00:00
I pretty much use Perplexity exclusively at this point, instead of Google. I'd rather just get my questions answered than navigate all of the ads and slowness that Google provides. I'm fine with paying a small monthly fee, but I don't want Cloudflare being the gatekeeper.

Perhaps a way to serve ads through the agents would be good enough. I'd prefer that to be some open protocol than controlled by a company.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-08-29 16:54:49+00:00
Your ideas are intriguing to me and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Joking aside, I think the ideas and substance are great and sorely needed. However, I can only see the idea of a sort of token chain verification as running into the same UX problems that plagued (plagues?) PGP and more encryption-focused processes. The workflow is too opaque, requires too much specialized knowledge that is out of reach for most people. It would have to be wrapped up into something stupid simple like an iOS FaceID modal to have any hope of succeeding with the general public. I think that's the idea, that these agents would be working on behalf of their owners on their own devices, so it has to be absolutely seamless.

Otherwise, rock on.
by r0me1 | 2025-08-29 16:54:51+00:00
Because I don't want to touch the same screen that 1000 other people have touched since it was last cleaned and because I dont want to learn how to navigate a new menu every time I stop at a new fast food place, I just want my chicken chalupa without needing to navigate menus. If you've ever stayed in line at the order kiosk at mcdonalds you'll quickly realize how slow people are to place an order, now imagine that in the drive thru
by sp0rk | 2025-08-29 16:55:08+00:00
I'm not sure if this is an intentional design decision, but I think the results would be more interesting if it ignored all of the category links at the very bottom of the Wikipedia pages. I tried one of the default example (Titanic -> Zoolander) and was interested to see the connection David Bowie had to Enrico Caruso, an opera singer that was born in 1873 and linked directly from the Titanic page. It turns out that David Bowie is only linked on Caruso's page because they both won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, of which all of the recipients ever are linked to at the bottom of the page.

By excluding the category links at the bottom that contain all the recipients, there would still be a connection, but it would include the extra hop between the two that makes their connection more clear on the graph (Titanic -> Caruso -> Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award -> David Bowie.)

Otherwise, this is a fun little tool to play around with. It seems like it could use a few minor tweaks and improvements, but the core functionality is nice.
by impure | 2025-08-29 16:55:29+00:00
Well, if you have a better way to solve this that’s open I’m all ears. But what Cloudflare is doing is solving the real problem of AI bots. We’ve tried to solve this problem with IP blocking and user agents, but they do not work. And this is actually how other similar problems have been solved. Certificate authorities aren’t open and yet they work just fine. Attestation providers are also not open and they work just fine.
by bbor | 2025-08-29 16:55:30+00:00
That sinking feeling when someone posts a version of something you’ve been working on for months :(

Congrats to the dev regardless, if you’re in here! Looks great, love the front end especially. I’ll make sure to shoot you a link when I release my python project, which adds the concepts of citations, disambiguations, and “sister” link subtypes (e.g. “main article”, “see also”, etc), along with a few other things. It doesn’t run anywhere close to as fast as yours, tho!! 2h for processing a wiki dump is damn impressive.

Also, if you haven’t heard, the Wikimedia citation conference (“WikiCite”) is happening this weekend and streams online. Might be worth shooting this project over to them, they’d love it! https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2025
by rconti | 2025-08-29 16:55:35+00:00
I honestly thought both the Leaf and 500e were no longer on sale in the US, since I don't see new ones in the Bay Area, and they used to be everywhere. That's my bad.

The Bolt is also a great example, although it's pretty quick. In fact, a quick chatgpt search says both the Bolt and Leaf SV are over 200hp, so not a lot less than my 258hp Model 3 that's undoubtedly heavier.

The Kona EV completely slipped my mind; my sister has the hybrid version though. Although, the EV is a >$30k crossover but they _do_ sell a 138hp version so it's hardly a muscle car. There are no small cheap Hyundai EVs in the US.

Something like the Honda E is something I'd love to see in the US, although it's definitely a premium-priced product for a small car.
by skybrian | 2025-08-29 16:55:58+00:00
This is sort of like how email is based on Internet standards but a large percentage of email users use Gmail. The Internet standards Cloudflare is promoting are open, but Cloudflare has a lot of power due to having so many customers.

(What are some good alternatives to Cloudflare?)

Another way the situation is similar: email delivery is often unreliable and hard to implement due to spam filters. A similar thing seems to be happening to the web.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-08-29 16:56:04+00:00
Of course. The issue with the common leftist stance is that it takes the wrong thing away from that. That the petite bourgeoisie are toxic is not at the root of the issue, rather it is a symptom of capitalist rot.

Petite bourgeoisie are an important component of any non-state leftist economy as they are workers who directly own the results of their labor. The focus should not be in punishing or excising these petite bourgeoisie but rather in educating them, "converting them", and folding them into the cause. They are a key component of the struggle and any movement which wholly excludes them devolves into authoritarianism and in the process throws fuel into the fire for the rise of fascism.

To borrow a quote from Trotsky[1]:

> The fascists find their human material mainly in the petty bourgeoisie. The latter has been entirely ruined by big capital. There is no way out for it in the present social order, but it knows of no other. Its dissatisfaction, indignation, and despair are diverted by the fascists away from big capital and against the workers. It may be said that fascism is the act of placing the petty bourgeoisie at the disposal of its most bitter enemies. In this way, big capital ruins the middle classes and then, with the help of hired fascist demagogues, incites the despairing petty bourgeoisie against the worker.

The petite bourgeoisie at the end of their ropes inevitably turn to fascism in an attempt to survive with their status in tact. In doing so they tie the noose that the haute and grande bourgeoisie use to hang them with as they seize control of the state as a tool to reign in the worker and limit the capacity for upstarts to challenge their authority.

The alternative of course is to integrate the petite bourgeoisie and encourage them to embrace their place among the worker class rather than ostracise them for their adjacency to and overlap with the managerial class.

1. https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas...