MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jackdawed | 2025-08-26 03:46:11+00:00
I have been exclusively doing this in the past year, selling my services as “hardening vibe-coded prototypes for production” or “helping early stage startups scale”.

In the best cases, they were able to reach funding or paying users. Architecture debt is one of the worst kinds of tech debt, so if you set it up right, it’s really hard to mess up.

In the worst case, after my contract ended, the CEO fired the whole US engineering team and replaced them with offshore resources. This was an example of messing up despite the architectural and procedural safeguards we built.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-26 03:46:13+00:00
I get about 6 a day, just as another data point. As the other poster said I've set my phone so that only people in my contacts make it ring. Unfortunately that still means I have to manually go delete the voice mail notifications, all of which are 6-10 second of silence (6 out of 7 times) or some Chinese (I'm not Chinese and don't speak Chinese).

Stupidly, AFAICT, none of the phone services bother to auto-delete silent voice messages so I have to manually delete them, each one taking ~6 seconds ("call from One Two Three Five Five Five Six Seven Eight Night at three twenty seven pee em, on friday june twenty sixth ..........." delete. Repeat
by giardini | 2025-08-26 03:46:54+00:00
No, this is a bridge too far. The Supremes won't let him pull this off. Free speech is too strong in the USA.

As a child I understood objects such as flags, books (Koran, Bible, Torah, Vedas, Buddhist Canons, SICP, etc.) could be used as symbols. Some people seem to believe that burning a flag is just as good as burning what it represents. I know that's not true and indeed is laughable. But if someone believes so and they act in a way (e.g., burn a flag) that is harmless and reduces their internal stresses, then that is good.

For example, if we could end all terrorism plots in the USA by letting people burn flags every week, it would be well worthwhile.

Also, believers are easy to manipulate: burn or piss on a beloved symbol and they can become mindlessly enraged and persuaded to do foolish things.

Trump's moves are largely symbolic:

- to lock in support from those who find burning the American flag to be unpatriotic (there's lots of them),

- to frighten those for whom burning the American flag is a sign of defiance or rebellion. This is a broad set of groups ranging from radical left-wingers to American Al-Queda and Intifada,

- to make it clear to everyone what he feels about the issue.
by mindslight | 2025-08-26 03:47:56+00:00
It is so weird to read comments based on a belief that the current government is aimed at some goal of justice. I guess they're just still drinking the Kool-aid?

Trump was a breath of fresh air talking about frustrations with the status quo that other politicians wouldn't acknowledge. But the only reason he was bringing them up was for use as a cudgel to shake down companies to enrich himself. He will very most certainly go after big tech monopolies and break them up... iff those big tech monopolies don't put bribes into his pocket. As long as his pockets get fatter, then the status quo is just peachy. It's called "making a deal".
by staplers | 2025-08-26 03:47:58+00:00
The US considers airports “constitution free zones”

And the rest of the country as well now. The highest authority is threatening municipalities with military takeover.

Corporations are reading the room and pulling out any hostile tactic they've kept in their back pocket waiting for an occasion like this.

This is only the beginning with digital IDs. It's absolutely going to get worse and all of human history is available as evidence to what occurs with unchecked power.
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-08-26 03:48:40+00:00
Big scary box might as well be outright disallowing, since someone who isn't 100% sure about your software will likely be dissuaded by the warning. But if they want to install it, then they can.

My understanding of the article is that there is nothing that a user will be able to do to install your software.

> “developers [that we approve] will have the same freedom to distribute their apps directly to users through [installation] or to use any app store they prefer.”

So, less freedom.
by itake | 2025-08-26 03:51:28+00:00
Private app companies should be and are doing more to protect against malware.

Banking apps in Malaysia are required to include malware detection software [0]. Companies should have better fraud and trust teams to identity and block fraud activities.

The rest of the world shouldn't suffer because a handful of banking companies refuse to offer basic fraud protections for their users.

[0] - https://www.abm.org.my/press-releases/banks-to-enable-malwar...
by computerdork | 2025-08-26 03:53:03+00:00
Brave of you to say this. Yeah, in my humble opinion, agree with you, android and ios devices target the mainstream users more than say a PC or Mac's, and should be more locked down. We can keep PC's and Mac's relative open (although they are getting more secure too, which might be good?), but for devices that truly target the masses, secure them as much as possible (why would typical users like my parent's need to install a remote access server on their phone?).

Yeah, my Dad got hacked only a month ago, through a tech-support phishing phone-call. He uses a windows PC which makes him vulnerable, and the scammers did install tons of evil crap. He really should be using an android or ios tablet, to reduce his chances of being hacked like this. I know these devices are still vulnerable, but they do seem more secure based on how much more locked down they are.
by tough | 2025-08-26 03:54:27+00:00
Nice read

> I'd be grateful for any pointers to an example where system developers (or someone else in a position to know) have verified the success of a prompt extraction.

You can try this yourself with any open source llm setup that lets you provide a system prompt no? Just give it a prompt, ask the model the prompt ,and see if it matches.

gpt-oss is trained to refuse so it wont share (you can provide system prompt on lmstudio)
by JimDabell | 2025-08-26 03:55:00+00:00
Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I copied and pasted from my previous comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44194034

I didn’t notice that Hacker News had truncated the URLs for display. You can get to the articles by following the links in the original comment.

> You are aware that it's not the app store that protects you, but the sandboxing?

Both protect you.

> Are these impersonation vectors, ie phishing?

It’s a variety of things. Some use accessibility hooks to act as key loggers. Some seem to use exploits. Some are phishing by impersonating other apps.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-26 03:55:19+00:00
This is awesome, I was just looking at scaffolding for doing something like this today.

This needs to be able to support plugins to override behavior. I don't want my models having a giant tool registry, I want them to ask an oracle for the best 3 options, and I'd like to be able to inject specific behavior on a per MCP basis.
by gwerbret | 2025-08-26 03:56:15+00:00
> What is the source that the healthcare costs are growing "exponentially" and are outstripping growth in GDP?

See here, in particular the first figure: https://www.cihi.ca/en/national-health-expenditure-trends-20...

And here (slightly dated, but still valid): https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/sustainability-of-he...

> I live in Canada and have not seen any such messaging that you have said.

Here's a not-particularly-subtle example: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/maid-medical-as...
by pabs3 | 2025-08-26 03:56:40+00:00
Personal sites are definitely interesting, way more interesting than most of the rest of the web.

I was thinking I would put your site into archive.org, using ArchiveBot, with reasonable crawl delay, so that it is preserved if your hardware dies. Ask on the ArchiveTeam IRC if you want that to happen.

https://chat.hackint.org/?join=%23archiveteam-bs
by WhatsApp_CRM | 2025-08-26 03:57:27+00:00
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It uses background music to clean up the recording, and it can also isolate the sound of the song.

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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 03:58:39+00:00
Do we have a better source?

El País’ “ideology has been defined by a leaning towards Europeanism, progressivism, and social liberalism.

…

In the late 1970s and 1980s, El País had close connections with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)” [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pa%C3%ADs
by Aerroon | 2025-08-26 03:58:47+00:00
But phones shouldn't be competing with the teacher during class in the first place!

Are we going to draft laws to ban fiction books from school because kids might be reading books during class? Because I literally saw that happen when I was in school. Obviously unrelated things to the class shouldn't be used during class, but these phone bans go beyond just the classroom.

I ask for evidence, because all the evidence I've seen on it has been effectively nothing. The studies are vague, get weak results or draw conclusions that aren't supported by the study. Eg there were some Spanish regions that banned phones in school. Soon after they scored higher on PISA, this was naturally used to support the ban. But the next round they scored lower than before the ban.

Banning phones in schools seems almost entirely to me about "kids these days are ruined". Phones are just the easy culprit to point to. Meanwhile phone bans do infringe on the liberties of the kids. You are taking something away from them.
by craftkiller | 2025-08-26 03:58:47+00:00
> very explicit action already, and then you need to allow the application to do harm.

So the email they get which tells them about the 3 viruses also contains a phone number where a "nice tech support person" will walk them through the steps of side-loading the "anti-virus app". You'd be surprised at what warnings/permission boxes people will blindly accept when they think they're talking to someone from Microsoft or Google's tech support.

> You are taking away people's agency.

Agency they don't want and never use. It's taking away agency from people like us but for the average user, Google is taking away nothing they've ever cared about.

> Either you get to control your bank account risking that you get scammed, or someone will control it for you.

I was just saying a couple of days ago that we need a service for old people where any transaction above a certain configurable threshold (for example, $500 in a day) has to be approved by an employee of this service who serves as a neutral 3rd party whose sole function is to try to prevent scams. That way the old folks would still have their agency so they can go out and buy all the hot-rods and transistor radios they want but if they're about to wire money to "Microsoft" then the anti-scam-company would step in and prevent that transaction (or at least require the old person have a discussion about why its an obvious scam first before eventually allowing the transaction through depending on the client).

Whether this change actually takes control away from us remains to be seen. For example, I don't see anything in the article that suggests we wouldn't be able to install a custom ROM with the signature check removed. Personally, I already run GrapheneOS so I expect I actually won't be impacted by this at all.
by jlokier | 2025-08-26 03:59:09+00:00
Locked bootloaders are probably not a GPLv2 violation, and probably are a GPLv3 violation. This type of situation was a major reason GPLv3 was created. Another was clarification of some grey areas (these are the reason for "probably").

But the Linux kernel is GPLv2, and only v2. For better or worse, locking down the bootloader is (probably) pernitted with the Linux kernel.
by atoav | 2025-08-26 04:00:02+00:00
Yes, but I think this is an aspect where the European wingnuts and the US wingnuts differ. The religious angle is much less pronounced over here. There are of course crazy religious conservatives that make an extrimist religion their whole identity. But there is no religious mainstream that would back this and if there is it is not paneuropean but a local phenomenon.

This is certainly not the case in the US, where the right is consolidated to an unnatural degree.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-26 04:00:46+00:00
Presumably they don't run forever and are eventually upgraded... Well, let's assume they do run forever since we're talking mainframes, even then there would be the occasional upgrade. What happens to the old ones? Presumably it's not like standard servers and workstations where you end up finding 100 pages of Old Dell servers on eBay, but they have to go somewhere, no? Straight to the shredder?
by JdeBP | 2025-08-26 04:01:00+00:00
It depends from the quality of your mouse. There are good quality keypad mice, where the numeric keypad presents itself in hardware as a proper USB keyboard endpoint. Those just work, with more than just Linux moreover.

Then there are the poor quality keypad mice where the keys may be engraved as numeric keys, but on the wire the device does things like not present them as keys on a keyboard at all (sometimes as lots of high-numbered mouse buttons instead, sometimes as something else), or present them as keys but using reserved manufacturer-private values instead of the standard codes for [1/Ins], [2/Down], and so forth. These won't work out of the box with anything.

Most office-use "numpad mouse" devices are the former in my experience (although they sometimes do bad things when it comes to NumLock). Alas, there are "gaming mouse" devices that are the latter.
by Aerroon | 2025-08-26 04:03:04+00:00
>We are dealing with CHILDREN IN CLASSROOMS here.

No, we are not. The post I'm replying to is talking about banning phones in schools entirely, not just during class time. (Why else would the implication be about kids sneaking phones into bathrooms?)

I would also like to point out that children who grow up without using technology will be bad at using that technology. We already have a generation of kids who suck at using computers. Will the next generation be the same way for phones too? Who are we building all this digital infrastructure for then? Look at the older generations and how helpless they are with technology. That's what we're going to get with kids who don't use technology growing up.
by neilv | 2025-08-26 04:03:54+00:00
> Suppose you find a clever mechanism in another repository, such as an authentication flow or a clever way to persist state locally. In that case, you can ask DeepWiki to provide a Markdown cheat sheet: a breakdown of how it works, which files define it, and what it depends on. You can then drop that summary directly into Claude Code or Cursor as structured context and ask it to implement it in your project.

Bonus if the LLM was trained on the original repository.

Then it would be that much more clear that you're just laundering open source code.
by altfredd | 2025-08-26 04:03:57+00:00
> most normal people... don't even understand what sideloading is

Actually, they understand it just fine. The concept is very simple too.

Before this change you could install Android apps without registering your passport/driving license with Google.

After this change you will have to tell Google your real name and home address to install anything on your Android device. This is all. It can take a convoluted form of registering Google account or a more direct form of sending Google your identity documents to confirm "developer privileges". But you will no longer be able to use non-hacked Android devices to install anything without doing those steps.

P.S. I recall that some people still believe that they can create Google account without giving Google your personal details, phone etc. This is simply a self-delusion. If Google does not immediately demand you to cough up a phone numbers under pretense of "suspicious activity", that's because they already know who you are (you probably told them yourself by registering another account elsewhere).

No, "burner SIM cards" aren't real. This is just another form of self-delusion, — this time architected by US security agencies. You don't become anonymous by using those, you become watched.
by Tiberium | 2025-08-26 04:05:33+00:00
The whole README is heavily AI-edited (the final output is all by AI), and the worst thing is that the image diagrams seem to be generated (likely with 4o), see for example

https://github.com/MaliosDark/wifi-3d-fusion/blob/main/docs/...

"Wayelet CSi tensas"

That makes me question the authenticity of the project.
by Veedrac | 2025-08-26 04:06:09+00:00
I'd assume the design as proposed isn't overbuilt, so we'd need to go from, say, 4 months cycle times to 8 hour cycle times, which is maybe 350x.

While that's not going to increase the cost by 350x directly, it is going to change the character of the pile from a bunch of dirt to a bunch of dirty pipes. This makes a lot of the simplifying assumptions no longer work; like you can no longer ignore the heat losses through the rods, or the lower thermal mass of the rods.

And to be clear, you can do this. There are faster-cycling thermal storage solutions out there. It's just not implied from the claim that these solutions would be so much better than batteries.
by crooked-v | 2025-08-26 04:06:46+00:00
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5509592/walmart-tariff-...

> On Thursday, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said his company's costs keep climbing: "We've continued to see our costs increase each week, which we expect will continue into the third and fourth quarters," he said on an earnings call.
by creatonez | 2025-08-26 04:06:53+00:00
Aside from the prospect of bad press and user protest - There are still non Play Protect certified Android phones being released, including a few rare phones that skip the Play Store altogether (including the Fire phones). So they could lose at least a little bit of ground in this area. In a sense, they are in competition with their open source offering, even though they have a lot of control over it these days.

It could also make jailbreaking more commonplace, which on the Android side has died down in recent years because sideloading is enough for most users.
by drysart | 2025-08-26 04:07:34+00:00
> There's still a problem where someone asks to be called (the number needn't actually be theirs) as a way to trick the caller into losing money... But even then, I think it represents an improvement over what we've got now.

That's basically the purpose toll free area codes used to serve; and there's no reason that same sort of solution (with some adjustments for the modern era) couldn't continue to be used under a deposit based system. Just add some universal prefix, some unused country code for instance, that can be dialed for a "no deposit" call; and then give control to the recipient whether they want to accept such calls.

Or, well, since most modern dialing is done by submitting the whole number at once rather than digit-by-digit; it could even be a suffix. If your number is +12125551212, maybe something like +12125551212*0 could indicate a "no deposit" call. I mean, the whole suffix space could even be turned into something akin to a password so instead of just opening up accepting "no deposit" calls from the entire world, you might only accept them from specific whitelisted suffixes; and if someone leaks one and you start getting spam calls on it, you can just turn off that suffix. There might need to be some provider-enforced fail2ban to prevent wardialing those suffixes, but it doesn't sound like it'd be too difficult.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-26 04:07:57+00:00
After all, Chesterton’s fence most importantly is about a fence that we don’t know the purpose of. We (in a collective sense, not me personally) know everything about the phone system, it isn’t even really all that old in the grand scheme of things and is actively maintained. We know how it is supposed to work and can see that it isn’t working.

This is more like “Chesterton’s radio with a broken antenna,” a thing broken in an obvious way that we just haven’t gotten around to fixing or replacing.
by zmmmmm | 2025-08-26 04:08:35+00:00
What they say they want to accomplish could be almost 100% accomplished with self signed certificates. Or public certificates like letsencrypt etc. if you absolutely have to have third party attestation of the key.

The fact they incidentally position themselves as the only gatekeepers rather than accomplishing the same without doing that tells you all you need to know about their intent.
by rendaw | 2025-08-26 04:08:55+00:00
I tried a couple of the flashy Chinese junk left handed vertical mice and they were all really really light weight with stiff buttons, so every time I clicked it turned into a click-drag (the force of the click moved the mouse). Is that one different?

I've been using a left handed Evoluent but they never released the latest generation wireless left handed, and the price for the old version is 3x as expensive as it was a couple years ago (and they don't last very long, having owned a couple I get double/triple clicks within a year of buying it). I do like the separate middle mouse button though.
by wenc | 2025-08-26 04:09:32+00:00
Not quite.

Embeddings are a form of latent variables.

Attention query/key/value vectors are latent variables.

More generally, a latent variable is any internal, not-directly-observed representation that compresses or restructures information from inputs into a form useful for producing outputs.

They usually capture some underlying behavior in either lower dimensional or otherwise compressed space.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 04:10:42+00:00
> It was all about masks/no masks, remember?

Every jurisdiction had an overreaction fetish. Masks, social distancing and vaccine cards on the left. Ivermectin, detergent pods and intentional exposure on the right.

Maybe there was one with an anti-air filter message. But between New York, the Bay Area, Arizona, Tennessee, Wyoming, London, Frankfurt and New Delhi, I didn’t see it.
by deterministic | 2025-08-26 04:10:45+00:00
I have never (in my 30+ years career) worked for a company that required formal code reviews. And yet have managed to deliver a ton of commercially successful software. I am pretty sure that adding a review step would have slowed me down tremendously. Without adding any commercial value.

However I can imagine that code reviews would work well for inexperienced developers being reviewed by more experienced developers?