MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauco | 2025-08-06 15:05:27+00:00
The solution I use for this problem is a vs code excalidraw plugin that saves the drawing inside the png rendering of it.

So you include the image into your markdown or code comments and can then edit it in a vscode window.

Another one I used for a while is asciiflow.com or the monodraw mac app

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pomdtr.e... (I didn’t make it, just a happy user)
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-06 15:05:47+00:00
You're acting like those 1.8m reports are actually legit. I'd wager it's 99% baby pictures, gore, normal porn and dank memes, in that order and that the other 1% was parties a) already on the radar of law enforcement b) hacked accounts being utilized for that purpose by parties unknown.

If it were of real value they'd be touting arrests, not reports.
by sensanaty | 2025-08-06 15:05:52+00:00
Luddites weren't crushed by progress, they were crushed by an armed militia backed by the government. 12,000 militia and yeomanry units, in fact. Knowing how most of the AI fanatics are like though, doesn't surprise me they're on the side of the boot rather than on the side of the people getting crushed by said boot.

Also, what's the definition and point of "progress" to you? Because the way AI is shaking out to me screams the opposite of what I'd expect progress to look like. Assuming the likes of Altman (an individual who wants to harvest your biometric data for a scam shitcoin, by the way) can be believed and we indeed reach the singularity or AGI or whatever, is everyone except for the C-level (who is somehow magically exempt from the negative effects of this progress and irreplaceable somehow) losing their livelihoods and getting crushed under the boot of the wealthy and powerful "progress", in your eyes?
by iancmceachern | 2025-08-06 15:06:43+00:00
IMO this is the kind of tech we should be avoiding.

Let's follow the money.

The sales generated for this thing come from somewhere. The idea is the coffee shops make more by forcing "squatters" to order one drink an hour or whatever. That additional money, a portion of it, goes to pay for this app that enforces it.

I think that money is better spent making the coffee better, paying the baristas better, and maybe even allowing customers to "squat".

Extracting money out of everyday life to make our world less friendly and more expensive.
by saithound | 2025-08-06 15:06:59+00:00
Sure. Most countries in the European Union have elections every 4-5 years. Thanks to these elections, the set of people composing the EU's main executive body, the European Commission, changed radically over 9 years.

The EC of yesteryear preferred issuing book-long regulations about how everyone needs to respect privacy.

The EC of today prefers burning those regulations [1] and writes legislation about how everybody should scan all private messages.

No more surprising than the In 1998 Conference of Anglican bishops rejecting any sort of homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture, and the 2023 one approving the blessing of same-sex unions.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-p...
by 8n4vidtmkvmk | 2025-08-06 15:07:07+00:00
Interpret as having intent and having intent are not the same. If someone else writes something for me (human or AI) they are not going to use the exact words that I would have used. If I judiciously correct everything they type out for me so that it correctly expresses what I want to say, then sure, it has my intent, but that's not how people are using LLMs. They are lazily scanning its output at best.

Music and creativity is an entirely separate matter. I don't think LLMs can be truly creative because they're just mixing existing ideas from their training set. Which is also what humans do 99% of the time, but I like to believe that once in awhile humans have a truly original idea. This one is a bit harder to prove though.

Music is almost entirely unoriginal though. It's just sex, drugs, love, gangster BS. Basic primitive human stuff. AI should have no problem with that.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-06 15:07:16+00:00
Chrome did that three ways: 1) performing better and crashing less than mainstream alternatives (just IE and Firefox, then) on non-Mac platforms (so, most desktop computers) for a good long while; 2) aggressive advertising to trick people who don't actually give a shit what browser they're running (or even know) into downloading it because "google said it would make my gmail work better" or "I dunno, google just told me to download this so I did"; and, later in the race, by 3) being the default on most Android installations.

One of three major factors involved actually being good, and I'd bet the other two factors overwhelm that one.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 15:07:21+00:00
You've got to figure that the mega-capitalists have so much more discretionary accumulated resources relative to government than ever.

Other than government, is there anybody else who can loosen the purse strings a little bit and have it not act as a temporary stimulant as long as it lasts?

Whether they wish it would last or even provide any benefit to the average person, seems like there are plenty who wouldn't wish more prosperity on anyone who doesn't already have it :\

The only real way for long-term growth would be to plant seeds rather than dispense mere artificial stimulants.

Unless AI makes the general public way more than capitalists have spent, it wouldn't be worth any increase in cost whatsoever for things like energy or hardware. Even non-AI software could become unaffordable if their labor costs go up enough too keep top people from being poached by AI companies flush with cash.

I bet even the real estate near the data centers gets more unaffordable, at the same time clocking a win for the local economy due to the increased cash flow and tax revenue. Except all that additional cash is flowing out of peoples' pockets not in :\
by Spivak | 2025-08-06 15:07:37+00:00
I mean you can see it with your own experience, folks will post a 50 line snippet of ordinary C code in an blog post which looks like you're reading a long dead ancient language littered with macros and then be like "this is a lot to grok here's the equivalent code in Python / Ruby" and it's 3 lines and completely obvious.

Folks on HN are so weird when it comes to why these languages exist and why people keep writing in them. For all their faults and dynamism and GC and lack of static typing in the real world with real devs you get code that is more correct written faster when you use a higher level language. It's Go's raison d'etre.
by GHanku | 2025-08-06 15:07:55+00:00
The linked article explains how they do it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-hacker...

>The attackers impersonate IT support personnel, requesting the target employee accept a connection to Salesforce Data Loader, a client application...

"The application supports OAuth and allows for direct "app" integration via the "connected apps" functionality in Salesforce," explains the researchers.

"Threat actors abuse this by persuading a victim over the phone to open the Salesforce connect setup page and enter a "connection code," thereby linking the actor-controlled Data Loader to the victim's environment.

... app is used to export data stored in Salesforce instances and then used the access to move laterally through connected platforms such as Okta, Microsoft 365, and Workplace.

Accessing these additional cloud platforms allows the threat actors to access more sensitive information stored on those platforms, including sensitive communications, authorization tokens, documents, and more.
by jnmandal | 2025-08-06 15:08:08+00:00
LLM Inflation is an interesting choice of terminology. Like with many things in our contemporary society there is a temptation to assign absolute, quantitative value to everyday concepts but realistically we should know this to be a fallacy. Many concepts actually have no "on paper" value but still manifest significant social value. Marketing is the typical example, and yet we don't refer to advertising as inflation (though maybe we should).

This concept probably applies to lots of work in the "AI" space right now. The idea of using huge amounts of compute to generate lifelike voices for LLMs comes to mind as being recently maligned (something many users may not want). Or people upset about getting AI summaries in search that they didn't ask for. And yet, swaths of capital has been invested in these ideas and perhaps its a worthwhile use of resources. I am not sure personally. Time will tell. But I suspect its more complicated than the author is implying here.
by soiltype | 2025-08-06 15:08:33+00:00
That's all been thought of, yeah.

No, AGI isn't a good thing. We should expect it to go badly, because there are so many ways it could be catastrophic. Bad outcomes might even be the default without intervention. We have virtually no idea how to drive good outcomes of AGI.

AGI isn't being pursued because it will be good, it's being pursued because it is believed to be more-or-less inevitable, and everyone wants to be the one holding the reins for the best odds of survival and/or being crowned god-emperor (this is pretty obviously sam altman's angle for example)
by fishbacon | 2025-08-06 15:08:45+00:00
I share my .emacs with people who ask. Not really for privacy, but because I would feel bad: If someone tried to use any of it and was not able to ask me what I was thinking.

The usual answer is that I was not and we should change it.

I would also have to distribute a couple of novel go programs that I am not proud of if I was sharing it publicly.
by sickofparadox | 2025-08-06 15:08:47+00:00
Not only are zoos wonderful ways for those who cannot afford a globe trotting safari to experience some of the wonders of nature close to home, they conduct hugely important preservation research and undergo essential conservation work. If not for zoos, it's likely that most, if not all, of the Panamanian golden frog, and many other amphibians in Central America would have been wiped out a few years ago by the Chytrid fungus.[1] This is just the first example I could think of, but zoos are an essential part of our exploration of nature, as well as our stewardship over it.

[1]https://www.marylandzoo.org/conservation/current-projects/pa...
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 15:09:07+00:00
> Paying taxes doesn't count as participating in "American society"?

In the same way a child participates in CSAM production, sure. You haven't made yourself clear, but are you struggling to suggest that the children featured in CSAM should also be prosecuted? Is that the harsher law argument you keep telling us about? I mean, I suppose you are right that if they weren't involved it wouldn't be able to be created. You may not have completely thought that through, though.

> I'm happy enough with maintaining the status quo.

And you are welcome to your arbitrary feelings. But we are talking about your supposed argument.
by azemetre | 2025-08-06 15:09:08+00:00
Does SQLite talk about how they plan to exist beyond 2050 across multiple lifetimes?

Not trying to be chide but it seems like with such a young industry we need better social tools to make sure this effort is preserved for future devs.

Churn has been endemic in our industry and it has probably held us back a good 20 years.
by kurthr | 2025-08-06 15:10:06+00:00
Vote for an opposition which promises mass deportations? Certainly, they will never go back on their word to create a surveillance state?!? Asking your politicians to lie to you is not a substitute for changing their incentives.

The key point to make is that once you're spying on your own people, you've created the single weakest point of entry for your geopolitical opponents spying on you and manipulating the population as well. It's such a dumb political move, it seems like it could only come from extreme fear, greed, or manipulation. Switch it around and make them afraid of the alternative.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-06 15:10:13+00:00
Multithreaded code is usually bottlenecked by memory bandwidth, even more so than raw compute. C/C++/Rust are great at making efficient use of memory bandwidth, whereas scripting languages are rather wasteful of it by comparison. So I'm not sure that multithreading will do much to bridge the performance gap between binary compiled languages and scripting languages like Python.
by jnmandal | 2025-08-06 15:11:03+00:00
Sure but if my some of the development team is using ollama locally b/c it was super easy to install, maybe I don't want to worry about maintaining a separate build chain for my prod env. Many startups are just wrapping or enabling LLMs and just need a running server. Who are we to say what is right use of their time and effort?
by mcdeltat | 2025-08-06 15:11:53+00:00
I wonder if branch prediction can still hide the performance loss when the happy path checks become large/complex. Branch prediction is a very low level optimisation. And if the predictor is right you don't get everything for free. The CPU must still evaluate the condition, which takes resources, albeit it's no longer on the critical path. However I'd think the CPU would stall if it got too far ahead of the condition execution (ultimately all the code must execute before the program completes). Perhaps given the nature of Python, the checks would be so complex that in a tight loop they'd exert significant resource pressure?
by benreesman | 2025-08-06 15:12:16+00:00
A lot of us are grateful in some abstract way for all the foundational work RMS did both technically and organizationally to preserve what remaining software freedoms we still have, but got off the bus a long time ago. He got really weird and it was on some "no fly zone" shit.

There's an `emacs` community that recognizes the history without being involved in any contemporary sense.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-08-06 15:12:24+00:00
I have considered going the extreme other way and building a faraday cage around a cafe — no wifi, no cellular, just the people who are physically present in the cafe like it used to be.

I personally stopped going to my favourite cafe because all the tables were taken up by people using laptops, I think the value proposition is just not there. You are always going to be better off catering to people who are just dropping in for 5-10 minutes over someone who spends several hours and maybe buys 2 things and jeopardizes a table which could have been used by 10 people.
Ask HN: Has AI helped you with your productivity?
by break_the_bank | 2025-08-06 15:13:00+00:00
I am really curious how people's experience with AI has been in the past few years. ChatGPT came out about 3 years ago and I wanted to know how it has affected your productivity / your perception of your productivity.

I write a LOT of code and I am a fan of Cursor, though there are times where I feel like the AI is a net negative, and I should be more careful about my use of AI. Especially while debugging, it doesn't really work for me. I can't outsource "thinking" to it. Otherwise I intend to keep paying Cursor $20/month + usage. I am also subscribed to ChatGPT and pay $20/mo to it as well. I don't pay for any other tools, I don't use other tools on a semi-daily basis either.

1. What do you do for work? 2. Has AI been helpful? 3. What tools have been the most helpful? 4. What tools have been the biggest letdown?
by AaronAPU | 2025-08-06 15:13:24+00:00
yeah on the one hand there are clearly good things about them.

But just solely from my own actual personal lived experience, they are making my rides less enjoyable on a daily basis.

I’m hoping much of it will be ironed out over time as etiquette catches up. But I dunno, once the masses flood any given environment it tends to become permanently worse.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-06 15:13:25+00:00
It's the only reason you don't see a lot more broken websites on Firefox, which would drive its market share even lower.

Lots and lots of Web development projects target Chrome, then make sure it works on Safari. In that second step, they accidentally fix a lot of bugs that'd show up on Firefox, too.

Not a lot of them are bothering to check Firefox directly these days. Hell, a decade ago it wasn't making the test list in tons of cases.
by OCASMv2 | 2025-08-06 15:14:08+00:00
> The incubation period was plenty long enough for the virus to spread before incapacitating the host. All the selection pressure was for the virus to become more virulent - and that is precisely what happened. We saw multiple strains appear which were harder to deal with.

Is Omicron equally as deadly as Delta? No.

> This had a negligible impact. Patients were only put on ventilation when they were already very sick and at a high chance of death. Worldwide only a tiny proportion of deaths came about in this way. Even rich countries only had ventilators in the tens of thousands. Compare that to the billions who received vaccinations.

That's just one example. Not using effective antivirals is another one. With time, treatments improved and so did the outcomes, regardless of vaccination status.
by a_sydelov | 2025-08-06 15:14:26+00:00
This article explores the runtime behavior of persistent volumes, secrets, and ingress controllers in Kubernetes — and how they affect application stability, security, and observability in production.

Covers: – Volume attachment delays and mount path handling – Access mode conflicts (e.g. ReadWriteOnce errors) – Secrets exposed via environment variables and memory – Why Ingress rules don’t work without a running controller
by fcarraldo | 2025-08-06 15:14:32+00:00
I've also been very happy with Silverblue (an alternate flavor of Universal Blue, the same guts as Bluefin). It took a bit of an adjustment period to get used to using an immutable distro, but given that I run this as the sole OS on my daily driver, reliability is paramount. It gives the same feeling of running a highly stable OS like MacOS, but with the power, ergonomics and customizability of Linux - and anything I need that isn't easy to fit into the immutable model is just a simple Distrobox invocation away.

It's "Container-driven development" done right - containerized applications and shells _feel_ native via Distrobox (which gives them access to the host FS, network, hardware, etc by default) but without the risks of native development causing dependency conflicts. And if I screw something up, I can just spin up a new container.
by eitally | 2025-08-06 15:14:32+00:00
The floor plan tool isn't really in house. It's just an extension of the industry standard real estate management platform they use Tririga (https://www.ibm.com/products/tririga) ... in the same way that go/teams in just an custom visualization of a standard employee directory.

You might be surprised how much of what runs Google (Anaplan, for example, for XWS) is fairly industry standard.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-08-06 15:14:37+00:00
The problem is it will be to late. We must not allow politicians pass laws that will be irrevocable and later find our workarounds, because (1) of complications (making our lives hell) and (2) allowing politicians to go further, e.g. forbid us from using phones where you can install arbitrary software, or another example - putting people to jail for encrypting their messages
by whatevaa | 2025-08-06 15:14:52+00:00
It is. The biggest benefit for consumer devices is less lanes needed for same bandwith, but that is only really relevant to GPU's. SSD's are already constrained by thermals, not bandwith.

The downside - cost. Making these lanes run reliably at these speeds is not cheap.

I wouls say benefits for consumer devices peaked at pcie 4, anything above is just cost. Maybe gen 5 to allow gpus to run at x8 without bottlenecks, but given how massive those gpus are, you are not saving any space, just lanes.
by fsflover | 2025-08-06 15:14:53+00:00
Why am I downvoted? Here are some links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43744890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538728

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268468
by ozim | 2025-08-06 15:14:54+00:00
Another example is people from EU making fun of US buildings.

Lasting centuries may or may not be preferable.

There are places where you want to cheaply rebuild from scratch. Your castle after tornado and flooding will be irreparably bad. Most castles suck badly by not taking advantage of new materials and I myself would not like to live in 100 yo building.

Same for software, there are pieces that should be build to last but there are applications that should be replaceable in short time.

As much as I am not fan of vibe coding I don’t believe all software should be built for decades to last.
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-06 15:15:19+00:00
The point of checks and balances is not obstruction for the sake of obstruction. It is that no branch should be subservient or overly deferential to the other branches.

For example, Congress should not do everything the president wants just because he's the president as is happening now.

Congresspeople have said out loud that the job of Congress is to ask "how high" when the president says "jump". Congress last year backtracked on immigration reform because the Republican candidate demanded it. Congress just took vacation early because the president needs a break from the stress of being on a sex traffickers contact list. Congress has allowed the executive to destroy congressionally mandated departments without challenge.

Each body of government should be protective of their own power and responsibility and fight against other branches illegally usurping it.

I recommend reading Federalist 51, and perhaps 53 and 76. Also John Adams "Thoughts on Government".
by qiine | 2025-08-06 15:15:34+00:00
I was close to upload my full dotfile dir to github, telling myself it would be handy when I switch computers..

Then I realized that some of those config files reflected a lot about my systems and personal preferences... and it was only going to be ever more detailed, so I said NOPE making separate repos for my nvim config maybe and that will be it!

sorry.
by tzs | 2025-08-06 15:15:43+00:00
> The thing is, this seems like an entirely solvable problem, from multiple angles: e.g. an end-to-end encrypted sync between devices (using some pairing process), or, even better, a way to enroll a non-present device as an alternative (though this has some of its own challenges, if not just using a persistent certificate). It suprises me a little that there's nothing that really attempts to address this

Apple is adding that in iOS 26 and MacOS 26 [1], based on the FIDO specification for this [2].

Google is also in the midst of implementing it [3].

[1] https://fidoalliance.org/9to5mac-apple-work-passkey-portabil...

[2] https://fidoalliance.org/specifications-credential-exchange-...

[3] https://fidoalliance.org/mobileidworld-google-developing-pas...
by concinds | 2025-08-06 15:16:05+00:00
Google has been porting Blink to iOS and making steady progress. Here's the tracking bug on Chromium's bugtracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40254930

Presumably they would have invested more resources into it and been done by now, if there was a viable path to release, which there isn't yet due to Apple's EU geofencing, and because there were a number of bugs and limitations in Apple's BrowserEngineKit which browsers are forced to use.
by jithinraj | 2025-08-06 15:16:06+00:00
Major web disputes like the Perplexity/Cloudflare clash over AI crawlers, OpenAI’s lawsuit with NYT, or Anthropic’s Claude facing publisher data concerns show that the “rules of access” for the web are more contested than ever.

Should these rules be set by individual publishers, infrastructure providers, AI companies, open standards, or by community consensus?

What would your ideal solution look like? Who should decide? What’s broken today?

Context:

• Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/agents-or-bots-making-sen...

• Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde...