MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by panarky | 2025-08-26 21:49:37+00:00
Just shoving everything into one context fails after just a few turns.

I've had more success with a hierarchy of agents.

A supervisor agent stays focused on the main objective, and it has a plan to reach that objective that's revised after every turn.

The supervisor agent invokes a sub-agent to search and select promising sites, and a separate sub-sub-agent for each site in the search results.

When navigating a site that has many pages or steps, a sub-sub-sub-agent for each page or step can be useful.

The sub-sub-sub-agent has all the context for that page or step, and it returns a very short summary of the content of that page, or the action it took on that step and the result to the sub-sub-agent.

The sub-sub-agents return just the relevant details to their parent, the sub-agent.

That way the supervisor agent can continue for many turns at the top level without exhausting the context window or losing the thread and pursuing its own objective.
by timr | 2025-08-26 21:49:58+00:00
Well, I'm not a customs agent, but I'd imagine they do it in the same way they adjudicate anything else: inspection. Some things get through by chance, of course, but not at a rate you'd want to rely on if you're a business.

In particular, if I walk into a random post office and send a one-off shipment internationally, the paperwork, origin, packaging, manifest, etc. is vastly different than what, say, Temu was doing to ship a $10 widget to US consumers at scale.

The rule you're talking about is not new, so presumably they've figured it out.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-08-26 21:50:34+00:00
> TARRIFFS ARE NOT PAID BY OTHER COUNTRIES.

Here's what gets me...

EVEN IF the exporter paid the tariff, do people really think they'd just eat that cost? Of course not. They'd raise the price on the importer who would then raise the price for the end consumer. In the end, it's the consumer who pays the tariff, whether it's nominally paid by the exporter or importer.
by plst | 2025-08-26 21:50:37+00:00
> Saying "the users need to be educated" doesn't solve anything. Google could start an education campaign tomorrow (...)

Of course just saying it doesn't fix anything.

I don't want Google or Apple or any other vendor to do any education campaigns (and they clearly don't even want to try), part of my point is that the issue is too deep to be solved by such technological measures. For example, not skipping such warnings (includes invalid/expired certificates in https) and basic cyber hygiene should be taught in schools. There should be more public campaigns about these issues.

So I'm not even sure if Google should be fixing that particular problem (although I can guess why they are really eager to "solve" it this particular way). I would rather they focused even more on a stronger sandbox, making sure system software on licensed phones has no vulnerabilities and making sure the users understand what power they give to an application, than pretend that this fixes much. Sideloading restrictions only barely (because it's not like they are actually going to verify the applications, nothing about that in the post) plug one way to scam people remotely, over many, many other more severe ways. The banks in many countries don't even properly verify identity of people they give loans to, why not focus on that instead? (Yes, Google won't fix this, I'm not asking them to, they shouldn't try.)

We lose more than we gain.

> Then install a custom rom. All the power you want is already available

On most phones it's not, but that's besides my point.

> Seems silly to demand Google screw over the majority of their customers because you don't want to install a custom rom.

I'm not demanding Google to screw over anyone, and the current "sideloading" situation does not screw over anyone. I just believe that the vendors should not have the sole power to decide what applications can be installed on devices they don't own. Maybe let's have multiple certification authorities besides Google, like with TLS, as a start/compromise? I see the point of actually having an expert verify if an application is legitimate, and this isn't even it.

> On the contrary, you choose when you purchase your phone.

That choice should not be made when the phone is purchased.

And also I'm not talking about what I want to do with my phone, I'm talking about what I believe people should be able to do with their phones - for example they should be able to opt out of such protections if they don't want them (and leave them on if they want them), or choose who verifies their applications. Only possible if they know what the protections do and what the risks are, going back to what I wrote about education.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-08-26 21:50:50+00:00
> what about an original human-generated text that is entirely translated by an AI?

probably ai-modified -- the core content was first created by humans, then modified (translated into another language). translating back would hopefully return you the original human generated content (or at least something as close as possible to the original).

| class | author | modifier/reviewer | | ----------------- | ------ | ----------------- | | none | human | human/none | | ai-modified | human | ai | <--* | ai-originated | ai | human | | machine-generated | ai | ai/none |
by vesinisa | 2025-08-26 21:51:00+00:00
Maybe Trump is just doing what's good for America and he's strategy is exactly being unpredictable and chaotic. This is stressful for others and they make political concessions to please him in exchange for a period of stability.

EU for example bulged for exactly this reason and accepted 15% one-way tariff for access to US market. Before the deal the uncertainty about the level of coming tariffs was deemed worse for European companies trading to US than the negotiated tariff itself.

European political leaders including the head of NATO have also practically turned to giving rimjobs to Trump's ass wishing he would not throw tantrums at them in important meetings: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17wejpw79qo

Ultimately this all just strengthens US hegemony and makes other countries weaker, which is the explicitly stated goal he keeps repeating..
by nsriv | 2025-08-26 21:51:02+00:00
Kushner's piece in the WSJ [1] makes the claim that the French government's recognition of Palestine and public statements "haranguing Israel" has uniquely exacerbated this and asserts October 7th is the genesis of this behavior, with no mention of the behavior that Israel is being "harangued" for, which your comment seems to downplay.

The letter is a clear attempt to bully an ally into US style speech suppression by using someone that has both official position and a personal Presidential imprimatur.

[1] https://archive.fo/wzVUR
by guywithahat | 2025-08-26 21:51:49+00:00
For the last few months when I go on linkedin I'm spammed with a position out of CA who wants someone with 8+ years experience, in a C-tier CA desert city, for 80-110k. They've had it listed as "urgently hiring" for about 3 months now

We pay junior engineers more than 80k, and that's to live in a nicer, lower tax area. I hope they don't find someone and have to urgently hire a contractor with a clearance for $300 an hour
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-26 21:52:05+00:00
Birthright citizenship was one. An injunction was granted, then stayed by SCOTUS. It was only when a new class action lawsuit was filed that kept it going.

Another is the NIH funding, where lower courts agreed and SCOTUS over-turned. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/g-s1-84441/supreme-court-nih-...
by Mallowram | 2025-08-26 21:52:12+00:00
While McKenna is interesting, it's still metaphysical and probably nonsense. If you stick to hard science, aphasia studies reveal language and thought have nothing to do with one another, which means language is arbitrary gibberish that predominantly encodes status, dominance, control, mate-selection, land acquisition etc.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27096882/
by 8note | 2025-08-26 21:52:17+00:00
> yet if you force them to choose an R or D label, most of them are still going to count as R.

this is to say they have a glowing endorsement of the trump agenda of authoritarian intervention in both social and economic issues. they could have stayed home, or voted for democrats who were pushing a more traditional conservative policy.

they also could have voted for local politicians who are against trump policies, but the local republicans are lockstep with trump too.

you need to reevaluate what the people in your community believe in. they mught say theyre libertarians, but their actions say theyre very favourable to criminal dictators. if they werent, they would have acted dofferently in elections, and the votes speak louder than words
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 21:52:24+00:00
They have some responsibility because they’re selling and framing these as more than the better-tuned variant on Markov chain generators that they in fucking fact are, while offering access to them to anybody who signs up while knowing that many users misunderstand what they’re dealing with (in part because these companies’ hype-meisters, like Altman, are bullshitting us)
by t-writescode | 2025-08-26 21:52:26+00:00
> Every business owner, regardless of the size of the business, wants free labor.

Yeah, no.

I’m no longer an entrepreneur - ran out of runway - but it was always my goal to have aggressive profit sharing as part of my company. Acceptable salaries - years of those salaries saved “in the bank” and profit-share the rest.

I never wanted free labor. In fact, the reason I didn’t have employees is because I couldn’t afford them at the rate they deserved. People deserve to be treated as people. People deserve to be treated well.
Show HN: Rustormy – a neofetch-style weather CLI in Rust
by Tairesh | 2025-08-26 21:53:10+00:00
I built `rustormy`, a minimal terminal tool to check the weather with ASCII art and ANSI colors.

Features:

- Current conditions (temp, wind, humidity, pressure, precipitation)

- ASCII icons + color output

- Input by city or lat/long

- Metric/imperial units, JSON output, multi-lang (EN, RU, ES)

- Live mode with auto-refresh

- Works out-of-the-box with Open-Meteo (no API key), also supports OpenWeatherMap

Install via `cargo install rustormy` or grab a prebuilt binary from releases page Repo: https://github.com/Tairesh/rustormy

Would love feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports -- especially from CLI/TUI fans.
by kagakuninja | 2025-08-26 21:53:20+00:00
We hoped that the party of law and order, of Christian morality would not re-elect a convicted rapist, convicted financial fraudster, serial adulterer, pathelogical liar and instigator of America's first coup attempt.

Even Liz Cheney was supporting Harris. This wasn't about "charm", it was about saving democracy. And now we are fucked...
by fooker | 2025-08-26 21:53:32+00:00
What's the bottleneck in getting a Macbook like touchpad experience in a modern non-Apple laptop? Is it software? Some specific company that won't sell parts to anyone else? Patents?

I have tried several laptops, and nothing has even comes close in the last ten or so years.

I am hoping you might have some unique insight into this!

PS: Framework Laptop 16 looks great, will order one later this year and then get a GPU with more vram whenever available in future.
by godelski | 2025-08-26 21:54:08+00:00
> I could see that this is also an issue for scam apps.

I don't deny that it can be used to reduce scams, but I think there are far better ways to solve this that don't give authoritarian countries extra powers. Thing is, signing doesn't actually address the problem. It is a way to track the problem, not prevent the problem. Don't confuse the two.

> Firefox for instance does not allow you to install unsigned extensions.

That's absolutely not true[0]. You need to sign the extension to publish it to their app store but you don't need it to install. Btw, the Playstore already does this too. Which I'm totally okay with!

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

For other people to use your extension, you need ***to package it and submit it to Mozilla*** for signing.
by dangus | 2025-08-26 21:54:16+00:00
19 U.S.C. § 1862, 19 U.S.C. §§ 2251–55, 19 U.S.C. §§ 2411–20, 19 U.S.C. § 2132, 19 U.S.C. § 1338, and 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701–10

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435
by system2 | 2025-08-26 21:54:47+00:00
Can any LLM prevent these? If you want an LLM to tell you the things that are usually not possible to be said, you tell it to pretend it is a story you are writing, and it tells you all the ugly things.

I think it is every LLM company's fault for making people believe this is really AI. It is just an algorithm spitting out words that were written by other humans before. Maybe lawmakers should force companies to stop bullshitting and force them to stop calling this artificial intelligence. It is just a sophisticated algorithm to spit out words. That's all.
by capyba | 2025-08-26 21:54:47+00:00
I’m out of the loop with laptop processors and GPU performance measured in “AI TOPS”.

I’m not “doing AI” locally on my laptop, are those AMD processors of any use to me?

I’m familiar with traditional X86_64 CPU architectures, I just don’t understand what (if any) extra bells and whistles the “AI” chips offer.
by epgui | 2025-08-26 21:54:50+00:00
> The DSM in many ways represents the worst of so-called social science.

No. You need to read the thing.

The DSM only aims to be a tool to help standardize communication of often nebulous and otherwise ill-defined entities. It says so in the introductory pages.

People shouldn’t treat it like a biology textbook, it’s a self-described ontology at most.
by commakozzi | 2025-08-26 21:55:09+00:00
If you truly believed major releases were every 2 years, then i apologize, but i thought my "objectionable commentary" was fairly light on the snark. It's quite trendy to hate on Apple, so i assumed you were one of those. I don't honestly care, but what i do care about is when people lie about things to try to make a point. It's been happening more often lately it seems and i quickly respond when i think i see it.
by okxoliverkoenig | 2025-08-26 21:55:33+00:00
Yes, but... as the author already pointed out, this only works if you know what you are doing, i.e. having all the required mental resources, i.e. knowledge, experience, intelligence, courage, intuition, and some more. There are some engineers who know what they are doing and why. And there are many others who don't. Nevertheless, heartily tremendous thanks and greetings to the author, very very much appreciated. I'm a senior of 35 yrs active software dev, half employed, half self-employed, in many different environments. I can tell from my own experience and daily work life, yes, "this is the way" (quoting from The Mandalorian).
by podgietaru | 2025-08-26 21:56:22+00:00
I have looked suicide in the eyes before. And reading the case file for this is absolutely horrific. He wanted help. He was heading in the direction of help, and he was stopped from getting it.

He wanted his parents to find out about his plan. I know this feeling. It is the clawing feeling of knowing that you want to live, despite feeling like you want to die.

We are living in such a horrific moment. We need these things to be legislated. Punished. We need to stop treating them as magic. They had the tools to prevent this. They had the tools to stop the conversation. To steer the user into helpful avenues.

When I was suicidal, I googled methods. And I got the number of a local hotline. And I rang it. And a kind man talked me down. And it potentially saved my life. And I am happier, now. I live a worthwhile life, now.

But at my lowest.. An AI Model designed to match my tone and be sycophantic to my every whim. It would have killed me.
by dingdingdang | 2025-08-26 21:56:25+00:00
Well, in a sense it's the Milgram experiment ratio (roughly 2/3rds will go along with whatever those in authority say). I have personally gone from being discouraged about that factoid to simply being intrigued.. A very early example of the awareness of this situation would be the concept of the wide vs narrow gate from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
by jokoon | 2025-08-26 21:56:28+00:00
I asked several questions about psychology, chatgpt is not helpful, and it often answers the same sort of things.

Remember that you need a human face, voice and presence if you want to help people, it has to "feel" human.

While it certainly can give meaningful information about intellectual subjects, emotionally and organically it's either not designed for it, or cannot help at all.
by trws | 2025-08-26 21:57:06+00:00
I largely agree, and use these patterns in C, but you’re neglecting the usual approach of having a default or stub implementation in the base for classic OOP. There’s also the option of using interfaces in more modern OOP or concept-style languages where you can cast to an interface type to only require the subset of the API you actually need to call. Go is a good example of this, in fact doing the lookup at runtime from effectively a table of function pointers like this.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-26 21:57:21+00:00
It’s way more common than you think. I’m in a bubble of anti-AI people and we can see people we know going down that road. My family (different bubble) knows people. Every group of people I know knows somebody doing this.

For context, my friends and family are in the northern Midwest. Average people, not early adopters of new technology.
by kelnos | 2025-08-26 21:57:34+00:00
The 13" is upgradeable, just not in the same way the 16" is. It shouldn't be surprising that you can fit more stuff in a chassis for a 16" laptop than an 13" laptop, not to mention it's harder to deal with thermal issues in a 13" laptop. While it's not unheard of, it's much less common to see a dGPU in a 13" laptop, and Framework is no exception there.

I've upgraded my Framework 13 a bunch already since I bought it in 2022, and will hopefully continue to do so for years.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-26 21:57:34+00:00
The whole party is corrupt. Lindsey Graham was loudly anti-Trump until Trump won, and now he's just as loudly a Trump sycophant. The establishment cares about its own power more than it cares about doing what's right. (That indictment is true of both parties, but I'm specifically talking about Republicans here.)

I'm not defending people who voted for Trump. I'm saying if your response is "then I'm going to pretend you don't exist," this is only going to get worse.

Normal people need to be able to work together to find common ground for us to have anything resembling a healthy society.

It makes me sad that Hacker News, the place that emphasizes thoughtful curiosity in its post/comment guidelines, has lately often devolved into an echochamber indistinguishable from Reddit when anything remotely political comes up. Anything more nuanced then "Trump is evil and Republicans are stupid" gets downvoted, which is a microcosm of the whole problem that put them in power.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-26 21:58:13+00:00
It's hard to see what is going on without seeing the actual chats, as opposed to the snippets in the lawsuit. A lot of suicidal people talk to these LLMs for therapy, and the reviews on the whole seem excellent. I'm not ready to jump on the bandwagon only seeing a handcrafted complaint.

Ironically though I could still see lawsuits like this weighing heavily on the sycophancy that these models have, as the limited chat excerpts given have that strong stench of "you are so smart and so right about everything!". If lawsuits like this lead to more "straight honest" models, I could see even more people killing themselves when their therapist model says "Yeah, but you kind of actually do suck".
by Fwirt | 2025-08-26 21:58:20+00:00
As noble a goal as it is to pursue self-improvement, it comes to my attention more and more that people at every level of society are fundamentally disconnected from the experiences of others. It's human nature to assume that others are like us, but this becomes a problem the further the individual's lifestyle strays from the "average" person.

The thing that alarms me about this post is that this person clearly believes that each individual needs to engage in the war for our attention and has the means to do so. When the reality is that the regimen he proposes is beyond the "average" person for a variety of reasons, be they physical, emotional, or mental. For high-school dropouts working two full-time jobs, exhausted parents, and the vast majority of people generally lodged in the gears of the machine and burdened by everyday life, the time and more importantly, energy that is consumed by this routine just does not exist.

I would like to know how much time this routine takes out of each day and week, and what other obligations and opportunities he is forgoing to pursue it. Self-improvement is a noble goal if it benefits the fabric of society, our friends, family, loved ones, but if it simply results in the production of more "engaging content" then perhaps the time would be better spent elsewhere. Nobody will care how ripped or intellectually well-rounded you were when you are dead if your life did not make a positive impact on others.
by electric_muse | 2025-08-26 21:58:48+00:00
I have a side project that uses Twilio. Probably going to have to face this dragon at some point and go down the same risk assessment.

What values for Twilio line type intel do you block? (or equivalent values if you don't use Twilio)

For example, is it just `nonFixedVoip` that should get the boot? Or are `fixedVoip` also spammy?
by kelnos | 2025-08-26 21:59:40+00:00
Not sure what you mean by "produce". Nearly no PC/laptop brand actually manufactures their own hardware.

Framework does work with ODMs (Compal, I believe, is their main one?) to design mainboards for their chassis, which are designed specifically for Framework. It's not like they just take an off-the-shelf design and build it without any modifications.

And yes, chipsets change. (A "socket" changing isn't really a thing when we're talking about a laptop where the CPU/SoC is soldered in.) Generally this isn't a problem, though: as long as you can design something that physically fits in the chassis and supports the features you want, you're fine.
by robocat | 2025-08-26 21:59:47+00:00
They have the appetite. They mostly don't live in economies that enables them to earn money.

The US was a unique money-making machine... Although the gears seem to be getting looser and the machine is being broken. Personally I think the US economy is flexible enough to mitigate much of the damage, however I worry about the future impact of political changes.

I'm in New Zealand which is quite wealthy although the demographic timebomb will go off in next decades: and our economy is also fucked because our voters hate businesses and business people.

One strong signal of how fucked a country is economically, is how well small businesses can survive.

If the US starts screwing its businesses more, that is the time to worry.
by 1000100_1000101 | 2025-08-26 22:00:20+00:00
> 4. M1 has over 600 reorder buffer registers… it’s significantly larger than competitors.

And? Are you saying neither Intel nor AMD engineers were able to determine that this was a bottleneck worth chasing? The point was, anybody could add more cache, rename, reorder or whatever buffers they wanted to... it's not Apple secret-sauce.

If all the competition knew they were leaving all this performance/efficiency on the table despite there being a relatively simple fix, that's on them. They got overtaken by a competitor with a better offering.

If all the competition didn't realize they were leaving all this performance/efficiency on the table despite there being a relatively simple fix, that's also on them. They got overtaken by a competitor with better offering AND more effective engineers.