MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-11 18:30:01+00:00
The moment the Russia Ukraine war hit, the top 10 apps in Russia was half VPNs.

As long as websites don't want to lock out any user without an account, and as long as vpns exist, it'll be hard to enforce any of this. At least for now, that's one line big tech won't let them cross easily.
by watwut | 2025-08-11 18:30:05+00:00
> We need to support the speech of all groups we detest - baby eaters, satanists, polygamists, racists, sexists, murderers, capitalists, Marxists, televangelists, etc. - in order to champion free speech for all.

Except that, in practice the defense of self styled free speech advocates did not extended to left, gay, radical feminists, progressives anyone not far right.

In what world is NY times left leaning.

> If you're uneasy about this, remember that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from judgement.

Somehow that part did applied to only selected groups. Criticising right and conservatives was treated as grave danger to free speech by the self styled free speech advocates.

The big crisis of free speech is never about speech rights of anyone left of center. Literally even now.
by jjcm | 2025-08-11 18:30:28+00:00
At some point the value of remote inference becomes more expensive than just buying the hardware locally, even for server-grade components. A GB200 is ~$60-70k and will run for multiple years. If inference costs continue to scale, at some point it just makes more sense to run even the largest models locally.

OSS models are only ~1 year behind SOTA proprietary, and we're already approaching a point where models are "good enough" for most usage. Where we're seeing advancements is more in tool calling, agentic frameworks, and thinking loops, all of which are independent of the base model. It's very likely that local, continuous thinking on an OSS model is the future.
by toast0 | 2025-08-11 18:30:36+00:00
Yes, but PCs have only rarely had general purpose blitters. They were integrated in some video cards, but that's more or less like DMA; Intel had one for a while recently [1]; FreeBSD loads a driver for it on my Xeon L5640 hosted server, but I don't see any evidence that anything actually uses it. and I'm not sure there was enough actual performance improvement enabled by offloading copies, so Intel stopped including these. Linux marked their driver as broken because it caused issues with copy-on-write [2]

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/162966/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
by yndoendo | 2025-08-11 18:30:39+00:00
You have to pay me to use Apple, Microsoft, and Google products. None of those organizations are good.

Apple and Google both use immutable locked down OSes on their main products that prevents improving device security, such as IP & DNS filtering / blocking.

Microsoft user experience keeps getting worse. Latest version of Teams, as of today, says I'm at the "Calendar" screen and the navigation and content screen both show "Chat". "Calendar" was unpinned because I find Teams to be at interacting with content. No reason it should be a PDF viewer when the desktop application is actually usable allows for viewing chat and content at the same time.

I understand developing for those platforms makes money or is needed for other products. Unless I have to develop products that support those companies, I will never pay with my personal income to support those organizations.
by maxglute | 2025-08-11 18:30:44+00:00
>have 2-3 kids to keep the population.

Yes, I think even "real pro-maternity" policies not enough. I written more in comment below, but my gut feeling is to get enough family formation that has 2-3 kids rather than 1-2, you need... basically UBI + slave labour tier support. Think UAE/Qatar, 20% locals doing 30hr/week make shift jobs, access to cheap labour, i.e. living in maid. Their TFR still declining fast, 4->3 in last 10 years but there's a chance they'll settle above 2.1 / replacement. Short of that level of "abundance" I think most will choose less than 2 kids and societies stuck with backfilling with immigration.
by root_axis | 2025-08-11 18:30:55+00:00
The idea that LLMs will replace us all just seems untethered from reality. Yes, they are extremely powerful and useful, with incredible potential, but I am not convinced that the cost/benefit ratio scales to the size of the entire economy.

As amazing as LLMs are, the statistical unreliability of the SOTA models means human intervention is always necessary. That's based on today's SOTA models which are already so absurdly gigantic that the DCs are disrupting civic infrastructure due to their water and power demands, and these companies still have to rate limit aggressively just to keep the service up.

Everyone knows quadratic growth doesn't scale, so I don't see how these models continue to grow in capability, while also growing in capacity to meet the demand of an "agentic economy", while still ultimately needing to pay human SMEs to verify correctness and fix mistakes. It doesn't add up.

My prediction is that we'll see increased efficiency in knowledge workers and reshaping/consolidation of certain job functions, but the structure of the economy over the next two decades won't be upended due to LLMs.
by bArray | 2025-08-11 18:31:19+00:00
> Don’t we care about output per capita?

Not "yes and no", the answer is simply yes. You cannot simply flood your country with unrestricted migration from lower GDP per capita countries and not expect overall growth to slow down.

> Yes, output per capita is the primary measure of individual welfare but...

> our ability to service debt and social security obligations depends on total output.

Our ability to service social obligations and debt entirely depends on GDP per capita. Whilst they are both paid on a GDP basis, they a generated as a multiplier of capita. If you have 1 million people, and add another million people (of the same distribution), social obligations are also doubled, as will debt, but both delayed. It's not that complicated.

> We live in a welfare state, and this is unlikely to change anytime soon.

It's about to change now, the time is up. Governments world wide are now struggling to issue bonds at reasonable rates, there are no known mechanisms to unwind. The likes of Japan, a large buyer of the foreign bond market, starting to bring down its bond purchases, indicates this.

> Most immigrants worsen the fiscal position of the government.

This is especially true whilst you have a system already setup making a loss, such as the UK's pension system.

> Each immigrant into a rich country makes the position of poor countries harder.

Every doctor, nurse, engineer, etc, that we import is one less for their original country. What do we think that does to the original country on scale? What do we think that does to their growth?

> Affordable housing:

Many animals will not breed, and some even miscarry, if they are not in a suitable environment. Giving birth and raising children makes the mother/family very vulnerable. It seems that for all of our sophistication, the human race is no different. What we're measuring world wide appears to be an enormous economic deficit.
by cco | 2025-08-11 18:31:33+00:00
We recently released isagent.dev [1] exactly for this reason!

Internally at Stytch three sets of folks had been working on similar paths here, e.g. device auth for agents, serving a different documentation experience to agents vs human developers etc and we realized it all comes down to a brand new class of users on your properties: agents.

IsAgent was born because we wanted a quick and easy way to identify whether a user agent on your website was an agent (user permissioned agent, not a "bot" or crawler) or a human, and then give you a super clean <IsAgent /> and <IsHuman /> component to use.

Super early days on it, happy to hear others are thinking about the same problem/opportunity.

[1] GitHub here: http://github.com/stytchauth/is-agent
by wk_end | 2025-08-11 18:31:42+00:00
Oh, hey, that's my comment.

As mentioned in my reply to you downthread, the issue with all of the spelling and grammar mistakes - as is clear from the comment itself - is that it belies the authors' claims of being actual "journalists". If they had been upfront and described themselves as Russian hackers or whatever it wouldn't really have been of note. But, in terms of credibility, this becomes something of a double-sin: to claim that you're a journalist implies that you adhere to a certain set of journalistic ethics; to lie about being a journalist means that not only do you not adhere to those ethics, it also means that you're a liar, which makes all of your claims suspect. I think calling this out on an HN post is worthwhile.

Second of all, it may be the longest comment on the thread, but it's never been a particularly popular one, so I wouldn't draw too many inferences about foreign influence on HN from it. The post's karma, which I care way too much about, has wavered between -1 and I think 2, which doesn't exactly suggest there's a whole lot of brigading going on for my benefit.

That doesn't imply that there's no brigading going on on HN - dang knows more about that than I do. Clearly Israel engages in attempting to control the narrative online, and there's clearly spaces on Reddit for example where they succeed quite well. HN is quite a bit smaller and more carefully moderated, though. That said, I've been on HN for a while, so I guess I'll say that I've noticed it's not hard for a post to get flagged; it wouldn't surprise me at all if something as contentious as the textbook example for contentious topics could organically end up getting flagged/vouched back to life a lot.

> a blind man can see that when someone's comment on genocide is "the article has so many typos", that person already started out with the conclusion.

Of course, it goes without saying, but that's not my "comment on genocide", nor is it more than a fraction of a fraction of my comment on the article itself. I don't really appreciate the strawman, and I'll point out that in your comments to me you explicitly vouch for starting from the conclusion, so I think you might be projecting.
by bryanhogan | 2025-08-11 18:31:48+00:00
I just use a Kanban board for my to-do's, and it has been working amazingly well for years now. I sort stuff based on four columns, starting with the most important that should be done "today".

I love Markdown files with editors such as Obsidian or Logseq, but found them to be suboptimal for to-do's / tasks.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-11 18:32:12+00:00
Chiming in here, M1 Max MacBook Pro 64GB using gpt-oss:20b over ollama with Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot is unusably slow compared to using Claude Sonnet 4, which requires (I think?) GitHub Copilot Pro.

But I'm happy to pay the subscription vs buying a Mac Studio for now.
by buzzerbetrayed | 2025-08-11 18:32:12+00:00
I'm not entirely sure I understand exactly what you're suggesting. But I'd imagine it's because a company that doesn't have to pay people will out compete the company that does.

There could be some scenario where it is advantageous to have humans working with AI. But if that isn't how reality plays out then companies won't be able to afford to pay people.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-08-11 18:32:41+00:00
I will answer for the 20B version on my RTX3090 for anyone who is interested (SUPER happy with the quality it outputs, as well). I've had it write a handful of HTML/CSS/JS SPAs already.

With medium and high reasoning, I will see between 60 and 120 tokens per second, which is outrageous compared to the LLaMa models I was running before (20-40tps - I'm sure I could have adjusted parameters somewhere in there).
by JohnBooty | 2025-08-11 18:32:50+00:00
The relevant thing is care and aid for the grieving loved ones of the deceased.

Your presence at the funeral, while symbolic (some might even say empty symbolism) is a way of showing the mourners that the deceased was cared for by many. It is comforting to some extent.

But of course, if funerals are too difficult, there are other ways to accomplish the same thing.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-08-11 18:32:54+00:00
For the record, I'm not actually against age verification for certain content. But it would have to be:

1) private - anonymous (don't know who is requesting access) and unlinkable (don't know if the same user makes repeated requests or is the same user on other services).

2) widely available and extremely easy to register and integrate.

The current situation is that it's not easy, or private, or cheap to integrate. And the measures they say they will accept are trivially easy to bypass - so what's the point?

I worked in a startup that satisfied point 1 back in 2015. The widely available bit didn't come off though when we ran out of runway.
by npteljes | 2025-08-11 18:34:15+00:00
I think if someone is already not taken by any of their inner things entirely, then they are already doing this regulation thing. The social skills that are described in the article (and soft skills in general) are just a next step on the same path, focusing on getting along, rather than completely internal regulation.

I too have wildly different area of interest, level of interest, and approach to things than most people around me do. Soft skills helped me to connect anyways, for at least two reasons:

1. With them I can approach, and connect to the interest of others.

2. I can explain to people my interest, and make it more interesting to them as well.

Also, these are not for all time, all the time. The healthy thing is to vary the guardedness in different contexts. The flexibility in this is a skill in itself, and again, something that connects to, and can raise, emotional intelligence.
by asadm | 2025-08-11 18:34:34+00:00
Even if they do get better. The latest closed-source {gemini|anthropic|openai} model will always be insanely good and it would be dumb to use a local one from 3 years back.

Also tooling, you can use aider which is ok. But claude code and gemini cli will always be superior and will only work correctly with their respective models.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-11 18:34:49+00:00
You vote for someone who says "I will create more jobs"

They instead propose a bill that will cut jobs

There's deliberation, but a lot of other people want to cut jobs

Is you shouting "hey, that is not what I voted for!" yelling and disrupting process, or calling out the fact that you were lied to and your representative is in fact not representing you?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-11 18:35:00+00:00
> The US resisted the fertility drop for much longer, because of higher suburban population.

It was immigration, but next generation of all immigrants (native born) adopts host country total fertility rate in this context.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/08/08/hispanic-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/10/26/5-facts-a...

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/FT_19... visually nails this.

Now, would these people have had a higher birth rate if they remained in their LATAM countries? The data indicates no.

Latin America’s Baby Bust Is Arriving Early - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-22/latin-... | https://archive.today/EPMAU - May 22nd, 2025

Population Prospects and Rapid Demographic Changes in the First Quarter of the Twenty-first Century in Latin America and the Caribbean - https://repositorio.cepal.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/dc5... - 2024
by mort96 | 2025-08-11 18:35:07+00:00
Your comment reads a lot like a ChatGPT-generated counter argument, so I'll be brief, in case I'm wasting my time arguing with a bot.

1. The database remains readable if you lose the key, but all IDs which have been given out to clients will become invalid. This can be anywhere between an inconvenience and a catastrophe. The statement "What’s affected is the ability to interpret the encrypted timestamp metadata" is completely wrong: there is no "encrypted timestamp metadata", what's lost is the ability to translate IDs given out to clients into IDs in the database. Very ChatGPT-like mistake to make.

2. The moment a key is leaked, all IDs which have been handed out to clients so far since the last key rotation suddenly reveals tinestamps.

3. The statement "the database were compromised, timestamp leakage would likely be among the least critical concerns" just repeats what I said in my comment.

4. This point also literally repeats what I wrote as if it's an argument against what I wrote.

Please have the decency of writing your arguments yourself, this is ridiculous.
by wenc | 2025-08-11 18:35:57+00:00
Yes. I’ve been paying for Dropbox for years.

I also have iCloud for photos and Google Drive from my Gemini subscription.

iCloud sync really doesn’t work well for files. I tried using it for logseq once and it messed it up.

Google Drive I have no idea. I’ve never been motivated to use it.

Dropbox has been solid — super low latency sync and I’ve never lost data. Also like most people here I use Dropbox because it the one major sync providert that has a maintained Linux client that works well.
by ackfoobar | 2025-08-11 18:36:24+00:00
> .NET is now cross platform, but only as long as it doesn't hurt VS sales, with GUI workloads, profilers, still being mostly Windows only, and partially supported on VSCode, which also has the same VS license.

On HN I keep hearing that associating .NET with Windows is outdated perception.

Writing JVM languages I feel that the developer experience is pretty much the same on any OS. It seems this cannot be said for .NET?
by __rito__ | 2025-08-11 18:36:35+00:00
Haha. Been there, done that.

My journey has been like this: Wunderlist -> Microsoft acquired Wunderlist -> Any.DO -> Google Keep -> Todoist -> Trello -> ClickUp -> Obsidian -> todo.md file

(I am probably missing multiple.)

I still use Obsidian, but not as a Todo app, with absolute zero plugins. And Wunderlist remains the most tasteful todo app I have ever seen.

Now I just open up Alacritty and type in `vim todo.md`. It has today's date in H2, and tasks as checkboxes. That's it. Works better than anything else. Why . md over .txt? Because I like the syntax highlighting in vim.
by Animats | 2025-08-11 18:36:39+00:00
India got there on overpopulation. Total fertility rate around 6 in 1965. India does not have enough water for its population.[1] China would have hit similar problems if not for their one-child policy. China managed to avoid the overshoot when medicine starts to work but the economy hasn't developed yet. India didn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity_in_India
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-08-11 18:36:44+00:00
It would be cool to see a linter, or a new language, that makes good architecture easy and bad architecture hard.

Like making state machines easier than channels. (Rust is sort-of good at state machines compared to C++ but it has one huge issue because of the ownership model, which makes good SMs a little clumsy)

Or making it slightly inconvenient to do I/O buried in the middle of business logic.
by BizarroLand | 2025-08-11 18:36:57+00:00
Windows 98 was so bad when it came to drivers, lol.

It had the plug and play standard but that only worked half of the time, and if you messed up by doing something like connecting the peripherals before installing the driver you could BSOD while trying to install the drivers and have to rescue the whole OS. Happened to me enough for me to remember it.

And my sister demonstrated how you could delete the recycle bin if you were bad enough at computers, which was fun.

I've also had nearly as many kernel panics on OSX or hangs on Linux as I have had BSODs on Windows (when graphed as a ratio of use over time).

All OSes have flaws and issues, there would never be a perfect operating system with our current understanding of computers, and that's ok.

That being said, my critique does not include OSes that spy on you (for what will be considered a several trillion dollar crime syndicate when this era is written down in history), which is its own entire rant.
by wenc | 2025-08-11 18:37:12+00:00
I pay for both.

iCloud for photos and Mac backup.

Dropbox for files. iCloud is somehow not good for low latency file syncs.

Even for photos it’s not excellent. It takes a while for photos on my phone to show up on my macOS Photos app. But I’m less sensitive to photos lagging than actual files lagging.

Dropbox is instantaneous.
by xvilo | 2025-08-11 18:37:20+00:00
I’d like to add that Dutch state news broadcaster NOS now offers Teletext though SSH. Just type `ssh teletekst.nl` and you can browse through all their pages.

They fully revamped their Teletext backend a couple of years ago to their own solution. They had archaic hardware still, and had to fly in some one from the UK (fully pensioned and well) to service it
by codyb | 2025-08-11 18:37:27+00:00
My simple notes setup that I love since I live in ViM and TMux sessions

```.vimrc

map <leader>x :vs<cr>:e ~/Documents/notepad.txt<cr>

map <leader>X :vs<cr>:e ~/Documents/notes<cr>

map <leader>P :Files ~/Documents/notes<cr>

```

And that's pretty much it. I can pop open a long running file for temporary one offs, or pop open a directory with directories with files which all start with `01-`, `02-`,... to enforce order, with additions to a particular topic doing `01A-`, etc

And since I edit everything I work on in ViM, I have notes available in all my editors which have keyboard short cut quick jump navigation.

It keeps me very organized, can be set up anywhere with just a couple lines in the config file there, and only took me about a decade of steadily refining things down to get to
by apexalpha | 2025-08-11 18:37:46+00:00
>Microsoft’s CoreAI team is a new engineering group led by former Meta executive Jay Parikh. It includes Microsoft’s platform and tools division and Dev Div teams, with a focus on building an AI platform and tools for both Microsoft and its customers.

This is so confusing. The "CoreAI" team is apparently doing everything except the core of AI, which is LLMs.
by slg | 2025-08-11 18:37:47+00:00
If your entire argument rests around the implied inconsistency of a rapper's "vibe", it doesn't sound like you have a very strong argument.

Odds are we'll eventually know the truth, but early indications are that I am right.[1]

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deact...
Show HN: pywebview 6 is out
by kissaprofeetta | 2025-08-11 18:37:49+00:00
I am happy to announce the next major version of pywebview, a lightweight Python framework for building modern desktop applications with web technologies. The new version introduces powerful state management, network event handling, and significant improvements to Android support. See https://pywebview.flowrl.com/blog/pywebview6.html for details.
by ezoe | 2025-08-11 18:38:01+00:00
You forgot to mention the gaming section.

Microsoft is acquiring a lot of game developers, put it on hold for a few years, then close subsidiary and layoff all employees.

I guess generating hype by acquisition and increase valuation cause more profit than developing a real product.

I'm beginning to think that using Microsoft services(yes, GitHub included) is morally questionable behaviour right now. I can't support the current Microsoft behaviour of laying off many employees so casually.
by icw_nru | 2025-08-11 18:38:10+00:00
I tried reposting this on Reddit and my post got autodeleted in 1 second. Which is unusual because I have posted on reddit before.

" Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters. "

Can anyone help on this? I tried on r/technology r/truereddit r/global_news_hub

Without fail, every single time it gets removed instantly.