MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bgwalter | 2025-08-29 12:31:59+00:00
The Perplexity report is vibe-written and an excellent example that "AI" is entirely unreliable. At the time I am making this comment, it states:

"Anthropic also reported discovering North Korean operatives using Claude to fraudulently obtain remote employment positions at Fortune 500 technology companies, leveraging the AI to pass technical interviews and maintain positions despite lacking basic coding skills."

Note that in this version the North Koreans lack basic coding skills, which took me by surprise. Generally they are assumed to be highly competent.

The original (https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-a...) is completely different:

"Our Threat Intelligence report discusses several recent examples of Claude being misused, including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, and the sale of AI-generated ransomware by a cybercriminal with only basic coding skills. We also cover the steps we’ve taken to detect and counter these abuses."

This is what people are using for web search. I'm not targeting Perplexity specifically, Google "AI" summaries are just as bad.

UPDATE: The original pdf says something different again (https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/b2a76c6f6992465c09a6f2fce282f6...):

"The most striking finding is the actors’ complete dependency on AI to function in technical roles. These operators do not appear to be able to write code, debug problems, or even communicate professionally without Claude’s assistance. Yet they’re successfully maintaining employment at Fortune 500 companies (according to public reporting) passing technical interviews, and delivering work that satisfies their employers. This represents a new paradigm where technical competence is simulated rather than possessed."

This should be distributed among managers so that they finally get the truth about "AI".
Tired of Broken .onion Links? I Built a Real-Time Tor SE That Works
by carrotweb | 2025-08-29 12:32:02+00:00
For years, I've been frustrated with the state of search on the Tor network. Most .onion search engines return a huge number of dead links, outdated results, and have clunky interfaces.

That's why I've been working on Carrot Web, a new Tor search engine built from the ground up to fix these problems.

What makes it different?

Real-Time Link Verification: Every single link in the search results is checked for activity in real-time. Broken or inactive sites are automatically filtered out, so you don't waste your time.

Sophisticated Ranking: It goes beyond simple keyword matching. Carrot Web uses a custom ranking algorithm to prioritize more relevant and useful onion sites.

Simple & Clean Interface: No clutter, no distractions. Just a straightforward search experience that focuses on speed and efficiency.

This is a passion project, and for it to truly improve, I need feedback from the community. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

Test it out here: j5dkeyccbahuehkuggd3uhcu2paanxjl7n7tz2fs5koxugrclhpxxyyd.onion (Make sure to use Tor Browser)

All your thoughts, good or bad, are highly appreciated. Thanks!
by Agraillo | 2025-08-29 12:32:34+00:00
> I feel it almost every day for myself and for my family in the US

Based on your use of the word 'fill,' the Gallup World Poll seems like a more appropriate ranking because it comes directly from the people. Even your dissatisfaction as a resident of the US is likely reflected in their analysis [1]. However, the situation in China is somewhat more complicated at present. Telephone and face-to-face interviews were permitted until 2023 [2], but the 2023 survey already relied only on web interviews, which correlates with reports of Gallup withdrawing from China [3]. This likely brings us back to the question of different faces of freedom - specifically, the ability to conduct surveys or polls without being accused of distorting the country’s image.

Both Freedom House and Gallup methodologies may be flawed, but without them or similar we would have to rely solely on anecdotal evidence, which is insufficient imho

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/660440/land-free-fewer-american...

[2] https://www.gallup.com/file/services/177797/World_Poll_Datas...

[3] https://archive.ph/v5F9a (US consultancy Gallup withdraws from China (FT))
by infecto | 2025-08-29 12:32:38+00:00
At the end of the day they are a prop firm. They are a business trying to make money and part of that is market making but it’s not solely market making.

You may not like it but we function in a capitalist society and as such the efficiency of markets is part of that. To have that happen usually requires the market as a whole participating and that includes firms like Jane Street. In the India case I don’t know if what they were doing was illegal or not, India is complicated and the laws there in my opinion are influenced not as much by standards but how well you scratch the itch of others. It is clear the option markets in India was/is highly inefficient in that Jane Street was able to pull the rug over and over. I would be curious who the counter parties were and if this is more about pride of Indian financial institutions not being competent instead of this being illegal. Thinking more about Hindenburg and how India reacted. In the US it feels like a gray area because at the end of the day the options market was clearly clueless on how they should be pricing the options.

Speaking from a US perspective people get thorny on these topics but I think it’s great that folks are always pushing the boundaries. This type of law is tested and we figure out what is ok and what is not. It’s often not cut and dry. Maybe Jane Street was entirely in the wrong in India and they will pay a price. Maybe not. Hopefully their markets learn and benefit from it.

I don’t believe any of us are in a position to say how folks should be spending their time. If we went down that road we could probably argue it back to nobody should be working and should simply be farming for our own food.
by fnordlord | 2025-08-29 12:33:30+00:00
I'm mostly replying because I was truly using it for an ImageMagick incantation yesterday. I use the API rather than chat, if that's an option for you. I put $20 into it every few months and it mostly does what I need. I'm using Raycast for quick and dirty questions and AnythingLLM for longer conversations.
by bruce511 | 2025-08-29 12:33:52+00:00
um, So VC funded startups are the very definition of "not risky". Basically you'll do something as long as someone else ponies up a big pile of cash to pay for it. Pretty much any other business model, where you build with your own time, or money, capital is much more risky.

Equally I don't think this is an argument for American exceptionalism (which is the point under discussion.)
by thomasmg | 2025-08-29 12:34:00+00:00
In Rust, a vector is a "fat pointer" (with pointer to the array and length / capacity) which lives on the stack. In Java, the pointer to the array and length / capacity lives in the heap. So in Java, there is an indirection, and it is allowed to have multiple pointers to the ArrayList object.

> A language without realloc sounds painful. Any growing container would lead to stale data.

I think it's not so much about realloc, but about whether it's a fat pointer or not. (I could imagine that Java uses something like realloc for the array, if there is only one pointer to the array for sure).

Fat pointers have some advantages and some disadvantages. Rust chose fat pointers, I assume for performance reasons. That's fine. Java doesn't. But I don't think that's a _huge_ performance disadvantage for Java. What I'm arguing is not so much that one is better and the other is worse, just that there are advantages and disadvantages. Rust might be slightly faster, but a language without (this kind of) fat pointers could potentially be easier to use.
Google Image Search Indexing and Filter Bugs Have Been Ongoing for over a Year
by harshikl | 2025-08-29 12:34:08+00:00
Over the last 12 months, I’ve documented a serious issue with Google Image Search:

- GIF/HD filter options disappearing or non-functional - Queries capping out early (Page 15 limit) - Indexing incomplete for even basic search terms - Images mismatched or replaced with unrelated thumbnails

This began late 2023 with media indexing issues and has escalated to widespread breakage by 2025.

Proof and screenshots: https://medium.com/@harshiksenthil1/google-searchs-broken-image-video-results-an-ongoing-bug-ignored-for-over-a-year-a0d8f5aa1714 Bug Tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/441408560

If you’ve noticed similar indexing failures, please share examples or star the bug to escalate. This seems like a systemic issue in Google Search’s image indexing pipeline.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-29 12:34:18+00:00
Agreed. Amongst the top 5% smartest quantitatively-minded kids I knew in college, I’d say ~25% of them ended up at quant shops like Jane Street, sometimes straight out of school, sometimes after doing a PhD.

I can only imagine what good that brainpower could do for humanity if it weren’t occupied finding cleverer ways to manipulate electronic money.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-08-29 12:34:38+00:00
>I thought that 90b$ was really underrated for anthropic

That was true when the tech leadership was an open question and it seemed like any one of the big players could make a breakthrough at any moment that would propel them to the top. Nowadays it has pattered out and the market is all about sustainable user growth. In that sense Anthropic is pretty overvalued, at least if you think that OpenAI's valuation is legit. And if you think OpenAI is overvalued, then Anthropic would be a no-go zone as an investor.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-08-29 12:35:12+00:00
Reality is far more sad.

Companies like JaneStreet, 2Sigma, etc employ some of the best software engineers, mathematicians, physicists and what not just so they can

- have better weather forecasts to identify whether a 1 degree delta in South CA can increase oil costs cents on the barrel, - run pandemic simulations to identify how the spread might happen and where inflation will rise so they move faster, - track occupancy rates for pharmacies, hotels, casinos, etc via satellite imaging to identify spikes in usage, - track the tiniest of things like butterfly populations to identify increase in earnings for certain brands of hotels, - build some of the most efficient software and write their own compilers

all so that they can move money around [and do so quickly].

Finance is not alone either. A non-trivial amount of big tech is on tracking users and serving ads better.

Do I blame the engineers? No.

I am just lamenting the state of society since this is how we have the brightest among us function and work.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-29 12:35:27+00:00
I think two things can be true. I agree with most of what you said. I think Google is doing the right thing with the right intent, but they shouldn't be the sole arbiter of who can write apps. It should be similar to the PKI/CA ecosystem, or better yet, governments can directly issue permits of some sort and they could be the CA's.
by michaelsshaw | 2025-08-29 12:35:49+00:00
Hacker News is explicitly not only for those two things.

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

I don't find anything political about mass murder, and you should consider your position if you do. This is about criminal proceedings, not political ones.

Personally, I find the fact that people still say a genocide, which has been broadcast for years on our tech platforms raw, is still being denied by anyone, quite disturbing, and definitely titillating to the mind
by orthoxerox | 2025-08-29 12:35:56+00:00
OP's code only works because the method goes from T? to T. If it accepted T and returned T?, he would've gotten an error like this:

CS0111: Type 'Utils' already defines a member called 'Foo' with the same parameter types

That's because the "type constraints are part of the signature of the method and there is no ambiguity" statement is wrong. They are not.
by kjok | 2025-08-29 12:36:14+00:00
The kind of shady practices we have seen from this company, any self-respecting individual will be ashamed except Zuck. He has done more to rot the collective brain of a generation than any single figure in tech history.

The truth is, Meta isn’t building community, it’s building a surveillance hellscape where every click, glance, and pause is commodified. If you work there and still believe you're doing something good for the world, you're either delusional or willfully blind.
by orlp | 2025-08-29 12:36:24+00:00
The marketing doesn't even matter. It either needs to be full self driving, or nothing at all. The "semi self-driving but you're still responsible when shit hits the fan" just doesn't work.

Humans are simply incapable of paying attention to a task for long periods if it doesn't involve some kind of interactive feedback. You can't ask someone to watch paint dry while simultaneously expect them to have < 0.5sec reaction time to a sudden impulse three hours into the drying process.
by picafrost | 2025-08-29 12:37:23+00:00
The AI fever dream of unbounded training and inference is ending and reality is settling in. Anthropic has had the most reasonable business model of the AI players with their focus on code, as far as I can tell, but it still won't be enough.

There's no such thing as a free lunch, but even when I am a paying customer my data is taken as gratuity and used (+ spread around!) in extremely opaque ways. I am tired of it. Honestly, I'm just getting tired of the internet.
by UncleMeat | 2025-08-29 12:38:01+00:00
A few of the very most prestigious schools have chosen to keep their total enrollment low. In this case, sure, an international student is taking a slot away from a domestic student by having a more impressive resume. Once you leave behind a few highly exclusive schools, this pattern collapses and you just see universities growing their enrollment.

Stanford also has a unique relationship with Palo Alto where it is actually really difficult for them to build new facilities without approval from the surrounding area, but that is very specific to Stanford.
by mtmail | 2025-08-29 12:38:01+00:00
Might be related

"Facebook patent uses image recognition to scan your personal photos for brands" https://www.fastcompany.com/90333067/creepy-facebook-patent-...

"faulty pixels, lens scratches, other ‘camera artifacts’ and metadata within the image would be used to associate Facebook users with particular images. " https://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2015/09/18/facebook-wa...
by sokoloff | 2025-08-29 12:38:02+00:00
> Their life effectively stopped since they are locked out of everything

What?! Google locked them out of Google. I'm sure they can still get search, email, and cloud services from many other providers.

The government can lock you away in a way that is far more impactful and much closer to "life stopped; locked out of everything" than "you can't have the data you gave us back".
by tfsh | 2025-08-29 12:38:22+00:00
Jane Street is a technology company first and foremost whose main product is high frequency training, which is similar to mang of these neo-hedge funds (e.g. HRT, Citadel). Which is contrasted to the more established asset managers (e.g. BlackRock, Vanguard, BRK, etc) which I can say from experience are corps tied down in bureaucracy.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-08-29 12:38:32+00:00
I think it's just that certified Google devices are no longer usable for your much smaller use case, because Google prioritized their much larger customers who suffer from harm. Freedom vs security is not the argument here, because there is no expectation of Freedom when it comes to a private business. If you ask me, software licensing and copyrights should entirely be torn down. If google is a monopoly and they are forcing this measure, it might qualify for an anti-trust suit by governments. But if they aren't a monopoly (cooperhead,lineage,etc..) then you should use other options and ditch certified google devices.

I say all of you should give up and use iphones like me! :)
by fabian2k | 2025-08-29 12:38:39+00:00
Do I understand it correctly? Crash data gets automatically transmitted to Tesla, and after it was transmitted is immediately marked for deletion?

If that is actually designed like this, the only reason I could see for it would be so that Tesla has sole access to the data and can decide whether to use it or not. Which really should not work in court, but it seems it has so far.

And of course I'd expect an audit trail for the deletion of crash data on Tesla servers. But who knows whether there actually isn't one, or nobody looked into it at all.
Show HN: P2Party – Encrypted WebRTC Room URLs
by fuzzc0re | 2025-08-29 12:38:40+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working for the past 10 months on p2party, a TypeScript/C/WASM library which you can find at https://github.com/p2party/p2party-js and demo at https://p2party.com , that lets you spin up an encrypted peer-to-peer mesh with nothing more than a shared URL.

Why I built it: I wanted something between https://file.pizza and “ephemeral Signal chat”, but with my custom cryptographic idea (I know I know... WebRTC is already encrypted and it is easy to go wrong etc.). The project started as a toy for sharing large DAW files with my bandmates (and to flex some applied crypto skills), then grew into a general toolkit. It is also a nice side project to test LLMs as companion coders and to know where the world is at right now regarding this subject (personal opinion - super small and well-defined tasks ok).

The cryptography: The messages, either strings or files, get split and included into isomorphic chunks of 64kb which are stored in IndexedDB until they are sent. Each chunk has some metadata like file hash, name, Merkle proof etc., the actual information and then padding left and right with noisy data. The real info starts at random positions on each chunk. The whole thing is then e2e encrypted with ChaChaPoly1305 with sender ephemeral keys and sent in random order.

Inspiration: To an observer of the message traffic, every chunk is isomorphic and contains a lot of useless info and some real ones. But to analyze it they need to store all the junk. The inspiration came from a principle of counter-surveillance that I learned from the adblock tool https://adnauseam.io .

Caveat: Before sending the message, all the chunks need to be created so that the Merkle proofs can be calculated and the browser can send the chunks in random ordering.

The p2p: I could not find a good example online of how to create a WebRTC mesh network so I built a tool for myself. It works acceptably now so that's why I uploaded it here after 10 months of working on it (on and off) :D

The WASM: I had experience with compiling C to WASM when I developed this project in the past https://github.com/deliberative/crypto and I wanted the same efficiency gains here.

Status: It works, but it is not security-audited yet → don’t trust it with your deepest secrets. API is stable enough to embed in your own apps. Open-source under AGPL-3.0.

Try it here: https://p2party.com (open in two browsers or devices). Code is here: https://github.com/p2party/p2party-js.

I'd love your feedback on everything! Enjoy!
by smileysteve | 2025-08-29 12:38:55+00:00
I disagree with the article substantially; the truth is that Dodge is a dying brand, and the charger and challenger were never practical muscle cars - mostly because Dodge is less part of any racing series. The Ford Mustang is having a resurgence in actually being a sports car, because Ford is investing in Lemans and Imsa.

Honda, Toyota, Cadillac, Ford are the major performance cars these days... And Hyundai has a much bigger investment than Dodge. The consolidation of Mercedes, VW, Porsche, and Audi is an interesting challenge to the segment; Bmw and Mazda are also in the game.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-29 12:39:04+00:00
I am trying to imagine a scenario under which that is defensible and does not raise various questions including compliance, legal, retention. Not to mention, who were the people who put that code into production knowing it would do that.

edit: My point is that it was not one lone actor, who would have made that change.
by vendiddy | 2025-08-29 12:39:10+00:00
Yes we have. I don't know why you got so much pushback.

Right now innovation moves at a slow pace the web nobody seems to realize the what-if. The W3C announces some incremental improvement to JS feature and everyone gets excited. It just reminds me that all we realistically have is JS.

There are so many hacks on top of hacks. Typescript compiles to JS because, well, you only have JS. So many attempts at compile-to-JS languages. There are dozens of problems that should not exist.

Meanwhile in the native world, you have huge a diversity of programming languages and tooling. No committee is needed for each language to experiment with new features.

The unfortunate part is that the envisioned browser would have been far simpler to implement and more extensible than the mess we have now.
by diggan | 2025-08-29 12:39:29+00:00
It seems to me like some fundamental/core technologies/services just shouldn't be run by for-profit entities, and if come across one doing that, you need to carefully choose if you want to start being beholden to such entity.

As the years go by, I'm finding myself being able to rely on those less and less, because every time I do, I eventually get disappointed by them working against their user base.
by baud147258 | 2025-08-29 12:39:42+00:00
> they poured all their efforts into the Maginot Line because fortifications and prepared positions were the thing to do... only to be trounced with the mobility and swiftness of blitzkrieg.

My position might be revisionist on that matter, but I think the Maginot line worked as planned: the goal was to force the German to go around (mostly through the Low Countries), reducing the frontage where they'd have to fight. The German did exactly that, but also pushed through the Ardennes, which the Allied planners hadn't though possible.
by Mallowram | 2025-08-29 12:40:32+00:00
The brain is oscillatory and dynamic, everything is in there. It's lossless. The analog nature of compression is limitless. This system if you can call it that, is inseparable from the universe ("The World"). Everything in the model-free system is specific. Nothing is arbitrary here. It's merely idiosyncratic. Words are the other end of this: post-hoc, separate from thought, arbitrary, massively illusory. Language is completely irrelevant to consciousness and is the main reason we cannot acheive it. The slogan for humans should be words anonymous.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27096882/
by lan321 | 2025-08-29 12:40:36+00:00
Add to that Aoostar. It's quite comparable to the Minisforum n5 Pro, a bit cheaper

- Max 48GB*2 DDR5 ECC

- 8 core PRO 8845HS

- 25W with nothing, doing nothing, realistically 50W

- 25G combined network

- 5 M.2 (3x2 and 2x1 lane) and 6 HDDs

- Oculink

https://aoostar.com/blogs/news/the-aoostar-wtr-max11bay-is-a...
by bitwize | 2025-08-29 12:40:51+00:00
Feynman communicated the problem with the Challenger disaster using a rubber band and a glass of ice water.

I don't think PowerPoint is the problem in and of itself, but rather its use as a crutch to compensate for poor communication. Of course, even among scientists, few can count themselves at Feynman's level in terms of communication skills. Maybe this is a skill that NASA scientists need to brush up on, perhaps with Pluralsight courses or something? lol