MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qwertox | 2025-08-01 18:40:19+00:00
Just keep in mind that Meta has not changed a bit since then.

This is from two months ago, when it was found that their Android app listens on a localhost port in order to send identifiers from webpages to their app via WebRTC so that they can still track users.

Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44175940

> This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android's permission controls. Worse, it opens the door for potentially malicious apps eavesdropping on users’ web activity.
by datap121590 | 2025-08-01 18:40:21+00:00
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by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 18:40:43+00:00
Capturing the Supreme Court so completely was the turning point, in terms of ability to enact their agenda quickly. It's been conservative my entire not short any more life, but it's strongly packed with disingenuous, ideologically-motivated jurists vetted and guided by the "correct" organizations, now.

I wish anyone with even a little power were talking about ditching the position of "Supreme Court Justice" and just drawing for the role by lot from the "lower" federal courts each term. That could be done with a law, not an amendment-there has to be a Supreme Court, and federal judgeships are "during good behavior" (de facto "for life") but Supreme Court Justice per se doesn't have to be a permanent role. The closest I hear anyone talking about is court expansion, but that's a less-effective fix, and one more likely to draw strong push-back and to be unpopular, I think.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-01 18:40:43+00:00
> which can last essentially permanent

Data stored in a blockchain isn't any more permanent than data stored in a well-seeded SQLite torrent: it's got the same failure modes (including "yes, technically there are a thousand copies… somewhere; but we're unlikely to get hold of one any time in the next 3 years").

But yes, you have correctly used the primitives to construct a system. (It's hardly your fault people undersell the leakiness of the abstraction.)
by teknominds | 2025-08-01 18:40:53+00:00
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Show HN: Tambo – a tool for building generative UI React apps with tools/MCP
by milst | 2025-08-01 18:41:05+00:00
Hey!

We're working on a React SDK + API to make it simple to build apps with natural language interfaces, where AI can interact with the components on screen on behalf of the user.

The basic setup is: Register your react components, tools, and MCP servers, and a way for users to send messages to Tambo, and let Tambo respond with text or components, calling tools when needed.

Use it to build chat apps, copilots, or completely custom AI UX.

The goal is to provide simple interfaces for common AI app features so we don't have to build them from scratch. Things like: - thread storage/management - streaming props into generated components - MCP and custom tool integration - passing component state to AI

plus some pre-built UI components to get started.

Would love feedback or contributions!
by depr | 2025-08-01 18:41:06+00:00
Keep in mind that though it is often claimed that SQLite is DO-178B certified, they do not claim that themselves, they merely say DO-178B-inspired: https://www.sqlite.org/hirely.html

And while Airbus confirmed they are using SQLite, they did not claim they are using it in safety critical parts, which D. Richard Hipp confirms here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18039303
by Animats | 2025-08-01 18:41:22+00:00
Took a while to find out what BEAM was. It's the run-time interpreter for Erlang.[1]

It's not in Acronym Finder. There are many hits for BEAM, but this isn't in the top 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-01 18:41:23+00:00
The show had six guests on- 2 left, 1 right, 2 neutral(?) and 1 CIA deep state mouthpiece. The show gave mostly balanced coverage of every issue covered, but declined to dig into the Epstein issue beyond "Trump+Epstein", gave the deep-stater seven minutes to defend the CIA without meaningfully pressing into any of the other questions raised by the latest declassifications (such as HRC & DNC involvement in orchestrating Russiagate), flashed a debunked/misleading statistic on screen about Russians influencing the the 2020 election via social media, and gave a one-sided take on redistricting in Texas ignoring the side that says redistricting after a Census is normal and routine.
by jdeisenberg | 2025-08-01 18:43:00+00:00
I’ve donated to the Smithsonian in the past. I am now wondering whether to continue doing so.

Other news accounts not behind a registration/paywall: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g-s1-80602/smithsonian-impeac... https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/the-smithsonian-removes...
by acjohnson55 | 2025-08-01 18:43:00+00:00
That's a different thing than what these interviews effectively test for. You're typical live coding asks the candidate to do an unfamiliar task under observation, on their own, and generally without the typical resources at hand.

Even if it were a good proxy for the sort of stress that occurs episodically in the real world, I would argue that the extent to which that skillset is helpful, it is grossly overrepresented in the interview process.
by chuckadams | 2025-08-01 18:43:23+00:00
Can't disagree with anything you said, though I think there are steps to address at least some of them: for queueing systems, testing with a chaos monkey isn't a bad idea... you'd want a test environment representative of production workloads, which is hard to do, but anything should be better than nothing.

In the self-driving car scenario, you'd probably go with cold statistics: is it killing fewer people than ones that need more interventions? Just like queueing though, experiments in production could be problematic.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-08-01 18:43:46+00:00
No. There is nothing patrician about it. Stating "it's in your own best interests that the only hospital within 100 miles of your house stays open" is not a "patrician attitude" at all.

Again, it is stating a fact. It is not in those voters best interests to vote for politicians whose stated goal is policy that will cause that hospital to close.

There is nothing derogatory or "patrician" in that. It is a cold, hard fact. Politics are politics, and facts are facts. That people choose to go with feelings and reject facts is beside the point. Their feelings do not determine their best interests.

But we also have a long history of using regulations and other inducements to get people to act in their own best interests. The current regime has just decided that it will act in the best interests of monied interests, to the detriment of a large swath of the people who voted for them.

Now, if you want a liberal, "patrician" attitude, here's one: Fuck 'em. They voted for politicians who openly told them they were going to do things that would be absolutely horrifically bad for them. Let them deal with the consequences and feel morally superior because they've "owned the libs," or whatever other BS helps them sleep at night as their poor, mostly rural communities fall apart around them. Do I think it will get them to vote for politicians who have their best interests in mind? Absolutely not, at least not at a scale necessary to change elections results.

I spend a fair amount of my time in rural America. It's not pretty, and it really doesn't matter if it's a red state or a blue state, rural America is hell bent on its own destruction. It's a shame, but apparently, it's what they want. So let 'em have it.
by impish9208 | 2025-08-01 18:43:52+00:00
“There was this inescapable sameness, in a way. No matter what I did, I was in the same place doing mostly the same things,” she said. “I was very isolated, and nothing I could do could really change that. I’d wake up on certain days and realize, I’m just older.”

I finally have something in common with a math prodigy.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-08-01 18:43:56+00:00
> Not a particularly believable one anyway, but that doesn't seem to matter

it's well chosen because it's also one that requires no proof, since "anti-semitism" has long been the worst accusation one can make, and one that's very hard to refute without demonstrating unequivocal loyalty to Israel and its actions; it's basically a purity test
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-01 18:44:25+00:00
Nowadays most library systems offer digital content - ebooks and movies (through services like Kanopy).

Still, it's nice that there are third spaces like libraries in the community where you can go and aren't expected to have to engage in any commercial activity. That requires buildings. Our library hosts all manner of groups & activities. I went to a seminar on seed-saving the other day at our library, for example. I've gone to others on the art of making Japanese tea, candidate debates for local races, local author book fairs, Taiko drumming, etc. All of that requires some kind of physical infrastructure.
by starik36 | 2025-08-01 18:44:28+00:00
> majorities of israelis support the israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine

That is simply nonsense. Provide a link to a poll stating that. You can't.

> difference between collateral damage and the israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine

More nonsense. You are just throwing out words. There is no ethnic cleansing. Palestinians are still there - no one is kicking them out. In fact, their population increased. And since there is no ethnic cleansing, your point is moot. What is happening is a modern war, door to door fighting - with collateral damage. The situation is grim.

> So how exactly do you propose to fight Hamas >> That's not my problem

Of course, it isn't. You just like to throw big words and feel good about yourself, while providing zero solutions to anything.
by hartator | 2025-08-01 18:44:32+00:00
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Show HN: LinCal – A Calendar View for Linear Issues
by rolfvanroot | 2025-08-01 18:44:35+00:00
I recently migrated our marketing agency's work to Linear. It's been fantastic, but we immediately ran into a problem: there was no easy way to visualize our content pipeline on a calendar. For social media, blog posts, and other content with specific publish dates, a list or board view just wasn't optimal for seeing the "flow" over a month. To solve this, I built LinCal.app, a web app that acts as a calendar for Linear issues.

How it works: - Log in with your Linear account - Filter issues based on team, assignee, project, cycle, and more - Open issues with a click in separate browser tabs (LinCal right now is a read-only app - not changing any Linear data) - show/hide weekends/subtasks - View issues within this filter that do not have a due date

If you are a Linear user and would appreciate a different view on your work, I'd love for you to check it out and hear your thoughts
by chobobro | 2025-08-01 18:45:17+00:00
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by moomoo11 | 2025-08-01 18:45:34+00:00
Don’t do this imo.

You can try YC co founder matching but that’s also filled with incompetent people at best or toxic snakes at worst who will waste your time end of the day, especially if you have made progress already.

Your best best (if you’re serious and not just a fan of calling yourself a FOUNDER) is to just learn, build, and sell.

Learn what you don’t know. Build what you can. You need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Your cofounder is probably burning out at a golden handcuffs job and might see your progress and want to join.

Don’t waste your time or worse equity (yes 1yr cliff and vesting, but still you’ll meet complete idiots who don’t understand anything who just waste your time) on randoms who are probably 5% as passionate about the problem you’re trying to solve.

Hire people if you need. There are loads of people who are open to work right now and you can hire them on fixed contract.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-01 18:45:37+00:00
You can't address the risk that whoever owns the domain will stop renewing it, or otherwise stop making the web gateway available. Best-case scenario is that it becomes possible to find out what URL a shortened link used to point to, for as long as the underlying blockchain lasts, but if a regular user clicks on a link after the web gateway shuts down then they'll get an error message or end up on a domain squatting site, neither of which will provide any information about how to get where they want to go.
by majormajor | 2025-08-01 18:45:39+00:00
> It's amazing this is an acceptable thing to say in polite society

It's amazing the sorts of things men will say to women regularly with frequently no repercussions. Not everyone who's creepy or makes threats ends up raping or murdering a woman, but of the men who DO murder women, you'll see a ton of creepy/threatening past behavior.

It becomes "desperate times, desperate measures."

It's hard, of course, for other men to police other men directly because the creeps are usually smart enough to not say it in front of other men.

So you get to a situation where a lot of us men have:

1) heard men talk amongst themselves when women aren't around after-the-fact about creepy-ass-things they've done

2) heard women talk about men doing creepy-ass things when other men aren't around

so updating your priors to favor "lean towards believing a claim by a woman over a denial by a man" is entirely reasonable until someone can show that false accusations are a big chunk of the accusations. You hear a lot about false accusations on certain parts of the internet; I have seen very few accusations at all in real life and sadly none of them have been false - they've all been the "creep wasn't even smart enough to avoid witnesses" type.

And there's just not a lot of women raping or murdering men happening - some significant physical differences, to start with - soooooo it doesn't seem like something we can be sex-blind about.
by legitster | 2025-08-01 18:45:48+00:00
For the record, Uri story is not corroborated and doesn't seem to be in good faith.

https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-fai...

> When I asked Uri, he said he “couldn’t care less” that I am not a Democrat. He said the important thing was the “aggregate”—exactly what his 87-0 misrepresented by leaving out people like me. While it’s widely believed that most mainstream journalists are Democrats, I’ve had colleagues that I was pretty sure were conservative (I don’t ask), and I’ve learned just since Uri’s article that I am one of several NPR hosts of “no party” registration.

To a broader point, viewpoint diversity != unbias. If I staff half a newspaper with Stalinists that doesn't mean the reporting is going to become more factual or the coverage less biased. If it's become a Republican party position to attack mainstream media, we shouldn't expect them to even be applying for these jobs.
by benlivengood | 2025-08-01 18:46:42+00:00
All cloud services are in a similar position; they hold the private TLS keys and could reveal them in response to legal process, allowing active MITM (perfect forward secrecy prevents passive data theft without more intrusive realtime access to VM RAM).

Only a very specific configuration of "Confidential Computing" (based on AMD SEV or Intel TDX) where boot attestation is checked remotely before private keys are sent from an on-premise store (or a fully trusted hosted HSM) to the remote VM could prevent a cloud provider from intercepting private key material, and only then as far as boot attestation and SEV/TDX is trusted.
by Twey | 2025-08-01 18:46:59+00:00
That sounds really cool! I'd love to see it when you've got something more concrete. I assume you're already aware of the KeyMouse and the AlphaGrip?

https://www.keymouse.com/ https://alphagrip.com/

I don't think the layering needs to be as big a deal as one might assume. I mentioned in the post, but in many ways I think layering is easier to deal with than larger keyboards, and not only that but also culturally small-keyboard users are increasingly okay with using layers, e.g. the tiny-keyboard gamer crowd, or even most laptops now have a dedicated Fn layer in addition to the traditional shift, ctrl, and alt. So long as you don't go overboard with it I think it shouldn't be that intimidating.
by BeetleB | 2025-08-01 18:47:05+00:00
> I’m not sure I’ve ever engaged with NPR beyond seeing conservatives mock some of their silliest propaganda headlines in the past few years.

What about all the nonpolitical shows on NPR/PBS? Snap Judgement, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, Nature, NOVA, etc.

Lots of people watch PBS/NPR not for politics, but for the entertainment/educational content.
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-01 18:47:40+00:00
Companies constantly talk about how expensive it is to hire people because your most valuable employees have to spend time prepping for interviews, reviewing homework, discussing results etc.

In the era of full remote work I don't understand why you don't just have a small greenfield project that you can quickly onboard prospective employees with. Have a brief personality / resume griller screening, then hire them for a week and toss them at a few bugs or issues for this project with a semi-public slack. Then see what they output and decide at the end.

That would likely be less expensive then all the other nine layers of interviewing hell they maintain and get better results.
by 5pl1n73r | 2025-08-01 18:47:48+00:00
> Further, I'm slowly noticing things that tmux didn't handle well, but now, "just work": native scrollback, terminal notifications, and terminal titles being the most notable changes.

You can make tmux's OS window title and its internal window titles be whatever you want:

Add "set -g set-titles" to ~/.tmux.conf. To test without changing the config, type `^B : set -g set-titles`, and to restore it back to default, `^B : set -gu set-titles`. This will be useful but overly verbose. It can be configured further. For example, `set -g set-titles-string "tmux | #{pane_title}"` will make it contain the title set by the shell (for PS1, I just make it set the current directory with `\w` or `\W`).

Then, to make tmux's window titles (so, what will show up in the "window list") also be named after the current directory, you can use `set -g automatic-rename-format "#{pane_title}"`.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-01 18:47:54+00:00
No, I've deployed a lot of open weight models and the gap between closed source is there even at larger sizes.

I'm running a 400B parameter model at FP8 and it still took a lot of post-training to get an even somewhat comparable performance

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I think a lot of people implicitly bake in some grace because the models are open weights, and that's not unreasonable because of the flexibility... but in terms of raw performance it's not even close.

GPT-3.5 has better world knowledge than some 70B models, and a few even larger.
by Jemaclus | 2025-08-01 18:48:08+00:00
Sort of in the same vein as "you don't need to understand gravity to recognize that it's important," you not understanding what the answer is doesn't mean there isn't an answer and that the answer isn't important.

I don't have "the answer" (I have _an_ answer, see below), and I also don't need to know "the answer" in order to understand that the managerial class doesn't exist for shits and giggles. There's value there.

If Bezos thought getting rid of managers at Amazon would make him another half a billion dollars, you bet your ass he'd do it.

My answer? It's exactly what that group of seniorish people would do: make decisions. But the seniorish people can't make decisions all day and ALSO do the things they're senior at. You may not like that answer -- and you don't have to! -- but "making decisions" is something that needs to get done at scale without sacrificing the actual productive work that ICs do.

But again, I think you're asking a great question, and I think there's room to say "Is the current paradigm the best paradigm?" and explore other alternatives.

But the very clear answer from all research in addition to basic intuition is "As far as we know, yes."

Why? Doesn't really matter. We just know that if we didn't have managers, the world as we know it wouldn't exist. (For better or for worse!)