MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-20 00:47:26+00:00
Your logic reminds me of when we see people on HN saying that it's "good" when old cars get totaled out over petty BS or have their operating costs artificially raised by the state because they statistically get replaced with safer, cleaner cars but at the end of the day the population has to bear those costs at some point. At the end of the day people are basically forced to surplus in a particular way. Viewed through a state lens of course the state wants this invested in highly regulated, fairly complex and integrated areas of the economy.

You don't even need to be a sociopath. You just need to be a single minded idiot who's rounding every hard to measure harm to zero in dishonest pursuit of your goal.

You see these thought patterns and flimsy justifications on all sorts of issues once you start looking.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-20 00:47:26+00:00
I mean, I kind of get it, I made a small amount from the Uniswap airdrop, and that was before pump.fun existed or whatever the hip thing is this cycle. I don’t think folks can usually count on airdrops but if you are making the crypto then you can do the math and price in an upside. I don’t see anything shady there per se as long as the tokenomics are solid. It’s the same as any crypto offer, buyer (and seller) beware.

I appreciate your explanation for me and for everyone else. I’m glad that crypto is being legitimized. It’s a cool technology and I think it should be profitable because it’s a technology whose time has come. I think its usage for money laundering is unfortunate, but ledgers offer introspection that is an opportunity for enforcement. I think it’s just another cat and mouse game, same as it always was. Most folks aren’t doing anything underhanded and just want to use the technology to do cool things. The law is catching up, but it had to be dragged to the table. This should have happened years ago in my opinion.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-20 00:47:35+00:00
Silly and worthless is your own editorializing. And unlike Vision Pro or Apple Watch, the toy I posted this comment with can write and publish software. Or host a website. Gasp, install real browser engines!

Calling the Vision Pro a "toy" is a generosity for something that isn't fun or seriously intended for use by children. The Quest is a toy, the Vision Pro is a black eye for moneyed adults that lack responsible impulse control when they're marketed something shiny.
by bamboozled | 2025-08-20 00:48:50+00:00
Trump has a long and impossible to replicate history with American popular culture, I don't see how any career politician can ever beat it solely on being a politician, especially one that has to live in the shadows of the current President. You'll always be number 2.

Obama is now equally as famous IMO but he got there through his career. Not because of it.
by stephen_g | 2025-08-20 00:48:53+00:00
I think the problem with terrorism is it's simultaneously more and less than they think. More from the groups they don't expect, and less from the ones they expect it to come from and are surveillance and infiltrating.

For example, looking back over the history from what has been declassified in my country, the intelligence services spent a huge amount of time and resources infiltrating and surveillance communist groups and university socialist clubs, and then seemed to be completely blind-sided by the rise of Islamic terrorism when 9/11 rolled around... In a similar vein I think to how the UK is spending all this time going after people waving signs supporting Palestinians - they probably honestly think there's a real threat there, and it will turn out to be a huge waste of time and the next real terror threat will come out of some other unexpected group.

As for assault - yes, it's usually someone they know. Which is why it's ridiculous the resources they spend trying to backdoor private messaging etc. in the name of "protecting the children" when much of it's happening in person...
by krackers | 2025-08-20 00:49:00+00:00
i mean you can use semaphores to implement condition variables, but it's extremely tricky to the point where you've got to be Mike Burrows in order to do it right [1] (in fact, that's how it's done in the nsync library, as a fallback when every faster option is unavailable).

[1] http://birrell.org/andrew/papers/ImplementingCVs.pdf
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-20 00:49:00+00:00
Well, Google and Co. are trying to push it worldwide anyway under the ruse of UK law, regardless of administration. I don't see them countering all this AI ID stuff.

I feel this is more of an "Earth isn't yours to conquer" move rather than one really aimed at protecting US Citizen's data. Governments is simply fighting over who can control how we navigate our tech.
by acdha | 2025-08-20 00:49:35+00:00
Okay, so your personal anecdote is interesting but that doesn't mean that all of the people who have had very different experiences are making things up, it means there's something odd about the power at your house. Have you had problems with other electronics? I had an uncle who had “bad luck” like that until he got it tested and learned that the utility was supplying very noisy power which damaged anything more complicated than an incandescent bulb or old-school electric motor.
by metalman | 2025-08-20 00:49:37+00:00
done my "reading" bub, born,raised, spent most of my life within a short walk to the salt water, known fisherman all my life, friends worke boats, and took jobs as "fisheries observers" in Canadian waters,and I respect most of them, but I also know all about draggers and how in the boom years the Captain would hand the boys there checks as the came off the boat, and the coke dealer standing right next to the captain, would get them to sign them right over, and the total fucked up mayhem surrounding all that, 1 in a hundred end up with anything to show for it. How the gangs have pet drunks who "own" a lobster licence but or course there are a stack of signed documents in a lawyers safe if they get uppity. Dont pretend that it's a decent business, managed,sustainable, or anything but a race to the bottom. If we were talking about the inshore fishery from before diesel engines, and powered winches, that was self regulated and seasonal, then it would be a different discussion, but as one inshore fisherman put it "there's no hungry fish to bite the hooks" we all know it's precarious at best, and NO ONE will be surprised much if the whole thing collapses for real.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-20 00:50:59+00:00
Reads like about 500 times less than the "banana equivalent dose". Different isotopes, though. So I have no clue about bioavailability, or where the body would put that stuff, instead of mostly pissing it out.

Edit: BED = 31 Bq/g caused by mostly Potassium-40.

That stuff according to the FDA: 68 Bq/kg caused by Caesium-137 (which also isn't bioaccumulated similar to Potassium-40)
by scotty79 | 2025-08-20 00:51:41+00:00
> A direct analogy here would seem to be a newspaper publisher arguing that if a reader chooses to fold up the newspaper into an origami duck, then the publisher's copyright has been infringed.

That only shows how idiotically abusive are protections awarded to proprietary software.

Modern websites are software. That's a fact. According to the rules, Axel Springer is right. It's just that we don't want them to be right because applying the rules here leads to bothersome outcome.

I hope Germany rules according to the letter of the law and bans browser extensions that modify web applications. Because only suffering can make law change to something more reasonable. Lenient rulings protect bad laws.
by colkassad | 2025-08-20 00:51:45+00:00
Nice to see someone similar. I was into the Weapons Factory mod, first for Quake 2 and then Quake 3. I made a map for the Quake 3 version that it still played this day by a small group of die-hards. I think it took me three days to make that map. Draw a brush, slap a texture on it, keep things neat. All there was too it. It wasn't long before modding just became too hard. I remember reading about static meshes being introduced in the Unreal Engine and I knew I was done.
by db48x | 2025-08-20 00:52:12+00:00
Fun, but it doesn’t deserve a CVE. CVEs are for vulnerabilities that are common across multiple products from multiple sources. Think of a vulnerability in a shared library that is used in most Linux distributions, or is statically linked into multiple programs. Copilot doesn’t meet that criteria.

Honestly, the worst thing about this story is that apparently the Copilot LLM is given the instructions to create audit log entries. That’s the worst design I could imagine! When they use an API to access a file or a url then the API should create the audit log. This is just engineering 101.
by spawarotti | 2025-08-20 00:52:22+00:00
At this point AGENTS.md is a README.md with enough hype behind it to actually motivate people to populate it with contents. People were too lazy to write docs for other people, but funnily enough are ok with doing it for robots.

This situation reminds me a bit of ergonomic handles design. Designed for a few people, preferred by everyone.
by TheFreim | 2025-08-20 00:52:46+00:00
Flatpak is unambiguously and undeniably free and open source software and the fact that you think it isn't demonstrates that you have been misinformed. The Flatpak project is licensed with the LGPL. Furthermore, the vast majority of software packaged with Flatpak is free and open source software.

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak
by vFunct | 2025-08-20 00:53:43+00:00
> We're in a transition phase today where agents need special guidance to understand a codebase that go beyond what humans need. Before long, I don't think they will.

This isn't guaranteed. Just like we will never have fully self-driving cars, we likely won't have fully human quality coders.

Right now AI coders are going to be another tool in the tool bucket.
by wjrb | 2025-08-20 00:53:51+00:00
Thanks for posting.

I was just using Worldtimebuddy[0] yesterday to get times for about 15 different cities and order them. A single view in WTB caps out at 10 or so locations, so I had to manually manage them.

This is a much nicer/more modern looking UI, but there are a few things missing that would make it killer for me:

- Pick the date and time in a certain zone, set all zones relative to that (set 2:00pm in San Francisco on September 5, 2025; see what time it is in all the other locations)

- An export of the current view as structured data, or even better, as text

0: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
by bonzini | 2025-08-20 00:54:05+00:00
Not with 21% oxygen. 25 meters is 3.5*0.21=0.73 bar of O2 partial pressure, which is within even the strictest limits that apply to rebreathers (1.3 bar).

If you're breathing 100% oxygen for decompression, that's a completely different story and not something a recreational divers will do.
by EGreg | 2025-08-20 00:54:28+00:00
Apparently, Mimi is Chrome’s official replacement. It’s not really a browser so much as a “contextual content viewport experience,” built on a lightweight AI framework that predicts which sites you meant to visit and sometimes shows you those instead. It doesn’t support tabs (too legacy), bookmarks (too static), or URLs (too user-hostile). Instead, Mimi auto-curates your “flow.”

Mimi was also designed with AR in mind. The vision deck showed it running inside “immersive micro-moments” projected through Google’s new “Lens²” frames. (We’re aware Apple just rolled out liquid glass inside their glasses, and Meta’s still pushing theirs as a lifestyle replacement for friends. Management told us Mimi is how we’ll compete in that space.)

We know it’s experimental, under-featured, and a little uncanny, but leadership insisted it’s “the future of browsing.” We expect to sunset it by 2030.
by Brian_K_White | 2025-08-20 00:54:54+00:00
It is stupid to fixate on the specific number $1000.

It's just a placeholder for wharever number makes sense in the clearly expressed context. Either substitute $5000 or $10000, or substitute whatever location or demographic you imagined (since none was specified) for some other location or demographic. You can't start in the US and vacation in Venice for $1000, but you absolutely can vacation somewhere else and/or somehow else.

Or, just pretend they said whatever other number you like, because the specific amount was not material to the point they were expressing.
by _imnothere | 2025-08-20 00:55:02+00:00
Seeing the screenshot on the site with WPS Office seem like a huge red flag to me, while the distro might not be affiliated with WPS Office, I'll just put the link here to raise attention that WPS Office DOES NOT worth anyone's trust.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/vz1gse/allegedly_wps...
Ask HN: Hunk by Hunk review Git add -p, whats best UI?
by faangguyindia | 2025-08-20 00:55:03+00:00
now, hunk editing, reviewing hunk by hunk workflow is back in fashion in coding agents workflow.

I am wondering what's the best tool for this job.

I usually let coding agent commit then review it after, but this approach sometimes results "obvious" bugs being introduced which i'd have caught right away if i had done hunk level review/editing.
by tomComb | 2025-08-20 00:55:20+00:00
I think we lost something pretty big in this formulation.

With Claude code and others, if I put a context file (agent.MD or whatever) in a project subfolder, e.g., something explaining my database model in with the related code, it gets added to the root project context when the agent is using that subfolder.

It sounds to me like this formulation doesn’t support that.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-20 00:55:22+00:00
>How does the UK's OSA target journalists, activists and whistleblowers?

The general context is it targets "anyone who angers the government". Being able to ban your entire internet if this becomes widespread becomes a very powerful deterrent to opposition. \

>Creating broad gives the police more ability to enforce their spirit. I think that's generally a bad thing when the laws are to do with civil liberties.

Given the histories of "enforcing spirits" for both the US and the UK police forces, I'm not sure how or why you'd have faith in their interpretations.

The police can bring up your info themselves without needing the ability to cut off someone's entire digitial landscape.
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by barefootliam | 2025-08-20 00:55:45+00:00
When i first encountered the early GNOME 1 software back in the very late 1990s, and DV (libml author) was active, i was very surprised when i asked for the public API for a library and was told, look at the header files and the source.

They simply didn’t seem to have a concept of data hiding and encapsulation, or worse, felt it led to evil nasty proprietary hidden code and were better than that.

They were all really nice people, mind you—i met quite a few of them, still know some—and the GNOME project has grown up a lot, but i think that’s where libxml was coming from. Daniel didn’t really expect it to be quite so widely used, though, i’m sure.

I’ve actually considered stepping up to maintain libxslt, but i don’t know enough about building on Windows and don’t have access to non-Linux systems really. Remote access will only go so far on Windows i think, although it’d be OK on Mac.

It might be better to move to one of the Rust XML stacks that are under active development (one more active than the other).
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-20 00:56:19+00:00
My point is your circular logic here:

"It matters where you direct your attention. Performance-based comp is a red herring. If you want to direct your rage at wealth inequality in the working class, perhaps start with the things that have eroded the supply-demand balance of labor, such as globalization and technology."

Who is using AI as an excuse to fire people? The same CEOs people are complaining about. And why are the CEOs doing it even though it's not proven tech? For short term stock gains, in order in enrich themselves via their stock compensation.
by tkcranny | 2025-08-20 00:56:21+00:00
Oxc js a rust toolkit made by Void0, the mob that makes vite and vitest. These are highly regarded and performant additions to the Js/Ts ecosystem.

Oxlint is a alternative to eslint built on Oxc. It has suffered from not supporting the additional level of type-based linting that typescript-eslint can provide. They’ve now addressed that by patching and wrapping Microsoft’s new go-based typescript compiler.

Hopefully they are up to the task of continually keeping up to date with the go compiler’s internals, and/or Microsoft exposes a programmatic interface for the new compiler’s parser and type-checking.

I also wonder if or how plugins will be possible for this go+rust combination linter – they’re a pretty important part of the eslint ecosystem they’re trying to upend.
by heywire | 2025-08-20 00:57:16+00:00
I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.
by tzs | 2025-08-20 00:58:10+00:00
Indeed the implementation is important.

It is possible to implement it so that the central provider (e.g., whatever state agency issues your driver's license or state ID) can issue you a digital copy of your ID which is cryptographically bound to some secure hardware you own such as a smartphone or a stand-alone security device.

When you want to prove your age to a site there are protocols to allow you to prove to the site that you have such a bound ID on your device and that it shows that you are old enough for the site without revealing anything else from your ID to the site.

There are such systems currently being tested in the EU as part of their EU Digital Identity Wallet project, which is expected to start becoming available to the public in 2026.

Note that the central provider's involvement is just when your ID is issued. They have no idea when, if, or with whom you subsequently use that ID. The sites you use it with only get the age information so even if they are cooperating with the central provider to try to out you they can't provide anything useful. All they can tell the central provider is that someone with an ID that came from that provider and that was over their age threshold visited the site at a particular time.

I think the people objecting to age verification really should also as a back up plan try to make it so if age verification is implemented it uses such a scheme.
by chr-s | 2025-08-20 00:58:36+00:00
There's certainly something to novelty wearing off with time but I don't think that diminishes historical work. When I listen to Abbott and Costello perform "Who's on First?" (c. 1938) - it's still funny. It's not intrinsically less funny because I've heard it and things it inspired many times over.

It's also in how you watch things. I sometimes catch old films in the theatre and the room is filled with laughter. I was belly laughing to The Palm Beach Story (Sturges, 1942). Heck, I've been to see Shakespeare where everyone's laughing.
by bonzini | 2025-08-20 00:59:34+00:00
It also says that oxygen toxicity is a possibility only above 21% oxygen. In fact, with regular air there are way too many things that have already gone wrong if you are at 65 m depth (or even 50 m).

It's clear from reading the document that convulsions at "shallow depths" refers to the case of breathing 100% oxygen, where 1.5 m difference is the difference between <1.6 bar (safe) and >1.7 bar (absolutely not safe).
by neuronexmachina | 2025-08-20 00:59:42+00:00
That's sort of this? I guess the exact behavior would depend on the agent.

> Place another AGENTS.md inside each package. Agents automatically read the nearest file in the directory tree, so the closest one takes precedence and every subproject can ship tailored instructions. For example, at time of writing the main OpenAI repo has 88 AGENTS.md files.
by Josh5 | 2025-08-20 01:01:10+00:00
are they even sure that the AI even accessed the content that second time? LLMs are really good and making up shit. I have tested this by asking various LLMs to scrape data from my websites while watching access logs. Many times, they don't and just rely on some sort of existing data or spout a bunch of BS. Gemini is especially bad like this. I have not used copilot myself, but my experience with other AI makes me curious about this.
by jsnell | 2025-08-20 01:01:13+00:00
> Hard to count the number of things that can go wrong by relying directly on an LLM to manage audit/activity/etc. logs.

Nothing in this post suggests that they're relying on the LLM itself to append to the audit logs. That would be a preposterous design. It seems far more likely the audit logs are being written by the scaffolding, not by the LLM, but they instrumented the wrong places. (I.e. emitting on a link or maybe a link preview being output, rather than e.g. on the document being fed to the LLM as a result of RAG or a tool call.)

(Writing the audit logs in the scaffolding is probably also the wrong design, but at least it's just a bad design rather than a totally absurd one.)
by colkassad | 2025-08-20 01:02:23+00:00
I loved the mods for the holy trifecta: Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and Half Life. I consider it the golden age of online gaming. I also spent a lot of time on IRC servers chatting with developers (eventually joining a team myself which lead me to my current career as a developer). My favorite was for Weapons Factory, which was a popular Quake 2 mod at the time. The old dev team moved on with their lives so the community took over...and it was actually released and was even better than the first. High quality, with tons of cool maps, and for an active community of maybe 1000 people? Insane.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-20 01:02:38+00:00
>You're against a law that says a convicted child rapist cannot work in schools?

I'll be the devil's advocate: for how long and in what way? You can be on the child predator list because a minor caught you peeing on the side of a road. Do they deserve to be blocked out of an industry because of bad luck over something many people have done?

>You're against a law that says people can't take bombs onto planes?

Well that led to me not being able to bring a normal stick of deoderant in my bags. So maybe we should review the TSA oversight after 20 years.

>I think you're being dishonest in your statements, or do not care about anyone else in society.

and I think you're arguing in bad faith comparing the ability for government to track society's entire digital footprint to imprisoning a convicted criminal.