MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OgsyedIE | 2025-08-13 21:35:21+00:00
He's said on Fox Business today that on the basis of whatever agreements have been made in Alaska the US now considers the public and private holdings of its European allies + Japan to be part of an American sovereign wealth fund that can be expropriated whenever some cash is needed.

Either he's lying about that or he has guaranteed a position as Trump's number one favourite after Lighthizer.
by shiomiru | 2025-08-13 21:35:35+00:00
> If the site really was static before, and no JS was needed

One does not imply the other. This forum is one example. (Or rather, hn.js is entirely optional.)

> Another great solution? Just ask users to login (no js needed). I'll stand pretty firmly behind "If you aren't willing to make an account - you don't actually care about the site".

Accounts don't make sense for all websites. Self-hosted git repositories are one common case where I now have to wait seconds for my phone to burn through enough sha256 to see a readme - but surely you don't want to gate that behind a login either...

> My take is that search engines and sites generating revenue through ads are the most impacted. I just don't have all that much sympathy for either.

...and hobbyist services. If we're sticking with Anubis as an example, consider the author's motivation for developing it:

> A majority of the AI scrapers are not well-behaved, and they will ignore your robots.txt, ignore your User-Agent blocks, and ignore your X-Robots-Tag headers. They will scrape your site until it falls over, and then they will scrape it some more. They will click every link on every link on every link viewing the same pages over and over and over and over. Some of them will even click on the same link multiple times in the same second. It's madness and unsustainable.

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/

> Functionally - I think trying to draw a distinction between accessing a site directly and using a tool like an LLM to access a site is a mistake.

This isn't "a tool" though, it's cloud hosted scrapers of vc-funded startups taking down small websites in their quest to develop their "tool".

It is possible to develop a scraper that doesn't do this, but these companies consciously chose to ignore the pre-existing standards for that. Which is why I think the candy analogy fits perfectly, in fact.
by dtran | 2025-08-13 21:36:08+00:00
Love this idea! The Whiteboard Gym explainer video seemed really text-heavy (although I did learn enough to guess that that's because text likely beat drawing/adding an image for these abstract concepts for the GRPO agent). I found Shraman's personal story video much more engaging! https://x.com/ShramanKar/status/1955404430943326239

Signed up and waiting on a video :)

Edit: here's a 58s explainer video for the concept of body doubling: https://video.golpoai.com/share/448557cc-cf06-4cad-9fb2-f56b...
by delecti | 2025-08-13 21:36:14+00:00
LLMs would be just as terrible at that usecase as any other kind of therapy. They don't have logic, and can't determine a logical thought from an illogical one. They tend to be overly agreeable, so they might just reinforce existing negative thoughts.

It would still need a therapist to set you on the right track for independent work, and has huge disadvantages compared to the current state-of-the-art, a paper worksheet that you fill out with a pen.
by georgemcbay | 2025-08-13 21:36:49+00:00
> It looks like it was under control for a while following World War II, but then from the early 1980

Democrats had a near solid lock on Congress from World War II until the early 1980s (only 2 two year sessions where they didn't control both chambers) and Congress hadn't abdicated its power of the purse.

Republicans spend a lot of time branding themselves as the "party of fiscal responsibility", but ask yourself in what situations a group needs heavy branding by way of incessant self messaging. By every major objective measure, Republican control of government has been worse for the economy.

And to be clear, none of this reply is meant as a defense of the current Democratic party which is currently (at the national level) leaderless and in shambles and is far too captured by its donor class of special interests to protect the interests of the American working and middle classes and who will be unable to regain real power until they address that.
by vl | 2025-08-13 21:37:26+00:00
I wonder how much does it cost per full color letter-size print? How often do you need to clean nozzles (and how much ink is spent)?

I have Epson EcoTank, which is great since I can refill it from the ink bottles (even non-Epson), but since it gets only occasional use for color printing, almost every time I have to clean nozzles before printing in color.
by extraisland | 2025-08-13 21:37:27+00:00
I honestly think a lot of the modern games (especially triple A), kinda miss the point. The gameplay just isn't there. A lot of the better indies are filling the gap though.

I recently played the original PS1 version of Resident Evil 2. There is something about the game that the original missed. There was a bleakness throughout it that is kind of missed in the remake (the remake btw was very good).

Also the CGI cutscenes on the games felt like a real treat at the time and they are not that long, just long enough to get the point across.

RE2's intro is like a few minutes long, sets up the scenario and you are playing the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=748Tu4dUORE

The Ridge Racer 4 intro still holds up. I was gobsmacked at the time when I first saw this. It still looks pretty good despite the low resolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVIj0nIM7fk
by Zigurd | 2025-08-13 21:37:40+00:00
"At this point, I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth"

Imma say no. He doesn't understand mass transit or trains. He doesn't understand market segmentation in autonomous vehicles, and that general purpose vehicle autonomy for vehicles designed for private owners is a long way from a robotaxi. Especially when it isn't an MVP for its intended market yet. He doesn't understand pickup trucks. Every place he's been become convinced that his concepts and his designs are the best, are disasters. Money or ketamine went to his head.
by comrade1234 | 2025-08-13 21:37:41+00:00
Trademarks are for commerce, no? If you had charged even a few customers would it have helped?

Now that they own the trademark you can't make money off of it but you don't have to give anything up - if you have the url and aren't charging anyone you can hold onto it.

> I dealt with this years ago - it would have been about $250K to challenge the trademark for something that I'd been using for a few years.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-13 21:37:44+00:00
I’ve always said America is the richest third world country on the planet. Just like tinpot dictatorships accumulating IMF debt, the orange dictator in the Whitehouse will keep taking on debt for completely selfish political points and zero consideration of “the people” or the future. He’s 79 years old. What future?

In the coming decades the USA will end up just like every other failed state.

Women will have their reproductive rights taken away so they can be men’s property and fulfil their traditional roles and responsibilities.

Intellectual institutions will be defunded or outright abolished, because they oppose the regime’s messaging.

The minority in charge will scapegoat some already powerless minority to distract the general populace. In the end, their own propaganda will force their hand and they’ll have to enact some sort of dire measure, a “final solution” like concentration camps.

Despite the dire state of the economy, military spending will paradoxically increase and the armed forces will be increasingly used against citizens.

…oh.

Too late, I guess.
by romanows | 2025-08-13 21:38:39+00:00
Yes, but also "An... entity may not provide... therapy... to the public unless the therapy... services are conducted by... a licensed professional".

It's not obvious to me as a non-lawyer whether a chat history could be decided to be "therapy" in a courtroom. If so, this could count as a violation. Probably lots of law around this stuff for lawyers and doctors cornered into giving advice at parties already that might apply (e.g., maybe a disclaimer is enough to workaround the prohibition)?
by nis0s | 2025-08-13 21:38:41+00:00
My sincere hope is that AI bankrupts most, if not all, consultancies. Consultancies are adult day care for Ivy grads who are unemployable everywhere else. The best they do next is go on to get MBAs, or other types of Masters. Truly, however, this class of workers provides no other benefit than bean counting in one way or another, which destroys engineering firms. My guess is a lot of them will move on to product management at FAANGs if AI does render consultancies practically defunct.
by metalman | 2025-08-13 21:38:51+00:00
First sentence from the article :"Nuclear energy can help stop climate change by generating large amounts of emission-free electricity.", it is only because radiation, which by scientific definition is the most powerfull and dangerouse "emission" in existance but gets magicaly made non existant by a consensous of those who proffit most from the subterfuge,......they always put the biggest lie in the first sentence.....
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-13 21:38:59+00:00
Trump is at least taking a step in the right direction by changing the H1-B lottery system to favor more highly paid and skilled candidates, but as you say to remove the current rampant abuse it should be made mandatory to pay more than the market rate for the position.

Personally I'd just scrap the H1-B program altogether, and let the free market sort it out. H1-B is almost as bad as simply exporting jobs via outsourcing. Laws should be made to benefit US citizens, not US companies and shareholders.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-13 21:39:11+00:00
In theory, there should be a middle way between "waist deep into the movement" and "my research consists of collecting rumors on the internet, and then calling one or two people to give me a quote".

In practice, I don't remember reading an article on the rationality community written from such position. Most articles are based on other articles, which are based on yet other articles... ultimately based on someone's opinion posted on their blogs. (Plus the police reports about the Zizians.)

I think it would be really nice for a change if e.g. some journalist infiltrated the rationality community under a fake identity, joined one of their meetups or workshops, talked to a few people there, and then heroically exposed to the public all the nefarious plans... or the lack thereof. Shouldn't be that hard, I think. New people are coming all the time, no one does a background check on them. Yet for some mysterious reason, this never happens.

Notice how this article describes more bad things in the community than a typical outsider-written article. Three specific rationalist cults were named! The difference is not insider vs outsider, but having specific information vs vibes-based reporting.
by orochimaaru | 2025-08-13 21:39:20+00:00
It’s not easy to switch. I’ve been on this more than a decade ago and if you’re laid off or leave you have 60 days to find something new.

Any job you take you need your new employer to be able to undertake the effort for H1B renewals and the inevitable green card application. There’s big companies that do it and smaller ones that will absolutely refuse to.

Either way an H1B prefers to stick around until the green card is done. They will not willingly prior to that unless they see a much better offer.
by blibble | 2025-08-13 21:39:36+00:00
> Why is that hard for the Python community to come up with a single tool to rule them all? (I know https://xkcd.com/927/).

because they're obsessed with fixing non-issues (switching out pgp signing for something you can only get from microsoft, sorry, "trusted providers", arguing about mission statements, etc.)

whilst ignoring the multiple elephants in the room (namespacing, crap slow packaging tool that has to download everything because the index sucks, mix of 4 badly documented tools to build anything, index that operates on filenames, etc.)
by daft_pink | 2025-08-13 21:39:57+00:00
I don't think I would use the word justified. I would say as someone that's lived in a high crime area that I'm in support of trying to reduce crime rates in areas with high crime rates. I don't think there's anything wrong with trying to reduce the crime. Trump lives in DC. He works and his employees work in the DC area. They want to take action to reduce crime.

I spent some of my life watching people on TV demanding to defund the police and all the other nonsense while they lived in low crime areas and didn't have to suffer from the policies they are promulgating on poor people. I wish trump would do this where I used to live to be honest.

That being said, I would like to mention a basic theory that I have. If you're poor, you're often forced to buy the cheapest options in terms of housing or used cars, etc. When a neighborhood improves and is "cleaned up", property values and rents rise. Suddenly the neighborhood you live in is becomes unaffordable for poor people.

Essentially, there is an economic trap: affordability often comes bundled with low quality, and improving quality often erases affordability when talking about things like used goods or housing. It's not necessarily clear that poor people are the recipient of the benefits of lower crime in inner cities, because without high crime rates, inner cities are prime top tier real estate.
by lambdas | 2025-08-13 21:40:27+00:00
I hope I’m not adding 2 + 2 to get 5, but it’s incredibly convenient that a lot of people are being charged for supporting a proscribed group the same month as the online safety act is rolled out…

The cynic in me almost wonders if when it comes to re-election time, these increased numbers in terrorist charges will be trotted out and the context conveniently forgotten.
by Zak | 2025-08-13 21:40:45+00:00
The study is based on having LLMs decide to amplify one of the top ten posts on their timeline or share a news headline. LLMs aren’t people, and the authors have not convinced me that they will behave like people in this context.

The behavioral options are restricted to posting news headlines, reposting news headlines, or being passive. There’s no option to create original content, and no interventions centered on discouraging reposting. Facebook has experimented[0] with limits to reposting and found such limits discouraged the spread of divisive content and misinformation.

I mostly use social media to share pictures of birds[1]. This contributes to some of the problems the source article[2] discusses. It causes fragmentation; people who don’t like bird photos won’t follow me. It leads to disparity of influence; I think I have more followers than the average Mastodon account. I sometimes even amplify conflict[3].

[0] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/internal-research-from...

[1] https://social.goodanser.com/@zaktakespictures/

[2] https://arxiv.org/html/2508.03385v1#S3

[3] https://social.goodanser.com/@zaktakespictures/1139481946021...
by tatersolid | 2025-08-13 21:41:09+00:00
Basically all other identity providers are also vulnerable to phishers which strip out webautn calls in the payload when acting as a proxy to the real IdP.

Basically you must disable all other phishable forms of MFA fallback if you want phishing-resistant FIDO2/passkeys. Conditional access policies in Entra can do this selectively or org-wide. If you don’t do this you’re relying on “end user training and wariness” again as phishing protection.
by IXCoach | 2025-08-13 21:41:22+00:00
Let me know what you think.

Today Im adding a focus mode and the ability to share holons ( top level knowledge chunks and their children ), and Ill use those features together to launch a personal bio site that agents can help curate with semantic search access of the governing context within my knowledge base.

My thought is to then allow for quick template swapping to turn your curated works with Agents in your personal knowledge base into professional grade websites, and then following that with some agentic tools that would allow for instant creation of websites in a single prompt.

I have seen some other tools do this like Lovable, and it felt like clickbait on my first try. They embedded all these fake links like "contact us" then the agents did not understand how to find and remove them, after going back and forth with agents on literally the basics of not putting broken buttons out there, I hit a demo paywall.

I keep seeing the ads "get a site in one prompt" and I just wonder how they got so big without actually figuring out the basics on how to actually deliver that. I think an open source alternative would be pretty nice, right?

Maybe one that actually works?

What should I do next? Want to see more demos? Want me to focus on the last list of boring things before open source release? ( there are lots of little things like re ordering on the top most level of the holons not working at the moment thats gonna consume some time fixing with nominal benefit )

Whats the most outrageously good thing about this angle?

Jonathan
by KronisLV | 2025-08-13 21:41:54+00:00
It's interesting that mod_md is so unknown: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html

But also hey, now we have built-in ACME support in all the mainstream web servers: Nginx, Caddy and Apache2! Ofc Caddy will be the most polished, since that is one of its main selling points.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-13 21:41:59+00:00
GOG games that use DOSBox I just run the installer and then copy the game files to run in my own DOSBox-X installation. They will run forever even if GOG stopped supporting the games on some new OS.

Sometimes launching a game is a bit tricky, buy it usually just comes down to looking in the GOG DOSBox conf file and see what they do.
by gffrd | 2025-08-13 21:42:37+00:00
Are we talking about the same Garmin?

I have an Instinct 2 that cost me under $200 new, goes 2+ weeks between charges, and handles all activities I throw at it quite well.

I agree: their launching of a subscription service is disappointing, because (1) it was wonderful having a no-recurring-cost ecosystem before, and (2) presumably that's where they'll be investing their product dollars. But, it's not required, and to date, it's not particularly high value.
by bithive123 | 2025-08-13 21:42:49+00:00
On a long enough timeline we're all dead. In the near term, expect a lot of stupid decisions and huffing and puffing based on an ideological framing of what the national debt is.

I am not an economist or finance guy, but I have noticed a lot of debt hysteria from people who don't seem to understand basic accounting. That is, one party's asset is another party's liability. You cannot have buying without selling, and so on. Your mortgage is a liability for you, but an asset for your bank. Your checking account is an asset for you, but a liability for your bank.

I'm not saying the debt can grow infinitely, but clearly if some of that debt is held as assets by the non-government (most of the world including you and me) then paying off that debt means a wealth transfer from the non-government back to the government.

This isn't necessarily in my interests. If the government has to claw those dollars back from somewhere, I'd rather them start with the richest people. But that doesn't happen for obvious reasons.
by ben_w | 2025-08-13 21:43:18+00:00
That presumes knowing in advance what the dollar can buy you.

Here's a reductio ad absurdum: a couple live alone on an isolated island, they have and raise one child, and when they reach 67 they stop working and expect their progeny to provide for them as they were provided for in childhood.

Two parents provided for three people, became three adults providing for three people, became one adult providing for three people.

And when that kid reaches 67 and also decides to stop working? Now nobody's around to provide for them, so nothing is provided.

(What will happen in the non-reductio case is much more complex and unpredictable, between the never-ending potential of nuclear wars, and the ongoing but never guaranteed promise of technological progress currently dangling AI and robotics before us like a laser pointer to a cat…)
by floodle | 2025-08-13 21:43:21+00:00
I don't get all of the complaints about the tone of AI chatbots. Honestly I don't care all that much if it's bubbly, professional, jokey, cutesey, sycophantic, maniacal, full of emojis. It's just a tool, the output primarily just has to be functionally useful.

I'm not saying nice user interface design isn't important, but at this point with the technology it just seems less important than discussions about the actual task-solving capabilities of these new releases.
by hinkley | 2025-08-13 21:43:36+00:00
I love a quality QA engineer.

But the only people who write code as bad as QA folks do are the DevOps people.

The paradox of SDETs is: QA makes less than dev, no matter what flavor. If you're good at poking holes in developer logic, and you can code yourself, there's a 40-60% raise for you if you can switch into security consulting, which takes the same foundational skills and some reading.

So there are at least two brain drains for "good coder in test", and we aren't even the most lucrative one.
by emchammer | 2025-08-13 21:43:38+00:00
Yes, that's roughly what I see. The bottom of the Y axis on this graph is 30% which can be a little deceptive. It looks to me like Clinton and Obama had a terrible challenge in bringing this under control following the early 1980s and the 2008 financial crises and they did what they could, and then there is also Reaganomics. It just looks so hopeless because this figure is as high as it was following the war. Now Biff Tannen's in the White House, and he'll be knocking down walls. I don't think the system was meant to handle human greed on this scale.
by reactordev | 2025-08-13 21:44:13+00:00
I did something similar. On a normal browser it just displays the matrix rain effect. For a bot, it's a page of links on links to pages that link to each other using a clever php script and .htaccess fun. The fun part is watching the logs to see how long they get stuck for. As each link is unique and can build a tree structure several GB deep on my server.

I did this once before with an ssh honey pot on my Mesos cluster in 2017.
by zahlman | 2025-08-13 21:44:14+00:00
> the group which maintains Pip and the package index is categorically incapable of shipping anything at a good velocity.

> It’s entirely volunteer based so I don’t blame them

It's not just that they're volunteers; it's the legacy codebase they're stuck with, and the use cases that people will expect them to continue supporting.

> I suspect it’s also a misalignment of interests. No one there really invests in improving UX.

"Invest" is the operative word here. When I read discussions in the community around tools like pip, a common theme is that the developers don't consider themselves competent to redesign the UX, and there is no money from anywhere to hire someone who would be. The PSF operates on an annual budget on the order of $4 million, and a big chunk of that is taken up by PyCon, supporting programs like PyLadies, generic marketing efforts, etc. Meanwhile, total bandwidth use at PyPI has crossed into the exabyte range (it was ~600 petabytes in 2023 and growing rapidly). They would be completely screwed without Fastly's incredible in-kind donation.
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-13 21:44:30+00:00
I think many if not most companies have things they look for in employees that are irrelevant. Sometimes its a preference for particular universities over other universities that are effectively as good. Sometimes they like people who excelled in sports, or seem well dressed, etc. The point is that if you have some filters for things that matter, and enough candidates, you can also screen out people for terrible reasons and get away with it.