MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jbaber | 2025-08-24 11:36:48+00:00
> On a separate note, I acknowledge some people found it suspicious that the initial commit was every file at once. This doesn't mean I don't know how version control works. It was because I had actually worked on the project alone on my computer and, subject to release, released the full source at once.

This is my standard operating procedure. My public repo's not going to start with the first hundred commits of the code in a different language, with API keys burned in, etc.

It did not occur to me this was rare enough to be suspicious. You shouldn't have to apologize for it :)
by amiga386 | 2025-08-24 11:36:48+00:00
> it might help them getting them to express things in a better way than before.

You know what people did before the AI fad? They read other people's books. They found and talked to interesting people. They found themselves in, or put themselves in, interesting situations. They spent a lot of time cogitating and ruminating before they decided they ought to write their ideas down. They put in a lot of effort.

Now the AI salemen come, and insist you don't need a wealth of ezperience and talent, you just need their thingy, price £29.99 from all good websites. Now you can be like a Replicant, with your factory-implanted memories instead of true experience.
by dustingetz | 2025-08-24 11:36:50+00:00
lets call that stage 2 when the labor/ai spend drops below 1.0, to understand what that might look like i would compare to surgeon model. so like $500k for a Surgeon to manage outcomes with 10x AI leverage. Arguments for: managers are compensated proportional to the capital risk they are responsible for so it makes sense that as the leverage increases the comp increases, even if the ratio drops before it u-turns and climbs. Four arguments against: 1) the economy is going to look very different with different dynamic equilibrium in surprising places; 2) this assumes software best practices remain as they are today with no disruptive breakthroughs which is unlikely, 3) systems that promote inequality are vulnerable to constant attack so it may not be a stable equilibrium 4) it may not even work - code complexity scales faster than linearly with lines of code, where is the break even point and is it higher or lower on the complexity curve than the breakeven point today?
by fhd2 | 2025-08-24 11:36:51+00:00
If you're alluding to the fact that a lot of startups run at a loss to capture as much of the market as they can, that is true. But I don't think that's the point here.

Revenue is probably the wrong measure, it should be profit. And a startup that doesn't somehow turn into profit for its _customers_ usually doesn't see much traction.

They can either increase revenue (there's a lot of AI sales tools that promise just that), or, more commonly, reduce costs, which also increases profits. If it saves time or money, it reduces costs. If it doesn't do either of these things, you'd have to really enjoy the product to still pay for it.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-24 11:37:03+00:00
Traditionally in the west, censorship was through copyright rights. It wasn’t considered censorship if you do it for money and business.

Fast forward to today, Americans are pushing you for self censorship through force and denial(if you don’t speak in line with the admin, you will have hard time in your US public sector job or if you want to travel to US) and Europeans find all kind of other ways.

Tough new world order. I used to be advocating for resolution through legal/political means, but now I'm inclined to believe that the solution must be technological because everybody wants security and control. Nobody wants loose ends. Everyone is terrified of some group of people will do something to them, freedom is out of fashion and those claiming otherwise want freedom for themselves only. The guy who says want to make humans interplanetary species is posing with people detained for traveling on the planet without permission. Just forget about it.

So this website itself is about censorship, therefore people interested in this shouldn’t be using websites. New tools are needed, the mainstream will be controlled the way the local hegemony sees it fit.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-24 11:37:16+00:00
> This is why I care. I've been putting less into the Vanguard 500, and more into my own diverse individual stock picks...

There are equal weight funds: in the US see perhaps $RSP.

Vanguard article on the topic:

> There are numerous considerations when selecting an equity index exposure, including the choice between market-cap or equal-weighted methodologies.

* https://www.vanguard.co.uk/professional/insights-education/i...
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-24 11:38:47+00:00
This has nothing to do with national security, or trump, or anything else in the past few years other than that being the hook some slimy editor uses to get your eyeball dollars to their website.

This is just another round of a fight that's been happening for over 20yr now.

Wind farms in this area have been a constant political football. Regardless of the pretext the real story is that the people who have a view they want to protect, the tourism industry and the hippie/nature/biology types are on the no-wind side and the climate types, greenies, domestic energy and big business types are on the other. Sometimes one side wins, sometimes another side wins. But nothing ever gets built.
by zarzavat | 2025-08-24 11:40:00+00:00
I'm going to be contrarian-contrarian. I don't buy the crash talk. This is just journalists needing to justify their own existence.

HN is full of articles about coding agents in a way it wasn't a few months ago.

What is overhyped is OpenAI. They don't have any moat. Why use an OpenAI model when you could use Claude or Qwen?
by numpad0 | 2025-08-24 11:40:13+00:00
What system take UTF-8 for usernames? Everyone knows that all programmatically manipulated and/or evaluated identifiers including login usernames and passwords need to be in ASCII - not even ISO-8859-1, just plain old ASCII. Unicode generally don't work for those purposes. Username as in friendly display strings is fine, but for username as in system login, the entire non-ASCII encoding is a no go.

I mean, I don't even know my keyboard software is consistent in UTF-8 for the exact same intended visual representation outside of ASCII range, let alone across different operating systems and configurations, or over time. Or vice versa; the binary I would leave behind in time to consistently correspond to future Unicode interpretation AIs.

... speaking of consistency, neither the article nor RFC 9839 don't mention IVS situations or NFC/NFD/NFKC/NFKD regularizations problem as explicitly in or out of scope. Overall it feels like this RFC is missing the entire "Purpose" section except there is vague notion of there being non-character code points.
by casenmgreen | 2025-08-24 11:40:14+00:00
Putin invaded Ukraine with a view to conquering Ukraine.

As far as can be seen, it seems this remains his goal.

It seems unlikely that being nice to Putin will lead to him giving this up, and more, returning the territory, men, woman and children abducted from Ukraine.

Donald seems totally clueless about how to handle this situation; he seems on the face of it to give up all leverage, and then to pander to Putin.

I remember a British Ambassador writing an assessment of Donald, not a public document but which was leaked, where the Ambassador wrote that Donald "radiates insecurity".

Perhaps what we see here is that insecurity, when faced with an aggressive, violent man, Putin.
by stgr_codes | 2025-08-24 11:41:03+00:00
can you elaborate a bit on this please?

> "When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders."

Are you using the native application called "Files"? I tried to add photos to album via the GooglePhotos application but it will not create a new folder, right?

also this: > "web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files."

Can you share which web apps are you using? Or do you create your own web apps to work on your local files?

Thanks in advance, I'm trying to improve the photo management on the pixel because I want to create a simple way to back them up on my NAS but I'm still struggling.
by diggan | 2025-08-24 11:41:34+00:00
Spain here too, Vodafone, and fitgirl-repacks.site also displays "ESTÁ USTED INTENTANDO ACCEDER A UN SITIO WEB ILEGAL" if I accept the (obviously) mismatched certificate they're using.

Surprisingly, thepiratebay.org is available for me though without issues. My previous ISPs here (Movistar, Orange, Jazztel) were all blocking thepiratebay.org

Seems to be pretty hit/miss what exact domains various ISPs block here. I would have imagined the police/courts serve like a centralized .txt file (simplified) the ISPs just fetch once a day or whatever, but seems to be way less organized than that, for better or worse.
by delusional | 2025-08-24 11:42:00+00:00
I hadn't noticed the date, that's a good catch. At least the post may have been part of a public debate. I haven't found any evidence of that while searching, but I also wouldn't know. I don't know a lot about German politics.

I still don't agree with the characterization of the old rules as a "shadow cabal". It was an organization aimed at implementing democratically decided law, under review of the competent authority. While it would have been technically true that there were "no judges" it still wouldn't have amounted to the scary authoritarian corporatist regime I feel was being alluded to.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-24 11:42:00+00:00
>Trump appears to have particular hatred for the wind farms,

You'd think a "drill baby drill" attitude would be more in line with his platform but a tiger can't change its stripes. Waspy east coast democrats all hate wind farms because they and their buddies all own waterfront property.

Personally, I think he's missing a great opportunity to really stick it to people who deserve to have it stuck to them (for a variety of reasons somewhat tangential to red/blue politics) while furthering the energy, economic and industrial goals of the nation.
by ekidd | 2025-08-24 11:42:10+00:00
Vibe shifts are real. The internet was always valuable, but oh my, did the vibes shift quickly in 2001. We went from "infinite money for painfully stupid ideas" to a near-total freeze on even the best ideas for a few years.

The thing about "vibe shifts" is that a big part of the shift occurs among people who have no idea what's going on. They've played with ChatGPT twice, talked about it at parties, and then invested $50,000 in NVIDIA stock. Or they're a corporate VP who doesn't understand this stuff but knows it's trendy and that it impresses the C-suite. When those people bail, the market retrenches hard, trading irrational enthusiasm for equally irrational panic and gloom.

My guess is that the highly-visible switch from the sycophantic GPT 4o to the underwhelming GPT 5 is what made this concrete in the minds of the least informed investors and customers.
by diggan | 2025-08-24 11:43:10+00:00
> Yesterday was a Saturday so I couldn't access a crapton of websites from any of 3 different ISPs

Wait, is that why yesterday internet was so janky? Encountered multiple websites that seemed offline when visited from my home (Spain) Vodafone connection, but all my remote servers could still access them. In my decade+ of living here, never heard of them doing a "Ah today it's Saturday, lets block Cloudflare" thing until this very moment. Have any resources (Spanish or English) where I can read more about this? Fucking ridiculous if this is true.
by klabb3 | 2025-08-24 11:43:20+00:00
It's very similar to the Stack Overflow debate of the previous decade. Bad developers would copy paste without understanding. It's the same here. Without understanding, you just can't build very sophisticated things, or debug hard issues. And even if AI got better at this, anyone else can do it too, so you'll be a dime a dozen engineer.

Those who don't compromise on understanding will benefit from an extra tool under their belt. Those who actively leverage the tool to improve their understanding will do even better.

Those who want shortcuts and not bother understanding are like cheating in school – not in a morally wrong way, but rather in a they missed the entire point way.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-08-24 11:43:45+00:00
There is quite a difference between. exaggeration and blunt lies.

Also most exaggeration happens during campaigns for getting votes, but rarely the result is a strong enough mandate to push all things through, thus one has to compromise ... but campaigning on "well, realistically my options will be limited" doesn't really work, especially as the campaign promises form the negotiation base lateron.

But in that regard Trump is special, also.
by threemux | 2025-08-24 11:44:28+00:00
Shame you've been downvoted. Regarding federal agencies, the Constitution indeed means what it says when it says "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." If some agency can wield executive power, it is under the exclusive control of the president. Looking forward to the likely overturning of Humphrey's Executor soon. It's gone in all but name anyway.

Perhaps this will spur some future Congress to take back what they've delegated (like sweeping tariff power)
by rvz | 2025-08-24 11:45:18+00:00
Agreed.

This is really an amateur-level attack even after all this VC money and 'top engineers' not even thinking about basic LLM security for an "AI" company makes me question whether if their abilities are inflated / exaggerated or both.

Maybe Perplexity 'vibe coded' the features in their browser with no standard procedure for security compliance or testing.

Shameful.
by SpecialistK | 2025-08-24 11:45:22+00:00
That's part of the balance we (most developed/Global North societies) have fallen into.

But it isn't entirely one-sided. A laborer is not legally responsible or liable for the legal or financial decisions a company makes. Their relationship is much clearer: do X work and get Y pay, as agreed (and hopefully labor law gets involved when that agreement is breached or contested. Hopefully.)

Meanwhile a (co-)owner is more liable and subject to enforcement than an employee. That owner may (let's be honest, will) make much more profit than a laborer if a company is successful. But will also be much poorer if that company fails. The owners declare bankruptcy while the laborer still has their salary and just looks for a new job.

It's the risk-reward balance in action, codified in how we organize our businesses.
by nirui | 2025-08-24 11:45:50+00:00
I think they used "armbands" to signify censorship which is useful for mass mind control. Armband is an insignia that someone wear to remind themselves that they belongs to a group and thus should accept it's ideas, which is kinda of an unification of mind.

If you see the the blog, which is about "secret internet blocklist", then it make sense for someone to create the link, albeit it's a bit far fetched since some blocks are fair legally and morally.

BTW:

> No judges, no transparency, just a bunch of ISPs and major copyright holders deciding what your eyes can see.

I don't like the sound of this. I think at most, only democratically established laws that reflects people's actual demand should decide which content is banned, not ISPs or interest groups.
by Pooge | 2025-08-24 11:46:26+00:00
I agree that the GDPR could have gone much further but making data harvesting illegal was never the point—and this is not my opinion.

Websites could show a small banner that says "hey, we use cookies for targeted advertising; click here to opt in to them" but instead chose to use a full-screen pop-up where you can't even navigate properly if you don't click. Hell, some don't even have an easy to access "Reject all" button—I even wonder if it's legal.

While I admit cookie banners are a side effect of the GDPR, they only came to be because that's what the industry chose. Claiming that the reason Big Tech did not honor DNT is because there was no legal requirement is true but not the full picture; they ignored it because it is against their advertising incentives.

GDPR should be even more radical for sure but none of what they enacted was a mistake.
by rvnx | 2025-08-24 11:47:50+00:00
Democracy is sneaky refined domination, subtle enough that masses do not see through it, but it is elites controlling the masses.

At the end, this political system is about supporting current power who settled by force (and to whom you have to pay a tax to not be sent into physical jail, and all your belongings taken).

Remember that at the beginning, these nice people are actually people who killed to be in place, and collected a lot of power and money, and that are now defending their position.

Kingdoms, then Dictatorship were too unstable, and this gave birth to Democracy, still with the same elites.

In some way, it is a softer continuation of conquest-coercion dressed as consent.

The newest generations use propaganda to settle; the approach changes, but the goal is ultimately the same.
by ath3nd | 2025-08-24 11:49:29+00:00
> The same principle applies for commercial binaries; without decompilation and thorough investigation, can you really trust what it's doing?

I have been using OSS libraries for the last 20+ years where there are signatures and one can actually check the source. I think the industry mostly moved away from using magic binaries?

With LLMs a lot of what you get out is based on the data they are trained on (black box), a dash of extra refinement and fine tuning (black box) and if it's not running on your device, maybe even shadow prompts. I dont want to build anything with LLMs for the same reason I don't want an Alexa in my home.

To me, GenAI slop is the ultimate dumbing down of society and the ultimate control mechanism. People don't wanna bother read 5 lines of text, bam, summarize it for them into a one liner. People don't wanna bother to learn to draw: bam, some shitty model generates a picture of a cat for you. People don't wanna learn some syntax and think about their codebase: bam, Claude to the rescue.

We are collectively dumbing down an already progressively dumb society using increasingly sophisticated tools atrophying our already atrophied brains (doomscrolling and brainrot didn't help).

If experience has shown anything, it's that when our reliance of these tools increases, thats when the people who control them will start forcing ads and change public opinion with them, along with continuous surveillance. Why are we doing this to ourselves, just so we can create a webapp 5 min faster that won't be maintainable in 2 months?
by trebligdivad | 2025-08-24 11:51:12+00:00
There's lots of more boring chips in phones and mundane devices that are fine on older processes; things like audio stuff and battery controllers. If you want to get away from relying on China, then those chips are the ones that are in everything from your USB hubs, keyboards, phones, washing machines - everything Less sexy, but in many ways more critical to keeping stuff going.
by f1shy | 2025-08-24 11:51:16+00:00
Not OP, but there is strong censorship. The previous government sent a police brigade to a random dud that said something like “he is a clown” or similar (don’t remember the details). In Germany you have to be extremely careful with what you say, and how you say it, because you can be in jail faster than you think.

There are people who see that as positive, because are used to be extremely careful and conscious of their words. But is a very thin line, where one word can obliterate your life as you know it.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-08-24 11:51:29+00:00
The replace tool is a form of diff (although it's rudimentary), and the read_file tool can be called with line ranges. I do wish robust patching but it is not the "whole" file reading/writing. Maybe you wanted to say about subagent file handling? I can agree then.

(Also I think Gemini is significantly better when it comes to the context rot, in my experience 100K--300K tokens were required for symptoms to appear. So burning tokens is less problematic with Gemini.)
by MrResearcher | 2025-08-24 11:52:23+00:00
If the flush (syscall) fails, it's not possible to recover in user space, therefore the only sensible option is to abort() immediately. It's not even safe to perror("Mayday, mayday, flush() failed"), you must simply abort().

And, the moment you start flushing correctly: if(flush(...)) { abort(); }, it becomes infallible from the program's point of view, and can be safely invoked in destructors.

File closure operations, on the other hand, do have legitimate reasons to fail. In one of my previous adventures, we were asking the operator to put the archival tape back, and then re-issuing the close() syscall, with the driver checking that the tape is inserted and passing the control to the mechanical arm for further positioning of the tape, all of that in the drivers running in the kernel space. The program actually had to retry close() syscalls, and kept asking the operator to handle the tape (there were multiple scenarios for the operator how to proceed).
by riedel | 2025-08-24 11:52:23+00:00
The legal basis is explained here [0] . Funny thing is that in contrast to what the OP says the German net agency says that the CUII needs a court decision:

>A rights holder represented in the CUII can find copyright infringements and then file a lawsuit with the court for the implementation of a DNS block. If the court decides that a DNS block is lawful, this block is implemented by the Internet access providers organized in the CUII. The prerequisites for a blocking claim against the Internet access provider pursuant to § 8 DDG are met, - if a rights holder can prove his copyright, - his works are published on the Internet without his consent, - he has no other way of remedying the infringement, - if the blocking is reasonable and proportionate.

[0] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Digitales/Sch...
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-24 11:53:07+00:00
It might not be woke but it's just as censored as OpenAI.

OpenAI is "Don't say boobs, some conservative investor might take offence!" Grok is: "Don't say gay, but Hitler is okay"

Both are pretty crap in daily use. Sexuality is a part of life, if you use an AI personally you can't really do without. For work it's ok and that's probably why GPT-5 is so corporate. Useless for personal use.

Grok is useless for me as I'm very pro lgbt and anti nazi.

So yeah what do I use now? Llama3.1 abliterated.

Unfortunately a lot of newer models like phi are trained on synthetic data which is much harder to uncensor because they've never seen any data their makers consider questionable. And those things are very polarised as is American society.

What we need here in Europe is a different mix. Sexual topics (18+ obviously) yes, discrimination no, lgbt yes, fascism no. Maybe mistral can deliver that.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-24 11:53:14+00:00
Nvidia has seen it coming. They did not over-leverage the boom themselves and will arise from a crash with a market lead, technical superiority, and a massive pile of R&D cashe.

That is even if you can time it correctly.

Better wait for a crash, see people panic sell thinking nvidia has any skin in the, game and buy the dip.
by heelix | 2025-08-24 11:53:18+00:00
I would. Appetite for censorship should be measured against something I find unpalatable. When one starts down the road of making decisions for others - it is only a question of time before someone does the same for you with possibly a different perspective. The moment one finds themselves outside the groupthink on spaces vs tabs, I'd like that bar to be as far away as possible.