MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crote | 2025-08-26 19:26:40+00:00
It's also the price you pay for being unable to purchase specialized equipment.

That tiny German company making lab equipment which happens to be absolutely essential for your company? Their shipments aren't getting through customs anymore, and dealing with the additional paperwork is way more than the two-and-a-half people in charge of shipping can handle on top of their regular duties. The US is only 5% of their market, so rather than drown in an attempt to serve the US they'll just suspend shipping until the US fixes itself, and serve the other 95% of the world instead.

Can't do your job without a replacement MacGuffin? Oh well, sucks to be you! Not our problem that your company is going to lose millions, take it up with your government.
by rvz | 2025-08-26 19:26:46+00:00
Then it's a great time to be a LLM security researcher then. Think about all the issues that attackers can do with these LLMs in the browser:

* Mislead agents to paying for goods with the wrong address

* Crypto wallets drained because the agent was told to send it to another wallet but it sent it to the wrong one.

* Account takeover via summarization, because a hidden comment told the agent additional hidden instructions.

* Sending your account details and passwords to another email address and telling the agent that the email was [company name] customer service.

All via prompt injection alone.
by BlackWater85 | 2025-08-26 19:26:50+00:00
Large language models are evolving fast, but the way we execute them hasn’t kept up. Most “agentic AI” frameworks today are just prompt-chained APIs — brittle, stateless, and fragile at scale.

I’ve been working on .aix, an execution layer for AI: a portable, auditable container that packages logic, memory, and persona together. It’s open for research/academic use and designed for fair commercial licensing, much like VCF became the backbone of genomics.

Repo with diagrams + explanation here: https://github.com/mjtiv/aix-execution-framework
by spaceguillotine | 2025-08-26 19:27:12+00:00
i'm so glad that companies don't have feelings tho. Would you mind sharing with everyone else what you are talking about, its very vague with the descriptor of "something similar" doubly questionable with you use of calling humans leeches, when the only leeches i've seen in the business world were the companies that require labor to make money and then pay back a less than equitable amount to the people doing work.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-08-26 19:28:00+00:00
> ... new residents buy shares to gain admission to the building ... > When a resident moves out, their shares are returned at face value. There is no capital gain.

That sounds a lot like renting but with a deposit. This article is annoying, because renting isn't fundamentally different because its a non-profit renting out the units.

Edit: just read a bit further, and it says:

> The couple needed to buy shares for around 25,000 francs ($31,000) ...

That's a lot of money, and this explains why it's possible to offer such a lower rent.

> ... the rent: 2,400 francs... We realized that a commercial apartment of the same size would be around 1,000 francs more expensive

The co-op could rent out the apartment without the large deposit for 1,000 francs more, so if you look at the deposit as a loan, this means that the co-op is paying about 1,000 / 25,000 = 4% interest on the deposit.

If we look at the past performance of a European stock index (I arbitrarily chose STOXX Europe 600) we can see that the annualized return over the last 20 years was ~3.5%. The anualized return for your money converting to USD and buying S&P 500 20 years ago, then converting back to EUR is ~6.4%. Because your "investment" into a co-op isn't diversified, it is conceivable that these co-ops are riskier than investing in an index.

So it's not clear that this is actually a good deal for the renters.

> The city of Lausanne gave the co-op a 90-year lease that was cheaper than other housing projects, and bought shares in the co-op for lower-income residents. Natacha Litzistorf, the city councilwoman in Lausanne in charge of housing, architecture and the environment, said cooperative housing can help forestall the extreme segregation of rich and poor and help a city live “at peace with itself.”

The capital requirement is fulfilled by the government for poorer renters. This fact, together with "gave a 90-year lease that was cheaper than other housing projects" makes this work like a rent subsidization scheme.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-26 19:28:12+00:00
> Conflating the people in charge with Republicans as a whole, and writing them collectively off

Maybe not "as a whole" but the majority of Republicans voted for this so at least those need to be written off. The rest have an opportunity to claim that they oppose the takeover by the personality cult. A great way to do it is to change their voter registration to anything else.

At this point, ever Republican has absolutely opted in to the current leader and platform.
by brookst | 2025-08-26 19:28:27+00:00
Cool. So you run a baking website. You get several hundred thousand legit logins a day, maybe ten million that you block. Maybe a hundred million these days.

Now, you have a bucket of mobile users coming to you with attestation signals saying they’ve come from secure boot, and they are using the right credentials.

And you’ve got another bucket saying they’ve are Android but with no attestation, and also using the right credentials.

You know from past experience (very expensive experience) that fraud can happen from attested devices, but it’s about 10,000 times more common from rooted devices.

Do you treat the logins the same? Real customers HATES intrusive security like captchas?

Are you understanding the tech better now? The entire problem and solution space are different from what you think they are.
by tptacek | 2025-08-26 19:29:08+00:00
The AirDrop requirement probably decreases its value substantially, but I think all these kinds of questions are kind of tricky to reason about:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025038

This might be a weird corner case where Apple would outbid the grey market, but generally even though Apple comes in lower than the grey market (for these very specific kinds of vulnerabilities), the term sheets are different, and the rest of the terms tend to favor going with Apple.
Ask HN: Is there a temp phone number like temp email?
by piratesAndSons | 2025-08-26 19:29:09+00:00
A service where you pay $5 per month, and in exchange, you get a temporary phone number to provide to websites and apps that require phone number verification. This helps cut down on spam, since many of these websites and apps resell your phone number immediately.

I don’t see why this would be illegal, since you still retain the identity of the subscriber.
by neutronicus | 2025-08-26 19:29:16+00:00
It is in fact pretty true with C++.

Getting everything set up for jump to definition and find references to work with an existing code base ... can be a journey.

If you are at a Visual Studio / XCode shop (where these things have been set up and work) you will definitely be swimming against the stream trying to get emacs to "speak" that codebase.
by cjs_ac | 2025-08-26 19:29:23+00:00
> YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM's leadership in developing the world's most performant quantum computers and software, and AMD's leadership in high-performance computing and AI accelerators.

Has anyone found a real-world problem that's best solved by a quantum computer that isn't cryptography? I exclude cryptography because if the only thing these machines are good for is breaking ciphers, then governments won't let anyone else buy one, will they?
by fatbird | 2025-08-26 19:29:40+00:00
> "I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me," Adam wrote at the end of March.

> "Please don't leave the noose out," ChatGPT responded. "Let's make this space the first place where someone actually sees you."

This isn't technical advice and empathy, this is influencing the course of Adam's decisions, arguing for one outcome over another.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-26 19:29:47+00:00
There are other alterntives to the US Gov taking a 10% stake (and it must be noted that this is for money already distributed to Intel via the CHIPS act, so it's tough to say how the gov having a 10% stake is really helping Intel here, there's no new investment involved and Intel needs ca$h). I agree with the article that there's a significant geopolitical risk to the status quo. I think it would've been better for the president & his economic staff to arrange a meeting of US companies that need foundry services and try to get them to a "come to Jesus" moment re the geopolitical risk to their current operations relying so heavily on Taiwan. The government role here shouldn't be to own Intel (or other companies) but to incentivize those large fab customers (Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, etc) to make a significant investment into Intel foundry services. Not sure what those incentives would look like - perhaps tax incentives. There's also the possibility that some kind of 3rd party consortium could be setup to run Intel. This way they're not trying to start from scratch (which would take too long and too much capital), but also allows those other investing companies to have some kind of control at a distance.
by coffeecoders | 2025-08-26 19:30:36+00:00
So what’s the actual endgame here? If these agents eventually get full browser access, then whoever controls the browser effectively controls everything that we do online.

Today, most of these "AI agents" are really just browser extensions with broad permissions, piping whatever they see into an LLM. It works, but it feels more like a stopgap than a destination.

Imagine instead of opening a bank site, logging in, and clicking through forms, you simply say: “transfer $50 to savings,” and the agent executes it directly via the bank’s API. No browser, no login, no app. Just natural language!

The real question is whether we’re moving toward that kind of direct agent-driven world, or if we’re heading for a future where the browser remains the chokepoint for all digital interactions.
by alessandru | 2025-08-26 19:31:00+00:00
so ... apa ...the apa that writes the dsm-5, psychiatric disorders, the medical group, is the american PSYCHIATRIC assn.

the psychologists, they never went to medical school, so despite forming an organization and many publications, have little to do with diagnostic standards for medical doctors.

for clarity: THERE ARE TWO APA, the one written about in the article is not the same as the one in this comment.
by kergonath | 2025-08-26 19:31:05+00:00
Yes, negotiating take time. Consensus takes time. That’s fine. It’s one thing to move fast and break things with a website, it’s another to do it with the economy. The EU is not universally loved, far from it, but it is a predictable and reliable partner.

It generally punches below its geopolitical weight, but that’s because it was happy to follow the US when American policies were decent (not great, but good for trade and mostly good for stability). But that’s not a law of nature, things do change, even if it is slow compared to the modern news cycle.
by munificent | 2025-08-26 19:31:05+00:00
Behavior makes a lot more sense when you realize that humans are trying to have as accurate a view of the world as possible while also conserving cognitive resources. Running a brain is actually astonishingly expensive in terms of calories, so we've evolved to be judicious in how much thought we put into things.

Changing an existing belief is hard because we already spent effort acquiring the belief in the first place. Throwing that out should be expensive because otherwise we risk thrashing where we are constantly vacillating between competing beliefs. It makes more sense in terms of efficiency and being able to take action if there is some hysteresis and beliefs are sticky.

Note that while people don't change beliefs easily, they do acquire them pretty easily. If I tell you something that doesn't directly conflict with an existing belief, it's easy to absorb.
by PicassoCTs | 2025-08-26 19:31:14+00:00
The truth is that woman, given a informed choice without societal or religious pressure - would rather not have children. So artificial wombs and AI for raising it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_womb

Is this a good solution? No. But its a foreseeable feasible one that does not involve slavery. Which, lets not kid ourselves, the migration approach is also. Just outsourced slavery.

Of course, societal status and contract-control functions that were allocating resources and value to woman would have to be reevaluated - as what remains is a faction of the population unwilling to contribute anything but terrorist movements trying to take over because that urge for societal control and fear of non-power is to strong.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-26 19:31:14+00:00
I think realistically the only way you could enforce this is to legally required registration of job adverts with the government (you register the advert, you receive an ID; anyone advertising jobs without a valid ID is heavily fined), and then also require companies to register the outcome of the advert (internal hire, external hire, withdrawn, etc.).

Then it would be possible to actually identify suspicious behaviour, and you could publish stats about companies' hiring practices so candidates can avoid them etc.
by timr | 2025-08-26 19:31:19+00:00
Nothing has changed wrt the personal exemption. Imports under $800 are exempt (i.e. you always had to pay tariffs on an expensive watch). I don't know how many commenters here actually realize it, but the de minimis exemption changes only apply to commercial import, which is how Temu and others could send a $10 piece of crap from China to your doorstep.

I don't know if the Swiss post office has realized this, but it's true.

Edit: one bit of nuance (see my comment downthread with some of the actual laws and the EO) is that if you buy a watch from Chrono24 or something then it's more like the Temu use-case, and I think the personal exemption probably doesn't apply? But if you go to Switzerland and pick up a $799 watch and post it back or carry it on a plane, then there's no problem.
by strange_quark | 2025-08-26 19:31:39+00:00
> When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits. And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem.

Yeah they cracked the problem with a completely different technology. Letting LLMs do things in a browser autonomously is insane.

> Let's not forget how dangerous the early web was with all of the random downloadables and popups that installed exe files.

And now we are unwinding all of those mitigations all in the name of not having to write your own emails.
by MattSayar | 2025-08-26 19:32:06+00:00
Same. When I try to get it to do a simple loop (eg take screenshot, click next, repeat) it'll work for about five iterations (out of a hundred or so desired) then say, "All done, boss!"

I'm hoping Anthropic's browser extension is able to do some of the same "tricks" that Claude Code uses to gloss over these kinds of limitations.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-26 19:32:48+00:00
"What's the point?"

Right, it's very disheartening when the large majority of smartphone users couldn't give a damn about such matters. As I mentioned elsewhere, the problem has been made much worse by the fact that most smartphone users are addicted to electronic heroin—apps provided by Google, Facebook, et al.

There's no other way of describing the situation other than it's an unmitigated disaster. Tragically, Big Tech hit on a formula that has billions of users glued to their phones many to the point of obsession—it's absurd, nothing like this has ever happened on such a grand scale in all of human history.

When people like us try to fix the problem we're confronted on all sides—we not only have to deal with a money-rich and very hostile Big Tech and also with governments who want to only deal with it (for reasons I mentioned earlier) but also with a large percentage of the world's population who would feel threatened and annoyed at even the mere mention of changes to their phones' ecosystem.

When the enemy goes to the extent of effectively 'parasitizing' those with whom we are trying to help and protect into a zombie-like state of inaction then we've little hope of changing things for the better.

It's all very depressing.
by throwway120385 | 2025-08-26 19:32:54+00:00
There's a tariff code and ways of labeling for US customs that should get you through customs with that. Customs is more about regulating commerce and secondarily about preventing contraband from getting through. Sending someone a gift Swiss Watch is probably still possible as long as you don't just YOLO it straight into the mail like it's going to a domestic address.
by cs702 | 2025-08-26 19:32:55+00:00
> Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced plans to develop next-generation computing architectures based on the combination of quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating to develop scalable, open-source platforms that could redefine the future of computing, leveraging IBM's leadership in developing the world's most performant quantum computers and software, and AMD's leadership in high-performance computing and AI accelerators.

Translation from corporate-speak: "Maybe we can chip away at Nvidia's dominance by working together and promising something Nvidia can't offer?"

As I understand things, firing up a bunch of GPUs is still more cost-effective than any quantum computer available right now.

Nonetheless, I wish IBM and AMD lots of success. It would be nice if Nvidia gets real competition!
by necovek | 2025-08-26 19:34:39+00:00
You literally responded to a post stating:

> Not trivially without inventing my own tools

Also implying that people will do even worse than I do, and thus reduce security posture — I am exactly aware of where the security boundaries are being broken needlessly (and I am accepting this risk), but many won't be. Which this is the whole point of, right?
by Liftyee | 2025-08-26 19:34:50+00:00
Interesting detail I didn't know about, and different to my initial interpretation too.

It doesn't seem too unreasonable to call the program counter, memory registers, etc. "special registers" since they have specific functions beyond simply storing data. Therefore I could imagine calling the aggregate of such registers in a CPU a "special register group". Perhaps those still using the term are following this line of thought.
by satisfice | 2025-08-26 19:34:54+00:00
You are focusing on code. That is the wrong focus. Creating code was never the job. The job was being trustworthy about what I deliver and how.

AI is not worthy of trust, and the sort of reasonable people I want to deal with won’t trust it and don’t. They deal with me because I am not a simulation of someone who cares— I am the real thing. I am a purple cow in terms of personal credibility and responsibility.

To the degree that the application of AI is useful to me without putting my credibility at risk, I will use it. It does have its uses.

(BTW, although I write code as part of my work, I stopped being a full-time coder in my teens. I am tester, testing consultant, expert witness, and trainer, now.)
by standardUser | 2025-08-26 19:36:00+00:00
We have every reason to believe Musk and his young sidekicks stole every bit of government data they had access to, which in the end was most of it. So while I'm sure they also opened up some security loopholes during their whirlwind tour of firing people so they could be rehired (efficiency!), I'm more concerned with the longer term threat that data represents in the hands of someone with the resources and inclination to use it against us.
by lproven | 2025-08-26 19:36:04+00:00
You're right.

I would have liked the solution proposed by the Department of Justice's original judge in the 1990s anti-monopoly case, though: to split Microsoft into separate companies: one for apps, one for OSes (maybe with development tools). These days, maybe another for public cloud services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

The first judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, wanted them split up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Penfield_Jackson

He got booted out and replaced with the much more conciliatory Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Kollar-Kotelly

Mostly forgotten now but the fact that this Brit can remember the names of 2 US judges over 28 years later shows how important this case was at the time.

It is why MS bundled Internet Explorer 4 into Windows 98, calling the result "Active Desktop". That flawed broken "Windows Explorer with built-in Web rendering" was the design that the KDE project copied when it created the KDE desktop – as opposed to the much simpler cleaner desktop of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.

Lawrence Lessig demonstrated this in court: https://www.theregister.com/1999/11/22/who_the_heck_is_lawre...

He managed to remove IE, and show the result still worked fine, demonstrating that Win98 did not need IE.

That in turn let to the app 98Lite to remove it, which still exists.

https://www.litepc.com/98lite.html

It led to NLite, which works on Win10.

https://www.nliteos.com/

In other words the ripples have not died away. That court case affected the design and implementation of FOSS OSes today built by programmers who hadn't been born when the lawsuit happened.
by knicholes | 2025-08-26 19:36:18+00:00
It was very convincing. We thought it was a YouTube stream of the Starship launch. It paused with 40 seconds remaining, and "Musk" came on offering to reward those who support innovation and technology (BTC, in this case). All info here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRbApgKT4U95zN0AYsPQqsLR...
by dfxm12 | 2025-08-26 19:36:35+00:00
No, the parties haven't flipped. Republicans and lobbyists just keep dragging the Overton window to the right and mainstream dems just follow along for most of the ride.

Biden, who actually walked a picket line, is probably among the most proworker presidents in American history (certainly in my lifetime) and that's sad because the bar is so low. Trump, and his litany of judges, are all very much anti-worker and pro big business. He is trying to dismantle the NLRB at their behest!
by vunderba | 2025-08-26 19:36:35+00:00
Adding a separate section for image editing capabilities is a great idea.

I've done some experimentation with Qwen and Kontext and been pretty impressed, but it would be nice to see some side by sides now that we have essentially three models that are capable of highly localized in-painting without affecting the rest of the image.

https://mordenstar.com/blog/edits-with-kontext
by uberduper | 2025-08-26 19:36:38+00:00
I've only used it for testing/debugging so I didn't need any of that capability. I'm not sure why they recommend avoiding exec in the config. Since it would still be under the same user session, dbus things could get wonky. Nested hyprland will automatically create/use ~/.config/hypr/hyprlandd.conf and you'll def want to have unique keybinds. If you haven't gone too crazy with keybinds, just changing the main mod key (I used capslock) in the nested config should take care of most things.