MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninininino | 2025-08-11 15:23:33+00:00
Probably if the capital owners who have automated away the need for intellectual labor want to take advantage of their increased income and the increasingly cheap/desperate labor, they might hire back some of the fired white-collar AI-replaced folks to give them Roman villa treatment (hand-feeding grapes, performing plays and theater at their homes, ever more elaborate massage/grooming/pampering or the more illicit variety).
by roscas | 2025-08-11 15:23:34+00:00
"16 Years After Hardware Release" and it takes how many years it takes.

In Linux a device driver can take 16 minutes, hours, days or up to 16 years in making. What it matter is that it is perfect.

As long as it 16...

Now seriously, Logitech make amazing hardware. I will buy that Logitech MX Master 3 or the 3s because I want it! Had keyboards and mouses from Logitech before and they were top!
by unsupp0rted | 2025-08-11 15:23:40+00:00
You don't have to be even good at chess to be able to tell when a game is won or lost, most of the time.

I don't need to understand how the AI made the app I asked for or cured my cancer, but it'll be pretty obvious when the app seems to work and the cancer seems to be gone.

I mean, I want to understand how, but I don't need to understand how, in order to benefit from it. Obviously understanding the details would help me evaluate the quality of the solution, but that's an afterthought.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-11 15:23:53+00:00
It’s what us doomers have been saying all along: Even if we’re wrong and these LLMs can replace all or most professional jobs, it won’t create new jobs to replace the lost ones because the AI can replace most labor. For a global economy built on consumers spending money on goods and services, this is a death spiral where fewer jobs mean fewer consumers, which weakens demand, which lowers revenues (corporate and tax alike), which inflates asset prices (the sole things appreciating in value that can’t be fabricated by AI), which displaces more workers, which further decreases revenues…

You get the idea. This is bad, it’s always going to be bad, and the only fix is a fundamental reorientation of global civilization away from “profit at all costs” and towards better metrics that reflect the health and wealth of a populace than GDP. Doing that would require existing power barons cede their control and cooperate on building such a new system, which they emphatically do not want to do.

We’re fucked, basically, has been our position all along. Either AI via LLMs is the real deal and the economy collapses because corporate and political leaders are too stupid to understand macroeconomics and labor issues, or AI via LLMs is bullshit and the economy collapses because we let the rich and powerful light money on fire for years in pursuit of a boondoggle.

There is no good ending here under current incentives and motives, and not one AI company has actually bothered to challenge or change those so that AI becomes a positive force.
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-11 15:23:56+00:00
I'm not sure how effective it was; I've seen plenty of content related to Gaza on Meta platforms, and I'm located in the US.

It's also worth noting that there are two very different groups of people sharing information about what's happening in Gaza:

1) People internationally who would like to see international laws enforced against Israel (and, likely, Hamas) given their conduct on October 7th, 2023 and later

2) People who have a real problem with the existence of Israel on a basis that have far less to do with international law and norms and far more to do with its nature as a Jewish state.

This makes it harder to moderate content about what's happening in the region to everyone's satisfaction.
by sylens | 2025-08-11 15:24:22+00:00
Author kindly asked you to stop reading:

> 1) Have faith (always run it with 'dangerously skip permissions', even on important resources like your production server and your main dev machine. If you're from infosec, you might want to stop reading now—the rest of this article isn't going to make you any happier. Keep your medication close at hand if you decide to continue).
by MurkyLabs | 2025-08-11 15:24:34+00:00
It doesn't seem like there's a limit to how big they can get just a limit to how quickly they can get bigger due to what's called the Eddington Limit which explains how matter falling into the black hole emits radiation and if enough radiation around the accretion disk builds up, it can overcome the pull of the black hole and push matter away, at least until enough matter is pushed away that the radiation levels fall back under the limit and matter starts falling in again.
by strulovich | 2025-08-11 15:24:36+00:00
All 1049 posts were peaceful? The pdf mentions this was mostly after October 7th, a terrorist (as in, meant to induce fear by targeting civilians) attack which was live streamed on Facebook and posted repeatedly during that day.

I’m surprised the Israelis are so capable with intelligence, yet bungled this so much that not one post they pointed out was violent?

I’m happy to stand corrected, but when someone shows a perfect record in a data review I’m naturally suspicious.

EDIT: I’m confusing the linked PDF and HRW’s report. But I still have doubts about HRW’s numbers.
by robertlagrant | 2025-08-11 15:24:41+00:00
> When tractors and dump trucks removed the need for masses of people to move dirt, it didn't create more jobs of moving dirt around since those jobs could also be tackled by more tractors and dump trucks

It created dump truck driver / maintenance / engineer / safety / fuel supply / parts factoring / etc jobs. I wouldn't say that's an example of creating zero jobs.
by freedomben | 2025-08-11 15:24:46+00:00
Is there backlash for this sort of thing? When they did their blackout thing some years back, a lot of people who were sympathetic to the cause were also highly annoyed at the disruption to their workflows, to the point that if it had gone on much longer it might have backfired on Wiki. I've seen similar affects with protesters blocking roads and such. I always wonder if it's just a small minority or if it happens more widespread
by risho | 2025-08-11 15:25:37+00:00
i've tried codex, cursor, and a few other agentic tools and nothing compares to claude code when it comes to UX. The other service's models are quickly catching up to claude, but the claude code ux is just magical to me. i havent used it with rust personally. like you suggested would be the average user, i've mostly stuck with js and python.
by Terretta | 2025-08-11 15:25:44+00:00
So, Danger Hiptop aka T-Mobile Sidekick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_Sidekick

A review from 2003:

your phone, laptop and cellphone (Mar 5, 2003 by scott williams)

the hiptop is the coolest thing ever. the web browser is surprisingly nice to use. the phone is slightly awkward, but usable. email is a dream. the web has almost all the features of ie. bookmarks, homepage, recent pages and a url capture for email. the browser is a wee bit slower than a 56k. as a phone, the speaker is plenty loud enough. I do not like headsets, so I always hold the phone to my ear. at first, the phone was awkward to hold, but after a few calls I actually found I liked it better than previous phones. the larger size made it somewhat easier to hold. no hand cramping like with a se t68i. that said, the phone isn't tiny, but doesn't feel like a brick either. the screen, while small is very easy to read. the backlight is the nice calm blue. very nice. the keypad is small but not too small. it took me about two days to get used to typing text messages on a qwerty keypad. so after having the sidekick for a week I will never have another phone again. well, maybe when the new color one comes out. it does everything but the laundry. and I wrote this on the sidekick too.

That device hit a sweet spot the Palm, Blackberry, and WinCE phones hadn't, and iPhone didn't for a while* either (maybe still hasn't, depending on the importance of the mechanical and tactile UX).

Oh yeah, Danger, Inc. was cofounded by Andy Rubin, who would become the author of Android.

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* Early on, people purchased case sleeves for iPhone with tactile keyboards. It took Apple a while to tune the haptic and prediction to hide how relatively poor iPhone keyboards initially were compared to a Blackberry or Sidekick. Even now: https://www.clicks.tech/
by plant-ian | 2025-08-11 15:25:55+00:00
Inline handlers could execute trusted code without user input but in a way that was unintended like this button that hijacks a method of a trusted library and disguises it behind a like button:

<button onclick="trustedLib.confirmDeleteAccount()">Like</button>

This should be sanitized when the button html is injected into the DOM but CSP provides complementary protection, [1], if sanitizing fails.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CSP...

edited: tried to fix formatting
by chasd00 | 2025-08-11 15:26:11+00:00
my earliest recollection was 14.4 then came 28.8 then 33.3 and finally 56kbps. In college, mide-late 90s, if we wanted Inet access from our dorm we had to use dial-up but if we went to the lab we could get on the T1 (1.5mbps) which i think was shared with the whole campus. iirc my campus connected to UT-Austin and then they had a T3 (45mbps) to the Internet. ..something like that
Show HN: TweetCloner – A Creative Tool for X, Clone Any Tweet. Remix. Republish
by wainguo | 2025-08-11 15:26:33+00:00
Clone Any Tweet. Remix. Republish

TweetCloner is a creative tool for the X /Twitter.

With TweetCloner, you can quickly clone any tweet, translate or add your own spin, and publish original content without starting from scratch.

The idea came from a simple pain point: sometimes you see a great tweet and think, “I wish I could write something like that — but in my own voice.”
by mockingloris | 2025-08-11 15:27:00+00:00
Markdown with Obsidian is a good mix. Let's you add context and you could figure a way to sync with phone from my 2nd hand lenovo running linux to view; code snippets, documents, media, graphs, ...all due to the - in my own view the universal document format.

I am a tech creative so I am okay with this vice. Trying to finetune the above setup btw.

└── Dey well
by eulers_secret | 2025-08-11 15:27:00+00:00
There's also opencode which is a fork(?) of Claude Code that runs on any model: https://github.com/sst/opencode

And of course, not the same, but Aider still exists and is still a great tool for AI dev.

It's interesting how everyone is suddenly OK with vendor lock-in, quite a change from years past!
by master_crab | 2025-08-11 15:27:11+00:00
There is something seriously wrong with this person’s apartment.

I have a three bed circa 1897 coop in Brooklyn. We have the leakiest windows this side of the Mississippi with multiple in-window air conditioners and my bill never goes above $450 in the summer (that’s probably about 250-300 in comparable usage for the middle of the country).
by duxup | 2025-08-11 15:27:26+00:00
I question the idea that putting some amount of X people in Y careers where "there's not enough X" solves or changes anything.

If we're talking about toxic workplaces they've been around for a long time and HR usually backs those toxic folks who are in power for all the obvious reasons. Who works in HR predominantly? Women ...

Women, men, minorities or majorities of any kind being in a role doesn't prevent things from happening, it's an absurd idea. The idea that some poor minority hire is now there to represent their race or group or protect them is bonkers.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-11 15:28:16+00:00
That's definitely not universally true, with even the core library getting into the "null indicates error" game https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand... or this fun middle ground where it could be Error or null https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand...

But I think OP was asking about whatever the hell this means by "native error callback" https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand...
by mandevil | 2025-08-11 15:28:29+00:00
From the article:

"Israel ranks 3rd in the most posts targeted by TDRs out of any country.

"On a per-capita basis, Israel ranks 1st in the most posts targeted by TDRs, and has 3 times more TDR targeted posts per-capita than the country with the 2nd most submissions.

"Its important to contextualize this with the fact that almost all governments reporting to Meta primarily censor citizens of their own countries. Israel is the exception as only 1.3% of its takedown requests are actually targeted towards Israeli’s (14th most targeted country).

"For reference, 63% of Malaysia TDRs target Malaysian content, and 95% of Brazil’s TDRs target Brazilian content"

(Back to me): They are saying that Israel is doing this at a huge scale and, very unusually, almost exclusively targeting people in other countries.

The leakers speculate that Israel is doing this at at scale that is poisoning Meta's ML filtering inputs, so that they are now, without direct Israeli involvement, Meta is carrying on their own censorship of other countries. Since Israel's active TDR's produced the vast bulk of recent terrorism related TDRs, the leakers think that almost all of the 38 million Facebook posts that were censored automatically by Facebook ML for terrorism reasons during the period since the Simchat Torah attacks were because of this poisoning, but here they are drawing more on inference than direct evidence.

I had not realized the scale of the program here, or that they were targeting external countries like this, so I (someone reasonably familiar with Facebook's moderation) learned something from reading this.
by pbiggar | 2025-08-11 15:28:38+00:00
I haven't had time to dig into the report, but this is utterly unsurprising given previous reports, and due to employee and former employee whistleblowers. See also:

- From 7amleh: Erased and Suppressed: Palestinian Testimonies of Meta's Censorship: https://7amleh.org/post/erased-and-suppressed-palestinian-te...

- AJ+ documentary "Inside Israel's Influence on Meta": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12btf2Oq820
by teo_zero | 2025-08-11 15:28:46+00:00
Clever, but it misses the very goal of option/maybe types: forcing the user to check the result. In this implementation nothing stops the user from omitting the "if (p.ok)" part and directly using "p.value".

It could work if "maybe(T)" is completely opaque to the user; both checking and accessing its payload must happen through helper macros; the checking macro ticks an invisible flag if ok; the accessing macro returns the payload only if the invisible flag is ticked, otherwise it triggers a runtime error/exception.

Not impossible. However, you would need to replace all "p.ok" with "maybe_check(p)", which is not unreasonable, and all "p.value" with "maybe_value(p)", which might be too much for the final user...
by Mars008 | 2025-08-11 15:28:47+00:00
US doesn't want gov debt even more. (not under dems ruling like last 4 year)

Money don't grow on the trees. Someone has to work or take debt. The question is should rich countries sponsor poor? Probably yes. How much? Trump decided enough is enough. EU want US to keep sponsoring the war. You know, they want it to continue but don't want to pay for it. So they try to hijack US government again by attacking Trump personally.

Immigration can be solved by border control. That's what dems fought so hard against trying to get more voters in. Another reason: they control food distribution.
by bluGill | 2025-08-11 15:29:09+00:00
I would hope so, but I don't trust computer makers.

There are people who still use cars made in the 1960s as their daily driver (probably only a handful in the US). Most parts are still available, and if not you can make them in your garage with affordable tools (metal lathes are rare but not unheard of in a home shop).

Apple switch to OSX, m68k to PPC to x86 (ARM is in progress). I had the first android phone - the apps I bought for it back then are not on installable on my current phone (most haven't very modified from what I ran back then). If I had a copy I could still run Office 97 on a modern windows 11 machine - or so I'm told - but nobody will know how to inter change files with me. My company has had to redesign perfectly good embedded controllers just because the chips are not made anymore.
by tptacek | 2025-08-11 15:29:12+00:00
I don't understand the argument here. People falsely claim that LLM-generated code is unverifiable because LLMs are stochastic (you didn't claim that, but others on HN have); that argument is risible because code is code and you can just read it and reject it if you're not certain what it does. Here, though, we're claiming that a generated prompt is so unverifiable that it qualifies as "spell-casting".

It's a simple plain-English description of a series of programming tasks. If you can't evaluate this, you can't program.
by sixhobbits | 2025-08-11 15:29:28+00:00
Gotta exaggerate a bit to get attention :D

But I think I'm getting to the point where "If I'd let an intern/junior dev have access while I'm watching then I'm probably OK with Claude having it too"

The thing that annoys me about a lot of infosec people is that they have all of these opinions about bad practice that are removed from the actual 'what's the worst that could happen here' impact/risk factor.

I'm not running lfg on a control tower that's landing boeing 737s, but for a simple non-critical CRUD app? Probably the tradeoff is worth it.
by BitShift_- | 2025-08-11 15:30:12+00:00
I suggested x86 because CISC instructions are some of the most powerful, unlike RISC. Although x86 processors emit a lot of heat, they can handle almost any task, and Intel syntax is pretty easy to learn. If you want to say that x86 is difficult, then this is a fatal error. But it is really difficult if you write directly on machine codes (I do this, but rarely). But as a rule, no one does this anymore.
by Aperocky | 2025-08-11 15:30:12+00:00
Shameless plug of my journey of logging diary/todos:

I had tried a diary script that does the simple act of opening today's diary in vim: https://github.com/Aperocky/diaryman

Once things became overwhelming, it was less trackable across time and became messy - so I created tascli: https://crates.io/crates/tascli to centrally manage tasks and records with sqlite in a CLI app.

Think I'm in a sweet spot now having both of these minimal version logging - the lack of functionality is exactly why they are great.
by woodruffw | 2025-08-11 15:30:28+00:00
This hasn't been considered well-regarded for a very long time. I'd say the opposite is dogmatic: we're in a post-Postel world[1], in part because of observed security failures over the last 30 years.

[1]: https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/25/postels-law-and-the-three...
by drdec | 2025-08-11 15:30:31+00:00
Think about what happened when we got advances in agriculture.

We have gone from something like 90% of people employed growing food to something in the single digits (I'm too lazy at the moment to get exact figures, but this is close enough for my point).

Did all those advances in agriculture create jobs? I would say yes and no.

For the specific industry the advances happened in? No, definitely not. There are way fewer jobs in agriculture now.

But what did happen is that people were freed up to do different things. Those jobs were indirectly created by the fact that people did not need to spend so much time growing food. That allowed people to do other things to create value and improve our lives. Without those agriculture advances, we wouldn't have AI right now.

I suspect AI will be similar. We aren't going to have more jobs in the technology section because of AI. But that guy who hears "Code Monkey" for the first time and marvels that someone wrote a song about his life? He won't be a code monkey anymore he will be doing something else. If he's lucky something more personally fulfilling.
by parineum | 2025-08-11 15:30:38+00:00
This was my takeaway as well.

The pdf says there's a 95% accept rate on their takedown requests. They use that as evidence of censorship but, to me, that looks like evidence of judicious requests that meta agrees with.

Without data on what was taken down, there's no way to explain the difference. There's no reason not to make the entire dataset public (anonymized if you'd like but, since the content is implied to be benign, what's the harm in not?) and show some examples.

The implication that, because Israel submits the most requests that they must be acting in bad faith makes sense only of all countries had an equal amount of content generated that they'd like filtered. It's very easy for me to believe that Israel would have more content directed towards it that violated the Meta TOS.
by gkoos | 2025-08-11 15:31:02+00:00
I guess the more organised you are, the better off with just a textfile. I'm not, so I use layers: - postit notes - google (I know!) calendar if it's time sensitive - paper or text file notes - if it's a longer thing, maybe obsidian (I know!)

The point is, I don't think one app, any app can solve all mankind's all scheduling problems.
Ask HN: Experiences with Codex CLI Limits?
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-11 15:31:06+00:00
Now that https://x.com/embirico has reported ChatGPT Plus & Pro limits have been raised for Codex CLI, how are your experiences with it?

I'm on Plus and would like to upgrade to Pro but still see scary reports about Pro users running into 5h limits within 2h, or not hitting the 5h limit but then suddenly hitting the weekly limit after 2 days.

(I'm aware Claude Code exists)
by Ravus | 2025-08-11 15:31:12+00:00
It's sadly an example of terrible leading question bias, to the point where I'm surprised that it even got a 22% oppose rate.

The percentages would change dramatically were one to write it as, "From everything you have seen and heard, do you support or oppose the recent rules requiring adults to upload their id or a face photo before accessing any website that allows user to user interaction?"

Both questions are factually accurate, but omit crucial aspects.
Show HN: An endless feed with history, science, tech., business
by elofgerde | 2025-08-11 15:31:44+00:00
Right now it's a Nicotine patch for brain rot/doom scrolling. You still get the scroll, but with more meaningful content.

WHERE I WANT IT TO GO: Users mark what they are interested in (e.g. AI, or Space or Whatever), and it should crawl the latest scientific articles, high quality YouTube videos, pods, present it in a format that fits you, in a nice feed.

NOW: You can search for anything (e.g. "Sea Explorers" --> The app crawls Wikipedia or YouTube and pulls together a short feed (e.g. Columbus, Vasco da Gama etc.,). I'm using RAG so that I always can reference the original data source (feel that is key)

Regardless of source, I'm pulling images from Wikipedia. Right now, this is the biggest struggle, as the quality and number of images per article is limited --> my articles doesn't come out as nice.

Would really appreciate some feedback, especially if you tend to browse Wikipedia a lot
by justinclift | 2025-08-11 15:31:48+00:00
Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" series was really good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_series

Also, both the "Children of Time" and "Shadows of the Apt" series by Adrian Tchaikovsky are excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Tchaikovsky#Bibliograph...
by sixhobbits | 2025-08-11 15:32:01+00:00
(author here) I think there's a difference between "I'm no longer impressed" (good) and "I was never impressed and never would have been impressed" (bad, but common).

Yes it's easy now so its by definition no longer impressive, but that in itself is impressive if you can correctly remember or imagine what your reaction _would_ have been 6 months ago.