MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ladyanimus_ai | 2025-09-01 17:00:47+00:00
Update found 1 Sept 2025: Wasn't a great read. I am wondering if it's alluding to if you didn't figure out turning it to off in the first place, 'oh well'? As soon as it's off it stops using a person's stuff? What was done when it was on is kept for 5 years, and you can continue, with it on or off, but select agree that's how it is now? Mine was off, but I am still going to keep emailing until it is confirmed, for peace of mind. https://privacy.anthropic.com/en/articles/12109829-how-do-i-...
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-09-01 17:00:50+00:00
AGI != consciousness.

This guy gives me strong "esoteric nonsense" vibes with a dose of fraudulent alzheimers research.

The part of "quantum dissemination" as out-of-body experience was ridiculous. He jumped from "this might be a source of consciousess" straight to perception and reincarnation and eastern mysticism. Recovering my trust from such a blunder is practically impossible, since i encountered too many book selling bullshitters of that kind, giving interviews in doctors outfits in front of bookshelfs.
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by cb321 | 2025-09-01 17:01:12+00:00
Like literally anything, it will depend upon how much your code does, what libraries it uses and so on, but here's a trivial little example to at least dispell a worry of multi-megabyte outputs for trivial things:

echo echo 1 > j.nim nim js j.nim node j.js >>> see 1\\n <<<< ls -l j.js >>> 36636 Sep 1 12:54 j.js <<< nim js -d:release j.nim ls -l j.js >>> 11369 Sep 1 12:56 j.js <<<

So, with -d:release stripping away a lot of debugging logic, it's not so bad. Even with d:release there is probably ~50% of the text of that j.js that is just C comments which could be trivially stripped away. E.g., cpp<j.js|wc -c gives 6350 for that very same 11369 file. There are js minification things one could also run on the output. People do complain about this, but people complain a lot. It's probably not so uncompetitive for less trivial programs that do a little bit more work, both minified, apples-to-apples care & all that.
by karma_p | 2025-09-01 17:01:14+00:00
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by guerrilla | 2025-09-01 17:01:28+00:00
He gave a copy of his bank card to his ex-wife who was living in Uganda and using it there. The card was under his name though, which is against their policy. He could have easily gotten a card in her name, but he's extremely irresponsible in general (and doesn't really care what the rules are). They banned him for six months. He hasn't even bothered to figure out if it's automatically re-instated or whether he has to appeal. I don't know how such people live to be 65 years old.

The government isn't requiring BankID except for on their own services (where sometimes other options are provided). It's kind of just the most convenient thing that all agencies and businesses end up using. There's no laws around it, I mean. They all opted into it. It's run by a private consortium of banks.
by dang | 2025-09-01 17:01:46+00:00
That's a good point about the word harangue! I've replaced it with a different verb above.

Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines, and also please stop creating accounts to do that with? You're welcome here as long as you respect the same rules that apply to all commenters.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by realvz | 2025-09-01 17:01:49+00:00
I have lived in villages and cities in different continents. This abstraction you speak of isn’t limited to the US. Asian and European cities are the same. People don’t tend to socialize a lot with their neighbors in the cities as much as they did and still do in the villages.

Is this capitalism? Is it technology (I’m not talking about computers) induced narcissism? Is it because we reduce ourselves and others to metrics and then use yardsticks to incessantly measure ourselves on a broken scale?
by aredox | 2025-09-01 17:01:50+00:00
With these rabid haters, COVID-19 is at the same time "just a flu that doesn't hurt kids nor adults and can be cured with a cheap widely available medicine" and “a genetically engineered bioweapon that targets Black and white people but spared Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people” (as explained by RFK jr, now in charge of the CDC).
by trelane | 2025-09-01 17:02:09+00:00
They also had (for governments) the ability to look at the (supposed) source code.

They couldn't do anything with it (alter or even build iirc), but they could look at it.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1336859/microsoft-open...

Ha. How times have changed:

> But governments won’t get the ability to alter source code. “This isn’t about developing or supporting customized versions of Windows,” Mundie said. The GSP and other source-code access programs are about “helping build comfort and trust with our key customers on how Windows is deployed, how security is running and how other software is running on top of Windows,” he said.

> Russia’s Federal Agency for Governmental Communication and Information has signed a GSP agreement with Microsoft, and the company says it’s in discussions with about 20 other governments.
by foxglacier | 2025-09-01 17:02:21+00:00
It feels like you've been cheated when you felt some emotion reading a true story then discovered it was generated by an LLM, or equally, by an artist who admits it was a lie. But I don't think that's because the writing isn't great - it often is great, which is why it affects the reader so much. I suspect the real complaint that people have is not the writing itself but the knowledge that an LLM generated it. You see people here discussing clues that helped them guess it was an LLM, and asking for authors to disclose that, etc. People worry that the emotion they feel from reading it isn't the same the author felt themselves. What they're forgetting is that good human writers can lead you to feel emotions they never experienced themselves either. You say a "great" story can't be written that way and perhaps if you set the bar high enough that might be true, but for more common writing like the TFA, there's no need to have experienced the emotion first hand if the writer is capable enough - human or LLM.
by astrobe_ | 2025-09-01 17:04:04+00:00
Git presents things to you as patches, but it doesn't really uses patches internally [1], so having a specif diff program doesn't help - except maybe to get readable patches - because IIRC, this can be customized.

A version control system that would/is using patches internally would be more space efficient, but probably slower as it would have e.g. to apply all patches from version 0 to reconstruct the current version. Git made its choice with regard to this frequent dilemma and its original purpose, which was to version control the Linux kernel source code.

> If changing a single bit at the start of file changes the whole thing then it's really a failing of the file format. By which I probably mean the container format.

Audio formats are typically compressed, so this is hardly avoidable. Compression is a bit like encryption in that regard, except that (good) encryption deliberately introduces random data [2].

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/05/do-we-think-of-git-commits-a... (or long story short:) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13644631

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation
by jaredklewis | 2025-09-01 17:05:13+00:00
Yea I think stuff like this is great and will have some impact around the edges. Perhaps particularly in the realm of end-user software, like a window tiling manager.

But once we start talking about the kind of software large corporations (like AWS) will have an interest in, projects have to be successful to be useful. Software requires maintenance so the maintainers need to be able to devote their time to maintaining and improving the project. So this will select for projects that are successful enough that the maintainers can focus on it fully (either because some company hires them to work on their own project, they can charge high consulting fees because of their association with the project, or whatever).

I think "the code" (the thing covered by copyright) in most cases is not as valuable as "the project:" the leadership, the contributors, the users, the norms and practices, the commitment to ongoing maintenance, and so on. So just lots of individuals all putting pieces of their code out there with GPL probably doesn't make a lot of impact (though there is nothing wrong with it), because most users don't want "code" they want a "project" they can rely on.
by gabeiscoding | 2025-09-01 17:05:14+00:00
I sunk a lot of time trying to get perfect 1-bit font rendering running under Docker (Debian Linux), but could not get it match the precision of the Mac default Arial font rendering.

I have a side-by-side rasterized image showing the difference here:

https://github.com/gaberudy/epaper-calendar/blob/main/docs/f...

Linux insists on doing some freetype font thickening, giving the output a random thick-line look. If anyone knows more tricks to disable this or influence the anti-alias font rendering behavior, let me know!
by jschveibinz | 2025-09-01 17:05:24+00:00
A few facts to go along with the article:

Total value of U. S. tourism is estimated at over $1 trillion.

90% of U.S. tourism is domestic travel > $900 billion.

Domestic tourism in U. S. is increasing--up almost 2%.

For comparison, EU domestic travel expenditures are 43% domestic vs. 57% international.
by monsieurleon | 2025-09-01 17:05:42+00:00
Good question. Codex already supports the AGENTS.md file. I’m not trying to replace that.

This project does one narrow thing: it turns those agents into callable, auditable sub‑agents you can invoke at runtime as an MCP tool.

What it adds on top of Agents/AGENTS.md:

- Runtime delegation: a single MCP tool delegate(task, agent|persona, profile, …) that the outer session (or you) can call mid‑flow. Not just “pick one agent at start,” but spin up a specialist for a subtask and return the result.

- Introspection & CI gates: list_agents and validate_agents are exposed as tools so the model (and CI) can see what’s allowed and fail misconfig before anything runs.

- Isolation defaults: each call runs in a temp workdir; you can point Codex at a git worktree/mirror so sub‑agents don’t write into your main repo. Profiles keep state separate.

- Ops hygiene: server is tiny, no stdout (MCP handshake‑safe), debug → stderr only, and the server itself makes no runtime network calls. Small surface area to audit.

Under the hood it still writes AGENTS.md for the selected persona and executes codex exec --profile <agent-profile> "<task>". So if you’re happy manually choosing agents and running codex exec, you don’t need this. If you want in‑session delegation + CI validation + safer defaults with minimal moving parts, that’s the point.

If I’m missing a built‑in way to get all of the above from Agents alone, I’d love a pointer.
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by const_cast | 2025-09-01 17:05:51+00:00
> If you don’t like it, just go past it. Why to get so angry? :-)

These "if you don't like it just ignore it!" type arguments are so low-brow and intellectually lazy they legitimately make me question the longevity of the human race.

Its the adult version of holding your hand in someone's face and saying "nuh uh I'm not touching you I'm not touching you!"

The difference is, we left that at the playground at 8 years old.
by hereme888 | 2025-09-01 17:06:07+00:00
Too bad Piotr Wozniak (inventor of SuperMemo) is such a hermit and uncompromising of his lifestyle choices, that most of his life's work was eventually superseded by open-source solutions (Anki + FSRS).

I had tons of material in SuperMemo for years. Gave up and fully switched to Anki.

At least I'm thankful for his spaced-repetition algorithms. Also, his articles restored my love for learning and helped me confirm that school was an insane waste of time and resources.
by quechimba | 2025-09-01 17:06:15+00:00
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by sokoloff | 2025-09-01 17:06:21+00:00
I think the upthread argument is the weak one in that regard. "See how terrible it is that banks offer a new method to get more convenient service for people who have an Apple or Google device? Because I choose not to, I had to use a perfectly viable method that people relied upon for decades and that still worked just fine."

That's an example of how the banks are continuing to accommodate customer preference, not the other way around. As to "where this is going", ATMs and debit cards are nearly pervasive and, yet almost 60 years after their introduction, I can still choose to bank with a teller if I insist on not having a debit card.
by rollcat | 2025-09-01 17:06:27+00:00
A single, powerful box (or a couple, for redundancy) may still be the right choice, depending on your product / service. Renting is arguably the most approachable option: you're outsourcing the most tedious parts + you can upgrade to a newer generation whenever it becomes operationally viable. You can add bucket storage or CDN without dramatically altering your architecture.

Early Google rejected big iron and built fault tolerance on top of commodity hardware. WhatsApp used to run their global operation employing only 50 engineering staff. Facebook ran on Apache+PHP (they even served index.php as plain text on one occasion). You can build enormous value through simple means.
by freeopinion | 2025-09-01 17:06:55+00:00
If you were considering purchasing a Biology text book, and spot read two chapters, what if you found the following?:

In the first chapter it claimed that most adult humans have 20 teeth.

In the second chapter you read that female humans have 22 chromosomes and male humans have 23.

You find these claims in the 24 pages you sample. Do you buy the book?

Companies are paying huge sums to AI companies with worse track records.

Would you put the book in your reference library if somebody gave it to you for free? Services like Google or DuckDuckGo put their AI-generated content at the top of search results with these inaccuracies.

[edit: replace paragraph that somehow got deleted, fix typo]
by aredox | 2025-09-01 17:06:58+00:00
The most bloody obvious explanation is a natural origin, exactly like the first SARS. Did you forget about that was also a coronavirus outbreak, a close cousin of the COVID-19 (whose real name is SARS-cov-2) that was more lethal (but less contagious, and contained thanks to the heroic efforts of Hong Kong and south Korea)?
by eth0up | 2025-09-01 17:07:25+00:00
"if hallucinations were made illegal..."

I was just yesterday brooding over the many layers of plausible deniability, clerical error, etc that protect the company that recently flagged me as a fraud threat despite having no such precedent. The blackbox of bullshit metrics coupled undoubtedly with AI is pretty well immune. I can demand review from the analysis company, complain to the State Attorney General, FTC and CCPA equivalents maybe, but I'm unsure what else.

As for outlawing, I'll present an (admittedly suboptimal) Taser analogy: Tasers are legal weapons in many jurisdictions, or else not outlawed; however, it is illegal to use them indiscriminately against anyone attempting a transaction or job application.

AI seems pretty easily far more dangerous than a battery with projectile talons. Abusing it should be outlawed. Threatening or bullying people with it should be too. Pointing a Taser at the seat of a job application booth connected to an automated firing system should probably be discouraged. And most people would much rather take a brief jolt, piss themselves and be on with life than be indefinitely haunted by a reckless automated social credit steamroller.
by Calavar | 2025-09-01 17:08:21+00:00
Looking at one of the big players, the NIH: They already placed a new limit of six grant proposals per PI per year, but that's pretty high. Certainly high enough for reviewers to be totally swamped if even 5% of labs who would have otherwise submitted a single proposal use AI to play the numbers game and submit the max of six.

If the NIH responds by globally lowering the limit to two or three proposals per year, they hurt 1%er mega labs that expect to have several active grants and now need to bat web above .500 to stay afloat. So I think it's likely that we see elitist criteria as you said, maybe a sliding scale for the proposal limit where labs that currently draw large amounts of funding are allowed to submit more proposals than smaller labs.

One place this may end up is with grant proposals requiring a live presentation component. You can use AI to crank out six proposals in a day, but rehearsing and practicing six presentations will still take quite some time and effort.
by stagas | 2025-09-01 17:08:40+00:00
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by dang | 2025-09-01 17:09:07+00:00
We don't specifically track that, no. The worst one was when we went down for (IIRC) a couple days because of a disk failure, I think in Jan 2014. It was after that that we added a failover box.

HN goes down when we restart the server process, usually as part of updating the code - but only for a few seconds. The message "Restarting the server. Shouldn't take long." displays when that is happening.

There are also, to my exasperation, still moments of brownout during certain traffic spikes or moments of obscure resource contention. But these are at least rarer than they used to be.
by outime | 2025-09-01 17:09:15+00:00
It's interesting how people's positions can be so different. As a European who has lived in two (european) countries with good and affordable transport, I've always been a happy public transport user... until a couple of years ago, that is. Much of the transport is now filled with unpleasant people, dirt, delays, etc which paired with the insane prices of housing in the "walkable" parts of cities, has made me 100% invested in the myth of motorized freedom.
by gorbypark | 2025-09-01 17:09:30+00:00
React native support for SPM is non-existent for the most part. There's some work on porting to SPM but it's gonna be a while before anything becomes stable. It's going to break a huge amount of 3rd party packages. A bit of shame this wasn't done earlier as the RN ecosystem just went (or, is still going) through a migration to the "new architecture" that required most 3rd party packages that use native code to be "ported" over. Could have been a two-for-one kinda thing!
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-01 17:09:46+00:00
I use text-only commandline Google search, no Javascript, no payments to Kagi, no fits of rage, etc. I can choose from over 60 search engines, not limited to only Google or only www search. I never get ads or "AI Overviews"

It just shows that every www user is different. Each has their own preferences and "experiences"
by __rito__ | 2025-09-01 17:09:53+00:00
X algorithm is the most tunable I have come across.

I can mute all words I don't like to see, and hit a bunch of "Not Relevant" once a month or so, and my X feed has only relevant content. And it has very high density.

I like the vibes of Fedi, but not enough density.

And Bluesky is just Old Twitter 2.0 without the density of technical stuff. That's the default feeling.
by SpaceNugget | 2025-09-01 17:09:55+00:00
Since you are clearly an AI enjoyer I asked my local LLM to summarize your feelings for me. It said:

> As evidenced by the quote "I think a disclaimer is a carte blanche to do literally anything", the hackernews user <gruez> is clearly of the opinion that it is indeed ok to do whatever you want, as long is there is a sign stating it might happen.

* This text was summarized by the SpaceNugget LLM and may contain errors, and thusly no one can ever be held accountable for any mistakes herein.