MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pizzly | 2025-09-04 22:09:27+00:00
Seeing that it works for a ESP32 chip I would say that its very likely to work on a smartphones's wifi chip though the article didn't say. Many people carry phones with them everywhere and all the time. You could build a very impressive profile of a person. It could be used to see when they get excited, scared, angry, etc at depending on what they view on the phone, the phone call they received, where they physically located on the earth, who they are around (by looking at identities of other phones near them) and properly other things as well I have not thought of.
by b-karl | 2025-09-04 22:09:50+00:00
Completely agree. I think this was kind of solved going to university where most of the math courses did not allow calculators and similar tools or books present and the tests were designed to not require these and instead focused on theory and concepts. I think isolating test environments is one thing and then you can in addition have classes or assignments where AI and other tools are available and acceptable to use.
by onesociety2022 | 2025-09-04 22:10:09+00:00
That only makes sense if Stripe issues their own stablecoins? If they let their customers hold USDC on the Tempo chain, then any revenue from holding short-term treasuries goes to Circle. Are you suggesting Stripe would force Circle to share some of their revenue with them or they launch their own stablecoin to compete with USDC?
by palata | 2025-09-04 22:11:47+00:00
> On a regular basis, the lawyer says he receives phone calls and messages intended for the tech founder, which sometimes include death threats and requests for money. But when this daily nuisance turned into a potential loss of income, Mark Zuckerberg lost his patience with Mark Zuckerberg.

Death threats are fine. But if it becomes a potential loss of income, that's not okay anymore!
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-04 22:12:05+00:00
I use them as an intelligence layer over disk cleanup tools, to manage deployments/cloud configs, I have big repo organization workflows, they can manage my KDE system settings, I use them as editors on documents all over my filesystem (to add comments for revision, not to rewrite, that's not consistent enough), I use them to do deep research on topics and save reports, to look at my google analytics and seo data and suggest changes to my pages. Frankly if I had my druthers I wouldn't use a mouse, the agent would use visual tracking (eye/hand) along with words and body language to just quickly figure out what I want.
by 6r17 | 2025-09-04 22:12:57+00:00
I worked in crypto space for about 2 years ; and even tough we had great use of the crypto-system for our community ; it ended up being a large cost that we could have yielded better with something else - and it was not because specifically "crypto" - but because ultimately the engineering costs of a generic purpose chain are replicated to all child-chains. So you end up with drastic cost for something that would have seemed pretty simple to resolve. Not only that - the hole thing stinks with a lack of engineering methodology - there are so many ways to build a decentralized system and many of these are shadowed by the constraints and what-not blockchain overhead is adding. I'm not saying is *bad for everything* - i'm saying it's difficult to use properly ; and using a "chain as a service" ultimately provokes a lot of cost. For the one that stripe is providing ; I suspect it's a POA with standard implementation which is specifically tailored for building coins - and this is another subject which is very grey as indeed this provides a way to incentivize, construct "exchange contracts" for certain actions etc... - this is an interesting space - but as others are saying it's also very unregulated.

I'm cautious about these
by cycomanic | 2025-09-04 22:13:26+00:00
Now I'm not generally a big defender of Germany, but the reason for much more prevalent use of cash is largely privacy in Germany. And I sort of agree that handing all monetary transactions to the mastercard/visa duopoly is a terrible idea.

We are essentially trading the convinience of a tap for increased prices and unelected gatekeepers that can (and will) easily push sectors out of business, because they don't like what they do.

Regarding the parking, I much rather would be able to pay with cash than the $2 parking plus 50 cents cc transaction fee that you have to pay in many places in NZ.
by ggm | 2025-09-04 22:13:53+00:00
That's a very bad idea. They're right to be concerned. Over here we do (mostly) reflect on cane toads which are still a problem but perhaps less than feared?, but it was never funny, and nor are fire ants or varroa mite. Fire ants could wreak havoc on enjoyment of the outside, and the wildlife. Varroa is mainly a problem to an introduced species admittedly (native bees are not affected) but replacement pollinators at scale will take time.

Dung beetles and catoblastus moth were carefully worked through, took decades of work to decide to release.

So back in Cali, bringing the eucalypt in the first place was the root cause.
by themafia | 2025-09-04 22:13:57+00:00
I think companies see WFH as a huge employee benefit and expect that they'll reduce their wage expectations accordingly.

I think most employees see WFH as the only logical solution in a society with high speed internet readily available.

It's a bummer these corporations spent so lavishly on their campuses in the 2010s. Now they want to throw good money after bad trying to save face on this strategic blunder.

It's similar how Bill Gates wrote a book in 1996 and barely mentions or foresees the massive changes about to happen because of the Internet. It took him a decade to admit the mistake and his company a further decade to rectify it.
by saltcured | 2025-09-04 22:13:58+00:00
My view is that USENET ran the gamut, depending on what group you were reading. Some would feel more like your typical HN thread or a well-behaved, niche Reddit topic, and others could be just as messy as you could find today. Just in text form rather than images and whatnot.

There is an overall style shift over the long term, e.g. USENET was a little more like email lists and less like chat. More like writing letters to one another rather than having an interactive conversation.

But, those social network problems already existed. There were various kinds of trolls, just like today. Some were just permanently in it for a laugh, others seeming more focused on dealing out grief, and some who (rumor had it) would escalate their newsgroup beefs into real life harassment and stalking. I think there was a period where using real identities, e.g. university email IDs and real names, was typical but then eventually it was mostly pseudonyms whether by explicit blind mailers or just the wave of random usernames at random commercial ISPs.

I don't know what drove what, but I'd say many groups died by attrition. People with niche interests and finite patience started finding other venues like web rings and web forums. Eventually it was mostly trolls, floods of binary attachments, and newsgroup necromancers.
by bfeynman | 2025-09-04 22:14:01+00:00
what's interesting about this one is that their claims about what makes slashy different are almost entirely wrong... almost all the big models let you connect and do all of the things mentioned. Not understanding MCP at all is hilarious. If an agent has toosl to access multiple data sources it will make calls across them to resolve things, not sure whatever claiming but there's no way you are actually indexing at scale and probably doing just the exact same thing.
by hitradostava | 2025-09-04 22:14:18+00:00
Patrick, the problems you describe (speed, cost, cross-border friction) already have solutions. SEPA Instant, FedNow, PIX, and providers like Wise move money in seconds, at negligible cost, inside regulated systems. Tempo doesn’t solve payments; it sidesteps oversight.

By shifting flows onto a private stablecoin ledger, Stripe isn’t fixing inefficiency; it’s making it easier to route money in ways regulators and tax authorities can’t easily monitor. That’s not innovation, it’s the oldest trick in the crypto playbook: pretend you’re improving payments, when what you’re really selling is a way around the rules.
by 63stack | 2025-09-04 22:14:24+00:00
You have the entire Lua language available in vim plugins, so you can just read all the files on the disk that the user has access to, you don't need to make an lsp plugin.

Executing shell commands is also possible, yes. Reading the root password is not possible because that's handled by an external program (forgot the specifics on Linux), but you could technically present a fake password prompt, and steal that.
by jonathanlb | 2025-09-04 22:14:45+00:00
I disagree with the binary (family/society) framing because the well-being of children has always depended on overlapping responsibilities between parents, communities, and society. Not only that, but that false dichotomy also ignores children's autonomy as well.

Either way, in this debate, what really matters are outcomes- whether children thrive or not.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-04 22:14:49+00:00
I would appreciate if the "norm" was recognized to be not having your body rot away over time.

It really is simple: aging is incredibly harmful and undesirable. It strips away your quality of life until there isn't much left and then you die. It doesn't take any more than that for it to be declared a disease.

Whether it's "natural" or whether "everyone has it" is a distraction. If everyone was born with cancer, that wouldn't make cancer any less of a disease.
by wubrr | 2025-09-04 22:14:57+00:00
> It’s a wild argument that entertainment does not provide practical value for society.

I'm talking specifically about NFL (and some other sports). Not all entertainment.

> It’s an overwhelming driver of capitalism and consumer behavior

That doesn't make it a benefit to society. Slavery was an 'economic driver' - is that of overall benefit to society? Dishonest advertising is a 'driver of capitalism and consumer behaviour' - is dishonest advertising a benefit to society?

> and it also provides real social and cultural cohesion.

Really? An arbitrary made up game provides 'real' social and cultural cohesion? How so? The only reason NFL is so popular is because it was very strongly pushed onto society for decades in a top-down way everywhere from schools to television, radio, etc. It's been long understood that sports entertainment makes people pay less attention to things that actually practically affect them such as policy and economics, and that's part of the reason sports entertainment is so heavily pushed in US. You can replace NFL with another arbitrary made-up ball-game and nothing would change.

> As to the 850k median salary, you also have to consider that the vast majority of players don’t last more than a few years in the league.

I don't see how that's relevant? Are they incapable of working after playing the NFL? Or is working a regular job like the rest of us so shockingly terrible that it shouldn't even be considered for NFL players?

> The lifetime value of an NFL career is far less - and far more rare - than a big tech career.

If they were to live and spend like a regular person, they would save in 3 years more than the median person saves in their entire life.

> And on top of that, the advertising you dismiss is what funds much of big tech

That doesn't really contradict my point at all? I wouldn't mind at all if ads were less prevalent, more honest, and ad-based big tech like meta made less money.

> is integral to how capitalist society functions as a whole.

That's a big claim that I doubt you can back up.
by fwipsy | 2025-09-04 22:15:28+00:00
> > I don't think there is any solid basis to say this.

> The history of eugenic programs as well the blocking of male/female sex hormones to inhibit sexual development or for transitional purposes should reveal a solid basis. Brain/body are capable of recovering close to a genetic baseline, at least up to some age.

Showing that some effect can result from some cause is not sufficient to show that it does result from that cause. To be honest I don't even follow exactly what claim you're making here. But even if you show that e.g. certain mental problems can result from reduced or increased blood flow to certain areas of the brain, it does not follow that that is always the cause.

You're resting big confident assertions on "I read this somewhere, go look it up." In fact biology and mentation are complex and we don't have the whole picture. It's easy to put together whatever "just so story" you want by rearranging fragments of evidence, but it doesn't make it true.
by hitekker | 2025-09-04 22:15:29+00:00
> Their ugly side may have made me want to avoid interacting with them as a whole

For me, that means "dislike" or "not like". When I see a part of them is not good for me, I can say I don't like that part. When that part underlies the rest of them, then I wouldn't like them very much and I'd want to keep my distance. It's human nature. Not a judgement but a preference.

You may be speaking instead about "love" which I would agree more with as a child of God. Love the person I dislike as a fellow person, because of a true beauty in them that may not be because of them[1]. I think that can also work without religion in select cases: my mom knows my sister and she doesn't like my sister, but my mom still loves her all the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infused_righteousness
by bspammer | 2025-09-04 22:15:35+00:00
Downloading the game wasn't a problem for anyone, as far as I know the CDN held up fine. The problem was the steam storefront, i.e. actually buying the game.

This makes sense because there are several live service games on steam that have hundreds of thousands of active players - any update will put a large instantaneous load on the CDN as all the clients are forced to update at the same time, and this happens extremely frequently so they've had to get good at handling it.

What doesn't happen very frequently is hundreds of thousands of people trying to buy a game at exactly the same time, because most games have pre-orders.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-04 22:15:35+00:00
You want an aviation accelerator firm like jetBlue Ventures, not YC. Go look around their website and get some ideas. Once you're done, go ask Claude or DeepSeek some questions about how they operate, what their competitors are and how you could qualify for meeting with them.

https://www.jetblueventures.com/
by bralca88 | 2025-09-04 22:15:36+00:00
When I started building features with AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.), I noticed the main failure was not the model itself, it was context. • Too little context → hallucinations. • Dumping the whole repo → confusion and inconsistent outputs. • Across prompts, the agent forgot my architecture and conventions.

At first, I worked around it manually: • Writing PRDs and tech specs that compared current vs. target state. • Creating step-by-step task lists so the agent worked incrementally. • Copy-pasting relevant files into prompts to keep outputs grounded.

It worked, but it did not scale.

So I wrapped the process into Context Engineer MCP, a server that: • Analyzes your repo and tech stack. • Captures coding styles, naming patterns, and conventions. • Generates PRDs, technical blueprints, and task lists before coding starts. • Runs locally, so no code ever leaves your machine.

The surprising part: with context handled, I shipped production features entirely vibe-coded without the usual drop in quality as the codebase grew.

I would love feedback from HN, both from people experimenting with AI-assisted coding and from anyone thinking about better ways to manage context for dev tools.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-04 22:15:38+00:00
> you still need exchanges, wallet providers, people running nodes, etc

you don't need exchanges or wallet providers, or any other intermediary, to exchange Bitcoin -- those add layers of convenience (conversion, storage), but they do _not_ strengthen the web of trust and do not provide the same function as intermediary banks and clearing houses do

yes, you do need people running nodes, but they're not intermediate layers, and you can run a node yourself to benefit from the system (though in practice it's no longer profitable due to bitcoin farms)
by onenite | 2025-09-04 22:15:40+00:00
Reminds me of the first pair of verses of the Dhammapada (words of the Buddha from ~2500 years ago. … allegedly):

Mind precedes all mental states.

Mind is their chief; they are mind-made.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

.

Mind precedes all mental states.

Mind is their chief; they are mind-made.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Source: https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/dp01/
Tell HN: Think twice before activating two-factor authentication on Vivaldi
by msali | 2025-09-04 22:15:40+00:00
I have been using Vivaldi Mail since the company was founded, trusting in Jon von Tetzchner (former Opera founder, now Vivaldi Technologies), glad for a reliable alternative to Gmail. Around two years back, Vivaldi announced that their account now supported 2FA. But when I checked it out, it came with an omnious warning that you could lose access to your account permanently if any of the 2FA method failed. So I avoided it for nearly 2 years till I succumbed to the security fearmongering of using 2FA (or else!) and enabled it a few months back. Long story short, both TOPT and Recovery Codes today suddenly stopped working on my Vivaldi Account (I have no idea why - it just says "Authentication Failed!"), and I cannot access it anymore. Vivaldi support says I have now lost access to my account permanently, and they cannot do anything. So now I am in the ridiculous situation of having access to my emails through IMAP, from an email client (through which I can still send and receive mail) but can't access it through a browser and am denied total access to change any setting on it (like disabling 2FA or change my password)! My account has an alternative email, my phone number and I think even security questions (all of which Vivaldi insists on) and can be used to verify I am who I say I am, but apparently they still cannot do anything to grant me back access to an account I've used for maybe 10+ years now. I am at a loss on how to deal with such convoluted, broken, online security measures ...
by Animats | 2025-09-04 22:15:53+00:00
Right. Just at the point I expected to find the list, there's only a "Subscribe" button to ignore.

Hm. Examples:

- Amazon? Long road to profitability, but there was fast early growth.

- Space-X, which took a long time to get to a successful launch.

- Someone already mentioned Nvidia.

- Waymo, which took about 15 years from start to real service, and now is doubling in size more than once a year.

- ASML, founded in 1984 and took a long time to become the dominant player in photolithograpy.

- Roblox, tiny for over a decade, then gradually found the right market and really grew.

Who else.
by gdulli | 2025-09-04 22:16:25+00:00
https://bsky.app/profile/curious-maga.bsky.social/post/3loel...

He first invents a link between a topic being "complex" with not being able to take a side. Then he conflates taking a side with "bias".

This is detached from reality. That is not nitpicking words. This is a word salad that starts with a need to dismiss a viewpoint and works backwards.

This "co-founder" was let go from Wikipedia in its first year over 20 years ago. He's had a crusade against them ever since.
by xpe | 2025-09-04 22:16:26+00:00
>10? >33? >100? >333?

Just informal conversations? Or surveys of some kind? I’m genuinely curious. After studying statistics and research design, I have learned to be very cautious at what I conclude.

I often talk with various people outside of my usual peer and work groups, but I wouldn’t know how to get anything close to an unbiased take given the social constraints. Maybe I would notice large shifts over time.

Observation: LLMs are pretty new in the scheme of things and information diffusion seems pretty different across age groups, geographies, and professions. This makes it pretty hard to even be confident that one knows how to collect good data.
by programmertote | 2025-09-04 22:16:29+00:00
I left Amazon due to RTO. They hired me as a fully remote employee (I was told that the VP of Prime US was one of those who signed off on my remote arrangement). Anyway, a year later, they asked me to move to Seattle or Virginia (wherever their second office is) or Chicago (there's only like one or two directors from my team located there; most of the team are located in Seattle or Virginia). I started looking for a remote job and in 3 months, I was out.

Things I didn't like about Amazon: - you get paid once a month (basically, you'll letting the company use your money for free) - if I remember correctly, you get your RSUs vested at the end of the year for the second year (I think it's like 20% of your total comp) - your comp is heavily reliant on RSUs for the third and fourth year AND the base salary was below 200K - some of the things they do are cult-y - too much writing instead of building prototypes - some folks there practice resume-driven development regardless of whether it's actually good for the org/group in terms of maintainability, simplicity, etc.

Having said that, I met good coworkers and worked in a good team (luckily) although our on-calls were sometimes brutal (like hundreds of tickets a week during the on-call).
by kevindamm | 2025-09-04 22:16:32+00:00
It shouldn't be about hours in a seat, it should be about deliverables met and actions & communication around those that couldn't be met. For knowledge work and creative tasks, at least.

I would really be surprised if Amazon didn't allow their top performers a day or two of WFH per week in pre-pandemic days. Other FAANGs basically had that policy before the pandemic. If they're really saying 5-day RTO for everyone, yeah, there are a lot of people who would legitimately decline those terms.
by knorker | 2025-09-04 22:16:53+00:00
> Over the last few years, stablecoins have become a preferred means to hold and move money (for convenience, etc).

Huh?

In the western world this is nonsense. I move 6-7 digits regularly, internationally, even between continents, for free. Convenience of cryptocurrency? Lol. Maybe if I want to send money to Nigeria or North Korea.

Cryptocurrency was never more convenient. It's cheaper than Western Union when that's the only alternative, but boy is that a low bar and an edge case.

Traditional banking is getting faster and cheaper by the year, so your claim is getting less true every day, not more,
by rolph | 2025-09-04 22:17:32+00:00
if this actually did happen it is an international crime.

u.s. coastguard has been using force to detain vessels crew, and passengers for quite sometime, by hitting the vessels engines, and boarding the vessel.

you see not everyone is always narco, the feasibility of a vessel operator not knowing drugs are present is there. the possibility of persons having no involvement, or knowledge of drugs is a large one.

refugees, migrants, and trafficked persons would be witnesses, not co-conspirators.

a military naval group, attacking unmilitarized vessels in international water is a big deal, as in maybe a joint forces operation would detain and prosecute a sitting U.S. president, if this actually did happen.
by beaugunderson | 2025-09-04 22:18:03+00:00
in Chelan County where I live they came up with a Large Load policy specifically to protect the rates of other local users... the large load customer gets short-term access to power and then has to source it elsewhere (with the PUD in the middle). Microsoft is here and apparently plans to source from Helion long-term which is building their first generator just down the street. they also have to pay for their own grid upgrades as needed.

more information here: https://www.chelanpud.org/about-us/events-calendar/event/202...