MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dralley | 2025-09-16 18:09:19+00:00
It's not at all obvious that e.g. the drone attack, which involved >100 drones assembled inside Russia by human operatives who were able to safely exfiltrate, and 5 different storage containers, in a coordinated strike on 5 different airfields hundreds/thousands of kilometers apart and away from the border, is a less complex operation than the destruction of NordStream
by piva00 | 2025-09-16 18:09:47+00:00
> I actually don't find it hard to sacrifice the recreational photography of strangers, but I do have a hard time balancing it with the need to photograph crime and government entities overstepping their authorities.

We would not only lose an art form but also the recording of the past, a candid photo of today has a lot more value in 50-100 years, rather absurd to lose this. It wouldn't even guarantee anything, bad actors would continue to do so covertly.

I find it pretty hard to sacrifice it, it's a freedom, making society at large less free to fight tyranny doesn't seem the way to solve anything, e.g.: EU Chat Control bullshit.

I don't have a good answer either but I lean on the camp of seeking solutions that are smarter than a sledgehammer.
by teachrdan | 2025-09-16 18:09:52+00:00
FYI, I think the term you're slightly misusing is "running the gauntlet", which means to face a difficult trial, usually in public. Although you may be mixing it up with "to pick up the gauntlet" (but not run with it), which means to accept a challenge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet https://www.dictionary.com/browse/throw-down-the-gauntlet
by fnord77 | 2025-09-16 18:11:29+00:00
I think Java is the best language for most medium to large projects or anything that requires threading or complicated/optimized IO

Especially now that hardware architectures are getting fragmented again, I hope it becomes more relevant.

I think Springframework is dragging Java's reputation down. I know Spring boot is better but it's such a monstrosity.

I feel like sadly Python has won the war, though. Good enough for most things even though it is pretty rubbish.

I see people trying to use Rust now for prod AI systems.
by RandomBacon | 2025-09-16 18:11:29+00:00
The article is poorly written and not clear. It sounds like you're suggesting the author let Chrome save his Coinbase password and Google synced that to the attacker as well?

> Google had cloud-synced my codes.

> That was the master key. Within minutes, he was inside my Coinbase account.

The author wrote "codes", not "passwords".
by xenadu02 | 2025-09-16 18:11:31+00:00
Even if there was some technical immigration violation here its not like any of the people involved were some sort of flight risk or criminal masterminds.

They could have simply notified the company and the people about a potential problem with their visas/paperwork and asked them to provide documentation otherwise or if their visas were expired/improper to return to Korea and apply for a new visa.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-16 18:11:32+00:00
I've found the opposite: LLMs have trained on so much React that they want to spit it out even in places where that doesn't make sense. It's been useful when working with my own JSX-based library that React output is often an okay first pass, and LLMs did help me iron out a few common React "idiom" compatibility needs that were missing.
by ChrisRackauckas | 2025-09-16 18:11:39+00:00
B-S is just a (bad) explicit Runge-Kutta method. You can see this formally since if you take any order of the B-S method, you can write out its computation as a Runge-Kutta tableau. If you do this, you'll see it ends up being an explict RK method that has much higher f evaluations to achieve the leading truncation error coefficients and order that the leading RK methods get. For example, 9th order B-S uses IIRC about 2-3 times as many f evaluations as Vern9, while Vern9 gets like 3 orders of magnitude less error (on average w.r.t. LTE measurements). If you're curious about details of optimizing RK methods, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_t6dIKjUUc.

That isn't to say B-S methods aren't worth anything. The interesting thing is that they are a way to generate arbitrary order RK methods (even if no specific order is efficient, it gives a general scheme) and these RK methods have a lot of parallelism that can be exploited. We really worked through this a few years ago building parallelized implementations. The results are here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9926357/ (free version https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08135) and are part of the DifferentialEquations.jl library. The results are a bit mixed though, which is why they aren't used as the defaults. For non-stiff equations, even with parallelism it's hard to ever get them to match the best explicit RK methods, they just aren't efficient enough.

For stiff equations, if you are in the regime where BLAS does not multithread yet (basically <256 ODEs, so 256x256 LU factorizations but this is BLAS/CPU-dependent), then you can use parallelization in the form of the implicit extrapolation methods in order to factorize different matrices at the same time. Because you're doing more work than something like an optimized Rosenbrock method, you don't get strictly better, but using this to get a high order method that exploits parallelism where other methods end up being serial, you can get a good 2x-4x if you tune the initial order and everything well. This is really nice because 4 ODEs - 200 ODEs, where this ends up being the fastest method for stiff ODEs that we know of right now according to the SciMLBenchmarks https://docs.sciml.ai/SciMLBenchmarksOutput/stable/, and this ends up being a sweet spot where "most" user code online tends to be. However, since it does require tuning a bit to your system, setting threads properly, having your laptop plugged in, using more memory, and possibly upping the initial order manually, it's not the most user-friendly method. Therefore it doesn't make a great default since you're putting a lot more dependencies into the user's mind for a 2x-4x... but it's a great option to have for the person really trying to optimize. This also shows different directions that would be more fruitful and beat this algorithm pretty handedly though... but that research is in progress.
Show HN: Gingee – A GenAI Authored JavaScript App Server
by avighnay | 2025-09-16 18:11:59+00:00
Hey HN! Just wrapped the first release after couple of months of iterative dialogue driven development using Google Gemini. The goal was to see if we can rebuild the core of our SaaS platform from Rust + Duktape (human coded) to NodeJS (AI coded). The experience has been very refreshing to say the least. The project is now open sourced.

Introducing Gingee, a GenAI authored javascript application server. 95% of code, documentation, test cases were completely authored by Google Gemini. No additional tools were used just the AI Studio chat window. The entire development process AI chat transcript is documented (Link below)

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/Ob85kM234hU?si=Wy0lWHNJWqL2tVdn

AI Transcripts: https://gingerhome.github.io/gingee-docs/docs/ai-transcript/
by crowcroft | 2025-09-16 18:12:08+00:00
Suspect this is another surface they want to play around with as a gateway into an AI/ChatGPT like experience.

Google have wanted to get people out of the web and into an app for a long time and have mostly failed because traditional search is so tied to the open web.

AI Search is a lot less tied to the open web (for better or worse) and so apps make a lot more sense.
by atm3ga | 2025-09-16 18:12:36+00:00
I've set my phone to not answer unknown callers (those not in my address list) and more importantly, I've done this for my parents as well and further instruct them as often as possible to not believe anything they get in email. With all of this, my mom still will reach out at least once or twice a year in a panic about some scam email she thinks is real.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-16 18:12:41+00:00
> It says something about how they view the AI coding market

I think Microsoft views models as a commodity and they'd rather lean into their strengths as a tool maker, so this is Microsoft putting themselves into a position to make tools around/for any AI/LLM model, not just ones they have a partnership with.

Honestly I think this sort of agnosticism around AI will work out well for them.
by rlpb | 2025-09-16 18:12:41+00:00
This looks good! Unfortunately it looks like it also suffers from exactly the same software supply chain problem that we need to avoid in the first place: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/Cargo.lock

Edit: also, consider how much of https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/commits/master/ is just noise in itself. 15k commits for a project that appears to only be about four years old.
by maximamas | 2025-09-16 18:13:08+00:00
Yeah I try to keep it away from overlapping it's work as much as possible. Using plan mode in claude or just telling codex to build a plan, that is structured in a parallelized way for multiple agents usually helps delegate tasks to be handled at the same time. Typically: app code, infra, and data layer are the main three, but obviously depends on the project.

If I ever find my self just waiting, then it always gives me an opportunity to respond to messages, emails, or update tickets. Won't be long now until the agents are doing that as well...
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-16 18:13:31+00:00
Germany had an unpaid energy karma debt for stupidly decomm'ing their nuclear power for political reasons without a viable technical solution.

Russia might not have made the decision to invade Ukraine if Germany hadn't tied its energy needs so transparently to Russian natural gas.

And absent blowing up Nord Stream, might have hung Ukraine out to dry anyway.

So having to rapidly build LNG import terminals? Repaying that debt.
by palmotea | 2025-09-16 18:13:33+00:00
> Almost everyone I know in tech is not happy, and works non-stop, expected to give their all for a company that could fire them tomorrow for no reason. They have been doing this for years. If anything good comes from AI, maybe it will be a release? A release from the hell of being chained to a laptop screen for most of our lives?

And how many are libertarians, waxing poetic like billionaires about capitalism and business, and/or hate the idea of unions?

And now our power is waning and the chance of making things better for ourselves is disappearing. Software engineers are a special kind of dumb.
by bilekas | 2025-09-16 18:13:37+00:00
> President Joe Biden said on Monday that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would be halted if Russia invades Ukraine and stressed unity with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the West rallies to avert a war in Europe.

Halted.. Absolutely, political pressure on Europe to not sign or use it.

You've made the leap to blowing it up somewhere, that is the stretch I'm not buying until it's admitted to. Personally, as an Irish who knows the history of occupation during tense years, I'm not surprised what a well trained spec ops can do with some basic equipment, so my money is on Ukrainian people just doing something Impressive but I'll wait for the facts to say it's exactly what happened.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-09-16 18:13:44+00:00
> Why do people think that residential power is the issue here?

My experience has been that the vast majority of people, even very technical people, don't really understand the energy mix required to sustain modern industrial technology. Their only experience is with their utility bill which shows them a pie-chart with a big area showing "green" so they can feel better about the state of things.

Electricity production accounts for the minority of energy usage, and residential a minority of the usage of electricity. People don't think about the energy required to send an Amazon package to their door or have fruits from South America stocking their grocery store year round, or even to create the industries that ultimately make up their paychecks each month.

The pandemic was the best view of what real energy usage changes would look like. Early pandemic was a rare moment when global energy usage dipped and that had nothing to do with the demand on the residential grid.
by seanhunter | 2025-09-16 18:13:59+00:00
> more or less invented types to solve a problem he was having with set theory.

For people who haven't encountered it yet, this problem is the famous "Russell's Paradox"[1], which can be stated as

Consider the set R, consisting of all sets S such that S is not an element of S.

Ie in set builder notation

R = {S : S ∉ S}

and then the paradox comes from the followup question. Is R an element of R? Because of course if it is in R, then it is an element of itself so it should not be. And if it's not in R, then it is not an element of itself, so it should be. This is a logical paradox along the same lines as the famous "The barber in this town shaves all men who do not shave themselves. Does he shave himself?"

In modern axiomatic set theory, Russell's paradox is avoided these days by the "axiom of regularity"[2] which prevents a set builder like "the set of all sets who are not members of themselves", so what I wrote above would not be accepted as a valid set builder for this reason by most people.

Russell proposed instead Type theory which got revived when computer science got going.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_regularity
by segmenta | 2025-09-16 18:14:08+00:00
This is great, and exactly the type of thing we would love folks to build on Rowboat!

Rowboat has tools to search the web, find HN posts, browse Reddit etc, and you can ask the copilot to build an agent to filter posts based on topics - at the granularity that you want. We have time based triggers, so you can have the agent invoked every x hours.

We have a similar prebuilt template you could checkout: https://app.rowboatlabs.com/projects?shared=N2pJTzyTdh-NdwMi....
by ManualEntry | 2025-09-16 18:14:41+00:00
BLIT is interesting, but I wonder if precedence already exists in photosensitive epilepsy and sending flicker/stroboscope videos/gifs. Of course with a lot of caveats (rarely deadly, affects few), but the idea seems similar to me.

Apparently it is illegal in the UK to do that and I'd guess it is illegal in most countries. https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/news/sending-triggering-images-o...

edit: Didn't find a case, but it is illegal in the UK at least.
by BatteryMountain | 2025-09-16 18:15:13+00:00
Better idea: instead of bending the entire internet to "protect the children", how about we just ban minors from the internet completely? It was never built for kids, its never been kid friendly to begin with. Minors cannot buy guns or vote, not get married, nor enter into contracts, yet tech companies get a free pass to engage with minors. Why? I think the the tech companies know exacty what minors do on their systems, they allow it and profit from it. Exploiting minors and bad parents. So instead of trying to change the whole internet, how about we keep the people who are responsible for the minors accountable: the parents.

If I start any kind of company, I cannot just invent new rules for society via ToS; rather the society makes the laws. If we just make a simple law that states minors are not allowed to access the web and/or access any user generated content (including chat), it won't need to be enforced by every site/app owner, it would be up to the parents.

The same way schools cannot decide certain things for your children (even though they regularly over reach...).

We need better parenting. How about some mandatory parenting classes/licenses for new parents? Silly right? Well its just as silly as trying to police the entire internet. Ban the kids from internet and the problem will be 95% solved.
by khuey | 2025-09-16 18:16:22+00:00
That Ukrainians did it?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukrainian-man-ar...

That they did it for their own motivations?

It seems at least as plausible that they did it because wanted to hurt Russia as it does that Washington ordered them to do it, to put it mildly. Washington has been supporting Ukraine during the war but has been rather reticent to support attacking Russian assets that are outside the territory of Ukraine.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-16 18:16:26+00:00
The funny thing is, KDE 3.5.x had the global menu bar as a feature. It didn't get ported to >4.x since there was not much interest.

I guess it still can be done.

How mouse/keys/scrolling behaves, what pointing devices do in what cases are easy cases for KDE. Notification system is also pretty powerful.

The reality is, everything is cross-pollinating from each other. Even if making pixel-perfect copies is not possible, both are pretty interchangeable.

I use both Macs and KDE for more than 15 years now, and can switch from one to other instantly. Both are in front of me during a normal workday, and I just switch without thinking.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-16 18:16:34+00:00
On the one hand, this kind of thing seems like a mercurial, dictatorial management style. On the other hand, you do need a way to cut through the levels of hierarchy in a large company so that fixes like this don't always get bogged down in process and stakeholder meetings.

It seemed to work for Apple/Steve Jobs, but I'm not convinced it would work for everyone.
by piva00 | 2025-09-16 18:16:55+00:00
6 minutes before this comment you proclaimed yourself a Tesla fanboy, admitted the door handles are unsafe, and now you are trying to deflect the criticism to point out the EuroNCAP results?

Would the EuroNCAP stat help you in any way if your kids get trapped on the back of your car while you are unconscious and burn to death because they don't know how to operate the handle? That's the issue, it doesn't matter the EuroNCAP if such a stupid decision has and will kill people, statistically it's very improbable it will affect you but it will affect someone just like you.

Please, let go of the cult...
by csours | 2025-09-16 18:17:32+00:00
If you can design the product and environment to fit automation, then automation can be quick and effective.

The less you can change about the product and environment, then automation run slower and less effectively.

Air liner operations could be automated, but the minimum equipment list would be more stringent, the destination airport would not be able to take any equipment out of service for maintenance, visibility minimums would increase, takeoff and landing operations would require more slack time.

Besides all of that, the owner of the airplane would still want to have some crew on board.

In short, it's not worth it yet.

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There is also the paradox of automation: Automation generally makes the hard parts harder and the easy parts easier.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-09-16 18:17:55+00:00
Steven Jobs was an absolute beast at devouring consumers and generating (flooding) the company with cashflow via yet another handheld device. With Steve at the wheel, that flood of cashflow was able to directly fuel the next device R&D with very few market misses. Welcome to the end of that long road. Tim has nothing on the horizon that comes close to the lighting-in-a-bottle, handheld revolution that Steve started with the iPod. What you are finally witnessing is the common thread in Apple's 'alignment' over a very long time is simply APPL.
by aktuel | 2025-09-16 18:17:59+00:00
chatgp did much more than that. it gave the user a direct hint how to circumvent the restriction: "i cannot discuss suicide unless ..." further chatgpt repeatedly discouraged the user from talking to his parents about any of this. that's on top of all the sycophancy of course. making him feel like chatgpt is the only one who truly understands him and excoriating his real relationships.
by sunscream89 | 2025-09-16 18:18:12+00:00
Awareness is only the tip of consciousness. Consciousness is the feedback loop with the existential potential bound in our neurons.

We are not consciousness or unconsciousness by whether we are strictly aware or even remember.

We are consciousness every moment we are living and conscious only when awake and cognitively responsive.

We can reprogram our minds and bodies through consciousness, awareness is only one tool, and those changes influence us even when we are not deliberately aware of them.

It sounds like this article refers to nerve firing or cognitive awareness being the sum total or measure of “consciousness”.
Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
by henryl | 2025-09-16 18:18:56+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m Henry, cofounder and CTO at Span (https://span.app/). Today we’re launching AI Code Detector, an AI code detection tool you can try in your browser.

The explosion of AI generated code has created some weird problems for engineering orgs. Tools like Cursor and Copilot are used by virtually every org on the planet – but each codegen tool has its own idiosyncratic way of reporting usage. Some don’t report usage at all.

Our view is that token spend will start competing with payroll spend as AI becomes more deeply ingrained in how we build software, so understanding how to drive proficiency, improve ROI, and allocate resources relating to AI tools will become at least as important as parallel processes on the talent side.

Getting true visibility into AI-generated code is incredibly difficult. And yet it’s the number one thing customers ask us for.

So we built a new approach from the ground up.

Our AI Code Detector is powered by span-detect-1, a state-of-the-art model trained on millions of AI- and human-written code samples. It detects AI-generated code with 95% accuracy, and ties it to specific lines shipped into production. Within the Span platform, it’ll give teams a clear view into AI’s real impact on velocity, quality, and ROI.

It does have some limitations. Most notably, it only works for TypeScript and Python code. We are adding support for more languages: Java, Ruby, and C# are next. Its accuracy is around 95% today, and we’re working on improving that, too.

If you’d like to take it for a spin, you can run a code snippet here (https://code-detector.ai/) and get results in about five seconds. We also have a more narrative-driven microsite (https://www.span.app/detector) that my marketing team says I have to share.

Would love your thoughts, both on the tool itself and your own experiences. I’ll be hanging out in the comments to answer questions, too.
by tcoff91 | 2025-09-16 18:19:51+00:00
With the New Architecture & Expo, react native is in a great state right now and is gaining momentum. We've been able to onboard a lot of web devs onto working on our new Expo universal app at my employer and only a small subset of us need to be react-native experts. We provide a component library & other platform tools to help a bunch of web devs ship an app that works on iOS, android, and web.

Over the air javascript updates are such a massive advantage over fully native apps, and expo-router now has server-driven UI via react server components.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-16 18:19:52+00:00
I think it makes sense since this was a techincal violation where they improperly used the Visa Waiver Program instead of applying for B-1 visas. They almost certainly would have received as employees of a South Korean chaebol—highly reputable, well-documented employers that consular officers typically view as strong B-1 cases for short-term business travel. South Koreans vigorously compete to work at these corporations and while 1 or 2 migth have been denied. It’s highly doubtful that a US consular officer would view them as a flight risk.