MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by everforward | 2025-09-17 18:23:50+00:00
I dislike it because it exposes content creators to similar pressures as traditional TV. There's a lot of content that doesn't get made because that content would be unsponsorable or worse yet would make the creator in general unsponsorable. It's also created some strange and twisted linguistics to appease sponsors or YouTube's algorithm like "unalive" or "PDF file" (as a standin for pedophile).

I guess it's the way of the world, but the introduction of heavy monetization has definitely influenced the kind of content YouTube carries.
by tguvot | 2025-09-17 18:24:01+00:00
Nobody in Israel propped up Hamas to win elections. Palestinian elections in 2006 were forced by USA (because democracy and stuff) despite objections from Israel and PA who were afraid that Hamas will win.

When Hamas won elections (both in west bank and gaza) and assembled government, USA sponsored coup executed by PLO. Coup succeeded in West Bank and failed in Gaza.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-17 18:24:17+00:00
I explained how Democrats were going to alienate one part of their voter base no matter what they did. Do you have an alternate pathway for how the Democrats could have magically chosen both options at once?

And there was no alternative. It was "no explicit political support for Palestine" regardless, the only choice being made was "fucked by Trump" or "not fucked by Trump". Anyone with any sense of political strategy would have seen this. I have no sympathy for people who feel the need to vote for "their feelings" instead of the reality we actually live in, because they fucked me. I can't understand how someone would have more emotional connection to the fantasy their vote on paper represents than to the reality their actions will create.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-17 18:24:29+00:00
The United States has had this relationship with Israel for how long? Trying to tie the relationship to Epstein or throwing out random 'I'm just asking questions' isn't legitimate and is purely just a smear attempt. The USA and Israel have a long and historic relationship no need for conspiracy theories that vear really close to anti-semitic tropes. Funny how these baseless, historically disproven (did Epstein/Telegram go back in time and create the US/Israel relationship?) unserious smear attempts are 'legitimate' discussion when it comes to Israel, but not really any other discussion. This is no different than the disgusting BS pushing Israel somehow is responsible for Charlie Kirk.

“Never believe that antisemites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The antisemite has the right to play. They even like to play with discourse, for by giving ridiculous reasons they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutor. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-09-17 18:25:25+00:00
>> We don’t read assembly because we read the higher level code, which deterministically is compiled to lower level code.

I think the reason "we" don't read, or write, assembly is that it takes a lot of effort and a detailed understanding of computer architecture that are simply not found in the majority of programmers, e.g. those used to working with javascript frameworks on web apps etc.

There are of course many "we" who work with assembly every day: as a for instance, people working with embedded systems, or games programmers as another.
by gradientsrneat | 2025-09-17 18:25:55+00:00
> Western models won’t help Islamic State projects but have no problem with Falun Gong, CrowdStrike said

> the most secure code in CrowdStrike’s testing was for projects destined for the United States

Does anyone know if there's public research along these lines explaining in depth the geopolitical biases of other models of similar sizes? Sounds like the research has been done.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-09-17 18:26:02+00:00
Might not be so much a matter of care as implicit association with quality. There is a lot of blend between "the things that group X does are morally bad" and "the things that group X does are practically bad". Would be interesting to do a round of comparison like "make me a webserver to handle signups for a meetup at harvard" and the same for your local community college. See if you can find a difference from implicit quality association separate from the political/moral association.
by everforward | 2025-09-17 18:26:05+00:00
The brand recognition is worth something. I haven't been in the market for new headphones in a long time, but I still know the name Raycon from the bajillion sponsorships they do.

Likewise with NordVPN and Raid: Shadowlegends. Never used any of them, don't really intend to, but I do know the name.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-09-17 18:26:35+00:00
And why in the world do you think it didn't? I haven't seen the particular video he's referring to but I've seen enough that I do not find his claim unreasonable.

Remember that 47 minutes of video Israel was screening for reporters but did not release? They've gotten permission from some of the families and have released part of it. You definitely see people being killed on camera.

And the really important part isn't the video itself, but that it's stuff that Hams people chose to post on social media. Something to be cheered, not a horror.
by twalichiewicz | 2025-09-17 18:26:36+00:00
I get why it feels bleak—low-effort AI output flooding workflows isn’t fun to deal with. But the dynamic isn’t new. It only feels unprecedented because we’re living through it. Think back: the loom, the printing press, the typewriter, the calculator.

When Gutenberg’s press arrived, monks likely thought: “Who would want uniform, soulless copies of the Bible when I can hand-craft one with perfect penmanship and illustrations? I’ve spent my life mastering this craft.”

But most people didn’t care. They wanted access and speed. The same trade-off shows up with mass-market books, IKEA furniture, Amazon basics. A small group still prizes the artisanal version, but the majority just wants something that works.
by bananalychee | 2025-09-17 18:26:47+00:00
Your post is fair, but it's not how I read the OP, which seems less concerned with consolidation of power than with people supportive of Israel having power. And while I appreciate that criticism of Israel is not anti-semitism, believing that Israel is a legitimate state that has the right to self-defense is all it takes to be labelled as a "Zionist", and at that point it's practically a euphemism for "Jew". I'm not familiar enough with Bari Weiss's views to tell if that's what's being done here, but the use of a pejorative without clarification, combined with the fixation on "Zionists" and the implication that their intent surely must be to issue pro-Israel propaganda in particular makes it sound a lot like old-school anti-semitism.
Ask HN: Coding Agents and 3rd party integrations?
by itsankur | 2025-09-17 18:26:53+00:00
We still face issues with Cursor just hallucinating methods, parameters, types, and imports when integrating things like Stripe, AWS (S3 in our case), ClerkAuth, Tanstack, and Sentry, and now even Ragie.

We connected the Context 7 MCP Server and it tends to miss a lot for us. Maybe we're doing something wrong?

I'm surprised there isn't something out there that can write perfect integrations for any API yet.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-17 18:26:55+00:00
These machine-to-machine OIDC flows seem secure, and maybe they are when they’re implemented properly, but they’re really difficult to configure. And I can’t shake the feeling that they’re basically just “tokens with more moving parts,” at least for a big chunk of exploitation paths. Without a human in the loop, there’s still some “thing” that gets compromised, whether it’s a token or something that generates time-limited tokens.

In the case of this worm, the OIDC flow wouldn’t even help. The GitHub workflow was compromised. If the workflow was using an OIDC credential like this to publish to npm, the only difference would be the npm publish command wouldn’t use any credential because the GitHub workflow would inject some temporary identity into the environment. But the root problem would remain: an untrusted user shouldn’t be able to execute a workflow with secret parameters. Maybe OIDC would limit the impact to be more fine-grained, but so would changing the token permissions.
by greenavocado | 2025-09-17 18:27:01+00:00
AI generated code by Claude Sonnet, Kimi K2 0905, GLM-4.5 is not good enough to simultaneously maintain structure and implement features in complex code without doing insane things like grossly violating each SOLID principle. If you impose too much structure upon them, they fall apart as they don't truly understand the long range ramifications of their code too often. These assistants are best suited for generating highly testable snippets of code and pushing them to work in a large codebase pushes their capabilities too far, too often.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-09-17 18:27:10+00:00
Only boomers in the US right wing have a net favorable view of Israel and it seems to me a lot of that is driven by contrarianism in response to the Left. The left hate it to therefore I must like it… that and the evangelicals. As the genocide drags on I think it’s putting many boomers off and more up to date polling may find that Israel is underwater there too. That would only leave the right wing leadership being net pro Israel which simply highlights the disconnect between politicians and the people that vote for them.

I’m pretty sure buying media companies like this is an attempt to stop the bleeding.
by Defletter | 2025-09-17 18:27:23+00:00
Your defensiveness is completely hindering you and I cannot be bothered with that so here are some much needed clarifications:

> I am not a C/C++ cultist at all, and I actually don't like C++ (the language) so much (I've worked with it for years). I, for one, do not love it when there is an exploit in a language package manager.

If you do neither of those things then did it ever occur to you that this might not be about YOU?

> I find it ironic that when I explain that my problem is that I want to be able to audit (and maintain, if necessary) my dependencies, the answer that comes suggests that I am incompetent and "inexpertly" doing my job.

Yeah, hi, no you didn't explain that. You're probably mistaking me for someone else in some other conversation you had. The only comment of yours prior to mine in the thread is you saying "I can use pkg-config just fine." And again, you're thinking that I'm calling YOU incompetent, or even that I'm calling you incompetent. But okay, I'm sure your code never has bugs, never has memory issues, is never poorly designed or untested, that you can whip out an OpenGL alternative whatever in no time and it be just as stable and battle-tested, and to say otherwise must be calling you incompetent. That makes total sense.

> AUR stands for "Arch User Repository". It's not the official system repository.

> So it's not a good example if you want to talk about official repositories.

I said system package, not official repository. I don't know why you keep insisting on countering an argument I did not make. Yes, system packages can be installed from unofficial repositories. I don't know how I could've made this clearer.

--

Overall, getting bored of this, though the part where you harp on about doing dependencies properly compared to me and not elaborating one bit is very funny. Have a nice day.
by metabagel | 2025-09-17 18:27:59+00:00
Tesla is still at level 2 autonomy, whereas Waymo is at level 4.

It doesn't appear Tesla can achieve level 3 autonomy given Musk's ideological opposition to lidar. Without lidar, the AI has to be 100% accurate, and it's not and won't be for the foreseeable future.

As they say in Maine, "You can't get there from here."
by daft_pink | 2025-09-17 18:28:09+00:00
I find this is what happens to me. I just back burner things that I don’t want to do and do the easy stuff and after a while I just have a list of all these back burner undoable projects and it’s like the worst thing ever because then I’m not motivated to do anything, because I have to complete all these terrible back burner projects.
by jerojero | 2025-09-17 18:28:21+00:00
It does seem mismatched but it's also an opportunity for Oracle to become relevant in the space, if they handle it right.

Though yeah, if they go the Yahoo-route it's going to be a huge waste. But it's really up to how the company handles the acquisition.

Yahoo missed big time by just trying to change the culture of the userbase way too quickly. They didn't like that people were posting porn on Tumblr when that was one of the most important aspects of the platform for the users. They bled way too many users and took way too long of a time to do anything about it.

I feel like Tumblr should have done their own patreon/OF type of push within the platform but they didn't have the vision. They literally had all the creators of that type of content at some point and they've now all moved to X/Twitter.

I hope (i mean, idgaf but you know it's a figure of speech) that Oracle has a better perspective about the issue so they don't commit another billion(s) dollar(s) crime.
by juancn | 2025-09-17 18:28:29+00:00
I only use small local models like those of IntelliJ (under 100M each), which just save you the tedium of typing some common boilerplate.

But I don't prompt them, they typically just suggest a completion, usually better than what we had before from pure static analysis.

Anything more it detracts. I learn nothing, and the code is believable crap, which requires mindbogglingly boring and intense code reviews.

It's sometimes fine to prototype throw-away code (specially if you don't to intend to invest in learning the tech deeply), but I don't like what I miss by not doing the thinking by myself.
by skydhash | 2025-09-17 18:28:34+00:00
It’s easy to skip quality with code, starting with coding only the happy path and bad design that hides bugs. Handling errors properly can take a lot of times, and designing to avoid errors takes longer.

So when you have a tools that can produce things that fits the happy path easily, don’t be surprised that the amount of PRs goes up. Because before, by the time you can write the happy path that easily, experience has taught you all the error cases that you would have skipped.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-09-17 18:28:50+00:00
Gidney, that's you?

Huge fan of your work!

I just started my PhD in distributed quantum computing, and my Masters was applying that framework to the QFT.

I came across a number of papers you authored in the process, as well as your blog. In particular, big fan of Kahanamoku-Meyer et al.'s optimistic QFT circuit.

Anyway, keep up the great work!
by seec | 2025-09-17 18:29:35+00:00
I'm with you. They are very resistant to facts because of the blind spots their ideology put them in. On top of that they can only think in terms of profit, because greed is the normalized behavior imposed by the US exploitative mindset. They don't understand the difference between value and price/cost which puts them in a worldview where you can only do thing is they make money, which is crass and primitive.

I think there are also a lot of shiny new toy syndrome where they are unable to understand the limitations of the new technology because they are inherently believers, not unlike the religious freaks.

In any case if any of what they say was true, China wouldn't build a single nuclear reactor, it would not make sense. Yet this is not at all the case.

Renewables have to be built; they make a lot of sense for the low hanging fruit (even if it's just to spend less fuel on the good days). But arguing to rely only on them is just wishful thinking and just plain dumb.

Even if it becomes technologically feasible at an acceptable price, putting all eggs in the same basket is not a good strategy. No matter how big (overbuilding) you make the basket.

The good thing is that reality is catching up with the ideologues and they are losing a lot of political power along the way. The utter failure of German policy is a good lesson on arrogance and ideology.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-17 18:29:39+00:00
So this year SotA models have gotten gold at IMO, IoI, ICPC and beat 9/10 humans in that atcoder thing that tested optimisation problems. Yet the most reposted headlines and rethoric is "wall this", "stangation that", "model regression", "winter", "bubble", doom etc.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-17 18:29:45+00:00
> Because it's wrong to steal land and force people out of their homes.

When has this stopped any army? And hasn't this very thing happened to Jews in Middle Eastern countries, who were sent packing without any hope of compensation?

> You're asking them to now concede the most cherished piece of Palestine that they haven't yet given up: East Jerusalem. That would be such a humiliation that the Palestinians would never accept it.

The same goes for the Israelis, who swear a religious oath by Jerusalem every year, and time has shown (repeatedly, at that,) that no Israeli leader will be induced to give it up.

At some point, you've got to admit defeat, or else the conflict will simply continue forever, very much to the detriment of all involved, and their children, who are innocent.

The passions obviously run high, but obviously both sides should compromise from the position of the status quo, and it's wishful thinking to suppose that the side that has prevailed in combat will knuckle-under and let the loser decide the terms of the peace. This is quite literally something that has never happened before.

Granted, the Israelis are fighting their war in a way that is deranged and quite dangerous for their own long-term survival. If they were somewhat more chivalrous, their own goals would be far better served; there appears to be a very nasty edge to Israeli democracy.
by pests | 2025-09-17 18:30:00+00:00
For me it’s the potential china influence. Reels and Shorts is at least American and I already have established relations with both companies.

Are we for sure the TikTok algorithm doesn’t bump towards or away from certain issues? The data on the cultural zeitgeist? The ability to promote political messaging?

Brainrot the same. Intentions, maybe not.
by zahlman | 2025-09-17 18:30:17+00:00
Please stop replying to me. In previous exchanges you have repeatedly tried to tell me what I actually believe, contra my own explicit statements. I don't tolerate that. I also am not a believer, so I do not care what you think God thinks.

I do not deny in any way Kirk's opponents the right to perceive their interactions as they like, just as Kirk had the right to perceive them as he did. It's completely irrelevant to my point, and comes across as argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.
by bubblyworld | 2025-09-17 18:30:29+00:00
My understanding of the "modern" point of view is that selection acting at the level of the gene (not the organism or group) is sufficient as a theory. The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype go into this stuff in a lot of detail.

Totally agree with your first sentence though. And even if there is a plausible adaptive function it may have only been adaptive in the past, or might be a side effect of some other adaptive function (see sickle cell anemia), or a host of other possibilities.
by j0e1 | 2025-09-17 18:31:20+00:00
> Garbage collection. In addition to expanding the capabilities of raw linear memories, Wasm also adds support for a new (and separate) form of storage that is automatically managed by the Wasm runtime via a garbage collector. Staying true to the spirit of Wasm as a low-level language, Wasm GC is low-level as well: a compiler targeting Wasm can declare the memory layout of its runtime data structures in terms of struct and array types, plus unboxed tagged integers, whose allocation and lifetime is then handled by Wasm. But that’s it.

Wow!
by ag8 | 2025-09-17 18:31:36+00:00
It's for any task that has an "eval", which is often verifiable tasks or ones that can be judged by LLMs (e.g. see [0]). There's also been recent work such as BRPO [1] and similar approaches to make more and more "non-verifiable" tasks have verifiable rewards!

[0]: https://runrl.com/blog/funniest-joke

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00103
by avemg | 2025-09-17 18:32:43+00:00
I take your point, but I think your hypothetical is a wonderful example of Hyrum's Law. And for that reason, if I was going to go to the trouble of mapping my internal v7 uuids into something more random for public consumption, then I'd be sure generate something that doesn't look like a uuid at all so nobody gets any funny ideas about what they can do with it.
by mk_stjames | 2025-09-17 18:33:14+00:00
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

The average- nay, even the more above average journalist will never go far enough to discern how what we are seeing actually works at the level needed to accurately report on it. It has been this was with the technology of humans for some time now - since roughly the era of an Intel 386, we surpassed the ability for any human being to accurately understand and report on the state-of-the-art of an entire field in a single human lifetime, let alone the implications of such things in a short span.

LLM's? No fucking way. We're well beyond ever explaining anything to anyone en masse ever again. From here on out it's going to be 'make up things, however you want them to sound, and you'll find you can get a majority of people believe you'.
by freejazz | 2025-09-17 18:33:19+00:00
>Least you could do is look up what an unfamiliar term means before rolling in with all the hot takes.

Thanks for proving my point that common sense ain't so common. To be clear, common sense reasoning is not an "unfamiliar term" save for this new (article was written in 2021) redefinition of it to be something AI related. It's kinda laughable that you are being this snitty about.

> That would help you to be less ignorant the next time around.

Better to be "ignorant" than slow and humorless.
by inemesitaffia | 2025-09-17 18:33:19+00:00
There are over 100k dishes in Ukraine. Most are privately purchased.

That number represents the government(s) supplied numbers.

Take a look at this contract.

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_HC101324F0143_970...

Also Poland is definitely paying public retail prices.

The US on the other hand isn't.
by andoando | 2025-09-17 18:33:28+00:00
I think its just a natural consequence of our mind working on a positive-negative reward system, which I think its critical to any intelligence. Being manically positive is just as detrimental as being chronically depressed.

Its entirely normal to be negative, or to ignore stimuli, or decide not to do things. In some situations, say if you were trapped in a cage your whole life, you'd agree it'd be entirely normal to be depressed. It would make no sense to waste energy running around hitting iron bars that won't break.

In this sense, depression is somewhat of a social construct. We determine someone is depressed because we believe their reaction to the environment to not be normal.
by kg | 2025-09-17 18:33:47+00:00
> WebAssembly apps tend to run slower in 64-bit mode than they do in 32-bit mode. This performance penalty depends on the workload, but it can range from just 10% to over 100%—a 2x slowdown just from changing your pointer size.

> This is not simply due to a lack of optimization. Instead, the performance of Memory64 is restricted by hardware, operating systems, and the design of WebAssembly itself.

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/01/15/is-memory64-actuall...