MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2025-09-01 15:44:43+00:00
Sorry, but I won't cry for corps big enough to have legal departments because they elected not to benefit from my software. They have too much power for me to worry about looking to accommodate them and their fantasy.

I don't mind them not using my code. They are doing themselves here.

They have the human power to rebuild it anyway and I actually believe it should cost them.

it's actually them who are spreading the FUD, because they don't like the AGPL.

Meanwhile, my goal of providing software freedom to my users is fulfilled.
by dijit | 2025-09-01 15:45:07+00:00
Sounds like we need a specialist.

I guess those promises about needing fewer expensive people never materialised.

tbh, aside from the really anaemic use-cases where everything actually manages to scale to zero and has very low load: I have genuinely never seen an AWS project (outside of free credits of course) that works out cheaper than what came before.

That's TCO from PNLs, not a "gut feeling". We have a decade of evidence now.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-09-01 15:45:15+00:00
I love the post. I know this is not the topic: There is a google-auth replacement which has appropiate qr scanning and doesn't require any connection permission, in f-droid. I don't know why freeOTP is more popular since it asks for full network permission.

https://fxedel.gitlab.io/fdroid-website/en/packages/org.shad...

andOTP.
by mengdotzip | 2025-09-01 15:45:18+00:00
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by lacker | 2025-09-01 15:45:29+00:00
I think LLMs are different because they are such a powerful developer technology. The most powerful I have seen in 25 years.

Some engineers went from useful to useless almost overnight. Someone who is stubbornly stuck in their ways and refuses to use AI tools, and yet spends days failing to achieve what Claude Code can do in a few requests, well... what's going to happen to them? All of a sudden there's no work they can do, because the easy problems got solved by the AI.

So it ends up being the manager's job, either find something that this person can do, train them up to use modern technology, or fire them.
by _qua | 2025-09-01 15:45:38+00:00
If I hadn't stubbled upon this essay and Anki, I think by way of a Wired article, I'm not sure I would have gotten into or passed medical school. They were eye opening and turned me from an average smart student into a leader of my class. I had planned to keep doing my cards after moving on to fellowship but alas, life gets in the way.
by adiabatichottub | 2025-09-01 15:45:44+00:00
File it under faulty assumptions organizations make about their clients or customers. If you live in a rural area in the United States it is still quite possible to have:

* No cellular service * No landline service * No postal delivery to your property, and a physical address that isn't in any database * No public utilities

It can be very frustrating to deal with services that assume you have the ability to receive SMS messages, and almost anything requiring identity these days demands a phone number.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-01 15:45:52+00:00
The only parts where that's true are for things like FCC certification. The US does not have an affirmative certification process for automotive software, including safety critical systems. NHTSA instead puts out a set of rules called FMVSS that manufacturers and aftermarket parts must comply with. Manufacturers then self-certify that they meet FMVSS and produce a bunch of documentation demonstrating that if NHTSA asks.

Note that FMVSS has almost nothing to say on the topic of software. The industry broadly follows industry standards like ISO 26262 and the less universal 21448, but these don't have firm legal weight outside their status as standards of practice, nor do they preclude installing your own software.

The situation in Europe is different and an affirmative certification process does exist there.
by visarga | 2025-09-01 15:46:14+00:00
If websites use Cloudflare to block AI bots the next wave of AI will rely on computer-use or browser-use to get in. Can you allow just humans and specific bots? I don't think so.

The user problem is that web is borderline unusable because it is filled with ads, slop and trackers. Using AI makes it much better.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-01 15:47:16+00:00
Does "infotainment system" include the cluster displays (speedometer etc) in vehicles where that is entirely a digital display (must be most at this point). I really hate the (very non-traditional) way my current vehicle displays this info. Whats funny is that both the highest trim level of this model and the one-step-cheaper model both do it in a more traditional, far superior way.
by felixgallo | 2025-09-01 15:47:54+00:00
The CDC did not 'brand the lab-leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory'. The CDC stated the scientific truth, which was that we didn't have enough to go on at the time to make a judgement one way or another. The initial lab-leak hypothesis was primarily created by Trump & the MAGA folks to try to deflect blame onto China. It could still be valid and correct, but it was definitely not motivated from facts at first, and to my understanding we still don't have enough facts to assert it confidently one way or the other.
by simmerup | 2025-09-01 15:47:57+00:00
In my mind the Google result page is like a public space.

You wouldn't punish the person who owns the park if someone inside it breaks the law as long as they were facilitating the law to be obeyed. And Google facilitiates the law by allowing you to take down slanderous material by putting in a request, and further you can go after the original slanderer if you like.

But in this case Google itself is putting out slanderous information it has created itself. So Google in my mind is left holding the buck.
by 0xfaded | 2025-09-01 15:48:02+00:00
What's it like in Sweden? When I lived in Denmark the government had its own e-boks system for mail. I only ever accessed it via web, but I'm sure there's an app as well. Back then everything was authenticated via NemID which defaulted to the option of using codes printed on physical cards sent in the mail. I know they've moved to MitID now. Does anyone know if MitID can be installed on a de-googled device? Apparently there are a couple other options https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/how-to-use...
by austil | 2025-09-01 15:48:08+00:00
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by pdonis | 2025-09-01 15:48:13+00:00
To me the point where the law needs to intervene is the bank or the school. You need a bank to function--that means the bank should be prohibited by law from tying you to an app from a particular company, whether it's Google or Apple or anyone else. You should be able to access their functions using any client that supports the appropriate open standards (such as web browsers).

Similarly, if the school is going to have control over your kids, the school should be prohibited by law from requiring you to use an app that's tied to a particular company. They should be required to provide you functional access using any client that supports the appropriate open standards.
by stargrazer | 2025-09-01 15:48:31+00:00
"If training-related crawling continues to dominate while referrals stay flat, creators face a paradox: feeding AI systems without gaining traffic in return. Many want their content to appear in chatbot answers, but without monetization or cooperation, the incentive to produce quality work declines."

Are there any resources which discuss ways of achieving balance? Perhaps by including references or bibliography or citations for content used in top of page summaries?

Will the well run dry for current content?
by throwaway31131 | 2025-09-01 15:48:34+00:00
The main issue is we’re not there today and it’s not obvious what that world looks like.

We all had junk drawers of useless charging cables, everyone agreed it was stupid, hence a universal charging connector standard along with the promise that the charger junk drawers will be freed.

Even if we mandate the “POSIX of smart phones”, for lack of a better term, what problem today, for everyday users, does it solve? It might even make interactions with various government technology worse as that API will likely only be begrudgingly supported, which won’t win any hearts or minds.

Basically until you have a one line slogan that most people can relate to which, and is a problem they have today, movement will be very slow.

Also, in the short term, if these various site are AI coded, and thus follow existing software patterns, expect this to get worse.
by gizajob | 2025-09-01 15:48:35+00:00
Yeah that happens too. I generally say UK. In Europe I’m maybe prone to saying England/English perhaps, like in Italy “Io sono Inglese” but in the UK my parents are welsh and I was born in England so don’t really identify with either very strongly. Particularly because I’m a scouser, like you’d identify yourself to other British people by your accent if you have a strong obvious one. Regardless though nobody says “GB”.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-09-01 15:48:41+00:00
Very true. They are effectively a new type of non-territorial state with absolutely no separation of powers or rule of law or principle of proportionality.

What makes this difficult though is that they are under constant attack from highly organised and automated criminal operations that create and exploit accounts en masse.

Any solution to the tyrannical state of affairs we are subjected to (even more so as developers) needs to balance better protections for real people (including as you say for people who have committed some transgressions) with fighting organised crime.
by smelendez | 2025-09-01 15:49:01+00:00
Doctors have tried lots of ways to treat obesity—drugs, diet and exercise recommendations, various surgeries, hypnosis, peer support groups. It’s not a problem they ignore and obviously one you can be richly rewarded for treating, as we see with the GLP-1 drugs.

It’s just difficult for many people to lose weight and keep it off.
by Maken | 2025-09-01 15:49:06+00:00
That's kind of the point of C++'s retro-compatibility: C++20 contains new additions to the C++11 standard. Unless you rely in mistakes in the standard like auto_ptr or faulty atomics, which should be fixed regardless of the C++ standard, your C++11 dependencies are perfectly valid C++20 and do not block the new shiny toys.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-01 15:49:16+00:00
Check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve

63days from start to completion. Paid itself off in 2 years. Saved consumers well over $100million/yr across the state in power bill reductions (only 1.8million people in that state and this is after the battery owners took their profit).

There's really nothing but positives from grid scale batteries. They cut out all those <0 and >100x price fluctuations on the grid and the payoff for investors is ridiculous right now.

Australia's expected to 20x it's grid connected battery capacity between 2024 and 2027. The growth in battery storage is ridiculous since the costs have come down. https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/top-20-countries-by-ba...
by mothballed | 2025-09-01 15:49:17+00:00
~12 hours in jail, a few hours shackled in prisoner transport vans, and then ~12 hours in cuffs at a couple different hospitals hospital (where I was touched by health care professionals without my consent and without a warrant) while they waited for signs of non-existent "drugs." Shortly before I was released they served me retroactive search warrant, signed by a judge after it happened, using made-up PC that did not even state the name of the person or animal they claim prompted it.

I was released after an HSI guy showed up, took a quick look at me, decided I wasn't a terrorist or whatever, served me the retroactive warrant, and then I was sent on a prisoner transport van to be dumped at the border with my all my shit (including my shoelaces) in a plastic bag.

For the hospital part I was sent a ~$1k bill, which is still in collections.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-01 15:49:18+00:00
The extreme majority of criminals aren't doing Ocean's 11-style grand plan attacks here (usually, because... they don't work, the cost is high, and there's too many ways they can fail leaving you out of money with nothing to show for it). Removing the EV bar because you're afraid one attacker might find a way to exploit it becomes an incredible gift to the 99.9999% of attackers who have a much, much easier job to do.

Like, you need to realize most phishing scammers are perfectly happy to make a bankofamericaaa.glitch.me page, because it's free, and without any good indicators for the legitimate bank to use like EV, really doesn't look that much different to the nontechnical customer than bankofamerica.com.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-09-01 15:50:26+00:00
Americans mental assessment of war is that it is an all out slog, you gear up the entire country and fight to the death. Of course, that image is changing as the US continues to engage in protracted conflicts in ponzi states like Afghanistan, Korea and so forth.

However - for older nations, especially european ones, war is another tool in the chest of diplomacy, and may not be viewed as 'all encompassing'. To understand that war is just another lever of power can help Americans make better sense of conflicts.
by throwaway346434 | 2025-09-01 15:50:49+00:00
This is a kind of nuts take; - Senior engineer - Uses tools for non trivial undertaking - Didn't find value in it

Your conclusion from that is "but they are doing it wrong", while also claiming they are saying things they didn't say (0 net benefits, useless, etc).

Do you see how that might undermine your point? That you feel they haven't take the time to understand the tools, but you didn't actually read what what wrote?
by tehwebguy | 2025-09-01 15:51:05+00:00
They already do and they don’t even have to be powerful.

A conspiracy guy who ran a disqualified campaign for a TN rep seat sued Facebook for defamation for a hallucination saying he took part in the J6 riots. They settled the suit and hired him as an anti-DEI advisor.

(I don’t have proof that hiring him was part of the undisclosed settlement terms but since I’m not braindead I believe it was.)
by tpoacher | 2025-09-01 15:51:30+00:00
Not pretending to be an expert in either system's internals, but I feel like svn would be a much better fit than git for this.

I find svn to be wonderful. There seems to be a real phobia against it which I've never understood and it's such a shame.

Especially when one of the biggest arguments "against" it is that "it's centralised" (when in fact using it in a decentralised manner is trivial), and ironically most people these days just use git as an interface to github (rather than the other way round), effectively using it in centralised manner.
by opudrovs | 2025-09-01 15:51:38+00:00
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by MobiusHorizons | 2025-09-01 15:51:49+00:00
From the ai hallucinations

> Video and trip to Israel On August 18, 2025, Benn Jordan uploaded a YouTube video titled / Was Wrong About Israel: What I Learned on the Ground, which detailed his recent trip to Israel.

This sounds like the recent Ryan Macbeth video https://youtu.be/qgUzVZiint0?si=D-gJ_Jc9gDTHT6f4. I believe the title is the same. Scary how it just misattributed the video.
by pydry | 2025-09-01 15:51:56+00:00
>Fair doesn't exist in international politics

Tell it to the people caterwauling about the budapest memorandum, not me.

>it's extremely obvious that handing back the Soviet nukes they had possession of was a mistake.

It's the furthest possible thing from obvious. Ukraine couldn't maintain the weapons and was in desperate need of economic assistance it would never have gotten if it kept the nukes.

Moreover, if they tried to keep them Russia would likely just have taken them or rendered them unusable by force and we likely would have supported that.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-01 15:52:04+00:00
The article is a discussion about google‘s android app processes becoming more strict and the authors opinion that that’s terrible.

My comment is an argument against sideloading for phone devices because there’s a lot of nefarious behavior in these types of apps by comparing apples process because Apple is the other operator in this duopoly of phone operating systems. Sorry that was not clear.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-01 15:52:32+00:00
Stop strawmanning.

No, there's no "wording" that gets you off the hook. That's the point. It's a question of design and presentation. Would a legal "Reasonable Person" seeing the site know it was another site's info, e.g. literally showing the site in an iframe, or is google presenting it as their own info?

If google is presenting the output of a text generator they wrote, it's easily the latter.
by aschiff1 | 2025-09-01 15:52:45+00:00
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by stakent | 2025-09-01 15:52:50+00:00
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by opudrovs | 2025-09-01 15:53:01+00:00
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In addition to React/Next.js and Node/Express.js development, I also have experience with cloud-native workflows (Golang + Kubernetes), OpenAI API integration and agentic workflows, native iOS development, and game development. Thanks to my multi-platform experience, I can help you port large products across different platforms.

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by benrutter | 2025-09-01 15:53:01+00:00
I guess I'm in that crowd, and well, I definitely recognise that! Open source is an important term, and I don't want to see it degraded. I think I'd find it annoying if this blog post was trying to claim Bear was still free software, or open source.

That doesn't mean I think everything has to be open source. Bear is a blogging platform trying to make money and it seems fine to me for it not to be open source.