MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-30 16:35:56+00:00
I agree that those people aren't here and have no interest.

I would say that it is the issue of lack of knowledge if anything.

Yes, there is an infinite amount of knowledge available on the internet regarding open source and that's honestly where I learnt about stuff but its overwhelming at first and required something to kickstart the whole process/ be a catalyst of sorts.

Realizing using linux that privacy matters a lot and then realizing that I can just search open source alternative to X really helped me in the beggining/still sometimes does and there are a lot of low hanging fruits that can just be told for people to follow (like use signal instead of whatsapp) so there's definitely that.

I definitely am thinking about doing something about it tbh the more I think about it but I think that partially why people don't go around doing this is because of how AI seemingly sells and open source fundamentally doesn't sell
by lazzlazzlazz | 2025-09-30 16:36:24+00:00
Given the mountain of evidence for Wikipedia's left wing bias[1][2][3][4], it seems something ought to change, but hard to answer "how?"

I expect to receive many downvotes for this, despite providing high-quality and authoritative sources. Which is not unlike what happens on Wikipedia :)

[1]: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/is-wikipedia-politically-...

[2]: https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-the-regime-captured-wikipe...

[3]: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

[4]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5022797
by CommanderData | 2025-09-30 16:36:38+00:00
Meta, speaking about censoring anti-zionist content: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2209316259518773&vanity=Mi...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/66556493302222

Like you said, Benjamin Netanyahu saying more or less at the same conference https://youtu.be/lPueSBhoryc
by NickC25 | 2025-09-30 16:37:10+00:00
Great point! I will add it to our site.

In terms of our sugar content, is 16g sugar and 17g sugar, respectively. (2 of our flavors are 17g, one is 16g).

In terms of "no sugar added", it's true, we don't add sugar. But we have natural sugars involved - our drinks are made with real fruit which obviously contains sugars. But we don't add stevia, fructose, or anything like that.

Part of hydrating effectively is adding sugar to your bloodstream as well as salts, etc.. in the right balance in addition to water / liquid.
by __jonas | 2025-09-30 16:37:43+00:00
I have yeah, to me it looks like what I described in my comment above, it's LLM generated text, is it not?

> And pretty much every single sentence cites the original article(s).

Yeah but again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think asking an LLM to provide a source / citation yields any guarantee that the text it generates alongside it is accurate.

I also see a lot of text without any citations at all, here are three sections (Historical background, Technical details and Scientific significance) that don't cite any sources: https://kite.kagi.com/s/5e6qq2
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-09-30 16:37:48+00:00
I really like the balance here. No "brand names" in the headline summaries, no imagery or videos on the homepage, summarize multiple sources. It's daily so no need to refresh.

I've been really enjoying Semafor's emails too, but their 2x a day is tough for me to keep up with. I'll try to get a habit of looking at Kagi News to stay informed.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-09-30 16:37:58+00:00
It's pretty old, like from 2016 so it's only got an i5 7200U (2 core 4 threads) @ 2.5ghz.

Mostly fast enough for what I use it for (content consumption, web browsing, light gaming and coding). It's mainly limited by it's 8gb of ram which isn't upgradable.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-30 16:38:10+00:00
> There is an ulterior motive for these cuts, but please be honest about what it is.

If you admit that the administration is up to "ulterior motives", you have to admit that they are likely to have more than one. There's no reason to assume there's only a single one and we should disregard everything else, no matter how well supported by the facts - looking at the composition of this admin, a drive to corpocracy is a a rather well supported assumption.

On the other hand, if a re-balancing was justified or required, it wouldn't be an ulterior motive, it would be up, front and center because it helps to paint the admin in a good light. The scope and reasons for the imbalance would be widely discussed... something that isn't happening. Also, to avoid disruption, it would be done gradually and absolutely NOT under the diabolical slogan "The Government is Bad".

I think, I practically proved the point of the parent of your comment, and disproved yours.
by webstrand | 2025-09-30 16:38:54+00:00
I am also a Patreon supporter, and I intentionally didn't switch to bcachefs until it was merged into the kernel. After all, Linus would never break userspace right?

I am also frustrated by this whole debacle, I'm not going to stop funding him though Bcachefs is a solid alternative to btrfs. It's not at all clear to me what really happened to make all the drama. A PR was made that contained something that was more feature-like than bugfix-like, and that resulted in a whole module being ejected from the kernel?

I really wish, though that DKMS was not such a terrible a solution. It _will_ break my boot, because it always breaks my boot. The Linux kernel really needs a stable module API so that out-of-tree modules like bcachefs are not impossible to reliably boot with.
by observationist | 2025-09-30 16:39:33+00:00
You can also tell the difference between a skillfully crafted table and kit furniture from Ikea. Both may perform technically equally as well, and there are some fantastic examples where Ikea furniture has served as the base for a beautifully crafted piece of art. There's a similar phenomenon happening here - you can use AI to code things, but the craft of it still requires the thoughtful and careful application of domain specific knowledge.

AI can even get there, if guided by someone who knows what they're doing. We need more tutorials on how to guide AI, just like tutorials for photoshop used to walk amateurs through producing excellent logos, designs, and graphics. A whole generation of photoshop users learned to master the tools by following and sharing cookie cutter level instructions, then learning to generalize.

We should see the same thing happen with AI, except I think the capabilities will exceed the relevance of instructions too fast for any domain skills to matter.

If AI coding stagnates and hits a plateau for a couple years, then we'll see human skill differentiate uses of the tool in a pragmatic way, and a profusion of those types of tutorials. We're still seeing an acceleration of capabilities, though, with faster, better models with more capabilities appearing more frequently, ~every 3-4 months.

At some point there will be a practical limit to release schedules, with resource constraints on both human and compute sides, and there will be more "incremental" updates, comparable to what Grok is already doing with multiple weekly incremental updates on the backend, and 4-5 major updates throughout the year.

Heck, maybe at some point we'll have a reasonable way of calibrating these capabilities improvements and understanding what progress means relative to human skills.

Anyway - a vast majority of AI code feels very "cheap Ikea" at this point, with only a few standouts from people who already knew what they were doing.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-30 16:39:35+00:00
I never found the lowest most common denominator news "curation" to be at all interesting, let alone algorithmically driven ones. The issue with news has nothing to do with curation of mainstream media. There is very little value in reading a state department or law enforcement press release summarized by some overworked stenographer/journalist. Or some NGO's push to drive some nondescript narrative uncritically parroted. Or some SEO driven click bait or tragedy porn.

If you wanted to fix the news you'd begin by critically curating mainstream news and throwing 80% of it in the trash, then you'd add 80% of material and critical analysis back to the 20% that had none of that.
by mothballed | 2025-09-30 16:39:49+00:00
Shkreli is the only one of those 3 that fully paid back his investors, and it took him pissing off virtually every politician and a bunch of wealthy insurance executives/administrators to get enough resources mobilized to get a conviction (and being one of the most uncharismatic people on earth, which didn't help him at trial).

I think you are definitely in a much worse place for a fraud conviction if you lose money.
by rayiner | 2025-09-30 16:39:56+00:00
The military is uniquely disciplined and socialized to follow orders in a way the ordinary civil service isn’t.

And in comparison to previous republicans, the difference is two-fold. First, the government has been affected by the same politicization of the workplace that’s happened in corporate America over the last decade.

Second, previous republicans are aligned with neoliberal democrats on certain key cultural issues. Reagan publicly opposed affirmative action, but his government kept implementing and expanding it. Reagan and Bush supported immigration and Reagan granted amnesty. Highly educated democrats were willing to play along with certain issues, but see Trump’s issues as fundamentally moral ones. E.g. Even today, there is almost no partisan politics within the FCC. The career folks will happily go back and forth on net neutrality all day long. Nobody sees it as a moral imperative the way they see immigration.
by dodobirdy | 2025-09-30 16:40:01+00:00
My uni is called NUST so I made a better LMS for it called NUTS lms. https://www.nutslms.com. It's a chrome extension that serves as agentic interface for my University's LMS. The AI Agent is called "Deez Nust" and it can do pretty much everything a human can do: - Check deadlines - Download assignments - Even do a quiz for you
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-30 16:40:03+00:00
"The ICO also confirmed that companies could not avoid accountability by withdrawing their services in the UK.

Mr Capel said: "We have been clear that exiting the UK does not allow an organisation to avoid responsibility for any prior infringement of data protection law, and our investigation remains ongoing."

When read in context, it's obvious the statement quoted in the HN conmment refers to only to accountability for "prior infringement", i.e., acts committed before withdrawing services in the UK
by tantalor | 2025-09-30 16:40:35+00:00
The grounding is really strange.

This example includes a Reddit post as a source:

https://kite.kagi.com/s/hjgy55

But that post is actually a link to reuters.com

There is also a list of "citations" which are referenced from the generated text, and "sources" which are not referenced anywhere. It's not clear if they used reddit or reuters to generate any of the text.

I also see lots of citations to "common knowledge"... which is um, weird.

For example:

> National Guard activation: Guard forces can serve under state control (Title 32) or be federalized (Title 10), which determines who directs missions and the scope of authority [*].

Is this common knowledge?
by skeeter2020 | 2025-09-30 16:40:44+00:00
A bubble doesn't mean there's no value whatsoever, but that we've surpassed rational thought and validation. Example: we ask good developers to evaluate tools and options; not jumping in blindly to the next big thing is what makes them good in the first place. With AI, executives are literally saying if you're not all-in you have no future here. THAT is a bubble.
by Tade0 | 2025-09-30 16:41:12+00:00
Those were entrepreneurs, not regular engineers.

My aunt's career as an IT engineer started in the 80s. She went into this field because it was a new niche to explore and hardly anyone knew their way around it.

Her role was to take part in digitalisation of the bank she was working in and by "digitalisation" I mean first putting the equipment together.
by buster | 2025-09-30 16:41:33+00:00
Actually, i get the news search with a quick answer and a link to the assistent and not a single LLM but practically all LLMs in one interface and can link and share the chats. The Interface is nice, simple and Kagi is very up to date regarding new LLMs (it already contains Sonnet 4.5, for example).

It's just a nice interface for all LLMs which i often use on mobile or laptop for various work and also private tasks.

The last months have shown that there is no single LLM worth investing in (todays "top" LLM is tomorrows second-in-class).
by gte525u | 2025-09-30 16:41:37+00:00
FWIW - I work in aerospace. I believe this is talking about their FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs). They are employed directly by the company or are consultants - they are subject matter experts in their domain. They act as the FAA delegate within the company. They generally have authority that goes well beyond the typical employee or QA person.

The ones I have worked with have no problem telling management to go pound sand when they are pushing schedule.
by input_sh | 2025-09-30 16:41:43+00:00
It's also a workaround around copyright, news sites would be (rightfully) pissed if you publicly post their articles in full and would argue that you're stealing their viewership. But, if you're essentially doing an automatic mash-up of five stories on the same topic from different sources, all of a sudden you're not doing anything wrong!

As an example from one of their sources, you can only re-publish a certain amount of words from an article in The Guardian (100 commercially, 500 non-comercially) without paying them.
by unshavedyak | 2025-09-30 16:41:46+00:00
I like this a lot, going to try it! One issue i have though is in the current world of LLMs scraping content, i'd prefer there to be more discussion about compensation of authors.

I know the announcement page talks about not scraping, but to me personally the value i see in this product is that i don't have to go to those ad ridden, poorly organized and often terrible pages of the authors. Which then seems really unfair to the actual content providers.

I'd like to see this type of service cost $3-5/m ontop of my normal Kagi sub to compensate the authors of the articles i read. A Streaming Music model for news, ish.

This proposed value is quite small, but my assumption is only a very small amount of money would reach them from my ad views anyway so a $10/m addition feels extreme to me.
by hylaride | 2025-09-30 16:41:49+00:00
IPv6 is now pretty standard, especially on cellular networks and in Asia. There are still some ISP holdouts (including Bell Canada’s fiber networks which is apparently finally in beta-testing for consumer IPv6) and many corporate networks that are still ipv4 only, but because all the big CDNs and cloud vendors now support it, the demand for IPv4 has plateau’d.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-30 16:41:53+00:00
> He broke an unwritten, cardinal rule, which is to never steal from the rich.

"She".

The name is "Charlie," but it's a young woman.

And, like another young woman, she stole from the rich, and got jailed.

She'll probably get a federal minimum-security prison (no fences and a golf course).

They aren't quite "Camp Cupcake," but they are a far cry from places like Leavenworth (I've known folks that have done time in both).
by metalliqaz | 2025-09-30 16:42:09+00:00
Every time I see something like this, I wonder what kind of programmers actually do this. For the kinds of code that I write (specific to my domain and generates real value), describing "X", "Y", and "Z" is a very non-trivial task.

If doing those is easy, then I would assume that the software isn't that novel in the first place. Maybe get something COTS

I've been coding for 25 years. It is easier for me to describe what I need in code than it is to do so in English. May as well just write it.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-09-30 16:42:17+00:00
It's not knowledge, it's interest. You go looking because you care. But people don't even use desktops anymore. They could, but they don't, what's the point? I know devs who haven't even put together their own PCs in decades if they ever did at all.

I don't know how you shift that, but getting people interested would be the first step. They need to have a reason to want to learn.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-30 16:42:24+00:00
> It's the company's prerogative of whether they want to have a legal entity falling under the country's jurisdiction

Except in this case, Imgur does not have a legal entity falling under the UK's jurisdiction. They are purely a US based company. It's not like Google, Apple, etc. that have offices in the UK.

This particular fine is the UK trying to extend its jurisdiction to entities that it has no sovereign authority over.

Just because some UK user might visit my website doesn't mean I now have to follow all UK laws if I don't actually do business there, and don't intend to.

Blocking the traffic is how we end up with the balkanization of the internet.
by fidotron | 2025-09-30 16:43:30+00:00
BioWare would have collapsed as an independent company long before SWTOR ever saw light of day.

They seemed to have failed to understand the scope of preparing to operate a game as a service after launching it until far too late into development, which in fairness was and remains a very common problem for people used to the "fire and forget" style of launches in the past, they just did it in a very high profile way which made all of the problems a hundred times worse.

One thing people overlook a lot is after this died down it was BioWare that bought a small mobile studio called KlickNation. KlickNation were a very interesting team because their expertise was how do you take a tiny audience and make absolutely unheard of amounts of money from them, to a degree that was unbelievable. This obviously appeals to game devs because if you can have 30k players and make the same amount of money as with 3M it saves you a whole lot of trouble.

I cannot really comment any more than that, such is life.
by rubatuga | 2025-09-30 16:43:33+00:00
I believe Apple is deprecating HomeKit v1, so no I wouldn't be able to use other iOS apps. Unless you're telling me I should setup home assistant and then control that from my phone, I agree it's an option, but has the added hassle of having yet another home hub, my current setup was nice since it was a direct connection from phone to device.
by stycznik | 2025-09-30 16:43:37+00:00
>it is inevitable that at some point there was and will be a need to push a new feature into a stable release for the purpose of data recovery

It's really not, the proper way to recover your important data is to restore from backups, not to force other people to bend longstanding rules for you.

>Do you really want to live in a world where data losses in stable releases is considered Okay?

Bcachefs is an experimental filesystem.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 16:43:49+00:00
The people I know who made the 30 under 30 list approached it like a massive campaign they had to win. It was a full-court press to get in front of the right people and their startup's PR releases were all timed to impress for the 30 under 30 during that period.

Maybe times changed since it became more of a running joke. At one point it was a selling point for fundraising that people would compete hard over.
by Spivak | 2025-09-30 16:43:59+00:00
The Kagi implementation can use Kagi search and can use advanced features of search like lenses. This isn't a unique feature but if you believe Kagi search is better than whoever Anthropic/OpenAI are using it's a nice plus.

Kagi's contracts with LLM providers are the ones businesses get with actual privacy protections which is also nice.
by wkoszek | 2025-09-30 16:44:47+00:00
It's interesting how nobody talks about due-diligence being completely broken. We raised $$$ from many VCs and the DD for some of them was crazy: line item by line item with calls to customers etc. Tech folks were on phone with me and had to explain them stuff step by step, revealing a lot of confidential recipes. Also did this for bigger customers. And the $175M deal.. isn't there an earnout? Like $10M cash now, 1/4*$175 wired on 1yr cliff, and then the rest over 4 years if some milestones are hit? The whole thing looks weird.
by williamDafoe | 2025-09-30 16:44:59+00:00
If you only understood how White Hot and Stone Cold a research field can be! Five years ago crypto was white hot and today it's almost Stone Cold! People get intoxicated with the money beams that get blasted at people in the white hot subfields but realize that only 5-10% of phds are majoring in the white hot subfields and they simply got lucky 5 years ago to pick that subfield and all that attention hopefully lasts for 10 years which is enough time for them to get tenure or succeed with a startup! if the field isn't white hot for 10 consecutive years they will get fired at tenure time!
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-30 16:45:11+00:00
Related, but not yet posted to HN that I know of:

Leaked unboxing video reveals unannounced M5 iPad Pro in full - https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/30/leaked-unboxing-video-reveals...

https://x.com/markgurman/status/1973048229932507518 | https://xcancel.com/markgurman/status/1973048229932507518

Exclusive! Unboxing the iPad Pro with the M5 before Apple! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzkC2q-iGI
by poszlem | 2025-09-30 16:45:23+00:00
According to Pew’s most recent National Public Opinion Reference Survey (Feb–Jun 2025), 46% of Americans identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and 45% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affili...

In a truly random U.S. sample you would expect Republican identifiers to be nearly as numerous as Democratic identifiers.

Not sure where you got your numbers from.
by jhanschoo | 2025-09-30 16:45:35+00:00
Yes, this news is the US administration clarifying that H1B1's aren't affected by the increased fee for H1B's. Chile and Singapore have small populations, and even with the minute few Singaporeans working in the US (under the H1B1 and otherwise), they are likely overrepresented as a fraction of their total citizenry, owing to their intensive education and hence relative global mobility.

The H1B1 has been around for over 20 years now. It's just... something that exists. These are concessions that a large country like the US can easily give in bilateral agreements to small countries because demographic issues owing to immigration are not likely owing to how small these countries are to begin with. It's not something possible for countries like India, China, Indonesia, etc.
by gs17 | 2025-09-30 16:45:42+00:00
There's two games I know of similar to that concept (I think Noun Town is more similar): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Languag... https://store.steampowered.com/app/274980/Influent_Language_... I think it's interesting, but falls into the same issue Duolingo does, vocabulary is necessary but not sufficient for language learning.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-30 16:45:48+00:00
From the complaint: > In particular, CC-1 and JAVICE asked Engineer-1 to supplement a list of Frank’s website visitors with additional data fields containing synthetic data. > Engineer-1 was uncomfortable with the request and stated, in sum and substance, “I don’t want to do anything illegal.” JAVICE and CC-1 claimed to Engineer-1 that it was legal. JAVICE stated to Engineer-1, in sum and substance, “We don’t want to end up in orange jumpsuits.” Engineer-1 declined the request from JAVICE and CC-1.

She's not naive. She was told this was illegal and then did it still. She knew this was fraud.