MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlhpdx | 2025-09-03 18:01:54+00:00
I’ve been keen to point out there is more utility in the technology underlying VPNs than the VPN functionality itself. The WireGuard handshake and transport encryption are lightweight and secure and I added support for it to my service as an option to secure data in flight. It’s getting used by developers and enterprises, not consumers.

IPSec perhaps less so since it is more complicated and open to insecure configurations (transport mode).
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-09-03 18:02:27+00:00
> When a press a character key on my keyboard, it should appear in my editor immediately.

Seems to work the same for me in VSCode, CLion, and nvim. I don't doubt that you have issues with it (I've experienced slow editors & laggy input, it sucks) but I don't think it's inherent to VSCode. Doesn't mean it's not a bug, but if I had that issue I'd try with no extensions to verify, then binary search disabling the extensions I want until I find the one causing the lag.
by xeonmc | 2025-09-03 18:02:42+00:00
That’s the corporate promise for now, but there is no Ulysses pact guaranteeing they’d support it forever if the financials don’t line up any more, so the second-best guarantee is if there is a strong self-interest incentive that would remain to be the case even in 20, 30 years? They mentioned that they need scale and so offers generous free tiers as proving ground, but would that incentive stay the same after a few decades?
by TomK32 | 2025-09-03 18:03:01+00:00
Early MongoDB adapter here who still likes it. If your internal services are accessible from outside you are doing it wrong. Neither MongoDB nor ES or ollama are services that my applications would access through a public IP and whenever a dev asks me for access to the DB from the comfort of their home office I tell them what VPN to log into.

Even if those services had some access protection, I simply must assume that the service has some security leak that allows unauthorized access and the first line of defense against that is not having it on the public internet.
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-03 18:03:14+00:00
If you volunteer, sure.

If I put some code out on the internet and some other people find it and start using it, they message me we talk and I start adding things they suggest and working with others to improve this code. Then one day I wake up and don't want to do it anymore. At what point did I become obligated? When I published the code? When I first started talking to others about it(building a community)? When I coded their suggestions? When I worked with other coders?

Who get to decide where the line is?
by Strilanc | 2025-09-03 18:03:15+00:00
In most quantum computer designs, gates are signals generated on demand at runtime rather than material deposited at fabrication time. In this regime, the concept of an ALU makes no sense. Instead of just sending pulses doing the exact gates you know need, why would you instead expand that short sequence into long sequences that emulate potentially applying every arithmetic operation to every input and then mux out the result you already knew you needed. It's a lot of extra work for the same final result.

A quantum ALU would also be substantially harder to design, because of the need to maintain reversibility. For example, every operation would have to run as slow as the slowest operation (or else the timing side channel would measure which operation occurred).
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-03 18:03:48+00:00
Here in the United States, I don't know that I could trust the vpn to protect me from that. I remember an incident from a few years ago, some idiot at Harvard emailed in a bomb threat to get out of finals. They arrested him only a few hours later. It's possible he misused the vpn, but I suspect that they merely contacted the vpn provider, got a shortlist of people going through that endpoint, and eliminated all of them not in Boston. Didn't require any Stuxnet-type fuckery or super-secret technology. Be careful and good luck.
by JohnMunsch | 2025-09-03 18:04:03+00:00
Love Lit. I've pushed hard for Web Components at work for a while now with some success (the shine is definitely coming off of Angular for a lot of people there) and I've only used Lit to build my personal projects for a long time.

I love it when I visit one of my pages and use Lighthouse to check it out and have nearly straight across 100 scores. Also, I usually have really great performance on phones as well because the pages are so light and quick to render.
by arewethereyeta | 2025-09-03 18:04:10+00:00
That's why we sell only the service [1] and point our users to the default app install (Wireguard in our case). Ever since Holla VPN and the entire Brightdata/Luminati clusterf~ VPNs are a risky business for users. Most of them are proxy nodes underneath, they rent you datacenter IPs while they sell your residential internet to third parties.

[1] https://www.anonymous-proxies.net/products/
by TheTon | 2025-09-03 18:04:15+00:00
The author doesn’t attempt to address the issue that Apple and iOS are the only remaining effective bulwark against Google’s complete control of the web.

Think about what Google’s end game looks like if they are able to convince lawmakers and regulators around the world to force Apple to allow Chrome on iOS. Google will continue to spam standards proposals and implementations that Apple or Mozilla will be unwilling to adopt for various reasons. Google will continue to advertise Chrome heavily, and push users of its other services to install and use Chrome exclusively. Google search will prioritize sites that use Chrome specific technologies. Google Gemini will generate code that uses Chrome specific APIs.

When Chrome reaches sufficient market share, Google will start to use Chrome to disadvantage computing platforms that they do not control completely. New features will come to Android and ChromeOS first. Bugs may go unaddressed on other platforms.

I realize it’s frustrating as a web developer to have to deal with browser specific issues, or to be unable to take advantage of necessary APIs or platform features from your web app. It is also frustrating to be blocked from the App Store because Apple wants to avoid competition in some area. The current situation is unfair and far from ideal. Apple are not the good guys here.

But, framing the issues as being entirely about Apple and not addressing the situation with Google doesn’t work. And, unfortunately, many commentators (including the author of this article) as well as regulators (including the EU), don’t seem to get this. If these folks get what they are asking for, we aren’t going to enter a golden age with a single web platform that is feature rich and open to all equally, we are all just going to get crushed by Google.
by kristopolous | 2025-09-03 18:05:03+00:00
I've pitched people working there this multiple times. Warp is not just a terminal, it's a full stack of interaction, they have more of the vertical of the development cycle to leverage.

You need different relationships at different parts of coding, ideation, debugging, testing, etc. Cleverly sharing context while maintaining different flows and respecting the relationship hygiene is the key. Most of the vscode extensions now do this with various system prompt selections of different "personas".

I used to (6 months ago) compare these agentic systems basically as if they were John Wayne as contract programmer, parachuting in a project, firing off their pistol, shooting the criminals, mayor, and burning the barn down all the while you're yelling at it to behave better.

There's contexts and places where this can be more productive. Warp is one of them if executed with clean semantic perimeters. It's in a rather strong positioning for it and an obvious loyalty builder
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-03 18:05:37+00:00
It can't. That's not what patents are for. The same could happen for an unpatented modified plant.

We have the USDA for these things. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program-update/aphis-issues-...

> APHIS found this modified petunia is unlikely to pose an increased plant pest risk compared to other cultivated petunia. As a result, it is not subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340. From a plant pest risk perspective, this petunia may be safely grown and bred in the United States.
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-09-03 18:05:48+00:00
You are referencing your own personal experience, and while that is an entirely valid opinion for you to have personally about your usage, it's not possible to extrapolate that across an entire population of people. Whether or not you're doing that, part of the point I was making was how people who "think it makes sense" will often then not critically analyze something because it already agrees with their preconceived notion. Super common, I'm just calling it out cause we can all do better.

All we can say right now is "we don't really know how it affects our brains", and we won't until we get some studies (which is what the underlying paper was calling for, more research).

Personally I do think we'll get more studies, but the quality is the question for me - it's really hard to do a study right when by the time it's done, there's been 2 new generations of LLMs released making the study data potentially obsolete. So researchers are going to be tempted to go faster, use less people, be less rigid overall, which in turn may make for bad results.
by tt349292 | 2025-09-03 18:06:11+00:00
> Google began by unilaterally declaring that the world wide web was its to take for its search engine. Surveillance capitalism originated in a second declaration that claimed our private experience for its revenues that flow from telling and selling our fortunes to other businesses. In both cases, it took without asking

From "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" -- source https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-..."
by hollandheese | 2025-09-03 18:06:22+00:00
>Don't. Calculus is going to become as obsolete and antiquated as studying Euclid's Elements

Yeah, as antiquated and obsolete that we basically have every high school student do it in the United States. You know, the class we call GEOMETRY. Because you do know, that high school geometry classes are just basically using cleaned up and modernized texts based on Euclid's Elements, right?

Sounds good. More people will study Calculus than ever before. Good plan.
by edu | 2025-09-03 18:06:36+00:00
I’m building my personal blog with 11ty as a static site builder and Decap[0], previously known as Netlify CMS, to manage content.

Basically it provides a UI and all changes are pushed to GitHub which will launch the release process back in Netlify.

Seems it might fit your requirements too.

0. https://decapcms.org/
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-03 18:07:12+00:00
While it's great that speculation moved from "when will AGI come?" into "when will those companies blow?", I don't think they will blow any time soon.

If you have been following things, you may have noticed that there's no large economic sector out there consistently returning investments. And the investors money isn't just disappearing nor any such investor just deciding to spend everything in some beach vacation somewhere.

Until that changes, bubbles will keep growing. If the AI one deflates for any reason, it will only serve to inflate some other one.
by arbirk | 2025-09-03 18:08:22+00:00
While the article rightly critiques Apple's strategy of kneecapping the web to protect its App Store, it overlooks the user-centric view of these "crimes." Many users don't want websites having deep hardware access like Bluetooth; they see it as a necessary security boundary. The "Lightning frustration" was also largely a tech-media narrative, not a pain point for those invested in the ecosystem. We also can't ignore Apple's massive open-source contributions (LLVM, Swift, WebKit), and in many regards the most faithful adopter of the USB and Thunderbolt standards. Ultimately, it's a security trade-off. There's a reason iOS exploits command millions more than Android's. That best-in-class security is a direct product of the walled garden. For many, that's a more valuable feature than the total interoperability the author champions.
by jofla_net | 2025-09-03 18:10:32+00:00
I remember that, Schneier talked about it on his blog.

It was actually tor (the threat came from tor), and harvard 'found' him by constantly logging what connections were going to known tor entries from on campus. As it turns out he was one or possibly the only one using tor that morning from harvard.

Bruce outlines it that he certainly could have stayed tight-lipped (all evidence was circumstantial) but, nevertheless confessed as soon as they approached him.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-03 18:10:32+00:00
> Not to mention if you invoke those companies you are putting yourself in their walled garden that makes them money and takes control of your income away from you. Why would any person want to do that? There is no moral quandary here.

Buying into proprietary software and walled gardens is ridiculously common and acceptable in a business environment. That's code for "no liability if something goes wrong, minimal maintenance, and easy onboarding of new employees."
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-03 18:10:32+00:00
It's not that support doesn't make a market difference, it's that customer loyalty is a liquidatable asset, and almost everyone wants to retire someday, so good companies almost inevitably will eventually become bad companies and cash out all the good will they've accrued over years and decades.

The only possible solution is some sort of regulation of transparency in ownership structured similarly to banking regulations (routinely moving amounts of money just under reporting limits or in any other way seeming to attempt to dodge scrutiny is considered malfeasance), so customers are promptly and continuously informed when Mom and Pop Shop is bought out by Established PE Vultures™ or Scrappy Small Business gets acquired by S&P #342, Enshitiffication Incorporated or a majority of Public Infrastructure Corporation is owned by Slacktivist Investors Group.

I want it to be obvious, and I want ownership to necessarily be as prominent as branding. "A Unilever Brand since 2003" needs to be just as big as "Natural Small Local Foods Coop Inc, since 1913," so that we can start to associate the corrosion of service and product quality with ownership and acquisition and corporate mandates, and any attempts to overly convolute the source of a clear business direction with scattered minority ownership just happening to band together needs to be treated as fraud.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-03 18:10:53+00:00
> It's active hostility

Not really? If the testimonials are true, then simply making the app itself is an act of hostility.

The parent comment is putting it as nicely as it can be put. If you don't want people to pirate your music, your only path of recourse as a musician is to stop uploading digital copies of your work. There is no honor system in music or data and there never will be.
by baranul | 2025-09-03 18:11:35+00:00
Agree with you. There are also lots of examples to review on rosetta code[1] and exercism[2], in addition to the ones in their GitHub[3].

[1] https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:V_(Vlang)

[2] https://exercism.org/tracks/vlang (2025)

[3] https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/examples
by elliotec | 2025-09-03 18:12:03+00:00
This is a really shitty take. „Can’t please everyone, might as well piss off the creators and show it as a badge of pride!“

Personally I will never use this software and would actively advocate against it if only to counter the attitude you’re presenting.

But mainly because artists should be able to make a living and it’s already hard enough with the meager pennies or less they get from current PAID streaming services.
by Jimmc414 | 2025-09-03 18:12:26+00:00
Considerable amount of methodology issues here for a study with this much traction. Only 54 participants split three ways into groups of 18, with just 9 people per condition in the crossover. Far too small for claims about "brain reprogramming."

The study shows different brain patterns during AI-assisted writing, not permanent damage. Lower EEG activity when using a tool is expected just as showing less mental math activity when using a calculator.

The study translates temporary, task-specific neural patterns into "cognitive decline" and "severe cognitive harm." The actual study measured brain activity during essay writing, not lasting changes.

Plus, surface electrical measurements can't diagnose "cognitive debt" or deep brain changes. The authors even acknowledge this. Also, "83.3% couldn't quote their essay" equates to 15 out of 18 people?
by veber-alex | 2025-09-03 18:12:37+00:00
I agree with you.

I tried Zed several times and I just don't see the point.

The main issues with VScode over something like the Jetbrains IDEs is that language servers are just not as powerful or as integrated to the IDE as the Jetbrains solution can be and Zed does nothing to solve it.

I don't think it being a native app offers much added value.
by vincnetas | 2025-09-03 18:12:42+00:00
How realistic is possibility that some VPN providers use clients (computers of person who installed VPN) to just be able to crawl (or rent crawl infra) sites and make it look like regular residential traffic? (This is speculation i heard somewhere)

Like reverse VPN :) on one side makes client look like he's accessing internet from VPN exit location, and on the other end allowing for money someone to pretend that he's a residential client.
by georgegearhart | 2025-09-03 18:12:45+00:00
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by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-03 18:13:18+00:00
Git: IntelliJ is miles ahead. And we’re talking about essential features like three-may merge panel, diffing 2 files, diffing same file between branches, diffing folders, etc

Tests:. Zed is bare bones compared to IntelliJ (rerun failed tests, export list of failures, go to failed lines easily etc

The AI stuff is cool but it won’t get me to switch from PyCharm.
by cnst | 2025-09-03 18:14:12+00:00
Nice character assassinations, but whose fault is it where ChromeOS is pioneering the field, and is alone in writing and implementing these sorts of standards?

You've conveniently omitted the wider effects of Apple's monopoly from this analysis. There's plenty of evidence of the actions they've taken to wall-garden anything and everything possible.

For example, let's talk about NFC. It's been acknowledged that NFC adoption by major third-party apps on Android is severely constrained by the notion of feature parity with iOS; meaning, since NFC cannot be done on iOS in an app, it's almost pointless to support NFC just on Android. About a decade ago, I could pay at Trader Joe's and other NFC terminals for my groceries directly with my Wells Fargo app; but, today, I cannot do that, because Wells Fargo no longer supports NFC in their app. Many other vendors in many countries went directly to the QR codes given the realities on the ground. (If Apple had unrestricted NFC access, would Walmart forgo NFC?) Yet now you're telling us it's Google's fault that "noone" wants to implement WebNFC, depriving it of the standards status, due to the lack of the independent implementations?

Now, let's talk about Mozilla. You're implying that Google is Mozilla's master, because they pay them half a billion a year. But is Mozilla allowed to ship a proper browser on iOS? And, even if they did, would they have a capability to access NFC, and implement WebNFC? Whose fault is that if not Apple's? So, who exactly besides Apple and Google are even capable of implementing WebNFC given the realities on the ground? Because clearly that's not Mozilla, since Apple won't let them, in more than one way.

And, BTW, what actual solutions or alternatives do you propose? Simply not have any standards for these things at all, since security and privacy?

Because without these "proprietary" "standards" that no other vendor wants, or has the capability, to implement, what exactly are we left with?

Are you serious in implying that Apple's fully proprietary APIs are better than Google's open standards that noone else wants to implement, simply because of the Apple/Google duopoly, since noone else is big enough, and since Mozilla has abandoned Firefox OS and Boot2Gecko?
by trympet | 2025-09-03 18:14:21+00:00
Incidentally, I discovered this article while learning what '[sic]' even means.

"The typical editorial usage of sic is to inform the reader that any errors in a quotation did not arise from editorial errors in the transcription, but are intentionally reproduced as they appear in the original source being quoted", from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-03 18:14:51+00:00
Britain's last coal-fired power plant shuts down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734993 - October 2024 (95 comments)

UK to finish with coal power after 142 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41695587 - September 2024 (63 comments)

Britain's reliance on coal-fired power set to end after 140 years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41443347 - September 2024 (70 comments)
by __oh_es | 2025-09-03 18:14:54+00:00
Sorry I know you said headless, but have you considered wordpress? Its unsexy, but the ecosystem is really well suited for this and hosting is dirt cheap.

Because its so popular and been around for so long, theres tons of free themes, plugins and videos which will reduce your support burden - plus your admin could get help easily as its not something you rolled.

Other than that, decap on gitlab is easy to run for free, and will provide the admin with a ui for editing content. Astro is also great and stable for this type of thing.
by darajava | 2025-09-03 18:14:58+00:00
I'm really not advocating for people to push out reams of AI drivel and not learn anything while doing it, but of these three groups which ones are likely to be the most effective?

The ability to easily edit in word processors surely atrophied people's ability to really reason out what they wanted to write before committing it to paper. Is it sad that these traits are less readily available in the human populace? Sure. Do we still use word processors anyway because of the tremendous benefits they have? Of course. Similar could be said for spellcheckers, tractors, calculators, power tools, etc.

With LLMs, it's so much quicker to access a tremendous breadth of information, as well as drill down and get a pretty good depth on a lot of things too. We lose some things by doing it this way, and it can certainly be very misused (usually in a fairly embarrassing way). We need to keep it human, but AI is here to stay and I think the benefits far exceed the "cognitive decline" as mentioned in this journal.
by downrightmike | 2025-09-03 18:14:59+00:00
How many assets are underwater? Commercial real estate, retail is crazy too. The valuations are not something that can be maintained long term, and fossil fuels are not a long term solution. It makes sense to divest all of those things that are a bubble.

The more Fossil fuel we use, the worse climate change, the more people die, the fewer valuations actually make money. Its like when Spain in the 1600's, and used their Navy's power on paper to get other countries to back off/ give Spain what it wanted, and then came a real battle and Spain has never recovered from that.

Paper value doesn't match reality and that isn't sustainable, or profitable unless you can time the market.