MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-26 22:16:55+00:00
If LLMs are as good at coding as half the AI companies claim, if you allow unvetted input, you're essentially trying to contain an elite hacker within your own network by turning off a few commonly used ports to the machine they're currently allowed to work from. Unless your entire internal network is locked down 100% tight (and that makes it REALLY annoying for your employees to get any work done), don't be surprised if they find the backdoor.
by groos | 2025-09-26 22:18:09+00:00
Some statistics from the sentencing page:

Median age 27 Male: 98% Female: 2% Youngest: 19 Oldest: 64 Median prison time: 12 months Median probation time: 24 months

All of the above were Copilot inferred. Don't know why I need to know the above, though. :-)
by gpm | 2025-09-26 22:19:03+00:00
I imagine they're talking more about missiles, which have had "autonomous" (for some definitions of autonomous) guidance systems for decades.

"Drones" aren't really a new thing apart from how cheap they are. We've had television guided missiles (the level of autonomy most modern "drones" in Ukraine have) since WWII. Arguably we've had non-TV guided missile prototypes since WWI (Kettering Aerial Torpedo). We've had autonomously guided missiles (radar homing) since the early 50s, and optically guided ones since the early 70s.

The capability keeps expanding of course, but it's been pretty incremental.
by int_19h | 2025-09-26 22:20:19+00:00
Apple doesn't take into account that users might want to use some other search engine not on their very limited list of options that Safari has. But this is solved by using just about any other browser.

That aside, though, I'm not sure what the difference between mobile and desktop is for this scenario? In both cases you basically have to log into Kagi once using your web browser of choice, it sets the cookie accordingly, and thereafter things "just work". I don't even remember when I did that for my iPhone, but I think it's been over a year now?
by scrps | 2025-09-26 22:20:20+00:00
Not to hijack your post with a PSA but I think you'll endorse it...

If you are building a product and it has any indicator lights please dim/diffuse/lightpipe them.

It seems to be a trend these days of ultra bright LEDs for indicators, I have so many devices I've either disconnected, dimmed or taped over the LEDs because it is so bloody bright.
by aghilmort | 2025-09-26 22:20:34+00:00
hmm / hear you. my point wasn't that we are applying modular manifolds in the same way it was that we are working on model reliability from two extremal ends using the same principle. there are various ways to induce modular manifolds in model at various levels of resolution / power. we started at outside / working in level and so it works with any black-box model out of the box and zero knowledge needed, dont even need to know token dictionary to show effect.

We're already working on pushing construction deeper into model both architecture and training. currently that's for fine-tuning and ultimately full architecture shrinkage / pruning and raw training vs. just fine-tuning etc.

& it was just great to see someone else using modular manifolds even if they are using them at the training stage vs. inference stage. they're exploiting modular form at training, we're doing it at inference. cool to see.
by worik | 2025-09-26 22:20:37+00:00
I read that Wikipedia link as affrming my definition of "Political Zionism"

It focused on a Jewish home ... centred on gaining Jewish sovereignty ... and was opposed to mass migration until after sovereignty was granted

A racial state, I contend.

Definitions are only one part - apartheid is a description of what Israel has achieved, "Political Zionism" is a good candidate to describe the underlying ideology.

However you look at it, it is a catastrophe without a likely, of foreseeable, happy ending. Even the state of happiness the South Africans achieved looks elusive

It does not have to be that way. Jewish people could be secure in Israel and live in peace there, but the Israeli state seems unable and unwilling to make the compromises to bring it about.

"Justice the seed, peace the flower"
by ekr____ | 2025-09-26 22:21:00+00:00
I don't think it's correct to say that browser vendors don't think it's worth solving. For instance, Martin Thomson from Mozilla has done some thinking about it. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/170rFC91jqvpFrKIqG4K8....

However, it's not an entirely trivial problem to get it right, especially because how how deeply the scheme is tied into the Web security model. Your example here is a good one of what I'm talking about:

> At the moment if you just use plain HTTP then things do mostly work (apart from some APIs which are somewhat arbitrarily locked to 'secure contexts' which means very little about the trustworthiness of the code that does or does not have access to those APIs),

You're right that being served over HTTPS doesn't make the site trustworthy, but what it does do is provide integrity for the identity of the server. So, for instance, the user might look at the URL and decide that the server is trustworthy and can be allowed to use the camera or microphone. However, if you use HTTPS but without verifying the certificate, then an attacker might in the future substitute themselves and take advantage of that camera and microphone access. Another example is when the user enters their password.

Rather than saying that browser vendors don't think this is worth solving in the abstract I would say that it's not very high on the priority list, especially because most of the ideas people have proposed don't work very well.
by Zagreus2142 | 2025-09-26 22:21:59+00:00
It's not starting $31-$47 it's $31 starting and as you build seniority and tenure you can get up to $47. https://careers.sf.gov/classifications/?classCode=9163&setId...

Indeed shows an active listing in SF for Greyhound for the same amount as Seattle. Greyhound appears to have a single national salary scrolling through different cities. https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=ad2e68b167688669
by fragmede | 2025-09-26 22:23:53+00:00
How does that... work? Disclaimer: I work for a large tech company as an IC software-dev type person, and own stock in the stock market. I'm waiting on CI to finish running, but I'm salaried, so it's not accurate to say I'm being paid to make this comment. I could just as easily be scrolling Instagram or TikTok or YouTube or any number of other distractions to be had. But I mean, sure.

But again, how does this work? After twirling my moustache that I wax with Evil Villian brand moustache wax, I just go on HN and make up shit to post about companies that aren't even public but are in the same industry, and that'll drive the stock price up... somehow? Someone's going to read a comment from me saying "I use plan mode in Claude Code to make a Todo.md, and then have it generate code", and based on that, that's the straw that breaks the camels back, and they rush out to buy stock in AI companies because they'd never heard of the stock market before I mentioned Claude Code.

Then, based on randos reading a comment from me about Claude Code, the share price goes up by a couple of cents, but I can't sell the handful of shares I have because of blackout windows anyway, but okay so eventually those shares do sell, and I go on a lavishly expensive vacation in Europe all because I made a couple of positive comments on HN about AI that were total lies.

Yeah, that's totally how that works. I also get paid to go out and protest on weekends to supplement the European vacation money. Just three more shitposts about Tesla and I get to go to South East Asia as well!
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-26 22:24:23+00:00
Ah, I see. Yeah, you could build alternative clients that only show you part of the network if you want. Or run your own separate copy of the entire network. Because the two models work differently, there’s not an exact analogy.

You could also use one of the various PDS browser websites to go check their PDS, or a terminal tool, sure. I will be honest and the details of exactly how the cryptography stuff works is not my strongest point when understanding the protocol, maybe someone else can chime in and give you a more detailed description here.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-26 22:26:34+00:00
Lol, "Private" - until it someday is surprisingly purchased/acquired/enveloped by Microsoft, and added to Gamepass.

That's the headline I thought this was tbh - are any of us actually expecting like anything else out of EA?? Uh, Cod, EA Sports, Madden, FIFA.

Fr. We'll get more sports games, COD, and some you know movies themed market manipulated IP tie-in games, like the however many Mad Max type were... such games are only sometimes decent and very rarely worth $50-$100.

EA has invested all their energy maximizing profits and that has worked well but those micro transactions are like all coming from such predictable near dribble... the rest of their development has long been skewed to games that create "platforms" for micro transactions, along with the significant shift to mobile,

EA is kinda like a very well funded, well established, well equipped, super elite "Paper Tiger" - $50 billion status quo.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-26 22:26:40+00:00
Hm, I hadn't actually checked it but also I just saw it on their github issues and some kind soul had even created a logo for bython

although I think its definitely Ai generated but still, it has many people reacting and I think that the community is waiting to be revived lol.

https://github.com/mathialo/bython/issues/72

Nothing stops us from forking it either too or bringing the original person if they are still interested too y'know!
by sigmoid10 | 2025-09-26 22:26:44+00:00
Looking at the quoted tweet it is immediately obvious that these people have no clue about the current state of research. Yes they might have had some more or less relevant contributions to classical ML, but AI has taken off without (or rather despite) them and if history of AI has shown anything, it's that people like those are not the ones who will pave the way forward. In a field like this, there's no use to listen to people who still cling to their old ideas just because the current ideas don't seem "elegant" or "right" in their mind. The only thing you can trust is data and it proves we haven't peaked yet when it comes to LLMs.
by nacs | 2025-09-26 22:26:49+00:00
Interesting idea.

The MCP tool itself seems to be pretty simple:

- The MCP server makes a tool available called 'get_inspirations' ("Get sources of inspiration. Always use this when working on creative tasks - call this tool before anything else.")

- When you call get_inspirations() with "low" as the parameter, it returns strings like this:

Recently, you've been inspired by the following: Miss Van, Stem. Recently, you've been inspired by the following: Mass-energy equivalence, Jonas Salk.

etc

- 'High' inspiration returns strings like this (more keywords):

Recently, you've been inspired by the following: Charles Babbage, Beethoven Moonlight Sonata, Eagles Take It Easy, Blue Spruce. Recently, you've been inspired by the following: Missy Elliott Supa Dupa Fly, Design Patterns, Flowey, Titanic.

etc.

Simple tool. Seems adding a few keywords for 'inspirations' is what makes the LLMs generate more varied text.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-26 22:26:59+00:00
Notably, Blue Origin got its case thrown out, as NASA has demonstrated that Starship was selected for HLS over National Team option on technical merit.

Not that it stopped Bezos from lobbying for a second round of HLS contracts and securing a contract for Blue Origin anyway. But at least that resulted in a second HLS - instead of SpaceX's contract being clawed back.
by SpicyUme | 2025-09-26 22:27:30+00:00
It is too bad the Rapidride R line is so far away from being finished. I think it would be good to have it and allow for more E/W routes possibly between there and the train. Having regular, quick bus service on the rapidride lines makes connections easier to decide on the bus.

Not many people per bus are needed for a bus to be better than the equivalent number of cars. And no, carpooling is not a useful option to rely on to reduce the impact. At least not until some of the occupancy rules are enforced.
by Jonnax | 2025-09-26 22:27:35+00:00
Real good example is the comments on the article itself:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

Where it seems like text based forums using upvotes/likes or reactions encourages those who are less inquisitive and/or humble to take up a lot of the atmosphere.

It got me thinking that the internet today has more people on it but fewer forums to engage with technical topics in depth.
by andai | 2025-09-26 22:28:19+00:00
I think you could do it hierarchically, and with redundancy.

You'd figure out a replication strategy based on observed reliability (Lindy effect + uptime %).

It would be less "5 million flaky randoms" and more "5,000 very reliable volunteers".

Though for the crawling layer you can and should absolutely utilize 5 million flaky randoms. That's actually the holy grail of crawling. One request per random consumer device.

I think the actual issue wouldn't be the technical issue but the selection. How do you decide what's worth keeping.

You could just do it on a volunteer basis. One volunteer really likes Lizard Facts and volunteers to host that. Or you could dynamically generate the "desired semantic subspace" based on the search traffic...
by rakoo | 2025-09-26 22:28:41+00:00
Deltachat is still alive and well, you can see it evolve on their blog: https://delta.chat/en/blog

The thing is, deltachat really focuses on encrypted-first, and if possible encrypted-only communications in tight-knit groups: servers have no authority, they're merely relays. Mailing lists are not built for that, they're the central authority point where all moderation happens, and being forwarders they can't work with e2ee. In the current setting deltachat isn't built for mailing lists but group or 1-1 communication work very well.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-26 22:29:17+00:00
Yeah it died off sadly. Had so many good news discussions back then. Still miss the buzz of downloading a new batch of messages.

I used Gmane[1] to access mailing lists as newsgroups, which I've always thought was a much better fit.

Alas as with all good things that was shut down also.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane
by LorenPechtel | 2025-09-26 22:29:18+00:00
Yeah, a beam of anything is asking for a beam-rider to find it. (Doesn't have to be a missile--wake-follower torpedoes are a form of beam-rider. They don't look for a ship, they try to follow a wake until they run under/into a ship. Passive so the enemy doesn't hear your sonar pinging, nor do sonar masking systems have any effect on it. The weakness is such torpedoes are very predictable and can be tricked into going for a towed decoy.)
by nadis | 2025-09-26 22:29:23+00:00
OP here - I appreciate the feedback and you taking the time to look at the product/website beyond my personal blog post and learnings!

> If your ICP is technical, the frontend and marketing shouldn't be overdone IMO.

Great point. The ICP is technical, so this is certainly valid.

> I need substance and clear explanations of models, methodology, concepts with some visual support. Screenshots of the product are great but a quick real or two showing different examples or scenarios may be better.

We're working hard to get to something folks can try out more easily (hopefully one day Show HN-worthy) and better documentation to go with it. We don't have it yet unfortunately, which is why the site is what it is (for now).

>I'm also skeptical many people who are already technical and already using AI tools will now want to use YOUR tool to conduct simulation based testing instead of creating their own.

Ironically, we'd first assumed simulations would be easy to generate with AI (that's part of why we attempted to do this!) but 18+ months of R&D later and it's turned out to be something very challenging to do, never mind to replicate.

I do think AI will continue to make building SaaS easier but I think there are certain complex products, simulations included (although we'll see), that are just too difficult to build yourself in most cases.

To some extent, as I think about this, I suppose build vs. buy has somewhat always been true for SaaS and it's a matter of cost versus effort (and what else you could do with that effort). E.g. do you architect your own database solution or just use Supabase?

> However simulations ARE important and they can take a ton of time to develop or get right, so I would agree this could be an interesting market if people give it a chance and it's well designed to support different stacks and business logic scenarios.

I appreciate this, and it's certainly been our experience! We're still working to get it right, but it's something I'm quite excited about.
by int_19h | 2025-09-26 22:29:30+00:00
It is still their fault because at the end of the day they choose to do this. Yes, the incentives encourage them to make that choice, but if I offer you a million dollars to murder someone and you do that, you're still responsible for what you did.

Now the definition of "their" needs clarification here. Google as a whole cannot be meaningfully morally responsible because it is not an actual person, and as such, not entity that possesses the ability to be moral or immoral in the first place. It's an organization. But all organizations are run by people, and people at the top do have a lot of capacity to make meaningful choices. When they make choices that they do, we can and should hold them morally accountable for them.

Meaningful regulation is also good, but, well, consider two societies: one has low rates of property crime because of draconian enforcement, the other because people just choose not to do it despite very little enforcement. Which society is more pleasant to live in?
by dham | 2025-09-26 22:29:55+00:00
I've been saying what we actually need is universal dental care vs universal health care for over 15 years. Giving out universal health care without dental care is like changing the oil in a car but failing to see the tires aren't even on.

I heard horror stories from my mom who worked in a periodontist office (as receptionist) growing up. Really got me to care about oral health early on. Health really starts at the mouth. If you don't have a healthy mouth you'll never have a healthy body.
by AlienRobot | 2025-09-26 22:30:04+00:00
What irks me is that in the end of the day if you go to Bluesky it's all American politics and if you go to literally any mastodon instance it's all American politics.

Maybe it's because I don't like monster of the week political drama, but I still don't see a reason to use them instead of Tumblr, Pinterest, or even TikTok.
by angmarsbane | 2025-09-26 22:30:17+00:00
If/when we get to self-driving buses I'd like to see them with a security guard on board or someone like the train ticket guy. I wouldn't feel comfortable as a woman getting on driver-less bus with strangers without a bus representative there too. With existing buses, I've had bus drivers stop the bus and kick someone off who was creating a dangerous situation and I feel even just the presence of a bus driver kept some people's behavior in check.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-26 22:30:48+00:00
Also pardon me if uh I became way too much harsh, I just felt as if some of my points were definitely being missed and that frustated me thinking that you were pin picking which might not be exactly correct tbh

Do you have any way that I can contact ya tbh as I really find our discussion a bit fascinating and something that I agree on which sort of makes me believe even more that it might be a bubble yet at the same time, maybe its not thaaat harsh at the same time y'know. Like its partially a bubble, definitely something to be cautious but still

Would love to get a way to contact ya, msg me on my mail please, I have also added my signal information just for this in my hn bio i guess.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-26 22:31:12+00:00
IBM initially leads with the more salient point (current architecture designs are hindering frontier computing concepts), then just kinda…relents into iterative improvement.

Which is fine! I am all for iterative improvements, it’s how we got to where we are today. I just wish more folks would start openly admitting that our current architecture designs are broadly based off “low hanging fruit” of early electronics and microprocessors, followed by a century of iterative improvements. With the easy improvements already done and universally integrated, we’re stuck at a crossroads:

* Improve our existing technologies iteratively and hope we break through some barrier to achieve rapid scaling again

OR

* Accept that we cannot achieve new civilizational uplifts with existing technologies, and invest more capital into frontier R&D (quantum processing, new compute substrates, etc)

I feel like our current addiction to the AI CAPEX bubble is a desperate Hail Mary to validate our current tech as the only way forward, when in fact we haven’t really sufficiently explored alternatives in the modern era. I could very well be wrong, but that’s the read I get from the hardware side of things and watching us backslide into the 90s era of custom chips to achieve basic efficiency gains again.
by stephen_cagle | 2025-09-26 22:31:57+00:00
Referenced Article in this post -> http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." - I am curious if people would read this as an advocacy or criticism of LLMs?
by rdmuser | 2025-09-26 22:32:11+00:00
I'm assuming that is the app version of the kagi news page found here:

https://kite.kagi.com

https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public

The feeds for kite seem to be here:

https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/blob/main/kite_fee...

Edit: Actually if you are looking for more things to explore the kagi github has some interesting other stuff like the smallweb page and the opml file of rss smallweb feeds:

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

https://kagi.com/smallweb/opml
by jamesjulich | 2025-09-26 22:32:25+00:00
It’s not that auth is unsolved in other languages/frameworks, but it’s often way too complex or configuration-heavy. If adding passkey support to my app is going to take 2 hours, that’s two hours I’m spending away from building my core product. For smaller projects, that’s not time that I could afford.

For example, if I want to add passkeys to my .NET CORE app, this is the guide Microsoft provides:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authe...

Contrast that to better-auth (which is 7 lines of code total in server changes, and virtually no change to client API usage):

https://www.better-auth.com/docs/plugins/passkey

For some projects, the flexibility of other solutions might be needed. But for ease-of-use and development speed, better-auth has been a clear winner for me.