MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pbronez | 2025-09-04 19:02:27+00:00
Final results from the table on page 50:

Operates more transparently. No concerning findings identified.

• Mullvad (Mullvad)

• TunnelBear (TunnelBear)

• Lantern (Lantern)

• Psiphon (Psiphon)

• ProtonVPN (Proton VPN)

Operates more anonymously. Potentially concerning, but no definitive findings.

• HotVPN (HotVPN)

• LetsVPN (LetsVPN)

• Astrill VPN (Astrill VPN)

• CookieDevs (Cookie, Ciao Proxy Pro)

• VPN Super Inc (VPN - Super Unlimited Proxy)

• PureVPN (PureVPN)

• Potato VPN (Potato VPN)

Concerning and suspicious findings (users should avoid).

• Innovative Connecting (Turbo VPN - Secure VPN Proxy, Turbo VPN Lite - VPN Proxy, VPN Monster - Secure VPN Proxy)

• Autumn Breeze (SnapVPN, Signal Secure VPN - Robot VPN)

• Lemon Clove (SuperNet VPN, VPN Proxy Master Pro, VPN Proxy Master Lite)

• Matrix Mobile (Global VPN)

• ForeRaya Technologies (Melon VPN)

• Hong Kong Silence Technology (Super Z VPN)

• Yolo Mobile Technology (Touch VPN - Stable & Secure, VPN ProMaster - Secure your net)

• Wild Tech (3X VPN - Smooth Browsing, VPN Inf, Melon VPN - Secure Proxy VPN)
by ModernMech | 2025-09-04 19:02:34+00:00
Their point was that we don't need things like Heroku, Kubernetes, Slack, TensorFlow, etc. They're not creating value, they're propping up a tech stack, whose value is questionable, given the amount we've invested in it. It seems that over the past 15 years of tech, the end result is that a few companies and people became fabulously wealthy, and the rest of us are pretty much worse off. Tech isn't transforming our lives or society the way tech companies promised it would 15 years ago.

As for grandma, 15 years ago she could have just posted her sewing club on Facbook, she doesn't need Heroku or AI.
by jfengel | 2025-09-04 19:03:46+00:00
Tariffs aren't specifically about hostility to India. They're hostile to literally everybody, including uninhabited islands.

Potentially, these tariffs could be used as bargaining chips for other policy goals, including foreign policy. Which could mean eliminating tariffs in exchange for cutting off Russia. Except:

* India may not accept the offer. Oil is a hugely important driver of any economy. Paying more for oil would make everything you manufacture cost more -- possibly offsetting any gains from removing tariffs. And it makes everything in the country cost more, including food. This may just not be a good deal.

* The current administration is ambivalent about Russia. They apply some pressure to Russia, but only within limited bounds. Sacrificing their bargaining chip (tariffs) just to nudge Russia away from war isn't a high priority for them.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-04 19:03:48+00:00
> For k-12, getting the parent and the student to sit down outside of school and “cheat” by having the parent teach the kid is… victory! You’ve reinforced the idea that learning can happen outside schools.

I don't think they were trying to prevent parents from working with children; I think they were trying to prevent parents doing the homework for children, or the kids farming it out to someone else online, or getting someone else to do it for them, period.

Same with college; it wasn't exactly networking when someone I knew paid someone to do their homework for them.
by omarish | 2025-09-04 19:05:02+00:00
> Importantly, none of these businesses are using crypto because it's crypto or for any speculative benefit. They're performing real-world financial activity, and they've found that crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante.

One sign of a technology becoming mature is when it stops needing to be the main character. It starts to make room for what it does, not what it is.

When thefacebook launched, it wasn't a PHP-based social network; it was a social network for college students.

Blockchain has been the main character for a very long time and it's really encouraging to see a product launch like this. Congrats to everyone involved in making this product a reality.
by udev4096 | 2025-09-04 19:05:44+00:00
Bullshit. The biggest stable coin, Tether, is pure scam. They are essentially creating money out of nowhere. They were found guilty of massive fraud and were fined $18M [1]. They refuse to get audited by a third-party [2]. The ones that do audit them are just as sketchy as them [3]. I would recommend watching this video to grasp the scope of their fraud [4]

[1] - https://coingeek.com/tether-bitfinex-prohibited-from-operati...

[2] - https://ecoinimist.com/2024/09/20/concern-over-tether-audits...

[3] - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sec-fines-tether-former-audit...

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whuXHSL1Pg
by k310 | 2025-09-04 19:06:02+00:00
If you don't mind classical music (I love it), there are recordings at the Internet Archive and a few mirrored at imslp.org (most are "Not PD US")

So, I am considering creating songs for religious and political groups (the kind and gentle kind, IMNSHO. Anything expected to go viral (5 or more copies, LOL) I would choose the classical (scores available as well as those few CC performances) and for informal (let's jam) use, anything goes, as "fair use".

Is classical music "limiting"? Well, look at the countless movies with classical music "snuk in". The most famous is probably Mozart's Piano Concerto 21, now nicknamed "Elvira Madigan".

The converse, music composed for movies, is undoubtedly still under copyright, so use only with small groups at home, with all the Alexa's and Home Pods powered off. (phones too?)

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score

Under Artistic Merit.

FWIW, there are some fine pieces listed under "Classical Music in Movies" when you search.

Favorites from this list? Too many to list, but it all started for me with Fantasia, of course.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-04 19:06:47+00:00
That sort of is what I find.

I know that my idea is completely rectally-sourced, but I feel that the less time that we have to think about an element of an interaction, the less likely we are to go into the nasty "flame mode" we see.

But there's exceptions to every case (especially when human nature is involved). I actually know people that are so emotionally broken, that every interaction that they have; regardless of the context and medium, is a fight.

They tend to be lonely and angry. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
by glenstein | 2025-09-04 19:06:58+00:00
1% from a Dyson Sphere would be a better energy return than 100% efficiency from any conventional energy sorce. Similarly, 20% from solar is competitive with 60% from nuclear, 50% from coal, and is easily better than 100% from my neighbor Dan riding a bicycle powered electricity generator.

You can't cite efficiency percentages in a vacuum to imply they are a better or worse than alternatives, because those aren't percentages of the same kinds of things, and they don't tell you about the economics, production in absolute terms or EROEI.
by alphazard | 2025-09-04 19:07:01+00:00
It doesn't look like there's any information about the consensus mechanism, until that's described in detail, it's unclear what the advantages are, or if it really is suited to payments. There are existing algorithms (like Avalanche L1, or some of the Ethereum L2s), which have fast finality particularly suited to the point-of-sale use case.

They cut out a lot of work for themselves expecting stable coins to materialize on their own chain. It's Stripe, so maybe they are allowed to mint their own USD stable coin, but that's one coin. They might have been better off making an L2 on Ethereum. Otherwise they are going to have to run Uniswap in their EVM implementation and hope that liquidity shows up.

I can see Stripe's customers wanting to use a solution that just works and is backed by Stripe's own distributed ledger, but I can't see their customers' customers wanting to do the same. Their customers' customers are going to want liquidity to other tokens, and privacy. At this point I don't think that a payments protocol can succeed unless it provides privacy comparable to Monero, liquidity to a major L1 and its family of tokens, and of course, fast finality.
by jfengel | 2025-09-04 19:07:10+00:00
That cannot possibly work. Color isn't anywhere close to a reliable predictor of ripeness. If it were people wouldn't have to squeeze-test them. Different sub-varieties have different skin colors. Two avocadoes with identical colors (even of the same variety) can have wildly different ripeness levels, and an individual avocado won't change color consistently as it ripens.

A bin has avocadoes from different farms, and therefore different sub-varieties. They'll all be Hass, but not clones of the same tree. So you can't even just program in that these avocadoes came from X location.

They claim to have success so perhaps they've got something else going on.
by abxyz | 2025-09-04 19:07:17+00:00
I’m as cynical about crypto as any sane person but I think you’re hand-waving away the challenges of international business. How can you transact in dollars if you’re a business in Argentina? As you say, if you’re operating in Europe, this is a solved problem, but lots of businesses are operating across borders that don’t have the same payment options. Banks could solve this problem but they haven’t and this is what non-banks have come up with. I’m sure if SEPA was global this wouldn’t be necessary, but it isn’t.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-09-04 19:08:11+00:00
> Also, shouldn't you be more concerned with little girls in the UK needing to carry knives and axes to defend themselves from migrant rape gangs

Well thanks for letting me know where you get your information from. I know exactly what your referencing which is a twelve year old feral child and her sister walking around with dangerous weapons, intimidating people and then when anyone stands up to her, they turn the camera on and cry foul. When I was a kid I used to hang out with kids from social, so I've seen it all before. Maybe its new to you, so you fall for it. Perhaps you believe that "clean shirt" is the height of wit?

> Especially since he's not causing those issues, he's just reading the room and calling it out as it is.

Good job in being part of the latest generation to fall for the oldest trick in the book. It's called a hate plank and its a cheap trick used by cheap politicians to manipulate cheap electors. Idk how you stumbled onto here but if it wasn't accidental then you really should know better because you've likely had some level of education, formal or self-taught. CPUs tell us how stupid we are when we give them instructions, have you not learned to distrust your own assumptions yet? How are you convinced that the biggest problems in a given nation are a consequence of the smallest group of people who have been here for the least amount of time?

> I feel like you're getting worked up for the wrong things.

I think getting upset at people playing victim and painting the world as ending in order to obtain political power IS the thing to get worked up about. Personally I love how the slogan MAGA embeds itself in the lie that America isn't great already. Certainly by the size definiton its pretty great and has been for well over a hundred years. GDP per capita is off the fucking charts. Richest country in the world, by a significant margin, greatest stock growth in the world, attracts the most investment, with some of the cheapest goods, some of the best tech and greatest opportunities for its people. But it then convinces itself that *its* the victim. Its absolutely pathetic.

At least feral kids _are_ disadvantaged in the first place which is why they're like that.
by osigurdson | 2025-09-04 19:08:20+00:00
>> productivity is unlikely to go up

I wonder how that would even be measured? I suppose you could do it for roles that do the same type of work every day. I.e. perhaps there is some statistical relevance to number of calls taken in a call center per day or something like that. One the software development side however, productivity metrics are very hard to quantify. Of course, you can make a dashboard look however you want, but impossible, essentially to tie those metrics to NPV.
by DetroitThrow | 2025-09-04 19:08:33+00:00
State owned enterprises as a percentage of GDP, seems definitionally a better metric than government spending per GDP for comparing "decentralized private vs centralized government actors". This shows China at 29% and USA at 19% for 2024. So even discounting legal frameworks for state intervention, regulations, or supply-side policy it seems very contrived to reach your conclusion in terms of, again, "decentralized private market actors vs. centralized government ones" - and I'm aware of the difference it would mean wrt government spending as a % of GDP.

But I'd just like to point out how silly it is to dismiss the person's concerns by claiming we should all just agree to be reductive because it's easiest to discuss a single metric. It's certainly easiest to use this single metric to make the discussion about your conclusion, though, if that's what you were aiming for. I hope not, though.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-04 19:08:36+00:00
I haven't really found a major productivity boost using LLMs for _production_ software. Writing up the prompt and iterating can take as much time as just doing it. The auto-complete is better _IF_ it gets the syntax correct (depends a lot on how well it knows or can infer the framework).

Where I have found them very useful are for one-off scripts and stuff I need done quick and dirty, that isn't too complex and easily verifiable (so I can catch the mistakes it makes, and it does make them!), and especially in languages I don't know that well or don't like (i.e., bash, powershell, javascript)
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-04 19:08:53+00:00
> 18 hours ago is "last few days"? It's open to the public right now. Members of the public are riding in Tesla Robotaxis right now. You cannot simply assume that no members of the public are able to do this just because your account is still on the waitlist.

They only opened the ability to even join the waitlist today.

Those comments WERE factually accurate when they were made.

> but the fact of the matter is that FSD (despite being only level 3 autonomy at the moment) is already far safer than human drivers are, just like Waymo.

Oh god, it's the FSD talking points. Based on what? Oh yes, Tesla's stats where they compare a subset of driving in a subset of roads in a subset of conditions in a subset of vehicles to "all drivers, all roads, all conditions, all weather" and come to conclusions that their statisticians know to be false because they wouldn't be statisticians if they didn't know that.

And yeah, Tesla's stats, the same ones that 1) don't count any incident without airbag deployment as an accident, even if it involves the total write off of the vehicle, or a fatality, and 2) oh yeah, any fatality accidents.

> Tesla's sub-$40k cybercabs

That don't actually exist, yet (if at all). Are they coming out before or after the $39K CyberTruck?

> Waymo (who has only a couple thousands of cars total, and only plans to produce tens of thousands per year) will never have as much real-world data as Tesla

Still hundreds of times more Robotaxis than Tesla has on the road right now.
by CalChris | 2025-09-04 19:09:35+00:00
Compare and contrast L1 to FedNow.

1.5%

vs

$0.045 per credit transfer $0.01 per request for payment message $1.00 per liquidity management transfer

Nice work if you can get it.

BTW, it is crypto. So the promise that none of these businesses are using crypto because it's crypto or for any speculative benefit is a provisional promise at best. Hyrum's Law argues an opposite future.
by zahlman | 2025-09-04 19:09:37+00:00
Now this is what an AI-related Show HN should be. You demonstrate something about how the technology works; you provide something usable; and you aren't trying to sell anything. Kudos.

I don't think the "straightforward architecture" is all that surprising, though. Once you've identified an entire LLM as a single "moving part", and have the idea of allowing its output to be interpreted as commands (and have wrappers available to connect to the LLM's API), the rest pretty much writes itself.
by dijit | 2025-09-04 19:09:55+00:00
you’re missing the point, if it’s a paid add on instead of bundled it won’t be using one monopoly to aid another.

Other competitors will be considered on their merits.

I’ve never seen a company use teams for any reason other than they already have it for free.

And the thought of paying for something that you already have is unthinkable to a CFO… and CFOs tend to run the IT department for some reason.
by nickelcitymario | 2025-09-04 19:10:01+00:00
Luck was a necessary ingredient, 100%.

But how many other people had similar luck and did nothing with it?

Luck is another word for opportunity. Some people are really good at leveraging opportunity for all it's worth. Most of us (myself very much included) are not.

Case in point: I'm the same age as Mark Zuckerberg. Many people say his age is why he was able to be at the right place at the right time to create Facebook. Much like they say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and every other "self-made" billionaire.

But he still had to choose to do all the right things that I chose not to do in order to be able to experience that kind of luck.

At some point we gotta own up to our own role in guiding our lives.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-04 19:10:26+00:00
At least six months ago.

I always thought it was crap and that the social mechanisms for sorting good answers to the top "just didn't work". First you have to work your way through the question which is usually poorly posed and rambling and has confusing comments, then the right answer is frequently the #7 or #24 answer, sometimes the accepted answer at the top is wrong and has a long thread of comments begging the original posted to unaccept it. You can't cut and paste Python answers because they are written in Python 2 and say

print "something"

instead of the Python 3 equivalent

print("something")

and in general the mechanisms of the site don't allow for correcting things like that, as the system prevents the question from being re-asked and getting a better answer. Even worse you're just not allowed to have discussions about many of the most consequential topics for which other people's experience is crucial such as "What framework should I use for X?"

But if you need 10 wrong answers for "How to center a <div>?" it's your place.

Back when they published a public data dump I thought about making some automated system that cleans it up, deletes all but the best answers, etc. It would be much easier in the age of AI, but that dump is long gone and the world has moved on now that AI can operationalize that kind of knowledge. Had Stack Overflow realized that it sucked 10 years ago it might still be relevant, but the logic of two-sided markets kept it alive long after heat death.
Show HN: Llmberjack, A simple open-source Go interface for multiple LLM provider
by delange | 2025-09-04 19:10:29+00:00
Hey HN,

While working with different LLMs in Go at Marble (open source Fraud & compliance automation platform), we got tired of juggling the specific SDKs and request/response structs for OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. It makes switching providers or even just testing a new model more work than it should be.

To fix this, we built `llmberjack`. It’s a lightweight, no-frills Go library that provides a single, common interface over multiple LLM backends.

It's *not* a complex framework like LangChain. There are no agents, chains, or magic. It does just one thing: give you unified, typed, request builder functions so you can swap out providers with a one-line config change while still taking advantage of provider-specific bells and whistles. The goal is to avoid vendor lock-in and keep application code clean and simple.

Here’s a quick example:

```go gpt, err := openai.New(openai.WithApiKey("...")) gemini, err := aistudio.New()

llm, err := llmberjack.New( llmberjack.WithDefaultProvider(gpt), llmberjack.WithProvider("gemini", gemini), llmberjack.WithDefaultModel("gpt-5"), )

type Output struct { LightColor string `json:"text" jsonschema_description:"Color of the traffic light" jsonschema:"enum=red,enum=yellow=enum=red"` }

resp, _ := llmberjack.NewRequest[Output](). WithText(llmberjack.RoleUser, "What is the traffic light color indicating for cars to stop?"). Do(context.Background(), llm)

obj, _ := resp.Get(0)

fmt.Println("Traffic light is ", obj.LightColor) ```

It’s open source and the code is straightforward. We’d love to get feedback or contributions.

Check it out on GitHub: https://github.com/checkmarble/llmberjack
by kragen | 2025-09-04 19:10:52+00:00
Even the EIA-commissioned study I linked doesn't include that, but it is a potentially significant cost. If we take the median price of US$4702 per Texas "acre" from https://texasfarmcredit.com/resources/texas-land-pricing-gui... it works out to US$1.16/m². At 30° latitude your panels provide about 0.86 square meters of panel per square meter of land, or more like 0.3 with trackers, so the land price is on the order of US$3/m². A square meter is nominally a kilowatt of sunlight, so that's US$0.003/W of sunlight, but mainstream panels are usually only around 21% efficient, so it's more like US$0.015/Wp. Historically this has been insignificant but may no longer be with mainstream panels costing only US$0.10/Wp.

Desert land, lakes, and harbors are cheaper, so we should expect to see more panels there instead of on potentially arable land.
by gooosle | 2025-09-04 19:11:39+00:00
> Think about these fantasy sports gambling apps, your coworkers who distract themselves from the drudgery of work by discussing sports, the financial institutions that take a transaction fee from money being passed around, the infinite scroll of content on social media, all because of athletes.

I don't see how you can claim gambling, and pointless discussion about some arbitrary game you (they) don't even play are positive. Financial transactions for the sake of financial transactions are also completely pointless.
by underlipton | 2025-09-04 19:11:57+00:00
My straight-As appeared and disappeared within a school year each of the time my family spent renting out an acquaintance's 4,000 square foot custom-built house. My bedroom had large, built-in desks (one for each occupant and a third for the computer) and a big window that looked out over the street. Light, fresh air, (relative) privacy, space. Every other house, I was doing work at the kitchen table or on the floor. It makes a huge difference.

After we had to move on from there, you'd have thought that moving away from the distraction of a neighborhood full of classmates whose houses I could bike to on a whim (homework done or not) would be helpful, but it turns out that replacing physical afterschool hangouts with AIM chats and early social media was not exactly conducive to the physical and social well-being that supports youth academics.

Yes, having these things straight is a massive privilege. And, even during the worst times, at least I was safe. I think a lot of Americans are clueless. Or, they prefer their kids competing against peers who are at a huge disadvantage. (One guess where the rampant prevalence of imposter syndrome comes from.)
by duskwuff | 2025-09-04 19:12:04+00:00
> The strategic goal of "dumping" is to drive competitors (the example here being the US solar panel industry) out of a market

Which makes very little sense, because the US solar panel industry is practically nonexistent. There are some companies that do last-stage assembly of solar panels in the US - probably to meet "made in USA" requirements - but the solar cells themselves are almost all made overseas.

In short, there's nothing there for China to dump on - the US is not a competitive threat to China in this sector. All indications are that Chinese solar panels are cheap because they're being manufactured in immense volumes to help meet China's own energy demands. The international sales are a bonus, not the primary goal.