MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belter | 2025-09-02 11:51:59+00:00
They should have used S3 Object Lock for her...Since she had already a previous track record of deleting data. When she was the German Defence Minister during the Bundestag “consultants affair” inquiry, data/SMS on her official phones were wiped after they were requested as evidence.

And of course the fact that her husband was working for a Pfizer supplier, while she was sending private SMS to the Pfizer CEO, is of course an incredible coincidence.

And also the current NATO Secretary...

"Dutch PM has been deleting text messages daily for years" - https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/18/dutch-pm-deleting-text-message...
by capitainenemo | 2025-09-02 11:52:00+00:00
I wonder how the link preview will work on mobile. In the past, click and hold on a partially obscured URL on mobile basically worked like "hover" on the desktop and revealed the whole link (useful to see if the link was malicious, or had click tracking, or just didn't go to the site you thought it did).

I hope there's still a way to do that feature. If nothing else, by disabling the preview which I doubt I would find as useful.

edit just retested on mobile. click and hold is basically the context menu. If you tap on the first item in the context menu (the link ended in …) you get the full link wrapped.

So, more correct to say that click and hold is the right click context menu on mobile, even though I mostly just used it for that display whole link feature. Perhaps they could put the preview as a sub item of the context menu.
by NoGravitas | 2025-09-02 11:52:02+00:00
> veiled intentions

The intentions behind the AGPL were never veiled. The intent was to close the loophole in the GPL3 that is opened by providing software as a network service. If you were to release software that provides a network service under the GPL3, someone else could use and modify it without sharing their changes, but while also providing it as a service. AGPL3 closes this loophole by ensuring that everyone who can use the software must have access to the source including any changes. I don't see any deceit, and I don't even see any anti-competitiveness.
by RHSeeger | 2025-09-02 11:52:10+00:00
> 1) ICE is abusing their power and illegally detaining and deporting people who shouldn't be deported... can't they be taken to court?

They are doing this. And, as other have noted, taking them to court is almost impossible. In at least one case, the government has shipped people off to another country after being told clearly by the courts that they are absolutely not allowed to do so. The current government is ignoring the laws, and the checks and balances that are supposed to prevent that are proving completely inadequate; mostly because the people that would enforce that have chosen to support these illegal activities.

> 2) ICE is deporting illegal immigrants which don't have permission to be in the country... aren't immigration laws there for a reason

Yes, but it's more complicated than that. Specifically, the immigration laws are not up to the task. The US relies on undocumented/illegal workers for a significant portion of it's economy (farming being of particular note). Running rampant and arresting everyone that's here illegally has a huge negative impact.

> surely we don't want to normalize selective application of law

We do, unfortunately. The laws in the US are very frequently written to be of the variety that give broad (unnecessary) powers, and then say "well, they won't use them in a bad way". It's bad, and it should be pushed back against, but it is what it is. And the enforcement of those laws needs to be balanced against the well being of both individuals and society as a whole.

If it helps, consider that every US citizen breaks many laws every day. There's a writeup somewhere of how US citizens commit an average of 3 felonies per day. The sheer number of laws in the US, and the absolute ridiculousness of many of them, make it almost impossible _not_ to break laws.

Plus, undocumented immigrants are far less likely to break _other_ laws than the average US citizen. So "we must enforce the law" sounds good, but you'd need to arrest literally _everyone_ if you wanted to use it as a valid argument.
by jonstewart | 2025-09-02 11:52:27+00:00
As a non-American, one thing that may be hard for you to understand is that immigration is a core principle. Now, with each wave, immigration has also had a popular reaction to it, but this reaction is not universal—many Americans understand their ancestors were once the same hated immigrants. So, the feelings in the country about immigration are mixed. It is also a FACT that immigration is a huge driver of the economy, spurring population growth, providing cheap labor, and contributing delicious ethnic restaurants.

Most illegal/undocumented immigrants in the US are otherwise productive and law-abiding. They have a job, they pay taxes. When they have kids here, their kids are citizens. What happens to that family when ICE deports a parent?

I live in DC. ICE has detained people in my neighborhood every day this week. Kids at my child’s school are now missing their parents. It seems to be the case that ICE is mostly pulling over drivers of work trucks and vans, and detaining anyone who’s brown-skinned and doesn’t have immigration papers on them (I’m white and was born here; I do not walk around with my birth certificate).

So, yes, both #1 and #2 are in play, but I would encourage you to question the underlying assumption that deporting illegal immigrants constitutes an unalloyed good. As a citizen, I don’t think it does and oppose these actions. I would happily provide a path to citizenship for any immigrant that had a good track record of living here peacefully and contributing.
by Traster | 2025-09-02 11:52:42+00:00
Zuckerberg rushing into every new fad with billions of dollars has somehow tricked people into thinking that's what big tech is about and all of them should be shovelling money into this.

But actually every other company has been much more strategic, Microsoft is bullish because they partnered up with OpenAI and it pumps their share price to be bullish, Google is the natural home of a lot of this research.

But actually, Amazon, Apple etc aren't natural homes for this, they don't need to burn money to chase it.

So there we have it, the companies that have a good strategy for this are investing heavily, the others will pick up merges and key technological partners as the market matures, and presumably Zuck will go off and burn $XB on the next fad once AI has cooled down.
by throwing-up | 2025-09-02 11:53:10+00:00
Some difficult questions for sympathizers of illegal immigrants.

1) Why is this app allowed on the App Store? It’s helping illegal activity within the borders of a sovereign nation.

2) Nations are allowed to determine who comes and doesn’t to their countries as per their right to rule as a sovereign nation and their national security interests. Nobody vetted the 11-13 million people who poured over the border. It’s impossible to imagine that democratic institutions will not change their behavior if you get an influx of 11-13 million people, who then have children who become citizens. I mean that votes are just a counting game. So if you get more voters who are anti-abortion but previously you were all pro-choice, then that changes culture. So why shouldn’t countries get to decide who comes and goes?

3) Why shouldn’t countries have their own culture? Or not want to be multicultural? If there are laws that prevent racism or discrimination against different religions, then that’s not multiculturalism, just civility. Why is assimilation unacceptable for someone who moves in?

4) If you want to talk about the injustices of colonialism, then note that a) there are many countries that overcame those barriers despite similar histories to the country of origin of these illegal immigrants. Look at India, for instance.

And b) not all illegal immigrants are more poor countries, but from thriving economies like China, India, Mexico or Brazil. Why is it justified that thriving or different economies should offload people who struggle in their own countries to other countries? How is that responsible governance? Countries should be responsible for their own poor people.

5) Many Latin American nations were already developmentally different, or delayed from another perspective, when colonialists landed on their shores. It’s clear there are cultural differences which produce incompatibility in how people want to live or govern. Ideally, nations whose people were subjected to racism or colonialism would use Japan or Brazil as models for national growth and development. Why should people be forced to live together if they don’t want the same things?
by immibis | 2025-09-02 11:53:45+00:00
You (or the government) can ask a judge to order the civilian you don't like to leave. If the judge agrees, they have to leave. If the CYDL doesn't leave, you can ask a judge to order the police (or even you) to arrest and deport them. If the judge agrees, the police (or even you) can arrest and deport them.

If you don't have a judge's order to kidnap the person, then it's illegal by default.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-09-02 11:54:09+00:00
People voted for segregation and ICE deportations. The point of protest theater like sit-ins and ICE protests is to make people confront what they voted for instead of being blissfully unaware of the harms. We live in a democracy, so the most effective way to reverse something that people voted for is by education, and voters will not seek out that education themselves.

Often, it is the people who don't understand protest who understand the least about government. Many have the idea that if a democratically elected government does something they don't like, violently overthrowing the government will solve the problem. If the next government is a democracy, the same people will vote for the same policies.
by capitainenemo | 2025-09-02 11:55:13+00:00
Thinking about this, perhaps you were thrown off by rhetorical flourish in a speech, perhaps by an Iroquois, perhaps reacting to the use of "Canada" as a unifying term for everyone living in the northern americas now - "our village."

"Our word for village is kanata, "canada" is a totally different word for the 'village of the invaders'"

Something like that.
by AntonioBeltuono | 2025-09-02 11:55:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm David. I built Aicontextator to scratch my own itch. I was spending way too much time manually gathering and pasting code files into LLM web UIs. It was tedious, and I was constantly worried about accidentally pasting an API key.

Aicontextator is a simple CLI tool that automates this. You run it in your project directory, and it bundles all the relevant files (respecting .gitignore ) into a single string, ready for your prompt.

A key feature I focused on is security: it uses the detect-secrets engine to scan files before adding them to the context, warning you about any potential secrets it finds. It also has an interactive mode for picking files , can count tokens , and automatically splits large contexts. It's open-source (MIT license) and built with Python.

I'd love to get your feedback and suggestions.

The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/ILDaviz/aicontextator
by cousin_it | 2025-09-02 11:55:36+00:00
I think the main contribution of Bear at first was centralizing and codifying a certain visual style: minimalistic, with a single narrow column. It's basically "the Medium layout, but indie". And the thing is, that style in itself is not copyrightable. To achieve it, you don't need to use bearblog. You just need a few tens of lines of CSS, which you can very easily write yourself.

Today there's another thing going for Bear: the discovery page. It's gradually becoming a driver of visibility, attracting more authors to Bear to get readers who are there. But I'm wary of these "flywheel" kind of things, even if they have an indie look. To me it still feels better to have my own website, and participate only in those discovery systems that support it, like Reddit or HN.
by 112233 | 2025-09-02 11:55:39+00:00
That AI is closely related to compression is a well established idea. E.g. http://prize.hutter1.net/

It seems reasonable to argue that LLMs are a form of lossy compression of text that preserves important text features.

There is a precedent of distributing low quality lossy compressed versions of copyrighted work being considered illegal.
by faku812 | 2025-09-02 11:55:46+00:00
I would first like to clarify that I am not a citizen of USA, but I still support their right to have and enforce borders - same as I support it for every other country in the world. I don't think what happened hundreds of years ago was right, but no person that is alive today had anything to do with it. I am not sure if I correctly understand your position. Do you believe that anyone from anywhere in the world should be able to come and live in the USA, and also receive benefits from taxes that were paid by citizens?
by alexvitkov | 2025-09-02 11:56:13+00:00
The idiotic statement is yours. If the "sometimes" is important to you, you can have it - you're not the first person on the internet to play word games.

But unless you can come up with a very detailed list of when it's acceptable "to lock people down and physically prevent them from harming themselves" and when it's not acceptable (it never is, it's a crazy statement), and I don't think you have such a list, your "sometimes" just means "whenever I, as the person writing the software judge", rendering it completely meaningless.
by saghm | 2025-09-02 11:57:03+00:00
My issue with "source available" as a term has always been that it basically sounds like a synonym to "open source". It's not clear to me why the place to draw the line for what level of restriction constitutes " would be between what's known as " source available" and "true" open source when the question of "can I read the source code for this or not" seems way more intuitive to me than "can I run a cloud-based software service for this without violating the terms of the license".

From what I can tell, the argument against including stuff that's called source available in the category of open source basically boils down to the OSI definition, but it doesn't seem reasonable to me for an organization to claim exclusive rights to a very generic-sounding term with an intuitive definition that clashes with how they want to define it. If there's a concern over the pollution of their brand, they should be trying to trademark it, and if there's not, the constant backlash against anyone using the term in a way that conflicts with their definition is pretty antisocial. I recognize that this battle is probably already lost, but I'm not sure I'll ever understand why as a community we seem to have been happy to police usage of an unintuitive definition through public pressure just to try to make a point that doesn't seem to have nearly as much consensus behind it as the expectation of uniformity would imply.
by vFunct | 2025-09-02 11:57:54+00:00
So you're saying Israel is committing genocide because they are a foreign invasion force of European Jews that have the stated intent of eliminating Palestinians people from the land they're trying to take through a war they started in 1948?

And that Hamas are the good guys because they have a right to kill the foreign invaders trying to steal their land?

Is that the correct summary of Israel's genocidal intent?
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-02 11:59:59+00:00
I am currently working on something like this for audio, basically just like a MP3 player with full size SD cards that plays automatically when you insert them (for kids). It's actually quite hard to find full size SD cards these days and when you do they are comparatively expensive (opposed to current micro SD cards).

Also I wanted to have low capacity like 128MB, so the concept "one album, one card" (as in the OP - "one game, one card") makes sense. These are even harder to get and more expensive (in terms of money per storage). Naively I thought that obsolete hardware should be cheap.
by lazide | 2025-09-02 12:00:01+00:00
Well, one could argue the entire setup is a means of structuring investments and organizing/attracting Capital eh?

Hotel owner (aka franchisee) puts in capital in a specific way under license, gets help operating it, in exchange for the 10-20% licensing fee paid back to the main corporation.

In many cases, the owner/operator is nearly turnkey, and it’s an effective way of setting up a defacto managed business investment, almost like a LP. Many of the franchised hotels are actually owned/operated by LPs setup for the purpose.

Also in many of these cases, the franchiser provides contacts for financing, may directly facilitate/recruit Capital, and may even provide loans to the franchisee directly.

For most of these larger hotels, the actual act of renting out rooms, etc. is pretty much all automated/managed through the central system anyway, and the majority of the operating costs are structured in such a way as to minimize tax liability.

Is it clearer now?
by Nursie | 2025-09-02 12:00:41+00:00
> They do. Categorically.

I’m amused by the idea you might know my family better than me, but fun as that is, you don’t.

> If you want apple go apple.

This is the whole point - I do want Apple. I want Apple for my far less capable family members. People in this thread are asking for Apple to be forcibly changed, without understanding that most people are well served by the Apple model.

If you want open, buy open. Make it a viable market. Don’t take away the rails that ordinary people don’t even know are there.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-02 12:00:47+00:00
This isn't even an issue, you have made that problem up. I host a blog and there are some AI bots coming around. Big deal. Most of them do respect a robots.txt. Some don't. Not a big deal as well.

In contrast trying to change the infrastructure of the net, which previously was quite resistant to censorship is quite a big deal.

This sounds exactly like a crazy preacher warning about the dangers of rock music. A completely made up threat. And we need the protection of god against these evil AI bots.

Wow, a bot that disrespected a robots.txt. How can the internet survive...

Also, OpenAI already has the data. You want to ensure they will never get competitors by putting up barriers now. It makes no sense...
by cubefox | 2025-09-02 12:01:10+00:00
Of course they are edge cases. How many people do you think install third-party apps on Android? Pretty sure hardly anyone does that.

Also, Windows works pretty well with software from third-party sources, or would you forbid them in Windows as well? Sure, there are the occasional crypto scams which disable a hospital here and there, but this can arguably be prevented by not giving non-admins admin permissions.
by jagrsw | 2025-09-02 12:01:29+00:00
> Do you believe that anyone from anywhere in the world should be able to come > and live in the USA, and also receive benefits from taxes that were paid by citizens?

I guess I'm generally in favor of an open-border policy (or at least immigration based on promises of work, verifiable by a work contract).

Benefits are usually tax-based, and immigrants pay taxes (or, it's always possible to set it up that taxes are paid).

> but no person that is alive today had anything to do with it

They do. They're using land and resources taken from their former hosts which is a deep moral grey zone. Leaving home would be an option. If it's deemed too invasive, perhaps not penalizing people who want to do the same (minus stealing the land forcibly) would be a good first step.
by hliyan | 2025-09-02 12:02:18+00:00
In early 2023, I remember someone breathlessly explaining that there are signs that LLMs that are seemingly good at chess/checkers moves may have a rudimentary model of the board within them, somehow magically encoded into the model weights through the training. I was stupid enough to briefly entertain the possibility until I actually bothered to develop a high level understanding of the transformer architecture. It's surprising how much mysticism this field seems to attract. Perhaps it being a non-deterministic, linguistically invoked black box, triggers the same internal impulses that draw some people to magic and spellcasting.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-02 12:02:29+00:00
If iPhones had flaws in the encryption or security, they WOULD be exploited and monetised.

A zero day remote attack on an iOS device is worth so much money that you have to be _really_ ethical as a hacker not to sell it and report it to Apple for a small reward instead.

The last time one was deployed "publicly" was against Jeff Bezos (or his wife) - one of the top10 richest people in the world anyway. And then it was patched for everyone.
Show HN: A founder community with true anonymity(HMAC identities,no socialgraph)
by audaciousdelulu | 2025-09-02 12:02:42+00:00
I built founder.mood after watching founders struggle with the pressure to always be "winning". The hard, lonely parts of building something never get discussed honestly because it can spook investors, customers, and employees.

So, I built a place with true anonymity by design, not just a hidden username.

The key technical choices:

No Social Graph: No profiles, no follows, no connection between posts.

Unlinkable Aliases: Every post gets a fresh, random name. Comment threads use a different names.

No Plain-Text Emails: Auth uses a non-reversible HMAC of your email. We can't email you, even if we wanted to.

Hard Delete: One-click account wipe. No backups, no retention.

The goal is to create a place for the kind of conversations that happen at 2:00 AM, not in a board meeting. It's post-first (no account needed) and built for safety, not engagement.

I launched this quietly and within the first hour, three founders posted about the loneliness of misunderstanding, the fear of failure, and the struggle of balancing work with life. It confirmed the need.

I'd love the HN community's thoughts on the approach—both the product and the architecture.
by latexr | 2025-09-02 12:03:17+00:00
I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. The given example confused me further, since nothing in my argument is concerned with the tool “knowing” anything, that has no relation to the idea I’m expressing.

I do understand and agree with a different point you’re making somewhere else in this thread, but it doesn’t seem related to what you’re saying here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101946
by notahacker | 2025-09-02 12:03:27+00:00
White citizen gun owners get arrested and incarcerated on a regular basis by regular law enforcement instead of dying in shootouts too.

I think the reality is when ICE knock on your door (i) you're probably not holding your gun if you have one and (ii) as bad as being in a cage detained by masked thugs and deported (possibly even if you're a citizen) is, being shot dead by them isn't necessarily a better fate, particularly not if you suspect they would take great pleasure in "defending themselves" against your unarmed wife and children if given a half a reason
by brainlounge | 2025-09-02 12:03:37+00:00
I agree and like the analogy. And it's lossy to become useful as an AI in the first place. The "Learning" process has two effects on a machine learning model: In the beginning, it memorizes the facts it is trained on. But at some critical point, when it has no more capacity to memorize more facts, it starts to generalize. (This is why it's harder to train large models - large training datasets are needed.) And generalization is where AI models become very useful: For coding, writing poems, or any other task where memorization is not sufficient.