MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by like_any_other | 2025-09-02 17:28:28+00:00
> it’s a little bit more of a “dog bites man” than a “man bites dog” story at this point.

Not just at this point, and not just Twitter - slanting algorithms and bans for political ends is common practice, it's just usually a little more subtle:

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign - https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/twitter-milita...

On Facebook, Comments About ‘Whites,’ ‘Men,’ And ‘Americans’ Will Face Less Moderation - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/03/on-face...

Facebook, Twitter stocked with ex-FBI, CIA officials in key posts - https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-...

Emi Palmor, the former General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice is on Facebook's oversight board - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emi_Palmor

1993-1997 US secretary of Labor Robert Reich: Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for violating his 1st Amendment rights by keeping him off their platforms. Someone should remind him that they're private companies to which the 1st Amendment doesn't apply. - https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1412826396490039296

Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy - https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-fa...

Far-right Polish groups protest Facebook profile blockages - https://apnews.com/article/7ea31c13b8bf45db88430e763e594025

Polish PM calls Facebook ban on far-right party undemocratic - https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-h...

YouTube: Keeping Americans in the Dark on Islam - https://www.raymondibrahim.com/01/26/2018/youtube-keeping-am...

PPC candidate banned from Facebook and public debates - https://xcancel.com/MarcScottEmery/status/143384506948066510...

Website critical of Joe Biden banned by reddit, and even banned from private messages on Facebook - https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hr30p3/reddit_f...

Facebook Prevents Sharing New York Post Story on Black Lives Matter Founder Patrisse Cullors' Real Estate - https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-prevents-sharing-new-york-...

Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments - https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News - https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-sup...

Reporter: Facebook using ex-CIA to decide misinformation policy is ‘very, very worrying’ - https://thehill.com/hilltv/3566225-reporter-facebook-using-e...

Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content - https://text.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorshi...

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo
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by amirkabbara | 2025-09-02 17:29:09+00:00
Most AI systems rely on vector search. It finds similar fragments, but not the right context. It can tell you two passages are related, but not how they connect or why they matter together.

So everyone ends up “engineering context” — manually deciding what to stuff into prompts using RAG pipelines, agentic search, or trees of thought. These tricks work for small demos, but not at scale. That’s why MIT found that 95% of AI pilots fail, and why you keep seeing threads about vector search breaking down.

We built a different approach: a retrieval model that predicts the right context for every turn in a conversation. On Stanford’s STaRK benchmark it ranks #1. It’s also fast enough for voice chat, where even 100ms of lag kills the experience.

We also introduced a new metric: retrieval loss. Like language model loss, but for retrieval. Traditional systems get worse as your dataset grows. With Papr, retrieval loss drops as your dataset grows — meaning more knowledge makes your system smarter, not dumber.

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by TuringTest | 2025-09-02 17:29:16+00:00
> Until you lose access to the LLM and find your ability has atrophied to the point you have to look up the simplest of keywords.

You can locally run pretty decent coding models such as Qwen3 Coder in a RTX 4090 GPU through LM Studio or Ollama with Cline.

It's a good idea even if they give slightly worse results in average, as you can limit your spending of expensive tokens for trivial grunt work and use them only for the really hard questions where Claude or ChatGPT 5 will excel.
by closeparen | 2025-09-02 17:29:28+00:00
Big companies (that pay real money in RSUs) have bureaucracies designed to thwart this. A referral through the hiring manager practically guarantees an interview loop, but there's going to be an interview loop, with at least one veto point outside the hiring manager's sphere of influence.

Several former coworkers have offered me jobs at their startups, but it's like 2/3rds of my current base and 20% of total liquid comp.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-02 17:29:33+00:00
It is definitely doable if you have a good mentor / role model you admire. I change a lot in my early to mid 20s because one of my uncles took the time to have one on one convos with me to give me feedback on my behavior and why I should do x, y or z instead. It was like I was a completely different person a year later.

Senior Software Engineers should not promote bad habits to juniors.
by mindslight | 2025-09-02 17:29:41+00:00
The flavors of authoritarianism are just different marketing for the plebs. When people grow weary of one, they flop to the other for a new promise of different easy answers.

Why do you think they're somehow disjoint? Even if there is some friendly competition between different factions of elites jockeying for power based on how they market themselves, from an individual/liberty perspective why wouldn't you still consider them more alike than different?
by wk_end | 2025-09-02 17:29:43+00:00
Quick and very fussy question I'm hoping someone with native-level Japanese could comment on.

My inclination (as a non-native learner) would be to translate 美味しくいただきました as "the staff enjoyed it later". It's both slightly more formal and elegant-sounding than the comparatively coarse "ate", and captures the pleasure implied by 美味しく ("deliciously"). I would expect plain old "ate" if they used 食べました.

Of course, I'm not a professional translator or native speaker! It’s possible I'm over-indexing on the textbook knowledge I have of the language and in practice, to native Japanese eyes and ears, the things I think I'm seeing aren't really there.
by dvcoolarun | 2025-09-02 17:29:57+00:00
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by d_burfoot | 2025-09-02 17:30:03+00:00
There's a big issue with a lot of thinking about these valuations, which is that LLM inference does not need the 5-nines of uptime guarantees that cloud datacenters provide. You are going to see small business investors around the world pursue the following model:

- Buy an old warehouse and a bunch of GPUs

- Hire your local tech dude to set up the machines and install some open-source LLMs

- Connect your machines to a routing service that matches customers who want LLM inference with providers

If the service goes down for a day, the owner just loses a day's worth of income, nobody else cares (it's not like customers are going to be screaming at you to find their data). This kind of passive, turn-key business is a dream for many investors. Comparable passive investments like car washes, real estate, laundromats, self-storage, etc are messier.
by Razengan | 2025-09-02 17:30:05+00:00
Barely 50 years ago computers used to cost a million dollars and were less powerful than your phone's SIM card.

> GPT-4 training was what, $100M? GPT-5/Opus-4 class probably $1B+?

Your brain? Basically free *(not counting time + food)

Disruption in this space will come from whomever can replicate analog neurons in a better way.

Maybe one day you'll be able to Matrix information directly into your brain and know kung-fu in an instant. Maybe we'll even have a Mentat social class.
by amasini | 2025-09-02 17:30:07+00:00
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by xpe | 2025-09-02 17:30:08+00:00
Remember the YouTube acquisition? Many probably don’t since it was 2006. $1.65B. To many, it seemed bonkers.

Narrow point: In general, one person’s impression of what is crazy does not fare well against market-generated information.

Broader point: If you think you know more than the market, all other things equal, you’re probably wrong.

Lesson: Only searching for reasons why you are right is a fishing expedition.

If the investment levels are irrational, to what degree are they? How and why? How will it play out specifically? Predicting these accurately is hard.
by m3047 | 2025-09-02 17:30:11+00:00
As an operator, I have questions about this; I also have very good metrics. I see a lot of what looks like what has traditionally been SYN reflection attacks. I have solid metrics and TTPs, which I'm willing to share TLP:RED and possibly discuss TLP:YELLOW.

I'd like to see some metrics which compare proven bot activity vs SYN reflection against the same infrastructure.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-02 17:30:18+00:00
One minor/major though... depending on how much of the UI app is front-end code vs back-end, you might look towards a smaller wrapper like Tauri over Electron... It's rust on the "back end" though, so that may be a no-go for you.. but something that might be worth considering.

That said, when adding a full windows VM/Container, it's probably less of an issue.
by catapart | 2025-09-02 17:30:48+00:00
This is very cool! My one gripe would be the one-card, one-game situation. I understand why it would be done, but I also remember growing up in the 90's and there was no point where I was happy that I had to switch out the games.

It's not terrible, but if the cards can store more, they should. It's just practical.

Other than that, though, this is something I've been dreaming of! Mostly just the "it plays games and those games are yours to play" angle of it, not so much the "no internet, no dlc" kind of stuff. Those seem less like features and more like eliminating avenues for future bad actors. Which, again, is understandable, I just wasn't particularly hoping for that.
by hbn | 2025-09-02 17:31:15+00:00
It's crazy how night and day the quality tank was after they essentially killed their API. The good contributors were all pushed away or became less active.

And with the official app constantly trying to push posts from random subreddits into people's feeds, you constantly get comments from people who have no idea of the concept of a subreddit, and leave stupid comments cause they don't know the context the post was made in.
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by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-02 17:32:04+00:00
Interesting article. On the one hand, it provides insides into how the project actually worked in china, which I didn't know. That's interesting.

But it misses a huge nuance on the whole "dystopian" thing. The main thing about "social score bad" takes is that the government will use that scoring. It's not private <-> private. Everything the author mentions about the various scoring in the US (and EU for that matter, although to a lesser extent in some cases) is between you and private institutions. The government does not "track" or "access" or "use" those 3rd party scores.

It's a bit like 1st amendment in the US. You have the right of free speech with regards to the government. That means the government cannot punish you for your speech. But that says nothing about your relationship with private parties. If you go to a government institution and tell them their boss sux, in theory you shouldn't be punished for that, and they'll keep serving you. But the same does not extend to a private bakery. Or a bar. Or any private property. Tell them their boss sux, and you might not get service.

So yeah, there are lots of 3rd party rating services. But they're mainly between you and those 3rd parties. The government mainly stays out.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-02 17:32:04+00:00
imo the bigger talking point is that Twitter post-acquisition has been working pathetically to curb organic buzzes in favor of manufactured trends, even harder than its previous left-leaning management. Effect of that being observed in Turkish politics is a downstream issue to that.

Twitter's strict "fun wins" algorithm of past seem like it had been a major driver in e.g. Arab Spring.
by tripletpeaks | 2025-09-02 17:32:08+00:00
I think the core error is marrying a communication tool for the people doing the work, to a reporting tool for people who aren’t doing the work.

Managers are all about that kind of automatic hyper-legibility (I’m skeptical about that being worth anything like the investment most companies put into it to begin with, but that’s another topic) but all it does is shove important communication into side-channels and make the ticket-tracker an extra chore, not a work aid.

Like if you’re often having to hound developers to update tickets (a thing in every single place I’ve worked) they clearly aren’t finding them a useful tool for themselves. You’ve wrecked that supposed use-case, it’s ruined.

It’s also the case that trying to serve both purposes, and in fact strongly favoring the PM + management use case, tends to make the UI for these things terrible for developers, contributing to their avoidance of them—the people who, ideally, would collectively be spending far more time in the tools than anyone else, are second-class citizens as far as those tools’ features and UX.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-02 17:32:24+00:00
> leave the ego at the door and not talk about compensation or try to demand remote work

This makes it sound like these things are written on stone tablets and we just need to accept them as is. They are businesses buying labor. Everything is negotiable.

Talking about those things is not “ego” it’s a perfectly rational thing to do. Whether you should be paid $50k or $500k is not a law of nature but a compromise between buyers and sellers of labor.

Similarly, if you’re willing to trade remote work for a lower salary it’s perfectly rational to bring that up.
by dan-robertson | 2025-09-02 17:32:24+00:00
> Obviously, one could pay for an authenticator like 1Password, which at least is ecosystem independent. However, not everybody is in a situation where they can afford to pay for basic services like password managers

This argument was made in the context of moving out of the Apple ecosystem (are there other ecosystems one would want to leave where the only option is paying for something like 1password?). I don’t really buy it because I can’t work out a situation where one is switching from some expensive ecosystem but unable to pay a low fee for 1password. But maybe I’m missing an example.
by braden_e | 2025-09-02 17:32:35+00:00
There is a very large scale crawler that uses random valid user agents and a staggeringly large pool of ips. I first noticed it because a lot of traffic was coming from Brazil and "HostRoyale" (asn 203020). They send only a few requests a day from each ip so rate limiting is not useful.

I run a honeypot that generates urls with the source IP so I am pretty confident it is all one bot, in the past 48 hours I have had over 200,000 ips hit the honeypot.

I am pretty sure this is Bytedance, they occasionally hit these tagged honeypot urls with their normal user agent and their usual .sg datacenter.
by bradley13 | 2025-09-02 17:32:39+00:00
This. All of this. Passkeys are a great idea, but the walled gardens are a huge problem. Also, services placing additional requirements (e.g., attestations) that potentially violate your privacy and anonymity.

Just now, at least in Europe, there is a huge push to force users to authenticate themselves with their actual identity, even for ordinary Internet services. This is happening simultaneously in many countries (including non-EU countries like Switzerland). It almost has to be a coordinated effort....driven by whom? Passkeys play into this.

Call me paranoid...
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-02 17:32:46+00:00
> Except if you put any of the above names in an environment that doesn't suit them, they will likely be mediocre at best, and even damaging at worse.

In the immortal words of Jobs, "real artists ship". Those names are well known precisely because they have a proven track record of shipping products - very few of those would let a challenging environment get in the way of shipping.

That said, as their employer, you may well not like the way they go about it. Name-brand engineers don't take shit from management, and if you get in their way, they won't be shy about airing that publicly.
by edm0nd | 2025-09-02 17:32:55+00:00
its some GPT wrapper app that has 100 downloads.

also if your founder has to use dozens of buzzwords when asked to describe what their app does and that still doesn't even explain it, its obviously just bs.

"Arcarae’s mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique, authentic expression of self without fear or compromise.

Our research endeavors are designed to support this mission via computationally modeling higher-order cognition and subjective internal world models."

lol
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-02 17:33:08+00:00
Blogspam just linking to a bunch of prior reports and posts from earlier in the year.

Some ongoing recent discussion:

Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093090

The age of agents: cryptographically recognizing agent traffic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055452

That Perplexity one:

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44785636

AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44971487
by Printerisreal | 2025-09-02 17:33:52+00:00
Investors are forward looking, except when it's micron in 2000.

Anthropic have several similiar competitors with actual real distribution and tech. Ones that can go 10x are underdogs like Google before IPO or Amazon, or Shopify etc. Anthropic current stock is beyond that. Investors no longer give any big opp. to public. They gain it via private funding
by godelski | 2025-09-02 17:33:56+00:00
As well as how smart they are and how they're the best. But then they can't be bothered to fix little issues because they question what's "the value".

It all reminds me of that scene from Silicon Valley where Barker explains up Richard that when you have the best marketing team you need to give them easier things to sell[0].

> Everyone talks about quality

I think my favorite is how everyone talks about simplicity and then introduces tons of complexity through over simplification while rejecting simplicity by calling it complexity. Not realizing there's a big difference in scope and that they could do a lot less work later by doing just a little more now

[0] Sorry, I literally cannot find a better quality video or any other version for that matter... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTbjO3eI_0