MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zerkten | 2025-09-12 15:38:50+00:00
>> That is an attack on self-custody. If you hold Bitcoin you now have an elevated risk of being picked up in some dragnet and suffering random consequences in unrelated parts of the financial system for reasons that you don't understand.

This is based on the idea that there is some exception from previous rules and regulations. Before Bitcoin existed, lots of these rules were formulated. Now Bitcoin is on the scene and has evolved best practices for self-custody that ignore everything that went before. Bitcoin becoming more popular and integrated means that the rules from US financial system will start to be applied.

There is no surprise in this. If more effort was put into mitigating the concerns of the US financial system (or others) then things like this wouldn't happen. However, the truth is that the philosophies are incompatible so it's just a war of attrition that will unsurprisingly result in conformance to US financial regulation.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 15:39:16+00:00
> Ideally, any accusations like this should first go through a careful examination by a jury of one’s peers rather than just being posted willy nilly.

Does Norway even have juries? At least in Sweden we don't have any juries in court (and the two countries tend to be more similar than not), so while the overall comment sounds fitting (and I agree), some details seem to miss the detail of what country this is about :)
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-12 15:39:26+00:00
> War on Terror AUMF is still in force and is why the President can just decide to bomb whatever country they want without asking for permission, now.

The War on Terror AUMF relies on a Presidential determinatiom that the targets “planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or person”.

But the President has had implicit blanket permission to bomb whoever he wants with a time limit ever since the War Powers Act was passed.
by mouse_ | 2025-09-12 15:39:30+00:00
(new)3DS is still likely going to be the best way to play these games, with the red viper emulator. You get pixel perfect output with only a modest 8px border, the ability to change the screen color from the characteristic red to your own preference (a surprisingly nice accessibility feature), adjustable depth with a convenient hardware 3D slider, and no clunky head gear to drag around.

Seriously, 3DS is so perfectly suited to virtual boy it's a wonder Nintendo didn't make it official. I strongly encourage anyone who hasn't yet to give it a go!
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-12 15:39:38+00:00
The US has better than average price transparency, as a huge proportion of us are on high-deductible plans where you directly pay the entire bill until you hit your deductible. Someone on such a plan knows their pediatrician appointment costs $300, because they have to swipe a card (or get a bill for it).

Much of the rest of the developed world doesn't ever even see a dollar amount.

Thus, the "knowing costs drops spending" theory doesn't hold up.
by 9x39 | 2025-09-12 15:39:46+00:00
I had a report from a business of possible unauthorized remote access in a point of sale. A touchscreen system was found logged in by an unknown admin overnight. There had been weird reports of the mouse cursor moving on its own.

After a lengthy quarantine and investigation that turned up nothing, I decided to go see this machine myself for context. While I was standing there taking everything in, a fly landed on the dirty touchscreen on a smear and tripped an on-screen button as it rubbed its legs together.

Everything clicked - it was just a fly and eventually some digging revealed someone had carelessly left an admin user available: ID 2, no password, which the fly inadvertently tapped into the touchscreen login UI with two lucky clicks.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-12 15:39:52+00:00
[dupe]

Multiple discussions this week:

Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212976

Americans face biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45157389
by sarchertech | 2025-09-12 15:39:55+00:00
That only works with very small projects to the point where the specification document is a very large percentage of the total code.

If you are very experienced, you won’t solve the problem differently day to day. You probably would with a 10 year difference, but you won’t ever be running the next model 10 years out (even if the technology matures), so there’s no point in doing that comparison. Solving the same problem with the same constraints in radically different ways day to day comes from inexperience (unless you’re exploring and doing it on purpose).

Calling what LLMs do hallucinations and comparing it to human mythology is stretching the analogy into absurdity.
by grantseltzer | 2025-09-12 15:40:01+00:00
I'm not claiming the purpose of this prompt is to get better information. Yes, it's just a prompt.

You're asserting quite a lot of bias when you say "What most people want are useful results." Maybe in our circles of software engineers or lawyers, but many people are using AI for companionship. Even if they're not seeking companionship, unless you have a very clear understanding of how LLMs work, it's very easy to get caught up thinking that the chatbot you're talking to is "thinking" or "feeling". I feel companies that offer chatbots should be more responsible with this as it can be very dangerous.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-12 15:40:21+00:00
I paid out of pocket and went directly to a dermatologist in a week, where insurance wanted me to go through my doctor (my local doctor has no appointment times) first. It was skin cancer. I ended up bypassing insurance because I was scared to wait the months navigating their system would take. But also because it was supposed to be cheaper (I price shopped) than my deductible. Guess what, when you price shop, the price they tell you has no relevance to the final price.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-12 15:40:38+00:00
The problem here is that many who are in favour of Chat Control (and of its predecessors) really do honestly think they're doing something for the benefit of society.

Focusing on these supposedly well-meaning individuals - I'm going to assume they somehow never consumed any dystopian fiction as a child, the purpose of which was to inoculate a generation against totalitarianism. They don't understand the overreach they are committing to. They think that, because they're a Good Person and wouldn't abuse it, nobody else will, and the massive security loophole created by this effort will not have any downsides. They'll just be able to stop all the baddies!

Meanwhile, those of us who live in reality know that:

* smart criminals will just use unlicensed technologies to get around this, trivially

* dumb criminals will figure out how to use code words for plausible deniability / bayesian "hide in plain sight"

* political dissidents who are exercising free speech will become more vulnerable than ever

And, of course, that's all if the government was only populated by good people who don't intend to abuse this! I have no reason to believe that; does anyone? Is there anyone who so truly loves their government in 2025 that they want them reading all their messages (even moreso than now)?

Can't wait to go to jail for texting a meme to the group chat.
by lukeschlather | 2025-09-12 15:40:44+00:00
Any sort of repair is inherently unpredictable, and healthcare especially so. Whenever I pay for something like this it's natural that the costs may prove more than what I expect. The risk that there is some irregularity with my insurance is similar, it's a risk that I take when I pay for a procedure. You can't depend that money spent on healthcare will help you in any way, it's a fact of life.

I mean, in this case I actually was able to depend on the numbers, it's just I can't depend on my insurance but then that's also a fact of insurance markets. Take away the insurance, I doubt my total cost would've been lower, even accounting for my insurance premiums and whatever my employer pays as part of that.

There's a market here, I would prefer it were more regulated, not less. A less regulated market would not help me. A less regulated market would make it easier for prices to change at random.
by timr | 2025-09-12 15:40:59+00:00
> It's also weird to think that someone with a rare, degenerative illness should have to evaluate whether their quality or length of life is "worth" the money that a specific specialist will cost.

Except...you absolutely should, and it isn't weird at all. If I tell you that experimental treatment X for rare illness Y will cost you an enormous amount of money, and carries a low chance of benefit, would you buy it? [1]

Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't, but the choice exists, and someone is making it.

[1] You can make it more complex and human, of course: most medical interventions not only cost money, but also carry serious risks. Maybe you would choose to spend an enormous amount of money, but would you also choose to take a treatment that will leave you deathly ill for the remainder of your life in exchange for 1 extra day?
by iamwillcannon | 2025-09-12 15:41:09+00:00
Over the last decade, I’ve sent (and helped teams send) over 100 million cold emails. Most were ignored. But a small % generated over $30M in sales and helped me bootstrap a SaaS company without raising a dime.

Along the way, I learned a ton the hard way:

– How to avoid spam filters and keep deliverability alive – Why most people give up after 2 emails (and how 10+ polite follow-ups win) – How short, plain-text emails beat fancy templates almost every time – What I wish someone told me about domain rotation, warm-up, and technical setup

I put everything into a 100+ page Cold Email Playbook — no fluff, just the actual frameworks, scripts, and systems that worked. I’m sharing it free here: https://iamwillcannon.com/free-resources/the-cold-email-play...

Not trying to “growth hack” HN, just thought this community might find it useful (especially indie founders, consultants, and sales teams who live or die by outbound).

Curious to hear how others here approach cold outreach. Have you ever gotten a life-changing response from a cold email?
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-12 15:41:24+00:00
Even if you accept those premises, reasonable people would expect limits on the power of the state to infringe upon property rights, even when backed by a popular majority. Furthermore, the principle of individual self-ownership is a key starting point for modern, liberal ideas of law. Of course you are free to reject those premises, but I would characterize that as authoritarian rather than obvious.
by 34679 | 2025-09-12 15:41:26+00:00
One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.

About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach, trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. “You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman to the fisherman.

“You should be working rather than lying on the beach!”

The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?”

“Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!” was the businessman’s answer. “And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, still smiling. The businessman replied, “You will make money and you’ll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!”

“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman again.

The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman’s questions. “You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!” he said.

“And then what will my reward be?” repeated the fisherman.

The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!”

Once again the fisherman asked, “And then what will my reward be?”

The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won’t have a care in the world!”

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”
by timr | 2025-09-12 15:41:41+00:00
> Much of the rest of the developed world doesn't ever even see a dollar amount.

Well, as long as you're just making stuff up, I don't see how I can possibly argue with you.

Actually, I do: "Paying the bill you get, after the fact" is not at all the same thing as "comparison shopping". So if you want to call that system price transparency, then all I can do is shrug and walk away.
by the_af | 2025-09-12 15:41:41+00:00
> The "smart" answer is to use a dynamic programming algorithm, which I didn't know how to do. So I failed the interview.

Really? This kind of interview needs to go away.

However, coding interviews are useful. It's just that "knowing the trick" shouldn't be the point. The point is whether the candidate knows how to code (without AI), can explain themselves and walk through the problem, explain their thought processes, etc. If they do a good enough reasoning job but fail to solve the problem (they run out of time, or they go on an interesting tangent that ultimately proves fruitless) it's still a "passed the test" situation for me.

Failure would mean: "cannot code anything at all, not even a suboptimal solution. Cannot reason about the problem at all. Cannot describe a single pitfall. When told about a pitfall, doesn't understand it nor its implications. Cannot communicate their thoughts."

An interview shouldn't be an university exam.
by corimaith | 2025-09-12 15:41:45+00:00
>The point of these problems is to test your cleverness.

No it's just memorization of 12 or so specific patterns. The stakes are too high that virtually everyone going in will not be staking passing on their own inherent problem solving ability. LeetCode has been so thoroughly gamified that it has lost all utility of differentiability beyond willingness to prepare.
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 15:41:45+00:00
Its comparatively much more open, with interface and protocols specified and open source firmware implementations widely used in the wild. I'm also including BIOs/UEFI in this.

ARM and phone manufacturing is a hot mess in comparison. We're still trying to reverse engineer M series MacBooks and iPhones are off limits. Android is also not open source, no AOSP does not count.

There would be a lot more competition in the space if the hardware had proper specs, like x86 does.
by ddahlen | 2025-09-12 15:41:52+00:00
There are quite a few open source projects in astronomy, but in my experience there is a tremendous amount of code that is squirrelled away as it is difficult to reproduce and entrenches peoples positions. I have mixed feelings about this in general, as I understand the incentive structures, but I do wish in general some of the sub fields were a bit more open. I do think things are getting better in general.

Also I fully agree with the "codes" rant.

Source: working professionally in the field for 4 years.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-12 15:41:59+00:00
The Wikipedia article is quite confusing, and seems to imply that those two provisions expired because they were the only two provisions not sunsetted already. The table indicates that most of the law sunsetted on March of 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act#Section_expiration...

But then they say "The first act reauthorized all but two Title II provisions. Two sections were changed to sunset on December 31, 2009"

But the first act was passed in 2005, and so it's unclear whether it reauthorized provisions only until 2006 or a longer term.
by ii-neatco-llc | 2025-09-12 15:42:13+00:00
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by sharpshadow | 2025-09-12 15:42:38+00:00
Similar situation in Poland with appointments for specialists in at least 6 months and often much longer.

German public health insurances are concerned right now about their unusually high deficits. Because many millions refugees are not working they only get paid a reduced amount towards the mandatory health insurance but have the same full service. Bringing the already substituted public health insurance into insubstantial deficits and now they are increasing the rates for the working class and probably they will need additional tax money too.
by ranger207 | 2025-09-12 15:42:49+00:00
If you get a message (text, email or call), it's best to not trust the contents of the message until you verify it by logging in or whatever yourself. If crates.io says you have a problem, close the email and go to crates.io yourself. If your bank calls you, hang up and log in or call their support number yourself. Don't trust anyone contacting you for sensitive stuff
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-12 15:42:58+00:00
Medicare is restricted to the elderly and the disabled; Medicaid is limited to very low-income folks. That would be a problematic comparison.

That said: https://cepr.net/publications/can-we-just-admit-were-wasting...

> Traditional Medicare has significantly lower administrative costs than private insurance with 1.1 percent of spending in 2024 going towards administration compared to between roughly 12-18 percent for private insurers in previous years. Coincidentally, the bloated administrative spending of American health care is one of the factors contributing to why the United States spends around twice as much per person compared to other developed nations even though we have worse health outcomes.
by jug | 2025-09-12 15:42:59+00:00
> The Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct performs comparably to our flagship model Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

I'm skeptical about these claims. How can this be? Wouldn't there be massive loss of world knowledge? I'm particularly skeptical because a recent trend in Q2 2025 has been benchmaxxing.
by 0xCMP | 2025-09-12 15:43:29+00:00
Sam Altman said in an on-the-record dinner interview with Platformer[0] that besides R&D ChatGPT was breakeven and Brad Lightstep, head of ChatGPT, corrected him by saying they were close, but not yet break even.

I assume Sam and Brad both understand the unit economics of their product.

Article is pay-walled for me, but I heard it on their podcast[1]. Which somehow I heard fine, but that page is getting pay-walled for me.

[0]: https://www.platformer.news/sam-altman-gpt-5-interview-light... [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/podcasts/hardfork-gpt5-pe...
by Insanity | 2025-09-12 15:43:32+00:00
I've been saying this for years now. LLMs are _not_ the right methodology to get to AGI. My friends who were drinking the kool-aid are only recently coming around to "hey, this might not get us AGI".

But sometimes it feels like I'm the lone voice in a bubble where people are convinced AGI is just around the corner.

I'm wondering if it's because people are susceptible to the marketing, or are just doing some type of 'wishful thinking' - as some seem genuinely interested in AGI.
by grantseltzer | 2025-09-12 15:44:50+00:00
> it's the resulting content that matters, not how it's presented

What a wild thing to say. If you had a coworker who was brilliant and taught you many great things, but only screamed instead of talking, would you feel the same way?

> If a person anthropomorphizes an LLM in their mind (rather than just in their speech patterns), then they probably have pre-existing mental problems.

Correct, and that's why these tools should be built responsibly under the assumption that people with mental problems are going to use them. It's clear in the article I linked (and my wording linking to it) that it can exacerbate issues for people. Chatgpt told him that he's sane and his mom was trying to kill him. He didn't understand what an LLM actually was.
by colechristensen | 2025-09-12 15:45:39+00:00
15 minutes twice a week gets you a certain amount of results

You will not get twice the results for 30×2 or 15×4.

2 hours three times a week doesn't get you 4 times as much as 30 minutes three times a week

The amount of results you get diminishes significantly for time and effort put in.

Having a cut physique like an action movie hero is nearly a full time job but being basically fit with the health benefits that come along with that is actually a pretty small chore if you do things right.
by sgt101 | 2025-09-12 15:45:51+00:00
One approach is directed energy, there are laser guns like the UK's dragonfire (there are many others out there too) however these have problems in dusty or foggy conditions for obvious reasons. There are also microwave effectors which are used to fry the electronics on drones. These take advantage of the advances in Gallium Nitride based power electronics (and other even more exotic materials).
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-12 15:45:59+00:00
> Well, as long as you're just making stuff up, I don't see how I can possibly argue with you.

I mean, go visit any Reddit thread discussing an American healthcare explanation of benefits bill. The Americans go "yup, it's expensive here"; the Europeans tend to go "I literally just paid $6 for parking for childbirth".

> Actually, I do: "Paying the bill you get, after the fact" is not at all the same thing as "comparison shopping".

If I get a bill for $300 for a pediatrician appointment, I know what the next one is likely to cost, yes?

Again, people on high-deductible plans know very intimately how much everything is costing them.
by vel0city | 2025-09-12 15:46:19+00:00
You lived out what I had only feared. I'm sorry that happened to you, this kind of thing shouldn't happen to anyone.

> Guess what, when you price shop, the price they tell you has no relevance to the final price.

I've found they often can't realistically give any kind of useful quote. I remember getting a total cost estimate from the hospital when my second child was born, anywhere from $20k to $160k before insurance, please sign here.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-09-12 15:46:23+00:00
> What is this company actually selling anyway?

Even with normal web designs this is frequently my question as well. It's always a bunch of business speak about solutions and enabling. So I think that question has less to do with the website design and more to do with their choice of messaging. "We’re building every tool for product engineers to build successful products." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯