MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kelnos | 2025-09-09 19:19:04+00:00
If I as a taxpayer am going to subsidize someone else's activity, then why shouldn't I get a say in how they perform that activity?

If it costs $100/child at a daycare facility, but $200/child for someone to be a stay-at-home parent, and you're asking me, a random taxpayer, to pay for one of those for someone else, from a financial perspective I will likely prefer to pay for the former.

Now, I personally don't get to decide where tax dollars go, but I could easily imagine there are enough people with this preference that it could influence public policy.

Having said that, if it's actually significantly better for a child to have a SAH parent, I might change my tune. (My mother was a SAHM, and I think that was great for us growing up.)
by coppsilgold | 2025-09-09 19:19:38+00:00
While amusing it probably isn't particularly informative.

A person like that obviously has extremely poor operational security and is therefore of low competence.

Competent actors likely utilize virtualization or in cases where the software is adversarial and may reveal virtualization, physical machines (eg. cheap Mini PC's) with isolated and managed networks (eg. connections routed through a commercial VPN or a residential proxy) not under the control of the machine.

Also styxmmarket doesn't appear to be in any way a dark web marketplace/forum. It doesn't even have an onion address? It has a .com domain, something that should be easy for the authorities to seize. Probably is a honeypot of some kind.
by astrange | 2025-09-09 19:20:22+00:00
> the sensor readout for each rgb pixel

Camera pixels are only one color at a time:

GGRR

BBGG

(quad-Bayer; Fujifilm uses a weirder one called X-Trans. And some of them will be missing because they're damaged or are focus pixels.)

And then you still have to do white balance and tone mapping, because your eyes do that and the camera sensor doesn't.
by yupyupyups | 2025-09-09 19:20:50+00:00
Sure, I understand that.

I just think we need to remember that some content is simply undesirable, especially for kids.

An alternative method to protect society from harmful content would perhaps be more readily available and advanced firewalls for consumers, orgs and schools. Currently, opt-out of filth on the internet (however you like to define it) can be prohibitively difficult for the general consumer.

The market has been very backwards in this respect, which has given some powerful elements in society an oppertunity to exercise tyrannical control by imposing a nation-wide Chinese firewall as the solution. If we had recognized the problem of harmful content in the first place, and offered solutions, we would've had more bite against these tyrannical schemes.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-09 19:21:45+00:00
> one cannot simply say: "I don't know this message version, I will disregard it" because in live systems this will mean the systems go out of sync, data is lost, stuff breaks, etc.

You already need to deal with lost messages, rejected messages, so just treat this case the same. If you have versions surely you have code to deal with mismatches and e.g. fail back to the older version.
by neodymiumphish | 2025-09-09 19:22:07+00:00
I've been through 2 offensive courses (SANS GPEN and Parrot Labs Offensive Methodology and Analysis) and yeah, that was the take I got even back then (5+ years ago). Everything we used was open source and near-fully functional. There was a lot of knowledge needed on the syntax for some tools, but otherwise it was insane to think how easily these could be used by a motivated person.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-09-09 19:22:17+00:00
So the entire point of the (short) article I wrote was to get people to think outside of the the little box people put CRDTs in: javascript libraries and collaborative editing.

Yet here we are, circling back to collaborative editing...

At this point I think the term "CRDT" has too much baggage and I should probably stop using it, or at least not put it in blog post titles.
by gkoberger | 2025-09-09 19:22:19+00:00
I have it but most of my docs aren’t in it. They can only be accessed via direct link. The folder is also not accessible from paper.dropbox.com on mobile, which is more important now that the app is gone.

I wrote to support and they told me there’s nothing they can do.

(And even if the docs were in it… now I’m a few clicks away from my docs which is way worse than before.)
by derefr | 2025-09-09 19:22:47+00:00
Right, and that's what Dropbox Paper was probably originally an attempt at working toward, from the opposite direction — "We have Google Drive, now we just need Google Docs."

It should be obvious that "a whole collaborative office suite" is not the kind of thing a regular company can build as an extension play... but somehow some manager inside Dropbox convinced them that direction was possible. At least for a while. Seems they've gradually come to their senses.
by pkoiralap | 2025-09-09 19:22:49+00:00
I was thinking about what all is new in this version, or in fact in any other versions after iPhone 10/X (I don't know)? They all look same to me.

I personally think that Apple and other smartphone companies need to do a minor and major version release like you do with software. Every 3-5 year, do a major release. This way you create significant hardware/software features every major version, a hype that is well backed up, and at the same time keeps you working and improving and still making money out of it through minor versions. Plus, you also don't have to rely on planned obsolescence as people are gravitated towards the major version release naturally.
by epolanski | 2025-09-09 19:22:55+00:00
Among the worst things that I have a hard time tolerating about Claude:

- sycophancy, I'm honestly tired of "You're absolutely right". I need a pair programmer, something that's gonna correct me, provide different ideas, etc.

- inability to follow the script. Even though it will tell you you're right, it will still do its thing. Doesn't matter if I spend 2 hours writing a detailed spec file, a todo list, etc, Claude's gonna do its thing regardless. You can even correct it with "no, don't do this", and it will still do it regardless. I understand that this is how AI works (it's like children, if you tell them to not do something it's more likely they will), but it's just unbearable.

For both of these things it's impossible to make it go right. No matter the system instructions, the prompts, the context management, it's just terrible.

That's not to say it's all bad: there are things I like about Claude and AI assistants. I firmly believe that a coder with AI is much more productive than one without. But what AI should be delegated to, is not writing and editing code, but planning it, writing specs, doing research, verifying you're maintaining docs, suggest ideas, alternatives, test cases, reviewing PRs according to guidelines, etc.

I don't even think it's a matter of "it will get better", it produces way too much code than a human can review and reviewing code is more difficult than writing it in the first place.

Even more, it can provide its value in tasks humans are just bad at such as writing good issues/tasks, stuff like user stories that use consistent ubiquitous language, etc, etc. Stuff that it's hard to get stakeholders to get right, but can be achieve with a set of good rules and having the stakeholders interact with the chatbot first that can guide them writing much more clearly.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-09-09 19:23:09+00:00
You can't use a single cell of RAM at GHz frequencies. By the time you read a value and write another value back, you're talking about ~200ns so you are capped at ~5mhz writes (and anything that you are actually trying to access that quickly will be in caches anyway so your writes won't make it out to the DRAM unless you explicitly flush the caches)
by franktankbank | 2025-09-09 19:23:17+00:00
How do you sabotage your competitors supply line without sabotaging your own? Seems like it would be mitigated quite effectively by strong anti-trust enforcement. If a corporate empire is so diversified then it should be broken up in separate entities. How was it done in the US during WWII and in the following few decades? I guess that was just command done therightway(TM) like China does today?

Is jailing fraudsters really the equivalent of some failed Iragi regime? I think you could make a better argument.

What do you think should be done about the state of the USA economy? Do you even see any problems that need addressing? I have a feeling venture capitalists see wildly different incentives from the laborers.
by bluGill | 2025-09-09 19:23:26+00:00
Healthy means the value of a house is the value of the land, plus the value of building a new house exactly like it minus depreciation (meaning if you replace something the value goes up). Builders of course need a reasonable profit so that is factored into the value.

The reason why the bay is unhealthy is they don't allow you to put something on the land that matches the value of that land. People who want to spend millions on a house should be getting a mansion not a small house. People who buy a small house should get it on a lot not worth much money. I'm not sure of a good number, but something like only 1/3rd of the value should be the lot, 2/3rd the structure. This is right for most people, but there is nothing wrong with wanting a mansion in an area of tiny houses, or a tiny house on a massive lot if that is how you want to live (if a farm lets count the house separate from the rest of the farm buildings - not that this is possible but ...)
by odo1242 | 2025-09-09 19:23:28+00:00
Dynamic Island is Apple’s version of the notch. Instead of being attached to the top of the screen, it’s a pill-shaped cutout (actually, two pill-shaped cutouts) and a bunch of software to make those two pill-shaped cutouts act like one cutout that can display contextual information while hiding the fact that there’s a cutout. You can tell what I’m talking about if you look at a photo.

As for the others:

> Always-on Display: The display will show the current time when the phone is sleeping - it uses less power than it would on an LCD phone because of OLED.

> ProMotion: 120 Hz refresh rate, but only when Low Power Mode is off and the app requests it (e.g. games). So basically VRR (in fact, it is actually VRR under the hood)
by marxism | 2025-09-09 19:23:40+00:00
Hey, you mentioned needing a web UI for your agent.

I contribute to Happy Coder, an open source agent client (mobile app, desktop app, and web app). The project is just a UI layer for existing agents. Adding Codex specific UI and plumbing last week was a 2,600 line diff that took a contributor 3 evenings. And it should be even less plumbing for the next agent.

I'm looking for developers to try integrating their agents and tell me what's broken or awkward. I'd appreciate feedback on where the abstractions leak or what's missing. Even with the friction of using someone else's codebase, it could be less work than starting from zero.

I keep seeing these proprietary clients charge $50/month for basically the same plumbing everyone needs. Selfishly I would like open source and free to win this category here.

GitHub: https://github.com/slopus/happy (MIT License)
Git but for AI Era
by laxpri | 2025-09-09 19:23:49+00:00
Git is old .I am using it more than anyone right now, but something feels off when you trying to code with agentic system/ai.This type of hack is cool

https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/1gmtoy9/i_made_an_opensource_aipowered_git_commit_tool/

but not gonna stay in the long term . I want to know IF you guys had a chance to rebuild the git one more time how would you built it( what features you want it it) for Ai era.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-09 19:23:50+00:00
This cannot be said enough. If we were remotely serious about addressing the lack of supply, we have multitudes of hard/heavy levers to yank on:

* Taxing non-owner-occupied single-family residences at higher rates (incentivizes sales)

* Removing or barring the traditional zoning/approvals boards beyond a rubber-stamp for developments that meet safety codes (incentivizes building)

* Taxing the capital gains of home sales without ability to roll over (disincentivizes housing as an investment strategy)

* Mandating housing as a human right (myriad of knock-on effects for decades after)

* Barring no-fault evictions of tenants (helps renters save to buy a home)

* National rent control (helps renters save, incentivizes construction since growth must now be achieved through volume, not price hikes)

* Public Housing (a la Singapore’s model, where we can place a down payment on a home or condo with a gov-backed loan to the developer, but with restrictions on sales/residency requirements)

* Prohibition of algorithmic pricing (flattens rent increases)

* Mandating longer leases (to help renters predict housing costs for longer periods)

* Allowing renters to “buy” their apartments and convert into a condo (reduces apartment vacancies, allows more renters to build equity and control housing costs)

* Price controls on rent increases or sale prices, especially for First-Time Buyers (e.g., 20% margin on a home’s cost for sale by builder but with a gov-backed loan, or restricting rent increases to local COLA or a 20% margin, whichever is lesser)

We have so many more options, and nobody wants to try anything because it’ll tank housing values across the board. The longer we wait to pop this metaphorical bubble, the worse it’s going to hurt, for longer.
Show HN: Asimov's three laws, a working implementation (don't use in production)
by kenm47 | 2025-09-09 19:23:50+00:00
hey folks, I'm founder of Maybe Don't AI where we're building guardrails for AI agents. Because often when AI agents are acting your behalf you'll need to stop them and say, "maybe don't do that".

As an amusing thought experiment I implemented Asimov's three laws in our non-deterministic policy engine—right now it sits as an MCP gateway. Yes can you use this YAML to actually run your gateway. Probably they aren't the most practical guardrails right now

Why? Because right now AI isn't really out to kill us or disobey us. The bigger problems we have (and what we're actually solving) is more like, "I want a flight from Denver to Detroit" but then the AI decides the best flight is by way of Dubai—this is what Maybe Don't actually prevents.... but the YAML will work.

Go kick the tires for sh*ts and giggles.
by neodymiumphish | 2025-09-09 19:24:06+00:00
Presumably this

> We knew this was an adversary, rather than a legitimate user, based on several telling clues. The standout red flag was that the unique machine name used by the individual was the same as one that we had tracked in several incidents prior to them installing the agent.

So in any other context, they probably wouldn't do any digging into the machine or user history, but they did this time because they already had high confidence of malicious use from this endpoint.
by akmarinov | 2025-09-09 19:24:13+00:00
Do you mean Robotaxi or Cybercab?

Robotaxi is just Model Ys that have a FSD version that they let on to some cities. It’s again something that’ll never make it outside the US, even though the market there is big enough for it to be sustainable.

Cybercab is never coming out. It doesn’t make sense for it to exist and be sold to people.

200 mile range 2 seater? It mostly makes sense as a literal cab and if it’s going to be profitable for whoever buys it and lets it be a Robotaxi, there’s no point for Tesla to sell it, as they can just be the ones that take in that profit on every vehicle.
by xenonite | 2025-09-09 19:24:13+00:00
Camera lens angles of the 17 Pro seem strange to me.

Either too wide (1x) or too narrow (4x), as seen in the live stream video, which was recorded with the iPhone 17 Pro.

I am currently on the 13 Pro, I find the 3x mode ideal for portrait photos and videos.

Is it only me with this impression? Could someone help me to jump back into Apple's reality distortion field?
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-09 19:24:29+00:00
I think Apple sees other (not North American) markets as... not necessarily expendable, but they don't have the foothold they do here outside of the iOS devices, so maybe they just focus on getting more out of the people who already do have devices?

I'd be interested to know their logic. It obviously hasn't caused them too many problems, revenue-wise.
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2025-09-09 19:24:30+00:00
Agreed. goccy has better performance most times but absolutely appalling worst-case performance which renders it unacceptable for many use cases - in my case even with trusted input it took effectively eternity to decode it. It's literally a quadratic worst case, what's the point of having a bunch of super clever optimisations if the big-O performance is that bad.

Sonic may be different but I'm feeling once bitten twice shy on "faster" JSON parsers at this point. A highly optimised SIMD version might be nice but the stdlib json package needs to work for everything out there, not just the cases the author decided to test on, and I'd be a lot more nervous about something like that being sufficiently well tested given the extra complexity.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-09 19:25:01+00:00
For various reasons, I have all three of them. There are some missing things in Google and Microsoft's offerings. Namely:

1. App integration (3rd parties can access to a single folder in your Dropbox, allowing "purchase to Dropbox" directly. Many merchants automatically update the files if they receive updates, too.

2. Auto OCR, incl. handwriting. My old comics which are not English are OCRd, and I can do full-text search inside them, which is very useful for me.

3. Fast, auto transcription in many languages. I needed a transcription of a file recently. All services needed memberships, etc. I did it from Google cloud API toolbox. However when I uploaded the the same file to Dropbox, I saw a transcription button. It produced equally good results in way less time.

4. Send-a-copy (aka Transfer). I don't want to share and try to remember to disable links. My Dropbox membership contains a complete "WeTransfer" replacement, and I use it a lot.

5. Request files. I open a link, people send in the files I need, then the "dropbox" closes automatically. I get notifications for uploads, too.

6. Funnily, a working Linux client.

...and possibly more I don't use or can't remember right now.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-09 19:25:16+00:00
Thanks for this. I'm setting it up now, works for me as advertised. My screen time jumped a lot in the last couple weeks and my mental health has declined in proportion.

I use Freedom, but it's a bit glitchy and too easy to delete the app if you really want to cheat.

I'm waffling a bit on the default-deny approach to websites. I think that might cause serious headaches since e.g. scanning QR codes to interact with businesses is pretty common. But I will give it a try.

Update: it took me a couple hours to get everything set up the way I like it after resetting the phone, but so far this is fantastic. I also massively restricted notifications, which had gotten a bit out of hand.
by geodel | 2025-09-09 19:25:17+00:00
> The people who get nothing done remote, also tend to get nothing done in an office they just create the illusion of it.

Maybe, maybe not but it surely create cost on people to come to office. Just as example person can't just use whole Friday / monday for starting, finishing weekend travel while claiming as working.

For business even if they can't monitor person whole day at work, getting them to workplace and checking status face to face is something better than nothing.
by jjk166 | 2025-09-09 19:25:31+00:00
> Perhaps caring for your own kids produces much better kids (and eventually, adults). And that may be more of a benefit to society than a large number of people being incentivized to create large number of kids whose care is just outsourced to childcare centers where they receive less attention.

We're not talking about some vague value to society of kids. We're talking about the concrete value of the service being provided - an adult physically present in the vicinity of children to take care of issues, freeing up adults for other, more productive utilizations of their time. A stay at home parent who looks after only their own children does not free up any adults.

> Is this really an argument for anything? One could just say “if you want to raise kids you can’t afford, do it on your own dime” and undermine your perspective.

That doesn't undermine my perspective at all. Again the argument is that division of labor is more efficient. It costs society less to have one person raise multiple kids than it does for lots of people to raise their own kids. Even if you say only those who could afford to stay at home and raise their kids should have kids, they should still be utilizing this system to reduce total cost. If they choose not to participate in the cost reduction, they ought to shoulder the burden of the higher costs on their own. Recognizing that society kind of needs kids for the whole survival of the species thing, selfish actions that reduce cost savings for everyone ought not to be incentivized.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 19:25:43+00:00
They are disillusioned.

They watched big tech clobber the internet.

They watched network effects cause irreversible centralization.

They watched Cambridge Analytica and "openness" get abused.

They watched toddlers being given iPads to watch YouTube by their parents.

They watched kids have mental health issues from online participation.

They watched teens start strangling each other after watching porn.

They watched robots become 40% of internet traffic, and that was before AI.

They watched crypto go from decentralized payments into a get-rich-quick scheme.

And they questioned whether it's worth standing behind this.
by bloomingeek | 2025-09-09 19:25:45+00:00
Absolutely, we were warned. No one heeded and then came the destruction of the Republican party by the likes of Rush, Newt and Rove who convinced the voting public everyone is evil who doesn't agree with them. Centrist and left leaning voters hoped it would just run it's course and go away, then evangelicals signed up with the Republicans and here we are.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-09-09 19:25:53+00:00
It doesnt need to be 100% reliable, just reliable enough.

If certain websites fail to be detected, thats a security issue on those specific websites, as I'll learn which ones tend to fail.

If they rarely fail to detect in general, its infrequent enough to be diligent in those specific cases. In my experience with password managers, they rarely fail to detect fields. If anything, they over detect fields.
by behindsight | 2025-09-09 19:26:02+00:00
Reminder, you can audit all your npm packages to see if they provide provenance attestation with:

npm audit signatures

you can use this to also provide a gentle reminder to package authors to consider setting one up (or replacing those that can't/won't)

Additional resources:

- Trusted publishing via OIDC [1]

- Requiring 2FA for package publishing [2]

1: https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers

2: https://docs.npmjs.com/requiring-2fa-for-package-publishing-...
by gnatmud8 | 2025-09-09 19:26:05+00:00
package.json is a convention, not a language definition, hence package managers may implement "package" management differently; in reality conventions are followed, until they aren't, and that's where hell begins (if something can be abused - it will be); go and odin define package in the language itself as a folder containing source files, and they mitigate many management issues by just having a good standard library, so you wouldn't need as many packages to begin with;
by a0123 | 2025-09-09 19:26:49+00:00
Here is the thing: Dropbox has no business being anything other than a cloud storage solution. Stop trying to do everything, it's too difficult and too expensive. Find what you're great at, and just improve it little by little. Stop adding shit.

Never, ever used any additional Dropbox services. All I need it to do is be a reliable cloud storage. Nothing else.