MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altairprime | 2025-10-03 20:12:25+00:00
In what sense? The render loop is modified from “the” default without user or program opt-in, and “hijacking” is what it would be called if anyone but Nvidia did it — so Nvidia is not exempt from that use. Though: Runtime patch, haxie, hijack, LD_PRELOAD, system extension; the noun changes every few years, so perhaps it’s time for a new one. Override?
by criley2 | 2025-10-03 20:12:40+00:00
Apologies, it sounds like you have no experience with modern models. Yes, you can push and push and push get it to agree with all manner of things, but off-rip on the first reply in a new context it will provide extremely grounded and rational takes on politics. It's a night and day difference compared to your average reddit comment or X post.

In my years of use and thousands and thousands of chat uses, I have literally never seen chatGPT provide a radical answer to a political question without me forcing it, heavy-handedly, to do so.
by AlphaGeekZulu | 2025-10-03 20:13:33+00:00
Ted Chiang wrote an essay about the implications of recording everything: "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

The essay does not deal very much with technical aspects, like "Do I want to remember this and that banality?". In the story, those questions are already solved as an AI will manage access to the desired "flashbacks".

The essay focusses more on the question, how "remodeling" our memory over time might be an important aspect of social interaction, self perception and self development.
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-03 20:13:50+00:00
If it’s an entry level position, there shouldn’t be a need for H1B. But some of these positions (including at the federal reserve) are probably experienced people with 10+ years of experience just renewing their visa while they wait for the green card backlog to clear for their country or an extremely tenured person from places like the Oxford University (the article mentions it). Pretending a fresh PhD with most likely no job experience can immediately take over that H1B position is intellectually dishonest.

This obviously doesn’t mean I don’t advocate for creating more entry level positions which most of the economy these days isn’t interested in creating.
by vpShane | 2025-10-03 20:14:23+00:00
Why not Linux?

Also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-br...

As somebody who values privacy, that doesn't seem ideal for me. Especially if it just wants to sell this data and serve my hyper-tailored ads.

Also (TLDR making a social media post can trick the AI agent in to giving/posting the access to things like bank accounts, or anything really, has this been resolved?):

https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1959308058200551721

The thread showing it in action, which was since buried:

https://np.reddit.com/r/testing_comet1/comments/1mvk5h8/what...
by codersfocus | 2025-10-03 20:14:27+00:00
The reason you feel that way is because social anxiety correlates with anhedonia. The person doesn't engage in playfulness which is the basis of social connection across mammals. Because they aren't playful, you perceive this as "deepness."

This cognitive fallacy connecting deepness / seriousness to substance, and connecting playfulness to triviality and frivolity has unfortunately affected me (I remember arguing it in high school English class!)

Consciously adopting a "playful" attitude fixes my social anxiety, and adds charisma and humor to my character.
by bjoli | 2025-10-03 20:14:28+00:00
Every time I hear people say that Mac os/iOS is so logical and intuitive I wonder if it is all just a big conspiracy where I am the only one who get's a phone or a computer that is so full of bat-crap stupid decisions that I want to scream. Mac os is not intuitive. iPhones are not intuitive. I have had to use one for years and I am still confused about when I should use the settings app and when I should change the settings in the app.

And to whomever thought it was good idea to get camera access by swiping the lock screen: Did you ever meet a three year old? Why can't I turn it off?
by criley2 | 2025-10-03 20:14:44+00:00
Strongly disagree, and you've misread what you've linked. These linked cases are situations where people are staying in one chat and posting thousands and thousands of replies into a single context, diluting the system prompt and creating a fever-dream of hallucination and psychosis. These are also rarely thinking and tool calling models, relying more on raw-LLM generation instead of thinking and sourcing (cheap/free models versus high powered subscriber only thinking models).

As we all know, the longer the context, the worse the reply. I strongly recommend you delete your context frequently and never stay in one chat.

What I'm talking about is using fresh chat for questions about the world, often political questions. Grab statistics on something and walk through major arguments for and against an idea.

If you think ChatGPT is providing worse answers than X.com and reddit.com for political questions, quite frankly, you've never used it before.

Try it out. Go to reddit.com/r/politics and find a +5,000 comment about something, or go to x.com and find the latest elon conspiracy, and run it by ChatGPT 5-thinking-high.

I guarantee you ChatGPT will provide something far more intellectual, grounded, sourced and fair than what you're seeing elsewhere.
by dotancohen | 2025-10-03 20:16:00+00:00
You're correct, of course. Let's look at the Israeli declaration of independence:

> WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.

> WE EXTEND our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-03 20:16:17+00:00
I'd consider it just an opinionated distribution of Arch, with a lot of flex.

Sure, I think if you disagree with the majority, you'd go Arch and rice your own from the base install (lot of folks who do), but if not, it's a very streamlined way to get off to the races with a community supporting the shared baseline 'opinions'
by Retric | 2025-10-03 20:16:21+00:00
> Matter is not continuous and yet we don’t need atoms to predict how a metal sheet will bend.

At sufficient detail atomic structure has a huge impact on how a metal sheet bends. Metallurgy seriously investigates at this level.

Hand waving details is fine when discussing with friends, it’s not a sound foundation for serious academic research.

Also, the degree to which the weather is unpredictable 2+ weeks out is somewhat overblown. It generally snows in DC several days a year yet the odds it snows in DC 2 weeks from now is essentially zero not ~4/365. Similarly you can more accurately predict thunderstorms than a pure guess 2 months from now. We may call it climate, but a physical model of earths tilt, prevailing winds, CO2, etc is better than just historic data.
by BoorishBears | 2025-10-03 20:16:46+00:00
You're arguing a different point than the article, and in some ways even agreeing with it.

The article is not saying OpenAI must fail: it's saying OpenAI is not "The AGI Company of San Francisco". They're in the same bare knuckle brawl as other AI startups, and your bull case is essentially agreeing but saying they'll do well in the fight.

> In fact, the only real difference is the amount of money backing it.

> Otherwise, OpenAI could be literally any foundation model company, [...] we should start evaluating OpenAI as just another AI startup

Any startup would be able to raise with their numbers... they just can't ask for trillions to build god-in-a-box.

It's going to be a slog because we've seen that there are companies that don't even have to put 1/10th their resources into LLMs to compete robustly with their offerings.

OpenRouter doesn't capture 1/100th of open weight usage, but more importantly the fact that Longcat is legitimately robustly competitive to SOTA models from a year ago is the actual signal. It's a sneak peak of what happens if the AGI case doesn't pan out and OpenAI tries to get off the treadmill: within a year a lot of companies catch up.
by procaryote | 2025-10-03 20:16:55+00:00
Does the roadmap actually help in the B2B case though? In many companies it's just a way to disappoint the customer a bit now (because the thing they want isn't first on the roadmap) and a bit more later (because the roadmap failed).

X-team initiatives do need planning and coordination sometimes, but if you have a lot of x-team initiatives, your teams are probably set up wrong. If you fix that you can plan less.
by Karliss | 2025-10-03 20:16:59+00:00
The biggest impact is for Android. The official advisory from Unity https://unity.com/security/sept-2025-01 lists that for desktop platforms it's more of privilege escalation instead of code execution.

On windows if the game has been registered as custom URL scheme handler it opens ways for triggering it without ability to pass custom CLI arguments.

On macOS as part of application signing macOS apps also contain permission manifest. So in theory if a user runs a malicious app (which for some reason is properly signed but with limited permissions) it could leverage a vulnerable game to run in the context of slightly more permissions but still as the same user.

On Linux in most cases anyone able to pass cli arguments could also run code directly with same privileges. I guess if the game executable was marked as setuid. That seems unlikely.
by lstodd | 2025-10-03 20:17:14+00:00
well, glad you liked it

fwiw one can make a microscope out of a webcam and a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlarger with some duct tape and thermal glue. It won't do 3500x, but will be comparable to those small USB ones.

Edit: I actually have one where focus is contolled by the camera being mounted on a 3.5" floppy drive chassis in place of the drive head. that was some fun project to do. But don't use polish enlarger lenses, soviet are the best.
by kulahan | 2025-10-03 20:17:25+00:00
I literally cannot imagine why people think being purchased by an incredibly wealthy regime looking to extend goodwill to manage their global image would… destroy you?

Like yeah this is definitely a money thing, but to assume day one will be greedy and not part of a longer term strategy makes no sense to me.

Edit: honestly I expect the company to significantly improve. It’s almost like assuming a restaurant will fail because Thailand started backing it. Yeah, they’re “foodwashing”, if you will, but the purpose is to spread culture and make their people seem more familiar globally.
by beala | 2025-10-03 20:17:30+00:00
For me, the appeal of i3/sway's model is that by having a desktop per topic (eg, one for browser, one for code, one for slack, etc) I can instantly jump to the topic I need with a single key press. The desktops I assign never change, so it's always Super+1 for my browser and Super+4 for Slack. It's all muscle memory, and I could do it in my sleep. When I jump to that desktop, everything is open and tiled. This was a revelation to me coming from MacOS, where I was constantly hunting for windows with Cmd+Tab or squinting at thumbnails in Mission Control. So I'm surprised to hear that you prefer Niri's scroll model, which to me sounds like hunting for windows all over again.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-03 20:18:50+00:00
A two-state solution is still possible, but becoming vanishingly small:

On the Palestinian side, it doesn't give them the "right of return" (to the land they were expelled from in 1948) that they frankly deserve, which is a tough pill to swallow for them. But besides some hardliners they've pretty much resigned themselves to the fact they'll never get their stolen land back (much like the Native Americans).

On the Israeli side, it's much more problematic as it would mean dismantling many or all of the settlements on the WB. This is anathema to Israel and would be heavily resisted (perhaps violently) by the settlers who were put there in the first place expressly to prevent a two-state solution. Israel deliberately violated all the agreements about settlements reached over the years in order to create a situation where it could say "we can't expect those settlers to move out". It's no coincidence that the settlers who were given the stolen land are generally the most militant of the Israelis, and many are heavily armed, by the way.
by ponector | 2025-10-03 20:19:09+00:00
According to your logic it's Canada fighting North Korea in Ukraine.

Just a Russia Today style of whataboutism. Why you take any russian word as true? They can only lie. Whatever they say about Ukraine is a lie.

If you want to believe russians, why not believe that this Ukrainian 3-days special operation is going according 5 years plan of grinding Ukrainian soil treeline a day and pushing neutral neighboring countries to actually join NATO?
by 141205 | 2025-10-03 20:19:12+00:00
I'd like to know about your experience in modern academe. I've gone to top-ranked schools in America (UT Austin, Stanford). My experience with the average foreign graduate student is not "top research talent." Most of the time you have a mid-level grifter that wants a green card, a work visa, or something else that simply lets them immigrate here. The work that they produce in exchange for that is low quality. The decline in the quality of graduate degrees may in many ways mirror the issues that tech workers have had with H-1Bs: they were intended to attract high quality talent, but became a corrupt racket.
by jmward01 | 2025-10-03 20:19:59+00:00
This is needed, but I don't like new keywords. What I would love, for many reasons, is if we could decorate statements. Then things like:

import expensive_module

could be:

@lazy

import expensive_module

or you could do:

@retry(3)

x = failure_prone_call(y)

lazy is needed, but maybe there is a more basic change that could give more power with more organic syntax, and not create a new keyword that is special purpose (and extending an already special purpose keyword)
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-10-03 20:20:03+00:00
I just went through the DSGE wiki page [1]. It says the following about the model, which if true, then I can see why it is an completely unserious model.

> Below is an example of the set of assumptions a DSGE is built upon:

> Perfect competition in all markets > All prices adjust instantaneously > Rational expectations > No asymmetric information > The competitive equilibrium is Pareto optimal > Firms are identical and price takers > Infinitely lived identical price-taking households

> to which the following frictions are added:

> Distortionary taxes (Labour taxes) – to account for not lump-sum taxation > Habit persistence (the period utility function depends on a quasi-difference of consumption) > Adjustment costs on investments – to make investments less volatile > Labour adjustment costs – to account for costs firms face when changing the level of employment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_stochastic_general_equ...
by jrochkind1 | 2025-10-03 20:20:45+00:00
I agree with you about the excesses of university luxury, but the fact that it's just teachers and students is what makes it expensive in fact.

As technology and labor-saving devices make everything more productive, human labor gets relatively more expensive over time. It's more expensive than it was 30 years ago, much more than 60 years ago.

Any business that relies on specifically human labor that can't be automated has more and more trouble being profitable, at least at prices that any but the rich can afford.
by starttoaster | 2025-10-03 20:20:55+00:00
I think there's a bit more to it than that. Being mean in a friendly way is sort of a sport, for some people finding a good quip is about the mental challenge of wordsmithing. It's easy, and not all that creative, to say "don't be late" and also with certain people can come across more negatively than just jokingly berating them, believe it or not. It sounds more serious. Something like, "glad you made it, Leland! We were just posting a GoFundMe to buy you a watch." Said in the right way with people you are very familiar with keeps a lighter tone, and less like I'm actually upset (even if I may be.) Not that I'd ever say something like that in a professional setting or to people I'm not actually strong friends with; those people just get a "glad you made it, Leland!"

It's also sort of the same reason shows like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia are funny. When you're jokingly mean to a friend, you're being a bit of a caricature, an exaggeration. That's part of the fun of it, too. And why it can get a point across while keeping it light.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-03 20:21:37+00:00
Also - in terms of Egypt - the current leader came to power in a 2013 coup, and there has not been any free and fair election since ( elections yes - free and fair no ).

Jordan and Egypt are 3 and 4 behind Ukraine and Israel in terms of being the recipient of US aid.

I doubt El-sisi could remain in power for long if that aid was withdrawn - if you are kept in power by the military but can no longer afford the wages....
by ciconia | 2025-10-03 20:21:55+00:00
This is spot on. This has been a recurring practice of the Israeli regime - to take advantage of a terrorist attack or some other pretext in order to take over additional territory and remove the local population. This modus operandi has been practiced since right after the partition resolution at the end of 1947 to conquer Palestinian villages, remove their inhabitants and rase the houses to the ground, and is still practiced today in the occupied territories and Gaza. Like you said, Israel's recent military campaigns in Lebanon and Syria are also examples of the same strategy.
by Animats | 2025-10-03 20:22:09+00:00
In the initial example, it's not clear what the desired behavior is. If the queue is full, the basic options are drop something, block and wait, or panic. Timing out on a block is usually deadlock detection. He writes "It turns out that this code is often incorrect, because not all messages make their way to the channel." Well, yes. You're out of resources. Now what?

What's he trying to do? Get a clean program shutdown? That's moderately difficult in threaded programs, and async has problems, too. The use case here is unclear.

The real use cases involve when you're sending messages back and forth to a remote site, and the remote site goes away. Now you need to dispose of the state on your end.
Show HN: Beacon (open source) – Built after AWS billed me 700% more for RDS
by matebajusz | 2025-10-03 20:22:38+00:00
I've been hosting my side project on AWS. I was paying an okay price for not managing infrastructure at all. I moved everything to AWS Ligthsail after my startup credits run out. The project was initially a success and made several thousand euros per month in revenue. Then came covid with new regulations, and suddenly my customers were non existent (the problem it solved was no longer there). After that it was not making me money, I was paying it from my own pocket to maintain it, thinking maybe it will come back. Then one day, after some ignored spam AWS emails, I got a huge charge on my card, along with a bill from AWS. The charge was orders of magnitude higher than the previous charges."WTF??" I said to myself while rushing to log into the dashboard to see what the issue was.

No DDoS, no misconfiguration, nothing unusual. I logged into the root account to look at the billing page, and there it was:RDS PostgreSQL legacy fee ~€200 because I did not upgrade to Postgres 16 (from 13).

I was baffled. I paid monthly €25 (27% tax included) for the smallest RDS instance, then I see this monster fee for something I think should cost maybe €2. I mean AWS just has to run it in a different environment. For €200 I could buy them a new server to run it for me.

That's when I had the realization: "I have a spare Raspberry Pi 3, I'll just host everything on that. That will be for free." But self-hosting came with it's own challenges, especially on a resource-constrained device. I needed better tools to deploy and monitor my application. SSH-ing into the Raspberry Pi every time I wanted to deploy a newer version was a pain in the ass. So was debugging issues. Existing deployment and monitoring solutions were either too expensive, too complex, or didn't work well with resource-constrained devices like Raspberry Pi. Examples: * Grafana/Prometheus for monitoring: Over-engineered for my needs. * OpenSearch/ELK for logs: A nightmare on low-resource devices. * Metabase for dashboards: A ram hungry monster that eats up more resources than if I hosted 100 applications. And to access the db remotely opening a port and putting it behind Cloudflare Zero Trust is much easier than setting up Metabase.

So I decided to build my own deployment and montitoring agent, and why not make it opensource? The agent can currently deploy applications from github by polling release tags, monitor device metrics, alert when thresholds are reached, forward logs to cloud dashboard. It's still in development, with features improving every week. If you are interested, give it a start on Github.
by craftkiller | 2025-10-03 20:22:47+00:00
I was excited to try this today, but this is unusable. It absolutely mangles the page.

- It duplicated the headline, one in the correct place top-center but then a 2nd copy of the headline left-aligned below that. - It shrunk the width of the content of the page (in fact, it seems to have completely discarded the css for the #content selector) - It discarded the CSS for my code blocks, so now they are unreadable. - My images are no longer center-aligned - It added CSS that was not in the original document. For some reason, it addded hyphens: auto, overflow-wrap: break-word, text-rendering: optimizeLegibility, font-kerning: normal . None of those rules existed in the original document anywhere. Now my text is breaking mid-word with hyphens inserted. - It pointlessly HTML-escaped some characters (like every quotation mark in every paragraph). This didn't break anything, but just... why?

Implementing the same functionality is like less than 100 lines of python, so I'm just going to go that route. I've implemented it once before, but it was for a previous company so I no longer have access to that code, but its like 1 afternoon of scripting and doesn't randomly destroy your documents. I don't know how pandoc got this so wrong.

For context: the document I am attempting to process has no javascript. It is a simple Emacs Org document (similar to markdown) rendered to HTML and then processed with pandoc. The only external content was a couple of images.
by efitz | 2025-10-03 20:23:00+00:00
I believe that there is a lowest common denominator for accented English, and it sounds like “sung” English - which sounds like non-regional American English if the singer is singing and doesn’t naturally have a very pronounced accent. This is partially due to cultural effects but partially due to the mechanics of speaking with an accent.

By “lowest common denominator“, I mean omitting affectations like non-rotic R (Boston) and dropped g (urban) and exaggerated length of selected vowels (US southeast) and constant syllable length and other kinds of things. There are lots of videos on YouTube about how accents work.

But mainly phonetics is about eliminating silent letters, using the most unambiguous letter when there is a choice (eg K or S instead of C), etc.

Anyway I’m rambling but you probably get my point.