MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buccal | 2025-10-08 16:42:05+00:00
What should be noted, a cost effective M365 backup solution "Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365" has an external server requirement for OAUTH: https://kb.synology.com/en-af/DSM/help/ActiveBackup-Office36... That seems to have created possibility for quite serious exploit: https://modzero.com/en/blog/when-backups-open-backdoors-syno...
by densh | 2025-10-08 16:42:05+00:00
Have any studies been done on the use of newer or less popular programming languages in the era of LLMs? I'd guess that the relatively low number of examples and the overall amount of code available publicly in a particular language means that LLM output is less likely to be good.

If the hypothesis is correct, it sets an incredibly high bar for starting a new programming language today. Not only does one need to develop compiler, runtime, libraries, and IDE support (which is a tall order by itself), but one must also provide enough data for LLMs to be trained on, or even provide a custom fine-tuned snapshot of one of the open models for the new language.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-08 16:42:18+00:00
I don't see how it is, but maybe you're referring to something else. I think you're talking about the CPS, or more famously the CPS2, which had a battery power its anti-piracy measures. You only had to send it in if the battery dipped below a certain voltage, after which it would destroy the security key (in memory), so the ROMs would remain encrypted. You could turn off the machine just fine. Arcade machines were regularly powered off. This coupled with the fact that the CPS2 batteries especially are prone to leak over critical components dubbed them the suicide batteries. These security measures have since been defeated in a few ways, all while removing the troublesome battery. You can replaced the encrypted ROMs on your board with Phoenix ROMs, which are decypted. You can solder on a PCB called the Infinikey, which loads the decryption key with power from the board and not the battery. Maybe there are others, too.

I think the HNG64 just had obscure/undumped/not understood hardware.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-10-08 16:42:48+00:00
The thing that doesn't make sense to me is if there was pretty clear evidence that some vendor had put in a backdoor into the email servers of multiple government agencies and there were directors and managers at all of these agencies that had good reason to believe they were being spied on, then this would have warranted a criminal investigation of the contractor. At that point, voiding the contract, migrating to whatever other email service you have and getting out of the bill would have been easy. It wouldn't have mattered what sneaky language got slipped into the contract by the vendor, you do not ever get to spy on internal government emails.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-08 16:42:53+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/active to browse without the community moderation ("flagging")

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals for thread removal tracking

political moderation methodology by:dang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718396 is helpful context

HN Search: political overlap by:dang - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

HN Search: turn off flags by:dang - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by whizzter | 2025-10-08 16:42:58+00:00
I guess those that wrote the preemption were on X86 where this doesn't happen thanks to variable length instructions being able to hold the constant and thus relied on the code-gen to do it atomically, then the ARM port had an automatic "split" from a higher level to make things "easy" thus giving us this bug.

Nobodys fault really, but bad results ensued.
by silasomen | 2025-10-08 16:43:16+00:00
0xminds.com is a simple online tool that lets people who aren't coders launch their own blockchain projects quickly and affordably. If you have an idea for a decentralized app or a custom digital currency (utility token), the AI takes your description and instantly builds the necessary smart contract and a professional, live project website. The biggest benefit is the included Fair Launch option, which allows you to put your token on the market without using your own money for initial liquidity, making the launch transparent and letting your community determine the value right from the start. It handles the technical setup so you can focus on your idea and community.
by zzzeek | 2025-10-08 16:43:18+00:00
Yeah this is what I do, you want the knowledge in md files , but currently you don't want to stuff up the context with everything you know every time. I may be wrong here but my impression is the way that "context" is special and very limited in size vs "things the LLM is trained on" is still an unsolved problem getting AI to act like an "assistant" , AFAICT.
by neom | 2025-10-08 16:43:31+00:00
It's because those types of thread are more often than not off topic for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267159 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This "Is HN being censored" comes up probably daily - the answer is that it's being curated, the same way it has always been, by all of us, with Dan and Tom, who we know and trust.
by matltc | 2025-10-08 16:43:35+00:00
I feel so validated! When I started learning web dev, I was working through The Odin Project's Rails course. All smooth sailing til I hit the Turbo/Stimulus/Hotwire sections.

I thought I was stupid or just terrible at JS/front-end stuff, because I would read and re-read the same chapter in the Stimulus docs and become more confused.

Now I'm mainly in TS-node/React land, and boy do I miss Rails.
by ivl | 2025-10-08 16:43:38+00:00
Apologies for the PDF link. The opinion is amusing, and has some benefits. If it's appealed and this decisions is upheld, the blast zone around the CFAA will be diminished.

The key point is rather simple.

> In doing so, we hold for the first time that, (a) by its text and purpose, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, does not turn these workplace-policy infractions into federal crimes, and (b) passwords that protect proprietary business information are not themselves trade secrets under federal or Pennsylvania law.

Footnote 2 is also amusing: "To the dismay of IT professionals everywhere, the document was titled "My Passwords.xlsx." App. 2770"
by mikece | 2025-10-08 16:43:41+00:00
I think the general idea is that this isn't a forum for political debate so anything off-topic would get flagged (and the criteria for what is political seems to error on the side of preferring to ban something questionable than to let it go). I realize this can be annoying if the story in question is 95%+ about technology or HN topics but if certain names like Musk or Trump are in the title then it will be flagged. You can call it censorship if you want, but I see it as just keeping the conversations on theme with what HN is.
by kapone | 2025-10-08 16:43:43+00:00
This is the most naive take on...well, currencies, gold and their relationship, that I've seen in a very long time.

Imagine it was 1970. You had dollars and you had gold and they were inexorably tied to each other. Gold was ~$35/oz at the time and you swap dollars for gold easily. You could keep your "money" in dollars or gold. If you chose dollars at the time...you made very bad decision (1972...Nixon...the US went off the gold standard...and all that).

There's no DXY to measure from that time, but who gives a shit. Let's measure in terms of "Purchasing Power". In the early 70s, the average wage in the US was ~$9800 and the average house price was ~$17,000. So, at the time you could take your "dollars" and buy the median house for $17K or so. So, roughly twice the median wage.

Fast forward a few decades...

In 2022 the average wage in the US was ~$54,000 and the average house price was ~$375,000. So....roughly 6.5 times the average wage.

Notice a problem yet?

Now, let's take gold.

Price in 1970 - $35/oz Price in 2022 - ~$2,000/oz. Price in 2025 - ~$4,000/oz

So, gold has gone up ~57x, from 1970 to 2022 and ~114x from 1970 to 2025.

If your wages had climbed in-line since 1970, the average wage in 2025 would be $1.2M, but of course it didn't. Why? It's the dollar stupid, not gold.

If you took every spare dollar you had in 1970 and bought gold...vs keeping dollars in the bank...

That's the dollar's "worth", not a fucking index against other fiat currencies.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-08 16:43:45+00:00
I've never heard of that rule (though tbh I'm not allocating > 64KB of stack when I'm in assembly) and it seems Google hasn't either. While I'm sure it makes sense, I don't think I've ever seen that be enforced. At least in C/C++. Maybe it makes more sense for these stack inspecting garbage collectors but I've also heard of ones that just scan the stack without unwinding anything. I did a test asking Google's AI to generate a complicated C function, put it in godbolt, and there's plenty of push push push push ..... Pop Pop Pop Pop going on
by dmix | 2025-10-08 16:43:53+00:00
That plus the new React diff viewer in beta. The old one seemed to be a simpler Web Component inside a Rails turbo frame.

I've tested the beta one and like most SPAs it doesn't scale well to large amounts of data (large numbers of files / line counts). You can feel the DOM slowing down even on a high end macbook. It even blanked out the page a couple times, another common issue when browsers are overloaded. So I switched back to the old one.
by isoprophlex | 2025-10-08 16:44:29+00:00
In addition to what condensedcrab and mikeyouse wrote, there is a HUGE gap between a commercially viable, patentable product and a freely accessible paper stating "take copper acetate and benzenetricarboxylic acid, stir at pH so and so and remove the volatiles in vacuum".

The resulting blue crunchy mess is NOWHERE near something on a support material that you throw into a fluidized bed reactor for reaction at elevated temperature for months on end. And that's where the proprietary magic happens.
by burkaman | 2025-10-08 16:45:03+00:00
They have immense power to punish anyone they feel like, and they can and do detain and deport US citizens. They don't give a shit that it's illegal, they're doing it anyway and they won't stop until they are removed from power. They have and will continue to ignore any court orders telling them to stop.

Here's a good overview, please take a look at the sources if you don't trust Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_and_deportation_of_A...
by Unai | 2025-10-08 16:45:06+00:00
I use feedly because it's where I landed after GReader; I don't love it, but it has worked continually without bothering me enough to think about it.

But one day I want to look into alternatives, and the number one thing in my wishlist is to be able to scrap sites that crop the full article in the feed. Going from the RSS client to the browser to the reader mode in the browser is such an absurd friction.

Edit: Well, after 12 years, that day ended up being today. I found a client called FeedMe that syncs with Feedly and can load the full article inside the client. It also has some other features that I was looking for, like filters. There might be more clients like that, but this is the first I found. I shouldn't have been so lazy all this time.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-08 16:45:49+00:00
I almost bought their junk. I went to a store nearby that was promoting them (I live within 10 km of their headquarters and felt like supporting the locals). That didn't really work out though: cloud not optional. For a bunch of speakers. Account required. So, no sale. Salesguy was all pissed and I should 'get with the times'. No thank you. My hardware is mine.
Show HN: I built a local-first podcast app
by aegrumet | 2025-10-08 16:46:36+00:00
I worked on early podcast software in 2004 (iPodder/Juice) and have been a heavy podcast consumer ever since. I wanted a podcast app that respects your privacy and embraces the open web—and to explore what's possible in the browser.

The result is wherever.audio, which you can try right now at the link above.

How it works: It's a progressive web app that stores all your subscriptions and data locally in your browser using IndexedDB. Add it to your home screen and it feels native. Works offline with downloaded episodes. No central server storing your data—just some Cloudflare/AWS helpers to smooth out browser limitations.

What makes it different:

- True local-first: Your data stays on your device

- Custom feeds: Add any RSS feed, not just what's in a directory

- On-device search: Search across all feeds and episodes, including your custom ones

- Podcasting 2.0 support: Chapters, transcripts, funding tags, and others

- Auto-generated chapters: For popular shows that don't have them

- AI-powered discovery: Ask questions to find shows and episodes (this feature does send queries to a 3rd party API, and also uses anonymized analytics while we work out the prompts)

- Audio-guided tutorials: Interactive walkthroughs with voice guidance and visual cues

The basics work well too: Standard playback features, queue management, speed controls, etc.

I'm really interested in feedback—this is more passion project than business right now. I've been dogfooding it as my daily podcast app for over a year, and I'm open to exploring making it a business if people find it valuable. Curious if there are unmet needs that a privacy-focused, open web approach could address.
by elijaht | 2025-10-08 16:47:10+00:00
I was shocked at how much even perfunctory messages from coworkers meant when I got laid off. And the folks that offered tangible help have stayed in my mind since. It was the most challenging time in my life and even a simple message saying they would miss me or something like that helped so much.

Before I got laid off I was always hesitant to reach out to other folks who were laid off, now I try to make a point of it, even if it’s to apologize
by ryan29 | 2025-10-08 16:47:31+00:00
Who should own the context?

Imagine having 20 years of context / memories and relying on them. Wouldn't you want to own that? I can't imagine pay-per-query for my real memories and I think that allowing that for AI assisted memory is a mistake. A person's lifetime context will be irreplaceable if high quality interfaces / tools let us find and load context from any conversation / session we've ever had with an LLM.

On the flip side of that, something like a software project should own the context of every conversation / session used during development, right? Ideally, both parties get a copy of the context. I get a copy for my personal "lifetime context" and the project or business gets a copy for the project. However, I can't imagine businesses agreeing to that.

If LLMs become a useful tool for assisting memory recall there's going to be fighting over who owns the context / memories and I worry that normal people will lose out to businesses. Imagine changing jobs and they wipe a bunch of your memory before you leave.

We may even see LLM context ownership rules in employment agreements. It'll be the future version of a non-compete.
by vineyardmike | 2025-10-08 16:48:22+00:00
I’ll be that voice I guess - I have fun “vibe coding”.

I’m a professional software engineer in Silicon Valley, and I’m fortunate to have been able to work on household-name consumer products across my career. I definitely know how to do “real” professional work “at scale” or whatever. Point is, I can do real work and understand things on my own, and I can generally review code and guide architecture and all that jazz. I became a software engineer because I love creating things that I and others could use, and I don’t care about “solving the puzzle” type satisfaction from writing code. In engineering school, software had the fastest turnaround time from idea in my head to something I could use, and that’s why I became a software engineer.

LLM assisted coding accelerates this trend. I can guide an LLM to help me create things quickly and easily. Things I can mostly create myself, of course, but I find it faster for a whole category of easy tasks like generating UIs. It really lowers the “activation energy” to experiment. I think of it like 3D printing, where I can prototype ideas in an afternoon instead of long weekend or a few weeks.
by zackangelo | 2025-10-08 16:48:47+00:00
Just a bit of feedback:

> Instead of one brittle giant, we orchestrate a Mixture of Experts…

“mixture of experts” is a specific term of art that describes an architectural detail of a type of transformer model. It’s definitely not using smaller specialized models for individual tasks. Experts in an MoE model are actually routed to on a per token basis, not on a per task or per generation basis.

I know it’s tempting to co-opt this term because it would fit nicely for what you’re trying to do but it just adds confusion.
by datadrivenangel | 2025-10-08 16:48:48+00:00
"The extensions listed here are sourced from public repositories and created by third-party developers. Google does not vet, endorse, or guarantee the functionality or security of these extensions. Please carefully inspect any extension and its source code before installing to understand the permissions it requires and the actions it may perform. "

Extensions are always a trust challenge, but the high value of AI systems means that I expect we'll see a very high volume of attacks in the near future.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-08 16:48:56+00:00
Glad I could help ya! I love arturo as well :)

The creator is an extremely nice person and I am proud that he follows me on github. This might be the highlight of my github right now lol.

Came to learn from awesome-nim about the language and loved it from day one. There are a lot of ways of doing the same thing but maybe that's the point since its rebol inspired.
by Invictus0 | 2025-10-08 16:49:11+00:00
This is very wrong. You're comparing OpenAI to Lehman Bros? The collapse of OpenAI would not have even a remotely comparable impact to the great recession. Were you even alive at that time? I struggle to imagine how you could make this assertion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
by kragen | 2025-10-08 16:49:41+00:00
Your chronology is backwards.

Newcomen's steam-engine, the first commercially successful one, was 01712. James Watt's steam engine was 01776. Trevithick's high-pressure engine patent, which is the point at which steam-engines started needing pressure vessels as opposed to vacuum vessels, was 01802. Trevithick's first steam-powered train was 01804. The Bessemer process was 01856, after the end of the steam-engine-driven First Industrial Revolution. But steel was still not in wide use for pressure vessels until I think about 01880, but I'm less sure of that.

Diesel engines are internal combustion engines that do not require spark plugs or wiring.

Ceramics are from about 12000 years ago, and copper is from about 8500 years ago. The hard part about wires is more the insulation than the wire itself.

Did you get your errors from Winchester's book? I usually think of him as more reliable than that.
by hluska | 2025-10-08 16:49:42+00:00
There’s something odd about this story. Not naming companies is weird - this happened before GDPR which means it happened a minimum of nine years ago. There were no lawyers involved at any point, not even before signing amendments with a company known for punishing vendors on their way out. Nobody even seemed to mind that this shady company with such a bad reputation was reading client emails. There was no attempt to warn anybody or to even solve the problem.

I don’t believe that this ever happened. I don’t know why someone would make up a story like this but this one is very odd.
by tarunkotia | 2025-10-08 16:49:44+00:00
This has been experience as well. If there is a hard problem which needs to be addressed, generative code helps me break the inertia by generating the first draft and then I get really curious to poke holes in the generated code. I tend to procrastinate when I come across a gnarly issue or something I am not really familiar with, justifying by saying I need a big block of time to work on it. I use generative code as a pushy "mom/boss/coworker/spouse" to get stuff done.
by kstrauser | 2025-10-08 16:49:55+00:00
First, I don't think that's true. It could even be a FAQ on their website:

Q: Why is my brand new WD drive so slow in my NAS?

A: Because they lied to you and sold you junk. Here are the details...

It would be very easy to push the blame onto the vendor, where it belongs, because the defect is 100% with the drive and not at all with Synology. They don't have any control over it. Synology could even automate this. Whenever you insert a drive that isn't on their compatibility list, it prompts you with a message to make sure you want to proceed. They could very easily make that popup say something like "WARNING: THIS HARD DRIVE MODEL IS DEFECTIVE. WE STRONGLY URGE YOU TO REMOVE IT AND REPLACE IT WITH A DRIVE ON OUR COMPATIBILITY LIST."

But in any case, dealing with those support requests has to be way cheaper than the enormous financial and reputational loss they seem to be taking from this boneheaded move.
by pona-a | 2025-10-08 16:49:55+00:00
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.

The later half -- the freedom to change the program -- is meaningless in a world of attestation. Tivoization was explicitly forbidden on these grounds: if you can modify the software, but cannot use it in its modified state, the distributor is in violation of the spirit of free software and in particular, GPLv3.

It is a basic argument from positive liberty: the freedom for services to discriminate based on user's software and the freedom of the user to be discriminated against is no freedom at all.
Show HN: Solving the cluster 1 problem with vCluster standalone
by saiyampathak | 2025-10-08 16:50:12+00:00
vcluster is an open source tool for Kubernetes multi tenancy and over the years it has matured to have hosted controlplane virtual cluster, shared virtual clusters but the host cluster problem was always there. With vcluster standalone, you can now create the first cluster also with the same developer experience and consolidate the multiple vendor problem. With this, you can now use vcluster for entire multi tenancy spectrum. Feel free to discuss, happy to answer any questuons.
by lossolo | 2025-10-08 16:50:21+00:00
My point wasn't so much about how fast humans achieved these things, but about what's possible at all given a certain cognitive architecture. Chimpanzees could live for another million years and still wouldn't build a factory, not because they don't have enough time, but because they lack the cognitive and cultural mechanisms to accumulate and transmit abstract knowledge.

So I completely agree that intelligence alone isn't the only factor, it's the whole foundation.
by duxup | 2025-10-08 16:50:32+00:00
SCOTUS addressed this in some form already in Van Buren v. United States:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_v._United_States

The 3rd Circuit ruling here does reference the SCOTUS ruling a number of times so that makes sense.

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The quote in the ruling also fits the SCOTUS ruling's spirit:

"In the wrong hands, the law becomes a hammer in search of a nail. This is one such case."

In the case you had someone saving workplace passwords in a spreadsheet against policy (as well as some other activity on a computer that could be deemed against workplace policy).

The idea that workplace policy about password usage, or document access would trigger CFAA and make these people eligible for being prosecuted for federal crimes is ABSURD and the court here saw that as well.